Bakersfield Californian (Newspaper) - June 10, 1961, Bakersfield, California v Tomorrow 04 Total Normal for Dale This 4 30 Kern Outflow Bank Deblla i n tte thwart Sunday 74 FIVE SECTIONS 10 CENTS PSR COPY JUNE MONTHLY DELIVERED 36 PAGES Kern of CUM pa4 at faUr kr Tao at fem Kit Ckaan U No 270 Bta lights lure the visitor to the with promise of fun and frolic with every The 1961 Kern County Fair opened Friday for a Officials say they expect a quarter of a million Back Is Improving PALM President Kennedys doctor ex pressed confidence today that his f ailing But Janet Travell kept a sharp vigil famous pa tient to see that he obeyed or She again directed that he get a lot of swim in a heated pool and use crutches while walk ing about the seaside villa where he is Assistant White House press i secretary Andrew Hatcher said i it still is too early to say whether Kennedy will be on crutches when he leaves late Sunday for Wash Improving Travell is confident that the Presidents condition is im Hatcher told He is experiencing less discom Get well telegrams poured One came from Prune Minister John Diefenbaker of Diefenbaker said he was dis tressed ID hear the news of Ken back He said he was more concerned that Kenne dy should have sustained it dur ing ceremonial tree planting in Ottawa May Kennedy wired back thanking the prime minister for your gracious and added The tree will be there long after the discomfort is Salt Water Pool With Travell looking Kennedy Friday took two long dips in a heated salt water On each trip to the pool he used old wooden He also used the crutches in moving about the villa of and Charles where he is staying Since the villa is hidden from public neither newsmen nor reporters got to see Kennedy us ing Kennedys as a lumbosacral is said officially to be unrelated to seri ous back operations he In 1954 and Travell recommended the use of crutches to relieve pres sure on the Presidents Peiping Attacks LBJ Statement I TOKYO UPI Red China predicted final Communist to South Viet Nam less than 24 hours after Vice Presiden Lyndon Johnson said communism could be stopped in its tracks in In a steppedup propaganda the United States and South Viet Nam President Ngo Dinh the Communists pledged the full support of Chinas 650 million people to satellite North Viet Victory The Peiping Peoples Red Chinas propaganda news said the Chinese people resolutely support the North Viet peoples heroic fight for the peaceful unification o their homeland and believe that they will certainly win final In a scathing attack on the Peoples Daily said he went to South Viet Nam to work out an program to enable the to intensify its intervention and control of the The Communist paper said the people of South Viet Nam were waging an extensive struggle against imperialism and the Ngo Dinh Diem Communist China obviously had also read reports of Defense Secretary Robert report to the House Foreign Affairs Program McNamara predicted according to a United Press International dispatch that South Viet Nam wil not fall to the Johnson laid down a outline for the United States to follow which included strengthening nations like South Viet Nam that are on the front line of the battle against McNamara and Lyman chairman of the Joint Chiefs of testified in support of President Kennedys pro posed new billion foreign aid Gastro to Bargain With Tractor Group Reader Index Auto 4 2 Comics 18 2 2 26 3 Farm 4 1 Features 17 3 Homeland Garden 7 1 4 Local 3 Markets 30 4 Oil 6 1 Sports 3 3 TV 17 3 2 HAVANA UPI Fi del Castro last night said he would permit a technical com to come to Cuba to nego the exchange of American tractors for Cuban invasion pris Wirephoto MAY GET dean of the Stan ford University law has been selected assistant secretary of state for inter American the New York Times reported The post is regarded as one of the most important in the State the government radio said Castro would not permit the technical committee to decide what type of tractors Cuba receive in the Castro sent a cable to the Tractors for Freedom commit tee in Detroit emphasizing the ad status of the technica Castro added he would have preferred that a leading member of the tractors such as Eleanor come to Cuba to discuss the but said he had nevertheless accepted the technical committee We ask also that the commit tee express to us through the del of technicians its reply to the alternative we have pro release of an equa number of Puerto Nicaraguans and Guatemalans imprisoned for po reasons in exchange for captured Castro said Castro said he would drop demand for tractors if he could the captured invaders For political Some persons in your nation lave attempted to see in our in of Roosevelt and Eisenhower a desire of ours for political honors instead of a wellintentioned luba is foreign to any such mean Cuba has reached higher honors by knowing how to defend with dignity her sovereignty and ler he Viet Nam Trains Laotians VIENTIANE UPI munist rebels in Laos have re intensive training during the past five which paic off in their capture of military observers said Especially heavy training was reported in the use of artillery and in the technique of recruiting abor to transport weapons anc ammunition over country where no roads exist and where air supply is limited by bad Soviets Supply Artillery Sources here say military ex perts from Red North Viet Nam have been training neutralist troops commanded by Rebel Kong Le as well as the openly pro Communist Pathet When Kong Le retreated from Vientiane last December he had no trained His 105 mm howitzers flown in by Soviet planes just before the battle for Vientiane were manned by Red Viet gun Kong Les artillery at and in other actions during the ast is reliably reported to been fired by trainee crews drawn from his own Supply Lines Viet training is be to have stiffened rebel forces even further in methods of supplying fighting forces in the Viet teachers have demonstrated how to stretch a supply line over miles and miles of rugged through jungle so impenetrable it takes a man days to move a mile or the observers Work gangs can move mortars and even light artillery into posi ions dominating a garrison de lending a government Am munition and food are moved the same a few yards at a time a mile or so a was captured largely because the rebels could soften up with artil see 2 FLASHES RALSTON LOSES Sweden UPI Staffan Stockenberg of Swe filling in for India as a substitute for an injured play today defeated Dennis Ral ston of in action of the Swedish international ten nis REDISTRICT SACRAMENTO UPI The State Senate today approved a laying out new for 38 congressional Break in Geneva Stalemate Seen Twister Rips Town Kills 1 By UPI National Guardsmen searched the wreckage of homes in the little town of Ravenna fearful they would find more victims underneath the A little girl was 75 persons were 35 to 38 families were home and damage was estimated at at least million in the wake of the twister which hit the town of 950 population Four of the injured were in critica The Ravenna twister was the worst of a series of storms which ranged from the Middle West to the Atlantic Blaze Devastates Town Another small town was devas by The million dollar blaze raget a com munity of 400 after gas truck Ai one the blaze threatened to burn through entire town Firemen stood guard over the smoldering rubble today to pre vent new Showers and thundershowers followed the tornadic winds in much of the nations eastern hall Dense fog rolled over a wide area from southern Mis souri into New York State and New Visibility was cut to less than an eighth of a mile at To and The sole fatality in the series of storms was Valerie Hope Col a 9yearold irl who was visiting her grand parents at close to Valerie was killed in the collapse of a country Funnel Clouds Hundreds of volunteers moved into the stricken town to aid the help repair and see 2 Armys Pershing Hurls Warhead Into Atlantic CAPE CANAVERAL UPI The Armys powerful little Persh ing missile thundered steeply into a rainy sky early today and hurled a dummy warhead 175 miles into a target In the Atlantic The success was the 14th in 17 firings of the a shoot and scoot weapon which is headed into in Europe sometime in The slender 34foot carrying hundreds of pounds of test instruments in its pointed blasted its launching pad on the Cape about Within 10 it had disappeared behind rain clouds which moved over this missile center late last night But highly accurate ballistic cameras at tracking stations downrange had perfect visibility and caught the rocket on its unusually steep path into he The Pershing ban normal In a test of its abili y to hit targets at different Richard commander of the Army Missile said the ange was well within the ac requirements for Persh ngs intended use as a general weapon for the field The maximum range will be more than 400 got a big thrill yesterday when she landed this catfish while competing in a fishing rodeo at Her shrieks could be heard all around the park The catch isnt big enough to win any prizes but to Karen it was a Four Boys Find Dad Slain bewildered orphaned when an intruder shot their sleep ing parents to waited to day for relatives to pick them Early yesterday morning the boys Jimmy and 5 stood beside 66 a few miles outside of hailing speeding cars that refused to When finally Dan Cramer of and a friend pulled onto the highways should er and one of the chil dren sobbed Somebody shot mommy and Find Bodies The two men investigated and found the bodies of Welch and his Utha both of in their equip 1959 car beside the Deputies said later that a transcontinental truck driver working out of Oklahoma appeared to have been shot as he rose from the car perhaps to defend Both Welch and his wife were shot in the probably with a pistol or depu ties The couples youngest discovered the Headed for Tulare At dawn he peeped from the tent in which the four boys slept through the shooting and noticed something on his mothers face in the He and his brother Jimmy opened the car door and found their mother dead in the front Then Jimmy found his father was dead A sheriffs deputy who arrived at the scene shortly after 6 was told by the boys that the family was for where they were to visit the boys grandmother in Tulare before returning to Okla see 2 Note Sent to Gromyko GENEVA UP A pos sible break in the dead locked international confer ence on Laos appeared in the making least in the talking Ambassador Averell Harriman Friday delivered to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gro a note President Kennedy personally Then riman spent an hour backing it American sources said Gromy ko responded to the extent of ex pressing eagerness for going on with the 14nation talks but he of nothing specific in the way of British Secretary Lord Home planned to fly here from London Sunday to see Postponement Called Violations of the ceasefire in Laos by the proCommunist rebels caused the Western powers to call an indefinite postponement of the conference last The decision followed the rebels capture of a mountain village 20 miles south of rebel headquarters at American sources understood that Soviet Premier Nikita instructed Gromyko to in a desire for resumption of the Geneva conference as a re sult of his talks with President Khrushchev and Kennedy were agreed on the importance of a week end in though some observers doubted that the words in their joint communique held the same meaning for Attack Provoked Gromyko told Harriman Friday that parachute supply drops to defenders had pro the attack by the The Soviet foreign minister sug see 2 Clerk for Top Secret Federal Agency Missing WASHINGTON to day sought a clerk from the National Security Agency who has been missing since The FBI declined comment on whether it was taking part in the search for William Hyter conducted by Maryland state police at the re quest of Defense Department officials said Covington had no access to secret secret its employes are not supposed to tell their friends where they gages hi communications Intel Located at nearby it maintains around monitoring of all sig and messages on the air including those in code Officials said Covington had been on sick leave for two months following an He returned to work May but after working two days asked to be off June 2 because he said he needed additional medical Last Monday and Tuesday Cov ington telephoned that he was his wife called the security agency to where he was and was told hej hadnt been live at NSA listed Covington as miss ing He was reported seen at the race track at Charles also in Arling First Lady Joins Dance Greece UPI Jacqueline Kennedy changed her mind today to make a surprise visit to the legendary island birthplace of the Greek god Americas First on a get away from It all cruise hrough the storied Greek first said she would go o of But sailing as the whim takes ihe headed for When reporters heard of change in plans they hurried lere to watch Kennedy stroll among the relics of an as the birthplace of was considered sacred in Later it served as a Fort Knox for the of Athens which stored its gold and treasures The yacht sailed to Delos from the island of Kennedy delighted the islanders of Hydra last night when she jumped from her seat in a local tavern and joined a colorful garbed group of dancers in native She was having dinner when a group of singers arrived at the cafe and began singing Greek folk Jacqueline rushed to the head of the line and led the dance when they asked her to join The to native folk tunes played on violins and came as a climax to a long day spent swim ming and her face sun burnt and sparkling with warmly promised her John she would return with her children for a When by her Princess Lee and Prince Stanislas sailed into Hydra yesterday were met by cheering crowds and pealing Crowds gathered wherever Kennedy admiring her bright red summer dress and applauding her choice of golden Grecian
