The Kansas City Times from Kansas City, Missouri • 4

THE KANSAS CITY TIMES TUESDAY APRIL 2 1957 Keeping Time to Music Sets Off Car Crash to clear some of the land be fore taking possession but that they later quarreled NAMED TO COUNTY POST GILBERT TITUS IS NEW ASSISTANT COUNSELOR REAL SANTA CLAUS DIES MINISTER AT MARSHALL WAS WIDELY KNOWN ADVERTISEMENT! Missouri Legislature PENAL MENTAL BILL APPROVED Appropriation Measure Placed in Lino for Final Passage by House Former Independence City Attorney Will Be Aid of James Williams His Nam Caused "Trouble" at Times and Brought Thousands of Letters ty sewer engineer said the use of screws in joining pipe sections was unsatisfactory because the screws rusted ana failed in a relatively short time The measure applies only in county sewer districts Attend the Session Several plumbing leaders appeared to support readoption of the old requirement They included John Gorman Sharp Clyde De-Walt and Frank Babcock The court also voted to accept a $990 bid from Swift FATHER OF SIX IS SHOT Seller and Buyer in Dispute Over Clearing of Land Huntsville Mo April l(AP) -William Houston 34-year-old father of six children was shot yesterday in what Sheriff Forrest said was a dispute over the sale of some land Jackie Joe Rodgers 55 is held in the county jail but no charges have been filed Houston was reported in a dangerous corTdition from a gunshot wound in the left side Sheriff Forrest said Rodgers had sold the land to Houston who had been working on the property but was not supposed to obtain possession until June 1 Houston said Rodgers gave him permission Marshall Mo April l(AP) Santa Claus is dead The retired Church of God minister who went through 63 years of life bearing the name of the Christmas saint died at Boonville J4o April 1 Miss Kathryn Jayne Kempf V7 of near Pilot Grove was relaxing alone Saturday night in the front seat of a car parked at a night club north of here She was combing her hair and patting a foot in time to muse Inadvertently her foot touched the starter The car had been left in gear by its owner Wessing also of near Pilot Grove It ran forward hitting the parked automobile of Lt Wayne Kenneth Hein 23 Trooper Phillips of the state highway patrol said about $25 damage resulted to the Hein car Gilbert Titus former city attorney and police judge of Independence yesterday was named an assistant Jackson County counselor by James Williams who reported the appointment to the county court RAGLAND WINS A TEST Minority Leader Argues in Vain for Money Reduction What happens when you drink? Alcohol hits the blood stream faster when you drink it with soda Yes alcohol relaxes tension but it also lowers skills (You do things as well but feel you can!) What ia the permanent effect on your body? In April Reader's Digest read the undiluted truth about alcohol by a top scientific aut hority Get April Digest at your newsstand today: 41 articles of lasting interest includ-ieg the best from leading magazines newspapers and books condensed to save your time if it is a lot of he said By Claus mentioned such things as getting checks cashed Once an expressman refused to deliver a basket of fruit from California because ain't no Santa But through the years many of them lean ones too he tried to live up to the name He received thousands of letters every year from all parts of the world Claus took great pains in answering all of them Sometimes when the load became too great he received help in providing the postage Sometimes he still had a large stack of letters to answer many months after Christmas 6000 Christmas Letters Sometimes his mail volume would reach 6000 at Christmas time He was proud of his scrapbooks full of such letters In addition to serving as a minister Claus was a plumber Once he worked on WPA He and his first wife had seven children Claus was smooth shaven but once he did grow a beard so as to make his appearance more in character He had spent most of his life around Marshall except NMae ghost Titus who was police tof provide a of at Independence from 1941 to at 1fLsttIons 1950 succeeds Williams who became county counselor after the recent naming of Marcus Kirtley to the circuit court bench For the last three years Titus who is affiliated with the Sermon Democratic organization has been in private law practice in Independence A Masonic Member The new assistant also is a Mason and a member of the Jackson County Shrine club In another matter the court agreed to reinstate a provision in the county plumbing code requiring the use of solder in sewer plumbing connections rather than metal screws The mandatory use of solder was discontinued in 1953 because of a shortage of the alloy John Davis conn- By Bill Logan lU Member of The Star Staff) Jefferson City April 1 The Missouri House today tentatively approved an appropriation bill of $29370567 to operate the penal department and mental institutions for the coming fiscal year The bill emerged from a 2-hour debate unchanged and was placed in line for final passage on a voice vote While the House appropriations committee adjusted many of the allocations within the bill at hearing time just $586389 was trimmed from the original total requested by the departments heads Move on Ragland Fails The lawmakers defeated Rep A Clifford Jones Republican minority leader from St Ijouis County in an effort to cut the appropriations for Ragland director of men- penitentiary for salaries repairs and replacements and operating expenses It represented the largest cut in the bill The request for personal services was pared from $1-973522 to 114 million dollars The largest addition was made to the mental hospital at St Louis It would receive $5515416 about $275000 more than was requested Parole Fund Move Loses Jones also was defeated in an attempt to restore the amount requested for salaries by the probation and parole His Mail Always Heavy The Rev Santa Claus 63 who died yesterday at Marshall Mo for years received letters from all over the world and tried to answer each one Hector Item i i 1098 for two years when he lived his home here today of a kid- in Ottumwa la ney ailment WOMEN TO MEET Fayette Mo April The llth District Federation of Re- board That was cut from $239046 to $185000 by the his Parents gave him the name committee of Santa unless it was his The lawmakers also ad- fathers sense of humor Claus never did know why imported Moygcrshel linen soft lightweight in a prized suit blouse with diagonal slot seam trim and colorful appliqued figures whiie blue or maize on walnut separates shop pn the plaza publican Women will hold its annual spring meeting here Saturdav A Source of it's a good name even Ooh! I Love My New vanced a bill to give the high-tal diseases Jones sought to way patrol pow er to search pare Ragland allocation for motor vehicles without war-salaries in his office from $78- rants Backers of the measure 172 to $25000 said it would bring Missouri Jones pointed out that Rag- in line with other state and land spent just $24150 for aid the patrol in recovering Choose From Well-Paying Jobs Wj "Weren't the Children Wonderful? 9 and little Jimmy really took to dad They became real buddies! Our THRIFTRIP to see our son and his family was a real torie The cars were modern and roomy tha most economical ever I NEVER DREAMED I COULD BE SO SLIM AGAIN Are you tired of being overweight of being padded too much in too many Are you tired of heavy hips thighs ankles and sagging posture that add accusing years to your appearance and deny you the pride and pleasure of presenting yourself at your more attractive best in today's slender fashions? If you want to trim inches from your figure if you want to be slim again acquaint yourself now with the STAUFFER home plan of passive exercise and caloric reduction the easy way to acquire a more slender glamorous figure so many women have resolved to regain stolen property OZARKS TO HEAR TRUMAN Speech Scheduled at Press Meeting in Springfield Neosho Mo April 1 Former President Harry Truman is expected to be the principal speaker at the annual spring meeting of the Ozark Press association April 19 and 20 at Springfield Howard Bush Neosho publisher is in charge of this program HOST TO PRESBYTERIAL Springfield Mo April 1 More than 350 women are expected to attend the Carthage-Ozark Presbyterial meeting Thursday at First and Calvary Presbyterian church Round Trip ia Finest Ckair Can personal services last year and was asking nearly twice as much for the coming year as he spent the last two years is just throwing money down the drain to give him Jones declared wouldn't know a good psychiatrist if he saw Jones added that Ragland was trying to circumvent Senate bill No 59 which is under consideration in the House by hiring a high-priced psychiatrist as an assistant The Senate measure introduced by Sen Albert Spradling jr Democrat of Cape Girardeau would set up a commission to run the division of mental diseases The commission would hire the director The Call in Absent Ones The Democrats ran into a little trouble defeating Jone's amendment and had to call in FITTSBURG JOFIIN FORT SMITH SHREVEPORT NEW ORLEANS BEAUMONT 4 4S9 see 1135 is at is ails Hookkeeper-Stano S30000 ip Sales Manager 150000 mo Salesman-Guarantee 50000 mo i Secratary 25000 mo Canvasser 20000 wk Salesman 100000 mo Cab Driver 10000 wk ntn DEMONSTRATION A SlwWar representative wilt demonstrate the StevHer Home Unit ter yo in your own Home at your convenience No obligation Yen can buy it or rent it for a month Write or coll today for a rourtesy demonstration STAUFFER Home Reducing Plan Plus 10 Federal Tax 1 A McMANUS Gan Pan A ft 311 East 55th St in Crestwood Shops fill I DA OR UALL EVENING 114 11th St VI 2-0077 Kansas PityT Southern nJ Read Star Help Wanted Ads Daily JE- 1 "5780 MONTH Thousands of readers know of legislators absent from the floor to do it The final vote was 59 to 48 Two Jackson County legislators Mrs Clara Aiken Speer Republican and Floyd Snyder sr Democrat voted writh Jones Rep Ross Nichols Democrat of Raytown voted against Jones Rep Dwight Beals Republican and the only other Jackson County legislator present today was off the floor during the voting Today's money bill would give $3120180 to the state "Oul: There is nothing finer than a SareFresh Cage Laid If you haven't tried them start today! of year grocery store today! 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