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SPRINGFIELD (Mo.) LEADER-PRESS. Wed Feb. 20, Adjustment Board Lawyer' Flies In to Fight High-Rise Apartment Bid MVJJutiioM, a I i I i I Taking Up Ttvo plies "when it (the board) finds that practical difficulties or unnecessary hardships will arise as a result of strict enforcement of the ordinance." To grant an exception, Hunt held, the. board must find that it falls within a specific category 'We're Says Dean at Rolla State Department Footing Bill for 14 Yugoslavians Lradrr and I'rfKi Staff l'boto are unpacking a huge mural panel In Benton's "History of the United States" scries. Standing In the background is his famous "Crapshootcrs," a painting made in 1932.

Color and bold figures almost leap from famous canvases as two staff members of the Springfield Art Museum uncrate the Thomas Hart Benton items that will be exhibited Feb. 27-March 31. Ross A. Ross, 2015 East Grand, (left) and Earl Kittcrman, 1012 College, Murals to Be Included in Exhibition Here The 14 graduate engineering students from Yugoslavia, whose presence at Missouri School of Mines In Rolla inspired State Sen. Noel Cox's resolution for a loyalty oath in state schools, are at the school for a year under State Department auspices.

One of them arrived in September and the other 13 arrived in January, reported Dean Curtis Wilson. Wilson said the group includes several professors from the University of Belgrade and representatives of the engineering industry. The school official said the students were accepted on recommendation of the State De- partment, which pays their ex penses. Dean Wilson noted that the school has 268 foreign students from 43 countries. "We are internationally known as one of the finest engineering colleges, anywhere," he said, "and we are honored when chosen by the State Department to accept a foreign student." Under Cox's resolution, which was sent to the judiciary committee, students and teachers would be required to take loyal Spring fieldian Talks in Works Arrive for Show Two requests for variances from the zoning ordinance, to permit high rise apartments, are on the agenda of the Board of Adjustment for its February, session Thursday night.

The eases Springfield Security Company seeks to construct "a 20-sWy, 200-foot high rise structure at the northwest corner of Elm and Dollison, requiring variances from height, lot area and setback provisions of the ordinance covering multi-family residential, zones. The Tom Flournoy Company requests variances from lot area and setback requirements, to permit construction of an eight-story, 75-foot apartment building at 1235 North Benton, also a multi-family zone. Kirby Patterson, long a resident of Springfield, now an attorney in the Department of Justice in Washington, arrived here today to oppose the- Benton Avenue high rise proposal. The Patterson family home adjoins fie site of proposed apartment. Some questions arose today as to whether a quorum can be obtained for the Thursday night session.

Since the recent death of Dr. L. E. Pummill, the board has only four members Louis Cowan, Bob Marshall, A. H.

Dennison and Carl Johnson and all must be present for the transaction of business. In addition to the apartment requests, the agenda includes 10 requests for variances and exceptions. After an earlier hearing on the Elm-Dollison request, the board sought an opinion from City Attorney Ralph Hunt as to its power in such matters and that opinion has been filed with the board, Hunt said today. As a result of his studies made at the board's request, Hunt drafted an amendment to the zoning ordinance, eliminating the 75-foot height restriction, but establishing yard setback requirements in accord with planning department recommendations for high rise structures. This amendment was introduced at City Council's Feb.

4 session but council accepted a substitute amendment, offered by Council man David James, with setback requirements tailored to fit the Elm-Dollison site. Public hearing on this amendment is set for March 4. The amendment would not meet the lot area demands of the proposed Benton -Avenue structure. In his opinion, Hunt noted that had the original amendment been accorded first reading by council two weeks ago, it could have been adopted Feb. 18, in advance of the board's Thursday session.

Since the James amendment was substituted, council action can't precede the board meeting "Your consideration of the problem must be based upon the present ordinance, until some amendment occurs." State law and the city ordinance accord the board power to (1) grant variances, and (2) special exceptions. Hunt found. The two differ in that the exception "permits special types of property uses upon a finding that conditions spelled out in the ordinance have been met," while the variance ap Kansas City, he is claimed by the Ozarks as a native son, for he was born in Neosho. He has many friends in Springfield. His brother, the late Nat Benton, a Springfield lawyer, was Greene County prosecuting attorney and the artist often visited him here.

Kenneth M. Shuck, museum director, today- expressed great gratification that the exhibition could be brought to Springfield. When the showing is finished here the paintings will be sent to the Nelson Art Gallery in Kansas City for a summer exhibition. them are the giant size, mural type paintings that have been important in Benton's work. These depict numerous phases of American life.

Some of the paintings are smaller in scope, perhaps featuring a single character. Through the courtesy of the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, where Benton painted one of his most famous murals, there are a number of mural studies which he made white doing his work there. 2 So is the collection. He's a Harem Scarum Escape Tries Come to Light As Robber Admits December Holdup Two recent attempted Greene County jail breaks were disclosed today when a 2 1-y ear-eld Illinois man was taken before Circuit Judge Douglas W.

Greene to enter a plea of guilty. The mart was Thaddcus Frank Brodkowiez. Franklin Park, 111., charged with first degree robbery of Roy Stokes, 2302 West Kearney, on Dec. 13. After accepting the plea from Brodkowiez and his court-appointed attorneys, Ted Beezley and Steve Hill, Judge Greene said.

"This is a very serious crime and I would not attempt to pass sentence on you without an investigation." The judge deferred sentencing until Friday, March 1. and assigned County Parole Officer John Thomason to make the pre-sentence investigation. Thomason took Brodkowiez into the courtroom handcuffed to his wrist, Judge Greene was not orally apprised of the attempted jail breaks by Brodkowiez in court, although the reports will undoubtedly be Included in the pre-sen-t investigation. However, Prosecutor Don Burrell was prepared to make the oral report until tho judge deferred sentencing. According to reports by sheriff's deputies the two attempts at breaking jail occurred Dec.

29 and Feb. 10. On the night of Dec. 29, Jailer Earl Plank reported a prisoner from Cell Block K-3 kept calling him and, responding, found the prisoner to be Daniel Kaniela Umuiwl, 23-year-old Hawaiian in jail awaiting first degree robbery trial. Umuiwi, in the same cell with Brodkowiez, demanded some toilet tissue and Plank told him he would have it sent up.

Umuiwi then became abusive, the jailer reported, and Plank told Umuiwl he was going to remove him from the cell and "take him down-stairs'' (put him in solitary confinement). Brodkowiez then told Plank he wasn't "going to take UmUiwi anywhere," the officer said. Plank decided to take both meri to solitary and he called Deputy Sheriff Del-bert Starkey for help. When Umuiwl and Brodkowiez got into the jail hallway, Brodkowiez suddenly removed club from under his arm and told the officers to "get in that cell block," the report showed. Starkey swung on Brodkowiez with his blackjack and Plank grabbed the prisoner.

Umuiwi tried to grab the blackjack but failed and the two prisoners responded to an order to return to the cell, officers said. Sheriff Glenn Hendrbt later talked to the pair and Brodkowiez admitted the attempted Jail break had been planned for a week and that the club was the handle from a mop bucket which, Brodkowiez said, had required a week's work to remove, On the night of Feb. 10, Plank became suspicious of activity in the cells of Umuiwi and Brodkowiez and summoned Dispatcher Don McCroskey to help search the cells. The pair found the bars on the door of Brodkowicz's cell nearly sawed in two. Searching the ceil, they found pieces of stainless steel hidden in several places.

McCroskey said the pieces were very sharp and that they apparently had been used to cut into the metal bars. Brodkowiez admitted breaking up several stainless steel bowls used to serve prisoners, the report said. Searching Umuiwi's cell, officers found more of the same material, plus a handle from some type of utensil. No charges have been filed against the two inmates for the. escape attempts, it was reported.

Drunk Charges Lead Two Sisters to Jail Springfield sisters, arrested at 3 a.m. today on a charge of drunkenness, were sentenced to 30 days each In jail when they appeared More Municipal Judge Gerald Glcason. Mrs. Marjorle A. Everett, 27, and Mrs.

Lorcttn Martin, 20, both of 1937 South Maryland, were arrested after police heard tires squeal and found them in a car in a ditch at Sunshine and Lake Shore. Mrs. Martin lccnmc very belligerent when taken into custody, police said, and nl tempted to walk away from' the patrol car. She was restrained and placed bark in the car. Steel Firm's Agent Tells of Bid Tool' all galleries and lecture rooms at the Art Museum will be devoted to the showing.

The regular exhibits in the Historical Wing will be stored until after the Benton exhibit to provide needed space. The Benton exhibition will open at 8:30 p.m., Feb. 27, and Mr. and Mrs. Benton will be present.

Preceding the formal opening, the couple will attend a dinner in their honor at Kentwood Arms Hotel. Although the Bentons live in Guy ed to girl friends, and had three car registrations, three driver's licenses, and a money order receipt. Questioned about this extensive harem, he said he corresponds regularly with most of them, Days Since Last Traffic A) Fatality In In City This Year 0 Same Time Last Year 1 In County This Year 1 Same Time Last Year 3 In State This Year 90 Same Time Last Year 99 15 (OS nit zarks Moiiiainti By tbe Asiiociatrd Prrsa JEFFERSON CITY Atty. Gen. Thomas F.

Eagleton finished laying the groundwork today in his ouster suit against six steel fabricating companies, bringing two more witnesses before Special Commissioner Robert L. Hawkins. i 1963 13 Requests referred to in zoning ordinance, 'and further that it "preserves the community interest, and is in general harmony with the intent" of the ordinance. The variance, the attorney continued, constitutes "a relief valve See HIGH-RISE, Page 18 ty tests and would be expelled if divided loyalties were found. Schools which did not get rid of Communists among their students or faculty would lose appropriations, according to the proposal of the Spokane Republican.

Dean Curtis Wilson "we are honored to accept a foreign student." Ouster Case we were not allocated the job we would either not bid or would bid higher than the agreed said. "I never bid below the price indicated the job should go for" to the company designated by the pool, he said. Kirst told of one instance when Paul Marti of Wilmar Steel Products Co. of St. Louis, as an agent for Illinois Bridge, underbid him after Reynolds was to get the job.

Marti testified earlier Illinois Bridge never liked the pool arrangement and would rather have bid independently. Friday's A Holiday Springfield public schools, the Post Office and its sub-stations, and offices in the Greene County courthouse, Federal building and City Hall will be closed Fri-'day in observance of Washington's birthday. The state employment office also will be closed. The state revenue offices will remain op-en, and the Welfare Office wUl have a skeleton staff on duty. Washington's birthday is a federal holiday.

WAV 7 HARRISON. Ark. (Special) -Sheriff Doyle Hickman recicved a report of a breakin at the Lead Hill school. As he was preparing lo leave for the scene of the crime, school officials called back lo report the culprit had been found inside the building amid broken 'window glass. Plans arc being made to have the owl mounted.

1 Cyclists Seeking $62,500 Damages Two damage suits totaling $62.. 500 were filed today In circuit court against Patricia Ann Bradley, 1738 North Clay, as the result of a motorcycle-auto collision June 10, 19fi2. Larry. Allen Booth, 17, of Rog-ersville, driver of the motorcycle, and Larry Bruce Thrall, 16, of Madison, a passenger on the cycle, filed two separate damage suits for Injuries they allegedly suffered when the defendant's car struck the motorcycle' on Missouri just south of the I liuhwny 1) Junction. Thrall is asking MM and Booth is spckin2 $25,000.

(iivc your expandable' blood to save an uncxpendablc American. A. visits some, and complained it was difficult getting around to see them all. His main worry about being locked up for investigation is that detectives wouJu contact the girl friends here, and he didn't want this to happen. He requested several times that officers not go to all that bother, and said he would tell them anything they wanted to know.

The officers made no promises and locked up the 41-year-old swain. Later, officers found the man had broken no law and didn't appear to be wanted by officers anyway. They planned to release him apparently to pursue i amorous career. Benton 9s Paintings by Missouri's most distinguished artist, Thomas Hart Benton, are being uncrated at the Springfield Art Museum today in preparation for exhibition Feb. 27 to March 31.

Huge canvases, painted with all the power and color which have made Benton famous, are coming out of the packing crates to be hung for the. big show. This will be the largest one-man exhibition in the history of the museum. There will be 173 paintings, lithographs, drawings, and mural studies in the exhibition. Many of Senators Give Hill Clean Bill JEFFERSON CITY (Special) The Missouri Senate today declared Sen.

J. Morris Hill, R-Lcbanon, the winner in an election contest with former Sen. Gene Sally, D-Rolla, for the 26th district seat. A special Senate Investigative committee announced that it found no irregularities in a count of general election ballots challenged by Sally. Sen.

William Baxter Waters, chair, man of the four-member, bipartisan commitee, said inquiry revealed "no fraud, inaccuracies, discrepancies, irregularities or misconduct' in the counting of the ballots." The Senate, by a 30-0 vote, approved the committee report, and agreed that Hill should continue as senator from the south central Missouri district. Private Development Urban Plan Into Hopper The organization of urban redevelopment corporations in Springfield would be permitcd under a bill which was accorded a favorable recommendation by the House municipal corporations committee yesterday. The three County representativesMonty Harlow, Paul Canaday and Louren Davidson-are among the 39 sponsors of the bill, which would remove from existing legislation those population restrictions which have previously prevented its application The bill, termed by Harlow "a non-governmental type of solution lo the problems of. many cities" in the field of urban redevelopment, would permit private individuals to organize into urban redevelopment corporations, acquire land found to be blighted, and undertake housing or other development projects. These corporations would he exempt from real estate taxes 'on improvements, not on the land itself i for period of.

10 and during the next 15 years would pay only a flo percent tax providing their profits were limited to 8 percent. certified as sufficient tne petitions of the Rev. George F. Finley, 219 West Madison, who seeks the Zone 3 (southwest) council posi-Hon now held by Gus Wlckman, who also is a candidate. Only candidates for' the two al-largo positions at stake in the April 2 election are the In-cumbenls.

Dr. Souter Smith and Dr. David Scott. Deadline for filing of nominating petitions Is March 2. Since that Is a Saturday, when City Hall Is closed.

Kcllcy hoped that all petitions will le In by Friday, March I. The suspect stopped Officer Don Carpenter at Water and College at 12:30 a.m. today and asked directions to the highway leading to The officer noted the man staggered considerably and was having trouble pronouncing his words. Questioning him. Carpenter learned his home was at Rolla and that he was 41 years old.

After a brief quiz, the man declared he was really looking for Commercial Street and the home of a girl friend. When questioned further, the man admitted he was married, but his wife was living in Rolla. He said he had been in Springfield two weeks ago, this time to visit another girl friend on East Central. Questioned about two new tires in the back seat of his car, he said they came from anotlier girl friend, this one living in Little Rock. When reminded lie had just mentioned three girl friends during the conversation, plus their addresses, he said he didn't do any type of work, but just visited his girl friends from time to time.

When asked about money, he said the girl friends sent it to him. Then officers learned he had served 14 months in jail on a bigamy charge, and decided to take him to headquarters. A search of tho man revealed eight letters, all from different girls, from different cities. In one wallet officers found nothing but names and addresses of girls, all from different states. He also had several house keys, which belong- Ueniodcling Job To Start Friday Gene Gold Construction m-pany will begin remodeling of the first floor of City Hall on Friday when the building will lie closed for the Washington's Birthday holiday.

During the remodeling, personnel department offices will be located in a section of tho health department, in a northeast first floor area which will not be affected by the project. Finnncd offices, to be extensively remodelled, will continue to operate at the same location as the Job proceeds, Goal is completion of that part of the work Involving finance prior to the annual spring sale of city auto licenses. City Utilities offices also will close on Friday, although the drive-In window will be open, and service personnel will be on duty. TWO SURPLUS buildings are to be transferred from Fort Crowder to tho Carterville, school district, Hep. Durwnrd O.

Hall said today. General Services Administration plans to assign the buildings to tho Welfare Department Thursday Tor transfer to the school dis trlct, Hall said. The testimony, wound up a three-day hearin which will resume March 18. Then the companies' attorneys will cross-examine the state witnesses. Com missioner Hawkins announced he planned a third hearing April 8, His recommendations will go to the Missouri Supreme Court for a decision whether to bar the companies from operating in Missouri.

Eagleton charged the six companies with conspiring to rig the bidding on fabricated bridge steel for Missouri highway projects. He said Monday the companies split the state among them, supplying about 75 per cent of the steel for Missouri bridges nearly $36 million worth from 1954 to July 1962. Employes of two of the companies charged with conspiracy appeared today. They were Walter Kirst of Springfield, with Reynolds Metals a subsidiary, of A. J.

Industries, Inc. of Ios Angeles, and Albert Sbaglic of Kansas City, an accountant for Havens Steel Co. The other firms Eagleton is trying to bar from doing business in Missouri because of the alleged conspiracy are: Stupp Bros. Bridge and Iron Co. of St.

Louis, St. Joseph Structural Steel Co. of St. Joseph, Missouri Valley Steel Inc. of Leavenworth, and Kansas City Structural Steel, Co.

of Kansas City, Kan. Havens is a Kansas City firm and Reynolds operates in Springfield. Kirst testified that as an agent for Reynolds he was first approached in the early 1940s by John Thompson of Stupp Bros, and asked to join a pool of Missouri steel fabricators which allocated bids on bridge projects among its members. Kirst said Thompson told him Reynolds would not get as many bridge jobs as a member of the pool, but that at least what jobs the company got would produce a profit. He said, his company decided to join because if it didn't the several members of the pool would take turns underbidding tbe jobs Reynolds would seek and Reynolds, wouldn't get any.

Kirst named the defendants in the suit, plus the now non-exist-ant Illinois Bridge Co. of Jackson, and Louis Structural Steel as members of the pool when his firm joined. Unlike other members of the pool, who bid exclusively on jobs in one part of the state or the other, Reynolds bid on jobs on either side of the dividing line, Kirst said, but usuully in the Springfield area. He said Thompson and John Boyd of Kansas City Structural, as spokesmen for the croup, would tell his company when it could bid on a project and when another firm had been given the job. I Gospel Publishing Official Enters Zone 2 Council Race ..1.

.1 .1 111, I I ii in j4 Li 'HI HI I' mnii matf Petitions are in circulation today for a third Zone 2 coun-cllmanlc candidate Ray F. Roepke, 3B, 1944 East Turner, credit manager for the Gospel Publishing House. The Zone 2 (northeast) council position Is now held by Carl Still-well, who declined to seek reelection. Nominating petitions also are In circulation for Carl V. Harlow 3(H) South National, head of the Harlow Sales Company, and Ncal W.

Moore, 1710 North Waverly, publisher of The Union Labor Record. City Clerk Don Kcllcy today GREAT BOOKS PHrt Btl0Dal c'Blhollc Week this week, rnrh clnss of fit. Agnri Cathedral elementary school. J.H South Jrfferson, will dlsplny and dramatize popular books from their library. Theme for this year is "Books of the World" and parents and the public will be Invited to Sep the dramatization.

School principal Sister Mary Jerome examine some hooks along ith Interested pupils Rena Wilson. 13, an eighth gradetv of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Wilson, 810 West Tracy, and Phillip Knuffinan, 6.

a first grader, son, of Mrs. Rita Knuffmnn, Route 8. Phillip seems more fasc inated by Rena's "John Paul Jones, Fighting Sallnr," than the one he Is holding.