The Sedalia Democrat from Sedalia, Missouri • Page 4

Seda lia Democrat, Wednesday, April 7,1976 Death Notices Alfred Rogers Alfred Rogers, 81, 1918 East Fifth, died at the Harry Truman Memorial Hospital in Columbia Tuesday morning He had been a patient there for the last two weeks He was born in Gasconade County, June 18,1894, son of the late Thomas and Came Waisman Rogers On Oct 15, 1920. he mamed Miss Cora Owens, who survives He lived most of his life in Sedalia and. before his retirement, was self-employed the trucking basiness For the last thrw years he had been a night watchman for the Menefee Construction Co A veteran of World War he was a memlier of the Baptist Church at Bland, Mo Also surviving are six soas, Floyd Rogers, Shawnee Mission, Kan Franklin I) Rogers, Smithton; George William Rogers and Gene Rogers, both of Independence, Dennis Rogers, fk)7 North Grand, Vennis Rogers, Hughesville, three daughters, Mrs Earl iRuth) Knecht and Mrs Jesse (Ruby) Workman, both of Columbas. Ohio, Miss Came Risers. Kansas one brother Richard Rogers state of Arizona, two half-brothers, Kenneth Rogers and (Chester Rogers, both of Union, one step-brother, William Biles, Houstonia, six sisters.

Mrs Nora Breeden, Union, Mrs Mae St Louis; Mrs Kiline. state of Mrs Mildred Louisville, Mrs Reba Bryan. Bakerfield, Mrs Betty Herfuret, 31 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren Funeral services will be held at 1 F'nday at the Ewing Funeral Home with the Rev Raymond Knox, pastor of the Broadway Baptist officiating Bunal will be in the Highland Sacred (Jardeas The bixly is at the funeral home Leland C. Tuck HOUSTONIA Leland Tuck, Houstonia, died Tuesday morning at the Sweet firings Community Hospital He was born Nov 4, 1892 at Hoastonia, son of and Willie Hieronymus Tuck He had been a farmer in the Houstonia community most of his life He also as a guard at the Missoun State Penitentiary from 1933-1938 He was a member of the Houstonia Community Barbee Masonic Lodge No 217 at Sweet Spnngs, York Rite at Marshall and Arrat Temple at Kaasas ('ity He mamed Viiginia Sewell on Oct 5. 1916 in Sedalia She survives of the home Other survivors include two soas, Tuck Jr and Sam Tuck, both of Hoastonia, five sisters.

Mrs Ruby Tuck. Mrs John Lorene Higgias, Mrs Edwin Nell Snruth, Mrs Harold Joy Funkhoaser. all of Hoastonia. and Mrs LJarl Lucille hildrenand 1 grandchild Funeral services will be held at 2 Thursday at the church with the Rev Robert Kessler offii iating The family will receive friends at the MiMire Funeral Home here from 7 to 8 30 Wednesday services will be held at 9 Wednesday at the funeral home Bunal will be in the Houstonia Cemetery Miss Mary F. McGaw KANSAS CITY Miss Mary Frances a former Sedalian dun! here at 5 50 Tuesday Funeral services will be held at 10 30 a Fnday at Sacred Heart ('atholic Sedalia Other arrangements are incomplete under the direction of the McLaughlin Funeral Home IHE SFIIAI.IA limVKHTtAT 7(MIS Sislalia.Mo ftMUl IVlcphonc 821VI IKK) Published cvciungs except and Labor Day Published Sundas inonung'' in cotnbiivdion witli The Sedali.i apital Srs'ond class postage at Stslalia.

Mo Member The iated Press The an Newsp.iper Publishers Asstn iation The Missoun Press Asscx iation The Audit Bureau ot (irculitions The Inland Daily Press Assin iation Press is exclusively entitled to republish news dispatches pnnted in this newspaper Mary Alice Davis WINDSOR Mary Alice iFavis. 72, Wind.sor, died Tuesday afternoon at the Windsor Hospital after a lengthy illness She was bom Aug 1, 1903 in Calhoun, daughter of Charles and Lula Ella Dorman Davis She had lived here the past 26 yeari She IS survived by one daughter, Mrs Kenneth (Norma Jean) Eldred, of the home, three brothers, William Dorman Clinton, Jim Davis, John Davis, Clinton, two grandchildren and several nieces and rwphews Funeral services will be held at I Wednesday at the Hadley Funeral Home here with the Rev (iary Fenton officiabng Burial will be in the Laurel Oaks (Jemetery County to testify before panel Thrw county officials were to testify in a subcommittee heanng tor the Committee on Transportation in Jefferson City Wednesday evemng County Highway Ed Hall, hJastern Distnct Judge Russell McFatnch and Western Distm Judge Paul White are among several officials from various counties planning to present testimony on the current status of bndges and roads in their counties One of a series of 10 such hearings being held throughout state, the heanng heanngs are designed to determine the of vanous counties for upgrading their roads and bridges and to determine what a.ssistance can be providid by the Missouri (ieneral Assembly Presiding Judge John Bluhm said a 1974 survey conducted in Petbs County revealed that 106 bndges needid replacement to easure their for traffic loads The bridges identified in that survey were built in the early 19(K)s. Bluhm said Based on coastruction costs, it would take nearly $5 million to replace the bridges. Bluhm said Colorado woman pleads guilty in bad check case Bernadim- ('aruthers, 47. Denver, ('olo formerly of Lincoln, pleaded guilty to felony charges of issuing an insufficient funds check for more than $KK) in Circuit Court Tuesday She allegedly issued a $450 dniwn on the Farmers I3ank of Lincoln on Apnl 9.

1975. to Harold Lutjtm as payment for a She was arrestetl in early December in Colorado Spnngs. Colo and later returned to Pettis County to face charges here Following her guilty plea. Circuit Judge Fnink Meyer ordered a pn'-sentence investigation for Mrs who remains in the county in lieu of bond Cole Porter hit to be staged here Cole Porter Broadway hit of the 1930 s. Anything will be revived by State Fair ('onimunity ('ollege drama and music students at 8 Thursday through Saturday at the Missoun vState Fairgrounds Agnculture Building The musical lomtsiy features several classic Porter tunes, including the title song, ik and also re the Tops John Pelham William C.

Hopkins 'ir Voters (Continued from Page I seat, the Demfxrats now hold a 6-2 advantage on the council Mrs Braverrnan led the school board balloting with 2,067 votes followed by Thompson a former board president, with 1.806 lover won 1,070 votes to fill the unexpired term of Mrs Jean Hausam, who recently resigned her seat Other candidates in the crowded school board race trailed well behind the front- runners. with John Kehde doing best with 1.186 votes With a total of 4249 votes cast in the municipal judge contest the only city-wide race. Tuesday voting saw a lower than average turnout for off-year elections, according to City Clerk Ralph Dedntk Hopkins and Pelham ran well ahead of in County, and Hopkins outdistamed in Benton County as well, collecbng 921 votes compared to 889 Pelham had 514 votes in Benton County Few persons attend Hughes' last rites Car allowance policy never formally voted City aerk Ralph Dedrick Wednesday explained that a preliminary recommendation by the City Council financ-e committee three years ago to abolish car allowances for city employes on vacation was never formally Mayor Jerry Jones Tuesday said he believed the policy of paying vacationing city employes car allowances had been dropped three or four years ago Dedrick said Wednesday that when the council finance cominittee three years ago suggested the idea, his office informed various city employes of the proposal After learning of the suggestion, Dedrick said, one city worker protested the action to committee chairman Geoige Dugan Jr The employe, Dedrick said, pmnted out that many city employes use their cars on official duty after regular working hours and on weekends and therefore the car payments made while they are on vac-abon help compensate for these extra car trips The committee also suggested automatically withholding car payments for a period of bme each year to an employe vacation bme Some employes objected to this. Dedrick said, because many city workers receiving car allowances to not take vacabons or do not use all of their allotted vacabon time Because of these the committee decided not to pursue the matter further, according to Dedrick, said Wednesday he did not remember any such specific conversabon but acknowledged that It could have taken place. also clanfied that no city employe receives four weeks of vacation as Jones stated Monday, The maximum amount of vacation bme that can be earned three weeks after 15 years employment.

Daily Recorid Bothwell Hospital HOUSTON (AID Hillioniare in dustnalist Howard Hughes was buned tixlay in short graveside rites in an exelusivi' just we.st of downtown Houston Thert' weri' few mourners at the Episcopal service and there was no eulogy for the ('ccentric recluse who died Monday of kidm'v failure Dean Gibson of Christ Church Cathedral, one of oldest Epi.scopal the last rites from the 14th chapter of the Book of John and added. We hnng nothing into this world and take nothing out thy worium and 15 or men at for the three- minuti' service which had kept secret from the public Then' was no effort to exclude refxirters and photographers at the gravesite Neithi'r of ex-wives attenrk'd the services Dr Joseph Jachimczyk the Harris medical examiner who observed the autopsy which listed the cause of death as chronic kidney failure, said, far as concerned, an ordinary death just that it was not an ordinary person As for the autopsy, Jachimczyk said, could not tell what kind of life he had led, but he was very emaciattxi The evidence is Former Warsaw man is held in Kansas Uettis authorities are awaibng word from Westmoreland, authonbes on whether Jerry C. Quinn, formerly of Warsiiw, will waive extradition backtoMi.ssoun Sheriff Emmett Fairtax said Wednesday that Quinn was arrested in Westmoreland on a Petbs warrant charging him with issuing an lusufficient funds check for over felony A warrant filed in Magistrate March 25 charges Quinn with issuing a check for $375 on the Osage Valley Bank at Warsaw to Howard Coustruction Co. on IX'c 4 Priesmeyer arraigned in felony theft case SURSt'KIPTION KATES Effective March 1.197« By earner in Sedalia ('apital, nmrnings and Sunday, or DemcK-nit, evemngs and per niontti Morning. Evemng and Sunday $520 per month Payable in advance The Sedalia Capital, or The Sedalia Dermx rat daily and Sunday, by mail in Pettis.

Benton, ('amden. Cooper. Johnson. Henrv, Hickory, Lafayette Morgan and Saline counties: I year $22 00, months $1150. 3 months $6 50 1 month $3 05 Payable in advance By inail elsewhere 1 year $3200, 6 months $17 00 3 months $10.00: month $4 00 Payable in advance.

Leonan1 Pnesnu'yer. 822 North Grand, was arraigned in Magistrate Court Tuesday aftermHin on felony charges of stealing more than $51) following the confiseabon of several thousand dollars worth of suspectcxl stolen property Monday evening Offii-firs from the Sedalia and police departments and the Pettis County and Sahne County sheriff departments convergtHl on the house Monday afternmm after obtaining a search warrant from Magistrate Judge Hazel Palmer Pnesmeyer was arrested at the scene Charges filed against him specifically accuse him with stealing packages of frozen meat from Pettis County Refrigerated Locker System. 800 West Mam. in January. 1975 Officers rented a large truck to haul hundreds of items from the home, including guns, ammunibon.

mmi-bikes. furniture, a camper trailer, water heater, furnace, citizens band radios, garden tractor, bres and many other items Authonbes are now trying to trace the items back to their owners brother. Olean Gene Priesmeyer. 30, and his wife, Karen Pnesmeyer. 25, were arrested at their Marshall home late Saturday night on felony charges of receiving stolen Those arrests followed a search of their home in which large quanbbes of guns and hand tools were found.

Iterm recovered there have been traced to thefts in Saline. Pettis. Johason. Lafayette and Carrol They both remain in the Saline County jail in lieu of $7.500 bond each Their prelinunarv heanng there is scheduled for Apnl 19 in Saline County Magistrate Court Leonard F'nesmeyer was released Tuesday afternoon after he posted $2,500 bond liis preliminary hearing is scheduled for 27 In other acbon Tuesday afternoon. Charles A LaClair, 24.520 South Lafayette, was arraigned on felony charges of possessing a controlled substance, phentermine is charged in a warrant filed 2 connecbon with a March 18 incident He was a passenger in a car stopped by police at Broadway and Marvin for a traffic vtolabon He was charged at that bme with of less than 35 grams of marijuana, a misdemeanor.

He was later released on $200 bond on that charge, following his arraignment in Court LaClair posted $3,500 Tuesday and was released, pending his preliminary heanng on 20 Another man in the car. Larry Arnold. 32. Cole Camp, was arrested on a city chaiite of faiUng to obey the lawful order of a policeman He is free on bond and scheduled to appear in Court Apnl 16 there that Iw had been bedndden for some bme I know how long Although the official said Hughes appeared frail, he discounted earlier reports of Hughes having a bizarre appearance, including three-inch long fingernails and shoulder-length hair He said the body had short hair, normal length fingernails but a full beard. looked like any other 70-year-old man who was in poor The luxuriant cemeti'ry bunal ground for many of Hou.ston’s early civic leaders is in a thickly wixxled glen two miles west of downtown area It is bounded on one side by Memorial Freeway and on the other by heavily traveled Washington Avenue' body was quickly lowered into the grave in a 1,000 pound, silver jacketed casket that will eov ered by a matching vault, funeral home spokesmen said Mrs Fredenek Lumniis Sr Hughes' 85-year-old aunt, occupied a front row at the services along with her son.

Will Lummis Gibson read from the Bible words of in My F'ather's house are many mansions; If it not so. 1 would have told you 1 go to prepare a place for As Huglu's was Ix'ing huned there mained alive the question of disjxssition of his vast and far flung empiri' Arelo Sederberg. a Hughes' spokesman in Los Angeles where Sumrna Corj) has its head quarters, said there would no comment on whether a will exists to detail dispcxial of his aerospace, hotel-easino and airline propc'rties There also were retxirts of official con ccrn over the idt'otifieation of the fxidy despite statements by hospital offa-ials that the fxxly thi'y jx'rformed a hour autopsy on Tuesday was indeed Howanl Rohard Hughes, victim of ordinary from kidney failure Thieves break into publishing company Someone broke into the Walker Publishing Co West Main, Monday night and stole about $10 in change and bills Wendell Baldwin told police that someone pried out a window to gam entrance to the building and took the money from a petty cash drawer and several offices. A $395 chain saw, stolen from Yeager Cycle Sales, 3001 South Highway 65 about amonth ago, was reported stolen Tuesday Mrs. James Yeager told police that someone shoplifted the saw, but she had not reported it unbl Tuesday Someone cau.sed $75 to $85 in damage to a door and lock at Ramada Inn, 3501 West Broadway 'Dm Fine told police that whoever broke apparently used the bathroom and then left without disturbing anything else in the room Another parking meter was damaged in the downtown area of Sedalia David Schick of the meter department told police that someone beat on a meter in the 300 block of Lamine with a metal object, but failed to gain entrance to the coin box The vandalism occurred sometime between 6 45 Monday and 8 a.m.

Tuesday Thoma.s Richard Burlingame, 2614 Maplewotxl Lane, told police his CB. along with an car radio, were taken from his car some bme Monday morning while a was parked in front of 118 North Lamine. No value was given for the radios In other police news, Dorothy Rogers, Independence, told police that someone damaged a vinyl cover for the bed of a pickup truck some bme Sunday night Mrs Rogers said she had been to two restaurants in Sedalia Sunday night but did not nobce the damage unbl Monday morning The top. valued at $100. had been slashed in four places Bond signs four bills, vetoes one JEFFERSON CITY.

Mo (AP) Gov Chnstopher Fiond signed four bills into law today, but vetoed another measure that would have revi.sed the authonty of the director of the state Division of Design and Signed into law were measures which ri'quire jx'rsons participating in certain viK'ational and technical courses to wear safety glasses, lowering the legal age for pt'rsons working in liquor warehouses, raising the real estate exemption from creditor claims in bankruptcy cases from $1.500 to $5,000 and providing a $7..500 pay hike for each of the three rnemlx'rs of the lioard of Probation and Parole The pay is to compt'nsate the hoard mt'mbt'rs or the operation of a statewide prisoner release program where it is deemed neces.sar>'. The vetcx'd bill would have required the director of the Division of Design and Construction to insptxl capital improvement projects of state agencies. The bill would also allow agencies to contract for design and engineering work with outside firms, hut it prohibits any engineering or consulting contracts on projects costing less than $10.000 which is current state jxilicy but not law Humphrey from Page 1) Four othi'r candidates scattered votes Fred Harris of Oklahoma was one of them, with a one pt'r cent showing that could spell the end of his campaign He seheduk'd a Thursday news conference in Washington The shared delegates in projxirtion to their popular vote showings Carter had 26. Udall 25. Wallace 10, Jackson 6 and McCormack 1 On the Republican side, it was Ford or 55 cent Reagan or 45 pt'r cent The Republican system awarded delegates on a winner take all basis in each congressional district and the statewide race, so Ford captured all 45 NEW YORK With 99 fx'r cent of the precincts counted.

among DeiTKXTats. votes stixxi; 1 or pt'r cent Udall 1.099.344 per cent Uncommitted 665.7*22 or 18 pt'r cent Carter or 14 pt'r cent 1 larns or 3 pt'r cent Wallace received 12,016 votes and McCormack 7.:105 votes. Candidates pledged to Jackson won 107 Democratic convention slots, Udall supporters captured 69. uncommitted en- tnes 65 and Carter biickers ,33 Carter had fewer delegate candidates running than did his rivals, and the New York system offered no clear measure of statewide support FYirthermore. some nominallv uncornmittt'd delegates chose sides.

SIX they were for Jackson, at least 16 declaring support for Humphrey In the Republican primary in New York, 114 uncommitted candidates won convention most of them unopposed Only a dozen Reagan supporters were entered, and three of them won Thirty-seven uncornmittt'd Republicans were selerted earlier That adds up to 134 delegates, virtually all of them officially uncommitted but likely to end up in the Ford column unless his contest with Reagan should open the race to other potential candidates. In that case, the New York votgs could be a base for Vice President Nelson A Rockefeller Dismissals Dwight Fhrtie, 1611 West Mam; Herman Tegtmeyer, LaMonte, Clyde Looney. Bothwell Hotel; WilUam Jansen. Sweet brings; Charles Weller, 916 West 10th, James Drake, Marshall; Orval Burd. 802 Manor Court; David Paxton 410 East Seventh, Gary and son, Stover, Mrs Allen Whittal! and son.

Knob Noster; Mrs Douglas Dickman. 1617 West nth; Mrs William Chevalier. LaMonte. Mrs. John Bus.

1424 South Sneed; Mrs Larry Kreisel. 1104 South Sneed; Gilpin, Stover; Vinc-ent Wolfe. 502 North Grand; Mrs. Joseph Coomes. Ionia; Mrs Bob 237 Driftwood Dnve Births Daughter, to Mr and Mrs Edwin Siadler, Deepwater, at 7:12 a at Bothwell Hospital Weight, 7 pounds Area hospitals Elmer Kindle.

Raymont. admitted Monday to the Veteran's Admirastrabon Hospital. Columbia Marriage Licenses Ronald Frank Harris. 407 West Broadway, and Janet Faye Barnes, 33 Elm HiU. Municipal Court Speeding; James FI Schroeder.

1604 East I4th. forfeited $26 Running a stop sign: Chrisbna L. Clan 1006 West Seventh, forfeited $10 Oreless and imprudent dnving E. Vansell. 1624 Fourth, forfeited $25 to yield forfeited $25 Barnes, Osceola.

Leaving the scene of an accident John 307 Flast 14th. $100 Disorderly conduct; Martha Miles, 918 South Missouri, fined $25 Car windshield is damaged by brick A Sedalia youth was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct by defacing the property of another late Tuesday night Donald Ditzfield, 17. 801 East 13th, was released on a signed bond to appear in Municipal Court F'nday Ditzfield allegedly threw a brick into the windshield of a car driven by (Jene Sedalia, at Petbs and Washington about 10 50 p.m Tuesday Ditzfield was arrested based on informabon given by Cave, who recognized Ditzfield The windshield was valued at $150 Joe Chalfan, Route 2, reported that a shogun belonging to him was stolen during July. Value for the gun was set at $150 Area (Continued from Page 11 received 98 votes, over George Gerken, 59 votes. Ward Two elected Ole 131 votes, to a twoyear term Terry Newton was elected to a one-year term with 114 votes Both were Incumbent City Collector Mary Joe Berry, unopposed, recei ved 308 votes George King, incumbent city marshall, received 243 votes to defeat his opponent, Richard Acox, who had 87 votes Morris Gurken unseated incumbent Police udge William Smith They received 208 and 123 votes, respecbvely.

Monroe Perkins and Raymond Boland were elected to three-year terms on the R-7 Board of Perkins had 258 votes and Boland 187 to edge Wendell and Donald Elwell, who each collected 175 votes Vincent Shrader had 150 votes and Thomas French 56 KNOB NOSTER Robert Osborne, Raymond Bass and Mayo Smith were elected to the Knob Noster Qty Council Tuesday The results were as follows: First Ward, Osborne, 36 and Marvin Rife. 23; Second Ward, Bass. 40 and Emmett Manning. 12, and Smith, 28 and Tom Sargent, 25 Non- parbsan elecbons are conducted here Elected to three-year terms on the lixal school board were John Hurd with 173 votes and Rodger Boyle with iS7 Placing third was Mrs Janrae with 54 votes Earl Dowmng received 203 votes for a posibon on the Johnson County Board of Educabon HL'GHESVILLE Dewey Kearney and Gary Townsend were elected to serve two-year terms on the city Board of Trustees Swopes received 37 votes. Kearney recorded 33 and Townsend talked 28 votes Placing fourth was Mrs Frances Phillips, with 18 votes Hughesville is not divided into wards The Board will meet at 7:30 Fnday at the town hall here to reorganize.