Joplin Globe (Newspaper) - July 31, 1960, Joplin, Missouri Final Edition I air today and High today 80 to 85. VOL. NO. 306. SUNDAY JULY 31, 19G0.-FIFTY-SIX Primary Campaign With up Vote Predicted BLUE DEVIL of the Missouri American Legion interrupted business sessions of state convention in Joplin Saturday afternoon to stage an hour-long parade along Main Among the many units participating was the a crack drum and bugle corps from Kansas They beat the heat of the afternoon in shorts and The four-day convention will end today after Legionnaires elect state officers for the coming Legion and Auxiliary To Elect Officers Today Registration continued to mount Saturday night as American Legionnaires and their wives prepared for today's final state convention More than 1,400 delegates have registered for the four-day including more than 850 delegates to the 42nd convention of the Missouri of the American Legion and 550 delegates to the 40th convention of the state RABBI KAHN Convention officials said no accurate figure is available on the total number of persons attending the convention since nondelegate Legionnaires and visitors are not required to One estimate placed the total at more than 2,-400. today's business sessions will be the election and installation of department and auxiliary Three candidates are campaigning for election to the office of state department They are Kenneth Tucker of John J. Mohan of St. Louis and Lory Stahley of Cape Legion activities will begin with a past department breakfast at 8 o'clock this morning Connor Late registration will be conducted in the Colonial room from 9 to 11 The final business session will open at 9:30 o'clock in the Joplin high school auditorium with call to order by Department Commander Robert E. Gregg of Kansas Rabbi Robert I. Kahn of national Legion will deliver the principal address of the final Former President Harry S. Truman originally was to have but prevented him from attending the Following Rabbi Kahn's a report will be given by various committee and commission William R. California candidate for national will be introduced and will speak A membership commission report will be submitted and various department awards will be William J. Wisconsin candidate for national also will be Delegates then will select delegates and alternates to the national Legion followed by Hyannis Residents Would Bar Visitors To Regain Peace HYANNIS of Sen. John F. troubled by the tourist and traffic rush in their sedate summer appealed Saturday for barricades to bring back peace and Since Kennnedy from Los Angeles as Democratic presidential police have estimated the traffic load at up to 3,000 vehicles a The Hyannis Civic at an overflow voted unanimously to ask that police set up at the approaches to Hyannis Port to keep out Residents said the traffic and tourist rush to view Kennedy family summer homes and seek a of the nominee is endangering the lives of their children and hurting their Hyannis Port is a settlement of about 500. No Kennedys attended the but President George Shannon said the senator's had indicated the family would back whatever the association decided a report by the convention constitution and Bowling tournament awards will be presented and unfinished business The newly elected president of the department auxiliary and the new chef de gare du Missouri of the 40 et 8 will be presented to the New department officers then will be followed by installation of department officers and district A meeting of the new department executive committee will be held at the high school immediately following adjournment of the department Auxiliary activities will begin with a 1961 district breakfast at 7 o'clock this morning in the Gold room of the Late registration will be conducted from 8:30 to 10 The final auxiliary business session will begin at 8:30 o'clock this morning in the Fox theater with call to order by Mrs. Leo F. department The meeting will feature reports by the credentials and resolutions committees and the election of department Delegates and alternates to the national auxiliary convention also will be New department officers will be installed at the close of the Tiie only 40 et 8 activity planned today is a grand chef de gare passe breakfast at 8 o'clock this morning at the Tlie Sons of the American Legion agenda will include church attendance from 7 to 10 registration at Memorial beginning at 10:15 a business session at the hall at 10:30 and adjournment at 1 on Page 4A) U.N. Head May Be Facing Resistance in Congo By LYNN the Congo N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold was reported Saturday to be meeting resistance from some of the leaders in his plan to move cautiously in settling the disordered affairs of this young Several ministers are insisting that U. N. forces move immediately into Katanga which has declared its to expel Belgian forces maintaining order The U. N. view is that such precipitate action could only damage the country's Premier Moise Tshombe of Katanga has In Today's Globe Knew Your Candidates of tht People Primary Election 4D-5D Farm Hospital Know Joplin Page Angling in the 5C 9C 6C-7C c Church Services IOC 4D District Deaths 8B Want D 6D lA 4 4A told U. N. to stay out of the rich The secretary general held two sessions with a restricted group of leaders in an effort to work out some agreement on the way to save the Both U. N. and government officials were close-mouthed about the progress being But it was generally believed that the veteran U. N. diplomat had pulled no punches in telling the Cabinet how the massive U. N. effort here should be Result of Stand The formation of a restricted commission of six Congolese members to deal with the problem announced in a communique was believed to be one result of his firm A U. N. spokesman said the will decide with Hammarskjold and Ralph J. U. N. type of organization is required for the U. N. Premier Patrice who is on a mission seeking U. S. and Canadian fs a commission The military and technical assistance phases of the U. N. program designed to stop lawlessness and keep the nation's and public services from falling apart undertaken on an emergency is now trying to set up a permanent organization to work with tiie Congolese for perhaps five years or Polaris Hits Target Area In Atlantic CAPE Fla. Navy Saturday successfully fired another Polaris from d submerged subr urine in its continuing drive to send the missile to sea as a powerful war deterrent by the end of the Shortly after the it was announced the missile achieved all test objectives in striking a target area 1,100 miles down the Atlantic The rocket covered the distance in 14 The squat missile was launched down the Atlantic The the USS George Washington as the big atomic submarine glided beneath Gulf Stream about 30 miles off Cape This is the same area from which the submarine successfully unleashed two Polarises in historic first launchings 10 days Compressed air ejected the 28-foot rocket from one of 16 vertical tubes burrowed in the broad deck of the George The missile drilled through more than 50 feet of water and popped to the surface a split second after The engine ignited several feet in the air and the Polaris streaked toward a target area northeast of Puerto Other Launchings Following the successful double underwater launching last Rear Adm. William F. Raborn director of the Polaris is no question that we will meet our operational date this But he emphasized that several more successful launchings must be made before the missile can be considered The George Washington and a sister the Patrick are slated to go on carrying 16 by the end of the They are vanguard of a fleet of 45 Polaris submarines the Navy hopes to have roaming the oceans of the world within five The initial operational range will be 1,380 Testing has started on advanced techniques designed to increase this eventually to 2,875 Nixon Returns To Washington WASHINGTON Vice President Richard M. Nixon flew back to Washington Saturday night from Chicago where he received the Republican presidential While no formal reception was a crowd of about 100 awaited his arrival at National The Nixons left the airport immediately for their Washington During the 3 hour and 44 minute flight from Chicago in a chartered Nixon spent most of the time in the rear compartment with Mrs. Nixon and their 14, and Julie 12. They had dinner aboard and Nixon napped for 45 There was no one awaiting outside their home when they Nixon told newsmen they planned a quiet evening at The vice president will meet Monday with his running U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot to map campaign strategy they will make preliminary plans for campaign speeches in various Ed Farmer Appears To Be Leading in Republican Contest By HALL JEFFERSON CITY peculiar primary campaign drags to a close this neglected by almost everybody except the The voting Tuesday comes as an after the two national political And throughout the campaign the primary issues have been almost obscured from the view by the surge of great national and international One result is a forecast of an unusually light vote for a presidential Secretary of State W. Crawford expects no more than 676,900 compared with more than 960,000 four years Contributing to the lack of interest was the absence of any real contest for the Democratic nomination for Five men filed but Attorney General John M. Dalton of Kennett was so far out in front he was regarded as a shoo-in from the None of his G. Cox of George Roberts of Milton Morris of Kansas City and Roy E. of a statewide The situation was different in the Republican where two state representatives staged a real battle for the governorship They are Edward G. Farmer Jr. of Joplin and William B. Ewald of Based on a hard statewide campaign extending over 16 Farmer appeared to have the The third man in the Harry C. Timmerman of was never a Down the line for stale the Democratic primary developed some hot especially the fight for attorney Demo Fight There State Sen. George Spencer of Columbia was challenged by F. vigorous young St. Louis circuit appeared to have I he bulk of the organized support in Ih big cities while Spencer counted on a heavy A light vote apparently would tip the scales in favor but the ballot battle is expected to be Another hard struggle developed in the Democratic campaign for secretary of which boiled down to a contest between State Rep. Warren E. H e a r n e s of Charleston and newspaper publisher James C. of Hearnes and teamed up early in bids for organized support in the big cities while charged Hearnes was on Page 4A) Bursess Ins. Hdqrs. nO W. 6lh. MA 3-7500 Seat Sought In Congress By 4 Men By ELLIS Republican voters will one of two candidates Tuesday to wage an attempt to regain the Seventh district scat in Congress for the party next Seeking the GOP nomination are Durward G. Springfield surgeon and and Charles J. Branson Both have campaigned Incumbent Charles H. Brown of Springfield is opposed for the Democratic nomination by Robert W. Moore of Neither has campaigned this 49 years has been active in various civic affairs during his 25 years of practice in He is a past president of the Rotary former chairman of the Boy Scout council and served two years as chairman of the Springfield Chamber of He was named Springfield's of the in 1957. First who is seeking his first nomination for public served seven years in World War n and returned from active duty as a c 0 1 0 n e 1. He served as chairman of the citizenship responsibility council of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce from 1957 to 1959 and was elected president of the organization in 1959. He took office in October and resigned last spring to run for the Republican nomination for Seventh district Hall was in Cassville and on Page 4A) ED JR. Concert Rattles Downtown Joplin By MARION ELLIS High-pitched trumpets and rattling snare drums flashing sleeves of blue and white silk perfect rows of marching glittering goWen crests of high hats tall fluttering white plumes All the elements of a good performance of a marching drum Even an hour before Ever try to go to sleep with a 120-piece band under your playing as loud as it don't you wear a hearing aid and can turn it off. Even the poor pigeons couldn't catch a When the two winning drum corps in Saturday night's state American Legion contest decided to give impromptu performances in front of the Connor hotel late Saturday night the bewildered pigeons flew aimlessly in circles seeking quieter When the Blue Devils 32-man drum and bugle corps from St. Louis let fly with the first resounding notes of Breeze and in march and people snapped Lights flickered on in the Keystone hotel across the street like lights indicating the rise of an The Blue Devils gave a good but then came the first place winner in the state the of St. drum and bugle corps from Tom Powell post in St. With their tricky drum cadence and snake dance formations the Tom Powell group caught a hastily gathered fancy and many stamped their feet in as the band off into and Love Meanwhile back at the lobby in the a Dixieland rhythm welled up from members of the Kansas City Legion The Kansas ended their impromptu concert with a snake dance through the After the by best and after traffic started moving celebrators resumed others went back to Farm Plan Aim of Nixon By ROBERT GOLDENSTEIN CHICAGO President Richard M. Nixon aimed Saturday at a target date of three to to bring the nation's vast farm surpluses under He said a massive long-range including indemnity payments to is needed to turn the Republican presidential nominee said past efforts to deal with surpluses have been loo And he added that to attack the problem with the same tools used in the past would only stalemate between the administration and the He left no doubt that he would come up with a farm program differing in many from the policies backed by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft man was left out of a conference Nixon held with farm representatives farmer didn't create and isn't responsible for the box he's standing Nixon government got him to produce more during the war and now face up the responsibility of getting him out of lhat Sunny Day Predicted In District After two rainy the weather bureau has forecast fair skies for Joplin and the area through The high is expected to be between 80 and 85 Mild and fair weather prevailed in Joplin Both Empire District's downtown office and the FAA weather station at Joplin airport reached high readings of 83 At the airport the temperature dipped to 65 degrees in the early morning In downtown Joplin the low reading was 70. At this same time last a trace of moisture was Temperatures ranged between 95 and 77 Hourly 1 a. 72 1 p. 83 2 71 2 p. 83 3 a. 3 p. 83 4 a. 4 p. 83 5 a. S p. 83 6 a. 70 6 p. 82 7 a. 7 p. 80 8 a. 77 9 a. 77 9 p. 74 10 a. 10 p. 11 a. 11 p. Noon 82 Sunday 1 a. 2 a. Airport Data FAA weather observations at Joplin municipal airport at 9:30 o'clock last 69 degrees Wind north Wind 5 miles IS miles Barometric 28.890, The vice president held a after conferring for nearly four hours with representatives and other political figures from farm Difficult Issue He plunged into the farm which he regards as Ihe most difficult domestic issue facing the immediately after accepting the presidential nomination He said Benson wasn't invited because of differences in their views on solution of farm vice president made it clear the approach he take on a farm Don't debate the mistakes of the Don't run against but run for the farmer and the Nixon said he had ihe highest and for Benson but believes it is essential to rid of the rigid position and break stalemate between the administration and Congress we have had for six to eight Nixon said if elected he plans to pick a man from the Midwest for of agriculture but declined to say who was under He said he expects to spell out his farm policies in detail in a major speech in the Midwest probably in Nixon likened ihe indemnity payments he would give farmers to the payments the government gave war materials contractors after the war They were reimbursed for the extra on Page 4A) SLAYING VICTIM - Red-haired Carol 24, of North schoolteacher whose body was found in a 1 a n e near New is
