Joplin Globe from Joplin, Missouri • Page 9

Col. Freer at A P. Board Meet in Puerto Rico 8 PERSONS KILLED IN SJUHISSOURI Traffic Occurred ta IS CountlM In March--119 Persons Injured. Eight persons were killed in 167 iccidents in the 18 counties of Troop of the state highway pa- rol in March. There were 115 persons injured in those accidents which caused an estimated $75,980 in property damage.

The March totals for Troop boosted the fatality figure for the 'ear to 26, three more than were tilled in the same period last year in the county area. In the Joplin area, two persons were killed in Jasper county and nine persons were injured in 24 accidents that caused $12.600 property damage. In Newton county, one person was killed and 11 inured in 15 accidents that resulted $5,290 damages to property. The highway figures for other counties included Barry county, seven accidents, no deaths, but Colonel Victor R. Freer of Joplin (standing, third from left) was among 10 air force officers representing Civil Air Patrol regions of the United States who met in San Juan, Puerto Rico, recently for the first of four quarterly meetings with General Carl A.

Spaatz, chairman of the C. A. P. national executive board. RITES FOR FATHER ANDSONWEDNESDAY Services to Be at Washburn for Keith Gene Berteau and Billy Keith Killed by One Bullet.

WASHBURN, April 10-Funeral services for Keith Gene Berteau and his two-year-old son, Billy Keith, victims of a freak one-shot pistol accident Friday morning, will be held at 2 o'clock Wednis- day afternoon in the Methodist church at Washburn. The Rev. F. C. Hall will officiate, and burial will be in the Seligman cemetery under the direction of Culver funeral home.

The tragic mishap occurred at 9 O'clock Friday morning at the Berteau home when the father, a 25- year-old truck driver, was cleaning a .22 caliber revolver. Berteau was removing the cylinder from the weapon when it to the floor and discharged. The bullet passed through the son's head and entered the father's chest. Berteau was pronounced dead upon arrival at Cassville Community hospital and the boy died 30 minutes after the accident. Coroner Paul Henbest investigat- Seated, left to right, in the above photograph are: Colonel William Joy of Grosse Point, General Spaatz, retired air force chief of staff; General Lucas V.

Beau, national commander of C. and Colonel William C. Whelen. Standing, left to right, are: Colonel Daniel F. Boone, of Washington, D.

Colonel Cord Meyer of New York City, Colonel Freer, Colonel Emmett Rushing xf Lewisville, Colonel Roy St. Lewis of Washington, D. Colonel James T. Cranberry of Brentwood, Colonel David S. Barter of Camden, S.

and Colonel Willoughby G. Die of Portland, Ore. Colonel Freer, who is wing commander of C. A. P.

in Missouri, represented the region made up of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota. The board meets four times each year to inspect a different region of the C. A. P. It was the second time the board has met in Puerto Rico.

ed and ruled the shooting accidental. No inquest was held. Surviving in the immediate family are the widow and mother, Mrs. Allene Berteau, and a six-months- old baby girl, Barbara Allene Berteau. Other survivors of Berteau are his mother, Mrs.

Walter Forcade of Garfield, one sister, Mrs. -Bernice Williams of Sacramento, and two brothers, Richard Berteau and Donald Berteau, both of Pasadena, Calif. Among the boy's survivors is his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Helen Hendrix of Washburn. Radio on Han Hill.

On Mars Hill, in Greece, where Paul the Apostle preached 1,900 years ago, there is now the first ndndenominational Christian radio station in Europe, Athens reports. When fully completed it is expected to be among the world's most powerful, capable of broadcasting to the Iron Curtain i Africa and Europe. A religious revival is sweeping the world, say sponsors of this great station, and "never before in history have men and women been so disturbed by the materialistic concepts now pervading the earth." Butter has been largely supplanted by margarine from domestic copra in Indonesia. -AN IT WA5THAT BIG? AMBM--WELL SIR, THEN I GOT HE'S THE MOST CHRONIC ---------------IN BUT NOTICE? ATE ANJlTHERE'SONETHINCr HE NEVER EVER LIES NOW Y'GOTJfff DROOLING AN'DIE WITHOUT A HANKY, IT TASTES SO GOOD FOR QUALITY five persons Injured and $1,330 damages; Barton county, two accidents, no deaths, three persons injured and damages of Lawrence county, 17 accidents, no deaths, 14 persons injured and $8,400 damages: McDonald county, three accidents, one person killed, none injured and $1.175 damages. The statistics are based on accidents on state highways, rural roads and in towns of up to 10,000 population.

Deaths in larger cities are not included in the state highway patrol report, since the accidents are investigated by city policemen rather than state troopers. Parrot Exhorts Mates. One of 50 parrots recently acquired by the Wellington, New Zealand, zoo is a talker. It is thought to have been trained by an Australian nightclub entertainer. Soon after arriving it was heard loudly exhorting other parrots, a few pheasants and a mothering domestic hen to "Fly.

you fly," using a variety of seafaring terms. "We fixed him the way some countries fix annoying foreign radio said the curator, C. J. Cutler. "We have jammed him out with a louder screeching parrot." 9A--Joplin Globe, Sunday, April 11, 1954.

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