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News Notes OF LOCAL Happenings RETURNS TO DENVER Kenneth Boyle returned Monday to his home in Denver, Colo. Mr. Boyle had spent a 2-week vacation with his daughter, Mrs. Jimmie Lee DeVaul, Mr, DeVaul and children. TO COLUMBIA HOSPITAL Mrs.

Fern E. Gann, wife of Walter L. Gann, was admitted to the University of Missouri Medical Center, Columbia, she will undergo medical treatment. Her room number Is 538. VISITED FORSYTHES Mrs.

James DiMarco has been visiting her sister and family, Mr. and Mrs, John Forsythe and sons, Bill, Bradley and Roger, and Is returning to her home in New Orleans, La. HOSPITAL PATIENTS Mrs. Fred Wenke, RFD 3, Chillicothe was admitted Tuesday to the Chlllicothe hospital for medical treatment. Sherman McKinney, Kansas city and Mrs.

R. o. Bailey, Meadville also entered on Tuesday for surgery. -f WINS LAS VEGAS TRIP Dale B. Beever, RFD 2, Chilll- cothe recently won an all expense paid trip to Las Vegas, Nevada for three days.

Mr. Beever was the high salesman In two states in a recent contest, which ran for three months, sponsored by the Curtis Circulation Co. for whom Mr. Beever is employed. The trip will be made by plane.

RETURNED TO LAWRENCE Gary Brock has returned to Lawrence to resume his studies at the University of Kansas after spending the holidays with his mother, Mrs. Wesley Rager and Mr. Rager, 412 Polk street. Miss Virginia Kreye of Lawrence, who had been a bouse guest of Mr. and Mrs.

Rager and Mr. Brock since New Year's eve also returned. LEAVE HOSPITAL Mrs. Donald Clevenger, Meadville and Mary Frances Matheny dismissed Tuesday from the Chlllicothe hospital. Dismissals this morning included.

Mrs. Donald Sizemore and daughter, Rebecca Marie, 716 Oattioun street; Willie (Continued on Page 2.) SPEED UP SEARCH FOR TWO MISSING MEN AVA, Jan. 7 Missouri State Highway Patrol today intensified a search between -Lebanon, and the Arkansas line for two men missing since Dec. 26. Troopers are moving along Missouri showing pictures of Dr.

J. L. Gentry, 87-year-old retired Ava physician and Howard Edward Pratt, 25, Lebanon, to restaurant and service station operators. Officers said connection between the two disappearances is that they occurred within a few hours of each other and that both missing men were reported on the highway. Friends and relatives of the men fear they are the victims of hitchhikers.

Pratt, crippled as the result of a childhood spinal affliction, was last seen with two strangers in his car. Sheriff Don Souder said today officers had no clues in the case of the physician. FATHER, FIVE CHILDREN ARE VICTIMS OF FIRE BRANDON, Jan. 7 A father and his five children died today in a fire that swept their two-story home here, Mark Kelly got out of the house after the fire began, but lost his life when he went back in and sought to rescue his children. Dead wore Kelly, about 38; three sons, Jim, 16, Dennis, 12, and two daughters, Mary Lee, 10, and Peggy, 3.

Mrs. Kelly fled the burning house. Neighbors restrained the mother from re-entering. Police Chief Charles Rossum nid the fire victims likely suffocated. All the bodies were recovered.

The blaze broke out about 2:30 a.m., and the interior of the house was burned out, THE WEATHER and little wanner this afternoon with occasional drizzle west and north; cloudy tonight and Thursday with light rain or drizzle tonight; snow north and central sections, Thursday; colder wast and north tonight and over state Thursday; lows tonight IS extreme northwest to 40 southeast, highs Thursday 20 extreme northwest to 40 southeast Official Temperatures Yesterday's Maximum 37 yesterday's Minimum fl Today's Minimum 38 Precipitation 3:00 p. .03 Cijffltotfje Congtttution-Srttane VOL. LXI DAILY EDITION CHILLICOTHI, MO. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 7, 1959 EIGHT CAGES Governor's Budget Is $1,157,000,000 for Next Two Yean Increase of $129 Million Would Require Moderate Tax Increases, Says Blair.

By LARRY HALL JEFFERSON CITY, Jan. 7. Gov. James T. Blair asked the new Missouri legislature today to enact a broad program to strengthen state government and said it would require only conservative spending.

No general tax increases were recommended except an increase from 3 to 5 cents a gallon on gasoline to finance a new 20-year, $4.6 billion highway program. The governor said he would not favor any boost in sales or income taxes. Blair indicated in the message prepared for a joint session of the House and Senate that all of his recommendations for a $1,157,000,000 budget to operate the state government for the next two years could be met from increased collections and some increases in excises and use taxes. The governor's budget represents a $129 million increase over the present biennial appropriations. School District Bond Plan In the field of local taxes he left any possibility of increases up to the voters.

He urged the legislature to submit constitutional amendments that would let school districts increase their bonding capacity and most counties to double their tax rate from 50 cents to $1 on each $100 assessed valuation. Here's what the governor had to say about the state's financial position as he reported that only a few requests for additional funds have been placed in his budget: May I say that when I have placed added items in the budget, it has of necessity been on an extremely conservative of not adding a penny that I did not deem absolutely necessary. This is because the cost of providing essential state services has outstripped our anticipated revenues and we can balance our general taxes. "My budget will present to you a tax program which in my judgment is as sound as can be developed. It is by no means a heavy tax program.

It seems to me that the tax burden of the federal, local and state governments is already so heavy, that new revenues must be moderate. "It adds taxation only to the extent that is essential to provide necessary state services in an enlightened and necessary manner. "While there are numerous other programs that desirably could be better financed, I believe that measured against a tax program that seems practical, our present state services, as will be implemented in my budget plus the additions and expansions recommended in this constitute all that we can and should undertake in this session." Starts 5-Month Session In his message of almost 8,000 words, the governor pledged his full cooperation to the legislators in their 5-month task. He started it with a review of what his administration has done in its first two years. He ended it, without making any specific recommendations, with a rhythmic re- pledge of his stand for human rights! "In the struggle for man's rights," he said, "none of us can be a neutralist.

We cannot stand above or aside from this battle. We must remain always combatants. "Always and everywhere I will identify myself with any victim of oppression or discrimination, whoever or wherever he may be, and 1 will support him, and in that support I enlist your aid." Much of the message was devoted to changes which Blair said would make the state government a better, more efficient servant of the people. Two of those recommendations would require constitutional amendments: 1. Remove the present 1-term limitation on governors.

Blair noted the change would not affect him but he said four years is not long enough for a governor to initiate changes and stay to see them through. Would Ralu Legislator Pay 3- Increase legislative pay from the a year to $5,000. last legislative pay increase, overwhelmingly defeated by the voters, called for $3,600. Blair said the $5,000 figure would keep the legislature as good cross section for the state without putting it on a professional basis and (CouUnued on 3) COLDER WEATHER, SNOW ON THE WAY KANSAS CITY, Jan. 7 (tf) Colder weather and snow is headed for Missouri again.

Light rain or drizzle is forecast for tonight, with snow in the west and central sections Thursday. Along with the snow will come a switch to lower temperatures in the west and north tonight and over the state Thursday. Lows by morning are expected to range from 5 in the extreme northwest to 40 southeast. The highs Thursday wilt be near 20 extreme northwest to the 40s southeast. Temperatures through Monday will average near normal north to slightly above normal in the south.

Temperatures this morning ranged from 17 at Kirksville to 36 at Joplin and Maiden. Find Part ol Loot NearChillicothe Postmaster's Personal Papers and Postage Recovered in Mooresville Burglary. Personal papers of Postmaster James Mackey and all stamps stolen In a burglary of the Mackey grocery store and post office at Mooresville Monday night have been recovered, Postal Inspector G. R. Palmer of Chillicothe said today.

Bob Rader spotted papers and envelopes discarded on a dirt road two miles west Chlllicothe and north of Highway 38 and reported the find to Sheriff Kelsie Reeter. Reeter said a pole axe used in chopping on Mackey's safe when it was opened on a gravel road east of Mooresville was found at the same location west of Chillicothe. Palmer said all but two of Mackey's checks had been recovered. It was reported yesterday that there were $815 worth of checks. Also taken was $550 in cash.

Still missing are 285 money orders, tt validating stamp and a stamp used to show amounts on money orders, sufficient equipment forrforging Palmer said the serial, numbers of the missing money orders would be posted in all post offices and money order centers would receive a stop order on any that might go that far. The inspector warned thai money orders are negotiable like checks and urged persons to exercise the same precautions as In cashing checks. the person or have positive identification," he recommended. Two Brothers Get 10-Year Prison Terms for Fraud KANSAS CITY, Jan. 7 year prison terms were given yesterday to two brothers who, the FBI said, have raked in $200,000 in long careers as confidence men.

Edward Thomas Freeman, 57, and Dewey Haskell Freeman, 47, were convicted by a federal court Jury that deliberated 30 minutes yesterday. They were sentenced by Judge Richard M. Duncan. They were charged with conspiring to defraud a 64-year-old widow of $5,000 In a horse race swindle. Mrs.

Margaret Yeoman of Paola, formerly of Macon, testified the brothers enticed her into Mexico and almost got another $48,000 in stocks and bonds before she got suspicious and went to the FBI. She said Dewey Freeman had promised to marry her. Through a trap set by the FBI and Mrs. yeoman the brothers were arrested Nov. a at San Antonio, Tex.

A government attorney said Edward's criminal record dated back to 1821 and Dewey's to 1830. A MOTEL OPERATOR IS INJURED CRITICALLY JEFFERSON CITY, Jan. 7. Fred Doehring, 57. Holts Summit motel operator, remained in critical condition in St.

Mary's hospital today following: a car-truck crash on U. 54 last night. Highway patrolmen reported Doehring's car was struck headoo by a truck by Thomas J. firendenberg, Summit, about six miles north of Jefferson City. Bnuodenberg, who suffered minor injuries, was arrested on a charge of careless and reckless driving and taken to the Callaway County jail at Pulton.

Doehring's 1956 automobile and the 1847 truck were NO. 3 Rebels Weed Out Batista Followers Throughout Cuba Provisional Government Working on Charter to Replace 1940 Constitution. By LARRY ALLEN HAVANA, Cuba. Jan. 7 UP) Cuba's provisional government polished up a new interim constitution today as the work of weeding out remnants of Fulgenclo Batista's dictatorship went forward.

The cabinet met far into the night working on a new fundamental law to replace the Constitution of 1940 until the holding of free elections. It was not immediately learned how the charter would differ from the old one, which was adopted during. Batista's first period of power. Presumably the interim constitution will be replaced after a new Congress is elected. Provisional President Manuel Urrutla Tuesday dismissed all provincial governors, mayors and councllmen in the island's six provinces.

Presumably a new list of civilian appointees to replace them was ready, although it was not announced immediately. The new cabinet was reported preparing a decree abolishing all political parties and taking away the political rights of all candidates in the 1954 and 1958 elections held by Batista. This would bar even the opposition candidates tolerated by Batista from the elections which Urrutia has promised to hold in 18 to 24 months. Three Fined in First Court Session of '59 ChlUicotheon Penalized After Accident. Three drivers paid traffic fines yesterday afternoon in Livingston County magistrate court.

Two were assessed penalties for careless and reckless driving and the other for speeding. Raymond Irvin Goll, 22, of 403 Vine street was fined $20 after he pleaded guilty to a charge of following too closely. Goll was given a summons Dec. 20 by the highway patrol after he was involved In an accident about a mile west of Mooresville on U. S.

36. According to the patrol, Goll apparently failed to slow the truck he was driving quickly enough to avoid hitting the last car in a line of slow moving traffic he was following. He hit the rear of a car driven by Forest DeWayne Funk of Fremont, Ind. Kenneth Warren Foose, 20, of Blackburn was fined $15 after he pleaded guilty to careless and reckless driving. He was given a summons Dec.

19 by the patrol for passing on the crest of a hill. Marvin Earl Yost, 49, of St. Joseph was fined $11 after he pleaded guilty to speeding. He was given a summons Dec. 18 after a highway patrol radar unit clocked his speed at six miles per hour in excess of the legal maximum, KANSAS CITIANS BUY INTO BROOKFIELD BANK The corporate stock they owned in the Brownlee-Moore Banking Company in Brookfleld been sold by Harold J.

Moore and members of his family to Kansas City Interests. The News-Bulletin said purchasers are R. Crosby Kemper, executive vice-president of the City National Bank and Trust Company and Chandler Smith and Steve Harris, owners of the Lucky Tiger Manufacturing Company, all of Kansas City. Ellis and Rollins Brownlee are to retain their stock holdings in the Institution and will continue their active connections with the bank. ANDREW HARRINGTON DIES IN SOUTH DAKOTA Andrew Harrington, brother-in- law of Mrs.

Apollonla Moylan, Mn, Agnes Bauer and Will Martin of Chilllcothe, died Tuesday morning at his home in Wentwprth, S. Dak. Mr. Harrington was well known In Chlllicothe, having frequently visited in the home of Mrs, Harrington's and brother. He leaves his wife; two Celeste Harrington and MM.

Helen Murphy of the home, and a ion, Edward Harrington, Coleman, s. Dak. He was preceded in death by a son, Clarence, in December. Funeral services will be held morninf to Wentworth. S.

VE. STUDENTS DIED-Seven Air Force students were killed and at. least 13 others injured ft tntelbB Syracuse. N. Y.

Winds up to 50 miles an hour fanned Hospital Has 1,818 Bed Patients in'58 Including Out-PoUents, 4,150 Treated In Below Metropolitan Areas. In a joint meeting with the mayor and city council this week, the Board of Hospital Commissioners reviewed the 1958 operations of the Chilltcothe hospital. The commissioners reported that 19 rooms had been air-conditioned during the year. This completed the patient room air conditioning on the second and third floors. All windows in the now additions were fitted with storm sash.

There were 1,818 patients admitted to the hospital during 1958, and these patients were given 16,255 days of core. In addition to patients admitted as bed patients, 2,332 persons were treated and examined as out-patients, making a total of 4,150 persons token care of during the year. It was also reported that the cost of hospitalization in Chilllco- the was only 65 per cent of the average hospital cost in the metropolitan Kansas City area and 73 per cent of the cost by hospitals in tai district, outside of Kansas City area. Two new doctors were appointed to the staff of the hospital, bringing the total number of doctors with staff privileges, to 23, thirteen of whom are residents of Chilllcothe. HAY STOLEN TWICE FROM FARM NEAR HERE A few bales of hay were stolen last night from the farm of Vlr- Rll Boone of Chtlllcothe Route 1.

It was the third such theft in about a week. In the first occurrence, a few bales were taken from Boone's barn. Two to three bales have been taken from a field stack on two other occasions. Sheriff Kclsie Reeter is Investigating. NORMAN GIBSON DIES AT 19 MONTHS Norman Franklin Gibson, 19 months old, died at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning at Mercy hospital in Kansas City, where he had been a patient months.

Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon from the chapel of the Norman Funeral Home. Burial will be at Plainvlew cemetery at Chula. Norman Franklin was born May 15, 1957, at Carrolllon, a son of Nelson and Fannie Viola (Cobb) Gibson. Survivors include his parents of Richmond; four brothers, Nelson Wayne, 11; Donald Lee, 10; Gary Dale, Ricky Lloyd, a. sister, Marilyn Marie, material grandmother, Mrs.

Minnie Cobb, RFD 1, Ohillicothe; and paternal grandmother, Mrs. Veta Gibson, Meadville. He also leaves a great- grandmother and several aunts and uncles. COLLIDE AT A SLICK STREET INTERSECTION An intersection accident involving slick streets caused damage to a car and panel truck this morning at Easton and Webster. Police Bald a 1953 Pont lac coupe owned by Bill O'Bryan and driven by Mary E.

Mackley, 403 Tenth street, and a 1954 Dodge panel truck driven by Henry N. Zosso, 86. of 225 Tenth, collided, Officers said brakes were applied to the first vehicle, which skidded into the intersection, where it collided with the truck, which then skidded into a light pole. Both vehicles were reported traveling at moderate speeds. The street was slick from snow and freezing rain.

There was to the hood, grill, left front fender and bumper of the Pontlac and to the right and left sides and rear of the truck. DOYLE EADS DIES IN KANSAS CITY Doyle Ends, con of Mrs, Tempa died at Kansas City hospital yesterday afternoon, The body been returned to the Norman Funeral Ar- are iooompleU, I Grace Newman, 52, Dies in Ohio Funeral Services Will Be Held Here Saturday. Orace Newman, 52, died at 3 o'clock this morning at. the Woodside hospital in Youngstown, O. He had been In falling health for three years and a hospital patient three days.

He was born at Sulphur Rock, Feb, 28, 1900, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Charles Newman. He was a 1924 graduate of Chillicothe High School and was an outstanding athlete at the school. Mr.

Newman was the formei matlffffer of the Loan and Finance Company of Youngstown and was a former president of the Youngstown Credit Association. Aug. 28, 1948, he married Hazel Lynn. He is survived by the wife, 119 North Roanokc Youngstown; two sons, Donald L. and Ronald H.

Newman of the home; a brother, E. Hays Newman, Defiance, and two sisters, Miss Bernelce Newman, Kansas City, and Mrs. Edward James, Branson, Kan. The body is being returned to the Norman Funeral Home, where services will be held at 10 o'clock Saturday morning. Burial will be in the family lot at the Edgewood cemetery.

ANDERSON FOUND GUILTY OF STEALING Jerry Anderson, 24, of Chlllicothe was found guilty of petty stealing today In magistrate court-and was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail or a $50 fine. He paid the fine. Anderson was arrested by police during the early morning hours of Dec. 1 on suspicion of taking $11 from a cash box at the Rupp Service Station on U. B.

36. The police were summoned by Ronald Crane, attendant at the station, today lie saw' Anderson tampering with the open lock on a sale In which the cosh box was kept, Anderson denied under oath that he had taken the money. He said that he hsd entered the service station only to go to th rcatroom and that there were five other men in the station office at the time he was there. He also denied being near the safe or tampering with the lock. He paid the fine plus $14 in court casts.

Jury Finds Driver Not Guilty Police Court Panel In VanDuaen Matler First Here in Many Years. Tho defense admitted the defendant was guilty of causing a traffic accident, but a police court jury today found 22-year-old Gerald VanDusen not guilty as charged. VanDusen accused of operating a car imprudently and without the highest degree of care at the time this car ran Into a pass- Ing vehicle driven by George Hill, That, was Nov. 19 at the Intersection of Walnut and Clay, The defendant's attorney, R. c.

Frith, contended that VanDusen was not guilty of criminal negligence. Rather, he said, the mishap occurred a result of a mistake In judgment, and a mistake In distance. The Jury was the first in A police court case In Chlllicothe in a number of years. The testimony was that 10 to 15 minutes aUer 5 p. in.

on Nov. 19 VanDuson, northbound on Walnut stopped for a stop and for traffic to clear, then proceeded into the intersection and struck the rear of a westbound car driven by Hill. Witnesses said Hill's car was nearly through the Intersection. Officer Roy Thomas testified that VanDusen told him he didn't see the Hill car until the collision Frith said VanDusen had just time enough to hit the brakes. Other witnesses included Betty Hill.

Police Chief Wilbur Pfafl and VanDusen. City Prosecutor Nolan Chapman, elicited the Information from Pfaff that seven and six years ago Van Dusen was In court on careless driving charges, Chapman said this was brought In because It would have an effect on the amount of a possible fine. The lawyers' addresses to the Jury were frequently Interrupted by objections and differences of opinion. "You Just be quiet a minute," Chapman told Frith during one of the interjections. A little later Frith advised Chapman, "1 don't want you to preach here all day," The jury deliberated approximately 25 minutes and returned with the verdict of not guilty.

Police Judge Roger Hoyt then re- Jd VanDusen from the charge. of the jury were Walt Pence, J. D. Engelmann, Dempsey Hamner, Jack Anderson, Wayne Mendenhall and Louis Stein. MRS.

JESSIE E. CAMPBELL DIES AT LAREDO Mm. Jessie Eddy Campbell, 85, died at 3:60 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the home of her son, J. O. Campbell, in Laredo.

The body was removed to the Robertson Funeral Home in Laredo, where It will lie in until Thursday evening, when it will be taken to Chicago. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon from the Corcoran Funeral Home. Burial will be made in the Mt. Hope cemetery, Chicago. Mrs.

Campbell was born In Pella, Sept. 18, 1873, a daughter of Luclan C. and Amy Kennedy Eddy. She survived by tvo J. Campbell and Kenneth Campbell, Laredo; two grandsons and two great-granddaughter t.

Both Parties Busy Picking Leaders for New Congress House Republicans Oust Joe Martin; Raybum la Retained by Democrats. By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 Buttles over Republican leadership and Senate rules mixed conflicfc today with the traditional color of convening A new Congress. As the 86th Congress assembled, Senate Democrats lined up for a new fight over filibusters and civil rights. Shrunken Republican minorities in both houses fought over who should lead them for the next two years.

unanimous nomination at a Democratic caucus Tuesday assured Rep. Sam Rayburn (D-Tex) an unprecedented election to a ninth term as Speaker of the House. Martin Is Ousted House Republicans ousted their leader for the lost 20 years, Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr.

of Massa- thusetts, and chose instead Rep. Charles Halleck of Indiana. Tha slose 74-70 caucus vote left somo hard feelings and raised questions about the course of legislation in the House. Senators of both parties meet separately today to select their leaders. Democrat Lyndon B.

Johnson faced no opposition to retaining his leadership post, but Republican! had a fight on their hands. A dozen Republicans who class themselves as liberals sought to head off In a caucus the selection of Sen. Everett Dirksen of Illinois, a 1952 supporter of the late Sen, Robert A. Taft of Ohio, as GOP floor leader to suceed former Sen. William F.

Knowland of California. Dirkscn Believed In Thfi liberals advanced Sen. John Sherman Cooper of tvenuicKy, lorm. er ambassador and staunch Elsen- hower supporter, for the post Dirksen was credited with an edge, Tho liberals were trying aJso to Install Sen. Thomas Kuchel of California as party whip, or assistant leader.

now that post. On the other side of the political fence, Democratic leader Johnson reported ready to take the play nwny from a bipartisan group of civil rights advocates who want a- rules change to make it easier to kill off filibusters. In the last session of Congress, Johnson was one of tho sponsors of a resolution that would provide that two-thirds of those voting could end debate. The present rule requires the affirmative votes of i Senators to accomplish this. But Johnson's resolution also provided that the Senate recognize it in a continuing body, with carried over from year to year.

MRS. ELMER VAN DYKE. MEADVILLE, DIES HERE Mrs. Elmer VanDyke, a resident of Chilllcothe the last year and for a month a patient in a nursing home, died at 11:25 o'clock last night. She was a resident of the Meadville community most of her lifetime.

Funeral services will be at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Baptist church In Meadville. The body will lie in state at the Brothers Funeral Home at Meadville until the hour of the funeral. The family will be at the funeral home from 6 to 8 o'clock Thursday night to receive friends. SELLS 45 PIGS FROM CHAIN GILT A 4-H sow owned by Jarrett Lee Stevens has farrowed 14 pigs. Jarrett received the sow as a chain gilt from the Chilllcothe State Bank three years ago.

He has raised and sold 45 from the sow and has the litter of 14. He is a member of the Willing Workers 4-H it starting fifth year of club work. RETURNS FROM ST. LOUIS Mra. Addie Evans returned yesterday after spending the holidays with her son.

Howard Evans, Mrs. Evana and family in St. Louis. Governor Opposes Secrecy Part of State Juvenile Code JEFFERSON CITY, Jan. 8 Gov.

James T. Blair joined the of many Missouri newspapers today in colling for an end to secrecy provisions of the new Juvnelle code. The provisions have been interpreted in different ways by different judges and law enforcement officials with the result they have been widely criticized editorially. Here's what the governor told the legislature about his views: "I have adhered to the belief that the public has a right to Information about public business. 1 believe the press has a meritorious case in calling for elimination of the secrecy provisions of the juvenile code.

I recommended that the juvenile code be modified so that it no longer infringes upon the principle of freedom of information." LAUGH IT OFF "To thUOt I never noticM your charms until my wife came to.