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The Kansas City Times from Kansas City, Missouri • 12

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rr trrf THE KANSAS CITY TIMES TUESDAY MAY 4 1954 12 MISS ELSIE L-JVTGEE years of operation dividends paid to bona fide resident stock- 1 PUERTO RICO A PRODUCT VISITORS HERE SEEK TO ATTRACT EXPANDING INDUSTRIES $HE HAD TAUGHT AT KANSAS STATE SCHOOL FOR DEAF holders are tax exempt Another attraction is that the government will furnish a modern reinforced concrete building for a plant Trip Is Part of Operation Boot' strap by Which the Island Hopes to Raise Its Economic Stature A Native of Olathe Community Miss McGee Had Taken Spe- cial Training: in Instruct ing Handicapped TELEPHONE vour Want Ad to Th Star Call BA 5500 ak for an Ad Tater husband Orle Holland of the home a son Gene Nugent Grand Island Neb a sister Mrs Freeda Fay Gillmore 11220 Kentucky Sugar Creek and two brothers Ralph Briggs St Louis and Hoyte Briggs Whiting Ind JACKSON Carl Jackson 65 of 703 South Crysler Independence died yesterday at the St Joseph hospital Before he retired aeven years ago he was an insurance salesman twenty-seven years for the railroad division of the Continental Casualty company of Chicago Mr Jackson was born at Eikland Mo and was an engineer for the Frisco railroad at Springfield Mo before moving to Independence in 1927 Surviving are his wife Mrs Helen Jackson of the home four daughters Mrs Marjorie Herman 5510 Roe Mission Mrs Georgia McCormack 3819 East Eighth Mrs Eola Smith 1803 Stark Intercity district and Miss Juanita Jackson Cincinnati two eons Paul Jackson 6325 Wal- ices will be held et 2 Wednesday at Lapetina chapel Burial will be in Mt Calvary cemetery Kansas City Kansas Rites for Pauline Ballew Services will be held at 10 Wednesday at the Carson chapel Independence for Pauline Ann Bailey 7 who died Sunday at the General hospital of burns suffered April 23 at the home 1148 West Twenty-seventh Independence The child a ward of the Jackson County court had made her home six years with Mrs Lorena Lowe Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery Sirs Dorothy liar rod Rites Services for Mrs Dorothy Harrod 27 of 766 County Line Wyandotte County who was found dead Thursday at the home will be held at 1:30 o'clock Wednesday at the Simmons chapel Burial will be in Maple Hill cemetery Joseph Studebaker Joseph William Studebaker 44 formerly of Kansas City Kansas died last night at Norton Kas Surviving are two brothers A A Studebaker Sedalia Mo and Hugh Studebaker Hollywood Calif and a sister Mrs Paul Holbrook San Diego Calif or WATER COOLERS See New Beautiful Stainless Steel Models CALL EADS VI 0938 WATER COOLER SPECIALISTS MAY IS res NATIONAL RUG CLEANING MONTH! Homs Rug Cleaning Co 4728 Forest VA 7900 Ruth Riedesel Grandview a sister Mrs Edna" Harmon Walnut Grove four grandchildren and one great grandchild Services will be held at 2 Wednesday afternoon at the George and Sons chapel Grandview Burial will be at Belton MRS EDG4R HARRIS RITES Pallbearers Are Chosen for Services This Tuesday Pallbearers have been chosen for the services for Mrs Susie Marie Harris 59 of 2245 East Sixty-eighth street at 3:30 this Tuesday at the Newcomer chapel Burial will be in Floral Hills cemetery Her husband Edgar Harris is a history teacher at Central high school The active pallbearers are students in his classes The pallbearers Donald Ross William Dumorner Merle Sorensen Douglas Sater Loan WaddiU Honorary Ur A La mllle Ur John LanMlle Dr A Fogartv Jack Little Bill Wjcoff Michael Jones and Jack Ross rond and Raymond Jackaon 15C0 Brookside Independence: a step daughter Mrs Margaret Eckhoif PER PACK Puerto Rico's phenomenal Operation gootstrap an industrial expansion program that is changing the economic face of the small United States commonwealth island in the Caribbean will be set to work in Kansas City today Three officials of the Puerto Rican Economic Development corporation the government agencyrunning the program ar rived here yesterday Two of them will remain three weejts conferring with representatives of 135 business and industrial firms about the advantages of expanding their operations into plants- in Puerto Rico Franco Amy and Adalberto Carrasquillo industrial promotional officers for the operation will open the campaign here this morning Assisting them in the preliminary groundwork is Edgardo Vazquez-Bruno public relations director for the corporation in the United States Headquarters have been established in the Hotel Muehlebach Discussing plans for their work Amy emphasized that the government of Puerto Rico is not trying to entice industries to abandon operations here no means would the Puerto Rican government give any help to an industry that would curtail employment he said "We are interested in firms that need to expand into new additional plants" Operation Bootstrap provides a 10-year exemption from corporate income taxes' and a provision that for the first seven A Quality Cigarette at a popular price had been a resident of Kansas City forty-six years Her husband Georee Bronaugh who died in May 1945 was secretary of the Kansas City Scenic company a stage scenery firm Mrs Bronaugh was a member of the Kansas City Athenaeum Surviving are a daughter Mrs LaVerne Stover 1248 West Sixty-first terrace a brother Dunn Kewanee 111 and a sister Mrs Adda Bathe Meridian Miss DE TAR Mrs Mabelle De Tar 59 of 640 East Seventy-second died yesterday after she suffered a stroke Kirs DeTar was born in Kansas City and was reared at Blue Springs She attended elementary and high schools In Independence and was Jraduated from the Kansas City unior college For the last twenty-seven years she had been associated with her husband Lucien De Tar in operating the De Tar Motor company 3208 Truman road Earlier she was bookkeeper for the Foster Lumber company seven years Mrs De Tar and her husband operated a farm at Belton Surviving besides her husband of the home are a brother Ernest Williams Kansas City Services will be held at 2 o'clock Wednesday at the Stine McClure chapel Burial will be in Forest Hill cemetery FOX Miss Margaret Mary Ann Fox 78 of 310 South Lawndale died yesterday at the General hospital She was horn in Canada and for many years made her home in a Catholic convent in Montreal She and a sister Miss Sarah Jane Fox who survives moved to Kansas City thirteen years ago to make their home with a brother Jack Fox Mr Fox died ten years ago The rosary will be said at 8 Wednesday nleht at the Shell chapel Services will be held at 9 Thursday at the Holy Cross Catholic church where she was a member Burial will be in Mt St Mary's cemetery HAWK Mrs Harriet Hawk 68 Gardner died yesterday at the Reece hospital at Gardner She was born in Hardin Countv Ohio and moved to Kansas in 1927 She had been a resident of Gardner since 1941 moving there frorrr Wellsvllle Kas She was a member of the Gardner Baptist church and of the Order of the Eastern Star at Wellaville Surviving are four daughters Mrs Emma Riddle Otterville Mo Mrs Ruby Gillette Gardner Mrs Mabel Coleman Leavenworth Kas and Mrs Ethel Randall Pomona Kas three sons Montle Hawk Rosemead Calif Guy Hawk Schenectady and John Hawk Gardner and seven sisters Mrs Don Daniels Eastland Tex Mrs Ida Hall Crestline Mrs Emma Atkins Portage Mrs Rosa Hinkle Chicago: Mrs Jennie Auseburger Findlay Mrs Scott McEIrov Zanesville and Mrs Fare Meeker Bowling Green Services will be held at 2 30 Wednesday at the Gardner Baptist church Burial will be in the Gardner cemetery Fred Havs 62 of 4421 Windsor died yesterday at St hospital He wag born at Van Buren Ark and had been resident here seventeen years Mr Hays was a telegrapher for the Missouri Pacific railroad He is survived bv his wife Mrs Margaret Havs of the home- a daughter Mrs Arthur Gib'on Oklahoma City Ok his mother Mrs Olivia Havs Oklahoma City and a grandson Funeral services and burial will be held Wednesday in Oklahoma City HOLLAND Mrs Juanita Lillian Holland 51 of 135 Garfield died last night at the home after a long illness She was born at Lamar Mo and was a resident of Joplin Mo before moving to Kansas City three years ago She was a member of the Seventh Dav Adventist church Surviving are her 5542 Nall Mission: a stepson Law rence William Kiell 1323 Llnwood and two brothers Gus Jackson Waterloo la and John Jackson Marshfield Mo will be held at 2 o'clock Wednesday at the Floral Hills chapel Burial will be in Floral Hills cemetery JENKINS Otto Robert Jenkins 60 of 38 South One Hundred Second Edwardsvilie died yesterday at St Margaret's hospital He was a building contractor but formerly was employed fifteen years in the circulation department of The Star in the Kansas City Kansas office He had been a resident of Greater Kansas City forty years Surviving are a daughter Mrs Willard Duncan Excelsior Springs: two sobs Llovd Jenkins 236 North Seventeenth Kansas City Kansas and Otto Robert Jenkins Jr Wichita: two sisters Mrs Betty Turner St Louis and Mrs Herbert Sheer Colorado Springs and a brother Charles Jenkins 5909 Merrlam drive Merriam Services will be held at 2 clock Wednesday at the Werner chapel Burial will be In Mt Hope cemetery MOORE William Moore 88 of 730 Miami Kansas' City Kansas died last night at the Northeast Restorium 3240 Norledge after an illness of three weeks A resident of Kansas City Kansas since 1919 he was a retired coal dealer Surviving are three daughters Mrs Reed 1106 Stine lane Mrs Burton 1206 Vermont and Mrs Theodore De Neui Cedar Falls la and two sons William Moore 231 North Twenty-fourth and Laurence Moore 2615 Hickam drive STRODE Mrs Ada Rosendale Strode 69 died of a heart attack last night at the home In Liberty She was stricken while talking on the telephone to a friend Mrs Strode was born in the Providence community north of Liberty She was a member of the Liberty Meth-ig are her husband William Strode of the Funeral Services Mrs Pearl Stevenson Porter 46 the Roosterville community north of Liberty who died yesterday at 2 Wednesday at the Providence Baptist church burial in the Providence cemetery AUSSIES ARE ON OVR SIDE Halsey Says We Will Be Together If War Comes Sydney Australia May 3 (Reuters) Admiral William (Bull) Halsey declared today that Americans and Australians would be fighting side by side in apy future war DEATHS OVER MISSOURI Louis Walters 95 native of Cooper County and one of its oldest resi dents father of eleven children tiled at his home near Fork Funeral at Moniteau Evangelical church near Pralne Home this Tuesday afternoon Macon Llovd Smith 59 real estate dealer died at the Samaritan hospital here following emergency surgery for a gall bladder ailment Mrs Dymple Mornson 65 widow of Arch Mornson who operated a clothing store on the public square here manv vears Carthage Elisha Kimbrough 90 re tired stockman was found dead at his home here Lawson Funeral here for Mrs Ada McKnight 71 who died at the home of a daughter Mrs William Dowtin of Skokie Ill Word received here of the death at Parsons Kas of Fred Mc-Elwee formerly of Lawson Benjamin Smith 83 retired Missouri Pacific employee funeral this Tuesday afternoon Mrs Malenda Lavina Bom 84 Stanberry-r-John Duley 88 a retired farmer He was born in Harnson Counts and had been a resident of Stanberry and Darlington more than sixty-five years Surviving are eight sons and two daughters Services Wednesday afternoon Miss Elsie Elizabeth McGee 66 Olathe a teacher at the Kan sas State School for the Deaf at Olathe died yesterday at the Olathe Community ho spit a where she had been a patient since Friday Miss McGee who was bom near Olathe attended Cooper college at Sterling Kas and received a teaching certificate from the Kansas State Teachers college at Emporia For several Jears she taught in rural schools in Kansas and Colorado and for four years taught at a Reformed Presbyterian church mission school at Selma Ala Received Honor at KU In 1928 Miss McGee attended the Central Institute for the Deaf in St Louis and received additional training at the Na tional Convention of the American Instructors of the Deaf She had been awarded a Class A certificate a rating presented by the Conference of Executives of the American Schools for the Deaf and in 1952 was honored by the University of Kansas for having completed twenty-five years of teaching Except for three jears when she conducted classes for the deaf in Kansas City Kansas Miss McGee had taught continuously at the Olathe school from 1929 until she retired in February because of ill health Active in P-T A Work Miss McGee was a member of the Reformed Presbyterian church of Olathe the Missionary society of the church and formerly taught in the church Sabbath school She was a member also of Women's Chrstian Temperance Union and the Delphi club of Olathe She was a past state secretary of the Parent-Teachers association of the school for the deaf Surviving are her mother Mrs Ella McGee and a sister Miss Belle McGee of the home in Olathe and two brothers Howard McGee and Harvej McGee Olathe Services will be held at 2 Wednesday at the Julien chapel Olathe Burial will be in the Olathe cemetery ISAAC WALTER JONES MRS CHARLES COBURN She TVaS an Ordained Minister 1 of Spiritualist Church Mrs Edith Coburn 75 of 1701 East Fifty-fifth street died yesterday at St hospital where she suffered a strok1 after undergoing surgery Mrs Cobum was an ordained minister of the Spiritualist church and the last several years was pastor of the Third Spiritualist church 2301 Van Brunt boulevard She conducted Sunday services at the church until two weeks ago Mrs Coburn was bom in Atchison County Kansas the daughter of Peter Sutton an early resident there She moved to Kansas City fifty years ago from Omaha She was a member of the No a chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star at Overland Park Surviving are her husband Charles Coburn of the home and a sister Mrs Edna Parry 1428 East Sixty-sixth street terrace Services will be held at 4 Wednesday at the New-comer chapel Cremation MRS CAROLINE DAVIDSON Mcid by Stephote Bns Philo Pa Regular or King Sire I Same High Same lew face home a retired farmer a daughter Mrs Mary Ella Hershey Liberty and four brothers Hiram Rosendale Ed Rosendale and George Rosendale all of Liberty and Jerden Rosendale Avondale community Services will be held at 3 30 o'clock Wednesday at the Tvler-Pasley chapel Liberty Burial will be in the Fairview cemetery Liberty THOMPSON Ike A Thompson 72 of 70014 East Twenty-fifth died yesterday at the General hospital He was born near Bolivar Mo and moved to Kansas City thirty-five years agd from Springfield Mo He was a stonemason Surviving are his wife Mrs Agnes Thompson of the home A brother Ed Thompson 330 North Wheeling an da sister Mrs Daisy Rice Los Angeles Serv DEATHS OVER KANSAS Johnson Herbert Johnson 63 a large landowner in Southwestern Kansas and Eastern Colorado was found dead in his bed after a long illness Wilbur Smith a veteran of World War Mrs Lenora Elisabeth Warwick 81 Mrs Mary Collins Hanson 65 Louis Edward Ravmond 63 a retired railroader Ode Oltf Morell 84 retired harness maker rites here Wednesday Potwin Rites here Tuesday aftetnoon for Mrs Mary Elisa Thomas 87 who came to Kansas sixty-nine vears ago from Ohio and spent most of her life in this commumtv El Dorado Todd Ptckreil 63 World War I veteran and emplovee of the American Railwav Express company here thirty-one vears rites this Tuesdav Mother of City Building Commissioner Mrs Caroline Elmore Davidson 79 died last night at the home of a son George Davidson 7305 Pennsylvania avenue after an illness of about four months Mrs Davidson was born in Keokuk la and had been a1 resident of Kansas City about forty-five years She was a member of the Westport Presbyterian church Her husband Edmond Davidson an accountant died in June 1952' Make YourHEADQUARTERS 12TII AND 3IcGEE 728 MIXXESOTA KAXS BUY YOUR HEARING AIR ON EASY TERMS ADVERTISEMENT! Retired Test Board Supervisor for Telegraph Company Was 75 Isaac Walter Jones 75 Hickman Mills a test board super- visorfor the American Telephone and Telegraph Qeorge Davidson is city corn-company untl missioner of building and in-he retired sppetion 1945 died yesterj Also surviving are two ether day at the home'sons Allen Davidson 8032 He had been ill Antioch road Overland Park about two years and Davidson 5215 West Mr Jones was Seventy-sixth street terrace bom at Walnut Groe Mo and moved to Grandview in 1924 He had been a resi-imae jonrs dent of Hickman Millls about a year He was a telegrapher for the Missouri Pacific Railroad from 1900 to 1917 He was a member of the Grandview Baptist church Surviving are his wife Mabel Jones of the home two daughters Mrs Mary Bennett 6124 Harrison street and Mrs More people are buying Zenith Hearing Aids than any other makeand here's why: They prefer performance They appreciate price! Yes they prefer performance to hearing aids selling at $250 and more They recommend Zenith hearing aids with enthusiasm Many of the hundreds of thousands of Zenith boosters are electronic engineers physicists doctors and inventors These specialists have a thorough understanding of outstanding mechanical and electronic quality Zenith users appreciate determination to market only the highest quality at the lowest possible price First Grade mm 5) fjght In fragrance 4 different Wear it to live your dreams shake your world a little As a 1 Zenith's latest and greatest achievement: The tubeless 3-transisfor ZENITH NEARING AID Prlcad at only $125 while others that offer no more and in some cases less are selling tor $250 and morel small smartly-styled operates for only 15 a month compared to $450 to $9 a month for vacuum-tube aids No tubes Only one small battery Greater clarity! Greater convenience! SHUXTON Nw York Tren4 Now available aft EASY TIME-PAYMENTS Zenith Hearing Aid Dealers now have available an Easy Time-Payment Plan your savings in battery costs will pay a considerable portion of your monthly payments 10-DAY MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE If in your opinion any other hearing aid outperforms the in any way simply return the Zenith within ten days and your money will be refunded promptly See telephone directory for nearest- Zenith Hearing Aid Dealer or write for literature and local dealer list: Zenith Radio Corporation' Dept IN3A 5801 Dickens Ave Chicago 39 Ilk ii Regular $595 a Gallon Buy UqiiI Save 86 Cal Now you can buy top quality ready-mixed Davis "Ever-Bright" House Paint at a substantial saving You get a perfect balanced formula of pure oils and time tested pigments white lead for toughness titanium dioxide for extreme whiteness and zinc oxide for hardness You get a pure white painted surface that washes clean after each rain stays fresh and clean years of wear because it is self-cleaning Davis "Ever-Bright" goes on easy and dries with a high gloss Also available in 12 modem colors PECK'S of Kansas City i HEARING AIDS ''By the Makers of World-Famous Zenith TV and Radio Sets end ether leading toiletries counters III ENJOY THtmSST Emins? 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