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a a a a a a a a a THE LEAVENWORTH TIMES, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1952. Banks Order Sandbags For Any Emergency The Leavenworth National Bank would like for people to know that those money bags in the Jobby are full of sand, not money. Frank Carroll, president of. the bank, said this morning that he and the other members of the bank's force have taken: a lot of kidding about the bags which are marked U.S. Mint, Denver," "Return to Federal Reserve and other similar labels.

"There's no reason for anyone to break into the bank to carry: off those Carroll: joked. Because of the e. high possibility of heavy rains, and blocked sewer the bank had the sand bags ready to hold down rubber: mats along the outside of where water might get into the building. the past heavy rains have caused water to stand fairly high in the intersection at Fourth and Delaware. While the water would run off quickly, Carroll explained the bank didn't want to take any chances of sand, grit or the water causing its vaults, on the ground floor, to lock.

The pile of sandbags in front of the First National Bank also led some observers to believe that the bank was figuring on some kind of cement job. But after the management of the bank heard that water! was backing up in the storm sewers the bags of sand were ordered and delivered and: just in case they were needd. Sees No. Grounds For Haggling Over Funds TOPEKA As far as State Chairman John I. Young is concerned there are; no grounds for haggling over the handling of Democratic party funds in Kansas.

Those arguing about the use of "century funds and receipts from the Jefferson Jackson day dinner in Wichita last fall "would tear the Democratic party asunder over the election of a national committeeman," Young Young made his statement in re' ply to a demand by former. Gov. Harry H. Woodring Wednesday for an accounting of party funds before the state convention in HutchI inson Saturday when the national THE WEARER OF THIS HELMET STILL LIVES WEAR YOURS KOREAN STYLE NOTESelf-explanatory sign is a grim reminder to the soldier passing by that he: must wear his head to survive. Medical: department estimates indicate that 19 per, cent of casualties are head wounds, suffered by men who fail to.

wear their helmets, committeeman election will take place. Cancel Plans To Combine Control WASHINGTON (P). President Truman has dropped his controversial. plan to put the Interior Department in charge. of flood control and other river.

and harbor now handled by the army engineers: Irving Perlmeter, assistant White House press secretary, Wednesday told newsmen the President has instructed the Budget Bureau to stop work on the plan and that itit will not be submitted" to Congress. "-No explanation was given for the shift in plans. Contributing factors are believed to have been the bitter congressional opposition to the reorganization proposal a and a conference with: Lt. Gen. Lewis A.

Pick, chief of army engineers, folflowing the current Missouri flood. Kansas ranks fourth in the na-: tion in percentage. increase of manufacturing payrolls from 1940 to 1950. Truman Says Papers Safe From Seizure WASHINGTON (P) President Truman said Thursday the thought of seizing the nation's newspapers and radio stations has never occurred to: him. difficult to imagine the.

government taking such a step, he told his weekly news conference. Truman said, however, that he seized the steel. industry because th country was in what he called its greatest emergency. He recounted too, that he has used great powers: (1) To force the Russians out of Iran in 1946. with an ultimatum they obeyed and (2): To stave off a march of Communist Yugoslavia on Trieste by making a show of military force.

He was asked then: whether he could seize the press and radio as he had the steel industry. He replied that under similar circumstances, the president has to act for whatever is for the best of the country. He brought up the: Iran and Trieste incidents for the first time, be said his seizure of the steel. industry was just such an action. Truman laughed off the efforts that have been made in the House to.

impeach him because: of the steel seizure: That's a political proposition, he said. He added that Congress has the right to try itbut he said he has a pretty good defense. Truman said the ultimatum to Russia he didn't: remember whether it was in 1945 or 1946- was a message from himself Stalin telling the Russians to get their troops out of Iran, where in World War IT they had guarded supply, lines from the Persian Gulf to the Soviet Union. The Russians, the President said crisply, got He said other crises since thenthe Berlin blockade, the attack on South Korea likewise have been met by prompt, action and have been stopped. Now, he said, the in the midst of a similar emergency Korea' -trying to.

being shot! its forces from in the back, trying to help arm the free nations against aggression. On politics, Truman said he does: not have any candidates for office at this time. He called newsmen's attention to the last three wordslat this time. YOUR BEST BUY Butter Na Coffee Delicious 50 Delicious it is FIRST CHOICE IN OVER A MILLION HOMES Must Decide Whether Students Should Have Cars By RUTH MILLETT After 10: of his boys got into trouble. with police for: automobiles and breaking into.

had homes, this to a high school principal say: "I feel our students shouldn't have cars. For two reasons they are not good. Students who don't Women's news lesson on "Swedish Embroidery." Members present were: Miss Sophie Suete, Mmes. Ralph Edmonds, Raymond Hansroth, Glen Knapp, James McGhay, Andrew Meinert, Martin: Nieman, Walter Robker, Albert Winkler, J.a Younger, Toedker, and Edward, Toedter. Guests were Misses Elizabeth Hall, Clara Nieman, Mesdames L.

Hoffman, Fred Kruse, and E. H. Nieman. The May meeting will be with Mrs. Edward Toedter.

The Round Prairie Needle Club held its April meeting at the Community House, with Mrs. Elizabeth. Long as hostess. After: regular. order of business, bingo was played and prizes awarded Opal Ehart, Grace Wagner, and Erma Barnes.

Refreshments were served by the hostess. Announcement was made that the next meeting will be May instead of the 15th, due to the fact that the annual school dinner scheduled on the 15. Mrs. Martin Nieman will be the hostess. Present at the meeting were: Mmes.

Clarence Corson, Roy Kilgore, James Pennington, Victor Wagner, Ray Hegarty, John Adolph Ode, Frank Ehart, Claude Frey, June Pennington, John Barnes, Orzella Pennington, Jim Hegarty, Elizabeth Long, James Frey, Helen Winkler, Pennington; Albert Winkler and the Misses Sally Wosser, Betty Ehart, Elizabeth and Mamie' Roe. The Ladies Aid of Potter Community Church held its regular meeting Wednesday afternoon the home of Mrs. Olive Surritte, with 15 members present. Mrs. James McGhay, president, read the scripture, which was followed by the Lord's Prayer.

Members of the aid voted to purchase carpeting for the church, pattern was chosen for a quilt and one block was completed. Members present were: Mmes. Jake. Linden, W. B.

Elliott, Roy. Kilgore, Charles Castelline, James McGhay, Will Kirkpatrick, T. McCune, Ernest Potter, C. W. Corson, Marion Surritte, Bill Warren, George Sprong, Irene Ernzen, Tom Pennington and Miss Mae Powers.

The next meeting will be April .30 at the home of Mrs. James McGhay. The Lansing. Community Club held their April meeting in the basement of the Catholic Julia Hostesses were Mrs. Nyfler, Mrs.

Louise Sherman, Mrs. Mary Patterson and Mrs. Maxine Hollingshead. A covered dish luncheon was served at noon followed by a short business meeting, at which time the club voted a $5 donation the Cancer Crusade. Bingo was played during recreation period.

The next meeting will be held the home of Mrs. Mabel Meyer. Mrs. C. Tobyne was.

voted a new member Mrs. John Bedwell and Mrs. Irene Edmonds were guests. Members present were: Mesdames Anna Borchardt, Helen McCarthy, Agnes Kendall, Birdie Atkinson, Mattie Jamison, Mary Daisy Neagle, Ruby Coop, Mabel Meyer, Esther Robinson, Doratha' Marxen, Kate Feidler, Ada Young, Jean Domann, and Regina The April meeting of the Bell Club was held at the Shockley home. The meeting was opened with song and roll call was answered by naming a garden table.

Bernard Pierron reported the council meeting. The time of meeting was changed to' 8:30,: effective during the summer months. Mary Louise Jauering and Charles Brown were elected as round-up delegates. The program opened with group singing. A sewing project talk was given by Mary Louise Jauering.

Diane. Shockley gave a demonstration on how to make an egg salad sandwich. Alice Dodd gave Music Appreciation entitled "Italian Folk Songs" and led the group in singing "Santa Lucia." Bernard Pierron gave a health talk and Joarine Brown led the Parliamentary drill. Mrs. Pierron gave an interesting talk about the Leaders Training School at Hutchinson, which she attended recently.

Games and a TV program were enjoyed following the meeting. MAYOR NO DEAD-ENDER FARMINGTON, N. (UP) Mayor W. R. Gibson was pleased at first when the town board offered to name a street in a new subdivision for him, It didn't last.

"Wait a minute," said the or, "that street's a dead end." Dale Hall's University of New Hampshire basketball team set al new University scoring record. This Hall's first year as coach at the institution. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE TIMES (have them want them and that leads to trouble. "Then, too, for those that have them it is easier to get into, troub-1 le. They can travel faster, they can get away.

easier. Isn't the getaway car an important factor in most planned crimes? "I have no authority to' prohibit cars. Some parents would cooperate; others would not. The principal is right. But he could have added a few more arguments against high school students being given cars by their There is the great danger that the teen-age driver will be a showoff driver.

This is especially true when he loads his, car with companions his own age. And the indulgent parents w.h 0 give their high school children convertibles are doing them a really grave injustice. The child with a flashy convertible has high school popularity handed to him on a silver platter. He doesn't have to do anything to earn it or merit: it. His convertible gets him by: That is as bad for him as it is hard on the boy who envies.

him that flashy car. But as the principal said, there's nothing he can do about the situation. It's the parents who are responsible. If they refuse to get together and decide as group what is best for their teen-age youngsters, the problem can't be licked. Service Saturday For Hugh Walker Funeral service for Hugh Walker, 414 Vine, who died in Atchison Wednesday morning, will be at 2 p.

Saturday at the Sexton Funeral Chapel Rev. Paul Brinkley, pastor of the Excelsior Springs Baptist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Mount Muncie Cemetery. Mr. Walker was born in 1873 in England, the son of Robert and Martha Walker.

He came to Amer(ica in 1888 and to Leavenworth soon afterwards. He made this his home since. He was married to Miss" Sadie Stucker in Leavenworth on March 1, 1900. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in Mrs. Walker was fatally burned in an explosion of their home on Pine on Jan.

7. of this year. Mr. Walker suffered severe burns and shock at that time and has been confined to his bed since that time. 'He was a member of the (First Baptist Church.

Surviving are one son, Waldo H. Walker of a Oklahoma City, one brother, John C. Walker; city clerk, and one grandson, Kent Walker, Oklahoma City. The body will remain at the Sexton: Chapel until the hour of services. Dikes Continued from Page 1.

foot was noticed about 9 p.m. After reaching the peak 27.6 feet 10 a.m. yesterday the river had remained steady until that time. By this morning another fall .10 of a foot brought the stage 27.4 feet, but still 5.4 feet above bankfull. At 1 p.m.

today it was 27.3. The falling crest also eased salvage task at the flooded shipyard of the Missouri Valley Steel, Inc. When the dike broke there Tuesday afternoon, much valuable equipment was imperiled by the The Corps of Engineers tugboat Nodaway and a barge. arrived last night to assist in the salvage operation. The tug and barge, with the flooded shipyard pick crane aboard, were taken inside dozen marine diesel engines, valded at $192,000.

Difficulty in manuevering devege-layed the operation. During this delay the river began falling. Officials then decided to abandon the plan and allow the engines to remain. They had been elevated so only a few inches of water covered the base of the engines. J.

V. Oliver, company president, said they appeared undamaged. With the fall of the air field dike, only one small triangular section of land between the' bluffs from Parkville to. Atchison remained visible from the air. This tract extended westward from the Missouri bluffs in the area between Bean Lake and Sugar Lake.

Ironically, it was farmland and the houses a short distance away were standing in water. Cottages at Sugar Lake and Bean Lake appeared most serious-, ly damaged. Some had floated from their foundations and emerged at various angles above the water. The big tobacco warehouses Weston were engulfed. The Platte River, from Platte City to Farley, spread out as much as a mile in places.

Farley itself was partly flooded. Only the top of a car, left in front of a highway service station was visible at Farley. Waldron and Parkville both the same wet treatment, with water flooding parts of the towns. At Waldron the hulks of Weston Mrs. Finley Stephen Miss.

Reba Jean Stephens died: at her home: Monday, after, six months. of a lingering illness. She was born in Weston Sept. 6, 1936, daughter of Birt Stephens and the late Mrs. Stephens.

Her funeral was held at the First Baptist H. A. McCanna officiated and burChurch Wednesday afternoon. Rev. ial was in- Graceland Cemetery.

She is survived by her father, six brothers and two. sisters. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Clark and daughters of Ravenwood were Sunday guests of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles E. Bishop. Mrs. Edna.

Nelson, a- teacher in the Post School, is absent this week on Mrs. Irene Scott, a. teacher account of illness. in the Post Schools, is remalning roads: are at home this? week as the closed due to high water. Mr.

and Mrs. B. B. Potts and children Regina and Spike of Kansas City spent Sunday at the W. D.

Houser home. Mr. and Mrs. Mayo Hardesty. of Kansas City, are returning to Weston to make.

their home and will live in the Felling apartment. on. Thomas Street. Mrs. George Marr of The Leavenworth Times is staying a few days in Leavenworth until the water runs down 'and the roads open.

again. Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Peden spent Sunday with Mrs. Peden's parents at Troy.

Kas. Mrs. Mark Burns left Monday! night for Rochester, N. Y. to visit her son, Sgt.

Mark Burns and Mrs. Burns. Sgt. Burns is stationed Sampson Air Base: Mrs. Burns will also visit her sister at Ridgefield, IN.

J. before returning home in two weeks. Mrs. Jones Cooper received word of the death of her sister, Mrs. Myrtle Tandy in Lebanon, Ky.

Mrs. Tandy will be remembered here as Miss Myrtle Abell. Mr. and Mrs. David Sonnemoser announce the birth of a son recantly whom they have given the name Stanley Douglas.

Wood Browning has taken up residence at the Hotel Weston. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Stephens and two children arrived Friday night from their home in Colorado Springs to visit his father and relatives in Weston. Walter Vaughn is attending convention.

Dr. L. Calvert, William R. Hull and daughter Susan and Miss Olive Hull. returned from a two weeks Easter vacation in Jamaica and.

other interesting points. Mrs. W. D. Houser has been ill the past week.

Miss Sara Ruth Ohlhausen of the University of Missouri at Columbia was home for the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence BowI master. of.

Kansas visited Miss Marie Ohlhausen Sunday evening. AMBASSADOR TO JAPANRobert D. Murphy, U. S. am-: bassador to Belgium since 1949, will become this country's first postwar ambassador to Japan, it the Senate approves President Truman's nomination of the veteran diplomat.

He will probably take the 'post on 28, the date on which the Japanese Peace Treaty becomes effective, doned buses appeared like jumbled railroad ties. The water had risen above the windows of the state's prison farm dormitory on Stiger's Island. A torrent was rushing across highway 92 near Beverly, at the west approach to: the railroad overpass. The highway, rail line and service station installations are, believed undermined in this area. Failure Failure Continued from Page 1.

bat flying is hard, tough, dangerous work. One air force officer said the driver of a trans-continental bus receives about $500 a month- and jan airline: pilot about $1100 8 month. "They carry about the same number of people," he said, "but the difference in their pay is equal incentive, pay for the airline pilot." Col. Faulkner Will Represent: Local Chamber Lt. Col.

Howard Faulkner, a native of Leavenworth, will represent the Leavenworth Chamber of Commerce at the annual Kansas night dinner honoring members of the state's Congressional delegation in Washington, April 29. J. V. Oliver, president. of the Leavenworth organization, announced today Faulkner has agreed to Faulkner is assigned to duty at the Pentagon, -Washington D.

with the office of the executive for Reserve and ROTC affairs. He and Mrs. Faulkner live in Alexandria, Va. The dinner provides opportunity for on-the-spot discussion of current national issues and is sponsored by the Kansas State Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with local chambers. It is held each year during, the annual meettoling of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States.

Both Kansas senators' and the state's six representatives will attend, Oliver said. M. W. Watson, Topeka, state chamber president, will preside. Faulkner has written local chamber officials that he expects to be in.

Leavenworth for Fort Leavenworth's celebration, and that he will be assigned to Headquarters, Far East Command, Yokohama, Japan early in the fall. Reece Says Demos Aid Ike's Campaign BOSTON -Former Republican National Chairman Carroll Reece says the Truman administrations is "spending huge sums to promote (Gen.) Eisenhower because they figure Eisenhower is the Democrats'. best bet." Reece, Republican representa-1 tive from. Tennessee, made, his charge at a. news conference Wednesday night.

He came here to speak at a rally for: Sen Taft: for the Republican nomination, "Every slightest development in the Eisenhower camp is emphasized in extravagant language by a propaganda apparatus aided by the Democratic he said. "Every passport applicant receives a portrait of the general and the eulogy of his program with his passport. "Timed right for the campaign, the Post Office puts out a commemorative stamp of the general "But' the Defense Department is doing most to help. They have arranged for the general's aide, Gen. (Alfred Gruenther (Eisenhower's chief of staff), to tour the country to whip up support for the Eisenhower campaign.

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