The Daily Journal from Flat River, Missouri • 1

u. 1 Frainicois Consolidated With Press In 1935 Published Afternoons Daily Except Saturday and Sunday The NEWSpaper -That J)oes Things it River, St Francois County, Missouri Wednesday, March 18, 1964 Vol. 35, No. 55 Single Copy 101 12 PAGES TODAY MM Other fems-to-Hi ntenma ghlightfe St. Joe VeteransPa j-gjjjgg Ta UaahAaimaman ti A detailed report of the progress made in planning the Bonne Terre Centennial was given by Mrs.

Edna Eads, President of Bonne Terre Centennial Corp. The large group attending the Monday night session were reported well pleased with results April 10 1 Mkt tvJ' ti i 1 1 iM i i i Cvti rnm mi i i i I I III! II I 1 I II To Hear Cameron At Elvins Gym President Francis Cameron will speak at St Joe Lead Com-pany's 25-year party to which all Southeast Missouri employees and pensioners with 25 yean service have been invited Saturday evening, March 21. The event will be at the Elvins High School Gym starting at 7:15 p.m. Two hundred and forty-nine 25-year and 86 40-year service pins will be presented. Included in Mr.

Cameron's" TaTFwIirbe information and slides on St. Joe's other operations. E. A. Jones, J.

W. Sherman and L. W. Casteel are on the program and will discuss new developments and future plans for St. Joe in Southeast Missouri.

There will be music, refreshments and good fellowship. On thousand twenty-six invitations were mailed and a record attend ance is expected. Third, Fourth Grades Topic at Bonne PTA "Are you interested In your child? Would you like to see how and what your child is learning in school?" For a closer parent, teacher and child relationship, plan te-attend the Bonne Terre Elemen-tay P.T.A. meeting Thursday, March 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the all purpose room.

The program titled "Venturing Into the Children's World of Third and Fourth Grades" will be presented by the third and fourth grade teachers. Refreshments will be served, and free babysitting will be provided. REV. CLACK TO BE CBMC SPEAKER The Rev. Robert J.

Clack, District Superintendent for the Church of the Nazarene, State of Wisconsin, will be the speak er at the regular noon luncheon meeting of the St. Francois County Christian Business Mens Committee, Thursday, March 19, at the Shell Chateau Cafe, Farmington. Mr. Clack is now engaged in revival at the Esther Church of the Nazarene. Items of business will be discussed and arangements made to attend the revival, now in 1 1- ft' M1 mittees were called in earlier to make individual reports on their progress.

There are a few chairmen yet to be heard. The two parades to take place July 11 and IS, are having many features that will bt of much Interest to all agZe.seonCaror.RE terest to all ages. Zeno Carrow, Chairman of Parades and Floats ed for the general public. Schools of a five county area are invited to attend the matinee and tickets for the evening performance will also be available in the local high schools of the five county area. Interested music lovers should call their high school principal for advance sale tickets.

Tickets will also be sold at the door for the evening performance. Price of the matinee is 50 cents and the evening Raby Gets $5000 A St. Francois County Circuit Court Jury awarded $5,000 damages in a $25,000 suit heard at Farmington yesterday. The civil suit consumed almost the entire day ia Judge J. O.

Swink's court Tenmembers of the jury signed the following verdict: "We, the Jury in the above entitled cause, find the issues in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant and assess plaintiffs damages at $5,000." Cecil Raby, Farmington, Rt. 1 claimed injuries from an accident on the farm of William M. Dugal. October 18, 1961, Raby was jolted from the tongue of a farm wagon and then run over by the wagon. The wagon, loaded with gravel, was being pulled by a farm tractor being driven by Dugal.

Raby, claiming permanent injuries, had sought damages of $25,000. AMBULANCE CALLS Linda Nickolson was removed from Bonne Terre Hospital to the Barnes Hospital in St. Louis Tuesday by the Sparks Ambulance Service of Bonne Terre. transportation for the party. The first meeting of the Philmont group was Sunday afternoon, March 1, at the Missouri Natural Gas Company in Flat River at which time Scoutmaster Murphy began the organization and orientation of the group for this summer's adventure.

to Flay will have a float for all tha candidates for the Bonne Terre Centennial Queen of Love and Beaut y. The Queen will be crewncd July 11, and reign during the Centennial Week. The horse show is sch iu! for the first Saturday of Centennial week, July 11, to bo on the baseball field at Bonne r-re High School. Tickets at $1.00 each f. the Centennial Costume Ball ent on sale at this meeting The sala occasion is to be in the St Joe Club Room (above BT.

Bowl-ing Alley) April 5. They will have different types of music also square dancing. This dance is not an "invitational," rather it is for the public. The Rev. Craig, Chairman of Ministerial Service Committee plans a twilight service Sunday evening, July 12.

Many churches will participate and everyone is welcome. John Rodell is to be Emcee. The Bonne Terre Garden Club is having their annual Silver Tea at Congregational Church, April 10, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. The red and white centennial theme will be featured. The public is invited.

Diamond Drill Capers at the Bonne Terre High School wil also feature the red and white 3onne Terre Centennial. A Marine recruiter will be in tonne Terre during Centennial veek and local young people nay be Interested. Rotary Anns are in process setting up interesting tours for Bonne Terre Centennial Week. Attention was called to the urgent need of feeding the multitude of guests expected. Church kitchens, cafes and all restaurants are asked to remain open as much as possible.

DEATHS Hattie Knight Griffin Rites to Be Friday Hattie (Knight) Griffin was born May 31, 1893 at Barfield, Arkansas, the daughter of the late John and Mary Knight Milton and died March 16 in St Louis at the age of 70 years, nine months and fourteen days. She is survived by five children, John and George Knigbt of St. Louis; Jack Campbell of Granite CitylllinoisT" Berth (Mrs. Floyd Skiles) of St. Louis; Helen (Mrs.

Jewell Dillard) of Doniphan, six step-children Howard Griffin of Route Two, Bonne Terre; Walter Griffin of Mineral Point Route One; Bee Griffin of Rock Falls, Illinois; Ethel (Mrs. Les White) of Lead-wood; Edith Griffin of Bonne Terre; Hazel (Mrs. Lilburn Carver) of Flat River; twenty-seven grandchildren; eight greatgrandchildren; and several step-grandchildren. JShewas i preceded in death by her husbands, John Riley Knight 4nJ958 aniWyleyJMf- fin in 1961; two sons, one daugh ter; one step-daughter; and a brother. The body is in state at Sparks Funeral Chapel in'Bonne Terre.

Funeral services will be Friday -afternoon at two o'clock with the Rev. Amos Mayfield officiating. Interment will be in Germania Cemetery under the direction of Sparks Funeral Home. Ambulance Calls Tuesday, Mrs. Hiram Gardoa was taken from her residence on Route three, Farmington Bonne Terre Hospital; Tuesday Harold LaPlant was removed from his residence in Farming-ton to Bonne Terre Hospital by Miller Ambulance.

Beverly White was removed from her home in" Doe Run to Cardinal Glennon Hospital in St' Louis, Tuesday; Wednesday, Mrs. Margaret Schramm waa taken from her home in Farmington to Lutheran Hospital ia Si Louis by Cozean Ambulance. reported many organizations were planning floats Valley Dolomite; Girl Scouts, two floats; the J.C. wives to feature a kitchen scene; while the Boy Scouts theme will be a covered wagon. The famous Clydesdale horses are to be driven in at least one parade.

There will be numerous anti admission price is $1.00. The matinee concert is planned especially for the student audience with wide appeal for all. The evening program is selected with the view of pleasing the most delineating audience, music lovers of all ages. The programs have variety, but all selections, for both matinee and evening, have one description in common: "Great Music by the World's Finest Band." Civil Award CARROLL FUNK IN ASSESSOR RACE Carroll (C. Funk, Elvins insurance salesman, paid the $25 filing fee to the county clerk yesterday and announced he will seek the Republican nomination as Assessor of St.

Francois County in the August Primary Election. Hit Run Driver Damages Deputy's Car Deputy Sheriff Paul Lenz'iipa-trol car was damaged by a hit and run driver Tuesday. The driver of the other Car appeared to be intoxicated when caught. Arthur Sexton, Farmington, ran into the patrol car belonging to Paul Lenz, as the car sat at the curb on the west side of the court house square. Sexton is reported to have driven away, but was caught by the deputy sheriff on North Washington Street.

Lenz saia wnen ne apprenena-ed Sexton that he cted intoxi cated. Sexton had to be arrested from his car into the patrol car. He also had a badly injured ear and was taken to the Mineral Area Osteopathic Hospital. Lenz said he thought the man's ear had been injured before the accident. No charges have been filed against Sexton yet.

He was said to be an employee of the State Hospital at Farmington. i i of the Year. A goal of $750,000 has been set for the crusade In Missouri throughout the month of April, designated by the United States Congress as Cancer Control Month. During the month thousands of volunteers will visit the homes of Missouri to leave life-saving literature and to accept contributions to the cancer program. The meeting's program dealt with plans to inform the public on the emergency of the cancer problem which takes over 7,500 lives each year in Missouri and ways to enable the people of the state to have a part in the three-fold program oi researcnredu- cation and service of the society Attending from St.

Francois County were: Mrs. George Gedge, Hugo Cozean, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hahn and Tom David. aula Mrs.

P. Keith of Flat River was at the quarterly birthday meeTng of the American V.r Mother, Rose Saak Chapter, Monday night at the Blue Flame Room in Flat River. She was presented a beautiful potted plant for her 90th birth- I'rs. Keith 90 Twenty-three members and a visitor, Mrs. Roy Dreyer, were in attendance.

Others who celebrated birthday anniversaries Vandals Burglarize Coffman School Sheriff Leslie Jones went to ihe Coffman School Tuesday morning to assist the Ste. Genevieve County Sheriff investigate a burglary. The Sheriff said it was his policy to assist other county sheriffs in the investigations of crimes committed near the borders of St. Francois Coun ty, Deputy Sheriff Lenz and Jones said more vandalism damage was caused by the burglars of the-rural school than -actual -money and property stealing. The burglars had broken the glass out of both the front and back doors of the school.

They bad also severely beaten steel fire doors down with sledges and crow bars. The burglars also pounded a hole into the school vault through the masonry wall. No money, was found but the records were pretty well messed up, said the officers. Nothing much appeared to have been stolen said Sheriff Jones. The candy machine was broken into and an estimated $4.00 in change taken.

The burglars had also entered thechool kitchen where they ate 9 frozen weiners and drank 3 cartons of chocolate milk. WHY BAKE FOR EASTER? Jhe W.S.C.S. of the Irondale Methodist Church will have its annual Easter Bake Sale Saturday March 28. Sale of bakery goods will begin-at 10:00 a.m. at the office of Irondale Insurance Company, next to the Iron- que cars, school bands from this area, Village of St.

Francois is to send an old horse-drawn stage coach; there will be clowns to entertain the children. The famed sixty-man Marine Drum and Bugle Corps will also be in the parade. The Art Club committee, Mrs. Lettie Agnes Francis, chairman. 7' Luther Gibson Everett Hellard Revival to Begin Friday in Farmington The Farmington Free Will Baptist Church will have a re vival March 20 through Marct 27.

The meetings will be nightly at 7:30 with The Rev. Luthe Gibson of Tupelo, Mississippi, De the evangelist. ext will be noon-day prayer meetings Monday, Tuesday. WiMnpsriav. and Fridavs.

These 1 meetings will last 20 to 30 min utes, and townspeople are invited to attend. They will begin -promptly at 12:10 and will ie over approximately 12:35. Thursday, March 26, Mr. Gibson will be the speaker at the Christian Business Men's Meeting at noon at the Shell Chateau Cafe. This will also be a luncheon, and will be a "Ladies Day" meeting.

The public is cordially invited jUTattend anyaMl'OOhe meetings. The Rev. Everett DHellard pastor of the Farmington Free Will Baptist Church, will be the song leader and special singer for the revival. Mr. Ilelard is experienced in this field, having been song leader and special singer for-variou revivals -and conventions in several different states.

The revival theme is "Christ is the Answer," and all are welcome. REVIVAL TO CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY Revival services will continue nightly at 7:30 through Friday evening, March 20, at the Cant-well First Baptist Church. The Rev. Kenneth P. Bandy is the evangelist and Floyd Simmons is the song leader.

The Rev. Chris Scheihing is churchy TsastofT The Rev. and Mrs. Jack McAllister of Cape Girardeau visited Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

John Keeney of Flat River. Eichenlaub, of the Music Department of the Bonne Terre High School, will present one of his students at the piano. The County Historical Society is less than a year old and already has over sixty members. Its purposes are to discover and collect any material which may help to establish or; illustrate the history of St. Francois County: to carry out projects that will be of service to the county by way of preservation of records or data, and "to be of service to citizens and former citizens as may be SiL to the present time Chairmen of the various com- At Field House Navy Ian The High School districts of St.

Francois county are cooperatively sponsoring the world famous United States Navy Band in afternoon and evening concerts at the Flat River Field House April 10. Offered as part of a program of cultural improvement, the matinee performance is primarily for school children, while the evening performance is design- Desloge PTA to Get Preview of Show The Desloge R-II P.T.A. will meet Thursday evening at 7 Gelockatthe high school auditorium. The program will be by the Music Department of the high school with selections from "Bella Are Ringing." All parents and persons in the school district are invited and urged to attend. Pre-Easter Services Slated at Doe Run There will be pre-Easter services at the Doe Run Methodist Church each evening at 7:30 p.m Monday March S3 through Friday, March 27.

the speaker. The public is invited to attend. Slow Down And Live progress at the First Baptist Church, Bismarck. All area pastors, Christian laymen and business men are urged to at-tend all CBMC meetings. the planned trip of this group to the Philmont Scout Ranch near Cimarron, New Mexico, this summer.

They will spend their time at the ranch on a mountain trail through the beautiful southern Rockies, all within the mam mouth scout reservation. Scouts in the group are: Bob Edwards, Dennis Murphy and Bob Thomas of Troop 417, Flat River; Bruce Forbes and Stanton of .418, Ste. Genevieve; Perry Willmore and Orville Starnes of Troop 471, Farmington; Terry McClintock and Ray Lynn Nelson tf Troop-483, Farmington and Larry Kan-key of Troop 548, Esther. Ezra Bye of Flat River accompanied the party on the trail and Ray Nelson and Art Freeman of Farmington shuttled Vary Some of the area schools previously planned to have the two day vacation of Good Friday Bd4bMoiiay-fteFaste but because of the loss of Mon day, January 3, due to snow, it will be necessary to have school. Under the laws of Missouri, it is necessary that a school district have a minimum of 180 days of school or forfeit all state assistance for the coming term.

produce 12,000 tons of crude ore per day, The surface beneficiation plant includes primaryv-secon-dary and tertiary crushers, mill and pelletizing plant The pellet-izing plant utilizes five vertical shaft type furnaces. In addition to the magnetite concentrate being produced in the milL hematite, spatite and pyrite will be recovered by The plant will have a capacity, Shakedown for Philmont Area Scouts Begin Ml Staff Photo day. Mrs. Keith, for many years a teacher and librarian, has been in ill health, but was considerably improved Monday and was able to enjoy the War Mothers birthday party. Years Young were Mrs.

Amos Allen, Mrs. E. B. Black, Mrs. Virgie Clay, Mrs.

Sally Keith, Mrs. Christine King Mrs. Maude McClanahan, Mrs. Bessie Rowe and Mrs. John Bess.

A business meeting followed the dinner. The Easter pilgrimage to Jefferson Barracks was planned when colored eggs and flowers will be taken to the Veterans hospital Good Friday to the 800 patients there. Mrs. Sue Wunning was endorsed for state third vice president. April 10 and 11 Mrs.

Leslie Gordon Mrs. A. O. Johnson and Mrs. Wunning will attend a board meeting in Jefferson City.

H. L. Strader to Get Masonic 50 Year Pin At a meeting to be at the hall of Bismarck Lodge No. 41, A.F. A.M., at 8 p.m.

MarclL2L H. L. Strader of Bismarck will be presented with a 50 year button. Strader became a member of Bismarck Lodge on March 17, 1914. June 14, 1919, he affiliated with Wayne Lodge No.

526, A.F. A.M., Piedmont. November 1924, he again affiliated with Bismarck Lodge he is still a member. He served as Worshipful Master of Bismarck Lodge No. 41 in 1953 and as Secretary in 1954.

District Deputy Grand Master of the 48th Masonic District, Joe E. Hubbard, of Farmington, and Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Missouri Harold O. Grauel of Cape Girardeau, will be present to make the presentation. dale Bank. Miss Katherine Nickless, Pres ident of the W.S.C.S.

state that there will also be offered for sale some fancy work which has been made and donated by the ladies of the Society. Monday, March 30. The students of the Esther schools will enjoy a two day holi day, Good Friday and Monday, March 30. The Leadwood schools will not be dismissed either day. They will have school on Good Friday and.

the Monday following Easter. Students of the Farmington schools will have the two day holiday of Good Friday and March 30. The Meramec Mining Company is a joint venture by Bethlehem Steel Corporation and St. Joseph Lead Company. Development of the mine and construction of the first surface facilities represents an investment of more than $52,000,000.

Occurrence of an orebody in the vicinity of Pea Ridgesouth-east of Sdllivan, was first indicated in 1949 by airborne jnag- netometer surveys. In 1953, dia- Hiiiiiiai iiiiiih i iiiiiU in Vacati Cancer Crusade Being Set for April ool Easter Sch Ten local unit Boy Scouts, members of Ozark Trails Dis- trict-troops, and their leader, Jim Murphy, Scoutmaster of Troop 417, Flat River, had their first of a series of conditioning and get-acquainted hikes Saturday, March 14, on a segment of a new hiking trail being opened in the Clark National Forest near Berryman. The mile portion of the hike trail starts at the site of the old Berryman CCC camp and the boys met their trans-, portation at a road intersection in the forest. The well defined trail is marked and graded in -spots with. easy inclines and leads through beautifully forested country.

The boys of the party are scouts who have signed up for ons to Doe Run schools will dismiss Good Friday. Students in the Bismarck schools will attend school on Good Friday, therefore receiving no Easter St Joseph School in Farming-ton will be dismissed March 26 through March 31. St. Paul's Lutheran School of Farmington will be dismissed Good Friday and Monday, March 30. m6hdrilIholesverified the existence of a magnetite ore-body of commercial significance Shaft sinking was started in 1957.

Two vertical shafts have been sunk to a depth of 2,500 feet Mine development started at the 1,675 foot level with four levels being developed simultaneously at 150-foot intervals. Initial mining will be by 'a long-Jiole-drill atoping method. Under full production, the mine will Easter vacation for the area schools vary from one day to four days. Some cMhe schools will be out only on Good Friday and others will be dismissed through March 31. Bonne Terre schools will dismissed Friday, March be 27, only.

Flat River schools will be dismissed on Good Friday. The Desloge schools will be dismissed Good Friday and The St. Francois County unit of the American Cancer Society was host to a number of volunteers from adjacent counties at a meeting Thursday evening, March 12, to prepare for the annual educational and fund-raising cancer crusade in ApriL One of a series of 17 similar meetings which are being conducted at convenient locations throughout the state, it was at the Shell Chateau Restaurant in Farmington. The meeting was conducted by Robert Hahn, St. Francois County crusade chairman.

On the proeram were: Harry M. James R. Vaughn of Hemple, vice president of the Missouri Division; Homer F. Davis of Jefferson City; Dr. Terry E.

Lilly, of Kansas City, President of the Missouri Division; and John Dresher 6f St. Louis, 1964 Cured Cancer Patient of the Missouri Cured Cancer Family of over 2,000,000 tons of high-: grade iron ore pellets per year. The pellets will be approximately 68 per cent iron with less than 2 per cent silica. The Pea Ridge Mine represents the largest iron mining and processing operation in the state. The project will provide approximately 900 new jobs in Southeast Missouri.

Public open house at the mine will April 18 Meet Thursday County Historical Society to Pea ife ins Any resident or former resident of St Francois County, or -member of his family over sev enteen years of age is eligible for membership. Meetings are normally on the third Thursday evening of each month except December and January. The present dues are only $1.00 per year. Any eligible person interested in joining the cotymya kdoa in joining the society may do so by coming to a meeting or k- p. ing arrangements with-any or the officers: Guests are welcome at the meetings.

The March meeting of the St. Francois County Historical Society will be in the Music Room in the Field House f. the Flat River Public Schools Thursday evening, March 19, at 7:30 p.m. Martin Eichenlaub, program chairman, has stated that the theme of the evening will be "Historical Music." Mrs. A.

C. Sullivan, of the Farmington, High School Music Department and the Flat River Junior College Ensemble, under the direction of Miss Annie Louise Hug-gins will present songs of historical significance and interest. (Photo on Page Two) The first shipment of iron ore pellets from Meramec Mining Company's new Pea Ridge Mine' near Sullivan, was made Monday, March 16. The first pellets loaded were consigned to Bethlehem Steel Company's Johnstown Plant at Johnstown, Pennsylvania. This vent marked the culmination of six years of Underground mine development and beneficiation plant construction.

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