Daily Leader-Times (Newspaper) - August 10, 1963, Kittanning, Pennsylvania Thought For The Doy I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color They are superior who have tne best best Vol 75 No 188 DAILY KITTANNING FORD CITY NEW BETHLEHEM PA SATURDAY AFTERNOON AUGUST 10 1963 Weather Forecast Western Pennsylvania Clear and cool tonight low 48 to 58 ex cept in the low 40s in the moun tain valleys Sunday sunny and continued cool SEVEN CENTS Kennedy Infant Goes to Grave BOSTON UPI Sorrowing President Kennedy and close members of his family mourned his infant son at a Mass of the Angels today in the residence of Richard Cardinal Gushing The Chief Executive headed th family group which arrived b helicopter from Hyannis Pori Mrs Kennedy was unable tc come The mourners went into the cardinals residence anc to his private chapel for the serv ices The cardinal himself cele the Mass The services were conducted in strict privacy Those not with h Kennedy party were barred from the grounds of the cardinals home in the Brighton section o the city The cardinal previously had of his sympathy to the Kenne Lonely Vigil Being Kept By Mother OTIS AFB Mass UPI Mrs Jacqueline Kennedy will be surrounded by a host of relatives friends and attendants today But she will keep a lonely vigil Her third child 2dayold Pat rick Bouvier Kennedy will be buried in a quiet cemetery in 90 miles away She saw the infant only She will not see him again The 34yearold First Lady gave birth to little Patrick by Caesar ean section here Wednesday Within hours he had been whisked away to Boston for specialized treatment doctors hoped would save his He Mrs Kennedy learned of the babys death early Friday from the obstetrician who delivered him Dr John W Walsh The President flew to her side and together they shared the bur den of grief Her mother and stepfather Mr and Mrs Hugh D Auchincloss and the two Auchincloss children Janet 18 end Jamie 15 also visited her on several occasions Friday night her sister Prin cess Lee Radziwill arrived from Greece to see the First Lady through todays lonely hours Other members of Mrs Kennedys family or of her husbands also planned to stay with her rather than attend the funeral See 1 on Page Two dy family In the words of Cardinal Cusl ing longtime personal friend the Kennedy family Patric Bouvier Kennedy now lives in th nursery of the children of Hea en The mass is for baptized chil dren who die before the age reason and in the eyes of th Catholic Church are in heaven Patrick Bouvier Kennedy bor to Mrs Jacqueline Kennedy a pm EDT Wednesday b section was baptize within minutes because of his weeks premature birth and th respiratory ailment which led ev to his death at am EDT Friday The child lived 39 hours 12 minutes Kennedys deep grief was ap parent in his grim appearance a he arrived at Otis Air Fore Base Mass three times Frida to visit with his wife She was described as in good condition but under mild sedation by the doctor who told her tha icr third child had died Following the private mass fo immediate family members a the cardinals chapel burial wa scheduled at the Ceme tery in Brookline Mass wher the President was born am reared Patricks grave was the first i a family plot there Mrs Jacqueline Kennedy re covering from the surgery Wednesday was in the hospital a Otis Air Force Base Mass whil the services took place Fire Protection Bettered by Job Kittanning residents in the vici of the 700 block of Woodwar Avenue will be the benefactors o a project of the Armstrong Co aimed at increasing fire pro in that immediate area The company has just installing a 6inch feeder Hue from Fair Street to a fire hy drant just south of McCannas Service Station a distance of ap proximately 485 feet T W Coleman manager of the ocal company said that the new ine which is connected to a 10 inch main line on Fair Street is a definite improvement ever the old 4inch feeder system He added that the old system lad an output at the hydrant oi 150 gallons per minute as com ared with the new lines capa city of 700 gallons per minute SEN ESTES KEFAUVER Grand Jury Indicts Negro Leaders Rusk Files to Bonn BONN UPI Secretary of State Dean Rusk flew here to day from Moscow to reassure apprehensive West German lead ers that the United States will protect their interests in its nego with the Kremlin Kefauver Dies Foe of Rackets WASHINGTON UPI Sen Estes Kefauver who pyramided a national reputation as a crimebuster into two un successful bids for the Democrat ic presidential nomination diec this morning of a heart ailment at Bethesda Naval Hospital The 60year old Kefauver whose coonskin cap and ready handshake were trademarks was taken to the hospital Friday suf ering from what doctors diag nosed as a mild heart attack An aide said Kefauver died this morning at am The cause of death he said was a rupture of the main blood vessel from the heart The rangy softspoken rt became a national figure when television brought his face into millions of homes during the crime hearings in 1950 He failed twice to win the pres nomination Once in 1952 and again in 1956 But in 1956 he a knockdown convention floor fight to edge out President Kennedy as Adlai Stevensons running mate Stricken During Debate The senator who made Area Bands To Entertain At Festival Six ave high been sent school bands invitations to in Parks estiva of Music on Armstrong night Aug 21 The bands selected are from Valley Union Ford City Elderton Wor Franklin and Leech urg high schools The Festival of Music is part f the amusement parks 14th annual Fall Fantasy which is the climaxing event of the summer eason there This year the fes val will be held Aug 16 through i Space Age on Parade from he Wright Brothers at Kitty awk to the astronauts at Cape will be the theme of his years event Bands from throughout the Tri tate area are slated to parade uring the 10 days of the cele ration In addition to the bands lere will be a number of floats in the parade DONALD BOWSER strains to hold down hose as water gushes from it at a rate of 700 gallons per minute Look ing on are Lewis A McKelvey foreman of Arm strong Writer Co and Walter McKelvey They have just completed installation of a 6inch feeder line to this fire hydrant on Orr Avenue Kittanning The Weather Air temperatures and river tages recorded at the govern ment observation station Alle River Lock No 7 for the period ending 7 am Saturday 7 am Friday 61 10 1 pm 3 pm 4 pm 7 pm JO pm 84 84 84 72 68 7 am Saturday 61 River stages upper pool 116 feet stationary no low er pool 106 feet stationary no No precipitation HIGH AND LOW NEW YORK high est temperature reported Friday to the United States Weather Bu reau excluding Alaska and Ha waii was 109 degrees at Blythe Calif The low today was 40 at Park Falls Wis Pellston Mich and Marquette County Airport Mich national reputation with his in of the crime syndi cate was taken ill during a de bate on the communications sat ellite program However he did not require an ambulance and was driven to the hospital in a private car Kefauver was elected to the Senate in 1948 and reelected in 1954 and 1960 He was a veteran of 10 years service in the House when he rocketed to national prominence in 1948 by bowling over the big boss of Tennessee politics and snatching a Senate seat from the Crump machine The Senates special crime in committee which Ke fauver sponsored in the 81st Con gress and headed in a nationwide 1950 racket inquiry was the spearhead of a postwar campaign against crime which reached into nearly every American city Gains Reputation Its spotlight sent scores of big time mobsters scuttling for cover and quickly won Kefauver a gang busting reputation Early in his Senate career he became identified with a small group of young liberals who prided themselves on fighting the consumers battle in the halls of Congress Kefauver made the coonskin lat his trade mark Boss Crump had labelled him the pet coon of the Truman administration For his answer Kefauver got a coonskin hat waved at his aud ences and boasted There might be a ring around the tail but none through the nose The also made the handshake something of a potent political weapon He would shake hundreds of hands a day on and As Town Solons Meet Council Authorizes Coal Docks Erection Kittanning Town Council this the plans to the council morning gave Powell Coal Co Kittanning RD 2 authorization to go ahead with plans for erection of two loading docks and ramps on an existing Pennsylvania Rail road siding adjoining property of the Howe Sound Brck Corp for merly Kittanning Refractories at the extreme north end of the bor ough James N Hosey superintendent of Powell Coal Co and E J Wei bel coal company engineer ex off the campaign trail Took Underdog Role But the key to his personality was his underdog role He championed the man in the street hi his battles against crime and monopolistic practices Kefauver always had his eye on the White House He failed in See 2 on Page Two Rimersburg Street Bid Is Awarded RIMERSBURG A bid of by Bracken Construe tion Co of Sligo was accepted a a meeting of Rimersburg Bor ough Council The bid was for resurfacing and widening Baker Street the most direct acces to the high school as well as Davi Cookie Co plant Drainage is expected to cos and the resurfacing anc widening Council also approved the pur chase of three new fire extinguishers for the Com munity Building This decision was made on recommendation of Ar thur L James insurance broker who told the members that these additional extinguishers were needed to qualify for the best in coverage The First Seneca Bank Trust Co was again authorized to act as the collecting agent for bor ough water for the coming year Approval was given to the erec tion of no parking signs at the intersection of Cherry Run Law sonham and Main Streets to pre vent motorists from parking to close to the intersection and in with visibility of pass ing vehicles Approval also was given to ordering tapered steel poles as supports for the traffic light at that intersection A I James was granted a build ing permit to erect a fire escape and to build a addition to the rear of his building on Main Street The purchase of a new tire for the police cruiser also was approved President Lewis sided at the meeting pre men who then authorized Bor ough Engineer R Bruce Shan non and Superintendent of Public Works Chester I Cunningham to issue a permit for erection of the docks Solons at their monthly meet ing Monday night voiced faction with what they thought were the plans of the coal com pany but they approved the plans today without any dissents Councilmen were under the impression they said that the companys plans called for a coal tipple and that borough roads would be used for hauling of the coal to the tipple from the company site in Rayburn Township The borough will not have to bear any expense of the project since no borough road will be used Also company officials as sured solons that there will be no dust resulting from the companys operations at the siding since the coal will already have been clean ed No refuse piles will result Company plans call for trucks not exceeding 10ton capacity to haul coal from the mine on Route 66 in Rayburn Township by means of a public highway to Oak Ave nue from there to Johnston Ave nue from Johnston to a road on the property of Howe Sound Co which will lead to the siding Route 66 Oak and Johnston Ave nues are roads Howe Sound has given the coal company access to the pro posed ramps and docks and the coal company must construct and maintain the road The Pennsylvania Railroad has al ready leased the siding to the coal company The siding has not been used by the railroad for some time James N Hosey coal company superintendent said the company See 3 on Page Two Hoover at 89 Hails America NEW YORK UPI Ailing former President Herbert C Hoo ver celebrates the 89th anniver sary of his birth today with a ew close relatives and friends Hoover instead of holding his conference birthday eve news issued a brief mes sage to fellow Americans from skyscraper apartment in Manhattan It said in part We have a great way of life lets keep it that way Birthday cards and sprays of lowers some taller than Hoo vers favorite fishing rod adorned tables cabinets and the mantlepiece in the sitting room if his apartment in the Waldorf Towers Gets Special Tribute In Washington for the second traight year Sen Carl T Cur is paid a special tribute Todays Chuckle fishing rod according to ome wives is a pole with a vorm on each end Copr Gen ea Corp to Hoover in the Senate Friday for his exemplary life The 31st president a Republi can who served in the White House from 1929 to 1932 was critically ill with a See 4 on Page Two Bricks Leave Plant Without Incident Two railroad cars loaded with brick were removed from the Con Clay Products Co siding Oak Ave without incident yester day the first shipment of bricks by rail by the company since company workers went on strike June 19 A previous attempt to ship the bricks met with opposition by rickets members of Kittanning Local 479 United Brick Clay Workers of America However both union and man agement agreed to a court order landed down Tuesday by Arm strong County Court Judge J Trank Graff barring pickets from interfering with transportation of he bricks Georgia Man Says Pickets Hurt Grocery MACON Ga federal grand jury has indicted three in leaders on charges they conspired to run a white grocer out of business because he voted against a Negro in a civil rights iaw suit Six other all as with the Albany Movement were charged with perjury growing out of the case the Justice De said Friday The indictments were the first of their kind in the national inte gration struggle The Justice Department said they grew out of organized pick eting and a boycott of a grocery owned by Carl Smith in the Ne gro section of Albany Ga Smith charged that the boycott by Negroes forced him out of business He closed his grocery where he employed 15 Negroes and later sold it to a Negro Named in the indictments charging conspiracy were Dr William G Anderson former president of the Albany Move ment Robert William Colbert and Luther Woodall Jr They were specifically charged with obstructing justice Those charged in separate in with perjury w e r a Slater Hunter King president of the movement Mrs Leslya Jackson recording secretary Thomas Chatmon Rev Samuel Wells Robert Thomas and Miss Joni Rabinowitz Al were fied with the Albany Movement Miss Rabinowitz of New Ro chelle NY is a white woman Smith voted against Negro Charles Ware in a lawsuit in in which Ware asked for damages in a claim that Sheriff L Warren Johnson shot him aft er his arrest on July 4 1961 The jury returned a verdict in favor of the sheriff and each juror was polled on his decision Following the decision the in said Anderson Colbert and Woodal picketed Smiths supermarket and urged shoppers to boycott his store The other six were indicted for statements they made to a grand jury GOING OVER A PROGRAM of the 82d annual Sunday of the county Mrs James Young secretary of the coun School Convention sponsored by the Armstrong County tyr C C Stewart past president of Westmoreland Conn Sabbath School Association are officers a guest speak ty Sunday School Association a guest and Rev William er and a guest They are left to McClain B Gauntz pastor of Center Hill Church of the Brethren Cochran secretary of Pennsylvania State Sabbath School Kittanning RD 7 president of the county The event at Association who spoke during the afternoon and evening tended by 178 persons was held yesterday at Salem sessions Clifton Copenhaver first vice president of the county Mrs Preston corresponding secretary United Church of Christ RD 5 near Rural Valley The therne was New Life in Christ Man Turns His Wife 22 Into Torch PHILADELPHIA UPI A North Philadelphia husband turned his wife into a human torch early today police said Mrs Toby Peterson 22 was taken to Temple University Hos pital in serious condition with burns over about 80 per cent of her body Her husband Amos 26 was charged with aggravated assault and battery with intent to kill with fire Peterson told police he was arguing with his wife outside their row home and that she went inside and poured an ble substance on her clothes He said she came outside and dared me to light her Police said Peterson obliged and the woman became a mass of flames Police had not identified the in flammable substance which Pet erson said may have been some kind of insect repellant On Inside Pages Almanac 6 Amusement Page 13 Classified Ads 1213 Comics 10 Crane Case Records 14 Crossword Puzzle 10 Deaths 2 Ford City News 4 Garden Graph n Hospital Notes 2 Kittanning Churches 5 My New York f Patterns 7 Sports 89 Society 7 Television Your Health
