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Haflp Jorum Serving Nodaway County Since 1869 Vol. 58, No. 191 Maryville, Missouri 64468 Thursday Evening, Jan. 18,1968 Single 10c Ten Pages Session Slated Here on School Reorganization JEFFERSON CITY I The Missouri School District. Reorganization Commission an- occupied Gaza City 1 today while security forces Israelis Clamp General Curfew On Gaza Arabs TEL AVIV The Israeli army clamped a general curfew on the more than 200,000 on Thurber Carnival Proves Entertaining "A Thurber Carnival" opened Wednesday in the Little Theater of the Administration Building at Northwest State College to a large and enthusiastic audience.

The carnival, presented in the round, will continue at 8 p.m. each evening through Saturday. Members of the cast of a skit entitled "Word Dance" are, left to right, John Bassett, Stuart, Miss Terry Lutz, Maryville; Miss Carolyn Farber, St. Joseph; Bill Cukar, Kansas City; Miss Shirley Golden, Plattsburg; Thomas Pankiewicz, St. Joseph; Miss Carrol Lyn Brown, Albany, and William Bradley, Matawan, N.

J. Dr. Charles Fulson, speech and drama department chairman, and Mrs. Charles Koerble are directors for the revue. Richard Weaver serves as set designer and technical director and Robert West is in charge of make-up.

A jazz combo from the music department will provide music for the new entertainment patterned after the revue form of James Thurber, American dramatist, short story writer and humorist. Thurber In State Whimsey College Lives Revue nounced plans today to hold seven hearings to exchange reorganization ideas with the public. One hearing will be held five state college campuses and one each in Kansas City and St. Louis, according to Rep. James I.

Spainhower, D- Marshall, commission chairman. The commission was instructed by the last legislature to develop and submit to the board of education by Nov. 15 a master plan for statewide school reorganization Dr. Otto E. Domian of the University of Minnesota will speak at each hearing, Spain hower said.

Domian heads a team of consultants which has been working for the commission. The hearing schedule: Jan. 2 Southwest College at Springfield. Jan. 30 Southeast College at Cape Girardeau.

Jan. 31 Central State Col lege at Warrensburg. Feb. 1 University of Missouri at Kansas City. Feb.

8 Clayton High School, St. Louis. Feb. 14 Northeast State College at Kirksville. Feb.

15 Northwest State College at Maryville. Hearings at St. Louis and and Kansas City will begin at 7:30 p. all others at 2:30 p. m.

searched house to house for arms used in a current wave of sabotage. There have been almost daily hand-grenade attacks in Gaza. On two recent occasions grenades were lobbed into open- air market places, injuring local Arabs, and one Israeli sol( Continued on Page 10) Marines Avenge Attack; Cong Officer Killed SAIGON (I U. S. para -1 clashes Wednesday, scattered troopers lying in ambush along from below Saigon to the de a trail killed a Viet Cong bat-1 militarized zone, in which talion commander from a regiment which overran a South Vietnamese district town two weeks ago, U.

S. headquarters announced today. The ambush was one of five State Dept. Told To Cut Employees by President State State By Dr. Frank Grube James Thurber on the stage? Thurber fans and who one? will say impossible, but there he is, on the stage of the Little Theater in the Administration Building at the college for four performances, Wednesday night, tonight, Frida yand Saturday nights, with all of his whimsical frustration.

Thurber Is presented in a series of skits dramatizing essays and sketches from the famous book. Several of the well-known fables are included, but most representative of characters who fail even in their surrenders is the skit. Preble Gets Rid of his Kenneth Redick as the husband who is a loser and Carolyn Farber as the wife who See Rain, Freezing Drizzle KANSAS CITY Parts of Missouri went into a period of light rain or drizzle today. Cloudiness covered the whole state and temperatures remained mild. Showers fell in the east and the southwest quarter of the state.

The Weather Bureau said much of the state will receive moisture by tonight and show ers will persist in the southeast Friday. Maximum temperatures Friday will be in the 40s and 50s. Joplin recorded 59 Wednesday and Springfield 58. Overnight lows generally were above I Hulse, and the freezing and snow covers Shirley Golden steadily disappeared. counters his moves but also fails to make herself a widow play their parts to the hilt.

Try To Change History The whimsical Thurber comes out in the fable Grant Had Been Drinking At The drunken Grant, played by James Hulse brought down the house. An other well-played part is that of the girl who interprets Shakes peare as a murder mystery in the fable, Macbeth Mur der Miss Terry Lutz is intense in her Shakespeare criticism. Some of the acts call for nar rators, always a rather stuffy situation, but in this case the readings are given clearly and without undue histrionics. Miss Jeanie Lee Naylor handles three of these narriations, William Brown another. Not only dual, but four or five roles are played by the participants.

Mary Beth McKinney is a mother, assistant to a TV announcer. mother, and a nurse, besides participating in the opening and closing numbers, which were in the nature of big productions. Shopping Is a Task Another of the Fables that is well worked out is Gentlemen in which shoppers William Brown and Barri Hodgin are served drinks while selecting Christmas presents for their wives at an ex elusive shop resulting in failure on their part as well as for the clerk, Miss Carolyn Farber, the floorwalker, James sic up to professional standards, punctuating and underlining the mood of the production. The play was presented by students of Speech 72, the course in Interpretation, which is taught by Dr. Ralph Fulsom.

Mrs. C. E. Koerble directed the second act. List Changes R-ll Staff 2nd Semester Beginning the second semester several faculty and administrative changes are being made in the Maryville R-II school system, according to Supt.

A. E. Beach. Due to the illness and subsequent resignation of Ray Keever, junior high school principal. a realignment of administrative personnel has been effected.

Harry Rice, former Title I coordinator, has assumed the vacant position and will supervise all classes in grades five through eight for the remainder of this school year. Wallace Croy, elementary principal, will be responsible REQUIEM MASS SAID FOR LOUIS SCHULTE Requiem mass was said at 9 a. m. Wednesday at St. Gregory's Church for Louis J.

Schulte, Maryville, who died Sunday. The Rev. Thomas Wiederholt said the mass. Mrs. Tom Townsend played organ selections.

Burial was in St. Cemetery. Acolytes were Kenneth Townsend, Larry Barmann, Larry Stiens, Jimmy Gallagher and Wayne Taylor. Pallbearers were Don Weber, John Schulte, Tom Townsend, Charles Taylor, Robert Schulte and Edwin Sturm. WASHINGTON Presi dent Johnson directed the State Department today to cut the number of its employees overseas by 10 per cent, with accompanying reductions in foreigners employed by U.

S. Embassies and missions. This does not apply to Vietnam. The order is aimed at helping reduce the balance of payments deficit the gap between U. S.

spending abroad and foreign spending in this country. The idea is that the government should take steps to put its own house in order when it is asking Americans to cut down on travel abroad and on overseas investments and loans. Budget director Charles L. Schultze said about 25.000 American civilians are involved in the nev. program, about 9.000 military people, and about 30.000 to 35,000 foreign nationals.

Schultze said he had no exact figure on dollar savings but The President also told all department and agency heads in the government reduce official travel outside the United States to the minimum consistent with orderly conduct of the In that connection he called for immediate steps to eliminate attendance at some international conferences and reduce American delegations to others, while trying to bring more of these sessions to this country. Each year there are more than 400 of these sessions to which the United States sends representatives. In advance of cut- down order, officials said the administration would try to hold spending in check in its new $186 billion budget. Johnson said in his State of the Union message Wednesday night that the budget would be tight. forces reported killing 119 Communist soldiers at a cost of seven Americans killed anc 29 wounded.

A U. S. communique termed the ambush on the Dong Hai Regiment which attacked the district town of Tan Uyen in the early morning hours of New Men Hit Hard An ambush squad from the 187th Airborne Infantry, which arrived in South Vietnam last month, caught Lam Hiep, 28 year-old commander of the Dong Hai D800 Battalion and two other Viet Cong on a trail 25 miles north of Saigon, a U. S. spokesman said.

The paratroopers killed Hiep and another Viet Cong, but the third man apparently escaped. In an exchange of fire, one American was killed and one wounded. A pouch full of documents, a Russian pistol, a map and a compass were found on body. The documents disclosed his identity and showed he had commanded the battalion since April, 1966. at least.

Lam rank was not reported, but he probably was a major. Last month U. S. troops killed a North regimental commander in the Que Son Valley 35 miles south of Da Nang. Fifteen miles to the north of the ambush site, two other new paratrooper units were dentally hit by two rounds of 105mm artillery fire by an American battery.

Two paratroopers were killed and 21 wounded. Although ground action has been light this week, heavy Communist assaults last week were reflected in the weekly causalty summaries from the U. S. and South Vietnamese commands. 278 GIs Die in Week U.

S. headquarters said 278 Americans were killed in action last week, the highest in six months, and 1,323 Americans were wounded. South Vietnamese headquarters reported 357 government troops killed last week and 946 wounded, one of heaviest weekly tolls of the war. But the total of 2,216 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese reported killed were 652 less than the (Continued on Page 10) 170,845 Grant Made To Local OEO WASHINGTON The Office of Economic Opportunity approved a $170.845 grant Thursday for the Northwest Missouri Economics Opportunity Corp. at Maryville.

The money is for program administration, neighborhood centers, headstart for 12 months and summer headstart for three months. Headstart will serve 109 children and summer headstart 30. The Forum Weathervane Cloudy and colder tonight. Possible freezing drizzle. Low tonight about 22.

High Friday near 46. $10 Million In Missouri Hike Aid GOP Governors, Some Dems Cool, To lbjs Pleas ITo Schools Pushed they should run into millions and dollar is import- Car Runs into Rear of Stalled Truck Maryville Man, Wife Critically Injured In Crash Near Hopkins A Maryville man and his wife, victims of a two-vehicle rear-end collision early this tor all classes in kindergarten morning were transferred from through grade four. st. Francis Hospital to the Uni Starting this semester the vo-1 versity of Kansas Medical Cen Strength For the Day For their myself. sakes I sanctify -John 17:19 bar girl, Miss Weather Data WEATHER NORTHWEST MISSOURI Partly cloudy north, partly cloudy south and colder to- nght; chance of light rain and drizzle extreme south this evening.

Lows 18 to 25 north to 28 to 33 south. Friday partly cloudy with little change in temperature. Highs 40s north to about 50 south. WEATHER RECORD Noon Temperature 38 Barometer 30.35 Temperature at 7 a. m.

30 Lowest last 24 hours 23 Reading 5 p. in, Wednesday 42 Highest Wednesday 44 Highest year ago today 9 Lowest, year ago today -4 Highest on record 65 deg. 1951 Lowest on record -20 deg. 1930 Sun sets tonight 5:20 Sun rises Friday 7:39 Try (orner Store First. Adv.

Hulse plays Thurber himself, as frustrated as any of his characters, in and Thomas Pankiewicz and William Cukar. in of the tell the story of frustration with a mermaid, a hilarious tale. Last of the before the finale is the famous life of Walter with Barri Hodgin playing the title role, which shifts from meek reality to heroic dream world. Scenery throughout is delightful. Several scenes depend on slides made up of the single- line neurotic characters that Thurber drew thrown on a screen.

Richard A. Weaver of the MSC Speech Department, designed the sets. Special music is required for this drama, and provided by the publishers. A jazz combo led by Earle Moss of the MSC music faculty played this mu- cational class in sheet metal, heating and air conditioning will once again be offered, with Bill Korell as instructor. Seven R-II students are currently enrolled in the class and it is anticipated that other area students will enroll.

The maximum enrollment to be considered for the class is from 10 to 12 students. One of the special projects of the class this semester will be to install the heating and air conditioning system and all guttering in the house. It is currently being constructed by the vocational building trades class in the Crest view Addition. Miss Stella Martin, first grade teacher in the Maryville schools for the past 26 Vi years, has submitted her resignation due to illness. Mrs.

Edith George has been employed to replace Miss Martin for the remainder of the school year. YOUR FORUM BOY SPEAKING I will collect tomorrow night (Friday) and Saturday morning. As a young business man, buying papers at wholesale and selling them to you at retail, I earn profits each two weeks; after I have made collections and paid my paper bill. Please do not pay any boy unless he can give you an official receipt. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION Pizza ter, Kansas City, at 9 a m.

today and listed as being in critical condition. Injured in the mishap were Mr. and Mrs. James Shell Shell, 46, received severe head and possible internal injuries according to the Highway Pa trol. Mrs.

Ernestine Shell. 43. al so received a severe head in jury, acute lacerations on the neck and knee and also possi ble internal complications. Crashed At 3:45 a. m.

Both were riding in a south bound car believed to have been driven by Shell. The ac cident occurred at approximately 3:45 a. m. today on Rt M-27 three miles south of Hopkins. The other party involved was identified as James R.

Morrison, 22, Hopkins. He reportedly was the driver of the tractor trailer which was stopped in the highway at the time of the accident. Morrison was not ni jured. His trailer sustained moderate damages to the left rear. The Shell car was reported as totally demolished, according to the Highway Patrol.

Both vehicles were headed south at the time of impact. Morrison reportedly had been having trouble with the lights on his truck and the road to examine the lighting system. Trucks Lights Went Out The Patrol stated that as he located the problem, the lights suddenly went out, leaving the truck invisible to oncoming torists. As the Shells approached, Morrison allegedly tried to halt them without success. The Shell car then crashed into the rear and underneath portion of the trailer, resulting in serious injury to the couple.

Mr. and Mrs. Shell were admitted to St. Francis Hospital at approximately 5:30 a. m.

today according to hospital reports. No arrest has been made, although the accident is still under investigation of the Missou ri State Highwav Patrol. Called to investigate the mishap were Cpl. Richard D. Stratton and Trooper Brian O.

Slater of the Patrol. JOHN MOREHOUSE, 61, DIES IN KANSAS John W. Morehouse, 61. Kansas City, formerly of Hopkins, died Wednesday in a hospital there following a brief illness. Born Sept.

15, 1906, at Hopkins, he was a member of the Grandview Park Presbyterian Church, Kansas City, Kan. He was a carpenter and a mem- 3er of the Local 168. He was a World War II veteran. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m.

Saturday at the Funeral Home, Hopkins, and burial will be in the Hopkins Cemetery. Besides his wife, Mrs. Esther Morehouse, of the home, he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Sheran Westermann, Kansas City, and one step-daughter, Mrs. D.

A. also of Kansas City, one sister, Mrs. Neva Stephens, SI. one brother, A P. More- louse.

Maryville, and two grandchildren. WASHINGTON W) Republican governors found numerous faults today in President State of the Union message, but Democratic Chairman John M. Bailey called it program for The Chamber of Commerce of the United States, through President Allan Shivers, said objective to place 500.000 hard-core unemployed in production jobs is But the Chamber said it would want to take careful looks at the spending programs Johnson proposed. Some of fellow Democrats in Congress had a cool response to his remarks on peace prospects, as well as what he had to say about taxes and spending. Question Cost Gov.

John H. Chafee of Rhode Island, chairman of the Republican Governors Conference, deplored what he said was a lack of priorities in the message. enough money for all of these he said. Chafee presided over a news conference in a Washington hotel. Other Republican governors talked to the conference by telephone from their home states.

Gov. Raymond Shafer of Pennsylvania called the Johnson speech Gov. Daniel J. Evans of Washington said this was a time for new and bold direction, but that the President failed to provide it. In contrast to Republican congressional leaders and their other live colleagues, both Chafee and Evans said they would favor the proposal for a 10 per cent tax surcharge if necessary.

Gov. Claude R. Kirk of Florida said the proposed budget the shady technique of double Same Tired Approach Gov. George Romney, of Michigan, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, said basic tone of the speech offers little real and represents same tired approach of the past three Gov. David F.

Cargo of New Mexico said the (Continued on Page 10) JEFFERSON CITY UP) A $10 million increase in the foundation program of state aid for schools was approved by the Senate Education Com mittee Wednesday. It came a few hours after Sen. A. Basey Vanlandingham, D-Columbia, proposed that a special 10 member committee set up to study the whole problem of state school aid between now and the 1969 legislative session. Most of the increase approval would go in the form of flat grants intended primarily to aid Kansas City and St.

Louis schools. They have claimed they are being short changed under the present system as compared with outside schools. Also approved without opposition were bills to: Set up a $3 million program to aid emotionally and socially handicapped school children. Put up $600.000 in state funds to guarantee up to $6 million in loans to college students. Undergraduates could borrow up to $1,000 a year and uate students $1.500.

Authorize use of school facilities for adult education if the voters of the district approve. Increase retirement benefits for Kansas City teachers to put the program there more in line with the St. Louis pension system. All the bills were recommended by Gov. Warren E.

Heames. LAST RITES HELD FOR MRS. BLISS Last rites were held at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Price Funeral Home for Mrs.

Daisy Bliss, Maryville, who died Sunday. The Rev. Howard Judah of- ficated and burial was in the Oak Hill Cemetery. Mrs. John Curfman, accompanied by Mrs.

Eldon Asbell, sang Old Rugged and Pallbearers were Kenneth Still, Bob Still, Harold Reynolds, T. W. Reynolds, Robert Williams and Andy Rodrick. The Sign Points to Fishing! Making ready for the run by area fisherman on the Nodaway County Community Lake, the above sign was erected recently on M-27 south of Pickering, marking the entrance to the 74-acre lake. A joint effort of the State Conservation Commission, the Soil Conservation Service and Nodaway County residents, the lake, 50 feet deep in some spots and stocked with more than 160,000 fish by the commission, will provide an angler's dream, as well as playground and picnic areas, when it is formally opened next spring.

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