Blytheville Courier News (Newspaper) - November 29, 1961, Blytheville, Arkansas BLYTHEVILLE COURIER NEWS VOL 57 NO 214 ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 29 1961 14 PAGES I CENTS Kennedy Foresees Early Discharge Date For Troops Caught In Gallup By SHOEMAKER WASHINGTON AD dent Kennedy uiday told men Somewhat heatedly Kennedy took note at a news conference of newspaper reporting called into military service j discomforts and possible comings in equipment and train ing programs for reservists and uniform within may gel out of less than a year Urging them not lo grumble in the meantime he said they vide the strength to spare the United States a choice between humiliation and a holocaust National Guardsmen ti service as a result of the West crisis over Berlin The President said his adminis lo some specu lation never to hoi men up for more than year The hope he said is to let them out before the end of the 12 period for which they were orig ordered to service Kennedy also observed t h a Congress approved the which the administration last summer Kennedy in a clear attempt tc bolster morale of the reserv ists nd guardsmen whose live were disturbed by the muster o additional strength said sol dier on duty in a cold and windy camp is rendering the same val liable service a- an airplane on alert wilh the Air Command Kennedy said his administration had felt the nation lacket adequate conventional militar strength He said the armed forces wer prevent a war no to fight a war We want to have a choice be- tween humiliation and Kennedy said with reference to a middle ground between surrender and the devastation of nuclear war Kennedy declared once again that his country wants to a peaceful settlement of East-West issues but does not in- tend to surrender Prelude To Flight By US Astronaut U.S Space Ape In Orbit Boy Chimp Out On A Man's Job Bureaus Eye Postal Building Blytheville's Post Office is scheduled to become an office building for federal bureaus and agencies following construction of a new post office sometime next year Tentative plans call for vation of the structure at way and Walnut L G Hubbard area manager of the General Services Administration told the Courier News today R our plan at lime to renovate and remodel the post office building as soon as it is released by the Post Office Hubbard laid We plan to house the eral agencies now located m this area into the remodeled post office building These agencies would include Selective Service System draft Commodity Stabilization Service Old Age and Survivors Insurance social In- ternal Revenue Service Soil Con- servation Service Federal reau of Investigation Army Navy and Air Force recruiting offices as well as an office fur General Services Hubbard went on lo say it is felt that by remodeling the building and housing the men agencies in it thai it will not only prove economical lo the government hut will also prove more serviceable lo ity Bids for the new post office building will be opened on Jan i spending 19 days recovering from By JOHN BARHOUR Associated Press Science CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP boy chimp went out on a man's job today Enos a chimpanzee blasted off on a Atlas rocket for a three times over his native Africa and around the world But just as His reaction to nearly hours ol demanding schoolwork during the trip clouded by the mysteries of space will help mine whether a man can endure same stresses Perhaps shortly after Christmas or New Year's a man will ride another Atlas rocket to find the same strange challenges ing him on another world-girdling flight Like the astronaut Enos has been well-schooled for the tests lo see how well he can perform during unearthly state of weightlessness Even two minutes before he shot into space Enos began ling levers to avoid a slight tric shock in his fool Then as the giant rocket shoved him ward and the mighty forces of acceleration pressed his small body back into his chamber he had to continue the He said a key point in any ture negotiations with Soviet Union will be the question of in- of the tration of the autobahn land route to Berlin The President cowed a wide range of questions in the conference Man Falls Into Fallout Shelter SHELBYVILLE Tenn AP John Rowe is back at work after 17 Group to Meet The annual stockholders ing of the Federal Land Bank Association of will be attended by some 200 lin and Pemiscot county farmers fc in Tuesday Ch a fall into his fallout shelter The 12 x underground sheller he built brought lavish praise from civil defense Such crowds came to see the model shelter that Rowe bought a insurance policy as protection in case anyone got hurt around it He discovered a hitch in Robert P Mills assistant president of Federal Land Bank of St Louis will address the group in a noon meeting in Methodist Church basement Two directors will be elected for three-year terms Terry Wilson will preside over the meeting wilh goner manager pi annual report Entertainment will feature Reba Williams of Ross High School Ladies of Methodist church will serve the noon luncheon ribs He wasn't covered Weather DAILY RECORD Municipal Court ARKANSAS Fair this after- noon and tonight not so cold west and north portion tonight Partly cloudy and warmer Francis day High today to the os Low tonight to mid- 30s High Thursday to MISSOURI Temperatures will average 2 to 4 degrees be- low seasonal normal northwest and 4 to 8 below east and south Thursday Monday mal high in the mid lo upper 40s Margery Hall bond forfeited speeding Where's The Yesterday South Ninth truck Yesterday way Kentucky grass Yesterday p.m Ninth grass WALL OF MEMORY Symbolizing ths wall that divides Berlin masons in West Berlin build a smaller larly constructed wall on the Street of June 17 This was the date of the East Berlin re- volt in 1951 The new wall is a memorial To the Victims of Red Dictatorship Pre- vented from visiting graves in East Berlin West Germans are being called on to place wreaths and flowers at this new memorial JFK Offers Congress New U.S Silver Policy By FRANK CORMIER WASHINGTON ver certificate a familiar item of Red light in right test window currency since 1878 will on dashboard Pull the red i pear from circulation if Congress very 20 seconds or l approves President Kennedy's plan the President ordered day an end to ury sales of silver at artificially lever more often Again Again The forces of acceleration sen and finally diminish ther A strange world of no force encompassed Enos Suddenly his entire environment had no weight felt no gravity If he had not been zippered into his space chamber he might have floated about Whatever he felt Enos then be- gan another test This time an- other light spelled out another task Then a ule rest period Now a green flashes in Die right window At the proper time hit the lever Then watch for the green light to the right And the thirsty chimp who hasn't had a taste of water since the night his lips over a ple nd sticks out the first sips of some Hi pints of water And so the test demanded more of Enos every time it changed At one point Enos gels See SPACE on Page 14 low prices new silver policy This will lead at once to an in- crease in market price of silver which perhaps will rise All and bills are silver the old pegged rate of 91.5 certificates as are some and bills All of these would be discarded during the next 25 or 30 years to be replaced by eral Reserve notes which are backed by gold While Congress would have to approve this part of the Kennedy Social Security Office Open at 7 Social Security office here will be open tonight from 7 to 9 for the convenience of people 65 or over who work during day according to Jack B Calvert manager of Jonesboro district office Calvert said that many older people are employed and do not understand that recent changes in the social security law now makes it possible for a number of them to collect some benefits in to earnings Older workers made eligible lo collect some social security fits for 1961 may lose some of payments due them if they do not make application by January Calvert said office will he opon on Wednesday nights for normal low in the mid 20s three weeks west upper 20s and low 30s j If nis works we may elsewhere no precipitation the Calverl consequence expected High Low this Mean S Precipitation 24 O i m to 7 Precipitation Jan 1 to date Sunset A High Low this 1 to thti date pointed out ROA Meet h Off The Reserve Officers tion meeting scheduled for Blytheville Air Force Base for tonight been postponed Another dafe for the meeting is lo be set within a Curfew Quietens Dominican By ROBERT BERRELLEZ SANTO DOMINGO Dominican Republic AP A curfew quieted this strikebound Caribbean capital Tuesday night as President Balaguer negotiated wilh opposition groups demanding that he step down in favor of a provisional junta Informed sources said Balaguer had handed the three opposition groups a new proposal offering to hold elections within six weeks in- stead of next May provided he was allowed to continue in office as head of an interim coalition government The chief opposition group National Civic Union on Sunday demanded that Balaguer give way lo a provisional junta government headed by A Fiallo er of the Civic Union Sanlo Domingo's streets were empty fler duek of 11 but persons and heavily armed of he army navy cents an ounce to or more As a side result manufacturers are likely lo increase prices on ry silverware photographic film and other items with a high silver content The Kennedy program would represent the most important tional change in silver in many decades In effect the President wants to end silver's slatus as an important monetary metal and make it a freely traded ity like copper or soybeans The program drafted at the Treasury also would end the re- current and often bitter political battles over Silver The metal no more political ap peal under the new plan thar any other mining product Kennedy's decision from a steady decline in th Treasury's supply of free silver not needed for currency backing This supply dropped from 123 million ounces on Jan 1 to 2 million ounces as of Monda night The stockpile of free silver ha declined because of purchases b silver users at the Treasury sales price of 91.5 an and because of silver withdraw for use in coins Kennedy directed the o slop using the stockpile as source of supply for He said that henceforth needed by the mints should withdrawn from serves with an equivalent amount of silver certificates pulled out of Yew Berlin Plan Offer Next By JOHN M HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON AP The powers are considering new proposals to the Sovie next year for a set lement of the Berlin crisis The vill be designed to strengthen th of West Berlin agains Communist pressures and to ure free access to the city from iVest Germany The proposals may embrace a lan for creation of an controlled highway dor between West Berlin and West Germany as suggested by dent Kennedy in an interview published Tuesday in the Soviet Union The prospective Western plan for Berlin coupled with new ex- ploratory talks with the Soviet is expected by authorities here lo led an East-West foreign ters conference in a few months But officials say the thus foreseen will be longed and extremely difficult and no compromise solution of the Berlin dispute is in sight The Kennedy interview CAPE CANAVERAL FU AW A space capsule carrying a chimpanzee named Enos wai rocketed into orbit today and hoped to recover It after three sweeps around the earth a rehearsal for a similar human flight The Project Mercury capsule was boosted skyward at EST in the nose of a Atlas rocket The huge Atlas performed like clockwork and hurled the craft into orbit more than 100 miles over da at a speed of about miles an hour If the capsule and its passenger are recovered safely and all systems have functioned as planned a U.S astronaut will ride the next Mercury capsule into orbit hopefully before the end of the year If all goes right the capsule will be brought to a landing in the Atlantic about miles southeast of Cape Canaveral er it has circled the globe times with its tiny passenger forming a series of tasks in lights on him response to flashing a console in front of A huge recovery force f ships and planes was in the impact zone The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced 15 minutes after launch that received from an Atlantic Ocean tracking ship indicated that the spacecraft was in a tory orbit Alexei Adzhubei editor of the The launching was perfect from circulation at the same time and out viet government newspaper lia and son-in-law of Premier Khrushchev dramatically the complete conflict of aims on Berlin issues with which the Soviet Union and the West are approaching negotiations The conflict of aims developed in what was really an exchange of views between and Kennedy Adzhubei is believed here lo have chosen this technique so that when the full record of interview was published in Izvestia its readers were ed with the Soviet as well as the Western viewpoint Kennedy said that desire of Western powers is to tain a very limited number of U.S British and French troops in West Berlin and to have for example an international on the Autobahn man superhighway so hat goods and people can move freely in the beginning of liftoff The Atlas dropped its booster stage planned Wi minutes after launch and two minutes later hurled the capsule loose on its intended The Canary Island tracking tion off the west coast of Africa caught clear signals from the craft at Enos was reported performing his tasks as intended There was no indication that his ability was stemmed in any way by the crushing force of blastoff or by the initial entry into the weightless state which was to last for all but a few of the flight Heads NYU NEW YORK James McNaughton Hester has been named president of ew York University At 37 he is the est man to head the old institution FOR BLYTHEVILLE Accomplishments of Decade Are Many Tomorrow night Blytheville's Chamber of Commerce celebrates its birthday and while its accomplishments over the have been many no dec- ade of span can measure up with the current one from a point of keeping the economy rolling Since aboul 1954 Blytheville has added 100 industrial jobs per year And this you will note refers only to industrial positions and does not count thousands con- wilh Blytheville Air Force Blytheville Chamber of Commerce project right from the beginning and one which now ures in the area's economy to the extent of million per month Here's how the Fast-moving ties unfolded for and air force enforcing a curfew I committees ordered after thousands backed work on Blytheville Air opposition sland wilh strikes Force beginning of five lhal shut down almost every years of effort which and virtually paralyzed the resulted in the present Strategic island nation Air Command installation one of Balaguer warned public service the nation's finest Tt is equal lo workers thai they would be fired a dozen unless they returned to their jobs tries or more major Tanks and armored cars bled through streets after armed forces chief Gen Pedro Rodriguez Echavarria credited with crushing efforts by Trujillo diehards to stage a coup 10 days Balaguer warned public service program launched in earnest This led to initial with Black alls and Bryson who expressed interest in city 1953 Encouraged by BSB Chamber purchased X acres of land on Elm Street and dedicated it to thereafter chipped in with cash to bring the Central Mclal plant a BSB subsidiary to town location was followed by Pepsi-Cola bottling plant and Simmons Works allowing each lo expand Coach Co moved in to occupy more of Elm Street acreage and Canning Co was sold a portion to allow it to expand further Thus only four acres of the original X were and are not being used for industry The Chamber moved to acquire an additional 17 acres also on Elm Last year Scott Valve Co moved onto part of this acreage and Chamber officials report a really solid prospect is looking over the vacant acreage there The Chamber holds a verbal op- lion on another 19 acres and soon may see the necessity of ing this land And before 1961 is out a ant possibly will be secured for building left out an following a ger Although it isn't relaxing forts on any Chamber In- Chairman John Walson points out that since May his group has been working on filling Negotiations with one prospect have been going on for six months A man doesn't lake plant to which he's devoted a time and move it to some strange cily Watson points out Next week Watson's committee area and made inary surveys on river shipping Chamber Manager Jada Guire points out hat going after is one of the most com- enterprises in America We're competing with will go north for what is hoped boring towns in our state other will be semifinal conference j states and even some areas out- with his prospect side the territorial limits of Within three weeks officials of U S the industry are due to There are industrial the call in last visit to when they expect to sign a lease agreement Watson says thai if something should prevent from izing four more prospects have shown interest in the building and our chances should be pretty No mention of the decade would be adequate without taking note of fall's opening of Blytheville River Rail Terminal's Barfield jet fuel storage and pipeline The fact that has a single large customer Blytheville Air Force Base is looked on as the key which will open new trans- opportunities As income from jet fuel contract retire initial cap- obligations the firm's officers say they will expand facilities to handle additional goods Although this project was brought to fruition by need corporation work was done by the Chamber which bad k to eating agencies including Blytheville Chamber of Commerce in the U S This includes groups working at the municipal county and levels Every year 350 plants into the southern states This year we got one Scott Valve of these 350 for ville We feel fortunate to landed this one in competition with those agencies of them manned by real McGuire stated Fifty years ago economy was pegged to the ber industry and a budding Today it is moving more Central Metal Scott Valve Simmons Economic slowly during decade past has been swifter thw
