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I 'V Nov. 1, 1967 SPRINGFIELD (Mo.) LEADER-PRESS i For Young Smilji Janitor Handed Jail Term, Fine 'Cycle Crash Kills Gridder Toll Lad Caused Derailment?" Study Charges Against Boy, 7 Seek From Local Page the adult society is wrong. "They say they believe one set of values," she replied, "but act differently." On Liquor Charge Sentencing Set Nov. 8 PHOENIX. Ariz.

(Special) From Local Page Raymondviile Wreck motorists exercise greater cau "I wasn't aware that we older NORFORK, Ark. (Special) Gaims Fiflh Victim tion at railroad crossings. The accidents investigated in Superior Court officials have postponed sentencing of former a Robert Benlamin Troop have resulted in 13 An already-tragic October (Smith, convicted of killing four traffic record was compounded women and a girl, until Nov, 8. Smith, a 19-year-old native of south central Missouri. last Tuesday with the deaths of a 16-year-old Ozark boy and a 3-year-old Raymondviile child, whose deaths and 10 injuries, Capt, Huston said.

"Motorists should always be alert while approaching a crossing and should be prepared to stop," he said, ''Always look in both directions at a crossing, Authorities here today are studying state laws to determine if prosecution is possible against a 7-year-old boy who allegedly threw a "switch that derailed a Missouri pacific freight train here Sunday. One crewman was killed in the crash. Prosecutor Robert Dudley said the boy broke the switch lock with a rock and then threw people were so bad," noted Flavius Freeman, a Drury board of trustees member and an official member of the panel. "Is part of the problem your generation is concerned with the hypocrisy of our generation. Like honesty vs.

filling out an income tax form?" one dean asked. "We don't recognize how much we teach by what we do," concluded another dean. mother and three sisters also week was found guilty of the Nov, 12, 1966 mass slaying at a Mesa, beauty college bv a and if your radio is on, turn it down or open a window and listen. This type accident can be avoided if people will just follow safe driving procedures and observe the rules of the road." Meanwhile, law enforcement officers continue to analyze the other accidents involving fatalities and come up with the same old story: In 99 percent of the cases, driver failure, in the form of speeding, failure to yield right of way, improper passing, or some other form of careless and imprudent driving, is to blame. "And what makes it most sickening," said one officer, "is i were killed earlier in the day in a two-car crash.

after treatment of injuries suffered at 1:20 p.m. Tuesday on U. S. 160 in Willard. Troopers said Hershel Junior Perkins, 39, suffered rib and left shoulder injuries when his pickup truck rammed the side' of a car driven by Gerald Lee Stock-dale, 22, Route 9, who failed to stop at an intersection.

Perkins' wife, Evelyn, 22, was treated for possible back and rib injuries. Four persons were injured at 1:40 p.m. Tuesday on U. S. 71, six miles south of Nevada.

Officers said Robert Gragg, Fort Worth, was passing a station wagon driven by Edwin Gueguen, 57, Costa Mesa, when the latter attempted to turn left. The truck overturned after the Collision. Taken to Nevada City Hospital were Gueguen, who suffered head lacerations, his mother, Gertrude Gueguen, 38, with rib' fractures and severe back 'injuries, Gragg, with head cuts, and Everett Beall, 44, Fort Worth, with hip injuries. Danny Royal, 17, Mountain Grove, was takento St. John's Hospital here for treatment of facial, right shoulder and leg injuries suffered when he was hit by a car driven by Roy Junior Houston, at 7 p.m.-.Tuesday in Mountain Grov.

A 46-year-old janitor, con-victed Tuesday of a charge of supplying intoxicants to minors, has 25 days to file a motion for a new trial. Jurors in Circuit Judge Douglas W. Greene's court deliberated two hours before returning the verdict against Anthony Jarrett Cook, 1111 Poplar, at 5:55 p.m. Tuesday. The jury set Cook's punishment at 90 days in jail and a $200 fine.

Cook was charged with a misdemeanor offense of furnishing vodka for two boys, aged 15 and 16, last March 10. The case was filed in circuit court because juveniles were involved. The jurors were Shirley Tal-bott, 1915 South Weller; Bennie Bain, Route 2, Fair Grove; El-berta H. Delashmitt, 2747 East Portland; Freddie Camp, 628 Lone Pine; Donald Albert Wand, 2429 Kings; Mary Catherine Pfeiffer, Route Mary Thomp- The latest victims were Bandy jury which fixed his penalty at II. Corneiison, a student at death.

The sentencing had been set the switch that several hours Ozark. High School, and' John If for Tuesday but was Dostnnned Wayne Smith. The Corneiison youth's death because Smith's attorney was later sent a Kansas City-to-Memphis train onto a siding containing several parked railroad cars. Dudley said the in-cident was witnessed by another boy of the same age. The fireman on the 59-car Under state law, the judge must carry out the jurors' de Pot From Local Page occurred at 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday when his southbound motorcycle crashed headon into a car driven by Janet Thomas, 16, Rogers-ville, who had stopped at an cree in pronouncing sentence that more often than not, some Fire Victim's Rites Slated Mom Recovering In Hospital Here Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday for Edward Ulysis Boyd, 17 year-old son of Mr. and MrsEli Boyd, who died in a fire at his home. 812 North Franklin, about 11:45 Meanwhile, the youth's moth- freight, Archie Copeland, 46, of Ozark street intersection. Riding with Corneiison was 15- innocent person or persons, who are driving quite properly, are likely as not the victims of someone else's, irresponsibility." October produced an unusual in this case, death in thq, gas chamber.

Smith is a native of Waynesville and lived for a time at before moving to Arizona with his family four' years ago. year-old Willis Baker, Ozark, who was released from St John's Hospital here after treatment of right arm injuries and a number of multiple-fatality acci Memphis, was killed when he jumped from the train. Two other crew-men were injured. Two railway employes were injured in January, 1966 in a similar accident at the same whe someone apparently knocked, the jock off the switch. Dudley said the two 7-year-olds liam-E.

Oatraan, 1836 South Virginia; Norma McCarty, 318 South York; Walter E. Kellogg, 2126 North Taylor; Donald R' Vassar, 411 East Waylandf-aad Mrha V. Onkea 517 Kim- dents. There were two accidents in which two, persons- were two ia ihjee. per-.

left band laceration." Corneiison was a 'soph- WILLIAM jGUDENKAUF, 48, moving here from Republic, "be- forcement efforts to curb liquor law violations are rather ineffective, and there's little reason to believethat enforcement of marijuana laws will be that much easier. As for the stringency of the rested at all whether it'js viewee said, but "Right now the law's not that big a problem for people who really want it" It is illegal It may be psychologically harmful. But sons killed, and one in ya rftrfae tory" condition today at Burge- isiacwry" contution yxjay. mgu jcnooi looioau team. A short "time before -the tragedy, he had participated in his Protestant Hospital where she "was taken for treatment of hysteria and a leg laceration.

She The boys have been returned fer their parents pending an investigation into Arkansas statutes which protect anyone under the age of 12 from prosecution. way agent, succeeding Ray Murray, who has retired? Gu-denkauf has been sales representative for a floor covering firm, and has also worked for a mortgage and investment com? pany and as a real estate school's homecoming parade. He is SurvivwLbyiiis parents. was injured when she attempted MRS. SHARON KNOWLES, secretary in the prosecutor's office for more than five years, has resigned to move with her husband, Jim, to Portland, Ore.

Mrs. Knowles will be succeeded by Miss Vonna Cox. CITY MANAGER David Bur-khalter was to discuss municipal problems with, the Board of Realtors at a meeting at the Heritage Cafeteria on Sunshine today noon. to enter the house to save her Mr. and Mrs, Hart Corneliaon, son.

two brothers, Larry, of the The average gestation period for wolves is 62 days. www The October death list: JAMES CARROLL CLEMENS, 29, of 2110 North Newton, killed in a one-car accident on six miles north of Springfield, Oct. 1. WILLIAM ANDREW JTJR-NEY, 36, Toledo, Ohio, WILLIAM ANDREW JURNEY, and MABEL SANDON COLE, 63, Richmond, killed in a car-truck crash on Interstate 44 in Jasper County Oct. home, and Jackie, Lompoc, Ca Be alert today, alive tomorrow.

two sisters, Mrs. Sharon The fire was discovered by police Officers Bob Dean and Hank Crutchfield, who were cruising in the area when they saw smoke coming from the Sue Smith, Ozark, and Mrs. Wil ma Jean Woman, Sparta; and his maternal grandparents, Mr. two-story house. and Mrs.

Lloyd Corneiison, Route 2, RogersviUe. In the back yard, the officers Funeral arrangements are un- found George Tlndle, 25, of 806 DALE L. HARMON. 25 Route der diction of Harris of Ozark. North Franklin," and Fred Ma- nier, 1442 Texas, restraining The death of the Smith, boy Mrs.

Boyd, who insisted on try was the fifth from a two-car ing to re-enter the house, fair wove, killed in a car-train crash on Battlefield just west of Scenic, to become the ninth traffic victim of the year in Springfield, Oct. 3. It was the 13th car-train crash for the year crash at 7:50 a.m. Tuesday on Texas County a mile east of After firemen extinguished the blaze, they found the body of the Raymondviile. The child died at youth who was a deaf mute 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday in Springfield in me ozarks; the 16th death, sprawled across a dinette chair PHILGO and a large trunk. He apparent TRAVIS, MARSHALL BRADLEY, 35, Amarillo, killed in a truck accident on Interstate ly suffociated when heat and smoke spread through the Baptist Hospital. "Others killed in the crash were his mother, Mrs. Agnes Smith, 29, and his sifters, Sylvia Irene, 7, Cathryn Dianna, 4, and a naif mile west of house. Springfield, Oct.

5. GEORGE Tavtj-ib Mrs. Boyd told Officer Vic Rohrer she and her son were downstairs when she discovered Meussa Ann, 1. Injured were Mrs Smith's 10-year-old daugh Route 2, Republic; killed when hit by a car on U.S. 60 in Repub flames 'around a gas heating lic, uct.

a. ter, Rosemary, and James Wayne Lee, 19, Raymondviile. Rosemary Smith was admit stove in the front bedroom. She ran outside and her son dashed MKS. DOROTHY M.

ECH- 31, Bolivar, killed in a two- upstairs to a storeroom, appar Solid State RADIO-PHONO 0 Stereo Phonograph 9 Stereo FM Radio 9 Powerful AM Radio I i ''V I if i 1 ''l1 a 1 -m II I 1,111 83iol; ill Jn Confpmnornrv Wnlnnt I jn Contemporary Walnut ted to the Texas County Hospital ently trying to retrieve some ear crash on Mo. 13, in the 3300 block, Oct. 6, to become the city's 10th traffic victim of the in Houston with a possible pelvis fracture and mouth lacerations clothing or other possessions. Seeing her son standing in a year, uie 30th victim in the and young Lee was taken to window, Mrs. Boyd tried in vain county.

SHiRLEY BURNETT. 52. Lib- to persuade him to climb onto a ground floor roof and recalled eral, killed in a two-car crash on seeing him come to the window again while she was screaming a rural road three miles west of Springfield Baptist Hospital, where he is in "serious" condition today, suffering from leg fractures. Troopers said Mrs. Smith was westbound when her car collided headon near the center of the road with the Lee youth's car.

tor someone to help her. She unerai, Oct. 9. RONALD E. SNEAD.

21 Rnf. said he returned to the smoke- I 1 1 II falo Grove, 111., and his wife, 4 Feet Wide of Matchless, High Fidelity Stereo Reduced ma.t 21, Killed in a one filled room and did not reappear. car crash on U.S. 66, about 12 miles west of RoIla.Oct. 9.

Mrs. Smith and three of her Her shouts were heard by her 4-Speed Automatic Record Changer Floating-Touch Tone Arm ROBERT GENE KEELING. neighbor, Tindle, who ran to the 27, Seneca, and his daughter, scene, tried to kick in the front 4-Speaker Stereo Sound System with "Scratch-Guard" Stylus uaxi ann, 4, lulled in a car- children died instantly. Their bodies were taken to Evans-Elliott Funeral Home in Houston. In other area traffic accidents: Carrol F.

Raines, 21, Rolla, train crash in Seneca on Oct. 10. They were the 17th and 18th victims of the 14th car-train crash in the Ozarks this year. was taken to Phelps County Hospital for treatment of neck and B. F.

PRICE. 34. Elwood. killed in a car-train accident in door, and was driven back when the windows exploded outward from the intense heat; Bunning to the back of the house, he found Mrs. Boyd, trying to climb to the roof to rescue her son and 'he restrained her with Mainer's assistance.

A short time later, Boyd's husband, Ell, employed at the Landers Building, arrived. Mrs. Boyd said the fire possibly started when her son placed snmp flAirimnhla nhioit in 4Iia back injuries suffered at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday on U. S.

66, then Automatic Elwood on Oct. 11, the 19th vic tim of the 15th car-train crash in miles west of Rolla, when he jr a i i jr 9 the Ozarks this year. Montclair was thrown from his car as he KENNETH. L. THOMPSON, ran off the road.

Two Fort Leonard Wood sol 22, waynesville, FRANCIS H. JORDAN, 50, and BARBARA diers were taken to the post bos- PJbojiQ both LOUISE SHERRELL, 17, treatment of auons sutierea at p.m. nesting swve. tie nan aone so on iuucu a iwu-tai crash on Mo. 28, two miles north past occasions, she said, but she Tuesday at the junction of Spur Route 66 and City Route 66 two of Dixon, Oct.

13. was able to remove the objects LORA MEADOR, 85', Wheat- before serious fires started miles east oi waynesville. They were Glenn R. Booth, 19, Funeral services will be in ontclair. land, injured Oct.

12 on Mo. 13 in St. Clair County in a two-car Herbert V. Smith Chapel with and William B. Fisk, 21.

Troop ers cited the latter on a com collision, died Oct 13. hi-fi Phono the Rev. George W. McBrayer JOHN F. WILHOIT, 58, Car plaint of careless and imprudent Portable Phono 4-Speed Portable thage, killed in a one-car acci Luggage-style Portable driving after he mad an improp dent at Sunshine and Fort Oct.

officiating. Burial will be in Ha-zclwood Cemetery. In addition to his parents, the boy is survived by two brothers, "'Joe Lewis Boyd, 525 North er turn and collided with Booth's car. Automatic 15 to become the 11th traffic vie Urn in Springfield this year. Deluxe Maestro" automatic rcrnrH r.hanper.

Tone con Mamie Benge, 56, Mountain all four speed spec as. rpm aaaprcr. 1 1 ji Eip-over Tone control. 85-306-1 C-J Campbell, and PauL stationed Grove, was taken to Mansfield matic shutoff. 8s-3ii-s trol, 45 rpm spindle.

85-310-1 r. with the Air Force on Okinawa. ROSALEE REYNOLDS, 55, Chicago, 111., killed in a car-truck crash on U.S. 63, ten miles Hospital for treatment of a sev ere laceration of the lower lip and facial lacerations suffered south of Rolla, Oct. 15.

JON HENRY LOGAN, 27, An LAYAWAY NOW USE YOlin CREDIT 0A5Y TEfifAS at 1:15 a.m. today on U. S. 60 in Mountain Grove. derson, killed in a one-car crash on McDonald County five miles north of Southwest City, Troopers said Mrs.

Sense's AM- Oct. 15. car crossed the centerline and MRS. ZOE L. NELSON, 77, of collided headon with a tractor-trailer unit driven by Dorsey E.

1 1 y. 1141 East Meadowmere, killed in a two-car collision at Jeffer 551 Church, 46 Wichita, who had pulled onto the shoulder of son and Bennett Oct. 15 to be the highway and stopped in or come the city's 12th traffic victim of the year. der to avoid the oncoming car. MRS.

OLIVE F. CURTIS, persons were released PHILCO from Burge-Protestant Hospital 54, Carthage, killed in a car-train accident in Carthage Oct. after treatment of injuries suf 8 16, to become the 20th victim of 12 fered at 6:35 p.m. Tuesday in a two-car crash at Campbell and Batteries or 1 sPker Radio Two-Tone Cabinet Transistor House Current Grand. Officer Ted Hobson said Gary Radio L.

French. 19. of 1048 South 7-TronsistorTape Recorder Thelma, was cited on a com Transistor Radio Compact size. Easy-tuning -0 dial, volume 1 control. 85-214 Telescoping Automatic volume volume plaint of failure to yield right of 2 ipeedi, with remote con- control.

way after his car collided with a tenna rSA full; rich J(J beige (J trol microphone. Recording Sir wif level indicator. (s-3j the 16th car-train crash in the Ozarks this year. JOHN COY LONGLEY, Mammoth Spring, injured Oct. 17 when a rock fell from a bluff beside U.S.

63 in Thayer and bounced through the windshield of his truck, died Oct. 18. GARY E. McCOY, 30, Shawnee, killed in a one-ear accident on Greene County about eight miles north of Springfield, Oct. 20.

MRS. NANCY M. WILKINS, iarphone, Ooftft carrying 15-241 an tarph tone. Smart art car driven by Rosemary battery, charcoal Case, case Evans, 21, of 1220 East Portland, who suffered possible On Pollution Water Talks Slated Here Some 40 southwest Missouri communities will be represented at a water "quality seminar to be conducted by the Missouri Water Pollution Board in council chambers at City Hall from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

tomorrow. Jesse Barlow, chief of ations for the board, will be assisted by Art Penniston of his office in the presentation. Purpose is to instruct those attending in water analysis and reporting methods to be used for compliance with the federal Water Quality Act of 1965. Missouri has filed the required water standards with the federal Water Pollution Control Authority, Barlow said. Under the act, municipalities must report to the state on materials being discharged by them into streams.

The Springfield meeting is one of a series being conducted state-wide. Barlow visited today with Paul Hickman, supervisor of sanitary services here, today. Has Springfield any current major problems In water pollution? Barlow explained that he returned to the state board last March, after service with the St. LCui3 Metropolitan Sewer District and at the Water and Sewage Treatment Technical School in Neosho, and so has not recently been in contact with the Springfield situation. "But 1 anticipate no problems, brcau.se you have a good man here to take care of them," he observed.

chest injuries. Her 14-month-old daughter, OS-It JH Valery, suffered possible head Injuries and Fern S. Hedrick, 62, 73, Route 2, Baxter Springs, of the 1'ortiand address, was treated for head and neck in juries. A two-car accident at 7:40 p.m. Tuesday on Mo.

37 in Pur-dy sent two persons to hospitals. killed when she drove her car into a train in Mindenmines Oct. 23, to become the 21st such victim of 17 train-involved accidents in the Ozarks this vear. LARRY LEE LAMBETH, 19, Osceola, killed in a one-car accident on Mo. 82 in Osceola, Oct.

28.. MRS. AGNES SMITH, 29, Raymondviile, and her children, 401 ST. LOUIS ST. DIAL UN 9-55TT Opal McGlothin, 58, Route 2, Purdy, was taken to Barry County Hospital for treatment of rib fractures and right knee lac Compact eration suffered when her car xj nnonoia 1908 S.

GLENSTONE DIAL TU 1-7788 SYLVIA, 7 CATIIRYN hit a vehiclo driven by Betty Sfereo Hi-Fi Two removable speakers Lou Kenney, 40, Route 2, Purdy, who was slowing to turn left. A passenger in the Kennedy vehicle, Juanila Linebarger, 44, Route 2, Purdy, was taken to St. Dsbxe Stereo Phono 40-watt peak performance. Fully JjfJT) transistorized, liecorator styled, with if i DIANNA, 4," JOHN WAYNE, 3, and MELISSA ANN, 1, killed in a two-car crash on Texas County a milt aast of Raymondviile, Oct. 31.

RANDY H. COHNEUSON. 16, Ozark, in car-motorcycle accident in Ozark, Oct. 31. SUNSHINE at CAMPEELl DIAL UN 9-5443 Dual volume control.

Portable 10 Vincent's Hospital in Monett for luggage-type case, is-321 treatment of back injuries. grainea walnut nnisn. 85-327-5 1 A Brookline couple was re leased from St. John's Hospital 0.