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1. The Anderson Herald Tuesday, August 16. State Dashes. Free Wabash Bridge Hopes EVANSVILLE. Ind.

Gov. Craig and the State Highway Commission dashed hopes Monday for at New Harmony toll-free making the Wabash River brides, Army Engineers take over streambed maintenance. The governor and members of the commission told Evansville Chamber of Commercord officials the state could to join Illinois in taking over operation and maintenance of the bridge. The Illinois Highway Department reported Friday it believed maintenance costs would be too high" to permit the state to join in operating the bridge as a free one. Virgil Smith, chairman of the Indiana, the commission, Engineers to suggested take over the work of keeping the river in its course at the bridge site, a major item in maintenance costs.

Chamber of Commerce officials said they would contact the Engineers' office at Louisville. Craig said Harry T. Ice. Indianapolis bond counselor, had advised him there was no legal means for the state Toll Bridge Commission to take over the The bridge now is operated the White County Bridge Commission, which only last month completed paying off a $945,000 bonded indebtedness it. incurred.

when it took over the bridge 1941. The commission has collected more than 3 million dollars in tolls since 1941, but Roy Clippinger Carmi, commission director. said maintenance the menot, large part of revenue. Russell Cooper, bridge engineer of the Indiana highway department, said the White County group's consulting engineers, Hardesty and Hanover of New York, estimated that the bridge currently needs $148,000 worth of temporary repairs and stream bed maintenance Between 1942 and 1953 the White County group -spent $886,139 on bridge and stream bed maintenance, the group was told. Conferring with the Chamber Commerce officials, in addition Craig.

and Cooper, William Sorrell and Deane Walker, members of the State Highway Commission, and Chief Engineer Carl Vogelgesang. The group came to Evansville by plane and visited the bridge, then returned to Evansville for a news conference. Heredity Peril Continued from Page One change, according to Prof. Gustafsson of Sweden. Scientists have been able to take advantage of these beneficial mutations to improve agricultural plants in the drastic respects.

have entered a new phase in plant breeding." Gustafsson declared. "We can really start now to remake plants." He agreed with another Swedish scientist. Prof. L. Ehrenberg, that many common agricultural plants, including wheat and corn are in structure and other characteristics and need a complete overhauling to bring them into step with modern requirements.

Gustafsson said some of these changes can be brought about in one or two years, but it may take anywhere from 20 to 50 years to do the main overhauling job. Little was said about the possibility of beneficial changes In human beings as a result of radia. tion, although Carter did mention it briefly in his paper. He pointed out that, while radiation might result in hereditary diseases that' led to the death of individuals, it also might sometimes result in the birth of a Beethoven or an Isaac Newton. DEMONSTRATION COLUMBIA, S.

stray dog gave birth to seven puppies beneath a window of South Calolina Baptist Hospital maternity section. USE THE CLASSIFIED SECTION Three Convicted In City Court On Traffic Counts Three residents here were fined for traffic violation in a City Court session yesterday conducted by Judge Robert L. Austin. A 23-year-old man, charged with driving 70 miles an hour in a 30- mile zone Aug. 13, received a fine of $10 plus costs of $14.75.

His license was suspended for three months. Another defendant, 39. was fined and of $14.75 for driving $25, recklessly. costs, was speeding and weaving across the center line when arrested June 5, an affidavit said. A 19-year-old driver, arrested for driving 55 miles an hour in a 30- mile zone, was fined $5 and costs.

PEURIFOY SERVICE HELD BANGKOK, Thailand (P The Rev. Horace Ruborn conducted a memorial service Monday, at the International Church Bangkok for U. S. Ambassador John E. Peu rifoy and his son Daniel who died in an auto crash Friday.

Mrs. Olive 1955 ing The AFT rock injured his foot. None of said 8 survey showed a need for other required hospital 350,000 to 500.000 additional class- treatment. GENERALISSIMO CHIANG Kai-shek, declining an invitation to speak in Los Angeles, said last weekend that Red China's release of imprisoned American flyers had been or. dered by Russia.

"The Chinese Communists On instructions from the Kremlin have decided to put on a peace mask," Chiang declared. "To pave the way for exacting political concessions from the United States, they suddenly released some of the imprisoned American flyers, whom they never had any right to hold." The invitation to visit Los Angeles came from the Greater Los Angeles Press Club. COMMUNIST CHINA'S proposal last weekend for a Far Eastern conference "to seek peaceful settlement of the Korean question" is under study at the State Department. It appeared probable that American acceptance would be contingent on indiby Communist China that cations it would discuss reunification of Korea through free elections under the supervision of the United Nations. At the Korean conference in Geneva in 1954, Red China rejected that proposal and nothing was accomplished.

THREE TOP JAPANESE emerged from Communists weekend and were arrested quickly by the police. Sanzo Nozaka, chief of the Japanese, Communist party, his top lieutenants, appeared at a Red meeting in a hall in downtown Tokyo. When they emerged, squadron of Japanese police took them into custody. The three men were members of the Communist party's central committee and were purged from their posts by order of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur in 1950. They went into hiding at that time to avoid arrest.

Peron Death Continued from Page One ment. in the nine years of his presidency. The announcements usually preceded widespread arrests and imprisonments. Monday's announcement said assassins intended to kill top government officials and commanders of army garrisons including Maj. Gen.

Franklin Lucero, minister of the army who quashed the June 16 revolt in a six-hour battle. It said the assassins had plotted to shoot Peron from a rented apartment as he drove by. Then, the announcement said, the plotters planned to launch a wave of terror by disrupting power lines and communications. and attacking radio stations and vital public works. The government statement said the Catholic clergy, army officers.

members of the Democratic party (Conservatives) Nationalists and even Communists were implicated in the plot. Flier To Continued from Page One at a secret huddle in Nevada City, about 50 miles from here. The slim, auburn haired girl says she married logger Alford Fine, 21, in the belief Schmidt was dead. The airman left Nevada City Saturday and Una went back to a secret hideout, presumably with. Fine.

Welch said Schmidt "hasn't been sleeping well and this whole thing has troubled him. He would rather I speak for him to the press." Welch said Schmidt. just walked into his office and asked the tegat help. The attorney said he had handled a case for a friend of Schmidt's before. The action can be filed Schmidt's place of legal residence.

but he hasn't determined yet where it will be. It will be in California, Welch said Una's attorney, Harold Berliner, notified by the Associated Press of the pending divorce action, said she would have no comment: Schmidt is staying in Sacramento with Una's mother and stepfather. Local Civic Continued from Page One has served on the City Court bench since 1952. Mr. Bardsley, sales manager for the Delco-Remy Division of General Motors in Anderson, will be in charge of the industrial phase of the campaign.

He has been extremely active in adult leadership of the 'Kikthawenund Council of Boy Scouts, is a past-president of the Anderson Rotary Club and has been active in YMCA and other community projects. Mr. Riggs said yesterday, "Our 1955 Chest Campaign chairmen have been active for a long time in Anderson's civic affairs and the directors and officers of the chest organization were very pleased that these men would accept the chairmenship assignments." Others on the Budget Committee besides Chairman Allis are A. 0. Barnes, Mrs.

Vera Cammack, Wilbur Hardacre, Charles Hartley, Joe Stine, George Griffith, Mrs. Walter Bagot, W. Stilson, Charles Castain and Dr. P. T.

Lamey. Near-Riot Continued from Page One company broke down. The union is asking higher wages and a union shop. Monday's violence started when a large number of persons started throwing rocks and bottles at a bus aired by the company to transport ron-strikers to the plant, Rocks also were tossed at several cars. and one state police car was hit.

City Patrolman Fred Sumpter was treated in a hospital when the ANDERSON on OBITUARIES MRS. DORA E. GRUBB "Funeral services for Mrs. Dora Ethel Grubb, 52, wife of Conrad Grubb, 2612 Mounds who died Sunday night at St. John's Hospital, will be conducted Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the Baker Brothers Funeral Home.

The Rev. 0. J. Beardsley, assistant pastor of the First Methodist Church, will officiate. Interment will be in Union Cemetery near Parker, Ind.

Mrs. Grubb had been a patient at the hospital for a week, and had been ill since December She was a native of Delaware Survivors include the husband: a brother, Alvie Fullhart, Muncie; two sisters, Mrs. Charles Zook, Muncie, and Mrs. George Fairman, Buchanan, Mich. MRS.

JOHN DAY Mrs. John Day, former resident of Anderson and widow late. John E. Day, former local realtor, died Monday morning at Monroe, Ohio, where she lived with a daughter. The body was taken to the Sells and Rowe Funeral Home.

No arrangements were announced. Interment will be in 1 Beech Grove Cemetery at Muncie. Survivors include the daughter with whom she lived, Mrs. Jayne Jordon, of Monroe: a granddaughter, Mrs. Kenneth Martin: two grandsons, Robert L.

Day, of Chesterfield, and John Jordon, and a great- grandchild. Her husband died in 1940. MRS. W. A.

DIXON Mrs. Agnes Lifford, 3015 W. 25th member of the First, Baptist Church staff, was called to West Plains, Mo. today by the death of her mother. Mrs.

W. A. Dixon, who had been ill since April. Rites and interment will be in the Missouri city. Infrared Rays Heat German Hall BERLIN- Berlin recently opened its first new variety hall since the war.

A round building seating 000. it is in the heart of West Berlin and is the first building in Germany to be entirely heated by intrared rays. known vaudeville acts are starred. FIRST NEWSPAPER Wyoming's first newspaper the New Delhi government. dates back to 1869.

Plans Revived For Unknown Soldier Burial WASHINGTON The Departrent of Defense is reviving plans postponed in 1950 to entomb and honor an unknown serviceman killed in World War IL. Congress authorized the project, but it was laid aside because of the Korean War. The Army has been given the responsibility of studying the 5- vear-old plans to see whether they should be used or new ones made. Under the original plan six bodies of unidentified servicemen were to be brought to the United States from overseas military cemeteries. There would be one each from the European, Mediterranean, Africa-Middle East, West Pacific and kan command.

Pacific theaters and the AlasOne of the six was to have been e. tombed with the unknown soldier of World War I in the national cemetery at Arlington, Va. The five other bodies were to be returned to the overseas theaters. CATHOLICS, POLICE CLASH BUENOS AIRES Demonstrating students and other Roman Catholics clashed with police Monday at Cordoba in central Argentina. A policeman and several persons were reported wounded, and at least 15 demonstrators were arrested.

The clash came on the day set aside by Catholics to honor the Assumption of the Virgin It is one of several Catholic fetes which President Peron removed from the list of official Argentine holidays last March. Deaths In Madison And Nearby Counties DAISY MOWERY MIDDLETOWN -Funeral serv-1 ices for Mrs. Daisy May Mowrey, 75, Rt. 1, Daleville, who died Sunday night at the Henry County Hospital following a wear's ness, will be held at the Cross Roads Lutheran Church at p.m. Wednesday, with the David and the Rev.

Herbert Swearingen officiating. Burial will be in Miller Cemetery. The body was brought to the lard and Shirey Funeral Home, where friends may call. Surviving are the widower, Frank; a daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Jackson, Anderson; a sister, Grace Byers, New Castle; grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

WATT WHELCHEI. -Funeral rites for Watt Whelchel, 83, who died at Riverview Hospital, Noblesville, Saturday night, will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday George MeCarty Funeral Home. Burial will be in Kinneman Cemetery.

Surviving, are Charles three both brothers. of Noblesville: Cord, of near here; several nieces and nephews. RALPH W. HASTINGS WILKINSON- Funeral services for Ralph W. Hastings, 74, who cied suddenly Saturday of a heart attack, will be held at 2 p.

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American Federation of Teachers predicted last weekend the "worst classroom and teacher shortage in history" this fall. The president, Car J. Megel of Chicago, said that as a result teacher "requirements are being again dropped in many parts of the country. "While low salaries are the prineipal reason for the shortage." he said, "many dedicated teachers have quit simply because they feel that they cannot work adequately under exist- relied on for perfect service The warm satisfaction of witnessing flawless funeral tribute of carefully planned details and precise timing always belongs to those who choose Baker Brothers. "Spacious Private Parking Area" BAKER BROTHERS Funeral Some 20 East Eleventh St.

Phone 6616 Monday, but between 20 and 25 state police troopers arrived within a short time and there Was no recurrence of the trouble. Cars turned over included those belonging to Malcolm Edwards, company attorney; Dallas Lunsford, chief metalurgist, and plant guard Alonzo Watz. The company. said it obtained victures of men in the process of turning over some of the cars. A spokesman for the company said none of those shown overturning cars was identified as an employe of the New Castle plant.

He said parked near the plant were Indianapolis, Muncie, cars. Anderson and Fort Wayne, One car with five men in it was reported there from Kentucky, Dean Detweiler, public relations director, said the main office at Hagerstown received a notice of a decertification election. at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) office in Indianapolis Aug. 23. He said Jack G.

Evans, regional NLRB director, sent the notification Monday as the result a petition signed by non-striking workers in the bargaining unit at the Richmond machining plant. The unit now is represented by the JAW CIO Law requires that 30 per cent of the persons in the unit sign the petition before a decertification hearing may be held. There are 230 persons in the Richmond unit. 20 India Continued from Page One dependence from Britain. Its sponsors originally said 100,000 nationalists would march into Portugal's tiny colonies on the west coast to demand their merger with India.

gunfire started shortly after batches of Indians began penetrating Goa, south of Bombay, at several points. The demonstrators were described as Satyagrahis, followers the late Mohandas K. who favored "non-violence" or "passive resistance" in his campaign to win independnce from Britain. Monday's demonstration was the biggest "non-violent" march since the Indians launched their "peacefut invasion. of.

Portuguese. India a year ago. These Portuguese areas are the last foreign enclaves In India, now that former French possessions have been turned over LAPEL Funeral services for George Sunday Rolland at the Castor, home 64, of who his brother. Ernest, following a long illness, will be held at the Fisher Bros. Funeral Home at 2 p.

m. Tuesday, with the Rev. Garfield Steedman officiating. Burial will be in Brookside Cemetery. Surviving is the brother, at whose home he died He was former teamster and a member the Methodist Church.

VOTES, NOT CANDLES COLUMBIA HEIGHTS. Minn. P- -Election of a youthful mayor was assured when John Stopka spent his 27th birthday checking an election recount with his opponent. He won by three votes. EXTRA MONEY Continued from Page One born on a farm northeast of Alexandria, the daughter of Henry and Minerva Hughes Heritage, She was a member of the First Baptist Church, which she helped organize in Alexandria: She had served on the board of deaconesses for many years had taught Sunday school class since the turn of the century until her illness a few years ago.

Mrs. Thomas and her sister, the late Mrs. Marie Kelly, formed the missionary society at the church and were active in district religious work of the Baptist Harmony Association. She took an interest in the activities at the Green Lake Assembly, a church camp for young people, in Wisconsin. The deceased was one of the founders of the CWWU Home in Anderson and had served on its board of directors.

She was past President, of the Clubs, Madison WCTU. County tubercutosis: association in this the Art Circle, past matron of the Order of Eastern Star and past president and one of the founders of the Aesop Literary Club in Alexandria. The was brought to the Davis Stricler Funeral Home body, and then removed to the residence, where friends may call after 1 p.m. Tuesday. Services will be held at p.m.

Thursday at the Baptist Church, with the Rev. Noel Erwin, of South Bend, and the Rev. George Calhoun of ficiating. Burial will be in Parkview Cemetery. TEMPO Continued from Page One best relations with the United States." "We share the same ideals of freedom, democracy and progress through free enterprise, and both countries are united in.

their firm determination to promote international peace and security," he declared. REAR ADM. SAMUEL Toranzo Calderon was reported this weekend sentenced to life imprisonment on a charge of the June 16 revolt against Argentine dictator Juan D. Peron. Informed sources said the Supreme Military Council had imposed life terms on Toranzo and six other Argentine naval officers in winding up the secret trial of 56 men accused of plotting the abortive revolt against the Peron regime.

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