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i. Rites St, losiph, Niwi-Prm, Thurtday, Oct. 2, 1 9B9 7A Friday A South Side Pross Cross, Veteran Lawyer-Politician if. You can't stop Former Benton Grid Queens to Appear at Football Game Friday 1958; Mrs. Marilyn Hook Smith-son, 1958-1959; Mrs.

Garnet Starr Payne, 1959-1960; Mrs. Gail Willis Reed, 1960-1961; Mrs. Marthalee Zembles Lofts, 1962-1963; Mrs. Marty Parrish Mears," 1963-1964; Mrs. Shelia Faudere Roberts, 1964-1965; Mrs.

Mary Frakes Green, 1965-1966; Mrs. Pam Jennings Canterbury, Miss Debby DeVall, 1967-1968; and Miss Jennifer Moore, 1968-1969. This homecoming activity is a special project of the student council. Ten girls at Benton were nominated last week for the title of football queenElections are being held today to determine the winner. A committee of students and teachers will counHhe ballots.

The'results will remain secret until just before the coronation ceremony tomorrow night. ill JMTMMM4MMM "it -f 1 9 9 9 it rt so i' to smock 1 sum 8 -t-e. tst VjtUrJZA CLOSED Pross T. Cross, 93, Lathrop, former state legislator well-known attorney, and. veteran 1 Democratic died, yesterday at a hospital in Kansas City.

He was the father of Judge Gerald Cross of the Kansas City Court of Appeals. f. A native of Caldwell county, Mr. Cross was the- son of Col. John A.

Cross, a Civil War veteran, frontier scout and early-day Clinton county lawyer. He studied law in the office of his father and was admitted to the Missouri bar in Clinton county in 1896 when he was 20. The following day, he won his first case in court. Mr. Cross often recalled that he began the study of law books as a boy, lying on the floor and reading by lamplight.

Pour of his brothers also became laywers. Was Floor Leader Mr. Cross was elected to the Missouri" House of Representatives in 1905 and was re-elected in 1907 and 1909. He served as floor leader and was responsible for the passage of bills correcting abuses by railroads and corporations of that time. Many of the bills remain unchanged today.

Among the bills he sponsored, was one raising permissible damage for a wrongful death from $5,000 to $10,000. In one year, while in the state legislature, Mr. Cross introduced 15 bills, 13 of which were passed. In Novembert957, Mr. Cross Services for Gun Victim Services for Lawrence E.

Boiler, 49, will be tomorrow at 2 in the Rupp chapel, the Rev. A. Moncrief, officiating. Burial will be in Ashland cemetery. Mr.

Boiler died Wednesday night from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the heati. Officers said he was at his home, .301 West Kansas avenue, when he sholuJiimself-witha-12-guage shotgun. The death was -certified -as a suicide, by Dr. M. E.

Grimes, coroner. A lifelong resident of Buchan an county, he had been in the PatimtOverrlnconvenience Welfare Costs Up in Missouri JEFFERSON CITY (AP) -The impact of easier, welfare qualifications and higher benefits showed again in August, the division of welfare reported Wednesday. The changes became effective- July 1 but their full effort was not felt until August when an increase of nearly $370,000 in cost was experienced. In. July the increase was nearly $350,000, so the over-all boost is around One of the big causes for ihe rise, aside from higher maxi-.

mum benefits, was a U. S. supreme court decision that residency requirements 1 no longer, valid. In the past, Missouri has required that a welfare recipient must have been a resident of the state at least a year. what" happened to the programs individually between July, when the first impact was and the full brunt reached the welfare pocketbook: Old age assistance total August cost, of $6,957,036, up $242,003.

There were 94,061 persons on Jhe rolls, up 566, and the average grant was for $76.66, up $2.25. Aid to dependent children-total cost of $3,640,767, up LAWRENCE BOLLER Funeral services will be conducted 2:00 p.m. Friday at the Rupp Chapel. Rev. A.

Moncrief Ashland Cemetery. PallbtJren: Clarence Murphy, terry Wolferton, Robert Stcd, Frank Graves, A. E. Joseph Taylor. RUPP FUNERAL HOME 4054 Fryer mmmmmm AD 8-1797 This new Lee Jacket is suitable for almost any casual, sport or work occasion.

Made of quilted nylon with a fiberfill lining, it is light weight, yet extra warm, even in extremely cold weather. -S- M-L-XL XXL SI 0.95 Avoiloblt in Olivt Green, Navy and Black Completely Washable Complete lint, of Let Work III YN'oYrinj? M-rN Good natured patience is. reflected in the top photograph, a. scene that greets motorists at the intersection of Alabama street and King Hill avenue. Work on route 752 is in progress in this area and barricades have been set up while the work is being done.

The Smock pharmacy, 610i King Hill avenue, was completely barricaded as the lower photograph shows; Dick usedto -such- barricades, decided that the sign would be his way of fighting the temporary inconvenience to his customers. The contractor says paving of Alabama street will start tomorrow if weather permits. That means down with the barricades and then, of course, down with Mr. Smock's signT He hopes. Fifteen former Benton High School football queens who reigned during the years 1952 through 1968 Will take part in the homecoming festivities to morrow night at the Benton football field when the yet-to-be-selected football queen for 1969-1970 will be crowned before the Benton-Mary ville game.

The 15 former queens will ap pear oi the field during half-time activities- escorted by members of the ROTC honor guard. Gifts of appreciation will be presented to them by the newly-crowned football queen." The former queens include Mrs7 Helen De Vorss 1951-52; Mrs. Virginia Nicholas Dow-den, 1953-1954; Mrs. Donna Parker Kush, 1955-1956; Mrs. Dixie; Reno Dolton, 1956-1957; Mrs.

Carolyn Still Meyers, 1957- Ideal Rebekahs to Meet Friday Ideal Rebekah Lodge will meet tomorrow evening at 8 at the King Hill I. O. O. P. Temple, 5605 Pryor avenue.

Mrs. Beulah Hogan, noble grand, will preside. Officers of district No. 2 will be guests. Serving on the entertainment and refreshment com mittee are Miss Elma Hillen, "Miss Hazel-Hillen and Mrs.

Geraldine Culp. Time Change at Carnegie Baptist Last Sunday was promotion day at Carnegie Baptist Church, 6520 Carnegie- street. All students in the church school were promoted to new classes. Beginning next Sunday, the times for services at the church Mexican NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) Civic leaders launched today a boycott on nonessential travel by Mexicans to the United States. heH3oyc'6ttrbed)persF tion Dignity, was in reply to Operation Intercept, the wide-flung U.S.

screen against narcotics from Mexico which has" sharply reduced the dollar tourist trade. Meanwhile, Dr. Alfonso Qui-roz Cuaron, leading Mexican criminologist Jnd narcotics authority, said Operation Intercept would, have no effect on major smugglers and would only pro-tiuce "a wavfrof "anti-Americanism along the border." Operation Dignity was put into effecthere.and.at Juarez, across- the fiver from El Paso, but efforts to enroll other major border cities were running into resistance. Community leaders in Tijuana, Mexicali and Nogales opposed it. Some Resistance Operation Intercept" involving searches of all persons and ve-ides crossing the border Mi discouraged mercial traffic from Brownsville, to San Ysidro, Calif.

rThe objective" of Operation Dignity, said Rafael Longoria, president-of the Nuevo Laredo Chamber of Commerce, "is to create pressures on higher level officials to do something to end this humiliating situation." Indignation Noted Launched Sept. 21, Operation. Intercept has aroused widespread official ami unofficial indignation in Mexico. Operation Intercept has yield- Travel" Rovcott 5 1 I fruit 'market, business most of 767. The rolls Included 115,81 mothers, unemployed father! and children, representing 31, 692 families.

That was an increase of 2,488 individuals or 711 families. The average payment per person was $31.52, up" IT, or $114.88 per family, up $3.52. 1 Aid to the permanently and totally disabled total cost of $1,405,469, up $35,287. The rolls-included 18,158 persons," down 35, but the average grant was for $78.29, up $2.11. Brother, Sister Share Estate A son and daughter of the late Mabel L.

I. McPherson received $58,654.39 each from estate, according to an inheritance tax report filed in the court of Probate Judge Richard W. Dahms. The listed the totaL value of Mrs. McPherson's les- tate at $150,609.12.

The son and daughter sharing in the next 'of the estate are Alexander L. McPherson, WinfieW, 111., and Jane Gray Carpenter, St. Joseph. J. Included in the listing of the expenses of the estate is the fattorney fee of $1,625.37 for R.

E. Douglas, and the inheritance tax appraiser's fee of $263.41 for William Rosenthal. Mrs. McPherson died Aug. 23, 1967.

1 October Is National Restaurant Month! "It's IN to Eat Out" So Drive In for a SNACK or A MEAL TJiraATiircwciciN" Dinners Tubi Barrels SHRIMP SANDWICHES SALADS-BAKED BEANS I Se I ARNOLD'S I THIRST-T DRIVE IN Phone AD 8-4480 1 Closed Mondays I Clothes and Casual Wear Plenty Fret) Parking Open Daily 8 to i King Hill and Hyde Park Quality tMtddlnr nil type nil iir.f nit wonderful value 2 i' EASY TERMS ftrtfl hrltnej). Phont 238-0o74 t7rrT VU7VU7 ii "Itli id will change. Church schooHrill begin at 10 in the morning with Sunday worship services starting at 11. The youth choir of the church will- practice at 6 Sunday evening and the evening worship service will begin at 7. The youth fellowship will meet at 8:15.

NOTES AND PERSONALS The Over 60 and advanced oil paiMing-xlassesfelteyC5n munity Center will meet tomorr row morning fronnfl to 12 in the center lounge. Mrs. Margie Walker is the instructor. A Western style dance will be held Saturday night at 9 at the Local No. 58 union hall, 228 Cherokee Street.

Entertainment will be furnished by Bobby Lee and theJStrangers. Coffee and soft drinks will be available. All are invited. ed up no large narcotics caches, but U.S. officials believe it has crubed the inflow of marijuana and opium.

Official Mexican concern is that the border searches im-n peril the inflow of U. S. dollars. orde transactions the1 money Americans spent on the exican srae or tne boundary onr business or tourism grossed $713 million for Mexico last year. Mexicans" spent 1437 millions on the U.S.

side. The $276 million difference, plus income from dollar tourists other, parts of the country helped Mexico nearly balance a $527 million deficit in 1968 trade with the United States. Drop in Business Longoria said firms here catering to tourists hotels, restaurants, curio shops report business is down by more than 50. per cenjU-i-T; "In a way," Longoria saiti, "the American operation may prove beneficial in the long run. Mexican shoppers are discovering that canned goods, shoes and other articles they bought in the United States out of sheer inertia are available here and in as good a quality." Dance Clubs Don Echols will be the caller at the dance held for the1 Swiss' Pairs and Squares Dance Club Friday night from at-the Swiss" Lodge.

"All Western-style dancers will be welcome. Cemelete Selectie. CAMPUS SWEATERS Pellever emet Cardleoe HAROLD'S 112 lllieel Ph. 231-0711 his life but had been in -poor health the past several years. He.

was a member of the Frazer Baptist Church. Surviving are his wife. Pearl; a son, Charles, Boiler, St. Jo- was honored by the Missouri car Association at a dinner in St. Joseph.

Attending the event were the late Governor James T. Blair, members of the Missouri Supreme Court and Federal and state jurists. Tribute by Blair Governor Blair paid tribute to Mr. Cross at the dinner. He called Mr.

Cross "one of the great lawyers of Missouri and one of the really fine humanitarians." "His word at the bar has always been good," said the governor. -A plaque also was presented to Mr. Cross. In part it read, "Mighty champion of right and justice under the law and fearless advocate4 of the common man." Mr. Cross, along with being a member pf the Missouri Bar Association, was affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and had been a Mason more than 50 years.

He was engaged in exr tensive farm operations and was president and manager of the North Missouri Telephone Co. Besides his son, Gerald, Mr. Cross is survived by a daughter, Miss Laura Cross, who is an attorney in the office of the chief engineer of the department of the army in Washington, D(C. Services will be at 2 tomorrow at the Bailey funeral home in Lathrop with Clay County Rogers, a veteran lawyer, officiating. Burial will be in the Lathrop cemetery.

Wilcox Services a Services for, Robert LeRoy Wilcox, 33, former resident of St. Joseph, will be Saturday at 2 at the Stanton mortuary, Atchison, the Rev. Wylie Lath-an officiating. Burial will be in the Severance, cemetery. Mr.

Wilcox was killed early Tuesday morning after his semi-trailer truck, went off the median on Interstate 80 and overturned about 16 mjles Wth of Kearney, Neb. He was a truck driver for the Yellow Truck Lines out of Kansas A native was a resident of Kansas City at the time of his death. Mr. Wilcox was a member of the Spypranrg Methodist Church and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 1175, Atchison.

Surviving are three- daughters, Miss Bobbi Wilcox, Miss Terry Wilcox and Miss Jackie Wilcox, all of St. Joseph; two sons, Michael Juigene Wilcox Allen Wilcox, both of St. Joseph, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Wilcox, Atchison; a sister, Mrs.

Jean Bechtold, Hiawatha, and two brothers, Harold Wilcox, Atchison, and Clarence Wilcox, Augusta, Kan. Ring Is Uncovered NEW ORLEANS (AP) The police department announced today It has broken up, a police burglary ring operating in the city since 1966 and said 14 per sons were charged and eight policemen suspended. Police Supt. Joseph I. Giar- russo made, tne announcement ing.

We don naven miorma-tion that other men will have to be booked," he said," but he didn't rule that out. -Giarusso said the-14 people charged included seven active patrolmen, four former patrol-men, one retired captain and two civilians, one of them a woman. "You name it, they took it," Detective Chief Maj. Henry Morris said of the king's burglary take. He said merchandise stolen included everything from cookies 'to 'firearms, jewelry and television sets.

Giarusso, who said; some of the offenses dated back to 1966, said at least $19,000 worth of merchandise was stolen and about $3,700 worth of it was recovered. 2 Escape Kansas Honor Farm LANSING, Kan. (AP) -Two men walked off the Kansas State Penitentiary honor farm sometime early today, prison officials reported. They are William Robert Hnrn. 20.

of Kansas Citv. and Edward A. Smith, 23, no permanent address. Horn was serving a sentence of 1-5 years, for grand larceny. Smith warserving" 10-21 years lor nrsi oegree rooDery.

For Results Use Want Ads I Police Theft --5. wplH4wetherarBFy-Boll-4nirrracy i oieei Sign Import Aid Pact SAIGON (AP) -U. S. and Soutlr Vietnamese "'of ficia signed an. agreement today giv' ing the Saigon government an additional $40 million in import The money is for imports of iron and steel products, chemi- cals, plastics, machinery, fertili zers, textile fibers and truck tires and tubes.

The U. S. aid director in Vietnam, Donald G. MacDonald, said the new allocation will bring to $80 million the amount, allotted South Vietnam in the current fiscal year under, the commercial import program. unaer ine program, me money is paid in the United States to manufacturers who ship their products to South Vietnam.

MacDonald said the additional money will, ensure a "steady flow of essential imported goods necessary to the commerce of the country and the development of the economy." 2 Men Switch to Parties of Wives MANCHESTER, (AP) Two women running for town treasureriinall7 have their hus-1 bands in their political corners. The men switched, their party affiliations to those of their wives. 9 Paul Tucker, husband of Democrat Ruth Tucker, went from Republican to Democrat and Raymond Quish, husband of Republican incumbent Rosalind Quish, changed from Democrat to a Republican. News-Press and Gazette want ads get results because they are well read. 233-6181.

er, St. Joseph, and Frank Boll er, Blue Springs, two half-brothers, James C. Boiler and Jonathan Boiler, both of St. Joseph; six half-sisters, Mrs. Harriet Stagner and Mrs.

Bonnie Hoover, both of St. Jo-seph; Mrs. Bertha Free, Little Rock, Mrs. Sarah Wam-' pier, Dearborn; Mrs. Betty Herbert, Easton, and Miss Ruth 7 Boiler, Omaha, and nine grand-' children.

The body is at the Rupp mortuary. Rites for Infant Graveside services for Christopher Barron, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. David Barron, 1724 Belle street, were held this afternoon at Mount Olivet cemetery, Msgr. Emmett Summers officiating: The Rupp mortuary was in charge of arrangements The mora To Court Over Bull A-replevin-action involv ling a bull was filed in mag--istrate court here today.

The man 'who filed the action said another man was keep his bull. "He said my bull killed one of his'' cows; but it didn't," the petitioner told Mrs. Naomi Phillips, clerk in the court of. Magistrate Margaret Young. A hearing will be held to determine ownership of the bull.

New Assistant Prosecutor William E. Alberty, 25, will begin work next week as an as sistant prosecuting attorney, Prosecutor Hugh A. Sprague said today. Judge William Kimberlin said the circuit 'court en bank had approved the appointment of Mr. Alberty and Donald E.

Parker, former assistant city attorney who assumed new duties Wednesday as an assistant prosecutor. Mr. Alberty is a native of Canton, and a graduate of Culver-Stockton College He earned his; law degree at the University: of Mis-souri, Columbia. Mr. Sprague said Mr.

Alberty-had been associated with a law firm in Columbia prior to accepting the position here- Robert Payne is the other assistant prosecuting attorney Major Gain in Postal-Receipts St. Joseph's postal receipts last month showed a whopping 15.1 per cent increase over figures for September, 1968, As sistant' Postmaster W. Lee Marks said today. Receipts last month were $157,574.83, compared with $136,953.13 for the same month a year ago, Vinton E. Schocn, chief ac countant, said receipts for the first nine months of the year total $1,421,072.67, up 2 per cent from the same figures for 1968.

STAMP HONORS APOLLO 11 NEW DELHI, (AP) The Posts and Telegraph Department plans to issue a special commemorative stamp in early December to honor the Apollo 11 voyage to the moon. IRREGULAR? PUt TO LACK OF FOOD BULK IN YOUK DIITP NEW BEDDING at October Savings CLEARAMCE Jack Silvtrglat'i ORIGINAL nicht at a St. JosepVhospital, Survivors in addition to his parents -include the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wit liam Littler.

St. Josepn; tne paternal grandparents, and Mrs. Ben Barron, St. Joseph; the paternal great-greadmoth- er. Mrs.

Carolata Herrera, at, Joseph, and the paternal great- grandfather Tony Joseph. Stevens Rites Services for Mrs. Beulah Stevens will be tomorrow at 3 in the Stamey chapel, the Rev. Francis Perkins officiating. Burial will be in Mount Mora Mrs.

Stevens, 83, a native of L'tica. died Wednesday morning at a St. Joseph hos-' pital after an extended illness. A resident of Joseph more than 50 years, she formerly resided at 2117 Joseph llilHlllMiBIBWMi 1 Tw Leetlm Strytnj St. Joiph ind Trad Aril Hem, 1102 Unleni lNw EifChipt.

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