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The Daily Nonpareil from Council Bluffs, Iowa • Page 8

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COUNCIL BLUFFS IOWA NONPAREIL--SEPTEMBER, 1956 PAGE FtVI Savers about as much as most people can take. a nd 8 i for good volleyball wstructor at Rue School, orders a special calisthenics ams flexing for a rainut4 or two Giving 9 Chalk Talk to Lynda Robinson and Eleanore Anderson. Larry Carle explains the rotation of players on the court. There is an intellectual side to sports, too, the girls are told, -r- Nonpareil Photos. They Were Waiting for Jail Breakers HUTCHINSON, Kan.

JP The thumping got on Sheriff Roy Shep- nerves. It started Sunday. You could hea it. all over the Reno County Courthouse loudest on the fifth floor in the wall between the jail and an outside corridor. "Want to see a.

jail break?" the sheriff asked a reporter. "Come around Tuesday night. About 7 o'clock." The sheriff was 24 hours off on his prognosticating but he and six- deputies, plus County Atty. John were waiting Wednesday night in the dim corridor when seven loosened bricks disappeared quietly from the wall. Butter Smeared John-Milo Miles 22, accused of burglary, squeezed through.

He had saved butter from his. meals and smeared it on himself to lubricate his wriggling. He tugged Richard Leroy Smith, 16, accused of burglary, through the tight opening. They hauled out 63 feet of knotted bed sheets. Lights! Prosecutor Alden said Allan R.

Vincent and Joseph. Morales, two more accused burglars, also were in the plot but were too big for the hole. The four prisoners had pounded away the mortar between the bricks of their cellblock with, a screw drivejr.i "You guys think we were deaf?" a deputy asked Brick-By-Bricfc "I wondered why everyone was so friendly lately," said Smith. The sheriff's staff had kept a brick-'by-brick score on the prog- ress of the work. "We had no good" case against them until they actually forced their, way out," Alden explained.

didn't like by, but it was the only way we could catch them red handed," Sheppard- Alden said he would charge Miles and Smith with breaking jafl, Vincent and Morales with attempted jail break. Horse Rides, 31, Forfeits Bolnd On Intoxication Counf A touch of the Old West was in evidence here -Wednesday afternoon as a 31-year-old Perry man was arrested while riding a Police received a call from Woody Snipes. 2432 Eighth who told them a buck-skinnec horse was missing from his pasture in the southwest section oj the city. Witnesses reported seeing the horse and the man traveling up the middle of South Twenty- fourth Stjeet. The man was taken into custody at Twenty-first St.

and Avenue C. Witnesses said the man was riding the horse without saddle or bridle. "510 boru3 in Municipal Court Thursday on a drunk charge. Polio Patient In Critical Condition Mary Frances Miles, 6, a vic- time of paralytic spinal polio, was still in critical condition at Jennie Edmiindson Hospital Thursday. And a call for registered nurses was being continued.

Of immediate need is a nurse to care for the child from 3 to 11 p. m. each day. The girl is the daughter of Mr- anq Mrs. Robert Miles'of Route 4.

Her attending physician said all muscles of her body from the neck down have been weakened seriously and the abdominal and chest muscles hav ceased work- ins- A previous report that she suffered from bulbar polio -vas incorrect- Mother, Daughter Hurt In 2-Car Crash Mrs. Helen -I. Andrus, 38, of Mount Joy, and her 12-year-old daughter, Judy, were scheduled to be released Thursday from Jennie Hospital, following treatment for injuries suffered in a two-car accident. Mrs. Andrus suffered a fractured left elbow and bruises.

She was driving one car. Judy suffered multiple bruises. Police- the accident occurred Thursday morning at the intersection of Seventeenth St. and Sixth Ave. Driver of the other car was John A.

78, 2024 Seventh Lefgren-was booked for running a stop sign and for investigation in connection with a personal injury, accident. Drunk Driving Case To Open On Friday Trial of Clarence A. Smith of Council Bluffs, charged i third offense drunken driving, was delayed until Friday in District Court. The case had been scheduled for Thursday. The panel from which the jury was to be selected to hear the case was released to report back for duty at 9:30 a.m.

Friday. Smith was arrested by police last Oct. 4 after his car struck a fence at Twenty-sixth, and Avenue H. Smith was scheduled to go on trial last April IS but failed to appear. Proceedings to forfeit his bond were started.

Smith later was taken into custody- and the bond forfeiture was set aside. Prominentlowan Burt German Dies DES MOINES Burt German, S3. widely'known real estate developer, and a pioneer in football for Iowa died Thursday. He had been a patient in a nursing home here since he suffered a stroke a year ago. German played" football at Iowa State on its first teams, starting in 1894.

He was- a halfback and captain of'the '94 and '95-teams at the college. graduated'in '95, but remained a great booster for the college and for football throughout his life. Before attending Iowa- State, he had gone to Purdue and the State University of and played baseball at both. German came to Des Moines iir 1912 and in a long- and successful career in real estate developed 20 Des Moines subdivisions. Survivors include his widow, son Richard, and daughter.

Mrs. Margaret Stouffer, all of Des Moines. The First Serve comes over the net to Judy Mahan. Players in the front line are Georgia McKnight, Linda McConnell and Carol Grosvenor. Bonnie McCoy guards the upper righ'l corner.

Educators believe more character and personality training is derived from athletic teamwork than than from other courses of study. Democrats Select Headquarters Site Campaign headquarters for Pottawattamie County Democrats at 221 'S. Main St. That was announced Thursday following.a meeting of Democratic, committee members. Jack Rooney.

committee chairman, indicated the headquarters I would -be opened by of the week. Three S.W. lowans Enlist In The Navy Three Southwest lowans have silisted in the Navy, the Council Bluffs -recruiting i announced Thursday. They were: James E. Holtz, 18, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Elmer-Holtz of Avoca; Verle Jones, 17, of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Jones of Shelby; and Delberff Turner, son of Mr. and Mrs.

John Turner of 2832 Avenue I. All were sent to Great Lakes Naval Training Center. Accuses Tavernmen Of Liquor Charges Preliminary information charging two tavern operators with keeping liquor where beer 3s sold were filed Wednesday in Municipal Court by the county attorney's office. Named in the charges were Walter E. Sorensen.

1021 Third of the Club Tavern at 2307 W. Broadway, and Howard D. Osborn, 52, 150 Glen of the Osborn Tavern at 519 S. Main St. Sorensen's hearing was set for 2:30 p.m.

Friday. Hearing for Osborn has been sef for Sept. 25. The bonds of each was set at 5300. Sorensen was arrested Sept.

15. Police reported they found two ounces of whiskey in a beer glass under the bar of his tavern. Osborn was arrested Tuesday. State Agent H. Gilmcur L.C.

Nelson were checking- the retail liquor stamp at. Osborn's tavern. They said they saw him put filled pint Jiquor bottle in his pocket. Osborn was behind the bar at the time. Illness Of Juror Delays Land Case Resumption of a District Court hearing on an appeal from a con- jdemnation jury's of damages a delayed Thursday morning until 1:30 p.m.

due to illness of a juror. The juror was Joe Ring of McClelland. The case being tried is that of Theodore J. Baseh of 'Star Route, Lewis Township farmer. The Iowa Power Light Co.

had condemned a tract through Basch's farm. for right-of-way of an electric line. Basch appealed from the condemnation jury's award of damages given him as being insufficient. is asking $9.000. The defense Wednesday afternoon exhibited in the trial motion pictures of similar projects.

District Judge Bennett Cullison, before whom the appeal is being tried, admitted the pictures as evidence. Four Tax Liens Filed By State Four tax liens were filed Thursday in the county recorder's office by the Iowa State Commission. All are for 1955 state income tax. Named in the liens and the amount the state tax commission claimed were: Alva P. Leola Davis, 1119 S.

34th 523.41; Dale B. Dugger, 629 Eighth Joseph M. Earl. Manawa, 523.67; and Lee F. Ellison, 1111 Fourth 573.28.

Two Youths Admit Greenhouse Breakin Two local youths, 14 and 15, were taken into custody by police shortly before noon Thursday. Police said the two admitted breaking into and entering Walton's Greenhouse, 420 N. 26th St. Three other youths were being questioned regarding the -possession of stolen property believed acquired from the greenhouse. Wanted Youth Is Held At Atlantic The companion of a 13-year-old youth being held by Council Bluffs police for questioning about car prowlings and break- ins around' the Council Bluffs area was taken into custody Thursday by Cass County official 1 The youth! aiso 13, was being held for questioning at Atlantic.

Cass County officials were checking to see if there was any connection between the youth and pick-up truck which was found abandoned at Anita. The truck was stolen Wednesday from the home of E. C. Webster, 2736 Avenue D. The youth held at Atlantic admitted being the companion of the youth held in Council Bluffs.

The two ran away from Boys Town Sunday. Work To People Against Shock By bus and train, a tourist may now travel; the. 4,500 i between Paris and Baghdad on a ticket that- costs 5135. Ten countries are crossed. FRANK CARBV ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.

JP A possible lead toward developing a maii'Dc! of "conditioning" people against the potential! fatal "wound shock" that accompanies severe war and accident injuries was reported Wednesday. Army researchers announced to the American 'Chemical Society that in laboratory tests, rats were made so shock-resistant that only 25 per cent succumbed to injuries which normally would be fatal to 75 per cent of them. The rats were "conditioned" by giving them a series of electric shocks, similar to those given patients as a treatment in psychiatric hospitals. The shocks were administered once a day for several, days. Tesf of- Resistance Then, as a test of resistance to violent injury, the animals were subjected to terrific tumbling in a special whirling drum that was whirled 500 times, with the rats being dropped from the top to the bottom of the drum with each turn.

The Army scientists, in their report to the ACS's 130th annual meeting, stressed that "experiments are still not at the stage where application -to humans is Electric shock is not a procedure to be lightly applied to a normal person." They implied they would seek less drastic means of possibly producing the same But tlihey declared mat the experiments with thhe anmials do indicate t'le possibility of combat- ting ta tal shock i i altering the reactivity of part of the body's nervous system. The report was prepared for delivery by Dr. Robert L. Griswold, of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C. Co-author'was Lt Walter J.

Decker. Brannan To Active Demo Role LINCOLN the' urging of Adlai Stevenson. and Harry Truman, former Agriculture Secretary Charles plans to take an active part in the Democratic presidential campaign. Here to attend the National Watershed Congress, Brannan told a reporter Tuesday night he had a long wire from Stevenson, the Democratic presidential candidate, "asking my support in the coming campaign." During a'stop-over in Kansas' City, Brannan said he visited with former President Truman "expressed the hope that I would work hard for the Democratic ticket this foil." Brannan said, "and he kncvv -I would." OPEN TONIGHT TIL 9 Thursday Nite Special YOUR CHOICE OF BLONDE OR MAHOGANY )R COFFEE Will Spend $260,000 On Beatrice Center Seventh Protest The seventh protest against the 3956 street paving program was filed Thursday with the City Council. Earnest E.

Beck. 405 S. 21st SL, said his special assessment of 5369 against the paving of Fourth Avenue, between Twenty-first and Twenty-second Streets, was WASHINGTON The al Park Service will spend 5260.000 improving the Homestead National Monument near Beatrice. as a part 01 its 10-year park program known as "mission 66." Improvements include $215.000 for buildings and utilities, including a S1ST.COO visitors" center. and 545.000 for roads, park officials said Thursday.

The monument is the siie of the first homestead cairn made under the Homestead Act of 1SS2 and covers about ISO acres. EACH ALL HAVE GLASS TOPS THESE TABLES ARE QN SALE THURSDAY NITE ONLY! I SHOP TONIGHT AT YOUR LEISURE. BARGAINS THROUGH- I OUT THE STORE AT PRICES YOU CANT AFFORD TO PASS UP SEE THE BRIGHTEST SHOW IN TOWN You'll Find The Largest Selection In Town at Dutch Bulbs JUST ARRIVED FROM HOLLAND Huge BIG Bulbs Finest Selected Varieties EVERY BULB GUARANTEED YOU MUST PLANT NOW to enjoy these lovely flowers next spring! DARWIN TULIPS 85c DOZEN TOO for MIXTURE OF NAMED VARIETIES. HUGE BLOOM 8 COLORS $6.00 NOVELTY TULIPS S1.19 D0 TM 81 COLORS, DOUBLES. LILT-FLOWERED.

PEONY-FLOWERED MIXED DAFFODILS $1.00 Dozen SUPER DAFFODILS S1.49 Dozen KING ALFRED REMBRANDT (BIG GOLDEN BLOOMS) HUGE HYACINTHS 5 FOR $1.00 .10 FOR $1.85 5 COLORS: RED. TELLOW. PINK. BLUE, WHITE MEed Killed In Collision KELUOGG OharJes Meier, 25. rf GrinneB, was late Tuesday 5n the coliswn xf his car and a track at the jjunc- tion-of HigSra-avs 6 and 224 one I suite off here.

IMPORTED TULIP BULBS EXTRA LARGE SIZE--WIDE VARIETY LIGHTING FIXTURES THEY'RE PRICED RIGHT UP TOO! LOOK 'EM OVER! TO EARLY- BLOOMING CROCUS 5 COLORS: TELLOW. WHITE. BLUE. PURPLE. STRIPED MADONA LILLIES 49c EACH--3 FOR S1.35 AS LOW AS 69 PER DOZ.

WE HAVE A TYPE AND STYLE FOR EVERY PURPOSE. FLUSH, DROP RECESSED OR PULL DOWN. TRADITIONAL OR MODERN OR IN-BETWEEN ANY COLOR OR FINISH TO TRULY MAKE YOUR HOUSE A HOME. A Complete line of Fail Bulbs Just Arrived From Holland F. W.

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