The Kansas City Times from Kansas City, Missouri • 3

THE KANSAS CITY TIMES FRIDAY JUNE 11 1954 3 3 Hear Free Parking for Woolf Bros -Matnal Garage 11th and Baltimore HARRY DUNCAN IS DEAD HOLD BOND TOTAL MANAGER OF FAIRLYLAND PARK WAS A VETERAN SHOWMAN Proposals to Raise Amount to Go Before Voters Are Turned Down by Council Group Many of His Civic and Fraternal Interests Centered on Helping Youngsters He Founded a De Molay Chapter 4m GOULD KEEP PRESENT LEVY Some National Parks Admittance Fees to Go Up Washington June 10 (API-Visitors to many national parks are going to have to pay higher admittance fees Secretary of the Interior McKay today announced approval of a number of increases in fees charged visitors to parks monuments and other areas administered by the National Park service He also approved establishment of some new fees In some instances existing fees are trebled and in a number of cases they are doubled However no changes were made in the fees for a number of parks and other areas Harry Duncan 72 manager of Several Groups Discuss With the Fairyland park for the last Finance Committee Shifts and Increases in Funds twenty-five years and a veteran Rath Fair's "Powder Puff" Cotton showman of Kansas City died last night at the home of a son Program Will Be Kept Within the Rev Herbert Duncan 439 (1 Mf HMk the 50 Million-Dollar Plan Payable in Six Years West Fifty-eighth street He had been 111 six months Mr Duncan was born and A brand new polka dot dress with a crispness and freshness never known before It's brilliant Ruth Fair's powder puff cotton light and cool and completely lined in organdy Here is the little girl look at its most fitting lettering! Navy or grey with white sizes 10 to 16 2995 Exclusively ours reared in Kansas City He Members of the city council finance committee worked as a boy on a merry-go BOY DROWNS IN A POND round in old Troost park and were urged by representa always retained his love for the open air amusement business In CLAY COUNTY FARM MISHAP VICTIM tives of various organiza IS CHARLES PHILLIPS 7 4 which he was nationally known Had Headed Union Local tions at a hearing yester HARRY DUNCAN manager of Fairyland park died last night at the home of a son the Rev Herbert Duncan 439 West Fifty-eighth street Mr Duncan was a native Kansas Citian and a nationally known showman He was president of his grad The Kearney Lad Had Been uation class at Central high school here was president of fashioni third Hear Playing With a Friend Also Neither One Able to Swim day afternoon to increase by several million dollars the proposed city bond improvement program for the August 3 primary journeyman plumbers union local No 8 from 1911 to 1913 and retained membership in pipefitters local No 533 mittee of the Citizen Bond com He organized the Heart of election America chaper of De Molay was active many years in De Molay work and was known to thousands of Kansas City boys mittee also asked for an increase in the $537000 bond proposition for hospitals They also urged that $50000 be set aside for rehabilitation of the receiv Charles Frederick Phillips 7 of Kearney drowned yesterday afternoon in a pond on a neighbor's farm The boy had been visiting a friend Jimmy Ellington 7 whose parents Mr and Mrs Ben Ellington live on the Theodore Eissler farm adjoining the Phillips property on the east about six miles west of Kearney ateaVaiu bbibibLI aaakaipO bkW aa bvV Basa IbirbI aaNel ak arl BFawW UIBI aaaBisV am by the nickname of Dad However Councilmen Ilus Davis and Don Jackson approved an ordinance for a vote on in general obligation bonds and annther measure for a vote on 72 million dollars in water department which was given him early and ing ward for General hospital No 1 and that the remainder of $300000 allotted in the program clung to him Mr Duncan was exceedingly active in civic causes through lor that purpose be earmarked revenue bonds Councilman Har for rehabilitation of the south west wing of the General hos the years He was a captain in the Allied Charities drive in 1933-34 and a general in 1935-36 and about eleven miles east of pital and for plumbing and wir ry Davis third member of the committee said he desired not to act on the general obligation bond measure until after He was in charge of handling the ing repairs at the Leeds tubercu crowds and pacKing and distrib losis hospital Smithville The parents of Charles are Mr and Mrs Donald Phillips Girl Gives the Alarm "I had just finished getting it was amended uting packages for the Mayor's Psed Fortney a member of Ilus Davis and Jackson said tne park board recommended that $500000 be included in the 6everal suggestions for amendments would be discussed with bond program for purchase of other members of the council Don off to work when Ramona Ellington (the daughter of Mr and Mrs Ellington) came running up to the house and said Christmas Tree for twelve years He served with the executive committee of the Retail Grocers food show for twelve years He filled a big part in work for the President's birthday ball in 1939 1940 and 1941 and that the amendments could be made later on the floor of tour large parks in Kansas City North and that $500000 be restored for improvements at 'I think Chuckie has drowned" the council Paid Out of Revenue Mrs Phillips said "By the time the bwope park zoo Fortney said the board rec He was master of the Kan we got back to the Eissler farm Theodore and Ben had pulled General obligation bonds are sas City Masonic Lodge in ommended that $750000 in the bond program for improvement of boulevards in Kansas City paid with tax funds The rev enue bonds for water depart ment improvements would be 1920 president of the Advisers Club of De Molay in 1923 adviser of the Heart of America chapter of De Molay 1923-25 monarch of Elysian Grotto in 1932 a member of the Ararat paid with revenue from the sale North be reduced to $250000 and that the $500000 be provided for acquisition of the four of water The councilmen said they de parks There also is $250000 in sired to keep the general obli Shrine the Lotawana Shrine gation bond program within the club the Optimist club the An 50 million dollar recommenda kara Grotto the Oriental com- the bond fund for improvement of parks in the area If such a transfer were not feasible Fortney said he believed the board would favor elimination of the tion of Cookingham city mandery No 35 Knights Tem manager and Rollin Agard plars the Orient chapter No director of finance 102 Royal Arch Masons the Chuckie out and were giving him artificial respiration "They worked on him five or ten minutes and then I suggested that we take him to the hospital in Smithville All the way in Theodore must have been driving seventy or eighty miles an hour I breathed into Chuck-ie's mouth and sucked out water from his lungs When we got to the hospital they (hospital attendants) worked on him for about five minutes Then they said he was dead" Boys Go to Pond Eissler and Ellington said the boys had gone to the pond while he and the Ellington family were eating dinner about 1:30 o'clock Eissler was planting corn on the Phillips property $500000 for a forest preserve Hesperia chapter of the Order along the Blue river to provide Both officials said the present levy of 50 cents on each $100 4-Piece Safari Set for Boys 3 to 8 995 of the Eastern Star the Ameri $500000 for the four parks The park board Fortney can War Dads the Heart of America Showman's club the assessed valuation of real estate and personal property would be sufficient to carry out a 50-million-dollar program over six added also believed that the proposed $400000 for completion Kansas City St Andrews so of the Starlight theater could be ciety an honorary member of reduced to $200000 and that years Richard Righter a vice 5100000 could be eliminated the Mount Washington Masonic lodge an honorary member of Cecil Daylight Masonic lodge president of the Chamber of from the $423000vallotment for development of the Cultural When vacations come every boy turns jungle hunter and explorer He can dress the part In this washable long-wearing jungle outfit Commerce said the board favored the bond program and that and a member and former president of the National Associa Center park to provide funds They had been gone about ten tion of Amusement Park Man for the zoo improvements Such changes should be considered by minutes when Jimmy ran into agers the house tne council ne said of khaki colored cotton twill authentically copied from the real thing Includes pyth helmet short sleeve shirt elastic-back shorts and long trousers with elastic back waistband Sizes 3 to 8 995 "Chuck is in the water" he Ehinger a lawyer and Plan for School Children Mr Duncan was the origi told his father property owner in the Northeast Eissler and Ellington ran to nator of the plan of having annual Parent-Teacher association the pond and waded They Industrial district said he would oppose some of the bond proposals unless they were more definitely earmarked for certain varsity second floor picnics at Fairyland park Chil found the -boy under the water it would approve an increase the bond interest and retirement fund levy to 60 cents on each $100 valuation if necessary to complete a real improvement program Righter said the chamber favored appointment of a citizens advisory committee similar to the committee appointed to advise city officials on the 1947 bond improvement program For Caution on Stadium In connection with the proposition for 2 million dollars for purchase of the Blues stadium dren from schools all over Kan near the center of the pond The pond is about forty feet across sas City attended The plan was adopted nationally and is being followed in many other cities propositions He asserted some of the projects voted in the 1947 bond improvement for the indus and four to five feet deep Eissler said neither of the boys could swim Surviving are his wife Mrs trial district have not been car ried out Myrtle Duncan of the home Phillips works at the Owens- at Lake Lotawana two other The ordinances will be sent to sons besides the Rev Herbert the council for second reading mis atternoon Final action is Duncan who is pastor of the Righter said the chamber rec expected to be taken next Fri First Congregational church Corning Fiberglas corporation in Kansas City Kansas He learned of his son's death when he arrived at work He was called back to the hospital by one of the nurses The boy is survived also by a sister Alano May Phillips 6 ommended that the city obtain a purchase option on the sta Harold Duncan 4746 Roanoke day dium if possible pending as REPAIRING DAMAGED LIFTS parkway associated with his father in the management of Fairyland park and Dr William Fire at Quality Hill Building Put and a brother Donald Franklin Duncan 808 West Sixty-ninth Elevators Out of Order street a brother Taylor Dun Fun in Fabrics Phillips 4 his paternal grandmother Mrs Bertha A Phillips Repair work on one elevator damaged by a fire early yester surance of obtaining a major league baseball team and that the city not invest in the stadium prematurely The council was urged to increase to 8 million dollars the 6-million-dollar bond proposition for livestock and exposition buildings at the 134-acre riverfront site acquired for a stadium 3118Vi Gardner avenue and the can of Los Angeles and a sister Miss Edith Duncan Los Angeles and five grandchildren day at the Quality Hill Towers apartment building 929 Jeffer maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Clarence Sowers Atchison Kas son street was nearmg comple DEATH ON ROAD ACCIDENTAL 1) Frosted pink faded blue navy brown or charcoal 693 2) Linen with travel black navy natural red or white 795 3) Rhinestones on charcoal navy faded blue or red 695 4) Linen-black navy natural red or white 695 5 and 6) Natural burlap with amber stones 795 tion late last night A second elevator a combination freight and passenger cab was de arena in a resolution adopted by the board of directors of the stroyed Saddle and Sirloin club Paul Hamilton read the reso Coroner's Jury Reports on Crash Which Killed I Fitzgerald A Johnson County coroner's jury yesterday declared as accidental the death of Gerald I Fitzgerald 68 of 5362 Mission Woods road Mission Woods Fitzgerald was struck and killed by a motor car Wednes The manager of the building said the north elevator was not damaged heavily and service would be restored soon to the ten floors Work will continue on a 24-hour basis until the service lution which stated that the club has a membership of 300 resident and junior members in floor I' -ivay shoe fourth Greater Kansas City and that its on the south elevator is restored day night an highway 50 purposes are to improve and perpetuate the American Royal Live Stock and Horse Show to tne manager said near Mission Woods road promote and improve livestock and agriculture in the Southwest and to assist organizations of farm youth The original recommendation of the Citizens Bond committee as for 8 million dollars but the council reduced it to 6 million dollars James Kemper president of the Downtown committee and Max Skeer a member of the Land Clearance for Rdevel opment commission which has charge of slum clearance proj jjo oil JJrofliery ects lor the city urged restoration of 1 million dollars to the 5500000 proposition for redevel opment of areas with substandard buildings The V-k million dollars would be to pay the city share of the loss in acquiring WATCH REPAIRS Corel ut WcrfcmontMs Quality Parts ADD A PORCH Free Estimate ANCHOR "SB IO 9731 clearing and selling the areas GUARANTEED for redevelopment by pnvat capital Build Up Tax Base Being an early bird is FuH Cuorontet at Satisfaction The federal government pays 0 Come See Cook' Complete Selection of PROMPT OfPCNDAIlf ARTISTS9 SUPPLIES at 1319 GRAND and 600 48th IPIasal SERVICE! commendable but having a bank account to back up your aims is more practical! Come to Westport Bank Is Old Westport Westpert and Broadway Member KMC I CtEARANCE 1 CzJlfi STORE A Wt at 23 MAIN STfl two-thirds of the loss Such projects add to the taxable property values in the city in addition to eliminating substandard buildings Mack president of the Building Trades council also urged the redevelopment bond increase Mrs Charles Schmelzer a member of the public recreation advisory board and chairman of the community centers and playgrounds committee and Mrs Kip Robinson a member of the committee urged restoration of $287000 to the welfare department playground and recreation bond program which was cut by the council from $1387000 to $1100000 They said their committee previously had pared the program from million dollars and asserted that the council cuts had gone too far by eliminating essential improvements Dr Hugh Dwyer health director and William Bartleson executive secretary of the Jackson County Medical society and chairman of the hospital com- WHITE NYLOfr MESH fn tnm hum aaA (hpna 3Wn rXTItoMLCbr Vie 9873 1111 Walrat CL MONEY combined with white calf and milan straw (c) £50 For Storage can ha for a cool cool summer mixture Available at ail six stores BAKER'S SHOES 1010 MAIN ST 112S WALNUT ST 3116 TROOST AVE Wl SERVICE THE APPLIANCES Wl MIX ROBINSON'S plaza topeka 1016 main 550 minn prairie village st joseph Wright Arch Preserver Shoes MILLER'S "ilfiT 650 MINNESOTA AVE KANSAS 1900 Ave If 7400 800 NicfcoJ Id VA 3S90 I0EBUCK AND GO READ AND USB STaR WANT ADS.