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a a a Covers The Field Like The Dew Does Little Dixie Mexico Ledger CLOUDY, 12 WEATHER SOME PAGES RAIN, Founded COLDER THURSDAY ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN AUDRAIN COUNTY MEXICO, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON NOVEMBER 21, 1951. VOL. 249 Hope for Christmas Truce In Red Plan? 'Very Close to Says UN Spokesman After Communists Propose Solution On Buffer Zone Problem MUNSAN, Korea, Nov. 21, (AP) brightened today when Communist a cease-fire plan of their own that could a Korean armistice by It was similar to a United Nations School Money Would Knock Out Tax Cut House Committee Approves Windfall For Public Schools JEFFERSON CITY, Nov. 21 (P) A House committee approved a $10,000,000 windfall for it public would schools today.

If passed knock the props from under Gov. Forrest Smith's proposal of a cut for income taxpayers. The House Appropriations Committee specifically recommended that the money come from the state's general revenue surplus the fund which Smith said was so large the state could give the taxpayers an income tax reduction of about 30 per cent next March. If full $10,000,000 were granted for state aid to schools, only $1,000,000 would be left for For More On State Legislature, See Page 3 a rebate to Missourians who pay income taxes and that would be only a drop in the bucket on the tax that annually produces about $25,000,000. Besides that, other increases in the swollen omnibus or catchall appropriation bill might eat up the surviving $1,000,000 and then some.

The bill also carries these major items: For a medical school under the 000. University Selection of of a site Missouri would left to the University curators. For the mental hospitals, facing higher salary requests and inflated food costs, a total of almost $1,500,000 in addition to earlier allotments. A bill to let members of the armed forces cast absentee ballots in local and judicial elections was passed by the Missouri Senate today. The vote sending it to the Governor was 19 to 0.

Burial Friday For Cpl. James Timmerberg MONTGOMERY CITY The body of Cpl. James E. Timmerberg, son of Mr. and Mrs.

P. E. Timmerberg, arrived in Montgomery City Tuesday and will remain at Hopkins Funeral Parlor until Friday afternoon. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Baptist church in this city. Graveside services will be conducted by the American Legion, and interment will be in Montgomery City cemetery.

Corporal Timmerberg was killed in action in Korea on April 28, 1951. Corporal Freeman of Oakland, escorted the body here. A sister and a brother survive with his parents. Reds Charge Missing Plane Flight Illegal BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Nov. 21 (P) Hungary and Romania complained officially today that a United States army cargo plane still missing after being, border fired on by the satellite guards -crossed over their territories illegally.

Notes were presented to the American missions in Budapest and Bucharest, even as U. S. planes prepared to search over Yugoslavia for the missing C-47 transport, which disappeared Monday with four crewmen and diplomatic cargo aboard. The two cominform countries maintain a tight control all along their borders with Yugoslavia. The notes were presented after American inquiries were made concerning the whereabouts of the plane, whose pilot had radioed his base at Munich Monday afternoon that he had been fired upon by the border patrols of the two countries and had turned back westward.

To Gather In Services Of Thanksgiving Union Service Here Tomorrow Morning At 10:00 Services of Thanksgiving will be held tonight and tomorrow over Little Dixie. In Mexico, the Union Thanksgiving service will be held at 10:00 a. m. tomorrow in the First Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. P.

B. Carlisle, pastor of the Christian Church, presiding. The Thanksgiving proclamation will be by the Rev. L. F.

Admire, Centennial Baptist Church; the reading of the Scripture and the Thanksgiving prayer D. K. Pegues, Mexico Methodist Church; and the sermon "Are You Thankful?" by Dr. C. Spurgeon McClung, First Baptist Church.

The offering will be divided among the five participating churches. St. John's Lutheran Church will have a special Thanksgiving Service at m. on Thursday. The Rev.

G. P. Dobberfuhl, church pastor, will speak on "Giving Thanks" and will base his sermon on the Psalm 136:1. The choir will sing several selections appropriate to the theme of the day, among them "We Praise Thee, God. Our Redeemer, Creator" -author of which is unknown.

Services will be held by the Christian Science Society at 223 E. Promenade at 10:45 a. m. Earlier in the day, at 6:00 a. m.

a union service will be held at St. Paul's C. M. E. Church, with the Rev.

H. C. Moore, pastor of St. Luke's Methodist church, as the speaker. Union services will be held this evening at Vandalia and at Wellsville.

The Vandalia service will be at 7:30 p. m. at the Baptist Church, with the Rev. J. Wayne Kurtz, pastor of the The Presbyterian church, as speaker.

Wellsville service will be held at the Baptist Church, with the sermon by the Rev. J. C. McDaniel, Methodist pastor, and with the Rev. Charles Barr of the Christian, church, and the Rev.

the Pres. byterian church taking part. will be the 48th year for the union service in the community, the 21st for the evening schedule. Thanksgiving Day masses will be at 6:30 and 8:00 a. m.

tomorrow at St. Brendan's Catholic Church. The day will be a general holiday, businesses and shops closing for the day. There will be no mail delivery, and the Led. ger will not publish.

Reds Challenge U. S. Rule of Air China Overnight Major Air Power, Says Vandenberg WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (P) Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg said today the Allies' "complete air superiority over Korea is now being seriously challenged by the MIGs but so far the situation is in hand." The air force chief of staff told a long and grim news conference that possible "serious potentials" exist.

Among these he listed the fact that "overnight China has become one of the major air powers of the world." Vandenberg added that the Peiping regime obviously has attained that status "as the direct beneficiary thot another power possessing essential industrial and technical resources that Communist China itself lacks." He did not mention Russia by name. Vandenberg, just back from the Korean war front, also said: "Under the ground rules tablished at the outset of the Korean war, it is impossible for us to gain air supremacy" because "for reasons that we all underof stand, we have followed a policy not attacking the strongholds of enemy the power river directly across Yalu' in Manchuria. Permit Catch-Up Hikes WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 CP The salary stabilization board today permitting issued a sweeping regulation catch-up employers to grant pay increases to workers salaried who and supervisory lag behind producworkers in the same firm. U.

N. Fails On Palestine PARIS, Nov. 21. CP- The United Nations Palestine Conciliation Commission announced today failure to settle Arab-Israeli difI ferences. Thanksgiving Dinner Guests in Every Home Nation Half At War On Thanksgiving Day Observance Tomorrow Comes As Leaders Search for Peace In Uneasy World; Turkey Dinners for Most Army Men By The Associated Press A nation half at war tomorrow while its leaders uneasy world.

In the United States, pensive. The day will sparkle east, with football games everywhere. Halfway across the world, in grimy Panmunjom, American officers have promised an answer to the latest Communist counter There for a cease cautious fire was optimism that both sides are coming closer together. Combat men will pause, wherever possible. to orate a day halfway between peace and all out war.

For most, the army says, there will be turkey dinners and the trimmings. Some, on the battlefront, may have to wait for theirs. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, supreme allied commander in Tokyo, gave thanks on behalf of his fighting men in Korea.

At almost the other end of the world, international military and political leaders are meeting in an effort to speed the buildup of European strength to a point where they say it may prevent a Russian In Rome, top American and European military officials are seeking the practical military power which they consider Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's inter. national army needs. At Paris, the United Nations is trying amid pessimism to find a political meeting ground, between the west and on disarmament.

At home President and Mrs. Truman left Washington today for Thanksgiving at Key West, Fla. With them were Chief Justice and Mrs. Vinson and several White House officials. School Board Is Chosen By Centralia Vote CENTRALIA-There were 235 votes cast in the special school election Tuesday to name a school board of six members for Centralia's newly-reorganized district.

Those elected for the one year term were C. C. Hough Bud Davenport, with 186 and 118 respectively. Other nominees were Travis Payne, who ceived 90 votes and Philip Swanson, 85. A.

D. March and Dan Williams received 190 and votes, to be elected for the two term, with Harry Donohue, 102 and Robert Barnes, 53. For the three year term, L. W. Angell received 219 of the votes cast, and Harold Miller, 133.

Delbert Potts was third with 122. Tucker Is Critical B. B. Tucker, Mexico horseman, was in a very critical condition at Jewish Hospital in St. Louis Wednesday, and members of his family, were at his bedside.

suffered injuries in a fall following a stroke, suffered in St. Louis last Friday. In order that employes may observe Thanksgiving Day, the Ledger will not publish tomor. row. The office and shop will be closed, 250 Rotarians At Centralia Red Ham Dinner Rev.

Alexander Appeals For Better Use of Citizenship School gymnasium Tuesday night for the 12th Annual Red Ham and Gravy dinner sponsored by the Centralia Rotary Club. Rotarians from more than 20 Missouri towns and were present. The Mexico cities, club had 23 present which is believed to be the largest out-of-town representation. The Rev. W.

H. Alexander of Oklahoma City was the principal speaker for the evening. In a dramatic and moving presentation he underscored the importance of individual citizenship. "If politics are dirty, what are you doing about it? The always make the biggest con- tribution, not the It is the leaven that makes the bread CENTRALIA More than 250 Rotarians and their guests gathered at the Centralia High The meeting was called to order by Robert Mow, president of the Centralia Rotary Club. of Centralia gave the invocation.

The Rev. J. Wilson Branstetter The menu for the evening included vegetable juice, fried country ham and red gravy, cream gravy, whipped potatoes, green beans, combination salad, olives, pickles, "more country ham," hot biscuits, coffee and apple pie with cheese. welcomMow. gave introduced the address Charles of Kemper.

Past District Governor from Troy, Mo. Mr. Kemper introduced Lew Shultz of Centralia who led group singing. Neta Cox accompanied on the piano. Mr.

Kemper then introduced visiting dignitaries, topping the list with the present Rotary District Governor J. Torrey Berger of Kirkwood. Mr. Alexander's speech follow. ed with him closing the meeting by reciting a poem an invocation pointing out that individuals working together make up a club and that the leaders of the club can do little to improve the town or country by themselves.

To illustrate his point, the lights were turned out then the District Governor and Mr. Mow struck matches two points of light. Then Mr. Alexander asked everyone present to strike a match and hold it over his head and the darkened hall Other was officers flooded with light. of the Centralia club are Stanley Hartley, vice president, and Dr.

R. P. Roberts, secretary. Directors of the club are J. H.

Evans, C. R. McCallister, J. W. Stone and Paul Sturgeon.

Members of the club include: Lyle Barnthouse, Gano Chance. E. K. Cole, Charles Cox, P. Craghead, J.

R. Edwards, T. C. Garrison, Howard Green, C. C.

Hough, H. A. Houston, Dave Hubbard, Harry Jennings, R. W. Kunkle, Lee Marksbury, W.

M. Meador, Glynn Mills, Frank Noonar. Arnold Prater, Arthur Sames, Fred Sames. John Schindler, L. W.

Shultz, H. E. Stone, N. A. Toalson, John Whitman, Frank Wilson, O.

G. Wilson, George Williamson, Garrett Williamson, and Clyde Younger. Sgt. Begole Enroute Home From Korea Sgt. Robert W.

Begolc. son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Begole, 612 S.

Washington, and a member of the United States Marine Corp, arrived Tuesday night in San Diego and is now enroute to Mexico. Sgt. Begole, a member of the First Division, had been in Korea since December 15, 1950. During World War II spent four years with the Marines. thirty.

four months of which were spent in the Pacific area. Hospital Vote Set For Tuesday, Dec. Il $500,000 Bond Proposal Up for Vote With $150,000 Offer from Fire Brick Plants Hinging On Outcome of Election Audrain Countians will vote on Tuesday, December 11, on the proposed extension of the Audrain Hospital. Truce hopes negotiators submitted open the way for buffer zone along the present fighting line to take effect if an armistice is signed within 30 days. A U.

N. Command communique referred to the resemblance as superficial. But the Command's official spokesman, Brig. Gen. William Nuckols, said if the Red plans "means what we think it means close to a solution" of bufthen I think we are.

very fer zone question. The point in doubt was whether the Communist proposal means "that troops will be withdrawn from the buffer zone after an armistice is signed" the U. N. has proposed. At the close of the session Maj.

Gen. Henry I. Hodes, heading the U. N. subcommittee, told the Red delegates "we will present you with the necessary revisions to clear up this proposal" at Thursday's meeting.

It is set for 8 p. m. (CST) Wednesday. In the battle areas, U. N.

forces today threw back the Red's strongest attempt to halt an allied line strengthening drive on the central front. The U. N. push has five miles since Saturdagearty The Republic of Korea (ROK) Sixth Division stopped counterattacks by elements of two Red battalions. The South Koreans also threw back several other jabs at their Pukhan river line southeast of Kumsong.

Tuesday they knocked off three important hills in that sector. On the eastern front United attack northwest of the PunchNations soldiers repulsed a Red bowl after a five and one-half hour The fight. only action on the western front was northwest of Chorwon. An allied raiding party occupied one hill position in Communist territory. Battle Deaths For US Now Stand At 16,972 Plus plan for creating a WASHINGTON, Nov.

21 M) Announced U. S. battle casualties in reached 100,176 today. The Defense Department's weekly summary, reporting an increase pf 950 since last week, sent the total over the 100,000 mark. By comparison, U.

S. combat casualties in the first year of this country's participation in World War I were 000. Of the 950 new battle casualties reported oday, 150 were killed outright in action; 762 were wounded, and 38 are missing. The figure, of 16,972 battle deaths is far short of the total number of Americans who have died in Korea. Gen.

Matthew B. Ridgway reported yesterday there are indications the Communists may have slaughtered as many as 6,000 captured Americans. Except for a handful, these atrocity victims are not listed among the battle deaths. Most are among those now tabulated officially as missing. addition, the casualty figures do not take account of men died of illness.

Community Chest Drive GOAL $15,550 TODAY $10,119.93 Your Gift Will Help Have You Made It? Formal notice setting today by County Clerk Glenn of the date by the county tion response to petitions filed with the court 1800 signers over the county. The proposal to be voted is a bond issue of $500,000, which would be added matching federal funds for an addition and enlargement of the hospital 125-bed capacity. Because of Audrain County's growing need for adequate hospital facilities, the five refractory companies in the county have agreed to make available $100,000 toward the establishment of a hospital unit in Vandalia. The two refractory companies in Mexico have agreed to contribute $50,000 in addition for expansion of operational faci. lities at the Audrain Hospital.

These two offers contingent upon passage of the bond issue for the hospital addition. The plans, made after consultation with the state board of health and to meet federal requirements, call for an approximate total of 125 beds, according to Gallop, chairman of the citizens' committee which filed the petitions. The bond issue would call for a tax rate of ten cents on the $100 valuation, or $1 per year for a taxpayer with a valuation of $1000. The fire brick companies' ofof $150.000 are good only until December 31, main factor in the setting of the election for December 11. All 31 voting places in the county will be used frothe election, with polls open 6 a.

to 7 p. m. One voting place in Linn townshipay Edwards, has been with by abolition of the schoolhouse formerly used for polls and the absence of other available they place. Edwards has been combined with the Rush Hill precinct. so that all Linn township voters now vote at Rush Hill.

However, the number of precincts remains at 31, with the tablishment of an alternate Salt River precinct in Mexico. Since Mexico came under the registration law for towns over 000, Salt River voters registered inside the city limits cannot vote at the Mexico ward polls. A new voting place for them will be operated at the courthouse. Residents outside Mexico, who would otherwise have to travel north to Molino or south to Union and Liberty, will be able to cast their votes at this precinct, in the courthouse basement community room. Courthouse voting arrangements being set up are detailed more fully in another story elsewhere.

Officials for the special hospital election will be announced. Late News FlashesWASHINGTON, Nov. 21. (P- The prices of hot dogs, bologna and some pork sausage will go up somewhere around cents a pound, effective Monday, der new rules issued today by the Office of Price Stabilization (OPS). LONDON, Nov.

21, (P Prime Minister Winston Churchill said today the United States may keep bases for atom bombers in Britain as long as "needed in the general interests of world peace and security." MOSCOW, Nov. 21, (P) Actting Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko summoned United States Charge d'Affaires Hugh Cumming to the foreign office today and handed the American diplomat a note. Cumming would not was in the note, but disclosed the contents had been transmitted to Washington. Thanksgiving Day to End Club Appeal for CARE for Korea Thanksgiving Day will be the final day to contribute to CAREFor- Korea, sponsored by the Mexico Junior Women's Club. Contributions may be left at the Mexico Ledger or will be picked up by members of the committee, according to Mrs.

Charles Daniel. III chairman of the a campaign. Contributions may also be sent to CARE For Korea, 20 Broad street, New York 5, N. Y. The CARE packages will be sent to South Korea where mil- the election date was issued M.

Barnes, after the fixing court. Calling of the special elec- Four Precincts To Vote Now In Courthouse New Arrangement Uses Facilities Of New Building will observe Thanksgiving Day search for peace throughout an turkey will be plentiful but exwith warmer weather in the Grass Fires Can Be Costly After 3 Calls, Fire Chief Urges Extra Precautions Three small grass fires kept Mexico firemen busy Wednesday morning between 9:30 and 12 noon. Fire Chief Thomas Merrit and his men had just returned from answering a call from 702 S. Western Street when a second alarm sounded and the firemen were off to 912 E. Liberty Street to squelch another grass fire.

A third alarm at 11:50 sent the firemen to 733 W. Jackson for a third grass fire. "We were just backing the truck into the Fire Hall when the second call came." one of the fireman said. Grass fires can prove to be very dangerous if allowed to get out of control, says Fire Chief Merritt. He urges extra precaution when burning off a field or plot of ground or trash pile.

Merritt suggests that people burn their trash and grass in small piles, away from the house or any outdoor building that might catch fire. If burning off fire chief warns people to be sure it is not a windy day. The presence of a garden hose is another safety precaution that people should use Merritt said. Dr. Straube Dies Tuesday At Wellsville WELLSVILLE Funeral services for Dr.

Clarel S. Straube, 72, prominent Wellsville resident who died Tuesday night, will be held Thursday at 2:30 at the Presbyterian church by the tor Dr. Dr. Thomas S. Hickman.

Straube was a leading zen, serving more than 45 years in the Presbyterian church as an officer, former president of the Wellsville Kiwanis Club, and first president of the Wellsville Public Library Board, formed in He was an able speaker, and was known for his friendly, cheerful progressive interest in civic affairs. His death at 8:00 p. m. Tuesday followed several weeks of illness. Dr.

Straube began the practice of dentistry after his graduaand tion from retired Washington University, in 1918. After retirement he became librarian of the public library. He was born NovM. ember 7, Clara 1879, the son of George and Shipherd Straube. He is survived by wife, Mrs.

Josie Straube of the home: a dine) daughter, Mrs. Harold Reed of Ardmore, and two half-sisters. Mrs. R. E.

Alvey of St. Louis and Mrs. Frank Duncan of South Bend, Ind. The Audrain County courthouse will be the center of voting in future election days. Four of Mexico's eight precincts will vote in the courthouse, where there is ample accommodation for them.

In addition, there will be a fifth voting place in the courthouse, an alternate voting place for residents of Salt River township outside the city limits of Mexico. The four corners of the main floor will be used for voting of four Mexico precincts, located with respect to directions just as the precincts fan out from the square. The Courthouse precinct of the first ward, northeast, will vote in the county collector's office in the northeast corner; the Central precinct of the second ward, northwest. will vote in the recorder's office in the northwest corner; the Southwest precinct of the third ward, southwest, will vote in the Welfare office in the southwest corner; and the Promenade precinct of fourth ward, southeast, will vote in the county clerk's office in the southeast corner. The use of the voting spaces will not require the closing of all the offices concerned for election days, as in each office there is a public space ample to house election officials, tables, and voting booths.

The four Mexico precincts will retain their usual voting places; McMillan precinct of the ward at McMillan school; High School precinct of the second at the school; Eugene Field precinct of the third at the school; and Hardin precinct of the fourth at the school. The fifth voting place at the courthouse in the Community Room in the basement, to be known as Community Precinct, will serve those residents of Salt River township who in the past have voted at Mexico wards. They can no longer do that, since registration law requirements apply to the Mexico precincts. For instance, County clerk Glenn M. Barnes pointed out, residents of Highway 15 near would find it highly inconvenient if forced to travel to Molino to cast votes, Similarly, residents of the airport addition may find it more convenient to vote at the courthouse rather than journeying into the country to the south Salt River precinct.

addition to convenience for voters, the new arrangement will save a little for the county, in the payment of rent for voting places in commercial buildings as in the past. Precincts will continue to be maintained at Molino, for north Salt River voters, and at Union and Liberty for south Salt River voters. Barnes has been working for some time to develop plans for elections keyed to the facilities offered by the new courthouse. Some months ago he thought he had until the 1952 elections to complete the plans, but filing of petitions for a special vote on the Audrain Hospital addition forced him to speed the work for that election Class Clears About $200 on Play Tuesday Approximently $200 was cleared by the Speech and Dramatics class of the Mexico High School from the class' annual play presented last night at Emmons hall. Proceeds from the play, "Men Are Like Street directed by Miss Betty Hickman, will be used pourchase a tape recorder for the class.

lions of helpless citizens, many of them children, have suffered because of the war. Homes have been destroyed, all possessions lost and normal means of livelihood wiped out. There is an estimated population of 21 million in Korea with 5 million homeless refugees and 1 million additional war victims with every single person an actual sufferer. Mrs. Glen P.

Kallenbach and Mrs. Charles C. Gage are other members of the committee assisting Mrs. Daniels. Proudly We Publish "Thanks.

What For?" Jim Sterner's column in this week's magazine section. We it. believe you'll not enJoy know "what even better after reading it. The Ledger is proud to publish this column readers. RMWII..