North Adams Transcript (Newspaper) - December 28, 1962, North Adams, Massachusetts CHRISTMAS COTILLION Af ilia punch bowl during last night's Christmas cotillion al the Williamstown Lodge in town are left to right Michelle Marino Ann Kochanski and iel Donovan Story on Page Four Kennedy to Review Cuba Brigade 2506 Receive Its Banner PALM BEACH Fla fAP Cuban lighters who survived Bay of Pigs invasion will give President their combat greatest treasure we he reviews their brigade Saturday in Miami's ange Bowl Kennedy will fly lo the football stadium in to a invitation from Cuban freedom leaders who promised Thursday we shall return to liberate island The Cubans plan lo survivors of their Brigade uniformed in khaki trousers and shirts for a military display They exuberantly invited all residents of Miami and the people of the United States to this mony The President will make a brief The ceremony will be televised live by ADC NBC will delay its telecast for presentation at noon A CBS spokesman said no deci- sion had been reached on that work's coverage plans After meeting for an hour and 10 minutes with Kennedy at his vacation headquarters here day five Cuban leaders held a dramatic press conference in which they the ident told them he hoped some day to visit a free Cuba They said Kennedy praised the heroic efforts the invaders mails in an attempt to free their land and in defense of the of the world Wearing somber black suits white shirls and black ties the five Cubans said they feel they owe a debt to those who gave their lives in the in- vasion of April which was crushed by Fidel Castro's ment forces al the Bay of Pigs We will pay our debt by Ing our said Manuel Ar- time the political leader of the invasion brigade Oliva second in com- mand of the invasion unit de- scribed the historic flag the ade wants Kennedy to have He said it had gone with the men through their ing and flown over com- mand post for three days in the battle of the Bay of Pigs We will be giving President Kennedy the greatest treasure thai we possess at the present Oliva declared Prof Cordon Sworn As Budget Director BEACH Fla President Kennedy started off review of welfare and programs today by swearing in his new budget di- rector Kermit Gordon Prof Gordon Williams Col- lege economist hatl been uled to return o head the school's Center for Development Eco- nomics before being chosen get director The brief ceremony on the open patio of Kennedy's borrowed villa was witnessed by presidential advisers ami tlie De- of Health Education and Welfare officials Kennedy has called here to go over items for congressional action who has been one of three members of Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisers was given the oath by Mayor Claude Reese of Palm Beach Gordon replaces David E Bell HS director of the Budget Bureau Bell having moved into top position in the Agency for Inter- national Development Gordon will be a key official in the talks ns Kennedy takes a look today at the Welfare ment of the most controversial Hems tagged for congressional action in India Pakistan Break Off Their Kashmir Talks RAWALPINDI Pakistan AP and Pakistan broke off on Kashmir today after one showed hoth countries standing firm on their claims to the Himalayan stale The negotiators agreed to meet again in New Delhi on Tan but observers in the Indian tal said prospects were slim for a settlement of the dispute The interruption of the ial talks came suddenly Von Broun Visiting Parents in Germany Germany AP U.S rocket expert Werhner Von Braun has arrived here to join his parents for a family over the New Year's holiday His rather Baron Magnus Von Brann lives in this upper ian town Some of Sting Is Taken Out Of Expense Tab Tax Rules WASHINGTON AP Some of the sting is gone from the new revenue rules on expense accounts but taxpayers miLst until February for final word on what they can deduct for business travel entertainment and giving Internal Revenue Commissioner Mortimer M Caplin announced Thursday night revised standards for keeping records in the drive to raise an additional million or more by putting a lax cramp on expense account living The changes softened in several places the regulations Caplin proposed last month Those regulations set off screams from coast to coast Businessmen ed they'd never be able to stay even with the paper work and argued a cutback in spending on travel dining wining and going would hurt the economy For one thing the rules from to the amount that can be spent in one such as playing host at dinner for prospective re- quiring a receipt The modified regulations apply only to keeping expense records to back up claims for business and entertainment tions The government still must clarify such questions as to what constitutes a business dinner for clients whether the host can deduct his wife's share of tab if she goes along It also must define lavish personal outlays down loo fancy a liquor hill for instance or hiring a plane instead of going by train Caplin said all this will be done in February described the new rules as reasonable and type observed for years by prudent men and companies he said they will go far to eliminate expense account abuses Only about 10 per cent of payers claim these Caplin said The crackdown he added merely puts one element of our society on a parity with the other 90 per cent Caplin said the government would allow a month for men to familiarize with the revised regulations which lake effect Jan 1 Revenue agents are being Instructed to ob- serve reasonable tolerances in applying them lo expenses in- cuned in January Secretary of Welfare Anthony J Celebrezze arrived Thursday to prepare for the sessions Accompanying Celebrezze were Assistant Secretary Wilbur J Cohen and Francis Keppel the commissioner of education Although all department grams were slated for review Keppel's presence indicated a major emphasis on education that failed to catch fire at the last session of Congress New proposals which he is expected to endorse include expanded aid to the tally retarded and promotion of vocational education Kennedy also is expected to re- his advocacy of more federal aid for schools and colleges and expanded student loan and adult education programs The President turns his attention to these matters following two days of meetings on his 1903 tax cut plan and a lengthy session with Pentagon leaders on military spending Underlying all the talks was the need to pin down final figures for tiie federal budget which goes to Congress next month This bulky document will call lor outlays of new the 12 months starting July I People In The News TAIPEI Formosa riot scenes marked the day from of Bob Hope and his touring troupe of wood slars for a performance for U.S servicemen Crowds of Americans and nese broke through a police don nt the airport and caught the stars in a crush Vice Adm Charles L Melson commander of the U.S Formosa Defense Command who had gone to welcome the stars was unable to get wilhin distance of them Lord Brabazon of a pioneer aviator suggests that they make airliners capable of ing 250 people but slow down the maximum speed to 250 miles per hour This is more than 300 below the cruising speed of modern jet airliners suggestion appeared in an article in the 1962 Lloyd's List Annual Review Indian Ambassador B K Nehru and Secretary of State Dean Rusk were closeted for more than an hour in Washington concerning U.S military aid to the Indian armed forces Early next month Nehru said he will return to India for a meeting with Prime Minister Nehru Ma cousin Ally Gen Robert F Kennedy and liis brother Sen Edward M Kennedy enjoying a skiing holiday at Aspen Colo are with four European pions on the ski slopes Tlie Euro- peans are in Aspen for the world professional ski races Jan 6 and 7 No Teeth No Toot DETROIT abandoned saxophone found in Detroit takes note of a musician who couldn't toot because of his teeth John Blont 42 found the colored sax in the driveway of his home Thursday night Inside the brown leather case was this I'm disgusted Since i have false teeth 1 can't flay very good So whoever tax can have her Signed by the also said P.S It's not stolen When I bought It I had my own teeth Police are holding the MX in case tht owner new teeth florth Adams North Adams Williamstown Massachusetts NO FRIDAY DECEMBER PAGES 8 CENTS Violent Fighting Reported Between Forces Troops in Elisabethville Secretary of Labor Talk of Possible Thrust Against Crippling Castro Surges Through Cuban Exile Colony Waterfront Strike Dy lite Associated Press Labor Secretary W Willard Wirtz has crippling dock strike with an urgent plea to both longshoremen and ship owners to resume negotiations in the name of the national interest The International men's Association's chief tor however said only a new proposal by the ship owners can break the deadlock And he ex- pressed doubt about an early end to the six-day strike along the East and Gulf Coasts These came us the strike saw its first flareup of violence 11 shooting of a worker who crossed ILA picket lines in Tex The no- union worker was wounded in a foot The current strike actually started last October went on for four days and was halted by a law injunction It was resumed at the expiration of an cooling off period Wirtz who has been out of the negotiations since the ILA and the ship owners held their last joint bargaining session before the strike started Sunday scheduled separate meetings with each side The labor secretary set a ing for 4 p.m today with of the New York ping Association which represents 135 domestic and foreign lines He set a meeting for 11 day with the ILA Wirtz sent telegrams Thursday to both sides It is im- to the national interest that negotiations be resumed In Galveston Tex where the Texas Forwarding Co has been using dockworkers not belonging to the ILA to unload banana boats Robert L James 37 was shot in the left fool Thursday night while he and another man were working by a conveyor belt unloading a Swedish banana boat It was James first day on lie job He said he had been out of work since last March James indicated he would not return to the docks Ben Klein owner of the Texas Forwarding Co had earlier the ILA was noi going to put him out of business and that he ed to keep working the banana boats Another boat was due day Cubon Crewmen Jump Ship in Casablanca CASABLANCA AP Seven crew members of the Cuban freighter Pinar del Rio have asked political asylum in co authorities said today The ship arrived Monday with miscellaneous cargo and intended to remain 24 hours Seven of the crew members refused to sail The Finar del Rio is registered in Havana and owned by the Cuban Maritime nient Department MIAMI Fla CAP Talk of another possible gainst Fidel Castro surged through tlie Cuban exile colony today even as freed prisoners of the last at- tempt were reunited with newly arrived relatives The relatives numbering more than 900 came aboard African Pilot the vessel that took food and medicine ransom plies to Castro for release of 113 captives taken in the April 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion We Shall Return We shall proclaimed Manuel Artime civilian leader of the attack expedition who along with other invasion chiefs met wilh President Kennedy in Palm Beach Thursday Papa as call the man in the White House announced that he will at- tend a ceremony in the Orange Bowl Saturday the gade Exiles looking toward ture action ed this as a sign The Cuban Revolutionary cil which dispatched the brigade to the Bay of Pigs An irrevocable resolution unites all of hem returned prisoners lo return to Cuba with arms in hand to liberate the country from degrading and brutal vassalage to Soviet sia Several hundred of the women 217 men and 242 ren who arrived on the African Pilot quartered in a building provided by the Cuban Refugee Center The center operated by the U.S De- of Health Education and Welfare also provided meals for returnees until they got tled Others went to homes of friends or relatives The Cuban Families tee which through New York at- torney James B Donovan and with U.S government help sored the return of the prisoners reported another boatload of re- latives will come The next boat that lakes plies of medicines and foodstuffs to Havana will return wilh more said a committee Plenty of Money But Little To Buy in Cuba These Days MIAMI Fin is life like under Fidel these Money is abundant but tial foodstuffs and clothing are in short supply Government ance and fear is the lot of those who oppose the regime but ical violence is rare And non- conformity can cost a man his Job These were the views expressed by many of the more than 900 relatives of Cuban prisoners who arrived here Thursday aboard freighter African Pilot There is money but food Is hard to come said Mrs Norge Portuondo a teacher of Spanish in a Santiago Teacher's College You need government authorization lo buy good clothes or luxury items and it's easier to do wilhout than stand in the Jong Mrs 35 whose band got permission lo leave Cuba one month after their riage said that after he was cap- tured in the invasion she tried to resign from her job They wouldn't accept my ignation because there is a age of she said Re- strictions became worse and worse but honestly speaking nothing bad happened lo me Aida Rodriguez Valladares who arrived with her husband and two children said One is under a severe nervous strain because of the vigilance It's worse than the food ages The food problem she said was a question of simply eating without the extras we used to enjoy Thalidomide Heroine to Head New FDA Unit WASHINGTON fAP Dr Frances U Kelsey hailed as n tional heroine for keeping mide off the American market today was put At the head of a new U.S office which will pass on requests to test new drugs on Part of FDA Reorganization Her appointment as director of the drug brand was part of a reorganization at the Food and Drug new drug division which was approved today by Secretary of Welfare Anthony J Celebrezze In a statement Celebrezze said the retooling of the drug division into five branches will permit the FDA to cope with its increased responsibilities in the new drug area As a backlash of the outcry over thalidomide a sedative blamed for deformities of sands of infants born in Europe last October enacted law giving the FDA stronger authority over production and sales of prescription drugs To carry out the new law and to make administration the FDA proposed rash of er regulations which after being discussed and criticized are now being redrafted An FDA spokesman said that Die regulations dealing with the testing of drugs on humans will be Issued fairly soon Dr Kelsey's drug branch according to the FDA announcement is being to evaluate reports of proposed clinical tests of new drugs which manufacturers and others will submit in compliance with the investigational drug Frankly I don't know what it new job will consist of un- til the regulations come out Dr Kelsey told a newsman But broadly her duties or which her pay will go up lo 485 R year will be to check on reports of firms proposing to test new drugs on humans Her ent salary is New Powers She will be operating under new powers which give the FDA among other things Require substantial evidence that a drug is effective as well as safe before it may be proved for marketing Bar the marketing of a new drug until it has received the approval of the FDA also received additional time to pass on the safely and of the drugs Require that new drugs be ed on animals before they are given to in clinical ing An girl who said she wouldn't give her name be- cause her parents are still in vana told of being expelled from high school two years ago for my attitude against the ment I haven't worked or done anything since I lived with my parents Mrs Rodriguez said slw kept her children out of school the past two terms to keep them Iron being brainwashed Leal Cruz who arrived with his wife and child did many the great majority of the Cuban population is against He was asked why there had been no uprising or trouble during the recent Cuban crisis The police watch us his wife put in We couldn't move during the crisis Night Spots Seek To Make New Year Celebrations Safer NEW YORK number of establishments catering to New Year's Eve celebrants are sizing programs to keep their patrons off the highways Selling the pace are big clubs and hotels in Los Angeles A paper cafe columnist says police warning on drunken driving lice roadblocks and a crackdown on traffic violations have made it harder to lure people out of the big suburban areas for an evening of celebrating in the city Several Los Angeles hotels are offering a free room with their package deals for the evening at prices up to One hotel's plan includes a party at the Coconut a night's lodging and a bus ride the next morning to the Rose Parade in Pasadena A hotel in Beverly Hills Calif has changed its package deal to exclude drinks making the price cheaper and eliminating the gation of lo drink up their worth before ing home Howard Johnson's motor lodge chain in Columbus Ohio has a deal with overnight for two dancing swimming buffet supper and breakfast on New year's Day Other clubs in the city have cover charges from to Millions of people will not brate the new year in clubs and hotels Churches throughout the nation will open their doors lor services where prayers will be offered for world peace Many families will spend New Year's Eve their hearthside Others will celebrate wilh friends In private homes At Colorado Springs Colo the AdAmAn club will make its an- climb lo the top of Pike's Peak to shoot fireworks it mid- right December 31 This custom was started three decades ago One of the world's most famous celebrations will be in New York City's Times Square where sands jam streets and sidewalks In yell cheer and have their toes ribs bruised 1 official There was no immediate con- of this Kennedy told the Cuban tion in Palm Beach that he day to visit a free Cuba Believe Obstacle Feeling persisted among exiles that freeing of the prisoners re- moved one of the obstacles for action The revolutionary council ed by Dr Jose Miro whose son returned with the oner group Tin's legion of patriots must be the vanguard of a great Pan American crusade against com- munist forces that make Cuba bloody anil project shadows of slavery over the entire phere Tlie statement The presence in exile of Brigade will be a stimulus to continue the fight Tlie council urged all exiles of military age to enlist in the U.S armed forces Some already have done so Donovan Says He Not R F Kennedy Ran Prisoner Swap WASHINGTON Attorney James B Donovan says that he alone and not Ally Gen Robert F Kennedy was responsible for the operation that brought Cuban invasion prisoners to the United Slates In a telephone interview day with the Washington Star Donovan implied that he could have finished the job himself out help from Kennedy at all if it had not been for the Cuban sile crisis in October Donovan a New York lawyer and unsuccessful Democratic for the Senate in the Nov 6 election in New York is counsel for the Cuban Families tee which negotiated the prisoner exchange for million worth of drugs food and equipment Contacted at a cottage at Lake where he is resting after long negotiations with Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro ovan told the Star that he has enormous respect for the ney general but it is absolutely and unqualifiedly so that the icy and negotiations were ed to me Author Maugham Denies Daughter Is Legally His NICE France AP Somerset Maugham has gone into a French court in an effort to deny his daughter any of his for- tune when he to get back million he says he has given her since slie was bom -17 years ago The British author 88 claimed in a suit filed in Nice that beth Mary the wife of Lord John not gally is daughter because she was conceived while her mother was married to another man Both Sides fer Casualties Say Reports BRUSSELS Belgium Katanga were reported fighting forces hi ville with casualties on both sides Diplomatic reports ing Europe from tlie African ble spot said were being made fnr a cease-fire The Belgian radio quoting sources described Ing as very violent II said representative Eliud was trying to President Moise Tshombe of Katanga to tiring halt to the fighting Shooting was said to have begun Thursday on he outskirts of the Ka- tanga capital and continued all night In London British ment said the U.S and British consuls in Elisabethville sought also to arrange a cease-fire was no direct tion from Elisabethville Tele- graph and telephone tions between there and Brussels were interrupted Reports from Northern sia quoted Tshombe as saying the troops were shelling the Eu- ropean quarter of Elisabethville and endangering civilian lives The reports said Tshombe claims shells had fallen on a pital wounding a nurse Tshombe said forces opened fire out warning in the European tion of and that Eu- were caught in the thick of a battle according to the re- Katanga lias seceded from Congo central government based in and the United Nations has been pressing be to bring his ince under Leopoldville's control The larger part of the No- Congo force is reported to he in Katanga It was the second shooting re- ported this week between and in he area Heavy shooting continued for several hours on Christmas uay although the command claimed its forces did rot fire a shot The shot down n helicopter killed an Indian lieutenant and beat up other members of the helicopter crew Tension has mounted in since general U Thant announced he was stepping up pressure to end central Congo government and the United States sent a military mission to the Congo last week Wrinkled Old Echo I May Be Seen Tonight CAMBRIDGE Mass Wrinkled and battered Echo I the huge balloon satellite launched in August ISBO will be visible over the northeast in the evening twi- light The Smithsonian announced yesterday the satellite will be visible each evening for the next several days The gas inside Echo I tins caped but the satellite retains a roughly round in the near void of space scientists said Ones round with a diameter the satellite has been punctured many times by meteorites It now orbits every 116 minutes with a high point of milej and a low of 700 It appears as a moderately bright star moving in a west to east direction Stays Decision Permitting Railway Work Rule Changes WASHINGTON AP Douglas of the Supreme Couri day a stay of a lower court decision that would have changed railroad work rules The U.S Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago on Nov 28 decided the nation's railroads had right to reorganize employe practices in an effort to eliminate unnecessary work Counsel for five railroad unions a stay Trie Circuit Court had directed its decision should go into effect Jan 2 Douglas specified that his stay would extend to Jan 9 to give union counsel time lo file for- mal appeal Tlie appeal will ask the full Supreme Court to review overturn the Circuit Court Union counsel in asking las for a stay said the case in- important questions of in- of the Railway Labor Acl in- cluded the right of railroads to insist on uncontrolled discretion in areas of the relations long subject to collective bargaining Counsel also complained that the Circuit Court hml based its opinion on disputed facts that did not in the railroad's com- plaint Tlie proposed work rules changes could eliminate the jobs of locomotive firemen within a year eventually wipe out an mated to jobs in industry The Weather Some sunshine tills Partly cloudy and cold tonight near 10 above Considerable ami light snow tomorrow High M for Partly cloudy amt cold
