Beatrice Daily Sun (Newspaper) - January 11, 1954, Beatrice, Nebraska Temperatures High low today low year ago 2 unofficial 22 Precipitation this year 0 BEATRICE DAILY SUN Weather If Vou Didnt See tt In The Soft It Didnt Happen Member of the Associated Press Fair and much colder tonight with slowly diminishing winds low tonight about 5 below Tuesday not quite so fair with highs about MONDAY JANUARY 1953 So Per Copy 153 Chris Abbott Is Killed In Plane Crash Prominent State Financier Dies In Louisiana Crash Story of plane crash and list of other Page of Ne braskas best known 65 yearold Chris Abbott of Hyan was among 12 prominent busi ness men who died Sunday night in the flaming wreckage of a pri vate The ten business men and two pilots were returning from a duck hunting trip in the South Louisiana marshlands when their plane crashed and burned near Shrove Abbott was not only known as one of leading bankers but as one of its top livestock pro He was president of the Abbott of which specialized in cattle breeding and But his interests were He was president of the Capital Broadcasting owner of Radio Station Iowa and a member of the board of directors of the Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Oma ha Northwestern Bell Telephone and the Union Stock Banking Interests His banking interests included the presidency of banks in Alli Wood Hyannis and He had served as vice president and director of the American Na tional Livestock as a vice president of the of chairman of the board of Transportation of Ameri a trustee of the Tax Foundation of New and as director of the Nebraska Stockgrowers He long had been interested in aviation and at one time operated Prairie Airways in Abbott was wellknown in Party circles and in 1952 backed Douglas MacArthur for the GOP presidential nomina He helped finance Mary Kenneys campaign as a favorite daughter candidate for president when did not give permission for his name to appear Presidential Preferential Primary Kenney was an allout supporter of William Coad of presi dent of Omar said Abbott had been expected in Omaha last Friday for a but sent word he had been detained in of Weiss Friends at Hyannis said Abott was a longtime friend of Ber nard and Mil ton brothers who operate clothing They were aboard the illfated Abbott began ranching near Hy annis in 1912 and had made his home here He got into the in becoming a director of the Grant County State Bank of He was born near Bird He attended Nebraska W e s 1 e y a n Univer University of Michigan and the University of Abbott long had been active in civic and often said his hobby was civic Survivors include his one son and two Gerd Early Dies Gerd 1432 10th died at a local hospital Sun day Born February in Atchison he came to Hanover in 1888 and to Beatrice in His main occupation was Member of the Johns Lutheran Surviving him is his of Services will be from the Johns Lutheran fol lowing service at the Harman Burial in Zion Lutheran Church A memorial wreath for the Voice of Johns will be in charge of Charles Schlake Dick Coroners Jury In Session On Death A coroners jury was in session at the Courthouse this investigating circumstances con the death last Monday of Miss Gertru le a was killed by an drien oy Georgia at and Elk Before striking Miss the auto had hit a moving truck and six parked TO TOLIO FUND The Beatrice schools faculty basket ball which played the Redheads here last has donated of the proceeds to the March of according to Paul principal of Junior At 101 Years Appetite Was Only Good Thing GREAT Ten years ago Jacques Claude left the hills whore he had herded sheep for more than 50 years and said he was Getting to he Ho was found dead Saturday in his cabin near Death came one week and one day after his when he remarked the only good thing on mo is my Reds Propose Reopening Of Korea Parley India Requests Reconvene To Discuss Korea Y MILE 0DIMES MILE 0 DIMES Stop Threat To Farm Ike Urges Recommends New Support Plan Proposes 14 Amendments PANMUNJOM The Com MARCH OF DIMES While Beatrice High School Susan and ring bolls to attract prospective Barry drops a coin in tin collodion Homer left of and Blue dig in Monday proposed reopen yomo 50 pop club girls manned March of Dimo boxes all day collecting Sun ing of the preliminary negotiations for a Korean peace Slate Department Representative Kenneth Young said he received the request in a letter from the Communists Monday He said he relayed the Rod letter to Washington and added I am awaiting official Any decision will have to come Red Chinas Radio said the Communist letter asked for a meeting of liaison officers at Pan Wednesday 8 Tues day CST to discuss a time for the The Red move came as India officially requested that the Assembly reconvene in New York at an early date to discuss the Korean Indian officials the ac tion was not intended to delay freeing of some prison A spokesman said That is a matter for two commands to settle and as far as India is 22 is the deadline for their release under the agreement of those com Seoul And in a high source said the Indian Command is consider ing a new plan to solve the critical POW The first preliminary talks to set up a peace conference were broken off by Special Envoy Arthur Dean after six weeks of fruitless Dean said the Communists would have to with draw a charge of perfidy before ho would come The talks themselves were down over refusal bogged of Red demands that Russia be invited as a high source in Korea said the United States might consider a direct Red move to got the talks going again as tantamount to withdrawal of the perfidy The Red broadcast made no mention of any Communist retrac chief aide to re mained m Korea after the talks were broken Young said he has conducted secret negotiations with the Reds through an intermediary in an ef to reopen the but both the Chinese and North Korean radios have denied There was no indication whether the Chinese action resulted from Youngs reported RED FARM PLAN TOKYO Radio Mon i i jl i e Ikes Plan Would Lower Grain Parity WASHINGTON is what President farm pro gram proposes as to some major commodities flexible price to 90 per cent of par present rigid 90 per cent price supports after the 1954 Production controls including acreage allotments and marketing be used as a sup measure to help keep supplies in line with market The modernized parity for wheat would be about 20 per cent lower than the present parity would begin to go into effect The reduction each year could be no greater than five per centage points of the old Corn Substitute tho flexible price supports for the current man 90 per cent supports after the 1954 crop and shift to the mod ern parity on This parity would be about 10 per cent lower than the present buA tho change would be limited to five percentage a Change the flexible formula in tho 1949 farm act to make reduc tions sharper when surpluses de Under the 1949 a two per cent increase in the normal supply would allow a one por cont reduction In the price Un der the proposed a one per cent increase in supplies would al low a one por cent decrease in The President also pro posed that tho normal carryover for corn be increased from 10 per cent to 15 per cent of market He said this would help assure a more stable livestock feed Oil cottonseed and at any level de termined by the secretary of agri culture from zero to 90 per cent of as now provided by tho present pro gram of government buying and making Joans at a predetermined price support Instead allow market prices to move freely in relation to supply and Producers would get Treasury pay for to organize a ments to make up the difference Plan Campaign To Push Registrations The Chamber of Commerce has called a meeting promoting the reregistration of JayCees are soliciting the help of school and vet erans and have ask ed them to send representatives to the to be hejd in the Beatrice National Bank commun ity room that at Participating organizations will bo asked to furnish two members of the planning persons to help carry out and to ward a fund to defray costs of the Any funds left over will be prorated back to the organiza according to Doug Jay Ceo All persons who will vote in the spring elections in Beatrice must reregister at the City AT OMAHA MEETING Chief of Police Norm Bryant and Officer Jones left this morn ing for Omaha where they will attend the Nebraska Sheriffs and Peace Officers Later in the week several other members of the police department day announced details of a arc expected to Gage Coun year plan for collectivize farming i ty Sheriff Ned Maxwell throughout Red I is an officer of the SCHOOL FLAY The Suns Own Service Hanover High School will present an all school Headin for a Wed at 8 in the school between average prices and 90 per cent of Funds to meet wool payments would bo taken from general revenues within the amount of unobligated tariff re from Dairy pres ent provisions of the law providing for price supports between 75 and per cent of parity as are nec essary to assure an adequate sup Meat present under which price sup ports arc not but which the government to buy meat in times of depressed prices to help bolster Such moat would be to school lunch pro gram and to foreign aid present law pro viding for discretionary authority for the secretary of agriculture to support prices at not more than 90 per cent of parity and divert any eggs or poultry obtained under such operations to tho school lunch program and other public At present there are no price supports for poultry and Food grains other than barley and grain sorghums Continue provisions of the law au discretionary price sup ports at not more than 90 por cont of Those commodities arc now being supported under provi sions of the Film Too Hot For Fireproof Movie Projector OKLAHOMA CITY Days in a Camp proved loo hot for a theaters movie pro Firemen said the film accident ally caught fire while being shown and heavily damaged about worth of supposedly fireproof projection Youths Tell Of Vandalism Two Boys Relate How They Tore Up Farm Building Two High School youths both described in juvenile court But he said Includes Workers Vote Before Union Can Call Strike WASHINGTON President Monday asked Con gross to adopt 14 amendments to the Labor in a provision that workers must vote approval of any strike before it can go into On the strike proposal the Pres ident recommended thai before a union couM order off their jobs the workers bo required to approve the action In a proposals contained some changes suggested by man agement and some asked by Among the presidential proposals was one that would give states more jurisdiction in labor Others would require employers to submit nonCommunist affidavits as well as union and would remove some of the re strictions against union boycotts and i Eisenhower called on Congress to make a thorough study of union funds with a view of enacting such legislation as will protect ami conserve those funds for the millions of men and women who are the bene There have been numerous sug gestions from management and Congress members that such funds should have public similar to insurance regulations now in President reiterated his con viction that the Act Expect Trouble For Ikes Farm Program In House WASHINGTON The chair man of the Senate Agriculture Committee Monday hailed Presi dent farm program as excellent but the chairman of tho House committee was non committal about tho Aiken HVI said the Pres idents program forms an excel lent basis to work out the sound est farm program wo over Republican leaders conceded that Ihe program would have tough sledding in the Hope chairman of the House Agriculture direct comment on the today how they wont from room to room in an abandoned farm wantonly destroying its con Neither boy could give Judge Oscar Clarke a reason for their The about four miles north and oast of belonged to a of one of the who liven on a farm south of The other boy lives in The boys entered the building while on a hunting trip Using a largo rock and slicks they of the smash ed most of ho panels on every door in the dropped a rock through a old crash ed a bed against the wall until Ihe end pieces broke and threw an old incubator and small glasses out of a second story Tho back door of the house was ajar and there wore of pre vious tho boys told the Owner of Ihe building told a re porter he would ask for dam although he didnt think it would cover the necessary Eight Beatrice youths will ap pear in juvenile court Wednesday for similar Harry Wolken and Germeroth were treated for minor injuries at the hospital and Barry Dies In Wymore The Suns Own Service WYMORE Barry died at his home in Wymore Sunday Born September at he had been a resident of this community for 50 Ho was a retired masonry Surviving him arc six sons Ed Brown Floyd and both of Liberty BJue Springs E n i Two daughters and Elsie 21 and 27 Services will be 2 at the Laughlin Funeral Powell of Burial in Wymore ceme Hanover Landmark To Be Torn Down The Suns Own Service An old stone warehouse on North Street east of the Burlington ong a land mark in is being torn Built 70 years the building is owned by the Farmers Cooper ative has not been NEW the trend of other has i used for several added a wpman to its staff at police John Heni it was erected by the derson is pictured above as she assumed her duties this morning as I Burlington as a residence for their secretary at the Tho daughter of and Eck j depot and was once used as 1604 S 3rd she in a graduate of Beatrice High and the University i a warehouse by the defunct Fergu of She will be in charge of the clerical duties which in son and Spece eludes parking meters and accident filing and work i Wrecking is being done by Wes Vote On Enlarging Hanover Elevator The Suns Own Service Members of the Farmers Cooperative Associa tion here will meet at 8 in Hanover City Hall to approve construction of a bushel ad dition to the associations The board of have erl a contract with Roberts Con struction to according to County build the Plans call for Heath experience gained during the seven years Iho law has been in indicates that changes are needed to reinforce its basic The Presidents tions appear to steer a middle course between the expressed dc and The proposal for a prostrike of workers is not without precedent in American labor The Act of World War 11 required assent from work ers before they could legally go out on Harry Wolken Suffers Fractures Harry is still in Hospital suffering fractured ribs and a fractur ed pelvis after an auto accident Saturday Her daughter Is In the hospital suffering from shock and Neither womans condition is con The pair wore injured when the Wolken vehicle collided with a pick up by Conrad on Highway XS about two milos east of Tag Day Polio Fund Activities An sponsored by the Beatrice Saturday ad ded to the March of Chairman work to start around 1 and be completed by May Carl elevator reports members reaction to the proposed addition is favorable and A canvass in Blue Springs and a Tag Day in Wymore Says Effort Must Be Made To Gain Foreign Markets WASHINGTON Eisenhower recommended Monday 2Va billion dollars of present surpluses be frozen from regular markets and the gov move into a flexible farm price support In n special message to or message to but said hc President said the agricultur hts 4omniitlee plans on Iho farm situation time after Details Given On Personal Tax Increase In Declaration Was Normal NORTH tails of tho handling of Robert personal property tax schedule have been matlo known The governor said recently he was at a loss to explain what had happened Ip his personal property schedule to raise his tangible prop erty declaration from to A chock with Ihe Lincoln County assessors whore the gov schedule was showed that what Imported to the gover nors was about the same tre happened to schedules of other personal property owners in North Last Friday in Crosby showed reporters his file copy of the return ho made last March adding up to the he he is not ashamed of being The governor was commenting In connection with appearance in cer tain weekly newspapers recently of stories under headlines reading Governor assessment is Reporter A reporter for tho North checking Cros bys personal property schedule filed in the Lincoln County asses sors office found that The governor declared total tangible personal property after deducting allowable on a total of In household This included a dog at a 1038 refrigerator at a 1946 washing machine at 1050 vacu um cleaner at two record players at electric mid a 1924 piano at Also included was in house hold less equalling a camera and a a two watches and and all others not County Assessor the refrigerator declara tion to knocked off the roaster declaration because he only works in oven Thut made the declaration instead of Those adjustments arc occur on almost every and did before the 50 per cont Schricker Tho assessor added up items 56 which Includes household a I problem is as serious and com plex as any confronting the legis Immediate action Is he told to arrest the grow ing throat to our present tural program and to prevent the subsequent economic distress that could in our farming As ho did in his State of tho Union message last the Pres ident said ft flexible price support plan must be the backbone o new farm also said special cm In the future must be placed on efforts to develop foreign mar kets for agricultures greatly ex productive his proposal to freeze certain tho excess sup ply of these commodities such as wheat and corn would be Isolated from the market so as not to have a depressing effect on Such frozen stocks could not be sold to commercial farm exporters or to foreign buyers who ordinarily purchase in regular commercial They could be used only for donation to the school lunch public in or earmarked for emergency stock These surpluses are already in government hands through pur chases under price support pro The President said he will ask Congress to Increase the price sup port funds of Cred it from the present celling of 6 billion dollars to 84 He said that because of the big buildup of surpluses in the of the corporation under price sup more money will be Agriculture Department experts have predicted that corporation in vestments in surpluses may pass six billion dollars by flexible Program Under the flexible gov price guarantees would bo high m time of shortages to en courage and low in times of surpluses to encourage consumption and discourage over The President said the pres aro among the Polio Fund movie camera and this Blue Springs ladies will conduct money pledges arc already com canvass The Wy ing Present capacity of the j more commit Ice will have its elevator is Tag Day on and cnt mandatory supports should be permitted to expire at the end of this crop A farm program he first of all should assist agriculture to earn its proportionate share of tho national It must likewise aim at stability in farm There should therefore be no wide year to year fluctuation in the lev el of price He said too that a farm pro gram must fairly represent Ihe in of both producers and con The government supports prices of farm products by stepping into Ihe market and buying whenever the price drops to the support or by making loans to farmers at thn support Tho farmers crop is security for the If prices go he can elect not to pay the leaving the crop to the If prices go he can pay off tho watches and came to take back his crop and sell He took 50 per cent of that Continued on Page B in the radio land John CAN YOU BAKE A CHERRY homo economist tor Central Electric and takes a taste while the only two contestants inthe county 411 cherry pic baking contest look Winner was Jane Val Jean took Judge Jones pronounced both pies but Jam won out with a superior Contest was held Saturday in the Norris Pub lic Power Sun Under the Presidents price props on major crops would vary between 75 and 90 por cent of Parity is a standard for measuring farm declared by law to be fair to farmers in relation to prices they The President said adjustment to a farm program must be accomplished gradually in the in terest of farmers and in the inter est of the economy of the nation as a Specific As to specific the pro gram outlined Monday offered lit tle that was except in the case of For this tho President suggested the use of production payments as a method of assuring producers fair Such payments were a feature of tho controversial farm program ad in 1949 by President Tru mans then secretary of agriculture Charles but never ac by Tho idea is that prices of domes produced wool would be per mitted to sock their level in the Continued on Page 2 local Grain Following prices based on the normal freight Wheat
