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KTITOR-lHDEX Vol. 55, No. 190 Moberly, Feb. 14, 1973 24 Pages (3 Sections) Salisbury Approves SEMCO Expansion SALISBURY The $185,000 general obligation bond proposal here to permit expansion of SEMCO was approved in an election Tuesday by an overwhelming majority of 426 for and only 9 against. Inside Legislature News Area Sports Interstate System Valued in Missouri Japanese Student At MAJC Page 2 Page 7 1 rage 10 Pace 11 OgC Jl The money will be used to provide 7,600 more square feel of space for SEMCO, which will permit Increased production and more employment, it was reported.

City officials said there will be no tax increase to finance the bonds, to be paid out over a period of 20 years by SEMCO in lease payments. The city will own the facility at the end of the 20-year period. No Classes Monday at Public Schools, St. Pius Moberly public schools and St. Pius Catholic School will not have classes Monday in observance of George Washington's birthday.

The Moberly Area Junior College will be on its regular schedule, however, Young Woman Dies From Suffocation A 26-year-old woman, Miss Mary Ann Banker, of rural Renick, was found dead in the yard of her parents' home late Tuesday afternoon. Death was ruled accidental by suffocation by Randolph County Coroner Fred Ward. Ward said Miss Banker had a long history of epileptic seizures, and was found lying face down in the mud four feet from the front porch of the house by her mother, Mrs. John H. Banker.

Mrs. Banker was the last to see her daughter alive, and lold the coroner and Sheriff Orville Price that Miss Banker left the house at 3 p.m. to make a trip to some dog pens in Ihe yard. Mrs. Banker called the Boone County ambulance service, and Coroner Ward and Sheriff Price were notified by radio of the ambulance at 4:45 p.m.

The father, an employe of the A.B. Chance of Centralia, was at work at the time of the death of his daughter. Miss Banker lived in a house beside her parents' house two miles south of Renick on Old Highway 63. Miss Banker's brother, John Michael Banker, 20, was drowned in the Old Quarry at Moberly on June 30, 1970, Funeral services are pending for Mary Ann Banker at the Cater Funeral Home. She is a member of St.

Pius Catholic Church at Moberly. Survivors include her parents, four sisters, Patricia, now in Germany; Donna, Betty and Kristeen, of the home; and one brother, David, of the home. Terms of Boyd, Dr. Epley Expiring on County Board County Clerk Bob Leathers reminds voters that the terms of county school board members Dean Boyd, Moberly, Eastern District, and Dr. E.P.

Epley, Huntsville, Western District, are expiring, leaving two vacancies to fill at the next general election, April 3. Candidates for the three-year term of offices have until 5 p.m. March 2 to file at the county clerk's office at the Huntsville courthouse, Leathers said. Filings have to be made 30 days ahead of the election, he explained. Holdover members of the county board are Floyd B.

Prewitt, Route 3, Moberly, and W.E. McKeown, Route 1, Moberly, both of the Eastern District; and Charles Brown, Clifton Hill, and Frank Butcher, Huntsville, both of the Western District. Speak, to Newsmen Before enplaning for their return to the United States, returned POWs USN Comm. Brian 0. Woods of Lemoore, left, and Major Glendon W.

Perkins, USAF, of Orlando, speak to newsmen for a brief moment at the passenger terminal. The two POWs who returned to Clark Air Base in the Philippines are wearing new uniforms issued at the hospital. (AP Photo) Strong Safety Program 494 Attend Vocational-Technical School Almost 500 students attend classes at the Moberly Area Vocational- Technical School, and of the actual 494 enrolled, 77 of them from Macon, Salisbury, Cairo, Huntsville, Madison and Higbee come for half- day classes In the afternoons. It is fitting therefore that the mayors of the other cities In the area have joined with Moberly Mayor Charles Carter in proclaiming this week Vocational Education Week. During the week, visitors are invited to observe the school In operation anytime between 8 a.m.

and 3 p.m. An invitation to visit is extended by James Byland, director of vocational education, and the school's staff of one vocational counselor, 14 high school teachers of vocational courses, and three Junior college instructors. Twenty-eight different vocational classes are offered by the school, which states its purpose as "preparing students to enter the world of work." Most of the courses are open to juniors and seniors only, with such exceptions as agriculture, In providing instruction in "working-type courses," the Vocational School is well aware of the importance of safety, and the strict enforcement of the Occupational Safety and Health Act in businesses and industrial plants. The school has been fortunate in the assistance in safety instruction given it by an appointed advisory committee made up of the following prominent Moberlyans: C.W. Kacena, A.H.

Baldwin, Leroy Willis, Bill Carr, Howard Halley, John Port and Louis Cody, The committee has been active for more than one year, and the members meet once a month. Their efforts have resulted in student dedication to maintaining a high degree of safely at the school. Since October, a Central Safety Committee has been organized at the Vocational School which consists of one student and an instructor from each class and Byland. The purpose of the committee is to meet once a week on Wednesdays to discuss problems, potential dangers and any accidents that may have occurred. When an accident does occur, students make accident reports, listing the time of the accident, where it occurred, the type of injury and the cause.

When an accident is discussed in committee meetings, the student members of the Central Safety Committee go back to class and discuss the accident further with class members. Since the beginning of the school year, there have been 20 accidents to students, none serious, but the Central Safely Committee has found a method to dramatize Ihe accidents to bring the safety lesson to daily attention. It has done this through the use of a manikin dressed in working clothing with bandaids attached to the 20 various portions of Ihe body affected by the accidents. The manikin stands in Ihe business office of the Vocational School where it is, observed by students traveling the corridors. Credit for the use of the manikin is shared by two students, Tom Myers and Gail Roe.

When the Central Safety Committee thought of illustrating the accidents by drawing a picture of a workman and designating the injured areas of the body, Myers and Roe suggested the use of a manikin instead, and their idea was adopted. Byland points out that the safety system used at the DuPont plant at Moberly has been adapted to use at the school. Inspections of the building have been made by advisory members and students, and corrections have been made in several instances in the interests of safety. Not only does the Vocational School prepare students for the world of work, it equips them to seek it well grounded in reasons to observe safety precaulions. This is a service deserving of proclamations issued by all the mayors in the area.

Safety Dramatization Moberly Area Vocational-Technical School students are safety- conscious, and with the use of the manikin, center, they are reminded daily of the 20 minor accidents that have caused injuries to students since the beginning ot school. Each tagged place on the manikin represents an injury to a student in an accident. Credit for dramatizing the injuries is shared by two students, Tom Myers, left, and GailRoe, right, who flank the manikin at the office door at the Vocational SchOOl. mn- Nrm Orv.ih s.m,,, World News SAIGON AP The United States told the Viet Cong in an official protest letter today that it will not tolerate a delay in the release of American prisoners held in South Vietnam in the fulure. In strong language, Maj.

Gen. Gilbert H. Woodward, the chief U.S. delegate to the four-party Joint Military Commission, said the Viet Cong violated the Vietnam peace agreement signed in Paris Jan. 27 by delaying the release of 27 American prisoners of war at Loc Ninh, 75 miles north of Saigon, on Monday.

WASHINGTON AP Hanoi and Washington announced today they plan a joint economic commission lo develop economic ties between North Vietnam and Uie United States and to consider postwar reconstruction of the bomb-battered North. This was the only concrete new element in a joint communique issued following the departure from Hanoi Tuesday of Henry A. Kissinger, national security adviser to President Nixon, who spent almost four days in the North Vietnamese capital. floated yen down. But Ihe rate was driven up to 270.80 yen by the end of trading representing a 13.7 per cent increase in the value of the Japanese currency.

Trading on the European markets was cautious, and the exchanges in Copenhagen, Madrid and Oslo remained closed for the third day. SAN DIEGO, Calif. AP The first Iwo of the returning U.S. prisoners of war stepped onto their home soil with a salute late Tuesday night after an hour's tense delay when their plane developed wing flap trouble. Navy Cmdr.

Brian D. Woods and Air Force Maj. Glendon W. Perkins were flown back to the U.S. early so they could be at the bedsides of their critically ill mothers.

Moberly High's Mid-Winter Concert Will Be Thursday LONDON AP-The dollar traded well above its new par values today in major European currency markets that reopened for the first lime since devaluation of the U.S. currency. But another wave of selling hit the Tokyo market. The Japanese state bank intervened in an attempt to keep the value of the newly WASHINGTON AP The United States and Cuba are expected lo sign an an- tihijacking agreement by the end of this week, il has been learned. The official lime frame was put at a "few days" by Secretary of Slate William P.

Rogers in Miami Beach, Tuesday night. But it is understood this means by Saturday at the latest. WASHINGTON AP President Nixon will unveil his 1973 environmental proposals in a radio address to Ihe nation today amid speculation he will emphasize the need to complete last year's unfinished business. More Details Expected On A.L Williams' Death Members of the Moberly High School's i a music department will present the mid-winter concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb.

22, in the auditorium of Ihe high school. The varsity and concert bands will present the evening's program. Featured soloist will be Dr. Roger Cody, trombonist from Northeast Missouri State Weather MISSOURI Cloudy with chance of snow flurries northwest and drizzle or light rain elsewhere. High 20s northwest, tits southeast.

Cloudy and colder tonight with chance of a few snow flurries except extreme southeast. Low in the teens north, around 30 bootheel. Thursday partly cloudy to cloudy and cold. High from the 20s north to the 30s southeast. Local Weather 8:30 today, 31.

9:30 today, 30. Minimum last night, 29. Precipitation, .05. For 24-hour period ending at 6 last night: Minimum, 33. Maximum, 39.

6 last nighl, 38. Precipitation, ,70. Missouri extended outlook Friday through Sunday--Fair and rather cold on Friday with low temperatures in the teens and highs 30 to 35; partly cloudy with a slow warming trend over the weekend with highs 35 to 45 on Saturday and in the 40s on Sunday, low temperatures over the weekend generally in the 20s. University, Kirksville. Dr.

Cody is presently teaching brass and is director of the brass choir at Kirksville. He is a fine trombonist, reports Moberly High School Director Robert Smith, who adds, Dr. Cody will play Morceau Symphonique (Alexandre Guilmant). Other numbers on the program will be several marches, English Folk Song Suite (R.V. Williams), Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral (Wagner) and II Guarany (Gomez).

The public is invited. There will be no admission charge. Boonville Man's Death Reported Not From Natural Causes BOONVILLE, Mo. AP Albert J. Darby, 25, died last Saturday.

Police said they were told he died of natural causes. Cooper County Hospital spokesmen said it wasn't so. Police said they learned Monday from an employe a funeral home that Darby's body had a bullet wound in the back. At a coroner's inquest, A.E. Seltenriech, hospital administrator, said the doctor who treated Darby "testified it was not from natural causes.

It was not known if he was was hemorrhaging from his he was was kept on his back. The wound from a small bullet does not cause much of a flesh wound." Cooper Coumy Sheriff Sam Morris said Tuesday night that Alvin Shipley of Boonville had been arraigned earlier in the day on a charge of first-degree murder in the shooting. He was held in jail without bail. Furlher delails are being awaited from theNavyonthe accidental drowning death of Alvin Lewis Williams, 21, of Moberly. He had been in the Navy three years.

Williams, whose home address was 51G Jim Alverson Hurt By Truck Tire Rim Jim Alverson, Moberly, suffered a head injury early today when he was struck by the rim of a Iruek tire he was demounting manually at John's Northtown Skelly Service, Highway 24 and 63. He was admitted to Community Memorial Hospital, and authorities there listed his condition as good. Fulton avenue, was a CSSA aboard the USS Gurke 783 DD near Bangkok, Thailand, when he drowned Saturday. Born April 19,1951, in Moberly, he was a son of Ixwis Charles and Myrtle Frances Ornburn Williams. i i are his parents; three brothers, Charles Wayne, David Lane and Jeffrey Ue, Moberly; two sisters, Mrs.

Barbara Jean Dolin and Nancy Rulh Williams, Moberly; liis grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Ornburn, Moberly, and Mrs. Rulh Williams, Madison, and several aunts and uncles.

The body will be returned lo the Cater Funeral Home. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens. Candidates for MAJC Homecoming Royalty Candidates for queen and king of the Moberly Area Junior College homecoming Saturday night have been announced. The crowning of royalty will be a half- lime between the Moberly Greyhounds and Mineral Area basketball game. A dance will be held in the college cafeteria from 10:30 p.m.

lo 1 p.m. for all MAJC students and their dates, with music by the "Ghettos." Queen candidates are: VcncssaMcKiiwie. Debbie Wilson, Leslie Mudd, Jackie Stuck, Susan Edwards and Karin Burnham, all sophomores, and Molly Flock, Phyllis Guilford and Nancy Clickner, all freshmen. King candidates arc: Dennie Oliver, Howard Johnson, Greg Carroll, Terry Buckler, Roger Keller, Friu Brayman. DwiglH Elliolt and Jay Kacena, all sophomores, and Hclbort Brown, Steve Bragg, freshmen..