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Wednesday, Apr. 18. 1945 Truman Describes Himself As A Plain Farm Boy, Intent On Keeping His Feet on the Ground (In the third of five stories, George Wallace here takes President Truman through his early farm life, and his courtship, to the beginning of the political career that has led him to the White House. Wallace, Missouri political writer of the Kansas City Star, has known Truman intimately for many years.) By GEORGE K. WALLACE, Political Writer, Kansas City Star.

INDEPENDENCE, April 13 any of you fellows I that "Truman always was near ever have a load of hay or a bull the head of his class and active cided to wait. However, they were engaged before he left." Roger T. Sermon, Mayor of i Independence for 24 years and lifelong friend of Truman, calls: "Truman always was studious, and had no hobbies, was a great farmer and worked hard on the farm. AIL of his adult life he was a student of politics. He was a great soldier in the war and it was a privilege to serve under him." Another early friend recalls fall on you?" Harry Truman asked reporters the morning after he became President.

That was the way he felt, he indicated, saying that "last night the whole weight of the moon and stars fell on me." It was an expression that could come only from a farmer which Truman was for two-thirds of his life. He knows well the struggle with the soil and the heartbreaks and happiness of working on the land, both as a child and then as an adult partner with his father on a 600-acre farm near Grandview. in the literary societies and that stuff. He didn't tear around and ride fast horses like the rest of us. He was always hanging around in the library, reading books--all the time.

I heard once he read about 6,000 books during the time he was in high school." Bess Wallace Truman is remembered by another for a unique attribute. She was the first girl he ever knew who could whistle through heV teeth. Truman left a S100 a month bank clerkship in 1906 to return to Grandview as a farm partner with his father. His father died President Truman was born i 1914 and Harry continued on on a story and a half house in the farm until mobilized in Lamar, Missouri, May 8, 1884. His parents, the late John Anderson Truman- and Mary Ellen (Young) Truman had gone there to live shortly after their marriage' in 1882.

His grandparents had come to Missouri in the Kentucky. Harry was the first child, his mother being 32 years old. His father trading mules to farmers busily engaged in turning the 'sod of "pioneer western Missouri, farm land. The elder Truman remained in Lamar only two years, then moved northward to Harrisonville, Missouri, and shortly afterward to Grandview. Today no one in Lamar' remembers Truman since he was only two his father left there.

He chose to return last year, however, for his vice-presidential notification, and went around to look at his'birthplace. liis mother, 91.. was driven down for the occasion. Truman grew up on the Grandview farm, learning early the chores of a farm boy, gathering eggs, feeding chickens, milking cows, making hay. and caring for arm' animals.

His day was from dawn to dusk and he never lost the habit. There were few amusements In rural Jackson County fifty years ago, and it was a simple life that kept the Truman family busy. By this time there were three children, a sister, Mary, who never married and still "lives with her mother, and a brother, Vivien, also still lives here. Down many a weary corn row Truman plodded in his little dreaming that beyond the distant hills lay the White House at a crucial period in the history- of his country. The farm was the sole source of Truman income, and they had to work It hard for their living.

Truman's parents moved to Independence in 1890 to educate the children, but they continued to visit the farm. Young Truman was graduated from Independ- ence High School in 1901. and for a few years worked around Independence and Kansas City as. a mailer for the Kansas City Star, in drug store, and as a bank clerk in two banks. When Truman was 17 he got a job as timekeeper for a railroad construction company at Courtney, Missouri, rode to work on a handcar which he pumped himself.

Scores of neighbors and friends recall weir his childhood and young manhood in Independence and Grandview and 'his courtship of Bess Wallace, the only girl he ever had, who became Mrs. Truman in June, ,1919, a month after he came home from war. Miss Nellie Noland recalls those days: "Bess always was very lively when a girl. She was excellent at mumblepeg and could beat all the boys. She was a beautiful skater, both on ice and roller skates.

Harry wasn't too inclined to scorts. He always was too -bookish. Bess rode a bicycle and was the best tennis player in town. She became quite adept at fencing and Harry got interested in fencing. At one time took up jujitsu -and used demonstrate for all of us.

I think he picked this up while he in Battery B. and Bess met as little children when they both attended the Presbyterian Sunday 'School. They were in the same grade in elementary school and graduated from high school together. "Harry had any other girl in his life except Bess. He stayed with us a great deal at the time while was courting her.

He was a very attentive suitor. They used to go to all 1917. He returned briefly to the farm in 1919. but entered business in Kansas City in the fall of that year, as a partner with Edward Jacobson in a haberdashery shop in the old Baltimore Hotel--the Truman and Jacobson haberdashery. Truman sold nieckties and shirts for three years, made money in 1919 and 1920.

and then was hit by what he calls the "Mellon Depression" and the firm went broke in 1922. "We decided to fold up," Ja- cobson saj's. today. ''We liquidat- i CZECHOSLOVAKIA ''Karlsbadff Carpenter Street Revival Continuing Through April 27 The evangelistic meeting in Carpenter Street Baptist church, begun Monday night, will continue through Friday night, April 27, with the Rev. James H- Wright, pastor of the Jewell Baptist church, St.

Louis, in charge. The pastor of the church, the Rev. Ralph E. "Williams, is the singing service. Special services include: Family night tonight; ladies' night, Friday night: men's night.

Sunday night; young people's night, next Wednesday night; and Sunday School night, next Friday night, April 27. The services oegln at 7 45 o'clock and continue for one hour. Children's meetings are held at 4 o'clock each afternoon at the church. TWO FRONTS DRAW CLOSE--Solid arrows locate officially reported drives on the western front April 17 with broken arrows indicating unconfirmed Russian thrusts reported by Berlin. Americans repelled a counter attack on their Elbe bridgehead, closed on Leipzig, neared Chemnitz and captured Plaueri.

Funeral Tuesday For AlexGooch'91 RpANOK-E, Apr. 18--Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon for Alex Gooch. 91, who died Monday at the home of'his brother. Sterling Gooch, north of Roanoke. The services were conducted in the Roanoke Baptist Burial was in the Roanoke cemetery.

HOME FROM ITALY--Staff Sgt. Cleaton' E. Dodd left Thursday for Santa Ana, for re- I assignment after a furlough vis- it with his parents. Mr. and Mrs.

James W. Dodd of Huntsville. Sgt. Dodd has completed 50 missions with the Air Force in the Mediterranean theater and is now home on rehabilitation and. reprocessing furlough.

Mexico, Macon, Bevier Men Among Casualties Major Fred L. Morris, of Mexico is among Missourian in a list of-Army dead in the European theater publicly announced by the War Department. Morris was missing in action and subsequet notice of his death were sent to his wife and parents, and the news was carried in the Monitor-Index. Among Army missing in the European theater, announced today, are Staff Sgt. Henry-L.

Loyd, son of Mrs. Ada E. Loyd, Route 3, Mexico; and Pfc. Eugene H. Hall, son sC.

Hall, Macon; In each instance next of km received official notice. Pvt. Charles J. Swind, son of Mrs. Hazel: M.

Swind. is among Army wounded, in the I European hteater, publicly an- nounced today: Mrs. Swind received previous official notice. Omaha's Thoughtfulness OMAHA, April 18 A post-war city without taxes" has the approval of the Omaha City Council, but there's a catch it applies only to honorably discharged war dogs. The council's action exempts owners of such dogs from paying tag fees or personal taxes on the animals.

CARD OF THANKS In behalf of North Park P.T.A. Unit, we want to express our to the Monitor- Index for publicizing our efforts in Parent Teacher work. Give Your Feet An Ice-Mint Treat Get Hippy, Cooling Relief For Burning Spring in Your Don't groan about fett- Dcm't moan about callouses. Get busr cive them an Ice-Mint treat. Feel the com- ortmjr, soothing coolness of driving out fiery burmnff achmgr tiredncia.

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Williams ed the business and eventually! Miss Elsie Perkins, teacher of paid off the creditors in full." I Afflick School, left Sunday for Truman said.he still was paving I Kirkville, where she will enter for that experience in 1934 when State Teachers' College for the he went to the Senate. Truman went back to the farm again briefly, got into politics for two years, returned to the farm for another two years, and then was reelected to a county judgship and has held elective office since--a span of 18 years. Instinctively Truman's mind goes back to Grandview and Jackson County as he has been plummeted upward to the supreme office in the nation. "I hope the home folks will think well of me," he told Mayor Ser- day after MAD1SOH I da Wllh Mrs Fannic Branham Mr. and Mrs Charles Ransdell Mr.

and Mrs. E. O. Ragsdalc of Holiday spent Sunday with were week-end guests of Mr i Mrs Harriett Clark and Nancy sister, Mrs. Melvm and Dlxie ansc jell Butts, and.

Mr. Butts in Hallsville. Lorrean Boulware To Hblliday School MADISON Miss Lorrean Boulware has been elected to teach the Holliday grade school She has just closed her school at Salem in Randolph County. 1 School has been discontinued for the coming year at Salem. Misses Melissa and Minnie Boul- spring and summer terms of school.

Miss Margaret Stephens visited friends in Hscelsior Springs over the week-end. Mrs. Ruby Love Truehart of visited her cousin, Mrs. E. T.

Broaddus, and other relatives last week. Mrs. Truehart was en route home from Nebraska, i ware have been reemployed to where she went to attend the teach in the Middle. Grove he became President. He regards the words of his mother as the greatest compil- rnent he ever received: "That boy could plow the straightest row of corn in the county.

He was a farmer who could do everything there was to do just a little better than anyone else." Truman once described himself in a speech as "a plain farm boy from' Jackson County" who is intent on keeping "my'feet on the ground, one of the hardest things to do for a United States Senator who goes around hob- nobbing with a bunch of dressed up diplomats and gets his head turned." funeral of her brother. Pearl Love, a former Madison man. Mrs. Gene Wilson and two children and Miss Meda Herron of Quincy spent the week-end' with their parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Tom Herron. Miss Evelyn Russel of Fayette was the guest of lier parents, the Rev. and Mrs. W. C.

Russell, over the week-end. Mrs. Raymond Stone and daughter of Burlington, visited Mr. and Mrs. Joe White and Mr.

and Mrs. Lee Stone over the week-end. Mrs. Hattie Bloodworth ol Moberly spent Saturday and Sun- school. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our thanks to' all the friends, neighbors and relatives who were so kind to us in the loss of our little son and grandson, Sammie Kenneth Phipps.

May such kindness be shown you in time of sorrow. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Phipps and family, Mr. and Mrs.

Ernest Ball and family, Mrs. Annie Phipps and family. (65) MEMORIAM In loving memory of Mary E. Penton. who passed away one year ago, April 14, 1944.

Once again, the call was answered. And a loved one gone before; But we know we'll find her waiting Up with Jesus at His door. She left us broken-hearted. But we trust it's for the best: For our Savior He has promised Up in.heaven peace and rest. Sadly missed by husband, children and grandchildren.

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