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Pogi 2 Great Bend Daily Tribune Friday, June 5, 1964 Rennie Brantz, son of Rev. and Mrs. Edward Brantz, former Great Bend resident, was graduated Cum Laude from Doane College, Crete, on June 1. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in history. Memorial Bay guests Mrs.

Don Weltmer and Kent, 2922 16th, were Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Dalke, Wichita; Mr.

and Mrs. Dan Harrison and Brian, Norman, Mrs. Fred Howard, St. John; Mr. and Mrs.

Gene Shumate and children, Colorado Springs, Colo. Kent accompanied the Shumates home for a visit. Did you know that for as low Wright TV, 1119 Main There will be a Basket Sup 5adv Mrs. Douglas Russell and Philip, 3301 Broadway Monday to make their homi in Oklahoma City, Okla. Attending the recent me and annual "short courses1 the Kansas Veterinary Medical Association at Manhattan this week were Dr.

and Mrs. Ho bert J. Weaver, 1412 Truman; Dr. S. M.

Tyson, Ellinwood; Drs. A. M. Coddington, Ralph Lowry and Byron Quimby, all of Larned; Dr. Frank Mc Creight, Lyons; Dr.

Cornell of Hoismgton and Dr. Charles Wilson, Ness City. "The Trespassers" are playing at the Plantation Club, Saturday, 10:00 p.m til 2:00 a.m. Food will be served from 7:00 p.m. til 3:00 a.m.

5 The 60th anniversary of the Knights of Columbus No. 862 of Great Bend, will be observed Sunday, June 7, at the 8:30 mass at St. Rose of Lima church. The solemn high mass will be celebrated by the state chaplain of the of the Very Reverand Father Erbin Lampe of ElDorado. Members will receive Holy Commun: in a body.

Joyce Briel arrived home this week from Valparaiso, where she has been a student at Valparaiso University. She will spend the summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin G. Briel, 1501 Broadway.

Joan Mumm and Fred Kast ner arrived in Great Bend June 4 for a week's visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Greg Mumm and sisters Mary and Katie, 806 Odell. Both are freshmen at New Mexico Tech, Socorro, New Mexico. Roger Marsh, 1907 Cottonwood, was called to Argonia to complete furneral arrange ments for his mother, Mrs.

Mabel Marsh, of Argonia, who passed away Thursday evening in the KU Medical Center where she had been a patient for a week. Funeral services will be held in the First Baptist Church of Argonia Sunday afternoon at 2:30. Friends who so desire may contribute to the Cancer Fund. Larry Merrick of Dodge City visited in Great Bend this week with his grandmother.Dr. Al ta Speaks, 3215 17th, his great grandmother, Mrs.

Nora Kearney and his aunt, Mrs. Viola Pence both of 1613 Morton. Larry has gone to Hutchinson to visit relatives before returning to Dodge City next week. Dale Koelling arrived home Tuesday from Boston, where attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a graduate student. After a vis it with his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Dean Koelling, 2530 20th, ne wui go to Livermore, where he will be employed at Lawrence Radiation Laboratories. He worked there last summer. Dale Will return to MIT this, fall to continue his stud ies as a physicist. Mr.

and Mrs. Kenneth Rauth ana Suzzanne of Orlando, returned home Wednesday after spending a week with his sister, Mrs. Robert Ingersoll and 2717 Coronado. Guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs.

Wesley Miller, Rt. 4, were Mr and Mrs. Robert Messerly of Turon, and Mrs. Richard! Messerly of Newton, Mr. and Mrs.

Bob Still and family of Martin City, Mo. Bob Still formerly worked at the booster station and is now a barber in Martin City. Mrs. Loren Johnson, Ricky and Dana of Perryton, spent Thursday with her sister, Mrs. Wayne Barger and family Rt.

1. They will return home Sunday after visiting with relatives at Larned and Macks port following Msgr. SWue per. IN FAV SPA PERI Funerals Lawrence J. Huslia Funeral services will be held in Cunningham, Monday for Lawrence J.

Huslig, 21, of Ureat Bend, wbo was killed early Friday morning in automobile accident near Ellin wood. Rev. Eugene Robl will offic iate at the services to be held at 10 a.m. in the Catholic Church at Cunningham. Burial will be.

in the Cunningham Cemetery. He was born Nov. 18, at Fowler, was a graduate of Cunningham High School and was an engineering at Kansas State University, Surviving are his parents Mr. and Mrs. A.

F. Huslig of Fenalosa, two sisters, Mrs. Arthur Wondra of Great Bend and Helen Huslig of he home; five brothers, Paul of Great Bend, Arthur of Ellin wood, Marcus of Ness City and Jerome. Erwin and Charles. of the homeland his grand mother, Mrs.

Josephine Husliz of. uaflin. r. There will be a Rosary Sat urday at 7:30 p.m. at the Kim pie Funeral Home in Ellin wood.

Walter S. Disnev HOISINGTON Interment rites for Walter S. Disney, 71, retired railroad employe, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday in the Eddy Funeral Home in Osawatomie. Mr.

Disney, a former Hois ington resident, died in his home in Osawatomie Wed nesday after a sudden illness. He had lived in Hoisington most of his life prior to moving to Osawatomie eight years ago. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Elks Club. Survivors are the widow, Ve and one daughter, Miss Frances Lou, all of the ho Masonic graveside rites will be conducted in the Great Bend Cemetery at 10:30 a.m. Satur day.

Friends may call at the Bry ant ryberger Chapel, Great Bend, between 9:30 and 10: a.m. Saturday. Clarence Edson Reed STAFFORD Funeral ser vices for Clarence Edson Reed, 82, former Stafford County commissioner will be held 10 a.m. Saturday in the Staf ford Church of Christ. Mr.

Reed, a retired farmer, died Thursday in the Stafford Hospital after a brief illness. Born Nov. 18, 1881 in Ray mond, he had lived here most of his life. He married Bessie McCune on July 29, 1903 in Stafford. She died' He was a member of' the Stafford Church of Chrisf." Survivors are two daughters, Mrs.

Marion Mather. Mrs. Har old Blackburn, both of Stafford; three sons, Gleon of Stafford, Wayne of Ulysses, Kenneth of North Port, two sisters. Gladys Reed, Mrs. Lester Tem plin, both of Wichita; 15 grand cnuaren; and ll great Burial will be in the Stafford Cemetery.

Friends may call at the Pea cock and Soice Memorial Cha pel in Stafford. Gerald M. Broadbrooks RADIUM Funeral services tor Gerald Martin Broadbooks, 54, are planned for 2 p.m. Saturday in the Radium School auditorium conducted by Francis Long, minister. Mr.

Broadbooks, Radium Coop manager, died at noon yesterday in the Gleason Hospital in Larned, where he had been a patient for one day. Born Oct. 8 1909 near Ra dium, he had lived here all of his life. He had been employed oy tne Raium Coon for' 30 years serving the last 20 as its manager. as married Dec.

29. 1934 to Helen Nauert in Hays. He was a member, of the Methodist Church in Radium; Masonic Lodge in Larned: and the Great Bend Elks'" Lodee. Survivors are his wife Hel en; one daughter, Mrs. Gary (uyntnia) FhiWps of Wichita; father and step mother, Mr.

ana Mrs. Walter R. Broad books of Radium: one sister. Mrs. Helen Talbott of Guy mon, uwa one brother.

yne of Scott Citv. Burial will be in the Pawnee Rock Cemetery with Masonic Graveside rites. Friends may call at the Cook and Weber Funeral Home in Great Bend until 10 a.m. Ted Kennedy Speaks Up For Johnson JEFFERSON CITY. Mo.

(UPI) Sen. Edward fTedl Kennedy (D Mass.) said Thursday night President Johnson is "continuing the careful policy of President Kennedy which seeks to reduce tensions, and turn the world away from war." Reif's four o'clock Sundav bilee Mass at St. Patripi'. Gas and flames still come from a ruptured 26 inch gas pipeline after an earth shaking explosion. 6 miles north and 6 miles east of Ellinwood around 1 p.m.

yesterday. The explosion, according to a Northern Natural Gas Pipeline Co. official, occurred after the line apparently ruptured during a high pressure test, allowing gas to leak. The leaking gas then caught fire causing the explosion that blew a hole about 30 feet, deep and 35 feet across the field owned by Leo Bieberle. (Tribune Press Photo) Explosion Rips Pipeline BUSHTON An earth shakvl ing explosion disturbed a quiet Thursday aiternoon when gas leaking from a ruptured pipe line ignited and blew out about 30 feet of the Northern Natural Gas main transmission line 12 miles northeast of El linwood.

The rupture, according Ted Ridgway, administrative coordinator for NNGP at Great Bend, occurred around 1 p.m. when the company pressured up the line above normal oper ating pressures for an annual safety check. The purpose of the check is to find any weak points along the four main transmission lines running through the area between Macksville and Bushton. Ridgway said it appeared that a small rupture developed the line during the. high pressure test and that leaking gas became ignited either by static electricity or by scrap ing rocks as the rupture increased in size.

The blast blew a hole about 30 to 35 feet deep and about 35 to 40 feet across in a field owned by Leo Bieberle. About eight to 10 acres of wheat the field were burned by the blaze that followed the rupture. The force of the blast was so great that a 15 foot section of the 26 inch pipeline was flatten ed out and blown about 100 yards to Ste east of the pipe line. A smaller eight foot piece of the line was blown about 200 yards to the southwest of the rupture: The heat from the blaze that followed was so great that ground for several yards around the crator was baked. Chunks of dirt and clay the size of bushel baskets were blown from around the pipe by the explosion.

Residents In the area said it sounded like jet airplanes fly ing over at low altitudes when the gas started escaping from the line. One resident three miles away said she could see the flames over the top of a shelter belt near her home. A newsman passing through El linwood some 12 miles to the southwest said he could see the flames from town. Flames, according to the residents, shot several hundred Motel Hotel Thefts Solved SALINA, Kan. (UPI) A Memphis, man admitted today that he took 26 television sets and failed to pay room rent at 30 motels in a least 15 states.

Lester S. Stanton, 23, was apprehended after a Salina motel owner saw Stanton taking a television set from a motel room. Stanton's wife, Paula, 21, also was held. Stanton also admitted a burglary, several forgeries and theft of a car. Police said Mrs.

Stanton was local motel. Police believe Uie couple trav eled through much of the n'a Church. Friends are invited to. ''on stealing television sets and attend and bring a Basket Sup other items from motal and ho iel feet into the air. One person estimated the flames at al most 1,000 feet.

Flames shot skyward from both exposed ends of the broken line until gas in the line burned itself after safety valves were closed. Gas in the line was detoured into adjoining lines during repair after the rupture. Ridgway said the line, installed in 1939, had been pressured up to approximately five fo six hundred pounds pressure before the rupture occurred. "We always expect these things during the test," he said, "but hate to see them happen." The test, Ridgway explained, was to put a load in excess of winter requirements to find any weak points. "We found it," he said.

Service to NNGP customers "along a 15 mile area serviced by the line was expected to.be restored by 7 p.m. Thursday. A 24 ineh, 26 inch and 30 inch line running parrell to the rup tured line apparently was not affected by the blast. Generals, Gl Joes Returning To Scene Of '44 Day Landing Unied Press Inernational OMAHA BEACH, France (UPI) American generals and til Joes of World War II today streamed back to the scene of the Allied Day landing for ceremonies which French President Charles de Gaulle has chosen to skip. By plane, train, bus and car an estimated 5,000 Americans and several thousands of their wartime British and Canadian comardes in arms converged on the Normandy beaches to mark the 20th anniversary of one of history's largest military operations the invasion of June 6, 1944.

Ceremonies begin tonight on the British and Canadian land ing beaches known 20 years' ago by the code names of Gold, Juno and Sword. They continue through Satur day at Omaha and Utah beaches and the village of Ste. Mere Eglise, where Americans fought and died for the libera tion of Europe from Nazi Ger many. The observance ends Sunday at the U.S. cemetery outside Paris.

De Gaulle Absent years ago. Where they remembered din of battle they found peaceful rencn snores. The rusted guns, the burned out trucks and tanks, the barbed wire and the concrete fortifications on which thousands jf their buddies gave weir lives 20 years ago have long since disappeared. But the memorials and tens of thousands of glistening white crosses in war cemeteries that dot. Normandy reminded them that this is hallowed countryside.

Mobil Honors Bob Larson Forty five years as a distri butor of Mobil Oil products was recognized Thursday night when Bob. Larson, president of Mer mg, was presented a Dla que by. John Seward, district manager tor Mobil. The event took place, at a dinner meeting held at the Petroleum Club. Mering was started in 1905 hv John Mering, according to Larson, and the first product sold De Gaulle, who was left out was kosene.

Later on, son of the invasion planning by his "erber Mering joined his father Allies, did not plan jo He delegated Raymond Trihou let, cooperation minister, and Jean Sainteny, war veterans minister, in' his place. The French government said it would not be appropriate for De Gaulle to be present when no other head of state or gov ernment was coming to the This position wasattacked by some sectors of the French press as an hnnecessary snub showing a lack of respect for the American, British and Ca nadian contribution to France's liberation. For the United States, Presi dent Johnson sent an offi cial delegation headed hv Gen eral of the Army Omar N. Bradley, with a message to be read at Omaha Beach cemetery Saturday. Ike Isn't Going Former President Dwight D.

Eisenhower, supreme com mander of the Allied invasion force, was not planning to at tend. Neither was former Brit Field Marshal Viscount Mnnfcrftmppv whn prtmmatirtprt another Salina motel when Allied ground forces. Stanton was apprehended at a I British, Canadian, Belgian, The Netherlands and Norwegian government delegations were also taking part. Veterans arriving at Omaha and the other invasion beaches found a changed scene and the company, was called Mering and Son. Forty five years ago the firm became associated with Mobil, as it is today.

The firm was incorporated about ten years ago as Mering, Inc. The firm has operated a station at 10th and Main since 1926 and another at the corner of Williams and Lakin since 1937, the year it was moved from Kansas to Lakin. Reading about someone, or see ing him on television, can make us that we know a person we actually have never met. Such is the case with Hen ry Stoner. I feel that I have come to know him through the petitions that he sends to Congress.

Every citizen, of course, has the right to petition Congress, but few bother to exercise it. Stoner is a truly exceptional About a year or so ago, I be gan to notice that almost every issue of the Congressional Record listed anywhere from one to a dozen or more Stoner pe titions. from thf one they knew 20 This struck me as so unusual Tense Labor Situation Eased At Three Plants By United Press International Tense labor situations were relaxed today at strike affected industrial plants in three states. striking steel worker.1 West Allis, agreed to post only a token picket line at the Pressed Steel Tank where 30 persons were arrested during four days of violence. Milling lines of pickets un successfully tried to fight off another "flying wedge" of policemen at the plant Thursday.

The police have been used to escort non union students into the strikebound plant. Two more arrests were made Thursday and a picketing union man was injured. Among the arrested was a Marquette Uni versity student newly hired at the plant who was nabbed when police found him carrying two boards with bared nails. Create Better Atmosphere A union spokesman said the decision to limit the picket line to IS men was taken to create a "better atmosphere" for ne gotiation with the firm. The ac tion is in no way a "conces sion," the spokesman said.

During the up to 170 pickets had massed at the plant gates in attempts to stand off the charges of 50 pohcemen. National Guardsmen and state police insured the peace at Hillsdale, where the International Union of Electrical Workers has been on strike against the Essex Wire Corp. plant in a bid for a contract. But Michigan Gov. George Romney has instructed his attorney general to find a legal way to close the Essex opera tion.

Romney ordered the plant closed a week ago after exten sive violence and allowed it to re open with non union labor Tuesday. Halo Bragalone, supervisor of the Essex plant, said Romney "has killed himself politically" by seeking to close the plant once more. "We aren't the first people to fight a government," Bragalone said. "Ought To Move" Union representative George Gould said, "if the company hours and working conditions. they ought to move out of town." Romney, in asking for a new way to close plant, said he was "completely out of sympathy" with the firm.

Things were virtually back to normal at Evansville, where non striking workers walked through Teamster Un ion picket lines Thursday to re sume production at the Interna tional Steel Co. Mrs. Asa Jolly STAFFORD Funeral ser vices are pending for Mrs. Asa (Delia) Jolly, 77, who died in the Stafford Hospital Thursday fternoon after a lengthy ill ness. She was born Oct.

27, 1886 in Stafford and had lived here all of her life. She married Asa Jolly on Feb. 14, 1937 in Stafford. He died in 1950. She was a member of the First Christian Church and of the Order of the Eastern Star for over 50 years.

She is survived by a brother, Ellsworth Senght of Wichita. Joseph Hamsmith Joseph A. Hamsmith, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.

J. Hamsmith, 2501 24th, died early Friday morning in an auto accident near Ellinwood. He was born March 26, 1943, at Hoisington, came to Great Bend with his parents when eight months old and lived here since. He was a graduate of Great Bend High School and had just completed his junior year at Kansas University where he was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He was a member of the E.U.B.

Church in Great Bend. Hand to hand battles hart been fought earlier in. the week ueiween ponce, striKers and non strikers'. A judge issued a restraining order against violence and harassment by the union. The Teamsters have been on strike for nearly two months in a dispute over the.union's first contract.

Three Killed (Continued rom Ps 11 believed the. soft ground saved uie man from more serious in juries. The officer said it took about 10 minutes for enough man power to arrive at the scene to lift the wagon off Polcyn. "It seemed like an eternity though," the officer said. The truck, loaded with 6,800 gallons of diesel fuel, apparently had stopped at the Santa Fe railroad tracks that cut through the curve as it, according to recording instru ments in uie truck, was travel ing at a slow rate of speed.

The truck was stopped within 62 feet of the point of impact ana uie car came to rest some 124 feet from the point of impact. Fox, while being given emer gency treatment at the hospital, told his parents one of the severe bruises on his arm came from where a nasserbv stepped on him while he was waiting for an ambulance. Murphy was assisted in the investigation of the accident hv Trooper Chuck Wickham, As sistant county Attorney Brock McPherson, L. E. Tindall and Garland Ballhorst of the Sher.

iffs department and members of the Ellinwood Police Dept. The three fatalities are the 7th, 8th and 9th for 1964 for Barton County. Hospital News GREAT BEND CENTRAL KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER JenTUiJrSeS' Hirvey D' Win, Mrs. Loren Deaths Funeral arrangements will be Breneman. Maeksville announced by the Bryant Fry LeRoy Rogers and babv bov.

berger Mortuary. I Rozel. that I counted up his annual output it ran well into the hundreds and wrote a col umn about it. Personal Interest Since then I have developed a keen personal interest in Stoner's petitioning. The first thing I do every morning is pick up a copy of the Record to see what "old Henry" has on i mind.

Until' last fall, Stoner dispatched his petitions from either Canyon Station or Old Faithful Station, Wyo. This led me to speculate that perhaps he was a geyser tender in Yellowstone National Park and that he wrote a petition each time Old Faithful erupted, i But in November, the petition's began to come from Wor Kutina. Mrs. William Viner, Mark Glenn Yahne, Sue Ellen Gerstenkorn, Christine Elaine Strawn. Mrs.

iroau, Marvin It. Amenne, Joseph Mavity, George Black well, Great Bend; N. Jim Haz emne, Bud Valerius, Hoisington; Judith Ann Walls, Charles w. Judy Lynne Green, St. John; Mrs.

Burl Schell. Garield; Ruth' Marie' Mermis, weat Bend. Dismissals, June 4: Virginia Lee Hull, Franklin Ratlief, Mrs. Kuth Nicola, Gordon Holt, John Hardin, Mrs. Gunn, Kathryn Matzek.

Kimberlv Kav Helfrich, Ronald Popp, Richard Popp, W. Sanders, Mrs. Edward Fischer and Terri Mrs. Jack Lague, Great Bend; Mrs. WiJliaim Nicholson and Kindle, Pawnee Rock: Mrs.

Li lian Zahorsky, Births, June Mr. and Mrs. Harvey D. Nylin, boy, 7 lbs. 8 ozs, Dr.

and Mi's. Loren J. Ku tina, girl, 8 lbs. 7 Mr. and Mrs.

William G. Viner, boy, 6 9Vi Great Bend. ELLINWOOD DISTRICT Admission, June Mrs. Ben Fuson, Salina. Dismissals, June Andrew.

uooi, uaflin; Mrs. Paul Andrea, Jeanne Martin, Mrs. Mel vin Martin, Ellinwood. Admission, June Mrs. Earl Gibson, Otis; Perry Gas away, Bushton; Charey Hu stead, Mrs.

Vonda Meys, Hois ington; Daryl E. Wehmeir. HuntsviUe, Ala. Dismissals. June Mrs.

C. D. Bradley, Great Bend; Kay Kea Gustus, Galatia; Dena Marie Hughes. Ottis Stoss. Tommy Lane, Mrs.

Wayne Ma upm, Hoisington. LAHNED ST. JOSEPHS Admissions. June 4: Mrs. Joseph Bircer, Mrs.

Harold Woods, Burdett; Albert Most ram, Garfield. DISMISSALS. June 4: Mrs. Lyle Traylor, Larned; Harvey Mrs. land, Wyo.

I therefore theorized that Stoner had left the park and gone into business for himself. At any rate, one of his petitions urged Congress to liqui date the Samll Business Admin istration. Later that month, however, a petition arrived from Shoshoni, asking Congress to figure salary schedules in terms of actual take home pay. This led me to conclude that Stoner was' back on the government payroll. Stack Of Petitions Then, in December, something totally unexpected happened.

Stoner sent in a stack of petitions from Avon Park, My first thought was that he had gone to Florida for a win Three Area Boys Win 'County Posts' Two Great Bend bnvs and one from Hoisington. were w. ted to county offices at the general election held Tuesday at the American Legion Boys' State at Lawrence. Rodney Hollis of Great Bitrt was elected probate 'iudire fnf Arnold County and Bob Scott of Hoisington was elected judgj of the district court in the same county. Dennis Margheim was elected a commissioner at Vandegrift county.

Building Permits Show Increase Great Bend Building InsSer tor Dick Gunn reports that per mit were lssueu in may lor a total of 49 projects valued at $535,890 topping each of the previous four months of this year by about $400,000. The two largest projects for which building permits were issued were the new building of Peoples Savings and Loan and the addition to the high school, which accounted for most of the value placed on six nonresidential permits issued. The amount in this catagory was $475,380 according to Oofc Goes To Paris PARIS (UPI) Presidential envoy George W. Ball flew in from Washington today to discuss the differing French and American views on Southeast Asia with President Charles de Gaulle. New York Markets NEW YORK (UPI) The stock market was on the comeback trail today as bargain hunters moved in to take ad vatage of the sharp plunge in prices Thursday.

The volume of trading was moderately ac tive. Many of the big blue chips which suffered the brunt of Thursday's selling, came back somewhat. IBM gave up some of its early gain but was still ihead VA. Du Pont rose 2, U.S. Steel Jersey Standard V4 and General Motors how ever, shaded and Bethlehem Steel V.

Chrysler added in thr autos, Ford and American Motors Va. Lukens was up 2 in the steels. The airlines were strong as a group. Northwest spurted 3, Delta 1, Western VA and Pan American 1A, American gained Vs. Control Data, which is to acquire full control of Holley Computer Products Advanced 2'ts.

Honeywell climbed 154, Mo torola va and Texas Instruments 1. RCA dipped M. Rail issues met continued selling. Illinois Central Industries was off 1V4, Norfolk Western 'A, Missouri 1 and the Pennsylvania Sears, which reported substan tial gains in May sales, rose 'A. Texas Gulf Sulphur added H4, Curtis Publishing Avon Pro ducts 3Vi, Xerox VA, Polaroid'.

VA and General Foods W. Dow Jones noon averages: 30 Industrials 807.22 up 4.74 20 Railroads 201.90 off 0.18 15 Utilities 140.01 up 0.44 65 Stocks 285.72 up 1.05' Sales to noon 1,906,000 shares Local Markets POULTRT and EGGS Large A 26e Med. Me Large 23c Light and Leghorn Type 4c Medium Hens 4'a 6 lbs. 6c Heavy Hens 6 lbs. 12c FEED Shorts 2.10 Bran 2.05 Milo 1.70 Grain Prices Kansas City Futures Great Bend Wagon Wheat 1.35 Open High Low Close July 1.56V4 1.56V4 1.55 1.55 Hey, Congress! Henry's Back In Action United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) ter vacation.

But when three more months went by and the petitions continued to come' from Avon Park, I surmised that Stoner had retired from' whatever he was doing in Wy oming and had moved to Flori da. The change seemed to do. him good, too, for he was never in "better form, petition wise. In April, however, the petitions abruptly stopped. Had something untoward befallen him? As the weeks passed petitionless my concern increased.

By the ted of May, I feared the worst. I may never know what caused it, but this week oh. joy! Oh, gladness! the, drought ended. The prolific pe titioner is back in action all's right with the warld. NEWSPAPER!.