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HERALD Vol. 62 No. 194 OTTAWA, KANSAS, FRIDAY, JULY.25,1958 7 CENTS Ike Says UN Should Set Up Summit Talks Side Swipes Music evidently has little effect on the weatherman. Director William Barker said rain forced the Ottawa Community band concert to be postponed until 8 tonight. The program will feature a concert by the Ottawa Recreation Accordion band, Barker said.

Don't Ask Me COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP)-Visitprs to a state penitentiary workshop are informed by a sign-. "Please don't ask me for information. If I knew anything I wouldn't be here." Last Chance Last chance to register to vote in the Aug. 5 primary.

Registration books the office of the city clerk at city hall will close at 10 tonight. To register, a voter must appear in person at the office of the city clerk. Doffs Apron To Become Private Eye LONDON (AP) Middle-aged Matilda Higgins doffed her housewife's apron and set up as a private eye when somebody stole her husband's car. She cracked the case before, professional sleuths had time to reach for a magnifying glass. It took her joist half an hour to track down the car, abandoned not far from the Higgins' subur-j ban home.

A quick check showed the spare wheel was missing, along with the tools and seat covers. For the next few days Matilda prowled the neighborhood, picking up gossip. After a while she heard dealer John Yerby had s-dme seat covers for sale. Matilda recognized them right off. She offered to buy them and asked Yerby to come to her house to pick up the cash.

The police were there when Yerby arrived. He was jailed for two years Thursday. "I suppose I was quite a Sherlock Holmes," reflected Matilda. "But it was elementary once I was on the trail." Prefers Jail To $10 Fine PHILADELPHIA university professor's wife is in jail for three principle rather than let a suburban magistrate talk her into paying a $10 traffic fine. Magistrate Ralph Pusey said she was guilty of making a turn on a red light and should pay the fine.

Mrs. Rexford B. Hersey said she was innocent. The professor, who teaches industrial relations at the University of Pennsylvania, said he was proud wife's principles. He wouldn't pay for her.

"I'll go to jail as a conscientious objector," Mrs. Hersey said at the hearing Thursday night, "just as the signers of the Declaration of Independence were willing to do for their principles-." Whereupon the magistrate gave up the argument and gave her the maximum sentence. Mrs. Kersey's married daughter said her mother would keep busy in jail working on book reviews for local literary clubs. WASHINGTON (AP)- Presided Eisenhower proposed to Sovie Premier today tha; the United Nations Security Council determine whether a Middle East summit conference is gen erally acceptable.

If so, he said the Council should determine a meeting rate and make other ar rangements. In a latter released by the White House, Eisenhower said he was glad to note that Khrushchev had withdrawn his original pro posal for a five-power meeting government heads at Geneva out side the U.N. White House press secretary James Hagerty said Eisenhower personally would attend a summi meeting in New York under the conditions spelled out in his new letter. The note was written by Eisenhower and Dulles Thursday and cleared with British and French leaders early today. It was handed to Soviet Ambassador Mikhai A.

Menshikov by Dulles at the State Department a few minutes after p.m. The White House arranged for its publication about an hour later. It was learned in advance, how- sver, that the essence the Pres- dent's message was that it should be up to the Security Council itself to set the time and determine the composition and work out other plans for the meeting. This i i came after Chrushchev's acceptance Wednesday of a British proposal to hold meeting in the U-N. Security Council.

Eisenhower thus slowed down he pell mell rush to the summit as pauiaas Adqoqsnjirjj qoiqM )ff a week ago with his demand meeting at Geneva. Eisenhower also was obviously upon having the Security Council'fix the ground rules for the meeting. He and Dulles con- ider this preferable to any kind a special five-power conference utside the U.N. as originally sug- by Khrushchev. Rebels Would Prevent Elections In Lebanon BEIRUT, Lebanon eader Saeb Salam said today the rebels will not permit presidential elections to be held as long as 'resident Camille Chamoun is in power and foreign troops are in ebanon.

"There will not be any election next week," Salam told newsmen, iis statement dealt a heavy blow hopes for an early settlement of the Lebanese crisis. Parliament is scheduled to meet Thursday to elect a successor to Chamoun. Salam did not explain how he intended to prevent the election. But it was generally assumed the election will not be held unless there is prior agreement between the government and the opposition on a compromise candidate. (In Washington, James J.

Wadsworth, deputy U.S. representative in the United Nations, said it is possible that U.S. troops can be withdrawn from Lebanon quite soon. He did not give an exact date.) Meanwhile, a U.S. Navy spokesman said no American planes have been shot down by antiaircraft fire from Syria.

He was commenting on an announcement from Damascus Thursday that an unidentified jet fighter plane was shot down while intruding on the air space of the United Arab Republic. The Syrian announcement claimed that the downed plane crashed and burned in Lebanese territory. TEN PAGES County Operating Costs Up $32,000 Next Year B. D. Bennett, Founder Of Creamery Dies At 97 COMING INTO THEIR OWN Postmaster T.

J. Cummings holds a sheet of 4-cent stamps which will replace 3-cent stamps for letter mailing on Aug. I. On sale for the first time today a commemorative John Bolivar Champion of Liberty stamp in 4-cent and 8-cent denominations. (Photo by Lois Smith) Monsoon Weather In Kansas Is Continuing Ottawa received .91 of an inch moisture yesterday and last ight in two storms.

During the ay .46 of an inch fell, and .45 of inch fell last night. This brings the total rain for uly thus far to 8.22 inches. The Marais des Cygnes river esponded to the rains of rea, pushing up to near the 11- oot at the Main itreet bridge gauge in Ottawa, 'he stream had dropped to below le 5-foot mark yesterday after unning above or near flood stage or s-everal days. The rise of the river this morn- ng came from the in-flow from reeks near Ottawa, the push oc- urring early today. Rain farther to the west, in the upper watershed was lighter, ranging at about a half inch.

Downstream the rain was much heavier. Osawatomie received 3.29 inches, LaCygne 2.71, Trading Post 2.40. Worden to the northwest of Ottawa received 1.28 inches. Southwest Missouri received heavy rains last "night, total of 4 inches falling at Joplin in five hours Cassville received 4.83 inches, Seligman 4.15 inches, Carthage 2.80 and Seneca 2.25. The Missouri storm brought down power and communication lines, putting numerous 1 long distance phone circuits out of service for a few hours Teen-Age Girls On Front Line For Lebanese Rebels The Weather COUNTY FORECAST Generally fair this afternoon and tonigW; partly cloudy Saturday; a little cooler this afternoon; a little warmer Saturday; high this afternoon near 85; low tonight 60s; high Saturday upper 80s.

High temperature from 3:10 p. m. to 5:30 p. m. low at 5:30 a high year ago low year ago record high this In 1934; record low this In 1911; hourly temperatures hours ending 8 a.

m. today: 9 a. 76 9 p. 74 10 a. 68 10 p.

72 11 a. 68 Noon ...71 1 p. 2 p. 80 .84 .85 .85 3 p. 4 p.

5 p. 6 p. 84 7 p. 81 8 p. m.

........76 11 p. 71 Midnight 71 1 a. 71 2 a. 70 3 a. 70 4 a.

m. ,70 5 a 60 6 a', 69 7 a. 71 8 a. Two Railroad Appeals Denied TOPEKA (AP)-Appeals by two railroads for reduction of taxable property valuations- have been denied by State Board of Tax Appeals. The Missouri Pacific and the Kansas City Southern contended the valuations were much higher in relation to actual value than the average for other Kansas real estate.

Both railroads have cases in the Kansas Supreme Court challenging state assessment procedures based on valuations for prior years. The 1958 assessed valuations of Missouri Pacific Kansas property was placed at $47,843,953 and that of Kansas- City Southern at $2,331,450. By RELMAN MORIN BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) The machine guns chattered, bullets smacked against the wall and heavy dynamite blasts rumbled ta and around Basta, the rebel-held hilltop section. Three teen-age Lebanese girls manned posts in the barricades beside the men. They have had only two weeks basic training but they carry arms and are on duty 18 hours a day.

Why? 'Because (President Camile) Chamoun i unjust to the Lebanese people and because he is an aggressor," said brown-eyed Samira Sunno. She added "so are you Americans. What are you doing in Lebanon supporting an unjust man?" One of her companions, Zeynab Masri, was asked why she fought. "I give you two reasons: first because I love my country and I feel i am defending it; Second to set an example for the men." Zeynab Masri is 16. So is the third girl, Houda Ajouz.

They are mong at a least 50 They are among at least 50 women and girls being trained for military duty by the rebels. They said they thought of joining the Popular Resistance Movement, as they call it, when the rebellion first began in Lebanon nearly three months ago. Two weeks ago they volunteered. Now they're in uniform. Two have not finished high school-.

Samira Sunno had completed her first training as a nurse. The girls are deadly serious. Starting at 6 a.m. they -get two hours training, handling weapons. Then they work in the rebels' clean but under-equippgd hospital.

At sundown they go into their respective barricade positions in the Basta. They remain until midnight. Have they come under fire? They burst into laughter, "Of course. There's almost always some firing." Have they ever killed a man? Laughter evaporated, i There was a moment of silence. Then Houda Ajourz, patting a caliber pistol in a hip holster, said, "If they attack of course I will try to kill them." She's an orphan who lives with her brothers.

Masri's father a. prosperous motion picture distributor. Sunno is the daughte of a vegetable merchant. You ask the three girls if they realize they can get killed, even in minor skirmishes. "It's better to die fighting than do nothing at a time like Samira Sunno said.

Treasure Hunt Follows Flood In Fort Scott FORT SCOTT, Kan. A hunt has been going on lere since the flood of July 16. A week ago" today a high school joy, Johnny Mayhew, 17, discovered piles of arrowheads in an area just north of the city where 250 persons were evacuated dur- in collected over 9 pounds of all sizes. Some were elaborately made and others simple, apparently made over a long per- od of time. He also found old Indian tools, balls from old Army muskets and corroded grape shot.

It Is believed the relics were washed Marmaton River and Mill Creek from two places, the bluffs on which the old fort was built above the Marmaton in 1842-43, end the places upstream on Mill' Creek where the Indians used to camp before coming in to trade. The Fort Scott Tribune carried a story about young Mayhew's last Tuesday, and other townspeople began going out into into the fields to hunt the curios. Yesterday, out-of-state licenses began to show up. Then the rain started again and about .15 inch fell in an hour. 1 'The searchers holed up.

When the rain stopped, they were out again. Among the discoveries reported are old coins, including an 1852 dime. A local pqliceman, Lewis D. Robinson, has found a- corroded brass bullet loader and pieces off old Springfields. Byron Douglas Bennett, presi- 1 dent of the Bennett Creamery died at 2:15 a.m.

today in Ransom Memorial Hospital. He was years old. Mr. Bennett was sdmitted to the hospital Wednesday. Death was attributed to a kidney ailment.

He lad been active in the business until a few years ago. He was born April 11, 1861, on farm near Clinton, 111., moving to Kansas in 1879. He worked for short time for a lumber firm at Williamsburg, then moved on to Wichita. Later he managed a lum- )er yard at Harper. In 1884 he returned to Franklin County and married Myra Ransom, daughter of Capt.

J. H. Ran- icm, at Ransomville. Following his marriage Mr. Bennett returned to Wichita where he became auditor for the Rock Island Lum- )er Co.

He later lived in Pittsburg before moving to Ottawa in 1895. On his return here he went to work for Capt. Ransom in the ice and coal business. Two years later he bought the business and at one time had a string of ice houses long the Marais des Cygnes. He continued to operate the ice firm until 1951 when he sold it to American Service Co.

after the '51 flood. With four other men, Mr. Bennett purchased the old Forest Park Creamery in 1905. This business was located on the present site of the creamery. By 1912 Mr.

Bennett had bought out his partners and in the ensuing years built the creamery into Ottawa's largest industry and one of the largest independent creameries in the West. "Mr. Bennett was a charter and lifetime member of the (Elks Club here and had been a Mason for over 50 years. Traffic Toll TOPEKA CAP) Kansas traffic fatalities listed by the state acci dent records section; In the last 24 hours 1. To date in Same period in Fritts For Sheriff Know Your Candidates "A great deal of experience with all types of people" is the banner Tommie J.

Fritts, RFD 2, Ottawa, carries into the Aug. 5 primary for sheriff. The 27-year-old Republican also takes with him some ideas for changes in the present sheriff operation. He said he would combine the sheriff's office, quarters and jail into one unit at the jail building and enlarge the deputy force. "Moving the sheriff's office to the jail, if it can be done, would make the department work smoother," he said.

"The sheriff needs more deputies," he said. "I could get along with the number he has now but it would make it easier if I had more." Fritts, born on his father's farm miles north east of Ottawa, graduated from Ottawa High School, farmed on his own in 194950, worked at Boeing Aircraft, Wichita, as a- spray painter nine months, returned to work, at several businesses in Ottawa, and then went In business as a household TOMMJE FRITTS and commercial electrical appli ance repairman, Jan. 2, 1954. He and his wife now live about a quarter mile of his father's term with their two children, Tommie II, 3 years old, and Nordine Leona, 4 years old. B.

D. BENNETT Mrs. Bennett died March 22, 1944. A son, James Henry Bennett, died in 1930. A daughter, Mrs-.

Eunice Bennett George, died in 1943. Surviving Mr. Bennett are a son, F. R. Bennett, 321 W.

3rd; a daughter, Mrs. Catherine Anderson, 933 S. Main; a brother, Roy, Lansing, a sister, Mrs. Hugh Wallis, 832 S. Hickory; nine grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be at Saturday at the Lamb Funeral Chapel with burial in Highland Cemetery. Rev. Charles Knight and Dr. W.A.Elliott will officiate. The family requests flowers be omitted.

Friends may call at the chapel until 1 p.m. Saturday. Pallbearers will be F. R. Bennett Ande; Jackj) Bennett, Jep H.

Bennett, William B. Bennett, Morton K. Barter Charley F. Spencer.W. G.

Ransom Jr. and Willard Wallis The Show Goes On Despite Bruises Of Actors Increase In Valuation Is Nearly A Million The cost of operating Franklin County in the coming year will estimated $32,450.13 higher than he cost in the current year, ac- ording to the proposed budget which is published in today's Her- Id. Assessed valuation in the county ias increased by nearly a million iollars, the budget shows. Based on the increased valua- ion, an estimated levy of 27.29' nills, or $27.29 per $1,000 ion will be needed to produce'the otal needed for the year. This will be a levy increase of 2 cents per $1,000 valuation 1 The total estimated budget for 959 is $1,743,244.99, an increase of 32,450.13 over the current budget $1,710,794.86.

Asses-sed valuation has n' placed at $41,813,443, an increase of $884,825 over the previous assessed valuation $40,928,618. A large part of the $32,450 increase in the budget for the year is accounted for in the" sum to be paid on the hew county nursing home. Budgeted for the current year or the home was $80,800. Budgeted for the coming year for the lome is $103,000, accounting for 122,200 of the increase. Another chunk of the increase is the welfare department where estimated costs- are $661,067, as compared to $653,510 for the current year, an increase of $7,557.

Much'of the increase in valua-. in the county is accounted for )y the new telephone building, and jy- the there, is construction equipment in he county that went on the, assessment books. The county commissioners set Aug. 6 as the hearing date for the budget. The commissioners will meet si the courthouse at 10 a.m., on that day to hear any citizens who desire to discuss the proposed budget.

LONDON (AP)-The first couple of British drama hobbled before the footlights early today with' baggy pants, glassy grins and a collection of hurts and bruises. When it came to jumping through the paper hoop, Sir Laurence Olivier yielded the stage. His actress wife Viven Leigh struggled painfully through the knockabout stuff with their other partner in a clown act, actor John Mills. It was all part of a gala midnight charity show, "The Night of a Hundred Stars," held at the London Palladium for the actors' orphanage fund. The Olivier act might have been better if they hadn't re- hearse! so energetically Thurs day.

Sir Laurence strained a tendon Vivien took a flying leap into th arms of Mills and gave out a scream that shook the theater- twisted knee. Mills slipped off quietly and go his rib strapped up. The show went on but 52-year old Laurence confined himself tc singing with canes for support. Vivien and Mills bravely strug gled through the soft shoe shul fles and the rest of the clowning with a stand-in for Olivier. Two Americans got into show.

Kirk Douglas climbed on Bur Lancaster's shoulders. Dressed a stockbrokers, they sang "Mayb It's Because I'm a Londoner." Plan Flight 16 Miles Up MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) A pair of nervy aeronauts today prepared for a 24-hour jaunt into space slung beneath a paper-thin plastic balloon. Navy Cmdr. Malcolm D.

Ross and former Navy balloonist M. eduled to takeic wshe eei wLsL Lee Lewis were scheduled to take off on a flight designd to carry them nearly 16 miles above the earth. Tfie takeoff is contingent on late weather reports. The balloon, 172 feet in diameter, will be launched from a deep open pit iron mine near Crosby, Minn. Ross and Lwis will be testing the "stato-lab" aluminum gondola and its- complex scientific equipment for maintaining an ar- tifcial atmosphere.

Equipment inside the ball shaped gondola will provide them with oxygen and air conditioning, and will remove the excess moisture and impurities, in the air they breathe. Search In Vain MIDDLETOWN, R.I. (AP) Police, fire fighters and Coast- guardmen searched the water off Atlantic Thursday night by the light of 50 automobile headlights for Wallace A. Martland, 19, Newport. He had been reported at the beach and presumably had drowned.

Later, searchers discovered Martland was home in bed. Promotion Group Might Expand A proposal to expand the limits- of the Mid Eastern Kan SES Industrial Development Association was discussed last nigh at Olalhe. At the request of Milo Hewitt Ottawa, president of the new or ganization, representatives from Lyndon and Quenemo were pres ent. Hewitt explained future dams in the Marais des Cygnes valley will bring additional recreational facilities to this area. No action was taken immediately oh proposal.

Present boundries of the organization are set to include Johnson, Miami, Anderson, Linn, Franklin and parts of Douglas and Counties. Hewitt appointed three committee chairmen at the session attended by 40 persons from this area. Bob Foley, Kansas City, was named to head the Promotion and Publicity Committee; Ward Runyon, Paola, heads the Industrial Committee and Charles House, Osawatomie, is chairman of the Highway and Tourist Promotion Committee. One member of each committee is to be named from each town inlhe area. Contract Let On New Station Work Is to begin Immediately on construction of the new Skelly Service Station at 220 N.

Main, it was announced by Ben Gilmore, station operator. The present station, at 207 N. Main, is- to be removed to clear a portion of the right-of-way for the Ottawa flood protection works. The property is one of the tracts condemned by the city of Ottawa. McCIure Brothers, of Ottawa, are the general contractors fdr new station, which is to be located on the west side of North Main Street on the former location of the Acorn Lunch and a used car ot.

The Acorn lunch building is to be torn down. A building which was used as an office by the used car business- has been purchased 3y the Ottawa Country Club and is to be moved to the club "grounds for use as a tool house. The contractors hope to have new station ready for occupancy by Sept. 15, although some finishing work may have to be done after that date. The city of Ottawa has notified occupants of all business properties condemned for the flood work to va- by Sept.

15. Gilmore said the contractors planned to begin preliminary work today- and push the construction as rapidly as possible. 15-Year-Old Just Hates Policemen KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Carrying a baseball bat, a 15- year-old boy knocked at the door of a policeman's home. When Mrs.

answered the door, the boy said: "I'm going to kill him." Mrs. Kilburn said her husbawl wasn't home and the boy left quietly, From neighbors the patrolman got the boy's name and arrested him yesterday. Police said the boy had been drunk on eight bottles of beer. "I just don't like policemen," the boy was quoted as He was not identified. Lamb Insured Payment Plan.

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