Eureka Humboldt Standard (Newspaper) - February 13, 1961, Eureka, California 101 Road Closed North Of Willits WEATHER variable HUMBOLDT BAV TIDES Fl P.M Ff Vol 9 WEATHER FORECAST For Eureka and Mostly today Tuesday rain Nol much changi In lem- High bolh days and thi tow mph occasionally Ing to -i U hours m- Rainfall 24 hours To dale tMs To ihli dale last season Normal dale a m p ro EUREKA CALIFORNIA MONDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 13 1961 lOc Per Copy 24 Pages Today i ure Painted On Local Unemployment Fort Bragg Route For Rising wafers backed up by high ocean over he end flooded lowlands and coastal roads a slide closed Highway 101 jt Longvale just north of millls at 9 a m today the and Valley roads are ed by slides and and the Mad River changed Is channel al Blue Lake lo pose a new potential threat o industry and homes In The Division of Highways here reported lhat a slide at Longvale had dammed Outlet Creek ing the highway to an impassable stage Traffic is being through Fort Bragg Highway en- were unable lo give an estimated time for of the main highway All other major highways are reported open but small sance slides and fallen rocks for caution on the part of ists Highway spokesmen said County road crews today were moving In on the Butler Valley slide and a on the old Kneeland Road which closed both The new Kneeland road is open to traffic Minor troubles are reported on other county roads and n full alert for is advisable The new Garberville airport built last summer has a major near the wa- ter pumping station with other lesser slides at other locations Charles Shaller county director of public works said the tion in that area is a recurring one since the entire hillside is un- stable The major trouble loomed at Blue Lake where about 30 percent of the flow of the main Mad has Continued on Page 13 LUMUMBA DEAD One Dead In Jeep Accident Mrs Irene McCray old resident of southern Humboldt county was killed or drowned when the jeep she was reported driving plunged into the east Death Of May Bring Civil War Reds Charge Murder Katanga The Congo Katanga government announced today that natives of an unidentified village killed former Premier Patrice Lumumba and two aides early day three days after their escape from a farmhouse jail They will receive a cash reward Katangese Interior Minister Godfroid broke the news of the death of Lumumba former Minister of Youth and Sports branch of the Eel River two and Maurice and former Deputy Senate Speaker Joseph al a half miles cast of Benbow at Sunday Two passengers David Clark Jr 35 and his wife Mona 25 of Garberville escaped with injuries and servere shock after fighting their way to shore 100 yards downstream in lire swill muddy water The vehicle plunged some 30 feet slraight down into the water driver apparently lost control on the harrow muddy road The i from the victim's home The body was recovered at by members of the using an outboard and pike poles Earlier Garberville ambulance operator L Speed DeVee his assistant Donald Palmer and Highway Patrol officers crawled a through the dense riverbank brush lo locale Continued on Page 13 a news conference this afternoon The announcement hit the world with Impact If raised fears that the Congo was approaching all-out civil war inevitable slaughter of retaliation One high Belgian official here said Lumumba's slaying could bring a night of the long knives against white men Observers felt It was the grimmest moment to date In the Congo said the fugitives were killed by means he did not dis- close in a village he refused to said the villa ill of Which was the total price put on the heads of Lumumba and his com- panions by the Katanga ment Russia Blames The death barely an hour before United Nations Security Council i met in New York to consider and Lumumba's fate At this sion Belgium its allies and agents and general Dag Hammarskjold and the Command in the Congo undermined and cracked the concrete waU bordering Myrtle Grove cemetery on Myrtle Avenue over the weekend causing the wall to give way City shored up the cracked and protruding wall Sunday to prevent complete collapse but the wall ably will have to be completely re- placed it was indicated Pedestrians are cautioned to use the opposite side of the street for the present or Lumumba's death Then after praise of Lumumba and pleas for the council adjourned until reacted with great shock to news of death but his press Pierre said any further comment will to come from the State De- called for a complete in- of that full-scale civil war said the three men identified possible doubt and that their death Bodies Immediately Buried Their bodies have been burgee immediately at a place we wish to he said We are either the name of the village which the end of the sad exploits of Lumumba and his accomplices we do not wish that which tribe will not be be he object of eventual reprisals on the part of the dp not wish either to be the object of pressure to exercise judicial action against the gese who have maybe acted what precipitously added did the government eventual pilgrimages to scene said the villagers who slew Lumumba and his aides ed because they thought the fugitives were in session of arms said the three men were killed Sunday morning by the Continued on Page 13 Eight injured Firemen In S F SAN FRANCISCO firemen were injured Sunday while fighting a fire that swept the top floor of a story apartment building in San Francisco's Fillmore District A hundred tenants were driven into the street by dense smoke that filled the building Two of firemen members of a rescue squad were severely injured when caught in a sudden flashback of fire U was the worst I've ever said Capt Herbert Drendel 46 The smoke was very dense All of a sudden It flashed all around us We were lucky fo get out alive Stocks Dip In Light Trading NEW YORK UPD Slocks dipped moderately today ns trad ing dropped off in response to observance of Lincoln's Birthday Aircrafts and defense issues picked up around a point on av- but most groups w down small amounts Arid Seven Make Ten registered member of trip lets to and Mrs Robert Sweet of Eureka at St Joseph pital early this morning while Mrs James Kaliamos licensed vocational holds All are in hospital authorities said but the tiny placed in ah for a pepping The couple have seven other dren Russ Rocket Ship On Way To Venus Launched Sunday By ALINE MOSBY MOSCOW rocket ship hurtled hrough space on three-month Journey toward Venus but Russian scientists did not know yel whether It would score a hit on twin planet A who asked lhat his name be withheld said It would not be possible to tell until the trajectory li known whether the ship into cloud-covered Venus or orbit around It It depends on the data sent back by the Interplanetary he said Hit or orbit the Russians were elated with the rorket shot which comprised man's first attempt to reach out mechanically to com- planets In solar system They already started talking of a shot to Mars Moscow Radio said the rocket so far as was was the been tried If successful the space probe might be likened to standing in New York with a rifle and hitting an apple in San Francisco interplanetary station as the Russians call moving at miles an hour Calls for Academician A Mikhailov di- rector of the Observatory near Leningrad commented A little patience and new pages will be open in planetary astronomy in the study of our solar neighbors Venus and then Mars The interplanetary station wa launched Sunday from a mother satellite which had carried it be- yond the heaviest pull of gravity The high scientific source said Soviet scientists had developed high speed rocket techniques to such a did not have to time the shot for the moment Venus and would be closest o each other He confirmed that Ure satellite which carried the station from Earth was launched in a di- rection opposite to the movement around tha sun Other Proceed Another scientist told UP I the Venus rocket did not mean any lessening of moon exploration or the project He said all the projects were overlapping mes and Soviet scientists said the system indicated ably advanced guidance systems and powerful rockets methoc had discussed for years The Long Trip Ahead Russians elated at shot said the station would have lo travel for more than three months before reaching the area of the planet Venus the latter part of May Premier S returned lo Moscow Sunday from an agricultural survey of the provinces to share in the tion the Communist parly per Pravda proclaimed new stage in conquest of outer space and carried comments of praise from Soviet and Western N director of the Kharkov State said the new space shot opened broadest possibilities for discovering what is beneath hat it was indicated today the cloud cover around Venus often termed sister planet Ship Being Tracked The Russians said a special night center was tracking the rocket ship and controlling the times it radioed back to earth on megacycles There was no indication er the rocket ship would hit nus circle around it or shoot right by into space satellite which carried the interplanetary station aloft started in orbit around the earth the announcement said ft did not say how much this satellite weighed but said it was Continued on Page 13 A baby bonanza hit St Josep here early this two boys and a gir were bom lo Mr and Mrs Rober 1630 Summer already the parents of seven othe children including one set twins All three and their Elizabeth were reported well day by hospital administrator Sis Dr Donal Lowe was the attending physician The father who slept late thi morning today that h and his wife had suspected th possibility of more than one new comer but that when the trip lets were announced he w shook a lillle Sweet is a millwright for th U S Plywood plant at Fair haven firstborn Baby Boy A ame at a nr He is 1 inches long with a birth weigh of five pounds five ounces B arrived at a m IOU inches long and pounds 11 ounces but far from least wa Baby C who is 20 inche and weighing in at si pounds nine ounces pounds and nine ounces of new family reachin 5815 inches laid end-to-end The still slightly dazed fathe today counted off the other chi dren on his fingers after re checking on the exact ages o two and he correct spelling the last one's name He counted Robert aged Jennifer Susan 11 twin Michael and Martin nine DavU seven and Joanne five Names of the three additions are still to be drawn from Safe Burglars Garner Only Safe burglars who broke into th A Levy Zenter Company refrig plant offices at the foot o Clark Street over the the safe got only in petty for their efforts The burglars used a ladder t rejch and break a window on th west side and left by the sam window police said The break-in was discovered b truck driver Gerald Bulk when h reported for work at 7 a m oda Says 25 Percent Over Year Ago A black picture on ment here was painted by some f the speakers at a conference is morning with Congressman Clement W Miller but others aw lie situation as not being discouraging The session was called by Mil r with local business industrial ibor and city and county officials i an attempt to obtain a clearer of exactly what the un- situation here is Called on first was John W Foyce county welfare director said the number of persons receiving categories f aid is about 25 per cent over i year ago while money are up about 15 per cent Present recipient rate he said s about 5.5 per cent of the ition compared to 4.4 per cent ast year Employable persons receiving some form of assistance ig surplus commodities work for relief and other aid now totals 968 compared to 377 a year ago At that time he noted employ ible persons were only receiving surplus commodities Questioned by Miller on sur plus commodity distribution Joyce said the commodities ar of assistance but are lacking quantity and proper variety In the view of welfare worker he said it is more fo families lo use the channels of trade for their need Mrs Rollison mana ger of the stale Department Employment here presente figures on unemployment over fh past few months Considered of significance Miller was the fact that casua jobs usually are available for trn unemployed but this year fe such jobs are available He sai this was the experience reporte in Ukiah Saturday and Mrs Ro lison confirmed it is a fact her also Benefits Exhausted Mrs also took note o the number of persons who hav exhausted unemployment benefits They were 75 in September 6 Drifting Launch Recovered Here The power launch Jane adrift and unmanned sine a from an oil exploratio mother ship parted in heavy Chapel of Citizens Mortuary i October 107 in November 141 i December arid in January Labor representatives reported compilation of unemployment gures by them indicated cent of a work force of In the bu ng trades fha gures showed 40 per cent of out of work 32 per cent f carpenters 65 per cent of and eight to 10 per cent f plumbers No figures were available from umber industry unions Miller questioned labor on Hie outlook for tha uture and labor viewed it as ark In construction they saw some coming up at oldt Stale College some vay work and some Building Needed The thing needed lo ease here Is an upswing in building across the union spokesmen said Concerning designation of this area as a distressed union spokesmen said few extra Continued on Page 13 Charles Grinsell Of Ferndale Dies Charles J Grinsell former president of the Citizens ture and Undertaking Company of Ferndale died Sunday ing Born December 22 1887 near Ferndale he had lived most of tiis life in this area retiring from his business in 1934 He had also served as a Deputy U S hall and was a World War I veteran He was -a member of tha Native Sons of the Golden West Ferndale Parlor No 93 the Stuart Macklin Post No 559 American Legion and the Ferndale ccr Fire Department Survivors include his son seph C Grinsell Ferndale ter Nell Scheaf Bakersfield Terry James Timothy and Julia Ann Grinsell all of Ferndale and numerous nieces find nephews Rosary will be recited today Monday at 8 p m at tha weather off the Humboldt tsu Lin QLIU Friday was recovered Saturday be recited Tuesday at 10 a m afternoon A Coast Guard search and cue seaplane from the San cisco bay area spotted the drifting vessel westward of False Cape midway between Cape Mendocino and the Eel river mouth and directed the recovery vessels to it The larger exploration ships Miss Betty and Miss Helen to the area and put a crew aboard the Nelda Jane ing port here under escort of the oil ship and a Guard motor lifeboat AUSTIN against movie theater erndale and Mass will it Church of the Assumption Protest Protests tion sparked by University of as students were held across much of the nation Sunday lam Lincoln's birthday The largest demonstrations were staged at Austin whare tile Uni- versity of Texas is located dreds of conducted ins at movie houses Reports of protests being filed or being held came from Dallas Tex Boston San Antonio New York and Chicago Finch Prosecution Winding Up Case LOS ANGELES UPD The prosecution said it will call its final witness Tuesday at the re- sumption of the third murder trial of Dr R Bernard Finch and Carole The trial will go into its seventh week when testimony resumes ter today's legal holiday With the stale expected to end its case within the next day or two the present trial is running aboul three weeks ahead of the second trial U took the slate 10 weeks lo question witnesses it had but coast normal during the second trial Both the San Francisco second and first trials ended in 50 Bakersfield Fresno hung juries FIVE DAY FORECAST FRANCISCO UPD day Northern Recurrent rains with total amount heavy temperatures below normal mal mento Bluff Eu- reka Santa Rosa 38-61 Blue Canyon Rain over most of area before midweek and likely again in north late in week temperatures below normal inland Salinas aW2
