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FINAL EDITION COMPLETE SPORTS VOLUME LXX HURONITEamf WIATHIR Eailera South Dakolii Lillle Change High toil ay 92. Ixi)y 65, (See complete forecast on Page 2) SINGLE COPY 5c; SUNDAY lOo Good Morning By BRUCE CAMPBELL CAMPBELL OSBORN is a man for whom the adjectives affable distinguished looking, competent, and a host of others were invented. He was born in Howard, went to high school Huron "those are one's "very impressionable and ha? been in far corners of the world in various capacities. His opinions on politics and foreign policy are interesting and significant. But after you interview him and then sit before your typewriter and try to figure out whal the most obviously intriguing his personality is, the answer is: His fascinating variety careers.

He likes Huron. He left here in 1910 from high school but he had many friends then. He's visited here twice since then and is n.ewing acquaintances again, slaying with the Dr. C. H.

Stewarts until July. 10. HE WENT TO Georgetown Un ivcrsity in Washington, D. and studied quite a bit of science along with law. He took his law degiee there and passed his bar exams there, b.ut went to work for the U.

S. Geological Service This displaced him gradually to Oklahoma and there he joined a burgeoning ui; a He was assistant to the nresident of wha is now Conoco Oil Company, one of majors. He left the firm in 1925 am practiced law -in Tulsa for II years. At the same time he formed an oil exploration and lease company, in'." partnership witl Ralph Bard, who was. assistan Secretary of the Navy in World Warll.

They did all right. In 1S40 Osborn sold out his oi business, down law shingle and went to: Washing ton to join the War Production Board He was director of the chemicals pulp paper and publishing indus try sect WPB. He resigned from that at war's end and in early 1946 went to Japan. There he was at Genera MacArthur's headquarters as chiei-of the manufacturing division, a civilian with the rank of colonel. It was his job to direct the U.

S. Army's job in restoring Japanese industries. JAPANESE INDUSTRY grad came back and he left that position but found the Orient so interesting he stayed on in Japan as. a consultant to Japanese industries and engaged in export- import business also. He spem those years traveling in the Or icnt, in Europe, South America and Asia.

Just about everywhere he thinks, except Australia 'anc New Zealand. Finally, in 1954 lie came back See CAMPBELL, Pago Four ChildOutdoes RodeoRidersIn 'Airborne Flight BOWDLE ffi Fourth of July Riders may perform wonders in staying on bucking, sunfishiri? broncos. But it's doubtful lhatany of them will equal the ride a nine-year-olc girl chalked up in a tornado near here Friday afternoon. As her horrified mother watched helplessly, little Sharon Weron and her pony were picked up arid carried half a mile by the fearfu storm. Sharon suffered severe cruises but was not hospitalized Her mother, Mrs, Joe Werori said she could see her daughter all during the time she was airborne.

She told Mrs. Albert Senn editor of the Bowdle Pioneer, tha 1 the girl stayed on the horse unti, it was set down en a hill haU a mile away. Sharon and her mother had gone to a-neighboring farm in the afternoon to get the horse. Noticing the threatening clouds, they decided that Sharon would ride the horse home over a short cut dirt road while her mother and three younger returned in the auto by longer but better route. The mother reached home first and saw her daughter and the horse coming.

But the storm caught Sharon and her pony about 150 feet from the house. Horse and rider were lifted Into the air and sent spinning end over end, over three fences. Mrs. Werpn bsd to choose between staying with the Mo of younger children tnd going to the rescue of Sharon. Taking the farm utility car, she left Gerald, and Jolene, eight months, in the other car.

As the stonn rocked the and began to move it the two iittle boys slipped down under the dash and applied the brake with their kinds. Their father tr.d a neighbor, Philip Hook, nvriycd. then. The Werons about four miles mrlh of Boivdle. A Globe Trotter Returns Two Killed In Crash Near S.F.

Campbell Oshorn, pictured hate behind a i a world, has seen motl of Jhal same world in person in his Varied career as oilman, lawyer, Industrialist, government executive, writer, and gentleman of fortune. Obsorn grew up in Huron and is hare visiting the home'of Dr. and'Mis. C. B.

Stewart, 1284 Wisconsin Ave. S. W. during this week of Huron's 751h anniversary celebration. See today's Good Morning column for an inlet- view with Osborn.

Full Fury Of Storrn; Funnel Clouds Sighted 11 Wessington Springs and Miller appeared to be the hardest hit as heavy clouds and an impending storm passed over the Huron area Friday afternoon. Huron received only a trace of rain. Hail, rain and strong' winds were reported but no tornadoes struck, although sighted. Wessington Springs a rain amounting to of an inch, accompanied by hail, which fell to a depth pE an inch in towri; Some of Hie hailstones measured an inch in diameter. The storm belt was confined to a small area west and east of town, Crop damage was reported three or four miles to the east of Wessington Springs, and 10 to 12 miles west.

Most of the damage was dona So the small grain In the area, the corn leaves were stripped, but according, to' County Agent Harris 3udahl there is a strong possibility or recovery. Miller had 1.61 inches of rain and lail, with stones up to one inch in size. They reported only moderate winds, and some crop damage. The storm moved In a narrow path, approaching from the west. The storm did not hit regions to the north or south of Miller.

Pierre and Milbank weather observers noticed funnel clouds, but reported they did not reach the ground. Milbank had .62 of an inch of rain falling in a period of 15 minutes at 7 p. little-hall fell south of town. Pierre's' observers reported Ihe funnel at 2:30 p. tn They had .13 of an rain.

Willow Lake'received ..80 of an auu UIB iraiiic aeain toll mount- An outdoor theater screen was ed at what could be a record-hiah Woimdown in Watertown at rale. 8 A United Press count 28 houn after the holiday began at 6 p.m Friday showed "106 traffic deaths, of tain. to properly or crops in the area. p. m.

They reported ,65 of an inch northwest of Carpenter, some hail; Highway Worker Hurt Li Mishap PIERP.E Delbcrt Hageman die in traffic from Pm Pierre, a State Highway Depart- rji ay to Monday, ment employe, suffered a fractured council a so 1 leg Friday when a tractor he was driving tipped over. Hageman was mowing weeds on tnfn tA i.V.n» Car Strikes Bridge, Spins Into Creek Vehicles Goes Oiit Of Control At Highway Intersection; Boosts Year's Toll To 90 SIOUX FALLS WV Two Siou: Falls persons were killed and i injured when their co struck a bridge and spun Into i shallow creek soutli of the Intel- section of Highway 38 ami th Ciooks road Saturday Killed instantly were Wallnc 1 Garvey, 40, and Mrs. Sidney'Coul ler; 40. Sidney Coulter, 43, was tak en to a hospital here. Coulter received numerous lac nations' arid possible fracluret ribs.

Highway 'Patrolman Maynim Gudahl said a witness to the mis hap saw the 1950 model aulomo bile come from the north on th Crooks road. When (he vehicle leached Highway 38 it shot acres the road and appeared to bo ou of control. From the highway the car contin ued approximately 150 yards alon Ihe gravel road before it stroye off into the west ditch. Gudahl said tiie car left ski. marks for 250 feet before it slrucl sjde, of a small concrct bridge, i "can-Vwiceitt through the air and landed on th edge of the creek in about four fee of water.

The deaths were number 2 and number 3 for the Fourth of July holiday in South Dakota. They brought the death toll for the year in the state to 90, 'conipared to 6i at the same time last year. The car was coming south on the road from Crooks when-it ap out of control one hit the The first death of the holiday pc riod in the state was that of 10- year-old Kenneth Lee McAndravs of Sioux City on a county road neat McCook Lake in McCook County last night. Holiday Toll Rises; Millions JamHighways CHICAGO (UP) Millions of and the traffic death toll mount- ueue, mirmivest or Carpenter, anowea IIK cramc ucatlis had a severe lightning storm, which 18 orownlngs, 1 dead in a plane caused a grass fire. The storm was a and 3() miscellaneous dealhs preceded by strong winds and a a of 35 dust storm.

Rainfall was 09 of an The 106th raf fic death last year inch. was not recorded until mid-morning Crow Lake, and Aberdeen rerwrt- ed only a trace- of rain. Lane had i i I 1 I I I I I Sunday, indicating this year's was climbing far faster than in 19M when 324 persons were killed The all-time high for a three-day July 4lh holiday was 356 in 1952 The traffic death count was running behind the National Safety Council's estimate that 380 persons Monday, estimated that record of 40 million vehicles would be on the move during the holiday period. Ned H. Dearborn, safety council Shades Of Sherlock Holmes- Candlelight Exhumation Of Bodies Of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle And Wife Stirs Britons; Just A Family Affair? CROWBOROUGH, England (UP) Millions of i i Watsons earned Saturday that gravedig- working dug up the body of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock lolmcs.

The" lead-lined caskets of Doyle md hU mfe were taken before dawn Tuesday from the weed- grown garden of Windlesham man- ion where so many Holmes adventures were conceived. But for an early-bird milkman Sherlock Holmes'. Group Officer a ijui maun wag Jen to deduction which might, in the long run, be elementary. There was talk here that it was uaugmer oi air Artnur anc necessary to move the graves in currently serving with the WRAP order to arrange for sale of the Windlcsnam a spokesman for the local estate agent Charles J. Parris, who is handling sale of Windlesham, said the exhumation has no connection win the sale of the' property." still was a quiet lack xplanation about the affair tnai omehow carried the ghostly im- of a Holmes calmly relating ome such dreadful 'ttiey were the igantic hound." The banner headline question in ne London press was "Why?" The only available answer was nat it was a family affair Tiie of Doyle and his ife being moved to an uh- ITIUI MJC wrvnr i result" 'I'll lifted the curtain of mystery a bit about five feet from Saturday afternoon.

She said the and another 18 Inches ram i a Students eain of Doyle's writings 903 Several incidents a a selves, which Promptings of tries to help us Big in i i c-aciiyc might hear ironic words right out "The Boscomo Valley Myateryi" "I never hear of such a case mat I-do not think o( ana V71JC AJU Hit: planned for years to parents move the wu, from Windlesham. "My brother (Adrian) now In Portugal and my half-sister Mary have both kept in touch with me er the plans," she safe), obtained permission from the London has '9 JM IIIU, family resting place A Dov a Sir Arthur's elder son, died 45 in Stumped, Geiger Counter FatisToSolveMysterious Descent Of Garden Hose DOWNEY, Calif. (UP) An amateur prospector tried with geiger counter Saturday to solve the mystery of the disappearing garden hose which lias stumpec geologists by burrowing 17 fee straight down into the earth in Downey front yard. Construction electrician Glenn Saunders of nearby Azusn took his sctntillator to (he home of truck' Offensive' Rolls Into High Gear; Ike Lauded By Pravda a i. i i driver George DI Peso, poked it Eisenhower imvrcccncmca into.a two-foot diameter hole dug support Saturday from Pravda the in lawn wliere the hose is dls- official Communist Party appearing and immediately got a panor.

1-omliner reading. However, his belief that some unknown metal of radioactivity apparenl tifo have caused phenomenon proved unfounded, for peace. Eaunders sadly 'reported the reading "was just that of the brass nozzle on the end of the plastic -ose." At the samo time, the Los Angeles Mirror-Daily News offered donate 50 feet of hose to Di "just to see how far down the ground the hose would The newspaper said it would like attach the additional hose to the end of the burrowing hose which still is out of the ground. About 33 feet still is on the surface. Di Peso said Dr.

Ian Campbell, of the geology department at the California Institute of Technology, las admitted the disappearing Pravda's praise cf the American chief executive was overshadowing Kremlin's ex- presents-no immediate ilanation. "But I can tell you this," Jampbell said. "If (hat was my hose, I'd start digging and find what's on the other end." The hose, of (he ordinary half- rich plastic garden variety, began (s strange descent into the ground days ago at the Di Peso's home, Mrs. Rulh Di Peso said her 12- 'ear-old daughter, Suzanne, was sent into the front yard of the TM nue, I can't hose is stuck in the gjound." Mrs. Di Peso went outside and ned to pull the hose out of the but without success nere, Neighbors also tried the feat to goes no avail.

Di Peso tied the loose end of the Conan hose to the bumper of his car auto In low gear and pulled' The result: The hose broke nto the ground. Di Peso looped the end of the stel and nto the ground and the steel vas starting to bend. said he doubted that disappearing hose was the gopher per chapel in the East End of London. Mcause "the hose Is not sinking 'we have not made complete nto a seems to be i j- arrangements yet but there is a dl E8' 2 own way Into the TM P- m. 7 p.

possibility that the bodies will be earth." io me Performances during two ConaaThey said there wells sump hole? in the area India, prior to 'Vcso th MOSCOW (UP) drew President hope of not pro- wiproccdcnted vocative methods." 1a 'he Although the Communist news news- paper disagreed with the Prcsi dent's view on tha satellites, li Pravda editorially praised Mr. 'Soviet Eisenhower for liis news conference statements last Wednesday on public opinion accepts with satisfaction what Eisenhower development In peace offensive" the and new look foreign policy. It followed a remarkable and unusual display of objectivity by Soviet newspapers In handling- the President's novvs conference statement 1 All lending newspapers carried more than a full column of excerpts from Mr. Eisenhower's remarks, without comment or even Ihe usual "allegeds." They even Included such state- 1 iients as Ihose about the "satel- itcs" and their lack of freedom, as well as the remark about the "riddle 1 of who actually runs the Soviet Union. Jt was the first lime such statements have been published in Soviet newspapers.

This factual presentation was oilowed by the Pravda editorial Saturday which praised Mr. Eiscn- lower for his nlm of converting the cold war Into a battle for lured ribs on the right side, a frac- eaca, his desire to "direct prbb- lured left arm and shock, according cms Into nev channels" and his to the attending physician atutwiciiia mat lyuunesuay on "AMI wnac the cold war into a battle said about the need to decrease international tension the aim of guaranteeing peace throughou the "Soviet-public opinion welcomes Eisenhower's statement that it is 'necessary to use peaceful, noi provocative methods' and that it Is necessary to repudiate the slogan 'cold Soviet people would like to believe Eisenhower's proposal to change tht slogan cold war to the slogan battle for peace is not a rhe'orica' formula but really directed toward ending the cold war." Ardmore Youlh Injured By Jeep ARDMOUE IB A 15-year-old Ardmore youth Is in fair condition at the Lutheran Hospital in Hot Springs after being crushed In a jeep in which he was riding Saturday. He is Jerome Wasserburger who sustained multiple chest lacerations, a perforated right lung, frac- Usher In Anniversary Jubilee; Special Acts Scheduled North-south On Wednesday, July, a carnival will begin setting up in the downtown streets of Huron in preparation for Huron's celebra- ion of its 75th anniversary as a traffic on Dakota Ave. will be blocked from Second St. to Fifth but the east-west trcets will remain open, In addition, entertainment stages will be set up for street hows on the corner in front of he YWCA Ccottage and in front the Thompson-Vi'siker Cities Service station on Th'id St.

S. These shows will place on luly 8 and 9, iiUerr.i ting sites fo; days. Ths show features five actj, in- iluding Harris Nelson, who plays 25 In a "one-man ill bs master of 25 band" act, and. wil eremonies. The Carl Strong Trio, a western rodeo act, will perform rope tricks, juggling, and bull whip cracking.

Tilton and Heerdink are a horizontal bar comedy team, formerly with tha Hollywood Circus. Delores Mass will play-music on her electrical accordion, and Mel Hall will perform on the low and high Uni-cycle. The four-day celebration also includes the Farm-City Picnic Sunday afternoon, a 2:30 m. show of games and contests in the Fairgrounds grandstand. On Sunday evening, the Rev.

Reuben Youngdahl of Mount Olivet Church in Minneapolis will iol3 a religious observance in the Fairgrounds, at which a choir composed of the choirs of many churches in this area, will -'ng. The celebration will end with a two-hour fireworks display at hs Faitpounds Sunday msht, scheduled to be tha largest iire- works display to be held in the this year. Unification Of Germany Said Key To Proposal Limited Diaarnininciit Scl- tlciucni Put Down As AI. tcrunic; Proposal To-De Offered At Geneva Talks LONDON (UP)-Prlmc Aiilhoiiy Kdcn Saturday approved Uritlsh plans for three point packafic" coM settlement to' in the stake with the Elussians at Informed sources said tlin three- point provides for Geniian uniricnlion, linked with iirrange- incnt for disarmament by phases and i-uatniitccs Ijainst aggression on Germanv 01- usslii. Mien discussed mcnts with Foreign Secretary! Harold MncMiltan in his country resilience nt Clieqiic-'s hnforp MAC- i dcnarliirc Sunday for the nt Kuropc session in Informed sources said Hie British 'iluepylnt centers arnun'l German re-unification ns the first mid most Jssenlhl step toward ending the 'old war.

Fallln this, i i i i Imnlcd ilisurinamenl settlement with the liusslnns, tiio sources wd. tlio Koy Tlip Dritisli pramsaK-' be with American and plans by a Hit; Three co- tmlinatint! experts group in Paris next ivcclc. -Forc-ifm ministers of -ha Unite! Stales, nritaln and France will pul their final seal to (lie master lilan in July 15 just licford Hie Geneva summit parley three' itnvs later, officials said. On July 1C, they will inform NM'O members at the Council of Ministers meeting in Paris of (heir over-all-plan for talks with Soviet-Premier Nikolai niilgmin and Foreign Minister V.M. Moto- tov.

On Jutv 17, President Eisenhower, Eden, nnrl French Premier Fauro. were expected to go over Ilielr-joint a( a Geneva in-' formal meetinp: on the eve of tiie start of the summit talks. IUdi diplomatic'sources emphasized Saturday there can bo no effective security arrangement so long ns German problem remains unsolved. It should, the centerpiece of a broader settlement on disarmament and European security, they ndded. Seek Anna Agreement The West will go to Geneva agreed the reunification must bo based on free all-Gorman elections and that a-future German government must have the free choice of allies and Informants said that if onifica- efforts fail the West would seek "at least some agreement on East-West -disarmament," rangin" from a "standstill" in the arms race to a comprehensive arms cut.

The sources said Western policy makes allowances for Russia's se- requirements ns well as jermany's, provided they are le- iitimale and genuine, They said accord on German: mificalion would make it possible work out Locarno style safe- :uard.s would guarantee ilussia and Germany against attack on each other. Britain was said to envision that such arrangements could be made even before the question of frontiers is finally settled. Faffing such broad agreement he West envisions two more imitetl alternatives: 1--Agreement by NATO and the Western European Union on one side and the Red Eastern NATO on the other to limit arms to defensive weapons. 2 Agreement between NATO and the East bloc to arms control among their members with a top organization to supervise both. Little Activity Slated In Huron Over Holiday A baseball game Monday night appeared to be the only Fourth of uly week end activity scheduled or Huron.

Monday at 8:15 p. the Elks will play Water-town in a Basin -eague game at Memorial Sunday game between Stahl's Flyers and the Ex-Juniors was postponed and will be played later the week. No fireworks display Is scheduled anywhere in Huron. Monday at Huron retail stores viH drug store will be open on Sunday, but none on Monday, July 4. All eity, state and federal offices vhich normally close for holidays vill be closed all day.

Daily Plainsman will not wblish on Monday, July 4. Chuckle Today's women spend money was gninj! out.

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