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MTW KANSAS CITY TIMES Tliiirsdey, March 7, TSS- J111 Vietnam as Top Issue in Election I1? Republican by a margini GIVEN 0. K. BY SENATE The following dispatch is by Times of London correspondent. who chose the Illinois community of Morrison J20 miles uiest of Chicago to out tohafc the ordinary town American thinks, in this election year about the situation in Vietnam). Sf bave consequent- dominantly DiXch Morrison- Robert to Missouri Are Confirmed By Innis Macbeath (Dispatch of the Times, London) orrison, this Republican town in the Mid-Western heartland, the Vietnam war is the great issue of public policy ic in local usage to distinguish them from the Pennsylvania Dutch) farm population.

Hollanders are a stable, Puritan, godly stock. Like the Baptists, they are not given to political discussion. Morrison is a town of taverns and Dutch Reformed, two Baptist, two Lutheran, and one each of Roman Catholic, Episcopal. Methodist, There is election year. Yet in terms of party politics it hardly counts at one ls cheerful about it, although there are a few desperate spirits, mostly young men or ntiddle-aged ex-servicemen, whc speak impatiently of reducing Vietnam to rubble.

Ronald Rea who in 1964 spoke of on North Vietnam, went school here. Ministers Are Doves There is another minority, led mainly by Presbyterian, Episcopalian and Methodist ministers and laymen, who consider the War immoral. Some persons, including the mayor, believe that the United States has no business in Asia. The majority, agonized or stoical, think that the nation has a commitment to support South Vietnam and to contain communism. What sort of a community is Morrison? It is a county town of 4,200 people in corn and hog Country 120 miles west of Chicago and 10 miles from the Mississippi.

Whiteside County habitual- industry, a General Electric plant which has caused profound change. mayor, 56 years old and bookkeeper at a dairy, is brusque. cannot understand why over there. pull out, he said. a minority? 1 sure I am, but I have no reason to get excited about it.

I do anything about it. Why should I think about it over and Eddie Buikema, a 42-year-old storekeeper and ex-serviceman, opposes isolationism. must stay with our commitments. I like the situation, but I think we should pull out and forget that there are other people in the Jefferson City (AP)-The Mis. a corner, souri Senate yesterday approved munism hag Uncle Sain with of Dr- back to the wall.

llam c- Hayes of Rolla as state has that been forced into an abstraction called cool pledges The people here are baffled ew nas urx have it back to the wall. I tory. Most of consideration totally ab- any whc. sent is any notion of the diplo- 0ther confirmations would like a declaration nf 15 any of the for per- sonai the After the second World General Electric bought a smali Red Huyck, who keeps a tav per- attempting to reconcile individ- west i rellef ual points of difference nn Scott Conway of Monroe Citv from compromise and the sense use talkino fi, Hurt of solidarity it would bring. vour mnn.h -a of wlntr your mouth, said Van Ormer, council on Wadsworth nf clearly representative, you 2ST tref can live with communism but not Sure income a Debate Crouch, of Equally strong, and for a foreigner a little puzzling, is the feeling that the United States STAR SEARCH FOR BOY, 16 Disappearance Wide Effort Near Hannibal and unsuccessful factory.

They brought in 400 or so engineers and technicians, many of them Democrats, hardly any of them members of Dutch churches, all of them eager to improve the schools. At the same time, the technological revolution on the farms and the lack of any more virgin land obliged Hollanders to think of something better than common school education r.nd farming for the younger sons. Now three-fifths of the high school pupils go to college and all the schools have either been built new or remodeled since 1951. ern and is an officer in the American legion: average person thinks it necessary. just like any other damn war.

Communism has got to be stopped, and if got to be a jungle better there than No Negro Family Yet Morrison is isolated from the great controversies of America. There is no poverty. In the 120 square miles of the school district there is not a single Negro family. The profounder anxieties elevision Listings Thnursdiv Kansas City TV Tonight mm ctlgr WDAF-TV (Channel Kansas city) (c). Kansas News (c).

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This is a war and all. suck you dry. Take all your young blood Jeff Novak, age 24, who teaches current affairs, calls himself armed Like scores of others, he is surfeited with news of war, exasperated at and anxious for an acceptable end of the affair. Mrs. Howard Stoner, widow of a naval officer and a regular in the Army corps for several years, put the view forcibly.

we want it over? Boy, you gotta believe it. a lost cause as far as concerned. Our hoys over there for what? There has never been a declaration of A main-line Democrat view was that of L. W. Nelson, a lawyer.

the United States hard to run a war party. But not over there because of Johnson. We back down. I think people who are doves are so because they are political op. portunists.

Everyone is against Monroe City, Mo. departments in three northwest Missouri counties have joined in a search for a 16-year- old boy missing since Februarv 16. Sheriff Dean Mason of Monroe County said the boy John Wade Wagner, was last seen at an cream store in Monroe City. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs.

Luther Wagner, who live 12 miles north Topic at K. V. Lawrence. Kas. colleges and universities in 21 states and the District of Columbia will compete in the 12th annual Heart of America debate tournament which opens at the University of Kansas today.

The invitational tournament will consider the question of guaranteed annual cash income for of Monroe City. I Paul T. I Monroe City is 22 miles west a driven by his 59-1 of Hannibal, where three 1----- year-old wife. Mrs Savinas and le disappeared last May 10, umably lost in a cave. Authorities said they believe there is no on retardation- of Benton bouie- Brioham of of St Louis Elmer H.

Behrmann Commission on the status ot cWl Mitchell of St. Louis and M-ss Wilma Sutton of Sprinafield. Board of Stuart White of field 0Qer H- TaVlor of Sorinq- u.n‘v«?»r Pf curators- h.i i of Sprinafield and .1 of New Madrid n.W;Va!S«,ax a Pno 0tv' RolHn of 7 raot, Kansas Citv. John Louis lS' Poelker of St. Board of Whalev of viliee as an employer and Albert i-uit of St.

Louis as an employee. Kansas Citv area transoortation authority Pearse Miller of 6425 Valley road, i Kansas City. Local government employees retirement T. Hickham of Sorinafie'd State bankina Corrl- WANT ADS xsl mAif ioplaoL bovs wife, Mrs. Margaret Savinps and loan pres-1was taken to a hospi- Real estate T.

Leon- Wat Great Bend in serious con- Voori of The other vehicle was Csns hv at-mi 00 of Marv Kadore Oy Larry Miller, 28, edi- -sopon, St. John's Mercy hospital, St i a i 11 connection with that incident. Two young men underwent County News, a polygraph tests at Troop high- He at- Crosse- way patrol headquarters in Ma- toi injuries -Dr. con Monday. The results were not announced.

Intermittent searches have been made of areas near Monroe City, both by the Marion County sheriffs of- HELD IN A BURGLARY Police Arrest Man. 28 Near Arrest Man, 28, Office A 28-year-old man arrested fice and private' groups. The Tuesday" night by Kansas City, parents have asked area farm- Kansas, police on a burglary uoncu aica ini ill- puiicic oil 3 DUTgiary ers to search their buildings and charge when he was found near c.mon.n of him caves on their property. the office of Dr. ro.

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Missouri -1 Ilinois-Jefferson-Monroe CRASH IS FATAL Scott 1 7 Lewis BaSS, I iiiinnis-Missciuri bridge rommission- Ai- North Fifth Street, with a Lewistown, Linton Jenkins of in City, Residents Highway Collision Great Bend, Kas. (AP) George W. Ross, Scott City, typewriter under one arm and the other. Police said a 2 by 5-foot window had been broken in the phy- office and that there was killed yesterday in a were cuts on the right hand 2-car collision east of Rush Cen- of the man arrested ter, on K-96. Mnnticello.

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Van Ormer, high school principal, in his middle 50s and definite in judgment: need to press this thing with our entire might, or get out completely. Fear of bringing in Russia or China is why we have a limited operation. But the only reason I can see for being there is limiting communism. If they are going to come in, I say they have to come The Rev. Paul DeBeer is a young Presbyterian pastor raised in Minnesota and trained in San Francisco.

For two years he and two colleagues have been running weekly discussions on foreign affairs. community will do anything to avoid he told me. and more in our discussions we have been forced to refer back to Nazi Germany and the extermination of the Jews. To win the citadel and Hue you kill 3,500 John Hall, clerk of the circuit court and Republican County chairman, hopes that there can be a settlement on acceptable institutional lines. are in something, holding a hot he put it.

see no need of continuing a conflict like this where there is no sight of winning. I see how you can ever choke down throats what sort of government they are going to have. There will always be resentment. But you just break your METCALF SOUTH WARD PARKWAY LANDING PLAZA flirty ruff 1rs cascading across a "wrap dress in geometric print da cron voile black ar white or brown and white. Welk (cL --------------------ill (C).

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156. The Kansas City Times (The Morning Kansas City Star). The Kansas Citv Star every morning, evening and Sunday sub- i scrjoTion rates (thirteen issues a week); by 70 cents a week; a month; pay no more. Bv mail pos! tage prepaid in Missouri and Kansas, 75 week; elsewhere in the Uniled States and United States possessions, 85 cents a week; in foreign countries, SI .20 a Morning and Sunday or evening 55 cents a week; by mail, is cents a week less than rates rmr9' Sunday. Second Postage paid at Kansas City, Mo.

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