Aiken Standard and Review (Newspaper) - July 22, 1963, Aiken, South Carolina library DEVOTED TO THE OF AIKEN AND AIKEN COUNTY PUBLISHED DAILY MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY UNITED PRESS INTERN WIRE SERVICE UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL WIRE PHOTOS KING FEATURE COMICS AND UNITED FEATURES 5C THE JOURNAL AND REVIEW ESTABLISHED 1918 THE AIKEN STANDARD Aiken South Carolina Monday July 22 1963 THE CAROLINA GAZETTE ESTABLISHED 1923 VOL 97 Rail Dispute Kennedy Calls Confab Today HYANNIS PORT Mass UPI President Kennedy Sunday summoned congressional leaders of parties to a White House conference Monday prior to submitting legislation aim ed at averting a nationwide rail strike The President will send to Con GOP Governors Rockefeller Get Together MIAMI BEACH UPI Re publican governors lined up with Gov Nelson A Rockefeller Sun day to fight in the open for ac tion on a civil rights declaration at this governors conference They termed a Democratic pro posal that the issue be debated without formal action nothing but sugarcoating on a gag rule which is to be considered Mon day The more limited proposal is being made by Gov Albert D Rosellini of Washington chair man of this 55th annual confer ence His executive committee is recommending that the confer ence return to its old rule of unanimity in adopting resolutions change that would wipe out all hope of action on a civil rights proposal The present rule per mits adoption of resolution by a twothirds vote Rosellini Issued statement that as chairman he will abide with nothing less than a rule of unanimity on the civil rights is sue He denounced those who he said are destroy or cause irreparable harm to this efforts to achieve political gain through the exploitation of civil rights problems He said he re ferred to those at both temes of the issue must speak either as one or not at all Rosellini said Circulates Petition Still trying to keep civil rights off the conference floor cratic Gov Edmund G Pat Brown oi California announced he was circulating a petition en the Kennedy administra tions civil rights program He said he would ask Rockefeller to sign it and hoped to get a ma of Democrats and some Re publicans to join gress a special message dealing with the continued threat of a rail Kennedy has worked on the message throughout the weekend with Theodore C Soren sen his special counsel Kennedy cruised Nantucket Sound Sunday aboard the White House yacht Honey Fitz with Gen Maxwell D Taylor chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said Taylor was invited more than a week ago to take a luncheon cruise with the Chief Executive The President cut short his Cape Cod weekend to return to Washington Sunday night to make a check on the rail situation before com the final draft of his con gressional message Kennedy previously had not planned to return to the Capital until Monday Works On Language During the weekend the Presi dent worked with his special counsel Theodore C Sorensen on language of the labor message which goes to Congress at noon Monday According to Press Secretary Pierre Salinger the Chief Exec decided to return to the White House Sunday night for ad work on the message and also because of a heavy work schedule in Washington on Monday Before leaving his summer home on Cape Cod the Presiden planned a leisurely Sunday o yachting and possibly golf in the late afternoon The President attended 10 am Mass at St Francis Church In Hyannis and was greet cd by the usual large crowd both inside and the church A teenaged girl caused aml nor stir just as the priest Fame James Dalzell left the altar Sh reached past Secret Service agents and newspapermen sitting behind the president and called Please Mr President The Chief Executive star tled and turned around He hesi then with a broad grin shook the girls hand and hurried out of the church Khrushchev Calls Meeting of Intensified Today Cold War Predicted MOSCOW UPI A cold war John G Wallenburg Aiken Man Fatally Injured In Fall John Geddings Wallenburg USN age 22 of 1306 Forest Hill Lane died In the Norfolk Va hospital Saturday as a result of injuries sus in a fall at his base Funeral services will be held in Aiken at a date to be announced later A native of Aiken Mr Wallen burg graduated from Aiken High School in 1959 attended Davidson College and the University of South Carolina He was a member of National Honor Society received the Yale Award and was a member of the band He was chess champion dt the of South Carolina in 1961 He was a member of St Thaddeus Episcopal Church In Aiken He enlisted in the United States Navy in January 1 1962 in the Guided Missile School at the time of his death Surviving are his parents Mr and Choppy Lake Ship Sinks 34 Persons Thought Lost QUEBEC CITY Que A fleet of coastal schooners fishing boats and a tug searched the cold waters of the St Law rence River east of here Sunday lor victims of a fog shrouded ship sinking believed to have claimed 34 lives Alphonse Matte chief inspector of the Quebec said 18 bodies had been ered Sixteen crewmen were mis sing since the British ore car rier sank early Satur day after being rammed by the British freighter Head Those still missing included Ar mand Lachance of He dOrleans Que Canadian pilot of 12 863ton Matte said 16 survivors of the collision including the captain had been taken to a vet trans In St Foy a Que bec suburb An inquest was scheduled for funday to identify the victims ol them Chinese crewmen the ore car tier Paul Magnon supervisor of the Quebec morgue said only one of the dead was not an Orl Priests Rescue Four After Boat Swamps NEW ORLEANS A priest swimming without a life jacket towed a teenage girl to safety through seven miles of choppy Lake Pontchartrain Saturday night and obtained help for three other persons hanging on to a swamped 18foot outboard motor boat Another priest held onto a the lake in the boat Saturday On Mrs Jessie George Died Last Night Mrs Onward George W of 928 Two Notch Road IE Aiken died at the Atken County at m Mrs George woe the widow at the Itte Jason George of Aiken girl and the dis abled boat for 11 hours until help arrived All five persons in the boat were reported recovering Sunday alter suffering exposure and exhaustion during the long ordeal The Rev John Sauvageau 45 pastor of our Lady of Gaudalupe Church there swam through sev en miles of gasoline covered water to pull Fagot 14 to safety Father Sauvageau who said he used to swim five miles regular ly reached shore with the girl in about five hours They then ran two miles along the lakes isolat ed northern beach to obtain help The Rev Baillargeon 40 of Natick Mass held onto the swamped boat and little Christy Martine from pm EST Sa turday until about 45 am EST Sunday when a Coast Guard heli copter crew rescued them Mrs Jeanne Martine secretary to Sauvageau was from the boat at about 7 pm Saturday She was still trying to swim the seven miles to shore when a St Tammany Parish county rescue boat picked her up about 3 am A Coast Guard spokesman said she was hysterical and crying for her daughter when picked up How ever she was treated at the St Tammany Hospital In Covington and returned to her home here told the priest to re main In btd Sunday But he sak had to for Baillar geon Sunday afternoon in seven the Massachusetts pries to deliver Funeral plans are to be went to a later 1 Covington on north shore o ie way back across the 24mile ake they stopped for a swim about even miles from shore and the oat became swamped when they tried to climb back In Mrs Walter G Wallenburg Aiken four sisters Mrs John C Miss Edith Wallenburg Miss Cath erine Wallenburg Miss Grace Wall enburg all of Aiken He was the grandson of Mrs Theodore G Tra ver and the late Mr Tarver and the late Mr and Mrs John WalLen burg ay of Aiken of mounting intensity between Moscow and Peking is expected to develop in the aftermath of the 15day meeting of top Soviet and Chinese ideologists Western observers predicted Sunday Complete failure of the talks was a foregone conclusion before the Chinese delegation arrived July 5 armed with a Peking de of June 4 which vir tually called for tion of the Russians from the Communist fold A de facto split of the once monolithic Commu nist bloc already had occurred The relatively restrained and patient Russians who until then had been on the receiving end of the Chinese ideological assault seized the and counter attacked According to Gafurov Chinese historians have described Khan as a cultural leader who harmonized Eastern and Western culture To Russian ears that sounds similar to saying that Adolf Hitler brought civilization to their country Foreign observers were also wondering whether the reference to Khan was directed at a reported Chinese claim to So viet spheres of Interest In outer Mongolia Soviet held areas in Si beria and the maritime Harriman And Hailsham Resume Talks With Soviets MOSCOW UPI U S Presidential Envoy Averell Harriman and Britains Lord Hailsham resume talks with the Soviets Monday which are expected to produce agreement on a partial nuclear test ban perhaps by the end of the week Marks Day In Cambridge CAMBRIDGE Md UPI Negroes of Cambridge attended church Sunday in a quiet day of by their leaders Only the roar of jeeps carrying armed National Guards mento their posts broke the Sunday calm Brig Gen George C Gelston commander of the 900 troops pa trolling city streets considered an appeal by Negroes for permission to stage daily 15minute prayer rallies on the courthouse lawn The Negroes said they would seek court action if Gelston re fuses their request Gelston has promised an answer by Monday morning Integration leaders In this strife wracked Chesapeake Bay com munity called a Sabbath of peace after another tense night in which troops dispersed white marchers with bayonets and one angry group of Negroes with tear gas Ae a measure of popular re action to Chinese attitudes two anecdotes are now making the rounds among Soviet Intellectuals What is a buffer state the teacher In a Polish elementary school asks The pupil replies Russia Search Made For Slayer Of Patrolman MANNING UPI An inten sive air and ground search was underway Sunday night for a 31 year old negro man wanted for the shooting of a highway patrol man near here Clarendon County Sheriff T I Jackson said 75 armed men and two airplanes from the State Law Enforcement Division were being used to track down Jack Green of Baltimore Md and formerly of Clarendon County The negro shot Ptl John B Humphries in the right arm with his own 38 service revolver and then fled in the officers patrol car Humphries was hospitalized here and was not believed to be in serious condition The search was centered abou 16 miles from here between Sum merton and Pinewood Green was The politicians in Lusaka call him persecutor and Despot Character To Be Summoned LONDON UPI Dr Stephen Ward playboy osteopath and art ist goes on trial on vice charges Monday amid speculation on the Identity of two more government ministers mentioned by a mem ber of Parliament as practical ly certain to resign The summoning of Important witnesses to establish Wards good name and character has been an The names of defense witnesses have not been dis closed but Ward had many fam ous clients as an osteopath and artist They include Sir Winston Churchill Elizebeth Taylor Sophia Loren the Duke of Edinburgh hus band of Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Snowdon husband of Prin cess Margaret But these charges make little Im pression on the 350000 Barotse land people Butler is now busy discussing the of Barot selands future But the talks which were expected to finish last Friday are now drag ging on into their second week Weekend Fires Cause Damage The Aiken Fire Department an wered calls to two fires over me weekend one late Friday atter noon the other Saturday night The first call from the home of Mr and Mrs G R Snell A grease fire spread from the stove and caused about damage to the kitchen of the Snell home which is located on Aldrich St Crosland Park The second call came from the home of Mrs W S Broughton who reported that lightning had struck her barn and set it on fire An unestimated amount of damage to the barn was caused by the blaze The Broughton home is located on York St Premier Nikita S Khrushchev aid over the weekend an agree ment is in sight on a treaty hat will halt atomic test ions under water in outer space and in the atmosphere At the same time Harriman Is expected to explore farther with Soviet officials Khrushchevs of er of a mutual exchange of in on Soviet and American to prevent surprise at ack diplomatic sources said The veteran US trouble shoot er plans to hold the seventh Big negotiating session Monday vith Soviet Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko and Hailsham Khrushchevs prediction rein arced a groundswell of diploma tic optimism that a draft nuclear agreement will be initialed in the next few days The Soviet leader strongly in Friday that he considers a partial nuclear test ing years of deadlock between East and the forerunner of a series of agreements that could sweep away the vestiges of the cold war including the Berlin and German problems Khrushchevs denunciation ol the Chinese as war mongers and his Insistence on negotiating with the West over bitter Peking op position appeared to be of the Premiers concern wit trying to achieve an agreement One Khrushchev proposal called for the stationing of foreign in on Soviet and American territory as well as In countries allied to them to reduce risk of surprise attack The plan was a revival of a 1958 Soviet proposal and a similar offer by the West last year Harriman Seeking Position To Strengthen MOSCOW UPI Diplo matic sources said Sunday the Soviet Union was wasting no time in trying to its position at the head of a divided Communist worW would begin its campaign at a Communist Summit Confer ence beginning Wednesday Premier Nikita S Krush chev issued the call for the meeting of leaders from tha East European Economic bloc COMECON immediately af ter the ideological talks ended last night at Pekings request after 15 days of fruitless argument A communique couched in gen eral terms was carried Sunday first by the Chinese Communist New China News Agency and la ter by the Soviet Tass Agency It was not called a joint com but was identical and aid little other than that the Chi nese asked for the recess Diplomatic sources said would use the Wed conference to shore up his on peaceful coexistence with the West which already has drawn wide support from foreign Communist groups in the wake of Russias split with China COMEON the Communist equi valent of the Common Mar ket Includes Czechoslovakia East Germany Bulgaria Romania Hungary Poland the Soviet Union and Mongolia Romania backed Khrush chev the with Chins has been seeking to lead a freer economic life Including trade with the West But it Ja expected fo Support for Khrushchevs stand rolling In from aboard Included praise Czechoslovakia In dia Italy Chile and even the out lawed West German Communist party and Hailsham may make further soundings on this issue but they are empowered to negotiate only a nuclear treaty More discussion was also expected this week on a Soviet proposed non aggression pact between Western allied and Communist Varsaw Pact nations Although has linked lie two proposals he carefully re rained from making a nonag pact a condition for a nuclear test ban Jean Hedrick Miss Aiken Swim Suit Winner at Beaufort Miss Ruth Henderson a 19yearold brown haired beauty was named Miss Queen of the Carolina Sea Islands VHI at Freedom Mall Satur day night to climax the month long eighth annual Beaufort Water Festival Miss South Carolina Carolyn Lee North Augusta who was also the reigning Water Fes tival queen crowned Miss Hender son the reigning Miss Columbia Carole Kuhn Miss Sumter was first Miss Aiken Jean Hendrick was second runner up Miss Hendrick won the swim suit competition Friday night The 24 competing beauties elect ed Miss Florence blond Sue Smith the pageants Miss Congenially Miss Henderson and Barbara Reckling the current Miss Columbia were In Friday nights swimsuit ion A 75unit parade kicked off the days spectators lined Beauforts avenues as 24 beauty contestants six guest queena military bands and attract ive rolled by The No 1 queen ol course was Miss South Carolina Carolyn Gabies of North Augusta A water ski pageant featuring members ol the Beaufort SJd Club performing specialty fol lowed the parade Ski clowns ballet girls and an 80yearold skier braved brisk winds and heavy traffic during the midday per form All activities Saturday New Miss Universe Receives Congratulations From Governor MIAMI BEACH UPI The annual conference which opens new Miss Universe leda Maria Vargas of Brazil received per sonal congratulations from Ar Gov Sun day and then was almost mobbed by tourists as she posed for pho ankle deep In the surl here Somebody pinch me I want to see if Im dreaming said the 18yearold coed who began her reign as the worlds most beau woman following her coro nation ball Sunday night took time out from pre liminary meetings of the US governors gathering here lor their Monday to preside at an Arkan sas friend chicken for Miss Universe contestants Miss Universe wearing a green dress with white polka dote her crown on her head and carrying her sceptre thanked Faubus and posed for pictures She did not have time to eat much but con that I love ita one of my favorite dishes celebrated her victory over 14 other finalists until the wee hours first at a backstage party and then at a luxury hotel reception around Freedom Mall on the bay The Malls new outdoor stage was the scene of Friday nights swim suit competition the first event of the festivals beauty pageant Miss Jean Hedrick of Aiken was the swim suit winner She measures An Aiken High student she Is a 55 brunette weighing 115 pounds The other swim suit ists were Barbara Reckling Cayce West Columbia Ruth Henderson Columbia Cheryl Davis George town Sylvia Gambrell Greenwood and Carole Kuhn Sumter Members ol the Marine Sport Parachute Gub Interspersed the days activities with freefall jumps into the bay Jumping In twos or threes the daredevils braved gusty coastal winds to free fall Into the water The spectators loved It The Coronation Ball for the Queen ol the South Carolina Islands VIII under the night lights was the soc ial ol the monthlong festi val Speed boat races another perfor mance by Howard and more water skiing ended the Sunday afternoon Khrushchev Sunday with President Leonid appeared Brezhnev at the annual Soviet American track meet which also was attend ed by US presidential trouble shooter W Averell Harriman Rail Strike Settlement Seems Doomed WASHINGTON UPI Gov efforts to settle the rail road dispute without seeking leg slation appeared doomed Sunday night despite me diation by Labor Secretary W Willard Wirtz Legislation to avoid a threat ened nationwide rail strike July 29 dispose ol the four year old controversy was readied lor sub mission to Congress Monday by President Kennedy Kennedy called democratic con gressional leaders to the White House Monday morning to talk with them before he sends his legislative recommendations to Capitol Hill The moned President union and also Bum management negotiators to his office for a fi nal discussion of the deadlocked work rules dispute Wirtz and other government of were scheduled to review Savannah Observes Quiet Day SAVANNAH Ga UPI Sa vannah police kept a ban on ra cial demonstrations Sunday and Negroes in Cambridge Md can celled a threatened march and observed a day penance Violence flared up briefly last night in both Savannah and Cam bridge but was quickly put down Guardsmen In Cambridge lobbed a tear gas shell to disperse a few defiant Negroes who had be gun pushing troops standing guard against demonstrations In Savannah riot police rescued a Negro photographer from a crowd of Ku Klux Klansmen who pounced on him when he tried to take a picture of the Imperial Wizard demonstrations spread to Somerville Tenn where police arrested 30 persons In a drug store last night The ors a few of them white re used to leave the drug store at he owners request In Ocala Fla police arrested six Negroes picketing a jail hold ng a white integration leader Sunday There were 38 arrests i the town Saturday and officials the administrations proposals at a White House breakfast Monday with Kennedy No Agreement Reached J E Wolfe chief negotiator for the railroads said no agreement has been reached during this weekends attempts for voluntary settlement by Wirtz and hie top aides But the cabinet officer contin ued a series oi talks with union leaders and recalled representa tives of the engineers and lire mens union to a second In his office this evening He met with them for 45 minutes earlier this said We will tolerate no vio marching or tions in Marlon County In Panama City Fla 36 in were arrested Satur day lor picketing without a mit More than 250 White and gro demonstrators through the downtown section Chapel Hill N C Saturday serenade a group ol arrested the day before Then were no incidents In the north Negroes and picketed two Lancaster Pa stores they accused discriminatory hiring
