The Neosho Daily News from Neosho, Missouri • Page 1

Partly couldy and mild tonight and Tuesday. Showers likely. Low tonight, 65, high tomorrow, 85. THE NEOSHO DAILY Vol. 60, No.

123 NEOSHO, MISSOURI, MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1965 Phone GL M520 Price Five Cenur Will Open In The in Work Today On Area Vocational School Work got under way today at, Ft. Crowder to get the Southwest Missouri Area Vocational- Technical School cleaned up, painted and repaired in time for the opening of the 1965-66 school term, according to Jim Schools aker, director. Three young boys, a part of the Neighborhood Youth Corps, and two adults began at 7 this morning on the task. Their first project is to get all the weeds cut, some trees removed and get the grounds around the facility looking presentable. The area where the school is located is at Ft.

Crowder and contains some 51 acres of land and 16 buildings. The land and buildings were given to the Neosho School System by the General Services Administration with the express provision that it be used for an area trade school. The project was actually started two years ago by R. W. Anderson, retiring superintendent of Neosho schools.

Other superintendents were called in and it was decided to make it a reality. The Neosho school system will administer the facility with other schools in the area sharing on a cost basis, depending on how many students will be enrolled. Written agreements have been received from Southwest City, Anderson-Pinqville, Seneca, Diamond and Noel. Mr. Shoemaker said that the schools participating will arrange for their own transportation.

It is expected that approximately 175 students will be enrolled for the first year. Plans call for classes to be conducted in secretarial-clerical office practice for seniors; electronics, auto body work, carpentry and auto mechanics for both juniors and seniors. The secretarial-clerical office practice and electronics classes will be held in one build ing; body shop and carpentry in another; and auto mechanics in a third. According to Mr. Shoemaker he curruculum will be expanded as the interest dictates." It is also planned to hold night and summer classes at the school.

The director of the school, Mr. Shoemaker, was COE coordinator for the Aurora schools 12 years before he accepted the position here. He is married and has two children. He and his family reside at Ft. Crowder.

The children are Bob, 8, and Bill, 2. Mr. Shoemaker, and his wife, Sue, are members of the Methodist Church. Mr. Shoemaker was very active in civic affairs while in Aurora and was a member of the Aurora City Council for four years.

Local Merchant Dies Suddenly In Minnesota A well-known Neosho businessman, Ben 'M. Willingham, 66, owner and operator of Willingham Cleaners, died at 6:15 this City Briefs Clay Zey, formerly with the Missouri Highway Patrol located here has acepted a position as a special agent for the Frisco railroad, located at Memphis, according to information released today. The regular meeting of the Neosho Chamber of Commerce board of directors will be held at noon Thursday in the Big Spring tan, Howard said today. Ward, manager, Bids for surfacing of the new city parking lot on the corner of Washington and Hickory Streets will probably be requested at a meeting of the City Council, Tuesday night, Charles Bell, city manager said today. Bids will also be taken for a new mower to be used hi the Big Spring Park.

Sonic booms will continue over the Neosho area this week from Monday through Friday. Aircraft from the 305th Bombardment wing are scheduled to fly the area around noon and at 1 p.m. from Crosett, to near Pittsburg, Kan. The planes, B-58 Hustlers, will fly at at elevation of around 35,000 feet. Ben Willingham morning in a Bemidji, mo tel of an apparent heart attack.

Mr. Willingham, his wife, Mary, and Mr. and Mrs. Garland Cope had left Neosho at 5 yesterday morning on their way to Canada on a fishing trip and arrived at Memoers 01 Bemidji about 8 last night. Board Will Rule School Dispute On Wednesday board of arbitra- three school It was reported that Mr.

Willingham was shaving this morning when he suddenly dropped dead. Mr. Willingham came to Neosho in 1940 as manager of the old Crowder Cleaners. In 1944 established his own firm which he had operated until the time of his death. He was a veteran of World War and a member of the Masonic Lodge.

He was also a member of the Jefferson Street Church of Christ. Mr. Willingham was married to the former Mary Rector, Sept. 4, 1938, in Sulphur, Okla. Survivors, other than the widow, include a daughter, Mrs.

Ben Marion Byrd, Raleigh, S. and four grandchildren. The body is being flown back and will be received by the Clark Funeral Home late this evening. Mrs. Willingham and Mr.

and Mrs. Cope are driving back to Neosho and are expected to arrive here sometime tomorrow afternoon. Funeral arrangenients are incomplete and will be announced later by Clark's. boundary cases when they hold a session Wednesday in the office of Jack Wood, county superintendent of schools. Members of the board are Elza Johnson of Carthage, appointed a third member last week by the State Board of Education.

The other members are Haldean Hardy, president of the Newton County school board and Lawrence Tompkins, Southwest City, chairman of the McDonald County school board. A change in time for hearing the disputes were announced by Mr. Wood. The boundary dispute between the Pierce City and Tri- way schools will be heard at 8 a.m. After the completion of this hearing the board will decide on the Goodman-Anderson dispute and the Triway and Neosho school boundary matter.

Three Injured In Area Wreck Saturday P.M. Three persons were hospitalized at Cardwell Memorial Hospital in Stella late Saturday following a car-truck accident on Highway in the eastern part of Newton County, near Wheaton. Frank Elbert Roller, 49, Stella route 1, suffered lacerations about the left arm and right elbow. Alma Alice Roller, 43, Mr. Roller's wife, suffered an injury to her right elbow, left arm and left leg.

Mr. Roller's mother, Mary Ellen Roller, 81, Goodman, route 1, suffered lacerations about the right arm and possible injury to her left leg. Flora J. Roller, 68, Seligman, a cousin of Mr. Roller, suffered a possible chest injury and lacerations about the forehead.

All except Frank Roller were taken to the hospital. According to the State Highway Patrol, the accident occurred when a truck driven by Orval Cook, 45, of Joplin, drove onto the highway from a side road into the path of the Roller car. Mr. took escaped injury. Michael Paul Sexton, 16.

of Neosho, was charged with care less and imprudent driving, terday when his motor car struck the rear of a car driven by Johnnie Ben Kump, 19, Kansas City on U. S. Highway 54 near Bagnall Dam on the Lake of the Ozarks, late Saturday night. Mr. Kump was taken to a Lake Ozark clinic, sufffered a slight brain concussion.

Ever add smoked fish to cream sauce enlivened wiUi green pepper, pimiento and mushrooms? Good and different! Two Teachers Are Hired For Crowder Faculty Two new instructors have been hired for the 1965-66 academic year at Crowder College it was announced today by Dr. Donald Shook, president. Dr. Shook also reported that State Department of Educa- ion has approved the college's three vocational programs in secretarial science, drafting and lotel-motel restaurant operation, and authorized expenditure of $10,606.50. One of the new instructors is Edgar Little, who is presently dean of Missouri Western Junior College, St.

Joseph. He will be an instructor in geology at Crowder. Mr. Little is retiring from his administrative position in St. Joseph to join the faculty at Crowder.

His background includes teaching in chemistry and geology at Western Missouri before becoming dean. He has a Bachelor's degree from Cotner College and a Master's degree from the University of Iowa. The second new faculty member is Thomas McCollough who will be an instructor in mathematics. Mr. McCollough formerly taught at Seneca High School and is at present a graduate student at the University of Arkansas.

He will complete a year's study in a National Science Foundation Program for college teachers in mathematics in August and will receive his Master's degree at that time. He received his Bachelor's degree at Northeastern State College, Tahlequah, Okla. YOUTH CORPS PROJECT One of the projects started this morning in the Neighborhood Youth Corps is getting the area trade school ready to open this fall. Shown are three of the boys working at the school. Left to right, Bill Ruddick, Ivan Williamson and John Clay.

Other youths are working at Neosho High School, the school farm and the school library. (Daily News Photo) Million McDivitt, White Get Big In Damage At Reeds Springs REEDS SPRING Iff! The cloudburst that flooded Reeds Spring Saturday night caused damage estimated at more than $1 million and killed one man. Mayor Frank Judah estimated the loss. He said the Hagle Garment factory reported a loss of $750,000, mostly to materials, and more than $50,000 resulted at Busliong's combined department Welcome Today In Chicago damage a store and market. The mayor said about 20 business places had damage from $500 to $3,000, and many homes were flooded.

Blacktop pavement was washed away on some streets by water four feet deep that rushed down from the Ozark hills. Swept to his death was Charles L. Hargus, 44, of Springfield. Hargues and his wife were driving to Table Rock Lake to fish when their car and trailer were aught in the flood. Mrs.

Hargus limbed atop the trailer and was escued. The water had receded Sunday morning. Former State Editor Dies In New Mexico ROSE WELL, N. M. UP) A former editor of the Roswell Daily Record, Don C.

Wright, died Saturday night in Eastern New Mexico Medical Center after a long illness. He was 72. Wright was editor of the Record from 1944-1955 when he retired because of ill health. C-C Membership Drive Starts The 1965 membership drive of the Neosho Chamber of Commerce will be under way in full swing this week with letters going out to 300 prospective members, Howard Ward, manager, said today. Letters will go in the mail this week to all former members asking them to enroll for the year ending, July 1966.

Those who fail to respond will later be visited by a committee asking them to up. An effort will be made I to enroll all businessmen and firms doing business in the city, Mr. Ward said. The mail approach is being used for the first time, in the past the membership drive has been conducted by personal teams from the Chamber. Tom Stacy is chairman of this year's drive.

Your family will gobble up Roswell Tuesday. services will be at that leftover fish if you i a t) mix it with a bit of sauce and use it as filling for pastry turn overs. 'I oday Is Flag Many Schools to Receive Benefits Missouri's school districts will receive a windfall of more than million in 1966-67-68 because of a study suggested by Governor Warren E. Hearnes and conducted in May by Division of Welfare employees. The Governor was advised late last month of the possibility of the funds through a telegram from the U.

S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare and immediately requested the survey by Welfare. Governor Hearnes reported $2, 598,310 each year from federal funds during the next three years a total of $7,794,930 will benefit local districts as a result the review of aid to dependent children cases where children aged five to 17 years receivec payments exceeding $2,000 year ly. The division for Newton and McDonald counties was an nounced as follows: Newton 16 families, 85 children, $19,550 McDonald three families, 1 children, $3,450. by Plans Dropped For Parachute Show Here CHICAGO UP) James Mc- iDivitt and Edward White, the emini 4 astronauts, came to hicago today and were greeted a tumultuous welcome.

McDivitt, a native of Chicago, aid he felt "very humble" and dded: "We were just doing our obs." The wives of the astronauts were handed large bouquets of ed roses when they left the plane which the party flew from Houston. Vice President Hubert H. Hum- ihrey, making the official wel- ome talk at O'Hare Internation- il Airport, said: "No one is more ieserving of plaudits than these wo great Americans astro- anuts, yes, but Americans first." They were wnisked to the down- own lake front in open white ars. Waves of cheers from the rowds five deep rolled along with them. 'When I was a kid in Chicago," aid McDivitt.

"I never dreamed I a day like this. "The last few days make me ell very humble. We were just dong our jobs." White, responding to greetings and handshakes at the airport said, "We are very greatly hon ored to have the day with you. are accepting it for the industry For the first time in four years, Neosho will not have a parachute diving contest on July 4. Mem bers of the Hillbilly Skydiving Club, sponsors of the event in past years, reported recently tha the cost of the show has become prohibitive.

In past years the event, helc at the Neosho airport, has drawn thousands of people to the city Neosho. One member of the spon soring organization said, "We just can't do it this year. Las year we ended up paying a tidj sum out of our own pockets." Young Girl Missing Near Cape Girardeau CAPE GIRARD9AU, A search party of more than 10( persons is combing woods anc fields along the Mississipp River for a missing two-year old girl. The child, Besty Gill, daught er of Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Gill near Cape Girardeau, disap peared from home yesterday She was being cared for by her 13-year-old sister, Jean while the parents were away from home. The Gills live near the rivet Seven Killed Over Weekend By The Associated Press Seven persons were killed in raffic accidents in Missouri over the weekend. Three were killed Sunday night in a collision on Highway 12 about two miles south of Brighton. The victims were Wesley Eugene Phillips, 34, of Hiawatha, his son Javen L.ee, 5, and Jane Stokes, 11, of Brignton. All were in the Phillips car.

Mrs. Goldie Vetters, 44, of ndependence, was killed Sunday in a three-car accident on U. S. 71 Bypass seven miles north of Harrisonville. Six persons were injured.

Three other persons were killed in separate accidents Saturday. Many Bodies Found Today At Dong Xoai Army Begins Work to Form New Regime SAIGON, South Viet Nam un Vietnamese Rangers combing a rubber plantation just north of the shattered town of Dong Xoai found bodies of about. 100 government troops today, the; remains of the 7th Airborne, Batalion, a U. S. military spokesman announced.

Dong Xoai was reported quiet but braced for more trouble from the Viet Cong. As the Rangers moved through the French-owned Michelin Rubber Plantation a few miles north of Dong Xoai they found an assortment of grim relics left behind by the Viet Cong, among them the wreckage of a L. S. Army relicopter and a U. Army man's identification tag.

U. S. authorities announced "at the request of the Vietnamese government elements of the 173rd U. S. Airborne Brigade have moved to Phuoc Vinh to protect the airfield and aircraft Phuoc Vinh is the main airfieldl for the Dong Xoai area.

The U. paratroopers had been expected to move from there into the Dong Xoai conflict but the Viefc namese commanders were reluc? tant to ask for them. South Viet Nam's general staff announced by radio it had formejl a 10-member committee under the chairmanship of Maj. Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu to set up a' new government and organizations "along with a war cabinet." The 10 members include Army Corps commanders, Chief of General Staff and.

Air Force Comander Brig. Gen. Nguyen Cao Ky. In effect, Thieu thus becomes chief of state, although civilian Phan Khac Suu remains for the time being as caretaker chief of state with Premier Phan Huy Juat. Theiu was defense minis- er in the Quat government.

that created the space craft and the booster." There was no sign of a threat ened demonstration by civil right protesters as the official parade began on a section of Michigan Avenue north of the Chicago River known as "The Magnificent Mile." Sidewalks on both sides of the route were pacfced with people thousands and thousands of youngsters of all ages. Thousands of flags fluttered from many points along the route which included State Street and ended at City Hall after a home stretch up La Salle Street from Boulevard. Jackson Treece Bound Over To Circuit Court William J. Treece, Liberty, charged with forgery, counterfeit check, waived preliminary hearing this morning when arraigned before Magistrate Judge Eugene Ralston and was bound over to circuit court. Treece was remanded to the Newton County jail in default of $2,000 bond.

Treece is charged with the issuing a check for $30, alleged to have been signed in the name of Jack Anderson and cashed at a local service station. Post Notices For July 6 Vote Jack Wood, county superintendent of schools for Newton County, and Gordon Bradshaw, Seneca superintendent of schools, were busy last week posting notices calling for a special election to be held July 6 to reorganize several rural schools with Seneca. Rural schools which would become a part of the Seneca system under the plan, include large portions of Spring City and Eastview, and all of Racine, Redings Mill and Number One. The polling places will be at the Seneca City Hall and the school buildings of the rural districts involved. Polls will be open from 6 a.m.

through 7 p.m. If the proposal receives the needed simple majority, Seneca wouljSfceceive $50,000 in matching fans from the state for building aid. A new elementary building Is currently being constructed at Seneca. It will contain 10 classrooms and will be used for students in grades one through four. It is expected to be completed before school opens in the Stars And Stripes 188-Years Old Today Today, June 14, is Flag Day.

It is the anniversary of the Stars and Stripes, the standard that has been carried on land, on the sea and in the air, wherever Americans have fought for their country. It was on June 14, 1777, that the Continental Congress adopted the design for a new flag, which actually was the Continental flag with a red cross of St. George and the white cross of St. Andrew replaced on a blue field of 13 stars, one for each state. No rule was made as to the arrangement of the stars, and while they were usually shown in a circle, to show "A new constellation," there were various other designs.

The action of Congress was first made public in September 1777. The flag may have been raised by John Paul Jones, when he took command of the Ranger of the Continental Navy at Ports mouth, N. July-12, 1777. There is no evidence that Gen. George Washington ever raised he Stars and Stripes over the Army during the American Revolution, or that it was ever flown on the battlefields of the Amer- can Revolution, including Brandywine or Yorktown, or when Washington was crossing the Delaware.

From the evidence Gen. Washington did not get the "Standard of the United States" until 1783 when the war was over. The first public asserttion that Betsy Ross made the first Stars and Stripes appeared in a paper read before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania on March 14, 1870, by William J. Canby, her grandson. However Mr.

Canby on later investigation, found no official documents any action by Congress on the flag before June 14, 1777. Betsy Ross's own story, according to her daughter, was that Gen Washington, Robert Morris anc George Ross, as representatives of Congress visited her in Puila delphia in June, 1776, showing her a rough draft of the flag and asking her if she would make one. However, the only actual record of Betsy Ross is a voucher in Harrisburg, for 14 pounds and some shillings for flags for he Pennsylvania navy. The flag of 1777 was used until L795. Then on the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the Union, Congress passed and President Washington signed an act that after May 1, 1795, the flag would have 15 stripes, alternate red and white, and 15 white stars on a blue field in the union.

The flag flown on the Constitution and other ships during the War of 1812 had 15 stripes. When new states were admit ted it became evident that the flag would become burdened with stripes. Congress thereupon or dered that after July 4, 1818, the flag should have 13 stripes sym bolizing the 13 original states that the union have 20 stars anc that whenever a now stale wa dmitted a now star soukl be added on July 4 following admis- ion. No law designates the permanent arrangement of the stars, lowever, since 1912, when a new state has been admitted, the new design has been announced by executive order. No star in the flag specifically identified with any state.

On July 4, 1960, the flag of the United States carrying 50 stars, as we now know it, was raised officially on the staff of Independence Hall, the 50th star was added for Hawaii. One year previously, on July 4, 1959, the 49th star was added to the flag for Alaska, the 49th state. Before that no star had been added since 1912. The flag is said to have been named Old Glory by William Driver, master of the brig, "Charles Daggett," who raised the flag on his ship Aug. 10, 1831, saying, "I name thee Old Glory." He also said, "My $up, my country, my flag, Old (sought in both Kansas City Lawyer Named Today to Defend Duane Pope KANSAS CITY, OP) An attorney was appointed today to represent Duane Pope, 22, Roxbury charged with killing three persons in a bank robbery the Big Springs, Neb.

J. Whitfield Moody, public for the Jackson County Legal Aid Committee, was named by Judge John W. Oliver of the U. S. District Court, to represent Pope as long as the prisoner remains in Missouri.

Pope, football co-captain who graduated May 30 from McPherson, College, is being held under $100,000 bond pending a preliminary hearing June 25 on a federal charge of bank robbery and shooting a staff member. Robert Richards, attorney for Deuel County, was conferring today with Theodore been enrolled at Crowder College last year or have been accepted for admission next and show need for the job to enable them to attend College Gets Funds Under Opportunity Act Crowder College has been notified by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare that a grant of $20,452 has been approved for the facility, according to Dr. Donald Shook, president. The grant was awarded under; the provisions of the Economic, Opportunity Act of 1964 and will be used in the Work Study gram. The grant is for the; summer of 1965 and will be used the Work Study, Program.

The grant is for the summer of 1965 and the 1965-66 academic The Work Study Program, makes it possible for students enrolled or planning to enroll at Crowder College to earn funds working at on-campus finance their education. During the first year the federal government will pay 90 per cent of the salary and the college 10 per cent. Summer jobs are full-time with six students presently working in the library and on maintenance During the academic year, the students are, only permitted to work a maximum of 15 hours weekly. In order to participate in the program, individuals must have Investigate Work Of Vandals In Joplin Area The Newton'County sheriff'spf- fice is investigating the break-in of a home, just recently completed at 3303 Lillian Road, sometime Sunday. The home located in Silver Creek Village, in "the northern part of Newton County was recently completed'for Upward Schmick, who was preparing to move in this week.

The thieves ripped out an intercom system and sprayed paint over walls of the new home, according to Vince Peatman, deputy sheriff, who investigated. Richling, U. S. Attorney in Omaha, to decide whether the federal government or the state of Nebraska shall prosf)- cute Pope. Richling said Pope could be trle4 In both state and federal courts without double The death penalty could be WEATHER Information tyntrtuifl by, U.

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