Iola Register (Newspaper) - May 20, 1961, Iola, Kansas The Weather Showers THE lOLA REGISTER No. 17(;. Weekly Tlie 160'/ SATURDAY MAY 20. 1961. to The lola Daily The lola and Index FOUR PAGES AFTERMATH OF FLASH of start a massive cleanup job after a flash flood covered the town with 8 feet of The water subsided but caused damage estimated at one million - Powerful Cuba Reds Eye Latin America EDITORS NOTE - Robert Associated Press correspondent in Havana imprisoned during the abortive Cuban flew bacit to the United States Friday night with the first planeload of repatriated Americans Here is his report on the present situation in. By ROBERT BERRELLEZ powerful with a picture of Fidel Castro as rules Cuba This born out of the nucleus of well-trained Cuban who wont into the hills with Castro to support his revolution against deposed dictator Fulgencio Batista in 19.58, is 101 Back From Cuba Fla. The first prisoners repatriated froin Fidel including the List newsmen arrived in Miami night - some mad ami fearfully Americans were ni the ol 101 passengers who a were Cuban The Americans included fou five Catholic priests and three Theie were cheers and applause when many of the repa triates walked from the Some refused to explaining they feared for the safety of relatives still in Cuba or property on the Among those returning were Harold K. chief of Asso Press and Robert Associated on Page 4, 3) The Weather KANSAS - Considerable ness this tonight and Sunday with scattered showers and t h u n d e warmer northwest tonight and slowly rising temperatures low tonight 60s south and west to upper 50s high Sunday 75-80 south and west to near 70 ZONE 2 - Considerable cloudiness through Sunday but with occasional sunny periods this afternoon and warm and humid with scattered afternoon and high this afternoon around 80; low tonight lower 60s; high in the 80s. High last 58 High a year ago Low a year ago Normal for 24 hours ending 8 a. This month to Normal for this 4.74 Total this year to Excess since Jan. 16.18 bent on carrying the new revolutionary dogma to every corner of Latin The eventual destruction of the Socialistic term for the United without global What part Fidel Castro personally will play in this is questioned by These are the impressions gathered by this reporter from influential Cuban trained observers and the during a 25-day imprisonment in one of Cuba's most ill-famed Cabana military Together with 51 other American and about the same number of other we rode to freedom Friday from The majority seemed hopeful of returning to a But most all were at a loss to explain or This question was no mystery to the nearly 2,000 Cubans left in La Cabana when I left the military jail last May 12, To a man they were sure either direct American intervention or an in vasion by the Organization of American States would liberate They seemed to have dis carded any hope an internal up would liberate They knew that the abortive invasion had destroyed a well-organized underground poised with smuggled arms to strike the minute an invasion didn't tell bitterly cried one underground movement man in ruined us and months and months of money and material are gone just because they didn't tell us they were What's wrong with your La Cabana appeared by the top-ranking people of the There were no less than 25 our hardly any aspirin to ease a common A well-known Havana lawyer died of pneumonia May 10 despite repeated calls on the prison commandant that a man was seriously ill in a The militia and the way it worked in the first days after the April 15 bombing of Havana's military airport seemed to prove a point often brought up by students of the Cuban that it was organized for the specific purpose of rounding up suspicious citizens at the first sign of Castro himself has repeatedly called on the to organize defense groups block by The roundup was swiftly car ried On the way to headquarters when I was arrested the afternoon of 17 I sat between two young officers in civilian A- long convoy of armed militiamen wound that a marvelous one of the officers you'll see this in Mexico and Eventually you will see it in your own This revolution is but the start of the end of BULLETIN DETROIT - Eleanor Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower and Walter P. Reuther told Cuba Premier Fidel Castro today they raise funds to provide 500 tractors for Cuba if Castro releases 1,200 prisoners captured in the April invasion of the United Auto Workers Union headquarters announced that a cable making the offer to Castro was cabled the It was signed by Mrs. Dr. who is president of Johns Hopkins and who is president of the Big Cheers For Johnson Pakistan Crowds shouting live Pakistan and long live the United welcomed U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. today as he arrived for talks with President Ayub A fierce midday sun and dust-laden wind off the Sind Desert kept the crowd to the smallest of any that have welcomed in the six capitals lie has visited in the vice quickly into an airport speech declaring he had brought President Kennedy's assurance of America's unwavering determination to steadfast beside those who stand so steadfastly against the encroachments of free independent During the 10-mile drive from the airport to Ayub Khan's Johnson made a number of his now familiar forays into Johnson interviewed passengers aboard a a joked and soon had the crowds responding to bis friendly But reaction was not shared on Page 4, No. 2) Algeria Parley Opens France and the Algerian lebels peace talks today and the De Gaulle government made two side conciliatory 1. French forces in Algeria were p.m. all offensive operations against the rebels they have been fighting for almost seven 2 Algerian rebel chieftain Ahmed ben Bella was flown from a fortress prison the He to a site closer to the peace talks in this Lake Geneva resort It was reported from Algeria that word has already been passed to the soldiers in the territory to fire only in self It was understood that patrols would continue in the ter but only for reconnaissance Bella was taken off the island in the Bay of Biscay by helicopter along with his ait Ahmed and Mohamed All three meff had been seized in 1956 when their Moroccan airliner route to was intercepted by French fighter planes over the Mediterranean and forced to land at The improved conditions ordered for the three men will allow them to contact the rebel delegation in Geneva by At some later stage Ben Bella may also allowed to sit in on the peace Three other imprisoned rebel leaders were also taken from in Paris this The long awaited peace negotiations opened here in a secluded hotel guarded hundreds of heavily armed The initial session lasted an hour and 40 The only announcement made by either side afterward was that the next meeting would be held here In Algeria and city streets were noisy with the bombings and gunfire of both violent settlors opposed to peace negotiations and Algerian rebels agitating against the troops and riot police guarded the port city of Algiers after a night of violence in which 23 bombs and grenades President Signs Judgeship WASHINGTON - A creating 73 additional federal judgeships was signed Friday by President Ten judgeships are in Circuit Courts including one for the 10th Circuit covering the states of Oklahoma and New District Courts will receive 63 new judgeships including one each for Kansas and the Western District of For Conference to Bonn Germany President Charles De Gaulle arrived today for a one-day meeting with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer which government officials hope will lead low aid unproved relations the Authoritative informants the talks well lead toward resolving many ol over the Atlantic alliance and European tion which caused a cooling of relations between the two Still Dig For Captive Idaho underground sands of southwest Idaho continued to imprison an elderly farmer hiding him and his fate from workers digging for After four little hope is held for his survival near the bottom of the narrow as deep as a 19-story building is Herbert A. 63, a was lowered into the irrigation well he was digging the section he had been shoring up caved trapping Efforts to dig at the sand were Help was volunteer crews spent a full day lining the shaft with steel Early Friday they finally began to dig at the slipping the casing down as they to hold each tiny Only one worker at a time could enter the An air jet system for sucking out the sand didn't They had to a new air jet system that worked started hauling at the Occasionally the work would reach a slab of cement that had fallen into the Then a jackhammer had to be lowered to break to more But the protective casing crept With starts and it averaged about one foot on Page 4, No. 4) Train Involved In Two Mishaps Cuban Invasion Fiasco Not Fault of Joint Chiefs By BEM PRICE WASHINGTON Navy angered by efforts to blame top military men for the Cuban said military man in his right mind would have approved the plans that were carried The who cannot be is well acquainted with the Navy's member of the Joint Chiefs of Arleigh In officer's opinion coincided with reportedly expressed by former Dwight D. What angered the Navy officer into speaking was the statement by Sen. Albert that need new chairman and of the Joint Gore's comment came after Gen. Lyman L. chairman of the Joint testified Friday in closed session before the Senate Latin American The officer said was of efforts to pin the blame for the Cuban fiasco on the military and the full story should be Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara has forbidden members of the Joint Chiefs to defend themselves in public or even to explain the role of the military in the Cuban at a meeting with Republican leaders at his farm on May 1, reportedly wondered aloud if the Chiefs had been consulted in any detail about the He is said to have observed that some of the details of the invasion were inconceivable to him as a military In any the Navy officer Joint Chiefs did not on Page 4. No. 1) Kan. - A Santa Fe mail express train was involved in two accidents in east central Kansas including one in which a man was Alfred M. of was killed when his car was struck by the train at a crossing east of Phillips was alone in the After the train struck another car at Cedar Point about miles east of injuring 21-year-old Gerald Carpenter of Cedar Carpenter was reported in satisfactory condition at a hospital with multiple cuts and fractured hands and elbows and a dislocated Disastrous Fire Rages in Manila spectacular the worst to hit Manila in 50 razed more than four blocks of the city's market district injuring scores of persons and causing more than million property The fire raged for 12 hours and left 9,000 persons homeless in the commercial district of heart of Manila's h Businessmen hard hit by the textile retailers and More than 200 persons were rested for looting and police said they suspected arson as the cause of the CRASH INJURES 12 Kan. persons were one in a collision at an intersection of U. S. 69 four miles north of Arma Two adults and nine children from several were in a station wagon and one was in the other Two-year-old David Leon son of Mrs. Lois Fort suffered a head injury surgery at the Fort A Boost To Korea Rebellion Korea to pleas of rebel President Yun sun today withdrew his one-day old resignation to give South Korea's new regime constitutional The elder 63, agreed to stay on as the civilian figurehead chief to avoid Foreign diplomats are accredited to the president and U. S. officials take the view that Yun remaining in office would make recognition of the new regime The announced withdrawal of his resignation at news conference flanked by the two lop leaders of the ruling Gen. Chang who named himself premier and defense minister in the and Maj. Pak Gen. in taking over as premier named a 15-man military The presence of the revolutionary leaders at his side did not stop Yun from expressing regrets about the revolt that overthrew the elected And he warned that he would resign the new regime takes a direction of which he In lightning raids during the night South Korea's military rulers jailed members of deposed Premier M. Chang's cabinet and generals who refused to back Tuesday's The ousted 61, reportedly himself out of He delied military police trying to take him to and demanded produce a warrant signed by junta Gen. The new military regime decreed strict saying increased activities of the Communists and sympathizers brought and present danger to the nation's Any activity is out lawed in South The new measures are similar to those vainly sought bv the ousted gov and led to protest Plan State Survey On Juvenile Problem TOPEKA - Atty. Gen. William Ferguson is embarking on a statewide survey of juvenile Ferguson disclosed Friday he is mailing to persons who work with problems of youth a three part questionnaire to gain information for a better understanding of youth more effective treatment and more effective among agencies The attorney general said be is designating D. Schul of his staff to work with interested groups and to office with reports on the needs and progress of youth Stage Set For Ransom KEY Fla. committee of prisoners captured in the recent invasion of Cuba will be sent to the United States Sunday to arrange for the ransom of their Prime Fidel Castro said speaking on television from said the 1,200 pris captured in the April 17 attack would be exchanged increasing order of for 50O When he made the Castro had been in the midst of a speech to Cuban government foreign diplomats and They were attending a meeting to celebrate his winning of the Peace A Wary World Hopeful LONDON - The world hoped today the meeting in Austria two weeks from now would ease international But there was about expecting any momentous the Vienna said the conservative London Daily Sketch over a cartoon showing U. S. President and the Soviet premier dancing India's Vice President said the future of humanity is at stake in these cruel of our ancient scriptures tells us that when danger is salvation also is he said in a New Delhi banquet speech that put the moral support of his neutral nation behind the coming He spoke at a state dinner for visiting U. S. Vice President Lyndon British Foreign Secretary Lord Home told reporters that to meet Kennedy a salutary experience for and we hope very much that good will come out of this Kennedy will call at London for talks with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan after his meeting with Khrushchev June 3-4, FOR SCROLLS of the of the to the Dead Sea scrolls and other precious expected to begin next month on Museum Hill in western He also startled his audience when he said the Cuban navy had evidence that a launch that disappeared May 6 with a loss of 17 lives had been sunk by submarine of the Central Intelligence After repeating his proposal to trade prisoners for bulldozers compensation for the damage caused by the invasion Castro asked his audience whether he had its The crowd cheered Castro also offered to trade the leader of the invasion Capt. Manuel Francisco a Cuban now awaiting sentence in York City on a second degree murder The prime minister said most important prisoners now in would be returned but only after he had received the last lot of Besides Castro is holding Jose Miro of Jose Miro who is head of the revolutionary and Carlos son of tonio who is another exile Questionnaires to 90,000 In Talent Search Project including 108 are now being in the first follow-up of the Talent Project being conducted by the of To the program last more than 440,000 high school students were given two days of testing in their abilities in school their basic aptitudes and their general information and other lola High School was one of in the nation gave the in 19()0. Here they were given to all students in High and grade nine students in Junior Now the staff of Project Talent is mailing follow-up questionnaires each of the 108 students were when the tests were The researchers want to determine how many of the former high school students are in what jobs they have how well they are getting Ennor superintendent of believes the program will be of benefit to all Information about individuals not be given to the schools but the averages will be The information ' Will enable school administrators to compare their results with to evaluate their guidance programs and determine what high school courses are developing the maximum use of the No personal information about the students is It is used only for statistical The project is financed by the Cooperative Research Program of the Office of Education and super vised by psychologists of the Uni versity of There was no direct comment from French President Charles de Members of official family said he had neither any objections nor any enthusiasm for the Kennedy will meet with Gaulle in Paris and go directly from these talks to see The government press bureau in Bonn said West German Chancellor Adenauer welcomes the meeting and thinks Khrushchev and Kennedy should get to know one another The Japanese foreign office approved of the summit meeting as a chance to slacken world A Yugoslav spokesman said the government hopes the conference contribute to and better The British press unanimously applauded the meeting The London Daily Express said the gap since an American and a Soviet last met has been too long and Kennedy Asks WASHINGTON Kennedy asked Congress Friday to approve for watershed protection and flood control projects in 15 including Kansas and costing an estimated The projects Panther 80 miles north of Kansas City in Harrison Mo. The project covers 34 square miles and would protect 2,700 acres of farm land from floods and another 800 from velopment of major Fall River 25 miles southwest of Kan. A proposed watershed to embrace 312- square offering flood protection to 16,000 acres of farm land and the city of Eureka and a municipal water DIES ON STAGE CHICAGO 79, vaudeville star who wrote more than 500 songs including Wonder Who's Kissing Her died on the stage of the Civic Opera House Friday night while doing a benefit If you miss your call your carrier If you can't I get call 410 New Kennedy Slant on Summit Talks Shapes Up By JOHN M. WASHINGTON - President Kennedy's meeting with Premier Khrushchev at Vienna next month may be the first of a series of summit level talks extending over the years of the Kennedy the relationship between the two men develops will depend much impressions make upon in their conference in the Austrian June 3 and 4. But it is ready apparent that Kennedy's whole approach to talking with is quite different from that which has prevailed other U. S. administrations since World War The central element in Kennedy's attitude appears to be a tnat top level talks with the leader of the Communist bloc are desirable and rmy be useful tensions provided the atmosphere in which they are held is to of outstanding world Some ad ministration officials now say that such meetings should be regarded as normal and should be ered worthwhile even if they fail to produce spectacular positive Already there is speculation in diplomatic quarters that if the Vienna discussions go smoothly Khrushchev may invite Kennedy to visit the Soviet The tenter of this speculation is Geneva Secretary of State Dean Rusk met Friday with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. The two foreign ministers talked over plans for the Vienna meeting as well as the problem of which is the subject of a 14-nation conference at The substance of their exchange not disclosed but press dispatches quoted diplomatic sources at Geneva as pointing out that Khrushchev visited the United States in September 1959 and owes an invitation to an president to visit the Soviet During most of the Eisenhower administration the former president and the late secretary of John Foster resisted conferences pressures on there must first be assurance of positive agreement lest failure to reach agreement at the summit should increase East-West President Harry S. Truman had met Stalin at Berlin at the end of the war in Europe during rest of the Truman administration there was no enthusiasm in Washington for further summit TUTTLE CREEK DAM aerial looking shows Tuttle Creek Dam in stage of virtual It is planned to begin water in the reservoir late this A sizeable lake ready for use by the summer
