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Sedalia Democrat, Friday, Jan. 6,1978 Death Notices Teasdale budget calls for eliminating 800 state jobs Mrs. Daisy V. Wombles Mrs. Daisy Violet Wombles, 72, formerly of 1339 Montgomery Circle, died at the home of her daughter at 6:27 a.m.

Thursday morning. Mrs. Wombles was born near Nelson on Sept. 15, 1905, daughter of the late Jack and Rosie L. Hefner Cornine.

She was married to Ben Wombles on Sept. 2, 1933, and he died Dec. 24,1970. Wombles was a Sedalia resident most of her life. She was a member of the Pentecostal Church.

Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Donald (Margie) Landon, 430 Court; Mrs. Robert (Ruth) Hunter, 502 East Jackson; one son, Robert Eugene Wombles, Marshall; one brother, Ted Cornine. and 10 grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m.

Saturday at the Heckart-Gillespie Colonial Chapel with the Rev. J.D. Sherman officiating. Pallbearers will be Harry Wayne Cornine, Johnny Lee Cornine, Ronald Dean Cornine, Steve Ford, LeRoy Salmons and Alvin Wombles. Burial will be in the Crown Hill Cemetery.

Friends may call from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday at the chapel. Mary A. Hughes WINDSOR Mary A. Hughes, 78, died Thursday morning at Windsor Hospital after a brief illness.

She was born April 6. 1899, in Benton County, daughter of the late William and Mary Elizabeth Trachel On May 25, 1921, she was married to Bryan B. Hughes in Sedalia, and he died on Oct. 31. 1966.

Hughes was a member of the Windsor Christian Church, VFW Auxiliary of Windsor and the Windsor Rebecca Lodge. Survivors include one son, Denton Hughes. Windsor; two daughters, Mrs. Curtis (Mary Lee) Swearngin, Kansas City: Mrs. Leonard (Helen) Mothersbaaugh, Windsor; one brother.

Matt Windsor; one sister, Mrs. Palmer (Rhea) Keller, Windsor; five grandchildren and eight grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Hadley Funeral Home here with the Rev. George Alexander officiating.

Burial will be in Laurel Oaks here. The family receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Guilty plea heard in motorcycle theft Steven Nicholson, 18, Warsaw, pleaded guilty in Circuit Court Friday morning to felony charges of stealing property valued at more than $50 in connection with the July 4 theft of a motorcycle from Auto Sales, 2600 West Broadway. and a 16-year-old juvenile from rural Sedalia were arrested in Home, after allegedly- trying to sell one of three motorcycles taken from the business.

One of the other two motorcycles was recovered in Sedalia, while the third was recovered in Warsaw, A pre-sentence investigation was ordered for Nicholson before formal sentencing. He remains free from custody after posting $2,500 bond. THE SEDALIA DEMOCRAT 700 Sedalia. Mo 65301 Telephone AC 816 826-10(M) Published evenings, except Saturdays and Labor Day Published Sunday mornings in combination with The Sedalia Capital Second class postage paid al Sedalia, -Member The Associated Press The American Newspaper Publishers Association The Missouri Press Association The Audit Bureau of Circulation The Inland Daily Press Association The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to republish news dispatches printed in this newspaper SUBSCRIPTION R.ATES Effective March 1.1976 By carrier in Sedalia Capital, mornings and Sunday, or Democrat, evenings and Sunday $3 05 per month Morning. Evening and Sunday $5 20 per month Payable in advance The Sedalia Capital, or The Sedalia Democrat, daily and Sunday, by mail in Pettis.

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He was born Feb. 8, 1899, in Benton County, son of the late Lee and Mary White Berryman. On Sept. 19, 1925, he married Pearl Marie Swopes in Sedalia, who survives of the home. Mr.

Berryman had lived in Sweet Springs the past six years. He was a sign painter. Other survivors include a son, Carl Berryman, Sweet Springs; two daughters. Miss Shirley Berryman, of the home; Mrs. Keith (Dorothy) Berry, Warrensburg; two sisters, Mrs.

Bertha Brown, Sedalia; Mrs. Charles (Ethel) Bradshaw, Marshall; four granddaughters and two great-grandsons. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Miller Funeral Home here with the Rev. James West officiating.

Burial will be in the Fairview Cemetery here. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Miss Mary E. Miller Funeral services for Miss Mary Edna Miller, 72, Route 1, Smithton, who died Thursday, will be held at 2 p.m.

Saturday at the Ewing Funeral Home with the Rev, Milton Elmore officiating. Pallbearers will be James Miller, Eugene Eickhoff, Roy Clark, Maynard Mittelhauser, F.M. McKenzie and James Miller Burial will be in the Creek Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Concession operations unchanged The three concession stands on athletic fields at Liberty and Centennial Parks will continue to be operated by local athletic leagues, the Sedalia Park Board decided at a special meeting Thursday night. However, from now on, the leagues will have to submit financial statements to the board to insure that profits from the stands go directly back into league activities, The three leagues involved are Khoury League soccer, Khoury League softball and Little League. going to have better explained Mark Hewett, director of recreation. going to make sure the money they make goes right back into the operation of the Last October, the board was approached by Dennis Onwiler, who last operated seven of the eight remaining city park concession stands. Onwiler suggested that all stands be placed under one concession operation.

However, because the three leagues operate the concession stands to raise money, league representatives protested the proposal at last park board meeting. The concession stand at Hubbard Park was operated under separate contract last year by Charles Taylor. Hewett said the park board also considered, but then rejected, the possibility of charging the three leagues a monthly utility fee to cover expenses. Last year, according to Roscoe Righter, director of parks, the department spent $1,008.22 on utilities for the stands. Road use by Boeing will be reviewed Boeing personnel will meet with the County Court, County Highway Engineer Ed Hall and representatives of the five special road districts in the county day morning about the upcoming missile silo modification project around Whiteman Air Force Base, Presiding Judge John Bluhm Jr.

said Boeing officials want to discuss the use of roads in the county during the 18-month project. Actual work on the massive silo modification program is expected to begin in April and will include hundreds of trips along county roadways by heavily-loaded trucks. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Gov. Joseph Teasdale has asked Missouri lawmakers to approve a $3.5 billion state budget that he says is "built around my deep personal commitment to meet human needs without higher The proposed budget for fiscal 1979 beginning in July reflects the type of reallocation of the financial resources that Teasdale said was outlined as one of his goals earlier this week.

A substantial portion of the proposed budget deals with state personnel. Teasdale recommended some $20 million in pay raises for state workers and called for the eventual elimination of more than 800 state jobs in four departments, primarily through attrition. But Gary Passmore, the budget director, said those employee reductions would be more than offset by increases in state-paid personnel in other areas within those departments as well as other agencies of the state. Overall, Passmore said, there would be more than 400 new workers on the state payroll under the proposal. "This is a budget for the people, not for the Teasdale said in the message that accompanied his budget to state lawmakers.

"While this budget supports essential state services, it is sound and fiscally Teasdale said. "I am committed to ending this budget year with a surplus to help meet rising costs in Motion asks for new trial for Mrs. Reed A motion for a new trial was filed in Circuit Court Friday for Mrs. Lois Jean Reed, 54, formerly of 3203B South Washington, who was convicted of manslaughter Dec. 20 in connection with the Aug, 2, 1975, shooting death of her estranged husband, John Clifford Reed, 49, Columbus, Ohio.

Mrs. attorney, William F. Brown, cited five alleged errors in the trial, which was presided over by Judge Robert Russell, Johnson (bounty, assigned to hear the case by the Missouri Supreme Court. Two of alleged points for a new trial included the showing of photographs to the jury of the dead man and the murder scene. Judge refusal to acquit Mrs.

Reed at the conclusion of the evidence presentation by Prosecuting Attorney Mark Kempton and alleged "eluding to himself as advocate of the were two other points cited by Brown. The other objection cited concerned one of the prospective jury members voicing his opinion that Mrs. Reed was guilty during questioning of the entire jury panel. motion claimed Russell should have declared a mistrial at that point, Mrs. Reed, who admitted shooting her husband, and Brown maintained throughout the trial she shot her husband in self-defense.

The shooting occurred in Mrs, trailer home. An eight-man, four-woman jury deliberated only about one hour and 20 minutes before returning a verdict of guilty of manslaughter and fixing her sentence at six months to one year in the county jail. Russell set her sentence at six months and gave Brown 20 days to file a motion for a new trial. Freight cars leave track near Marshall MARSHALL Three cars of an Illinois Central Gulf freight train derailed about 6:25 p.m. Thursday at the Route crossing in the Shackleford community, located about eight miles west of here.

No injuries were reported and the cause of the derailment could not be determined, according to the Highway Patrol. Wrecking crews from Kansas City were on the scene Thursday evening and both Route and the tracks were cleared for normal traffic by Friday morning. The three cars that derailed were near the end of the 27-car train, according to reports. No damage estimate was available Friday. Police (Continued from Page One) of upgrading the pay of the whole department.

Miller added that his request for across-the-board increases had always been turned down. Mayor Allen Hawkins asked the board to set guidelines for education and background of the new chief. The board will establish the guidelines and submit them within a week or two, Reed said. One obstacle that will have to be overcome is a stipulation that the new chief be a resident of Sedalia. The council members indicated they would change that requirement.

the future without new taxes. We are going to live within our means. The governor had intended to formally present his budget to the Legislature on Monday, but the budget document was publicly released Thursday. State operations are financed through general tax revenues, special taxes and federal funds. The budget calls for an overall increase in state spending of about $250 million.

About $141 million of that increase will be in general state tax revenues. Passmore projected general tax revenues for the new budget year at nearly $1.6 billion, up about 9 percent from the $1.4 billion in revenues estimated for the current year. But he acknowledged that his estimate was conservative. entirely likely that revenues would grow more than Passmore said. "If they do, the governor would use the surplus to offset increased costs in the Senate Appropriations Chairman Donald Manford has projected revenue increases at 12 percent for the coming budget year and contends that projection is conservative.

Teasdale called for an increase of $46 million in state aid to public schools as part of the four-year plan to infuse more money into public education. He also asked for more funds utility regulation and energy conservation. The departments of Mental Health and Social Services are the primary targets of plan to cut back state jobs. Passmore said there would also be some minor reductions in the Revenue and Public Safety departments. Some 519 mental health jobs at four psychiatric hospitals are proposed to be eliminated over the next two years at an overall savings of $3.2 million.

Marked for those cutbacks are the state hospitals at Farmington, Fulton, Nevada and St. Louis. The jobs are ail in the support services areas and not the direct patient care areas of the four institutions, he said, and the savings will be used to expand community mental health programs. Recommendations for increased employment elsewhere within the department, however, would offset the reduction, resulting in a net loss of department employees of less than 200. In Social Services, 276 jobs are slated for elimination this year at a savings of nearly $3.3 million.

Those cuts in the welfare administration division are directly related to a reduction in the welfare caseload handled by the agency, Passmore said. Proposed expansion of other programs within the department, however, will result in an actual increase of more than 200 employees in the department overall, Passmore said. "It is questionable whether anybody will actually lose his or her Passmore said. the amount of time involved, they may have enough people leave jobs and just not fill them so that nobody will be told as of a certain date they will no longer be For all state employees, Teasdale recommended a 6.6 percent cost-of-living pay increase. In addition, another 2 percent hike would be available to supervisors for merit and promotional adjustment increases.

The governor also called for special raises ranging from 5 to 10 percent for specific jobs where the state has had an inordinately high turnover because the current salaries are not competitive with other governments or private industry. The governor also called for 100 percent increases in funding of certain services for the elderly and financing of the public counsel who represents consumers in utility cases. He called for a 22 percent hike in the state college student grant program that would provide aid to 6,000 more students. After cutting back the budget request of Republican Lt. Gov.

William Phelps a year ago, the Democratic governor recommended legislative approval of entire request for next year as well as the complete requests of the other four statewide elected officials. In the area of capital improvements, Teasdale concentrated most of the $82.8 million earmarked for that purpose in building maintenance and renovation. The only major new building project recommended by the governor was a $6.8 million library for Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield. Farmer parity ratio reaches 44-year low WASHINGTON (AP) The farm parity ratio, an economic indicator used as a battle cry by protesting farmers who called a strike last month, sank to a 44-year low in 1977, according to preliminary figures by the Agriculture Department. Over the 12 months of last year, the parity ratio averaged 67 percent, compared with 72 percent in 1976, 76 percent in 1975, 87 percent in 1974 and 94 percent in 1973, when prices for many commodities rose to record levels.

According to department records going back to 1910, last parity ratio average of 67 percent was the lowest since it averaged 64 percent in 1933 during the worst economic depression. The all-time low was 58 percent in 1932. Thus, the 1977 average was the third-lowest on record. As used by the department, at 100 percent of parity farmers receive enough for their commodities to give them the same buying power that farmers had in 1910-1914. For example, full parity price of wheat last month was $5.05 a bushel.

However, farmers actually got $2.47 a bushel for wheat nationally last month, or 49 percent of parity. On a monthly basis, last low-mark for the parity indicator was in July and August when it averaged 64 percent in each month. Other readings in 1977 included: January 68 percent; February 69; March69; April 69; May 70; June67, July 65; October 64; November 65; and December 66. Berglond met by tractors OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Hundreds of tractors, driven by striking farmers wanting to get their message across to Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland, converged Friday on Ak-Sar-Ben, a racetrack and coliseum where leaders of the movement came for a showdown with the Carter Administration.

Police said tractors "by the gathered in 4hree locations in and near Omaha for the parade to the meeting place. Organizers said they wanted the agriculture secretary to be greeted by sea of when he arrived. CMSU (Continued from Page One) commercial purposes in April, 1976. The $444,000 in federal funds will be matched by $148,000 in financial and contributions of equipment by both CMSU and Mid-America Television. When plans were first announced last spring, a petition drive against the proposal was started by Mrs.

W.C. Jones, LaMonte, who maintains that taking away the local station would deprive many persons of the only commercial television station they can get on their television sets. Mrs. Jones Friday said, "At least we tried. You bet we tried.

I know of anything we could have done. sent petitions to Washington and everything just wish more people would have gotten behind our movement There was no official estimate available on the number of tractors on Omaha streets. However, police said one of the three columns converging on Ak-Sar-Ben was more than four miles long. having some traffic a police spokesman said. "There are large numbers of them as far as you can see in either The vehicles carried signs supporting the farm strike.

Among the signs, were those saying, "We work for "Low prices mean less and "Raise hell, not Man arraigned on molestation charges Harold Jerome Ney, 29, 337 Buckner Court, was arraigned in Magistrate Court Thursday on two felony counts of child molestation. According to the charge against him, Ney allegedly exposed himself, touched and suggested lewd acts, and detained two girls, ages 11 and 12, on Dec. 30. Although specifics of the case were not revealed, it was reported that Ney, an employee of the County Highway Department, was arrested in the prosecuting office by deputies while he was removing a window air conditioner. Ney remains in the county jail in lieu of $10,000 bond, pending his preliminary hearing on Jan.

19. Daily Record Bothwell Hospital Dismissed Mrs. Fay Helsley, 601 West Fourth; Letton Estes, Warsaw; Mrs. Lydia Bluhm, 2512 Highland; Mrs. Zola Ragar, Ionia; James Simms, 315 East Pettis; Mrs.

Georgia Barge, Warsaw; Mrs. Harold Simonin, Marshall; Henry Kipp, Stover; Ralph Hall, Route Leonard Granneman, Cole Camp; baby Chad Wolfe, Pilot Grove; Mrs. Larry Flandermeyer and son, Marshall; Mrs. John Billingsley and son, 1800 South Lamine; Miss Susan Sauers, 710 West Sixth; Mrs. George Hughes and daughter, 817 East 14th; Norman Owens, 3005 Clarendon Road; (Tlyde Henderson, Gravois Mills; Bill Cochran, 636 East 11th; Mrs.

Homer Wild, 1019 West Sixth; Mrs. Lavon Criner, 720 South Lafayette; Mrs. Debra Lortz, 2212 West Third; Alvin Rosenkoetter, 1707 South Marvin; Henry Byrd. 313 East 13th. Births Son, by adoption, to Mr.

and Mrs. Joe Vollmer, Sweet Springs. Named Michael Francis. The maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.

Marvin McKeage Sweet Springs, and the paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Aloys Vollmer, Pilot Grove. Daughter, to Mr. and Mrs.

Duane Bellamy, Hughesville, at 4:40 p.m. Thursday at St. Hospital, Kansas City. Weight, 7 pounds, 5 ounces. The maternal grandparents are Mr.

and Mrs. John Sheffer, Marshall; the paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Russell Bellamy, 505 East 15th; and the paternal great-grandmother is Mrs. Eunice McMullin, 901 West Fourth.

Daughter, to Mr. and Mrs. George Bain, 407 West 20th, at 1:15 a.m. Thursday at Bothwell Hospital. Weight, 7 pounds, 2 ounces.

Daughter, to Mr. and Mrs. Randal Hageman, Smithton, at 12:21 p.m. Thursday at Bothwell Hospital. Weight, 6 pounds, 14 ounces.

Area hospitals Mrs. Edna May Hill, Sweet Springs; Mrs. Charles K. Parsons, Sedalia; Mrs. Danny Taylor, LaMonte; admitted to Community Hospital at Sweet Springs.

Mrs. Carl LaBoube, Odessa; Mrs. Thomas McCutcheon, Nelson; dismissed from Community Hospital at Sweet Springs. Clifford Schroeder, Sweet Springs, has been dismissed from Columbia Regional Hospital. Mrs.

Gertrude Crockett, Concordia; Bill Smith and Mrs. Deri Bernard, both i)f Sweet Springs; admitted to Communi- Hospital at Sweet Springs. Mrs. Wilbert Buesing, Concordia, has 'leen dismissed from Community Hospital at Sweet Springs. Firefighter charged with taking $1,200 COLUMBIA, Mo.

(AP) Members of the Columbia firefighters union made no decision Thursday on whether to suspend a union officer arraigned earlier in the day with six counts of felonious theft for allegedly taking $1,200 in union funds. Mel Tipton, 27, was arraigned Thursday on a charge of taking $1,191.37 in funds from Local 1055 of the International Association of Fire Fighters for personal use between January and December 1977. He was reelected secretary-treasurer of the union last week. Members of the local met Thursday evening with Joe McMahon, a vice president of the international union who represents the district. McMahon said neither he nor the local union would decide what will happen to Tipton.

However, he said the international union would conduct an audit of local union books. Tipton, who was released on $2,500 bond, has not resigned his union post and remains on the fire department A Jan. 13 preliminary hearing date was scheduled for Tipton. FLOWERS for any occasion! Fourth and Pork Phono 826-4000.