Florence Morning News (Newspaper) - August 19, 1960, Florence, South Carolina WEATHER fARTLY CLOUDY and worm Ground fog and haze in early morning Partly cloudy and mild tonight Saturday worm ond humid High today 86 Low night 68 High Saturday 90 VOL The Paper Published In Eastern South Carolina READER'S TIP CAN A MAN put aside his jtk nf expect to return to it ond things in good For story of a man who n doing turn to Page FLORENCE S C FRIDAY MORNING AUGUST 19 1960 DAILY 6c SUNDAY Discoverer XIV Circling World With Spy Gear A I R FORCE BASE Calif The satellite Discoverer XIV roared into orbit Thursday crammed with secret sky-spy gear The successful launch in the series came but a week after the United States spectacular space first Discoverer XIII recovery of its capsule from orbit Moonlet No nose cone was designed to help two upcoming series of surveillance Samos to radio back pictures of terrain it passes Midas to detect enemy missile firings Ex- act nature of the gear was fied A separate instrument package to help with optical and radar tracking was included to data for the Navy's transit gallon satellite program Goal of this shot as with all Discoverers is of the in- strument capsule from a tricky aerial catch if possible Friday if all goes well the cap- sule will be ejected over the arc- tic and will parachute down near Hawaii Planes will try to snag its chute and if they fail ships will try to pluck it from the sea Blast Ends 1st Try at Orbiting Courier Sphere CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP of a carrier rocket Thursday wrecked the first at- tempt to orbit a satellite that could lead to a communications network for all U.S military forces Project officials declined to timate how much the failure had set the program back But they said another attempt will be made The two-stage rocket a blew apart in a giant flash of fire and smoke about minutes after it lifted off in an effort to fling the pound into a circular orbit 700 miles above the earth The explosion occurred at an of about 15 miles The would-be satellite and flaming chunks of broken rocket meted into the Atlantic several miles offshore The Defense Department an- the engine of the first stage Thor rocket had shut down prematurely causing the missile to explode The engine stopped about 15 seconds before it was to cut off and the second stage was to ignite Authorities began a study of signals to determine what caused the trouble Prosecutor Hammers At Powers Testimony Retaken FAILURE For Discoverer 14 its nose crammed with spy gear the launching from its pad left photo was a grand and glorious venture The Air Force will try today to catch its falling capsule On the opposite U S coast however the Star rocket at right ex- in flight just a few minutes after blast-off time The cause was not positively fixed temporarily AP Congolese Troops Club Rob UN Unit the Congo Belgians Sonic I kicked clubbed army and robbed a Canadian U X unit at airport Thursday Protesting sharply the U N Command cracked down and reclaimed full control over the airport The savage incident one of a of clashes ot Premier trice Lumumba's Negro soldiers with U N personnel came as Lumumba delivered ed snubs to U S Ambassador Clare H and U N Undersecretary Ralph 1 Bunche The Congolese apparently took the Canadians assigned to signal duty in the interior for Alcoholic Center Gets Preliminary Approval An application for federal funds to buiM an alcoholic rehabilitation center at Florence has been given preliminary approval Dr W R Mead of Florence chairman of the S C Alcoholic Civil War Medals Project Proposed COLUMBIA AP South Carolina Confederate Centennial Commission Thursday approved a plan to turn scrap metal from Fort into medals in com- memoration of the War Between the States Commission Chairman John A May of Aiken expressed optimism that the federal government would give permission for such Use of Commission excess scrap metal The proposed medals probably will carry a picture of the of Fort Sumter on one side and an official emblem of the commission soon to be designed on the other These will be sold with profits going toward various commission projects such as the erection of additional historical markers and the publication of Confederate terials Decker Army's New Top Leader WASHINGTON President Eisenhower Thursday nominated Gen George Henry Decker to be chief of staff of the Army for a two-year term i Decker now vice chief of staff would Gen Lyman L who has been to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff effective upon the retirement of Gen than S Twining The date of Twining's ment has not been determined yet He has another year to go on his current term as chairman but has been in poor health ed last night he had been notified of the tentative approval by Con gressman John L McMillan The state i s seeking funds to build the posed center which is to be locat cd on a tract deeded to the commission by the TB Sanatori um Commission Final approval of the federa grant will not be made until after building plans are completed and construction bids are received Dr Mead said He added that architecture plans are presently being drawn TAPPED BY IKE George Decker AP Jack's La Passed WASHINGTON ate Thursday night passed Sen John K Kennedy's raising the minimum wage from to an hour and giving about four million more workers the tion of the act The vote marked a victory for the Democratic presidential nee was He was chief sponsor of the and shepherded it through the Senate successfully fighting off nearly all limiting amendments of a major nature However to win the closest tle of all during Thursday's sion he had to agree to cut down the new coverage in thc by about workers Originally he had sought to bring five lion under Hie fair Labor Inside City Beat Comics Good Morning Hospital Patients Markets Ads Women's or Senate Friendly Units Hurl Air Power In Retaliation FT BRAGG AH ly forces brought the deadly Thunderchief jet Thursday in strikes at sor defenses in Exercise Bright Cone III The strikes were partially in retaliation for enemy air over friendly forces staging areas but also to soften up the sor for Saturday's mass airborne first major problem in the simu lated war maneuvers Thc realistic exercise will be explained to some 200 newspaper radio and television representa lives Friday by top officers in command of the exercise i covers a six-state area and in i volves some Army and Air i Force troops and 700 tactical I craft In an early afternoon Thursday for key members of the j Airborne Division Lt Col 1 McDonald of St Paul assistant division chief of ilane and others in jeeps he Congolese struck The totaled about Ca-j Indians few more than a j Thirty Congolese blocked the The Canadians two of wore wings and chevrons similar o thc insignia of Belgian para- were robbed ol their wallets and some arms Their protests were shrugged off with a repealed charge that they were Flemish Belgians Capt Taschereau of real the er was knocked unconscious by a rifle butt smashed into his right emple The Congolese forced some of i the Canadians In lie on and made one strip to his shorts I Signalman lose of bec was kicked twice in thc face Cpl Robert Conroy ol ton Ont suffered a blow on the hack He said a Congolese broke his rifle stock in delivering that blow In Kingston Conroy's wife who gave birth In a baby boy As far as L am concerned can turn our troops right around and send them all home again Ghana I soldiers to help the Canadians They surrounded the party and casing Congolese away by persuasion and argument took them lo their quarters Under cover of Lumumba's law declaration lese troops moved in uninvited lo share guard duly at life airport with Ghana troops of Maj Gen Carl von Horn's forces COMMANDED POWERS UNIT Col William ton headed the weather ob- servation squadron based at Adana Turkey from which Francis Powers took off on his ill-fated flight His flight would be absolutely Powers quoted Shelton as ing Big 4 Members Talk with Dag UNITED NATIONS called in the Chief representatives of the Big Four powers Thursday for a joint conference aimed at keeping the Congo from collapsing into Lenient Punishment Hinted for American MOSCOW The Soviet prosecution hammered persistently Thursday on thc theme that Francis Gary Powers knew in advance the full meaning of his U2 over Soviet territory Hut elsewhere hints were dropped that the court would deal leniently with the American flier The trial may end Friday Time after time in the second day of the trial technical witnesses repeated that May 1 was planned rind and attempted to link Powers directly with thc U.S military Powers disagreed with some of the testimony But once more he told the military section of the chaos Reliable sources said the secretary-general b I u n t I them that Four unanimity was imperative in order lo avoid a drastic deterioration in ready turbulent newborn African republic African sources said that Soviet Supreme Court he ed his flight The pilot who has pleaded ty to spying said he regretted very very much that he hajl made the flight and expressed be icf he had done his own country very ill service Moscow radio stressing the expressions of regret Is listeners this factor Powers apart and made a clem distinction between him and those who sent him Soviet authorities made it clear their primary interest is in U.S icy in the eyes of world opinion The prosecution introduced ex- pert testimony concerning ers VI plane its equipment and documents carried by Powers which the prosecution apparently introduced to link him directly to the U.S Air Force This testimony seemed to he 1 did not what lay it was nor when the summit conference was meeting Q Did you not think your flight might provoke a military con- A The people who sent me should think of these things Q Do you regret making this flight A Very very much Q Were you aware that you were infringing on the frontiers of the Soviet A Yes Q Why did you do A I was ordered lo Q Did you do your country a good or an A I would say a very ill service The flier seemed weary after seven hours on the hours Wednesday his day and an hour and 20 minutes during the second session His ex- pression seldom changed and while he was listening to other witnesses he sat thoughtfully with lu's arms folded Powers mother Ida Ford e leading up In a Soviet who n lokl that thc U.S government and is military leadership deliberately carried out a which bore a risk of war The extent of ance seems to be an important but appeared in the Powers wife Barbara and his cobbler father Oliver W Powers of Pound Va were in factor His Soviet defense counsel also had warned i told Powers The Command ca's representatives that if after the day's proceeding i clash Wednesday of disagreement persists with lese with a Norwegian Patrice Lumumba's Congo rushed three the United Nations would have no alternative but to pull out the more than troops in the country companies to airport after the on- the Canadians These were two companies of Sudanese and a Ghana company Gen Victor the ex- sergeant commanding the Congolese forces agreed to pull most of his men from the airport leaving behind a token contingent of 30 Thc flag was hoisted again on the con- trol tower A spokesman declined to comment officially on the steadily deteriorating relations But al officials described the be- havior of the Congolese as an Davis eluded U.S marshals front to the United Nations group i for a third day Marshals Gov Play Hide Seek ana's battle to keep public schools segregated turned into a game of hide-and-seek today as Gov that the flier's behavior on the stand and his repeated sions of regret and repentance raised hope that the court would be lenient with him view may reflect cial Soviet thinking since he is a court-appointed lawyer who under the Soviet legal system has a wing thc trial They were joined by the younger sister sica of Washington who just arrived in Moscow The prosecution centered its at- tack on Powers contention that he was not a true spy but rather just a pilot acting under orders One witness Lt Col N A testified that ments found in Powers possession duty to the state superseding that that tnc wss an bringing aid to the Congo I Davis took over New Orleans to his client Powers spirits seemed to have fallen as he finished his second day of testimony but he was some of the prosecution witnesses He had none of his own to testify to his character or to I employe of thc United States Air Force and that the plane was making a flight had been planned in advance Previous timony had linked him tp the U.S Central Intelligence Agency The prosecution also paid much his purpose in making to the question of along the southern marks on the U2 frontiers nor lo his reasons for i itself Lt Col Yuri undertaking the ill-fated May 11 as an said i schools Wednesday surprising the j night across Soviet territory examination of layers of paint Will SUU l stale by the early timing The inference being made the wrecked plane proved to swiftness of the move He authorities is that the plane never carried Leader under a new state law from his superiors because marks because its him to assume control of President was spying and not scientific At North to prevent integration no regret for research The marshals sought to serve flying the U2 miles inside SHAW AIR Carolina's First Dis- But Powers contended he had court papers notifying Davis of an Soviet territory May 1 Soviet the plane at his base prior m 26 hearing for an injunction mier Nikita va net congressman Rep L fho mil it i T will fill in for ha Rivers of thc Air Force Dudley C Sharp in an inspection at North Field near Friday Sharp law under which Davis acted The governor and Ally Gen Jack million have been named had planned to i dan's in Hie suit legislation by Democrats in abbreviated pre-election explained what we will do j P session still has a in combat l road ahead The Uriel ing came minutes after II now goes back to the House j received orders to make the integration which passed a much less in at- version in June That to repel the aggressor force measure would boost the Seven morning Mights by floor to asd cover about of thc 1400000 new workers Air Transport Service Supporters of the legislation thf deployment of will try to get it into conference home Division paratroopers and The injunction asked by but the conservative House equipment 35 minutes ahead ol field in connection e x e r c i s e Operation for National Assn for the Pine Cone 111 Advancement of Colored People Bui his in by 31 while parents would from in this city of trip in the the incident caused the Paris mit conference to collapse May 16 Some of the questioning by the presiding judge Lt Gen tor seemed at stressing these views I Q Did it not occur to you that by violating Soviet frontiers might torpedo the summit A When I got my instructions j ito his flight and had always seen it With identification marks The court told him he was entitled to disagree Set Poison Page God Would Be In Plane Pilot Herter Calls For SAN JOSE Cosla Rica as well as that country can be Secretary of Stale Christian A I restrictions brought hack into respected CHARLOTTE W Committee m bling block And if the conference is troons lowed the House delegates arc to be set against taking broader terms of the strongholds Kven if the House Herler Thursday asked the Herter said hp doubled that i hership in the American mother don't worry about me I'll carry God in the plane with me than of American Stales lo steps would achieve an and tons of Heron the Dominican Republic for objective Thp proposal apparently Francis Gary Powers said ment will be flown directly into aggression but argued against a He said onr of the purposes sought to bridge the gap between his wife's grandmother hi demand for conference is not only to stop nations favoring all possible day he was baptized and be- penalties against the kind of acts the Dominican military penalties against a member of the First Republic has carried out in Dominican Republic and those Methodist Church of Albany Ga battle in Saturday's mass assault President might IIIM the measure since I e as thf I- instead the a I in Thursday's set up a situation Of without That was shortly before he left for work overseas which SMILE OF VICTORY from Sen Kennedy AP arris Art The one of thp placed high on their list of major Senate version bring coverage uf tlic act lu store field for the first time Nut the largest ment store is covered ever the applies mainly to chains of very large stores Kennedy told thc the nal product is not all he wanted City uf 1 t n The a 1 Fielder who now lives here with Hunt slurm report that SOIL said the hut said 1 think this is 1 AREA DEATHS jillo blocked such a luc CAS then could a fiOD miles cast ol Florida Thursday and drove small has charged nail into purl from the can backed nil lo New Jersey lul to Storm developed an-hour peak winds in in j This meeting should clearly and Mrs Matthews Lake nnd has called fora a small around its center unequivocally express Details quarantine of the country which at i p.m KST lion of such conduct and Inke Ibis would include a I in miles past of Cape Canaveral o diplomatic and Fla cuscd officials tact she had with last backing the June plot year when he telephoned her from Washington D C He's the finest boy that ever walked in shoe M r s Fielder said 1 love him as good as any grandson 1 got She has 170 grandchildren g r f a t grandchildren and great g r M grandchildren Terming the committee's con- well-founded he which will jive adequate expressions to this opinion
