Supreme Court Backs County Police Validity in Missouri
The Missouri Supreme Court upheld the validity of St. Louis County’s new county wide police force slated to begin operations Friday. The seven justice majority dismissed Attorney General Dalton’s suit at request of Ladue Police Chief Shepley, affirming the county board and superintendent as duly elected officials and allowing immediate implementation of the force July 1. Sheriff Moseley loses most law enforcement powers, retaining only civil process and jail duties. The decision hinges on whether sheriff and constables are county or state officers. the court says they are state officers performing governmental functions not removable by county charter. Continued on Page 2.
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Sherif Arthur Ci Moseley
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Shepley
County to Follow Plan for Vaccine Distribution
Dy. John S. Sennott, Gale County antipolio director, says the county will follow recommendations for second Salk polio vaccinations for children who already received the first dose. No first injections will occur in summer, and immunity from the first shot should reduce reactions after the second shot. State memo estimates Missouri will get more vaccine within a month or two, with plans to continue shots for already enrolled children once delivered.
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Gale County
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Missouri
State Department
Entrances To Capitol Grounds To Be Closed For Repairs
Police chief Louis G. Rackers says entrances to the Capitol Grounds will be roped off tomorrow for parking stall repairs and surface markings around the building. Motorists should avoid downtown traffic by leaving cars at home or leaving for work earlier than usual. work expected to take one day. In Warrensburg Missouri, Dr. Oscar Albert Marti, 72, associate professor emeritus at Central Missouri State College, died yesterday after a stroke while mowing his lawn.
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Louis G. Rackers
Rackers
Warrensburg
Oscar Albert Marti
Central Missouri State College
Weather outlook for Jefferson City and central Missouri
Moderate temperature shifts across Jefferson City and central Missouri with a cooler night and Wednesday. Overnight low near 40 degrees with lighter winds and partly cloudy skies expected.
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Missouri
Cole County Fair Book Details July Events and Officials
The 1955 premium book for the Jaycee Cole County Fair is distributed to rural routes and box holders with more copies to be sent in Jefferson City. The four day event in July lists chairmen and superintendents for shows, displays, concessions, grounds, dairy, swine, tractor parade, and junior fair activities led by general chairman David Haredson.
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Jefferson City
David Haredson
Dairy Festival Day Parade and Events Listed in Cole
The Dairy Festival Day schedule includes a parade with mounted animals bicycles farm implements and Maid of Milk candidates in open cars assembling at 10 30 am in front of St Peters Church moving along High Jackson Capitol and Jefferson streets. A cow milking contest attracts four old farm hands and a milk drinking contest runs in the Madison Street area with awards.
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Col
Hugh Waggoner
State Highway Patrol
Ralph N. Eidson
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Ben Markway
Cole County
Loren Gaffke
Missouri Dairy Association
L. C. Carpenter
A. N
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Maxine Nuiderhelman
Holly Summit
Farm Burea Service Co
Missouri Farm, Bureau Federation
Farm Bureau Insurance Co
Farmy Bureau Life Insurance Co
Elsa App Beck
Ambrose
Sue Garnett
Centertown
Marilyn Seibeneck
Jafferson City Dairy Couner
Virgina Mac Walther
Clue
Jira Mueller
Moreau Zend
Betty Jean Distler
Harmony Extension
Rosehelle Schellman
Farmland Home Estension Club
Missing Marine jet radio beacon spotted near Tokyo coast
A U S Marine search plane vanished three nights ago while tracking a missing jet. One aircraft was seen sending radio signals from a small ice raft about 125 miles south of Tokyo, prompting efforts to locate both vehicles and crews.
Railroad Brakeman Endorses Shorts for Work
Omaha dispatch recalls Edward Zeman a freight switch man who wears Bermuda shorts on the job. Co-workers laugh whistle and remark but Zeman says it does not bother him and he finds the look practical as he swapped his overalls for shorts due to heat.
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Edward Zeman
Widny
Federal Employees To Get Pay Hike
President Eisenhower signed a bill boosting pay for 1,073,262 federal workers by 74 percent, about 345 a year on average, retroactive to March 1. The measure costs roughly 328 million dollars annually, with lump sum retroactive payments. The last general raise was in 1951 for these workers.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Civil Service
Beat Down Vote Extends Doctors Draft By Large Margin
The Monae today beat down an attempt to kil the Doctors draft and cleared the way for extending it two more years. A roll call vote of 921 to 171 defeated Rep. Howard W. Smith proposal to send Wack to conference with a pac bill combining the medical draft with four seats on the regular draft. Witt, both acts expire at midnight June 0, Rep. Vinson said Smith’s proposal would halt the draft ing of west men and cut off allowance checks for military dependents.
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Group Endorses National Control of Civil Defense
The 25 member Commission on Intergovernmental Relations urged President Eisenhower to shift civil defense funding to state and local control. The panel urged withdrawal of federal taxes in some areas, increased federal aid curbed, and a state led reorganization of tax and administrative systems. It proposed a nationwide shift to a state administered highway program and called for Congress to transfer civil defense responsibilities from Washington to the states.
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Nmev Kestnbaum
Chicago
Hart Schaff
Drop Perjury Move Against Lattimore
Washington U U of the government decided today to drop attempts to try Owen Lattimore on perjury charges. Attorney Thurman Arnold declined comment as key counts were thrown out by the District and Appeals Courts, leaving five perjury counts uncertain to proceed. The seven-count indictment, issued in December 1952 under the previous administration, alleged Lattimore lied about his Communist affiliation.
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Brownell
Astee
Lattimore
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Hill
Johng Hopks
Turer
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Firework blast kills three at Springfield store
Flames from a fireworks explosion engulfed a Springfield store as three customers hid in a restroom. Victims identified as Mrs. CGA Click of Miller Mary Williams 11 Edith Williams 7. Employee Diane Dittrick 19 hospitalized after smoke inhalation. Authorities search for additional victims.
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CG. A. Click
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Edith Willliams
Linda
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Harold Weight
Consumers Warehouse Market
Pleasantly Warm Weather Forecast Across the Midwest
The Weather Bureau forecasts temperatures slightly below normal this week with light to moderate rainfall. Expect about an inch of rain in northwestern Missouri and around .25 inches in the southeast. Recent rainfall was sparse, though Joplin reported about two tenths of an inch and Springfield noted similar amounts.
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Joplin
Gardeners Urged to Use Spray and Bait for Grasshopper Control
County Extension Agent Hall reports gardeners encounter grasshopper damage. Recommend edge spraying and bait between rows using emulsifiable concentrates and toxaphene or chlordane, with caution about residue risk for crops harvested soon. Prepare water to thin mixtures and spread bait at one pound per thousand square feet, adding molasses as a sweetener.
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Rezoning Proposal Approved by Group
The City zoning commission approved a plan to rezone the southwest Clark Avenue and Ext Dunklin Street corner from two family to local commercial use. The action returns to the City Council for final steps including advertisement and a public hearing. The project plans a house removal, extension of a nearby store, and a 10 foot Clark Avenue strip donation to round the corner, with a parking lot replacing the razed structure.
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Clark Avenue
Dunklin Street
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Clark
Buses Mistakenly Take 4YearOld Steven in St Louis
In St Louis a four year old boy named Steven Cohen was told to wait for a yellow bus to a day camp. He boarded the wrong bus and spent the day at an unfamiliar camp before the mix up was resolved. The mother reported the incident to police as a search was conducted.
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Steven M. Cohen
Steven
Milton
Cohen
Brucellosis Control Bill Signed in Missouri
Gov. Paul M. Donnelly signed a bill creating a Brucellosis control program for Missouri cattle funded by a special appropriation and about $1 million in federal money. The plan offers free vaccine testing and veterinary service, requires slaughter of diseased cattle with indemnities, and uses a township approval mechanism for area plans. The ceremony included state officials and legislators. a related bill transfers Grain Warehouse Division duties to the Department of Agriculture.
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Paul M. Donnelly
Missouri
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L. C. Carpenter
Agricultor
A. Rosner
Ddr
Richard E. Omothundre
Department of Agriculture
Unter Carpenter
Little Hoover’ Commission
State Division of Workmen’s Compensation
Cibesa
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Select Jury Panel For Arson Case
A jury panel of 26 men and one woman has been called to hear the arson case against Mildred Sue Andrews, 37, scheduled to open tomorrow in Circuit Court. The panel lists 26 named men and one woman among potential jurors for the dormitory mattress fire at the Missouri State Penitentiary women’s branch in Ort, 195.
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Missouri State Penitentiary
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Paul Nave
Paul Gilmore
F. G. Balkenbol
H. L. Schneider
Joe: Lehman
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William Lisenbardt
Teq Adrain
Lawrence Bucsmeyer
LeRoy Wilbers
Edwin
Glenn Studebaker
Dulles Frames Geneva Peace Talks and German War Fears
In Bonn Chancellor Adenauer warns Parliament that Russians are preparing East German youth for civil war against West Germany, citing a 130,000 strong standing East German force trained by the Soviet Army. He argues for a short volunteers bill to raise 6,000 recruits for summer training as parliament clashed over civilian controls and safeguards against militarism.
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Dulles Sees German Division as World Problem at Geneva
Secretary of State Dulles warned that Soviet failure to discuss German unification at the Four Power summit would cast doubt on Soviet sincerity and jeopardize peace efforts. He urged talks on German unity at the Geneva summit, calling the division a global menace with seeds of greater evil.
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Convention Site Change Sought By City Council
A Missouri City Council recessed session approved moving the convention site from Miami to a city hall area, with four current owners willing to quit claim deed nearby property. The vote also authorized a Cottage Lane street improvement and directed the street committee to address a drainage issue at Stadium Drive NE. A 7-1 vote approved the street project after prior defeat.
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Resolution calls for relocate of Legion convention over hotel workers’ pay
The first of about 40 resolutions passed claims Miami hotel workers earn as little as 12 44 cents per hour for 70 to 12 hour weeks, with Seaborn Collins urged to move the October Legion convention to a city with better employee welfare. Delegates at the Governor Hotel push for widespread support and for unions to secure collective bargaining.
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Seaborn Collins
Indianapolis
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John J. Bellings
Afl-Cio
Jefferson City
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Pelice
Louis Racker
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Gene Gosch
Igosch
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Freedom Under God Urged for Sermons in Missouri
Gov. Phul Donnelix proclaims July 4 Independence Day in Missouri and urges citizens to attend church Sunday to revive the original spirit of American freedom Under God. Donnelly suggests clergymen spread sermons with the theme. State offices close Monday as a legal holiday.
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Phul Donnelix
Missouri
Hberry Donnelly
Indians Rally Past Athletics 7-5 Behind Six-Run Inning
The Cleveland Indians beat Kansas City 7-5 as a six-run second inning produced four unearned runs. Larry Doby hit a three-run homer in the frame while Mike Garcia earned his fourth win against nine losses in a game marked by defensive miscues by KC.
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