Harrison Times (Newspaper) - December 17, 1954, Harrison, Arkansas A Independent Evening Newspaper * WTH 55 DECEMBER 17, 1954 PRICE FIVE CENTS Program For Nation's Unveil Military Manpower Plan times topics By The Editor Rejoice that under cloud and star The planet's more than Maine or Bless the delightful fact there arc Twelve nine muses and two | And infinite in dimensions wonders and Praise of by Phyllis I'm going to be crassly commercial in calling attention to a news story wherein local merchants aver that Christmas season sales here exceed those of last Which makes for happy Those holidays start today for school out for a full two weeks with weekends terminating in Christmas and New Years But coming on won't the holidays be hardly noticed because Saturdays are sorts of holidays anyway? So long as you're going to spend your money anyway why don't you buy one of those new electric oven toasters for buttered Invented by a Little Rock they're selling like hot buttered which is what they The dairy industry will be glad to know I got one at a well known local store but my doctor will probably frown at the whole Controversy has broken out between the Soil Conservation Service and the Extension wherein the former agricultural agency accuses the latter of trying to destroy it. - good both should be ifs * * With considerable I'm getting some yard work and I find this is a good time of year for instead of waiting for flora is now revealed in its skeleton slate and can be easily r. Trees can be beautiful without As Dorman H. who draws the political cartoons appearing on the second page of the has sent me a copy of his crayon sketch of an ancient Juniper tree in the northern Arizona I'm going to frame it. Those who like books as gifts will be pleased at the excellent assortment of religious books carried by a local Local stocks of gift merchandise are so extensive that 1 doubt the need of anybody going to a larger city to although I realize there will be some outside * A week from Eugene Crow returned h o m e Tuesday night from Little Rock where he had undergone an operation on his His hand had recently been injured at his work at a By C McDANIEL WASHINGTON Defense Department today unveiled its military manpower keyed to letting 100,000 youngsters tinder 19 volunteer each year for six months of active training to be followed by years of reserve While maintaining reserve they would not be subject to the The to be submitted to the new Congress in aims at providing a reserve in 1959. This would include three million in trained subject to first call in event of a general and two million in a nonpaid reserve Under the 1. The draft would continue as at 2. The National Guard would continue without major 3. All of the trainees would serve their reserve duty in the National Army or Marine Corps 4. The Navy and Air Force would rely on other programs for their Asst. Secretary of Defense Carter L. whose special field is manpower and outlined the program at a joint news conference with Secretary of Defense By way of Burgess noted that men who are drafted for two years of active duty are now obligated to six years of reserve duty on their a the reserve tends to be constituted in large part of men who have performed active Burgess the truth is that over million members of the present are not taking part in any training and hence are not The present reserve is about three million but present law provides no means to compel President Eisenhower said at his news conference Wednesday that a better reserve system would permit reduction in the active armed now somewhat over three Burgess did not lay stress on that possibility in a statement outlining the proposed program although he said he believed that under it active forces can be held at a reasonable Secretary Wilson said the buildup of the reserve forces will make it possible to maintain the regular f at levels that will the least burden on the national economy and still provide for military strength as it may be The plan would operate for only four Merchants Sales Here Better Than Last Year A survey of local merchants today revealed that are running ahead of last One merchant reported that there had been an increase in sales of about 10 per cent over the same period last Local retailers report that the Christmas buying rush been on since the Christmas parade here December 3. Most of the merchants report that they have an ample stock of some items are moving head the list of items most in clothing and furniture for the home are running a close has been a noticeable increase of sales in TV it was Some of the stores arc planning to remain open next week until 8 o'clock at Annual Christmas Cantata Sunday at Baptist Church To Discuss Case of The Christmas cantata - The Music of by Ira B. Wilson - will be presented SuHay at 7:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Directed by Ralph Knox of the Presbyterian assisted by Mrs. of the First Baptist the choir is composed of more than 60 voices from the Baptist and Christian The cantata program is arranged as to the Rev. Ed Holy He Shall Feed His solo and Mrs. Troy Thou Long-Expected Bass Ed Waddell and O Little Town of women's chorus and Good Mrs. Kirby Belle Prater and Rev. Lehman Webb will give the offertory prayer following the The second part of the cantata is arranged as Glory Be To The men's chorus and Little Lord alto Mrs. Pauline Moss and In Our tenor Felix The Living Rev. O Come All Ye Lashes Out at Attempt Made to Destroy Official Says in Speech Here Chou Agrees to Meeting Appreciation Day Winners Listed Appreciation Day was held December 14, at 3:00 p.m. on the south side of the Court Mildred Smith of Everton received a consolation prize of five dollars as she was not there to claim her Five dollars each given to the three following Lorine Mrs. W. A. Rain Fall Over By Associated Press Snow or rain fell over sections of the today but generally fair weather prevailed in other parts of the Although it was below zero in sections of the temperatures mostly were above seasonal levels in nearly all of the A wide band of snow or rain extended from Minnesota and Wisconsin southward to east Snow in Chicago area was measuring about one half But Des Moines reported 2 with snow continuing during the Coldest weather was reported in Colorado and zero or slightly but it was mild for mid-December in the Northern Plains with temperatures around It was windy and cooler in the Southern with blowing dust reported in parts of northern and central Mrs. Carl Martin is home from a trip to to attend the funeral of her Robert Weakness Pope Remains Gravely By FRANK BHUTTO VATICAN CITY Pope Pius XII remains gravely ill and his weakness That was the report today on his over-all general condition from private physician's statement previous word from Vatican sources that despite optimistic reports following X-ray examinations yesterday the Pope's condi tion remains The Vatican sources said his condition is aggravated by a recurrence of The substitute Vatican secretary of the Rev. Msgr. Angelo said today the Pope signs of because of the long examination but was better than The Pope's diagnosed after the X-rays yesterday as a small j hernia of the esophagus and also is accompanied by resulting in a slow loss of it was is partly for the weakened and anemia of the 78-year-old oi the Umw Catholic The Pope was reported to have passed a night last his sleep interrupted by hiccup Dr. Riccardo the Pope's private spent the night at his bedside or in an adjoining as he has done for nearly a The tests 3'esterday set at rest fears the pontiff had an ulcer and might need immediate Dr. said the course of treatment now will aim to in. crease his Tile ordeal of two hours under exploratory X-ray and the fact he again did some work yesterday added lo the Among the tasks believed lo weigh rather heavily on the Pope weigh rather heavily on the Pope is that of preparing his Christmas message to the which is scheduled to be delivered Christinas Eve if he is Each of his Christinas messages since he became Pope in 1039, on the eve of World War lias been primarily an appeal for Another problem is that of a possible consistory lo name new Jaycee Christmas Lighting Contest Is Under Way Here The Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsored annual Christmas Lighting Contest for residential homes begins December 18t8h and will terminate Decern bcr 23rd at Cash prizes will be offered to the three homes considered by the judges to be the most and best first place win ner will receive second place winner and third place winner It isn't too late to enter the Contest as you may enter your home in the Contest anytime between now and December 23rd at by or contacting Contest Mr. Johnson may be contacted at phone Number 767 or 908.8 All the information needed is your name and street The contest will provide for everyone participating and it will help beautify our city at this season of the year as well as creating a better Christmas Anyone is eligible to enter the contest and the home with the most lights will not necessarily win as the judges will base their decision upon ingenuity and the lighting techniques you Sometimes the simplest carried out with imagination and good taste are prize The Extension Services and the Association of Land Grant Colleges are attempting to destroy the Soil Conservation R. S. president of Association of SCS district supervisors declared in a speech here Wednesday at a District 1 SCS He said that the recent recommendation by the committee on Federal Aid to agriculture to turn the SCS and the Agricultural Conservation program service over to the states on a grant-in-aid basis is just another by the Extension Services nd the Association of Land Grant The prominent banker and planter of Walnut Ridge who serves as president of the SCS supervisors without compensation further power-hungry group seems little concerned that the proposal would destroy the people's democratic Soil Conservation substitute an agency monopoly for a successful soil and water conservation and either raise taxes about a year or destroy the services which are rendering the greatest worthwhile benefits to Arkansas He accused Earl California Extension Director as the in the scheme to destroy the SCS and also hit at the Farm Bureau Mr. Rainwater praised the National Grange in voting against turning the SCS over to the land grant He said that if the federal funds now being used for soil conservation are parcelled out to the stales on a grant-in-aid the result will be 48 different soil conservation some some and the majority probably He said that the new proposal apparently is not a matter of partisan same forces repeatedly tried to kill Soil Conservation Districts during a Democratic and he death of the Soil Conservation only self-governed agricultural program the landowners is really being Mr. Rainwater He supervisors have an abiding faith that the American people and the national Congress will prevent this control or destroy they know all the R. S. Rainwater Sheppard Case Goes to Jury Any One of Five Verdicts May Be Returned CLEVELAND Sheppard murder case went to the jury at 10:13 Judge Edward Blything instructed the jury it may return any one of five He began his instructions at 9:37 a.m. He told the seven men and five women deliberating the case that they should not recommend mercy out of or to evade an unpleasant In a lengthy explanation of the the 70-ycar-old judge told the jury it is not necessary to prove motive under Ohio And he explained that circumstantial evidence must be carefully Judge Bythin locked the doors of the small courtroom before beginning his Sheppard's two brothers and were in the j The defendant gave them a small ' smile as he stood waiting for this last legal act in his By TOM OCHILTREE London - Red China's Premier said today he will receive U. N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold in but left in doubt just how far he will go in discussing the ll imprisoned American i. Chou sent two communications to the United One denounced again the U. N. resolution of 10 which instructed to seek release of the imprisoned The other contained acceptance of proposal for a meeting The second as broadcast from the United States spies mentioned in your our position has been set forth in my other cable addressed to the interests of peace and relaxation of international 1 am prepared to receive you in our capital Peiping to discuss with you pertinent This seemed to say Red China had settled the case of the but was ready to talk about other These latter might include the question of seating Red China in the United Nations a question the U. N. General Assembly at its opening session this year decided to shelve for the remainder of the Red China stands as a convicted aggressor before the of its action in the Korean and also stands for its action in holding the American Hammarskjold instructed by the General Assembly to see what he could do about releasing the and he decided to make a trip to Peiping if Red China would invite He now has the There is some doubt whether he would be willing to discuss with Peiping any questions not covered in his the flier's But obviously if he goes to as he he would accept any communications the Red China regime desired to send to the United Hammarskjold Accepts Chou's Invitation to Visit Peiping Faubus Names Rogers Man to Head Military LITTLE ROCK Orval Faubus has named Lt. Col. Sherman T. dinger of Rogers to be next adjutant who will succeed Maj. Gen. Lucien Abraham of said Faubus gave him the with strings attached other than to run the office He now is executive officer of the 142nd Field Artillery Group of the Arkansas National Faubus also said he has but not received the posts of state Selective Service director to Lt. Col. Fred Croom of and asst. Adjutant General lo Maj. William C. Page of Forrest Petit Jury Named For U. S. Court The regular term of the January Circuit Court will convene in January 10. Petit jurors have been summoned for duty on the first Clyde Arthur Herbert Ernest A. R. Jack John Ross Alton Floyd Marvin Ralph L. Quinton Willard Noel Sugar T. D. Glen Mrs. Joe N. Elsie N. Mrs. Gene A. Ben Arvin Sidney Lucy Watkins Mrs. Hugh Bob Dean John Alternates - Troy C. Hugh Jones Troy Fred Doyle W. E. Roy Dwight W. L. Roy Aee Hodges Don Ever serve aple juice as an Make sure it is chilled and accompany it with a ham or cheese spread and Former Mental Patient Kills Grandmother CAPE MAY COURT N. J. Bodine a former mental was captured by a state trooper yesterday and admitted the slaying of his elderly The capture ended a nationwide hunt for the 29-year-old fireworks who had been sought since July in the fatal and shooting of Mrs. Ellen 78. State Police Lt. Claude Patterson said Scott talked freely about the both to the police and to reporters on the He told the newsmen he killed his grandmother because he didn't want her to sell their home at Lower N. J. - that he wanted the home for his The grandmother's by bullet and bayonet found in a Burlington County gravel pit last July 23. Police said she lived in fear of her and last was seen alive driving away from the Lower Bank home with Scott on July 18. SHOPPING I III C n I MAS Don't forget the Who serve you all the lack deserves some Goblins Meet i Little Rock Here Saturday j i The Harrison Goblins who lost their first game of the season last j night to Green Forest will be to the Little Rock Central high school Tigers Saturday I Little Rock has played two games j this losing their opener to j North Little Rock 49-48 and i ing Crossett last night by a score j of 74-48. The under coach rence utilize a fast break j and rebounding as j main offensive j In the Crossett Rock had five boys who score 10 j or more They were led by I one of their three returning Brooks who tallied 16 Wilson and were boys 1 who scored better than 10 Game lime here is 7:30 Saturday 1 A capacity crowd is Townspeople Are Questioned Husband Called in for Conference With Police By RAY STEPHENS Ark. - Milton 31-year-old husband of Mrs Sue who was beaten to death here early talked with police behind closed doors for two hours and 10 Fuller left and returned with a friend to the automobile agency which he operates with his He declined to talk with The headed by Prosecutor J. B. remained locked in the office of Chief of Police Frank it was the first time that Fuller has talked lo officers since telling how he found his brutally beaten wife lying unconscious on the floor of their Last night a steady procession of townspeople paraded into Die police station where they were questioned In the officers lo nine people - some of them more than once - this afternoon and Reed did say that some of were questioned merely lo corroborate Hie stories of people who had been questioned It was thai not a single man who has been held in jail for investigation in the case was questioned by officers Mrs. 25-year-old wife of auto Milton was beaten to death at her home early Sunday A chemical analysis of blood stains on a stick of stove wood determined that it was the death said He said a preliminary report of an examination of the stock by State Medical Examiner Dr. Anderson showed that the blood was - the same as was Mrs. The piece of wood is four feet long and weighs about five Police have said believe it was picked up by the killer al a barbecue pit in the rear of the Fuller Henderson has said that Mrs. Fuller probably was killed by a barefoot house Footprints found near the p i t and on the kitchen four of I he Fuller home indicate that the killer was The mother of two small was found lying unconscious on floor of the room she shared with her Fuller told police he was asleep on a living room couch at the lime of the found his after he was awakened by a Mrs. Fuller died two hours later without regaining The two Mary 5, and 18 were asleep in another Fuller told police that he got up earlier and drove downtown for the morning as was his He said he returned read papers and dropped off to sleep on the said one man who has been held for two days for questioning in the Samuel A. has been who was an inmate of an Illinois mental hospital for nearly six had no connection with the said the now on parole from a federal prison and working on a farm near was committed to I ho Illinois after he was indicted on a charge of first degree murder in the fatal healing of a woman al East He was released alter a court ruled that he was and the murder never was reinstated against Hewett still is being held in jail but Sheriff said he would not be released until u report on his is received Irom UNITED N. Y. - U. N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold today accepted an invitation for face to face talks with Red China's Chou in The secretary general acted less than four hours after he had received a cable from the Chinese Communist Premier saying Hammarskjold would be welcome if he wished to discuss questions related to world peace and international Although Chou did not agree to discuss the 11 American fliers jailed as Hammarskjold was understood to feel that such talks had not been ruled For this he without The exact date of departure for Peiping and for the talks was not but the secretary general intends to go as soon as arrangements can be worked The exchange of message grew out of a resolution adopted by the U. N. General Assembly last Friday condemning the Peiping regime for holding the fliers and directing the secretary general to do his best to win their Hammarskjold immediately sent off a cable proposing direct talks with He received two cables from the Communist leader this one denouncing the action as illegal and the other saying he would receive Hammarskjold for talks at a date to be decided upon by the secretary In reply sent two The first merely acknowledged the receipt of Chou's blast against the and informed Chou that the toeing circulated to U. N. The second acknowledge receipt of your cable No. 38 of 17 December concerning my proposal for a visit to I look forward to the of meeting In view of the necessary practical I am not yet in a position to fix a date for the arrival nor can I say definitely who will come with me. I may get an opportunity for the first contact some of these practical arrangements with your ambassador in A for Hammarskjold said he would leave at 6 p.m. tonight for according to previous spokesman said the secretary general also would definitely return to New York next Final arrangements for the trip will be made It was understood he would take several advisers with but it still had not been decided who they would In view of the bitter attack made by Chou on the Assembly action and also because of his failure to say specifically that he would discuss the case of the with there was some doubt at first as to whether the secretary general would accept his A spokesman was this morning how Hammarskjold interpreted the Chou but he declined to Other sources close to the secretary said the very fact that he was going to Peiping answered this These pointed out that the Assembly hud given Hammarskjold a mandate to seek release of the for this he was to press the Cooler ARKANSAS cloudy and colder this afternoon and Saturday fair und not so cold west Low tonight 22 northwest to 32 EXTENDED FORECAST December 17-21 ARKANSAS - degrees below N u r m tt I minima 3210 north and central und 40-49 extreme south maxima 50-50 north and central and extreme No important changes until colder luto and Precipitation light north lo moderate south Willi occasional rain likely u b o U ( Local far U High low 8
