The Commercial Appeal from Memphis, Tennessee • 23

THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL MEMPHIS WEDNESDAY MORNING DECEMBER 25 1968 23 5 1 -i -v Girl Kidnaped At Des Moines Suspect Sought Arkansas To Get Utility Bill Fine i5 LITTLE ROCK Dec A proposal to penalize Arkansas Power Light Co customers who wait more than A Clarksdale real estate broker was reimbursed $60 by the mayor and commissioners watch her brother Mark in a wrestling match Police said that about the same time YMCA officials wit-nessed Williams carrying something from the building Police said the officials tried to stop Williams but he report- edly told them he was carrying I a mannequin Williams' locked his car and -refused to open the doors when YMCA officials tried to inves- 1 tigate police said Police said the girl was car ried from the building after I she had been wrapped in a blanket i Monday for taxes he had paid the last two years on a house that did not exist Sidney May appeared at the meeting and requested the reimbursement The overcharge resulted from an error on the tax rolls showing a building permit was issued for the house but the house was not constructed 10 days to pay their bills apparently will go Into effect Friday since no formal objections were filed Tuesday with the Public Service Commission Beginning in February customers would be charged 10 per cent of the first $15 of their bill and 3 per cent in excess of that officials say it is costing the firm hundreds of thousands of dollars to collect past-due bills and that the company is losing an equal amount on uncollectable bills BRIEFS DES MOINES Iowa Dec 24 (UPI) Police Tuesday night issued a warrant for a 24-year-old man in connection with the kidnaping of a 10- rear-old girl from the Des doines YMCA Tuesday afternoon Des Moines police detectives said they have issued a warrant for Robert Antony Williams Police said Williams was charged with child stealing in connection with the disappearance of blond-haired Pamela Powers 10 daughter of Mr and Mrs Merlin Powers Urbandale Iowa Police said the Powers girl was apparently abducted from the YMCA when she went to the lobby to purchase a candy bar and failed to return to a YMCA gymnasium Police said the young girt had gone to DEATH NEWS SHIELDED with the Guinn car in the southbound lane of Highway 51 bypass Vfo miles south of Dyersburg Flu Restricts Holiday SAN JUAN PR Dec 24 -(UPI) Gen William Westmoreland Army chief of staff is spending Christmas with his'" family at Ramey Air Force Base in eastern Puerto Rico A spokesman said he had decid Ruling: Is Declined JACKSON Miss Dec United States Dist Zourt Judge Harold Cox declined to rule Tuesday on an injunction request involving the controversial publication Judge Cox declined to issue any ruling memoranda are made available to him City officials have branded the publication obscene and have arrested several young people for selling it ed to spend the holidays at the base because he was suffering the YMCA with her parents to from a slight touch of flu Hunters May Be Boon HOUSTON Miss Dec 24-Deer hunters may become the means to help Sheriff Bill Smith in his search for 63-year-old Waddy Bakel who has been missing since Dec 11 Sheriff Smith said "On Dec 26 this area will be filled with deer hunters and their dogs If they remain in the area until Jan 11 when the season ends they will surely find him if out there UNHAPPY Between 50 and 65 can were damaged yesterday in a freak chain collision crash on the frozen 1-94 just south of Harper Woods Mich An officer said a snowstorm hit the city when the rush-hour traffic was at its peak and when on driver lost control of his automobile it triggered the massive accident Six persons were injured but non of them seriously UPI Tftapheto Former Socialist Candidate Died In Obscurity BRIDGEPORT Conn Dec 24 (UPI) John Aiken twice a candidate for the presidency on the Socialist Labor Party ticket died in such obscurity that even the exact time and place of his death are not known It was learned Monday that Aiken suffered a heart attack several weeks ago while driving in the Bridgeport area His car was involved in an accident and he was hospitalized and later died There were no obituary notices death became known when a son went to the River Mead trailer park in East Hartford where the elder Aiken had lived to attent to his personal possessions Only then did fellow residents of the trailer park discover Aiken had once been a political figure He was the Socialist Labor vice presidential candidate in 193! and ran for president in 1936 and 1940 POLITICO SUES PEARSON State Near Goal In Highway Net Nine Left Homeless JACKSON Tenn Dec A fire roared through a slum housing section in southwest Jackson Tuesday leaving at least nine families homeless on Christmas Eve There were no injuries among the occupants but fireman Wayne Brantley was overcome by smoke He was given first aid Chief Ben Warlick sail loss would be in the thousands of dollars of Interstate toads during 19G9 has work of some sort under way on every mile authorized by the federal government The department said it expects to award a contract for the channel superstructure of the new Interstate 40 bridge across the Mississippi river at Memphis in early 1969 The project is being jointly financed by Tennessee and Arkansas with Tennessee handling the contract The job would already have been under construction had Arkansas been able to finance its share Crash Kills 3 DYERSBURG Tenn Dec 24 Three persons including the brother of Dyer County Sheriff Elmer Hatley were killed Tuesday night in a near head-on crash south of the city State Trooper Mahlon Green identified the victims as Charles Hatley 43 and Hilda Tatum about 40 both of Dyersburg and Sarah Guinn Collier 25 of Waxahachie Texas Green said Hatley and the Tatum woman were in a pickup truck which collided Within 300 Miles Of Plans Interstate Program 64 Miles In 1968 By WILLIAM BENNETT All Stores Open Thursday 9 AM 9 PM TIL From Tm Commercial Aoeoal NatfivllM Burtau New Jersey Democrat Cites Charges In Column TRENTON NJ Dec 24 -(UPI) New Jersey Democratic Chairman Robert Burkhardt has filed a libel suit against columnist Drew Pearson who implied in a November column that Democrats pocketed $175001 in campaign money and that Burkhardt has a drinking problem Burkhardt who is also sec retary of state filed a Superior Court suit listing eight other defendants including Jack Anderson co-author The suit claims malice in the column and asks for compensatory and punitive damages Burkhardt requested a trial by jury The column said Vice President Hubert campaign managers arewon- Taxes Are Reimbursed CLARKSDALE Miss Dec NASHVILLE Dec 24 With 64 miles of interstate highways opened to traffic in I9G8 Tennessee is within just a bit more than 300 miles of having its entire allocated superroad mileage in use or under construction hLtJht toUX tnMttltraffic sectk)n5 HO from Thomas to Claybrook 1-255 A major shelby County interstate contract totaling 36 million dollars will be awarded early in the new year 1 ft "By -liaS happened the Additionally construction Is rr0nl Chel- W0 they 'Kntinte ithe state underway on about 114 miles: The total amount of monev VeiThj Of cunprhinhu'nv in varinne1 iowi amount oi money pect that some of the old-line uT being acquired on IDS mfcJC 'Kl-pUt m0ney thar ALL 3 STORES OPEN THURSDAY 9 AM 'til 9 PM FAMOUS NAME WOMEN'S SHOES plans are being developed on ncariy 19 millions in Shelby nearly 108 miles and surveys county of which more than 15 are in progress on the remaining 49 miles own pockets' Another statement that Burkhardt an alcohol problem during much of the was denied by Burkhardt who said that he has a liver ailment and could not consume much alcohol I Unless there is a revision in Interstate highway allocations iixiciBiaie uigiiwajr BIhAhUUHS) After Christmas Sale i i Tennessee eventually will have 1044 miles of the four-lane divided controlled access Save 20 to 50 on all styles! 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Buy the shoes been putting off buying at spectacular savings you can't afford to mise! millions went for superhigh ways Aside from a short section of urban construction in Nashville and about 20 miles in the mountainous country near Rockwood Interstate 40 is open to traffic from Memphis to Knoxville Tennessee in the past fiscal year received 933 million dollars in federal-aid highway funds Of that 73 millions went i Sr-nV iSiSP routes i Of that total allocation Shel- by COunty will have slightly less than 71 miles of express- ways More than 47 miles of A Special Gift ANNISTON Ala Dec 24 -(UPI) Half the police force in Anniston will spend Christmas at home compliments of the local organization Fourteen members will substitute as the and urban second man in patrol cars to provide the Christmas leave for interstate work and the re the roads are open to traffic mainder was spent mary secondary road construction now Tennessee which expects to open to traffic about 35 miles Corelli yw Dress Shoes RegSfl5' i 1 January Sale! le Heels Dress Shoesxmd a fc'tJ f- 'J" -A i A off Connie Flats Reg 797 Larksi little frown Kv sizes "EM asdW trols-likaKirt XLize Reg 9-10 to' OtKeiMiilyWalues $1 briennwhiteP-S-RrL-g 319 Larks Flals and Sport Shoes white or blacki $7 spandex Ion gleg panty with hidden garters in white or blacky XL $6 Super panty in white S-M-L $7 Super panty in white XL' 559 7 Super longleg panty in white S-M-L 559 $8 Super longleg panty in white XL 639 jarriar Foundations Downtown Street Floor also Oak purt and Southland MalL girdles in: white onlyAK girdles sizes Jsea 51 Lamar Foundations Downtown Street Floor also Oak CauitsE hnd Southland Thrift Shoes Separate Ma Street Entrance also Oak Court and Southland Slall if 4.