Great Bend Daily Tribune (Newspaper) - February 24, 1955, Great Bend, Kansas COLDER GREAT BEND DAILY TRIBUNE LARGEST CIRCULATION of all WESTERN KANSAS DAILIES GREAT FEBRUARY 24, 1955 THIS ISSUE 16 PAGES Water Rights To By Proposed Bills Topeka Water rights would re placed in the individual rather than the state under bills which have been in both branches of the is The similar measures were sub- by Sen Vernon Stroberg and both Newton republicans bills are an outgrowth of dispute between the city of and in the McPherson and Sedgwick County areas above a huge under- natural water reservoir known as the equus Under the Stroberg and Unruh i anyone desiring to ate water must make a showing of Payment To Landowners condemnation proceedings be brought with payment damages to the landowner as in any other condemnation Another closely allied with the water was ted by Stroberg anq John Karl and Wilford all It would standardize tion provide for notice to parties in- volved and permit appeals from district court decisions to the preme Other individually sponsored ate bilk beating Wednesday's line on the introduction of sue measures in this session include proposals which Beer Supervision Take administration of the 3. beer law out from under the Com of Revenue and and place it under the State Liquo Control Office Give courts power to asses charges for forcing collection insufficient fund checks and pro vide stiffer penalties for writin such checks Garner Nine Perish In Missouri Crash Of Tanker Plane Believes Mother Who Butchered Sons Is Sane psychiatrist said Thursday he believes the 28-year-old mother who has admitted killing and dis- two sons is legally Dr. C. A. Harris county examined Mrs. Ann SOME OF THE THINGS TO seems to be what Mrs. Edgar 1115 is telling Mrs. Herbert 1601 as two wait for the start of a meeting of Great Bend personal property tax assessors at the court house here Thursday The meeting was held for the 12 assessors to discuss methods to be used in evaluating personal Evaluation in Great Bend starts March 1. er John Crutcher and Sen. John Woel Make aH meetings of govern Hint agencies open to the publi except during examination of wit nesses in an investigation Sen Sam Brookover Trucking Measures Forbid local authorities ing or prohibiting truck operations on regularly designated state or TJ S. highways Double the present ton-mile tax on Dillard additional financial aid for high schools in 75 counties through an increase in taxes on territory not in a high school dis- Sen. Alfred Harkness Bar state appointive officers or employes from holding a. place on the district or state com- of a political party Sen. W. D. Weigand Chamber Drive Nets 34 Members The greatest increase during a 24-hour period thus far in the week-long Chamber of Commerce membership drive was chalked up noon Wednesday and noon Thursday with 34 members being That increase brings the total in the which opened day and closes Friday night to 79, still far short of the 200 goal which had been Included in the 4 were nine in- They were from DuBois Sand Spencer Office ply Home and Phillips porting Rupp Motor com- Hampton and Titus and Stafford and the Elks New memberships were Chuck Holleman Mid-Continent Butane Reif Sales and Appl Motor ard Home Industrial Dr. Clair J. Dining Uptown ber White's two from Veterinary Sweeper Dr. G. A. Don's Tire Repair Ray Amerine R. J. Harry M. tle Lenore Smith izing and Health Robinson OH Field Barton County Red Cross Aids in Year During the last full fiscal year of the County Chapter of the American Red Cross gave assistance or training to dents of the according to figures released Thursday by Earl chapter the figure is higher than because it leaves out the hundreds of people who received blood transfusions from the Red Cross blood A record of activities of t h e chapter during the period July 1, 1953 to July 1, 1954, shows that Barton used pints of bloods more than were collected in the Other statistics 311 of first aid training were 228 of them in junior first aid 303 certificates for wa- ter 187 of them for ners and 79 for with 17 certificates also in- 13 home nursing course certificates were Home service accounted for much of the work of the local Red iross Active service cases 357, with an additional 24 cases involving veterans and 16 in- totaling 397 Sixteen cases involved the ing of financial Also in the 1953-1954 fiscal year was the 1953 flash flood at when 30 families re- mass care and 24 families were given in financial Novelist Being Held After Threat La Mystery Raymond tor of private eye Philip under observation in the word of San Diego County The 66-year-old writer was taken there after police found him sitting n the floor in the shower bat hof lis home Tuesday with a revolver n his Police Bruce Weston said handler had fired two bullets into he ceiling after calling police and aying he intended to shoot Western said Chandler had een despondent since his wife's eath in More Moisture For Crops In Golden Belt Kansas weather proved table Wednesday night when a snow storm the forecasters said wouldn't As a most of the Golden Belt area re- an inch or more of come The precipitation began about 7 p.m. in the Great Bend and amounted to of an inch of assisting moisture by early Temperatures dropped to a low of 7 degrees in Great Bend during the Weather forecasters had omitted a prediction of snow Wednesday on the theory that conditions to start snowfall were no CLEARING Topeka Clearing skies and colder weather are indicated for most of Kansas Thursday nigh in the wake of a new fall of snow which generally was light outside of the northeast Wamego reported five inches snow during the Chapman 4y2 Topeka Atchison two and Salina and Lecompton one Elsewhere in the north and where some snow was reported the amounts were not The forecast calls for much cold er temperatures in- the east and south Thursday night with low dings over the state ranging from 5-10 above Partly cloudy skies and warmer weather are in prospect for Friday with high readings of 25-30. Unusual Observation Of Brotherhood Week at velt University will be barred to men with mustaches and coeds un- der 5 feet 2 Blondes will be barred from the and three floors of the school will be open only to students with The school newspaper said this method of observing Brotherhood Week was chosen to point up arbitrary and ridiculous tions of State Traffic Deaths Topeka Kansas traffic fatalities listed by the state dent records In the last 24 To date in Same period SEA TO Strengthens Program Against Pact nations mot be found in the present ter and Wycoff's Dental Officials Censor Newspaper Colombia ment censorship has been slapped on the newspaper El Espectador because it printed a story that the 5-centavo loaf of bread would dis- appear and the 10-centavo loaf would be reduced in Although the story was later confirmed as the government information said such reports injured the j ambassadorial status headquarters in Then the member nations took specific steps Thursday to im- the Southeast Asia Defense Treaty against Communist sion and subversion south of Red China's The eight nation conference set a Council of Representatives and proved the formation of a tee on military Military at- taches meeting went right to although few of them are expected to be on the manent committee which will be named With that out of the the delegates swung into a discussion of action and over- all economic problems part of the U. 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Secretary of State Dulles answer But he said the United States would be prepared to designate a security representative to sit with representatives of other nations and work out details of future A working paper submitted to the conference called for mutual exchange of information on suspected persons and their and exchange of information on the movements of known The tee would meet anywhere in the SEATO area when calle Three economic plans were sub- from suggested a separate economic body meet in for its first The Philippines submitted a modified economic and France sub- mitted a theic Evacuation Of Another Island Seems Imminent Formosa ist China said Thursday all ians had been withdrawn from tiny a land outpost 140 miles north of The withdrawal seemed an most certain prelude to a military The island is reported garrisoned by some regulars and There were approximately a 23 miles oG Red mainland and the most anchor of Chiang island The action follows by less than three weeks the Nationalist tion of the Tachen 200 miles north of The island is outside the For- mosa Strait in the U.S. not essential to the defense of For- mosa and the which President Eisenhower has ised to Earlier official sources denied was being They said air and naval blows against the Reds had for the time the Com- munist threat Air Force tanker plane on a ing training mission caught fire shortly after takeoff Wednesday plunged earthward and ex- killing 9 of 11 men Williams Wednesday night and planned to examine her again Sheriff C. V. Buster Kern said he believed Mrs. Williams killed Two crewmen parachuted to the two 9, and Con- The which took off from radi 8> without an the Air Force crashed Mrs. Williams was arrested early on a farm about six miles after a young friend re- west of this central Missouri he had unwittingly buried Torch In Sky ithe thinking A conductor riding in a caboose were spoiled deer The on a Rock Island freight train saw the huge craft flaming in the a matter of seconds it had burst into a regular said Asa 62, then it disappeared over a knoll ahead of the was an awful went way up in the I knew then the plane had crashed and though I couldn't hear th noise because of the S. Sgt. Stanley C. Lam bert and T. Sgt. Wai ter H. wer the two men who parachuted Hear Explosion Mrs. D. D. wife of the far mer on whose land the plan said she and her were eating dinner when heard the roar of the plane's en there was a big she flash lighted up the whole My husband and I go a tractor and went down to the scene but there wasn't much we could do except gasoline kept exploding and we couldn't get very Paul a farmer who lives near the said one of the told him the fire first in the tail and that iure made it difficult to open thi doors to said they had parachuted from the plane at an altitude of less than 75 Gregory of them said he landed on lus head and the other said he landed on his The known re- sembles a Boeing It was a part if the Refueling Wing stationed at the Sedalia base Report 200 Sign For Manager Form A spokesman for the Great Bend Citizens endorsers of the city manager form of announced Thursday that a spot check showed more than 200 citizens have signed statements in support of the city manager plan in Great The committee also announced that its drawn and ed unanimously at its meeting last had been misinterpreted in some Most of the centered around the committee's statement that the city manager form of government is superior to our previous method of operation which ted slipshod business Committee spokesmen stated sday that this statement was not intended as a reflection on the work or efforts of any mayors or who served under the old it merely pointed up the fact that no mayor or councilman could handle the multitude of details and the many large and small problems as efficiently under the old form of government as under the manager For Webs Well Another maximum well for the new Webs pool south in Rush county was given its 3.00C barrel a day assignment by the state corporation commission It is the Natural Gas and Oil Co. located ne ne 18-19-20. Total depth is 4302 with perforations from 4232 to 4244 No. 1 Thorn hi a Mississippi producer rated at 87 barrels a day with 12 percent opens the Amber Creek pool ten miles north of cine Location it sw nw se 36-30-12. Total depth is 4380, with perforations from 4327 to The No. 1 Gilbert hi the Baumgarten pool of Rooks county is a new producer rated at 44 barrels a day with six percent Location is sw sw se 19-9-18, with perforations from 3369 to 3379, and plugged back depth of 3390 Steals Coat Goes Back Into Pokey A 35-year-old iawrence man is back in jail day for stealing a leather jacket after completing a 30-day term or Jimmy Jones was checking out the jail yesterday after com- the sentence for vagrancy when officers discovered a r Jacket his possession had been stolen from a parked car here in They returned Jones to jail for another 30 The Weather Kansas Clear or clearing Thursday afternoon and much colder east and low conference that a general A spokesman said none of partly to Red subversion would i plans ha Friday 25-30. Solons Assured Of Boost in Salaries Washington A pay raise of at least 50 per cent was assured Thursday for senators and House A 67 per cent voted by the The Senate Wednesday rolled up a big 62-24, in favor of an increase in congressional pay from the present to The measure was at once sent to conference with the which last week voted 283 118 for a Both versions in- clude boosts of to for all the approximately 400 federal The five Senate conferences of the include several members who favor at least a This seemed to make it quite likely that the House figure would be accepted in the Local Woman Wins WOW Prize Laura 917 was the winner in this week's on She said it was the second time she had entered the Chamber Manager Kent Collier announced that the winner of the second prize was route 2 Eight Mrs. Virgil Mrs. dismembered bodies had been wrapped neatly in four packages and buried in a shallow grave Algoa in Galveston j Kern said he ruled out the of an accomplice because j v he does not believe she could have found anyone willing to aid in such a grisly The former dime store clerk faces four der two in Harris county and two in Galveston Polling Places In City Listed Pour polling places for the city and school board primary election in Great Bend March 1 were Thursday by City Manager Perry In line with past procedures for city only one polling place will be used in each Two are used in each ward for county and state when the total vote is Voters of the first ward will cast their ballots at Park 2nd Morrison 3rd Eisenhower school and 4th ward at the city Voters from territories outside the city limits that are a part of the Great Bend school district will also vote at the where separate ballot boxes will be set up in connection with the regular 4th ward polling Main St. Building Will Be Remodeled A remodeling proje Mrs. Ann Williams EST Chorale To Tour Here on Tuesday The Men's Chorale of Emporia State Teachers present assembly programs for schools of the Golden 12 Belt high and will early wee i Construction com- it was announced Thursday owner of the ence 901, the renovation would a modern glass front with aluminum tile in- of new heating and air conditioning systems and Completion of the work is ively set for July I. owner said that a local has expressed interest in moving into the but no definite commitments have been made as At the present one side of he building is occupied by the Victory Barber shop and the other is Western Kansas next Albert D. professor of is the Leaving Emporia Sunday after- the Chorale will make in Bucklin Cimarron and Meade on Great Bend and Hoisington on and Sterling and son on Sponsored by the Emporia State chapter of Phi Mu Alpha National music the Chorale consists of 35 members II a optv all men students who have had experience in singing and enjoy The program will contain classics by Brahms and three European folk and five numbers from musical shows and The latter Include from Hit The It from Me and in from from Hans Christian and Nothing Like a from South The Chorale presented programs for approximately high school students -in assemblies last Plans are tentatively set for pre- sentations later in the spring for other high schools and a radio gram. School Bond Election At Timken Monday Timken The go-ahead was plans to hold a bond election Monday to get the authority to er- st and equip a addition to he grade at a meeting night at the Mrs. Leo Gene aid Thursday the public meeting was in favor of the bond and that no alterations will be made in the plans for two kitchen and dining room at the which was built in 1934. Monday's election will be held at he American Legion Can't Break Habit Tex. W Raymond 49, charged with carrying a Possible New Record For Short Marriages Okla. Mrs. Rena Matthews Wallace filed suit for di- vorce in District Court charging her husband of less than 15 minutes with Her petition alleged her Robert Arthur deserted her within 15 minutes after they were married Feb. 16. She said she was a and dutiful ing those 15 minutes and gave the defendant no grounds for deserting Ike Attempting To Throttle The Demo Tax Slash Washington Democratic leaders predicted the House would pass income tax cut in a bitter showdown late President lieutenants sought to line up a solid vote from Rep. Halleck said think we'll in killing the tax cut Other key cans said privately the odds were against Both sides conceded the outcome might hinge on a ful of Would Cut Revenue The Democratic would vide a tax starting Jan. 1. for each taxpayer and each It would reduce enues about 815 million dollars for the year starting next July 1, and about over a full year of Democrats wrapped this tion into a package with request to continue ent corporation income and excise tax rates for one These are now scheduled to drop by most three billion dollars annually April 1, There is almost no sition to the Look To Senate Republicans pinned their chief hope on knocking out the income tax cut in the Senate even if beaten in the At his news conference Eisenhower said reducing taxes In the face of an estimated federal deficit for the next fiscal year would be reaching in fiscal Speaker of the House Rayburn bristling at the dent's suggested Republicans already had reached the peak of He said that while cutting taxes last year when the anticipated federal deficit was most twice the estimate the Republicans give the little folks K-State A Cappella Choir Here Mar. 9 The Kansas State t pella trw direction of In Great Bend during its annual spring tour In The choir will present a concert at p.m. March 9 over and also will present a second concert at March 10, at the Great Bend high The program is being sponsored by the Barton county chapter of the State Alumni association which will also take care of feeding and housing the choir Wednesday Organized in 1945, the K-State a annually tours a tion of the state each before high school and ic This year the choir will be on Lour March 7 to 10. Besides Great Bend the choir will appear at and on March 7; and Belleville on March 8; Smith Center and on March 8; and Dodge City and La o n March 10. 2 Jayhawk Senators Split on Pay Raise Washington Ufi two Republican senators split appeared in day in voting on the to raise lourt on schedule Of- noticed a bulge in his pocket and hustled him out of the They were Tipple was relieved of the congressional salaries from to and give comparable in- creases to federal Sen. Schoeppel voted for the and Sen. Carlson against it. Open Crucial Debate On Arms For W. Germany Germany Overriding Socialist motion for the lower House of the West German Parliament Thursday d a crucial three-day debate on tie Paris treaties to arm Germans in Western Most observers agreed with predictions that the pacts would win final approval Armed police guarded he Parliament building against ers at the conference Replying for the Christian Democrat Deputy Kurt Kiesinger declared the only way to reunification was through West Germany must first achieve security before it can re- store freedom and security to the 18 milion Germans in the Soviet he AH four parties In Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's ruling coalition Fred 1414_Morton; Mrs. Roy E. 12W E. 112J Mrs. Ar- route 4, Mrs. Louis Mrs. J. J. 2531-19th; Mrs. Howard 1019 and C. A. 25I6-12th. ible demonstrations as solidly against the Socialist brushed aside the The government parties and the Socialists in ing up a motion demanding West Germany's direct participation in all talks between Soviet Russia and tion Socialist move on a show of Socialist Deputy chairman Carlo Schmid said ratification of the treaties would wreck any chance of than ever that Russian readiness to the should be tested by He said the Western Big Three on the Socialists more convinced The motion is scheduled to be passed unanimously just after final vote Saturday on Easter Seal Drive WiH Open Mar. 10 The 1955 Easter seal campaign In and throughout sas will open March 10 and run April 10, county chairman W. O. Vollmer announced Ellis D. president of the Kansas Society for Crippled said that the 22nd annual appeal Is expected to be the most extensive in the Easter seals will reach more than residents in the with mailing to begin around March 9. to the campaign will be used in Kansas to support special provide direct train personnel and further develop the cerebral palsy project at the University of Kansas medical center in Kansas adding that more than 90 percent of the funds remain in the Two GB Men Held For Bad Checks Two Great Bend Oakley 28. 2546 and Marvin 43, 2800 block on were arrested by sheriffs officers here Wednesday evening on no-account check warrants from Stafford Both men were turned over to Stafford county authorities shortly after their A hold order was placed with Stafford officers on Branson by Barber county ties who hold a no-account warrant for his Sheriff Larry Prince 949 More Japanese Prisoners Returned Japan The nese repatriation ship Koan Mara docked at this central Japan port Thursday with 949 Japanese from Red where they had been detained more than 10 That boosted the Japanese total to since early last
