Blytheville Courier News (Newspaper) - August 17, 1949, Blytheville, Arkansas BLYTHEVILLE COURIER NEWS TUB DOMINANT AMD 124 courtn TitU Valley AUGUST 1949 TEN PAGES SINGLE COPIES FIVE CENTS 16 School Districts To Elect Directors Tax and Bond Proposals To Be Decided Twentyfour directors for school boards m the 16 Mississippi County districts are scheduled for election the annual school election Sep tember Along with the directors for the various local boards one member of the County Board of Education Is also scheduled for The term of Seagraves of Osceola who was elected last year to fill an term ol Charles Sullenger in Zone will end this The County Board of Education to composed of a member of each of the four zones and one mem ber at each elected for five year with staggered expira tion so only one new member Is added each The qualified electors in Zone composed of the and Etowah Dis will petition the County Judge Roland Green to have can listed on the ballots in the zone Fifty names are re quired on each nominating petition to Elect Z Directors In the Blytheville the terms of Max president of the and Paul Pryor will ex Since the Blytheville board is a two mem bers retire each In five mem ber terms are for five years rather than and one member retires each Only Osceola and Blytheville have as the only two cities of the first class in the Osceola received this Dialing and is planning to the sixth member this year y The term of Ben Butler expires this leaving the Osceola District two directors to Directors to be chosen must the names of 20 qualified electors from tue and to date one petition has been submitted That petition is to have the name Legion to Assist Information Booths To Be Set Up in City on August 29 the establishment of booths at various of president of the Etowah placed before thi people for To Fill Vacancies Other directors whose terms ex pire this year Include Wood of tary of the board president of the Armorel board Wilson of shawnee president of the Ma nila board Brinn of Dell president of the WH iion board presi dent at Keiser Smith of Eardie Shannon of Leachville presi dent of the Brinkley Board Neal at the Mississippi County formed as a result of the reorganization act and Vernon president of the Dyess Directors to be elected because resignations will fill the follow terms three years at Luxora 16 fill position of appointed to fill term of Rogers at Armorel to fill vacancy caused by Marion Dyers resignation of OKeefe a one year term at to fill term of who moved rom the county a one year term and a three year term at The oneyear term will be for the director to replace appointed to fill term of Vernon Henry and the threeyear term will be that of pointed to fill term of Election Procedure Chanted In cases of resignation directors are appointed to serve only until the following school The school election this year will be under the County Election Com rather than the County of as a result of The County of education will prepare and have ballots and the elec tion commissioners will distribute ballots and the elections Alons with the election of direct other matters of school Including the of of bond and the ques tion of be assessed as an art tax for school pur poses will be decided by the voters Plans for points In Blytheville to assist World War II veterans tn filling out ap for National Service Life Insurance refunds were announced at a meeting of Dud Cason Post 24 of the American Legion last Announcement of the plans was made to the Legionnaires by Don veterans contact officer tor who is chairman of a special legion committee ap pointed to make plans of assisting the Stearns told the Legionnaires that the booths will be set up at different points over town tn date that applications will be to assist the veterans In filling out the necessary Tlie booths will be manned by other members of the Legions committee and In making the announcement i Stevens pointed out that he did not think there is a need for vet erans to file applications on the first day in order to get an early He said that as far as he knew the payments will be handled systematically and that applications filled out on the first day will not necessarily mean that those veterans will be the first to get refund To Pay Refunds Neil Year No refund payments will be made before Stearns said anti it is hoped that all payments have been made by June 30 next Stearns also pointed out that there is no particular way for any certain person to figure out what he or she will receive In the way of a refund as this will be determined by Refunds will be based on the length of time the veterans insurance policy was in force the amount of In tilling out the veterans If know their service serial date and place of birth and the number Poison Program Sought to Curb Soybean Beetles of Entomologist With Fanners In Fields a research gist and member of the University of Arkansas Is working with agricultural leaders and extension service personnel in Mississippi County this fa an effort to set up an effective poisoning program for the bean leaf which is in much of the soybean crop in this Keith North Missis sippi County explained that Ins is the first and about the only area of the soybean producing sec where Infestation of the bee tle has been bad enough to require He said that infesta tion was as bad as in 1947 when some damage was done by bee which cut the pods from the Probe Hits Vaughan Again Peace Is Sought in Hawaiian Strike Blytheville Merchants to Form Wholesale Sales Group Plans for the establishment of a Merchants Division for the Blythe ville Chamber of Commerce were made yesterday at a meeting of the Blytheville and Chamber of Commerce Research launched for years the County Soy bean Planning repre senting the Farm Bureau and the has appealed to Dr Ellis and College of Agriculture at the University of Arkansas for research on the best of control for the and Minor started the research this Since this Is the only location where infestation is serious all the and dusting programs will be set up as original Tn Study Effectiveness Farmers with infested fields are being asket to spray part of their fields and leave part dust part and leave part undusted in order that it may be determined which type of poisoning is the most Yields will be noted on the tasted to see if the dust ing and spraying is effective enough and aids production by to merit Some work was done earlier this week in South Mississippi Minor will be here a week setting up the poisoning of their it was lier pointed out by the Veterans that it Is not nec essary for veterans to know the number of their The name on the refund applica tion should be identical to the one on the veterans service dis Stearns Trade Proposed principal of Keiser grade schools appeared before the Legion today last night and pres plans for a veterans trade school in Blytheville under the provisions of the train Ing Adams told the Legionnaires that he plans to conduct a survey in Blytheville in the near future to determine whether or not such a program here would be feasible at this Shivley read A second meeting has been ed for Friday night when the group will elect SU board of president of the Blytheville Chamber ol will appoint a nom which will be nade a part of the and this committee will submit 30 merchants names as candidates for and 15 will be elected Friday Since many of Blytheville mer chants are wholesalers It was decid ed to drop the Retail Merchants division and ask the wholesale deal to work with this to that sales promotion problems and could be channeled through one To Place Emphasis on Sales It was decided by the group at tending the meeting yesterday that the division would deal only with matters lo build sales and on which re was Three Wed By Donglas Lovelace Long and waterfront employ ers met across a peace table today in ft new effort lo end Hawaiis 109day CIO dock Tlie agreement to resume direct negotiations with drama tic slid ness during a conference Ingram arrang ed In his Almost immediately officials of Hawaiis seven struck stevedoring firms nnd lenders of the Interna tional Union began The ormer Agriculture Department Employe Says General Mundt H today denounced Harry H as a finagling bargainer who applied luff and bluster in an attempt to get a government worker o violate the bitter criticism of President Tru ans military drew a sharp from Senator locy chairman of the Senates special investigations afternoon and the session lasted two observance of not to be discussed without unanimous ap proval of the It waa pointed out that such discussions could cause and would weaken the If allowed to be come pressing The merchants are now organised as a retail merchants commit tee In and this com wil dissolve automatically after the new division U Pryor is chairman of the to the committee In the chamber ol the merchants had an association which disbanded a lew Prominent Businessman To Return to College the Legionnaires an invitation from the Post in Paragould to attend Ward Night at that post tomorrow The ceremonies honoring the newly elected state commander have been arranged by the Paragould post and its Womans The post expects to send a delegation to the Commander Shivley Murry Upholds Appropriation for College of Ozarks LITTLE Attorney General Ike Murry has denied that the legislative appropriation for the College of the Ozarks school of phar macy violates the Arkansas consti Little is seek ing H Pulaski Chancery Court In junction to prevent the appropria tion being Garrett contended the school Is a privately maintained and operated denominational Presby terian school where the tenets of Two Murder Suspects Held for Trial 17 Yates yester day ordered 21 of and Roberl of held for trial in Pemiscot County Circuit Court on charges of first degree They were arrested August 1 few hours after Berrys had been brutally attacked in her home in Portage and The action was taken following a preliminary hearing for Underwood waived Both men were ordered held without Prosecuting Attorney Elmer Peal filed two new charges against each of the They stand accused rape In connec ion with the elderly womans and also charged of It is alleged they obtained in the Both men were said to have been drinking wnen they called at the Hendrix home Intending to try and obtain a loan from Officers found the woman bound with a cord from a Venetian Cotton Acreage Measure Sent To President fT The Senate completed congressional action yesterday on a revising the planting controls or acreage allotments for next year on wheat and It passed by voice vote a Senate House compromise which fixes broad standards for the secretary of agriculture and state and county farmer committees in imposing planting and marketing The House previously agreed to the compromise which now goes to President The sets the minimum cotton acreage for 1950 at To become effective the proposed quotas must be approved by two thirds ol the cotton producers In referendum to be held not later than For the years after the law provides that the national market Ing for any year shall be not less than bales or bales less than the estimated do consumption plus exports of cotton for the marketing Northeast Arkansas Only Part of State Not Hit By Boll Weevil Damage LITTLE Only one section of the escaped the boll weevil Infestation according to the crop reporting The report uld weevils are be to migrate in Jefferson and Ftan tta counties and that cotton hu stopped blooming In of heaviest On crop it added that early cotton Is maturing with late cotton fruiting well in the bat only fair to good wan reported mak ing normal with utc making A t young at the age of is quitting his job to go back to colleg and B Comn that the school of pharmacy announced today he has resigned as sales manager of a soft drink bottling firm to enter the University of It has been my lifelong ambi tion to be a he APerrin attended college for before going to work tor the soft drink firm nearly 18 years ago Now he win take a studies and then enter medical He his a wife and three Local Theater Discloses Top Secret Womens U their ww by thew In conjunction on a UM ter marquee A WOMANS or a particular faith are taught and fls such is not entitled to an exclu sive grant of the public as attorney for defendant is operated as a tional school and has been as such by the American Coun cil on Pharmaceutical Sidewalk Constructed Across Memorial Park Pouring of concrete for the sidi walk under construction across the old cemetery site on Avenue Is scheduled to be complet ed this Jodie ald erman member of the committee In charge of the said The sidewalk Is and forms are in place for pouring concrete for the It runs diagonally across the site from the northwest lo southeast Workmen also have lowered the walk on the south side of along tile parks north boun U S Steel dary where the street recently was Southern Pacific Roebuck Resumption of at the suggestion of president Harry was on tlie of starting from The stevedores struck May 1 for a 32 cent hike In their hourly The came on top ot these maneuvers in court and one the waterfronts of Hawaii nnd the Circuit Judge Edward Towse ordered H contempt action or other appropriate action Brid ges for personally defying nil Injunction obtained bj the under Its new dock seizure The asked in court for an Injunction against the clock seizure law which provides for government stevedoring opera The union seeks also 000 damages from the territory anc the seven struck The government hegan Its to see whether It could unload ships with Its own I sent a 40inan gang aboard thi Matson Line freighter CIO Cooks and Steward and independent Marine off In support of the With the ships power no could be Two ships sailed with thel CIO Marine Engineers defying or ders of their unions executive boan not to work behind the picket Matson announced in Sal it would call stevedore today for work on The ship Is picketed b longshoremen who there from Shirley May Will tot Swim Tonight Weather Not Right For American to Try Channel Now cy Muy France will not attempt o swim the English Channel to her malinger announced to Hospital in Jonesboro To Handle Cases and for Diagnosis 17OT polio outpatient clinic to serve Northeast Arkansas has been esta in John director of the Crippled Childrens Division of the State Department of Public said The clinic will be under direct of the Bernards Hospital In He said that the hospital will utilize the clinic to screen pat and give of Gray Aid the need for such a is The primary reason being to direct apy treatment of Improved polio patients and to lighten the load of the crowded Uttle Rock Three Men Flee Criminal Ward At State Hospital LITTLE A magazine salesman charged with raping a Fordyce waitress broke leg and two com panions escaped after they sawed their way out of a ward at State Hospital early The injured is Ollie Ray of When he surrendered to officers last month after hiding in South Ark ansas bottoms for a week he ic Rave up because he had been by a He broke left leg in from a second to the ground and was The other men hart not been re this Hospital Identified them as Hn aert Lee committed from Drew and Hor committed from Both face charges of bur glary and grand Havden Bonahue of the hos staff snld be men used a hacksaw blade lo cut locks from heavy mesh wire screen and to cut through one bar of the barred New York Stocks Closing Tobacco Anaconda Copper Beth Steel Chrysler Coca Cota Electric Gen Motors Montgomery Ward N Y Central Int Harvester National Distillers Republic Sttel Radio Vacuum Standard of N J Texas Corp J C Penney 145 71 29 12 27 34 52 14 141 38 62 53 58 11 26 58 20 34 20 14 10 34 Ambassador Protests Red Radio Tactics AP Ambassador Alan Kirk asked Premier Stalin to speed action on American protests against Jamming of the Voice of American Radio Secretary of State Ache sou disclosed Kirk called on the Soviet leader Monday Acheson told a news conference that It actually was a courtesy visit and was limited al most entirely to an exchange of courtesies between the new Ameri can ambassador and the Ruslan prf he Kirk dirt men tion to Stalin two points currently at Issue In rela Acheson are the jamming of American ra dio broadcasts and the long drawn out negotiations on the final set for wartime Ou both Kirk simply expressed hope to Sta lin thai the foreign office would consider the two matters so that the two governments can qet on with the business of solving the problems Asked what Stalins recreation said that the were referred to the Soviet Foreign Tax Adjustment Board Members In Session Here Tiie Mississippi County Board o met today m coun y judges office in the Court Hous n Blytheville to check property as and hear complaints con The equalization also wi meet here Thc are checking current and will notify owners of on which assessments have bee Next Monday and th will return to where It met yesterday and Mem bers of the hoard will continue meeting two clays n week In each city until Its business Is Hts disclosure of Kirks approach es to Stalin on the two issues came in response to reporters Inquiries and after he had read a statement the Russians of having planned the costly jim ming operation for many She hurl planned lo plunge Into he Channel nt Cape Grls sometime around midnight but weather conditions caused Ted who manages the 17yearold high school snirt the decision was made by himself nnd Shirley Mays Walter cmi man who will from with the pilot her across hurt commented that he didnt like the look of the The sun was brightly on the but the sea chop Al the Dover Harbor Hoard had reported the wind was from 12 o IS miles nn hour from thc Worner snld earlier that after a consultation with Shirley Mays It WAS decided that things looked Worner said at noon he had rd with Shirley Harry by telephone to Calais was girl jcas v Shirley May loves it In Trance nnd her rest there hns been a She Is all set to go If the weather Miss France and took thc Channel ferry to Calais yester day The Dover Harbor Board this noon reported a northeast wind of 10 to 14 per There much sen the Board Tile sun was shining on the while chalks The French shore The sharp exchange between nml Hoey ill the five per center Inquiry came after other developments Senator de manded that John key figure In the be In for Milton a Milwaukee Insurance testified he paid to Maragon for trying to get a sugar rationing suspension order lifted against the Allied Mo lasses Company of Perth In Herbert a former Department testified that was a little rough on him In trying tfo get him to grant nn of sugar to the New Jersey firm In The testimony concerning Vaush nn came out in connection with Mo lasses of Perth The former Agriculture Depart ment Herbert Ha snld he had a telephone conversation late In 1043 Vau who Is President Trumans military said he then was allocation of scarce molasses and edible syrups for the He sata him at one point during the conversation that we Democrats have to stick said Vaughan later as a little rough when Hathorn told him he could not conscientiously grant the permit wanted for the firm Halhorn Identified the firm a the Allied Molasses Harold president of the told the Senate In earlier i clearly visible ncross the 21 mile There was a bustle of activity here as thc expedition stepped up Fourth Polio Case For Week Listed For Area The 140th victim for litis was recorded in Mississippi County when Negro un treatment nt the Univer sity Hospital In The child Is the son ot Annie Laurie Cook of the Flat Lake Com Although records of those sent from the county show only 13B of these are on record with the State Health since two have been transferred to other This Is the fourth case to be re ported In this county this Construction Activity in Figures to Provide Additional Jobs By Charles the decline In the total I output of goods forecast of further moderate In creases In cot work in the near future came from the Reserve Board Because construction Is one of the main bulwarks of business act this ed some backing for a prediction by Secretary of that employment will go up by the rest of this made the prediction at the White House The reserve In a publica noted contract construction was providing Jobs or more than workers at Even while activity declined sub 15 34 at the nations factories 23 12 and mines In the spring and early 68 la the board report gross national the second quarter of This output was at an annual rate of In the sec ond down per cent from the preceding quarter and down per cent from the peak reached In 1948s final Thc Commerce Department blarney a cutback In business in or the decline since that cutback narrowed the market for goods and The reserve board bulletin cred a pickup tn private housing recently to variety of In ducting A small decline In interest rates a n more availability o federal funds to buy mortgages to construction of smaller and Improvement In the quality ol equipment and ship in most Among observations on construc tion In the board report Construction costs have declin ed In recent months but consid ering the exceptionally high levels reached last changes so far have been and in most lines costs during the first half of this year were not much different from year Purchases of both old and new houses have increased seasonally during the but sales of old houses have apparently been below earlier high and prices of old houses have continued to de Prices paid for new houses are also somewhat reflect ing market resistance and lower Utility Crews Rush Work on Water Mains Three carloads of pipe ordered In 1047 have arrived nnd more en route to to Further boost laying of water mains throughout thc manager of Blytheville Water said Most of the carloads receiv ed the past two weeks Is In thc lina stages of Installation and completion of the work will bring Lo miles mains laid dur ing the past Kapp said Present work Is expected to lie In all parts of Ihe city next boasting thc total July 1 to six carloads of pipe are scheduled lo arrive In thc next two weeks Kapp Laying ot a water main from Cherry Street to Main Street along Ruddle Road is expect ed to he completed by he Another serving and running along West Highway 18 nearly feet to the city Is expected to be placed In service this Kapp completion the Ruddle Road Hue In East work will on Installation of pipe Main A main also Is being laid Holland Street In Southeast Blytheville to serve the Max Harold Wright housing develop An added feet of main also been laid tn the David Acres Subdivision in Southwest Blythe Pipe js on the ground and ready to be Md along Marguerite Avenue In and In the Coun try Club Area north of Ross Milton R polland Milwaukee Insurance swore hat he paid Maragon for trying to gel a sugar rationing order lifted the Allied Company In That led McCarthy to demand that Maragon be Indicted for per Just before Polland took the wit ness testimony which Mora gon gave under oath to the Senate July 28 was read Inlo me record by assistant committee counsel Francis Maragon had denied in the testimony that he ever was pair any money by anyone for neg business with the govern After In reply to n cross tire of acknowledged that he pay Maragon McCarthy said I think We should ask thc Jus tice Department to his matter over and nsk that an Indictment for perjury be returned again Ma ra in his sworn testimony last did not list any on his tax from either or the Allied Molasses Company of Perth who calls top govern ment officials by their first name and has said he regards Vaughan a good gave his behind closed Polland testified toay that he got in touch with In behalf of the New Jersey He salt Harold is thc president of Allied An Agriculture spok esman said yesterday that Vaughnn and Maragon four years ao sought nt Hie agency for thc molasses He said they didnt get it anti the case went to the Justice Tlie Department tement was madi by Wesley Mc assistant to Secretary of Agriculture McCune de to say whom in lie depart ment the two men Committee records show tlie mo firm accused of its quota or sugar for use in a high syrup furnished to a soft drink Polland told Ihe he liari in possession a cancelled check for which he hart given Maragon In nnd which had But he was uncertain in cash which he salu he have given Maragon when the two met In Milwaukee Tlie showed up on an invoice by the Allied Molasses As Hoey still pressed or an ans polland said I must have Work on East Rose Street Paid For the record 1 paid will when additional pipe is Kapp Soybeans w M H T from which felt loaned Relaxation of rout control n winter up mem funds lations during the early months of i for use in new by and lo have i That was one factor credited by Availability of new houses little on the housing department with lower a I I May quotations I UM 238 235 i Low 123 238 H 235i 232 U Cotton NEW AP Closing 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