Carroll Daily Times Herald (Newspaper) - February 16, 1963, Carroll, Iowa 4 Carroll Daily Times Herald 94-No. 40 Return February 16, 1963-Eight Pages Evening tor 40 Cents Per Week 10c Copy Venezuelan Ship Refuses to Answer Headed Toward Navy Plane Finds Freighter Hijacked by Reds WASHINGTON - A U.S. Navy plane today found the hijacked Venezuelan freighter Anzoategui but the ship refused to answer any signals from the the Defense Department The freighter was located at 6 a.m. EST today 180 miles north of Surinam apparently headed for The plane was continuing to circle the the Defense Department A Pentagon spokesman said the Navy plane reported she was air although it had not been able to establish communication the Navy plane was attempting to communicate with the freighter through use of visual blinker signal and At the time of the sighting the vessel was reported traveling in a south southeasterly on a course of 150 at a speed of 12 The plane reported later that the freighter changed to a slightly more southeasterly course possibly to avoid shallow The new heading was reported to be 130 The patrol plane that sighted the hijacked vessel is from Patrol Squadron 5, based at but operating out of Roosevelt San Puerto The Navy had joined in the search for the taken over by a group of Communists at the request of the Venezuelan There had been strong A Record for Early Action on Major Bills By WILLIAM L. EBERLINE DES MOINES Iowa by consensus of its is off to the fastest start in The number of bills introduced In the first five weeks of the session is less than in 1961. The number of bills passed by the House and Senate also lags somewhat behind two years But never in the memory of veteran legislative observers has any legislature come to grips so early in the session with major At the end of the fifth week of the current 212 bills and joint resolutions had been introduced in the For the the figure was 291. At the same point in the 1961 257 bills and joint resolutions had been introduced in the and 351 had been introduced in the By the end of five weeks in 1961, the House had passed a whopping 74 34. At the same point in the current 6ession, the House has passed only 48 bills and joint 38. 15 Measures Passed The number of measures passed by both houses in the first five weeks is the Among the measures acted upon so far in the 1963 are these major Legislative according to a plan sponsored by Sen. David has been passed by both paving the way for a vote of the people next Dec. 3, unless the federal courts in a suit now that it is A designed to wipe out brucellosis in cattle has been passed by both although a motion to reconsider has been filed in the Rep. Casey sponsor of the reconsideration has offered a series of amendments which are likely to come up next A measure to increase pensions of persons under the Iowa Public Employes Retirement System has been passed by the Senate and is up for consideration in the Legislature See Page 7 Late News off the Wire WASHINGTON Kennedy's tax program has run into a fresh crossfire of criticism from a labor leader and a top House AFL-CIO Vice President Walter proposing his own per week tax cut program in a news conference said Kennedy's is not strong enough and his doses are too little and too House Republican whip Leslie C. Arnds of Illinois said in a statement that opposition to the President's program not to a tax cut but to a tax cut without a reduction in government CANDIDATE AT 90- Vt. Rose L. Kent foresees one difficulty in her bid for the Mrs. America crown at Miami Beach April 22-26. 90," she will I look in a bathing she confidently listed her other qualifications She has cooked her own bread for 83 was happily married for 50 raised two sons who today are 62 and 59, concocted a cookie recipe used for more than 80 run for the state legislature and has written many articles and poems for newspapers and NEGRO N.J. Negro parents protesting racial imbalance in Englewood schools began the second day of their sit-in today outside the State House office of vacationing Gov. Richard J. After their first night in the reception room outside the six parents were more determined than ever to stick it out until the governor returns from his vacation Feb. 26 - or even EDEN HAS HEART ST. Windward Island - Lord formerly Sir Anthony suffered a mild heart attack this week at his home on it was learned here He was seen by two doctors from Barbados and the senior medical officer of St. Vincent the day after the U.S. Medics Halt Polio in Guiana By LEWIS GULICK WASHINGTON - Just before the terror of a polio epidemic struck British Its government called for and got it from the United The Air Force rushed in doctors Flu Wove Pushing into The Midwest CHICAGO wave of influenza which has closed schools and brought high job absenteeism in several Eastern Seaboard states since mid-January is pushing into the Asian type similar to that which swept the nation in 1957-58 and again in 1960, has been confirmed in several including Ohio and Outbreaks of less severe types of influenza have been The first confirmed cases this winter were reported last month in Robeson North The state reported 65,-994 new cases last Above Epidemic Level The Communicable Disease Center of the U.S. Public Health Service in Atlanta reported Friday that deaths have been above the epidemic level the past five The based on figures from 108 showed a sharp upswing in deaths in the week ending Feb. 8. In Ohio the Cincinnati Health Department said absenteeism among the city's 82,000 public school students jumped to 23 per cent Friday from 15 per cent the day Three deaths were blamed on which the department said was caused by an Asian type There were two confirmed Asian flu cases among students at the University of Michigan in Ann Wayne County officials reported growing job absenteeism in the Detroit Reports of influenza-like illness in West Virginia and Missouri also indicated a westerly spread of the Hospitals in St. Louis reported admissions had Page 7 Circus Performer Wire Picture Mary Lou 25, lies unconscious and critically injured after falling 35 feet from a swinging trapeze Friday at a Shrine Circus performance in Wis. The Crown Ind. working without a safety lost her grasp on the bar and fell to a concrete floor as 2,000 spectators looked Man at right is Larry another aerialist from the U.S. Public Health Service and Baylor plus 200,000 doses of iron lungs and other 100,000 Immunized As specialists from Baylor treated the the Health Service's team of four medics set to work to stop the epidemic by immunizing 100,000 children in the South American colony of 600,000 Within a there were dramatic Dr. Henry M. head of the Health Service reports that hospital admissions hit a peak of 83 new cases in the week ended Jan. 5. But last week only nine new cases were Today the mission is almost The Health Service team has returned to its base at the Communicable Disease Three members of the Baylor group are due home Two others are staying Double Success American officials believe the group scored a double not only stamping out the epidemic but also cauterizing the anti-American sentiments of Guiana's Cheddi Ja The U.S. Agency for International Development which sponsored the mercy mission figures its costs to the taxpayers will run between and Baylor donated its thus keeping down the The gain to Uncle Sam's image can be guessed from some of the newspaper comment in One newspaper voiced gratitude for the aid given spite of all the abuse poured on the United States by our premier Thank What a C. R. Thomas Dies in West Clarence R. 74, longtime resident of died early Saturday morning at a where he was taken two days He and Mrs. Thomas were visiting friends at Calif. Funeral arrangements are pending at the Huffman Funeral Home in Mr. a retired is survived by his and one Chauncey of He was a member of the First Presbyterian Signet Lodge No. 264 & Copestone Chapter No. 78, Royal Arch and Signet Chapter No. 1, Order of the Eastern The Thomas home is at 721 North Court 6th Graders Give Cash To The Heart Fund The Carroll Heart Fund is richer because sixth grade pupils at Carroll Elementary School chose to give one big valentine rather than exchange a lot of little ones among The idea isn't since other sixth graders have done the same as their concluding school before entering junior but it was their Thirty-one students in Mrs. Nick class donated and 31 in Mrs. Paul Tilton's class gave for the Each class enjoyed its valentine party with ice cream provided by the teachers and cookies brought by volunteers in the IOWA TRAFFIC DEATHS By The Associated Press Feb. 16, 1963 Feb. 16, 1963 Feb. 16, lam tion that the hijackers would take the ship to which publicly offered them asylum But the freighter was more than 1,600 miles southeast of Cuba at 6 a.m. when it was located and its reported direction of travel would carry it away from Cuba and in the direction of It was to Brazil that Portuguese Capt. Henrique Galvao took the seized Portuguese liner Santa Maria in February 1961, after he had taken control of the ship and its 950 passengers and action was a protest against the rule of Antonio do Oliveira the Portuguese Delay Criticized The Navy spent five or six days trying to locate the Santa and came under criticism at the time for the There were indications of official prodding for quicker results in this week's Until the Anzoategui was located early Defense Department officials were pretty certain of only one thing aboul it it had not reached Cuba and had little chance of getting As of Friday the Pentagon said more than 750,000 square miles of sea had been both visually and by In the first 30 a spokesman more than 400 merchant ships displacing 1,000 tons or and hundreds of smaller had been sighted and have thoroughly by radar and the Caribbean Sea area bounded by the Greater the northern coast of South and the the Lesser the spokesman are now widening our area of When the Navy moved into action it was estimated the freighter stood at a point about midway between the Venezuelan coast and the island of Santo Officials Mum tight-lipped about the search until Friday disclosed that Navy patrol planes and surface including carriers and moved quickly to block passages leading to Cuban Although officials declined to discuss the size of the search force it was understood more than a dozen patrol planes were on the mission out of Roosevelt Roads in Puerto Surface ships probably came from the Guantanamo Naval Base in eastern among other There was no clear indication what would happen when the Navy finally spots the That will be up to the Venezuelan But it's likely the Navy would only flash the then keep watch until a Venezuelan destroyer can come up to intercept the A source at navy headquarters in Rio de Janeiro said the ship's present position and course indicate it might be headed for the northern Brazilian port of Belem at the mouth of the Amazon Another possibility Page 7 Ui M III Hike to Coon Rapids The Weather IOWA FORECAST Partly cloudy Saturday night and Lows Saturday night 15-18. Highs Sunday 20s northeast to 30-35 Further outlook - Mostly cloudy and colder with scattered light snow Partly cloudy Saturday lows in mid Considerable cloudiness turning colder with some snow flumes highs low 20s north to near 30 The Weather in Carroll Courtesy Iowa Public Service Yesterday's high Yesterday's low At 7 a.m. today At 10 a.m. today Precipitation hours prior to 7 inch snow Weather A Year Skies were partly cloudy a year ago today as temperatures varied from a high of 30 to a low of 24 Four Drake University prompted by President Kennedy's physical fitness have given up their attempt to make an overnight hike of 60 miles from Des Moines to Coon But one of the quartet covered 50 miles president's suggested he The four started from Wire Picture Des Moines late Darryl Klute of Sioux City made the 50 miles in 9 hours and 45 and finished with a The four from John 19, Sister David 21, and Dennis 22, Wis. Nikita Back at Old Form of Diplomacy By STANLEY JOHNSON Associated Press Staff Writer Soviet Premier Khrushchev has wheeled back into his old favorite form of pushing the party line at cocktail When at a diplomatic reception Friday night he demonstratively linked Communist China with the Soviet Union as the gravedigger of the Kremlin chief stirred memories the days when he was the hard-drinking star of almost every major party in Lacked Inhibitions That was when the now usually dignified Soviet leader didn't have an inhibition in the did not even bother him when he had to be carried out of a reception given for the visiting Danish Nor did he worry overly much about what he He commented on everything from French morals many to capitalism will bury And the best thing for harried then working under strict was that there was no censorship on anything Khrushchev That changed as the premier became more and nothing moved out of Moscow until he had okayed it. Diplomats had lots of speculation on why Khrushchev slowed down from being the life of the One was that he and his colleagues began to worry about Khrushchev See Page 7 Northern Propane Promotes Star man Anthony J. Fort former Carroll has been promoted by Northern Propane Gas Company and transferred from Fort Dodge to He will assume his new duties Feb. 18, and the family will move as soon as their Fort Dodge home is sold and housing secured in Kenneth Rogers Takes D. M. Position Kenneth son of Mr. and Mrs. Merrill who completed his senior year at Simpson in has accepted a position with Commercial Credit in Des He majored in business administration at His wife is the former Paula Peters of More Africans Fleeing Discrimination By HANS BENEDICT Austria - Backfiring of Communist Bulgaria's experiment in the education of African youths took on proportions of an explosion Six Ethiopian students fled as 20 Ghanaians did Britain announced its legation in Sofia is helping in arrangements for a group of Nigerian students to Hundreds of other young disenchanted by their treatment in the Red Balkan were reported deterred only by lack of funds from joining the Racial Discrimination Robert 25, one of the 20 Ghanaians who flew to declare categorically that the Bulgarian regime is guilty of racial the others haven't left then they have been unable to do so. Only we Ghanaians have a mission in whereas the others have to try to reach their missions in other East bloc This takes time and The Ethiopians flew to and consulted with the Ethiopian Petras said one other Ethiopian student was among seven Africans arrested by Bulgarian police Monday as leaders of an organization the Bulgarian Communists had the Students He said he did not know the Beaten by Police Some students were beaten by Bulgarian police and militiamen when the students staged a parade Tuesday protesting the The Bulgarian government charged Friday night that Ghana See Page 7 Two Cuban Boats Seized By GEORGE ARFELD HAVANA - pirates helped by Americans machine - gunned and seized two Cuban fishing boats 93 miles east of Havana and sailed northward with an Armed Forces Ministry communique said It quoted victims of the attack as saying two Americans were hi the attack It blamed the seizure on groups sheltered North American The communique gave no data for the seizure but it was understood it took place early Friday off the Cuban coastal town of Two identified as mando and Ramon Lopez were wounded by the machine-gun the communique The Armed Forces Ministry did not say how the victims made It the victims were in Cardenas and that the two brothers were receiving medical attention Expands With Atlantic Purchase The institutional and tobacco franchises of the Atlantic Wholesale Grocery Company at has been purchased by the The operation will be moved to Carroll by the end of the month and combined with the Carroll outlet The Atlantic Wholesale Grocery company which has been in the business for 57 announced recently that they were closing out the wholesale grocery business but would continue to wholesale institutional and tobacco Purchase of this portion of the ness by the means that the business in will be In order to serve the trade in the Atlantic territory the Company will establish a headquarters in which will be supplied from the Carroll Inventory of the Atlantic stock will be mada next weekend and the removal to Carroll will be completed by the end of the Addition of this business will require enlargement of the Carroll Farner
