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lfr-1-frtT Monitor. Index and Democrat Page 2 Tuesday, Jan. 15, 1957 Oppose Farm Bureau Leaders Allotment Plan Midwest Presidents Favor Base Acreage Program for Corn CHICAGO tffi Presidents of eight Midwest Farm Bureau Federation slate organizations have gone on record in favor of restoring the so-called base acreage plan. The FBF leaders voiced opposition yesterday to the current corn acreage allotment plan, saying a its further continuance would jeopardize substantial participation in the 1957 soil bank program. The federation waged a campaign against the acreage allotment plan in a recent corn farmers' referendum.

Includes Missouri an The federalion presidents from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and Missouri met in Chicago at the invitation of Charles B. Shuman of Sullivan, 111., president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Under the acreage allotment pian, participating farmers would be granted support loans-at 77 per cent of parity. However, over-all planting would be limited to 33,388,000 acres, as compared with the 1956 acreage of 43,380,534. Base Acreage Plan The base acreage plan provides for support at about 74 per cent of parity, but sets the a a limit at 51 million acres for plantings under the soil bank program.

The convening FBF leaders said cheap corn and lower livestock prices would result from what they termed the low rate of compliance in prospect for the allotment program. They claimed the allotment program has failed to meet the challenge of divertec acreage problem. British Close, earch Greek Area in Nicosia NICOSIA, Cyprus un British uthorities -cordoned off the-Greek ction of Nicosia today and made house-to-house search for five unmcn believed responsible for tacks on British civilians. More lhan 3,000 troops, plus po- ce contingents, participated in manhunt. All male inhabi- nts between 14 and 40 were crded info pens for screening by iccial police officers, urfcw Clamped On A curfew was clamped on the reek Quarter--the first there in (lays.

"Before dawn, British afrols loured the narrow, wind- streets, announcing through udspeakcrs: "Stay at home: A curfew has een imposed. You must not ome out into the streets." Troops strung barbed wire bar- cades across the six bridges giv- ng access to the walled city ml turned away pedestrians and chicles. Gets 12-Year Term For Fatal Stabbing Of Kirkwood Man ST. LOUIS Charles White, 26, pleaded guilty to the fatal stabbing of a suburban Kirkwood salesman on a charge reduced from first to second de gree murder and was sentences to 12 years in prison yesterday. The body of Nelson H.

Beare 50, was found wilh numerous stab wounds in a room of the Oriole Hotel on Sept. 14, 1955. The original first degree murder charge was reduced by the circuit attorney's office. At the same time, Circuit Judge John K. Regan sentenced White to 12 years for assault with inten to kill and two years for escaping from the city jail here Oct.

6. HI pleaded guilty to both charges the first of which was in connect ion with the escape. Both term will run concurrently. Man Killed, Two Hurl- In Auto-Truck Crash CREIGHTON, Mo. HV-A Kansa City man was killed and tw other persons were injured toda in a car-truck collision on Houl 35 a mile west of Creighton.

The highway patrol said th dead man was identified as Stan ley R. Smith, 22. Mike Saragoosa and Jaspe Curiale, 16, both of Kansas City who were in the car with Smith were injured. The truck driver, Noah Alsop 22, West Plains, suffere minor injuries. Girl, 16, Dies of Burns Suffered Last Friday ST.

LOUIS Doroth Hammond, 16, died at St. Lou County Hospital today of burr suffered when her clothing caugl fire while baby sitting lasl Fr day. She had been in critical coi dition since the accident wit third degree burns over 90 pc cent of her body. The victim wa the foster daughter of Mrs. Ma zana Lindsay of suburban Ki loch.

Police said the girl had spillc kerosene on her clothing whic ignited when a match was struc Clark Methodist to Have Dinner Sunday CLARK A basket dinner be served Sunday, Jan. 20, in Clark Methodist Church followin the morning worship service. erf Skelton Gives 'V Show, Cheered Fans' Letters HOLLYWOOD Skelton, by 20,000 letters and tonight plays a veal-life rsion "Laugh, Clown, Laugh." television program over BS-TV will be his first live show ncc learnig that his son Richd, 9, is cdlically ill with leu- mia. Doctors have said the y's life expectancy is five onlhs to a year. Red, visibly overwhelmed by kindness of fans who had ex- esscd sorrow, said he will per- nally answer every communi- lion.

"People are wonderful, 11 he said his first rehearsal yesterday. When Bathing Fell Into Disrepute 3dd Facts, Figures Gleaned rom Columnist's Mail Bag William Shepherd, (ansas City, Dies; Has Sister Here William T. Shepherd, brother of Irs. W. S.

Warren of nd of Charley Shepherd of Hunts ille, died suddenly at 5 o'clock eslerday afternoon at his home Kansas City. Shepherd is survived by hi vife, two children and another irother, Ernest Shepherd of Van and a niece, Mrs. Edgar Srooks of Moberly. Funeral services will be con Thursday in Kansas City Mr. and Mrs.

Warren plan to at end. Home at Centralia Destroyed by Fire CENTRALIA--The home oi Mr, nd Mrs. Ed Koening on South street was destroyed by ire about 7:30 o'clock Sunday jvening. The fire is thought t' have been caused by defective viring. Mr.

and Mrs. Koening had re from their daughter's horn next door when the lire was dis covered. Belongings not destroyed by fir were damaged by water. ire Races Through Vanita Park Church ST. LOUIS W--The Vinita Par Church was 75 per cent deslroye yesterday by a spectacular fir which started in a basement boile room and spread through th organ pipes.

Suburban Wellston Fire Chie George Rothschild said the churc three-fourths destroyed bu declined to give a damage est mate. There were no injuries and one was in the church at th lime the fire was discoverec Nearby residents reported hea ing a muffled explosion. C. R. Eppleys Parents Of 1st Child, Daughter Mr.

and Mrs. C. Eppley, 951 Charlotte a a City, a nouncc the birth of their first chile daughter, at noon yesterday i Menorah Hospital is Kansas City She weighed 7-pounds, 10-ounce and has been named Andrea Dcry Mrs. Eppley is the former Mis Sue Derby of Moberly. The baby's a is an acre nautical engineer in the Aviatio Gas Turbine Division of the Wcs inghouse Electric Corp.

in Kansa City. Two Monroe Countians Are Hospital Patients PARIS Mrs. John Umstat of Paris and S. B. Crow of Stout villc are in SI.

Elizabeth Hospital in Hannibal. ETS BRITISH CABINET PROMOTION--Peter Thorneycroft nd his wife ore pictured in London shortly after his promo- on to the key post of chancellor of the exchequer in the new ritish cabinet. Thorneycroft, former president of the Board Trade, succeeds Prime Minister Harold Macmillan In the Macmillon held in the Eden government. Macmillon's abinet appointments were said to show the emergence of right wing of Britain's Conservative Party. Wirephoto via radio from London) Monroe 4-H Club to Hold Meeting Jan.

23 PARIS 4- II Club leaders will old their annual conference Wed- esday, Jan. 23, at the Mark Twain Cafe wilh Mrs. Ray Blades, presi- ent of the 1-H Council, in charge. Monroe County 4-H club leaders ill report on parent cooperation nd community support. Patsy McBride will report on a radio quiz rogram.

Luncheon at noon will be paid for Ihe Paris Savings Bank and Ihe 'aris National Bank. Arthur Ausherman, a 4-H lub agent, will discuss parent co- Deration and community support Ihe afternoon session and Mrs. lim Hall, former Monroe Coun- 4-H member, discuss preparing reports for 4-53 awards. By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK Wl Things a olumnist might never know if he open his mail--or lake off is earmuffs: That a housewife--unless she ooks wilh a can opener--often alks 500 feet or more--a tenth of preparing a single ical. Why not give your wife a air of roller skates on her next irthday? That if you weigh 150 pounds, 7 ounds of it should be calcium, ic most abundant mineral ele- lent in the body.

You need about -28th of an ounce of fresh calcium ally. Best sources are: milk and heese. 'ool Soldiers Deserve Honors Thai il's small wonder thej lUild statues to the foot soldier, )f the 43,743 men who served dur ng the second world war with the amotis "Fighting First" U.S. In antry Division, 21,023 became asualties. That there are more than 7,500 of parasitic insects--no ncluding the neighbor who bor ows your lawnmower in May ant eturns it in November.

That the ASPCA has a cute gimmick in San Francisco: to shone its office you merely dia 'Lost Dog." That University of Michigan re earchers are trying to develop a ingle vaccine that will protec against four diseases polio diphtheria, whooping cough etanus. 2lh Century Measures That during the 12th Century in Ingland a foot was defined legal as "the length of the actua oot of the reigning monarch" a "cloth yard' was the dis ance between the tip of King lenry I's nose and the tip of his inger. That you may have diabete; and not know it. Recent test made of 166,411 persons discov ered 768 new cases. The test i simple, cheap and painless.

That there is as much laten energy in one glass of water a the bomb that fell on Hirosh ma. So drink water and fe stronger. That stevedoring is one of th most dangerous of occupations. I one longshoremen out of tw was hurt on the job, one out six suffered a disabling injury. Inventive Religious Sect That the Shakers, a small rel gius sect, are credited wilh thes inventions: the first washing ma chine, circular saw.

disc harrow tiirbine water wheel, cut nail clothespin, flat broom, round bar and the horse collar. Provin maybe, that if necessity be th mother of invention, faith is father? That the number of general ho pital beds in the United States creased from 2.5 per 1,000 popul, lion in 1009 to 4.2 by 1955. That a survey showed new ma riages between people over usually work out well. But th complaint voiced most often by the elderly brides about their elderly bridegrooms was "he's crabby, and too set in his ways Drug Clerk Actors That Ernie Kovacs, the TV zany, used to work in a durg store. For that matter, half the drug clerks in a a a seem to be unemployed actors.

That by federal law most clothing products have to meet certain standards of noninflammability. But exceplions are shoelaces-and burial garemcnls! Yet a flame-proof suit would appear to the garb most needed by some ho depart this earth. That in 1867 there were between and 125 million buffalo on merica's Western plains. Sixteen ears later, in 1883, after th reatest animal slaughter in his Dry, only a few hundred wen ft. Reason for plaques That one of the reasons plauge wept Europe during the Middl Attend Will Burris uneral in Bucklin Mrs.

Bert Shislcr, Mrs. T. M. Kitchen, Mrs. Beulah Burton and Mrs.

a 11 i Burris attended 'uncral services at Bucklin yesterday for Will Burris, a brother-in- law of T. M. Kitchen and Mrs Mattie Burris. Mr. Kitchen was unable to attend because of illness.

Burial was at Marceline. ages is the fact that, following the fall of Rome, the habit of bathing fell into disrepute. John Wesley founder of Methodism, really meant it when he said in a sermon about 1750, "Cleanliness is indeed next to Godliness." That George Herbert observec more than 300 years ago, "He tha is not handsome at 20, not stronj at 30, nor rich fit 40, nor wise a 50, will be handsome strong, rich, or wise." Testifies At Hearing for British Doctor Says Wealthy Widow Given Huge injections Just Before She Died EASTBOURNE, England -The nurse who attended 81-year- Did Mrs. Edith Morrell testified oday thai Dr. John Bodkin Adams used a giant-sized hypoder nic syringe to pump the wealthy vidow full of drugs just before she died.

Adams, pudgy 57-year-old society physician in this fashionable seaside resort, has been accused jy the prosecutor of drugging hree wealthy patients to death aeeaitse of his "greed for money." The court is now hearing preliminary evidence on a charge lhat Dr. Adams murdered Mrs Morrell more than six years ago after enslaving her with drugs and gelling her to change her wil in his favor. She left him a Rolls Royrc aiitnmnhllp ami an oak chest full of antique silver. Will Decide on Trial After the hearing, expected to last through the week, the cour of five magistrates will decide whether Adams should stand trial before a judge and jury. Dr.

Adams was arrested last month after a painstaking Scotland Yard investigation inio about 400 wills, mostly of wealthy wid- 1950-the night before rnvf PlnimC and brought a 5 c.c. syringe which a U.3. he filled and asked the nurse to inject. "Bigger Than Normal' "is that ihc normal type of syringe to use?" asst. prosecutor Malcolm Morris asked the nurse.

"No," she replied. "It was bigger. The normal was a 1 or 2 c.c. The nurse said she did not know what ths injection was but gave it to Mrs. Morrell on the doctor's orders, then followed it up three hours with a similar injection pre pared by Adams.

Mrs. Morrell developed spasms but, the nurse testified, "She gradually became quiet and had 9 a end. She just passed away quietly," Springfield Woman Is Held in Baby's Death SPRINGFIELD, Jessie Marie Cutler, Wl-- Mrs 30, was charged with first-degree murder yesterday in the death of a baby The baby's body was found in a city park lake here Saturday Police quoled her as admitting she gave birth to the baby Dec 20 and placed it on the lake the next day. An an lopsy showed the infant did no' drown. Is Heading Toward 'Grave Depression' MOSCOW Wl Pravda said today the United States is headed oward a grave economic depres- It said President Eisenhower's Stale of the nion message proved this.

"It is no accident the President's message devoted primary attention to growing inflation which he characterized as (he main danger' to the American economy," the Soviet Communist arty organ said. (The President told Congress in the message that the United States has reached "an unprecedented pak in our economic prosperity" but that the danger of inflation "is always present." He called for a "vigilant guard" against the possibility of inflation.) DO FALSE TEETH Rock, Slide or Slip? FASTEETH, an Improved powder to be sprinkled on upper or lower holds false teeth more firmly in place. Do not slide, slip or rock. No gummy, pasty taste or PAS- TEETH Is iilkallne (non-acid). not sour.

Checks ''plate odor 1 (denture breath). Qet FASTEETH it war drug counter. ows. The bodies of two wealthy widows, former patients of Dr. Adams, have been exhumed.

The nurse was Miss Caroline Randall, who watched by the bed side as Mrs. Morrell died. She testified lhat Dr. Adams came Mrs. Morrell's house on Nov.

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