Frederick News-Post (Newspaper) - June 10, 1961, Frederick, Maryland GOOD The average vacation will to two weeks ed by two off Weather Today Warm and humid Temperatures Yesterday 68 Vol. 154 LEASED WIRE AND FEATURES JUNE 1961 Run Today I SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS LEGISLATURE ENDS SESSION IN SEVEN HOURS Regulation Of ings Associations And Court BiH Adopted FOOD EXEMPTED FROM SALES TAX COURT MARTIAL ORDERED FOR BOSTON AIR DEFENSE OFFICER ON TEX AS TOWER COLLAPSE STEVENSON IN URUGUAY FOR DISCUSSIONS By GEORGE BOWEN ANNAPOLIS Legislature adhered strictly to the line laid down to them day by Gov. Tawes and put into emergency effect the State's first regulation of savings associations and a full Baltimore Municipal The special session called by the Democratic governor spanned about seven routine A sprinkling of attempts to break up the tight administration ule were squelched with over- whelming There was only one departure from the advance timetable and that originated within the At the of Comptroller Louis L. all food bought to be eaten off the premises will be exempt from the sales Grocers already had convinced legislative leaders that prepared food sold by them should not be Six Bills Killed In the one-day session en- acted 14 bills and killed six bills before they could get off the Gov. Tawes recalled the 152 legislators to re-enact savings and loan laws they had passed at their regular session ending last Petitions by votes were filed to prevent them going into effect as scheduled June the petitions are ruled sufficient and legal by the attorney the questions will be voted upon the November election in 1962. In bills passed Friday oh Even these to court And James more Democratic leader who knowledged he was a supporter of the petition would not say if he planned court and he At issue is the legal question whether a legislature may enact bills relating to the same subject petitioned to Pollack is a political power in the fourth and fifth districts of Baltimore Virtually all of the ineffectual efforts to sidetrack the Tawes machine emanated from legislators in those There were only two State votes against the savings and loan first ever over an in- dustry estimated to be worth billion in The ers were Paul A. Dorf and J. Alvin Jones of the In the there were never more than 14 votes against the savings and loan or court Strength Demonstrated The lieutenants in charge of the legislature their strength at the out- In the they sat on On Page Favor Use Of Nuclear Arms To Keep Berlin WASHINGTON The Canada-United States mentary group Friday declared support for use of all necessary force including nuclear maintain access by the Western Allies to West The made up of 24 ing members of the Canadian Parliament and 24 members of the U.S. reported after two days of discussion that there where village defense units are was full agreement on the sary strengthening NATO's con- and the bility for its having small nuclear weapons for tactical was said a joint if the viet Union moved at any time in to cut off access to West NATO would be ready to respond with all necessary Sen. Mark speaker of Canadian one of the said under ing that this included the use of strategists felt v they were to assure The read at a news was vague in many and did not say whether it referred to major or tactical nuclear The in fifth meeting since formation of the group in failed to reach an agreement on the U. argument there should be no trade in strategic goods with Red China or on the question of ing the Chinese in the United which the United States WASHINGTON A martial was ordered Friday for Col. William M. Banks on charges arising from collapse of a Texas tower radar structure off the New Jersey coast last Jan. 15. All 28 men on the tower died when it toppled into the Atlantic The charge on which Banks is to be tried is that he was derelict in duty by failing to keep self informed of the Banks was in command of the Boston Air Defense Center at the time of the The tower was under this The Air Force announced that the air defense Lt. Gen. Robert M. ordered the court-martial of but dis- missed charges against two other Long Investigation They are William R. Sheppard and Reginald L. The action followed a long in- The Air Force said the tion charge against Banks would go to a military court to be pointed by Lee within a The Air Force said the charge specifically states his knowledge of the then tural condition of the tower his receipt of a severe weather Col. Banks failed to keep himself apprised of the ing weather did not maintain contact with the officer in charge of the tower and with the commander of the and failed to hold himself readily available for any action necessary in view of the developing ous situation at the Sheppard and Stark were ing under Banks is a native of W. Va Sheppard comes from Be- Stark is a native of N. Y. Erected on a steel tripod in the open the radar resemblance to an oil well rig brought the informal name as Leftwing Students test American Cuban Policy HARRIMAN AND GROMYKO HOLD CONFERENCE PARAMILITARY WARFARE BEING STUDIED BY ARMY RESEARCHERS Likely To Be Employed In Quelling Com- munist Terrorists WASHINGTON tary research specialists are ning into Southeast Asia and the Middle East on a survey that could drastically change the kind of weapons and equipment this country supplies its friends and the kind it may have to itself The purpose is to learn what special arms and gear are needed to combat Communist guerrillas waging hit-and-run warfare in gle or other rough terrain to which conventional battlefield weapons are not development teams will talk with native ers in- The specialists also will confer with members of the U.S. tary Advisory Groups already oh the The which ultimately may spread into are ex- to be finished this Based on the findings of these research the United States may start tailoring the arms it supplies to fit needs of this unconventional type of In the shipments often were obsolescent conventional arms no longer needed by U.S. It also may mean that for the first time this country will furnish to irregular village defense units and civil guard ments which now have to make do with homemade weapons or capture their mortars and the like from the Under present the United States arms and trains only the regular military establishment in such countries as South Viet where village defense units are doing much of the actual fighting against the Communist Viet Cong. The new approach stems from the emphasis being placed by President Kennedy and the Penta- gon on paramilitary warfare and the quelling Communist terrorists who rarely challenge organized military units in open but operate by stealth and FIREMEN CALLED The Hyattsville fire company to two house fires in three minutes of each other yesterday at 5 p. The first fire was reported at the Prime residence in Cedar Grove and the second was on the Dorsey farm on the Waters near At the Prime Damascus assisted the company reported that on- ly slight damage was done and that the fire was believed caused by Other details of the Fres were not available last night as there was difficulty in reaching the fire department due to the DYING DEER FOUND Md. A Dying deer was found in the of a chain store Police found the 120-pound doe when they noted a broken glass door at a Murphy's store at East Montgomery and Perry A trail of blood led them to the THE WEATHER The weather forecast for land cloudiness warm and humid with scattered Highs in the Everything went off better than expected Thursday and Friday in downtown Frederick at the shoppers except for a few times when all merchandise on the outside had to be taken inside on account of the wind and TWO DRIVERS FOUND GUILTY Baltimoreans Fined Each In Magistrate's Court In an unusually long session of yesterday afternoon Magistrate Byron W. Thompson found guilty two Baltimore both with the same charges but in different Roy W. of was fined or 45 days in the a charge of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and or five days in jail on a charge of reckless ing Trooper first class Harry J. the arresting fied that he first observed our driving through Jefferson er another person had told him of a black and white car operating in an unsafe Given Test Frost said that he followed the Ridenour vehicle and noticed that the auto was swerving back and forth across the center line of the ay and had just bare- ly missed hitting a parked car in The defendant was taken to the State Police barracks where he was given a breathalyzer test which of amount of alcohol in his To prove that a man is under the influence the reading is After the Wilbur F. attorney for the called the defendant to the Ridenour said that he had been to the races at Charles W. and had two and a shot of before starting his trip back to The defendant also stated that he had been sick and under a doctor's care for over a year and is unable to Attorney field then asked Magistrate Thompson for In another case cf drunken and reckless Bernard M. also of was found guilty of both and given the same Observed On U.S. 40 Trooper E. W. Reith the arresting State ted he first observed the auto on Rt 40 near On Page U. S. Ambassador ous To Get Stalled Laos Talks Going OFFICIALS ACCORD FRIENDLY WELCOME Uruguay first tion of Ambassador Adlai E. South American tour curred here While President Kennedy's cial representative met with Uruguayan student porters of Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro staged a protest rally i Stevenson The leftist rally at National Un- took place as officials were reported telling Stevenson that Uruguay favors a hands-off policy toward Cuba at A high government source said the Castro regime appears to be embarking on a more moderate policy and should be left alone to see what The official Uruguayan does not go far enough to please leftist At the protest they accused the government of the try to the envoy of Wall Street and the First Anti U.S. Outburst The outburst was the first since Stevenson began his 18- day tour last The U.S. chief delegate to the United tions is attempting to line up port for Kennedy's progress aimed at combatting the spread of communism by raising economic standards in the ern Stevenson came here from Ar- gentina in a pouring officials and almost the only people at the The streets were nearly deserted as the dor's into the The first outward sign in Montevideo was an ment in the Communist paper El Popular that an open air meeting would be held in front of the university to the Stevenson The meeting was arranged by Uruguayan porters of Stevenson had private talks with Foreign Minister Homero nez Montero and later with the president of the Government Eduardo Victor the Uruguayan equivalent of Both sides declined to divulge details of the talks but it is known Uruguayan like officials Stevenson talked with in Venezuela and ly oppose any joint or drastic tion against the Castro Despite the been restrained lately the government reportedly feels the Cuban crisis will gradually calm down if there is no new REBEL PRESSURE ON GOVERNMENT GENEVA S. sador W. Averell Harriman put strong pressure on Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko day to get the stalled 14-nation conference on Laos back on the He delivered a note from ington that carried the personal approval of President and supported the note with an hour-long American sources said Gromyko made no new but raised hopes something could be worked out by indicating that the Soviet Union is eager to go on with the Indefinite Postponement The Western Powers Thursday decided to call an indefinite of the conference be- cause of frequent violations of the cease-fire proclaimed May 3. The incident that touched off the was a prolonged lery and infantry attack by the rebels that forced a retreat by forces the royal Laotian government from a mountain village 20 miles south of rebel headquarters at Further reports during the day told of withdrawal of government troops under rebel pressure north of the royal Luang Pra- International truce teams under the supervision of Poland and have not been able to travel freely to trouble spots oversee the manded by the Came Prom Khrushchev x An mission it had triec to get to but The report did not blame the Communist forces If it the Polish member would not have agreed to the But the report did say rebel forces would be cult to guarantee the safety of the visiting American sources understood that Gromyko's indication of a de- sire to see the conference proceed came directly from Soviet Pre- mier U.S. PLANE MISSING TOKYO The U.S. Air Force reported Saturday that one of its big turboprop cargo planes with eight men aboard crashed in the Pacific Ocean en route to Midway The Japanese Maritime Safety Board earlier said it had launched a search with three of its vessels in an area of the Pacific 250 miles east of The Military Air Transport carrying pounds of took off from the American base of near Friday It was last heard from 16 minutes The Air Force declared it presumably 7.45 a.m. Washington Motorist Accused In Accident A Washington motorist was charged with reckless driving early last evening as the resull of an accident at the intersection of Old Frederick Road and U. S. 15. about one-half mile south ol Trooper E. F. Tracey of Stale Police filed the charge against Maurice 49. of The driver of the other car involved in the collision was C. of Rocky There were no serious injuries in the which about p m. According to the State Police Fitzgan was driving south in a 1960 Cadillac coupe and er's car was stopped on Route U at a stop When the south bound car neared the junction oi the the driver applied the brakes and the Cadillac swung in to the of Fisher's ma a 1957 Fisher's was en up by the collision but did nol require medical Damage to the Fitzgan car unofficially figured at Dam age to the Fisher car was esti mated at ATLAS MEETS ITS END ON PAD Smoke and flames rise into the sky as an advanced model of the Atlas missile explodes on the launch pad in the first lest of the pon from a 20-foot-decp tunnel at Air Force June The attempt to launch the Atlas from the launch pad ended in three thunderous The gets its nickname because the er is TWISTER WRECKS 8 GLEN BURNIE HOMES BALTIMORE ike winds whipped out of a at dusk Friday night and slammed into a suburban lousing demolishing eight homes and damaging 36 Several persons were injured Mt only six required hospital Many were treated at the most for cuts from ing The development of some 500 Suburbia bled a bombed area after the brief storm It is located about eight miles south of Several persons living in houses which were leveled said they caped injury by taking refuge in their The Point Pleasant Elementary School located 750 yards from the development was hard Parts of the roof of the 27-classroom building were blown into a creek yards ed to the school at Roofs Blown Off At the roofs were completely blown walls and porches torn away and utility wires knocked Some of the houses looked like cutaway models with the walls missing but ture still in Thirty houses were listed by lice as extensively About a dozen roofs littered the All gas into the development was cut off to prevent possible and some 50 National Guardsmen were called in to stand watch over the wrecked homes during the Mrs. Edwin said she and her 16-month-old were in the when the storm She said she was trying to close a window when it blew out of her hand and the wall caved carrying her and the baby from the Both were treated for minor At least three of the homes de- were All are in the price some frame and some part frame and part Black As Midnight entire sky was black as said one Cpl. M. L. Billion of the Anne Arundel County Police said he saw the twister He said it- looked a white pillar of against the dark storm Mrs. Otha who was working at a nearby drug called her home in the ment when the storm Her 11-year-old said he picked up the telephone and was about to say hello when a wall caved in. He threw his to the floor until the winds died Al Mech said he and his two- year-old daughter had just gone inside from their front porch when the porch was ripped utility crews and planned to work most of the night to make some of the damaged homes Inch Rain The storm dropped more than one inch of rain in 48 minutes as winds in excess of 40 miles an hour lashed the Baltimore The heaviest downpour was in the 15-minute period from p. m. to p. m. At Ritchie and Grain near Suburbia it was re- ported the wind swept through a sales overturning eral of the large mobile homes and wrecking The windows and doors were ripped out of a service station across the it was The lightning ignited several roof fires in including On Page 50AREHURT AS TORNADO STRIKES TOWN 20 Of 23 Small Children Injured When Church Collapses EASTERN KENTUCKY DAMAGE IS HEAVY TECHNICAL COMMITTEE WILL LEAVE FOR HAVANA MONDAY Newsmen Will Re mitted To Accompany Tractor Experts DETROIT The Tractors for Freedom Committee an- Friday night that its technical committee will leave Miami Monday afternoon for vana to discuss the proposed trade of tractors for Cuban The committee also pears that newsmen whose cations wish to send them to vana with the Freedom Technical Commission can provided At present there are no can newsmen in The committee in a brief an- did not indicate whether Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro had replied to its proposal of Thursday to send the team of agricultural and tractor experts to work out de- tails with the Cuban an informed source said it was assumed that Castro would accept the proposal and transportation ments had been The announcement said its experts leave Miami International Airport Monday at WEST GERMANY STANDING PAT Refuses To Yield Ties To West Berlin Because Of Soviets Germany West Germany stood pat Friday against stepped-up Soviet attacks on its activities .in West It re- fused to yield its ties with the iso- lated Felix von the Bonn government called the new protests from Moscow and He made clear at a news conference they would be There was similar reaction in London and Washington to the viet which developed less than a week after the Vienna summit meeting of Soviet Pre- mier Khrushchev and President A British Foreign Office man said Britain's attitude is in no way altered by the Soviet com- plaints against meetings of West Ky. do cut through Ravenna Friday injuring about 50 Reports of fatalities ently were Among the injured about 20 of 23 small children attending Bible school at the Ravenna Christian The church col- burying several of the youngsters under bricks and de- Estill County Judge W. M. No- land estimated damage to the eastern Kentucky town of at Betsy in church when the twister struck at p.m. heard it and lay down on the some of the other children were running around and she Betsy suffered only minor bruises on her arm and Her ran from their home across the street and helped rescue two Covered By Debris never heard anything so ful in my Bush de- scribing the children's One of the Bush helped rescue was Danny who was critically must have had pounds of stuff on It more than nine or 10 men could have Bush The f tornado without warning after about 10 minutes of In seconds it had wrecked havoc and Shortly afterward the sun shone double rainbow Bracketed scattered f the twister hit the small Lee County of southeast of ing an unidentified 9-year-old Of the two dozen buildings on Ravenna's main only two had windows stall None of the business buildings were but the tops or upper floors of most of ther were destroyed or heavily The injured were taken to at and Richmond and the most seriously hurt were moved to Lexington about 50 miles northeast can flight mail continued to on Pan German parliamentarians in West Denial By U.S. In Lincoln State Department press of- denied that these meetings the Russians new major provocation against the Soviet The protests were submitted to the Moscow embassies of the United Britain and France pile up at Box in Detroit The post office estimated more than pieces have arrived since a for Freedom Committee was organized May 22 to raise funds for 500 tractors which Prime Minister Fidel tro fixed as Cuba's price for re- leasing prisoners taken in occupy West Berlin an abortive April invasion of the The committee arranged Box as an address for Whether any of the mail ever is opened here will depend upon a swap being If the posed deal falls the com- proposes to let the post of- fice return the mail Unopened to original Washington County College Proposed ANNAPOLIS special session of the Maryland ture Friday authorized money for a junior college in Washington County and more water for The amount for the or college in Washington went up while the legislators were in A by the county delegation passed by the House authorized the Washington County sion to borrow for the Sen. George Snyder hiked the amount to and the House went The amount for bringing more water to Cumberland also rose At the regular session earlier this the legislature authorized the Allegany County Commission to borrow for an engineering study of the Sen. Charles See put in a Friday authorizing a loan up to million and it was The water will be taken from the Savage River Dam in Garret County to the Ridgedale voir in Both the Washington and gany County loans provide they shall be paid for by taxing Another Bumper Wheat Crop Being Forecast WASHINGTON The Agriculture Department today forecast this year's wheat crop at 1.343 billion bushels This figure is 16 million bushels more than the department's pre- vious forecast of 1.327 billion Production last year was billion the second largest of Production for the 10-vear average was The crop will be supplemented by a record large reserve and surplus of about 1.455 billion as oC July 1. This mostly in the hands of the ment under price support was accumulated from past crops grown under control programs that failed to prevent against meetings this week m West Berlin by committees of the West German Parliament and a plan to hold a of the upper house there June 16. Von Eckardt charged the Soviet Union was making trouble only for propaganda No Threat To Peace could conceivably treat these activities of our as threat to he Von Eckardt said the meetings going on in and a rent visit by West German ident Heinrich Luebke were in full accord with the four-power status of Berlin and could not be challenged on legal West Berlin is not technically ln Or a part of West but many Bonn administrative rules are there with the ment of the Big Three Western It receives financial and economic help from West BOY DROWNS SNOW Md. 15- year-old Snow Hill youth tally drowned Friday while ming at a gravel pit six miles south of State Police identified the tim as James They said young ming companions summoned but efforts to revive him Burma The Burma government's motorship Aung Teza sank in the Andaman Sea Wednesday and shipping of- said Friday night that of the 125 persons aboard only 40 survivors have been The other 85 are feared the Shipping Board Ten survivors were reported brought into Moulmein by a ing They are four ship's three seamen and three Tlie other 30 survivors were re- ported at Island about 80 miles from There was no information M the cause of the
