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1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 MRS. HARRY REESER DIES IN HOME AT 71 Mrs. Myrtle B. Reeser, 71, a lifelong resident of Macon County, died at 8:45 p. m.

yesterday in her home on Rural Route 1, Hickory Point Township. She was a member of the Forsyth Home Betterment Club and attended. the Forsyth Methodist Church. She also was an assistant 4-H club leader. Mrs.

Reeser was born in Macon County Sept. 11, 1882, a daughter of John and Mary Fisher Fetrow. She was married to Harry Reeser Nov. 4, 1903. Besides her husband, she leaves a daughter, Mrs.

Josephine Dennee, Mundelein, and a son, Walter F. Reeser, Oreana. Five grandchildren also survive. The body is in the Dawson Wikoff Funeral Home. Arrangements are incomplete.

MRS. ASTON, 96, OLDEST ATLANTA RESIDENT, DIES Lincoln, March 10 (Staff) Mrs. Martilla Aston, 96, Atlanta's oldest resident, died at 6:30 a. m. today in the Short Nursing Home in Atlanta.

She was born June 11, 1857 in Greencastle, a daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Sanford V. Pruitt. She has lived in the Atlanta community since she was a small girl.

Her marriage to J. R. Aston took place Jan. 30, 1872, and he died Jan. 24, 1933.

Surviving are daughter, Mrs. Fred Satterfield, two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. The body is in the Quiram Funeral Home, Atlanta. Arrangements are incomplete. DOUGLAS COUNTY GETS APRIL 14 DRAFT ORDER Tuscola, March 10 (Staff) The Douglas County selective service board has received a call for two men for induction and two men for pre physical examinations for, April 14, it was announced today.

They will report to St. Louis. Two men left today for physical examinations ordered in an earlier call. DECATUR HERALD Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers, Inc. 361-365 North Main Street Decatur, Illinois Entered as second-class matter October 17, 1931.

at pos office at Decatur, Illinois, under the Act March 3, 1879. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news printed in this newspaper as well all AP news dispatches RIVAL Contains LIVER DOG FOR GREATER NOURISHMENT FOOD and FLAVOR SEPTIC TANK CLEANING PROMPT SERVICE DUNN COAL PH. 1114 BONDED Ike Declares Congress Must Okay Any War Washington, March 10 (AP) President Eisenhower declared today the massive. military might America has poised for instant use will never go to war without prior congressional approval. Eisenhower said that was his answer to a news conference question about what the United States would do if an American technician is killed or captured in Indochina.

He said he wanted it clearly understood. Later, he authorized. direct quotation of his exact words. Drumming on the table before him and stamping his foot, the President asserted he is as concerned about the country's security as any person alive. "I am doing nothing in the security departments that I don't believe is for the welfare and the security and the continued safety of the United States of America," Eisenhower asserted, adding: "And I am not going to demagogue about it." That, came in reply to a request for comment on a speech last Saturday night by Adlai E.

Stevenson, the Democratic nominee Eisenhower defeated in the 1952 presidential campaign. Stevenson had questioned whether the military "new look" left the nation with "the grim choice of inaction or a thermonuclear holocaust." Eisenhower said there has been no change- none at all--in procedures of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation's top military strategy body. Asked what this country would do if one of the U. S. Air Force technicians helping the French in Indochina were captured or killed by the Communist guerrillas, the President replied: "There is going to be no involvement of America in war unless it is a result of the constitutional process that is placed upon Congress to declare it.

Now, let us have that clear. And that is the answer." There was no explanation of how this fitted in with Secretary of State Dulles' description of U. S. "massive retaliatory" power able to strike back instantly. In a speech at New York last Jan.

12 Dulles said: "The basic decision was to depend primarily upon a great capacity to retaliate, instantly, by means and at places of our own choosing." $1,500 FIRE DAMAGES TAYLORVILLE HOME Taylorville, March 10 (Staff) The home of Glen Ballard here received about $1,500 damage in fire Tuesday night. The blaze apparently started in the bedroom and spread to a clothes closet before. it was discovered. Members of the family were away and the cause of the fire has not been determined. All of the family's clothing as well as the bedroom furnishings were destroyed.

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Raupp and Son 139 North Water THU MAR 1954 Job. Decline Told; Trend Slowing Washington, March 10 (AP) The Labor Department today reported non-farm employment dropped by 300,000 in February but showed a slackening in the jobless trend. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell said February factory employment declined by 150,000 from January. He said non-manufacturing employment, although also down 150,000, was at a record high for this season.

"The employment downtrend of the past year continued through February but with signs of slowing down in the rate of Mitchell said in a statement. He said unemployment measured by claims for compensation insurance rose in February. Toward the end of the month, however, the rate of new claims was falling off "by more than the usual," he said. The monthly survey excludes farm workers, the self employed, domestic servants and unpaid family workers. The 300,000 decline in non-farm employment indicated the Census Bureau's report on all February employment would show an increase over the 3,087,000 jobless reported for January.

The Labor Department estimated non-farm employment in February at million, about 900,000 lower than a year ago. The reported winter jobless increase was largely centered in durable goods manufacturing, particularly transportation equipment like automobiles. The 150,000 February drop in factory employment was the smallest decline for any month since last fall. Non-manufacturing employment exceeded the previous record for February reached last year. LOGAN ASSESSMENT AIDE UP TO PUBLIC Lincoln, March 10 (Staff) If the people of Logan County want a supervisor of assessments, they will have to petition for a referendum, it was indicated at a meeting of the Board of Supervisors today.

Supervisors T. J. Gilchrist and Floyd M. Wendell, members of a committee studying the office of supervisor of assessments in other counties, made a report to the board. Committee members told of visits to Livingston, Mason and Christian Counties seeking information.

Gilchrist recommended the question be held over until the September meeting. EXECUTORS CHOSEN FOR TWO DEWITT ESTATES Clinton, March 10 (Staff) The wills of Dr. C. S. Bogardus and Nelson Hughes were admitted to probate in Dewitt County Court today.

Miss Katherine Bogardus was appointed executor of her father's estate and Mrs. Minetta Hughes was appointed executor of her husband's estate. CORSO NAMED MANAGER OF TAYLORVILLE BAND Taylorville, March 10 (Staff) Louis Corso has been named manager of the Taylorville Municipal Band to succeed Ralph Trost, who has resigned. James Humphrey is director of the band. The band commissioners are Andy Newman, Guido Bucelluni, Alvin Frisch, William Daigh Jr.

and Jack Cook. MOTHER DIES Mrs. Gertrude Augustine, Decatur, has been notified of the death of her mother, Mrs. Wilhelmina Skoda, 80, Tuesday in St. John's Hospital, Springfield.

Mrs. Skoda was born in Germany but had lived in Springfield 58 years. She leaves her husband, Carl, six sons and three daughters, 13 grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren. Services are to be Saturday at 10 m. in St.

John's Lutheran Church, Springfield. $1,400 Atlanta Estate Filed Lincoln, March 10 (Staff) Petition for administration of the estate of Cora Harless of Atlanta has been filed in Logan Court listing personai property valued at $200 and real estate at $1,200. Harold Harless of Pekin, a nephew, was named administrator. $2,572 Raised in Lincoln Lincoln, March 10 (Staff) The Salvation Army fund drive passed the halfway mark today, according to co-chairman Dr. James A.

Carey and Darrell Klink. A total of $2,572.70 has been received so far. WANTED SLED RIDE Mrs. Eugenia Frazier of Springfield, 88 years old Wednesday, pauses during a halfmile bike ride from the village with a handful of birthday cards she received from all parts of the country. Mrs.

Frazier planned to mark her, birthday, ride down a nearby hill but alas, there was no snow. (AP Wirephoto) McCarthy Continued from Page: of the rebuttal to Stevenson, added up to perhaps the heaviest slap the President has taken at the controversial senator from Wisconsin. Eisenhower was laughing, and he drew a big laugh in return, when he told reporters he was perfectly certain he wouldn't get through the morning without a question as to his reaction to Flanders' talk. "Now, certainly," he said, "I can agree with this part. The Republican party is now the party of responsibility, so charged by the peopie of the United States in the elective process.

And when Sen. Flanders points up the danger of us engaging in internecine warfare, and magnifying certain items of procedure and right and personal aggrandizement, and all such questions, to the point that we are endangering the program of action, that all the leadership is agreed upon, and we are trying to put across, then he is doing a service when he calls the' great danger to that kind of thing that is happening. "Now, I am not going to be in a position of endorsing every word he said or how he said it. I don't "But I do say that calling attention to the grave error in splitting apart when you are in positions of responsibility and going in three or four different directions at once is just serious. That is all." Eisenhower smiled grimly and his eyes flashed when he hit back twice at the speech in which Stevenson, the 1952 Democratic, presidential nominee, lit into both McCarthy and the administration.

Stevenson told a Democratic party rally at Miami Beach, Saturday night not only that the GOP is half McCarthy, half Eisenhower, but also that Eisenhower had been persuaded by "political plungers" that "McCarthvism is the best Republican formula for political Audience Backs Murrow In Blast at McCarthy New York, March 10 (AP) Thousands of phone calls and telegrams poured in on the Columbia Broadcasting System today in response to a denunciation of Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) by commentator Edward R. Murrow. CBS officials said the reaction was overwhelmingly in favor of Murrow. Murrow declared on his "See It Now" program Tuesday night that McCarthy repeatedly overstepped the line between investigation and persecution.

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