Morning Herald (Newspaper) - April 1, 1961, Hagerstown, Maryland MORNING VOL NO 77 fond Hit thi palmed HERALD hinging to ovtr Might 4853 Mostly tunny ind CM MARYLAND SATURDAY APRIL 1 Morning News Broaden Midnight over Secret Service Investigating To Kidnap Presidents Daughter Rusk Will Brief JFK OnSEATO Conference Due Today In Fla Rusk Encouraged WASHINGTON w of State Dean Rusk turned Friday from a meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization and reported himself much encouraged by the sessions on the Laos crisis By FRANCES LEWINE PALM BEACH Fla AP President John F Kennedy will confer here Saturday with Secretary of State Dean Rusk to hear a report on the SEATO conference which discussed the posed ceasefire in Laos Husk planned lo fly to Palm Beach Friday night aboard a Mil Air Transport Service plane from Washington The secretary of slate has been in telephone communication with the President here since his re turn to Washington from the Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza tion conference White House press secretary Pierre Salinger said Salinger said Rusk will confer with the President at the Kennedy family home on the oceanside al 10 am Saturday to report on the conference and his conversations wilh Indias Prime Minister Neh ru in New Delhi Rusk was wasting no time in getting a first hand report to tin President So far there has been no reply from Soviet officials on a cease fire proposal to settle the in Laos Besides talking to Rusk on the phone Friday afternoon said the President had receiver an intelligence briefing by tele Crash Kills Three Near Warfordsburg Pa An collision However they theorized that evening on Gavalas vehicle bound slackened Pennsylvania lit on HI 126 went out of lurg said the accident happened about 10 Maryland Rout Army Of Tin Stale Seized By Soldiers Of Moishe claimed the lives ot three young Army soldiers State Police at miles stale north line of he a few above Warfordsburg ulton County in Killed in the spectacular crash which tore a 1960 station wagon in half and flung the two 95 feet from the scene of he impact were Charles L 20 of Meadeville Pa rbin L Muir 18 of Numine and John R 20 of Altoona Pa Troopers from the McCon barracks of he Pcn State Police said the hree dead men were passen gers in the station wagon driven iy Gavalas of Pitts burgh Gavalas was lo Bedford Hospital where he was listed in critical condition with severe facial lacerations a possible fractured skull fractured ribs and possible internal injuries Officers were not able lo in Gavalas to determine exactly how he accident hap control ran off the right side of the road and then served jack to the center ol the road way As the car returned to the road a tractor trailer truck smashed into it broadside The truck driver Lewis J Collins 36 of Washington IX C was uninjured Collins said he had no chance to stop when he saw the car come spinning onto the road The highway a two lane road Slate Police Troopers Charles M Wheeler and William E Eicher who investigated saic the crash came al about pm when a combination o rain sled and snow was falling Fullon County coroner Dr R J McLucas pronounced the three soldiers dead at the scene Officers at the McConnells burg post said Muir was sta at Fort Eustis Va and Howsre at Pope Air Force Base in Fayetteville N C Gavalas the driver of the ill fated station wagon is a mem ber of the U S Navy He is stationed at Newport News There was no indication as to where Eldridge was stationed By ERROL FRIEDMANN ELISABETHVILLE Ka Kills 145 In Ukraine City MOSCOW killed 145 persons near Kiev March 13 in one of the worst dis asters of its kind in Soviet his tory the Kiev newspaper Pravda Solicitation Regulation Sill Changed A lo fund solici ations in Washington County is eing amended to give the Coun y Commissioners the right to pell out their own regulations intelligence documents of the Ukraine reported Friday Damage was estimated in the millions of dollars and 143 per sons were hospitalized though had been released by Thursday paper said of disaster have in Moscow for two were flown here for his perusal The director of the Central In Agency Allen Dulles is vacationing in Palm Beach Salin ger said Dulles will see the dent sometime Saturday but thai il will be a social visit and Dulles will not attend the Rusk meeting Kennedy who came lo Palm Beach Thursday for an Easter va cation spent a quiet day Salinger reported He played a round of golf in warm sunshine during the afternoon Rumors circulated weeks but it had not been men by papers the So viet news agency Tass or by So viet radio The Kiev newspaper said lega proceedings have been started Alcohol Study Approved The Maryland House of Dele gates Thursday voted favorably on Senate 534 thus enacting the measure into law The introduced by Sen George Sny der empowers the County Com missioners to spend funds and organize such projects and slu dies as they deem needed for the rehabilitation of alcoholics The Washington County Medi cal Society the Washington County Mental the Washington Health County Dept and he Coun ty Ministerial Assn have all voted unanimously in favor of the commissioners instituting a study of what can be done lo re habilitate alcoholics many ol whom spend more time in jail than However the County Commis when they heard the was pending slated there would be no studies conducted nor re against those responsible but i did not identify them The slide occurred near Baby yar where the Nazi ens of thousands of Jews am Ukrainians during World War II It was touched off the pape said when workmen used faulty in filling a ravine parl y full of waler The earth crashed into an in area devastating abou 75 acres Destroyed were 39 houses tw workers barracks a streetcar de pot an experimental and a municipal store yart the paper said The announced all families were re lington for lost property an Assn homeless were given ne apartments tanga the Congo AP army of natives and white mercenaries some of them South cans has captured a tin min ing state carved northern Katanga by leftist rebels The campaign was waged in defiance of United Nations requests and raised the threat of UN tion in Katanga Vice President lean Marie Kib we of independent Katanga the victory Friday He rebel leader Anloine were roull from Manono Thursday wilh a shot ired A Belgian pilot who flew over J battle area said the seemed to flee in all di at the approach of the alanga column jw The victory undoubtedly ost the prestige of Katanga resident Moise Tshombe who ready is emerging in the eyes many Congolese as the strong l Congo leader His army is the rst to inflict such a defeat on Gi ngas forces who turned back DOWN STORE or such The measure known as House ill 944 is being amended in the tale Senate by Senator George nyder with prior approval from he county lawmakers In the louse of Delegates Senator Snyder said he agrees wilh a Morning Herald said original has merit but is too ant loo much red tape to e really workable Senator Snyder said hi amendment would give th bounty Commissioners author y to adopt regulations for fum drives but it would remove from he original all the regula ions that are listed The amend menl also provides a clause making convicted vio lators guilty of a and subject to fines not to ex ceed The amended after clear ing the Senate is expected t get an OK from the count group in the House of Delegates Wedding March Seen Outdated LONDON London firm that rents bridal outfits think tired of Mendelssohn Wedding March and is offering prize in a contest for a new on Engines Rotor Blades Umbaugh Says Production Of Parts For Slated habilitation here work undertaken The was outgrowth of g meeting last November of in county officials includ ing Judge D K McLaughlin Sheriff Charles Price Senator Snyder and Dr Ross Cameron Judges Salary Approved ANNAPOLIS Senate tentatively approved Friday night to raise the Maryland judges salaries ol The action came on a voice vole alter a biller attack on pro posal by Sen John L Sanford D Worcester The Umbaugh Aircraft Cor here announces that a goahead has been given for pro duction of engines rotor blades and other component parts for the Umbaugh Gyroplane The firm says it plans to build 10000 planes on tion assembly lines within one year of the beginning of produc tion In announcing the production green light Raymond E Um baugh of Ocala Fla presiden of the Umbaugh Aircraft Corp pointed out that manufacture of the plane will require the argest orders for engines rotor lades tires wheel brake systems in the history of civi aviation Umbaugh disclosed that Avc The boost the annual Corporation Lycoming Divi ot Court of Appeals judges from lo and fcivcd goahead Increase circuit judges from 000 to U would go Inlo effect in 1962 end would cost the Slate some 270000 annually sion Williamsport Pa re lion of engines for the firs model of the Umbaugh Gyro plane first deliveries to b made in May 1961 and subst mass deliveries to be co V by supplier with t production he engine is hp Child Hurt invasion by central govern ent soldiers in neighboring Kivu rovince last January Manono is a tin mining cenier 20000 population about 300 liles north of Elisabethville It as proclaimed the capital of hat was called Lualaba State Iter soldiers seized the own in a lightning drive from the Jan 9 It meant an extension of Gizen as control from his stronghold i Oriental Province installed as the rebel Remy Mwamba a cousin of ain Patrice Lumum a Lumumba was slain while in custody Gen Sean McKeown UN military commander ordered all lanes on a standby alert for a troop airlift lo Katanga here was speculation he might y in Indian Gurkha soldiers to ut teeth in UN requests that atanga refrain from any mili ary action A Mi Minn girl was inju collision yes on US Rl miles west of Cle State Trooper said the Swanson was a her fathers car struck in the rear by a vehicle Burleson said Raymond R Mills of Clear Spring bound cast on Rt 40 stopped to make a left turn At the same lime he Swanson aulo driven by Gerald Swanson and par wore attempting lo ass he truck High winds during crson reported seeing a this grocery store on lenix City Ala the roof and three walls away from the structure Store items and cement blocks were thrown all over the area egged on by the strong blast of air AP Ends To Fire David P w a Sleet fireman last Ave the 700 block was involved Rain aulo Antietam and South cant say that Marc red in was quoted as telling give u p without erday officers he was 40 to a rain snow and sleet o ar Russell says he was last day of the month prt but was merely en 60 inch u d the scene alarm 9 pm and the end was n senger said he saw the lights sight And prospects are n ch red bul proceeded bright for a mild Easte 1 was he is expected today b it was clear owa River ts Receding CEDAR RAPIDS Iowa The Hooding Cedar River strik ng a multimilliondollar blow at astern Iowa ended ils rise here afternoon Now a vigil was in tore for weary flood fighters to uard against a break through o odden levees this in cily of 92000 persons Mayor James Meaghan said iver reached a peak rf 1966 fee at pm dropped to 1964 an lour later and was to around that height for 12 hours Afler lhal mayor said Ihi iver should drop Milling the stopper out of a bath lub The flood protection con since disastrous flood hit 2001 feet against the weight of he river Occasional patching jobs wer necessary but levees were holding Everything is saturated sai W Stolba public improve Simultaneously U m b a u g h that his firm had sign d with Parsons Inc Traverse menls commissioner A brea now could bring trouble Some lowland areas of cil were inundated and about 48 ity Mich for the production persons left their homes the Re f 30000 Totor blades for the Imbaugh the largest single uch order in the history of First delivery is sched uled for May 1961 to dovetail with the overall program Par sons Inc is the worlds manufacturer of rotor blades The contract totals 110000000 in orders for the irst of 10000 planes and will provide an additional Cross Ends Week Week will culminate to Group Seen Ringleaders Press Secretary Describes Probe As Routine By MARVIN L ARROWSMITH PALM BEACH Fla AP A reported plot by pro Castro Cubans to kidnap President Kennedys daugh ter Caroline is being in by the US Sec ret Service and Florida area police The investigation it was learned Friday was started about a week ago It has resulted in tightened security precautions around the cule blonde but her normal movements reportedly have not been The While House characterized he investigation as strictly rou inc similar press secretary Salinger said to many ers the Secret Service conducts each year in protecting the dent and his family Salinger said the President and presumably Mrs mew nothing about the ipn until he learned of a news dealing with it Friday This Secret Service inquiry be an shortly before Caroline came o Palm Beach from Washington last Monday for on Easter holi day at the Atlantic shore home of rier grandparents former ambas sador to Britain and Mrs Joseph P Kennedy Caroline was accompanied from capital by her mother and the newest member of the Kennedy family John Jr 4 months The President arrived from Washing ils likely to be colder and Sunday D Paul Oswald government observer at Bridgeport reported Fridays highest temp was 47 the low 27 and at 9 pm it was Mr records show said Swansons in the day of Easter t the rear lefl wheel of Christian worlds greatest and was then slruck by n auto driven by J Jay Stecle i of Pa The girl was treated at the for minor lacerations he head and released Burle on charged Mills the d truck driver wilh failure to ive a proper turn signal as charged wilh following too Both cars were heavily In another aulo mishap in lear Spring about 25 minutes arlier Burleson charged Low 11 G Stafford 33 of Algonquin 1 wilh reckless driving The said Staffords car hit the ear of an aulo driven by Ed C Coffey of Pennsylvania Burleson said Coffeys car as stopped on Rt 40 at a traf c signal in the cenier of town the vehicle hil il bout pm Robert P Bailey 53 of Chest St was charged vith failure to yield the right of vay by City Police yesterday following a collision at the intersection of E Lee and Locusts Sis Police said Bailey drove into he path of a vehicle operated William P Henry a cab driver of the 300 block Robin vood Drive The accident hap at about pm period of rejoining Here in and Washington County thousands of residents will go lo sunrise services and regular church services Many have sched uled a full day of includ ing special music reenact ments and Communion Most of the churches have conducting regular serv es throughout this past week nd yesterday Good Friday as a legal holiday The forecast r Easier Sunday here is fair nd sunny with temperatures little lower than they have n Easter this year is being about two weeks arlier than in 1960 Local pastors look for over pw audiences at services to since he Easter ccle rations always draw more cople lo the churches than on n ordinary Sunday They will ome to hear the magnificent tory and the ords He is not here He is sen lhal last the highest temperature and Would Keep Jewell As DMV Commissioner ANNAPOLIS jave tentative approval Friday to a which would allow former toi Jhn Jewell to continue in office indefinitely as motor cle commissioner Sens John L Sanford D Worcester and Edward T Hall each expressed oppo Picket Balto Firms BALTIMORE AP About students carrying sign Chesapeake and Po lomac Telephone Co and the l timore Gas and Electric Co Fri av A spokesman for the Nations Association for the of Colored People said picket ina was in protest lo racial dis in hiring ioy Snatches Womans Purse E Antietam Goodyear provides he tricycle landing gear for the Umbaugh as an item and can provide delivery for any mass production schedule for the Umbaugh explained Umbaugh also announced thai the Umbaugh Aircraft Corp on 2 Column 1 silion lo They sized they had nothing against Jewell but were opposed to the principle of pulling head ol any State department under the merit On Inside Pages 3 Bridge i Crossword 4 Dear Abby 6 Drew Editorials 12 Ed 4 Fur Fin 9 Investors Guide f Radio Programs 3 Sports 1011 Womans News 379 inches Average is 325 There were 16 days of pre three inches of snow seven sleets and three killing frosts There were seven clear days 10 partly cloudy anil 14 cloudy There was one thunder storm Last months maximum com favorably with the 74 in arch but the minimum last March was two bove zero on three days And ere were 21A inches of snow hich covered the ground 13 ays Of course the big March snow as the one on Palm Sunday larch 29 1942 It totaled about vo feet Mr Oswald dug back into his lo find a high of 83 in March 1945 and rain ton Thursday An informed source said the Se cret Service was tipped in Wash ington last week that four Cubans us and were reportedly n the Palm Beach area hatching a plot lo kidnap Caroline This source who asked not to w named said neither Secret Service nor the area police have lad any luck in tracking down the Cubans Descriptive information on the men and cars hey are reported to be using has been sup plied to police by the Secret Serv ice House Set To Act On Tax Program For State Today Mary White who resides 25 King St told City Police ast night a young while boy her purse as she valking down E St the way to her home las night She said the icr purse and fled across th grounds Mrs Whit old officers the ha very money in it Sh could not give a complete do of the criminal She said he grabbed he purs and she struggled wilh him Sh fell to the sidewalk and he bo ran Quadruplets Born New all girls were born Friday to Margar Mason in a Wellington The babies weighed from 1 13 ounces to 5 pounds T Masons already have a girl 5 an all of 525 inches in 1936 ear of the big flood the Salinger was questioned at a news conference about a published report lhal a police investigation ivas under Way The Secret Service he re plied gets information from time to lime on President end his family which requires a routine investigation There is such an investigation under way But Salinger declined repeated ly to say whether the investigation deals wilh the reported plot lo kidnap Caroline All I want to say the press secretary added is that unusual is going on This is a rou tine investigation the like of which they Secret Service conduct a number every year I am trying to caution you not to write something sensational about a big investigation This is a routine case being bandied rou tinely Levy Awaited By GEORGE BOWEN ANNAPOLIS action 3 per cent levy n major lax program of Gov awes for 1961 was up lo the louse of Delegates Friday The Senate dispatched to he for probable action Sat increased taxes on sales to 57 million that local governments may use for school and operating senses Some may be used for aising teacher pay if the county wish The House wasted no time Fri day night In giving final approval o giving the local governments 125 million more for welfare This left only next years program for capital improvement and a uniform stale lax of six on a pack ot cigarettes as he remaining important money ills awaiting enactment The legislature driving for final adjournment Saturday although il legally may meet Monday the governor a he promptly boy 3 morrow on employers for bene fits for those out of work H also enacted changes in thi jobless lav that raise the weekly maximum ot and light en eligibility qualifications The sales tax which Will iring items costing 25 or also tax restaurant meals ver cleared the Senate 225 wo Democrats Sens George W Snyder of Washington Counly nnd N Phipps of Anne Arundel Republicans Charles M See jf Allegany Edward T Hall of divert and Harry T Phoebus of Somerset in opposing it The Senale also passed and sent o the House the administrations bond calling for in and acquisition pnd construction or State institutions and a setting the State real estate tax at 16 cents per valuation for he next levy year The property ax is fixed automatically by the amount of Stale debt that has to redeemed from previous bond issues Lions Kill IS LISBON Portugal killed 13 persons in one week In signed lo avoid a lax increase Province of Portuguese East tho news agency reports H said planter Ose Camllo Gonsal ves escaped from one lion by climbing into his while beast tackled his kitchen dinner In
