Palladium-Times (Newspaper) - January 4, 1961, Oswego, New York LOCAL HIGHLIGHTS County School District Recover from O ft W Railroad Pg 4 tion Board Leans to Otis Field for Athletic Plant Pg 8 THE WEATHER Snow flurries and continual cold tonight Thursday slightly warmer with Temperature at noon 27 VOL 2 FULTOM WEDNESDAY JANUARY 4 1961 IIM TIAH PRICE SEVEN Rockefeller Seeks Record 1961 Budget Income Tax Refund ALBANY UP Gov feller pointed today toward a record state budget of billion as he called for higher spending for schools and medical care for the elderly In his annual message to the Legislature which convened day the governor also mended a 10 per cent refund on 1960 state income taxes and asked for immediate action so taxpayers could begin filing their returns The cuts would total lion for the state's six million taxpayers Rockefeller first proposed the tax cut last June The Republican governor at the halfway point of what has been a stormy term laid the for possible new controversy with proposals for an law for private housing and changes in trie full-crew law for railroad But Rockefeller who will teek re-election in 1962 made no mention of two politically ex- plosive proposals on which he suffered major setbacks last construction of fallout shelters and new local taxes to raise more money for schools Major Proposals Major proposals in the message to a joint session of the Senate and 1 A increase to million in spending for medical care for New York residents 65 and over who not afford to pay their own doctor hospital clinic or ed bills 2 A major increase in way and other public works spending now at a record level 3 A program to combat high unemployment by attracting new industry to eral Upstate areas and a up in million worth of projects to put more money into circulation in the same areas 4 A promise to present shortly program to triple by 1985 facilities of public and private colleges in New York State double the of Regents scholarships for school graduates and provide funds to help school districts expand use of educational evision 5 More and faster tax re- lief for railroads especially commuter lines in financial difficulties because of losses on passenger service 6 Legislation to protect ies that have lost population In the last decade from losing any state aid in and to guarantee er aid to communities that gained population 7 A two-year extension of residential laws with changes to eliminate in- equities and abuses 8 Creation of an Office of Urban Development to help deal with such problems as housing transportation and ban renewal Keyed to Harmony While his plans to curb cial and religious discrimination in private housing and to ify the full-crew law might run into trouble the general tenor of Rockefeller's third annual message was keyed to harmony and cooperation with the Rockefeller has been involved in a series of battles in the last two years with legislative leaders and members He called today for government between himself and the Legislature working together in common trust and confidence and pose Here are Hit-And-Run Blanket Parts Of BUFFALO run raced in a patchwork pattern through Western and Central New York today leaving up to a foot of snow Dunkirk and Silver Creek on Lake Erie in northern County had an 12 inches Winds caused some drifting and both public and private schools were closed in both places Nearby donia two miles inland from the lake registered four to six inches Pulaski in Oswego County had an overnight fall of 12 inches and 6 to 8 inches fell in Oswego which now measures 28 inches on the ground Roads were clear however and traffic was not seriously affected Ten inches fell in parts of Genesee County six in burg south of Buffalo and four in Syracuse Buffalo had three inches and about an inch fell in Niagara Falls and town Driving was hazardous in several areas due to poor caused by wind-whipped swirling snow The state Thruway from De- pew near Buffalo to LeRoy in Genesee County was hit by a heavy fall The speed limit was reduced from 60 to 35 miles an hour for several hours until Two Arrested In Store Robbery SYRACUSE and his A man additional details on major parts of the sage Spending Rockefeller gave no total on the cost of his various proposals But ex- isting formulas will result in increases of more than million in state aid Official figures will appear in the governor's budget sage Feb 1 Rockefeller plans to carry out his various proposals un- der policy and has said he does not plan to recommend any new taxes to implement the programs Tax Relief The proposed Continued on Page Ten What's Inside Radio-TV S It 10 U Editorial Sports 12 15 woman companion were arrested by State Police today after they allegedly held four employes of a food store at rifle point and scooped from a cash register State Police identified the two as Ernest Cappiello 25 of Massena and Ruth Bogart 22 of Massena They were picked up at Sandy Creek as they drove north through a snowstorm from Syracuse and were re- turned to Syracuse to face charges of robbery Police said couple en- tered the Kleen Food Store at about 1 a-m while the em- ployes were counting the night receipts Police said the an took the money from the register while Cappiello held a rifle midmorning when State Police reported driving normal but slippery in spots Cattaraugus County a mal target for such wintery outskirts had no new snow at midnight squalls in- traffic for a short time at the Buffalo Airport Tuesday The U.S Weather Bureau forecast from 5 to 10 inches of new snow in the two Great Lakes snowbelts today a few scattered flurries out the rest of the Upstate area Police Hunt Negro In Knife Killing Of Girl NEW ORLEANS UP today pressed a hunt for a Negro who slashed to death a pretty young eling student in her bedroom Donna Trussell a cousin of 1960 Miss America Lynda Lee 3 Killed In Nuclear Reactor Blast IDAHO FALLS Idaho A nuclear reactor blew up Tuesday night killed three men and touched off a high level of deadly radiation in a building at one of ca's major atomic testing tions The Atomic Energy Com- quickly sealed off the area and said there was no danger to other parts of the station or Idaho Falls a city of persons 40 miles Away But the building itself was radioactively hot that only one of the three bodies could be recovered in the first nine hours after the blast A team of radiological ex- perts eerie looking in their baggy white suits with heavy protective shoes gloves and mask shuttled in and out of the building to inspect damage and test the radiation They went in one at a time and could stay only minutes The ABC said it would send airplanes aloft to check the level and direction of tion A southwest wind ever blowing the time and would take any radiation over barren wastelands away from populated areas The victims identified only as Air Force man and two Army men were the reactor known as ary Low Power Reactor No 1 It is a prototype of a small mobile reactor being developed for use by the Army in remote areas The accident occurred at p m The three men killed were the only ones in the building At least 60 are on duty there in the daytime It was the first fatal dent in 11 years of operation at the National Reactor ing Station a major AEC in- It may be weeks before the j AEC knows exactly what j But a spokesman it apparently was a chemical j explosion About permanent em- ployes work at the station west of here and the AEC said it planned no changes in their schedules today The engine for America's first atomic submarine was de- j at the site and tests j are now being conducted there j on e variety of projects ing the power plant for an atomic airplane The radiological crew bers who entered the metal building pieced together this picture of the The experimental reactor being developed as a portable source of electric power and heat for the armed forces blew its top The reactor and the boiling water in which it immersed are housed in a metal shell which was not penetrated This is capped by a metal cover through which fuel and control rods run to reach the enriched uranium core of the reactor The reactor is housed in the basement where the explosion apparently occurred The blast did not appear to have above the basement The exterior of the building was not damaged The AEC said any theories on the cause of the explosion would be purely guesswork pending the report of a group of investigators being flown from Washington D C However the AEC men said it was a chemical explosion possibly caused by a reaction between aluminum components of reactor and the boiling water The reactor would have two functions in actual generate steam which in turn would generate power and to use the steam and boiling wa- ter to provide heat for racks at remote installations The experimental model is manned by 60 Army and Navy men who are being trained in reactor operation The AEC said names of the j dead are being withheld ing notification of next of kin Demonstration Forces UN Council Recess Mead was just a few hours before she was to return to New York where she was OFF WITH A BANG OKLAHOMA CITY State Rep broke in on his new job as speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives Tuesday with a bang As McCarthy tried to bring order to the opening session of the Legislature he smashed his gavel trying to launch an acting career It was her 18th birthday Another cousin stumbled on the slaying Tuesday fled in terror Police later found Miss nude body in her bedroom Her father said it looked like a slaughterhouse The office said the girl died from multiple stab wounds of the chest throat and abdomen Capt Myron Weysham homicide division chief said the killer probably was scratched on the face or neck and cut on the right thumb Police questioned three groes picked up near the scene Lynn Bulliard 25 cousin of Miss Trussell said she ped by to wish her a happy birthday and saw her gling with a Negro She said she was no more than 10 feet from the death struggle A TV set was knocked down and a heater pulled from the wall Part of her clothes were off and she was lying on the Miss Bulliard said I didn't know what to do I don't think he even saw me there was so much noise I ran down the stairs and out to Allen Allen Rothbart of York had accompanied Miss Bulliard and waited outside He said he saw the assailant flee on a bicycle carrying a bundle of clothing under his arm UNITED NATIONS N Y tion broke out in the public gallery of the U N Security Council today a speech by Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa The outbreak forced a recess in the council meeting guards quickly moved in on the demonstrators as they heckled the Cuban foreign j ister but when the shouting persisted the council president Ambassador Omar Loutfi of the United Arab Republic dered a recess Roa had just begun ing Cuba's charges that a U S invasion of Cuba is imminent Roa said Tuesday night's break of relations would contribute to the increasing tension Just at this point shouts broke out in the crowded lery The demonstrators ing in Spanish such words as Liar and Com- munist The meeting was resumed ter 10 minutes Eight of the demonstrators were ejected by U N guards They said they were members of the Cuban Revolutionary Front a Cuban exile group op- posed to Prime Minister Fidel Castro Roa took the floor after the United States had accused tro of deliberately forcing the breach of relations between the two countries U.S Ambassador James J Wadsworth told the curity Council the United States had worked hard to pre- vent the leaders of Cuba from choking off our friendly tions but that is what they seemed determined to do Wadsworth spoke shortly ter the council met to consider Cuban charges that the United States is planning an invasion of Cuba He began by ring to Tuesday night's deci- sion by the White House to break diplomatic relations with the Castro regime Before the meeting Cuban Foreign Minister Haul Roa told a reporter that the U.S deci- sion had proved the Cuban charges Commenting on the break of relations he It proves my charges Wadsworth called the es false and hysterical He said they were a fresh reminder of the strategy of harassment by which they brought really think on purpose to last night's de- Over nearly two Wadsworth said they have piled insult upon injury to a point where our diplomacy could not function any more Forecasting the tone of the American reply a U.S man called the charges the latest in a series of lies by the government of Prime Minister Fidel Castro It is the second time Cuba has accused the United States before the ed Nations of invasion plans Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa was on hand to press the new charges before the tion council He a ten complaint last Saturday j that the United States was to perpetrate within a few hours direct military against Cuba The U.S delegation after consultation with council members was reported dent Roa would find little port except from the Soviet Union Belgian Rioting Ends BRUSSELS Belgium Government spokesmen ed today that is slowly returning to normal but strikers called for new demonstrations against the government's austerity gram Leaders of the General Workers Federation summoned strikers to a rally after a morning attempt to close department stores col- lapsed before a show of police force Guarded by an iron ring of armored cars and state men Parliament met to dis- cuss the program of higher es and reduced welfare service that the government insists is necessary for survival The department strike attempt was marked by tered violence and there were dashes elsewhere in Belgium Police chased several dred pickets away from stores The pickets about 40 per cent of them women walked ly away Trouble out in Ghent Police clashed with strikers who threw rocks at windows of two textile factories Many teachers in Ghent struck and few children reported to school Police Administration ter Pierre Harmel declared that despite the sporadic disorders IS i vital re- stored Electric power stations are working again in seven of nine provinces he said and trains are running to Italy and Switzerland and air fic is normal The situation is still bad in Liege and Hainaut both trial centers hard hit by the strikes The Socialist newspaper Le Peuple claimed that persons demonstrated out Belgium Tuesday against Prime Minister Gaston kens program of er taxes and lower social benefits The government estimated the total at a figure given credence by the turnout in Brussels With the government tion parties the Social tians and Conservative liberals backing him the prime ister won four votes on various motions Tuesday in Parliament Eyskens packers considered them votes of confidence Antwerp Belgium's biggest port remained partially para- but a department store strike fizzed here also But in Soignies near the southern industrial city of police broke up dy demonstrations with ets In Liege and Namur most stores remained shut and trans- port waa at a mar Ingalls Named GOP Majority Assembly Leader ALBANY UPt George L Ingalls ton lawyer today was ed Republican majority leader in the Assembly as other top GOP leaders were reflected to their posts Ingalls was selected by sembly Speaker Joseph F lino who along with Senate Majority Leader Walter J honey was reelected by the Re- publican majorities The Carlino and Mahoney reelections were They were designated Tuesday night at strategy sessions Ingalls who will act under direction as the GOP floor manager succeeds les A Schoeneck Jr of cuse who was defeated last November in his bid for re- election to the Assembly Carlino also appointed Fred W Preller Queens Republican as man of the Ways and Means Committee considered the GOP Assembly post He was first elected to the Assembly in 1944 IKE NOT TO DELIVER STATE OF UNION TALK WASHINGTON ident Eisenhower will not deliver personally his final State of the Union message to Congress on Jan 12 The While House also gave dates for two other tial messages the budget Jan 16 and the economic report Jan 18 Press James C Hagerty said Eisenhower is seriously considering a well radio and TV talk be- JM kavw Jan US Arranges Speedy Exit From Cuba HAVANA UP The U S Embassy today made ments for the exodus of Americans from Cuba and urged all to depart in the wake of President er's decision to break tic relations with the Fidel Castro government The first wave of departing diplomats and other Americans was expected this afternoon An unusually courteous note from the Cuban government however suggested there was no need for haste It pledged the most absolute guarantees of safety for all American tourists and diplomats alike The note delivered after the Cabinet in an emergency ing had considered the White House announcement of the break also offered to extend the period given all but 11 members of the embassy staff to get out of Cuba The period expires this It further emphasized the amenities by offering in con- cordance with the norms of in- right every kind of facility for the removal of the embassy's office equipment and other property The Castro government said it in turn would withdraw its diplomatic personnel from the United States as speedily as possible and turn its in the United States over to Communist slovakia's diplomats The American colony in Cuba is estimated at between 500 and The embassy urged j all to leave unless they have reasons to re- main There was no immediate rush of agitated Americans to the embassy however and many were expected to remain in Cuba Several small can businesses have escaped the rationalization that has wiped out most of the dollar American investment in Cuba A number of Americans still here are married to Cubans and lived hera for years It seemed inevitable that the break would heighten Castro pressure for a termination of the U S lease on thf U.S Reaches Limit Of Endurance Says Ike On Cuba Break Kennedy Flies To For Talks With Defense Chief PALM BEACH Fla President-elect John F flies to New York today to confer with his defense chief Robert S McNamara against the critical back ground of broken relations Plans for the Kennedy ing with the secretary of de- were ed in advance of the hower administration's ing of diplomatic relations with the Fidel Castro regime But that development Tuesday night seems almost certain to get prime attention The session also appears ly to deal in part with the tense situation in threatened Laos Kennedy who during the campaign was critical of Re- publican handling of the Cuban problem had no comment on President Eisenhower's order ending relations The press secretary Pierre Salinger said Kennedy was in- formed of the decision in ad- vance Kennedy got the word from the man who will be his of state Dean Rusk Rusk has been maintaining close liaison with the State De- on both the Cuban and the Laotian situations An aspect of the Cuban crisis likely to concern Kennedy and 9 KILLED 10 HUHT IN GAS EXPLOSION DORTMUND Germany explosion at the oxygen plant of the Hoesch steel com- bine killed nine workers and injured 10 today police re- ported ONLY STOLE A LOOK JACKSONVILLE Fla burglar apparently stole only a look at a new exhibit when he broke into the sonville Art Museum Director Russell Hicken said he found a note signed A Breaker and Enterer It 1 found the exhibits lent and stimulating McNamara is the future of the big and strategically important American naval base at tanamo in Cuba In ton Tuesday night White House press secretary James C Hagerty declined to answer j questions about the base I In the campaign last year i Kennedy called at one point for a U.S pledge of aid to anti- Castro forces within and out- side of Cuba Republicans sailed this as dangerous and irresponsible Kennedy said he had not meant intervention only moral support The president-elect ending a Palm Beach stay which began Dec 16 arranged a noon departure aboard a scheduled commercial jet j In advance of the trip north j Kennedy filled two more De- ferrse Department positions He announced today the pointment of Cyrus Robert Vance as tlie department's eral counsel Vance 43 a Democrat is a New York yer who served in as special counsel to a Senate Preparedness Investigating sub- I committee which looked into i the satellite and missile grams and held hearings on the defense and space programs generally Vance also was consulting counsel to the special senate Committee which helped draft j the National Space Act in 1958 Kennedy Tuesday night chose I economist Charles T Hilch of Pacific Palisades Calif to be Pentagon's chief financial cer Hi tell a Democrat who will be 50 next Tuesday will serve as an secretary of defense and will supervise preparation of the huge tary spending 40 billion dollars a year more than half the federal I ment's total annual j ture Hitch now is chairman of the Research Council of the Rand Corporation at Santa Monica Calif an organization which specializes in national security research Demo's Push Kennedy's Social Welfare Bills tanamo naval bate on the WASHINGTON Democratic leaders have ed a drive to get through Con- gress the first of the social welfare bills President-elect John F Kennedy has pledged to back No 1 is the depressed areas It was learned today that Senate democratic leaders will give it the S 1 ticket as the first Senate introduced this year The measure again will be offered by Sen Paul Douglas and will be similar to another of his in the last Congress passed by the Senate watered down by the House and vetoed by President Eisenhower Among other measures on the Kennedy list sure to follow are medical care for the tied to Social Security rising the minimum wage and federal aid to schools But before they buckle down to business both House and Senate were embroiled today in their perennial fights over matters pertaining lo civil legislation In UM Senate Wa- on a proposed rules change to make it easier to halt a ancient weapon of the Southerners to talk a civil rights to death Sen Clinton P Anderson has proposed that of the vote to cut off debate At present a two- thirds majority of all present and voting is needed Another proposal is to cut the requirement to a simply majority of 51 senators That backed by Sens Hubert H Humphrey and Thomas H Kuchel Southern senators spoke sharply against any rules change and prepared an al of parliamentary moves to fight it The new majority leader Sen Mike Mansfield of Montana said he hoped the issue can be settled this week In the House Speaker Sum Rayburn and other tic leaders are determined to curb the power of a ern Democratic Republican coalition in the Rules tee that aften haa blocked literal WASHINGTON ident Eisenhower en U S diplomatic relations with Fidel Castro's Cuban regime declaring the limit has now been to what the United States in self respect can endure The President said our sympathy goes out to the ple of Cuba now suffering under the yoke of a dictator The White House ment of the day night marked rock bottom in a downward plunge of U.S relations that started soon after Castro's capture of power two years ago Castro's an ti United States attacks and his surge to the Communist camp have mounted over the months The bearded leader reacted to Eisenhower's ment by saying We are He called his inet into emergency session then sent a note to the U S Embassy guaranteeing safety all remaining Americans A State Department man said the break did not affect the big U S naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba Castro has made threats against the base The United States says it holds an un- breakable lease on the installation Eisenhower served notice last Nov 1 that the United Stales will take whatever steps may be appropriate to defend the base Kennedy Notified President-elect John F declined comment on the diplomatic break He was given advance word on the President's action The New York Times said today that Secretary of State Christian A Herter asked Dean Rusk Kennedy's choice for secretary of state in ad- vance whether the ing Democratic administration wished to associate itself with the break Rusk replied after tion with Kennedy that in the absence of complete tion on all the relevant tors the new administration did not feel that it could in the decision a Washington dispatch to the Times added End Expected The end to U re- lations had been long ed Yet it was dramatic The break cut ties for the first time since America's fighting men had freed Cuba from Spain at the turn of the century The last straw snapping Washington's forbearance icy was Castro's demand de- livered to the U S Embassy in Havana early that all but 11 of the U.S diplo- mats get out of Cuba within 48 hours American authorities from Eisenhower down saw this as a calculated insult They ured the U.S Embassy could hardly operate with only 11 men fewer than the number of guards alone needed for the embassy building Repercussions spread ly from the In Havana the ranking U.S diplomat Charge d'Affaires Daniel J Braddock and 10 of top aides planned to remain a few days to take care of pending matters and transfer the care of U.S re- lations to Swiss Ambassador Walter Rossi Other memben of Braddock's staff wert boarding a ferry sailing today for West Palm Beach Fla Cuban diplomats ia Ten IN PERI
