Eureka Humboldt Standard (Newspaper) - February 16, 1961, Eureka, California A I I 5 Youth Admits Killing i ttv From Capo IS tonight lor wind li Friday lair cloudy with a dime ol rain Eu- northward Ft Ft AJA Ft VM Ft U 7.3 1.6 -0.6 JO 4.1 U WEATHER FORECAST For Arcala md Fair today and Cloudy of occasional ratn Friday Not much change In Temperature MoS 50 lo 51 tow 40 to 48 Winds mostly 10 to M mph southwesterly a lo 18 Friday 24 hours ending Rainfall 0.26 To dale this leaion 2 To dale Fast season Normal to date 23.73 i m p m Vol HI EUREKA CALIFORNIA FEBRUARY 16 1961 lOc Per Copy 32 Pages Today Troop For Europeans In Congo LEOPOLDVILLE The Congo leader Antoine has given Euro- peans in tion despite previous threats lo take vengeance on trice Lumumba was harmed sources reported today They said apparently does to jeopardize the angry reaction to Lumumba's death that has swept major cities of the world Gen Victor was ed to have ordered soldiers on guard duty between the European and African sections of ville in Oriental Province where has established a rump government Congo Appeal for Calm Stanleyville authorities have re- appealed for calm over the radio However violence was in Kivu Province capital ol Bukavu Belgians were arrested and beaten up by Con soldiers One was and others were later released Reports from salt one Belgian was fatally Wednesday in reprisal for thi death of Lumumba A Portuguese was seriously wounded by Lumumba fanatics who tlie Belgian and the Portuguese had been joking about Lumumba's death while sitting at a cafe terrace Also in a Roman Catholic priest was shot wounded by an unknown lese assailant Europeans in Stanleyville Bukavu look no chances Many of sought refuge with th Nations command and few if any ventured the streets In both cities porters staged mourning skins but ho Incidents developed Conference Planned Calm prevailed generally Leopoldville While most person regretted that Lumumba had no received a fair trial many be his disappearance from the political scene would ult mately improve chances for a po reconciliation Congolese leaders meeting Leopoldville were reported read today lo call an conference in two eeks The aim of such a conference ould be a general attempt to the divergent tendencies Congolese politics and draw up plan for the future that would acceptable to the greatest ble number of delegates Since and Anicet mura chief of the in both have down earlier invitations to preparatory conference it eared certain that no would participate the conference Pair Charged With Truck Burglary After Drunk Arrest burglary charges were against a Blue early this morning after one of them Lawrence Charles Rick 50 had been stopped by the Highway Patrol on a drunken charge Taken into custody by city po ice at the sheriff's office after heir CHP arrest were Rick and lis wife Anja Agnes Rick 42 They are charged with having into the locked fish truck jf Fred Gero landing the latter was attending church here and stealing some worth of seafoods a of wine a silk dress and other The stolen goods were ed and returned to Gero after the jair were booked at both the office and the city jail Rick listed his address ris Ar- cata and his wife as Blue Lake Slocks Gain On Heavy Volume NEW YORK UPI Stocks jumped off short gain this morning on heavy the ticker lagging behind floor trans- actions for most of the first hour Gains were not large rarely running lo 2 points with steel and chemical shares receiving good support Sphere Polka Dot Launched Lost WASHINGTON UPI If the final stage was United States today launched and then lost somewhere in space a polka dot sphere that was become a gleaming satellite of the earth Three hours and 32 minutes ter sphere was launched at a m EST scientists said could not confirm that it had gone into orbit Officials of the National Aero- nautics and Space Administration announced however thai the burned out fourth stage of the launching rocket had gone into orbit and is now circling the earth The sphere was launched at Wallops Island Va tion by a all solid fuel Scout rocket The purpose of the launch was lo test the launching capability ol the experimental Scout and to study air density at orbital tudes hundreds of miles up All four stages of the Scout fired on schedule and NASA said It looks good But hours later scientists con ceded they had no proof lhat the sphere had achieved orbit They had believed sphere been tracked half way around thi world to Woomera Australia where a radio signal was picket up at But this appeared to be In doubt A NASA official reported the lift off looked good Within min utes of the firing it was that first stages had ignited on schedule Officials then settled down for two hour wait to find out del whether the satellite ha after launch the fourth and fina stage ignited on schedule and th sphere was ejected This had been scheduled to oc cur about miles out over tb les Violation Work To Clear Huge Landslide On 101 in the right direction at ie right speed it was at this oint that the sphere began its rrt circuit of the earth Not until tracking stations got on the sphere ver could it be stated definitely lat the was in orbit ut when the fourth stage NASA official said good Within 40 minutes after launch our tracking stations had picked p signals from the sphere's io beacon Not until the sphere passes over and is checked out by he Woomera Tracking Station owever will officials confirm lat it is in orbit The sphere which was inflated fter ejection was picked up at by Blossom Flint station at by Ft lyers Fla at by a radar tation Canary Islands ami it by a station at South Africa The sphere will guage air hundreds of miles up Previous U.S launchings all Five Local Lumbar Firms Accused Of Illegal Practices Cross-examination of Ihc state's principal witness In n formal caring against five firms accused of violating ate's Forest Practice Rules got tinder way this morning at earing In he Division of Highways auditorium Edward F Martin Division of Forestry employe al the Fortuna flee had spent seven hours on the stand yesterday and one hour is morning under direct examination by Robert H Conneft y attorney general Martin's testimony consisted of concerning written re- orts he hnd mailo on the logging jn question on Mad ivpr watershed in the Showers ass area He testified as to the number trees under the mini- turn diameter lhal had been cul to stump counts re to construct erosion control on logging roads and or roads failure to fall snags nd failure to file required fire ilans The state entered a total of 46 including Martin's writ ten reports on the alleged viola and photographs of erosion on the operations Photos Of Erosion Martin's reports covered a per iod of over a year the Sales estimate of llin number of acres involved During direct examination Con- drew from Martin a menl thai his latest inspection showed some of the snags ed in the accusation had been felled and lhat some erosion con- trol correction had been He asked Martin if any of the formed from the alleged erosion had been filled and in said he could not answer thai laving not inspected rea In any event Martin stated Even if the gullies were Hit Child On Head REDDING Calif ta Counly Sheriff John Balma said today a boy has given a fairly complete menl in the of littlo Lee Morris Tho haltered body of the year-old girl was found near a logging road Friday She Tuesday while on her way home from a school parly Tlie sheriff said that Wallace Mitchell Ford a high school freshman and neighbor of Iho slain girl at the nearby of Anderson ho Vicki into the wooded area with the intention of raping her Balma said lie boy admitted removing child's underclothing but said he did nol rape her be- cause he became frightened The youth said he he was one who crushed her head with a large rock but ha couldn't remember Ford bid police he saw walking home from school and Tangled broken trees and thousands of tons of sodden earth and dislodged rocks left ceter mark the huge landslide which has created a lake ing Highway 101 since Monday morning Bulldozers at center work to dig a channel to free the lake 3300 feet long which submerged the highway er upstream under 11 feet of water At noon today no hour for opening to traffic could be set The area is some H miles north of Willits Woman Dies Of Home Fire Burns SAN RAFAEL UPI Mrs Marjorie Hoppe 39 died day night of burns suffered day when she dashed into her flaming Belvedere home in an at- tempt to save her daughter She did not know that the child leather had already been cued by her husband Carl a San Francisco attorney or Pacific Missile Range in California Want Cash In A Flash Body Of Nude Woman Found SAN FRANCISCO UPI An unidentified nude woman about Call CLASSIFIED was found dead today at the ING at HI and let an ad edge of the surf on Bead near the foot of Balboa St Her body was discovered by An afol Kolossoff as he was walking Ms dog Police said Ihc woman's fao bore evidence of injuries as if slv had been in a They sail work for you as this one did for the mi CHI HI MOW t p.m The gentleman called to cancel About ten and a half minutes his ad just one day later and 1175 dollars If you like things in with litlle as possible in the Classified pages of your Humboldt Times and Standard worry You'll find the answer she had been dead about two hours and that she had not been in Hope For Early Highway Clearing Clearing weather today and ably have wait for further by Division of Highways crews during the night raised lopes for sfi early of Highway 101 but the critical condition of the slide area bars any prediction as to when traffic may be resumed Highway crews during the night made one cut through the main part of huge slide estimated at between a and a cubic yards to earth and rock and the water was re- ported to be receding this ing A similar gain was made but a new slide blocked the cut and the vast lake formed by the waters of Long Valley Creek was increased over its original size by nearly feel accord ing to reports direct from the in Eureka said today that the first traffic allowed through after the route can be opened probably will be trucks but that modern automobiles will clearing operations Traffic currently is being de- via Fort Bragg over dous mountain roads but no had been reported as ol oday Nine buildings in the lake area lave been inundated to the eaves lines and the highway roadbed itself undoubtedly has major damage according to en estimates Included in previously reported damage is a in the main roadway north of the area where a major repair oper alien may be expected dammed waters have run off Nord In Court ANGELES Engineers at divisional offices Bi Daddy Nord faces sentencing day on his conviction of ope rating Gas House in Subur ban Venice without an entertain ment permit Finch Defense In Effort To Prove Double Jeopardy LOS ANGELES UPI Dr t Bernard Finch's attorney say le's going to show that juror n the second mur der trial convicted the surgeon of second degree murder Lawyer Maxwell S Keith's un usual statement came day when the defense opened it case in the seventh week of th third murder trial of Finch 44 and Carole They are ac of the fatal shooting o Finch's socialite wife Barbara o July 18 1959 Keith hoped by his maneuver which included calling seven second trial jurors to testify to show that current Iria amounts to placing Finch in ble jeopardy Keith argued that since the sec pnd trial jurors found Finch gul ty the surgeon should not hav to be tried again on the sam charge However Presiding Judge Le roy Dawson of second tri claimed he was never Informa of the verdict visits to areas being on February 10 lasl Friday The photographs purported lo show erosion caused by failure to construct dips or in Irac lor arid Iruck roads Some showed gullies ranging from a few inches to an estimated four in depth while one showed stream flowing down a tractor ad which Martin claimed had because the road cul the bed ig it Sheridan Bunnell one of the in the Lumber and a defendant in the administrative action said uring a recess thai the road the at an angle the point where the water was owing in the road and lhat had not been diverted alher lhat the bed had been used s part of the road Milton Huber Eureka in the and early questioning to be aimed at ng home the point the were based mainly n Martin's reports definitions f snags and violations of the inder diameter rule Huber also dwelt on the theme it would hot remove the silt already deposited in the streams Specific charges in the case in elude culling limber under minimum diameter failure lo fall snags failure to file a firo plan and erosion control violations Firms Named A finding of non-compliance could mean loss of operating per mils for at least one year called her into ed area to help him carry thing He said he helped her through a barbed wire fence so tear her party dress The youth lold the sheriff he aler left the scene and joined some 160 men in the all-night earch for Ihc missing girl among a group of Vicki's friends and neighbors rought in for questioning about the murder Authorities felt that she had been killed by someone she knew because there was no a struggle said the killer used a rock to bludgeon the tim's head It was found near the body Her father James Morris 35 a plywood mill worker said had been looking forward lo tha the Lumber Company of Eu- Company of Trinidad Reynolds and of Eureka and liam Millsap and Kenneth holm of Arcata Hearing Hie case Is Coleman E Steward hearing officer for the Division of The hearing is expected lo lasl through Friday afler which gathered will be studied and a decision reached in Sacramento The bearing opened at 9 yesterday party weeks but lhat at school for it might hava been a factor in her death Mrs Morris 30 drove each day to pick up her daughter at a Named in the complaint by the school bus stop about a half mile state attorney general's office are from the family's modest home in tlie nearby community of An- the Carl Olson Lumber The bus usually arrived hat each snag and each rce cut under 20 inches could be considered a separate violation No Acreage Listed Huber also pointed out ing operations involved are only a small part of the total operation of BiB in the affected area He drew from Martin a ment that the total area shown on map of operations involved did not necessarily coincide with the said the jet was unloaded from a acreages listed in Martin's report at p.m However Vicki's class was re- eased 10 minutes early Tuesday of the party The started to walk home when she 5 ound that her mother hadn't ar- rived at the stop Mrs Morris reached the stop about eight minutes later she was unable to find Vicki either at the on he road she authorities v Bloodhounds were brought in to oin search party ng night One of the animals cd searchers to body about 35 yards off the road Vicki's school books and a xr sack full of valentine ngs from her classmates were found nearby Morris who was with searchers when the body was found was restrained by as he tried to lake child in his arms He returned home and gently broke Ihc news to his wife a frail jillery city lhat a Congo civil wai is imminent It looks as if lines are be- ing drawn for a new one diplomat commented A United Nations spokesman Cargo Plane Brings Jel ELISABETHVILLE Katanga cargo plane anded here during the night and unloaded what was believed to be a jet fighter The ed arrival increased fears in this an who suffers a heait condition The couple suffering from shock and fatigue as a result of their long ordeal were placed under heavy sedation Neighbors look in their other three children whose Martin said he had made no only marking was the serial ber The fighter plane was not he said Swedish guards at the airport reported they believed it was a jet craft Efforts lo find out where Slate Officials To Be Honored Here Humboldt county will honor state treasurer Bert A Belts and state controller Allan Cranston at a breakfast here Friday morning The affair reported as ly for the party will be held at Pete's Steak House be- ginning at 8 Members of the Democratic Central Committee local cratic dubs and others interested are especially invited to attend party sources said today Both men are in Eureka to at- county auditors and tax collectors the cargo plane came from have failed the spokesman said The crew was not available for questioning he said and airport officials would not even say what language they speak The government information ministry of Katanga Premier Moishe Tshombe said it had no ft all about the plane A top Belgian official We know absolutely about if and I give you my won tend the annual convention of that it has not come from Pilot Ejected From Jef Found FRESNO Air al Guard pilot who ejected from his disabled jet trainer over the Sierra foothills Wednesday night was found today He is Col Hoy Santin 42 who was located on the Jack Sample ranch near the Canal Santin was about miles from Piedra along the Kings River where his jet crashed in an open field strewing over a wide area Authorities said San I in suffered slight injuries in bailing from his plane at about feet while a storm moved through the area He was transported by car to Fresno's Veterans Hospital for a checkup
