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Page 6 THE PALM BEACH POST, MONDAY, MAY 23, Mrs. Doris Weeks, Long-Time Clerk Of Court, Dies MOORE HAVEN Mrs. Doris S. Weeks, 64, Moore Haven, who had been circuit court clerk here for the last 27 years, died Saturday at a St. Petersburg hospital.

A native of Sussex County, Mrs. Weeks had been a resident of Moore Haven since 1919. She was deputy clerk of the circuit court for four years prior to the appointment as clerk. She was a member of the First Methodist Church and the Woman's Club at Moore Haven. Survivors include her husband, Theodore W.

Weeks, two sons, Dr. Theodore W. Weeks, Sebring, and Roger Weeks, Moore Haven; two sisters, Mrs. H. K.

Thompson, Brookline, and Scott, Moore Haven, and five grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the First Methodist Church. The Rev. W.

C. Wood, pastor, will offciate, assisted by the Rev. W. S. Bozeman, of Miami.

Friends may call at the to 10:30 friends, may church Tuesday. morning from 8 call from 8 to 9 a.m. Burial will be at Ortona Cemetery, with Futch Funeral Home, Clewiston, in charge. Active pallbearers will be C. F.

Pressley, Ray D. Chamberlain, Judge J. N. Couse, Morris Crum, Fred Montsdecca son and J. Peeples.

There are 39 honorary pallbearers. Greeks May Protest UK Naval Exercise ATHENS, May, 22 (AP) The Greek defense ministry considering asking the NATO Mediterranean command to cancel a planned tactical naval exercise, a ministry spokesman said today. British warships and commands are planning a part in the exercise off Peloponnesus. Public opinion has been aroused by demands of the citizens of Cyprus, British island, for union with Greece. I Deaths And Funerals MRS.

BERTHA I. BEDLE. Grave- side services for Mrs. Bedle, 72, of 1117 Okeechobee who died Sunday night at a local hospital following an extended illness, will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, at Woodlawn Cemetery.

Rebbekah Lodge 76 will have charge of the service. Mrs. Bedle came here from New Jersey 30 years ago. She was a member, of of which Gardenia she was Rebbekah past noble grand, and also district deputy, and belonged to the United Spanish War Veterans Auxiliary. There are no known survivors.

Ferguson Funeral Home has charge of arrangements. Churches Split Over 200 Times LOS ANGELES, May 22-(P Presbyterians in national convention went to church today and were told that the number of denominations in the United States over 200-is so large it does make sense." But situation "is not quite mote so bad as it added Dr. Ralph Waldo Lloyd, president of Maryville (Tenn.) College. find that 98 pore cent of all American church members are in 77 denominations, and three fourths of them are in six or seven church families such as the Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist, Roman Catholic. And Christ's prayer "that they all may be one" is being slowly answered, Dr.

Lloyd said, partly through co-operative organizations like the YMCA, YWCA and Councils of Churches. Schuman Attacks Idea Of Neutralized Germany MARSEILLE, France, May 22 (AP) -Former Foreign Minister Robert Schuman today vigorously attacked the idea of neutralizing Germany as a trap and a deception. Schuman, now minister of justice, addressed a convention of his party, the popular republican movement. FINE FURNITURE Lamps and Accessories on Sale to Reductions WILLIAM STAMBERGER Interior Designers 247 So. County Rd.

Palm Beach C. West Photo NEW JAYCEE PRESIDENT -Billy Burns, right, installs Frederick C. (Ted) Prior as the new president of the West Palm Beach Jaycees at the annual installation banquet Saturday night. E. V.

(Jack) Faircloth, city commissioner, left, was toastmaster. (Continued from Page One) Violent Weather age estimated at from $100,000 to $200,000. The twister demolished one home, unroofed several others and sent splintering trees flying into scores of homes. The storm, tore the roof off a Masonic orphans' home. Between 200 and 300 children in the home lay prone on the floor and escaped injury.

The only injury reported was a crushed finger suffered by a woman when the wind slammed door on her hand. In flood-ravaged southern Colorado, more than 1,500 residents of Trinidad and Pueblo returned to their homes as flood waters receded. Public health authorities set up a vaccination program at Trinidad to guard against a possible outbreak of typhoid fever. Cooler weather moved across the northern Rockies into the northwest Plains and the mercury dipped to a frosty 24 at Fraser, Colo. But the National Park Service reported snowplows have opened all roads leading to Yellowstone National Park.

Memorial Day Services To Be Held Next Sunday JUPITER-Memorial Day Services will be held Sunday instead of on Monday, Memorial Day. Richard Bassett and Harlow S. Rood are in charge of arrangements for the ceremonies, which will at Jupiter Cemetery at 4 p.m. Jupiter School band start, will play. A clean-up day, spearheaded by Williams American Legion Post held Saturday afternoon, and a number of public spirited citizens with their garden implements, helped beautify the cemetery.

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For ELECTRIC Customers BILLS HERE! Rear OFFICIAL FPEL CO. PAY STATION 310 SO. OLIVE PHONE 2-4222 of Store Air Conditioned For Your Shopping Comfort Be Warned Against This During Finals GREENBUSH, May 22, (P)-A Gatzke, boy was recovering in a hospital here today after sighing too deeply while writing a school examination. Duane Nelson, 12, was bent over his test papers last week, a short pencil held in cupped hand. He took a deep breath and the pencil disappeared.

A doctor Duane, and found that the pe pencil was lodged in the student's stomach. The pencil was removed by surgery and Duane is expected to leave the hospital within the next few days. (Continued from Page One) Air Advance former Air Force secretary, recently demanded a full scale congressional investigation of whether Russia had outstripped this country in the military field, particularly air power. The President told his news conference last week it was "just not true" that Russia had grabbed the airpower lead. This was followed by a rash of pro and con statements from America's top military leaders.

(Aviation Week magazine reported today Russia has turned out "several thousand" supersonic MIG17 fighters compared to this country's "several hundred" comparable F100 Super Sabres. It also said Russia has made "at least 50 thousand mile an day fighters compared to this country's two, one of which was lost in a crash. Cootie Order Installs Carroll Seam Squirrel Sherman Bennett, past grand commander, installed the following officers of Scorpion Pup' Tent 16, Military Order of the Cootie, Saturday at the VFW Pillbox, 222 S. Dixie Harry E. Carroll, seam squirrel; Leroy De bay, blanket bum: James Hagerman, hide gimlet: Frances Dietrich, sky pilot; James H.

Dillon, CCDB; T. W. Stewart, shyster; Dr. G. M.

Dewoody, pill pusher; Jay Zeller, shirt reader; Alex Downie, jimmy legs; Charles Howard, hungry cooty and 18-month tightwad. Guests introduced, by outgoing Seam Squirrel Howard were: Alice Blinn, Margaret, Debay, Eunice McIntosh, Gillies, Larry Church and Paul Sandiford, City, and Bob Osborne Lee Fritz, Lake Worth. Sen. Russell Won't Run For President WASHINGTON, May 22 (P)- Sen. Richard B.

Russell of Georgia, who has been a leading Southern contender in the past, said today he will not seek the Democratic presidential nomination next year. Russell, who piled up a substantial bloc of votes at the Democratic national conventions 1948 1952, said in an "Absolutely not. I will interview; for the nomination this Venezuelan Airplane Crashes; 3 Missing CARACAS, Venezuela, May 22 (AP)-A Venezuelan airliner ing 13 passengers and a crew of three crashed into the Caribbean Sea near the city of Barcelona yesterday. Fishermen rescued nine passengers, the three crew members and found the body of one Venezuelan girl. The DC3 was only three minutes from Barcelona when it crashed.

The three missing were Venezuelans. Negro Woman Stabbed Lucinda Kingwood, Negro, 12th was stabbed with an ice pick in the left arm and back at 11:28 Rosemary p.m. Saturday according at 3rd to St. police. and A technical charge placed against another Negro woman.

The injured woman was treated at Pine Ridge Hospital. Officers said the wounds in her back were not serious. IN THE CITY The Girl Scout Council of the Palm Beaches will hold its spring meeting at 8 tonight at the First Presbyterian Church, corner of Evernia St. and Olive Ave. Porter Raulerson Post 20007, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will elect officer at 8 tonight at the Post Home.

A style square dance will in the Howard Park Western Recreation Center at 8 tonight under the sponsorship of the West Palm Beach Recreation Dept. Jack Davis will be the caller. The Palm Beach County, Medical Society will meet tonight at 8 in Good Samaritan Hospital. (Continued from Page One) More Safety Rules public as soon as possible as to the vaccine tests "he is now instituting." Chairman Lister Hill (D-Ala) said, meanwhile, he expects his Senate Labor and Welfare Committee to approve legislation tomorrow giving President Eisenhower broad power to control distribution and use of the Salk vaccine. Hill, sponsor of a bill to that effect, said it probably will be amended to grant the President's request for 28 mllion dollars to make sure no child is deprived of the vaccine once it becomes readily available.

On the basis of tonight's statement by Humphrey and sources close to the program, it appeared stricter testing standards already have been put into effect by the government. A conference Monday of top polio experts and vaccine manufacturers may decide whether these are sufficient or whether even tougher checking is desirable. The increased "spot" checks presumably have been and are being made on vaccine produced by major drug firms but held up awaiting a go-ahead from the government. There are known to be 4,280,000 cubic centimeters of vaccine enough for one shot for 4,380,000 children on hand that were submitted for government approval but held up the federal withdrawal of vaccine made by the Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, Calif. New batches also have been submitted since uphold on Cutter vaccine but the government has not disclosed how much.

There is also understood to be a considerable quantity of Salk vaccine in manufacturers' hands that has not yet been submitted to the government because of expected changes in testing methods. Mothers, Daughters Honored By Circle JUPITER A program honoring mothers and daughters attracted about 100 persons, following the dinner given by Mayflower Circle of Peoples' Congregational Church Friday evening at Parish Hall. Mrs. Judson Minear, Sunday school superintendent, was mistress of ceremonies. Mrs.

John DuBois gave a reading: the Rev. Forest W. Shively entertained with several piano selections and played "School Days" as an introduction to an Q. Panel" with "Billy Blinklater," moderator, who interviewed the following children; Judy Alexander, Karen Pietz, Sammy DuBois, Stephen Shively and Stevie Floyd. Mrs.

Mayme R. Coe sang solos, accompanied Mrs. H. R. Alexander.

Mrs. Mintear introduced a number of folks who have recently moved to Jupiter. The following mothers were given corsages; Mrs. Susan DuBois, 79, the oldest mother; Mrs. P.

Peterson, the youngest grandmother; Mrs. Loren A. Woodward, mother of most daughters. Man Injured As Car Leaps 12-Foot Ditch Willie Arthur Chastain, 29, Mercury was injured at 4:45 p.m. Sunday when his auto crashed into a tree in a pasture 300 feet past the dead end of Dillman Rd.

Deputy Sheriff Bob Day said the auto went between two road signs that were spaced only six feet apart at the end of Dillman hurtled over a 12-foot ditch, knocked down two posts as it crashed through a chicken run, passed close to a chicken coop and was halted 20 feet from a pond by the tree. Day said there were also several horses and cows in the pasture. deputy said Chastain received cuts, an injury to his lips and possible rib injuries. He was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital. Day charged him with reckless driving causing an accident.

The auto was estimated to be a total loss. Trucking Shut Down Tight Through West LOS ANGELES, May 22 (AP) Trucking activity in 11 Western states is "almost 100 percent shut down" and there is no sign of a break in the four-day-old tie-up, an industry official said today. Wade Sherrard, managing director of the California Trucking said only those companies whose contracts have expired are involveber of the dispute. additional There for-hire are haulers still moving under existing contracts with the AFL Teamsters Union, but these carry only about 10 per cent of the freight hauled in the 11 states, Sherrard said. Ask Us About the Right Wax for Your Floors FULLER BRUSHES Debutante Cosmetics 636 41st St.

Phone 4-0444 Woman Is Held In Fatal Shooting The former girl friend of a Negro man who was shot to death at the doorstep of 114 S. Tamarind Ave. is being held in on a shortly after 11 Saturday, night charge, of "investigation, of murder," according to police. A young Negro woman was also struck by a bullet. Officers said Roy Kelly, 39, city, died of a bullet wound in the head about an inch above the left ear.

Responding to a report of a series of gunshots, Patrolman R. L. Landry and D. M. Groome found the Negro sprawled on the front steps of the residence and bleeding profusely.

Hazel Perkins Brown, Negro, of that address, was discovered weeping in a room of the house. A .38 cal. revolver was found lying on a chest of drawers in the room by Landry. The woman was taken to police headquarters and then turned over to Deputy Sheriffs Bob Day and W. C.

Burney to be placed in county jail. Police said that Kaite Bell Green, 22, Negro, who lived at the same address, was hit in the left knee by a bullet. She was taken to Pine Ridge Hospital. Although witnesses told the police they heard four shots fired, detectives who examined the revolver said five or six shells in the gun has been discharged. Police quoted the Brown woman as stating the victim was "cussing her," and that she- used to go with him before she was married.

State Atty. Phil O'Connell, Police Capt. John Alge and several detectives and patrolmen investigated. Four Unknowns Drown to LOUISVILLE, 1 May 22, (AP) -Three women and a man, all unidentified, drowned in the Ohio River today when their boat capsized. LET'S THESE OFFERS SO WE CAN THERE ARE NO Choose from 8 Lovely UNFINISHED KNOTTY READY TO Reversible Straight Bookcase End Section Section $4.95 $9.95 Straight Bookcase Section 24" Wide $8.95 A and VANITY TABLE BENCH Attractive turned leg style, with swing arms for skirt; handy drawer.

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Almost 300 ing the evening. Bank Theft Clues Are Woefully Slim JACKSONVILLE, May 22 (UP)-Police pressed their so-far fruitless investigation today to identify and arrest a quartet of apparently professional bankrobbers who stole nearly $90,000 here Friday after holding a bank executive's family as hostages. 2 The robbery, carried out with stop-watch timing at the First National Bank, was the biggest bank holdup in Alabama history and state and local police and FBI are baffled as to where the criminals took refuge. Four of the men used a 1952 Oldsmobile, repossessed by the bank, to flee town. But the car was found abandoned about a mile north of here.

"Police apparently tracks switched where cars, but the were able only to find three sets of tracks. Plaster casts were made of them, giving police their first solid clue. Piecing together the conversations of the robbers, officers also said it appeared one of the men was a dope addict. They said one of the robbers told Mrs. Jesse Wood, while she was held hostage, that she should never let her children use dope.

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A group of 150 delegates from four AFL and CIO unions in 11 Southern states gathered here. They prepared to buttonhole their senators and congressmen tomorrow on 'the matter." An increase to $1.25 would have its greatest impact in the South where pay rates generally are lower than in the North. Organized labor is seeking such a hike. A Senate labor subcommittee completed hearings on the administration's proposal to raise minimum wage to 90 cents an hour and to extend coverage to another 2 million workers. The union delegation came from the AFL International Ladies Garment Workers Union the hat, cap and millinery workers union, the ers Union and the workers CIO Amalgamated WorkClothing, union.

The delegates hailed from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina and South Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. The delegates met with CIO and AFL legislative experts tonight for a "briefing on legislative problems involved in the minimum wage law amendments." HEAR BETTER and Change A Single 15c Battery Only Once In An Entire Month! See The 3-Transistor Zenith "Royal-T" Hearing Aid $1251 M. E. Scalise, Dispensing Optician 425 Clematis Ph. 7975 TO COME IN GUARANTEE TOWN ONE WEEK OLD WHAT A WEEK.

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