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THE KANSAS CITY TIMES FRIDA SEPTEMBER 1961 I 3 Jjrofherf BSSSEsi ISLM 's Slabs Todav GAS FIGHT TO BE LEO BY 7 MEN Officials of 34 Cities Agree Small Group Should Press Opposition TWO TO NAME OTHERS Action Is Taken in Response to Big Rate Increase Sought by Cities Service Eight -Day Sale -St eiie tarmeer Stockings I mil on Slocking' SeamleNN or Full Once a year we are pleased to offer very special prices on our perfect fitting Belle-Sharmeer stockings Choose from a complete range of styles in the loveliest shades but choose now' you can save RECEIVING THE IMPOUNDED GRAND JURY REPORT Judge Richard Jensen (left) of the circuit court thanks Clarence McGuire foreman of the May term grand jury that was discharged yesterday afternoon by Judge Jensen The report was impounded for one week on order of the Kansas City Court of Appeals while its contents are reviewed Chock Closure Of Postoffices THEFT ATTEMPT FAILS 1 ATTENDANT GRABS MAN DEMANDING MONEY KCSD-TV SHOWS SET FOR ADULTS Board of Education Approval of Link With Network Set Up Programs 19-Year-Old Topekan Distracted by Youths Asking for Matches Somlc Heel Toe Demi-Toe Business Sheer Walking Sheer PuH Fashioned Style Service Sheer Walking Sheer Daytime Sheer Luxury Sheer llrv (purpie edge) for slender or small legs to lOVfc in START BY MID-NOVEMBER Affiliation Should Be Complete by Then James A Hazlett Says (green edge) for average size legs Sizes SVa to 11 WASHINGTON Sept 7 (AP) Edward Day postmaster general said today there will be a definite slowdown in the trend toward closing small post-offices which no not show a profit Noting that 5000 small postoffices were shut down in the last eight years Day told a National Press club luncheon: "We will not discontinue small offices unless it is clear that equal or better service can be provided by rural or star route delivery then this administration will not close a small postoffice unless there is a vacancy in the position of postmaster and local support for the closing or at least no significant public (red edge) for tall larger legs Sizes 91 a to 11 Vi Order by Mall or Phone BA I -7500 Hrxiery 1 st Floor Downtown On the Plaza and in Columbia A man demanding money was seized and held in a bear hug last night by a 22-year-old attendant of a service station at 3014 Southwest boulevard after the man was distracted by two youths Police said Gerald Von j'? Pertz 19 of Topeka admitted trying to hold up the attendant Paul Richardson 22 of 3815 Terrace street Richardson said Von Pertz entered the station about 7:30 o'clock and handed him a note demanding money Richardson said the man held his right hand in his pocket as if he had a pistol Before he could comply Richardson said a customer drove up Von Pertz followed him as he went to wait on the customer Richardson told officers he waited on eight other customers before two boys on bicycles rode into the station about 7:45 When the hoys asked for matches Von Pertz looked toward them Richardson grabbed Von Pertz and told one of the boys to call the police The police found a fi-inch piece of board in Von Perlz's right pocket GO AHEAD ON LIBRARY Use of City Land in Huron The use of KCSD-TV for adult education programs at night was approved yesterday by the Board of Education The board authorized the television station to affiliate with the National Educational Television and Radio center (NETRC) The station operated by the Kansas City school district for classroom instruction probably will begin televising the adult night programs by mid-November James A Hazlett superintendent of schools said By then the station should have completed its affiliation with the NETRC network and have received a video-tape machine Cost of $7200 Yearly Affiliation with the NETRC network will cost the school district $7200 a year and in return the station w'ill be provided with enough taped programs of an educational cultural and civic nature to provide two hours of programing five nights a week The station also will receive a year's supply of unused area might like to use some of the night television time Clyde Howe chief engineer for the station said the parochial schools in the area had converted their television sets to receive the UHF channel 19 over which KCSD-TV transmits its programs Adult viewers would have to convert their home sets to receive the programs from channel 19 FARM HALL TO MEET Board Will Hear Kansas Gov John Anderson Gov John Anderson of Kan sas will speak today at the annual meeting of the board Ultimate Rxeltementi Black ool Lapod willi Satin 5005 Mayors and representatives of 34 Missouri and Kansas cities agreed yesterday to be represented by a 7-man executive committee in their joint effort to fight the 8 -million-doll ar gas rate increase sought by the Cities Service Gas company The group named Weston Miller attorney for the Spring-field Mo board of utilities and Benjamin Powers associate counselor of Kansas City to the committee and empowered them to select the remaining five members Invited by Bartle The action was taken at a luncheon at the Hotel Muehle-bach attended by more than 8i) persons there in response to an invitation from Mayor Roe Bartle to consider cooperative legal action The move was prompted by the gas company's application for an S'i-million-dnliar increase to be passed along to users Mayor Bartle described the problem as one that had been appearing "on the horizon with a great deal of Explaining that the mayors had never had an opportunity to sit down and discuss the problem he pointed out that there was no planned program thought we ought to it down and talk through the problem to see what can be done about Bartle said Plan Given by Shater At the suggestion Councilman Charles Shafer jr chairman of the pub lie utilities committee outlined the advantages of cooperative action and presented an organizational plan Shafer said it would cost money to oppose the rate increase A staff would have to bo hired and preparations would have to be made for a long litigation must create the strength that comes with numbers" he said He added that there was an advantage in showing that 40 to 80 cities were resisting need one man authorized to act in behalf of each he said must be able to move and make a fast decision yea or nay He must have full and complete back ing And we need a little bit of your Pian for Funds He proposed that 2 per cent of the annual rate increase scheduled for each city should be that city's contribution Shafer said the 1959 rate fight cost more than $10000 in liti gation expenses He pointed tc the possibility that expenses would total 1 50000 to 8200-000 but he said the 2 per cent commitment would provide necessary funds and if there were any left it would be returned to resist we're going to be fighting as hard as we he declared He urged participation and pointed to the hearing deadline date of September 13 Miller pointed out that the Increase would materiallv affect every business in all of these cities and emphasized the need of a permanent executive committee authorized to act The reaction from the floor yesterday was favorable but only the representatives from Leavenworth Kas and Joplin Mo had been authorized by their councils to join the opposition action immediately which they did The others agreed to take up the matter with their councils and inform Mayor Bartle no later than Tuesday of their decisions on the 2 per cent support and their authorized representation The committee of seven will not be completed it was explained until the names of the representatives are in Miller said the 31 cities that bad joined in the 1959 gas rate fight already had filed an intervening petition He said this was necessary because September 5 was the filing deadline The petition he said would be amended to include the additional cities joining in the co-operative action CUBANS FACE TRIAL Havana Sept 7(APi Five prisoners captured last April in the abortive anti-Castro Cuban invasion go on trial tomorrow on murder charges the armed forces ministry said today If you have property to sell or a ierviee to offer talk to the million readers of The star through a Star Want Ad Dial BA 1-5500 Adv video-tape valued at S10000jof governors of the Agricul-plus a S200ft video-tape re- turai Hall 0f Fame at the Hotel Muehlebach cording machine After using Park Is Approved The city commissioners of (he network service for five years the machine will become the property of the! school district through a grant from the Ford Foundation Hazlett said that the recording machine will be of great use to the school district in I he next important purchase for the lady in need of a timeless tireless that look it! Sheer wool laced in satin black only 10 to 20 sizes the vacancy created when Jack Jackson resigned last winter A TALK ON WELDING recording some of its regular Missile Nuclear Requirements The board will select a Kansas City Kansas approved new executive director to fill yesterday an agreement permitting the board of education to use land owned by the city in Huron park for a new library building and architectural plans were ordered Lewis Brotherson business manager of the board of education said it would require about six months to complete the specifications The new library will bo built north of the existing structure facing Minnesota avenue The old building will he demolished to make room for a park ing lot an FFxport's Subject Willis Groth an expert in welding for missile and requirements will speak at a meeting of the kan- 1 sas Citv section of the Ameri- can Society of Civil Engineers at 5:30 Tuesday at the school TV offerings Fie said thaY lessons broadcast in the morning are being repeated in the afternoon With Fashion Salon 3rd Floor the new equipment the second i 1 oerformance could he shown rom tape and on the Plaza Station Is Busy Live programs also can be Wishbone restaurant shown in the new night broad- Groth is an engineer at the casting in place of any tapes National Aeronautics and provided by NETRC Hazlett said that other educational Space administration's George Marshall Space Flight cen- If you have property to sel! or a service to offer talk to the million readers of The Star through a Star (Want Ad Dial RA 1-5500 Adv and civic institutions in the Iter Huntsville Ala Park Free 1 Hour Downtown Park Shop Garages With Min Purchase mupy 1 'uuh CLASSICS SUEDE IMrlnre Perfect The Plain Black Milk Pump dujf on i era I bv I i CLASSIC M0C HIGHLAND MOC Black Silk high or mid-heel or Black Suede high heel 1995 Exclusively Ours Shoe Salon Downtown or Plaza Block Suede Black Leather Antique Bras Waied Leather At All 7 Stores Hock Cocao Sued Block Leather Brown Leather At All 7 Stores Shop tnnifr ntinrh Raytown 5 50 Minn 1 nil Order add plm State Tax ROBINSONS 1016 Main 9 Ptaza Proim Vtilaoo Antioch 560 Minn Baytown Topnka JoollJjrotheJ.