Morning Herald (Newspaper) - August 26, 1961, Hagerstown, Maryland MORNING VOL NO 172 HERALD Forecast Variable ind humid Saturday tnd Swv day with ind Matter td In afternoon ind eve High Saturday Mt Sill lund HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND SATURDAY AUGUST 26 1961 Mwt SI NOT F AM tM 76500 In Reserve Called Brazilian President Quits i The By A Vernoh Davit I I timed this might hive lit second major center by next Spring Julian Oliver local broker who ii heading the promotion of the big ven ture contractor will be to bid on construction work They are aim ing for a March opening date To be known as South Ha Shopping Center the commercial development will front on Maryland Ave nue what many of ui know as the new Downs Pike Wil son Boulevard After a stormy couple of weeks of public debate the Mayor and Council last May rezoned the ten acres of land from resi to shopping center use The will of colonial design built of red brick Oliver said We plan eighteen or twenty stores and shops in this Section One which will take up ten ceres of ground we have lined up within the city limits Another twenty acres next to located outside the city at the hope to develop later with still m o re business establish ments Including a big department store It hat already been announ ced that A A P will occupy one of the big In Sec tion Oliver said a may be signed next week with a large drug chain Other major leases are being he laid We plan to fion up triple A businesses for the big Oliver and we wilt lease the smaller shops to ether tome focal people who are in I would lay we have four applications for every store we will have available In Section One Key bus besides the food mar ket should be a variety store drug store and bank and Asso elates prepared the drawing printed below of Section Oliver says this represents IN feet of frontage on the site Parking for automobilet are planned The ratio is tup posed to foursquare feel of parking area for every one foot of floor In the Who art the developers o this South End shopping cen tor Oliver named no people He referred me to the corpor ity must go and claimed the ght to take control of the ac ess water and air the signing of a German eace treaty The Soviet Union responsible r routes to Berlin since World ar II insists it will sign a sep rate treaty with East Germany y the years end unless the Big hrce Western powers drop their and for reunification first and iin it in treaties with both Gcr manys Ulbricht told a Communist elec oti rally in East Berlins sports all that the East Germans are eady to act if the United States and France refuse to ne a treaty In that case he said the ne will be limited to clear Armed Truce East German Chief Makes New Threats Shots Fired BERLIN un The EastWest order duel settled into a kind of med truce Friday night but ast German Communist lead Waller Ulbricht came out with cw threats to take over the West rn sectors of Berlin East lief of state declared all West intervention in the divided tnc GDR ing out nests of American agents the American radio and branches of the Bonn government from West Berlin and the of transit traffic over East German Democratic Republic land water and in the air under conditions of con trol through state organs of Reformatory Inmate Flees Reformatory officials and law enforcement agencies yesterday hunted a Baltimore Negro who walked away from a work detail at the Maryland State Reforma tory State Police identified him as corge L Oliver 19 who was ported wearing regulation blue enim clothing He was missed Reformatory personnel al xmt 4 p m He said that in the meantime he will not interfere with West ern military communications to the city 110 miles east of the Iron Curtain His speech capped a day in which Communist guards fired warning shots to force back a group of about 30 West Berliners watching Red activity at bar opposite the French sec tor The US garrison which has posted tanks and infantrymen at the border ol the American sec tor was disclosed to have a bat tery of six howitzers in re serve at McNair Barracks This first artillery support for Sunday along with 1500 reinforcements the 18th Infantry Regiments Isl battle group 1 JS Views Outlined Rusk Confident Free World Will Meet Red Challenge WASHINGTON ary of State Dean Rusk voiced Friday that the United tales and its allies and the people of West Berlin meet the the freedom of the ity For the third time in just ver 13 years the Soviets have a major threat to the reedom of West Berlin Rusk in a brief foreword to a who is understood to be the au hor Lindley joined the State earlier this summer as a special assistant tc Rusk He s a member of the departments council The pamphlet compares the two parts of Germany and Gays 16 million inhabitants of the Eastern Tone are ruled Union through Hate Department booklet dealing Democratic Republic vith the history and the present risis of the beleaguered city The nations of the North At antic Treaty alliance are pledged o protect that freedom Rusk aid He added that the State Depart ment pamphlet published Friday outlines our patient and persist ent efforts to resolve the issues by peaceful means The booklet which con ains many photographs anc naps is a description of what las happened to Berlin since the end of World War recent days It is generally described as the Lindley Paper named after Ernest K Lindley the columnist the Sovie create the East German regime which calls itself the German It continues That regime is neither democratic nor a repute lie It was not chosen by the people it controls and has never seen freely endorsed by them The government of Berlin on the other hand is the freely elected government behind either the Iron or the Bamboo curtains it continued The booklet reviews stage by stage the history of occupation of Berlin including th 194849 Communist blockade of thi city It terms the airlift vwit which the Western powers brok the blockade an indelible chap ter in the history of the of freedom Auto Accidents Injure Six Rolls Blocks Rt 40 six people two Harry B Davis 38 ol N them hurt in St Alton are or me firm Corporation While the zoning change on the tile furor for some South Shopping Center hit run into nothing like the automobile accidents last ight Sheriffs officers said an on the Sharp sburg ike shortly after 10 pm sent ivc of the injured to the Davis bound east era nto a second car headed Driver of the other auto David M Keefer 36 of Pa The officer said it was that developed when the to determine bow Shopping Center identified the happened because announced In It wat Hilda Rust IS who falling rain which i until January 195 L injuries her sister the road No charges ground wai actually Russ 21 cuts arid for the after Thomas and Franklin Baltimore man and ion Ing ordinance wis 2 and 3 respectively boys narrowly esc amended tnd tested In sustained cuts and in an accident s officers said Hilda west of Hat ping Center Is oh schedule lives at night which snarled ti will be opened next was driving south on about two hours lust four after the flnt lection of Long Meadow open its collective to the buying public in Pike when her car almost headlong Into an automobile driven by Thurman E Jamison 40 of 211 W iain St Norman Bur charged John H Hawkins with operating al a speec great for existing cond Hawkins lost control NEW SHOPPING CENTER Below is a drawing of South Hagerstown Shopping accident happened about ivc miles north of Sharpsburg harges were withheld pending investigation Both truck he driving and the truck i over Burleson said the which is described in the heavily damaged and empty The body o companying Local be towed Completely column The center is another accident Rt 40 for at leas ned tor i tract earlier a and wrecked the t James Miller 30 machine belonged Downs ville Pike just beyond Wilson Boulevard and across from the rear of South at the hospital fo lacerations and bruises sus in an accident on Rt Fairview firm Burleson saW long id traffic was caused b narrowness of the road an High School Sheriff Donald It took to get the v twenty stores nd shops said Miller was a and out of the roa pUnned in an automobile other cars tw abou wa IW Orders rench Back To Bizerte UNITED NATIONS NY lAP Without a single dissenting the UN General Assembly Friday night that ranee pull her troops back into er base at Bizerte and negotiate i give the base up to Tunisia The assembly adopted a resolu on to that effect by a vote o 360 with 30 abstentions Three were absent But France had served notice tat she would ignore any deci on the assembly reached anc he boycotted the specia that led up to the vote Her North Atlantic Treaty allies plit on the roll call Denmark eel and Norway and for the proposal The tales and others in the alliance Others voting in the affirmative the European neutrals the Soviet bloc six Latin countries and all Africa nd Asia except Japan which ab The United Stales having failed i head oft the special session as ai majority ts warning that adopting such a proposal might make harder to get The United States abstained rom voting on the resolution to reserve the objective position o n honest broker seeking to ge French and Tunisians into alks But that set it apart from the roup and notably from Tunisia its best friend in Africa nd brought Communist am charges that it wa colonialism The resolution was sponsored iy Yugoslavia and 31 African and islan countries Adopted just as was introduced Monday it said he assembly 1 Reaffirms the Security Councils July 22 resolution called on France and Tunisia to withdraw to July 19 positions and urges he government of France to im that decision fully 2 Recognizes the sovereign ight of Tunisia to call for the withdrawal of all French armed present on its territory without its consent 3 Calls upon France and Tunisia to enter into immediate negotiations to devise measures or the withdrawal of all French from French evacuation of the base Foes Crush ProSoviet Chieftain Resigns After Only Seven Months hi Office HIO DE JANEIRO API Only seven months in of ice President Janio Quad resigned Friday with a that he had been crushed by opponents at lome and abroad I would no longer share the confidence and peace necessary to carry on my duties he said He quit amid violent criticism rf his policy of neutral sm in foreign policy which accepted aid from the United Stales but left him friendly with Prime Minister Fidel Cas tros Cuba and drawing closer to association with the Soviet Union Leftist Vice President Joao who has been visiting Red China was in the Far East when Quadras quit The govern Radio Nacional to take over the government Ranieri Mazzilli president of the Chamber of Deputies as the top office temporarily He was the ranking member of the government in the capital at Brasilia when announced lo the National Congress he was forced to end a fight to lead Brazil to economic and political health Quadras cabinet quickly re signed and Mazzilli ordered heads Miami policeman invoked the government departments to Fifth Amendment Friday when lake over Mazzilli said he was Senate investigators sought to awaiting my successor and in the meantime would maintain a wire operations in Florida democratic regime Political informants in Brasilia said apparently resigned of his own free will after hauled before Congress for inves of charges that he was attempting lo set up as a The informants denied reports that was forced out by army officers Woman Killed On Way From Charles Town Marylands 1961 highway death oil has increased to 268 a total 1 below the number killed on foad accidents in the state at the same time a year ago An eastbound car went out of control on US 40 in Cecil County early Friday and slammed into a bridge abutment killing Mrs Virginia H Davidson 40 of Bear Del State Police said Mrs Davidson was the driver of the tar which was bound from the Charles Town W Va rate track at the time A passenger in the car Sidney M Mellow 25 a jockey from Hunt ington N Y was critically in jured A Cecil County boy in a fall from a milk turck RESIGNS President Janio of Brazil resigned yesterday after only seven months in office He said he had been crushed by opponents at home and abroad AP Wirephoto Former Cop Mum In Quiz On Race Bets WASHINGTON former link him with clandestine race The witness Elum Billl Caudell 41 was called before the Senate Investigations subcommit tee which Thursday heard him ing to have his finance minister described as a top figure in the flashing of Florida racetrack in formation to bookmakers in vio lation of a slate law I refuse to answer on the grounds it tend to incrim Caudell responded to questions about gambling activi ties When Caudell failed to produce subpoenaed books records and fi data Chairman John L McClellan DArk told him You may be in contempt The attorney with whom he held frequent whispered conferences told the subcommittee that Caudell is due to go on triai in Miami Sept 12 moved up to a record on a charge of maintaining a Living Costs At New Peak WASHINGTON AP Spurred by stronger demand due to eco rT i UUB we various are tie nomic recovery July living costs to go on trial in Miami Sept 12 publican Sens J Glenn Beall anc On Inside Pages Amusements Bridge Crossword Dear Abby Drew Pearson Editorials Columnists Radio Programs Sports Tri State News another increase likely in her But he saw no immediate danger of a strong inflationary drawn nationwide farm support Friday in an Elkton hospital trend in the near future despite of injuries bs suffered last week the rise July 12 12 5 W 11 2 Womens News 6 7 theres scant chance the rising rend will be reversed soon The Labor Department said its consumer price index rose o 1281 an increase of 05 points per cent from Junes 1276 and the biggest rise n nine months There has been no larger monthly increase since March 1958 In the index 100 rep resents the average prices for 194749 This pushed living costs 12 per cent above the level for July 1960 Robert J Myers deputy com missioner of labor statistics told newsmen about hall of the in crease could be attributed to sea sonal influences of rest probably could be traced to rising demand as the nations economy continued to advance from its re cession lows of last winter Food prices gave the strongest boost to the index with an in crease of 09 per cent Fruit vegetables eggs pork products and milk were up by the largest margins Other categories showing gains were gasoline 12 per and clothing 03 per cent The housing index was steady Medical costs rose largely because of higher insurance rates although drugs and prescriptions were slightly lower Myers said August prices prob ably would hold about steady with ballots would be allowed AH but Republican Meet Slated Here Sept 18 BALTIMORE AP Republicans Friday named an director for their state central committee headquarter staff and scheduled a series o congressional district conference for next month D Eldred RinShart chairman of the GOP central committee said N Southworth of Rock ville had been named executive director and that the ters staff would be augmented t implement his work The first of the scheduled con will be held in Sept 14 for the citys 3rd 4th and 7th congressional districts Other conferences will be heli at Hagerstown Sept 18 for thi 6th District Denion Sept 21 Is District Towson Sept 22 District and Annapolis Sept 26 5th District The meetings are designed fc develop plans and programs to the 1962 campaign Among those slated to attem the various conferences are Re Most Will Report On October 1 Unit Among Personnel Ordered To Duty WASHINGTON AP Defense Department Friday ordered 76500 Army Navy and Air Force to active duty most of them on Oct 1 The callup was announced by Secretary of Defense S McNamara at a special news con ference H applies to 46500 Army 6400 Navy and 23600 Air Force per McNamara said that all of the units with the exception of seven Navy Units and certain Army units to be sent to Fort Polk La for opening of the training center there will be ordered to report on Oct I The seven Navy units will report soon after October i McNamara said in reply to questions that this carried out the mobilization program requested by President Kennedy and author by Congress He said that the 113 Army units which had been alerted for ac tive duty now are all being called except for two or three small units of about 90 men which have been taken off the alert list There are no Marine reservists John Marshall Butler Rep gambling destroying Charles Mathias he only telephone equipment congressman from the state Marylands national committee man Edward T Miller committeewoman Mrs Robert 0 Bonnell and Republican member of the state legislature Wheat Ballots County Backs Supports Six challenged ballots which split the countys wheat farmers down the middle in Thursdays wheat marketing quota referen dum were allowed to stand yester day putting the countys growers on record 2016 in favor of a minimum national av price support on next years crops A spokesman for the office of the Washington County tural Stabilization and Conserva tion Committee reported yester day that committee members fol lowing a meeting decided the one of the challenged ballots were in favor of the program which has The wheat marketing quota plan of is part of an over all U S government farm plan County Men Get Posts In Association Raymond T Kim Me 940 Lin wood Road Hagerstown was nam ed secretary of the Valley Volunteer Asso during the associations 1961 convention at Winchester Virginia George S Ridgely of was selected as treasurer The convention will end today with a parade and outdoor dem of methods and equipment The firemen se Pa for convention in 1962 Pennant Parade The Army Postal Unit Type F US Army Re serve is among the groups which hive been ordered fay the defense Dept to report for active duty by October 1 Capt Allen Poffenberger commander of the unit said he would notify the members of his group as soon as pot sible The reservists will pro ceed to bring themselves up to the status of an active unit according to a ranged plan the contents of which are classified infor mation he said However the meets weekly at the Willard St Reserve a small group Capt Poffen berger said it was a breach of security regulations to re veal the number of men in his command He said that after he was notified of a possible alert last August 16 he was also granted permission to eon duct extra meetings of hit group in order to carry out mobilisation plans He said these meetings have been held and will continue to held with another scheduled far Sunday Another of the groups or dered to active duty wat the Ordinance tion Co of was among three West Vir ginia units alerted American League Boston M Los Angetes 6 New York 3 Kansas City 0 Detroit 6 Washington 0 Chicago 3 Cleveland 2 Blatimore S Minnesota 2 National League Pittsburgh 1 Chicago 0 Lot Angeles 7 Cincinnati 1 St Louis 7 Stn Francisco 3 Philadelphia Milwaukee 4 being called McNamara said be cause the Marine Corps is getting an adequate number of volunteers o build up its strength to 190 000 from a present strength of about 178000 The orders to the units report for duty on Oct 1 with the above mentioned exceptions were going out from the Pentagon Friday Officials said the individuals in he units might not receive their personal orders for two or three hut would be notified by heir units of the callup McNamara was asked mil when callups might come He replied that we believe the action today meets the program set up by the President and Con gress In reply o other questions Mc Namara said the orders being sent out now carry no termination dales He added that the Department hopes to release them as soon as possible as new enlist ments and draftees add to mm tary strength But he said there is no way to predict the length of the crisis and thus to predict the length of duty for the reservists called to