Joplin News Herald (Newspaper) - June 10, 1961, Joplin, Missouri Weather Forecast Pair to partly cloudy through Low tonight in NEWS HERALD Final Edition Vol. 89-No. 82 June 10, 1961 Eight Cents Aftermath Worker inspects ruins of homes damaged by winds which struck a suburban housing development at Baltimore Friday The storm virtually leveled 5 houses and Stevenson Faces Brazil Coolness Uruguay - Adlai Stevenson faced the threat of more demonstrations today in major trouble soot in his Latin American after catching a blast here from supporters of Fidel The chief U.S. delegate to the United Nations came under the attack of his lour Friday night when speakers at a university rally denounced him as an aged some 25 No deaths or serious injuries were but police continued to search the rubble for possible Storm Pattern Lingers Over Eastern Region BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A widespread pattern of showers and thunderstorms lingered over much of the eastern half of the country today following an outbreak of violent weather that injury and destruction late Homeless After Wind Ky. or more families looked today for temporary housing after a tornado injured more than 50 and caused heavy property damage in this railroad town at the southeastern edge of Kentucky's Blue Grass The hit-skip storm Friday also struck in adjoining Lee killing a 9-year-old Heavy timber from a partially construct ed church fell on INJURED AT CHURCH A score of Ravenna children were hurt when the storm col lapsed a church where 23 children were studying the Mayor Millard Webb said only five or six persons appeared ser iously National Civil Defense and Red Cross units were set up in the city and the guard patrolled Ravenna Friday night as an 8:30 a.m. curfew was called The mayor said he didn't think il would be necessary to establish public shelter or food The city had adequate water and partial telephone service but was without electric The mayor said the struck first in the rail road then hit in a five block business and residential sec Ravenna was incorporated 40 years its principal business being the Louisville & Nashville Railroad shops on the line to part of the eastern Kentucky coal Betsy 9, was one of those in the Her alertness in dropping to the floor immediately may have saved her serious in CHILDREN PANIC heard it and lay down on the she some of the other children were run on page 2) Brief but violent tornadoes hit without warning in eastern Kentucky and injuring more than 50 persons and inflicting property damage in the A 9-year-old girl was killed when high winds wrecked a church in Estill and a 17-year-old boy was found dead under a tree on a Washington playground after a heavy Hardest hit in eastern Kentucky was a community of about 1,100 where a twister swirled through the business dis injuring some 50 in eluding about 20 children attending a church Bible class when the building Most of the injured were reported in fair Another tornado slammed into a housing development near flattening eight homes and damaging 36 Numerous persons were injured but only six required hospital In both instances the violent weather gave way to bright sunshine only minutes after the devastating tornadoes The storm pattern spawned a number of other twisters throughout the area but mor of them remained Most of the western half of the country continued to enjoy mild but more showers and thunderstorms were expected from the upper Great Lakes to the Northeast southward through the Mississippi Valley and from the western Gulf Coast eastward to the Temperatures over most of the country showed little change from Friday but warmer weather was expected along the Pacific in the lower Ohio Valley and portions of northern New Rapid Climb By Mercury Bright sunshine this morning sent temperatures on a rapid following an overnight low of 66 degrees both downtown and at the The estimated downtown reading at 3 o'clock was 38 Fair to partly cloudy skies are forecast through A low temperature in the is predicted for A year ago thermometer readings varied between 67 and 87. Hourly 1 a. a. m. 2 a. Noon 3 a. 1 p. m. 4 a. 2 p. m. 5 a. 3 p. m. 6 a. a. m. 7 a. 11 a. m. 8 a. Noon AIRPORT WEATHER DATA FAA weather at Joplin municipal airport at 10 a. 84 Wind Wind velocity 2 Barometric 28.880; then rising more rapidly Probe Means to Cope With Red Guerrillas WASHINGTON S. mil research teams are spreading out through the regions in Southeast Asia and the Middle East to learn first hand what kind of weapons are needed to combat Communist The survey could drastically change the types of equipment the United States is supplying its friends who are fighting the shad owy bands in the jungles and hil country unsuited to conventional The research and development teams will talk with native guerrilla fighters to learn from their They will also confer with members of U. S. military advisory groups already on By E. L. ALMEN CIUDAD Dominican Republic Dominican Republic's former defense secretary was held for questioning today in the government probe of Dictator Rafael L. Trujillo's Maj. Gen. Jose Rene 60, a career was fired from the top defense job two days ago without The mastermind of the assassination retired Gen. Juan Tomas reportedly tried to contact Roman just before intelligence agents shot him dead on a city Roman's accuser was Dr. Roberto Reid whom police said committed suicide after four accused plotters seized his home as a One of the captured assassination band had told reporters at his prison that the plan was to kidnap Trujillo and force the 69-year-old dictator to Rumors circulated in Ciudad Trujillo that on the night Trujillo was Gen. Roman was visiting a Dominican official's home near the scene of the Roman and his host went to see what the shooting Leland civilian aide to Gen. Rafael Trujillo new armed forces chief and son of the late said Roman has been replaced as defense chief by Maj. Gen. Santos Melido Marte Rosemberg also has been serv ing as the new regime's liaison man with the special team sent lere by the Organization of American States to investigate the sta tus of civil liberties in the Dominican which Trujillo ruled with an iron hand for 31 The OAS committee will report on whether the past nine trade boycott and broken diplomatic relations with the republic should be continued or mended by other hemisphere No Trace Found of Lost Plane TOKYO for the missing U. S. Air Force cargo plane today failed to find any trace of the transport with eight men which disappeared on a flight to Midway The Air Force declared the plane missing at 7:45 a.m. following radio silence after Its 10-hour fuel supply would have been exhausted at 10:08 a.m. The search is centered about 250 miles east of Carrying 47,000 pounds of the transport took off from the big American base at near at 11:59 p.m It was last heard from 16 minutes The search is being carried out by 19 U. S. from Japan and three from five U. S. Navy In the Japanese coast guard has dis patched four patrol two patrol craft and one Pedestrian Death Toll Mounts to Five ST. LOUIS fifth pe death of the year among children has been recorded in sub urban The victim Friday was a 2-year-old boy who had been playing on the bumper of a U. S mail The William R. Person son of Mr. and Mrs. William W was run over when the truck started The driver Jerome 44, said he didn't see the of Wall and demanded that he leave The Uruguayan government also made clear to a special mission for President it opposed any action against the Castro regime in It was especially firm against armed Stevenson was due in Rio de Janeiro in midafternoon to seek understanding with Brazil's new Janio on Cuba and other U.S. who have been worried by some policies of the are anxious to line up his support for a program to improve working conditions in Latin Stevenson planned to see the Brazilian foreign minister and I other then flv to Sao Paulo Sunday for private discussions with Stevenson's associates played down the importance of Friday night's but it was further that South American both official and is pretty solid against Stevenson found this feeling 87 both in the Venezuelan and gentine governments and again in Meeting privately with Uruguay's ruling government Stevenson said the Americas find new ways to improve the defense of our inter-American system against subversion and The U.S. envoy said the hemisphere needed machin ery of defense against interven tion of the Soviet bloc as illustrated by the conquest of Cuba by Council President Eduardo Vic tor Haedo replied that Uruguay is not yet ready to drop its long tradition in defense of the prin of He said Uruguay realizes the of the Cuban but intervention goes against the most inner feeling of our Stevenson replied would appreciate any suggestion to avoid from becoming our New Court Tests Face South on Traditional Race Economic Recovery Appears Spurred NEW YORK The Producers of machine recovery rolled on construction equipment and other the week and expectations machinery to Be Put In Use in Missouri Mo. - A new polygraph for administering will be placed in operation June 28, at the Troop D headquarters of the Missouri highway patrol in An announcement today by the Homage to Royalty in of All Irish Deign to Doff Their Hats To a Princess Named Grace Kelly By COLIN FROST Ireland - The who developed an antipathy to royalty while under British today lipped their hat to a roval But then she happens to be an Irish-American named Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Manaco and her Prince were arriving in Dublin this afternoon as guests of President Eamon de It is the first state visit of royalty to Ireland in half a The ceremonial highlight of the visit comes Sunday with a gala performance of the requiem by the French composer I ' Because of a strike which has closed theaters the concert will be outdoors in Croke This part of the program has brought some tongue-in-cheek ters to the editor in Dublin can the organizers be thinking demanded a letter writer in the Evening would entreat them to stop this wild caper before we make a laughing stock of our country and the riot to mention the risk of Yet another cause for comment is that Croke Park is the head quarters of the Gaelic Athletic more rapid improvement later in the year The gross national product - total of all goods and be setting a record in the current quarter ending June 30. Walter W. chairman of the President's Council of Economic said the GNP for the quarter might reach an an rate of nearly It was a little under billion in the previous ESTIMATES ZOOM Holler said that by the final quarter the rate may be The National Association of Purchasing Agents reported that new production and em ployment kept on increasing in ment predicted a good gain in BY THE PRESS sales by the fourth quarter This The racially troubled was despite indications that in- J vestment tor new plants and South today faced new equipment is not speeding | tests of traditional 46 Injured In Blast of Gas Truck Ohio least 46 persons were injured today when a burning gasoline tank truck spraying gasoline on several Seven or eight houses on the fringe of the downtown district caught and some were The injured were taken to eight Some suffered only minor but five were listed as severely or critically The Standard 6il tanker skidded on a turn from Anthony Wayne Trail into Erie overturned and caught It burned for about 15 minutes before it blew The injured included 10 three or four policemen and people who were watching the fire or were in nearby The blaze was brought under control about an hour after it Those listed as severely or critically injured included Fire Tom firemen Robert Harrison and Glen and Police Capt. Albert Bernha gen. Eden Urges West Area General Staff England Sir Anthony Eden proposed today that the Western nations set up a political general staff to deal with Communist pressure around the Calling for greater unity in the the former British prime minister suggested that political representatives of four to six na tions meet either in Paris or Such a staff or its Eden have to come some the better our chances of he perhaps the West will cease reacting to events and start to shape Eden appeared at a rally of Young Conservatives of this Yorkshire making his first major public speech since he resigned the premiership in 1957. Expanded Plan Seen an organization in which members confine themselves to Irish games like and are barred from let alone such foreign intrusions as soccer and as another writer to Mail pointed was a fine composer but was not These however are side The Kelly as Dublin is calling is sure of a real Irish The Irish State hastily switched scheduling to make sure the princess enjoys the concert without interference from locomotive The railway tracks are within 20 yards of the patrol said the machine will be made available for use by all law enforcement agencies in South west It is the first such machine to be put into service in this part of the Trooper J. who has completed an intensive three-week training course at Jefferson will be the technician operating the The patrol for many years has had a polygraph machine in operation at its state headquarters in Jefferson City and now is installing machines in various other parts of the In addition to the one in Southwest the patrol also will put machines in operation at Kirkwood and St. In the law enforcement officers in this area have taken persons to Jefferson City for tests by the polygraph but after June 28 will be able to use the equipment at Undergoes Surgery HOLLYWOOD - Marion Davies is reported much improved after surgery Miss 61, has been troubled for some time with The malady is de scribed as an infection of the bone The National Retail Merchants Association surveyed its membership of 11,500 specialty and variety stores and found high optimism about prospects for the second half of the The majority of merchants look for a four per cent gain in sales and a five per cent increase in The First National City Bank of New York commented that the industrial performance in the last two months has any lingering doubts that the economy is in a very encouraging rebound from recession Dr. Marcus economic consultant to the Hanover Bank of New said he expects a but that major boom is in the DOUBTS The momentum of recovery has aroused anxiety in the Kennedy administration that it will bring a revival of Heller said direct price or wage control is not under barring a wartime Presidential assistant Walt Whitman Rostow we go into the new wage the question is whether we will negotiate our way into inflation or whether we can exercise discipline without wage and price With labor contract negotiations nearing in the automobile General Ford and Chrysler omitted the usual annual raises June 1 for 138.000 salaried employes not covered by union Automobile production moved up during the week to an estimated 128,000 passenger This was only 8.7 per cent below the comparable 1960 one of the year's slimmest National Security Agency Clerk Being Sought by FBI Down From Tower After 53 Years KANSAS CITY L. Adkins is ending a long-time job Sunday When he steps from the Eton Tower of the Santa Fe 10 miles east of here on the Missouri he will be terminating a job he has held for 53 For all that time the telegraph operator and towerman has worked the night During that time the 74-year-old worker has been sick only once a 3-day hospital stay in 1953. Asked what he will be doing in Adkins don't That's what I've been asking Statue of Liberty Planned for Israel NEW YORK million campaign is under way to build a statue of liberty in Co-chairmen of the national sponsors it was announced are U.S. Senators Jacob K. Philip and Gale W. The statue is to be a 0 from the American as our own Statue of in New York harbor was a gift from the people of WASHINGTON today sought a clerk from the hush-hush National Security Agency who has been missing since The FBI declined comment on whether it was taking part in the search for William Hyter 28, conducted by state police at the request of Defense Department officials said Covington had no access to secret secret its employes are not supposed to tell their friends where they in communications Located at nearby Ft. it maintains h monitoring of all signals and messages on the air including those in code Officials said Covington had been on sick leave for two months following an He returned to work May 31, but after working two days asked to be off June 2 because he said he needed additional medical Last Monday and Tuesday Covington telephoned that he was his wife called the security agency to learn where he was and was told he hadn't in. The live at Md. NSA listed Covington as missing He was reported seen at the race track at Charles W. and also in Va. Last two NSA code clerks fled to Moscow and have since been used by the Soviet Un ion for propaganda blasts at the United Both Bernon F Mitchell and William H. Martin are reported to have gone to work as mathematicians for the Soviet New Russian Moon Effort Speculated Germany Bochum Observatory reported unusually traffic today on the Soviet radio frequency normally used for space It speculated the Soviets might be preparing a new moon shot or space Observatory Director Heinz said the frequency had been silent for eight days but was fuli of traffic this Y C others 4 Ur Int. C 8urge$i.-Adv. gation laws in the courts and the schools and at facilities for interstate There were warnings of more planning to head for and of a possible stepped up hunger strike among white persons held in the city jail there on breach of the peace A number of Negro track stars world record holders John Thomas and Ralph from a track meet Friday night at in protest of what they called segregated seating of Earlier in the day the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People entered the Freedom Ride movement at Jackson by asking Federal District Court to protect the riders from police A petition filed by Mrs. Constance Baker Motley and chief NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall of New York and R. Jess Brown of Jackson and asked that a federal court consider the request for protection against arrest of The move came after the arrest of 98 Freedom Riders in Jackson and aligned the NAACP openly with the Congress of Racial Equality in its test of segregation At St. Chester R. national chairman of said the group plans to send 15 to 20 more riders from St. Louis to the Mississippi state capital in about 10 In a group sponsoring some of the riders said all the white persons held in city jail at Jackson would join in a hunger strike on Monday unless the federal government takes some action by Eight of the riders in the jail already are The plan for other prisoners to refuse food was reported by the Freedom Walk Committee of Ithaca in telegrams sent to President Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy and Everett i on page 2) ii Look What I Karen 6, got a big thrill yesterday when she landed this catfish while competing in a rodeo at Her shrieks could be heard all around the park The catch isn't big enough to win any prizes but to Karen it was a
