Daily American Republic from Poplar Bluff, Missouri (2024)

On The Record Hospitals Municipal Court Markets Mrs. Gertrude Elledge, Dexter. DOCTORS Mrs. Jeannie Pickard, Parma. Miss Tara Johnston, Puxico Miss Pamela Bolin, City.

Arce R. Curtis, Bloomfield Cecil Hedge, Kennett Mrs. Eva Waller, Des Arc Elmer Owens, Doniphan John Poston, Des Arc Laurence Thompson, Doniphan George Bridges, Corning Mrs. Grace Tessens, Bloomfield Edward Davis, City Jim Ermert, Corning, Ark. John McCain, Harviell Mrs.

Pearl Brown, Corning Mrs. Laveda Elmer, Gideon Miss Joyce Washburn, City Mrs. Luetta Alexander, Ellington Mrs. Dolly Cleaver, Campbell Mrs. Virginia Chadwick, City Carl Robertson, Lesterville Miss Chris Killebrew, Malden Mrs.

Elizabeth McKnight. City Released Calvin Gore, Elsinore Mrs. Sandra Middleton, Annapolis D. L. Thomas, City Mrs.

Shirley Looney, Neeyville Luther Price, Campbell Gary Shrum, Shook Mark Smith, City Ben Pulliam, City Mrs. Margie Bridges, Pollard, Ark. Mrs. Lulu Anthony, City Mrs. Lorene Reed, City Mrs.

Wilburn Michael, Malden Mrs. Reola Strong, City Mrs. Ruby Sanders, Dudley Mrs. Jean Shaffer, Campbell Mrs. Hassel Lawson, City Mrs.

Mary Newcomb, Neelyville Mrs. Deborah Sawyer, City Earl Janis, City Mrs. Ella M. McAlister, Malden LUCY LEE Admitted Mrs. Mildred E.

Pierce, City Mrs. Betty L. Scott, Neelyville Kevin L. Clark, City Charles L. Thies, City Mrs.

Minnie E. Miller, City Benjamin, Kirk, Bernie Mrs. Mary L. Cooper, Campbell Mrs. Lucinda Rutledge, City Mrs.

Olive Godwin, City James F. Goggins, City John A. Tipton, City Bill J. Duck, Dexter Released Mrs. Connie V.

Vaughn, City Mrs. Anna Smith, Puxico Fred L. Cochran, Puxico Mrs. Vernice Gillis, City Mrs. Mary L.

Lingle, Campbell James E. Demaris, City Ira R. Franks, Qulin Mrs. Christine A. Barker, City Earl W.

Parkin, City Ronnie George, City Vader F. Ridge, Dexter Mrs. Stella Smith, City Mrs. Beatrice Ellison, City Mrs. Marian L.

Piper, Van Buren POPLAR BLUFF Admitted Roy R. Baker, Clarkton Mrs. Anna L. Black, Success, Ark. James Bryant, Sikeston Mrs.

Orpha L. Caldwell, Puxico John William Eddy, Fisk Charley M. Elledge, Wappapello Mrs. Opal Greer, City Evertt Killian, Sikeston Baby William Allen Loftis, Qulin Gary Dale Moore, City Mrs. Vera Lacy Neeley, Qulin Mrs.

Sheria P. Stinson, Dexter Olaf D. Switzer, City Released Andrew H. Bedwell, Campbell Fay Burch, Dexter Mrs. Dollie M.

Emerson, City Gina M. Ferrante, Qulin Oscar W. Hanco*ck, City Minnie C. McGuire, Malden Everett Pennington, City Oscar W. Thornton, City Ed Wilson, City Two Hurt Two persons were hurt in an accident at 12:30 p.m.

Wednesday on an unmarked sand road four miles east of East Prairie. The State Highway Patrol said the accident occurred when a 1969 Datsun coach, driven west by Harold Bryars, 24. Charleston, and a 1965 GMC twoton truck driven north by James Edward Smith, 26, Route 1, East Prairie, came into an unmarked intersection at the same time. Officers said the Bryars auto was struck in the side by the Smith truck. Bryars incurred a possible fracture of the right arm.

brusies and abrasions and his wife, Patricia, received bruises and abrasions. They were taken to St. Mary's Hospital in Cairo Death Notices -ROY WOODSRoy Woods. 83. of East Prairie, died Sunday in a Charleston nursing home.

He was the father of Mrs. Butell Stagner and Mrs. Lorine Vickery, both of Poplar Bluff. Born in 1889 in Lake County, Mr. Woods moved from Tennessee to East Prairie in 1930.

He was a retired farmer and a member of the Baptist Church. His wife, the former Pearl Cox, died in 1968. In addition to his daughters named above. survivors are: sons. Neal Woods of East Prairie, and James R.

Woods of New York. N. daughters, Mrs. Ola Virginia Ledbetter of Bethpage, N. Mrs.

Alma Lou Hydrick of Detroit, Mrs. Thelma Geraldine Buttery of St. Louis. Mrs. Ona Wilford of Barlow.

and Mrs. Bertie Sterling of East Prarie; a brother, Talmage Woods of East Prairie: 46 grandchildren, 62 great -grandchildren and five great -great -grandchildren. The funeral for Woods was at 2 p. m. Wednesday in the McMikle Funeral Chapel at East Prairie and burial was in the Dogwood Cemetery there.

LESTER McFADDEN Piedmont- Lester W. McFadden. 74, of Rt. 3, died Wednesday in the Doctors hospital where he had been a patient four days. A life-long resident of Wayne County, Mr.

McFadden was born Sept. 18. 1897 near Leeper. He was a farmer and a member of the Shady Nook Baptist Church since Oct. 4, 1914.

On Oct. 26, 1921 he married Frances Hill and she survives. Other survivors are: sons, Frank, Floyd and James McFadden, all of Piedmont, and Charles McFadden of Bridgeton; daughters, Mrs. Evelyn Gowen Piedmont, and Mrs. Robin of St.

Louis: sisters. Mrs. Ollie Manns of Mill Spring, and Mrs. Minnie Roberts of Piedmont: a brother, Ira McFadden of Oroville, 21 grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren. The funeral for Mr.

McFadden will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday in the Gish-Bowles-Coder Main St. Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Orla Parker will officiate and burial will be in the Allwood Cemetery.

REBECCA DeBERRY- Mrs. Rebecca Louise DeBerry, 83, of Bloomfield died Tuesday in a St. Louis Hospital. Born Feb. 6.

1888 in Hardin County, Mrs. DeBerry had resided in Stoddard County for several years and was a member of the First Baptist Church. Her husband. William Robert DeBerry died last March 14. Surviving are: sons, Deloice DeBerry of Savannah, Warden DeBerry of Pine Beach, Hugh DeBerry of Indianapolis, Rex DeBerry of Tacomas: and Bobby DeBerry a daughter, Mrs.

Johnnie Northcutt of Bloomfield; brothers, Samp and Ward Burris, both of Savannah; sisters, Mrs. Esther Nance and Mrs. Exie Grimes, both of Clifton. and several grandchildren. The funeral for Mrs.

DeBerry will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday in the Rainey Funeral Chapel at Dexter. Burial will be in the Bloomfield Cemetery. MURRAY PENNIE Harviell- Mrs. Pennie Murray, 70.

died at 7:55 p.m. Wednesday in the Doctors hospital. She had been ill about a year. Born Aug. 14, 1901 at Williamsville Mrs.

Murray had resided in Butler County most of her life. She married Charles Murray on April 6, 1921 and he died in 1955. Surviving are: daughters, Mrs. Velma Hendrickson of Poplar Bluff, and Mrs. Lavina Hager of Dexter; brothers, Ira and Lennis Hedspeth, both of Williamsville: sisters, Mrs.

Millie Tinker of Williamsville. and Mrs. Iva Kearbey and Mrs. Neva Blackwell, both of Poplar Bluff: four grandchildren and one great -grandchild The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Harviell Baptist Church.

The Rev. Robert Edwards will officiate and burial will be in the Kinsey Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 3 p.m. Friday in the Cotrell Funeral Home CHARLES WHEELER Charles Wheeler Hampton, 63, of St. Louis.

died Wednesday Surviving are: his wife. Amy; three children: sisters. Mrs. Ruby Russell of Poplar Bluff. Mrs.

Dollie Seal of Piedmont. and Mrs. Erma Fogeback of St. Louis: and a brother. Melvin Hampton of Piedmont.

The funeral will be: at 10:30 am Saturday in the Hoffmeister Funeral Home in St Louis Graveside rites will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Masonic Cemetery in Piedmont Hirsch Firm Plans Sellout At Brokerage P. N. Hirsch who recently purchased the 20-store Kolbrener Brokerage chain, has announced that the local store at 119 South Main will be converted into a P. N.

Hirsch Co. junior department store. In order to dispose of all Brokerage merchandise on hand. a "Sellout" sale will be held beginning at 9 a. in.

on Thursday, Feb. 10. Regular store hours will prevail. P. N.

Hirsch who now operate a total of 233 stores, has general offices and a warehouse in St. Louis, Missouri. Another warehouse is in Vandalia, Illinois. Abuying office, headed by a member of the firm, is in the garment center of New York City. While the great majority of stores are in the Midwest, other divisions of the Hirsch company operate out of Mobile, Abilene.

Texas and Caldwell. Idaho. Firemen Find Youth's Body Shot, Burning ST. LOUIS (AP) Police were searching today for a motive in the death of a teen-ager who was shot in the head and set afire Wednesday. Kenneth Sylvester Skelton, 19, died at City Hospital about two hours after firemen responding to an alarm found him ablaze in a second-floor apartment.

door It was not immediately determined whether the gunshot wounds or third-degree burns over 100 per cent of his body caused Skelton's death. Police said Skelton had been covered with newspapers. His clothing was being tested to determine whether a flammable liquid was used. Firemen said there was little damage to the building where Skelton was found. Bees and wasps kill more people than any other animal.

In the United States they have killed at least 200 people in the last 10 years. Baily Ameriran Republic Thursday, February 3, 1972 Poplar Bluff, Mo. Page 2 Priest Honored For Service To Well-Child Clinic Ona Whittenburg, 2700 block Shady Lane paid $20 fine on speeding charge. James D. Forrest, 1900 block Iowa, forfeited $15 bond for failure to have license plate and $15 for failure to have operator's license.

Jack Wooton, 300 block Neat, forfeited $28 bond for peace disturbance. Mike Montgomery, 600 block Cynthia paid $20 fine for speeding. Marion West, Rt. 1, forfeited $20 bond on speeding charge. Eugene Lampkin, 600 block Lexington, forfeited $30 bond for careless and reckless driving.

H. W. Sullivant, Bearden, paid $20 fine for speeding. Ralph H. Welter, Overland Park, paid $20 fine for speeding.

Gerald Jiles, 300 block of Vaden, forfeited $20 bond on speeding charge. Police Reports Thieves made an attempt to steal a 1967 Mustang of James M. Bond, 920 Garfield, at 1:40 a. m. today.

They rolled the car down a hill at the rear of the Veterans Hospital. They were attempting to rewire the car when the security guard came up on them. They fled. Police are seeking the driver of a car that knocked three mail boxes down in the 1400 block of Barron Road. Terry W.

Allen, 2037 Earl, received injuries to right knee and ribs when his motorcycle was in a collision Tuesday with a car at Vine and 6th. It was reported first that Evelia Young, Dexter, driver was injured. Allen was treated at the Lucy Lee Hospital. Fire Alarms Firemen received a call to 201 So. at 10:51 Wednesday and one to 1114 So.

Broadway at 12:31 a. m. today. Both turned out to be false alarms. Births LUCY LEE HOSPITAL ELSWORTH: Mr.

and Mrs. Roy C. Elsworth of Fisk are the parents of a 7-pound girl, born at 10:47 a.m. Wednesday. SCOTT: A 6-pound girl was born at 3:10 p.m.

Wednesday to Mr. and Mrs. Windle A. Scott of Neelyville. Information On Road Conditions Phone Call Away Missourians now can get the latest highway information simply by dialing the telephone, Director of Highways Thomas A.

David announced today. The new service is supplied by Code-A-Phone operated by the Highway Department's Division of Public Information. David said the Code-A-Phone was put in use, on a trial basis. primarily for the benefit of radio and television news media throughout the state. But it is also available to the general public, and should be particularly valuable in time of inclement weather.

During bad weather, road reports will be available by calling Area Code 314-636-5618. Callers will hear a pre-recorded message, varying in length. The reports will be changed as frequently as road and weather conditions change. The service will be available 24 hours each day. As a further service to news media.

the Public Information Division will utilize the Code-A-Phone on weekends to provide news stories of general interest. The audio service is handled by former broadcasters and will be tailored especially for on-theair use. Clothing Center Fisk A clothing center operated by the Office of Economic Opportunity and located in the Fisk City Hall has been moved to the 0.E.0. Neighborhood Service Center here. according to Mrs.

Ann Gwinn. A limited supply of clothing for emergency aid to families whose members may he victims of fire losses. or other disasters. is still available, Mrs. Gwin said.

Persons in need are invited to call her at the Neighborhood Center. Telephone 967-3524 NATIONAL STOCKYARDS. Ill. (AP) Estimate receipts for Friday: 5,000 hogs. 200 cattle and 100 sheep.

Hogs butchers lower, sows uneven, under 500 lb steady lower, over 500 lb steady to 25 higher; 1-2 200- 230 lb butchers 26.25-75; 1-3 200- 260 lb butchers 25.50-26.25, 1-3 300-350 lb sows 22.00-23.00: 350- lb 22.00-50; 500-600 lb 22.25-75; boars 21.75, under 350 lb 19.00-20.00. Cattle 1100; cows steady to strong, bulls steady, not enough other classes to test market; commercial cows 21.50-23.50, us 3 224.00; utility 21.50-24.00; high dressing holsteins 24.25-50, cutter 20.00-22.50; canner 18.00- 20.00; not enough calves to test market. Sheep 150; slaughter lambs fully steady: choice 100 lb shorn slaughter lambs with fall shorn pelts 30.50. Grain Livestock Chicago AP Grain futures prices were mixed in early dealings on the Chicago Board of Trade today, but soybeans were higher. On the opening, wheat was 1 cent a bushel to 3 higher, March 1.58½2; corn was unchanged to higher, March 1.22; oats were 3 lower, May 72 cents and soybeans were to higher March 3.16½.

Wall Street NEW YORK (AP) Stock market prices gave up an early modest gain and slipped lower today. Trading slowed from its early active pace. The noon Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks dropped 1.80 to 904.05. Declines held a small lead over advances on the New York Stock Exchange. Analysts attributed the decline to profit taking especially among the blue chips.

They noted there was still some selective buying interest in lower priced issues. Levitz Furniture was delayed again in opening the Big Board. The stock was last traded Monday at off 17. The Big Board Wednesday impose ecial initial 100 per cent uej on the stock as of today. The role of the mutual fund industry in the previous sharp rise of the stocks price is being investigated by the New York State attorney general's office, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Big Board.

Oils were up. Rails, airlines, and aircrafts were off. All other stock categories were mixed. Reds Ask Continued From Page One meanwhile, that Le Due Tho, Hanoi's chief peace negotiator, will be in Peking when President Nixon is there, raising the prospect that he and presidential adviser Henry Kissinger will resume their talks on the various peace proposals in the Chinese capital. The Saigon sources, quoting diplomats in Laos, said Tho plans to stop in Peking on Feb.

20 on his way back to Paris from Hanoi. Nixon is scheduled to arrive Feb. 21, accompanied by Kissinger. Nguyen Van Tien, the deputy leader of the Viet Cong delegation. told the 143rd session of the Paris talks today that the Viet Cong "does not accept" President Nixon's eight -point peace proposal, which Kissinger presented to Tho last Oct.

11 and which Nixon made public last week. It was the clearest statement yet of the Communist attitude toward Nixon's plan. Donald Green Given Prison Term For Escape Donald Melvin Green. 20. of the 1600 block of Willow.

was sentenced to two years in the Department of Corrections after he entered a plea of guilty to a charge of escapir2 from the Butler County Jail Green. who has been in jail since October 6 on the charge. was allowed jail tune. He was sentenced by Circuit Judge Rex Henson The incident necurred on September 30 A burglary charge which had also been filed against Green was dismissed br the proscention KUNIGUNDE PUTZEL Mrs. Kunigunde Putzel, 78.

of 1100 W. Davis died at 10:15 a.m. Wednesday in the Doctors Hospital. Born Feb. 19, 1893 in Nuremberg.

Germany, Mrs. Putzel moved to the United States in 1938. She moved to Poplar Bluff two years ago from St. Louis. On June 11.

1923 she married Paul Putzel in Nuremberg and he survives. Others survivors are: a son. Max Putzel of Gary, a daughter, Mrs. William Jackson Jr. of Poplar Bluff; four sisters; and four grandchildren.

The body will be taken to the Valhalla Chapel of Memories in St. Louis. The Cotrell Funeral Home was in charge of local arrangements. The family asks memorials be made to the Three Rivers Community College scholarship fund. fund.

Services For Mother Of Mrs. Bud Wetmore Mr. and Mrs. Frank "Bud" Wetmore have returned from Bedford, Iowa where funeral services for Mrs. Wetmore's mother, Mrs.

Howard Wolverton, were conducted Monday. Mrs. Wolverton, 91, died last Thursday following a lingering illness. Burial was at Bedford. Survivors include three daughters, Mrs.

Wetmore, a secretary at the Poplar Bluff Chamber of Commerce, Mrs. Edna Lacy of Bedford and Mrs. L. E. Morgan of Topeka, Kansas and a son, Paul Wolverton of Bedford, Iowa.

U. S. Continued From Page One ed $250 million for emergency relief in South Asia during the present year but the House of Representatives has appropriated only $175 million. Administration aides testifying before the Senate subcommittee on refugees Tuesday said deliveries of U.S. supplies and food have continued since before the Indian-Pakistan war.

Frank L. Kellogg, special assistant to the Secretary of State William P. Rogers for refugee and migration affairs, says there will be a question of additional refugee problems generated as the current political situation settles down in the subcontinent. Kellogg estimates two million to 2.5 million non-Bengalis are still in Bangladesh. These people, foreigners hated by Bengali residents, have not yet been declared refugees.

They include Muslims from Bihar in India and other minority groups. There are 30,000 West Pakistanis stranded in Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan. In addition, 400,000 Bengalis in West Pakistan want to return to Bangladesh. In India, the latest figure is that more than six million of the estimated 10 million refugees from Bangladesh have crossed the border to re-establish themselves in their hometowns. The United States has approved a U.N.

request to make food and other supplies for refugees in India available for these persons inside Bangladesh. The U.S. government has contributed $90.9 million in food and cash for assistance to refugees. U.S. voluntary agencies have added $10.7 million in cash and supplies such as clothing, medicine and shelter materials.

In addition, the United States provided a total of $158.3 million worth of humanitarian assistance to help Bangladesh recover from flood, cyclone and civil strife. Most of these funds have been delivered. The U.S. contribution compares with worldwide aid through the United Nations of $300.08 million made by 59 governments and voluntary agencies in 14 countries and from five international voluntary agencies and four U.N. organizations.

Daily American Republic POPLAR BLUFF PRINTING COMPANY 206 Poplar Street Poplar Bluff, Missouri 63901 Telephone 785-1414 Published Daily (Monday thru Saturday) Second Class Postage Paid at Poplar Bluff, Missouri SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Carrier Delivery: City of Poplar Bluff $1.70 Month Payable in Advance Other Towns. $1.70 Month Motor Subscription $5.00 -3 Months By Mail: Effective MAY 1 1971 Butter and Adjoining Counties: 1 Year $13.00 6 Months 7.50 3 Months 4.50 Elsewhere in Missouri and Arkansas 1 Year $19.00 6 Months 10.50 3 Months 6.50 All Other States: 1 Year $24.00 6 13.00 3 Months 7.50 Members of two sponsor organizations honored Dr. F. F. Priest upon his retirement Tuesday from the Well-Child Clinic.

The Women's Citizenship Club, and Junior Citizenship Club recognized Dr. Priest for seven years as examining physician for the WellChild Clinic. The clinic provides health care for preschool children of low families. The program has been in operation for over 20 years. Mrs.

Robert Powell, president of the Junior Citizenship Club, presented Dr. Priest with a gift of appreciation following his last. clinic Tues. Richard McNece, director of the Butler County Health Center, also presented a gift to Dr. Priest.

MR. HARRY SMITH will he here FEB. 4th 5th to present our line of custom tailored clothes from CINCINNATI This line consists of hundreds of outstanding fabrics from the world's great mills. including the fabulous new doubleknits. 'The styling ranges from the classics to the latest designer creations for the look of elegance.

MYRON PAUL CHRISTIAN ARNOLD This adds up to a truly fine value on clothes designed exclusively for you at prices no (lude Reed: greater garments. than you'd expect to pay for good stock MAN'S STORE S. Main St. -Downtown Poplar Bluff STEVENS We Buy Direct We Sell Direct 14- Pass the Savings Sparkling Solitaire CONCERTO on to You! Our ability to sell diamonds for less is not mere chance it is the result of our buying direct from the diamond cutters. Through buying direct, we eliminate the Importer-Jobber.

This savings enables us to sell diamonds for LESS! 14K 'Young Moderns' New ultramodern high-rise setting lifts the solitaire to new MR. and MRS. heights new beauty new Wedding Bands brilliance $8800 new luxury $19995 14K DELPHINE 7 Blazing Diamonds HI 14K 14K LENORA Lovely Solitaire Luxurious Solitaire Trio-of-Love Flashing DIPLOMAT MA Diamond Perfect ensemble for the Double Ring Ceremony 14 ALL 3 14-K RINGS $9995 enlarged illustrations 5 Sparkling MARGRET Diamonds Diamonds are our business Not a sideline! STEVENS Jewelry is Your Credit 103 No. Main St. Good Telephone 785-2528 -USE IT!.

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