The Hutchinson News from Hutchinson, Kansas • Page 10

Wheat Bill Ready To Go News Herald Bureau Topeka Kansas wheat grow. drs have their bill, which would set up a state wheat commission, ready for introduction early next week. Expected to sponsor it are five representatives, from both parties and representing various sections of the state. They are A. E.

Anderson, Leoti; Henry Hickert, Bird city; Dillard B. Croxton, LaCygne; Donald C. Lunt, Iuka, and Frank Garrett, Overbrook. The bill sets up a 7-man commission to study needs of wheat growers, promote use of wheat products and conduct research on diseases and insects harmful to wheat. The commission's work would be financed by a 1-mill 1 tax per bushel on all wheat sold.

Support from throughout the state has been swinging behind the measure. This is understandable. While western Kansas is usually thought of as the wheat. country, figures showing average production for the last five years list only nine counties in the state which grew less than half a million bushels of wheat a year. Even Wyandotte county grew 79,000 bushels.

Reno county was the big producer with better than million bushels a year. Members of the wheat commission would be appointed by the governor, one from each of six "wheat districts" and one memher-at-large. The districts are divisions of the state, each of which grows about one-sixth of the Kansas wheat total. Commissioners would be wheat growers, selected by the governor from a list submitted to him by the Wheat Growers' association. They would not receive salaries but would get expenses for periodic meetings.

A full time, hired administrator, would carry out projects authorized by the sioners. Suggestion in that commission headquarters be in central KanPossible locations mentioned are Hutchinson and Salina. While insects and wheat diseasare big targets for the mission, growers are also stressing the need to get people to eat more wheat. 'Figures prepared for legislators show that in 1910 Americans ate 301 pounds of wheat per capita. That had dropped to 196 in 1949.

In 1930, when US population was 122 million, people consumed 508 million -bushels of wheat. In 1949, although population was up to 151 million, consumption of wheat dropped to 487 million bushels. Wheat men say that proper promotion, originated and paid for by Kansas wheat farmers, can convince people to eat more wheat products. Remove All Mail Limits Business as usual was resumed at the Hutchinson postoffice at 11:30 Friday morning. Postmaster Ray Hockaday was informed by telephone that the embargo had been lifted all over the United States.

The heavy load of bulk mail tied up in the big eastern terminals is expected to hit here by Monday. Friday's intake was heavier than for several days when packages under the partial embargo had started to sift in. Voluntary Inductees Leave Next Week The first voluntary inductees der the new program of selective service will go from Hutchinson Feb. 14 to Kansas City for physicals. They are Leonard Leroy Clune, 1406 Cochran and James Robert Headings, RFD 4, Draftees to go are Walter Leo Zimmerman, East Third; Charles Warren McMillan, 825 Lincoln; Louis Ray Bale, East Fifth; Daniel Garcia, 518 West Berel Dean Chalmers, 540 East Carl Verne Gardner, Russell; Donald Eugene Schmucker, Abbyville; Charles Leroy Hall, 516 East Fifth; Marlowe Edward Krehbiel, James Leo Holmes, 601 East Doyle Eugene Conner, Burden, Dylce L.

Dietz, Sterling; Donald Benjamin Dirks, Edmund Lee McCabe, Great Bend; Perry Howard Ross, 611 East transferred from Muskogee. Kerwoods' Trials Set For Thursday Francis Kerwood, 1008 East Sherman, accused. of. beating her mother, Mrs. Rhoda C.

Oliver, also of 1008 East Sherman, pleaded innocent Friday morning in city court. Hearing will be next Thursday, and Mrs. Kerwood is free on $500 bond. Harold Kerwood, husband Kerwood, who is alleged to have been in on the beating, Innocent appeal for hearing next Has Burden Industrial safety, one of American's greatest necessities, is sponsiblity of management, some 50 Hutchinson businessmen were told here Friday at one-day safety institute conducted by University of Kansas. C.

H. Weiser, Kansas City, plant personnel supervisor for Southwestern Bell, and S. B. Horrell, vice president of Carey Salt were morning speakers at the sion held in the Bisonte hotel coffee shop. Dean Frank T.

Stockton the KU extension service, presided. Weiser pointed out the three main parts of industrial safety are "careful planning, thorough training and effective supervision." He placed stress on effective supervision contending that "safety is a management job, a hard blem calling for persistence." "Safety is not accomplished barricades, placards posters," he said. "Top management the guy has runs the dumpis responsible for safety. Show me a plant with a poor accident record and you have a poorly managed business." Employes must be told about safety in a language they understand, sold on the principles safety and not compelled to follow practies they don't he said. Horrell checked the problems safety up to the supervisors which he said need adequate training and instruction.

"The supervisors must be safety-! conscious," he said. "They must be taught to realize the hazards. They must also know their equipment and the personal limitations of the men under them. And above, all they must set the proper, example." Horrell continued that the time in approaching when there will be more women in industry and present safety devices must adapted to protect them. Dean Stockton told the group that plant training must also: made to fit into present and future preparations.

He urged businessmen to sponsor first aid programs among workers. "The time is coming when will get less medical care," said. "Our civil population must learn to take care of itself. The proper safety measures are essential to this." A panel discussion followed talks by the two morning speakers. Scheduled to address the group in the afternoon were Arthur E.

Asel, safety director of Sheffield Steel City, and O. Paul Jones, Kansas Gas and Electric Co. safety director. Asel was discuss "'The Cost of Industrial Accidents." The meeting here was the first of a series planned by the sion service. to: Drunken Driving Charge Dismissed Drunken driving charges against Clifford Walp, West Second, were dismissed in police court Friday for lack of evidence.

Walp was arrested Sunday at Third and Pershing after two trolmen saw him driving in a slightly erratic manner. Both tes(tified Walp was unsteady on his feet and one officer said the defendant admitted he had had two ted beers. Walp, with the aid of two witnesses, proved that two beers was all he had imbibed in before the arrest. He also proved he'd been working on a sewer pipe before the arrest and the combination of fumes and 3.2 beer produced a condition the officers thought was intoxication. The witnesses and Walp's employer of five years all pointed out the defendant was naturally a nervous man, nervous to the ex-.

tent that persons not knowing him might think he had been drinking. CAPTURED FUGITIVE--Kenneth A. Kitts is shown at Omaha, after he was captured by FBI agents as he slept in 1 tourist court. The fugitive, who vanished from the county Jail at Cedar Rapids, Jan. 23, had dyed his hair reddish blond and waved It, and had grown mustache.

At the time of his escape he was awaiting trial on bank robbery charge. Page 10 The Hutchinson NewsFriday, February 9, 1951 ONE-NIGHT STAND--Les Brown and trombonist-vocalist Ray Simms (center foreground) perform for part of crowd at the Legion-sponsored appearance of Brown's famous orchestra here, In the Legion-Bisonte hotel Walnut room Thursday night, Brown Band Good As Ever is.a new ballad Lucy Ann Polk sings with Les Brown's band. It is also the way Les Brown feels about Hutchinson and Hutchinson feels about Les Brown's band." The band of renown broke a plane hop between Salt Lake City and East Lansing, to play the one-nighter here Thursday. The group refused several offers more directly on the route because of the enthusiastic reception Hutchinson gave the band when it appeared here last fall. "We knew we'd have fun here," Brown said, "and we were right.

Ask us back again. We'll come any time." Twenty young musicians in the organization proved it takes more than musical ability to make a top dance band. After a rought 4- hour plane ride from Salt Lake! the group went for more than 12 hours without a break doing a bang-up 'job of the engagement here. Legionnaires met, the band at the airport at 4:30 p. m.

Thursday, gave them 20 minutes to dress before going on to dinner. From there the group went straight to the Fox theater to play an hour's show for a packed house, then did a fast switch to the Bisonte to play for an equalIly packed Legion dance. The band flew to East Lansing Friday to play for a Michigan State college dance Friday night. The 39-year-old band leader calls air travel a great improvement; lover buses the band formerly Brown limits road tours to short hops, and leaves the families in Los Angeles. 'This is a 6-day trip.

Currently band members are looking forward to their first trip to Europe. They will leave the last of April with the Bob Hope show for a month's tour of army bases in England and on the continent. Last year the band accompanied Hope on A tour of bases in the Pacific, Korea and Alaska. Brown has only the highest praise for Hope and the show's frequent guest star, Jane Russell. "She's just like another fellow," he described Jane, "in her attitude, of course." Miss Russell accompanied Hope and the band on the Korean trip Ann Polk, songstress with Les Brown band, looks as if she's saying "Look, Me.

no arms" as The News- camera catches her by surprise as she returns to Fox theater wing from show spotlight, Free Board For Brown vocalist, Lucy Ann Polk. rode Attorney on for credit. Brown Lucy Ann, only female member, the bill of the group, i is a natural favorite! unpaid but criminal action was with the band, but is strictly a because there was no one-man girl. She was dating trombonist Dick trickery or deception. Noel as a 15-year-old member of county attorney John fithat the man's actions the Town Criers, former vocal: with the back in 1942, jold fraud pattern.

group band, Kansas' board bill Brown recalls. 'The two were mar. obtaining food under ried in 1946. sentation a cause for Other vocalists popular with constitutes false Hutchinson audiences were Butch Stone; not specified. Brown, Les's brother, and WichiAlden anticipated a 1 Ray Sims, who also plays to collect the bill would ta-born of time.

solo trombone. A loophole in a. Kansas statute served Frank W. Brown, West Sherman, $38.49 worth of free meals Friday in city court. Judge E.

Victor Wilson dismissed a charge of jumping board. bill against Brown on grounds there was no proof of intent to defraud. Louise Murrell filed complaint against Brown stating he owed the money for meals at Murrell's cafe, 18 West B. Admitted by both sides was the fact that the man ate at the cafe on the cuff for five weeks. Brown paid for his first few meals at the restaurant, then asked for credit.

He promised to pay his bill as soon as he was paid. After a half payment of $4 the first week recognized contended not justified evidence of Assistant Alden held were an age- statute calls false repreaction. What representation is civil action be a waste Odds And Ends Of Day's News Has your husband looked at you lately and said, "Gaining a little weight, dear?" Does your size pinch. One hundred Hutchinson! women are working to avoid either situation in the swimming and gym classes at the YMCA. classes are held on Thursday evenings at 6:30 and 7:30.

Mrs. Earl Barnes puts the svelte-figure seekthrough exercises and games. Beginning and advanced swimmers cavort in three classes Thursdays at 6:30, 7:30 and 8:30 with Roberta Millman as instructor. Mrs. Margaret Millman is director of women's activities.

Procedures to follow it the labor an- situation becomes critical have been discussed at training sessions! at the Kansas State Employment service. True E. Foster, manager, ig conducting the school. Let temperatures remain chilly, spring is just about here. New garden seeds have arrived in local stores ready for hardy gardeners, to get started.

It's planting time for onions, sweet peas and peas. Liniment available at the nearest drug store. Spelling should improve around the YMCA. J. W.

Gowans, 202 East 14th former superintendent of schools, has presented a dictionary to the organization which will be prominently placed in the office. After last week's cold weather perhaps Hutchinson can start looking for signs of spring in earnest. Mrs. Minnie Cochran, North Clay, says she is sure spring on the way, because. she saw wild geese flying north over Hutchinson Thursday night.

Ivan Roberson, 527 East Fourth, lost the battle with a curtain Thursday, resulting in a cut hand. The wound was treated at Grace hospital. R. A. Nettleton, Grace hospital administrator; Friday 'was missed from the hospital in time to meet with the executve of the hospital board.

Nettleton was hospitalized 3 after a fall on icy steps. A. L. Hook, 415 East 17th, veteran Metropolitan Ins. agent, will be honored Saturday night when his 20th anniversary.

with the. company is celebrated with a ner at the Hotel Ripley, Newton. Hook is the third man in the Hutchinson office ever to attain that length of service, and the fifth in the Wichita district. A $150 yearly service award Eddie Krieg Is Drafted ENGINEER OF WRECKED TRAIN Joseph Fitzsimmons, engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad's commuter train that was wreck at Woodbridge, N. Feb.

6, is shown in the Perth Amboy, N. J. hospital. Fitzsim. mons was injured in the crash as the locomotive and five curs plunged off a temporary trestle.

The death toll from the wreck stands at 83, Let Contracts For Pavement Preparations for the spring construction scason occupied most of the city commission's time Friday. Two contracts went to J. Shears Sons, for curbs and gutiters on Cleveland and Wall adjoining Eastside cemetery, $7.315, and for asphalt paving of Main Cleveland, $100,983. The street paving brought protests from a delegation headed by W. B.

King, who said the 40-foot width of the street with 40-foot parkings would throw the street out of proportion. Others said the property is not valuable enough to pay for the improvement. Conimissioners said a of property owners had petitioned for the paving, and that a weistrance was found The parkings would be unusually wide, they admitted, but wider pavement would add to the cost and would not be justified. Will Shears said his firm hopes to have the Eastside curbs stalled by Memorial Day. The commission also approved, construction ordinances for some 20 additional blocks, a with bids to be taken next month.

One scheduled job, the asphalt held paving pend- of Elm to Plum, was up ing a report from property whether they desire a 58-foot pavCommissioner Fred Henney said that might be too wide. The planned improvements: Curb and gutter 18th, Harrison, 18th-19th; Lorraine- Ty. ler, 18th-19th; Sixth, Hoagland; Carpenter, Maple Elm. Curb, gutter, asphalt paving Carpenter, Elm-Plum; Pleasant, Fourth-Sixth; Carey, FourthEighth; Fifth, Gregory-Lorraine; Washington, 26th-27th. Concrete paving alley west of Main, from to alley north of alley east of Monroe, 14th-15th.

Shot Through Window Kills Raleigh, N. C. (AP) A nineyear-old girl slumped at her desk during Hunter a school music Thursday class in and Lucille died with a .22 caliber bullet wound in her head. Half A mile away, a gun batLie raged between two Negro brothers. Police quoted Norman Giles, 22, as saying he fired twice at his year-old brother, Joe, as the latter was running towards the school.

Both are being held on an open charge pending further investigation. Detective Capt. R. E. Goodwin has ordered ballistics tests made on two pistols found' on and several other weapons collected by detectives.

Slugs fired from the weapons will be compared with the slug which killed young Annie Delores Martin, Negro. Heard About Town Wayne Notestine, Topeka, a sistant state veterans employment representative, visited the local state employment office Thursday. Mrs. H. W.

Young, 308 East 13th and Marie Stead, 221 West 10th, will return this weekend from Chicago where they have been attending a national gift show. Hazel Muir, 17 North Poplar, left Thursday night for Jefferson City, where she was called by the serious illness of her mother, Mrs. George Muir. Reno county commissioners spent Thursday in Topeka attending legislature sessions. Two Cars Looted Two minor car burglaries were reported to police Friday.

Albert Jewett, 19 East Campbell, said tools were taken from his car while Dallas Pugh, 306 East Bigger, reported an alarm clock was taken from his machine. Edward Eugene Krieg, 322 West one of Hutchinson's gifts to the Horace Heidt troup will put his dancing shoes in mothballs next week. Eddie is included in a group of inductees who will be sent to Kansas City Feb. 13, from the local selective service board. The group will leave Hutchinson by the 12:30 bus after lunch at the Hollywood grill, arrive in Kansas City at 7:30 p.

m. and report for assignment the following morning. Men sent from the office here will be: Charlie Hicks, 915 East Second; Marion Riley Simmons 123 West Walter Leland McElwain, Haven; William Hobart Bur. nett, 311 East 12th; Wilbur Ray Goering, RFD Louis Simon Mattas, 107 East Harold Wil. liam Odell, 37 East 27th; Lyle Howard Mock, RFD Delmer Lee Postier, RFD Harold Thomas Owens, RFD Marion Charles Cubbage, Southwest City, Newton Farley 213 East Sixth; Bill Lee Simon, 312 borne: Vern Franklin Stanfield 200 East First; Ernest Maurice Sydnor, 232 West Fifth.

Three men registered elsewhere will gO with the inductees. They are Gerald Rexford Bales 201 West registered at Burbank, Theo Edd Stringer, 811 North Main at Eureka and Carl Richard Klaver H.ir., 126 Okla. East 11th, at Paula companies this distinction. Beside Mr. and Mrs.

Hook other Hutch- inson guests at the party will be the Messrs. and Mesdames J. J. Smythe, Winston Knechtel, Ralph Hollowell, Tom Dodson, Ed Vickers and C. J.

Snelling. The city's proposed metal garage for the street department ran of national restrictions on construction. The contract awarded Young Sales and Erection Co. totals $5,250. Limit for such is $5,000.

The city commission Friday decided to elimone overhead type door and one ventilator to bring the cost under $5,000. Weather note. Lee Landman, 202 Green, striding across the intersection at Second and Main Friday noon, swinging a tennis racket. Forty uniformed Salt Chicks, HHS cheering organization went by chartered bus to El Dorado Friday to attend the El DoradoHutchinson basketball game. Jeanne Malcolm, sponsor, accompanied the girls.

Two more Hutchonians seek retail liquor licenses. They are Margaret Strong, 2110 East Fourth, and C. N. Burgett, 7b North Main. Hearings on their applications will! be in Topeka Feb.

15. The city commission Friday granted beer and billiard licenses to Er. nest Tieperman, 21 West First. Nancy DeShazo, 14, is in Grace hospital after surgery. Nancy, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles J. DeShazo, 1409 West Second, underwent amputation of part of 'her left leg following an accident last August when a truck hit horse she was riding. The recent operation was to prepare her 14 wear an artificial leg. Sherift's officers were investigating Friday a rumor of magasubscription fraud in Hutchinson and vicinity.

It was reported a woman is offering subscriptions on the pretext points given for sale of the magazines will go ward a scholarship for some Hutchinson high school student. The high school knows of no such scholarship. Fyler Would Lease Cafe Howard Fyler, Steak House proprietor, Friday submitted the only bid for operation of Hutchinson's new airport dining room in the administration building. The city commission will conIfer Monday morning with Fyler to discuss terms of the lease for the restaurant and coffee shop, scheIduled to open by Apr. 1.

No deffinite agreement was reached Friday. Fyler said he will close the Steak House if he is granted the lease. His proposal provides a minimum yearly guarantee of $1,200, plus the following percentages on gross sales as rent: First $30,000 percent; next $40,000 5 percent; next $30,000 60 4 percent; all over $100,000 5 percent. Fyler asked a 10-year lease with a 10-year option. Purchase of dining room chairs and tables was delayed until after the conference with Fyler, Bids Are Opened On Reno Road Work Wentzel and Sons, Hutchinson, underbid.

fiye, other construction companies for a grading and culvert for which bids were Friday in Newton, accordopened ing 'to R. Rankin, county engineer. Bid was $31,859.47. Construction is to be the eral aid secondary road in north and south Hayes townships, startthree miles west of Peace ing Creek corner on US50 and ing 6.963 mlles north. Inland Construction Co.

won the contract for two bridges on the stretch. Estimate on an bridge was and a 100- foot span was bid at $17,503.66. Rankin predicts it will be at least three weeks before work will start on the road. First grade pupils in Mrs. Duane Roberts' class at Avenue A school heard Thursday just how lucky they are.

Krieg talked to the children about conditions in Germany. The Heidt aggregation toured Europe last summer. Krieg pointed out that while American school children are wellfed and warmly dressed, many children in Germany never get enought to eat and are dressed in flimsy, ragged garments. He add. ed that many members of the Heidt troupe bought new clothes for German children instead of spending their money on souvenirs, Krieg's little brother is a ber of Mrs.

Roberts' class. Incidentally, Jeanine Meister, another of Hutchinson's gifts to Heidt, is here, loo. She is a spinal operation. Jeanine had Ito drop out of the Heidt tion when an old spine injury came aggravated. Ends Boy's Lost Book Finds Way Home Deposits Of $10,000 Insured By Uncle Sam Every bank' in Hutchinson offers its customers deposit insurance up to $10.000.

Officials of the four banks here, American National, First National, Hutchinson State, and Central State, said the increased deposit insurance became effective in the fall. The insurance, made available by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, was first offered banks in 1933 as one of the tial programs of the new Up to the time of the recent crease, the amount of insurance offered covered deposits of $5,000. The insurance does not cost depositors cent. Operating expenses of the corporation has been paid by the 13,650 insured banks in the country in the form of nual assessments based on deposits. FDIC now has a surplus of $1.3 in place of the band's regular billions.

HELPING HAND -When J. J. Williams, San Angelo, city employe changing parking meters, for a helping hand, he got it. He wasn't as perplexed as he appears in this gag pose. The meter is being held by Williams' helper who is In a cavity underneath the sidewalk preparing a mount on which meter will he placed.

(AP A music book, lost by Kenneth Smith, 11, made the rounds in Hutchinson the other day and nally went back to its owner after on it was recognized. Kenneth lost the book in the Leon coffee shop which his ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. H.

Smith, operate. Evidentally he lost it when A music clinic moved in. After the clinic was over, books were gathered up, Kenneth's among them. Mrs. Eleanor Wisby, a music store employe, found the book in a stack that came back from the clinic.

She took it home realizing it couldn't he sold. Her mother, Mrs. Laura 532 East Third, looked at the book and recognized handwriting in it as belonging to her neighbor, May Green, a music teacher, Miss Green, on seeing the book, membered Kenneth had lost his and back the book went to him. New Wichita Office Is Linked To NPA Wichita (AP) Opening of 3 new field office of the US department of commerce here (at 212 East Waterman) was announced Friday. Lee Brookshire, industrial anallyst from the department's field service office here, said a manager of the new office probably will be named this week.

It is to provide businessmen of the area with services linked to the department's national production authority, he said. The field offices, he added, can inform inquiring businessmen of procurement needs of both military and civilian agencies of the government. Deaths AP Mrs. Elizabeth Geffert Mrs. Elizabeth Geffert, 74, Haven, m.

Feb. 8 at St. Elizabeth's hospital. She had been ill at the hospital since Jan. 30.

Mrs. Geffert was born Aug. 25, 1876 in Mokena, and moved to Haven in 1879. She was married to Herman Geffert Feb. 25, 1897, He died July 16, 1950.

Survivors include four Mrs. Elsie Betz and Mrs. Edna Lehner, Haven; Mrs. Lore kenberg, Mt. Hope and Mrs.

Lydia Popp, Wichita; four sons, Albert, Edwin, Russell and Arnold, all of Haven; two sisters, Mrs. Fred Kuehl and Mrs. Fred Popp, Haven; 18 grandchildren and 8 greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2:30 p. m.

at St. Paul's Lutheran church, Haven, with Rev. K. J. Karstensen officiating.

Burial will be in the Haven Lutheran cemetery..