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1 EDITOR'S NOTE They were motley crew, those tlnentals. More a mob than an army, lorn with sectional come together to fight a war, make a revolution, start nation. By SID MOODY i AP Newftteatum Writer shot heard 'round the at Lexington and Concord was actually a barrage. day long the American 1 which hadn't existed 'the night before, blasted away at he closely-packed British column clumping double time long the high road back to ton, as vulnerable in their red as a gathering of stop signs. Yet when the smoke jcfeared, the uncounted thousands of farmers, tinsmiths, fishermen, saddlemakers and schoolboy shad scored only about 3100 hits.

Clearly there was room for 'iitiprovernent The Mlnutemen had formed an instant army, all right. But it had no uniforms, no artillery, little powder. Most important, it 4 not know what it was fighting was having its hand forced by a bunch of flaming triad famers who had decided 4hey might as well lay selge to Boston since they had chased the British there, and were asking Congress to adopt them and their fait accompli. In June, Congress took over the Massachusetts rabble, as its own Continental Army, and named George Washington as Commander-in-chief. Now fhey had an army.

Maybe later, they'd figure out what to do with it. Washington had led men against Indians and Frenchmen. TTrat made him an exception. Of the first 21 major generals appointed by Congress, only 10 had prior military experience. Likewise for their men.

Militiamen came and went as their inclinations led them. During a march, they were apt to fall out and take a shot at game. The American would fight to defend his own cabin or settlement, but saw little compulsion to defend unknown countrymen beyond his own distant hills. In 1756, General Thomas Gage, the British commander, wrote to Washington when both were fighting the French. New Englanders, he said, were "the greatest boasters and the worst soldiers on the continent.

We have enlisted soldiers from all the provinces, but 1 never saw any in my life as infamously bad." But in 1775 those "infamously bad" New Englanders had him corked up in Boston, and more were rushing to the front. A detachment from New Hampshire covered 55 miles In IS hours to reach Cambridge two days after Lexington and Concord. Putnam dropped his plow, literally, and raced to Boston when he heard the news. Artemas Ward, a 47-year-old sometime farmer, politician and volunteer soldier, was abed with a bladder stone when told of the fighting. With uncharacteristic dispatch, he hopped on A horse and rode to Cambridge to take command.

Washington arrived quietly in Cambridge on July 2, 1775, and promptly set off for a tour of the lines with Ward, painfully perched in his saddle, Nathaniel Greene of Rhode Island, and the eccentric Lee, followed by his constant escort, a pack of dogs he preferred to humans. Washington developed order out of chaos. No more skinny- dipping in the Charles River. Discipline was. clearly going to be a problem where officers were elected by their popularity and, as one soldier said, men Citizens on Radio Your Call Signs To Be Automatic By E.

Z. Strange Look to the day when your radio will be identified automatically every time you press the talk button on your CB microphone. That's coming up. The device is called an Atis which means "Automatic Transmitter Identification An FCC official with a title longer that hit name, Charles Higginbotham, admits the system won't be foolproof. But something has to be done to thin out the garbage on the airwaves.

He figures it's bound to be required equipment. So do If you don't have a CB rig, you may not know that all H- talkers are supposed to give their call signs at the 'Beginning and end of each transmission. Few do, though. So 'sirtce they can't be identified, a lot of them just jabber on the 1'fylnd like the lonely souls who scribble on outhouse CHICKEN BAND The sophisticated ham operators refer to the CB as the An energetic police team up around Detroit is using an 18-wheel truck to trap broadcasting Expect pushbutton keyboards on CB units to be jmarketed soon Report is six of the seVen Federal rmmications Commissioners have never talked into a CB Going rate for a stolen rig in the $150 class is about $40, if it's sold to a fence, police say. SEAT COVERS out your primer on citizens' lingo, please, and turn to 14,561 where you'll find: "Truckers originated the term covers' meaning lady drivers.

Sitting high in their cabs, truckers frequently can see not the faces, but only the -lower torsos and legs of the women in close-by cars, A small Unscientific poll among truckers indicates they do not like -blue jeans and pant suits, much prefer skirts and dresses." "Birdswords" is another name for that special vernacular of the CB conversationalists. These are "Blood box" Is ambulance, "chicken coop" is weigh station, and "bubble trouble" is a tire problem. i Did I say you only had to speak plain language, not necessarily plain English on CB radios? Except for the call signs, sure Those have to be in English. THE CUSTOMERS ASK I Q. "What's a 'QSL' card?" A personalized postcard that identifies a broadcaster, ft 'generally carries the call letters and the handle as well as the name and address.

And more often than not it's decorated with cartoon art. Years ago, the old ham radio operators started trading such cards worldwide to show how away they had been able to broadcast. CBers trade them inow much like Christmas cards or business cards or social call- tag cards. They are mementos of conversations, more initmate matchbook covers or bottle caps or baseball cards. And are those collectors who take them out from time to 'time just to look at them quietly like an old woman looks at album of browned snapshots.

Comments are Invited. questions of generel Interest are answered In this column. Volume precludes personal reply. Address mall to Citizens'on Radio In care of this newspaper. Copyright Star-Telegram Syndicate, Inc.

1976 SMALL ENGINE Clean Carbuerator Check Points, Plugs Sharpen Blade Change Oil PUSH MOWERS AND TILLERS Wt Pick Up And U-HAUL SMALL GARDEN TRACTOR Pick Up And Dtlivtr U-HAUL Add Wfor Delivery over mi For two or machines at location only delivery charge. 451-1972 more one FRYE GRAY News From Pineville by Midp Bottles Mr. and Mrs. Frank Allen spent several days last week in Kansas City visiting relatives. Mrs.

Debbie Morgan and Mrs. Kathy Francisco of Neosho spent from Monday until Wednesday in Jefferson City, where Mrs. Francisco took the State Board of Cosmetology exam. Mrs. Ruth Ellis left Monday to spend a few days with her son, Mr.

and Mrs. Maurice Ellis at Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnson, Gravette, Mrs. Kathleen Weaver, Car din, Mrs.

Lottie Cooper, Southwest City and Mr. and Mrs. Lavon Johnson, Anderson, visited Sunday in the Oak Johnson home. Other recent visitors were Mr. and Mrs.

Ed Chrisman, Noel and Jim Johnson, Lanagan. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Coonrod spent Saturday at Willard, Mo. visiting their daughter, Mr.

and Mrs. Jack Reeves and son. Sheila and Richie Bottles, Joplin, spent from Friday evening until Sunday visiting their grandmother, Mrs, Madge Bottles. Other visitors on Sunday were Mr. and Mrs.

Jimmie Bottles and Julie, Joplin, Mr. and Mrs. Buddy Ciute and family, Webb City and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Fred Best.

Mr. and Mrs. Jim Morgan and Mrs. Teddy Morgan visited Mr. and Mrs, Richard Harris and son, Chris, at Joplin, Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Henson and children, Neosho, spent Saturday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Henson.

Steve Moss, Warrensburg, Mo spent a few days visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mr. and Mrs. Truman Hayes, Emporia, spent the weekend with Mr.

and Mrs. E. B. Young and other relatives. Gregory Dor sett, who is attending Missouri University at Columbia, spent from Thursday until Saturday visiting his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Jim Fred Best. were asked to please do something when some strong language would have had a better effect. One officer was found guilty for "unconcernedly shaving one of his men." There were all sorts of bizarre penalties to discipline. Washington used the lash, or the gauntlet, Men were suspended by their thumbs with one foot just reaching a stake sharp enough to hurt, but not pierce the skin.

Washington had his hands full. A Connecticut troop would have no Massachusetts men in its ranks, and Massachusetts companies would not tolerate a Rhode Islander. Frontiersmen came swaggering into camp after prodigious marches. They were a tough breed in their coonskin caps and butternut brown fringed hunting shirts. One group, marching through Connecticut, had been called "damned rebels 1 by a farmer.

The riflemen made him march 20 miles to Litchfleld carrying a goose. When they got there, they tarred him, plucked the goose and feathered him. Arriving at Cambridge, one of them astonished onlookers by having his brother hold a piece of white paper the site of a dollar between his knees and hitting it at 60 yards with a rifle shot. The, British soon came to respect the woodsmen "with their cursed twisted (rifled) guns the most fatal widow-orphan makers in the Where a unit had a common background or hometown, there was more uniformity and discipline. One was the Marblehead regiment of 44-year-old Colonel John Glover.

These were fishermen, hardened by the discipline of the sea. They wore blue jackets, white shirts and tarred breeches and caps. Glover was a born leader and as News From Tiff City by Fern Teel G. W. Hall was visiting in Tiff City, Monday.

The Willing Workers Club are working at the community building this week getting their quilt put together and ready to quilt. Mr, and Mrs. Walter Wood and Leona Spragues visited Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Threasher, Sunday.

Mrs. Spragues remained for a longer visit, Mrs. Leona Spragues, Mrs. Marie Wood, Mrs. Opal Threasher and Mrs, Joy Threfcsher went to Grove, Wednesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Woods went to Gentry, Tuesday and Mrs. Leona Sprague came home with them for an extended visit. CAR1FESTA SET KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) The second Caribbean festival of the arts, Carifesta '76, opens here July 23 for an 11-day run.

The festival will draw participants from 35 countries in the West Indies or bordering on the Caribbean Sea. HOME CENTER Your New Sign of Home Improvement Values! j. or many more prizes! Register to win this 1976 Ford Pinto Pony at your nearest TAPJAC Home Center! Hurry, drawing is Saturday, April 3. No purchase required. You needn't be present to win! Formerly: Neosho Lumber Co.

315 N. Wood, HftethQ, Ma, Phone 451-3M3 a reward for proficiency in drill, distributed 35 new guns with bayonets to deserving recruits, one of whom promptly put his bayonet to use on a dog which had just bitten him. While not discouraging enterprise, Washington had to forbid the otherwise estimable concern shown by his men towards the cannon bail shortage. They had been kicking at rolling British shot to stop them. The general stepped in after several lost their legs.

Although Washington never had more than 20,000 in his army at any one time, some 213,771 Americans served the Continental Army through the war and 164,087 in the militia. Six thousand were to die in battle, and 100,000 more of wounds, disease or starvation. Remember When Ten Years Ago March 25.1906 Danny Day, son of Delbert Day, who recently returned from duty in Viet Nam will present colored motion pictures at the regular meeting of the American Legion at the Legion Hall, Monday night, Jerry Davis, commander has announced. Helen Woodcock entertained at her home Tuesday morning with a coffee for a group of friends. The guest list included Cornelia Hart, Josephine Kinsey, Leona Cristy, Margaret Prather, Amy Davis, Eulah Hawkins, Mildred Bucklew, Beryl Henkel, Carolyn Harden, Cecil Griggsby and Margaret Smith.

Twenty Years Ago March 25,1956 Mrs. W.H. Crowe enjoyed a surprise visit from several members of her family Sunday; her brother and family, Mr. and Mrs: Morello of Westwood, Calif, her sister, Mrs. Prank Carouso, and her mother, Mrs.

Mike Morello of Pittsburg, visited her. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gibson Independence spent the weekend in Neosho visiting their parents. Mr.

and Mrs. Jesse Reed and family of Joplin and Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Ryno and daughters of Diamond visited Saturday with Mr. arid Mrs.

Bob Reed and son. Thirty A go March 25.1916 Don Reynolds and Gene Allen, graduates of Neosho High school, who are students in Oklahoma A. and M. at Still water, spent the weekend at their homes in Neosho. They returned to the college yesterday.

Dr. and Mrs. F.F. Whitehead were hosts last night, at a charmingly appointed buffet dinner at their home on Oak Ridge Drive, honoring their guests, Mr. and Mrs.

Jay Aldridge of Blountsville, Ind. Mr, and Mrs. J.M. Wells of 413 East Hickory street had as their guests Sunday, the former's daughter, Mrs. C.N.

Ellison and Mr. Ellison of Vinita, and their son, Jas. M. Ellison and his wife of Tulsa. Ominous message for GOP WASHINGTON (AP) Popular vote totals In the nation's first six primary elections hold an ominous message for Republicans: more than two-thirds of the 5.96 million votes cast were on Democratic ballots.

And although President Ford has been the choice of 55.6 per cent of Republicans voting in these primaries, his popular vote total of 1.06 million is less than the 1.53 million polled by Jimmy Carter, who is one of a stable of Democratic candidates who at one time numbered as many as 12. Carter was the favorite of 37.9 per cent ot Democrats voting so far. The popular vote totals may come in for study by party strategists since they may indicate that more people are voting as Democrats than generally tell pollsters they consider themselves to be Democrats. In the primaries so far, about 68 per cent of the voters have marked Democratic ballots, although the Gallup Poll showed last fall that on a nationwide basis only 44 per cent of the American voters considered themselves to be members of the Democratic party. That poll last September also showed only 21 per cent thought of themselves as Republicans, the OOP's lowest point since the Depression, The other 35 per cent told Gallup they were independents.

Some primaries in the -past have been prone to crossover voting where a member of one party votes on the other party's ballot. But there has been little reason this year to sui crossover voting because every primary has been contested except the GOP balloting in tiny Vermont and because Democratic party rules now do their best to bar Republicans from getting Democratic ballots. States voting so far are New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Florida, Illinois and North Carolina. All except Massachusetts went for Republican Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential election. But in this year's primaries, more Democratic votes were cast in all those states except New Hampshire, a traditional Republican state.

Of course considerations will be far different in November than in primary balloting. For example, a voter who favored a conservative Democrat in a primary might vote for a Republican in November. Voting by candidate is subject to qualification every candidate except Carter has skipped active campaigning in one or more primaries, although their names were sometimes on the ballot. On the other hand, candidates sometimes skipped primaries in states where they believed they would do poorly. Neosho Daily News People I The News Forty Years Ago March 25.

1936 Mrs. Leo Kulp, of 501 N. High entertained a group of little girls and boys Tuesday, March 24 in honor of her little daughter Geraldine's 3rd birthday. There were many games played and then refreshments were served to Lucy Mae Whiteen, Gloria Willis, Fleta Woods, Betty Rhinehart, June Young, Joe Pruitt, and the honor ee. C.B.

Anderson of 901 Young St. is in the employ of the Government in compiling a new history of Newton County, and is gathering data, securing information of all kinds which gave historical value. Fifty Years March 25. 1926 Mrs. Couzins and daughter, Mrs.

Freshwater, have returned to their home on Brook street after a three-months visit with relatives in Chicago. The Neosho Fire Company made a run to the home of A.R. McNabb, 514 S. Jefferson street, iate yesterday evening, the alarm being caused by a flu burning out. No serious damage was done.

Mrs. Rogers was hostess to the Wednesday Bridge Club, yesterday afternoon, at her home, 440 St. John street. MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (AP) Susan Ford is scheduled to arrive in Jamaica today for a four-day vacation, a resort spokesman said. Mtas Ford is booked to stay at the Roundhill Hotel near Montego Bay, on Jamaica's north coast, where former U.S.

first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is currently on vacation. GLEN COVE, N.Y. (AP) Soviet U.N. Ambassador Jacob Malik has left Glen Cove Hospital, 10 days after being involved in an auto crash that killed a mother of six. Malik, 70, wearing a neck brace, was discharged Wednesday.

He had suffered cuts and brusies, two broken ribs and a contusion of his kidney. His wife, Valentina, 50, who was with him in the accident, remained hositalized in fair condition with internal injuries. LONDON Russian ballet star Rudolf Nureyev has appealed to the British government to help him arrange a reunion with his mother, whom he has not seen for 15 years, government sources say. The dancer, who defected to the West in 1961, has asked Prime Minister Harold Wilson to use his influence with Soviet authorities to arrange for his mother, Parida Nureyev, now in her 70s, to be allowed out of the Soviet Union. Wilson advised the ballet star in a letter that the British Embassy in Moscow would do what it could to help, the officials said Wednesday, STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) The prosecutor in the tax evasion case against Ingmar Bergman says all indictments against the Swedish director have been dropped.

"Bergman has not made false statements in his income tax return of 1971 and consequently there has been no crime County Prosecutor Anders Nordenadler said An estimated 300,000 persons died in a hurricane which hit Calcutta, India, Oct. 7,1637. Bergman's friends reported the director was only recently released from a psychiatric clinic for treatment of a breakdown caused by the strain. The stage plays and film projects he was working on when arrested were stopped. LONDON (AP) Paul McCartney says the Beatles are not getting back together despite a ISO-million offer from an in promoter.

nterview in a British pop magazine published jay, McCartney said a reunion just for the money "would ruin the whole Beatie thing for me. "The only way the Beatles could come back together again would be if we wanted to do something said the 33-year-old singer-composer, who now leads the pop group Wings, which includes his in wife, Linda. The Beatles broke up in 1971. In an music Thursday, March IV show celebrates 20th year By JAY SHARBUTT AP Television Writer NEW YORK On April 2, CBS' "As the World Turns 11 celebrates Us 20th year on TV. It began as a 15-minute saga and now offers the nation an hour's worth of soap opera five days a Week, 52 weeks a year.

That's a fair log of longevity for a show that still is set in a mythical Midwest city of Oak- date, still emphasises traditional American values and still concerns the lives of the two families it began with, But it seems time to ask the show's producer, Joe Willmore, what he thinks of the new, often controversial tribe on the soap opera box, the ones who make and run about in "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman." "I'm not going to criticize them," says Willmore, 33. "But I will say I'm not sure they know quite yet what they want to be, whether it's a comedy, a satire or a serial." Willmore, who began with "As the World Turns" 7V 2 years ago and has produced it for three years, is able to watch "Mary Hartman" here now and then because his 12-hour working day ends at 8 p.m. and "Mary Hartman" commences at 11 on weeknights in Fun City. Having inspected it, he concedes "they do have a kind of thread of a storyline that takes them through five days of shows. "So from that standpoint, there a serial form.

But as far as what their basic intent is, be it comedy, satire or drama, I'm not quite sure they've really made up their minds." Willmore describes his own show as having "a positive an outlook that our people behave well, behave ethically, and that there can be a reward for people who do behave that way." Question: Has "Mary Hartman," which has featured an elderly flasher, occasional love affairs, even an episode centering on pot-smoking, caused basic changes in the way "As the World Turns" revolves around life? "No, no," Willmore said. "I think you've got to know what your audience is made up of. I think we have a responsibility to that audience. We don't want to alienate those people who've been watching it for 20 years. "They have a vested interest in this show and it's made the show No.

longer than any other daytime serial on the air. We also want to pick up new people and we've been able to do that. "I think this is because of the universal qualities, the universal values, the uplifting approach we present. And our audience seems to respond well to that," PRINT SHOW BOSTON (AP) A selection of 25 lithographs, entitled "Three Color Suites: Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis," will be on exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts through mid-May. The lithos were published in Paris by the dealer, Ambroise Vollard.

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