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MISSOURI Partly cloudy today. Generally fair tonight. Warmer today and tonight. tonight 30. High today 40s.

CONSOLIDATION OF THE NEOSHO TIMES AND THE NEOSHO DAILY DEMOCRAT r' 1 v.v?v-dl$ itj I -r 3 'v i- 'W I'Sfi Vol. 48, No. 220 I NEOSHO, MISSOURI, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1954 Vn- Observance of National Boy Scout Week Opens With Church Emphasis Neosho Scouts Join Observance With Attendance Neosho and Cub troops and dens of Boy Scouts of Amcrca arc joining in local observance of National Boy Scout Week, which opened today with emphasis on group church attendance. Boys, in uniform, will be attending services at the Church which represents their sponsoring organization, or which, for some other reason has been commonly selected for the attendance of their group. In situations where personal preference is involved, the boys arc requested to attend the church of their choice in full uniform.

Rev. Paul Patton, of the Calvary Baptist Church, extended an invitation to all Neosho troops to join Troop 38 there in worship service. Ralph Duncan, leader of Troop 36, indicated that his boys had accepted the invitation. Troop 34, sponsored by the Methodist Men, have been invited to serve as ushers at the Methodist Church and be present for special recognition this morning. Cub Pack 34 and Explorers Post 34 have also been invited to these services.

Cub Pack 27 expect to attend services at the First Christian 'Church. Pastors of several Neosho churches Wave selected sermon topics which point out the ideals of scouting and their influence upon men and boys. Tomorrow night, a special program will be given at the CRC for the Scouts of Troops 36, 38 and 34 and adult leaders and all townspeople interested in scouting. The Junior Chamber of Commerce, sponsors of Troop 36 are in charge of the affair and Keith Shepherd, Jaycee president, has directed plans for the program, H. M.

Crcach, institutional representative, will welcome the guests and Lt. Col. M. Zentncr, 215 Veta, representing the parents, will speak of parent-troop relationship. Ralph Duncan, who accompanied the boys to the Jamboree, will show films, emphasizing what the boys saw on their excursion to the Pacific coast.

Actual recordings made on the trip, will be used to add realism, reproducing not only the activities of the boys, but the choir in the Temple at Salt Lake, music of the Denver Symphony Orchestra, and other high lights of the Jamboree program. The trefoil will be explained for a better adult understanding of the meaning of the First Class Badge. They will use a wooden replica, which may be put together piece by piece as the significance of each is explained. All through the week, visitors around the square may get an idea of some of the work both Boy and Cub Scouts do. Various groups arc decorating windows and displaying work done by the individual boys in earning achievements or merit badges.

A plaque will be awarded to the best window, as judged by a committee selected by the community staff. Some of the windows were completed yesterday, others will be put in tomorrow morning. Merchants on the square have donated the space for this "Emphasis on Boy Scout project. Tulsa Couple Die In Car-Freight Crash in Joplin JOPLIN, Feb. Tulsa, couple were instantly killed when a Frisco freight train struck their auto at a crossing here early tonight.

Authorities identified the victims as -Clarence Raymond Vivian Otto, 70, driver of the car, and his wife, Nellie E. Grant Otto, 59. The car was carried 275 feet down the track after the impact, Mrs. Otto was thrown out of the auto and a freight car passed over her body. The train was coming into Jop- Jin from Baxter Springs, Kan.

Engineer Dorcie Nappier, Monett, was quoted by police as saying the car failed to slow down at the crossing. Head bra kern an Charles Lyons, Joplin, said the car was "definitely trying to beat us to the crossing," Boy Scouts Demonstrate Potters Wheel 2 Teen-age Girls Arrested for Car Theft in Neosho Suspected 'Mad' Dog Killed in Granby GRANBY, Mo. (Special) A dog, suspected of rabies, was killed by H. L. Woods, city marshal, here yesterday.

The animal's head was taken to the county health department in Neosho for analysis. Marshal Woods said that the dog had every indication of being "mad" and that residents of the county should be on the lookout for others which may have been bitten by the suspected dog. v- 1 Two teen-age girls stole an automobile in Neosho and then chose to race with State Patrolmen early Saturday morning, according to arresting officers Victor McKee and Ron Selvey. Patricia Inez Harris, 17, who gave her address as General Delivery, Enstland, and Ruth Astronomy and Pottery-making are the high lights of the window display arranged by Troop 36 in the Firestone window on the east side of the square. Her Gary Justice (left) mixes clay, while Sammy Wolfinbarger turns the wheel, and John Carver makes sure that all goes The boys conducted this demonstration yesterday for the benefit of visitors who were interested in pottery-making.

The boys won first award in this feature at the Jamboree last summer. Completed items will be on display all week, togeth- Rescue Halted For Survivors Of Plane Crash Communists Arrest 1000 In Crackdown to Foil Rebellion Against Soviet Free Election P. ,1 i V' '4 -i Woman, 7 Children Burn to Death In Springfield Fire and SPRINGFIELD, Feb. A 30-year-old woman seven children perished today in a fire that destroyed her home jand assistant fire chief Sam Robards said a thorough investigation of the holocaust had been ordered. Four of the children were the woman's.

The other three belonged to a neighbor. The flames raced through the John Lillard home shortly after midnight. Efforts by firemen to check the blaze were hampered by stymied the complete envelope of flame. Robards said an investigation routine practice in fatal i cr with other work the Troop. Staff Photo.

Neosho High School Announces Honor Roll for Second Quarter SENIORS Anne Bush, Robert Bushner, Betty Burr, Jean Cook, Doris Couch, Jean Daniels, Delmar Daniels, Darlonc Hills, Carolyn Draft, Anna Lawicka, Ray Dene Lynn, Dcn- na Maxwell, Alma Lou Mills, Shir- Icy Oliver, Ruth Richards, Befer- ly Hobinson, Janice Robinson, Marie Pippin, 18, General Deliv- Beverly Ryno, Carolyn Stauffer, cry, Rogers, were overtaken i plactus Wycal, Palsy Yelter, at Anderson after they tried to Shirley Ilobbins, Toby Baker, make their allegedly stolen 1948 JUNIORS Ford outrun the State Troopers'j car. The officers said that the car belonged to the Griffith Motoc Company in Neosho. The Troopers said that the chase began on U. S. 71 at Goodman.

County. George Henry Mary Lea Bridges, Mclvin Brock, Sally Brcazcale, Clyde Buzzard, L'zabeth Frisknger, German, Sarah Hallman, Mary Jone Harrison, Elaine Hcerwald, Marian Herrin, Linda Kyle, Trudy Lane. Phyllis Lewis. Paulette Lof- row.n, Bobby Joe Carter, Walter Ebel, Mary Lou Evans, Rudy Farber, Mary Ann Fauhl, Ere Haddock, Donetta Harvey, Judy Hohenstein, Sharon Howe, Mike Johnny Lamb, Stephen Lampo, Estel Landrcth, Joy McNabb, Carolyn Mills, Ralph Mollenhoff, Grace Oxford, William Jack Pen- ninga, Linda Rude, Jancnc Tedily Strecker, Nancy Wilkinson, David Winford, Philip Wolf, Wylene Wolfenbargcr. said that the girls were enroute to! Nancy Arkansas from Illinois, HJ.McKnight Named Road Commissioner Henry J.

McKnijzht was appointed commissioner of the Neosho special road district yesterday morning upon recommendation of the city council. He will serve a term of three years. Cassville Airman Among Survivors Of Super Radar Plane HAMILTON AIR FORCE BASE, Feb. A Cassville man, Airman Harold L. Bowsher, was among 13 survivors of the crash of an Air Force "Flying Laboratory a Super Constellation crammed with top secret radar gear, in San Pablo Bay last night while attempting a landing in dense fog.

The Air Force said that all 13 men aboard survived and there were Elise Moellcn- hoff, Jerry Richards, Wavnc Rickman, Barbara Spring, Nell Stande- fcr, Geraldinc Teapart.cn. SOPHOMORES Gonr Box, Diane CaHail, Chancclor, Raymond Cobb, Bob Evans, Carl Green, Ramma Hammer, Judy Rayne, Marilyn Rouse Mary Standefer, Frances Tiley David Garrison, FRESHMEN CrowdertoFire Weapons Monday There will be firing of carbines from the 200-yard line on small arms range No. 3 in the old Camp Crowder range and impact area which is located 2350 yards east Neosho Students Display Art In Regional Exhibit Students of the Art Department of Neosho High School have submitted 84 pieces of work for competitive display at the Western Missouri Regional Art Exhibit, sponsored nationally by the Scholastic Magazines and presented in Kansas City from February 20 to March 6 by Emery, Bird, Thayer Company. Work of local students includes designs, pencil drawings, pen and ink drawings, ings, and gouache (opaque water color) paintings. Robert Snow, an advanced art student is spending Portfolo.

rf VH Miss Maudmary Wilson, NHS art teacher, expects to have trie results of the competition prior Feb. 20. Neosho students' work rated high last season and Miss Wilson says that this year's of- C-47 Crashes Near MtMcKinleyWith Sixteen Occupants TALKEETNA, Alaska, Feb. 6 sudden storm rescurers attempting to reach the wreckage of a 'C-47 in the foothills of towering Mt McKinnley today, but a daring bush pilot reported seeing three of the plane's'His condition was described by 16 occupants walking through attendants as a Springfield hos- deep snow about 15 miles from as serious, the crash scene. Mrs.

Evelvn Lillard and chil- age from five was a fires. Lillard, 28, escaped with burns. The snow storm grounded dren, Evelyn ringing in carrying a para-medic team, two helicopters and an SA-16 tross craft equipped to land on snow, land or water. planes of the Air Force's 10th Air months to six years, perished, as Rescue squadron, including a C-54 did Sandra, 11, Linda, 10, and Gary Letterman, 4, children of Mrs, Dorohy Letterman. The latter was at the hospital bedside of another son who has a brain turn- The Air Force planes were forced to seek shelter at the small landing field at this native village, about 25 miles south of the crash scene.

The bush pilot, whose name was not learned immediately, reported to Air Force officials that he had spotted the three survivors trudg- or. Fire department authorities and police were unable to determine the origin of the fire that gutted the small frame house in less than an hour Lillard said his ing in deep snow. They were attempting to reach the Anchorage-Fairbanks highway or water color paint-1 Alaska railroad tracks. The pilot said he was skirting him. He ran from immediately tried Flames held him wife wakened the house but to re-enter, back.

no serous nur Jo.nn Ball, Gary Gocsc, Billy Brock, Sheldon BuslincU, Joan Edson, John Gnrouttc Sue Hallman, Larry David Johnson, Rosa Robertson, Wayne Smith, Donnn Stewart, Beverly Wilson, Margaret Love. Stli GRADE Richard Bush, Linda Cakhvcll, Foster, Edward Givcns, designated Brenda Hammond, Ancly Hager, Charles Hearno, ixio Tommy Hoberock, Glcnn a Loftis, Jay- Dav- of the Reception Center long.ferings are of quality which should Huges Ave. The 200-yard line is rate well, even with the stiff com- 120-yards south of Huges Ave. The petition offered in these regional danger zone of impact extends shows. 4450 yards due south toward, winners in this exhibition will Newton County-McDonald County bc sent 0 national competition line.

The danger area includes at Carnegie Institute. Regional that section of the fenced reser-, honors rate gold achievement keys the edge of the snowstorm when he saw the three men. Air Force officials at Elmendorf Air Force base said 11 Air Force passengers, two Army ficers and a crew of three were ing. aboard the C-47. Two Survivors Seen The rescue planes had aloft from here and at Anchorage as soon as dawn broke through the long winter night in an effort to reach the wreckage, survivors were seen yesterday a few hours after the down.

Five of the bodies were found in bedroom the mother in the kitchen, ashes of a child in a crib beside an oil stove in the living room, and an eighth body in another room, probably used as a second bedroom. Dr, E. Allan Pickens, Greene County coroner, said an inquest field be held Wednesday even- A least one post mortem examination was ordered during the after- gone, noon. East Germans March In Open Dcfianct Of Communist Authorities BERLIN, Feb. Germans in five cities marched itt open defiance of Communist thoritics this week, shouting mands for but the dent- onstrators were broken Up by police riot squads, the West Berlin newspaper Telegraf reported today.

The Telegraf reported the ing in Lepizig, Gera, Dresden Halle and Bitterfeld, Western sources reported the Communists had moved a Soviet army division to the outskirts of Berlin today and arrested 1, anti-Communist leaders in an effort to halt the rubbings of new zone-wide revolt. Reports reaching Western! Berlin said thousands of East Germans were threatening to march on Berlin, that they distributed anti-government leaflets, beat up Communist officials, broke up gov- ernment-cajled rallies and stopped work for one minute in factories as a sign of protest. The wave of unrest swept through East Germany in protest against Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov's veto of the Western plan to reunite Germany through free German elections.

Western sources said the Communists met the unrest with troops, tanks and police reinforcements. Mood of Revolt The ami-Communist information bureau West reported workers were jn a "mood of revolt" at a time the Big Four foreign ters were meeting in Berlin with apparent little hope of success of reuniting the divided nation. The unrest was no repetition of the open flare-up of last June 17, which was quelled by Soviet ored units, but the. Communists took immediate counter-measures. The Western sources said the Communists immediately arrested 1,000 "ringleaders 91 and called for unmasking of "agents and pro- (j I'.

I -i i 'i where two C-47 went by the Air Force, apparently lost power while making a low approach to the field, and iNeiiTon'gV Carolyn McGu'ire splashed into shallow water some two miles short of the runway. ne Osbourne, Pat Ann Rccd, id Roy, Anthony Vigo. 7th GRADE Connie Adams, Patsy Balay ren Black. Jr.c David Brown. The University of Missouri Forestry Department has been granted Mother 'Points PlCtUTC of 160 acres in Shawnee Na-' LHU vation which lies between the unimproved road running south from highway No.

71 through Mc- Elhancy, old location, to Goodman and extending to the east for a distance of 3600 yards. Range guards will be posted on all known roads leading into the danger area. Firing will start at 8 a. and; will end at 5 p. m.

on Febru-1 ary 8, through Saturday. All indi-j viduals arc warned to stay out of that section of the reservation. and certificates of merit. National men Lt. Murray England Receives Promotion MURKY, England, 23, son of winners are awarded cash prizes and tuition scholarships to art schools.

Neosho competitors are Ronnie Johnson, Ralph Walker, Robert Snow, Darlene Hills, Bonnie Hayes Gardner, Vcta Dawson, Dale, and Anne Crowe, seniors; Melvin Brock, Max Brown, Lizabcth Frisingcr, Cecil Hoyt, Linda Kyle, Phyllis Lewis, Chester Lyons, Nancy Pitts, Rudolph Starr, juniors; Diannc Ca- Hail, David Garrison, Joann Kelly, Peggy Jo Randolph, Marilyn House, Carole Sue Spencer, Laura Thompson, and Roycc Jo Thomp- sohomoros; and Betty Darn- Meanwhile, a group of medical from Elmendorf arrived at State Welfare Head Orders Surplus Beef To Dunklin County use tional Forest for study and expert- mental purposes. Dean John H. Longwell of the College of Agriculture of the Uni- Of tor iren i With Incurable Disease CHICAGO, Feb. 6 UP A -varsity, said the plot was located.V 011 mother, two of whose 15 miles from Popular Bluff, Mo, Careless and Reckless Driving Coses Are Majority of Patrolman's Arrosts One person was fined for careless and reckless driving this weekend while the cases of four others, charged with the same offense, wore dismissed, State Patrolman Lewis Smith reported. hav- the One of five persons arrested for improper registration of vehicles was fined while the other four cases wcre dismissed.

One person was fined for ing no chauffeur's license, officer stated, Both charges of careless and reckless driving filed against thony Wallace Mazur and George Sellers were dismissed by ccuting Attorney George Henry. The vehicles of the two men col- licied Thursday afternoon at Washington and College btrcetb. Each had filed a complaint against the other. Ernest Wilhile, Anderson, who was arrested Feb. 1 foi? careless and reckless driving was fined $10 and $7.50 court costs.

The case against George Geed- 01 operating a vehicle with out registration plate. The case of Don Henderson, Monctt, charged with operating a vehicle with improper rcgistcra- tion, was also dismissed. Phillip Henderson, Monctt, was fined $10 and paid court costs of $7.50 for driving without chauffeur license. arrested (or improper regis tcration on trailer, was dismissed by the judge. A- Hubert Kelly was lined $1 court uu Dewoy Lewis, Pincville, was arrested for not having proper markings on his truck, The case was dismissed in McDonald county court.

Irene ttrady, arrested for careless and -reckless driving in Noel, was given a dismissal in McDonald county court. ftoy Cunningham, was arrested for having no license plates on pickup truck. His case was also dismissed. Ernest Grissom, Anderson, charged with careless and reckless driving Dec. received a dismissal of case when the complainant dropped the charge Hoy Preston, Neosho, was charged with having improper registration on vehicle TUe was have died of a rare disease, tried desperately today to reconcile herself to losing a third and perhaps a fourth.

Mrs. Jcaninc Eidson, 25, said she is "trying to paint a beautiful picture of Heaven" for her dying five-year-old daughter, Margaret. The child is suffering from cystic fibrosis of the pancreas. Two of the five Eidson children have (lied of the same disease in the past year, and a fourth, Eugene, 2, shows symptons of the ailment. A fifth child, Carol Ann, 7, has shown no symptons.

The family lives in a $5(1 month apartment in nearby Stegcr, 111, The father, Chloc, 32, earns $60 a week as a laborer. The disease prevents the children from getting much nourishment from their food, and they have enormous appetites. Mrs. she succeeded in giving Buddy and Mary a "beautiful picture of Heaven 11 before they died within four of each other last year. She she now is trying to do the same (or Margaret.

"Buddy and Mary knew they were going to leave us, but they weren't afraid," the mother said. 'They were so much braver than we were." Docors said no one knows the cautfc of the disease, but there is some evidence tliut it runs in The Oie belief. Edgar England, 413 Maple freshman. Ncosho, was recently promoted to first lieutenant while serving at the Rhine Engineer Depot in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Lieutenant England is chief of Hie 36th Engineer Parts Depot Company's administrative office at the depot whch furnishes engineer equipment, supplies and technical assistance to Seventh Army units throughout Germany.

Before entering the Army in July 1952, he attended the-University of Missouri School of Mines in Holla. Vaccinate for Smallpox BAXTER SPRINGS, Feb. 6 total of 917 persons had been vaccinated against smallpox today after a case was reported at nearby Galena, Kan. The program was conducted for students whose parents gave consent. A number of adults and preschool children were also immunized.

the settlement of Curry- in an emergency ambulance car on the Alaska railroad line. Survivors were expected to be evacuated to town to the crash scene and about 125 miles north of Anchorage on the south side of Mt. McKiniey. The plane crashed during a freezing rain while on a routine 275-mile flight from Elmendorf to Ladd AFB near Fairbanks. Bush pilot Cliff Hudson of Curry spotted the C-47 yesterday and reported he saw two persons i JEFFERSON CITY, Feb.

6. N. Carter, head of the state's welfare division, said today he had ordered 12,000 cans of beef from the tuberculosis sanitorium at Mt. Vernon to Kennett, to feed between 4,000 and 000 destitute men, women and children. Carter said the Dunklin county Red Cross chapter dispatched trucks immediately for.

Mt. Vernon and that the beef would be distributed tomorrow. The food will amount to about three 30 ounce cans per person. Red Cross estimated there were between 700 and 1,000 fami- moving near the wreckage. One of, jj cs ma( jc destitute the survivors set off a smoke flare, Hudson said.

Attempts to reach the scene by helicopter yesterday were abandoned because of rain and darkness. Htrb Lone Int. Ph. 229-M or 179 The temperature in the wilderness area in the shadow of north America's highest peak was 25 degrees above zero at dawn today. The freezing rain changed to snow during the night.

The mountains north of Talkcct- na long have been a graveyard for airplanes flying the much-used route between'Fair banks and Anchorage, the two largest cities in the territory. Have This Form Ready for Census Taker becausc of crop failures due to the drought. A representative from the Commodity Credit Corporation said yesterday he would hunt for surplus beef for the families. Government supplies of butter, cheese and dried milk were found in St. Louis warehouses and were on the way to the area.

Carter said the beef at Mt Vernon was also Government surplus, that it would be replaced by Federal authorities. Meanwhile, the Red Cross certified 5,000 individuals as needing emergency food supplies. This step was necessary before surplus commodities could be distributed. All Residents Ncohho! li' you will not your screen. The operation of every be at home Sunday afternoon please fill out the form below in full Ministerial Alliance is sponsoring a Community wide Census and ii citizen so that we will not have to get this information as individual and leave it in urging the co- churches.

The Census takers will be at your door between 2 o'clock and 5 Sunday afternoon. Please be cour they desire and you will be helping in this project. tcous and give them the inf All those planning lo help in this Census will lor instructions assignments. meet ut (he Municipal Auditorium promptly at 1:30 STREET A HOUSE NUMBER FHONi Given Mr. i Mtmtor What Church? Locil Ch, Preference? i DtlMMVt.

Frtftrf CASSVIUC DltS CASSVILLE, Feb. John Pharis Ray, 62, publisher of the 'Cassville Democrat and a well known Missouri newspayer man, died at the Community hospital here today after a lengthy illness. The lifelong Barry county Democrat edited the newspaper here with his father, Charles Ray, until the letter's death, and since then had published' it The paper has been in the fain- ilyfor three fieneraUons. He was here in appointed postmaster start of a new wave of terrorism to halt the growing opposition. Reports by West Berlin intelligence-gathering agencies reported Soviet tanks and troops on tha move.

The West Berlin "information Bureau West" said it had received reports of "troop concentrations 1 near the Leuna artificial gasoline factory in Merseberg and Soviet tank movements just southeast of Berlin in the Gruenau scenes of major rebellion before. Rtd Army Near Berlin Another West Berlin "The Fighting Group Against Inhumanity," reported an entire Red army division had been moved three miles nearer the outskirts of Berlin, from the Potsdam area to Babelsberg, a suburb 10 miles southwest of the city. Rumors swept Berlin that the Soviets had sent reinforcing Red army patrols into Eastern Berlin itself, but the only Soviet patrols to be seen were in the area of the Soviet embassy where the Big Four foreign ministers have been meeting. Western officials said the Communist police reinformed their border guards around Berlin and cancelled all police leaves. Communist police were handed heavy arms, and East Germans were rested merely for listening to Western radio broadcasts.

Reports from throughout the Eea zone said the new trouble centered in the same factories where workers rebelled in June, Pope Pius Resting Comfortably Today ROME, Sunday, Feb. Pope Pius XII was reported resting comfortably early Sunday after showing further slight improvement in his battle to recover strength from the attack of tritis which has loft him in a weakened state. Vatican sources said the 77-year old Roman Catholic leader shown steady improvement for more than 24 hours, but bis' oral condition was stiU reported weak and he was remaining 00 liquid diet, The Vatican offieally reported blight improvement in Uto 71' 1917 and served in that condition in a co nun unique capacity for five years Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2:30 in the Koon-Muhleman funeral chapel. NIQ8NO High Friday Low Friday nifht High yesterday 59 24 aa About 13 per output by Mil cent of present to aurket WIATHIK OKLAHOMA today and tonight. er west and north night in middle near east (o 55 to 40 KANSAS today and tonight er.