Las Vegas Optic (Newspaper) - November 22, 1959, Greater Las Vegas, New Mexico 28 Air Forte 27 Mo 13 Kansas 9 Okla 33 Iowa St 12 BYU 14 Colo ND 20 low 19 Wise 11 Minn 7 Weather Friday maximum Saturday minimum Saturday maximum Cloudy through Sunday night Pitt 22 Penn St 7 NMS 35 West Tex 13 Kan Si 14 Ulah 35 USU 21 LSU 14 6 SMU 30 Baylor 14 Ky 20 Tennessee 0 Mich 23 Ohio St 14 51 0 5 SUNDAY OPTIC Vol 1 No 43 Greater Las Vegas New Mexico Sunday November 22 1959 Committee T A Price 15 Cents Per Cooy To Hold Hi way Records In LAS VEGAS journalism students attended the fifth annual Journalism Day at the Uni versity of New Mexico About 250 high school students from throughout the state gathered on the UNM campus for talks and work shops The Las Vegas delegations gathered in Albuquerque for their picture Back row 1 to r Sally Finch Sandy Bason Mary Mares Mr and Mrs Leon Martinez West Las Vegas High sponsors Mary Uou Salas Donna Keserich front row Lancaster Las Vegas Robertson High spon sor Garcia Rose Montoya Lenore Lopez Connie Martinez seated Leroy Segura and Jimmy Photo by Delgado Businessman Gives While They Make Contributions Praise To HU For T J Reach Very Reading Tourists Warned Away 51080567 had been received by the United Fund up to S pm Friday This is 70 percent of the goal of 500 and lacks only of equal ling the amount raised last year To date 77 percent of the 200 workers have completed their solicitation The principal areas still unreported are the south re Reserve Center To Be Named In Honor Volcano Seems To Be More Than Nice Sight i will be named in of Pvt VOLCANO HAWAII UPl Scientists Saturday night expres sed fears that the week old Kilauea Iki eruption may be something more than a tourist attraction as the crater spit out a new stream uf red hot lava as high as the Empire State building Officials of Hawaii National park warned visitors away from outlook points on the rim of the crater nearest to the fiery foun tain A party of onlookers watch ing the column of bubbling lava from about 100 yards away was rushed out of the area by rangers when the volcanic stream sudden ly doubled its height One of the party said their faces reddened from the scaring heat as if a blast furnace door had been opened in front of them No one was injured but rangers warned visitors to slay away from the outlook points nearest the geyser of lava Dr Jerry Eaton chief geologist of the volcano observatory said there was just no way to predict what the volcano might do The only reasonable thing we can do is exercise caution Eaton said Park rangers however in that there was no plan to close the area completely to tourists The stream of glowing molten rock spouting from the side of the crater was measured at feet shortly before noon Saturday exactly the of the Empire State building in New York U was the biggest blowup of Kilauea Iki on record and Eaton said may mean that the normal pattern of eruptions has been up set This could mean he said that the mountain is getting ready to explode sky vast of flame the bowels of the earth The eruptions which began a week ago have already formed a lake of lava 350 feet deep in the bottom of the crater Hopes Will Be Voluntary Gen Charles Sage UN To Appeal For A J Declared Innocent Gen Charles G Sage was pronounced innocent of the only remaining count of a three count indictment charging him with illegal use of National Guard funds Saturday night The hero of Bataan and former head of the New Mexico National Guard was acquitted by the dis court jury 37 minutes after it received the case The other two charges were quashed by Dist Judge Samuel Montoya during the trial Sage at first showed no emotion when the verdict was read but after the jury was dismissed Sage arose and threw his arms around his attorney Harry Bigbee of San in Fc The genera then embraced his wife and daughter Mrs Bruce King of Florida He then cried After regaining his composure Sage shook hands with the prose cutor in the case Dist Atty Wal ter Santa Fe and then with all the members of the jury Sage said he would take his daughter back to Eglin AFB Fla and would do some fishing He said he had no immediate plans He said the verdict vindicated him In an emotion packed summary Bigbee said it would be a crime to send such a great warrior to the penitentiary for alleged wrong doing about which he knew noth ing Nuclear Test Halt By BRUCE United Press International UNITED NATIONS NY UPI United Nations General As sembly voted Saturday to appeal to all powers to stop nu clear weapons tests voluntarily The lone vote against a 23 power AfroAsian resolution was cast by France which plans to hold its first atomic test in the Sahara Desert soon The United States and Britain abstained The resolution appeals to the United States Russia and Brit ain now negotiating a permanent nuclear test ban at Geneva to continue their voluntary sion of tests and asks other states to desist from such tests The 601 tally at an unusual Saturday session duplicated the Bus Depot Robbed Early Last Night East Las Vegas police last night discovered a broken window at Uic Bus Depot and upon investigation found that a check protector had boen stolon On a routine patrol Officers Tapia and Esquibel located the breakin The robbers apparently entered the station by breaking and tearing a screen and break ing the window pane at the north side of a rest room and then break ing the connecting panes into the depot Another breakin was reported Friday by Robert Donner 921 Fifth St Someone entered his storehouse at 407 Railroad Ave by forcing the front door nnd stole several paint and wall brushes LOUIS Louis R Kavanaugh District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler North of the Benevolent and Pro Order of Elks will make his official visit to the Las Vegas Lodge No 403 nt the regular meeting Tuesday A class will be all members arc invited lo attend El Voles For HS Technical SANTA FE i UPI The El Rito State School Board of Regents re buffed in their efforts to build a junior college has voted for an advanced high school technical pro The board meeting in Santa Fc saw this as an interim measure It plans to ask the 1901 legislature for a college program The school has already mapped one out changed its name to Northern New Mexico College and then found a stumbling State board of finance rejected a bond issue for construction of buildings needed for the college program The vote was 30 Two members abstained result of the vote in the resolu tion in the main polit ical committee Twenty countries abstained Saturday three who were absent in Fridays commit tee vote joining that column Jordan absent Friday voted Yes Saturday Laos which voted Yes Friday was absent Saturday The assembly also approved 780 with 2 abstentions a Japan measure ex pressing hope for a permanent test ban and asking the three nu clear powers to continue their voluntary suspension Fridays committee vote on this was with 2 abstentions The United States assured a new airing for the pressed 1956 Hungarian Revolu tion by formally requesting the General Assembly to debate it anew US Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge filed the request with Scc c n e r a 1 Dag skjolds office supporting the de mand made last week by Sir Leslie Munro of New Zealand UN special representative on the Hungarian question that the item be included on the assem blys agenda Russia objected earlier this week that Munro was not entitled to request the assembly to de bate an item and won a first round victory which postponed a meeting of the world ments Steering Committee until Monday The Steering Commit tee confronted with the US re quest to which no legal objection could be made was expected to put the Hungarian revolt on the assembly agenda for later debate wih only Russia Romania and Czechoslovakia opposing the move and the AfroAsian and neutral countries abstaining The United States ran athwart Russia again in the General As sembly Saturday when it accused the Soviet Union of welshing on its UN obligations by refusing to pay any part of the maintenance rosts for the UN Emergency Force on duty in the Middle East The assembly also approved un an Indian Yugoslav resolution continuing the UN disarmament commission for an other year with a membership of all 82 UN members It was sug gested that Ambassador Luis Pa dilla Nervo of Mexico ment commission chairman should represent the United Na tions at the arms scheduled for Geneva next The new Army Reserve Center located on Seventh St Extension will be named in memory of Pvt Arthur R Rogers it was an here yesterday Ro gers is the late son of Mr and Mrs Rufus Rogers of Las Vegas Pvt Rogers died in action at La Chapelle Belgium on Sept 11 1944 while in the service of his country Rogers was born in Las Vegas on April 8 1924 He attended the Las Vegas Public Schools and volunteered for military service basic training at Camp McCain Miss and departed the United States for duty in Europe Novem ber of that year During action against the enemy in the vicinity of La Cha Belgium Rogers observed several wounded comrades ly ing in an exposed position during an intense enemy mortar artil lery and barrage Ro gers with disregard for his per sonal safety courageously moved about perilous terrain and ad ministered first aid to the injur ed men and assisted in evacua ting them to a place of safety In the final phase of the evacuation he met his death Rogers was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart posthumously for having made the supreme sacrifice in the de fense of his country the American Campaign Medal European Eastern Cam Medal World War IT Vic tory Medal and the Combat In Badge Dedication ceremonies for the Reserve Center will be held Sat urday Dec 5 The public is in district of West Las Ve gas the east residential district of East Las Vegas most of the county teams three solicitors of special gifts and a few of the em ployees groups Since Wednesday two cleanup teams of 12 members have been added to the roster of workers and already one solicitor has finished and reported One team is comprised of Mrs H R Ans ley chairman Mrs Farmer Mrs W G McDonough Mrs C W Switzer Valda Eichholtz and Mary Anne Owen The members of the other team are Edward Q Rice chairman Mrs Rice Jess Price Larry Finch Frank Olm stead and Msgr George V Rief fer Last year the Kiwanis Lions cleanup team collected over Commander Who Died In Fire Probably Didnt Realize It SANTA FE children who perished in their flaming home late Friday night probably never knew what hit them Fire Marshal A B Mar tinez Jr said Saturday He believed they suffocated pos sibly while still groggy from sleep A coroners jury later found both smoke poisoning and burns the cause of death Justice of the Peace Fred West said Findings in the wake of the mid night tragedy tended to confirm that it resulted from one of the vic tims playing with fire the day be fore The four children of Catherine Lury 31 an unwed welfare de pendent were Joseph 2 Rosema ric 3 Patrick 4 and Christine 6 The woman said she found a fire in the garage of their adobe one story home possibly set by thought she had extinguished it Police investi gators it smouldered and then ignited during the night Flames quickly spread from the garage to two bedrooms where the four victims two older sisters and two adults slept Ike Defines Role Of Defense Dept Wholehearted support for Highlands recently announced program to train electronics and electrical technicians was voiced this week by Ralph H Under wood manager of Que es Albuquerque one of New Mexicos largest cal manufacturers In a letter to Dr Thomas C Donnelly president of Highlands University Underwood said that the electronics industry regards Highlands attempt to tram technicians as a significant step forward We are grateful to you for having the foresight and courage to add such training to your curriculum he said The new program scheduled to get underway Jan 4 has been given a boost financially through the National Defense Act with de tails worked out between Henry Gonzales state director of voca tional education and Harold Brandt head of the Industrial Arts Department at Highlands The program will lead to the associate of science degree Underwood in his letter went on to say that duality is our greatest asset and time is the next most important factor If we qualified technicians who are permanent residents of our state we have gained an advantage over other states Since New Mex ico is in the heart of the development area speed in set ting up training courses in our state universities is of utmost im portance Waiting to attract trained technicians from Eastern schools could be fatal to our struggling new industries he ex Underwood also pointed cut that the technician requires bas ically the same scientific back ground as the engineer Both the technician and the engineer should have the best possible grounding in practical experi ence The engineer in this way could set forth his creative ideas in a manner so that the technician can transform these ideas into usable products The competent technician is not just an assembler but should have a complete understanding of his field He pointed out that though New Mexico is at a disadvantage in the development of heavy indus tries it can go far in the develop ment of scientific products I see n pront future for New Mexico he s i advantage of our opportunities PARIS UPI President Charles de Gaulle declared Sat urday it was necessary that the fighting be stopped in the five year old Algerian rebellion He said he was sure that sooner or later common sense will prevail over ambitions in the rebel camp The president speaking in Al sace indicated that he considered as a political maneuver the pro posal by the Algerian rebel gov that De Gaulle negotiate a ceasefire with five rebel leaders imprisoned in France De Gaulle had q u i c k ly dis missed the Rebel move Fri day pointing out that his stand ing invitation to the rebels for Paris peace talks was directed to active insurgent leaders and not those out of combat But De Gaulle apparently un deterred by the rebel move told audiences on the final day of his Alsatian tour that he was confi dent peace would be reestablished in Algeria Speaking at Selestat near Stras bourg De Gaulle exhorted the rebels to believe that his invita tion to truce talks and his offer of for Algeria was a sincere and trustworthy project In Algeria we out lined and pointed out the road which must lead then to appeasement and finally to re conciliation DC Gaulle declared We have invited all those who on the other side fight us to fol low us on this road he added And we have done it in the best possible faith and we continue we persist loyally to tell Come and surely we shall be able to cease fighting Thereafter the French president declared the Algerians them selves will determine their des tiny This is the only road De Gaulle added and it is not per missible for reasons of ambition and pretention to prolong the trag edy one more day Speaking with a group of prom inent Alsatians Friday night De Gaulle was reported to have told them that peace in Algeria will in any case come before the end of 1960 By MERRIMAN SMITH White House Reporter AUGUSTA Ga dent Eisenhower acted Saturday to give the Defense Department a more clearly defined roic of responsibility for executing the Military Assistance Program overseas The chief executive named Gen B Palmer Deputy Com mander in Chief of US European Forces as Director of Military in the office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for international security affairs Eisenhower met for two hours and 10 minutes Saturday with Deputy Defense Secretary Thom as S Gates Jr and the three service secretaries in an effort to reach inter service agreement on the defense budget for the next fiscal year Gates said the conferees still were talking in general terms of a military budget of about 41 bil lion dollars for fiscal He said he expects the budget to be wrapped up by late next week Headed By Draper Creation of the new military assistance post in the Defense Department stemmed from rec by a special pres commission studying the entire military assistance field in relation to this overall foreign aid program The com mission was headed by William H Draper a retired Army gen eral and now head of a utility company in Mexico The Draper Commission in its last report expressed the belief that the Military Assistance Pro gram heretofore bundled in some detail by he State Department should become an integral part of the defense system The commission recommended making the Defense Department responsible for carrying out de tails and expediting a program the policies of which were to be laid down by the State Depart ment and the White House The State Department under the Draper Committee would be responsible for policy guidance and diplomatic tions involved in military aid The White House called the ap pointment of Palmer a step to ward this goal of the Draper Commission Retires This Month Palmer is scheduled to retire from the Army Nov 30 but will be recalled to active duty when ris new appointment becomes ef Glass Ceramics To Be Discussed George W McClellan tor for technical information ser vice for Corning Giass Works Corning N Y will be on the Highlands University campus Tuesday morning to give a lec concerning the versatile engineering capaci ties of glass and The program entitled Half a Century of Research in Giass will be given in the chemistry hall in the Science Build ing beginning at 10 am The program entitled cd expressly for technical people and is open to the public McClellan has been with Corn ing since 1040 with time out for military service He began work as a laboratory technician and has moved rapidly upward in the company structure Motion pictures slides and dem will be used BLAS LOPEZ San Miguel County school superintendent explained to county school teachers at a meeting yesterday the classification of students for the Average Daily Attend ance reports He said that 80 per cent of the county ADA reports had been wrong and took two weeks to correct Staff by Trujillo Speaks Tests ADA Discussed By County Teachers Stolen Gir Located In Garage Accident Casey Marline Highlands Uni versity reported to he East Las police yesterday that some one had taken his 1951 Dodge Fri day night while it was parked at Joes Ringside He said he did not report it to the police Friday night because he thought his brother had taken it But after chocking with his brother this morning he checked and found it stored in a local garage It had had been involved in an accident Government Decides To Delay Postal Rate Hise WASHINGTON aov decided Saturday to de lay imposing an average 17 per cent rate increase for parcel post and other fourth class mail until after Christmas to avoid inflating holiday budgets Postmaster General Arthur E announced the high er rates will go into effect on Feb 1 The increases approved Friday by the Interstate Commerce Com mission will raise coss for mail ing packages and catalogs by an estimated 558000000 a year This is roughly the annual de incurred by the Post Office department in handling fourth class mail Sininger Highlands Un professor spoke at the meeting of about 50 San Miguel County school teachers yesterday morning at the University Sininger talked on the uses that can be made of test results He said that although the results do not yield they arc an indication of strengths and weak in the of The county schools adopt ed the California Achievement Test last year and used it for the first time this fall When given for a number of years Sininger emphasized test results become a valid item in the school history of a child and he suggested that test results be entered in permanent records In an almost vote the teachers upheld this opinion But Sininger added test results should be checked objec tives thus providing teachers with clues for further planning A discussion followed with Sin inger answering questions from the floor During the meeting new county school teachers Mrs Sally Gar cia teacher at La Gallinas and John Sanchez were introduced Some county schools are in the position of losing a teacher if the average daily attendance drops by three or four Students Bias Lopez county school super intendent told the group follow ing Siningers talk Lopez said that 80 percent of the last ADA reports were wrong and required two weeks to cor rect He explained the correct method of student classification it yesterdays meeting Lopez told teachers that class cs could not dismiss before 3 pm Wednesday before Thanksgiving because of the state law requir ing five hours of school per day The group vote to hold future meetings Friday night rather than Saturday morning Paul Lucero president of the San Miguel County Teachers As sociation who at yester days meeting concluded the meeting with a plea for 100 per cent membership in the National Education Association and a an that the social af fair of the group would be help in the spring rather than jit Christmas
