Emporia Gazette, The (Newspaper) - March 6, 1962, Emporia, Kansas 72nd Year No GAZETTI Tuesday the Sixth Day of March Twelve Washington Ui Pilot Is Cleared by Investigation Powers Lived Up To Terms of His Job Obligations WASHINGTON Cen tral Intelligence Agency reported today that U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers lived up to the terms his employment and his obliga tions as an The House Armed Services Committee made public the re port on the case of the pi lot whose sanee plane came down deep within Russia in May 1960 Based on an exhaustive investi gation by ths CIA and an advi sory board the report cleared Powers of yielding under pres sure to tell more than he was au to say to his captors The intelligence agency said that Powers and other U2 pilots were authorized to surrender without resistance and adopt a co operative attitude toward their captors should evasion not prove feasible and capture appear im minent U2 pilots moreover were in that they were perfect ly free to tell the full truth about their mission with the exception Breakfast of certain specifications of the FIRE Building Inspector Golden Hollar checks the damage resulting from a fire early today at 1021 East Twelfth Avenue which took the life of 69yearold Thomas Baldridge The fire was reported at a m and Mr Baldridges body was found shortly after the firemen arrived Mr Hollar is standing where the body was found The divan which is believed to have been ignited by a cigaret causing the blaze was along the east end of the trailer The picture was taken looking west specifications The report found that Powers followed these instructions and did what he was authorized to do in admitting his previous Air Force service and his employ ment by the Central Intelligence Agency This statement was the first of acknowledgment that Pow ers was employed by the CIA al though there had been little doubt of it The report said the poisoned needle carried by Powers and mentioned in his trial in Moscow was intended for use primarily if the pilot were subjected to torture or other circumstances which in his discretion warranted the tak ing of his own There were no instructions that he should commit suicide and no expectation that he would do so in those situations just de it added Sabotage Ruled Out The report said there was no evidence to support any belief that Powers predicament was brought on by pressure from or Kennedy Nominates Cattle Schools Basketball on Program Federal Ninetyseven people attended the March Breakfast Club meeting at the Broadview Hotel today spon sored by the Emporia Chamber of Commerce Edward H Funs ton was master of ceremonies and principal speakers were Victor Peck on the forthcoming State Class B basketball tournament opening March 15th Russ Ander son who discussed the cattle industry in the state and V L ImMasche President of the Em poria School Board who explained reasons for the special election April 3rd to vote on a proposed bond issue Entertainment was a tion of the Twist presented by Eddie Milton and Miss Kay Hem street Mr Peck said that 94 Emporia firms were cooperating in the advertising and promotion of the tournament He reported that 350 tickets still are annual potential in the Flint Hills and that in recent years comparatively few cattle go directly off grass to slaughter Referring to the many thousands of cattle fed annually in the com feed lots near Emporia or within a 25mile radius Mr Anderson asserted that the feed ing industry has provided a great market for farm grown grain and ensilage and processed feeds and improved local prices for the farmers Referring briefly to the opera tion of the Anderson Cattle Com pany the speaker said the com pany feeds approximately cattle a year which consume ap proximately tons of ensil age one million bushels of grain annually and 600 tons of soybean meal a month The firm employs 50 to 60 people and operates a fleet of trucks Mr ImMasche discussed the building and a proposed bond issue with statistics on Em poria school enrollment expansion He stated the enrollment of in 1937 declined in the 1940s then returned to the bracket in 1952 and reached in Sep tember 1961 an increase of nearly 300 in the past two years Mr ImMasche also referred to the Emporia city plan prepared by a St Louis Company 13 years ago in which a great expansion to the town to the north and north west was forecast for the 1960s and in which a recommendation was made for acquisition of an elementary school tract on the northwest side of town was then recommended Mr ImMasche cited the present overload of 490 pupils at the Mary Herbert School the towns 312 kindergartners and forecast that the Emporia school enrollment defection to the It also saic Of projected new elementary school See Program pe six i O ruled out the possibility of sabo tage admission tickets will start Mon day March 12th The intelligence agency report who emphasized Excitement Is Misting d that Powers told Us investiga the Emporia areas big stake in ed that Powers told its investiga tors that he could have reached the destruct switches which would have set off an explosive charge in the plane The report appeared to accept Powers explanation that al though he could have pulled the switches he could not at that time get into position to eject himself from the doomed and fall ing aircraft Powers who was released by Russia Feb 10 in exchange for master Soviet spy Rudolf I Abel goes before the Senate Armed Services committee at 2 for testimony on the incident in which his plane was forced down on May 1 1906 It will be Powers first public appearance since his exchange hi Germany and flight back to the United States The CIA statement said that See Powers pg ten production grazing and feeding of cattle opened his talk with commentary on the towns sub urban cow plop enterprises which he said contributed to fer tile sources for editorial com mept and sizable litigation Mr Anderson declared that the Kansas livestock and agricultural related industries are the most vital in the state and that around three million cattle are grazed or fattened in Kansas and shipped outside annually He estimated the shipment value at onehalf bil lion dollars a year and claimed that the states cattle consume onethird of a billion dollars worth of feed a year He said 85 per cent of the states production of feed grains and forage is con by livestock Turning to the bluestem grass stake in cattle Mr An derson reported a Faculty Changes Whittier Annexation Are Discussed Compared to the lively sessions last month the Board of Educa tion meeting Monday was a bit even at that there was a full agenda A host of faculty changes was approved Other business includ ed setting of a date to open bids for the work in remodeling the old post office building Bids will be opened April 5th at p m The date was set after the Board heard Whittier guests had asked how the youngsters in the seventh and eighth grades would be transport ed to Lowther Junior High School The board said the city school bus would be used and in a jibe at Dr Jarnes said that it cost only and made pointed remarks about the Superintendents Welsh ancestry Dr James jumped to the de Title Flips Back to England LIBERAL Kan AP The transatlantic pancake racing title flipped back to England today The girls of Liberal made a good run of it in the annual Shrove Tuesday competition but their best was seconds slower than the near record time of 1 minute seconds turned in by the winner of the Olney England leg of the race 20yearold Carole Vorley Miss Vorley missed by onetenth of a second of tying the record of 1 minute seconds posted by Mrs Binnie Dick of Liberal in 1955 1 Winner of the Liberal end of the race today was Mrs Vicki Camp bell office secretary and mother of two who came in with a time of 1 minute seconds Miss victory marking the third year in a row she has come in first at Olney gave the English town a 76 edge in the series that began in 1950 between the women of the two The races are run over 415 Boy am I she panted I never won anything before in my life Everybodys so It was the first time Mrs Campbell a 97pound blonde had entered the competition A crowd estimated by highway patrolmen at lined the course In Olney the race was held in a thick morning fog and it at one of the poorest turn outs in years Carole flushed and breathless won an electric skillet given by the people of Liberal It was pre sented to her on their behalf by Lt Tom Rinehart who is serving with the United States Air Force in England Although the weather kept many of the crowd indoors Olney pubs and hotels were bursting at the seams and people lined up to eat pancakes in a big tent set up in the town square The result of the Liberal leg will be phoned to Olney tonight yard courses in Liberal and the American girls will have and Olney the contestants flip to do something special to beat us ping pancakes from a skillet as they make their dash Mrs Campbell running against a strong headwind in 45degree temperatures finished a step Mary this said Church Warden Jim Marshall Jim celebrated the transatlantic flavor of the contest by wearing a cowboy hat sent to him from Liberal J Stanley Hagan architect ex Annexation pg six plain plans for renovation of the building Several textbook changes were the book rental pro gram next year in the high school New texts range from American Literature to modern physics and include ten subjects There was some discussion on the changes especially by Board member J M Penny who was concerned that the new texts might cause some fam ilies considerable expense espe where several children were involved But it was pointed out that the books will be in the rental program and for that reason will not be a burden to the family bud get Board Attends Two members of the Whittier District School Board were guests at the meeting Edward Barrett and Kenneth turned over financial records and other papers for the district in a last unofficial step bringing Whillier into the Emporia school district The Emporia Board sought advice and background information from Mr Barrett and Mr and answered questions about plans for the school Most inquiries were of a routine nature and he Emporia Board indicated there would be little change Hn the school for next year Both Mr Barrett and Mr praised the staff at the Whittier School and they were assured that no major changes were planned Next came one of the lighter parts of the meeting caused hy several comments to Superintendent Carl James and bit WASHINGTON Kennedy has decided to nominate Wesley Brown a Hutchinson attorney to be a federal district judge for Kansas Rep J Floyd Breeding said to day Brown is a federal referee in bankruptcy and a Democrat Breeding said he asked the White House about reports that Kennedy had signed the nomina tion of George Templar Arkansas City Republican and an at torney to also be a U S district judge in Kansas He said the White House told him it had noth ing yet to report on that nomina tion I presume however that the nomination of Templar will be coming along in a few Breeding told a reporter The congressman said he as Brown is being nominated to succeed Judge Delmas C Hill who recently was named to the Circuit Court of Appeals and that Templar if nominated would be named to fill a new judgeship cre ated by the last Congress 111 KANSAS CITY Kan sas City Star in a dispatch from Washington says has learned President Kennedy has signed the Kansas federal judgeship nomina tions Ar kansas City and Wesley Brown of Hutchinson The nominations are expected to be sent to the Senate in the next two or three it said Unless another nomina tion is sent to the Senate in the the story said Tem would be the first Republi can appointed to the federal bench by the Kennedy adminis Spending Total of Millions Is Budgeted for State TOPERA AP The budget session of the Kansas Legislature approval a 1963 fiscal year spending program totaling million a Budget Division sum mary showed today This was approximately more than had been counted at the time the legislature adjourned last month It was million higher than the budget recommended by Gov John Anderson t The lawmakers also increased spending authorizations for the 1962 fiscal year by mak ing a budget total for the year of million Dies In Trailer Fire Thomas Baldridge 69 Is Victim of Blaze A fire that destroyed a house trailer at the rear of 1021 East Twelfth this morning also took the life of 69yearold Thomas Baldridge The fire was reported at A cigaret was believed to have caused the fire Mr Baldridge was found approximately Five feet from the south door of his alum inum trailer house The trailer is behind the house of Joseph ridge son of Thomas Baldridge about 200 feet south of Twelfth Avenue Joseph Baldridge reported to fire officials today he was awak ened by a truck in front of the house and saw the trailer on fire While his wife called the fire de Joseph said he ran to the trailer but the flames were so intense he could not get in The mans body was found by firemen after they had put out the flames It took firemen between seven and eight minutes to ex the blaze coroner and sheriff were called and the body was re moved approximately 45 minutes after the fire was reported An autopsy will be held Emporia Fire Chief Claude Lang said today that Mr Baldridge probably suffocated because of the intense heat built up in he 8x25 foot trailer Fire trucks pumped GOO gallons of water Funeral services will be in the McVey Chapel with the time to be announced Thomas Franklin Baldridge the son of Joseph Franklin and Bar bara Elizabeth Davidson Baldridge was born Oct 25th 1893 in Mc Cook and was married to Gertrude Elizabeth May 25tli 1915 in Olpc He had been a resident of Emporia for the past 40 years He is survived by hiw wife 510 South Union six sons Don ald Biloxi Robert Fort Collins Dean Chicago Earl 924 Congress Jo seph 1021 East Twelfth and Victor 28 Commer cial three daughters Mrs Floyd Eugene Mrs Larry Arkansas City and Mrs Lcc Wheeler 020 Con gress one sister Mrs Ike Finn of California four ters Mrs Frank Warren of Cali fornia Mrs Bert Wade McCook Mrs Grace Salina and Mrs Bert Miller 22 dren and one greatgrandchild President Calls For ress at Geneva Good Evening The office pessimist asked what he is going to give up for Lent said he is just going to give Todays Forecast KANSAS Generally fair this afternoon and tonight becoming partly cloudy Wednesday warm er with winds becoming southerly and increasing to 2530 mph by low tonight in the 20s high Wednesday 40s east to the 50s west Emporia Skies Tuesday March 6th Sunset Sunrise tomorrow m Moonset Pm First nth Emporia Weather From FAA 2 p 39 degrees High degrees Low last night 11 degrees Humidity 55 Barometer falling Wind ESE 1Í Southerly Boost Temperatures TOPEKA AP Milder tem spread across Kansas today with an end in sight at least temporarily to the cold that lias gripped the state for several days Highs today were predicted for the 40s in the east and 50s in west with lows tonight ranging from 25 to 35 degrees The warm ing trend is expected to continue for several days Highs Monday were from 27 at Concordia to Goodland with early morning lows from 9 at Olathe and Lawrence to 20 at Garden City Southerly winds began blowing in western Kansas early today and will move across the state today and Wednesday Eastern sections will be rather windy Wednesday the Weather Bureau predicted TUT Cottonwood Imposes Ban COTTONWOOD FALLS Ac tion was taken at the city coun cil meeting Monday in Cotton wood Falls to erect signs along Main Street warning drivers against double parking The de cision to enforce the parking law came as a result of com plaints from persons who had cars pinned in at the curb for long periods of time In the past it was permissable for persons to double park if they left their keys in the cars ignition Kansas Traffic Score TOPERA traffic death log 24 hours to 9 For March 4 For Comparable 19G1 Propaganda Is To Be Avoided Kennedy Says WASHINGTON AP President Kennedy told Soviet Premier Khrushchev today that the purpose of the great powers now in ap proaching negotiations at Ge neva must be to avoid ster ile exchanges of propaganda and make real progress to ward CHANGEOVER IS of the members of the School Board were guests Monday night at the meeting of the Emporia Board of Education The Whittier representa tives turned over books and records to the city school board as the final step in bringing school into the Emporia sys tem Residents of the Whittier area recently voted to into the city school district after part of their was annexed into Emporia The two Whittier board members are shown above presenting the records to the Emporia Board Pictured are from left Edward Barrett and Kenneth from Whittier V L ImMasche Emporia Board President and Superintendent Carl James Kennedy welcomed Khrush decision to send Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to meet with and British foreign min at Geneva in advance of the March 14 disarmament con ference The President suggested March the starting date for talks Kennedy meanwhile arranged to meet with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and other diplomatic military and atomic advisers at 5 today to talk about disarmament policy Rusk is ex to leave Washington Sat for Geneva The White House announced those at the meeting will include in addition to the President and Rusk William Foster disarma ment director and Adrian Fisher deputy director Secretary of De fense Robert S McNamara and Dr Glenn T Seaborg director of the Atomic Energy Commission Kennedys message to Khrush chev replying to a lengthy note jrom the Soviet leader which was delivered here Sun day loos brief It was deliv ered m Moscow early today and released by the White House here later Khrushchev disappointed in his campaign to press Kennedy and other Western and neutralist lead ers into a summit meeting at Ge neva had reluctantly agreed in his message to send Gromyko to meet with Rusk and British For eign Secretary Lord Home The Soviet chief also used ths note to denounce Kennedys deci sion last week to resume nuclear weapons testing in the atmos phere in late April He charac as atomic blackmail the Presidents offer to cancel the test series if Russia would agree to a treaty with an in inspection system ac to the West The President obviously refer ring to such points as those said there were many comments in Khrushchevs letter with which the United States cannot But he said he did not want to engage in a propaganda ex change with Khrushchev and de clared Let us instead join in giv ing our close personal support and direction to the work of our representatives at Geneva and let us join in working for their It was disclosed Monday that the Soviet premier in a switch from his previous proposals for starting the March 14 Geneva dis armament conference at the sum mit level 1 Agreed to the millan proposal to launch the Ge neva gathering at the foreign ministers level 2 Agreed to send Soviet For eign Minister Andrei A Gromyko to Geneva a few days early to confer with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and British Foreign Home as Kennedy and Macmillan had suggested Aides said Rusk planned to leave Washington in time to meet Gromyko and Home in Geneva about March 12 with a main topic to be a treaty on banning nuclear tests Khrushchevs 10page letter was said to have included these other points He repeated his contention the disarmament conference should be attended by heads of state He denounced as blackmail Kennedys plan to resume nuclear testing in the atmosphere by late April unless a test ban treaty agreement is reached He said the Soviet Union would not abandon its position of refus ing to accept international con which the West insists ara necessary for policing a nuclear test ban Khrushchev was said to have contended that Kennedy and Mac millan are committed to attend ance at tM
