Mexico Ledger from Mexico, Missouri • Page 5

Local Weather Courts THE DAILY RECORD Market Reports Stock Market Weather- (Official 7:00 a.m. readings:) High for last 24 hours 30 Low for last 24 hours 14 Temperature at 7 a.m. 18 Year ago today; high 32 low 18 Saturday; high 67 low 28 Precipitation: .82 in. Total for Nov. 2.33 in.

Normal for Dec. 1.91 in. Year to date 36.99 in. Normal to Jan. 1 39.12 in.

Sun sets today at 4:50 p.m. Sun rises tomorrow 7:08 a.m. FORECAST cloudy with a warming trend through Tuesday; low tonight in the upper 20s; winds south 10 mph; high Tuesday in the 40s. sunshine south, increasing cloudiness north today. High 30s north, low 40s south Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday.

Low tonight around south. 20s elsewhere. High Tussday low 40s northeast, upper JOs southwest. Missouri extended outlook Wednesday through Fair to partly cloudy with moderating temperatures; lows at first teens north 20s elsewhere high in the 40s then warming by Friday lows from mid 20s to mid 30s highs in the 50s. KANSAS CITY (AP) Lake of the Ozarks stage 656.4; 1.4 feet over normal level; up 1.0.

Pomme de Terre 842.0; 3.0 feet over normal level; up 1.0. Stockton 865.1; 1.9 feet below normal level; up 0.3. Bull Shoals 651.64; 2.36 feet below normal level; up .12. Table Rock 910.95; 5.05 feet below normal level; up .03. Beaver 1109.05; 10.95 feet below normal level; up .05.

At Hospital- Officials at the Audrain Medical Center today reported admitted: Mrs. Josie C. Scrogin, Mrs. Anna M. Foree, Woodrow W.

Anderson, Armit W. Norfleet, Miss Betty E. Storck, Miss Jessie C. Burt, Ezra W. Goodwin, Miss Melissa M.

Henderson, Roy Hendrix, Clifford 0. Downing, Miss Janet M. Hake, Roger W. Freeman, Mrs. Henry Shuck, Mrs.

Lorraine R. Pearson, Miss Monica A. Bertels, James Dodson, Mrs. Wade Irvin, Mexico; Thomas N. Turpin, Mrs.

Marlin M. Snodgrass, Mrs. Ralph E. Pargeon, Farber; Mrs. Lillian M.

Shaver, Perry; William Harrison Cheney, Mrs. Robert Morris, Homer T. Frankhouser, Curryville; Stephen D. Woolridge, Mrs. Harold C.

Maxwell, Rush Hill: Mrs. Kenneth J. Wilson, Mrs. Russell G. Miller, Thompson; Mrs.

Jake Wieschhaus. Martinsburg; Bradford E. Hulse, Mrs. Jerry Terry, Mrs. E.

Violet Kobusch, Vandalia; Mrs. Irvin F. Gruer, Auxvasse; Homer C. Starr, Madison; C. Wayne Posey, Arthur J.

Coureton, William L. Atkins, Mrs. Kenneth Wade, Roy Milhollin, Centralia; John A. Acton, Paris; "Wesley H. Erb, Wellsville.

Dismissed: Monroe Cassens, Harold Hemphill, Miss Angela Curtis, John Chapman, Mrs. Delbert Admire, Norris Sterner, Larry Dickerson, James Redmond, Mrs. Helena Gantt, Mrs. Fred Fritschie, Ralph Hueston, Mrs. Vida Peer, Mexico; 'Porter Minnis, Chiliicothe; 'Mrs.

Leslie Cluster, Mrs. Everett Clark, Mon'-gomery City; Mrs. Ray Shepaid, Mrs. Henry Carver, Vandjilia; 'Thomas Nazarenui, Arthur Berck, Centralia; Mrs. Charles Cjillis and daughter, Paris; McGee, Holliday; Mrs.

Floyd Vaugln and son, Wellsville; Mrs. Thomas and son, Miss Melanie Friday, Perry; John Pembertcn, Kingdom City; Miss Cassaunjra Wilson, Farber; Clarence Youre, Auxvasse; Mrs. John Ferris, Thomas Maxwell, Rushflill; Mrs. Ray finten, Martinsburg; Died: G. B.

tyisenberry, 83, N. Jeffersdk, at 9:15 a.m. Sunday. I J)EATHS- G.B. Quisejberry, 83.

Comer 79. LICENSE IAPPLJCATDNS: Cory AlarEzell of Mexico )and Barbaii Dianne Hodges Perry. Melvern f. Worley and tinda Sue Dobbs, both of Mexico. PUBLIC SAFETY- NO injuries resulted from an accident at 6:32 p.m.

Saturday. According to police reports, a parked pickup truck owned by Paul Gibbons, 433 W. Pearson, rolled from a driveway and into the path of a car driven by Marcia K. Paden, Route 5, on Highway 15, north of Pearson. The Paden car received moderate damage.

The Gibbons truck received minor damage. Steven L. Sims, Salmons Trailer Court, was issued a summons for failing to keep a proper lookout in connection with an accident at 1:15 p.m. Saturday. According to police reports, the Sims car collided with one driven by Melvine E.

Nelson, 1220 E. at Green Boulevard and Trinity. Both cars received minor damage. Dorothy Gieseker reported to police at 3 p.m. Sunday that someone had taken $4.09 worth of gas from a pump at the Western Store, 435 W.

Monroe, and drove off without paying. HIGHWAY Marilyn M. Bell of Wellsville was issued a summons for failure to exercise care after the car she was driving struck another driven by Lillian L. Patton of Laddonia at 11:40 a.m. Saturday on Highway 54 at Auxvasse.

The patrol said both were southbound when the Patton car stopped to wait for another vehicle making a left turn and was struck from the rear by the Bell car. There were no injuries; damage to the vehicles was moderate. A fence owned by David Powell of Montgomery City was damaged when a northbound car driven by Paula J. Adams of Columbia ran off (he right side of the road, struck the fence, and came to rest in a pasture at 4:45 a.m. Saturday on Highway 161 south of Montgomery City.

There were no injuries or arrests. SHERIFF'S Julius Ray Brazil of Columbia was taken into custody in Mexico Sunday by the Audrain County Sheriff's officers, on suspicion of possession of stolen property, then turned over to Columbia police after it was learned the citizens band radio in his car had been stolen from a Columbia man. Officers said Brazil had been issued summonses by the highway patrol on traffic charges, after which a check of the automobile revealed the stolen radio. Officers investigated vandalism at the Farber Postoffice Saturday morning. They said a window had been broken, apparently by a snowball.

driving while in- Courts- MAGISTRATE Dinetta J. Griffith, charged with stealing less than $50, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to serve five days in the county jail. She had been charged with stealing a pair of women's shoes from the Pay- Shoe Store at South Trails Shopping Center. Norita Shirley Douchant, charged with speeding, pleaded guilty and was fined $15 plus court costs. John Henry Puckett, speeding, $32 plus costs.

CIRCUIT John Willis has been charged with failure to drive on the right half of the road- way and toxicated. COUNTY COURT- Mrs. Mark (Mildred) Aulbur of Martinsburg has been appointed to serve as a member of the Mexico- Audrain County Library board, for a three-year term. Mrs. William (Patricia) Ehrlich, Route 1, Laddonia, had previously been appointed by the court but did not accept the appointment.

Market Reports- of Trade options at 11:50 a.m. today; Corn Friday's close, 2.71, today's open, 2.70 3 higher, 2.72^; low, 2.69V4; current, 2.70 3 Wheat (Dec.) Friday's close, 3.47M:; today's open, 3.41-3.41M>, high 3.45M:, low, 3.38; current 3.40; Soybeans (Jan.) Friday's close, 4.85M>; today's open, 4.85-4.84, high, 4.88; low, 4.79; current, 4.83 3 Cash Grain CHICAGO (AP) Wheat No 2 hard winter 3.44V 4 Monday; No 2 soft red 3.41V4n. Corn No 2 yellow 2.72n (hopper) 2.68n (box). Oats No 2 heavy 1.59M>n. Soybeans No 1 yellow 4.79M»n.

No 2 yellow corn Friday was quoted at 2.71V4n (hopper) 2.68V 4 (box). NATIONAL STOCKYARDS, 111. (AP) Hogs 6,000. Butchers 50-75 lower. Sows lower US 1-3 200-240 Ib butchers 51.50-53.00.

US 1-3 3(XMOO Ib sows 40.0041.00; 400-500 Ib 41.00-41.50; 500-600 Ib 42.00. Cattle receipts 4,000 head. Slaughter steers and heifers firm to 50 higher. Cows steady. Good and choice US 2-4 slaughter steers 43.0045.00.

Good and choice US 2-4 slaughter heifers 40.00-43.50. Utility and commercial cows 21.00-23.00. Sheep 100 head. Wooled slaughter lambs 3.00-4.00 higher. Wooled slaughter lambs choice and prime 90-110 Ib 45.0046.50; choice 80-100 Ib 40.0043.00.

Estimated livestock receipts for Tuesday: 4,500 hogs, 1,700 cattle and 200 sheep. MISSOURI LIVESTOCK MARKET CENTER (Mo. Dept. of Agr. MNS Roger Parker) Slaughter hogs, 1300; barrows and gilts under 260, steady to .50 higher; over 260, lower; 1-2 200-240, 51.50-52.25; sorted gilts, up to 52.50; 1-3, 200-240, 51.00-51.75; 240-250, 50.00-51.00; 2-3, 240260, 47.50-50.00; 269-270, 47.0047.75; 270-280, 46.5047.25; 24, 280-300, 46.00-46.50; sows, about steady; 1-3, 350-650, 39.5040.50; CATTLE 500; slaughter steers and heifers and slaughter cows, about steady with last Monday; slaughter steers, small showing choice and high choice, 3-5, 950-1200, 44.00-46.50; good, 900-1200, 40.0044.00; 800-900, 38.0042.00; slaughter heifers, choice and high choice, 3-5, 950-1025, 43.0044.90; package, 1065, 45.50; high good and choice, good, 700-1000 37.5041.00; standard low good, 600-900, 28.70-35.20; feeder steers, high good and choice, slaughter cows, high cutters and utilities, 20.5022.50; mixed canners and cutters 18.00-20.50; canners, 16.00-18.00; shelly canners down to 12.00; slaughter bulls.

few, 1-2, 900-1750, 25.50-27.70; SHEEP 550; slaughter lambs, firm to mostly 1.00 higher; feeder lambs, 3.00-5.00 higher; slaughter lambs, choice nd prime, 90-120, 45.0046.85; mixed good and choice, 42.0045.00; good, 40.0042.00; feeder lambs, good and few, choice, 60-110, 41.5043.00. Stock Market- NEW YORK (AP) The stock market was mixed today, encountering some profit taking after last week's steady advance. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks, up nearly 20 points last week, had slipped back .63 to 860.04 by noon today. Gainers maintained a modest lead over losers on the New York Stock Exchange. Brokers noted that the tendency to profit taking appeared to be heightened by concern over the progress of the economic recovery.

On Friday the government reported that its index of leading economic indicators posted its second monthly decline in a row during October. Westinghouse Electric was the most active issue on the Big Board, up 8 at The NYSE's composite common-stock index edged up .02 to 48.26. On the American Stock Exchange, the market value index slipped .09 to 85.73. Secret Session To Name New Cortes Head MADRID, Spain (AP) The Council of the Realm, the chief advisory body to King Juan Carlos, was called into secret session today to name a new president of the Cortes, the Spanish parliament. Newspapers speculated that the 16-man council might also consider replacing Premier Carlos Arias Navarro, but government sources discounted the reports.

The king was reported to have given the council three nominees for president of the 551-member Cortes; in which four-fifths of the members are appointed. The 37-year-old monarch was said to favor Torcuato Fernandez Miranda, one of his former university professors who was vice premier when Premier Luis Carrero Blanco was assassinated by Basque nationalists two years ago. Cortes President Alejandro Rodriguez Valcarcel's six- year term expired last week. He was a conservative and the choice of his successor is awaited as another indication of whether Juan Carlos will go ahead with the political liberalization that many expect from him. The limited amnesty the king proclaimed last week won him no support from Spain's leading leftist, labor leader Marcelino Camacho, after he was freed from prison Sunday.

"This famous amnesty is an insult," Camacho told foreign journalists. He said he would lead a campaign to free other political prisoners even if it means going back to prison. Camacho charged that the amnesty would affect only 10 per cent of the estimated 2,000 political prisoners. Raymond Ferguson Rites Held Today Funeral services for Raymond Ferguson were scheduled for 2 p.m. today at the Precht-Pickering Funeral Home with the Rev.

Melford Schmidt officiating and burial in Elmwood Cemetery. Asked to serve as pallbearers were William Lierheimer, Marion Munford, Robert Munford, Ralph Hudson, Dave Hudson, James B. Ferguson Jr. and Rich A. Ferguson.

Court Won't Rule On Poverty Limit WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court today declined to decide how poor a defendant must be to qualify for a free court-appointed lawyer. The court left undisturbed an Ohio Supreme Court decision that an attorney must be provided without cost to some defendants earning regular, though not substantial, wages. The state appealed the decision, arguing that the constitutional right to counsel does not mean the government must hire a lawyer for defendants who are not indigent. The Supreme Court also declined to review a lower court order requiring Dayton, Ohio, to adopt a systemwide school desegregation plan which school officials said would require busing. The court let stand a June 24 ruling of the U.S.

Circuit Court in Cincinnati rejecting an alternative plan which called for limited biracial enrollment in certain schools. The circuit court ordered the systemwide plan adopted by Dec. 31 so it can be put into effect in the 1976-77 school year. In other decisions, the court: the conviction of a Georgia man on car theft charges on grounds he was denied his constitutional right to speedy trial because nearly two years elapsed between the time of his arrest and indictment. undisturbed a lower court ruling that a publicly- owned hospital, leased to a private corporation, can refuse to perform abortions.

Ahftllt MUUUl President In China (Continued from Paee 1) any prospect that fullrecogni- tion was in the offing. Teng used the word "eventually." The diminutive 71-year-old vice premier acting premier during Chou's illness, repeated Chinese warnings that a world war is bound to occur unless "hegemonism" domination of the superpowers over smaller countries is not halted. Ford, apparently enjoying himself, shared the head table with Teng, Vice Premier Li Hsien-nien, Mrs. Ford, Susan, Kissinger, Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua, and George Bush, head of the U.S. mission in Peking and Bush's wife.

Ford wielded chopsticks expertly on a meal which included six kinds of hors d'oeuvres, a consomme, fragrant chicken, Chinese cabbage and chestnuts, and white fish. The piece de resistance was an unusual shark fin soup laced with crab and served from a tureen. During the meal, attended by 600 Chinese and American guests, a military band played American melodies, including "America the Beautiful," and the theme from "Billy the Kid." With the speeches out of the way, Ford and Teng get down Tuesday to substantive talks on a variety of issues, including the question of security on the Korean peninsula and U.S-Soviet relations, about which China feels deeply. At the guest house, the same used by Nixon nearly four years ago, Ford told Mrs. Chou he was concerned by Chou's illness and asked her to give him his warmest regards.

Mrs. Chou confessed that she too has been in uncertain health in recent months, but did not specify what ailed her. The President and Mrs. Ford are on their second visit to China. They came in 1972 while he was a congressman, but this is Susan's first visit.

The White House and the State Department emphasized in advance that though nothing startlingly unusual will result from the presidential visit, it is vital to the continued development of Chinese-American ties. They conceded that there will be no alteration in the present American relations with the Chinese Nationalists on Taiwan. But they said there will be some movement forward just because the visit is taking place and the structure of Chinese-American friendship will be strengthened. In their talk with Ford, the Chinese undoubtedly will emphasize their anxiety over America's policy of detente with the Soviet Union, just as they did when Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger visited Peking in October.

Both Ford and Kissinger have said pointedly that they understand the situation, and that no other nation is going to dictate American foreign policy. But the President, during a stopover in Alaska, made a last-minute change in a speech Saturday night to reiterate endorsement of a major tenet of China's foreign policy: opposition to any Soviet military expansion in Asia. Ford's plane also made a one-hour refueling stopover at the Tokyo airport, and the President and Kissinger were greeted there by Japanese Foreign Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and a representative of Emperor Hirohito. I'M WRITING 1 TO SANTA. ONLY tO SHOPPING DAYS Smoke Shop Stays The Way It's Been people Mideast And UN Congress Do Or No-Do Three Convicted Of Defaming Pope ROME (AP) American author Robert Katz, film producer Carlo Ponti and director George Pan Cosmatos have been convicted of defaming Pope Pius XII in a book and film about the 1944 Nazi slaying of 335 civilians in Rome.

Brooklyn-born Katz received a 14-month prison sentence, and Ponti and Cosmatos seven months each. The sentences were suspended. Auto Racer Killed In Plane LONDON (AP) Graham Hill, former world auto racing champion, was killed Saturday when the light plane he was piloting crashed and burned on a fog-shrouded golf course near London. He was 46. Five members of his racing team also died in the crash.

Hill won the world racing title in 1962 and 1968 and the Indianapolis 500 in 1966. He retired from driving last year to concentrate on building Formula 1 cars. (Continued from Page 1) debate. Egypt called the U.N. decision "a step forward in escalating the momentum of peacemaking that Egypt has called for." The Cairo government has been criticized by Syria and other militant Arab governments for signing a secondstage Sinai accord with Israel without demanding guarantees for an over-all Middle East settlement.

"Despite the abuse, the Syrians have come around to what (President Anwar) Sadat has advocated all along taking whatever step best served their interests," said presidential spokesman Tahseen Bashir. By a 13-0 vote the counci i adopted a resolution Sundaj night renewing for six months the mandate of the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force which for 18 months has separated Syrian and Israeli troops on the Golan Heights. The resolution said the council would meet again Jan. 12 for a debate on "the Middle East problem including the Palestinian question." Jacob A.

Malik of the Soviet Union, the council president for November, then read out a compromise statement saying it was "the understanding of the majority" of the council that the PLO would be invited to participate in that debate. The debate and PLO participation were Syria's conditions for its agreement to extension of the mandate for the U.N. force. The mandate would have expired at midnight EST Sunday. Syria and the United States agreed to the compromise arrangements at 5:40 p.m.

and the council approved the resolution at 6:50 p.m. Israeli Ambassador Chaim Herzog called the resolution "a surrender to Syrian blackmail and Soviet dictates." He said the Israeli cabinet would meet today to discuss it. U.S. Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan told the council his government was not part of the council majority in favor of PLO participation in the debate in January. But he told reporters after the session that if an invitation to the Palestinians is proposed then, "we can't veto it." Malik told the council the time has come for it to do "everything in its power to promote a political settlement in the area and to accelerate this development." But Moynihan said the United States had agreed reluctantly to the January council debate and did not consider that it prejudiced the holding of another Geneva conference or "negotiations by the parties through intermediaries," meaning negotiations between Syria and Israel with Kissinger as intermediary.

In the Middle East, meanwhile, Israel surrendered the Abu Rudeis oil field on the southwest coast of the Sinai peninsula, completing its withdrawal from the Egyptian oilfields it captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. The Israelis handed over the field Sunday to U.N. troops and Italian technicians. The Egyptians were to take over today. By SANDY LUIPERSBECK Of The Hannibal Courier-Post For The Associated Press HANNIBAL, Mo.

(AP) Customers at the Schaffer Smoke House in Hannibal like its turn-of-the-century atmosphere and don't want it changed, says the proprietor, Clarence Schaffer. "They like it this way, and it's been this way since the Gay 90's. People want me to leave it just as it is," Schaffer said, expressing pride in the fact that his small shop still reflects a bit of historic Hannibal. Both the ceiling and walls of the smoke house are of heavily decorated tin, in the style of smoke houses of the late 1800s. Grill work is displayed throughout the rooms, and it separates the smoke house from the card room.

"I've been told by around town that my grandfather had built the shelves in this room and installed the fancy grill work and built the case," Schaffer said. "All of my people were in the cigar making business and my dad made the first Red Star brand of cigars, which was a famous brand name made in Hannibal." Schaffer said his father and two brothers were cigar makers in Hannibal and his sister was a tobacco stripper. Schaffer bought the store in 1949 after trying various occupations, including motion picture operator in local theaters and electrician at Hannibal's cement plant. "I started out as a silent movie operator after I had to quit school and work to support my family. I later worked for several other theaters and ran the first color motion picture machine in Hannibal," he said.

In a corner of his shop is a workshop where he repairs clocks. "I'm 80 years old now and running this shop is a hobby for me," Schaffer said. "I have to keep busy. I enjoy making friends and keeping them as customers, that's how I stay in business. I don't expect to make big money, but I enjoy talking to people who come to the shop and enjoy telling the tourists about the characters I knew." Among the characters was Laura Frazier, better known as Mark Twain's Becky Thatcher, when she was custodian at the Home of the Friendless.

Schaffer has a collection of old photographs and newspaper clippings and is especially proud of an original photograph of Mark Twain, which was taken by Laura Frazier on a visit to Twain's home in Connecticut. "The business has been here for 90 years, just like you see it, and only three people have owned it during its existence. It's open seven days a week and only closes for something like a wedding or funeral," Schaffer said. Eu-Com Summits Troubled With Disagreements! ROME (AP) CommonLil? Market nations began a day summit meeting today the city that cemented the postwar spirit for a united Europe. But deep splits on energy and economic issues hinder the unity envisaged in j.

the 17-year-old Treaty of Rome. Britain stood uncompromis- ing in its insistence to go alone in an economic meeting be- tween developing and in- dustrialized nations later this 5 month in Paris, spurning pleas that the nine-nation Common Market speak with a single voice. Sources said the Paris meeting could be delayed unless Europe's federalists prevail over Britain, an oil buyer like the rest of Common Market nations but also a potential big producer. The European leaders all prime ministers or premiers with the exception of French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing fixed no agenda for their talks. Giscard d'Estaing had a onehour private audience with Pope Paul VI during the morning, then urged "peaceful emulation" for the construction of a united Europe.

The French president made his comment about European unification standing next to Italian President Giovanni Leone at a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the French Archeological and Historical School of Rome. The summit here, called the European Council and held three times a year, was described by delegation sources as open ended, but primarily intended to assess the chances of economic recovery in Europe, the changing situation in Spain and Portugal and steps toward European unification. (Continued from Page 1) templated timing was political tax cuts before the 1976 election, but with reductions in popular government programs to be felt only after the voting. More broadly, they have accused Ford of a one-sided approach to the frustrating national dilemma of simultaneous inflation and recession. The Democrats say Ford has concentrated on reducing government spending to fight inflation, while proposing little in the direction of stimulating the economy to provide jobs for the unemployed.

The Democrats took the other course, and Ford retaliated, using the veto power more freely than other presidents of recent years. Congress passed a $5.3 billion bill intended to create jobs. After it was vetoed, a $2.9 billion package was enacted. A big housing bill was vetoed. Congress responded with one authorizing mortgage subsidies and protection against foreclosure for unemployed homeowners.

Congress overrode three of Ford's 12 vetoes this year, enacting health revenue sharing, education appropriations and school lunch measures he had opposed as too expensive. Congress also rejected his proposal to limit increases in Social Security, civil service and military retirement payments, allowing a full cost-of-living raise to go into effect. A bill still in Senate-House conference that may bring on another confrontation would authorize $5 billion for local public works. The foreign military aid bill, including funds for the Sinai program, is expected to be on the House floor in early December, along with a Senate-House compromise measure on economic foreign aid. On the tax front, the House Ways and Means Committee sent to the House a two- part revenue bill.

It would extend and modify the short-term reductions in effect this year in individual and corporate income taxes. In what the committee has termed the reform area, the bill fell short of reformers' expectations. It would, however, cut back somewhat on so-called artificial losses used as tax shelters and stiffen the minimum tax assessed on large incomes enjoying preferential tax treatment- under the present code. Several amendments to cut back further on alleged tax preferences will be offered when the House takes up the measure on the floor. There is no prospect that the whole bill can be finally acted on by both the Senate and House before adjournment.

At some stage, the tax cuts probably will be split off and passed as separate legislation. The alternative would be a jump in tax withholding in January, a development that could impede economic recovery. Bible City Promoters Fail To Show Legislators Debate Weapons Law INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) The question of whether prison sentences should be mandatory for any person using a deadly weapon in the commission of a crime was debated Sunday by three Missouri legislators. Endorsing such a plan was Sen.

Donald L. Manford, D- Kansas City, and Rep. Glenn Binger, D-Independence. Opposing it was Sen. Jack Gant, D-Independence.

Manford said in late October he would introduce a bill calling for a mandatory 10-year prison sentence for persons using a deadly weapon in the commission of a crime. Binger confirmed he planned to introduce a similar bill in the house. The legislators spoke to area leaders of veterans organizations here. Binger said the proposed legislation would make hand gun registration unnecessary and would be be a deterrent "to the use of violent crime." He said only law-abiding, citizens would comply with law controlling handguns. Manford said he opposes gun control legislation.

He said his bill would eliminate the discretion of a judge, jury or parole official to excuse a convicted person from serving 10 years and would not allow leniency to a first offender. Gant said he also opposed; gun-control legislation but did not support Manford's bill. "Before you pass a resolution like this one," Gant said, "I think you should stop and ask yourself, 'Do you have a son, or a grandson or a nephew? This law, if passed, would totally take away the discretion of the court." COCK-EYED COCKATOO Moluccan Cockatoo at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago hangs upside down hoping to have its head scratched. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) "They always seem to be away," said one among the many who for two weeks or so have been trying to talk to the principal promoters of Bible City, a $20 million bible- oriented recreation park they proposed to build just south of Springfield.

The name disappeared from the office where Bill Caywood, executive director, managed a crew of solicitors seeking donations or trying to sell for construction of Bible City. Caywood's absence began about the time it became known in Springield that he had promoted similar but aborted projects at Cambridge, Ohio; Mobile, and near Fort Worth Tex. On Nov. 14, a secretary in the office responded to inquiries by reading a statement that there would be no more activity on Bible City until an offering of securities to the public was approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington and it had qualified with state authorities. As recently as Nov.

18 Caywood's former office said he was on the West Coast to be with a sister who was not expected to live. An inquiry about Russell Phillips, who operates several businesses out of the same office, brought the response that he was in Oklahoma because his parents were gravely ill. "There are some questions I'd like to ask," said the Rev. John Spence, a Southern Baptist evangelist and director of United Christian Fund of Springfield. He had taken steps to link up with Caywood on the Bible City project.

Dr. Dorsey E. Levell, executive director of the Springfield Area Council of Churches, said there are serious unanswered questions about Bible City and the plan to finance it but it is now mostly a joke among Springfield residents. The council began getting inquiries early in September, mainly from small communities near Springfield, about solicitors asking for donations or attempting to sell bonds for Bible City. James Craig, director of the Springfield Better Business Bureau, had a conference with Caywood.

"A slick promotion job, complete with slides and fancy drawings," Craig said of the Bible City campaign. Craig said he got only vague and unsubstantiated answers when he asked the promoters what security they had for buyers of their $3,000 to $4,000 bonds. He said he was given to understand that Phillips owned numerous subdivision lots in the booming Table Rock recreation area in the Ozarks south of Springfield. Bible City's applications for membership in the Better Business Bureau and the Springfield Chamber of Commerce were rejected. Craig said Progressive Investors, one of the Phillips enterprises, has never responded satisfactorily to inquiries from the Better Business Bureau.

SIGN OF CONTROVERSY- Ad for pants called Jesus Jeans, using biblical quote in English and Italian, has been criticized by Vatican..