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87 550 Miles Staked For Rural Lines, Material on Hand Cumberland Electric Membership Corporation announced today that its contract with W. L. Coston and Sons for rural lines over their entire area is progressing at a rapid rate of speed. As of April 1 there have been 550 miles staked, 500 miles of rightof-way cleared, poles set on 395 miles and guys and anchors on 341 miles. The contractor reports that he has on hand now conductor and transformers to cover this project.

These items are the ones that have been hard to obtain and which have held up the building of rural lines in the Cumberland area. As fast as the contractor completes these lines, the engineer inspects them and when of the members on each individual line have completed their house wiring and have passed inspection these lines will be energized. The contract for Project consisting of approximately 350 miles, has been awarded to the Utilities Construction Company of Nashville, and work on these lines is now progressing in Sumner County. This contractor has a crew clearing right-ofway, digging holes and setting poles at the present time and as soon as the poles are set the conductor will be strung and the line completed. In awarding contract to W.

L. Coston Sons for the first 550 miles the contractor chose to begin work in Stewart County and work east. At the present time they in ertson. and Cheatham counties. In awarding the contract to the Utilities Construction Company the contractor chose to begin work in Sumner The CEMC County is and now work operating' west.

a approximately 1500 miles of line and when the area coverage is completed the concern will be. operating approximately 2400 miles of rural lines serving Cheatham, Montgomery, Robertson, Stewart and Sumner Counties. On account of the large area being served by the CEMO, the concern has adopted a plan of issuing meter base cards to the members. These cards must be presented to obtain the meter base at the company's office, it was stated. The Cumberland distributes TVA power delivered at Clarksville, Springfield, Portland, Gallatin and Ashland City, company plans now call for a feeder point at Dover.

As the system grows the company plans are to have a feeder point in the Pleasant View area. New feeder lines are being built out of Clarksville, Springfield, Portland and Gallatin to enable the cooperative to carry the additional load. The Cumberland Electric Membership Corporation expressed thanks to members for the "whole-hearted cooperation in granting right-of-way to permit lines to be built to, their neighbors as well as Sgt. Willard's Funeral to Be Held Thursday The body of Sgt. Frank D.

Willard, 29, killed by enemy action in Germany, Sept. 20, 1944, will arrive in Clarksville Thursday morning at 20 o'clock. Funeral services will be held at the Harvey W. Hunt Chapel Friday afternoon at 31 clock. The Rev.

H. A. Hamby will officiate and burial (will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Members of the American Legion and V. F.

W. Posts will serve as pallbearers. Sgt. Willard was born March 24, 1915, son of Frank J. Willard, route 4, and the late Elizabeth McCarter Willard.

He was the second volunteer from Montgomery County in the second world war and enlisted Jan. 20, 1941 in Co. K. 117th Infantry, 30th Division. He leaves his father, his wife, Mrs.

Florence Jackson Willard, 8 daughter, Frances Anne; three brothere, Taft, Henry and Jesse Willard of Clarksville and sisters, Miss Lula Willard, Miami, and Mrs. J. Luther Hyams, Clarksville. Firemen Save Charlotte Home firemen saved a Charlotte Street home at 7:30 this morning. when fire broke out in the attic.

According to Fire Chief John Roach, a "hot. wire" in the attic at the home occupted by Mrs. D. W. Wooding, Charlotte caused the wooden framing to ignite, and the attic 'had burst into flames when a booster pump truck and hook and ladder truck arrived at the "scene.

Also on the scene In answer to the alarm was a Light Departmentcrew, who cut the electric current leading to the house. Firemen extinguished the blaze quickly after they arrived at the home, and damage was estimated by the fire chief at $15. 2 Students Take Scholarship Tests CUNNINGHAM. (Spl.) Candidates for the agricukural scholarship from the University of Tennessee for Montgomery County will take an aptitude test at Central High Sohool Friday, April 15, beginning at Three scholarships are awarded. They are limited to students who intend to choose agriculture as a life vocation.

The two candidates in the counare Central High School students. They are Fred Elrod, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. E.

Elrod of Cunningham, and Charles Smithson, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Smithson of Chinningham.

E. C. Hankenson, Central High principal, will give the test. CLARKSVILLE TENNESSEE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 13, 1949 FOURTEEN PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS Girl, 9, Slain Near Birmingham; Another Escapes co Minced Phillis Dean Carver (left) was peared with a strange man who bought her candy. ne-year-old found with her throat slashed near Mulga, A few hours later, searchers found Bobby slightly 20 miles west of Birmingham, after an all- bruised in woods five miles north of -Birmingham.

night search. Her mother left her at a Sunday Her mother (right) joyfully receives the little girl movie and she never came home. About the same from Deputy Sheriff W. T. Newsome, a member of time, another little girl, Bobby Howell, 4, disap- the searching party.

-(AP Wirephotos). 650 Replacements Arrive at Camp to Join: 11th Airborne Catholics Plan Holy Week Services On Holy Thursday, the day on which the Church commemorates the institution of The Most Blessed Sacrament, Holy Communion will be distributed at 15 minute intervals from 6:30 to 7:30. At 8:00 o'clock Father William E. Barclay, pastor, will celebrate a Missa Cantata (High Mass), which will be sung by the St. Mary's School Choir under the derection fo Mrs.

George Foust, organist. Following the celebration of Holy Mass, a solemn procession of the Blessed Sacrament to the repository will take place. The canopy covering the Blessed Sacrament during the procession from the Main Altar to the Altar of Reposition will be carried by Messrs. Paul Conroy, George Foust, Frank Wenzler, and John Conroy. The altar boys carrying lighted candles, censors and incense boats, and the school children carrying callow lilies, will form the guard of honor during the procession.

The Blessed Sacrament will remain at the Altar of Reposition until noon on Good Friday. During this time adorers will be in constant attendance. The pupils of St. Mary's School will fill the day-light hours of adoration, while the all-night adoration will be the honor of the adult members of the congregation. Mrs.

Frank Wenz ler, Jr. is in charge of arranging the periods of adoration for the allnight adoration. At noon on Good Friday, the unveiling of the Cross will take place and the Mass of the Presanctified will be celebrated by Father William E. Barclay. A series of sermons on the Seven Last Words- of Christ from the Cross will be delivered by Father Charles O'Donnell, pastor of St.

Lawrence Church, Paradise Ridge, after which. the Stations of the Cross will be conducted by Father Barclay. Music for the Tre Ore service will be furnished by the St. Mary's School, accompanied and directed by Mrs. George Foust.

A Holy Hour, commemorating the Passion of Our Lord, will be conducted by Father Barclay at 8:00 P. M. on Good Friday, On Holy Saturday morning at 6:30 o'clock, the 'new fire, the Paschal Candle, and the Baptismal Font will be blessed. A High Mass, celebrated by Father Barclay, will follow at approximately 8 o'clock. Holy Communion may be received by the faithful at this Mass for the first time since Holy Thursday.

The climax of the Holy Week will be a High Mass at 7:30 on Easter Sunday. This Mass will be sung by the men's choir under the direction of Lieutenant Richard Hathaway, with Mrs. George. Foust accompanist. Members of the choir are Messrs, Mike Fabrial, John' R.

Martin, Wm. Ira Walker, Dudley Murphy, Tom and Joe Plummer, Marty Keel, Donald and Richard Alsop, Buddy Frank, and Elam Harper. A 'Low Mass will be said at 10:30 o'clock, with music by the women of the parish, accompanied by Mrs. Smith Keel. Truck Driver Unhurt from Bridge Accident Williamsburg, -(P) James H.

Ford, 31, a Dayton, Truck driver, is alive and unhurt today after he and 'his truck dropped through a bridge near here. Ford said he was hauling five tons of coal from the everett raines strip mine near Williamsburg for a dealer in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, late yesterday. While crossing clear creek, two miles south of WilliamsBurg, Ford said the wooden flooring dropped out of the steel framework of the bridge. The truck unloaded itself during the 40-foot drop to the stream and. settled to the bottom, with just the the cab showing.

Ford said he managed to open a glass panel and swim to safety. THE trICK was recovered after seven hours' works 700 Seniors Take Part in Vocational Guidance Day Approximately 700 seniors from high schools in neighboring counties gathered on the campus of Austin Peay State College this morning to take part in the annual Vocational Guidance Day. sponsored by the Clarksville Rotary Club and the College. Assembled in the Armory at 8:45 the group. heard welcome addresses by W.

C. Gregory, president of the Clarksville Rotary Club and Halbert Harvill; president of Austin Peay State College. K. V. Curry, chairman of the Guidance Day program, introduced the speakers and gave general directions to the visiting 'senfors.

From the Armory the students moved to the New Science Building on the campus where the day's program was set up to allow each senior to meet with a representative of the profession or vocation in which he Was interested. Several such discusions could be attended if the student so desired. Eighteen separate vocations were represented and speakers from each presentd both the desirable and undesirable features of their profession. Whether it was to be doctor, lawyer, merchant. was up to the student.

To serve his interest was the aim of the whole program. Guidance Day is an annual event at the College and its purpose is to aid the high school senior in the choice of a vocation. The facilities of the College were thrown open to the visitors and College i students acted as ushers. GUIDANCE SPECIALIST Those students who were undecided as to a particular vocation or profession met with Dr. Albert S.

Thompson, Vanderbilt University specialist in the field of guidance. Dr. Thompson was assisted by Sam Kendrick, a graduate student at Peabody. The students met first in a group with Dr. Thompson and afterwards, each met for a personal interview during which he was presented a view of many different vocations and given counsel in selecting the one most suited to his particular needs.

Luncheon was held in the Armory at 11:45 where the local Rotary Club met the visiting seniors and speakers. Dr. Hugh C. Stuntz, president Scarritt College, was the featured speaker at the luncheon, Following the luncheon, the senlors returned to the discussion groups which were scheduled to continue throughout the afternoon, PROFESSIONS LISTED Professions represented and their speakers included the following: Athletic Director, Coach Dave Aaron; Electrician, Harold Harter, Goodrich Company; Engineer, John Cunningham, Clarksville City Englneer; Homemaker, Miss Laverne Parks, Miss Reba Choate; Nurse, Miss Evelyn Goodwin, Miss Ruth Jackson, Clarksville Hospital; Secretary-Bookkeeper, James E. Spillman, professor of business administration, Peabody College; Teacher, Frank Bass, Executive Tennessee Education Association; Doctor-Surgeon, Dr.

W. G. Lyle; Farmer, N. D. Peacock, Dean, Agriculture College, University of Tennessee; Mechanic, Allen H.

Fraser, Senior Training Officer, Veterans Administration; Lawyer, Robert L. McReynolds, Aviator, Buford Ledbetter, president Tennessee Aviation Association; Beautician, Mrs. Valera Carver; Musician, Miss Helen Trivett. Rotary Club members serving. 88 chairmen of the various groups included: Jesse Perry, G.

G. McClure, Morris Later, Jack Leacock, Orlo Eager, W. H. McReynolds, Lewis Pace, Lester Solomon, Dr. Richard N.

Owen, Maurice Solomon, Leonard Sowell, F. E. Stafford, C. W. Bailey, Albert Jobe, L.

R. Uffelman, and George Winecoff. Chester Baby Buried Today Prayer services for Gilmore Winfield Chester, two-day-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore Winfield Chester, 718 South Second Street, were held at the grave in Riverview Oemetery this, afternoon.

The Rev. M. K. Pullias officiated. The baby died Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the residence.

He leaves his parents, two brothers, Charles Edwin' and Robert Earl Chester, and a sister, Edna Irene Chester, all of this city, C. H. S. Seniors to Compete in Chronicle Essay Contest Based On Historic Documents of Nations Early Life Clarksville High School seniors will be given, the opportunity to compete in an American Citizenship essay contest sponsored by the Leaf-Chronicle. Beginning Thursday, exact reproductions of 26 of the original documents which toured the nation in "The Freedom" Train will be prominently displayed in the corridor of the school, two each day.

The first two to be displayed will be Thomas Jefferson's rough draft of the Declaration of Independence and The Treaty of Paris. The first draft of the Declaration is regarded as one of the most preclous state papers in all history. The 35-year-old Jefferson WAS signed the task of drafting the Dectaration and was corrected and revised by Adams and West Cuts Number Of German Plants To Be Removed By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON. (P) The United States, Britain and France today announced a sharp cut in the number of factories to be removed from western Germany.

All or part of 159 plants are to removed from the reparations list previously agreed, upon. Expanding the announcement from the State Department, Secretary of the Army Royall told a news conference that a further threepower agreement will be made public soon prohibiting some German industries entirely and restricting others as a var preventive measure. Royall said agreement will also ease present limitations on 10 industries. RESTRICTIONS EASED For one thing German shipbuilding will be removed from the prohibited list. It will be permitted on a restricted basis.

Some new industries will be added to the present prohibited list. Royall said Germany will welcome the decision to retain all or part of 159 plants previously scheduled to be knocked down and shipped to allied countries But he indicated he anticipated the Germans will be less pleased with the new prohibited list. A State Department announcement said the amount of equipment formerly scheduled for removal but now to be left there varies among the 159 plants "from a single piece of equipment in a plant to the entire equipment of an operating factory." "The equipment which will be retained in Germany is located in 32 plants in steel industry, 88 metal working plants, 32 chemical plants and a seven plants in the non-ferrous metal industries," the announcement said. Five of the steel industry plants, it was explained, produce crude steel. and these will raise western Germany's steelmaking capacity by 165,000 tons 8 year.

That will give western a total capacity of about 13,465,000 tons annually. The production ceiling of 000 tons a year remains. Simultaneously with the State Department announcement, the British and French foreign offices were due to release their own statements on the same agreement. The announcements are the latest in a series of moves aimed at this three-fold objective: 1. To give Germany limited selfgovernment.

2. To advance the conquered tion toward economic self-sufficiency, and 3. To enable Germany to contribute more to the total recovery of Europe. Artificial Cow Breeding Program To Be Explained Explanation of the artificial breeding program for cattle be at three meetings, County Agent Paul Horton announced today, One will be made at the armory Thursday, the second at Kirkwood School Friday, and the third at Sango School Tuesday, April 19. Agriculture teachers at Austin Peay State, County Agent Horton and field men of the Kraft Cheese Company on Tuesday visited Bullstead.

This trip was made prior to 8 county wide signup for the formation tion of a local artificial breeding association to serve Montgomery County farms. The herd sires maintained at Bullstead were viewed by the group who heard Lynn Copeland, district dairy specialist of the University of Tennessee, give the breeding records of the bulls being used. Twelve Jersey herd sires, five Guernseys, and five Holsteins representing some of the best in their breeds are owned by the Tennessee, Association. The group also made tour to the Brent Cook farm in Williamson County where they saw a grade Jersey herd of 28 cows in milk, all of which are the result of the artificdal breeding program which Mr. Cook has been using for the last nine years.

The group in Montgomery County agreed that this was one of the outstanding grade herds in the state. The production record of these cows is more than doubled the average for Tennessee dairy cowS. Council to Hear Grand Master Guy Frazelle of Knoxville, grand master of the Grand Council of Tennessee, will make an official visit to the local council Thursday night. Several other Grand Council officers are expected. The program will be held in the Masonic Temple begioning at 8 o'clock.

All Council Masons are invited. Two Cars Collide Miss Barbara Anne Hafris suffered slight out on the forehead in an automobile collision on College Street at 11:16 o'clock today. Mias Harris, WAS driving east on College and an automobile driven by Gary Schmitth was in the Act of turning into Austin Peay State when the two cars collided. Bobmittou On College Street House Passes Bill For Emergency Vet Benefit Funds By Jack Rutledge CAMP CAMPBELL-(Special) -A detachment of 650 smiling young men, all replacements for the 11th Airborne Division, arrived at Camp Campbell Tuesday evening at 6 o'clock. The troops moved from Ft.

Bragg N. where they had previously undergone basic, infantry training. Two trains were used to transport the troops to their new station. The men from this detachment will all be assigned to the various units of the 11th Airborne Division. Maj.

James M. Wilson, formerly assigned to the 504th Airborne Infantry. Regiment at Ft. Bragg, was in command of the first train, and Capt. Gregory McDurmott, previously with the 82nd Airborne Division Headquarters, was train commander for the second train.

Upon arrival, the troops were greeted Lt. Col. John H. Lattin, division personnel officer, who dispatched them to their. various units.

Under the supervision of Mark the American Red Gross presented the troops with cigarettes and beverages. With the arrival of the men last night, the troop strength of the division now numbers approximately 2,000 officers and men. However, the figure cannot be construed as the almost daily influx of troops actual troop, strength because of arriving from furlough and deplacements, according to the public information office. That office said also that the last of the troops being sent from Japan, comprising' the rear echelon, now are on the high seas. Others now are on furlough and the remainder are at Camp Campbell.

Gracey Appleton Dies, Funeral To Be Thursday Gracey Childers Appleton, 48, died at 11:25 o'clock Tuesday morning in a Nashville hospital where he had been a patient the past five years. Funeral services will be held at 3. o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Harvey W. Hunt Chapel. Mr.

Hunt will officiate. Burial will be in the Southside Cemetery, Mr. Appleton was born Dec. 1, 1900, in Southside, son of the late Charles E. and Bettie Patterson -Appleton.

He was twice married. He is survived by his first wife, Mrs. Alma Hamilton, and four: sons by this union, Buford, Bobby, Glen and Gracey and a daughter, Mrs. James Davis of his city. second wife, Mrs.

Julia Carney Appleton, survives with three children, Billy, Mary Sue and Charles Appleton. He also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Grady Hagewood Mrs. Ruth Baxter, Southside, and two brothers, Elmer Appleton, Chattanooga, and Elder Appleton, Southside. Beer Regulation Bill for County Goes to Senate A Tennessee House sponsored bill to regulate the sale of beer in Montgomery County has cleared the House and has been sent to the Senate, it was learned today.

At the same time, it was learned that the Senate yesterday completed legislative action on a bill to fix the pay of the Montgomery County tax assessor. Judge A. B. Broadbent told the Leaf-Chronicle that the tax assessor pay bill would pay the assessor $3,000 a year in years where no assessments are made, and $3,500 on tax years. The beer bill, by Rep.

J. W. Cross of Clarksville, would empower the County Court to regulate the sale of beer at retail, places in which it may be consumed, their location and hours at which it may be sold. It also provides that the county court may prohibit the operation of amusement devices, musical instru ments and similar devices in places where beer may be sold in the county. The bill further provides that.

a third violation of beer regulations set up by the county court shall constitute a felony. Rep. Cross said the other bill raised the pay of members of the tax equalization board from $4 to $5 a day. He said it also upped the pay of the secretary from $5 to $8 and the pay of the chairman from $5 to $6. The Representative said the bill also would give the board power to call In citizens of various districts as advisers while they were in session setting the tax assessment.

Pvt. Stokes' Funeral to Be At Vanleer Vanleer (Spl) The body of Pvt. Granville M. Stokes will be returned from France Thursday for burial Friday In the Vanleer Methodist church Friday morning at 10 o'clock with the Rev. R.

C. Crosslin, former pastor, officiating and Rev. A. R. Hogan assisting.

It will be a military funeral with the Dickson National Guards serving as pallbearers. The body is expected to arrive at Dickson Thursday afternoon at 3:30. It will be taken to the home of the parents. Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Stokes of Vanleer. Pvt. Stokes was killed in action July 18, 1944 at the age of 23. When he enlisted he was a senior at Central High School. First, he was member of the National Guards.

At the time of his death he was in Company 117th Infantry. Surviving are three brothers and four sisters in addition to his parents. They are: Arnold, Raymond and Jackie Stokes of Vanleer; Mrs. Genevie Cooksey, Mrs. Helen Barbee, Oakdale; Mrs.

Imogene Robertson, Vanleer and Mrs. Mary Hayes, Knoxville. their own handwriting. The Treaty of Paris in which Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States was result of highly successful diplomacy by American representatives. Virtually all hostilities ceased with Lord Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown and the British were acutely aware of the futility of further WArfare.

They were in the mood for peace and were ready to enter upon negotiations in the spring of 1782. After viewing the large reproductions as they appear, two each day, the sentors are invited to write says on the subject, "My Duties As an American Citizen." Competent, disinterested judges will be selected, The first place winner will receive a beautiful medal, land a certificate of award. The taro Air Secretary Says Unification Law Unsatisfactory WASHINGTON. (A) The Air Force joined the Army today in publicly blasting the existing nar tional defense set up as inadequate and expensive. Secretary of Air Symington, appearing at a closed-door session of the Senate armed services committee Thursday, declared the present.

unification law "has not worked satisfactorily." Chairman Tydings (D- Md) made the testimony public today. "We have tried out this halfmeasure organization and there 1s unanimous agreement that it is inadequate," Symington said. He added that former Secretary of Defense Forrestal "has constantly been a referee of three brawls as he tried to operate his job." Like Secretary of the Army Royall, who said, much the same thing in an open session of the committee yesterday, Symington said civilian defense chief never will be able to ride herd on the quarreling Army, Navy and Air Force unless he is given much greater power. Such authority, he said, "could save billions annually." That could be accomplished, Symington added, by operating the defense department "from a fresh start as against trying to haul together three independent units," each with its own training, procurement and the like. When such a merger of functions was adopted in the San Francisco defense region, he said, it ended "triplication in warehousing, in transportation, and so forth." AGREES WITH ROYALL Just as Royall did, Symington urged dropping the civilian heads of the Army, Navy and.

Alr. Force from their present ranks to the position of -undersecretaries. Secretary of Defense Johnson, just back from a meeting of the joint chiefs with Eisenhower at Key West, made it clear at a news conference that any. disagreements among the military high command must not be aired publicly. Johnson said the Navy's proposed 65,000 ton supercarrier the United States "was mentioned" at the Key West meeting, but he flatly, bluntly and repeatedly refused to say more than that on the subject.

The giant ship is the current center of the old and bitter dispute between the Air Force and Navy over the bombing roles each would have in a war. The Air Force has questioned the plan to bulld a carrier with a foot flight deck that could handle long range Navy bombers. It would take $189,000,000 and four years to build. Kiwanis Told Education Now Almost Artificial Education is something artificial. It borders on something on which one can not put his finger.

This is what Dr. L. L. Gore, head of the Peabody College Industrial EducaDepartment told Kiwanians at meeting yesterday at the Woman's Club, Puzzling questions are when is one educated and how does one know he is. The most artificials type of education is that which requires memorizing, he continued.

Once ac hild was important in the home for his contribution to it. Today he is not necessary in the operation of it because of the social and' industrial order in which men are communicating in a mass, he declared, pointing out changes made. The present, order tends to forget the individual. The definition of democracy -now seems to be to make people do things at a certain time.Industrial education tries to make an individual grow. and learn -to analyze situations.

He illustrated his statement by exhibiting objects industrial art students made to show how their work changed the of a piece. This type of education is an investment in the future, he disclosed by saying that the training has led to employment, It creates interest in materials and the geography of places, stimulates Interest in learning facts. Given this kind of education a youth becomes prepared to live in a mechanized world and to adjust himself to mechanized units. He learns to be the master of tools and machinery, he added showing etched glass, chip carved jewelry boxes plush lined, decorated walking and other hand made articles to illustrate skill required. Dr.

Gore has been head of the Industrial Education Department of Peabody College since 1932 and member of the faculty there for 25 years. He received his Ph. D. degree at Columbia University. Next summer he plans to go to Hawall in the interest of aviation in eduotion and the advancement of Industrial arts.

He owns and operates a large farm near Nashville. Charlie Jones served as program chairman for the meeting. Be fotroduced George Durisko, Industrial Aris teacher at Clarksville High School, who presented the WASHINGTON, (P) The house passed a $595,890,000 emergency appropriation for veterans benefits today, then turned to an army-navy-air force supply bill totaling nearly $16,000,000,000. In asking for the extra veterans money Monday, president Truman said the veterans administration had only enough money to run the benefits porgram 10 more days. The original grant was 394 for the current fiscal year.

The president also said the number of jobless veterans was increasing. The measure now goes to the senate, If it is possible to dispose of the big defense appropriation bill today, the house is slated to take up a $7,576,886,231 measure to finance the atomic energy commission, the veterans administration, and 26 other agencies for the next fiscal year. The house wants to clean up these money bills before taking what members hope will be a 10-day Easter vacation ending April 25. The major decision, however, will be on the $16,000,000,000 bill for the army, navy and air force. As it stands now, the air force gets the largest slice.

$300,000,000 More Backers of a bigger naval air force want to add about 000 to the five billions the appropriations committee has approved for the seagoing branch of service. The extra money let the navy buy 1,361 instead of 843 new planes next year, but it would still leave the navy's appropriation below that of the air force. There were no moves in sight to make other major alterations in the bill. Rep. Mahon (D-Tex) said "If war comes soon" the sixteen billion dollars (a sum double the average total national budget in pre-war years) would be too little.

Meanwhile, differences in another bill designed to insure peace- ugh-strength were ironed out by joint house and senate committee. This was the European recovery program. The plan has been, approved by both bodies, but the two bills dirfer. The big difference is over the amount recommended to be spent for the second year Marshall Plan aid for the western European countries. The house recommended 380,000,000,, or $200,000,000 less than the senate.

Chairman Kee (D-WVA) of the house foreign affairs committee said the matter can be settled swiftly. Connally (D- Tex) of the senate foreign relations committee predicted it might take two or three days. The senate debated deficency approporations bill, but hoped to clear it up and turn to the multibillion dollars long range housing program, Both foes and backers believe is will pass the senate easily. The housing meausre provides for construction of 810,000 public housing units during the next sly years, and would launch a slum clearance program, finance research' into ways to cut building costs, and begin a four -year home program. C.

H. S. to Send Two D. O. Delegates To Convention Clarksville High School department of Diversified Occupation will send delegates to the State Convention of Trades and Industrial Clubs At Johnson City April 28-80, William E.

Smith, coordinator, announced today. Three will attend from the high school T. and I. Club, They are noble Fulton, vice-prestdent; Thomas Smith and Cecil Stockdale, delegates. Mr.

Smith and Keene, Metal Work instructor will attend the convention. The high school Organization called the Queen City T. and I Club Chapter has 30 members. They are students in the Diversified Occupations department and in the industrial arts classes. Members meet each.

Wednesday to discuss problems, plans, methods and procedures. They have social affairs. Recently, they held a banquet and at times have entertainments to mix study with pleasure. The club has kept a serap book of elippings, souvenirs and pictures to illustrate work completed. The book will be entered In the state scrapbook contest.

runnersup will likewise receive certificates of award, bearing the students' names, date, subject and names of the judges. These honors will be awarded at commencement exercises. Miss Louisa Winn and Miss Verda Broome, American History teachers at the school, have agreed to direct cooperate in the essay their contest classes and the attention of to the historic importance of the documents. The contest is presented with the approval of Supt. C.

H. Moore and Principal D. W. Howard. From day to day the Chronicle will announce the subjects of the two reproductions which will be posted at the -schopl the following day.

The contest will run 13 days, rot until 26 of the reproduotions have been dispiased. Cunningham New President Of TB Body James C. Cunningham is the new president of the Clarksville Montgomery County Chapter of the Taberculosis Association. He will suoceed E. O.

Bradley, whose term ex May 1. Mrs. Dancey Fort is the vies president, and Willam Edmondson secretary-tressurer. President Bredley reported that was raised in the annual Christmas soul sale. Eighty-tive per -cent will.

be spent locally much and.