The Hutchinson News from Hutchinson, Kansas • Page 10

Western Kansas Get Bids On US40 Project Hays Jones Construction Co. of Emporia and the Hunter Construction Co. of Hays were low bidders on the new US40 project in Ellis county. The Emporia firm submitted the low estimate of $163.000 on grading earthwork for the project which extends from the edge of Hays westward to the Yocemento crossing of the Union Pacific. Hunter was low on the Big Creek bridge job on the same project at $76,602 when bids were computed here Friday.

Bidding was spirited with a large number of contractors participating. Contractors have estimated that total cost of the highway program and the relocation of the Union Pacific tracks on a new roadbed north of the present right-of-way at Yocemento will be in the neighborhood of a million dollars. Charles Gushing, state highway commissioner, said grading work on the new project probably will start within 60 days. Bids taken here Friday will be reviewed by the highway, commission at Topeka. this month before contracts are awarded.

High School, Cafe Looted Burrton Burglars who apparently were after district basketball tournament receipts here cracked the Burrton high school safe and looted coin machines at a cafe. The loot was estimated at about 5150 in cash, Harvey county officers reported, but bulk of tournament receipts were not in the safe. The break-in at the school netted Che burglars $101.52. Most of the Friday nights receipts had been deposited by tournament officials. An estimated $50 in cash from a pinball machine and from a music box at the highway cafe was obtained.

The safe job was expertly done by drilling a hole in the door around the combination and by knocking off the knob. Rain Making To Be Talked Guymon A 5-state conference to discuss potentialities of the artificial rain-increasing program the High Plains area will be held in Guymon's Hotel Dale Saturday night. Jack Alexander, chairman of the committee here, said farmers, andowners and businessmen from Oklahoma. Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas are being invited. Don Chitman and Lee Cox, rep- the Water Resources Development of Denver, will discuss preliminary organization plans.

Cox, Chitman and Dr. Irving P. Krick, founder of the organization mve been appearing in local meet- ngs throughout Southwest Kansas which the move to organize for participation in the rain-increasing ictivities on a countywide and areawide basis already is being considered. Alexander said the Guymon meeting will be more informative han organizational. Farmers in several Kansas coun- ies will hold meetings next week discuss advisability of participating.

Former Chase Man Now Lieutenant Colonel Chase Frank E. Lankston, son of Walter D. Lankston, RFD 1 Chase, has been promoted to lieutenant-colonel in the air force, according to. an announcement from the air university, Maxwell air base, in Alabama. Col.

Lankston currently is serv ing as adjutant general at the air university there. He came to the nir university from duty with headquarters, air material command, Wright-Patterson base i Ohio. He served with the 8th Air Force in the European theater for SY years during World War 2. B. M.

Summers To Sylvia High School M. Summers of Severy has been elected principal of Sylvia rural high school for the 1951-52 term from a large list of candidates, board members announced here. Summers has served previously as principal at both Turon and Haven. Mrs. Summers is a native of Haven.

The high school principal's post became vacant about six weeks ago when Curt Siemens resigned to fill a vacancy on the faculty at Buhler high school. Polio Victim Leaves Lung For Motherhood Tulsa, Okla, (AP) A 28-year- old polio patient left -n iron lung Sunday for. the first time, since Nov. 3 to give birth to a seven- pound daughter. Physicians delivered the baby of Mrs.

P. T. Sowden by Caesar- San section in her 40-minute leave from lung. She and her husband, a chemical engineer, also have son, David, 3. Timken Youth Wounded In Korean Fighting Timken Cpl.

Stanley J. Serpan, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Fi Serpan of Timken, was wounded in action Feb. 12 while serving with the Second Infantry division in Korea, his parents have been advised.

The Rush county soldier who has been in the army a year and a half 1 was struck in the (ace by shrapnel He is in an army hospital in Tokyo for an operation to remove a piece of the shrapnel his left eye. Otis School Head To Inman High School Otis-iR. H. Vanderbilt, for the past two years principal of Otis rural high school, has resigned here to accept the position ol principal at Unman high school, effective next term. Vanderbilt is a graduate of Me- Phergon college and received his master ef science degree from Fort Hays State collegn in 1943 He ban had 33 years of teaching experience, also handled the ath letle eoeching while a Otic, Firemen's Banquet Delayed While Guests Call Russell It shouldn't happen to smoke eaters but the trkey dinner served Russell's volunteer firemen had to be warmed over.

As firemen, their wives, and guests sat at the dinner table all relaxed for the food and the program, the fire siren shrieked. The alarm came from the Alva Billings home and the party broke up temporarily. It wsn't much of a fire. An electric motor on the furnace blower stuck and filled the nouse with smoke as the motor burned out. on charged with reckless speeding, and driving wrong side of the highway.

Three women employes of the ford and Gray county social wel- are department were hurt when the car in which they were travel- og was struck by Struble's car. Struble has posted S500 bond arid his trial has been set for Mar. 11 Ford county court. flcPherson Veteran Race For Mayor McPherson William S. Shirk, narine corps veteran and hotel mploye here, has filed as a can- lidate for mayor in McPherson's municipal election next month.

Shirk's candidacy promises a mayoralty contest in the Apr. 3 election here since Mayor Homer J. Ferguson has announced he will seek another 3-year term. Should a third candidate file between now and Friday night's deadline a primary election would be assured to reduce the field to candidates. The would be held Mar.

20. primary Amateur Radio Men In Get Together Plains The second annual radio hamfest for amaeur radio operators from Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado was held Sunday in 'lains. Ham radio operators took over the town hall for their meeting. They held a swap and shop session, were guests at a covered dish uncheon, talked transmitters and other subjects related to set operations. Woodrow Ballard, Plains, Rex.

Miller, Satanta, and Claude Saunders, Balko, were hosts. It was the first time in 12 years that a fire run interrupted the annual get together for members ot the department. Still on a volunteer basis although population of the city has increased almost in the past two decades, firemen wore told by Mayor Wilmer Shaffer that the department is well enough organized it still gives adequate pro- ant- there is no need at the present time to contract for a paid department. Held After Highway Crash Dodge City John Struble, 21, Newton, has been charged on three counts in connection a highway accident a week ago near Bellefont on US50-S which resulted in injuries to four persons. Struble has been in the hospital at Kinsley since the crash.

He is driving, the San Francisco than marines who fought in Korea including 400 wounded home Monday to a noisy, joyous and tearful welcome. The warriors themselves were far quieter and calmer than those who welcomed them. Among these first division troops were veterans of the bitter fighting in the old Pusan beach head where United Nations forces traded miles for time last summer. 1'ructlcuJly all of them had gone in on the Inchon landing last September. Most of them had fought the bloody 50 miles, 12-day fighting withdrawal from Chongjin to Hungnam.

They lined the rail of the U.S.S. Gen. J. C. Breckenridge.

Navy planes saluted from overhead and city fire boats formed a water escort. The crowd let out a roar as the marines started down the gangplank in single file. Those whose wives, sweethearts or familes were present stopped for embraces and kisses. Then the marines piled into a waiting motorcade for a ride through the streets of downtown San Francisco. From there they rode to Treasure Island, where they were assigned temporary barracks.

These were the first men to bo returned on rotation from Korea. They looked forward to pay, liberty in San Francisco, and 30 days leave, all of which will be theirs by Friday if possible, according to Col. L. G. Miller, commanding officer of the marine barracks at Treasure island.

County 4-H Agent To Harper Newton Roger Hcndershot, for past five years Harvey coun- 4-H club agent, has his resignation and will become county agricultural agent in Harper county, effective Apr. 1. Hendershot, a native of Reno county and a graduate of Kansas State college, will succeed Dale No Contest For Divorce Cuernavaca, Mexico Barbara Hutton's suit for divorce from Prince Igor Toubetzkoy was on file Monday with doubt as to whether it could be contested. Clerk Francisco Pinzon of Cuernavaca's divorce court said ngler as Harper county farm i no attorney had appeared on be- agent. half of the 39-year-old Lithuanian Engler resigned last at Anthony to become manager of the Angus farm at Hutchinson which is owned by Charles Summers, grainman.

Newton Insurance Man Changes Positions Newton Walter E. Acker has resigned as manager of new business production for A. O. U. W.

of Kansas, life insurance society with offices here, to become assistant manager of the National Association of Independent I- rs. Ackers took over his new job Monday in Chicago at headquarters of NAU. His family will continue to live in Newton until early next summer Before coming io Newton Ackers was with Farm Bureau Mutual insurance at Manhattan and was vice-president of Independent Insurers association. Vew Farm Instructor Fowler J. C.

Bayha has resigned as vocational agriculture instructor at Fowler high school and Harold Guhr of Dightnn has been lured to succeed him. Bayha was tor wo years instructor for the veterans' on-the-farm training class here. Gypsum Girl Wins $100 As Scientist Washington (AP) Robert J. Kolenkow, 17, Niagara Falls, was awarded a $2,800 Westinghouse science scholarship as "the nation's most promising young scien- Halstead Hospital Great Bend Great Bend folks in Halstead hospital: Ray Parish, barber, and Mrs. C.

A. Wiziarde, both having had operations. ROARING of this tank crew have painted the feature! of a tiger on the front of their vehicle to capitalize on Chinese belief that tigers are sicred. The tankmen are ef the 5th RefimenUl combat team in Kuiea. He And Missouri Clams Are Making Pearls In Basement Of His Home C'LAMS shell.

YIELD Hcckenkatnp holds prince. In Los Angeles, the prince's attorney, Melin Belli, said he would contest the suit. Dispatches said Belli was to be represented by a Mexico City attorney, Col. Roscoe B. Gaither.

A courthouse source said the divorce petition alleged "mental cruelty" which made it "impossible for the couple to live together." It said they had no joint property to divide. They were married in Switzerland Mar. 1, 1947, and had been separated since July 28, 1960. The princess apparently expected her divorce within a few days. The gardener at the swank house with 10 acres of grounds which she rented less than a month ago said she planned to leave Thursday.

Among finalists awarded scholarship was Lucile F. Janousek, 17, Gypsum, Kas. Deaths Mrs. Mary It. Burdick Mrs.

Mary R. Burdick, 63, 211 Park, died at her home Monday at 6:45 a.m. She had lived in Hutchinson since 1927. Her husband, John, died in 1946. Mrs.

Burdick was born Mar. 25, 1887, at Annapolis, Md. Survivor are three daughters, Mrs. G. H.

Patterson, Rifle, Mrs. E. J. Scofield, South America, and Mrs. Marilyn Ware, of the home; seven sons, Claude, Hammond, Alvin, Great Bend; John, Satanla; Robert and Ralph, Hutchinson; Kenneth, Long Island, N.

and Paul, of the home; 20 grandchildren, and one great- grandchild. Edward L. Frnnkberger Edward L. Frankberger, 81, died in his home, 305 Osborno, at 6:10 p. m.

Monday. Funeral will be at 2 p. m. Wednesday in oJhnson and Sons chapel, Rev. T.

J. Bennett officiating. Burial will be in Little River cemetery. Mr. Frankberger was born Sept.

23, 1870 in McLane county, Illinois. A retired painter, he had lived in Hutchinson 30 years. Only survivor is a niece, Mrs. Fay Smith, 222 West B. By Nollo Cassai St.

Louis (AP) They say that pearls, like gold, are where you them. Andrew C. Hecken- camp finds them in his basement. Heckenkamp wouldn't believe that salt water oysters had a monopoly in the pearl growing industry, and so he went to work. Now he and some Missouri clams are busy making pearls in big fresh water tanks in his basement.

These pearls, Heckenkamp says, have real commercial value, But taking a cue from his clams, he's close-mouthed about this phase of the project. It started back in 1944. As head of the St. Louis aquarium society, Heckenkamp had a little knowledge of pearls and had heard that some fresh water mussels had yielded gems of value. He consulted scientists here and they encouraged him to experiment with Missouri clams.

A number of beds were selected on the Black in the Missouri a s. Heckenkamp a associates began the tedius task of agitating the clams inserting small sand-like particles under their shells. This is done with an instrument similar to a hypodermic needle. The rough particle irritats thi clam and causes it to emit a milky substance which cloaks the irritant and hardens into mother- of-pearl. The pearl, Heckenkamp explains, grows like a tree, with one ring around another.

Heckenkamp, an insurance salesman, is a patient fellow. He put in long hours on his Black river experiments. But they produced no results. If the clam is forced open for an inspection it often dies. The problem was how to keep a watch on the pearl growth and keep the clam healthy.

At first Hockenkamp and his helpers coated the irritaing particles with a lead type metal which would show up in X-rays. This proved ineffective. The clams quickly covered the metal or disposed of it. An electric shock treatment was developed. But still no pearls.

At thin point, Heckenkamp decided to move the clams into tanks in his basement so that he could keep closer watch. New techniques were developed. Heckenkamp finally discovered just how and where to insert the irritant so that it wouldn't be expelled. He says he has produced "a number" of pearls. Only recently he opened a clam that had lived undistrbed for more than four years in his quarium.

In it were four small pearls. "Now we know we can produce them here," he observed. "The hobbyist of tomorrow will probably concentrate on shell fish. Think of producing a $1,000 or even pearl in your parlor goldfish bowl." Heckenkamp says it isn't the size, but the quality of the pearl whinh determines its value. He sends his pearls to a New York jeweler.

Today Heckenkamp has about 100 clams in his basement and in outdoor tanks. The clams' diet is supplemented with occasional feedings of honey and brewers' yeast. Heckenkamp likes the idea of clam pearls because they can be grown in shallow water where the harvest can be reaped without div- Fire Kills Chimpanzee Thousand Oaks, Calif. (AP) One of Hollywood's most engaging comics, a five year old little fel low named Tamba, is dend. A veteran of scores of movies and television shows, Tamba was a performing chimpanzee who had the reputation of being the screen's top scene ealcr.

He was suffocated along with three other apes and a baby kangaroo when fire broke out in the chimp house of the world jungle compound, filling the cages with smoke. If he had lived until Tuesday he would have seen his greatest triumph. Tamba had been chosen the American humane society to pass out the organization's first annual "Patsy" awards to the best animal actors of the year. The cream of Hollywood's four- footed actors Lassie, Francis the mule, Rhubarb the cat and others will be present at the affair, staged as part of the premier of Tamba's latest picture "Bedtime for Bonzo." Now one of Tamba's relatives will carry on in his place. Tamba, alias Bonzo, Pierre, Jo Jo and Rollo, understood more than 1,000 words and 500 commands.

His salary was $500 a week. With his funny faces and antics, he stole virtually every scene he was in. He recently doubted-crossed his press agent by flunking an intelligence test, but psychologists credited him with the intelligence a three-year old child. His next under a three-year movie con- Jract was to be "Bonzo Goes To Yale." Funerals Oru W. Flora Funeral services for Ora Wesley Flora, who died Mar.

1, will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in Johnson and Sons chapel. Rev. Rev, Ralph D. Evans will officiate.

Burial will ba in Sprindale cemetery at Chase. Forcing Metal Through Die Caldwell, N. J. A new mass- production method of producing one-piece, hollow-steel propeller blades by forcing hot metal through a die was revealed here by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. Technically, it is an extrusion process.

The white-hot chrome- nickel molybdenum steel billet is 'ormed first into a tube. When llattened, formed and finished, it becomes a one-piece propeller blade. Blades now In use are usually made of two parts which are then welded together. The new one- piece blade is claimed to provide greater resistance to the severe fatigue and other stresses which propellers on turbo-prop ilanes are subjected. The extrusion method of snap- ng metals in a continuous form by forcing highly-heated materials through a die is not new, but it has until now been used on relatively simple forms.

As far as known, the hot extrusion of steel to make anything approaching the complex shapes and tapered thickness required in propeller blade manufacture has never before been tried. Advantages of the extrusion process in propeller-blade making include a saving in materials, skilled manpower, costly machining, floor space required for manufacturing and tools. Operations in propeller manufacture, which now require hundreds of hours of hand work, are reduced by the new methods to a series of three steps which can be accomplished in minutes. Appeals Drunk Drivng Case Charles Lewis, RFD 4, was convicted of drunken driving in police court Monday but filed notice of appeal. Lewis, according to the arresting officer, was stopped at and Severance on Jan.

26 at 4:40 a. m. He had three coon dogs in the car with him at the time. The officer testified that Lewis was driving his car from curb to curb east of from Maple to Severance. He also ran the stop sign at Plum, the officer said.

"He wanted to argue," the officer said, "about stopping and about showing me his license." The officer said there was also an argument about what was going to happen to the coon dogs when Lewis was hauled to the station in a patrol car. A second officer testified that Lewis was intoxicated and that he had to look up a telephone number for Lewis who was not able to do it himself. Lewis offered no defense. However, his attorney tried to tell the arresting officer that Lewis was parked and asleep in the car when officer drove up. The officer didn't agree.

The court fined Lewis $100 and sentenced him to 90 clays in jail He is free on bond pending the appeal. Page 20 The Hutchinson News-Herald Tuesday, March 1061 Trailer And Butter Burn Syracuse CAP) A Transport trailer and 29,000 pounds of butter were destroyed by (ire on US50 six miles cast of Monday. Glenn Miller, Oklahoma City, driver for the Riss truck line, said the fire started after the transport lost one of its two left rear wheels. Miller said ho stopped immediately hut that friction apparently set the remaining left rear tire ablaze. The driver tried to douse the flames with equipment on the truck, but finally had to unhitch the tractor and pull it away from the burning; trailer.

The truck was cnroule from Oklahoma City to Denver. State troopers reported the outside unit of a dual wheel broke loose and the second tire blew out. Miller stopped the big semi- trailer unit and began setting flares, then noticed the tire was afire. Flames quickly spread. Fire started about 1:30 a.m.

Monday, part of the truck and cargo were still burning Monday night While the blaze was at height of intensity some traffic had to be dctoured around the wreckage. Most ot the load wns but- t'M- but the truck also had some other freight. Poker Players Fined $10 Each Eight persons, described by their attorney as "honest, hardworking good people" were fined $10 each in police court Monday afternoon when they were found guilty of gambling. The eight, along with two other persons, were nabbed by city police with the help of special state attorney general investigators in a raid on the Manhattan club, 115 South Main, on Feb. 27.

The eight gambling convictions climaxed a 90-minute trial which included an explanation of a card game called "poker," the stud variety. Found guilty and fined were Clco Agile Dulton, 119U East Sherman; Mattie Pearl Ryerson, 528 West Oda Oswald, 11 West Emily Francis Winters, H2Vi South Main; Mary Katheryn Huff, 528 West Raymond Clay Hensley, 605 North Star: C. .1. Purdon, West Second, and Roy Max Ashburn, 318 Justice. Kenneth Walters, 820 West 19th, identified as the man behind the bar, was charged with allowing gambling game to operate.

James Pauley, 317 North Si orior, was charged with operating the game. Cases of both were continued to Thursday at 4 :45 p.m. when everybody just got hungry and tired. is eve in Manpower Resources Being Strained rocked communities a dozen miles away in two states. Hundreds of persons flocked to the scene, in an isolated spot along the Hackensack river on the New York-New Jersey boundary.

Government Paying Highest Interest Washington (AP) The interest cost on money the government borrows for three month periods jumped Monday to the highest in producing "unlin point since the bank holiday of of food and fiber Kansas City (AP) nation's manpower resources already are being strained by defense and agricultural labor requirements, the chief of the U. S. employment service said here Monday. Robert C. Goodwin, director of the office of defence manpower and the employment service, addressed 100 persons from 26 states at a three-day farm labor conference.

Goodwin explained the conference was called to make basic plans for the best use of workers unlimited amounts 1933. The treasury announced acceptance of bids for $1,100,691,000 in 91-day be dated Mar. 8. At an average price of 99.645 (percent of par), Making the average interest yield 1.406 percent on an annual basis. "If there is no extension of hostilities this year, and if our defense preparations continue at the gradually accelerated pace predicted," Goodwin said, "there will be only small disturbance of trained farm workers by selective service." Shoots At Duck, Hits Fireworks Plant Pearl River, N.

(AP) A hunter took a shot at a crow near here Monday and blew up a small fireworks plant. Nobody was hurt but the blast DADDY'S If happiness in the face of Mrs. R. R. Klernan, as she embraces her marine lieutenant'husband in San Francisco after his arrival with 1,173 other marines from bloody fichting in Korea.

VIore Money Asked To Fight Communist Lies Key West Truman Monday asked congress to vote $97,500,000 in new funds immediately to combat "Communist lies." The president requested the new money for the state department's "Voice of America." "Present world conditions make it imperative that we avail ourselves of every possible means for presenting the truth to the rest of the world and counteracting the distortions and untruths that tha Communist leaders and their puppets are spreading," the letter said. Incredible as it may seem, Communist lies are widely believed in many parts of the world because the people there have no way ot learning the truth." The money, if voted for this fiscal year, will expedite completion of a ring of radio transmitters and equipment to "make our campaign of truth more effective in countries behind the iron curtain." Penney Angus Bring Highest Prices Hamilton. Mo. (AP) A bull brought $34,000 at the ninth annual Aberdeen-Angus sale at the J. C.

Penney farm where 68 head of the purebreds sold for a total of $341,800 Monday. The C. D. Whitney farms of New York paid the top price for the bull. Another bull wa- bought for $31,000 by Mike Whitman of Macon, Ga.

Seventeen bulls averaged $9,188 each, and 51 heifers averaged $3,639. Kinsley Woman Dies Of Gas Fumes Chetopa (AP) Mrs. Robert Holmes, 65, died from fumes from an open stove in a cabin here, Labette county Coroner J. D. Pace said.

Her husband is in a drillcal condition in Oswego hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Holmes were moving from Kinsley to West Plains, and stopped at the cabin Sunday night. Buys Flower Shop McPherson Betty Bell Great Bend floral designer, hai purchabed the Johnson Floral shof here from Mr.

and Mrs. Kermii Johnson..