Barn crossing hearing00set
xesidents ann ousmess-
are mounting a drive to
the closing of the road
on U.S. 61 at the
red barn located south
and will present
case at a hearing in
City Jan. 11.
of about 20 local
businessmen and
C-1 school officials
held Dec. 28 at a business
near the crossing.
Beilstein, owner of
Camper Sales, and a
of the group, said the
was held to organize
effort to stop the State
sway Department from
the intersection. Bell-
indicated the group was
a petition in the
to protest the closing
the entire section of U.S.
made limited access.
the closing was in
E CANTON
the original plans, 98 percent
of the veovle didn't realize it
(the red burr: crossing; would
be closed untl recently," said
Beilstein.
A hearing )efore the State
Highway C.mmissioa has
been schediled for next
Wednesday, ,n. 11, in Jeffer-
son City. :eilstein hoped
several peole could attend
the hearing nd present their
case before he Commission.
However, hefelt the timing
was bad bemuse several of
the people cldn't get away
to attend thehearing on that
date.
Another hvinessman, Leon
Jones of Rsey-Jones Mo-
bile Homes id he has been
writing lettes to "everyone
he could thig of" to prevent
the closing o the intersection.
Jones said tP- only reasons he
has been givn for the closing
is the danger of the intersec-
tion and the road was
designed as a limited access
highway.
"Safety is not a factor,
there is good visibility both
ways. The present crossing
has been there over a year
and there have been no
accidents that I know of. It's
not nearly as dangerous as the
intersection at Taylor," said
Jones.
Both Beilstein and Jones felt
the "red barn" intersection
was being singled out. "We
wouldn't protest the closing if
the highway was made limited
access all the way up and
down," said Jones. "There
are some 11 crossings in 15
miles on 61 south of Taylor,
yet this is the only one they
are planning to close," he
added.
Beilstein said the closing
would affect his business
along with that of Ramsey-
Jones and May's CB Sales. He
listed others affected by the
crossing being closed would
be the Highland School Dis-
trict bus routes, mailmen,
residents of the Ramsey-Jones
Trailer Park and ""about 30
farmers."
Opponents to the closing
said the closing in itself would
cause more of a hazard than
the intersection is now. "If
they close it, then many
farmers will have to use the
highway to move farm ma-
chinery to different fields
instead of using the back
roads like they do now with
the crossing at the red barn,"
Beilstein said.
The crossing is scheduled to
be closed upon the completion
of the new Wakonda State
Park exit.
SS-
AND THI LEWIS COUNTY
' THURSDAY. fAN. 5, 1978
i,
Historic house razed
Wall of the olCt.musle building aLlver-Stoekton College
comes crashingdown, as fire-ravaged building was razed
last week by Jin Pierce Excavating Co. Building was
second oldest on the campus, and had originally been a
home for the college president. In later years it was used
for sorority hoUS-tball durra, and classrooms, before
being moved toew foundation to make room for
construction of tht';dys Crown Student Center building.
distribut00l New topographic maps of
and clothing
Christmas Kahoka & St. Patrick available
to the generous giving
Lewis Countians, the NE-
office was able to make
more joyous in 22
throughout the county.
were 45 children re-
toys, .dolls and cloth-
which had been painted,
cleaned and dressed
friends who volunteered.
Grandparents repaired
dressed several dolls.
in making decorations
homes was another assist-
given some children in
NECAC office.
clothing and
are accepted the year-
for those in need at the
office, 505 Clark St.,
288-3969 and someone
be glad to pick them up.
SECTIONS- 16 PAGES
reports of the
Basketball Tourna-
fill three pages, begin-
with page 3b.
pre-inventory,
end of the year sales can
big savings for yon!
the display advertising
hunt this first-of-the-
5a
6a,7a
lb
3b,4b,5b
6b
Sb
7b
$ue.
News
Ads
News
News
Notices
News
Two photorevised 7rmin-
ute topographic maps of the
Kahoka and St. Patrick
Quadrangels in northeast Mis-
souri are now available from
the Division of Geology and
Land Survey, Missouri De-
partment of Natural Re-
sources in Rolla, State Geolo-
gist Wallace B. Howe an-
nounced. Aerial photographs
were used as a basis for
printing changes in light
purple ink over regular topo-
graphic maps made more
than 28 years ago.
The photorevised maps,
drawn on a scale of one inch,,
to 2,000 feet on the ground and
covering about 60 square
miles each, are sought after
by builders, engineers, plan-
ners and architects in urban
areas who find them indis-
pendable in their work.
The newly released maps
show physical characteristics
in portions of Clark and Lewis
Counties, Dr. Howe said. The
shape of the land surface, or
Completing plans
for Jamboree
Plans are nearly complete
for the Canton Festival Theat-
re Players Western Jamboree
to be held Saturday, Jan. 14,
beginning at 9 p.m. at Gladys
Crown Student Center.
Tickets are on sale at
several downtown businesses.
x.
)
\\;
t
CLARK "
/
CO, ..., i
4, ,,
L_ LEWIS CO.
../..-.-
topography, is defined by thin
brown lines that follow tht
contours of hills and valleys.
Each line is drawn at a
specific elevation so that map
users can find the elevation
above sea level at any given
point.
The spacing of these lines
tells the map reader how
steep the slopes are (the
closer the lines, the steeper
the slope).
Water features, including
parts of Wyaconda River, Fox
River, Honey Creek and
Ramsey Branch are shown in
blue. Black is used for
buildings, cemeteries, place
names and other works of
man. By studying the maps,
you can locate houses (yours
perhaps), the towns of St.
Patrick, Kahoka and Revere;
Stone School; and Cedar
Grove Church. Surfaced roads
or highways, township boun-
daries and sections lines are
red. Green indicates timber,
orchards or other vegetation.
Housing developments, of-
fice buildings, roads or high-
ways built since 1949 are
shown in light purple on the
photorevised maps. These
include the urban develop-
ment around Kahoka; High-
ways 81 and 136; as well as
numerous ponds and quarries.
Maps such as these are
particularly helpful jn plan-
ning construction that might
be affected by physcial fea-
tures. Factories and homes
are easier and more economi-
cal to build if the terrain is
satisfactory. Highways, rail-
(Continled on page 4a)
Ffming Frontiers
to be shown in
£cmton on Jan. 10
ge Nichols of Nichols
Imp'ent Co., John Deere
deato in Canton, will present
the lhrming Frontiers Seven-
ty-Eiht Tuesday, Jan. 10 at 7
p.m. the Methodist Church
edna nal building.
'itfast moving, once-a-
year, [arm oriented film
pro|ra|, with new ideas in
faro nnagement techniques
anda l'k at new John Deore
equ/pm t, such as the new
MaEI 'ge planter in action
Two local residents using the intersection at U.S. 61 a
Landmark red barn located south of LaGrange. The State High
Department proposes to close the intersection upon
O/ crossin00 completion of new exit two miles north of" the red
crossing.
Local government cost lower than
xl-: ,,.I-:l(;l-:s NO. 1
Closed noon
hour at R.V
begins Jan. 23
The R-V Board of Education
voted last fall to institute a
closed noon hour for elemen-
tary students second semes-
ter. A closed noon hour means
that all students grades 1-6
will be expected to remain at
school under school supervi-
sion during the lunch period.
The school lunch program
provides a hot lunch at a daily
cost of 50 cents per student or
the student may bring his or
her own lunch from home to
oe catn in the iunchroom.
Mrs. Sunderland, Elemen-
tary Principal, indicates that
the closed noon hour will
begin the first full week of the
second semester on Monday,
Jan. 23. Any questions con-
cerning the closed noon hour
for grades I-6 may be directed
to the elementary office.
average for Lewis Co. residents
For residents of Lewis
County, is the cost of local
government higher or lower
than it is for people in other
areas?
What is their tax load, per
capita, for the operation of
their state and local govern-
ments?
As in every other section of
the country, with the outlays
for public services increasing
year by year, the tax burden
has been growing heavier.
The demand is for more
police protection, better
schools, improved health facil-
ities, additional roads and
highways, more welfare and a
host of other needs and wants.
All of which cost money.
The result has been, accord-
ing to a national study by the
Cummtrce Cieaciig Hote, an
authority on taxes, that the
cost of running state and local
governments in the United
States rose by an average of
$67 per capita in the past
fiscal year, reaching a new
high of $731. As recently as
1970 it was only $427.
In Lewis County, on the
basis of its figures and data
Jack Whit00cks purchase
Tritsch Liquor Store
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Whitiock
of Canton have purchased the
.Tritsch Liquor Store located
at the corner of Clark and the
Avenue of Missourians in
downtown Canton.
The Whitlocks purchased
the business from Wayne
Tritsch and took over owner-
ship of the store on January 1.
Whitlock indicated the store
would remain much the same
as it bad under the previous
owner, with he and his wife
the principal operators of the
store. Hours will be from 8
a.m. to 10 P.m., however, he
hoped to be able to expand the
hours in the near future. The
business has been renamed
Jack's Package Liquor.
Whiflock said he was "look-
ing forward to serving the
customers, both old and new."
from local sources, such taxes
came to approximately $550 in
the year.
Elsewhere in the State of
Missouri, the average was
$570, which was $47 more than
in the year before. The tax
load in the West North Central
States as a whole was $668.
Unusually large welfare
costs, special housing pro-
blems and other local condi-
tions are the reasons for the
high rates prevailing in some
communities. In some others,
inefficient management is the
answer.
In many localities, despite
higher taxes, the amounts
collected were not sufficient to
cover necessary operating
expenditures, with the results
that they were forced to find
new sources of revenue or go
deeper into debt.
All in all, taxes in the
amount of $156.8 billion were
collected by state and local
governments in the past year.
This was 10.8 per cent more
than in the prior year.
In Lewis County, the tax
load came to an estimated
$5,885,000.
Grant $16 million
loan to Continental
Telephone Co.
Congressman Harold Volk-
mer announced the approval
Of a $16,050,300 Rural Tele-
phone Bank Loan to the
Continental Telephone Com-
pany of Missouri by the Rural
Electrification Administra-
tion.
The funds will enable the
company to finance facilities
to connect 4,077 additional
customers, to construct 153
miles of new line, to upgrade
service in 34 exchanges to
one- and four-party lines and
to make system improve-
merits.
Continental Telephone,
which is located in Wentzville,
serves the Ninth District
counties of St. Charles, Aud-
rain, Clark, Knox, Lewis,
Lincoln, Macon, Monroe,
Montgomery, Ralis, Scotland
and Warren.
Eugene Fix is the president
and manager of Continental
Telephone Company of Mis-
souri.
Jan. 16 deadline
for disaster loan
applications
Farmers m t'/ northeast
Missouri counties have until
Jan. 16 to apply for long-term,
low-interest disaster loans,
according to Congressman
Harold L. Volkmer (9th
DistrictL
The counties are Audrain,
Clark, Knox, Lewis, Macon,
Marion, Monroe, Pike, Put-
ham, Rails, Scotland, Schuy-
ler, Shelby, Callaway, Lin-
coln, Montgomery and Ran-
dolph.
Drought application forms
can be obtained through the
SBA and through Volkmer's
office in the Federal Building
at Hannibal.
R.V Board to meet
Canton R-V's Board of
Education will meet in regu-
lar session on Monday, Jan. 9,
at 7:30 p.m. at the high
school.
All regular meetings of the
board are open to the public.
New Canton Police car
City Administrator Jim Smith, left, and Alderman Boy
Thirtyacre present keys to a 'new' ol|¢e car to Chief
Randal Hill. The 1975 Plymouth Grand FUry, a former
state patrol car, was secured from Missouri State Surplus
in Jefferson City for $1395 by sealed bids, and brout to
Canton this week. The other police car, recently dama
in an accident, will be used as a backup car when repaired.
Barn crossing hearing00set
xesidents ann ousmess-
are mounting a drive to
the closing of the road
on U.S. 61 at the
red barn located south
and will present
case at a hearing in
City Jan. 11.
of about 20 local
businessmen and
C-1 school officials
held Dec. 28 at a business
near the crossing.
Beilstein, owner of
Camper Sales, and a
of the group, said the
was held to organize
effort to stop the State
sway Department from
the intersection. Bell-
indicated the group was
a petition in the
to protest the closing
the entire section of U.S.
made limited access.
the closing was in
E CANTON
the original plans, 98 percent
of the veovle didn't realize it
(the red burr: crossing; would
be closed untl recently," said
Beilstein.
A hearing )efore the State
Highway C.mmissioa has
been schediled for next
Wednesday, ,n. 11, in Jeffer-
son City. :eilstein hoped
several peole could attend
the hearing nd present their
case before he Commission.
However, hefelt the timing
was bad bemuse several of
the people cldn't get away
to attend thehearing on that
date.
Another hvinessman, Leon
Jones of Rsey-Jones Mo-
bile Homes id he has been
writing lettes to "everyone
he could thig of" to prevent
the closing o the intersection.
Jones said tP- only reasons he
has been givn for the closing
is the danger of the intersec-
tion and the road was
designed as a limited access
highway.
"Safety is not a factor,
there is good visibility both
ways. The present crossing
has been there over a year
and there have been no
accidents that I know of. It's
not nearly as dangerous as the
intersection at Taylor," said
Jones.
Both Beilstein and Jones felt
the "red barn" intersection
was being singled out. "We
wouldn't protest the closing if
the highway was made limited
access all the way up and
down," said Jones. "There
are some 11 crossings in 15
miles on 61 south of Taylor,
yet this is the only one they
are planning to close," he
added.
Beilstein said the closing
would affect his business
along with that of Ramsey-
Jones and May's CB Sales. He
listed others affected by the
crossing being closed would
be the Highland School Dis-
trict bus routes, mailmen,
residents of the Ramsey-Jones
Trailer Park and ""about 30
farmers."
Opponents to the closing
said the closing in itself would
cause more of a hazard than
the intersection is now. "If
they close it, then many
farmers will have to use the
highway to move farm ma-
chinery to different fields
instead of using the back
roads like they do now with
the crossing at the red barn,"
Beilstein said.
The crossing is scheduled to
be closed upon the completion
of the new Wakonda State
Park exit.
SS-
AND THI LEWIS COUNTY
' THURSDAY. fAN. 5, 1978
i,
Historic house razed
Wall of the olCt.musle building aLlver-Stoekton College
comes crashingdown, as fire-ravaged building was razed
last week by Jin Pierce Excavating Co. Building was
second oldest on the campus, and had originally been a
home for the college president. In later years it was used
for sorority hoUS-tball durra, and classrooms, before
being moved toew foundation to make room for
construction of tht';dys Crown Student Center building.
distribut00l New topographic maps of
and clothing
Christmas Kahoka & St. Patrick available
to the generous giving
Lewis Countians, the NE-
office was able to make
more joyous in 22
throughout the county.
were 45 children re-
toys, .dolls and cloth-
which had been painted,
cleaned and dressed
friends who volunteered.
Grandparents repaired
dressed several dolls.
in making decorations
homes was another assist-
given some children in
NECAC office.
clothing and
are accepted the year-
for those in need at the
office, 505 Clark St.,
288-3969 and someone
be glad to pick them up.
SECTIONS- 16 PAGES
reports of the
Basketball Tourna-
fill three pages, begin-
with page 3b.
pre-inventory,
end of the year sales can
big savings for yon!
the display advertising
hunt this first-of-the-
5a
6a,7a
lb
3b,4b,5b
6b
Sb
7b
$ue.
News
Ads
News
News
Notices
News
Two photorevised 7rmin-
ute topographic maps of the
Kahoka and St. Patrick
Quadrangels in northeast Mis-
souri are now available from
the Division of Geology and
Land Survey, Missouri De-
partment of Natural Re-
sources in Rolla, State Geolo-
gist Wallace B. Howe an-
nounced. Aerial photographs
were used as a basis for
printing changes in light
purple ink over regular topo-
graphic maps made more
than 28 years ago.
The photorevised maps,
drawn on a scale of one inch,,
to 2,000 feet on the ground and
covering about 60 square
miles each, are sought after
by builders, engineers, plan-
ners and architects in urban
areas who find them indis-
pendable in their work.
The newly released maps
show physical characteristics
in portions of Clark and Lewis
Counties, Dr. Howe said. The
shape of the land surface, or
Completing plans
for Jamboree
Plans are nearly complete
for the Canton Festival Theat-
re Players Western Jamboree
to be held Saturday, Jan. 14,
beginning at 9 p.m. at Gladys
Crown Student Center.
Tickets are on sale at
several downtown businesses.
x.
)
\\;
t
CLARK "
/
CO, ..., i
4, ,,
L_ LEWIS CO.
../..-.-
topography, is defined by thin
brown lines that follow tht
contours of hills and valleys.
Each line is drawn at a
specific elevation so that map
users can find the elevation
above sea level at any given
point.
The spacing of these lines
tells the map reader how
steep the slopes are (the
closer the lines, the steeper
the slope).
Water features, including
parts of Wyaconda River, Fox
River, Honey Creek and
Ramsey Branch are shown in
blue. Black is used for
buildings, cemeteries, place
names and other works of
man. By studying the maps,
you can locate houses (yours
perhaps), the towns of St.
Patrick, Kahoka and Revere;
Stone School; and Cedar
Grove Church. Surfaced roads
or highways, township boun-
daries and sections lines are
red. Green indicates timber,
orchards or other vegetation.
Housing developments, of-
fice buildings, roads or high-
ways built since 1949 are
shown in light purple on the
photorevised maps. These
include the urban develop-
ment around Kahoka; High-
ways 81 and 136; as well as
numerous ponds and quarries.
Maps such as these are
particularly helpful jn plan-
ning construction that might
be affected by physcial fea-
tures. Factories and homes
are easier and more economi-
cal to build if the terrain is
satisfactory. Highways, rail-
(Continled on page 4a)
Ffming Frontiers
to be shown in
£cmton on Jan. 10
ge Nichols of Nichols
Imp'ent Co., John Deere
deato in Canton, will present
the lhrming Frontiers Seven-
ty-Eiht Tuesday, Jan. 10 at 7
p.m. the Methodist Church
edna nal building.
'itfast moving, once-a-
year, [arm oriented film
pro|ra|, with new ideas in
faro nnagement techniques
anda l'k at new John Deore
equ/pm t, such as the new
MaEI 'ge planter in action
Two local residents using the intersection at U.S. 61 a
Landmark red barn located south of LaGrange. The State High
Department proposes to close the intersection upon
O/ crossin00 completion of new exit two miles north of" the red
crossing.
Local government cost lower than
xl-: ,,.I-:l(;l-:s NO. 1
Closed noon
hour at R.V
begins Jan. 23
The R-V Board of Education
voted last fall to institute a
closed noon hour for elemen-
tary students second semes-
ter. A closed noon hour means
that all students grades 1-6
will be expected to remain at
school under school supervi-
sion during the lunch period.
The school lunch program
provides a hot lunch at a daily
cost of 50 cents per student or
the student may bring his or
her own lunch from home to
oe catn in the iunchroom.
Mrs. Sunderland, Elemen-
tary Principal, indicates that
the closed noon hour will
begin the first full week of the
second semester on Monday,
Jan. 23. Any questions con-
cerning the closed noon hour
for grades I-6 may be directed
to the elementary office.
average for Lewis Co. residents
For residents of Lewis
County, is the cost of local
government higher or lower
than it is for people in other
areas?
What is their tax load, per
capita, for the operation of
their state and local govern-
ments?
As in every other section of
the country, with the outlays
for public services increasing
year by year, the tax burden
has been growing heavier.
The demand is for more
police protection, better
schools, improved health facil-
ities, additional roads and
highways, more welfare and a
host of other needs and wants.
All of which cost money.
The result has been, accord-
ing to a national study by the
Cummtrce Cieaciig Hote, an
authority on taxes, that the
cost of running state and local
governments in the United
States rose by an average of
$67 per capita in the past
fiscal year, reaching a new
high of $731. As recently as
1970 it was only $427.
In Lewis County, on the
basis of its figures and data
Jack Whit00cks purchase
Tritsch Liquor Store
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Whitiock
of Canton have purchased the
.Tritsch Liquor Store located
at the corner of Clark and the
Avenue of Missourians in
downtown Canton.
The Whitlocks purchased
the business from Wayne
Tritsch and took over owner-
ship of the store on January 1.
Whitlock indicated the store
would remain much the same
as it bad under the previous
owner, with he and his wife
the principal operators of the
store. Hours will be from 8
a.m. to 10 P.m., however, he
hoped to be able to expand the
hours in the near future. The
business has been renamed
Jack's Package Liquor.
Whiflock said he was "look-
ing forward to serving the
customers, both old and new."
from local sources, such taxes
came to approximately $550 in
the year.
Elsewhere in the State of
Missouri, the average was
$570, which was $47 more than
in the year before. The tax
load in the West North Central
States as a whole was $668.
Unusually large welfare
costs, special housing pro-
blems and other local condi-
tions are the reasons for the
high rates prevailing in some
communities. In some others,
inefficient management is the
answer.
In many localities, despite
higher taxes, the amounts
collected were not sufficient to
cover necessary operating
expenditures, with the results
that they were forced to find
new sources of revenue or go
deeper into debt.
All in all, taxes in the
amount of $156.8 billion were
collected by state and local
governments in the past year.
This was 10.8 per cent more
than in the prior year.
In Lewis County, the tax
load came to an estimated
$5,885,000.
Grant $16 million
loan to Continental
Telephone Co.
Congressman Harold Volk-
mer announced the approval
Of a $16,050,300 Rural Tele-
phone Bank Loan to the
Continental Telephone Com-
pany of Missouri by the Rural
Electrification Administra-
tion.
The funds will enable the
company to finance facilities
to connect 4,077 additional
customers, to construct 153
miles of new line, to upgrade
service in 34 exchanges to
one- and four-party lines and
to make system improve-
merits.
Continental Telephone,
which is located in Wentzville,
serves the Ninth District
counties of St. Charles, Aud-
rain, Clark, Knox, Lewis,
Lincoln, Macon, Monroe,
Montgomery, Ralis, Scotland
and Warren.
Eugene Fix is the president
and manager of Continental
Telephone Company of Mis-
souri.
Jan. 16 deadline
for disaster loan
applications
Farmers m t'/ northeast
Missouri counties have until
Jan. 16 to apply for long-term,
low-interest disaster loans,
according to Congressman
Harold L. Volkmer (9th
DistrictL
The counties are Audrain,
Clark, Knox, Lewis, Macon,
Marion, Monroe, Pike, Put-
ham, Rails, Scotland, Schuy-
ler, Shelby, Callaway, Lin-
coln, Montgomery and Ran-
dolph.
Drought application forms
can be obtained through the
SBA and through Volkmer's
office in the Federal Building
at Hannibal.
R.V Board to meet
Canton R-V's Board of
Education will meet in regu-
lar session on Monday, Jan. 9,
at 7:30 p.m. at the high
school.
All regular meetings of the
board are open to the public.
New Canton Police car
City Administrator Jim Smith, left, and Alderman Boy
Thirtyacre present keys to a 'new' ol|¢e car to Chief
Randal Hill. The 1975 Plymouth Grand FUry, a former
state patrol car, was secured from Missouri State Surplus
in Jefferson City for $1395 by sealed bids, and brout to
Canton this week. The other police car, recently dama
in an accident, will be used as a backup car when repaired.
