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THE CASE OF THE QUACKING DUCK ST, LOUIS ®—John W. Shannon was sentenced to a year in the | guilty of larceny. city workhouse yesterday because a duck quacked out of turn. The duck, hidden inside Sabn-'a duck dinner, ARCHER'S _ Superette Market The Best Deal In Town! It’s Natural At Archer’s! SEVEN BIG REASONS Why You’ll Always Get A Better Deal at ARCHER'S Courtesy Products Variety eCleanliness and Friendliness Well Stocked Shelves eValues Economy Prices Grade A Large EGGS = 5d¢ For Steak Lovers, We Repeat U.S. GRADED GOOD STEAK Round | by 5 e @ Sirloin Fresh Shipped Gr. 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Fernandez’ visit was his first here since 1945.—Citizen Staff Photo. AMMUNITION SHORTAGE PROBE | President Rhee Is Simple, Direct But Stubborn Man | Okie Hi School: SEOUL (#—Allied troops reoccu- | pied Seoul in September 1950, after jlanding at Inchon and routing the/| North Korean Reds. A throng of | Koreans gathered~in the battered! capital city to hear an address by ,|their white-haired President, Syng- man Rhee. It was a momentous occasion for the little man who had endured prison torture and 33 years of exile | in his long, relentless fight against monarchists, Japanese militarists and now the Communists, Ameri- cans present expected a dramatic, spine-tingli speech from the leathery-skinned Harvard and Princeton graduate. Rhee fastened a fond gaze on his People and said: “We have returned to our be-| loved city. Now let’s get the stink | out of the streets and get some trees on those mountains,” The incident illustrated" several | Points in the character of the 78-! year-old Chief Executive. He is a' | simple, direct man with no appar- ent affectations, but stubborn in| persisting for what he believes. is | best for his Korea. | He is a passionate lover of trees | and flowering things. He has a! mania for sanitation. | Today, in the midst of a great | armistice crisis which has found} him standing up both against the | Reds and the United Nations at! times, he still is exhorting Seoul | residents at least once-each week to clean up and plant. “The development of the coun- try is as important ss the armis- and with a second dog, Chindo.” | Rhee toyed with the bears and} stroked his terrier last Monday Julie Stone Is Cum Laude Grad |_ Miss Julie Stone, daughter of |Mr. and Mrs. Julius Stone, Jr. while. telling newsmen: “I am be- | Sradaated an inte: trom Wye ing criticized by everyone—except the Korean peoplé.” Rhee’s daily schedule begins, at} 6 a. m. After a light breakfast, | he reads newspapers for an hour then sketches Chinese characters on paper with a brush dipped in heavy black ink. Rhee, who in boyhood received a classical Chinese education, is highly proficient, at this form of painting. His characters spell out jming, Ohio High School af exer- cises attended by her parents last week. Julie won top honors in her school, being among the first five in her graduating class, as well as being in the first seven out of the class of 54 graduates. She alse made scholastic honors in a state- wide examination given by Ohio | State University. { such mottoes as ‘Respect heaven Estate Settled and love humans,” At 8:30 a. m., he goes to a large pond and feeds bread and rice to more than 100 goldfish. Then he walks to his office and receives. reports on the war. He consults with his ministers. B: 9:30 a, m., he is back in the garden receiving visitors and giving in-| structions ‘{o his secretaries, Just before noon, he sits down to his typewriter to bang out per. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. “ — Chan- cellor Charles E. Dawson ruled Tuesday that the $60,000 estate of ;@ Veteran Tennessee Valley Au- jthority engineer go to charitable | organizations—not to five brothers | and sisters “somewhere behind the |Tron Curtain.” Gregory Tour, the engineer, pulated in his will that the rela- ives be notified and, that they sonal letters or statements. Very |S0Me to this country to receive often they are appeals to his people , if bequests. The chancellor to plant trees, use coal instead of | Tuled that the Hamilton National wood for cooking and heating. At 12:30 p, m. daily, he lunches with his Austrian-by wife, Fresn- cesca, 20 years his junior, whom he Bank, executor of the estate, is not required to make further ‘search for Tour’s family, Bank officials said the State De- wed in 1934. His digestion is re- | partment declined to try to find markable. He eats what he likes, | TOUF’S brothers and sisters in Rus- including chicken, fish, beef and | S32 on the ground that such a pork. He pgefers Western food but | S°4Feh might endanger their lives, occasionally eats rice and some Korean dishes, After receiving visitors from 2 to BRINGS ADDED ALLOTMENT OF NEEDED FUNDS IN U.S. BUDGET Officials Say Urgently Needed As Peace Looms By ELTON C, FAY WASHINGTON —Now that the dust -has settled and debate has died away, the Army finds some solace in the senatorial investiga- tion of ammunition shortages, Economy trends had whittled ap- propriation proposals for ammuni- tion te a fraction of the requested amount earlier this year. But Con- gress and the administration, alarmed by the charges of pre- vious critical shortages in ammu- nition, restored to the budget much of the money originally requested for this purpose, it was learned today. Ammunition accounts for a iarge part of the $923,487,000 added by} the Eisenhower adininistration to } the original Truman administra- | tion budget item for Army procure- | ment and production. The new to- tal for Army production, as pro- | posed by the Budget Bureau on} the basis of Defense Department | +-] Page 8 | Money Is Still i recommendations is $2,471,799,000, Officials say the money is ur-| gently needed to build up reserve | | stocks of ammunition badly de-! |pleted by the heavy drain of the | first two years of the Korean War, | when new production facilities had | mot come into full operation. The Army was the only one of | the three services to emerge from | the administration's budget revis- | ing with more money than it would jhave had under the Truman! budget. | But Army officials say this is} | accounted for entirely by two fac- | | tors—the increased money for am-| | munition and the inclusion in the | | 1954 budget of items for the Ko- rean War, including the cost of | equipping additional South Korean } divisions The difference between reduc- tions made elsewhere in the Army budget and the increases for am- } munition and for operation of the {Korean War showed up in a net | [increase of $1,561,409,000 for the ! ‘Army, Total appropriation recom }mended for the Army now stands | at $13,671,000,000. While the cutbacks elsewhere in ithe Army budget were substantial jin some instances, officials gen- lerally do not consider them as jimpossible to meet j England's famous coronation lehair has been used at every qnation of a British < 1368. vereign A” REAI- KILLER BUG THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, June 11, 1953 Restrictions May Be Forced | On Secretary Benson Is Faced With Setting Up Crop Restraint By OVID A. MARTIN WASHINGTON ® — Secretary of Agriculture Benson, an avowed foe of government controls, today faced the prospect of having to apply restrictions on more crops in a single year than any of his predecessors, An official crop report yesterday put the wheat supply at a surplus level which—unless there is an un- foreseen major development —will Tequire Benson to invoke rigid} marketing quotas on the 1954 crop. Growers already have approved 1954 controls for the major types | of tobacco and for peanuts. Benson } announced this week he will im- pose marketing controls of this year’s production of sugar in Puerto Rico and in the domestic cane sugar area, | Reports on cotton planting indi-| cate production of this crop may put supplies in a surplus ¢lass also requiring controls on next year’s | production. Returning from a recent farm e rence in the Midwest, Under- Sec y of Agriculture True D. Morse said it appeared that the corn acreage would be larger this year than last. Thus, it would be possible for the corn supply to reach a surplus mark also requir- ing quotas next year. During the campaign last year, and state- s want @ t would nt dom le choice down on in ex- use of and m phes fied | B 759 million bushels a year, not in- cluding exports which have div>ed from a peak of about 500 million bushels after World War II to 360 million, Sweden was an important factor | in the settlement of what is now the United States, having founded a colony on the Delaware river in 1638. tice question,” he explained. }4 p. m., he plunges into the work His love is for a country in which | of receiving government reports March 2, 1875; which threw him| After a walk and a 7 p. m. din- in prison when, as a Methodist|ner, he listens to the radio, often! mission convert, he tried to stir{reads American books and maga-| up the spirit of democracy; and| zines. He was reading a book of | from which he was exiled, fieeing| poetry last Monday when a Com- | for his life soon after the Japanese | munist plane dropped a bomb took control in 1910. which shook his heme. He was . He returned to Korea in 1945) unperturbed, waiting calmly for a after Japan’s defeat only to be| police report that told him the; caught up shortly in a war which | bomb hit a school and injured two | kept him moving in and out of! teachers. . { Seoul as its fortunes swayed, | Just before retiring, he opens his; Rhee lives ia a fine, concrete and | Christian Bible and reads paesages | tile mansion on a Seoul hillside. He | aloud to himself and his wiie. Sat- spends many waking hours in his! urday nights he allows himself a spreading, beautiful gardens. | special treat—films from the U. S. | This week, when Gen, Mark Clark | Eighth Army. | flew to Seoul for an urgent con-| And ‘while the crisis eddies about ference over Rhee's bitter opposi-| him, Rhee sits in his garden as} tion to a truce with the Reds, they | impassive and ‘seemingly as age-| held their meeting in the “garden jless as Korea’s timeless mountain, | cffice.” A third party present was = | Rhee’s little brown and white ter-| The Italian government has tried | rier Smartie. to popularize metal coins, but the} Visitors often find him playing | people prefer paper money and} in the garden with two bear cubs, | the coins are returned to the banks. | Cross Marks the Spot Mother — Well, Jimmy, do you think your teacher likes you? Jimmy — I guess she does; she he was born under a monarchy /|and dictation, | puts a big kiss on all my sums. SPECIAL Complete Electrical TUNE-UP $5.50 for 6 Cyl. $6.50 for 8 Cyl. 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