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2 Manhattan Mercury Thursday, December so. Goldber: Hnrriman isif Talk Of Peace Ei'i'ort iu 1 VNK COKMIKI; U'SHN. TON. i AIM rrr.M- mnintnininp a I assistant liiiii-i- in' official isilm's In-- licilulr (ni The i'hn-1 rxprclrd In pi'iul miii'h of ihr hnir nt liis I lib lion I the surprise 'rip- In Am- Arthur .1. Goldberg lo 'hr and rminn Ambns- -aili'r Hiirriman to The aide declined In say vliriliiT had ordered ilir and llarriman in isMons volunteered a couple ot annouiiremenls nolle loueli UK: on the hiu on everyone's mind.

For one thins. Dr. George (i. Ihr President's personal physician. gave Johnson a head lo loe examination and found "there is no indication of any deviation from normal." Laitin said Burkley pro- nouneed Johnson "in excellent physical condition" and was pleased that the chief executive had reduced his weight to 191- lil? pounds.

Before Oct. 8 sail bladder-kidney stone surgery, Johnson weighed about 'J'JO. Apart from his session Hurkley. was said to have spent much of the day iu conference aides flew in from Washington- Jo seph A. Calilano and Hill I) Movers.

Johnson also signed memo lo Sec-ri'lary of Slate Dean Husk cleanup the lor soft currency sales of surplus farm products to the United Aral) He- public. Johnson found this "essential lo the national interest." The White House announced today thai Johnson had received a preliminary report from Sec relary ol Welfare John W. Gardner on the first loo projects under a law aimed at up- Ui'iidinK the schooling of children from low-income families. Gardner said: "Analysis of these first UiO projects reveals that they are benefiting children in states. These are only the first of lens of thousands of educational projects which we expect, will be established during the second half of the 1965-G6 school year." With Viet Nam Undertones Silence Envelops Capital SIIOVVKK show KK TIM Nurses of the 93rd Evacuation Hospital prepare to use their new private buili by Company 1st Engineer Battalion.

They are, left to right: Major Louise HaKtferty, Houlton, Maine; Major Drobek, Birdsbers, 1st Lieutenant Car'ele Miller, Denver, Colorado; Captain Susanne Phillips, Connersville, (1st Division Photo) Animal Surgery Skill May Lead To Humans Proficiency in animal surgery may lead lo the practice of human surgery for Don Warren, a graduate student in zoology at Kansas State University. Warren, the only individual in the United States to muster the surgery on rabbits known as hy- pophyscctomy while an undergraduate, hopes to work toward a Ph.D in reproductive physiology or to study medicine. He presently is working with Dr. H. G.

Spies, associate professor of animal husbandry. The technique mastered by Warren involves removing the pituitary gland, which is located in a bony capsule approximately in the middle of the head. This gland, known as the master gland, controls several processes, including rate of growth, basal body metabolism, reproductive cycling, milk production, hormones initiating birth processes and blood pressure. When it is removed artificial hormones may be administered and individual effects studied. One of the effects Warren has studied is that of the pituitary hormone which causes the rabbit to form a corpus luteum.

This is a body that forms on the ovary after ovulation and secretes a hormone essential in early pregnancy and in determining the length of the estrous cycle. "The non-functional corpus luteum is responsible for many miscarriages in early pregnancy in most mammals." Warren comments. The K-Stale student has had extensive preparation for the research he now is doing. He worked with animals in 4-H and assisted veterinarians witJi minor surgery while still in high school. Later he became acquainted with a medical doctor who permitted him lo observe some human surgery and assist with experimental surgery.

Warren grew up on a farm and operated a trap line. When he accidentally caught some skunks, he asked a biology instructor to show him how to descent them with a relatively simple surgical operation. Warren recalls that "this was a hazardous project and I was occasionally rendered unsociable," but he won top awards at the Kansas City High School Fair for his de-scenting technique. He also won a first prize award from the Jackson County Medical Society when he performed and filmed the Caesarean section on cats. A doctor who saw his films asked Warren to assist with similar surgeries at Uie University of Kansas Medical Center.

Here he studied hyalin membrane, which can form in a pair of lungs and suffocate infants. This disease is predominant in children taken by Caesarean section. Later he worked at the medical center as a research assistant in the department of obstretrics and gynecology. As a K-State undergraduate he used a delicate surgical technique involving picking up ova, or eggs, as they pass from the ovary to the ovary to the ovary to the uterus in a rabbit's oviducts. Finances and facilities for Warren's research are being supplied by the National Institutes of Health and the K-State department of animal hus- bandry.

Warren is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Richard Warren, Grandview, Kansas City, Mo. I Obituaries Well Known Pott.

Co. Randier Dies (Special to Thf- WAMEGO Raymond D. Pitney, 67, Relvue, died yesterday at. Dechairo Hospital in Westmoreland. Ho was born December 0, 1898, at Laclede.

He owned the Pitney Ranch, which is one of the largest in this area. The ranch was established by his grandfather, one of the early pioneers to this sec- lion. For over 30 years he was Pottawalomie County committeeman for the Kansas Livestock Association. He is survived by his wife, Francis Rowles, of the home; two sons, Robert Pitney, Colorado Springs, and David Pitney, of the home; two brothers, Jerome Pitney, Wamego and Walter Pitney, Waterville; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Geery, Ottawa, and Mrs.

Blanche Pinet, Ottawa; and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Stewart Memorial Chapel in Wameno with the Rev. Paul Henscn officiating Burial will be in the Wamego City Cemetery. entered a plea of not guilty to a charge of failure to control speed to avoid a collision.

was found guilty by the court and fined $10. Margaret J. Peabody, a haltan, entered a plea of guil- lo a charge of failure lo yield right of way. She a fined $10. The following persons entered pleas of guilty to charges of speeding and were fined in the amounts indicated.

Floyd L. Briscoe, Hays, $5. Billy J. Ball, Ft. Riley, $75.

Robert A. Vrtiska, Wichita, $10 and $1 Sheriff's fee. William E. Bolt, Manhattan, and Lowell K. Blaser, Waterville, each fined $10.

Larry E. Nitzsche, Manhattan; Gary F. Glynn, Frankfort; and Guy C. Loveland, Riley, each fined $15. I Daily Record BIRTHS St.

Mary.Hospital Mr. and Mrs. James Goering, X-26 Jardine, a boy, December 29. Local News Briefs New Year's Eve Services A New Year's Eve Service will be held at 11:00 Friday evening at the First Lutheran Church, 10th and Poyntz. Holy Communion will be celebrated.

The Rev. Elston Flohr will give the sermon on the theme, "Old Things Are Passed Away." The public is invited to participale in the service. Showerless Base Makes Big Problem to The Mcrcurv) B1EN HOA (1st Inf. D'iv 10) 2nd Brigade was faced with a new problem at their Bien Hoa base: from Fort Riley to Vietnam came the 03rd Evacuation Hospital pleto with nurses. The problem of getting a private shower for the girls fell to Company 1st Engineer Battalion.

In the interests of health, welfare and cleanliness of the nurses, the men of Company decided to give up their own air conditioned shower. The dressing area ot' the shower was boarded up and the entrance-way closed off. An appropriate "Off Limits" sign was made and posted. The engineers could not duplicate the covered Houston Stadium, so a new pattern for helicopter flight has been established over the shower. Marriage License Theodore E.

Jones, over 21, Alta Vista, and Esther E. Schmidt, over 21, Alta Vista. Ends 15 years Service H. G. Wertzberger, 310 South 17th, storekeeper at Manhattan for the Kansas Power and Light Company, this month, completed 15 years with the utility, reports R.

D. LaGree, KPL's Manhattan division manager. Bills Start Hunt FA1RFIELD, Calif. (AP) $50 bill blew past a construction project. Then another.

Then a $20 bill. That started workers on a lively hunt yesterday that turned up a shoebox stuffed with $40,000 of the bills. The money turned out to be bogus, the Solano County sheriff's office said. The FBI is investigating. By RAYMOND J.

CROWLEY WASHINGTON (AP) This world capital is in a strange, sombre, silent mood as 1966 approaches. It is as if everybody were listening and fearing that what he may hear will spell evil. Washington exists in a sort of state of suspended animation, enduring what might be called "The days of the great pause." To be sure, the usual tourist groups rubberneck at the While House in the nippy winter sunshine. But there is less than the usual craning of necks no expectancy that a tall man will lope out and shake hands. LBJ is away on the Pedernales.

On Capitol Hill, the cacophony of Congress has been stilled since October and won't resume until Jan. 10. There, too, is a sense of monumental emptiness, of marble halls devoid of the deliberations for which they were built. The city, of course, is preparing to ring out the old. For $25 per person a big hotel will provide filet mignon, music, paper hats and noisemakers.

Drinks will be extra, $1.25 apiece if not too fancy. KBI Agents Try To Pry Truth From Inmates HUTCHINSON. Kan. Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents who had investigated two recent stabbings at the state Industrial Reformatory were called back to the institution last night after a third stabbing incident. Latest tab victim was identified as Patrick Wayne Simmons, 22, of Kansas City, serving on a grand larceny conviction.

Simmons suffered a stab wound in the abdomen and was taken to St. Elizabeth Hospital. Capt. Howard Ayres of the reformatory said Simmons was "not talking, and no one else is either." The stabbing occurred only a few hours after Nova F. Stucker was appointed superintendent of the reformatory to succeed John D.

Munns, who retires Saturday. Stucker was superintendent of the state Reception and Diagnostic Center at Topeka and will be succeeded in that post by Joseph B. Noble, the present assistant. Stucker, 66, is a native of Leavenworth. KBI agents yesterday turned in their reports on the two previous stabbings and Reno County Attorney Dick Rome is expected to file charges.

The latest stabbing took place in the hallway between the chapel and the cell house. Inmates were returning to their cells from an upper room fellowship held every Wednesday when the incident occurred. But nobody's heart seems to be in this merriment. On practically all minds and lips are the two words "Viet Nam." And w'lat is everybody from the President in Texas to the lowliest clerk in the Pentagon listening for? They are straining to catch a favorable word, a promising sign, from Ho Chi Minn. President of North Viet Nam something more pacific than his declaration Wednesday that "U.S.

leaders want war and not peace." The old (75), wispy oriental with the straggly beard may influence vastly, from his capital 8,000 miles away, the history of the United States, if not the world. For example, he may determine whether energy and money are drained away from the proposed "Great Society" into an escalating war. It is up to him, really, to say whether some school dropout in Harlem shall be trained at a federal-financed lathe or left lo his fate on rf slum sidewalks; whether swne newly married Kansas farm youth shall be drafted away from his bride and sent to jungle war. Meanwhile, the President prolongs the Christmas cessation of the bombing of North Viet Nam targets. He delays decision on his budget, which may total $110 billlion or more and bring a possible tax increase.

He is waiting to see whether North Viet Nam shows interest in peace negotiations. Signs multiply that something big could be brewing. Roving Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, remarkable septuagenarian with a knack for dickering with the world's great, is in Warsaw, Poland, traditional rendezvous spot for Red Chinese and Western diplomats. Russia will send a high-level mission to Hanoi.

The Pope has committed himself to altempls to mediate, and Johnson has sent Arthur J. Goldberg, ambassador to the United Naiions, to see the pontiff. Fire Department Uses Rope Trick In Reverse Head Calls For Divorce Filed A petition for divorce has been filed in District Court by Douglas Evan Lindsey charging Shirley A. Lindsey with gross neglect of duty and extreme cruel I AGKNT AM.VII Walker will become h.ime extension agent for Jiiley County Saturday. Presently Jn training in County.

Mis. Walker is graduate of Fl. Hays Stale College She taught li in economics at Coals i School and has served as a luniur asMhtant ii economics on the itafi. Her husband is a grad- uale student K-SUite Lions (Hub Zip (lode Books Expected Soon The initial supply ot postal zip code books obtained by the Lions Club has been exhausted. Chairman Roper reported Unlay that more are expected to arrive soon.

He said, "We anticipate more code books will be available early I The hooks sell tor $1.00 and contain the zip emit- for every community the I'nited States. Roper said an announcement would be made when more books become available NOTKI) TRANSLATOR 1)1 KS TOKYO Vone- 7-4. noted Japanese scholar of Russian literature, i yesterday of cancer. Yoneka- wa translated about 500 Russian literary works, including "War and Peace." County Court The following cases ere completed in County Court this week with Judge Jerry Mershon presiding. Court costs of $5 were assessed in each case.

Harold W. McDowell, entered a plea of guilty to a charge of driving while intoxicated. He was fined $123 and sentenced to days in the county jail. McDowell was paroled tor one year and surrendered his drivers license. Shermon L.

Mitchell, Ft. Riley. entered a plea of guilty to a charge of speeding. He was fined $10. A charge of drivin.i: without a license was dismissed when tin- defendant produced a valid drivers license in court.

Kenneth K. Schartau, Ogden, entered pleas of guilty to charges of speeding and driving at night without lights. He was fined $-10 on the peeding charge and $30 on the second charge. An additional charge of failure to stop for a Highway Patrol officer's signal was dismissed. Sheriff's fees of $3.30 were also assessed.

Linda S. Burnett, Manhattan, Teen Town Friday Teen Town will sponsor a New Year's Eve dance Friday night in the City Auditorium from 9 to 1. The music will be provided by Ihe Marc dance band. Admission will be $1 with a Teen Town ticket. All teenagers, freshmen through seniors who attend Manhattan or Luckey High School are invited to attend.

Dress will be school clothes. ney, sustained an estimated $185 damage when it was involved in lail JtleVlSlOIl a collision yesterday in the 500 block on Third with a vehicle driven by Delmar Allen Janovec, 1024 Houston. Damage to the Janovec vehicle was esti- maled at $150. Car Recovered Arlan Shandy, 824 Laramie, reported he found his 1961 car which had been reported stolen. The car was found in the 700 block on Humboldt.

Arrests Raymond Caughron, 724 Houston, was arrested yesterday for leaving the scene of an accident. He posted $25 bond to appear in Police Court Friday. Fredrich Hughes Beeler, 729 Deibler Place, was arrested on Dec. 23. for driving while intoxicated.

He posted bond to appear in Police Court Jan. 6. Accidents A vehicle driven by Delsie Jeannine Crook, 1026 Sunset, sustained an estimated $165 damage when it was involved in a collision yesterday at Tenth and Moro with a vehicle driven by Susan Kay Biehler, Hutchin- sun. Damage to the Biehler vehicle was estimated at $200. A vehicle driven by Gerald Cecil Robbins, 1018 Kear- Special UCT Meeting A special meeting of the United Commercial Travelers board of directors will be held at 8 p.m.

Monday in the Recreation Office. This will be a business meeting to discuss the program for and all members of the board are expected to be present. SAVE-SAVE-SAVE Re-decorate Now! Can't afford to paint? Rent our equipment. Let us demonstrate how it's done. For more information Phone 8 3748 MONUMENTS MANHATTAN MONUMENT CO.

Joseph J. Bcaudct Office Display in Mo 3rd Office PR 8 5137 Res. PR 4978 KANSAS CITY, Kan. The president of Great Plains Wheat, Howard W. Hardy, today called for revision of the present credit and debit procedure in use by the Commodity Credit Corporation.

Hardy outlined his views in a lelter to John Schnittker, undersecretary of agriculture. He urged prompt action on the problem of damaged grain finding its way into CCC stocks because of accumulated credits and debits between country receivers and the CCC. The problem arises when country receivers are forced to ship lower quality wheat than specified to CCC in order to recover credits, Hardy said. CCC should reconsider the policy of making a cash settlement for accrued credits the same as the country receiver is now required to pay for any debit which may be contracled, he said. Professional Directory ENGINEERS Schwab.

Eaton Associates Civil Engineers Phone JE 9 2881 Professional Place 2312 Anderson By DON BLACK The Ottawa Herald For The Associated Press OTTAWA, Kan. (AP) The Ottawa fire department has a new snorkel fire truck which lifts firemen 75 feet to fight fires. The department also has an 80- foot rope to get the firemen down. The suspicious nature was developed by a series of mishaps and delays. Twice during tesls firemen have been stuck up in the tall snorkel because of equipment trouble.

The snorkel was cranked down by hand. The truck also was delivered almost 13 months late. Last week the $52,000 truck was stalled inside the fire station because of a malfunctioning hydraulic valve and could not be moved even if the station itself was on fire. The truck was ordered Feb. 15, 1964, with a scheduled delivery date of November, 1964.

But the company asked for a 40-day extension, which was granted, because it was in the process of changing hands and moving plants. That was the first of a half dozen deadlines that passed the city commission once even planned to fly to the plant to see what was delaying delivery the truck arrived Dec. 3. Tests began on it immediately and proved satisfactory until the snorkel was raised and wouldn't come down. Firemen cranked it down by hand and a malfunctioning solenoid was found.

The trouble was fixed. Then a hydraulic pump broke. Repairs were made. The next bit ftrouble was the valve in the hydraulic system which went out while the truck was being checked in the station. The vehicle couldn't be moved until the valve was replaced.

One bright spot in the truck's infant history is that its pumping system was tested and approved by the state rating bureau. The snorkel hasn't been used since a mechanic for the company which made the truck replaced the valve. The mechanic plans to return to Ottawa this week to finish testing it. The truck went into action over the Christmas holidays but the fires didn't match the size of the fire equipment and the snorkel wasn't needed. But, says Fire Chief Harry Gilliland, "if we had the occasion, we'd use it." Cooler Today After Posting Record Marks TOPEKA (AP) temperatures were the warmest of record for the datd in some sections of eastern Kansas today but some cooling is in prospect for the state.

At Topeka, a low of 50 degrees was the highest minimum reported for Dec. 30 in 78 years of record. The previous mark was 49 degrees on Dec. 30, 1937. The weaiher bureau said a Pacific-type cold front will move across Kansas from west to east tonight and Friday.

It will bring cooler temperatures, likely some snow in the northwest tonight, and light rain in western sections tonight and Friday. More pronounced cold air is likely to move into Kansas Friday night. Readings this morning ranged from 32 at Goodland to 57 at Pittsburg. Skies generally were fair although condensation of moisture on streets and highways made it appear there had been some rain. Highs yesterday were from 54 at Concordia and Olathe to 67 at Liberal.

Highs today were to be 55-60 northwest to the upper 60s southeast; Lows tonight from the 303 northwest to the 50s southeast. ORDER YOUR HI-FIDO TRAINING CHAIN As Seen On Art Linkletter Friday Call PR 6-9686 INCOME TAX Mr. Byron Taylor will again be in our office after Jan. 1st, to assist with your Income Tax. Will appreciate you calling for appointment.

BENNETT-LINDSAY 1st National Bank Bldg. Phone PR 8-3424 New Year's Eve Dance. Dec. P.M. Till 1:00 A.M.

American Legion Post Eldon Wright's Range Riders Favors For All Breakfast Available At 1.00 A.M. Members and Guests $2.00 per couple. EAGLES New Year's Eve DANCE 9:00 P.M. TO 1:00 A.M. PERK'S RAMBLERS Hafs Horns Favors fur Kent or HOLLYWOOD WHEEL CHAIR with 8" Caittrt vfverabUity WNi end wldwrl.

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