Emporia Gazette, The (Newspaper) - April 9, 1959, Emporia, Kansas 4 f r Year No 214 T f F JL L L Thursday the Ninth Day of April Sixteen Eisenhower Presidents Golf Plans Not Altered Hagerty Is Mum On Suggestion to Ends His Vacation AUGUSTA Ga AP Presi dent headquarters kept mum today regarding sug gestion he end his golfing vacation and make a personal inspection of jobless areas At the same time however there was no slightest indication the President intends to alter his vacation plans All signs still are Science he will stay on at the Augusta tionai Golf Club until about April 7 19 with a brief interruption early CW VV next week to keep two previously Counting Error Ends Rule of the Women FULTON Kan five vote error in tallying tion returns has wiped out the majority the women of Fulton thought they had on the City Council s Instead the council will be made up of three men and two women But to keep things in balance Fulton elected a women mayor 72 yearold Mabel Austin in Tuesdays balloting Mayor Howard Post In the official canvass last night the 40vote total re ported for 65yearold Mrs Esther Watson running for the council was reduced to 35 The result was Mrs Watson dropped out of the third to sixth position in the race for five council seats Movement of Kurds Arouses Ir Fear Good Evening Its Just like those Kansas Democrats to hold a big rally right during National Noise Abatement Week Todays Forecast with occasion al snow extreme west this after Cairo Reports Visas Are Granted CAIRO AP Cairo noon spreading over west tonight j T j radio says Iraq has granted announced Washington engage ments The suggestion the President end his vacation in favor of a tour of unemployment areas was made in Washington Wednesday at the AFLCIO jobless rally at tended by more than dele gates The proposal came from Mrs Min Matheson of WilkesBarre Pa Critical of Golf At the rally there were other critical allusions to golf At a news conference today James C Hagerty White House press secretary was told about the criticism He was asked whether Eisenhower had consid ered altering his vacation plans because of it FUND DRIVE UNDER Barnett far right the campaign The Emporia Scholarship Foun chairman is shown here distrib dations campaign opened this uting pledge cards to the team morning with a 7 a m captains as J Stanley Hagan far fast attended by 45 men Harry left Foundation President looks on The captains are from left Kenneth Anderson Harold Rev ell Frank Warren substituting for and El mo Jones The drives goal is to be used to provide scholarships at College of Em poria and Emporia State Col lege and diminishing Friday increas ing cloudiness east this afternoon rain beginning central and extend ing across east tonight as rain or snow occasional light rain in addition to 855 uing southcentral and southeast Friday locally colder west this who reportedly passed entry visas to Kurd tribesmen from the Soviet Jet f Engine O I havent any comment Hagerty replied On another matter Hagerty said in effect there has been no change in Secretary of Sfate Dulles plans to complete his rest period at Jobe Sound before deciding whether he is physically able to continue in his Cabinet post Hagerty was asked for com ment on a published report Wash ington Post and Times Herald that Dulles will return to his job and preparations for the Big Four foreign min conference to be held in Geneva next month Designed to Drive Boats and Ships at Incredible Speeds AZUSA Calif AP A new water jet engine designed to drive boats and ships at almost ble speeds was disclosed today by scientists at Corp We know we can increase the speed of hydroplanes by at least 75 per said Calvin Gong wer head of marine Warfare Division Theor there is no limit to the speed that can be reached by ves sels of any size with proper hull The revolutionary device called the has no propellers Instead an impeller something like a lawn sprinkler whirling at terrific speed drives the boat for ward by spraying water into the air behind it A Version has been ocean a small boat The company plans to install a Prince to Wed Commoner Japans Storybook Romance Reaches Its Climax Friday TOKYO pretty com moner marries her prince Friday in the climax of a storybook ro mance which has all Japan gasp ing with delight 1 am passing each day wrapped in an indescribable state of murmured 24yearold Michiko Shoda as the hour of her marriage to Crown Prince Akihito drew near An intelligent unknown to Japans millions less than five months ago she is des tined to ascend the chrysanthemum throne as Akihi tos empress the first commoner ever to do so Conscious of the burden she will assume as consort of the 25year old royal heir she ako will not take part In accord with tradition they will be told of the marriage by the young couple afterward One foreigner the crown princes former tutor Mrs Eliza beth Vining of Philadelphia ia among the invited guests who will stand in an enclosure just out side the shrine County Support Grows for U N Policing of AH Berlin WASHINGTON Dem House members and six members of the British ment proposed today that the United Nations take over the po of all Berlin A statement signed by the 16 legislators called for creation of a police force to replace British French and Soviet troops now This would be done gradually Public Invited To Attend A A Meeting Friday afternoon not so cold east to night low tonight 2535 high Fri day 4050 Emporia Skies April 8ih Sunset today p m tomorrow a m Quarter April Well above the Moon li the planet Venus every star planet And directly above Venus appear the dim that farm the cluster ot Ihe Emporia Weather Accepts Bid on A Sewer Project Blacktop Gets Contract For Westside District The Emporia Alcoholics Anony mous group invites the public to attend an open meeting Friday night at the Senior High School Auditorium A large crowd is ex to hear a talk by one of the leading AA speakers in the Scholarship Campaign Opens With a Breakfast Goal of to Go to Two Colleges Fortyfive Emporia men were on hand for a 7 a m breakfast meeting to kick off the Emporia Scholarship Foundations funds campaign today J Stanley Ha pan Foundation president thanked the early risers for the near 100 per cent turnout and it O expressed optimism that the fionl Another of will be reached within the next two weeks Mr Hagan snid from to gifted Kansas high school graduates fail to po to college each year and that the slate can not afford to have this happen Many of these young folks pass up for financial reasons he said nnd emphasized that the From FAA 2 p 47 degrees High Wednesday 48 degrees Minimum last night 28 degrees Wind KB 10 Humidity 48 Barometer falling Moves Into Kansas new snow through the Suez Canal Monday on the Soviet liner The broadcast gave no source of the information There was no confirmation The reported movement of Kurds from the Soviet Union Has aroused fear that the Communist ranks Baghdad are being strenth ened Baghdad radio acknowledged that a Soviet vessel is expected to land a boatload of Kurds in the Iraqi port of Basra within 9 or 10 days But it said these were repatriates who fled to the Soviet Union years ago and included 460 men 108 women and 252 children Kurds Aboard Ship Egyptian officials reported when n Wednesday night I am praying hi my heart that I may be able to carry out somehow the heavy responsibilities that lie ahead with out making any serious r The crown prince and the I cant confirm in a racing flour millers daughter summer of a morc democratic and storm moved into northwest Kan sas this morning It was snowing moderately at Goodland at 9 and the Keather Bureau said it would rnost of the western Foundation can something part of the state at 8 p and is an introductory this h providing was the re feature of the Heart of ship funds for the College of ot the state with possibly America to continue in poria and Emporia State College some snow the northeast to lo use bringing new students to said adding that the situation still is as Eisenhower outlined it at a recent news conference The President said publicly that the secretary of state was going to go away for a rest period and that a decision on continuing in the Cabinet would not be made until the secretary had had that Hagerty said No Intimation ers That is exactly the way the situation now exists There has been no announcement intimation or statement between the two Hagerty also had a no com ment when asked about a report that on March 27 the President after learning that Meade Alcorn was resigning as Republican na tional asked Sen Thruston Morton of Kentucky to take the job Present indications are the job will go to Morton Eisenhower will meet here Friday with a party seeking his views re garding the chairmanship The President arranged to play a round of golf today in an effort to get around the course before the start of predicted He usually plays in the afternoon Grange Concludes Lecturers Meeting The Southwest Grange Lectur ers Conference closed at noon to day at the Broadview Hotel Ap proximately 75 persons attended including State Grange Masters and Lecturers from approximate ly 50 Pomona or local Granges The training school opened Wed Conference officials noted that many of the persons attending the workshop panel and information sessions were farmers and their wives under so years of age The National Granges sis on its youth program is pay ing off as indicated by activity of young active farmers in the midwest and local said Harry C of Larned Master of the Kansas State Grange Among the National Grange of who were here for the In state lecturers conference were Holier Washington D National Grange Lecturer and C Jerome Davis Ramsey field representative of the Nation al Grange Master who also is Indiana State Grange Overseer The Grange Confer ence in 1960 will be held in Okla homa The Kansas Grange the conference here made Military Implications is expected to have military applications but they are secret A commercial model for boating enthusiasts is expected to be ready in two years No esti mate on cost is available The was developed to overcome water drag cm propell We have reduced this to a min Gongwer said The hy impeller is completely out of the The impeller a metal disk pierced with slanting holes is geared to the engines drive shaft As it spins the impeller pumps water up from a scoop below the boat and forces it through the noz in a whirling spray pattern The boat can be steered by a prosperous nation born out of the embers of military defeat will be come man and wife at EST At that moment they will sip sacred wine from shallow un glazed cups in the the Imperial Shinto shrine which houses the replica of an ancient mirror one of the symbols of Ja pans royalty Thousands of young Japanese girls to whom Michiko is the em bodiment of their postwar eman at the same moment will marry in shrines and wedding halls throughout the country Their eagerness to share in the romantic atmosphere of the day was whetted by the young princes assurance that he is marrying for rudder or by vanes which deflect love even though his the water jet In tests a 23 horsepower gaso line engine has achieved a speed of 22 miles an hour Increasing the horsepower will increase the Gongwer said nominated by Imperial Household officials in conformity with tradi tion The simple Shinto marriage cer emony will take 15 minutes Em peror Hirohito and Empress Nag As Democrats Gather for Rally Construction of sewer facilities to serve westside sub urban industrial and commercial district received another spur to day Lyon mission accepted the bid of the Blacktop Construction Company and authorized execution of a contract The Blacktop bid of was for construction of facilities in Lyon County Sewer District 1 sought by Emporia Enter prises to provide sewerage facilities for manufacturers and industries and to boost develop ment of the industrial area along Highway 50 and West Twelfth Avenue from the city limit west to the Place Dairy road Only two bids were received The other submitted by the T F Marbut Construction Company also of Emporia was for The Blacktop Companys bid with a stipulation that construc tion start by June 1st and com within 75 working days was more than under the estimated construction costs of made by Wilson and Company Salina engineers on the project The bids were opened by Rob ert Crawford representing the Wilson Company following some informal discussion with the com on possibilities of ex Kansas Children Vote tor a tending the bid opening date an effort to attract more bids Emporia through Sunday Delegations expected from AA groups in area Several speakers are on the pro gram but all the events are closed except the one Friday night The speaker will be a 23yearold member from El Paso who is scheduled to tell of young peoples views of the AA way of life On Uie Saturday afternoon pro gram a speaker from a South ern state long associated with sports events broadcasting A dance will follow a Roundup din ner at the Broadview Hotel Satur day evening Two other major speakers are scheduled to appear Sunday The program includes a number of 15minute coffee breaks between the various speaking pro grams Advance reservations in Em poria have been taken by an or called Progress Inc The cost to AA delegates including a dinner coffee breaks and pro V tor the cam are Harold Revell Elmo Jones Kenneth Sam Mellinger and Harry W Barnett is serving as chairman Frank Warren who represented Mr at the meeting and other captains slat ed that their teams will raise their shares of the goal and do it soon Dr Stafford S Sluder Dean of the Collece of Emporia said We at the College of Emporio find the Foundation most helpful As I look the list of Foundation scholars each year I find lhat it is similar to the Deans Honor Roll and other lists of recognized for Dr Luther E College of Em poria President was out of the city and could not attend Dr John E King State College President sized that the two colleges arc extremely important to Ihe com munity that the Foundation is of Snow which hit eastern Kansas to two inches on the ground but generally melted quickly Moisture ranged up to 63 ot nn inch at Garnett with most east ern points receiving about a half inch There were traces as far west as Salina and Concordia Skies cleared during the night with temperatures plunging below freezing overmost of the state Kirwin Dam reported a low of 22 and Goodland 25 The top mini mum was 33 at Pittsburg Eleven to In the Soviet ship passed through the Suez Canal over the week end that Kurdish men trained in guer rilla warfare were aboard along with arms for them Sources close to he gov of the United Arab Republic said it would not take an action on transfer of the Kurds to Iraq until actually tuere on Iraqi territory The governments con cern stems from its belief that the Kurds are being sent to Baghdad to strengthen Premier Abdel Kar im Kassem in his feud with President Nasser and Iraqi Arab nationalists who oppose the grow ing Communist influence on Kas sems government grams will be The Emporia to the colleges AA Roundup management reports that figure is about the same as for a pint of whisky in dry Oklahoma which voted for pro repeal Tuesday in that students who arc low on money but long on ability are brought in lo help maintain hieh academic standards that the i Continued nn Pace Six D DCC Eleven contestants four of them from Catholic parochial grade schools are enrolled to participate in the annual Lyon County Spell ing Bee Friday The program will be in the Farmers Room al the Courthouse starting nl 10 n m A new elementary school spelling champion will be determined for Lyon County The champion here for the past three years was Mary Van Gundy of the Sacred Heart Parochial School in who Continued on Sti Are Center of Speculation TOPEKA fAP Kansas Demo crats will flock to Topeka tomor row for a big feast over past elec tion successes future victories and just plain political The occasion will be the annual statewide rally centering around the 53rd meeting of the Kansas Democratic Club With a presidential year candidates chomp ing at the bit and uncertainty over Gov George Dockings plans the party faithful will have plenty of fodder to chew on The star will be one of the partys possible presidential candidates Sen Stuart Symington DMo He will address a dinner winding up the rally Saturday night Symington seems to have con support among Democrats Sen John Kennedy also is popular and has visited the state several times But a lot of hotel gossip and speculation undoubtedly will cen ter on Docking What will he do in 1950 Will he swered this weekend Docking what jr lie it he will do in 1960 or even if he will remain m politics until he charts his 1960 course several other wouldbe candidates for the Senate and governorship can do little more than flap their wings with th be Speci called for No 1 grade sewer pipe for a sored project but deliveries of such pipe might be more than two months away Emporia Enterprises represented by Ray and Howard E H lin at the bid opening session stressed importance of early com of the sewer mains to accommodate opening of the Crawford Manufacturing Company plant on schedule Possible use of No 2 grade sew er pipe of larger diameter and at Old Old a do writ ten by Fred Gipson has been se Democrats started to zero a is under tentative c consideration Another proposal to hasten opening of construction In on veteran Republican Sen Andrew Schoeppel who will be up for reelection in Some Democrats believe Dock ing would have a better chance against Schoeppel than he would for a third lerm Rep Newell George Kansas new D c congressman from the Second District has a team for President and vice president Other Democratic governors ako have been mentioned for these George and the slates other new D e congressman Denver Hargis reportedly have been openly plugging J Floyd prior to June 1st is possible nego for borrowing large diam eter No 1 grade pipe scheduled for delivery soon for Emporia sewer extension projects The sewer line in Lyon County District No 1 would connect with Emporia sewer mains Overall costs of the sewer proj ccl with to handle a larger disposal bail in the fu ture was estimated by Wilson and Company at That figure includes engineering preliminary surveys legal and publication Cervices and the construction su The proposal Is for the Breeding Democratic congress county to issue general obligation man from the Fifth District for to guarantee financing but run for the Lv S Senate Try for the Senate rather than Docking he costs paying off the principal as the 1959 winner of the William Allen White Childrens Book Award it was announced today by officials of the White Li brary at Emporia State College More than Kansas school children in grades four through nine cast votes this year more than more than voted in any previous year and triple the number cast when the program began in 1953 Mr Gipson will be a guest at an Emporia State convocation next Nov 5th and the award will be presented at the annual Wil liam Allen White dinner in Wichita the same day The din ner this year will be sponsored by Ihe Kansas Association of School Librarians Mr Gipson lives on a small stock farm four miles fnm Ma fon Texas After attending the University of Texas he became a reporter and look up free lance in 1MO His first book was pub in 1946 His Hound Dog Man was a elect ion in 5949 In addition to Old his books for chil A Communist attempt to seize control of Iraq by naked force has become distinct possibility If that happens something in the nature of another Korea also is possible The threat of a Communist coup in Baghdad becomes more rea with persistent reports of an in fusion of armed Kurds from the Soviet Union plus an Iraqi de cision to arm civilian units known as the Peoples Because Iraq has no borders with any coun try a forcible Red seizure of its government would be a departure from past practice Up to now armed communism has not leaped over land barriers But the ele ments for such a leap are pres ent Also present are the mak ings of a situation not unlike that in Korea nine years ago Troops of Gamal Abdel Arab Republic ac cording to Turkish reports already have taken posi tions northern Syria near The frontier supported the revolt in north and as a result had to flee the country are reported massed in an area roughly 50 from ike Iraqi border The fierce cold war between and the Iraqi re gime of Premier Abdel Karim Kassem could easily turn into a war even a Moslem or holy war A military clash could be a pre lude to an attempt by forces to install a rival govern ment in Iraq The spark for the clash also could be a Communist takeover in Baghdad The tools for the take over could be a nucleus of heavily armed Kurds from the and the street militia made up of the Arabs call the al or popular resistance Such organiza tions exiit in other Arab states notably Syria Syria up to now has rot trusted this potentially violent mob with live ammunition of Control Ostensibly the organization Is dren include Tho supposed to tram for guerrilla a tradition shattering third further plans for the 1959 State term Is there a chance he might Grange Convention to be held in be tapped for vice president Ottawa Oct through 29th Those questions wont be an Although no governor has tried for a third term many are confident Docking is just the man could win and interest would be taxed property in the benefit district unless owners pay their chares in lump AWARD WINNER Fred Gip son a writer Ss the au thor of Old selected by Kansas school children 23 the 1959 winner of the Allen White Childrens book award He is editor of True West magazine and often acts as a consultant for the Walt Disney Studios Former winners of the William White Book Award OB Sai in the event the country is threatened from outside Actual ly it is a handy weapon of political through intimidation The arming of this group in Iraq came in response to strident
