Jennings Daily News (Newspaper) - September 1, 1961, Jennings, Louisiana Volume 65 Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations September 1961 Member of The Associated Press Number 173 Man Drowns Ruled Suicide A 56yearold man who formerly lived in Jennings was found drowned at 8 Thursday in Bayou at The death of Forest Joseph Stelly was ruled a suicide by Jefferson Davis Parish Time of death was set at approximately The body was found by two Negro Walter Leopold and Henry both of who were spear fishing at night near the shell pile at Fallout Mostly Gone From Sky Before Tests Allies Beef Up Border Positions AMERICAN TROOPS lie in grass near East Berlin border as East peoples police look on from behind barri British and French forces were deployed along the bor der line after the three Western commandants denounced new Communist travel controls as a grave restriction on freedom of movement in Officers Installed For New KC 4th Degree General Assembly of the newly organized Fourth Degree General were installed last night in ceremonies held at Marys Sir Knight Emile Reggie of Master of the Louisiana Jurisdiction of the Fourth Degree Knights of was installing Installed were Monsignor Jules friar Herman navigator Tony cap tain Dewey admiral Joe pilot Vincent comptroller Elzey purser Richard scribe Lonnie Fran inner sentinel James Hich outer sentinel Heard Le Father Marin Promoted To Rank Of Monsignor Father Charles pastor of Our Lady Help Of Christians received word last night that he will be elevated to The announcement was made by His Most Reverend Maurice Bishop of at the installation ceremonies of officers of the Monsignor Joseph Peeters Assembly of the Knights of 1year trustee Charles 2year trustee and Floyd 3year The Most Maurice Bishop of at The new assembly is the Mon signor Joseph General Assembly 3 e e t e r Our Lady gim TOPICS SURGICAL PATIENTS listed to day by the American Legion Hos pital include Daniel Jen Judy Jennings Margaret Kay Jen Ronald Jennings Larry Jennings Carrie James and Harriette JOSEPH LaBOUVE is listed to day at the local hospital as a medical NEW ARRIVALS include a gir for and Darrell Good win of Jennings nnd a and Norris Jen honoring Monsignor second pastor of Help of Christians Monsignor Peeters spent 24 years of his life in the spiri tual development of an area in and around that the scope of the newly formed Domiciled in the new assembly includes Knights of Col from councils at Lake Evan and Bell The area is almost identical to the area of the Jennings The Charles pas tor of the Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic is Following the the Sir their and guests attended a banquet at the Zigler Guest speaker was Sir Knight Edward Winter of New vice supreme mas ter of the DeSoto Province of the Fourth Degree Knights of Col Other guests included Sii Knights and ladies from Lake Estherwood anc Army Buildup Causing A Shortage In Nursing WASHINGTON AP The Medical Service said Thurs day it critically needs 500 addi tional nurses because of the re cent buildup of the The medical service said the Army hopes to meet the imme diate requirement through teer mainly young women and men who have not yet in the armed Alphan Boudreaux Services Pending Spl Time of services for Alphan Bou resident of Welsh who died Wednesday at his are The body lies state at the Hixson Funeral Home in Last rites will be conducted from the Welsh Catholic Church with the Jules Daigle of Burial will be in the Catholic Cemetery with the Hix son Funeral Home in charge of Survivors include his Rita Boudreaux four Law rence Bourdreaux of Pine Alvin Boudreaux of Cal vin Boudreaux of Freddie Boudreaux of Lake Arthur five Lovie William both of Pine Paul New York Paul of Chester Jennings five Ulysses Church Huber tie and Jack Lake Hubert Boudreaux of Jerry Boudreaux of Mire four Felix Thibo Lake Alice Lucille Louis all of Church Point and 27 Italy Plans To Orbit Satellite In Two Years ROME The Italian cab inet has approved plans to fire a satellite into orbit around Ihe earth from a floating platform in the Mediterranean within two Italy already has at least five space probe rockets this year to heights of up to 600 Plans for the first Italian satel lite were announced Thursday night after a cabinet The announcement indicated that it would be sent aloft with the aid of an American booster But the government said Italy ex to have its own booster rocket functioning soon By FRANK CAREY Associated Press Science Writer WASHINGTON AP As the Soviet Union stands poised to re sume nuclear the skies are largely clear of radioactive But the largest proportion of the fallouts most feared radioactive rests on the still posing a potential haz ard to Atomic authorities have the strontium under constant surveil lance and report so there is no evidence that humans have absorbed quanti Heres the present radioactive fallout based on esti mates given a reporter by Atomic Energy Commission experts Of the pounds of radio active debris loosed in the atmos phere between 1945 and late 1958 more than 95 per cent has by now either been deposited on earth or decayed while still aloft or on the Only a relatively small propor tion of the material still on the ground is The pounds included de bris from the two atomic bombs the United States dropped on Ja pan 1945 an material loosed in nuclear by the United the Soviet Britain and Experts figure that bombs hav ing expletive power equivalent to about 170 million tons of TNT had been exploded by the end of At that time the United the Soviet Union and Britain an they were suspending the tests while efforts were made to work out a test ban France conducted nuclear tests in the Sahara Desert last but the AEC estimates that they contributed only about or per cent of the total fallout of longlived fission The debris at any one time in the atmosphere included some 235 different types of fission Only two of ra and cesium are considered potential haz ards to Radioactive strontium has been termed the worst potential hazard because if enough of it gets into the human it could cause bone cancer or near The body was found floating approximately 75 feet 30 feet out from the The scene is about 100 yards from the Aucoin Investigating officers of the Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriffs Department said there was no evidence of violence near the A hat owned by Stelly was found on a cypress knee near the His check book and glasses were found stacked in a neat pile on the bayou A bus licket stamped August 31 at Rayne was found on the body by investigating It was speculated that Stelly may have gotten off a bus that was routed through Mermentau en route to Jennings about 12515 Also found on the body wasa stopped at Sheriff Louis and deputies Hebert and George Speight investigated the scene with The body was taken to the Se gura Funeral Home in Jennings and later transferred to Gossen Funeral Home in Services will be held this after noon at 4 from the Joseph Catholic Church of with burial in Joseph ceme Hubert will of the SteHy wias a of In Auto Accidents ij i Cancer Serum SERGEL Carralho of the Cleveland Rind De velopment cancer re search and a re searcher at Doctors Hospital has an immune serum and treated cancer in ani Acadia Parish and a member of the Joseph He moved to Rayne six months ago from Jennings where he had lived for Survivors Named Survivors are his Gladys Stelly of Rayne his father Noah Stelly of Rayne four Delton of Lake Edgar of Spurgen of Rayne and Joseph of Hathaway one daugh Douglas Perry of Lake Nine Delpha Nelson and Claude all of Walter of of and Leroy Stelly of Crowley two Adone Cian Leger and Elmo both of Rayne and six Welsh Man Held On Rape Charge By JD Sheriff Henry La Fleur of Welsh is being held by Jeff Davis Parish Sheriff authori ties on a charge of attempted ag rape of a The incident occurred or August 16 at his state Bond has been set at Jeff Davis Sales Committee To Meet A meeting of the Jeff Davis As sociation sales committee will be held tonight at County Agent Martins office at Purpose of the meeting is to make final plans for the feeder calf sale to be held at the Welsh Commission barn Wednesday be Men Burned In Tank Explosion EVANGELINE Spl Hoffpauier of 302 Davies received severe burns in a gas tank explosion at the Acadia Corporation in Egan yes morning at Also burned in the accident was Oney Manuel of son of and Cortex Manuel of Jen Both men were taken to the Acadia Hospital in They are suffering from burns on the face and ginning nt 1 The sale is sponsored jointly by the Jeff Davis Parish Association and LSU Extension The barn will start receiving an imals for the sale at 1 on Tuesday and continue until 10 Darrell president of the Association states that it is important that the ma of calves be taken to the barn before the sale in order that they be grouped and The commission barn will sup ply water for the animals but the owner must supply tub for snys Hay will be made available to feed An estimated 1200 calves weigh ing from 300600 pounds will be offered for Consignments up to date are over Calves will be and Brahman Ma will bo of the Angus Elmer Gobel of Elton is chair man of the Welsh Rice Prices Below Previous Ones Showers con to delay harvest over much of the rice area on Quality of rice offered for sale Thursday appeared slightly below previous offers this year and pri ces dropped Green rice prices held The five driers offered a total of barrels of rice in 28 There were barrels of 800 barrels of and 281 barrels of Gulf Rose 14041 bar rels were 10 677 bar rels were turned and barrels Were left Sales points Thursday were Lake Arthur and Sales are scheduled Friday at Lacas Gueydan and There was only one lot of Gulf Rose left open at One lot of Gulf Rose left open at One lot of Magnolia sold at Prices offered for Nato ranged from to according to quality and Earthquakes Start Talk Of Nuclear Tests B THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Seismograph readings Thursday touched off speculation that the Soviet Union had already carried out its threat to resume nuclear weapon But most scientists agreed that their instruments had actually registered an earthquake near The shocks were registered about 9 Max Bieder of Basel astronomical institute in Switzer and Bendandi of the geophysical observatory in placed the shocks somewhere in Chinas Gobi Des Bieder said the shocks were un usual in that the second was By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Millions of persons got ready to day for the last long holiday weekend of the summer The heaviest motor travel in the nations history was indicated by safety experts over the Labor Day An estimated 74 million cars are ready to roll as motorists pre pared to head for vacation and recreation for family out ings to cities and to rural But a grim warning already has been made by the National Safety Council to the millions of motorists who will be on the road 420 persons may be killed during the 78hour holiday period from 6 today to midnight Monday local The council estimated that near ly 8 billion miles of highway trav el will be more than 105 million miles an hour during the The council also estimated that traffic accidents may injure some planes and busses will add to the huge traveling Resorts across the country were reported ready for their biggest weekend of the Law enforcement officials ar ranged special details to handle traffic and hold the number of highway fatalities to a In Otti Kerner has urged all motorists to keep head lights burning at all times and to hold speeds to at least five miles below posted The councils estimate of 420 traffic deaths is higher than the traffic toll counted by The Asso Press in a 78hour non holiday weekend survey made be tween 6 Friday 18 and midnight During the dence Day holiday weekend this 509 persons were killed in traffic 59 above the councils preholiday In last years Lagor Day 415 persons were killed in traffic Other violent deaths included 83 drown 28 in boating accidents and 90 in miscellaneous type mishaps for a total of to thai i Join In ing the Labor taf fc Next edition will Tues September Billy Graham Says Russia Has Ultimate Weapon PHILADELPHIA AP The Billy Graham says he has spoken to close friends in high government positions and learned there is a possibility Russia was already cheating and has created the neutron the ultimate Graham apparently referred to cheating during the ban on irB clear testing which the Russians lifted In Moscow it was reported Thursday that West ern diplomats expect the Soviet Union to test a bomb almost Speaking Thursday night to an estimated persons in Con vention Graham said there is a possibility of an lu matum of surrender or The evangelist said Premier Khrushchev may be ready to flout world This is all speculation nobody he He repeated his request that all Americans pray that God give President Kennedy wisdom in this time of Never Forget Birthdays DETROIT and Flora Plasencia have no at all in remembering the days of Their first was born Monday All the Jesus and 3 aWo were born on SeventySix Die In TWA Constellation Crash CHICAGO AP A TWA Con crashed and burned in a corn field near sub urban Hinsdale early kill ing 76 and hours later the FBI investigated the ity that a bomb may have caused the We have men on the scene in possibility that a federal law may have been violat said a spokesman for the in Some of those who saw the crash say there was an The giant carrying 71 passengers and a crew of ex minutes after taking off from Midway Airport at 2 EST It plowed into a corn field and All 76 aboard per ished In the flaming It was the third worst commer cial plane accident within the 49 states of the The Trans World Airlines en route to Los Angeles from Bos ton with stops in New Pitts House Passes Allowing Standup Drinking At Bars stronger than the first and the center was relatively near the Bendandi said they could have been caused bv a subterran ean Exploding nuclear underground decreases ra The shocks were also registered at about the same time on seis at Columbia Universi California Institute of Technol the Japan Meteorological the Riverview College Ob in Australia and Swed ens Uppsala None of these plotted the shock as having occurred in and most put it near A spokes man at Riverview said the earth quakes were about 125 miles be low the surface of the earth and not to cause any Bieder said later it was his instruments gave a faulty WASHINGTON House passed AP The Thursday that would permit standup drink ing at Washington But not by serious standup just by prospective sitdown For drinks have been served at only tables in Capital eating Bars are reserved for trade and even these customers have to be The would allow customer to down a quick one in a vertical only if the bar is screened from the restaurants eating And the standup tip would not be able to get good foothold for any serious a sponsor e This permits serv ice without prior seating only to waiting customers who are to be seated within a short period o The measure still must be on by the burgh and a sparsely settled residential It did not touch any of the ive homes in a new housing der The flaming plane slowed across a path some two slocks witnesses and furiously after burrowing nto the corn field Wreckage of the plane smoul dered more than four hours after the No bodies had been removed from the But blue Civil De fense tarpaulins shrouded 32 bodies sprawled grotesquely near the burning giant Federal Aeronautics tration officials in made preparations immediately to the site ol crash and begin an Policeman Ted Treiber of at the crash scene after the said it certain some 40 or persons burned to said the only part of the planet that was not afire was the tail Civil Aeronautics Board went to the scene but weft not immediately fcr Thunderstorms raked the cago metropolitan area fit early part of the night but net rain was falling when the left It was an class flight and a stop was planned as Las before reaching Los All five crew members were based in Los Witnesses said there was one baby and sime children among See Page I WEATHER Thursday Hi Lo 90 67 FORECAST Partly cloudy warm through Saturday widely scattered afternoon tti Southerly 15 Highest 8893 ihU noon and Lowati
