Oshkosh Daily Northwestern (Newspaper) - September 19, 1963, Oshkosh, Wisconsin COOLER Considerable cloudiness showers and cooler tonight Low tonight 50s High 60s Details on Page 33 Oshkosh Daily Northwestern Associated Press and United Press International Ninety-Sixth Year Oshkosh Wis Thursday Evening September 19 1963 36 Pages Price 10 Cents Kennedy Asks Aid in Tax Cut Speak up in Support of Program President Urges Nation's People WASHINGTON AP people like the President Kennedy prospective benefits nA an I rua Expect 20 j In Ashland For Kennedy's Visit i ASHLAND planning for President Kennedy's i brief visit to northern Wisconsin next Tuesday expect about persons to jam the city of land doubling its population j Planning is in the hands of a development group that includes representatives of Ashland Bayfield Douglas Iron and Price The President will arrive at the county airport where he is expected to make a prepared speech ably on a conservation subject Martin Hanson of Mellen By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS eral chairman of the committee or deferred declared A crash in St tnat after the speech It needs your help urged the people to speak up in support of his tax re- duction program He said its benefits would range j from new washing machines for families to new strength I around the world for American dollar and dom But that is in danger of being weakened he singled out as an example The head ot such a household he said could look to the tax cut for Continued on Page 21 Col S Crash Kills Two People Toll Hits 605 FAA Again Upholds Winnebago's Airport your voice Thus through a national radio and television speech the dent sought to light a grassroots fire under Congress on behalf of the tax reduction which he called the most im- portant domestic economic sure in 15 years The first major hurdle will come next Wednesday when the House is expected to vote on the tax program But Kennedy was also looking toward the Senate where the faces a stormy time Kennedy directed his appeal all along the economic front from businessmen to factory workers from families watching their own shaky budgets to citizens worried i over the government's unbalanced j budget He asked for quick passage of the without a proposed Re- publican amendment tying tax cuts to curbs on spending Almost as soon as Kennedy fin ished his address William E Miller Republican national man fired off telegrams to the networks asking equal time to re- ply to the President Retorting to GOP charges of fiscal recklessness Kennedy No wasteful inefficient or un- necessary government activity will be tolerated on the grounds that it helps employment We are pledged to a course of true fiscal responsibility leading to a budget Much of his appeal was directed County ha's taken the lives of two Minnesota residents raising the 1963 Wisconsin highway toll to 605 or 45 fewer than on this date a year ago Frank Snider 50 and Mrs Mary Lindlow about 50 both of St Paul Minn were killed night when a car driven by Snider swerved off Highway 35 about six miles north of son in St Croix County After leaving the roadway on the left side the auto plunged over a embankment plowed 400 feet through a field and crashed into a tree the President will make a copter tour of the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior Hanson is the brother of J Louis Hanson the Wisconsin Democratic party chairman The presidential party will ar- rive in Duluth Minn by plane Tuesday afternoon and they will board helicopters for the sin stop and a tour of the 22 islands Sen Gaylord Nelson D- Wis says he will offer a tional park On the helicopter with the Continued on Page 32 Coi 6 Macmillan Urged To Raise Salaries Of Civil Servants Three Killed In Air Crash Illinois Men Die Near Hillsboro In Reported Collision of Planes HILLSBORO Wis UPI Three men from Streator El believed headed for Canada on a fishing trip were killed today in what was thought to be the mid-air collision of two planes some four miles south of here Kline Proud owner and tor of the Streator 111 airport said the serial number of the craft found with the bodies Stanek said weather conditions were fairly good at the time of the crash and he said an sion occurred in the clouds ly after 7 Another farmer in the area Virgil Donner asid he heard two distinct explosions Believe Two Planes Stanek said he was convinced matched that of a single engine were Planes involved Beech Bonanza which left tor today Proud said the plane en route to Canada carried Eugene Million about 55 operator of a Streator interior decorating firm I heard the explosion in the clouds Then there was a sudden roar and the he said The plane came down about 120 yards from his farm home A farm wife in the area said his son Eugene Jr about 28 she heard the explosion in the and an employe Elbert Dietman j clouds and saw a body plummet LONDON Minister about 60 a retired Navy chief Macmillan was urged today to raise the salaries of upper lon civil servants by 15 to 18 per cent to keep the best brains in government A committee headed by Lord Franks former ambassador to the United States said the in- creases were necessary to put governmental salaries roughly on a par with industry petty officer and former Streator mayor Bodies Next to Wreckage The bodies of the men were found next to the wreckage of a anza on the Ed Stanek farm The second plane has not been located and search parties are being hampered by a heavy fog and steady rain which began just after the accident to earth The body was later identified as one from the craft Fishing tackle and an outboard motor were found at the crash scene Wreckage was scattered over a wide area and the lage and wings were found in different places Vernon County sheriff's deputies said the plane had left Streator at 4.16 CDT and was headed for International Falls Minn Texas Flood Damage More Tkan Million PORT ARTHUR Tex Red Cross shelters and more than volunteers labored j other homes Floodwaters surged of them In the Port Acres area through the night sandbagging a levee against rising floodwaters triggered by dying Hurricane Cindy Damage to Jefferson County where the cities of Port Arthur and Beaumont are located was estimated at more than lion Eight mavors asked the ment to declare the county a dis- aster area so it will he eligible for federal financial assistance Rescue still were re- moving persons from their homes today The Pine Street area in southeast Beaumont was one of the last areas to be cleared The rapidly rising Neches er posed a threat to the east side of Beaumont Overflowing bayous endangered sections of Port Acres a southwest suburb of Port Arthur Volunteers passed sandbags hand-to-hand like a fire brigade to shore up a levee where 800 homes were threatened More than sandbags were placed on the levee We are going to keep fighting this until we lick said one worker Water was creeping up to in six inches from the top of the levee It sloshed over the top of State Highway 365 which formed a natural barrier There is a very real Civil Defense Director Tolbert Crouter said AB estimated 5.000 persons fled Rebuked On Stand Outagamie County's arbitrary deadline for a joint meeting with Winnebago County over common airport problems was reached day and it apparently will pass unheeded by Winnebago County whose aviation committee met Thursday night without even dis- cussing the topic The deadline was set in a letter to Sup Joseph F Drexler Sixth Ward Oshkosh County Board chairman and aviation committee secretary but Drexler did not bring it up at the committee meeting The closest reference to the Outagamie Winnebago dispute came when committee chairman Sup Alvin A Staffeld Third Ward Neenah proposed that the recently revised statement of sition by the Bureau of Economic Regulation be furnished every member of the County Board Rebuked By Steinhilber He received a stiff rebuke at this point from Sup E G hilber 12th Ward Oshkosh who called his attention to the com- purpose which he said was to promote Winnebago ty Airport While are on this com- Steinhilber told Staffeld you should be for this port Steinhilber said he had been wanting to tell Staffeld for a long time just that and that proposal to single out one ment from a pile of documents pertaining to the airport con- for presentation to the Doard members presented the opportunity Duties to Promote You are chairman of a com- whose duties spelled out in the rules are to promote airport There is nothing in the rules for us as a committee to do anything with another port told the chairman that as an individual he has the right if he desires to favor the Outagamie County proposed port but that his official duty is to support the Winnebago County designates re- DISCUSSING POLICY James Palm left district sales manager of North Central Airlines Green Bay told members of the Neenah Kiwanis Wednesday noon that North Central favors discontinuance of service at the Appleton airport and the serving of ton through the Oshkosh facility Discussing airline policy with Palm following the luncheon meeting at Neenah's Valley Inn is Harold Graverson Kiwanis program chairman Northwestern Bureau photo Favors Halting Appleton Stops North Sales Manager Tells Airline Stand in Address Revised BER Stand Rapped County Has Best Site For Regional Layout Says Chief The Federal Aviation Agency today reaffirmed its support of the present Winnebago County Airport as the best site for a regional airport taking the Bureau of Economics Regulation to task for its recently revised stand favoring a new airport and stating flatly that the FAA would not participate in an effort to Oshkosh to agree to the scrapping of its own airport for air carrier transportation purposes and the development of a new regional airport A letter to the Bureau of Economic Regulation from Arnold Kotz chief airport systems planning division of the airport ice was put into the CAB area airport hearing ord today and was mailed NEENAH We favor dis- continuance of service at the airport and the serving of Appleton through the Oshkosh at least until such time as the Civil Aeronautics Airport Staffeld rejoined that I'll go along with you as a tee I've been a minority on airport in this area This represents the official sition of North Central Airlines as concerns the everything here where been a minority To this Steinhilber replied that the majority has been following Continued on Page 32 Col 4 V J there's County airport j sy according to James Palm LONDON UPI An 1860 gold penny was bought for Wednesday by an mous bidder at a com sale at and Co district sales manager of North Central Airlines Green Bay Palm's statement prefaced his address to the Neenah Kiwanis Club Wednesday noon at nah's Valley Inn The position of North tral Airlines as I have stated it j here emphasized j is essentially the same as the one entered in record at the i cent W a u s a 11 hearings I1 thought it best to reiterate the i position of North Central at this time hoping to thus clear the air before I begin a general sion of North Central Airlines operations L can happily say men that North Central lines is enjoying a very ble air volume and ings are up about 10 to 15 per cent over last year And of course we have made many im- during the past year or two Of special interest to this area is the fact that we are now operating strictly Convair out of Continued on Page 21 Col 3 OUTFOXED PETERBOROUGH E n land i UPI neighbors said they didn't mind old guinea pigs hamsters rabbits and 50 parakeets But they drew the line at a fnx He was mv pet sighed ry as he put Freddie the fox up for sale Wednesday to all parties In the letter Kotz emphasized the FAA position that Winnebago County Airport is safe and that it presents the most economical solution to the regional airport question The FAA questions several statements in the Bureau's re- vised statement of position which was promulgated earlier in the month and suggested a joint south of Neenah Not Necessarily Correct There are a couple of ments advanced in your position which although not necessarily wrong are not necessarily cor- Kotz wrote to the Bureau result in implications and judgments with which the Federal Aviation Agency not agree One of the statements implies that the present Oshkosh airport may be less than satisfactory with respect to safety and ern technological achievements while the proposed regional port south of Neenah would prove optimum in these specific re- spects The FAA would not approve of Oshkosh as an airport for air carrier operations Continued on Page 21 Col 1 Record Amount Of Newsprint Used in August Airport Will Again Operate At Profit in 64 The County aviation committee Wednesday night worked out a tentative operating program calling for ex- against an anticipated income of The current budget called for in payments but fore- casts for the remainder of the year indicate that only about will actually be used Two Improvements The only improvements pated during 1964 are two ects with a combined price of One is for a blast fence at the north end of the north-south way for which is being put into the The other is for two sets of strobe lights one at the west end of the east-west runway and the other at the south end of the north-south runway These aids to navigation cost for each set The budget calls for a manager's salary for janitors up for water and sewer up for electricity and gas up for snow removal for runway maintenance down for supplies up for insurance up but subject to for telephone up for building nance down for grounds maintenance un- and for the con- trol tower unchanged Surpluses Expected NEW YORK record are amount of newsprint was used in expected from this tbf ast rnp i the United States last month the American Newspaper Publisher budget which can be added to the amounts put in for next year Continued on Page 32 Col 2 Association reported today runway Newspapers reporting to the where some is ex- sociation consumed tons ofi newsprint a 4 per cent increase over consumption in August 1962 The estimated total U S i print consumption in August wasi tons Asks Summit i Meeting On Disarmament I UNITED NATIONS NY AP Foreign Minister Andrei summit meeting on dis- armament during the first Gen It likely be in the nf George Thompson refused of a petition to the Wisconsin The proposal was made the a by Gov John Supreme Court to take leader in a major policy W Reynolds that the attorney i said Reynolds belore the U X gal counsel Leonard Zubrensky Serai President Balks I A I in i i ft I I 1 I I I general start court action to seat Patrick 1 on the State In- vestment Board Thompson's action was ed and the Democratic governor immediately announced he has Hc said the court would will give the L S ably be requested to restrain the board from refusing to seat Lucey ment tomorrow Gromyko asserted that the session was opening in a Lucey a former Democratic i more favorable atmosphere this hired Milwaukee attorneys chairman was appointed to i year as a result of recent and Philip Padden board by Reynolds to succeed including the of special counsel for a court suit c Jamison who had the limited nuclear test ban to make a trustee on to become full-time board VOLUNTEERS LEND HELPING HAND IN TEXAS FLOOD AREA Volunteers from the surrounding areas of Port Arthur Texas ting up sandbags along many points of the flooding waters lend a helping hand to save their homes from the ravishing Telephoto flood waters of The men have been Recommends High Risk Group Gets Vaccinated WASHINGTON lic Health Service said today that high risk groups of the tion should get vaccinated i against But it added I that the winter is not ridiculous and last directed i to produce widespread flu Thompson to start a court surt to j force the board to accept tor ot the board The board acting on an mal opinion from the attorney general's office refused to seat Lucey until his appointment has been confirmed by the State Senate Thompson held in the opinion that Lucey would not bo qualified to sit on the board until con- firmed by the Senate Reynolds called the opinion i Today's Index Obituaries Page 2 Editorials Page 6 10 12 Theaters Page 14 Page 20 Comics Page 20 Page 25 Sports Page 26 Weather Page 33 Want 39