Iola Register (Newspaper) - September 26, 1961, Iola, Kansas The Weather Partly Cloudy THE lOLA REGISTER VOLUME No. 282. The Weekly 1887 The loU Daily Established 1897 TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2G. 19GL Successor to The loU Daily Ida Daily and lola Daily Indea EIGHT PAGES An Ike Aid Dies Suddenly La. Erwin secretary of defense in the administration and former president of General died at liis plantation home near liere early He was 71. Tom who manages the 4,000-acre said the coroner listed the time of about 2:30 and attributed death to a coronary Wilson died appar ently without any A butler was unable to Wilson and summoned Wilson complained of a slight case of indigestion Monday McKenzie and retired He rode around the plantation Monday in a station A large man with a quick tongue and an even quicker many times a often reduced his aim in life to four words - along with He was a genius at electrical graduating from Car Tech at 19. But he made his name in the world as a manager of Upon being named president of General Motors in January 1941, he told an believed in I believed in work and do something always fascinated and I always thought it worthwhile to get along with I lived at a very favorable I saw the country develop in an industrial and productive Wilson ran General Motors for II Under his leadership the giant automobile company was converted into the world's biggest producer of war With the coming of Wil son relumed the company to full scale auto production in record The world at knew him best during his tenure in Washington where he was known fondly as He moved into the political arena during the Korean And as he took the defense job he can't promise how I'll do but I'll give it a damned gooff And as a businessman in Washington he found it a constant With his retirement the whirl on Page 8. No. 3) Kiwanis Show Seen Film of played a return engagement via motion pictures to a ladies night meeting of the lola Kiwanis Club at Restaurant on North State street last The original a home talent musical comedy put on mostly by Kiwanians and their wives was presented to the public in Memorial Hall last Ross who has made almost a hobby recording major Kiwanis Club events in motion took hundreds of feet of film during the rehearsals and at the stage party after the show was These he and arranged into a sequence which roughly followed the order of the final a tape recording was rigged first with background then with a running commentary on the various scenes by Tony At the presentation last the syncronization was almost producing a 30-minute sound picture that was highly entertaining as well as a happy reminder of the event that brought so many of the club members together so many times last winter and An exceptionally large number of guests were including almost all who helped with the play one way or another but were not Kiwanis State Chairman Here to Meet With School Planning Board Procedures which should be followed by County Boards of School Planning were explained to Allen County's board last night by Murle director of the Kansas State Committee on School District Under the provisions of a by the 1961 planning boards throughout the state are studying their local school Their assigned task is to design unified school districts which will adequately fill the educational needs of the children in the A unified is not necessarily a one school district nor a district with all of its schools concentrated in a single Hayden pointed A unified district may and probably will operate several schools which are located to best serve the He cited Wichita with six high schools as an The specifies that a Allen County's planning commit district will meet two these I tee has been at work for two three 200 square miles in million In addition it must have a high school which offers 30 Units for supplemented this definition to some He suggested that a unified district The planning board will study the may amend it and then submit it to the state committee not later than June 1, 1962. After it has been approved by the state the plan will be voted upon by the people who may ap should be able to offer all or reject it. from and including through senior Hayden pointed out that tht school should have sized I Planning board has very He doubts If a group duties which require two or three students taking a high school subject will qualify as a The speaker reminded the group that it should elect a planning committee which will function much as a committee in the This will prepare plans for a unified district or districts and submit those In the planning board as a Big Four Powers Will Discuss UN Vacancy UNITED N. Y. Big Four powers were reported to agreed to meet privately late today and consider a stopgap replacement for the late U. N. Secretary - General Dag An informed diplomat said Nathan Barries of president of the Security had arranged a meeting of the U. N. ambassadors of the Soviet Union and the United Kennedy Story To Russians MOSCOW today printed a article about President the invitation of the New York The article was written by the Post's James who pointed out that almost everything about Premier Khrushchev is printed in newspapers but The Weather KANSAS - Generally fair and warmer this afternoon and Wednesday partly widely scattered showers generally fair increasing southerly winds this low tonight 40s west to 50s high Wednesday mid to upper 70s. ZONE 2 - Fair and a Utile warmer this afternoon and Wednesday partly cloudy with little change in high this afternoon mid 708; low tonight mid 508; high Wednesday 75-80, Temperature High yesterday 66 Low last night 45 High a year ago 73 a year ago today 55 Normal for today little about Kennedy appears in Soviet In his article Wechsler invited the Communist party newspaper Pravda and the government newspaper to print the which he called a brief analysis of the position of the Pravda reported it was printing it in Wechsler wrote that Kennedy has no illusions about victory in nuclear but if the worst happened he would not allow the United States to accept the President was determined to try to work out solutions of existing problems even knowing that any shower as a He said the Pres ident thought anything could be negotiated except the dignity of a free Wechsler said the President was too ready to accept the published word as the voice of the he the President acted too quickly in response to pressure from inside the he explained Kennedy's decision to renew nuclear tests soon after the Russians resumed He added that he had no doubts of the sincerity or force of Kennedy's striving for a reasonable settlement in a world which has been balancing on the brink for so long. That ended the portion from the Post This is the first such appraisal of the President in recent memory printed in the Soviet Most articles are not Lincoln Carnival Is Friday Night The Lincoln School Parent Association will hold its annual carnival Friday evening starting with a cafeteria supper at 5 p. m. The menu will include chicken and French hot macaroni and Jello coffee and pop. To entertain young and old will be pony fish spook white baked Centennial snow pop corn and SCRIVNER MOVING TO FLORIDA KANSAS P. former Congress man from the 2nd Kansas announced today he and Mrs. Scrivner are moving to Cocoa Fla. He said he plans to establish a legal consultant service in Florida for industry dealing with the federal Tshombe Dismisses Staff Chief Katanga Tshombe of Katanga announced Monday night his former chief of Capt. is under arrest awaiting trial for Tshombe told a news conference Mwamba had dealt with officials in contravention of orders of his military superiors and the He said he will be brought before a military No details of the charges were made It was reported Mwamba was in touch with the intelligence Col. Bjorn Egge of during efforts to arrange a cease-fire the fighting broke out in Sept. 13. Egge has he was escorted into the presidential residence by Mwamba during attempts to gel negotiations said 17 Belgian left his secessionist province and insisted they were the last remaining foreign advisers with his The United Nations had charged that white officers supervised military operations against U.N. The president said that in fact these were on with permission to help the forces with purely administrative The charge that they had led military he was part of a U.N. attempt to explain what he called its defeat in Tshombe declared that not a single European has any voice in running his careful 1. It must decide how the district will elect its board which is to consist of six He outlined several possible 2. It must decide how to dispose of the outstanding bonds issued liy the districts which to he joined into a new It must work out problems arising from existing joint 4. If two or more unified districts arc to be proposed the of each must be carefully It is the responsibility to include all portions of the county in a school When the county plan is approved it is the function of the canvassing committee - which consists of members of the conduct public hearings at which the plans are explained and to hold elections at which the accept or reject the For the election of residents of the district are divided into two rural and All persons living in a town or village with 300 or more population compose the urban all outside these towns comprise the rural A majority of group must approve the plan if it is to be legally Following his explanatory Hayden answered many questions from the Paul is chairman of the and presided last at least 30 members of the committee Mrs. Mable county is secretary of the committee and was The planning committee recently ing all school districts in Allen Copies of this detailed study were given to all members of the board last Living Falls WASHINGTON ' cost of living dipped of one per cent in the Department announced mainly because of plentiful fresh foods at lower The department said consumer prices have risen one-half of one per cent in the first eight months of this than during any comparable period since 1955." NEW YORK - President Kennedy today follows up his challenge to the Soviets to engage in a race for peace signing banning of nuclear and setting up a new U.S. o' control and disarmament or for With that challenge before the of v on United Nations clearly in the President arranged In sign with The measure was passed by congress three days The man expected to head the new disarmament William C. was among government officials and private citizens invited to attend the Foster is a former aid administrator and of Launch Study Of Arms Cut Kennedy Proposals Unsatisfactory - Radio Moscow today President Kennedy's to the U. N. General Assembly are In a radio U. S. mokei no provision for of arms and armed for No Early Relaxation Expected UNITED delegates saw little hope Kennedy that the Soviet Union will setting its position in replying to saying it was In Kennedy's call for new armament proposals and to con- on and duct research in methods of Berlin vising the control of arms After the signing the President will head for a at Kennedy had a breakfast engagement in his suite at the uptown Hotel Carlyle with President Arturo Frondizi of Press secretary Pierre Salinger said reports the described reaction to Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko is expected to hold to the Kremlin's over-all stand on these and other international issues when he makes his policy statement before the 99-na-tion General Western diplomats and many neutrals were impressed by Ken broad new disarmament U.N. as E. U.S. ambassador to the United told newsmen he had encountered enthusiastic especially of Kennedy's proposals lor disarmament and a strong U.N. Kennedy's own evaluation of the results of his first before the United Nations was not He made personal soundings with widely scattered lunching with ons production and stockpiles as soon as controls can be They were impressed by Kennedy's overtures for a Berlin coupled with his blunt warning that if the Soviet Union tries to take over the divided the United States stands ready to use nuclear No Veterans Day Parade lola's Veterans Day Committee last night decided not to stage a parade or hold a celebration on Nov. 11 this Gordon the decision was reached as the result of a poll taken by mail last The results were tabulated Letters explaining the poll were sent to 178 professional and business firms or Of 108 returned the enclosed post Forty voted in favor of continuing the parade and agreed to support it 68 voted holding it this The committee felt that the 70 who did not vote cannot be listed as supporters of the - Gordon said that a number of the cards bore notes indicating a preference for closing the town on Veterans During most of the celebrations the stores have closed although there have been sharp differences of opinion about the Many people have held strongly that the stores should after the This fall the merchants division of the Chamber of Commerce voted to remain open on Veterans Gordon said that the committee voted to suspend the celebration for this year The money on hand is to be put in a savings Whether or not the observance should be revived in 1962 will be decided next spring or Kennedy's challenge to the Soviet Union to join in a race for peace leading to full disarmament American officials and conferring imprint on the with neutralist Prince Norodom communist bloc members who Sihanouk of the rest of the hall Gromyko's first reaction was Talking with newsmen outside the Soviet U.N. mission on Park Avenue he was asked if he saw any hopeful signs in the would not go so he want to study it more Tire Blows Out As Kennedys Land R. I. Kennedy's plane blew out a tire on the main landing wheel when it hit the runway at 2:53 p.m. But the President and his wife disembarked As the plane taxied from the end of the runway to the five airport fire trucks followed it parked close The President and Mrs. Kennedy flew here from New York to spend a week's vacation at the summer home of Mrs. Kennedy's stepfather and Mr. and Mrs. Hugh KILLED BY BACKING CAR WICHITA man identified as Jim about 70, of was killed when struck by a backing auto in a Wichita residential area Police said Prouse apparently stepped from behind a hedge into the path of the being backed out of a driveway by Miss Beverly 72. Kincaid Fair Opens Thursday Kincaid will hold its 51st annual Free Fair this starting Thursday and continuing through Saturday Thursday will be entry day and all exhibits are to be placed that Judging will start Friday and continue through the The afternoon program will include foot races and Friday evening at 7:30 p. m. the Kincaid football team will play On Saturday there will be a parade at 1:30 p. m. following by races and special The amateur contest will start at 7::) p. m. Some Observers Compromise UNITED rough outline of a possible East-West agreement to end the Berlin crisis is beginning to appear in official including President Kennedy's speech to the United This development indicated as some Western diplomats undertaken later in the Western leaders seem privately convinced of this because the alternative to a Berlin settlement may well he a told the United Nations Monday the Western powers determined to defend West Berlin whatever means are are saying that upon But he later the Soviet Union and the pressed confidence that Allied powers will agree on a land can lead to u formula for negotiations to see whether Kennedy said he believed an deal is What is highly uncertain is could be worked out that would freedom whether the formula can West Berlin Allied out in Western and talks now under way with Minister Andrei A. Gro The talks could accord in the next few days if Premier Khrushchev is ready to ease the tensions over Berlin a bit. If he is the current efforts of Secretary of Slate Dean Rusk and British Secretary Lord Home will end in Should these preliminary discussions the prospect is that some new effort to arrange negotiations will lie 8th Army Leader In War II Dies Robert L: 75, commander of the U.S. 8th Army in the Pacific in World War II and former superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West died here early who guided the 8th" through the long Philippines campaign and later commanded Allied occupation forces in was hospitalized last He underwent surgery had served as secretary of the general staff of two chiefs of staff of the U.S. MacArthur and Malin He was graduated from West Point in 1909. was given command of the 8th Army in the Pacific Sept. 7, 1944. The 8th subsequently led the Pacific island fighting from Australia to The 8th was nicknamed Amphibious 8th" after led it on 52 amphibious landings in the Philippine Islands campaign Because of the record of the 8lh, Gen. Douglas MacArthur selected it for the invasion of Japan and Eichelberger commanded occupation forces in Japan from 1945 to 1948. He received his appointment to West Point after attending Ohio In 191B, Eichelberger was sent to Siberia where he received three on Page 8, No. 1) 140 Billion Spent on Services By SAM DAWSON AP Business News Analyst NEW YORK are the fastest growing portion of the economy and today lake about 40 of every dollar consumers They have provided the biggest increase in the number of Also they have accounted for much of the rise in the cost of Indications that consumers will pay more than billion this year for all types of services some businessmen far from They are the makers of hard like autos and and the merchants who sell both hard and PRESIDENT ADDRESSES John F. Kennedy is shown he addressed the United Nations General Seated in the front row the Soviet headed by Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko partially and UN Valerian Zorin to leaning Their If the consumer spends more more on there is less of his spendable dollar left to go for But many of the services owe their very being to making and sale of these For when you buy a home appliance you please some utility company as well as the merchant and the appliance You'll tie using the services of someone to install the in time you're likely to use a repair Also you may need i he services of a financing company and an insurance company when you buy a car or a major There's another side to as noted today by the economics department of the Chase Manhattan New York When you buy an appliance you may be cutting down on the need of some The declining importance of domestic service Or when you buy a you may cut further into the need for intercity rail and bus trans port at Since consumer prices as a whole have gone up per cent the average rise in the service component has been 65 per cent. Department of Labor statistics show a wide variance in the rise of service prices in the last 14 Electricity rates on average have 11 per while the cost of a hospital room has gone up 205 per cent. Commerce Department figures show Americans spent bil lion last year for household including gas and water domestic service and miscellaneous Another billion went for interest paid on life investment and bank Medical service accounted for Outlays for hospital care went up followed by payments for medical Transportation took billion recreation personal appearance religion and welfare private education and foreign travel In the last 14 years the fastest growing item was interest on This comes close to the crux of on rage 8, No. 2) Frank Fay Peak In SANTA Calif. tornier Broadway vaudeville comedian and radio died Monday Death came .it 11 in St. Hospital while lie was A hospital spokesman said Kay had spoken a few words to liis live minutes prior to his The nurse and a doctor were at his The spokesman said the from an internal rupture of the abdominal He entered the hospital last Aug. 23. Born in San Francisco Nov. 17. 1898, Fay made his stage debut at fi with a part in in With Johnny Dyer Fay toured vaudeville circuits for years in the Dyer and Fay The pair frequently gave five or six performances a They danced and sang songs which Fay His greatest success came in the when he made a sidesplitting comeback in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway The play opened in 1944, played two years on Broadway and then on the road with Fay still portraying Elwood P. the captivating drunk who palled around with an invisible Fay first reached Broadway in musical comedy and then went on to stardom at the In he produced and acted in Fay's Throughout the he alternated between vaudeville and the Broadway shows in which he appeared Hitchcock's and and Fay's first screen was as a master of ceremonies in of in He played the leads in a Texas Moon and Matrimonial Other screen credits included Knew What They and all produced in the 19.30s. He returned to the movies in 1051 in WAAC in His Playing in vaudeville at New York's Palace he was the highest paid performer in the business during the His salary reached a During the heyday of big radio Fay had his own network His seven-year marriage to actress Barbara Stanwyck ended in divorce i n They have an adopted Dion Anthony Fay of Los An earlier to Gladys Buchanan also ended in Humphrey Leads Others Join WASHINGTON President called spade Kennedy was credited today Wiley was Sen. Hubert to the occasion with having recouped in his dress to the United Nations some prestige losses on Cuba and the assistant Democratic leader who had worked closely with White House experts on the disarmament program the President laid down called the speech most remarkable and moving message of a political leader in the history of our Humphrey said it went a long way toward erasing the stigma of the Cuban invasion fiasco and the failure to follow strong words with action in To of top Republican on the Foreign Relations it was great In Pa former Dwight who recently has been of some of Kennedy's foreign policy said he was very deeply that President said there is no additional in merely pursuing a spiral of arms saw clearly that could be a We saw here a definite desire to our Eisenhower said he agreed with GOP National Chairman William E. Miller - a vigorous critic of Kennedy's foreign policies - that in his speech the President was up and expressing very eloquently the aspirations of the American people for the last
