Iola Register (Newspaper) - August 23, 1961, Iola, Kansas The Weather Fair - Wanner THE lOLA REGISTER VOLUME No. 255. The Weekly Established 1187 The loU Deily Established WEDNESDAY AUGUST 2:5, 19(;i. Successor .to The lola Daily The lola Daily and lola Daily Index Reuther Hopes AMC Will Open A Fatter Purse DETROIT P. president of the United Auto is snubbing the Big Three car makers and courting little American Motors Corp. in the home stretch of labor contract negotiations in the auto His strategy appeared today to be to persuade American Motors to improve on its profit-sharing make a quick settlement with AMC and then use it to pry out from General Ford and Chrysler something better they offered Reuther called the Big Three except in minor Ford and Chrysler offered a minimum 21-cenL increase in wages over the next three years and fringe benefit improvements which the union said would only cost the companies a cent an The companies said the fringe benefit costs would be Auto workers now average an hour plus fringe benefits of between 35 and 40 Present contracts at the Big Three expire eight days The AMC contract runs out a week The Big Three rejected profit-sharing proposal in 1958 Reuther did not revive it this he made salaries for hourly workers and a shorter work week key AMC surprised the union last month with a proposal to give workers a 10 per cent cut of prof its before taxes after deducting 10 per cent of the net worth for AMC offered a hourly wage increase annually over the next hree But it asked the union to scrap cost-of-living increases and annual improvement fac wage increases of 2Vi per cent. The company figures its net worth for stockholders at million and 10 per cent of this would be The Big Three offered to renew the 2'/4 per cent annual improve ment factor and the cost-of-living escalator in present But they proposed limiting cost-of-living increases over the next three years to a total of six In the past three years UAW members have accumulated cost-of-living increases totaling seven Study Plan Prior To Wheat Vote The nation's wheat producers tomorrow will vote for or against the 1962 wheat marketing quotas and allotments proposed by the Department of At a meeting in the Allen County court house last night Rodney and Gale officer manager of the ASC and Tom farm explained bow the will function if it is approved feasibility of buy two thirds of those 1. The national average price support on wheat will be per bushel for those with allotments and participating in the special feed grain 2. Participating producers may earn payments by diverting a portion of their former wheat acreage to conservation 3. All 1962 wheat allotments will be reduced 10 per cent. 4. All farms on which at least 13.5 acres are seeded to wheat will be subject to marketing 5. Excess wheat produced on farms not complying with their allotments will be subject to a penalty of 65 per cent of the May 1, 1962, parity If the program is defeated which means that more than a third of ballots are 1. The price support will be half parity or per 2. There Will be no payments for acres to conservation 3. The lowest allotment will remain in effect for the 1962 wheat 4. There will be no marketing restrictions and no penalties on excess Beck explained the program in detail but emphasized that the county committee has been told what the payment will be for land diverted from wheat to another approved He estimated that the per acre will vary from to A farmer be paid for diverting more than 40 per cent of his former wheat land and all on Page 6. No. 2) The Weather KANSAS - Generally fair and warmer this partly cloudy tonight and few thunderstorms likely extreme northeast tonight and over north warmer tonight and in east low tonight 60s in west to 55-60 in high Thursday in 80s. ZONE 3-Decreasing cloudiness extreme southeast becoming fair and wanner all tonight and high today 75:80; low tonight near 60; Thursday mU 80s. Five-Day Forecast Temperatures will average 4 to 8 degrees below Rainfall to 1.25, occurring as occasional High yesterday night 53 High a year ago 90 Low a year ago today 70 for Precipitation 24 hours ending 8 a.m. Trace ian Meetings On Power Reviewed Officials of the Department of Interior are deeply interested in the proposal to connect several eastern Kansas municipal power plants with the Southwest Power James utility told Ida's gov body After the report was received the commission authorized Mayor Mack Colt to sign a contract with Burns and ing supplementary power from the Kansas Gas and Electric The two actions are not the mayor pointed The governing body believes that it has two possible ways of ob needed additional power without constructing another generating 1. Tie in with the Southwest Power 2. Buy supplementary power from & E. The commissioners plan to obtain full information about each before reaching a The proposed tie-in with was discussed in some detail in Washington last Friday when representatives of Kansas Erie and Coffeyville met with Kenneth assistant secretary of the and other federal lola was represented by Ray and Victor city In general the proposal is to construct a power line connecting Bull Shoals or Norfolk power projects in Arkansas with eastern Kansas towns which operate municipal electric It is suggested that the government finance the construction through the REA and that the cost be retired through the sale of UAW Says Ford Offer Totally Unacceptable DETROIT United Workers Union today notified Ford Motor Co. it considered Tuesday's contract offer and said it will urge the council to reject it. UAW said its 13-man Ford National Ford workers the would meet in Detroit Aug. 29-two fore the contract lake Malcolm Ford vice president of said the union quite a bit of time at our meeting this morning to tell us it was a lousy proposal and they didn't know how we had the audacity to put it before Eliminate 50 Outdoor Toilets a third of privies have been or arc now he ing Mrs. Jane secretary to Dr. Frank reported the governing body An ordinance passed in established Aug. as deadline for removing ail outdoor toilets from private homes within the city unless they iire connected with the sewage system and meet municipal sanitary Yesterday reported privies removed during the past few months and 11 are now in process of meeting the of the Of the 127 remaining 2'.l cannot meet the requirements until new sewage lines arc 8 are on properties so depreciated that they should be torn 20 are in homes owned by welfare clients include 5 which cannot meet and seven were The remaining 75 can be Mrs. Lane hut have not Their owners are now subject to prosecution under the The governing liody indicated yesterday that action will be It was reported during the afternoon that two trees known to be infected with Dutch Elm disease have been removed by the Felling the trees and burning the wood is the only known way to prevent the spread of the plague which has killed most of. the elms in many communities east of if During the afternoon the governing Instructed D. city to draw an ordinance designating the industrial tract west of lola as an Decided to close city offices one afternoon during the fair if the majority of the stores plan to Accepted the bid of the B & L Electric to the 7,200 volt line from the plant to the city limits for Most of the materials are now on Agreed to establish 15 mile per hour speed zones near certain as was done last and enforce them only during the school TO STATE 48 TOPEKA - Kansans will get a brief break today from the During the Wilson it developed that there are 24 other eastern Kansas cities which might be interested in the It was also pointed out that the sells power in Missouri and Texas but none in Kansas which is closer to the plants than other communities now In addition to Secretary these officials participated in the Charles engineer for the National Rural Electric Alex head of the American Public Power representatives of Congressmen Robert Ellsworth and Walter L. The two representatives were unable to attend due to other The U. S. officials agreed to initiate sC feasibility study of the plan and to report back to the Wilson says that the Kansans were given a cordial reception and are very much intrigued by this possible plan for solving their power Perkins also reported on the con Pershall was on his vacation at the time and re turned to 14 PARIS BOMBINGS PARIS plastic bombs exploded across Paris early today in a expression of to President Charles liberal Alger the last several Temperatures dipped to un usually low levels early today but there were no Lows ranged from 48 degrees at 49 at Abilene and 50 at Topeka to 60 at Burglars Take Big Load pocket knives and other merchandise valued in excess of was stolen last night from the Shannon Hardware Store on the northwest corner of police said if was the largest robbery staged here in several Entrance was gained to the building by climbing the canopy over the sidewalk on the northwest corner of the building and tearing out a window leading to a balcony which extends along the west The officers said the thieves apparently collected their merchandise in the northwest corner of floor and loaded it into car or truck backed up to side A seldom used door on the north side ol the west entrance was The thieves moved several rolls of wire to open a passage through it. said the loss included assorted shotguns and rifles valued at 12 transistor 2 portable television sets and one stereo record player with a combined value of 21 electric shavers valued at Between 300 Jind 400 pocket knives worth In addition the thieves obtained in coins and bills from an unlocked cash Shepherd and Ray KBI who were various phases of the agreed that it was probably conducted by skilled thieves who make their headquarters in some nearby They also agreed that the store was expertly before The thieves apparently had selected their mode of entrance in picked out the merchandise they wanted and decided on file way to get it out of the building and into their As it happened they chose a favorable night for the Frequently one or more of Shannon's employees work for an hour or so after - - night to Dave owner of the no employee was in the building after 6 p.m. until 7:30 a. m. Due to the bowling alley next cars arc normally parked along the building and in the lot south of Memorial Hall until or One or two extra chicles would attract no one's With the exception of those well above side walk level there are on Pace 6, No. 5) Hurt in Collision With Katy Engine Luther C. 49, was cut about the mouth and suffered multiple bruises but was not badly injured this noon when his car was hit by a Katy engine east of Ronald Cranor said Waller told him driving Inwards lola on and did not see the engine until just before the Cranor said Waller's car left 100 feet of skid marks on the pavement and the front of it was hit by the The car was pushed the front and of the the crew on the engine included F. W. J. W. S. A. J. A. and C. A. The engine was running TOURS tho the Borlin border situation with one of his during a tour of the In tho is the Brandenburg Gate beyond in Red Communist trucks hurled at the 85-year-oI(i At left is West Berlin's deputy Fritz - via radio from Soviet Contaminates UN Atmosphere N. V. - Britain today accused Soviet of deliberately trying to block a solution of the by inflaming passions in the U. N. The charge was made before a special session of the U. N. by Delegate Colin T. Crowe who declared the main goal of the discussions here should tjc to create a climate favorable to direct negotiations between France and Crowe that the Soviet Union not only had not contributed to a solution of the but Soviet attacks on the Western be regarded as an attempt to worsen the atmosphere in which this debate takes West Puts Tanks At Cross Point By THOMAS A. Patton tanks and a machine gun squad firew up and faced Communist forces across the border with East j Two U.S. guarded by at the crossing the one I the German Communists assigned to all foreigners want to enter East I The tanks wovk under the of Capt. C. 31. of Okla. was also an armored personnel carrier in Armor was operating with the 2nd Rattle U.S. 6th which calls itself the Frederick O. who commands the U.S. troops now in came down to the for a look at tlie An Army Satellite Holds Fast CAPE United States orbited a platform today hut it failed to fire a second payload into space as A 102-foot rocket thundered from Canaveral at 5:04 a.m. and tlic entire Agena second stage whirled Later it was to a 675-pound payload called Ranger I toward a round journey into More than hours later the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced the space craft had failed from the Agena Ind. A statement said the Ted a rocket fuels and Agena are in a whose is swim orbit rather than the vCas pulled out of the orbit planned for ram splashed waters of Lake tor hovered U.S. radio car parked only 25 yards from a battery of East German and police guarding A U.S. armored its gun muzzle pointing jpo yards from the Claim Swim Mark For Chicagoan Officials said radio data the orbiting vehicle is ana to determine why 1 did not mission of tlie was to test operation of space data are ji crowd oj several thousand it is likely that this ob waited in a will be achieved in 210 pounds had they said some 40 miles although Earlier James from Chicago NEGOTIATOR Kennedy talks with Arthur chief U. at the Geneva nuclear test ban in the President's White House Kennedy expressed hope the Soviet make some affirmative to this country's renewed effort to reach an Michigan Tuesday night after a of hours 37 minutes from the first ever Id swim the tip of was cheered ect Ranger had all communication At that time it could not be whether any part of the device had gone into The last minutes after had been that the second stage of the big booster had fired on schedule a second after oil planned for a coasting The second firing to injected the into launching of NASA had hoped would prove tho feasibility of Hie space launch platform test techniques for space vehicles to the Another rocket and Ranger 11, are available to the effort is lenia lively set for late RURAL MO RAN The farm home of Ada about two miles was entered sometime during the robbed of a television a table a shotgun and Charles her said that nO. member ol the family visited the house dur ing the weekend the theft was not discovered until yester day to the finish line is Married and the father of wanted to go on Page 2, No. 4) The move was an obvious effort lo show West that the Allies are raising a military fist each time the Eastern Reds turn on Hundreds of West Berliners were attracted to the This reporter and AP staffer Lynn Heinzerling drove through the checkpoint without Communist police accepted as valid U.S. Defense Department credentials ia foreign streets of Berlin were relatively empty for such a section of a great Police and troops stood idly on almost every street armored cars and other vehicles were deployed on the eastern side of the Brandenburg Approach from that side was forbidden at 150 yards inside the The Wilhelmstrasse On the West now a jungle of trees where Hitler's chancellory once was almost On the trip the police at the Eastern checkpoint asked for and were told Americans did not need such things to enter and leave East A. pink-cheeked slightly uncertain officer accepted that and stopped fumbling with An aging German woman came to the barrier to cross and see some of her relatives in West Berlin and was firmly turned Clutching her handbag she walked The East German regime over night had shut five more gates to East The Western Allies responded within a few sending forces right up to the sector Within minutes Communists reinforcements on side the wall of wire and concrete they have erected to tlie West German border police said they saw armored personnel carriers packed with Communist are armed as to positions on Page 6, No. 3) TWELVE PAGES Outline Interstate Planning TOPEKA - A five-year construction program on the in was today liv 11 of ilic was at followed enactment of new act by Congress for completion of the national network of by or For the first time since tlie III states can almost jhow aid tic years in s principal anil west across the Interstate from Kansas Ciy south anil southwest to the Oklahoma line and Interstate 35 west from to Interstate 7(1 In addition 1)1' four routes Kansas The was completed year tlie Wichita route will lie finished this year tlie two bypasses lie fini under the five-year The new program also calls for completion of 70 from in Russell County east to including the viaduct connecting and Kansas as well as the urban route serving downtown 70 will be completed or under way from the County line west of northwest to Goodland near Remaining s e c t i o n s between and the Trego - Ellis County line and from Goodland west to the Colorado border are expected to be finished by 1970 or 1971. Interstate 35 will he completed from Ottawa northeast to the line in. Kansas In a start will be made on Interstate 35 west with a 10.2 mile section to be completed south from Salina and the Wichita urban route either completed or under Spade Cooley Given Life Term Lane Says No Doubt Of a Dallas Plan By A By Associated Press Sports Writer NEW as manager of the Kansas City American League baseball club came back at owner Charles Finley today with a salvo of accusations including a that Finley had contemplated the franchise Tex. In firing 65, of and spreading rumors about the Lane not only denied these charges but in a telephone inter view from Kansas City termed Finley a a and and a harmful to the best interests of baseball public in Kansas a Chicago insurance has been a controversial fiu lire ever since he the Kansas City club from the Arnold estate last Among charges against Lane were that he had been responsible for firing Joe Gordon as manager earlier this and that he had on several occasions attempted to fire Hank Gordon's Lane denied accusations arid is Finley who has been detrimental to the club and to the City not Beyond a shadow of a he has been moving the franchise to I know this to be a fact and when he says it is not he is This Page 2, Calif. who parlayed six cents and an old fiddle into fame and fortune as the of Western was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for the murder of his The unexpected climax of the case followed a dramatic meeting between opposing attorneys and Superior Court William L. Bradshaw while Cooley was preparing to show he was insane April 3 when he beat and stomped his Ella 37, to Tho jury which Saturday found Cooley guilty of murder was to rule first on the infinity plea and then set the penalty if born Donnell Clyde years ago in a storm cellar near Saddle The nickname Sparle came after the entertainer once drew five spade flushes in a poker After the in Judge Bradshaw's P. Basil conferred for more than an hour with his who then waived his right to sanity trial and also his right have the jury the Persons serving life sentences in California normally are eligible for after Cooley said ho hit his wife after she had toUl him she was a free cult and told him of initiation Cooley showed up at the gate of Pictures in 1934 with a fiddle and six Hoy Rogers got him a Spade Roy's Ibe Indian fiddler built Ins own band and became famous as a radio He also wrote including on KNAUSS A 50 YEAR MAN Earl L. Knauss editor of arid of the Garnett Publishing a half century in work this At the age of he began working - in summers lor Clark Richardson and W. O. publishers of the Evening Review and the If you miss your call your carrier If you can't
