The Emporia Gazette from Emporia, Kansas • Page 1

Ptft 1 Highway Deaths Set New Record One-Day Toll Climbs To 155; Over Estimates By the Associated Traffic accidents across the nation claimed 155 lives Thursday, a 'record for a one-day Memorial Day observance. The toll surpassed the National Safety Council estimate of 130 for the 30-hour period. The previous record for a Memorial Day observance of 30 hours was 109 in 1956. The count of traffic fatalities covered the period from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Thursday.

The National Safety Council had estimated that between 90 and 130 persons would be kilted on the highways and streets during the holiday period. The council's latest report showed that traffic accidents in the first four months this year killed 11,630 persons, an average of nearly 100 a day. This year's Memorial Day traffic death toll compared to 107 for the 1962 holiday, also a period of 30 hours. In 1951, the only other one-day observance of the holiday since World War II, traffic deaths numbered 81, which is a record low for any one-day observance of any holiday. Generally fair weather in most of the country lured millions of nouaa persons to the highways in the Claim 5 Kamatrs first holiday of the warm season.

iaun Memorial Day a legal holi- th THE GAZETTE Emporia, Kansas, Friday, Map ji, 1983 EXCHANGE STUDENT WINS "Candy" McKew, foreign exchange student from England, sits between foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray McMillin of Junction City. The McMillins' daughter, Jane, is shown at left. Candy was a straight student at Junction City Senior High School this year.

She also was picked as "Ideal Girl" in the high school. She lived at the McMillin home while attending school in Junction City. (AP Photo) "Ideal Girl" and Straight A Grades day in several southern states. Most workers in states which observed the holiday, available information indicates, were back on the job today, precluding an extended weekend holiday. The traffic death toll compares with the record high of 253 for a Five persons died in Memorial Day traffic accidents in Kansas.

A car overturned on U.S. 50 about 13 miles northeast of Newton, killing Earl G. Lay, 73, and his wife, Ruth, 65, of Wichita. rr Mrs. Edith C.

McProud, 82, was By Bob Honeyman British Student Has Won The Heart of Junction City killed near her South one-day celebration of any holi- home'while on her way to a fam- day, set on Christmas Day in ily dinner. She was in a car driven by her nephew, John N. Payne, 69, a retired Hutchinson school teacher. A car carrying five teenagers crashed into Haven Written for the Associated Press 1946. The Associated Press made a survey of a recent non-holiday period of 30 hours, from 6 p.m.

May 15 to midnight May 16, to provide a basis for comparison Topeka a pole, killing -Anthony Guerrero, 19. The with Thursday's toll. The count others, all injured, were 'john showed 98 deaths in traffic. There also were 6 boating deaths and 9 drownings. Drownings during the holiday period totaled 23 and 11 persons lost their lives in boating accidents.

19; Gary Guerrero, 18; Howard Allbright, 18, and Louis Martines, 17. Douglas C. Schneider, 22, of Ellinwood, was killed in a two- car crash near Kingman Wednesday night. STORAGE 3 Unlimited Number of Garments Guaranteed BON TON CLEANERS 827 Com'I Mothproof Mildew roof clothing IF WORTH MOVING IT IS WORTH MOVING RIGHT! Dl 2-1163 THOMAS TRANSFER STORAGE LOCAL LONG DISTANCE Now ROWLAND'S Elizabeth Aden's SLEEK The cream of depilatories, Sleek gently removes from face or aran or legs the Elizabeth Arden Stlon way. Sleek turn to remove every trace of hiir 10 that regrowth it diicouraged and the ttays nnooth nraeh longer.

Sleek is also safe to en the most delicate areas of the ikin for it as pure and mild the finest face cream. And Sleek is swift to you perfect results that you want! la 1.25; Sleek in 4tf ox. tube, 2.00. She is already a graduate of Wimbledon High School, Wimbledon, England, but also won a bona fide diploma from the local school. In England Miss McKew ranked in the top of her class.

She took four languages Russian, German, French and Eng- change student from London, she lish besides English literature, geology JUNCTION CITY, Kan. Junction City didn't need a Paul Revere to learn the British were coming, for soon after the arrival last fall of Carol (Candy) McKew, 18-year-old foreign ex- mathematics, history, and geography. As a gesture of how the student body here likes Candy, it paid the $47 for a telephone call between her and her parents in London at Christmas. Mrs. McMillin said of her had won her way into the heart of the community.

The bubbling personality, wit and scholastic ability of the visitor, brought to Junction City under auspices of the American Field Service Committee, has focused new attention on the ex- u. 0C1LU Ul HCr change project, now three years guestf Candy has brought ug SQ old here. many oys wou a fc nours to Candy was voted Junction City enumerate them. She is just like Senior High School's "Ideal one of the family and is never Girl," was a straight A student company." and made the honor roll each six Mr. and Mrs.

McMillin invited weeks of the term. She Candy's parents to attend their won I the highest pbs- daughter's graduation, and they in the district and state arrived last Saturday, speech and drama festivals, was Candy will leave Junction City student council secretary and par- June 20 to go on a con- ticipated in the school musical, ducted tour sponsored by the Oklahoma." The vivacious blonde lived with Mr. and Mrs. Ray McMILLIN. McMillin is an ice and ice cream manufacturer.

Warren Settles, the high school principal, said: "Candy has been extremely popular with the other students. Her personality and ability has made her stay in Junction City the climax of three years' experience in Hie foreign exchange program." He also credited her with being a good influence in the school and also on the faculty. "Candy has given the teachers a new insight into a student with a real broad outlook on life," Settles said. Communists Aim for Americans in Saigon South Viet Nam (AP) Communist guerrillas apparently were gunning specifically for Americans when they ambushed a government patrol Wednesday, U.S. military authorities said today.

Two U.S. special forces advisers who led the patrol of 100 mountain tribesmen were the only ones killed. They were Capt. James Brodt, 30, of Cocoa Beach, and Pfc. Neil K.

Maclver, 19, of Silver Spring, Md. "The advisers were much bigger than the other patrol members and.it would have been easy for the Communists to pick them out," one military source said. "After they got the Americans, the guerrillas left in a hurry." American Field Service for all foreign students. She will sail for home early in August at the end of the tour. Ecuador Is Holding 21 U.S.

Tuna Boats For Illegal Fishing SALINAS, Ecuador (AP) Ecuador held 21 tuna boats from San Diego, today for alleged illegal fishing within its territorial waters. Two boats, the White Star and the Ranger, faced charges originally. But Commander Francisco Espinosa of the navy general staff said Thursday night the fleet of 21 would be impounded and the captains tried if they lacked proper permits. Nineteen of the boats reported they accompanied the White Star and Ranger to port in a show of solidarity. The navy said, however, its warships escorted all the tuna boats to this port, 225 miles southwest of Quito.

The tuna skippers claim they fished 13 miles offshore, while Ecuador contends they were only 3 miles off shore. The United States recognizes only a three-mile territorial limit. Secretary of State Dean Rusk demanded release of the White Star and the Ranger and called for negotiations to settle the dispute. TUT AMERICUS Mrs. Mary Coventry, of the Presbyterian Manor in Newton, is spending this week with relatives in this area.

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6th and Cotton wood DI 2-5771 "If You Can't Trade With Us You Can't Trade" Spitballs May Be Doomed by Autographed Balls KANSAS CITY (AP)-The City Athletics plan another innovation in the major league tonight baseball autographed before a game starts. Each the customary 40 supplied to the umpire before the game will bear the name of one of the A's in the lineup for that game, Charles O. Finley, owner of the A's, happily announced today he just received authorization from Joe Cronin, American League president, to have the balls autographed for Kansas City's home games. Recovery Suit Filed C. R.

Jones of the Reading community has filed a suit in Lyon County District Court against Orrin Peet, 130 South Union and the Ottawa Implement Company, Ottawa. At issue is interest in ownership of a combine. Plaintiff seeks to recover $1,000 or one-half interest in the machine, which allegedly was traded in by Peet for another one from the Ottawa concern. Tuf TAKES LESS WATER MIAMI (AP) A North Miami service station advertised: "Automobiles washed one dollar. Compacts dunked fifty cents." Finley explained that fans who recover foul balls often seek a player's autograph after the game.

"Now he'll have a pre-game autographed Finley said. "We like the idea because we think it will build fan interest and will add a little color to the gamo. We'll start it tonight against Washington. We'll'do-it home game for the rest of the season provided it doesn't cause too much scrambling for the balls." The balls will be signed by the A's in kelly green go with the Athletics' new. uniforms a color innovation by the A's owner.

"I hope," Finley commented, "that the umpires will not let opposing pitchers throw spitballs because that would rub off the ink or blur it." Asked if batters of 'an opposing club might object to the signature on the ball, Finley half jokingly replied: "I'm sure the A's won't, mind seeing their own names on the ball coming up there to the plate. The A's would never think of throwing a It's not respectable in baseball; it's very ungracious." He also observed that President Cronin's name is already on American League baseballs, put on in the manufacture of them. "One extra signature won't hurt," Finley said. matura fpf wtto pfctor voulWwl Rae ford SPORT COATS for the best-'dressed leisure of your life Luxury-loomed from wool rarer than cashmere) and resillan! DuPont Docron Polyester in distinctive new-look plaids of bronzes, golds, oli-blues comfprtable Vanword mode! 50. Other Cool Sport Coats 22.95 to 59 Now Mr.

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