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53, No. 42 Maryville, Missouri Monday Evening, July 23, 1962 Historic 121-Ycar-Old Nodaway Co. Elm Felled By Saturday Night Wind Ten Paget Nodaway most famous tree, the is scarcely more than a shattered tree trunk today. The historic 121-year-old Kentucky elm was split asunder by Saturday winds. Herman Lager, on whose farm miles south of Maryville the tree has grown since it was planted by Colonel Prather in 1841 reported the main portion of the elm was split off the trunk, which measures about 5 feet in diameter and 17U feet in circumference.

While the blasts of high winds and storms of six generations failed, in the main, to fell the tree under which the first Nodaway County court met in 1945, Saturday winds started the upper limbs 3f the trees to swaying so strongly that the hollowed trunk could not support them and they fell to the ground around the historic marker at its base. Lager said a large limb from the historic elm sheered off a power line to his outbuildings, but just missed the line running to his house. The trunk and limbs which AFTER THE STORM The years had taken their toll on the historic Nodaway County elm, and the hollow' tree fell victim to a high wind Saturday night. Located on the Herman Lager farm, seven miles south of Maryville, the tree was planted in 1841 by Colonel Prather, one of the original settlers of the county who came here from Kentucky. In 1845, a group of settlers met under the tree to form Nodaway County.

Photo) fell were completely hollow, he said. The wind excessively strong, Lager stated, but apparently caught the old tree just right. Lager said three of his children stood inside the rooted out remains for a photograph. He also said that he would To Aid New Dental Care Program For Children Jefferson City A new dental care program for about 10,000 indigent Missouri children was announced today by Gov. John M.

Dalton. The program will be sponsored by the Missouri State Elks Association in cooperation with the State Division of Health. The Elks will buy a mobile dental treatment unit at a cost of about $17,000 this year and add additional units for the next five or six years. The units will operate in rural Missouri and at first will take care of crippled children and those with rheumatic heart trouble. Later, the governor said, it is hoped the service can be expanded to include mentally retarded children under state care.

The governor called it a heart warming project and praised the generosity. He appointed a Commission on Dental Treatment of Handicapped and Crippled Children to set policies and standards for the program. Saskatchewan Medicare Strike Said Settled Saskatoon. Sask. 'jfl An agreement to end the medical care dispute was announced today.

Lord Taylor, brought from Britain to mediate the 23-ye- day-old dispute, told a news conference an agreement had been signed by the Saskatche- a settlement, wan College of Physicians and Surgeons and the socialist government. Representatives of the college scheduled a later news conference to explain its position. Both sides remained silent on details. Aerospace Unions Heed Kennedy Plea Los Angeles l.f) Two big unions have agreed to President request for a postponement of a threatened aerospace industry strike giving negotiators 60 days to seek 27 Die in Honolulu Only 13 of 40 Survive Crash as Disabled Plane Tries to Land Other Pictures On Page 2 MARKER WILL STAY A white concrete market with the inscription, County Elm, which has stood near the ancient tree for several years, will be placed in the hollow- stump on the Herman Lager farm after Lager disposes of the remains of the historic tree. Photo) cut down the trunk that remains to about a 5-foot stump and reset the historical marker in the center of it.

Lager added that persons who want some of the wood from the historic tree to come down and get some, adding that some people might want some firewood from the aged elm and it could be had for the cutting. A group of men met in 1845 to form the County of Nodaway. At that time Maryville was four (Continued on Page 10) Pleasant Weather For Next 5 Days Kansas City The weatherman sees nothing but pleasant temperatures ahead for Missouri. He expects readings generally in the 80s Tuesday and for the rest of the week says the temperatures will average 2 to 6 degrees below' normal. Skies will be fair to partly cloudy.

Scattered thunderstorms are forecast for the extreme south this afternoon and for the southwest and west central tonight. The top in the state Sunday was 96 at Cape Girardeau. U. S. Nuclear Tests May Be Concluded After 1962 Series More Street Oiling Is Slated Tuesday Eleven blocks of Maryville streets will be oiled Tuesday by the city street department in the second oiling operation of the summer.

With the blocks oiled several weeks ago, the city program now totals blocks for the year. The city had set a goal of 30 blocks to be oiled this summer. Residents are asked to keep their cars off the streets for the three days they will be blocked off after the oiling. They will be seal coated in about a week after the prime oil soaks into the ground. Those blocks to be oiled are as follows: EAST FOURTH STREET-1 The 800, 1100 and 1200 blocks.

NORTH CHARLES STREET 100 block. EAST THOMPSON STREET -The 700 block. WEST GRANT STREET Prime oil on one-half of the 200 block, however the entire block will be seal coated. WEST COOPER STREET Prime oil on one-half of the 300 block, however the entire block will be seal coated. SOUTH MULBERRY STREET The 100 and 200 blocks.

NORTH MULBERRY STREET The 200 block. GRAND AVENUE The 100 block. SOUTH PRAIRIE STREET The 500 block. Washington dent Kennedy said today the United States will not hoid any more nuclear weapons tests after the present series is completed we are forced $200 Central College Scholarship Awarded To E. C.

Walker, III Weather Data COMB ON.NtfrHl i A $200 curators scholarship will to Central Methodist College, Fayette, has been awarded to C. Walker, 111, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C.

Walker, Mary- coming school UNSETTLED M1SSOI RI WEATHER NORTHWEST MISSOI HI Fair io partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with scattered thunderstorms likely over west central tonight or early Tuesday; cooler this afternoon; low tonight 60s; High Tuesday EASTERN AND SOUTHERN MISSOURI Fair northeast, partly cloudy south and tonight with a few widely scattered thundershowers likely in extreme south this afternoon and in southwest tonight; a little cooler tonight except in extreme south with low 60-65 northeast to around 70 south, fair to partly cloudy Tuesday with high In mid and upper 80s. WEATHER RECORD Noon temperature 79 Barometer 30.0 Temperature at 7 a.m. 67 Lowest last 24 hours Reading Sunday, 7 p.m. 81 Highest Sunday 87 Highest Saturday Lowest Sunday 63 Highest year ago Lowest year ago today 60 High record 105 degrees 1934 Low record 50 degress 1948 Precipitation Sunday .56 Sun sets tonight ...................7:42 Sun mes Tuesday .................5:08 This country, he said, have to make an analysis of the next round of tests to be undertaken by the Soviet Union. The U.

S. course then, he made clear at a news conterence, the will depend on what the analy-lyear. shows about pro-j Walker, a 1962 graduate of gross in nuclear weapons de-, vfarvvinn ui-u i velopment Maryville High School, was Kennedy deplored awarded the scholarship on the I insistence on holding the final1 hasis of his high rating on the series of tests a position I Ohio State University Psycho- which has been taken by Pre- logical Test mier Nikita Khrushchev. He It. argued the effect of this Is tojU7 aivvilie High, keep the nuclear arms race go-; 3: lettered in basketball jng, and track, was assistant stu- At the same time he ruled dent Instructor in band, presi- out an automatic cutoff date for Science Club, circula- MRS.

FLOWERS DIES AT INDEPENDENCE Mrs. Matilda K. Flowers, 70- vear-old Hopkins resident, died at 1:30 a. m. Sunday at an Independence hospital, where she had been ill six weeks.

She was a resident of Hopkins for many years. She was born Apr. 27. 1892, at McKlusky, N. the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. George Fuchs. She was married to Maryville FFA Youth Heads Camp Session Ronnie Goodspeed was ed camp president of the sixth session of the Missouri State FFA Camp held at the Lake of the Ozarks. There were 168 FFA members attending from various chapters throughout the state. Goodspeed presided at all the leadership training meetings and received a gold medal for first place award in the officers group.

He was also active in other phases of camp and was elected as an all-around camper, sang in the boys quartet for Wednesday vespers, was a barracks chaplain, received the Red Cross intermediate swimmer card and was first ir. ping pong doubles, along with Mick Ross of the Maryville Chapter. Ross was alternate for the conservation award and if Harold Hart is unable to make the trip, he will take a free tour of St. Louis and see the Cardinals play baseball. The trip is sponsored by the St.

Louis Club. Ross also received the Red Cross swimmer card, was barracks captain and sang in the boys quartet. Rodger Ruhl was elected an all-around camper and received a silver medal award for second place in leadership training. He also received the senior life-saving card and sang in the boys quartet. Jerry Roush received a bronze medal aw ard for leadership training.

Bobby Wagner received the Red Cross intermediate swimmer card and the junior life-saving award for completing prescribed course in rifle safety. David Berg completed the beginner swimmers course and received the Red Cross beginner swimmers card. The state officers attending this sessions were David Fore, Maysville, and David Walker, Chillicothe. Other members from the Maryville High Chapter attending mclud- inf Charles Gorman, Bill Stark, Ronnie Dawson, Henry Madden, Fat Spire and Billy Stephenson. Labor contract talks were scheduled to resume here today.

United Aerospace Workers at Ryan Aircraft in San Diego and North American in Los Angeles agreed to the 60-day postponement Sunday. The International Association of Machinists accepted the recommendation on Saturday. The IAM had planned to strike General Dynamics- Convair and Lockheed. Delay of the strike, originally scheduled for noon today, will give labor and management a chance to work out their differences under the mediation of a special three-man board appointed Saturday by the President. The walkout would have involved about 150,000 workers at 53 plants and missile bases throughout the nation.

Joplin Strike Against Space Plant Underway Joplin Union Production Works called a strike Sunday against Vickers makers of hydraulic machines and equipment for aircraft and missiles. Picket lines were being maintained around the clock and a union official called the strike per cent effective as of A company spokesman said salaried employees, not represented by the union, would continue to report for work. The picket lines went up Sunday after membership of Local 200 of the Allied Industrial Workers AFL-CIO voted down the offer on a new contract. Aaron Strickland, Honolulu (if) en persons, including two infants, died today when a disabled Canadian Pacific Turbo- Jet airliner with 40 persons aboard crashed and burned in an emergency landing attempt. The Federal Aviation Agency said the Big Britannia Aircraft which originated in Vancouver, B.

was en route to Sydney. Australia, and Auckland, New Zealand, via Honolulu when one of the engines apparently failed shortly after takeoff here. The craft left Honolulu International Airport with 29 passengers and 11 crewmen and returned about 45 minutes lat- after the pilot dumped fuel over the Pacific in preparation for the landing. D. J.

Tierney, FAA spokesman, said the plane approached the runway for a normal landing on three engines at 11:19 p.m. but then skidded into a mass of grading equipment nearby, the fuselage snapped and the engines burst into flames. Wreckage was strew over an area the size of a football field. The condition of the survivors, who were taken to nearby Hickham Air Force Base Hospital, was not immediately known. The FAA said the pilot notified its control tower he was cutting one of the engines soon after takeoff.

He requested and was granted permission to dump fuel for the emergency landing, officials said. of the Local which represents about 650 production workers, said the offer was rejected by a ft was the second time the Union had voted against the offer. Last June 30 the bargaining committee took the same company offer to the membership but it was rejected and the work contract expired the next day. Via Telestar Broadcast- DR. FATHER DIES IN ILLINOIS Dr.

and Mrs. Kirtley Sears left Sunday for Astoria. 111., due to the death of Dr. father, William Sears. Mr.

president Sears died Sunday. Laotian Neutrality Pact Signed Geneva Delegates of 14 nations today signed a treaty of independence and neutrality for Laos formally bringing to a close 14 long month of efforts to restore peace to the Asian kingdom. When all had signed, Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phou- ma of Laos declared: shall fulfill the obligations of the conference imposed on us. We shall do everything to maintain an independent, prosperous and neutral In Moscow, Premier Khrushchev hailed the treaty as eliminating dangerous seat of in Southeast Asia. The agreement included two documents plus a declaration of neutrality and a protocol covering the withdrawal of foreign troops from Laos.

The 14-nation conference assembled to deal with the crisis reached agreement last Wednesday. Since then the foreign ministers gathering to sign the treaty have been occupied with other, unsettled problems, especially Berlin, Germany, nuclear testing and disarmament. U. S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko have met twice for long talks on the major East-West issues.

Both Gromyko and American sources have indicated there probably will be another meeting be- tore they leave Geneva. The Laotian agreement provides for withdrawal of all foreign troops from Laos within 75 days and security of its Survivors include two daugh- frontiers against further infil- ters, Mrs. Julia McFetcridge, Astoria, and Mrs. Mabel Gibson, Lubbock, two sons, Ray Sears, Dallas, and Dr. Sears and several grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a. m. Wednesday at the Shaweo Funeral Home, Astoria. The body is there. tration by foreign elements.

This means both U.S. military advisers and their support personnel and communist troops from North Viet Nam must leave the country. World Hears Kennedy Report No Progress In Berlin Peace Talks 200-Pound Angus Calf Killod by Car A 200-pound Angus calf was killed when it was struck by Frank Flowers, who preceded an automobile at 6:30 a. m. to her in death in 1937.

day on M-27 about miles Survivors include two sons, northeast of Maryville. Albert Flowers and Arthur Sgt. J. W. Whan reported Flowers, two Herbert Earl Stanley, Kellcr- brothers, Harry Fuchs, Spo- ton, was traveling south kane, and George Fuchs, Denhauff, I) five grandchildren and five grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held and struck the calf just after he topped a hillcrest. 'Die calf was owned by Raymond Merrigan, Guilford. Sergeant Whan reported Washington (Jf) Presi dent Kennedy told an Amcr- ican-European audience on live television Monday that cannot report toward a Berlin settlement with the Soviet Union and that is a of concern and danger to us hope that an accord can be reached, we will continue to try to reach one, hut we have not made progress KennecJv said. The chief words were tarried direct to all America and to 16 European nations, including Communist Yugoslavia, in an unprecedented telecast via the Telstar satellite The President said that the Teenager Cited After Collision A Barnard youth was cited for careless and imprudent driving after a 2-car collision on U. S.

71 a half nule south of Maryville at 2 p. m. Sunday. John Byron Busby, 17, Barnard, was cited by Trooper Richard Stratton alter his car was struck in the rear by a car driven by Arthur Lee Flowers, Kansas City. Trooper Stratton reported Busby was southbound on U.

S. 71 and pulled into a driveway On the west side of the highway. He backed into the highway to go back north and was stopped, straddling the centerline when the Flowers vehicle topped a hillcrest to the south and skidded into his car. No injury was reported. There was slight damage to the left rear of 1960 relaying of his words by Tel- hevrolet and to the left front star another indication of'of 1961 Chevrolet sta- the kind of world in which we lion wagon live (Continued on Page Nine) Sgt.

J. Whan assisted Trooper Stratton at the scene. the United States. This country is testing now, he said, because Russia broke the three-year-old moratorium on tests last September. Man Shoots Shotgun In City; Warning Issued Maryvillians this morning were reminded by the police department that it is against city ordinance to discharge firearms within the city limits.

An anonymous phone call this morning reported a man had been firing a shotgun in the city limits; he received a lecture from Patrolman Bill Welch, but was not cited because the complainant was unknown. tion manager of The Mary- vilhan, member of the drama club and attended State. This summer he is working ith the Larkin and Associates crew surveying Maryville! streets for the street improve- i ment program. LITTLE lit at 2 p. m.

Tuesday at Swanson i there was minor damage to thr Funeral Home, Hopkins. The left front of 1959 body is at Chevrolet. Nationwide Rail Strike Threatened Chautauqua, N. Y. A H.

Y. Crotty, president to the railroad labor spokesman said Brotherhood of Maintenance oi today a total work stoppage on Way Employees, the roilroads is quite Crotty said the railroad unlikely if railroad management ions will not tolerate any re- goes through with its plan to duction in the existing five-man eliminate thousands of jobs. diesel crew. railroad management per-1 The nation's Very few new homes are furnished in early Americon the style those cloys was to pay uun. sists in this course it is quite likely that not a single train will move over the railroad railroads laat week announced a plan to eliminate thousands of jobs in a stream-lining operation, chief tracks of this nation until the ly those of 40,000 feight-train firemen or any other workers frieman.

About 13,000 to safe operations are man's jobs would be elirninat- testored to their said ed this starting Aug. 16. IT LEVIMTZFIl FOR TOP EUROPEAN COMMAND Army Gen. Lyman L. Leru- nitzer, left, will become commander of U.S.

forces in Europe when Air Force Gen. Lauris Norstad retires in November. seen, too, as being named to NATO com- mand, which is being vacated by Norstad. Presently personal military adviser to President Kennedy, Gen. Maxwell D.

Taylor, center, will become chairman of Joint Chiefs of staff when Gen. George H. Decker retires in September. tNEA Telephoto).