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Smith Questions Sikeston Decision No Leads On Grandin Killers GRANDIN, Mo. (AP) The to be from an automatic pistol investigation of the killing of were recovered Thursday in the but funeral arrangements were JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. The voting came aifew hours Grand bank president Robert wooded area where the bodies still being worked out this (AP) State Highway Patrol after Smith made his recom- itermBn his and were found, about five miles morning. Siipt. Samuel S.

Smith raised a mendation Thursday to keep daughter ta connection with an legal question today about the the headquarters at Poplar extortion plot Wednesday, con- Highway Commission's vote Bluff. tinues but authorities say thej Mrs. Bertha Kitterman, 38, and hour Wednesday and told two New commission member havenonewleadg Two young men who were Mo. Burial was set for Saturday house, not far from the bodies. Mrs.

Kitterman worked as an assistant cashier at the bank Juniors Sell Doughnuts For Prom Funds MEXICO (MO.) LEDGER Page Friday, Jan. 19, 1973" west of Grandin. Kitterman returned to the The bodies of Kitterman, 43, Bank of Grandin after the lunch People in the town of 250, in southern Carter County, remained in a state of bewilder- but did not work Wednesday, ment. "They just don't know Roberta, a high school senior, what to think about worked as a bank clerk during just stunned," tomorrow morning beginning final debate. One would haye By Publications Department Mexico High School JUNIORS will be conducting House their second doughnuts sale Put two bills in position Thursday In Legislature By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the afternoon.

their daughter Roberta, 17, employes, "They were found tied to trees. Each dynamite strapped late Thursday to move the Troop highway patrol head- Lawrence Hickey of Joplin ab- quarters from Poplar Bluff to stained in the 3-2 vote. rested on drug charges were Skeston. The general feeling of the ueg ti 0 ned in the case but Smith, who recommended the three who voted for the move, were not believed to be in- daughters, Kathy, 15, and Pa headquarters remain near said Commission Chariman vo i ve said Sgt. have to my The patrol said one theory master at Grandin.

behind the killings was that the Kitterman had been mayor of killers may have been known to the town from 1964 to 1969. the Kittermans and kidnaped Roberta's engagement to a col- He left the bank with $9,811 in them at their house. No trace of lege student had recently been Robert tricTa, 14. The bodies of the vie- a sack and drove away. His car, the money or dynamite was announced in an area news- had been shot once in the head, got my wife and There are two surviving daughter." Poplar Bluff, said he would Jack Stapleton Sr.

of Stanber- Koontz of the Highway Patrol, tims were taken to the Edwards and that of his daughter, were found, authorities said. consult with the attorney ry, was that they wanted the 32 ca iiber shells thought Funeral Home in Doniphan, found at an abandoned farm: general's office about a judge's headquarters to be near Inter- ruling in the controversial case, state 55, which runs north-south The ruling, Smith said, meant near Sikeston. that the Highway Commission Voting for the move to Sikes- was to merely accept or reject ton, Stapleton said, were Com' patrol superintendent's rec- missioners Albert C. Riley of ommendation, and that the new New Madrid, Roger R. Linsin of location of the new headquar- St.

Louis and William R. Logan ters is primarily his decision, of Silex. The commission voted on a Opposing the move were motion to uphold the recom- Stapleton and Lynn Bauer of mendation of the former super- Kansas City. intendent, E. I.

"Mike" Hock- Smith, in his new job as pa- aday, to put the new headquar- trol superintendent just one ters near Sikeston. The Troop day, appeared before the com- E. headquarters has been near mittion to get its approval for Poplar Bluff for 35 years. spending highway funds, as or- But Smith had withdrawn dered by Circuit Judge Frank Hockaday's recommendation Conley. and presented his own.

A legal When bids were opened Dec. aide for the commission said 28, the Sides Construction Co. of members apparently did Cape Girardeau had the low not agree to the withdrawal of base bid of $337,800 for a head- southeastern Hockaday's recommendation, quarters at Sikeston but Gov. Missouri. The In any event, Smith said, he Christopher S.

Bond ordered bodies would not sign a contract for that no contract be awarded paper. Shooting Scene The body of Robert Kitterman, right, president of the Bank of Grandin, at Grandin, his wife, center, and their daughter Roberta, were found in a heavily wooded section of 17, found construction of the new building until his new patrol superinten- near Sikeston until further dent had a chance to make the successful were after a study. School Equivalency Class On 23rd Although most of the classes of the Mexico Evening School will have enrollment night on Monday, Feb. 5, the high school lequivalency and basic adult ingbefore conleythatitwashis classes will enroll at decision on the location. Smith told the commission he had conferred with Bond and told him that Poplar Bluff was his selection and Bond said, "It's your choice." Smith said Bond expressed no preference for either site.

When pressed as to why Hockaday chose the Sikeston location, Smith said it was Hockaday's decision or the decision of "someone else" but he could not say who that was. Hockaday testified in a hear- extortion scheme in which the killer or killers held Mrs. Kitterman and daughter hostage while Kitterman withdrew money from the bank. (AP Wirephoto) In St. Louis, Kansas City be Springfield.

Adjourned until 4 p.m. Monday. Senate Did not meet. Remained ad- Monday. said Norman Magill, post- at 8a.m.

The project is planned the state pay one-half the sala- to mflke money for the annuaj ries of certain uve nile officers Junior-Senior Prom in the and the other would chafcge spring. wording in a law on judgments The doughnuts will be sold regarding tax liens, allowing door-to-door at 85 cents a dozen, orders to be made by any djs- Interested juniors should meet trict of the Missouri courts; of at 8 a.m. at Lisa Davis's home, appeal rather than restricting 5 Melody Lane. jurisdiction to courts of appeal MHS AND HARDIN JUNIOR HIGH STUDENTS will manning road blocks throughout Mexico tomorrow morning as a part of the March of Dimes annual drive. PEP SQUAD BUSES will journed until 4 p.m.

load for tonight's basketball game in Fulton at 5:30 and will Npiman arriK return around 10:30 p.m. Neiman-MarCUS Tomorrow night, the buses Jo St. LOUJS will leave at 5:30 and returniat DA LLAS (AP) Neiman- 11:30 8 fu nt! Ma rc DaUas specialty game with the Jefferson City nomceA Thursday It Javs will build a new multi-million dollar store in Frontenac, a suburb of St. Louis. KUSSell Dean Stuart Stanley Marcus, chairman, Mr.

and Mrs. Ronnie Stuart said: "We feel that St. Louls'is of Centralia are parents of their a natural market for Neiman- third son, Russell Dean, born at Mar cus nn rtnn the Audrain Medical Center in The 128,000 square foot Mexico at 2:39 a.m. today. The three-level store wUl be part.of baby weighed nine pounds two Plaza Frontenac, high fashion ounces.

The couple's center developed by Capitol other sons are Allen Co. of St Louis Construc- Wayne, 10, and Ronnie' will start in July and the Lee 7. His grand- opening is scheduled for the fall parents are Mr. and Mrs. of xt vear Lebbius Ball of 621 MacFarlane will be the eighth Nei- St.

and Mr. and Mrs. J.R. man-Marcus store. Others are Stuart of hear Mexico and his downtown Dallas, suburban great grandparent Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, r.

Ral HarHniir TTln are Mrs. Roy Field of 520 Hisey Bai HarDOUr ia St. and Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Davis of Thompson.

completion in 1974. m. ut oo t. decision alone. The mayor of :7:00 Tuesday night, Jan.

23 at poplar Bernard Mexico Tech. and several other Signs Pact On Discrimination Small May Require Biggest Stamp (AP) party invitations age or older who have com- Before the Troop less than the 8th grade. headqua rters was built at WASHINGTON (AP) The employes in retroactivity. NOW and oversized envelopes are The nigh school equivalency Pop i ar ff, it was at Sikeston largest job-discrimination set- said, however, that the meas- feeling the pinch of automation class is for adults who have not for four yearg The mghvray tlement in the nation's history, ure was "substantial in light of and-if the Postal Service gets completed high school but have atro i was formed in 1931. a $38-million pact providing previous settlements by other its way-may cost more to compteteatneittn grace.

Rep. 0. L. Wallis, R-Poplar lump-sum payments and prom- employers." Instruction will cover the former patrol captain ises quick advancement, has IT md commander, said been signed by the largest U.S. legislator Objects speaking, listening, arithmetic the headquarters was moved to conglomerate, the American Le UDjeciS citizenship counseling and Poplar Bluff when the patrol Telephone Telegraph Co.

To Bond Proposal home and family living. Her- itg first radio transmitters The agreement signed Thurs- JEFFERSON CITY, mail. Postmaster General E. T. Klassen announced a series of recommendations on Thursday to put a surcharge on extra Mo large or smaU envelopes.

Economy Growth At Year-end 8.5% WASHINGTON (AP) The $1.152 trillion, an increase of nation's economy closed out about $102 billion over 1971. 1972 on a strong note, growing This figure was about $4 billion at a sharp 8.5 per cent rate the administration's tar- during the final three months of get, and indicated the economy the year while the rate of in- is stronger than had flation accelerated slightly, the been expected, government said today. What Things Cost meal." She said, "Breakfast is our simple meal. Lunch and supper we cook." We asked for her supper menu "It is the same as lunch, we just cook different vegetables or meat usually." Another housewife told me her suppers for three cost 30 to 40 fens (13c to 18c). And that they include rice, vegetables, pork or fishor.egg&but never all of them.

I asked about steamed bread. She explained that people "from southern China do not like bread. They like rice." Tomorrow we'll visit an automobile factory. Adults 18 years of age or The Commerce Department reported that prices, as meas- ft jjiii t. UTCCI Iflc transmission would be better bor and the Equal Employment Marshall, said yesterday he has must be approved by the inae- the Gross Nat i ona i product, 1 onctni tP Commis- rose by 2.7 per cent during the W.

JTj JTj j-) it i if A and radio engineers decided day with the Department of La- (AP) Rep. Bill Peterson, D- The recommendations, whicn i i i 1.1. i .1 A w-itint- Ko Hv tno inflP- to svaie from quarter, up cent in the pre- high school equivalency from there than from the flat- Opportunities Commission pro- requested Gov" Christopher S. pend 60 Postal land Sikeston location. vides that and 24 of its Bond to withdraw a recom- sion would a PP lv to au au Smith noted the location as operating companies make mended appropriation of nearly and first-class mail weighing nrio rtlinfO flflfl milff TYlllll An til A vl iCOO stitute of Psychiatry.

piece third-class mail weighing QNP, the market value of the just as good service from Popl- surnamed employes and worn- Peterson said the institute two ounces or less. nation's output of goods and diolomas as a result of takine ar Bluff as from sikeston He has no statutory authority and The can services climbed by $3L8 bll diplomas as a result of taking noted thape would fee a greater TheEEOC( intervening in the no such agency is mentioned in be sorted automatically and, during the quarter with Hininrria iq 8 a ad oinin headquar- case before the Federal Com- the laws as being a state agen- therefore, are mucn more ex- the effec( of mflat i on removed, aiiAniwlanrt ters at WiUow Springs if Troop munications Commission pensive to process, says me au coueees moved to Sikeston. where was seeking a rate Peterson charged the in- Postal Service. industries. Theses classes meet two nights a week for 15 weeks.

There is no tuition charge. Adults may make reservations for these hike, had charged the giant organization with Unsolved trime an systematic RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) A discrimination. is a front for the Psy- The recommendations were to re- plicated system More Mexico Area Technical School. ST. (AP) dying, unaware that the man she married at the age of 13 is suing her for divorce in an at- to regain the welfare benefits which she lost.

"If I were real poor or real rich I could take care of my of Missouri, a private corporation. classes by policeman riding a city bus dis- In addition to the $15 million, He said his investigation the covered his wallet was missing, another $23 million will go into showed the institute occupies Vocational so he had all 112 passengers wage adjustments aimed at the same offices as the psy- searched He didn't find it. elevating women and minority chiatric research foundation of bc men to equal job standings with Missouri. They also have over- whites, lapping employes, he said. The pact calls also for hiring Any appropriation of state more men as operators and money to the Missouri Institute noao ma i WXUH clerks and more women in out- of Psychiatry would bean "iUe- orenco urage ma side craft jobs.

ga i diversion of public moneys" The Labor Department prohibited by the Constitution, termed the settlement terson said, imum amount a person can dramatic and historic, one He said he has asked the at- The proposals made 1 ip short of an; change in the current system. Most of the recommen- Divorce Seems Only Man Can Aid Ailing Wife the department figure the economy increased at an annual rate of 8.5 per cent compared with 6.3 per cent in the third quarter. For the year as a whole, the economy grew by 6.5 per cent, higher than the 6 per cent forecast by the Nixon administration a year ago, while the rate of inflation increased by 3 per cent, lower than the 3.25 per cent forecast by President! Nixon's Council of Economic REDEEM THIS COUPON TRIPLE EAGLE STAMPS WITH ANY PURCHASE AT AIR PARK Service Station Hwy 54 East This Coupon Good Thru Jan 31st SATURDAY SUNDAY CHILDREN'S MATINEES PETERSBURG, Fla. Ruth Thomas is 45 and earn and still qualify for Medi- which "will probably constitute torney general to conduct an in- caid benefits. a model for civil-rights vestigation to see if the institute Yet without that assistance agreements for many years to has received any state money he can't afford to keep his wife come." in the past, in the nursing home, where she David K.

Easlick, vice Peterson said it was more has amassed a $2,000 bill he president, said "all parties than "mildly curious" that the can't pay, Thomas said. The should be pleased." The agree- present titular head of the in- couple has six children, in- ment notes that "the Bell com- stitute, Dr. George Ulett, was wife," said Howard Thomas, a eluding one aged 5 and another panies deny that they have en- also instrumental in setting up 49-year-old steel worker. "I work hard for a living and this is what happens There is no other answer. "I'm going to get a divorce in order to help my wife.

I love her but I'm at the end of my rope." The divorce, which becomes final in about 10 days, will allow his wife to qualify for benefits because she will then be without any means of support, Thomas said. Last November the state Di- ll who are staying with mar- gaged in any discriminatory- the private corporation hi 1962 ried sisters. employment practices" but when Ulett was state director of "I can't help but feel guilty nonetheless want to resolve the the Division of Mental Health, about it, but there was nothing charges originally brought by else I could do," Thomas said the EEOC in late 1970. Thursday of the divorce. "I just Joseph A.

Beirne, president thank God she won't have to the Communications know about it. She can't talk Workers of America, and she can't understand. She's characterized the settlement as just dwindling away." hollow and said he had Charles Johnson, regional di- messaged President Nixon that rector of the Family Services it ignores and disrupts the Division, said his office was union's contract relationship concerned about Thomas' pred- with the firm. He asked Nixon vision of Family Services, icament "but we have to stay to block it. which administers the federal within the regulations govern- The National Organization ing our program, and there is for Women said the $15-million nothing in them to exempt back-pay provision was "chick- him." en feed" compared to the $4 Johnson said if Mrs.

Thomas' billion that NOW claims the Mrs. Thomas is confined to a case is approved after a divorce Bell System owes its women nursing home suffering from she would receive $350 each advanced stages of multiple month in Medicaid payments sclerosis, an incurable provided that she had no means debilitating disease. The nursing home cost is- $500 a month. State officials said they had made a mistake 17 months ear- Medicaid program in Florida, cut off the $117 monthly payment Thomas had been receiving for his wife. lier in ruling Thomas eligible of support.

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