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Page 20 THE PHAROS-TRIBUNE PRESS, LOGANSPORT, INDIANA Friday Evening, December 11,1970 Mrs. Emma McGriff To Observe Her 100th Birthday On Saturday Heavy Snow In Upper Midwest By United Press International The weekly dinner meeting of the Des Moines, Iowa, Alcoholics Anonymous was; canceled Thursday for- the first'time in 27 years, a victim.of a sloppy, slushy snowstorm-yp i across the Upper Midwest. At least' 12 traffic fatalities were attributed to the storm, which spilled as much as 14 inches of snow. The storm moved out of the mountains and hit Iowa by Thursday morning, closing schools and stretching normal 30-minute drives to work 'into two-hour battles with the elements: At least 10 persons died in Iowa traffic accidents blamed on slick and hazardous roads. By evening the storm had deposited.

six inches, of snow, at Madison, Wis. By midnight the total there was 14 inches and Phnom Penh Road Cut; Gas Stations May Close PHNOM PENH (UPI) -The Communist squeeze on Phnora Penh took on a new dimension today with a warning that gas stations may of gasoline because the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese A control of anti-American riots. possible shutdown, of service stations in Phnom Penh was another aspect of the campaign by the North Vietna-i times spin until momentum mese and the Viet Cong to up with power. The strangle the capital by cutting nation's economy was like that today after- the one-day railroad One-Day Rail Strike Jarring To Economy By United Press International on parcel post was When a railroad steam engine starts up, the wheels some. the highway to Cambodia's only off the nation's highway sys- today oil.refinery.

tern, which fans out spokelike strike. 100 YEARS OLD Mrs. Emma McGriff, who will observe her 100th birthday Dec. 12, is enjoying one of her favorite pastimes, reading. Mrs.

McGrifi's daughter, Mrs. M. W. Donnelly, 1224 N. Third is planning an open house birthday celebration for her mother Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m.

(Staff Photo by Gteorge Hagene) By LORRAINE SETZER Staff Writer Mrs. Emma McGriff, 1224' N. Third will observe her 100th birthday Saturday. She was born in Howard County, Dec. 1870, and has and said that she has many pleasant memories of the happy hours when she and her mother sang together.

After her husband's death, Mrs. McGriff worked as a practical nurse caring for elderly lived in this area all of her life, people in the Logansport vicin- Although Mrs. McGriff is unable to walk and is hard of hearing, she is in remarkably good health for her age, is mentally alert and has a delightful sense of humor. When asked how she spends her time, Mrs. McGriff said that she likes to read.

"She reads the newspaper from beginning to end and usually tells me about the many items that I missed," said her daughter, Mrs. Martin W. Donnelly, with whom she has made her home for the past 20 years. She also enjoys visiting with her many friends who come toj see her and takes special pride in showing them her picture albums of tintypes. Mrs.

Donnelly said that her mother was active about the house and even did some cooking and baking until, five ago when she fell and broke her hip. "Everybody wanted mother because she was so kind," said Mrs. Donnelly. Although she is no longer able to care for others, this kindness still radiates from Mrs. McGriff's face and eyes, Donnelly said that her mother is' a pleasure to have around and that she demands little attention.

"She requires no special diet and east the same food as we do," said Mrs. Donnelly. She said, however, that her "She was a marvelous cook and made beautiful pies," said Mrs. Donnelly. Mrs.

McGriff spent all the years of her marriage to William McGriff, who died in 1939, on a farm on the Galveston area. She was a typical farm wife of that era who cared for her home and family, milked cows and enjoyed gardening, according to Mrs. Donnelly. In addition to Mrs. Donnelly, Mrs.

McGriff, had a son, Eo- reported. mother has a special fondness for ice cream and pie. Mrs. McGriff is eagerly looking forward to Christmas when her great-granddaughter, Linda Donnelly, who attends law school in Washington, D.C., will spend the holidays with the family- snow continued. Two died in Wisconsin traffic accidents.

Heavy snow warnings continued in effect for parts Wisconsin and Michigan and travelers warnings were in effect in areas of Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois. A band of rain, freezing rain, sleet and slush was falling just south' of the snowband. Showers and thunderstorm activity continued southward along the Mississippi River Valley. Rain and gale winds continued in the Pacific Northwest with generally light precipitation' totals reported. Clear skies and warm weather dominated from.

the Southwest to the southern plains and the Southeast Partly cloudy and cooler weather stretched across the Northeast. Early morning temperatures ranged from 12 below zero at International Falls, to 75 at Miami, Fla. Highway 4, the capital, with Hhe port of Kbmpong Som, 'of the refinery, has been cut off by the Communists for 21 Col. Am official Cambodian, military spokesman, said, that the military had a plentiful supply of gasoline. Field reports from Saigon said ground fighting in Vietnam- was in a general lull and the U.S.

command reported the level of Communist shelling attacks overnight fell to a three-week low. U.S. military spokesmen said Americans were killed in acton in, hours midnight Thursday. "It was the second time in days and the ninth tjme this year that no battlefield deaths were reported. from Phnom Penh.

As brief Nearly three weeks ago the nat i on wide Communists began what military stragetists said was a. drive to cut off access to Cambodia's rice bowl in an area to the northwest of Phnom Penh. For months, the government the as it strike was, the Thursday has campaigned to get capital's residents to grow vegetables to try to make the SJirKi-Ws: gave the auto industry something of an engine knock, forced steel companies to cut production, slowed the Post Office's best efforts to get the Christmas mail out and made commuters fit to be tied. A week, even few days, have been disas- 'lifted. Then there were train commuters the hundreds of thousands of persons who make their way into cities in the morning and homeward at night.

They had no trains to make fun of Thursday, and it hurt. Things were so in New York City trains vie with taxis and subways for transportation-humor jokes that twice as many people as usual rode subways. They couldn't take taxis are on strike. Few of- New York's 250,000 commuters were on time. from war-devastated areas.

holidays coming up. Oil Phnom Penh said petroleum rationing was introduced today for the first time and they were distributing only 4 per cent of the usual supply for civilian The city usually uses 50,000 gallons of gasoline a (day. Only 2,000 gallons were U.S. Army spokesmen said delivered today. Pfc.

Matias Yzaguirre, 22, of Brownsville, had been charged with negligent homicide in the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old Vietnamese schoolboy last Monday in Qui Nhon. The two days By midmorning; the gasoline rush was Lines' of as many as 50 automobiles formed outside every station. Motorists also filled 'cans bottles and-small tanks with the fuel. Employment Shows Decline All Mrs. McGriff's friends and relatives, who would like to help her celebrate her birthday, are invited to an open house at the Donnelly home Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m.

COMRADE'S REWARD MOSCOW (UPI)-A collective farm in Gotsatel, Daghestan, recently honored orchard worker Mogumed AJiev on his 100th birthday, the newspaper Soviet- Former Drug Users To Talk At Memorial Home At 7:30 Friday Mrs. Betty Violette, director of Teen Challenge of Indianapolis, and several teenagers who were former drug addicts, will speak at Memorial Home Friday at 7:30 p.m. The teenagers will tell about how they overcame their problem with drugs. Movies and slides will be shown by Mrs. Violette.

The program is being sponsored by the local Teen Witness group. Ecology Raiders RIVERSIDE, Calif. (UPI) Vandals at four service stations who is no longer living. In recalling her childhood years, Donnelly spoke of her mother's beautiful voice, skaya Rossiya (Soviet Russia) slashed the rubber fuel hoses eported. on 17 gasoline pumps and The farm leaders announced that in honor of the event 'Aliev was the title Worker of Communist Sale Calends Dec.

Auction Room Mike Dec. Marie Kuch Arigle Dec. Marcella Good Hahn Dec. Hospital Fred Dec. 11, Furniture Dec.

George Smith Garner Auction Dec. Alspack Van Lue Dec. Auction Room Schaeffer attached hand-lettered signs reading "close down smog," police reported Thursday. Employment in Cass County continued to drop in-December, and although manufacturing firms anticipate remaining stable for the next-three months, the winter months will increase the number of unemployed workers in the construction areas. That.is the report of the Logansport office, of.

the Indiana Employment Security Division. Eugene W. Smith, office manager, said employment in the county had 169 persons since September and for the year, employment is down from 5,438 to 4,579. Practically all of the decline has been in the manuafcturing sector, Smith reported, with gains noted in trucking and hospital groups. Weekly unemployment claims have climbed from 201 a year ago to 627 and have risen from 550 since October, Smith said.

The insured unemployment Co sources in Everywhere was the sense of LO. sources in, had come I to a crisis. Industry Trembled Henry Ford II, one of the world's most powerful industrialists, held his 'annual news conference in Detroit Thursday. Ford said the one-dajy rail hiatus cost the Ford Motor Co. 3,000 units in production, would cost 7,000 more if the strike was not settled today and the firm would have shut down had the strike continued until While the automakers were cutting back, the steel industry also was hurt.

Part of the problem was no coal delivery by train; aaother part was no trains to take manufactured steel away. The Post Office saw the strike coming.and- made plans to meet it, but postal service was hurt' much in big-facility cities like New Chicago and Los Angeles. rate now stands at 5,1 percent, compared with 4.7 in October, September and 1.2 percent in November; 1969. Insured unemployment rates are based on the relationship between employment in firms covered by unemployment'insurance and the number of workers drawing unemployment benefits. BLACK DIRT FILL DIRT Phone 753-8513 LOGANSPORT Mixed Couples Euchre Dec.

12th 8:00 P.M. Walton Legion Prizes Snacks AFL CLUB DANCE DEB TINKLE TRIO SOUP SANDWICHES BEVERAGES FRIDAY, DEC 11, 9p.m.to? NOWOPEN AT 3:00 P. M. PLAY NIGHT TUESDAY NIGHT MEMBERS AND THEIR FAMILIES DOOR PRIZES TUESDAY AND FRIDAY PUBLIC SALE Mondoy, Dec. O'clock A.M.

mi. West of intersection of 17 and 14. or mi, East of Winamac on Highway 14. Consisting of: 2 JD A Tractors; 1S66 JD 4-row planter tilizer att: JD 2-row planter; 1366 JD Stalk Chopper; 'JD Mounted Corn Picker; JD Baler wire tie; JD Disc; JD Plow; JD Cultivators; JD Manure Spreader; JD Fertilizer 1966 JD Grain Elevator 50 Mayrath Grain Portable Grain Elevator; JD Side Delivery Hay Hake; JD Mower; Sprayer; Grain Drill; Spike Tooth Harrow; 3 Rubber Tire Wagons boards, 2 hoist; Portable Hay Racks; Hydraulic Wagon Hoist; 2 Butler Shelters; 3 Hog 2 Self' Feeders- Thumabilt; 1 Creep Feeder; 2 Hog Waterers; Winch; Portable Grinder; Air Compressor and Paint Sprayer; Portable Air Tank; Electric Motor-; Post Hole Digger; 2 Cement Mixers; Fanning Mill; 1955 Ford Truck with stock rack grain; Many hand tools "and misc. items.

LUNCH 2R DINER MRS. GEORGE W. SMITH TERMS CASH Not-Responsible 1 for Accidents Auct. Burdette Garner Phone Kewanna-653-272S Clerk Byron Ginn I TAPE PLAYERS PLAYERS Over 1,000 Recorded Cassettes and 8-Track Cartridges to choose from All Tapes sold at $1.00 off regular price. CARRYING CASES FOR TAPES Tree's Camera Shop 524 East Broadway Phone 753-4444 DOWNTOWN LOGANSPORT: AWL CASS COUNTY GROWN BEAUTIFULLY SHEARED and BUSHY You Don't Bvy Ours You Won't Buy The Best TXIM BRANCHES IHUEl on "17" or Indian Road to 275 North West.

Follow Xmas Signs. VBRN FRY Phone 735-6539 Get Movie Rights HOLLYWOOD -Warner Bros, has acquired movie rights to "Portnoy's Complaint" from 20th Century-Fox, the' studio-which found little success with Breckinridge." 201S NORTH STREET PHONE 753-4789 Choose from Our Selection of Beer Liquor Wine South Side Liquor Store 112 Burlington Phone 753-6588 The postmaster at Nashville, said' the brief strike backed up 1.5 million pieces of mail. Some 4,000 sacks of mail were piled up at Cleveland. Portland, could not move out 1,600 sacks of mail. Philadelphia was worried about "a flood" of mail when the post temporary 300-mile Myers Greennouse.

Ph. 753-3996 RUBBER STAMPS Made in Our Own Plant 2-DAY DELIVERY CHRONICLE PRINTING CO. 417 Market Ph. 753-4362 Wild Bird Feed Sunflower Seed Cracked Corn KING'S North. St.

DEC. 12 Music By DRIFTERS Family Thursday FORA. LOOKING CERTAIN TYPE BUSINESSorSERVICE? Our New Business Service Directory in the Classified Section of the paper can probably solve your problem. We have many classifications in both business and service, listed in today's paper. Check Now and save time -and money.

Camera's Supplies Mufflers Exhaust Systems Septic Tanks Sewers Service Sporting Goods Television Repair Tree Service Upholstering Vacuum Repairing PHONE 753-7511; TO HAVE YQUR BUSINESS Oft SERVICE LJSTW IN THtS DIRECTORY. Sadly Missed JACKIE LEE WILLIAMS Passed away Dec. 11, 1962 Mother, Sisters Brothers Card Of Thanks The family of Martha McArthy acknowledge with grateful appreciation your kind expression of sympathy. Our thanks to our friends and neighbors, the staff of Memorial Hospital, Dr. Earl Bailey and Dr.

Ruben Vizcarra, Rev. Richard Berkey and the McCloskey-Hamilton Kahle Funeral Home during the illness and death of our mother. In Memory Of our loved one, Willis Grable, who left us 12 yrs. Dec. 12,1958.

Family Thanks I wish to thank friends and relatives for their prayers, letters, cards, flowers and visits while in the hospitals and for the many acts of kindness since my return home following the automobile accident. Mabel Scott Lavengood Card of Thanks We wish to acknowledge with deep appreciation the kindness and sympathy shown us during the illness and passing of our loved one Edward H. Goltz; to friends, relatives and neighbors, Dr. Paul H. Wilson, Rev.

Clarence Alexander, Father Schuerman, Logansport Machine Co. and employees, Local 450, F. 0. Eagles 323, R.B.M. friends, Chase Manor Nursing Home, St.

Joseph Hospital and Fisher Funeral Home, in making our sorrow a little lighter. Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Goltz Larry Goltz Mrs.

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