Franklin County Tribune (Union, MO), 1954-12-31

              Frank County N BUNE THE MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN FRANKLIN COUNTY VOL 89 No. 44 Established in the Year 1865 UNION, FRANKLIN COUNTY. MISSOURI, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1954 Fiscal Report Shows Growth of Missouri Taxes Increased A'lso Federal fir State Grants To Counties A wealth of information showing Missouri state government's fiscal growth from the days when It administered only three miles of roads down to the present- when it administers more than 21,000 miles from the horse-and-buggy era to present motorized times Is contained in a handbook released by Missouri Public Expenditure Survey today. The handbook, compiled by the tax research group as a reference for legislators, officials and others Interested in state government provides fiscal information from many official governmental sources in convenient form. It is believed to be the first compilation of its kind dealing with Missouri state government. Information in the pocket-sized compilation includes: Missouri's working age population increased only dhe per cent during the last decade while pre-school age population increased 37.4 per cent and population aged 65 and over increased 25.1 per cent. In 1938 the sales tax, comprising 22.8 per cent of the total, provided the largest amount of money for state government. Today grants from the federal government are the largest single source providing 30.9 per cent of the total. . ; Missouri has appropriated a greater total from general revenue for the ten years following World War II than it did during the previous 124 years since it became a state in 1821. - i In 1926-27 Missouri had 585,460 pupils in overage attendance. .In public school : and 24,754 teachers. In 1052 53there were 553,121 pupils in average daily attendance and . 25,687 teachers. State 'nd federal payments for public school purposes in Missouri last biennium totalled $110,970,673. . The one-third of state general revenue for public schools increased from $3,497,724 in 1934 to $46,074,-537 in 1954. Since 1939 the Department of Correction, which includes ; the penitentiary, has shown only a fraction of the increase in expenditures shown by every other major department.Total old age assistance expenditures have grown from $4,430,926 in 1936 to $77,392,-716 for fiscal 1953. f Aid to dependent children has risen from $1,475,136 In 1938 to $14,691,728 in fiscal 1953.'-.' The 16,387 motor vehicles registered in Missouri in 1911 had grown to 1,375,155 at the : end of 1953. In 1925 gasoline tax receipts were $4,234,070. In fiscal 1954 . . they totalled $41,116,792. . In 1933 total state revenues amounted to $73,769,951. During the last fiscal year they amounted to $345,910,549. Christmas Seal Sale Returns Still Coming There's still time to send in your contribution to the Franklin County Tuberculosis Association, O. E. Burke, Christmas Seal Sale chairman, said today. Responses to Christmas Seal letters ; have been coming into headquarters during the past month, and receipts now total $1797.99 from 1700 contributors. Approximately 44 of the letters sent out in November Lave been answered. CITY HALL NEWS Report on 1954 As you well know, the City of Union is a municipal corporation. The mayor and board of aldermen are in charge of this business which is operated solely for the purpose of governing and rendering services to the citizens who' have shares in this corporation. So as the year 1954 nears its end, this report is made in order that the citizens of Union may know what their city government has done for them during the past twelve months. The Year 1954 Saw A suggestion being made to the Board by a number of business men that a two-hour parkins limit be enforced around the court house square; ing for a "PerpetutT' care cemetery runa"; city officials attending a' FranUin County Municipal League meeting In (Continued to Page 7) Union Electric Pays $167,840.66 County Taxes A check in the amount of $167,-848.66 was paid during December to the county collector of Franklin County by Union Electric Company. This payment covers the 1954 taxes on real estate, personal property and distributable property owned by the company in Frankiin County and represents an increase of $14,111.83 over the payment in 1953. Of the total, $98,674,36 went for school taxes an increase of $12,855.91 over 1953. This is by far the largest tax paid by anyone in Franklin County.Hews of the Circuit Court A suit to set aside a foreclosure was filed in circuit court on Dec. 28 by David H. and Norah E. Easter against R. W. Vieman, Ed ward J. Wolff and the Bank of Bourbon. Charging that Vieman, trustee, refused to permit , the plaintiffs to bid on a piece of land in ,the Fairview Tract near Sullivan they also claim that he should have sold only enough of it to satisfy a mortgage held by the Bank of Bourbon and not the whole tract. They state in their petition that the land sold for $3,840.18 and its real value is $7,000 or more. Only other suit filed the past week was one for divorce, Rosann Tucker vs. Charles D. Tucker. A jury which heard a damage suit on Dec. 22 awarded $1,450 damages to the plaintiff, Hazel Brown in her action against Shirley Ann Priest of Indianapolis. The plaintiff had asked $15,000 damages for an auto accident which occurred on Highway 68 near Stanton on March 14. Change of venue to Gasconade County was granted in a damage suit filed by Marvin F. Rice against Fred H. Hanneken. A decree in divorce was granted to Mamie Hassler on her cross bill in a suit filed by Hubert Q. Hassler. The plaintiffs petition was dismissed rpnd custody of a minor child and $25 attorney's fee were awarded the defendant. . The following cases were passed to January . Session Day for resetting: Phillip H. Mancuso vs. Robert Gilbert and Enis R. Pel-lescki; .Stanley Elder vs. Francis Phillips and Catherine Peirick vs. Emma Peirick. Frank Lee Wiggins of Mountain View paid dearly for an effort to avoid overweight ' charges. Driving his truck along the Moselle Road instead of the usual route along the highway past the weight station, he jack-knifed the truck while trying to cross a bridge and tied up oil traffic on the road. He entered a plea of guilty to obstructing traffic and was fined $200. Saddest part of the -whole story was revealed when the truck was weighed and found to be within the legal limit. Roy H. Pierson of lamar was fined $100 on his plea of guilty to operating a truck under improper registration. Pierson was found to be using a license Issued on replacement to another firm. Robert W. Buel of St. Louis paid $1 and Robert Lee Watson of Jop-lin, $10 for having improper registration. Curtiss G. Marbut of Vernoa and Walter Breckenridge of Mitchell, Iowa, were each fined $25 for driving without a Missouri Public Service permit Phillip H. Realmuto of Springfield, stopped for overweight, was found to be driving without a Public Service permit and fined $10 for the first offense and $50 for the second. Other overweight fines of $25 were assessed against Melvin A. Redeker of Brumright, Okla., and Paul H. Harvey of Seminole, Okla. Marvin R. Swidler of Worcester, Mass., paid $5 and Eugene A. Maples of Rosebud and Cecil H. Combs of Chickasha, Okla., each paid $25 for careless and reckless driving an ordinance passed provid COUNTY SCD HAS MONTHLY MEETING The Franklin County Soil Con servation District board of super visors held their regular monthly meeting at Union last Monday. The board approved .. applica tions for new district cooperators CONTAINERS Cfflllu) ftiTTuT) mmt I (SmSSD (iiitiiiD ill ii'$ii I 1 Wit :?'! fj?i I - II - I , ,1, , The Union Jayceet have donated four trash container to the City of Union. This is project of the Jaycee to keep the street "Utter free." Two were placed on the north side of the court house square and one each on the west and east aide. In the picture above, left to right, Clarence Eckeikamp, Ralph Smith, eeoond vice president. Wm. C. Jones, city clerk. Oscar Lamokia. street commissioner, fteinhard Bchroeder, mayor, nhr. fiauche, In genuine appreciation of yoor friendly cooperation in the past year, and in the sincere hope that we will serve you better in the coming twelve months, we send our sincere wishes that each and every one of our friends will enjoy all good cheer and happiness in the coming NEW YEAR! FRANKLIN COUNTY TRIBUNE for Wilbert Scheer of New Haven, Otto Altholz of Union and Roscoe D. Schmidt of Sullivan according to Henry Blesi, chairman of the board. Basic conservation plans have been developed during the month by August Stuesse of Beaufort and Aloys Lenau of Union. The Franklin County Soil Dis- DONATED BY UNION JAYCEES Jayceet president, and Sari Orr, I trict is entered in the St. Louis Globe Democrat Soil Conservation Contest. The board filled out ther , accomplishment report as the year ends the end of December. Last ' year Franklin District was area winner for this part of the state which includes : East Central Missouri. parting meter policeman. :4 GOVERNOR DESIGNATES JANUARY AS MARCH OF DIMES MONTH Governnor Phil M. Donnelly Wednesday designated January as March of Dimes month in Mis souri. The Governor called upon the generosity of every citizen to hasten victory over polio, noting that county polio chapters in Mis souri spent over $720,000 last year for patient aid. :- . The Governor pointed to the need for continued medical care and financial assistance by more than 2,500 polio patients in the State. The campaign, which pro vides revenue for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, wilt be conducted January 3-31. "Scientists -working under March of Dimes research grants are bringing new knowledge to man's side in the fight against polio," the Governor stated, "and have developed a trial polio vaccine which is now being evaluated and stockpiled for use in 1093, if licensed." . The Governor observed that programs of patient aid, polio prevention, research, and profession al education will require an esti mated national sum of Kt.000,000 during 1955. The IBM campaign last January raised $59,000100 and the emergency March of Dimes In August, nearly $13,000,000. In Missouri during 1954, four teen iron lungs and Mr rocking beds were rushed to hospitals to meet patient needs. Independent Farmers Petition University for Sponsorship of Coqty Agent Action Taken In Effort To Forestall Possible Closing of Extension Offices in Fronklin County January 1 Union Stores Open New Year's Eve Until 7 Union stores will remain open New Year's Eve until 7 o'clock. The usual schedule calls for the Union stores to remain open each Friday evening until 8: 00. The change to 7 o'clock Is made because of the holiday. flews of the ourt The court ordered the hospitalization of Oscar Sprick at St. Francis Hospital. The treasurer was ordered to reimburse C. F. Halligan $291.16 which represents the overplus from the sale of mining rights for back taxes and now redeemed. The following erroneous assessments were ordered corrected: Bernard Spaunhorst, Washington; Harold and Eileen Walkenhorst, New Haven; Harold Walkenhorst, New Haven; R. It Haase, Gerald. The following accounts, were allowed: St. Francis Hospital, hos pitalization of Harry Dave Stew art, $82.50; Firmn Desloge Hos pital, professional services for county indigents, $9.00; Eaton Funeral Home, ambulance service, $20.00; Presbyterian Home for Children, care of county orphans for December, $55.00; R. O. Miller Nursing Home, uare of indigents, $48.98; St. Francis Hospital, hospitalization of indigent, $55.00; Franklin County Tribune, supplies for county officials, $279.85; Printing Service Co., supplies for assessor, $15.75; Skinner & Kennedy Co., supplies for county clerk, $8.61; The Miller press, supplies for magistrate, $14.95; Keuffcl & Esser1 Co., supplies for surveyor, $3.7; Elkins-Swycrs Co., supplies for sheriff and treasurer, $86.85; Buxton' & Skinner Co., supplies for county clerk, $3.44; Union Furniture Co,,, supplies for courthouse, $23.40. The following miscellaneous accounts were allowed: Edwin Hoe-mann, probate judge, expenses for ,1954, $72.40; M.F.A. Mutual Insurance Co., premium for county equipment, $19.20; Hubert W. Jones, bounty on one wolf, $15.00; Hall Brothers Lumber Co., lumber for county shed bins, $626.28; Otto Schomberg, treasurer, costs in criminal caseState vs. Robert Roland Stevens, $8.50; Eli Muench, repairs at Union ' Rest Home, $43.60; John H. Lamke, bounty on one wolf, $15.00; Mrs. John. Wieda, care, of dependent child for December, $38.00; Mrs. Bertha Doyle, care of child, $10.00; ; (Continued to Page 7) Saves School Girl from Certain Death A Beaufort school girl is alive today because of the heroic action of Edwin Segclhorst of Beaufort who snatched her from the path of two oncoming cars after she had been struck by another and thrown onto the highway. She is Rhonda Hoelters, daughter of 'Mr. and Mrs. James Hoelters of Beaufort, a fourth grade pupil who was leaving school for the Christmas holidays. As she stepped onto the highway to cross in front of the school she was struck by a 1950 Pontiac car driven by Philip Gartner of New .York who was travelling west with his wife. - t Edwin Segelhorst saw her burled Into the opposite lane of the highway right in the path of two cars driving east at a great speed. In matter of seconds he reached the child and dragged her to safety. So close were the cars that they ran over his cap which fell to the highway as he reached for the little girl. Neither of the cars stopped. The child escaped with minor bruises and injuries. Delegation To Seek Oil Road for Highwoy "IT All persons Interested in getting Highway tr in Franklin Counfy oiled from Beaufort to Sullivan are InvHed to go to a meeting before the State Highway Commission In Jefferaon City, January 4. The meeting will begin at 9 in. Cart T. Webber. Franklin County Representative, will head the delegation. Oil has been ordered for Highway "IT" from Beaufort to Noser's Mill from Sullivan to Japan. The Frankln County Extension Association, an independent group of farmers and business men, some members of the M.F.A, some members of the Farm Bureau, and some not members of any farm group, through its secretary, Walter F. Brunjes, of Villa Ridge, has petitioned Missouri , University for the opportunity to sponsor Extension Work in Franklin County. As a major basis, the letter quotes "findings' by Curator Wm. P. Elmer after a hearing in Union that:.,"; , . ... ,.. 1. Cal Burgett did nothing wrong. 2. That the Franklin County Farmers Association limited 4-H work...;., , j ;V,. 3. The Franklin County Farmers Association did wrong when they asked for an agent sympathetic to cooperative , purchasing and marketing. L 4. Franklin County people want a sponsor that is non-oommerciaL 5. The newly organized Franklin County Extension Association is qualified to act as sponsoring agent. . k. fi' '.-.; The contract . with , Missouri University for the sponsorship of Extension Work expires Dec. 31, 1954. During the past week, new contracts have been drawn up by the University and important changes made. No longer may an agent be tired without a hearing or opportunity to state his case. No longer will J. W. Burch, Extension director, . have authority to hire or fire county agents. Under the new contracts the vice president of the University and president of the sponsoring group sign the contracts. The new contract between the University and the sponsoring groups for 1953 definitely grew out of the firing, f Cal Burgett and seek to prevent suoh disagreements and contusion as have existed in FrankUh County since last ApruV ; v- , So far, the University baa taken no action in selecting a sponsoring group for Extension Work in Franklin County, la lieu of the new contracts or agreements for Extension work now submitted in every county In Missouri, it is hard to understand how the contract with the MTAs could possibly be renewed; If the University should renew . the old M.F-A. contract it ' is doubtful whether the County Court would appropriate one cent for the operation of the offices. The court based its past actions on the knowledge that the Franklin County Farmers' Association is in fact acting for the M.FJ. in that M.FA. membership is required for everyone belonging to the sponsoring group; that the M.F.A. system of collecting dues does not conform to the statutory requirement that all sponsoring groups shall have at least 250 dues-paying members and finally that the previous conduct of the M.F.A. sponsoring group does not justify the appropriation of county funds. - , Supporters of Extension Work are anxiously awaiting action on part of the University by January 1 in the hope that the offices in Union will not be elosed or hampered by lack of an independent sponsoring agency, County Pays $725 In Bounties Franklin County and the State of Missouri paid a total of $725 in wolf bounties for 1954. according to the report of E. H. Oiiek, county clerk, filed Oils week. Forty-fix wolves and seven pupa were turned Into the county for the year. : ': !r' ,0'.- This year the county court and state paid $1$ for wolves and $9 for the pups making a total of $690 and $35 respectively. Of this amount the county clerk explained that the state paid $460 on wolves and the coanty $230. On the pups the state paid $23.33 and Franklin County paid $11.67. Last year a total of $815 was paid by the county and state for 37 wolves, 3 pups and I wildcat. From Dec. 39, 1952 until Sept. Xd, 1953 the stale pay for waives was $30. However, after September 31, the rate was dropped to $18 for the wolves when it was found that since neighboring States were only paying $13, hunters would bring the wolves in from other states and sell them In Missouri. - No wildcats were reported tor ,1934. Fauh ButUf tt GrubYllle