The Douglas County Herald from Ava, Missouri • 1

Ste Historical 83ourl i Socl8ty Devoted to the Interests of All the People of Ava and Douglas County SIXTY-SIXTH YEAR AVA, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1953 NUMBER 28 Last Rain May 24, 1.15 Inches Termites Turn As Springfield Trio Face Charges Rainfall 42 Percent of That For Same Period Year Ago 35 Cases Are on Docket for Court Opening Monday Dora High School Brings Suit to Collect Charges For Student Bus Fare made the dry weather all the more serious for growing crops and pastures. Wheat has perhaps stood the dry weather better than most crops, but has matured ear- lier than usual. Most oats have been cut for hay, and without Out-Season Gigging by Law Breakers Proves Expensive to 3 Men Two Howell county men and one Douglas county man pleaded guilty to charges of gigging fish out of season and were fined $15 and costs Saturday in the magistrate court of Judge Quentin Haden. Nova Leo Strong, who lives in the east part of the county near Rippee-creek, was arraigned June 9 in the magistrate court for gigging on Bryant creek, after being arrested by Conservation Agent Chester Barnes. Total of the fine and costs was $23.50.

The Howell county men, Lloyd Cbllins and Aut Goss, were caught with lights and gigs by Agent Barnes on North Fork river, and their out-of-season gigging cost them $18.75 each. Children's Play Activities Will Be 2 Days Weekly Supervised playground activities sponsored by the Ava Parent-Teachers Association this summer, which started with a five-day week program, has been cut to two days each week, it was announced Monday by Mrs. Charlene Kester, chairman of the recreation committee. Starting next week the supervised playground activities held at the school grounds will be held on i Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00 to' 11:00 a. m.

Mrs. Kester said that' the number of days was cut be-! cause of the extreme hot, dry weather. It was also announced that ypung boys who are interested ini organizing two softball teams should report at the play grounds nxt Tuesday and P. T. A.

members would assist in the organization, for summer play, next Tuesday and members gram began June 1 and it is planned to contiue the program through August 8. rainfall shortly now most hay crops will be a complete failure. Only first cuttings of such crops as alfalfa, red clover, and a few instances of permanent pasture seedings, provide the bulk of what little hay crops have been harvested. Fear is generally felt for hundreds of acres of spring seeded permanent pasture gras throughout this area. Some farmers report doubt that such seeding would respond to anything like a full stand even with rain immediately.

Few complaints have been heard thus far regarding stock water supply, but there are those who remember the dry years of the early thirties when stock water became a problem. However, it is I The last rainfall in this imme- doubtful the water supply will to-1 troy them for $18,00. Mrs. Burke diate area was on the night of again become that serious, due to eluded in new equipment this year aJP'ced to this and ey went to May 23 and the following day, the hundreds of farm ponds con-will be a ferris wheel for the wora- May 24, a total of 1.15 inches. structed throughout the area in children.

Members of the club1 It was reported that folow- Unseasonably hot weather has recent years, went to Springfield Monday to trig completion of the job they The annual Lions club carnival will be held on the public square here on July 25 and 26, it has been announced. Preliminary arrangements are now in the making, and this years better than any yet held. Cl op liig i iciu iuuiiuaj tvs r. it Local Red Cross Fund Needs Boost To Continue Aid Spring Drive Was $1400 Short of Goal More Is Necessary for Services 1 The Douglas county chapter of the American Red Cross, though keeping 54 percent of funds raised for local use, has not enough money this year to continue the blood donor program and the home service program, not even considering other emergency needs, Earnie Uhimann, chapter chairman, said last night The annual drive for funds started earlier this spring was far from successful. Only $1040 was raised in the county, $1406 short of the goaL The goal set included emergency funds needed by the national chapter for emergencies arising out of the Arkansas tornadoes and $he serious floods over the nation.

Starting early next week Red Cross officials will reopen the drive. Lewis Holman, drive chairman, said that funds must be raised by July 1 or the local aid program ended. The fund raising committee met last night to plan the drive. Part of the Ava business district has been canvassed and next weeks drive will Uriah this section and also gst into the residential section of the city. Rural supporters of the Red Cross are urged to mail their contributions to Mrs.

Opal Thompson, treasurer, and Uhimann said that it was urgent for school districts which have not met their quotas to try to rais the money. The home service program is principally a go-between of servicemen and their families in distress and serves a vital need, and the local chapter pays expenses of the bloodmobiles visits here to obtain blood for the armed forces. More money must be raised to continue these services. Weather records from the local United States Forest ranger sta- tion indicate the seriousness of the Present prolonged dry weath-1 in this immediate area. I According to Forest Ranger Joe I J.

Barry, there was not enough JQAr I MlllC Sl)AKP M4UW 1 aiAW Rev. Sheldon Jones will speak in the Methodist church here to- I get the ferris wheel, which was purchased there last week. 1 purchased Ladies' night and installation 1 of officers of the club for the coming year will be held at the! Lions den on Thursday night, I June 26, it has been announced. MALLOY FUNERAL WAS TTTVOn A TTTVTF 1 A lUEoilAi, UWJS 1U i Funeral services for John Ralph Malloy were held at 4 oclock. Tuesday afternoon, June 10, in the Colonial Chapel of the Neekamps funer.al home in Bartlesville Oklahoma, according to the Bart' lesville Enterprise.

The Rev. Jess Dittmar, district superintendent of Baptist Missions officiated, and burial followed in Memperial Park presented by for the Santa Fe Railroad for strangers. The men then went to thirty-two years, from which posi- the Mansfield bank to cash the tion he planned to retire to a farm check but payment had already near Ava. On a visit here Just a been stopped and bank officials few weeks previous to his death, there wrote this fact on the face he purchased a small farm Just 0f the check. Undaunted, the three men returned to Ava and contacted Mr.

and Mrs. Burke, stating that they least of Ava, where he planned to retire. Survivors include his wife of the Attempt tO Defraud and Cheat Charges Lodged Against Termite Killers presented a bill to Mrs. Burke in the amount of $451.25, stating that the Job was bigger than they thought at first. Mrs.

Burke thought this was too much and they cut the price to $380.00, for which amount she gave them a check. A. Spurrier postoffice em- P10 and n-in-law of Mr- and Mrs. Burke, learned of the termite destroyers shortly after they left the Burke home, and he thought $380.00 was a bit high. Mr.

Spur- rfer called the Farmers Mer- chants Bank of Mansfield, on which the check was written, and had payment stopped. Meanwhile the three men pre-! sented the check at the Citizens' Bank of Ava but were refused 'King fish Race Harry Gentry was declared Kingfish of Ava on Sunday, June 15, when he caught a 7 pound hneside bass while fishing on the Arkansas side of Lake Norfork. Another Ava angler, Dan Bushman, fishing in the same area at about the same time, caught a fish of the same species which weighed 64 pounds. Each fisherman claimed his catch was a Fathers Day present, a good one at that, and readily named the fish grandpa and grandma of them all. The fishermen, who had been on the lake all night In different fishing parties, made their catches in the early morning hours.

I night (Thursday), at 8 o'clock on 5 at Mansfield between the Roy the subject "The Christian and the Hensley and F. A. Dennis proper-Liquor Traffic. ties. It will extend southerly and Sheldon Jones has been on the southeasterly, generally following radio throughout the country for an existing road, but with several a number of years, speaking on i relocations as needed to improve temperance.

alignment and drainage. Mr. Jones has spoken in many! It will take a major relocation towns throughout Missouri in the swinging east through the Ralph last few years. He holds his hear-1 Brentlinger place, pass a sawmill ers spell-bound through his entire on the E. R.

Roy place, swing A dispute between school districts similar to that which has plagued many districts for years will be brought before Judge Tom R. Moore in circuit court here Tuesday, June 24. The special term of court will be held three days beginning Monday, June 23, and continuing through Wednesday. Nine cases have been set for the criminal docket, two of them against Marion Young, who was killed recently in an accident in Ozark county. Twenty-six cases are on the civil docket, 10 of them divorce cases.

In the school district dispute, Dora High school of Ozark county has brought suit against District No. 107 of Douglas county, Big Springs, for $240 for transportation of students. The Dora school states that they transported seven students to the high school from the 1 Springs district at a cost of $30 per student and are asking judgment for this amount. However, it was reported last week that the Big Springs district had voted an additional levy and with additional funds available would pay the transportation costs. The complete docket Is as follows: Monday Criminal Cases State vs.

Jim Smith, careless and reckless driving. State vs. Jimmy Dan Melton, careless and reckless driving. In April Melton was found guilty by a jury and fined $25 and costs. He was given ten days in which to file a motion for new trial and cause passed until June 23.

State vs. Rex Hurst, grand larceny. State vs. J. D.

Young, careless and reckless driving. Monday Civil Cases State of ex rel, Northside Church of God, Ava, vs. Church of God, Anderson, Injunction on appeal. J. B.

Jones, et ux, vs. Edward Linder, et specific perform-' ance, on appeal. Louis Brown vs. E. H.

Cooper, suit for accounting. Sho-Me Power Corp. vs. Edward J. Linder, et al, condemnation.

Ava Consolidated School Dist. No. 1 vs. Ethel May Miller and Margaret Miller, condemnation. This case was settled by a consent judgment in April and is on the docket by formality.

Tuesday Criminal Cases State vs. Carl Applegate, tamper with an automobile. I State vs. Ralph Hunt, misde-, meanor. State vs.

H. J. Mallernee, careless and reckless driving, Tuesday Civil Cases Ethel Fleetwood vs. David I Fleetwood, divorce. I S.

E. Cawthra vs. Wilma Caw-thra, divorce. Maggie Morris vs. John Morris, divorce.

I Norma Lee Ledbetter vs. Earl I Ledbetter, divorce, i Citizens Bank of Ava vs. Glen Downs, replevin. I Julia Faye Wilson vs. Clyde N.

Wilson, divorce. I Carl Lindsey vs. Helen Lindsey, divorce. Jerry Elliott, et ux vs. John T.

Tracey, et al, quiet title. Elva Riggs vs. Lee Riggs, divorce. Edith Ellen Watkins vs. A.

M. Watkins, divorce. Allie Mae McCleary vs. Lowell McCleary, divorce. Maurice E.

Brazeal vs. Ozark Trails, damages. Barker Saw Co. vs. Earl Sallee, suit for account.

Edward Linder, et ux vs. White River Valley REA damages. B. J. Miller vs.

A B. Warrick, suit on debt. Labe Hartley vs. Walter Brazeal, order to appear before court. Harold R.

Calver vs. Lola Mae Calver, divorce. Claud Silvey vs. Ivery C. Myers, suit on notes.

Claud Silvey vs. Clifford Bar-num, et al, petition to set aside deed. Mr. and Mrs. Harley Kirkland announce the birth of a son on Friday, June 5.

The baby, who has been named Stevie Leon, la the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Spurlock of Ava.

G. 0. P. Candidate Fcr Governor To Speak Here Next Saturday Voters of this section will have an opportunity to hear Mayor Stanley I. Dale of St.

Joseph in an address on the public square in Ava Saturady afternoon, June 21, at 3:45. Mayor Dale is carrying his campaign for the Republican nomination for governor into southwest Missouri in a series of public appearances in the Ozarks area. The 32-year-old St. Joseph attorney was elected mayor of St. Joseph in 1950 when he defeated a well entrenched Democrtic incumbent to become the first Republican city official there in twenty years.

Dale will be accompanied here by radio entertainers from sta-ion KWTO, who will furnish a musical program in connection with the appearance of candidate Dale. Entertainers from the radio station will include Junior Haworth, George Rhodes, Porter Waggoner and Buster Fellows. AVA MAYOR JUDGE AT W. P. BEAUTY CONTEST Mayor J.

R. Spurlock and Mrs. Spurlock, and their daughter, Mrs. Murley Grabeel, were in West Plains Monday among the 10,000 people who attended the second day's activities of the centennial celebration. Mayor Spurlock had been invited to the city to assist in the Judging of the floats that formed the two-mile parade held at 9:30 o'clock Monday morning and later in the selection of the two queens.

Miss Ann Thornburg, who is to reign as centennial queen and Miss Joan Armstrong, who was chosen as beauty queen. SERVICE TODAY FOR JESSIE A. FRANKLIN Funeral services will be conducted at the Clinkingbeard chapel at 2 p. m. today for Mrs.

Jessie A. Franklin. The Rev. Wm. Durham will be in charge, and burial will be in the Ava cemetery.

Mrs. Franklin died Monday. She was a member of the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Franklin was preceded in death by her husband.

James R. Franklin, on November 11, 1949. Survivors include five children, Glenn Franklin, Ava Earl Franklin, Salem, Oregon; Grafton Franklin, Verdel, Leonard Franklin, Entiat, and My-ran Franklin. Salem, Oregon. BROTHER OF R0SC0E HILL DIES FRIDAY Roscoe Hill was in West Plains Sunday and attended the funeral service held for his brother, Virgil Hill, who had died Friday night in the St.

Mary's hospital in Kansas City following a week's illness. Mr. Hill had gone to Kansas City Thursday evening last week after being informed of his brother's illness and was with him at the time of his death. J. W.

REESE APPOINTED TO BANKERS COMMITTEE J. W. Reese, president of the Citizens Bank of Ava, has been appointed to membership on the Missouri Bankers Association public relations sub-committee on good will trip. The appointment was made by William R. Courtney, president, Mexico Savings Bank, Association president, according to Robert E.

Lee Hill, executive manager. Rnilfp IJ (AVIctmirtinn IUUIC UHlSirUCUOIl Contract Is Let to Van Buren Road Firm Supplementary Route Will Extend Between Mansfield and Olathe In Douglas 6.7 Miles Construction of 6.7 miles of state supplementary Route to extend between Mansfield i Wright county and Olathe in Douglas county, now has been contracted by the State Highway Commission to the Allcorn and Koger Construction Company of Van Buren. The work will cost a total of about $44,987, With $26,027 of that going for the 3.5 miles in Wright county and for the 3.2 miles in Douglas county. The new road will leave Route southeast through the D. L.

Krid er property, rejoin the existing road on the J. E. Roy farm and i then extend east and southeasterly I to the county line. It then will I extend on into Douglas county, i generally southeasterly, pass the German Baptist Brethren church and terminate at the Olathe store. The roadway will be graded and a granular surface applied.

Construction will be carried out under supervision of the Commissions Division 9 office in Willow Springs of which H. M. Werbitzky is division engineer. A. W.

Marshall, division construction engineer, will direct the activities, through a project engineer to be assigned. The Route work is among 23 highway improvement projects in 18 counties on which the Commission now has awarded contracts under bids received June 4 or has authorized that work be carried forward by state forces. The improvements extend over 63.7 miles of supplementary roads and one-tenth mile of Route 13 in Lafayette county. The work will cost a total of $878,317, of which $789,697 will go into supplementary projects. These awards boost to the total of highway improvements placed under contract this year, so far.

That cost covers work on 1.166 miles of state highways, 682.8 miles being on supplementary and 483.2 miles on major system routes. The cost is divided $15,752,684 on major system and $5,303,129 on supplementary routes. TRACHOMA CLINIC AT MTN. GROVE JUNE 26 A trachoma clinic is scheduled to-be held at Mtn. Grove on June 26, starting at 9 a.

it is announced by the Wright County Health Department Participating will be members of the Trachoma hospital staff at Rolls, Mo. Anyone suffering from granulated lids, trachoma, wild hairs, or any other eye disease is urged to attend the clinic on the above date and consult with Dr. A A Siniscal. I I home, 506 E. 6th.

street, Bartles- made a mistake in their fig-j ville, three brothers, S. E. Malloy, ure3 the bill should have been Stillwater, F. M. Malloy, j279.00, and asked that another Ava, and W.

A. Malloy, Ardmore, check be written. The Burkes re-I one sister, Mrs. Helen Blair, fused anj the men left in an angry I Hoquaim, Wash. i mood, it was said.

vTP TVTTTPm I Deputy Sheriff Frank Givans DUx bill lnj UufiLI (was notified of the men's actions, BY STEEL SLIVER and Givans in turn notified the Jimmy Mitchell son of Mrs. State Highway Patrol to be on the Lenora Mitchell of Ava, who un-' lookout for the men. Later Mon-derwent eye surgery at the Bap-; day they were arrested at Nor-tist hospital in Springfield on wood by Sgt. Earl Barclay of the Saturday, was able to return to State Highway Patrol and return-j Ava a few hours after the opera-1 ed to Ava for arraignment. tion that day.

He was again in the city Monday for a checkup A va Tnnc CMC and for the removal of the stitches rtd 'Jill 1 UJ5 sJIUO from the wound and was found to Jpnf be in a very satisfactory condi- HUH" UlUUClllS tion. Mrs. Julia Austin, daughter of Jimmy suffered the injury to Mr. and Mrs. Berma Clinkingbeard his right eye, which necessitated of Ava, and a graduate of Ava his hospitalization on Friday High School, class of 1948, is list-1 when a tiny piece of steel flew ed as one of the ten top students in his eve while he was working of Southwest State College.

on his motor-bike. He received Springfield. All had ratings of immediate medical treatment by straight Es. Announcements of 1 an Ava physician. Then on Sat- honor students appeared in last I urday when he reported for a Sunday's edition of the Springfield checkup with the physician he was News-Leader, advised to go to an eye specialist.

I Mrs. Austin will receive her de-He went to Springfield and was gree in education at the end of treated for an hour and was taken the summer session. She has been to the hospital. The operation, I employed to teach the coming year which proved to be extremely nec-1 in the Springfield grade school essary and also very intricate, system. lasted one and a half hours but! was very successful.

Mitchell was told that his sight would not be impaired but had he Gentry Leads Grand Chamniosship Stake Won by Hone of Avas Kerr Stables Aces Merry Jean, a Tennessee walking horse belonging to the Kerr Chevrolet Stables of Ava, won the all-open grand championship stake at the Springfield Saddle Club horse show last Thursday night, over a 12-horse field, with trainer John Self up. The previous night she had won the open mare class championship. Another horse being trained at the Kerr Stables, Shepherd of the Hills. a 3-year-old sorrel stallion owned bv Kerr trainer Hugh Hartlev and Furr of Russell, won the tunior walking horse "hnmnionship stake, with Self up. The Kerr Stables trainers.

Hart-lev srd Self, will continue rounds of th horse show circuit tonight and Friday nieht when they will show four horses at the West Plains Centennial horse show. Gav Huffman Dies In Ft. Worth, Texas Clay Huffman, 61, former resident of Douglas county, died June 7, in Ft. Worth, Texas, where for the past few years he had owned and operated a Jewelry and music store. Funeral services were held at the Glen Rose funeral home, and burial in Glen Rose cemetery, Texas.

Huffman was found dead in bed at his ranch home about ten miles west of Glen Rose. He had been living at the ranch the past four years, and has been under medical treatment at Ft. Worth for two years. His wife discovered i death when she tried to awaken him. Apparently he had died in his sleep.

Surviving are his wife and three daughters, Mrs. T. A. Garland of Ft. Worth, Mrs.

Don Vetter of Weatherford and Mrs. Bob Grace of Washington. jkPBBTHO Mr. and Mrs. Fred Osborn of Springfield, announce the birth of a daughter on Saturday, June 14, at the Burge hospital in Spring-field.

The baby weighed five pounds and four ounces at birth and has been named Brenda Kay. Mrs. Osburn before her marriage was Miss Lois Hicks of Ava. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Everett Hicks of this city. lecture, it is reported. The public is invited. Each month a tour is made in Kelly Sallee Family Will Host Farm Tour Ozark county of an outstanding farm, and for the month of June the farm selected is that of Mr. and Mrs.

Kelly Sallee who live about 2'4 miles south of Wasola on highway 95. The tour will start about 1:30 p. m. Friday, June 27. The Sallees have done an outstanding job of quality milk production, being the first family in Ozark county to build a grade A milking parlor.

Besides the milking parlor, pasture improvement and silage program a lot of work has been done on the homestead in the past year or so. A machine shed is the latest addition with some house remodeling preceding that. The tour will be under the direction of W. E. Elmore, Ozark county extension agent, and Ralph Schaller, balanced farming agent for Ozark, Taney and Douglas counties.

MTN. HOME MAN BUYS BUICK AGENCY HERE W. H. Chambers, of Mtn. Home.

last Thursday took over management of the Buick car agency in Ava, which he purchased from the Davis Bros. Motor and has named it the Chambers Buick Company. Mr. Chambers. 28 years old, has spent the past five and one-half years, since his discharge from the army, in the drug business in Mtn.

Home, operating the City Drug Co. He is married and has a son 24 years old. He hopes to move his family to Ava within the next ten days. Chambers has a brother, Ralph Chambers, who is co-owner and managers of the Ford garage in Mansfield. Chambers stated that he would operate a complete parts and service department in connection with his auto sales.

delayed his visit to the specialist for another few hours it was highly probable that he would have lost the sight of that eye. CAT CATCHES FISH FOR HER KITTENS Clint Harris, farmer of Just west of Ava, has a mother cat that he says might rival Ava's best fishermen, for apparently she never fails. As regularly as the mornings come, Harris said, the old cat will produce a fish from the near by farm pond, and carry it to her young. They are not big fish, Harris said, perhaps due to the fact the cat cannot get into water deep enough to harbor the larger fish in the pond. However, he said, one morning she brought in a catfish at least six inches long..