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58" Than, Not. 1M7 MoSaUqSTrata 20-Year Sepqration Ends at. Airport i Dad, Daughter Together, It's Happy Thanksgiving ber anything about her dad and I fc ing for information about my address. I wrote to the box number in the ad and then waited." In October the Irbys learned their ad had -Irby said he called the number in the letter and "I asked her about her father and she said her daddy was I asked her if she could remem a 1 i i i 1 A. i Thanksgiving Trio -0llT Men Waff rkU Job or Miss Merrie lights for three Urge Christmas trees (he Public Square were turned last ightBy Mist Merrie Christmas af 1967.

Pulling the switch is Miss Karen Catktt, 2S-y ear-old Sooth-west Missouri State College ced, name! last week to reign ver Yale festivities. How are Springfield's Thanksgiving Day babies Montgomery, 1009 East Central. From left are of 1955 doing 12 years later? Just fine, thank Rhonda Wynes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill you, and the three youngsters who celebrated Wynes, 1206 South Crutcher, and James and birthday anniversaries yesterday-are looking Jennifer Rips, children of Mr, and Jtfrs.

Don- f- forward to a Thanksgiving feast today at the aid McDaris, 3001 Erie Lane. Mrs. McDaris home of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil and Mrs.

Wynes are sisters. 45Year Highway On loss of Trams Rail Unions Hit City's Apathy 'Last 11 Years Says WJ. Edd Career to Close given by highway employes of District 7. He was presented a watch. A recognition breakfast has also been scheduled for Dec.

4 at the Drake Hotel in Carthage, planned by State Rep. Robert E. Young, guiding spirit of the Carthage Chamber of Commerce. -1 retirement, Eddlemon plans to continue with his Masonic work. He doesn't consider himself much of a hunter' or As Long Weekend i ll impress that body appreciably." Meeth released this statement following the meeting of the as sociation: "The association is at a com plete loss to understand the apparent total indifference of the Springfield city officials and Chamber of Commerce, with the exception of Councilman David James." (James talked on the matter at council's meeting last Monday.) "The city have been proposing over a considerable period, of time the construction of a civic auditorium for -the City of Springfield.

"If advice, supplied to us through the news media is' correct, the City of Springfield has paid an architect a very considerable amount-of money to draw the plans for the proposed audi torium, which has not been ap proved by the citizens of Springfield. "If adequate transportation to Springfield is not available, there will be no need for' the city auditorium insofar as the general public is concerned. "We do not visualize that an auditorium should be built for the holding of conventions only for those who can afford the use of air service to Springfield, which is very limited. "Railroad passenger service is by far the most dependable as well as the safest form of transportation and is seldom hampered by Inclement weather as are buses and airlines. It is also very economical.

is inconceivable that a growing community such as the size of Springfield would not have rail passenger service of any type." "Bud" Woods, 9. Thankful for food, Columbns, the Pilgrims, and most of all, God. 1 1 I After 1 separation of more than 20 years, a beaming Springfield man was re-united yesterday with his daughter who bad grown uptonking hewas dead. "This is quite a Thanksgiving gift," building contractor John W. Irby said when his 27-year-old daughter, Vicky Lea Quan-rud, stepped from an airplane and into his arms at Municipal Airport.

-j Irby then exclaimed, been a grandfather for three years and didn't know it," as he scooped up bis grandson, Kevin Wayne. The tot replied, "Are you John Irby, 3230 Mayfair, is in deed Kevin's grandfather and the father of Mrs. Quanrud, whom he hadn't seen in nearly 21 years after he and his first wife were divorced and he went overseas in World War II. Yesterday's reunion 'was the outcome of patience and per severance, and Vicky's stepmother, Mrs. Thema Irby, told how she and her husband had tried for several years to track down Vicky's whereabouts through friends, relatives, police agencies and private detectives.

The Irbys learned, after mov ing to Springfield four years ago, that Vicky had attended high school in Newhall, but had moved in 1957. Acting on a suggestion from Springfield police, Mrs. Irby Went to Cali fornia last summer and -placed classified ads in the Newhall newspaper, offering a $50 re ward for Vicky's correct present address. The ads worked. "I got a letter from an old school friend," Vicky said, "with newspaper clipping ask Glad About 73 of Hopes For Tollroad Reaffirmed "happy" about the relocation improvement plans for Mo- 13 between Springfield and Bolivar, the board of directors of the Chamber of Com merce yesterday expressed hope that ultimately there will be tollroad between here and Kan sas City.

When the constitutionality of the state Tollroad Authority is clarified, the board will continue to press for a feasibility study of turnpike from Kansas City through Springfield and southward, a spokesman indicated. It- was announced Tuesday that the Missouri Highway Commission has given tentative ap proval for relocation of 24.9 miles of Mo. 13, extending from its junction with Mo. 83 south of Bolivar to the 1-44 Interchange at Springfield. The plan would provide a dual lane highway from Springfield to Bolivar.

Mo. 13 connects with highways leading to Kansas i at. .1. tA1. suit was filed by the Missouri Road Contractors Association seeking a state Supreme Court decision on whether the Tollroad Authority is constitutional.

This was followed by a petition to intervene in the court test by group of legislators in order to bring out additional factors concerning the tollroad program. The Tollroad Authority, created by the last General Assembly with legislation becoming effective Oct. 13, is composed of the Missouri Highway Commission members with the governor as a seventh member. One of the points brought out by the petitioning legislators is that no guidelines were set out for the tollroad feasibility studies in the state. The tollroad situation was the main subject of discussion by the Chamber board at its regular meeting yesterday afternoon.

Various future projects, along with routine procedures, were discussed. Runaway Teen-Ager May Miss Her Dinner Juvenile Officer David B. Woodruff hoped, but late yesterday was unwilling to say, that he would get a 15-year-old Springfield girl home for bar Thanksgiving dinner. After differences with her parents, the girl was missing from home for two days. Police located her with friends and she was then placed in juvenile detention.

more than any other person in the world is God. We should thank Columbus for discovering our country and God foY making it. There are many things we ought to be thankful fur. We ought to thank the Pilgrims for learning from the In- she said she could remember best of all a big brown teddy bear her father gave her the last time she saw him when she was about 6. "That did it.

I asked her if she'd like to see her father if he was still alive and she said she'd See REUNION, Page 42 Tuesday Meeting Health Group To Hear Knight Gordon Knight, director of placement at Drury College, will be speaker for a meeting of the Greene' County Association for Mental Health in the Burge-Prw-testant Hospital Fountain Plaza room at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Knight will present "a general Overall view of effects of mental health in industry, em phasizing the theme of the year that community health means community wealth." A for the association noted that Knight bad ex tensive experience 'with problems prior to his wort at Drury, particularly with RCA and as assistant to the president for International Telephone and Telegraph Company. Tberoeaker will note changes that have brought tremendous pressures to Dotn employers and employes, and explore ways of minimizing the effects. Knight's Presentation will be preliminary to the three seminars being planned; for early laws wnen speciric areas such as alcoholism, turn.

over and inefficiency will be studied. John J. Sweeney, president, will-preside over the. business meeting (preceding the pro gram) wnen new officers and board members will be elected. Robert Lewis, program chairman, will Introduce Knight.

Tuesday night's meeting is open to the public. A petition in bankruptcy was filed in federal court yesterday by Henry Junior Gardner, 1018 East Division, a laborer with the McQueary Brothers Drug Com pany. Gardner listed $375 in as sets and $1586.58 in debts. William Pierce, 2600 College, yesterday entered a plea of in nocence to charges of failing to support four children, aged 12, 11, 8 and 6. Magistrate E.

A. Barbour Jr. set trial for Dec. 13 and Pierce was released on $50 bond. i Springfieldians are urged to give thanks today by flying the American flag.

The suggestion was given by members of the Pilot Club. Army Reduces Tunas Soldier's Rape Sentence The sentence of a Tunas sol dier, one of five convicted of raping a Vietnamese woman, has been reduced by Maj. Gen. John Tolson, commander of the U. S.

1st Air Cavalry Divi-sion, the Army announced yesterday. The sentence of Pfc. David R. Holiman, 22, was reduced from 15 to 10 years. The five men, who were given dishonorable discharges from the Army, will be returned to the U.

for imprisonment at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. An Army general court martial board also found the men guilty of robbing the woman's home and of misbehavior before the enemy for leaving their post to commit the crime.1 The woman was pregnant and the mother of six children. The Army Board of Review in Washington will review the cases. i (chord Gets Demo Opponent JEFFERSON CITY (AP) William D.

Hardin, 29, of Rolla, Mo. yesterday filed for a second chance to beat Rep. Richard H. Icbord of Houston, Mo. for the Democratic nomination In the 8th Congressional District Hardin had just been released as a captain in the U.S.

Army In 1966 when Ichord beat him to 11,444 in the 1968 primary. Office Equipment At Conco Is Stolen Office equipment valued at $1912 wis stolen in a Tuesday night breakln at the Conco Con crete Company, 510 Sherman. Police said a rear door pane was broken by intruders who took two adding machines, two calculators, comptograph and typewriter. A desk Was forced open and an unsuccessful attempt wss made to chop tliroii'h a wall to reach a safe. Holiday Mishaps Thankfully Few In Surprise Attach Arkansas Gl Hit by Cong A former Fort Leonard Wood soldier and native of Marshall, was injured In Vietnam Nov.

9 when fragments of shrapnel hit him in the stomach and leg during a surprise attack near the demilitarized zone Sgt First Class Lawrence Owen, 36, was listed in "fair condition and improving" by the Red Cross, who told bis family he would be transferred to a hospital in either Japan or the U.S. for further treatment. Owen's wife, Hazel, and the couple's three boys, ages 4, 11 and 12, are now living in Marshall, where his mother and his wife's parents reside. Owen had served at Ft. Wood four years before being sent to Germany in 1956.

Following three years there he returned to Ft Wood where he had served until March when he was ordered to Vietnam. Informed sources here said Owen was serving with a heavy artillery unit stationed at a camp at Cu Chi near the DMZ when the Viet Cong attacked a mess hall. The attack followed several attempts to penetrate' the area by the enemy. Owen was unconscious when rescued and came to several hours later in an Army rescue V. L.

Burton, Market Founder, Is Dead at 65 Retired owner-operator of Jif fy Markets here, Virgil Lee Bur ton, 65. of 210 East Portland. died at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday in St. John's Hospital.

He had been in ill health the past year. A member of St John's Evan gelical Church, Mr. Burton moved to Springfield from Wich ita, in 1940. Mr. Burton, a Mason, was a member of the Abou Ben Adhem Shrine in Springfield and one of its directors.

He organized the Springfield Scottish Rite Club, although he was a member of the organiza uon in Joplin, He was also a member of Euclid Lodge, St Louis, and the Killwine Chapter in that city. He is survived by hiswife, Lena (Lee); and a brother, Frank, of St. Charles. Arrangements will be an nounced by Thieme. Ozark Requests MUII-JIUL1 iuum ST.

LOUIS (AP) Ozark Air JUnes announced Wednesday it has filed with the Civil Aero nautics Board an application for a non-stop route between St Louis and Chicago. Thomas L. Grace, president of the airline, said such a route would improve service to many other cities In Ozark's system He said Ozark plans to provide three non-stop round trips' daily between St. Louis and Chicago. One of the trips would be turn around service while the others would originate in Joplin and Springfield, Mo.

Ozark at present must make one stop on its St. Louis to Chi cago flights. If approved, Ozark would use a Douglas DC9 twin jet plane for the trip between the two Father Is Cleared In Shooting Incident NEOSHO (Special) Magistrate court here has dismissed felonious; assault charges against a man accused in a shooting incident which injured his 6-year-old son. Newton County' officials reported that charges against Richard G. Butler, 36, Neosho, were dropped becanse out-of-town witnesses refused to return to Missouri.

The man's son was wounded in the hip during an alleged family argument, Oct. 1. dians to grow crops and to trap their We also thank the men of today for building cars, trucks, houses and other useful things. But the one man In the whole wide world who Is the most use ful to you and me is God, the man who made our world. DllT New SUIt Pbulo 12 Best lemon fisherman, but does a bit of each.

"I like any good book," he says, "and I like to travel. I -have no definite plans, but I've especially enjoyed the Rocky Mountains, California and New England." In school, Eddlemon was always goodjn math and science, so he naturally gravitated to en-See EDDLEMON, Page 42 Begins side pains and said he would go to a doctor later. Another car-truck accident which occurred an hour later at Walnut and Kimbrouh sent Deanna Kerns, 19, of 714 East Monroe, to St -John's Hospital wi.h facial, leg, and arm bruises and contusions. Her 1964 Chevrolet was trav-; eling north when it collided with a southbound, left-turning 1960 Chevrolet pickup driven by Den- nrsGene Grides, 18, Ozfrkv-Who was ticketed on a complaint of failure to yield the Riding in- the Grider vehicle were Rozele Shipman, 43, Route 1, Sparta, who suffered a forehead i laceration and knee bruises, and Roxie Tannehill, 16, who received knee bruises. They were not Ruth McRevnolds.

45. Crest line, was taken to a Co lumbus, hospital with hip, ankle and chest injuries after she jumped from a truck in Carl Junction shortly before 8 a.m. yesterday. -Troooers said the vehicle was driven by her husband, Alva, 46, wno was rounding a curve when the brakes failed and his wife Jumped. Hunter's Body Found in Wood's VAN BUREN Srian An inquest will be held Fridav In connection with the death nf a Carter County man whose body was iouna in a wooded area 2 miles northwest of Hunter com munity yesterday.

Trooners said John WelHnn Hamnton 37. nf Ellilnnr hn. lieved to have been the victim of a hunting accident The fatally wounded man was found about 5:10 n.m. bv a hunt ing party, according to the state patrol. Death apparently oc curred between 8:30 and 4 p.m.

An Inquest will be held at 10 p.m. Friday at Pewitt-Sloan Fu neral Home nere. Arthur William Omans, an unemployed artist, 1026 West Portland, and his wife, Martha Melvina, filed bankruptcy petitions yesterday in federal court. Omans listed $20,850.14 in dents ana assets. His wife list ed $20,440.91 in debts and $130 Hi' Members of the Frisco General Chairmen's Association yesterday reaffirmed opposition to the discontinuance of all passenger train service Dec.

8, and accused the Chamber of Commerce and City Council of "apparent total indifference" in failure to join the protest Norman Hoeft, Chamber executive vice-president, said earlier yesterday concerning the passenger loss: "We will take no position." Springfield City Council apparently will not intervene. In announcing yesterday's Frisco association meeting, Henry Meeth, president; said: "Until such a time as affected communities or representatives of the public interest file protests with the Interstate Commerce Commission, there is little likelihood that public hearings will be ordered." Meeth added, "Protests by affected labor organizations do not New Station On Air Today KWTO-FM-Stereo is scheduled to begin broadcasting today, Ralph D. Foster, president of the Ozark Broadcasting Company and KWTO Radio an- nounced yesterday. 4 The station will operate ton J98.7 megacycles on the FM dial with 100,000 watts of effective radiated power, broadcasting from 8 a.m. until midnight, sev- en days a week.

Programming will be independent from the parent KWTO Radio, said Fos- Leslie L. Kennon is vice-presi- dent of the new station which will be managed by William T. Ashley, 23-year veteran in broadcasting who came here from Honolulu, Hawaii. Texas County Third To Pass Bond Quota County is the third county in the Ozarks to surpass the 1967 savings bond quota. Previously surpassing the total were Pulaski and Taney coun- ties.

Greene County sales, through October, total $2490,587, or 72.5 percent of the 1967 goal, reported. H. Clampett, savings bond chairman. The state'i 10-month total li $132,716,765, or 80.S percent of the year's goal. Sara Rader, Republic, yestet- day reported to the sheriff's of- fice the theft of a 12-gauge auto- matlc shotgun from his pickup truck.

The gun was valued at $100. But God at Top Bud Is Today is a special time for giving thanks and a B-ycsr-old Robberson school pupil is thankful for good food, Christopher- Columbus and the Pilgrims. But most of all fourth-grader Buy Lee Woods, often called "Bud," is thankful for God. RajLw, son of Mr. and Mrs.

By BILL SNYDER Dailr New 8UH Writer Walter J. (Tuffy) Eddlemon, a 45-year-veteran with the Missouri Highway Department, is an "outdoorsman" when it comes to his work. Eddlemon is district engineer at Joplin and has been for im years and ordinarily doesn't spend much time in his office after 10 a.m. By that time he has finished his mail and is out inspecting the district. Sn it's no wonder he could pass for less than 50 at age 68.

Ho has a ruddy complexion and a ready 'smile and you'd think be bad never a care in the world. Eddlemon is retiring Dec. and he may be 68, he'd have to be something like that with 45 years on the job, but he's quick to say don't feel it" and you're quite ready to believe him. His father, John Eddlemon, a retired farmer at El Dorado Springs, is 90. Eddlemon says with a grin you'd never tak; his father for that age, either.

"These last J1V4 ypars," hs says calmly, "have been the most pleasant and rewarding years of my life." You can believe too. When Eddlemon went to Joplin the contract for Interstate 44 be tween Joplin and the Kansas line had just been let. But all the rest of Interstate 44 in the Joplin district has been his baby, and he's really proud of it You've ridden on it, and you know he has a right to be proud. Recently Eddlemon was guest of honor at a big party in Lamar, p. i (Tuffy) W.

J. Eddlemon. wgnway Ozarks happily lacking in serious accidents dur ing the early hours of- the Thanksgiving holiday weekend last night, although mishaps in ihe city inuirea five persons ear lier yesterday. Fergsr-o-, 56, of2SG0 Kellett, was listed in fair condition at- Hospi tal, where he is receiving treat ment for head contusions and chest and nose injuries suffered in a car-truck cjash at Jefferson and Division about 11 a.m. Officer Ted Hobson said George Hunter, 74, Route 1, was cited on a complaint of passing a stop l'ght after his east bound 1964 Dodge struck the right side of a 1965 Chevrolet pickup driven south' by Ferger- son.

Hunter complained of right office mail, then (ravels In his flimrirt. of His Thanksgiving List Thankful for Columbus Ray L. Woods, 2649 North Howard, wrote this Thanksgiving messsgo and turned it in to his teachpr, Mrs. Norma Boyeu: WE ASE THANKFUL Wa are thankful for the fine foods we get on Thanksgiving snd other hiillflaysi. We thank people and one pprson we thank assets.

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