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OUT OF ABILENE. From the New York Times: The things General Elsenhower has had to say since his return from Europe are Important, but they take on a real historic significance because of the qualities of the man who says them. This soldier, born In Texas, reared in Kansas town that has not quite forgotten the day's when the cattle and the cowboy's came up in clouds of dust from the old wilderness trails, talks the salty language of the midwestern democracy -and somehow makes himself understood from San Francisco to the zonal lines in Berlin. We have found a man who can speak for the millions of usand, let us. devoutly hope, the 200,000,000 who live In 'the free countries of western Europe.

To say that no other man in the United States can speak with the same 'authority is not to belittle any distinguished figure, from President Truman down. Dwight D. Eisenhower has come to his present position partly by being what he is and partly by the opportunities and education of high position. He is no Fuehrer, no Duce, no Little Father chosen by destiny to tell the rest of us what to do. Ile gives, can give and obviously wishes give no commands not based on powers duly conferred on him by democratic process.

He is simply man who 1s in a situation to be listened to when he says the right thing at the right moment. He has never run for elective office and yet in a sense he has been elected to do this thing at this time. General Eisenhower once said, to a London audience, "I come from the very heart of America." The reference was geographical; he meant Kansas, he meent Abilene. But the words had a deeper meaning. We need not say that Kansas is more democratic than Massachusetts or New York, but we can say that some regional traditions grew up there.

The people of the middle-west were close to the earth. They measured a man by what he was and could do. They hated all artificial stratifications in society. not strangely they produced a And--perhaps language which could be understood in foreign lands and divers tongues. It is this language that General I Eisenhower speaks.

It is this din- lect, over and above his military virtues and accomplishments, that made him an effective commander during the second World war and makes him the obvious military leader of the free world now. It is not a milltary dialect. General Eisenhower knew how to put hope and courage Kansas hope end courage, courage of the cattle treils, hope born of direct dealings with nature into private soldiers. He unlikely knew how elements to persuade work the most to together in 2 common cause Churchill, Montgomery. Giraud.

de Gaulle, even Zhukov yielded at critical points to the leadership of the man from Abilene. He knew how to trust himself, 25 2 pioneer must. thus he could order the Sicily landings in the face of a rising storm; overrule Churchill's original skepticism about the Normandy landings: drop two American airborne divisions behind the Utah beach when experts said the plan was suicidal. He has evidently carried these same qualities into his round of talks with the N.A.P. governments.

The language of Abllene has been understood in London, Paris, Brussels, Rome; perhaps, too, in Bonn. In detail these discussions have been complex, and almost unimaginable complexities lie ahead. In substance they have been simple, and so he makes clear. Shall 000,000 Europeans, 150,000,000 Americans, other millions elsewhere. give up hope of defending themseives and their liberties? Put that way.

the question can have but one answer. Shall the free nations bicker among themseives when a common effort alone can save them? That doesn't make sense in Abilene, nor in bigger cities and world capitals. General Eisenhower is persuasive at home, as he showed himself in his radio address. He has been persuasive abroad, too. The Abilene language has been understood.

We do not belleve Dwight Eisenhomer. considers himself a great man. We don't know that he is 2 great man. Churchill is supposed to hare said to him (in the Abilene dialect): "The reason I' like you, Ike, Is because you ain't no glory-hopper." It doesn't greatly matter. General Eisenhower has spoken for us all when we needed a spokesman, and that is glory enough for anybody.

Weatherman Harry Bishop's offidal thermometer registered .15 beLow zero on a recent morning when other thermometers were at a much higher leveL: Could it be that the official mercury was "teched" a bit by those experimental atomic expiosions out in Nevada? A girl who slaps her sweetheart may not want to burt his feelings so much as she wants to stop them. -Sharon Springs Times. Ohio State must be an odd school. It dropped a football player for. not making his grades Gazette.

Through a change in regulations, Army rookies again will be called privates. and anything else that comes to. the sergeant's mindVirg HUL. the MUSTERED OUT Charles W. Balley, 'who was A Methodist preacher in Kansas for more than an average lifetime, although '10 was not ordained until he was approaching 40, Is dead at 102.

Rev. Bailey died at the Winter veterans hospital at Topeka. He was qualified to be in that hospital because he was the oldest veteran in Kansas. He was the last Civil War veteran in 8 state that in once its had 100,000 Civil War veterans population. Of these 20,000 were Kansans who served In the army and came back home after their army service.

The others were veterans from the other states who struck for Kansas when they were mustered out. Charles W. Bailey was these. When he was 15 years among, enlisted in the Union army and left his Wisconsin home to serve for three years. After a rugged early experience in Kansas, Mr.

Bailey his wife both left the farm near Humboldt and at the age of 33 enrolled in Baker university. He graduated and entered the ministry. As a Methodist preacher he held pastorates in numerous Kansas cities, served the church as district superintendent and at the age of 90 retired. For a dozen years he cnjoyed his retirement. Reports from fumily celebrations and other events in his honor revealed that the venerable minister and veteran maintained an alert mind, a deep interest In the affairs of his country and rugged, determined and firm views with respect to the vital issues of the day.

His public and pulpit appearances as he reached the century mark were not short of amazing. Kansas must bow its head in tribute to her last "old soldier." His passing is ample cause to contemplate the part the veterans played in the development of this state. Their most important activity was as citizens taking 8 part in operating the government of Kensas. In short, the veterans of the Civil War exercised a controlling strength in the politics of the state for 40 years. Only about one-fifth of them Were in the great Civil War veterans organization, the G.A.R, Grand Army of the public.

But most of the leaders in those decades in Kansas were members of the organization And made themselves factors in determining the political decisions of the state. The G. A. R. guve leadership generally to most of the veterans.

Gradually the Civil War veterans' influence reached its peak and started down. This was due to the advanced age and to the natural loss of strength by death, things that were inevitable. For 20 years now the only Civil War veterans surviving were those who had gone into the service as mere boys, such 63 Mr. Baller, And so as Kansas takes leave of Rev. Bailey, it gives its farewell to the powerful group of Kansans who turned from war to peace.

The Kansans established farms and ranches, built stores and milis, opened law offices and doctors offices and operated factories and shops. In every community in Kansas they assumed leadership. It was that not merely political leadership they held. They were the moving spirits in industry and commerce and in community activities in all forms of progress that, put together, made up Kansas. The political power that was was not to be compared with the influence of these men through their communities in tie building of Kansas economically and socially.

And so the ending of Rev. C. W. Bailey's long life serves to dramatize, as his life symbolized. the influence of good in almost every field of action of the Civil War veterans who took up their duties in Kansas 75 or 80 years ago.

-Fred Brinkerhoff in the Pittsburg Headlight. ED REES ON THE SPOT is on right now, for example, While in town the other day, Mr. Rees was asked about the proposal of the Air force to appropriate million dollars for a new air base in Wichita. The Fourth district representative explained that this proposal really put him in a squeeze. He told a Gazette reporter he knew nothing whatever about the plan until the high brass came to him with it and requested he secure certain information and promises from his constituents in Wichita.

Meanwhile, other Kansas representatires and senators came out plenty strong against the new base, called it unnecessary and a waste of public funds, particularly since the big bomber field at Salina was available as well as other Kansas bases. Now there is 2 reported more(ment in Wichita to bombard Ed Rees' office in Washington with telegrams and letters urging him to do everything possible to land the prize for Wichita. But and here's the rub -there is a group being formed right here in Ed's home town to shower him with wires and airmail letters opposing the move on grounds of economy. And gressman Rees never has been one to shun the call of governmental economy. While Wichtia is the biggest city in the Fourth district and may honestly think the new base Is needed.

the other towns and counties in the district are reportedly hot against it. So there you have the makin's of a hot spot for any representative. If Mr. Rees, in the name of economy, comes out against the new Wichita base, he runs a great risk of antagonizing a big minority of his constituents. If he takes the other view, he will be going against the Judgment of many of his Emporia friends and staunch supporters.

Maybe he should play the old Army game, and simply pass the buck back to the Pentagon. -E. T. How would you like to be a congressman these days? Take the tight spot Emporia's Cong. Ed Rees Even as in Jerusalem.

people are being Gazette. THE EMPORIA WEEKLY GAZETTE FOR STALIN TO PONDER Do you sometimes wonder what Stalin thinks about? The old boy in the past has been given credit for much sagacity, and in planning his moves on the world chessboard, he is said to have remarked that he does not intend to make the mistakes made by Hitler. The supposition is, then, that he will not move for war unless he thinks, or feels sure that he can win. And today, as he ponders his relative strength, two things have happened in the world that litertally twice. may cause Old Joe to thinking Number one is the series of five atomic explosions in the Nevada desert.

The Implications hardly can b6: lost on Stalin and the Politburo, The blasts can only mean to the Russians, as they mean to the people of the United States, that this nation has a great preponderance of A-bombs and a variety of atomic tactical weapons probably now perfected, that would go hard on a land mass army. Number two is the almost miraculous reversal of the military situation in Korea. Being demonstrated now is the fact that a small wellequipped army with great firepower can stand off if not actually exterminate a much larger force, less well equipped. It all raises the question that if MacArthur and a handful of divisions in Korea can I stand off the hordes of the Chinese Red army, could not the 60 or 70 divisions which the western powers hope eventually to have in Europe, fight a successful defensive war against the Russian divisions? Of course situations prevailing in Korea might not be the same in Europe. But there is considerable ground for believing that the western divisions can keep ahead of the Russians in firepower and mobility.

At least the situation is one that may make Stalin ponder a bit, and Americans may feel sure they know what it is the Soviet premier is thinking T. THAT K. U. PLAYHOUSE From this oblique angle, it looks as if the Kansas taxpaying Christians are to be thrown to the roaring lions at the University of Kansas. This thrilling spectacle is set up for the projected million dollar fieldhouse which will make the coliseum in Old Rome look like an outhouse.

Adding 3 tinge of military necessity, the citadel on Mount Oread is to be called an armory as well as a fieldhouse. The senate ways and means committee, taking a nudge from the regents, who are wellgrounded in the lore of K. U. sports, has asked $1,863,000 more for the edifice. That would be added to three-quarters of a million dollars already appropriated.

The fieldhouse lug on the taxpayers would take three-eighths of all the money accumulated for state educational institution building construction the next two years. This sky-high priority that the K. U. playhouse takes in the realm of education is noteworthy. The senate bill ignores budget requests for such structures as a fine arts building for the university, an animal industries building at Kansas State college, an auditorium for Fort Hays State college, a men's resident hall at Kansas State Teachers college, Pittsburg, and 3 science building at Emporia State.

All these must be non-essential in the regents' and senate committee's interpretation of education. It seems the wheel that squeaks the loudest gets the grease. COULD BE There's 2 scientific expianation for girls who are boy crazy, a tells us. He says usually these sweet young things have mothers who were the same when they were young, but almost lost out when it came to catching man. And these mothers don't want their daughters to have so narrow a squeak.

A trade paper advises merchants to display "leader" Items on the right hand side of the doorway because more people who walk through a door want to turn to the right. If you want to sell to women, set up for business on the sunny side of the street; it to men, on the shady side. Next to a bank is said not to be the best location for: a retail store because most people who cash a check at a bank want to hold on to their money for a little while, at least, before they get the buying urge. Finally, it is explained. best results come from newspaper advertising which Is tied in with window displays.

Many a boy who loves rat-trap cheese has been so unfortunate as i to marry the boss' daughter and has to order some fancy brand just because he's ashamed to for his favorite. That's life, muses Judge of the Hays News, Cousin Tilly is ready to run the stag line bare-legged again if a nyion shortage develops. Anything to win the war, she says, even if it means the men don't whistle when they should. Goodland News. A 10-year-old boy has come up do with which an idea has for an atomic torpeattracted the interest of the Navy's ordnance chief.

Just shows what you can get out of comic books if you really put your mind to it. -Neodesha Sun. A wife sued her husband for separate maintenance on their 50th wedding anniversary. Likely I struck her as a golden opportunity. remarks the Lyons News.

He took it like a man. reports the Fowler News, and blamed his wife. i I of of of The freedoms we cherish in this republic are constantly encroached upon by emergency measures. In order to better fight our enemies the United States has seen an intices and gradually these crease of emergency socialistic accepted by the people. Probably there isn't any other way of getting.

a war job done, but the end result is that many of these socialistic Ideas stay Tuday government subsidies are common, yet when they began, they were called temporary measures. Government aid from the federal treasury has mounted ALS each emergency has become permanent. The more we look to Uncle Sam for paternalism, the further we are along the road to a socialistic ernment. Business accepts government hand-outs, so does agriculture, and industry: no one can claim immunity to being a part of unlabeled socialism. Which brings up an ironical point regarding the switchmen's strike.

The Independence Reporter points out that the "sickness" strike started over 3 demand for the 40-hour week at 48-hour pay, and recalls the shorter week has become so fixed that its ofigin is almost forgotten. While not a war gency, it came on as a depression emergency, when there was great unemployment and the shorter week was expected to spread work among more workers. But almost immedilately it was seized upon as a means for getting more money for working more than 40 hours in innumerable instances. The 40-hour week became the standard work week, particularly in unionized industry. Although some gradual shortening of the American working day and week would have come about as a result of growing recognition of labor, the depression-born idea stuck permanently, even during the war, just as other wartime practices stayed with us after V-3 day.

Recent proposals to increase the working week to 44 hours as 8 means of increasing production to combat inflationary effects of rearmament attracted little attention or public support. Obviously the "emergency" 40-hour week is now 2 "permanent right." A longer week won't come about unless 3 more stringent and extreme emergency than is now foreseen finally T. L. EMERGENCY CONTROLS THE STRIKE MUST END The director of mobilization, Charles E. Wilson, in a nation-wide I broadcast, told the striking railway trainmen: "I ask you to report for duty.

now, tonight, for those who should be working now--and to stay 021 the job as patriotic Americans. What you are doing can hurt United States more than all the Communist armies in Korea The Communists could not hope to be this effective if they started a full scale program of sabotage The whole country and our men overseas will be watching what you do." Coming from a man high In the government, a man charged with four nation's mobilization against potential enemies, this was strong language. By inferring the "sickness" munist strike was worse than sabotage, the Wilson statement placed a sabotage label on the strikers. So what happened? Some of them have returned to their jobs -but not all of them. Railroads in the vital Chicago area remain tied.

Freight is piling up in terminals and much of it is war material--including tanks for our troops in Korea. It may be by tonight the resistance of the strikers will have ended, but if not, the government will have to use even stronger language. Already the sympathy of the public toward the rail workers has been lost. A move to draft strikers who are holding their jobs by deferment has cropped up in Congress. Such a measure might be introduced and passed.

Congress might even resort to the World War I "work or fight" law. Regardless of the means employed, this unauthorized strike endangers the safety of the entire country and it will have to be settled, and settled without further delay. It does littie good now to argue the reasons behind the lay-offs. Any justification the workers may have had for their action is lost 10 the swell of public opinion against their cause. The country may be to blame for adopting socialistic practices in the past and being too free with federal paternalism.

Nonetheless, these points will have to be argued after needed rail transportation has been restored. As long as strikers remain away from their work. the weight of public opinion will now be against them. Only by heeding the patrilotic appeal of Mobilizer Wilson can they hope to get a fair hearing. Once more it is case of an illadvised action on the part of labor T.

L. Perhaps it's a bit earls, but know- ins legislatures it might be well to drop 8 hint in the hopper that the boys in Topeka should not forget how to adjourn. News is scarce these Gays around town, but not so scarce as news-. print around The Gazette office. With a carload of paper due to be (shipped from the mill in Canada, (the rail slowdown makes us sicker than the switchmen.

Stalin has been reelected to his present Job without a single vote cast against him. The north -end wards in Kansas City never did that well even in their palmiest days, quips the Meade CAN HAVE OUR CAKE is frequently argued that we cannot have effective national detense without lowering' our present high standards of living. Yet four of the country's top-ranking economists acting as a committee of the Twentieth Century Fund say we can have both, but only if we succeed in carrying through a realistic program of economic mobilization, If we are going to mobilize our economy, the economists call upon of us to accept personal sacrifices and reduced consumption durthe initial stages of rearmament. And if we succeed in the first phase of economic mobilization we then have the chance to progress toward the twin goals of adequate defense and rising living standards. But it is rugged road ahead.

It calls for sacrifices by the government and the administration as well as by the public. The chief immediate needs, this committee points out, are pay-as-you-go taxation (with a federal retail sales tax at least a possibility), a limitation of bank credit (accepting some rise in the interest rate on government debt is necessary), and a truce 011 customary contests of bargaining power and pressure among the interest groups. Even with eminent economists urging such a program, it is doubiful if the country is ready for so drastic a program now. The committee looks upon the present general freeze of wages and prices as a stop -sap measure to halt the spiral which is distorting the balance between industrial prices, agricultural prices and wages. The experts say price control must be backed by allocations in inany direcItions and some rationing.

and must have far better support from fiscal, credit and debt management policy it it is to have a chance of survival. It is to be hoped some such program can be carried through and that our national defense and an increased production with higher living standards call be acconplished, but we wonder if the try is ready for It. In the first place, people are not too well informed as to what to expect, while in present leadership is (not firmly held. The U. S.

may have to pay a heavy penalty for doing the job the hard. slow way, rather than accept sacrifices in an immediate initial period of economic T. L. Fire Ruins a Car Thomas Rush, 632 Union. received minor burns on his hands this morning when a car in which riding caught fire.

The car, driven by Ray Rush, 832 Union, on caught fire as the Rushes were riding on the Burlingame road six miles northeast of Emporia about 9 o'clock this morning. The fire started in the back of the car, but the cause is not known, according to Fire Lt. Frank Ragsdale. Emporia firemen poured 225 gallons of water onto the fire and worked about an hour and a quar-jers ter before the fire was extinguished. The alarm was turned In at 8 farmhouse near where the fire started.

By the time the firemen arrived, the whole back of the car was in flames, and the gasoline in the tank was burning. The tank did not explode. although it was nearly full of gasoline. The car, which was a total loss except for the part in front of the dash, was towed to Emporia. Firemen also went to the front of the Civic auditorium Monday evening at 5:50 o'clock, to wash down the street after gasoline had leaked from a school bus parked there.

Weller-Garland In a ceremony at the First Meth- odist church in Wichita Friday! evening. Miss Willa Jean Weller daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Weller, of Americus, became che bride of Norman Keith Garland, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas Garland, of Tulsa, Okla. Dr. Thomas A. Williams read the double ring service.

The bride chose a grey suit with pink accessories and a corsage of pink carnations. Mrs. Vern Briggs served as matron of honor and Johnny Carroll was best man. Both are cousins of the bride. Mrs.

Garland is a graduate of Americus high and has worked since that time for the Bell Telephone compuy in Chicago and in Emporia. Mr. Garland. a graduate of the Wichita schools, is now employed at the Boeing Jet plant in Tulsa. The couple will live at 5023 East Admiral Bird.

in Tulsa. Knapp-Darls The marriage of Miss Genevieve Norma Knapp. to Lyle A. Daris, of Wichita, son of Mrs. Dollie B.

Davis, of Mountain Grove, has been announced by her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Knapp, 730 Woodland.

The wedding took place in Kansas City. Saturday. Mrs. Davis is a graduate of Emporia Senior high school and is emplored as a dental assistant to Dr. John C.

Patton. Mr. Davis who was graduated from Wichita university in Jannary has been called to actire duty with the navy and has reported to Kansas City for assignment. CAR AND WIRE COLLIDE A telephone pole guy wire and 2 car collided Monday night at 11:10 o'clock at the corner of West and Sixth. Damage to the guy wire has not been determined.

but the car was damaged an estimated $45 to the front bumper and grill. Marie L. Jones. of Reading, driver of the car, told police that she was going west on Sixth and signalled to turn onto West. She thought a car behind her, also traveling west, was about to pass at the intersection, and she missed the turn and the car went up on the curb and struck the guy wire.

Mr. and Mrs. Allen Hutcherson. 831 East, are the parents of a son born today at Newman Memorial County hospital, Emporia, Kansas, Thursday, February 15, 1951 15. d.

ONE YEAR AGO THE SITE of the William looked like this. Materials Allen White Memorial library and equipment were on on the Emporia State campus ing February 6, 1950. Building In the background is the and first ground way broken for the buildground E-State gymnasium. THIS WEEK, AFTER A YEAR'S work is approaching completion and 1, 1951, is scheduled. (Gazette E-State's Phi Delts Hutchinson.

will give the welcome speech and receive the charter from Dr. William Smolenski. Dr. Karl Bruder, instructor of speech at Emporia State will be toastmaster and Dr. Paul McCleere.

president of the College of Emporia. will give the Benediction. Other Sigma Phi Epsilon guests John Robson, Kansas City, will be: Carl Peterson, Richmond. Judge Jay Sullivan. Emporia.

Dr. Rodger Moon, Emporia, Jean Fisher. Topeka, field secretary of Kansas Chamber of Commerce; Don With Sigma Phi Phi Delta Chi, 1102 Commercial, Emporia State social fraternity, will become effilliated with Sigma Phi Epsilon, national social fraterity, at a dinner at the Kastle Grill at 6:30 o'clock this evening. The group will become the Kansas Epsilon chapter of Sigma Phi silon, and will become the first member of a large national fratjernity to be placed on any teachcollege campus. At the dinner the grand president.

Dr. William Smolensky, of Denver. will give the main address: the grand secretary. William Hindman, of hmond. will speak: on behalf of Emporia State, V.

T. Trusler dean of men. will speak on behalf of of the college; Willis Shatter," an alumni of Kansas Epsilon will give the history of local chapter. Mr. Shaffer is the only person to win two Quigley Awards.

and is also an alumni of K.S.T.C. Dr. Clyde Meridith, Emporia, will I speak on behail of the alumni Li Kansas Epsilon. The president of Kansas Epsiion, Jack Ludwig. Jury Panel Named For February Term Jurors summoned for service during the February term of the Lyon county district court follow: Admire--Elmer Shaw.

Rt. 1. -Margaret Martin. Dunlap--R. A.

Baker, Edward Luginsland and John L. Wingert, ail of Rt 1. Hartford--Charles Gilligan, Rt. Ruby Peet, Rt. 3.

Miller Warren Guile and Cheever Blackwell. Olpe -Calvin Murphy. Emporia Mable Adams, 928 West: Etta May McCorkle, 309 Market: Ora P. Major, 508 Sylvan: 824 Conway Reese, Rt. 4: W.

H. Vorse, Congress; John McCreary, 910 Cottonwood: Harold J. Reeble. 629 Arundel; Maggie Short. 1025 Neosho: W.

A. Suddock. 1510 Neosho: Everett Thompson, 412 East Twelfth; L. M. Reeble, 1600 East Wilman: W.

D. Ott. 811 State; Harold M. Stonebraker, 418 South Market: Eva Ames, 1106 Union: F. A.

Procthman. 1340 Highland; Jack Brien. 318 Exchange; Inez Gritfith, 314 South Sylvan; Tillie Gritfith. 1701 Rural; W. W.

Ewing, 901 Constitution; Lillian Moyes, 11021 West Sixth: John Tuxhorn, Rt. 3: Harry Camine. Rt. 2: Ellen Reber, 1605 West Sixth: Fred Griffith. 1520 Market; S.

M. Austin, Rt. 2, and Mary Jones, 326 Exchange, Miss Marlenc Peterson, 1417 West, served as a member of the hospitality committee at an art education conference conducted at the University of Kansas Friday. School supervisors and univer-1 sity students were guests. Miss Peterson is a sophomore In the School of Fine Arts at K.

U. Miss Margaret Gaughan, of Reading, has been elected secretary of Morse hall, women's dormitory the Emporia State college campus. Miss Gaughan, daughter of Mrs. Tom Gaughan, is a freshman. HE the new hi.rary has grown good progress has been made on the engravings) Affiliate Today National Organization Calhoun.

Emporia, Green D. Wyrick. Instructor at Emporia State. Dale Hogan Neasho Rapids, In-: dustril Arts Instructor at Emporia State. Art Burdorf.

Emporia: Melville A Archer, Emporia, Joel Blount, Emporin, John Cundith Sterling. Charles Sanderson. Hamilton, and Neal Thompson, Cottonwood Falls. Representating other Emporia State social fraternities will be Jin Johnson. Phi Sigma Epsilen: Virg11 Pugh, Sgma Tau Gamma; Merlin Blomberg.

Alpha Kappa Lambda: Robert Howard. Kappa Sigma Enstion, and Bill Dickson, Mu Epsilon Nu. Installation ceremonies were held today at the Congregational Church ing and led schools: by teams from the Kansas Alpha chapter, Baker university, Baldwin. Buello. president: Kansas Beta chapter.

Kansas State College, Manhattan. Norman Held, president: Kansas Gamma chapter, university, Lawrence. Don president; Kansas Delta chapter. Washburn university, Topeka, Ed Hobble, president. Initiat- ing started at 8 o'clock this morning and ended with a meeting of the whole group at a body at four this evening.

Emporia members who were InItiated into Sigma Phi Epsilon are Kenneth Koch, Kelley Hearn. Robert Hughes, Car! Hoffmans. Ronald Rothfelder, Dr. Rolland Alterman, Dale Hogan, Melville Archer, Arthur Burdorf. Eugene Morland.

John Brockhouse. Robert Woodbury, Gerald Carr, Morris Carr. Marcus Eudaley, Robert Stauffer, and Joel Blount. TRUCK DAMAGED IN ACCIDENT ON BRIDGE truck collided with 3 bridge rail about 10 miles east of Emporia Tuesday evening. about 7:30 o'clock.

The truck. owned by the Kansas Soya Products corporation, was driven by Mac Henry Millison. 803 Exchange. Damages to the truck were estimated at $250. The bridge banister was damaged, but no estimate has been made.

Millison told investigating highway patrolmen that he was meeting a car, which crowded him into the bridge rail. PARKED CAR VICTIM OF HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER A hit and run driver struck a car parked in front of 211 East Thirteenth about 10:30 o'clock Tuesday. The car, which is owned by D. E. Cropp, 211 East Thirteenth, was damaged An estimated $25.

Minor damage to one car was the report after an accident at 6:25 o'clock Tuesday night Of South Avenue east of Congress. Involved in the collision were a car driven by Apolonio Conga Ley Palacio, of Bazaar, which was not damaged. and one driven br Mrs. Evelyn Rose Cyphers, 107 Market, owned by C. D.

Shirley, 2 South Congress. The Shirley car was damaged en estimated $15. About $75 damages was done to a 1951 Hudson, driven by W. Goodyear, of Wichita, in a collision with a car driven by H. L.

Bentley. of Saffordville, near the intersection of Sixth and Garfieid. Bentley's car was not damaged. Mr. and Mrs.

Derrell Merwin, former Emporians, announce the birth of a daughter, Ruth Ann, January 31 in Hayward, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Mitchell, 113 South Unirn, are the maternal grandparents and Mr. and Mrs.

Theo Hahn, 1106 Market. are the paternal great grandparents. HE 10 tinpressive proportions. Exterior interior. Completion by September SUPT.

RICHARDS TO A SCHOOL CONVENTION Supt. W. M. Richards will be one of the interrogators at an afternoon discussion group on the cational Planning of School' BulldIngs." at the seventy-seventh nual convention of the American Association of School Administrators in Washington, D. February 17 to 22.

The schedule of programs this year is built around the theme, To Keep Us Free." Among the speakers will Charles E. W11- son. former president of General Motors, Carlos P. Romulo, Philippine delegate to the United Nations and Governor Allan Shivers. of Texas.

Superintendent Richards plans to leave Emporia for WashIngton February 15. Big Attendance Is Expected for E-State Band Clinic Feb. 17 More then 100 directors from Kansas high schools and colleges have notified Emporia State college. that they will attend the college's state band clinic here February 17. Band directors, music educators and their students throughout the state are Invited to attend the sessions and a crowd of from one to five thousand is expected by college officials.

Among the guest conductors will be Paul Yoder. vell known arranger of band mush from Chicago; Myron Russell, director of the Town State Teachers College band: and Bernard Fitzgerald, associate professor of music and director of bands at the University of Texas. The Emporia State college band directed by Raymond Mannoni, will play a concert for the visitors nt 9 o'clock Saturday morning. Part of the clinics and discussions will take place in the Civic auditorIum and the remainder will be held on the Emporiz State campus. Spanish American War Veterans and Auxiliary To Emporia in May Emporia will be host to Spanish American War veterans and membets of their auxiliary at the state convention May 19, 20 and 21, 1t was announced at a meeting of Harry Easter camp United Spanish War Veterans at the I.O.OF.

hall Sunday. The convention was originally scheduled for Junction City but the town has become crowded because of the defense activities in that area and sufficient housing facilities were not avallable. Charles Reist, state commander, and Mrs. Bertha K. Lawrence, head of the auxiliary, will be In Emporia in March to make arrangements for the convention.

Theft Suspect Is Caught Near Emporia Joe Marcus, reported to be one of six men wanted for theft In Miami county. has been returner there by Sheriff Kenneth Cook, of Paola. Marcus was arrested Sunday night by Lyon county officers, who picked him at farm north of Emporia. Sheriff Ai Locke also secured leads on two other wanted on theft charges and has given the information to Miami county officers. The man picked up here is sala to hare abandoned a truck in Kansas City which was loaded with loot.

The truck is said to have carried holes made by bullets fired by officers in an attempt to stop the truck. her daughter, Mrs. Floyd Reser. and family. Mrs.

Gus Graber, 709 West, has returned from Burbank, where she has been visiting with.