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The Sedalia Democrat, Wednesday, Jan. 15,1975 DEATH NOTICES Family homeless after Tuesday morning fire DAILY RECORD William E. Zink KNOB NOSTER WilUam E. Zink, 69, died Wednesday morning at his home here He was born Feb. 17, 1905.

in Knob Noster, son of W. E. and Ella Gillum Snk Sr. He married Grace Busby on Sept. 14, at California.

He was a member of Knob Noster Christian Church. Survivors include hs wife, of the home; four sons, William Richard Zink, Theodore Elmer Zink, James Walter Zink, all of Knob Noster; Charles Lee Zink, Clinton; two daughters, Mrs. Tim (Abce Pearl) Brooks, Warrensburg; Mrs. Michael (Elsie Mae) Hill, Montgomery, orw brother, Don Zink, Warrensburg; five sisters, Mrs. Lillian Elwell, Warrensburg; Mrs.

Catherine Tyler, Knob Noster; Mrs. Marian Hughes, LaMonte; Mrs. Alice Allen, Windsor; Mrs. Elaine Slusher, Independence; 16 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m.

Friday at the Knob Noster Christian Church. Burial will be in Knob Noster Cemetery. The family vrill receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Moore Funeral Home, LaMonte. Della B.

McGraw VEIRSAILLEiS Mrs. Della Baughman McGraw, 84, died Wednesday at a local nursing home. She was born in Morgan County, Sept. 16, 1890, daughter of the late Wesley and Adeline Pace Allen. In 1905, she was married to Owen Baughman, who preceded her in death in 1932.

In 1937, she was married to Patrick McGraw, who prec-eded her in death in 1968. Survivors include four sons, William and Chester Baughman, both of Sunrise Beach; Tom Baughman, Oak Hill, John Baughman, Salina, one brother, (Taude Allen, Kansas City; one sister, Mrs. Josie Williams, Eldon; and six grandchildren. Funeral will be held at 3:30 p.m. Friday at the Kidwell-Garber Funeral Home, Versailles, with the Rev.

James Hagan officiating. Burial will be in Versailles Cemetery. The family will receive friends after noon Thursday at the funeral home. John Roy James HUGHESVILLE John Roy James, 76, formerly of Versailles, died Tuesday at Bothwell Hospital, Sedalia. Born Nov.

17, 1898, at Gravois Mills, he was the son of the late Mahlon and Amanda Butcher James. On July 3, 1926, he married Miss Ruth Kenny, who survives of the home. Also surviving are three sons, Mahlon James, Tecumseh, George James, Oak Grove; Noel Wayne James, Chicago, two daughters, Mrs. Ethyl Bade, Bluffton, Mrs. Nellie Evelyn Phelps.

Newark, two sisters, Mrs. Jessie Dunn, Gravois Mills, Mrs. Ola Shockley, St. Louis; and 15 grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m.

Friday at the Kidwell-Garber Funeral Home, Versailles, with the Rev. Frank Ebright officiating. Burial will be in the Holst Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral chapel after 12 noon Thursday. August F.

Tegtmeyer CAMEJION, Mo. Funeral services for August F. Tegtmeyer, 74, who died at his home here Monday morning, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Moore Funeral Home, LaMonte, with the Rev. Marvin Albright officiating.

Burial will be in Blackburn Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. John Burke Jobe CALIFORNIA John Burke Jobe. 75.

died Tuesday at a Jefferson City hospital He was born Oct 9, 1899, at California, son of the late Joe A. and Laura McKissick Jobe. He married Elizabeth Bower Sept. 6, 1924, and she survives, of the home He was a retired mechanic and a member of the Annunciation Catholic Church, California. Other survivors include one son, William D.

Jobe, Kansas City; one brother. Harry Jobe. California; two sisters, Mrs Minnie Hunter, California; Mrs. Mildred Luce. Kansas City.

and four grandchildren. The rosary will be recited at 8 Wednesday at the Williams-Woodard Funeral Home here. Funeral services will be held at 10 a Thursday at the church, with the Rev Leonard Misey officiating Burial will be in the church cemetery. Local teenagers sentenced to 3-year terms Two Sedalia teenagers were sentenced Tuesday afternoon to two concurrent three- year terms each in custody of the state Department of Corrections by Pettis County Circuit Judge Frank Meyer Robert Wayne Lawson, 17, 212 South Ohio. andMark Wayne White, 17,1414 Seventh, entered pleas of guilty in Circuit Cburt Tuesday to charges of second degree burglary and stealing.

The two were arrested by Sedalia police Dec. 12 in connection with a break-in at the Richard Parkhurst home, Route 3, earlier that day Judge Meyer sentenced both to terms of three years on each charge, and gave them credit for time spent in jail. The two have been in the county jail in lieu of $3,500 bond since their arrest The two were arrested along with a iuvenile at apartment after a jzoiice stake-out. The juvenile was turned over to juvenile authorities. A large amount (rf stolen merchandise was found in the apartment.

The Cooper County sheriff said some of the items were taken in break-ins in that county. Police said the juvenile and White were arrested in the apartment but Lawson fled to an attic where officers found him hiding. The Morley Cramer family, whose home at 253 East Saline, was destroyed by fire Tuesday morning, has to set up housekeeping all over again. And Mrs. Cramer quite know where to start lost everything Nothing at all could be saved, she lamented.

However, the Cramers will be some help as they attempt to reconstruct their life style. Mrs. Ron Camirand, 1604 South Heavy Viet fighting continues THE SEDALIA DEMOCRAT 700 Massachusetts Sedalia. Mo Telephone AC 816 826-1000 Published evenings, except Saturdays and Labor Day Published Sunday mornings in combination with The.Sedalia Capital Second class postage paid at Sedalia. Mo 65301 New trial is underway for Sedalia man (Democrat-Capital WARRENSBURG A new trial for Sam Scott, 24, 1401 South Prospect, chained with distribution of a controlled substance, began in Johnson County Circuit Court Wednesday morning.

case is being tried here on a change of venue from Pettis County. He is charged with distributing 107 Va tablets of amphetamine sulfate in January, 1974, to Gary Bilderback, also of Sedalia. A hung jury resulted in original jury trial on Sept. 28 and Prosecuting Attorney Gary Fleming requested a new trial. Scott was originally charged with dispensing and delivering the tablets to Bilderback.

A February change in the chaises was described as a legal maneuver. The original charges were dropped and new charges filed in Pettis County Circuit Court. Johnson County Circuit Judge Robert G. Russell had refused to allow Fleming to change words in the original complaint. trial was then again moved to Johnson County on a change of venue.

Scott was freed from the Pettis County jail Feb. 13 after posting $15,000 bond. Four persons are injured in two accidents Member The Associated Press A merica n' Newspaper Publishers Association The Missouri Press Association The Audit Bureau of Circulations The Inland Daily Press Association The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to republish news dispatches printed in this newspaper SUBSCRIPTION RATES; Effective September 1.1974. By carrier in Sedalia; Democrat, evenings and Sunday, or Capital, mornings and Sunday. $3.05 per month.

Morning. Evening and Sunday. $5.20 per month. Payable in advance. The Sedalia Capital, or The Sedalia Democrat daiK and Sunday, by mail in Pettis.

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Hickory. Lafayette. Moniteau. Morgan and Saline counties; 1 year $18 00 6 months $950: 3 months 15.00 1 month $2.00 Payable in advance By mail elsewhere; 1 year $28.00 6 months 3 months $8 00; I month 12 J5 Payable iqadvance (Democrat-Capital Service) SWEET SPRINGS Four persons were taken to Sweet Springs Community Hospital for treatment following two separate accidents on Interstate 70 in Saline County Wednesday morning Edwin Harley Patterson, 49, was treated for cuts and released following a collision which resulted in the destruction of his westbound tractor trailer unit at 5.30 a.m. near Route J.

Patterson reportedly pulled out to pass a tractor-trailer unit driven by Jason Clyde Blunt, 50, Steelville. A tire blew out on truck, causing it to swerve, and his saddle (gasoline) tank ruptured when it struck truck. truck then caught fire and was destroyed. Damage to truck was negligible. Three persons were injured near the Emma Junction at 7:40 a.m.

when a westbound station wagon driven by Elmer John Hemme, 54, Sweet Springs, was struck in the rear by a car driven by David Ray Francis, 20, Chesterfield, Mo. Francis was treated for facial cuts and possible internal injuries. Hemme and a passenger in his au(p, his wife Maxine, were admitted for X-rays and possible neck injuries. Francis was issued a Highway Patrol summons for careless and imprudent driving. PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) Rebel gunners poured more than 100 rounds of heavy mortar and cannon fire into besieged Neak Luong today and also raked a seven-ship Mekong River convoy with mortar and machine-gun fire, forcing it to turn back to South Vietnamese waters, a government army source reported.

Field reports said the insurgents also opened fire on a government resupply convoy to Neak Luong and sank an ammunition barge 25 miles southeast of Phnom Penh Casualties were not immediately known, but the Phnom Penh command claimed earlier that government forces killed 173 Communist-led insurgents in a series of attacks and counterattacks around Neak Luong, a naval base town on the Mekong River 32 miles southeast of the capital. Airline sources said Khmer Rouge ground fire also hit a civilian airliner carrying government reinforcements, wounding one of the two American crewmen and 13 Cambodian soldiers and civilians. But they said the plane landed safely in Phnom Penh. The sources identified the American only as Crilly and said he was slightly injured by a bullet that passed through the cockpit. The Hanoi government, meanwhile, accused the United States of using and warships for repeated encroachments on the air space and terri- itorial of North Vietnam and with leaving behind or newly introducing of thousands of military personnel in civilian guise to command the Nguyen Van Thieu clique in carrying on the in South Vietnam.

sources reported an estimated refugees have crowded into Neak Luong since the Khmer Rouge began a dry- season offensive on New Eve. Khmer Rouge guns now dominate more than 40 miles of the Mekong shipping channel to Phnom Penh. No supply convoys from Saigon have come up the river for 26 days. Troop reinforcements are being flown to Neak Luong by helicopter, military sources said The insurgents shelled Phnom airport for the 10th day. an army source reported.

He said eight 107mm rockets were fired, and four sentries were wounded. In South Vietnam. Viet Cong gunners fired five rockets into Tay Ninh City, a provincial capital 55 miles northwest of Saigon, killing four persons and wounding 23, the military command reported. A communique said almost all the casualties were civilians. Tay Ninh is in the area below the Cambodian border north of Saigon where the North Vietnam and Viet Cong have a strong foothold.

It is west of Phuoc Long province, which the Communist forces captured in December and earlv Januarv. Man waives his extradition on drug sale charge Pettis County Sheriff Emmett Fairfax reported Wednesday that R. Kevin Ellis, Kansas City, has waived his extradition and will be returned to Pettis County for arraignment on a grand jury indictment. Ellis, formerly of Windsor, is charged with selling $47 worth of hashish to Robert L. Fliegier, a federal drug agent, on Nov.

22 in Pettis County. Ellis was arrested Monday afternoon by federal drug enforcement and Wyandotte County (Kan.) authorities. Fairfax said a warrant was sent to the Wyandotte County department after it was learned where Ellis was living. Bond for Ellis has been set at $5,000. Prospect, became aware of the need because she works with Mrs.

Cramer at Town and Country Shoe Factory. She set up a distribution cetner in her home for donations of clothing and housewares for the Cramer family. Already clothes and other household goods have been brought to Mrs. Cami distribution center by from Elast Sedalia Baptist Church and Town and Country Shoe Factory. Mrs.

said donations of everything from frying pans to socks can be delivered to her home after 3:30 p.m. In the meantime, the Cramers are looking for a new home. hope to find a furnished place until we can get this mess straightened out, she said. roof on our house is now laying in the bedroom and the front room. The Cramers have a 14-year-old daughter and 20-year-old son still living at home.

They hope to find a new house, apartment or trailer by this weekend. They currently are staying with Mrs. Cramers father, Roy Bennett, 221 Elast Walnut. Mrs. Cramer said she would welcome, clothes cooking utensils, blankets sheets and pillows.

She said she also lost more than $100 worth of utensils which she used for decorating cakes as a Firemen remained at the scene of the fire for more than three hours, battling freezing temperatures as well as the blaze which eventually gutted the Cramer home. Cramer was on the first floor of his home when he heard noises upstairs and discovered the fire. Firemen listed the cause as possibly faulty wiring. Damage was estimated at about $10.000. Bothwell Hospital Admissions Mrs.

Evelyn Richardson, Maplewood. Dismissals Mrs. Dave Diotte, Weathers Court, Mrs. William Branstetter, Route Mrs. Lawrence Ulmer, 810 Elast 18th; Mrs.

Harvey Ream, 211 South Gentry; Mrs. Gerald Percival, Gravois Mills; Miss Susan J. Pritzel, Cole Camp, Mrs. Robert Cross, 1405 South Osage; Mrs. Jamey Greer, Route Donald Moore, 670 East 14th; Mrs.

Norman Trautman, Route Mrs. Pauline C. Vickers, Route Miss Donna R. Lee, 2114 East Seventh; BiUy Lee Bozarth, 321 North Park; Miss Tammy Holman, 1510 East Broadway; Rickie E. Ward, Warsaw; Mrs.

Larry Grinstead and daughter, 237 South Prospect; Lloyd R. Wasson, 906 East Fourth; Mrs. Walter Eppenauer, Versailles; Floyd W. Smithpeter, 1018 State Fair; Mrs. Clarence Lane, Winidsor; Mrs.

Neva 1. Holder, Nelson; Ezekiel Osborn, 207 South Grand; Miss Donna K. Pillars, 100 East 13th; Everett E. Stevenson, Smithton; Mrs. WilUam Stelljes, 1424 West 14th; Daniel W.

Robertson, 520 South Summitt, Arthur Welton, Route Albert E. Baumgardner, 1817 West 11th. Economic No light shed on Cline shooting The question of who shot and wounded Elziah CUne 30, 212 East St. Louis, New morning is stiU unanswered. SedaUa PoUce Chief WilUam Miller and Harold Moore traveUed to the University of Missouri Medical Center, Columbia, Tuesday to talk with CUne.

Miller said told them he does not know who shot him, and he does not wish to press charges against anyone. MiUer said Prosecuting Attorney Gary Fleming will be the one to decide if charges are filed. Miller said he thinks the Tuesday trip will be his last to Columbia to question CUne about the shooting. Israelis raid village within Lebanan again By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Israeli forces crossed the border into southern Lebanon again early today to raid a village Israel charged was used by Palestinian guerrillas, and eight Israeli soldiers were reported wounded. A military spokesman said it was the largest number of casualties Israeli soldiers had suffered inside Lebanon in more than two years.

An Israeli communique said the raiders out the of Shuba, a village in the southeast corner of Lebanon, destroyed several buildings used by Arab snipers, and blew up a water pipeline interfere with terrorist movement in the the course of the combing out action, screams were the communique said. troops caUed to the women to come out of a house, and when they came out to meet the Israeli troops, two hand grenades were wounding eight Israeli soldiers. It was the third such Israeli raid in four days into the. area of southern Lebanon that the Israelis call Fatahland, because it is dominated by AI Fatah, the Palestine guerrilla group Meanwhile, Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and President Anwar Sadat threatened Israel with withdrawal of United Nations buffer forces this spring unless the Israelis give up more Arab territory. Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon confirmed press reports that Egypt has given a negative response to offer last month to withdraw up to 30 miles on the Sinai front in exchange for Egyptian moves to end economic and propaganda warfare against Israel.

yet I have reason to assume that Egypt believes Israel has indeed shown openness and willingness to enter a meaningful negotiation on an interim Allon told newsmen in Washington, where he is meeting today and Thursday with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, President Ford and Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger. Committee in move to oust two chairmen WASHINGTON (AP) In a tradition shattering move today, the House Democratic Steering Committee voted to take committee chairmanships away from two senior Democrats. The final decisions on Chairman Wright Patman, of the House Banking Committee and Chairman Wayne L.

Hays of (he House Administration Committee will be made Thursday by the Democratic caucus. The steering committee, under reform procedures, has taken over the work of nominating members for committee positions and chairmanships. Voting by secret ballot and discarding the long-held principle of seniority, the committee decided to recommend Rep. Henry S. Reuss, for the Banking Committee chairmanship and Rep.

Frank Thompson for the Administration Committee chairmanship. Reuss is the fourth-ranking Democrat on the Banking Committee and Thompson ranks second on the Administration Committee. (Continued from Page 1) appointment, Jake Siragusa, president of the Chamber, said, just sorry it took so Siragusa told Hequembourg he never experience a more open and more cooperative community than you have here. The assets of this community far, far exceed those little things which may be Also speaking was Mayor Jerry Jones, who acknowledged brings a degree of expertise to our city team that we have missed since Bill Hall (former economic development director) Jones also lauded the efforts in the area of economic development and for naming Larry Melton executive manager. 'think we can become a more viable economic communitv he stated.

Ivan Stewart, president of the Association, pledged to Hequembourg his future cooperation, saying: you have to do to get our support is to ask for we know you will be a welcome asset to the of ceremonies for the event, said, are extremely lucky to have him (Hequembourg). He has a fine reputation in the State Division of Commerc-e and Industrial Births Son. to Mr. and Mrs. Terry LafreiQz, Stover, at 8:23 a.m.

Tuesday at Bothuml Hospital. pounds, ounces. Daughter, to Mr. and Mrs. Danny Stratton, Western View Estates, at 1:09 a.m.

Tuesday at Bothwell Hospital. Weight, 8 pounds, 4Vi ounces. Divorces Richard W. Griffin and Jancey R. Griflin were granted a divorce Tuesday in Pettis County Circuit Court.

Three to stand trial charged with drug sales Three persons were bound over for trial in Pettis County Circuit Court following their preUminary hearings in Magistrate Court Tuesday. John Wells, 23, Route Lovell Curry. 17, South Ohio; and Thomas Proctor, 22, Kansas City, all are charged with selling controlled substances. Wells was arrested Dec. 16 at 1403 East Fifth after allegedly selling $900 worth of hashish to a federal agent.

He is presently free on $10,000 bond. Curry was arrested Dec. 26 for allegedly selling 150 amphetahiine tablets for $30 tb a federal agent Dec. 21. He is also charged with selling $45 worth of marijuana to the same agent on the same date.

He is being held in the county jail in lieu of $5,000 bond. Proctor is charged with selling $70 worth of hashish on Dec. 26 to a federal agent, and was with Wells when arrested. He is also being held in the county jail in lieu of $5,000 bond. Judge overrules motion to dismiss A motion to dismiss the Pettis County grand jury indictment against Esther Waterwash, 23, Warrensville, Ohio, was denied by Circuit Judge Frank Mt.ver Tuesday afternoon.

Mrs. Waterwash is chained with arson in connection with a June 21, 1974, fire at a rented trailer home in LaMonte. She contended in her motion to dismiss the indictment that the is in violation of state statutes, which do define a mobile home as a dwelling. She has pleaded not guilty to the chagge and remains in the county jail in bond. She was arrested Dec.

officers after turning herself in. I Few real surprises (Continued from Page 1) Speaker Carl Albert, told newsmen afterward the leadership was surprised at the outcome, but he insisted that he and other party chiefs did not regard it as a setback $30 billion; next probably $45 billion. The national debt will rise to over $500 billion. plant capacity and productivity are not increasing fast enough. We depend on others for essential taxes, now, is essential if we are to turn the economy Ford added.

tax cut offers the best hope of creating more jobs. Unfortunately, it will increase the size of the budget deficit. Therefore, it is more important than ever that we take steps to control the growth of federal Echoing what he said Monday, Ford promised to initiate no new spending programs this year except in the energy field. he said, will not hesitate to veto any new spending programs adopted by the Ford said some Americans their ability to make the hard decisions and stick with They expect from Washington as he said. Asserting that the plight requires new partnership between the Congress, the White House and the people we both Ford said: want to speak very bluntly.

got bad news and I expect any applause. The American people want action and it will take both the Congress and the President to give them what they In the energy area. Ford said he would propose a 10-year postponement of clean air standards, due to take effect in mid- 1975, for power plants that convert from use of oil to coal. He said this would not sacrifice clean air goals but simply delay their implementation. The President also called for legislation make thermal efficiency standards mandatory for all new buildings in the United saying these standards would be set appropriate consultation with architects, builders and Espousing a new tax credit of up to $150 for homeowners who install storm windows or other insulation.

Ford called for a new federal aid program help low- income families purchase insulation The fact sheet said he would seek supplemental appropriations of $500 million to carry such a program through 1976. As he stated on Monday, Ford proposed, modifying and deferring auto pollution standards for five years enable us to improve new automobile gas mileage 40 per cent by through voluntary means. The President reiterated his propos4 to increase all crude oil prices by imposiift a excise tax and import with the aim of discouraging consumptien. This would be accompanied 2 by deregulation of new natural gas prices Jnd enactment of a natural gas excise tax of 37 cents per 1,000 cubic feet, enactment a windfall profits tax on oil producers decontrol of the price of domestic oil on April 1. All these steps except decontrol of prices require congressional consideration.

sooner Congress Ford sjid, more effective the oil conservation program will be and the quicker fedaral revenues can be returned to our Ford added that he was to presidential authority to Itoit imports as necessary ta assure the sucJess of this Ford said he and rationing and higher gasoline taxes as alternatives, but the fact sheet stated he will seek, for use in a possible emergency, stand-by authority to ration fuels, allocate petroleum products and establish price controls for allocated products. In proposing a series of permanent tax cuts and federal payments to offset revenues from consumption-discouraging energy taxes, Ford said he wants the money to the American people in a manner which corrects distortions in our tax system wrought by As examples. Ford said individuals have been pushed into higher tax brackets by inflation, with a reduction in actual spending power, and businesses have had to pay excessive taxes on inflation-exaggerated profits. he said. propose that future individual income taxes be reduced by $16.5 billion.

This will be done by raising the low-income allowance and reducing tax rates. This continuing tax cut will primarily benefit lower-and middle-income offset inflationary distortions to generate more economic activity, the corporate tax rate will be reduced froiq 48 per cent to 42 per Ford said. As of his drive to hold dovim federal spending. Ford restated a recommendation that increases in federal pay. Social Security.

Civil Service and military retirement pay and food staitips be limited to 5 per cent in a reduction in the of spending can keep federal borrowing and reduce the damage to the private sector from high interest he said..

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