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Umuutl Award Students Start Ft. Nays Grant HAYS An unusual icbolar- inip nu been ettablithed at Fort Hays State College by a group of students who have selected this means to honor a teacher who has wielded "a wonderful influence on their lives," W. scholarship has been created by botany students over a period of many years who have'made donations totaling more than $1100. The money has been deposited and interest accrued will be used each year to finance the award which is a book scholarship. A local committee tf former AJtwrtMB via select ontsUadinc sen- CawkerCiry Club Boosts New Bridge CITY-Cawker City's Commercial county-wide Club is leading a drive in Mitchell County to get approval of $175,000 in bonds for a new Higgins bridge across the Solomon River south of here.

Mitchell County citizens w21 vote on the bonds at the Nov. 4 general election. The Commercial club is sending groups to every town and community in the county to ask folks to approve the bonds. The new reinforced concrete bridge would replace an old wood-cteel structure, on the Cawker CUy-Tipton road, The county "engineer's office has announced eight miles of the road which is presently unsurfaced will be blacktopped soon under a secondary road program. County commissioners and the Beloit Chamber of Commerce are on record as favoring the bond issue.

Commissioners said they believe the bond issue could be paid off over a 10-year period with a 1-mifl-per-year tax levy. The original bridge was constructed about 1900, and was "patched officials said, after serious in the 1951 flood. damage Do you need another employe? Hundreds of readers are looking through the classified ads ever) day. Phone TA-3-6363 and an ad- taker will help you with your ad. tor fradute stwtot MI tl MfttUrthif potential research ability.

The to used for books to a Dr. Gerald Tomanek, professor of botany, has served as Coordinator of project which had its inception about a year age when a group of former students ot' Doctor Albertson's were drinking coffee and discussing bis work in dia. They determined to contact former students who night be interested and found the response gratifying. The fund is expected to grow, according to Tomanek, and the first recipient will be announced this spring. Stellar Scholars The following north central and northwest Kansas high school students: are listed OH honor rolls for the first six weeks of the 1938-59 school' year: Lontford: Hlih Honor JloB: Senim Bar bam George, Karin Ferguson and Janice Hefgele.

Wava Clark and Cheryl Freihnwn VlcM Blake. Honor KoU: Connie Bergrneisr, Andti Hamme. Pbyjlls and Marvin SteenbocK. Diane Cooney Ruth fer, Virginia MatBon and Evelyn Davii. Sophomom Sally; Kltchner, Kay Burt.

Benfer and Maey. Freihmen Stuart McCready, Philip Beder and Marsha Honorable- Mention: Carol Wells. Jtmlon Larry Scrlpter. Freddie Helgele. Fralunen Maxlne Smith.

Heads Methodist Seminary In KC EVANSTON, HI. (AP) The Rev. Dr. Don W. Holter of Garrett Biblical Institute yesterday was named president of a Methodist theological seminary which will be opened in Kansas City next year.

His appointment was made by the seminary's trustees. Dr. Holter, who is a professor of missions and Christian world relations at the institute, has been a member of the faculty since 1948. While president of Union Theological Seminary in Manila he was captured by the Japanese and held a prisoner from 1942 to 1945. He is a graduate of Baker University, Baldwin City, and Garrett and received a doctor of philosophy degree from, the University of Chicago.

lOWMl Friday, October 31,1958 Central And Northwest News Thayae Smith, District Editor Sunflower Seedlings CLAY CENTER Seventy-one Clay County farmers have indicated they will sign conservation program contracts for. 1959. The farms would involve 5104 acres of land, and if all 120 signed, 23 percent of Clay County's crop land would be in the conservation reserve program. VESPER Spring and winter apparently are mixed up in the Ash Grove community near here. Mi's.

Ora Brown recently found an iris in bloom in her flower garden. Another one, is budding at present, LINDSBORG The Bethany Concert Band- will make its season's debut at 8 pm Nov. ,8 in Presser'Hall. The band will play numbers by Franck, Schuman, Rimsky-Korsakov and Symphony No. 6 for Band by Vincent Persichetyi.

Conductor of the band is Lpwell Boroughs, assistant professor of woodwinds and theory at Bethany College. McPHERSON Attorney L. H. Ruppenthal, McPherson, has been named chairman of a.McPherson County Educational Survey Committee. Bob Burkholder, Windom, is vice-chairman.

Other members of a steering committee are Joe Ostenberg, McPherson; Melvin Torre, Canton; Clement Baldwin, Conway, and Jim Lambert, Inman, It GREEN Green Rural high school has been authorized to issue $1800 in emergency warrants to pay for repairs to the high school building. No decision has been announcet on an additional request to issue $3200 mare in bonds. The requests for the emergency bonds were filed with the state board of tax appeals. OSBORNE The weekly Os borne County Farmer this week started its 85th year of publication here. The old Osborne Times, now the Farmer, was founded in 1873.

The paper was suspended in November, 1874, and the plant sold to F. H. Barnhart. He established the paper again a short time- later and it has been published con- inuously since. MINNEAPOLIS MAN WITH A HOOK--Minneapolis station agent M.

L. Wampler stands in front of the Minneapolis train station with train order hook used to relay messages to the passing trainmen. (JOURNAL PHOTO) Siencil-Painting Popular, Glasco Teacher Discovers By Mrs. Dale Brown Camp Webster, northeast of Sa- GLASCO Farm women in this Una. area won't be singing the blues on America's Cfiess Hopes Resf With By Frankie Sharp NEW YORK (AD-There's Batman book oh his bed side table and a rock 'n' roll program blaring over his radio.

He's slouchy, gangly and crew-cut. But Batman is sprawled over an open chess book and his nail-bitten fingers are deftly moving chess pieces over the black am white board which means more to bin than anything else in, his life. Bobby Fischer doesn't want to be a baseball star or a footbal player or the most popular fellow at the prom. He wants to be chess champion of the world--and i) seems a pretty sure bet he will be. Honor At Stake Most Americans don't know it, bnt their honor in a big international contest with Russia is rid- ihg on the thin shoulders of this 15-year-old boy from Brooklyn.

Bobby is hailed by the experts the. greatest chess miad the world has produced in many years. "He- doesn't look like one he looks more like a farmer's boy than an intellectual--but he is a genius," says. Haris Kmoch, secretary 'of the Manhattan Chess Club, which is the nerve center of chess in the United States. He has become ah international grand master--the youngest-in the long history of the will meet the world's top seven players this year in a challenger's tournament.

The exact date, and place remain to be determined. The winner will get a track at the pretent worM charnploi, Russia'! Mikhail Botviimlk. Bobby, who could give a clam lessons on how to keep its mouth shut, won't $ay what he thinks of his chances. Nobody, else thinks ne will make il this time. -But nobody thought he AMERICAN PRODIGY --Bobby Fischer, 15, hailed as a budding chess genius, studies next move during tournament match in New York.

He'll play in world chess championship this year. (AP Photo) national competition, tied for fifth place--winning his place in the star-studded Challengers. Bobby has few friends his own age. He comes home from school about 2 o'clock and picks up a chess book. Every spare minute, he is either reading about chess, analyzing moves on his bedside chess board or going somewhere to play chess.

"Bobby isn't interested In anybody unless they play chess--and could -win the American chess there just aren't many kids who To make friends with Bobby, you not only have to play chess recent international chess tournament in Yugoslavia. Bobby, playing in his first inter. -you to play good choss. Bobby lives with his mother in a small fourth-floor walkup apartment in a neat section of Brooklyn. His 21-year-old sister, Joan, lived there too until her marriage last month.

Their parents separated when Bobby was 2. He's No Problem Mrs. Fischer, a University of Colorado graduate, is a registered nurse now earning her MA degree. Bobby, she says, is no disciplinary problem. "There's nothing to discipline him about," Mrs.

Fischer explains. "The only thing I do is nag him to take his nose out of his chess books and go outside for some fresh air." long winter days this year. Instead, they may be busy painting stencils on linens. Mrs. Richard King, Glasco, will conduct a class in stencil-painting at the Polly-Dell stencil factory here.

Women will learn how to decorate tea towels, pillowcases, lunch cloths and other home linens with pretty pictures and designs. Teaching Easy Teaching others is easy for Mrs. King, who lives on 'a farm eight miles east of Glasco. She had taught several classes in stencil- painting for home demonstration units in the area. Included were classes in Concordia and at community club groups in the area, and even one class at Abilene To Host Holstein Sale ABILENE The 16th annual sale of the Kansas Holstein Association will be held Nov.

1 at the Central Kansas fairgrounds in Abilene. The sale has 40 consignors, and will feature all Kansas cattle. E. A. Dawdy and Gene Watson, both of Salina, will be the auctioneers.

Fifty steers, selected by a nine- man committee which traveled to Holstein farms throughout the state, will be sold. Mahaska School Names Royalty MAHASKA Judy Tuma and Doyle Lowe have been named queen and king of the Mahaska high school for 1958. Miss Tuma is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Tuma and Lowe is the son of Mrs.

Ilene Lowe. Attendants are Shirley Svoboda, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Ladimer Svoboda; Bob Huber, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Huber; Mary Taylor, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Archie Taylor, and David Lowe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Lowe. The Mahasfca team will finish its season Friday with a Washington County league game at Haddam.

The Mahaska team, playing 6-man football, has won six straight games. Chapman Faculty Honors Board CHAPMAN Members of the Dickinson County Community high school faculty were hosts at an annual faculty-board of trustees dinner in the homemaking department. The dinner was prepared and served by the 10 members of the second-year homsmaking class under the direction of Loretta Sawih. The girls include: Jo Ann Bathurst, Tana Marston, Patricia Sanchez, LaDonna Sheets, Karen Fischer, Louis Walters, Vera Mur- risen, Ruth Bert, Donna Frey, and Eunice Hoover, all sophomores. Tne camp weoster class, conducted this summer, attracted more than 200 women from 20 counties.

"I became interested in stencil- painting through HDU work," Mrs. King said. She spends endless hours with paint brush in hand, bending over garments and Area Folks Head Kansas Extension Groups MANHATTAN New officers for the associations Kansas home economics agents, Kansas county agricultural extension agents, and Kansas County 4H Club agents were elected at a meeting here. The annual meetings of the associations were in conjuncton with the 44th annual conference of extension service workers, which continues through Saturday morning at Kansas State College, Manhattan. President From Beloit Rosemary Crist, Beloit, takes over as president of the Home Economics Agents association, with Mrs.

Kathryn Sughrue, Garden City, as president-elect. Other officers are Kindler, Oberlin, first vice president; Mrs. Juanita Johnson, Girard, second vice president; Dorothy Hoyt, Pratt, secretary; Mrs. Clayre Ratdaff, Columbus, treasurer; and Mary Meek, Abilene, historian. The two men's organizations both will be headed by agents from Wyandotte county.

Harry Duckers is president of the county agents, and Bill heads the club agents. Elect Stockton Man For the county agents, Gerald 0. McMasters, Stockton, was elected vice president, and James W. Sturdevant, El Dorado, secretary-treasurer. The other club agent officers are Bill Collins, Newton, vice president; Bill Willis, Wellington, secretary-treasurer; a Roger Hecht, Paola, reporter.

'-c tJflBk rV NEW OFFICERS (from left) Beverly Kind loit, president; Mrs. Juai Kathryn Sughrue, Garde tary; Mrs. Clarye Ratzlaf historian. articles she plans to give to friends. Her work has won her numerous top awards at the Cloud County fair and she prides herself in the perfection of her paintings.

"I have learned a lot through experimenting," Mrs. King said "Certain materials are easier to work with than others and when you are going to spend many hours on a project, you like to know ths kind of materials that are going, to give you tic besl results." Grows On Them StencU-painling sort of grows on women, Mrs. King said. "The best thing, they can always find something around the home to practice on. Women arc usually interested in 'perking' up their home in some manner." At Halloween Party firemen Blaze "RicAf Af Home" SOLOMON Members of Solomon's volunteer fire department didn't have to go far to fight a blaze Thursday night.

The firemen were having their annual Halloween party for youngsters, of the city at the city hall. The Solomon Boy Scouti prepared 2M sacks of popcorn as part of the treats for the youngsters. Assistant Fire Chief Lewis Brewer put the popcorn in a big box and sat the box on a furnace to keep the popcorn warm. You guessed it. The box caught fire.

Firemen carried the box outside and extinguished the blaze, but not before the contents were ruined. After a short wait, the children still got their treats. The Boy ing called by firemen. Scouts prepared another MO sacks of popcorn, and all the kids candy, gum, and of course, hot popcorn. Five, prizes of $1 each and 20 ol 50 cents each were awarded for the best costumes at the party.

Donnie Seward was the winner of a $5 award for being home at 9 am following the party. Ha was the first to answer when be- Former College President Dies In Ohio Friday, Oct. SI- CLEVELAND (AP) -Dr. Hugh Kelsey, president emeritus of Sterling College at Sterling, died yesterday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Robert French, in Cleveland Heights.

He was 86 and retired as president of the college in 1946 after Serving 13 years. He lived with his daughter after his wif? died several years ago. Funeral services were scheduled today ot First United Presbyterian Church. There are three other surviving children: Dr. Alfred Kelsey, pastor of a Presbyterian church at Cedar Rapids, Iowa Dr.

Hugh E. Kelsey, an official ofj the board of fireign missions of the United Presbyterian Church in New York, and Mrs. Elizabeth Kirmear of New York. Kelsey Hall at Sterling College was dedicated to the former president four years ago. He was a native of Richmond, Kas.

Area Students In Bethany Recital LINDSBORG Students from this area will appear in tlie biweekly recital of students in the college of fine arts at Bethany College, Tuesday at 5 pm in Presser Hall. From this erea: Calvin Almquist of Bridgeport, tenor; Nelson Williams of Salina, bass and Alan Leaf of Lindsborg, French horn Others appearing in the recital: Elaine Dryden, clariast; Eldon Eliason, tenor; Alice Woodard, violinist, and Vaughn Lippoldt, tenor. The public is invited. Grange Opposes Budget Sessions Friday, 31-PITTSBURG (AP) The Kansas State Grange wound up its annual meeting yesterday by passing a resolution which proposes elimination of the every-other-year budget sessions of the Kansas Legislature. The resolution said the sessions serve little purpose except to provide "a political convention for the major parties." Another resolution opposed corporation farming "whenever it in-! terferes or eliminates the family- type farm." Action on resolutions closed the four-day meeting and they covered many subjects.

One favored a state severance tax. Another said the state and federal taxes on gasoline for non- highway uses should be deducted at the time of purchase instead: of being refunded later. Another said there should be no gains tax on property condemned by the government, provided the owner had it five years and puts the money back into like property within, two years. August Good Business Month LAWRENCE, --Kansas sales tax collections on August business --a barometer of the state's business activities reached an increase of 2.5 percent from the prior month and 25.8 percent from the same month a year ago, according to an analysis by the University of Kansas Center for Research in Business. The over-the-year advance is due almost entirely to the 25 percent rise in the sals tax rate that went into effect on June 1.

Collections on sales made during the 12 months ending with August amounted to $50,971,463. This represents a 12 percent gain over the corresponding period a year earlier. Part of this advance resulted from the tax 'increase. A comparison of August tax collections this year with those of last year indicates a 1.6 percent overall loss for the state in retail sales this July from July, 1957. Sixty counties recorded sales gains while 45 counties recorded decreases.

Practically all of the counties situated in the eastern part of the state registered losses. Twenty-four counties registered increases exceeding 20 percent. Sharp gains were reported for Greeley, 63.7 percent; Gray, 61.5 percent; Ness, 59.9 Hamilton, 57.2 percent: Fire Destroys Covert Home Do you need another employe? Hundreds of readers are looking through the classified aas every day. Phone TA-3-6363 and an-ad- taker will help you with your ad COVERT Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the home'of the F. E.

(Jack) Murphy family here. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy, and a daughter, Dina Faye, were asleep when the fire started- Murphy was awakened by sounds cf the flames, and found the porch and part of the walls bladng. No one was injured.

The fire was oui of control when: help arrived. Only a few items of furniture were saved. Find Soldier's Body At Abilene ABILENE (AP) The body of Paul L. Woodworth, a 31-year-olc sergeant at Ft. Riley, was found near his' car yesterday.

He apparently committed suicide. His wife and a neighbor, Mrs. John Poister, found the body rmles from the Woodworth home. CCA To Build Area Warehouse MCPHERSON' Consumers Cooperative Association, Kansas City, has announced it will build a large warehouse near the NCRA Refinery here. Six months will be needed to complete the building, officials said.

It will replace a smaller CCA, warehouse on NCRA property. The proposed new building will provide 30,000 to 36,000 square feet of floor space plus offices. The contract, will be let and work started within the next 30 days. The CCA has a similar warehouse at Phillipsburg, serving Northwest Kansas. AUTOMOBILE FINANCING Money To Loan Finance Credit Co.

109 E. Iron Salina, Kansas Dial TA 341331 Hallmark Official Into Retirement ooFALSE TEETH Rock, Slide or Slip? FASTEETH, an Improved powder to be sprinkled on upper or lower plates, bolds false teeth, more firmly In place. Do not slide, slip or rocK. No gummy, gooey, pasty, taste or feellng.FASTEETH is alkaline (nonacid). Does not sour.

odor Get FASTEETS at KANSAS CITY (AP) The re- drug counters everywhere. tirement of Raymond Hall as financial vice president of Hallmark Cards was announced today by Joyce C. Hall, president. Hall, who has reached retirement age, said he will continue his other business and civic activities. He is chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

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