Palladium-Times (Newspaper) - January 23, 1961, Oswego, New York LOCAL HIGHLIGHTS St Paul's Church ing Fund Now At Page 5 Oswego College To Offer 18 Off-Campus Courses Page 10 THE WEATHER Continued very cold snow tonight and Tuesday Temperature at noon 18 VOL 18 ASSOCIATED PRIM MONDAY JANUARY 23 1961 YEAR DAILY SEVEN CENTS HARBOR STRIKE ENDS Paralyzing Rail Ends Agreement Reached After Marathon Session Goldberg Praised NEW YORK UP A two- week-old harbor strike that had caused a paralyzing road tie-up throughout much of the East was ended today by tentative agreement on a new work pact Mediators including dent Kennedy's new secretary of labor Arthur J Goldberg met in a marathon session that ended with the announcement of a settlement at a m strike of railroad tug and ferry boat workers against 11 railroads that operate in New York harbor had crippled the city's com- muter transportation forcing persons to look for other means of getting to and from work The walkout of the 664 workers in three marine unions on Jan 10 had also tually shut down the New York Central and the New Haven railroads Both roads said they hoped to get back into operation by Tuesday morning The unions have called a ratification meeting for later in the day at the Seafarers International Union ters in Brooklyn Bofh sides were expected to okay the pact Both Mayor Robert F ner and Gov Nelson feller who had invited berg to attend the session praised the new labor tary for his contribution to the settlement Goldberg flew to New York less than 24 hours after he had been sworn into Cabinet The key to the settlement was an agreement to postpone the touchy issue of job ity The unions had asked to have present tug crews remain frozen But operators wanted any new contract to state that agement had the right to de- cide the number of men ed Both sides finally agreed to defer any decision until next December when a White house study on problems is completed The striking marine unions besides the Seafarers were Marine Engineers Beneficial Association and the tional Organization of ters Mates and Pilots After Seafarer pickets showed up at the big union terminal in Cleveland Ohio Sunday the second cally shut down its Western division Its division had been hit last week The idle train crews were not directly involved in the dispute but they refused to cross marine picket lines Most of the Central s re- maining passenger and freight trains canceled Saturday night by the extension of picketing to stations or I yards at Albany Syracuse and Niagara Falls Passenger trains between Albany and Boston over the Boston Albany division were among those suspended Saturday Passengers of the vania Railroad boarded trams in freight yards near Buffalo while the Delaware Hudson which reduced schedules to Montreal was plagued by a freight derailment at ton Spa that blocked the road's two tracks The Central said over the weekend that it planned these passenger runs on a if Daily round trips subject to between Syracuse and Watertown and between Utica and Massena Daily trips between Albany and Poughkeepsie and between Albany and Chatham Col- County if crews are available In Buffalo the Pennsylvania transported passengers by bus from the picketed Central terminal to freight yards at Ebenezer where its trains originated to points in sylvania la Olean The was operating its Laurentian only between bany and Montreal The Laurentian normally continues over Central tracks to New York City as does the line's Montreal Limited which was dropped during the strike The also planned to retain its daily hamton and Springs runs The the and the Nickel Plate reported normal operations out of as did The Pennsylvania's freight runs through western New Yoik Seven Killed Many Injured in Fire At Sea Aboard U.S Carrier Saratoga Kennedy Starts Review Of National Security Program WASHINGTON dent Kennedy and his new ad- top defense and diplomatic officials today ed a far-reaching review of the national security program Seeking a safeguarded peace with the Communist bloc began talks with key aides at and ar- ranged to resume the sions after a recess for lunch Sitting in with the President at the conference in the inet room at the White House were Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert S MeNamara were McGeorge Bundy Kennedy's personal aide on national security matters of Chester Bowles and Paul designated ant secretary of state in charge of international affairs ing disarmament planning Also man L chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Pierre Salinger White House press secretary said several other officials were joining in the discussions He did not immediately name them The double only announced business on his today demonstrated the priority Kennedy attaches to seeking an of West tension while beefing up the nation's defenses A grim reminder of troubles ahead reportedly came in a secret message from dor Llewellyn E Thompson who met Saturday in Moscow with Soviet Premier Thompson's cable was under- stood to report that talking ly of an agreement with the Kennedy administration in had adopted the same tough unyielding position on issues that wrecked previous Western hopes Kennedy got a preview ing a White House luncheon Sunday of Rusk's thinking Continued on Page Three Another Cold Night Ahead For Most of ALBANY Much of New York State wanned up a few degrees today but the mercury ranged down to 31 below zero More of the same was in New snow added to troubles in some areas It was 31 below at Saranac Lake one degree below day's early morning reading But Poughkeepsie for instance dropped -15 today compared with -23 Sunday Other overnight lows ed: Speculator -20 Boonville and Remsen Massena -17 bany and Plattsburgh -12 onta and Port Leyden -10 lone Cortland and Olean Newburgh -7 Arcade mira -4 Rome and Rockland County -2 Binghamton and Rochester -1 Lowville 0 2 above Buffalo 6 and New York 16 It was the fifth straight day of sub-zero readings across the state plagued areas east of Lakes Erie and Ontario and near the Finger Lakes Several schools were closed in rural areas near Watertown because of blowing snow ROYAL COUPLE TO MAKE VISIT TO IRAN TEHRAN Iran The Iranian royal court announced today that Britain's Queen and Prince Philip will visit Iran March ATHENS Greece The U S aircraft carrier Saratoga put into nearby Bay today with seven dead and many injured after'a fire at sea The fire occurred in the eastern Mediterranean where the big aircraft carrier was on patrol with the U S- 6th Fleet Few details were available immediately U S officers in Naples Italy said the fire was be- to have occurred this morning Reports received here did not make clear the cause of the fire or where it The U S Embassy here promised a statement later The American attache said hp was awaiting a report from the Saratoga The which will be 4 years old in normally carries about officers and men She is one of the Navy's Forrestal class the world's largest aircraft The vessel is 1.046 feet long with an angled flight and a width of 252 feet With a full load she weight nns The Saratoga was ed Oct 8 1955 and completed April 14 1956 The cost is ed fay Jane's Fighting authoritative naval reference work as million QUAKE HITS JAPAN light quake rocked northern Japan and Hokkaido Monday There were no reports of damage or casualties World News at a Glance VIENTIANE Laos Boun government is filing a complaint with the United tions against Communist North Viet Nam charging and asking that an investigation commission be sent to Laos government sources said today LYON France Frenchmen charged action in Algeria that killed 15 persons went on trial before a military tribunal today MILAN Italy thousand irate dairy fanners clashed with riot police in downtown Milan day in a new outbreak of a battle against foreign beef and butter Six farmers were arrested The farmers massed in front of the Palazzo belloni where Foreign Trade Minister Mario Martinelli was conferring with city authorities The farmers attacked police when they were told they could not see the minister to present their protests that imports of foreign beef and butter were under- mining prices for local LONDON will be heard Feb 7 against five persons accused of stealing British naval re- search secrets for an unnamed foreign power A healing will determine whether the three men and two women should be sent to trial They have been held since Jan 7 LIEGE Belgium last strikers against the Belgian government's austerity program went back to work today Socialist leaders of the walkout an- they would continue their fight in other ways against the austerity which calls for higher and reduction in some unemployment benefits ASKS ADOPTION OF K'S DISARMAMENT PLAN MOSCOW Mikhail Suslov one of the Soviet Com- munist party's top ians has called again for adoption of Premier chev's plan for universal dis- armament to abolish the very possibility of waging wars The Soviet news agency j Tass gave no indication that Suslov in his speech to the party's Central Committee I Jan 18 proposed any system of checks or such as the West demands SHE Nancy Callemeyn hugs Deputy Sheriff Eugene Michaels during his visit to her Rochester N Y home A week ago Michaels stopped his patrol car six times to administer breathing to the girl while rushing her to a hospital The youngster ing from a vims infection and his aid enabled her to survive AP Wirephoto Two of JFK's Nominees May Be Opposed No Break In Sight Eastern Half of U S Shivers In Grip of Winter's Coldest Weather Purge Underway Blame Food Shortage For Sabotage Unrest in China EAGLES SIGN SKORICH PHILADELPHIA UP Coach Nick Skorich day was named to succeed the recently resigned Buck Shaw as head coach of the National Football League champion Eagles He was given a year contract Skorich 39 was a football star at the University of He came here as an to Shaw in 1959 Skorich played professional football with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay ers What's Inside Radio-TV 2 Editorial 6 Classified 8 Sports 7 Funerals 10 Comics 9 Fulton 4 Obituary 3 WASHINGTON Leaders hope tp win tion today of President nominees for tions below Cabinet level At least two nominees face some opposition The Cabinet was sworn in Saturday afternoon a short time after it won Senate proval Sen Wayne Morse served notice he was opposed to the selection oi John B Conally Jr of Texas as the new secretary of the Navy be- cause of his past ties with the oil industry Sen Norns Cotton has announced he is against proval of Chester Bowles as un- of state Bowles a former member of the House was a foreign policy adviser to Kennedy during the campaign Cotton questions Bowies at- toward future relations with Red China although the nominee lias testified he op- poses immediate recognition of the Communist Chinese regime or its admission to the United Nations Majority Leader Mike field put senators on notice he hoped to com- plete confirmation today on all ot the Kennedy nominees who have been approved by com- The Senate voted Saturday to confirm Adlai E Stevenson as U S ambassador to the United Nations He took his oath with the Cabinet members during a White mony The only opposition to the Cabinet was that Sen Gordon Allott to the nation of the President's ther Robert F Kennedy to be general said Kennedy did not have enough legal experience for the post Morse's opposition to Con- nally longtime associate ol Vice President Lyndon B son came after the Senate Armed Services Committee had approved him and eight other Defense Department ments Sen William Proxmire D- and John S Cooper told the Senate they shared Morse's view on the Connally nomination Morse said others also are opposed Other nominations ready for Senate consideration Byron R White deputy at- torney general Archibald Cox solicitor H W ley deputy postmaster al Roswell L deputy secretary of Elvis J Stahr Jr of Army Eugene M Zuckert secretary of the Air Force Carles J Hitch Paul H Arthur Sylvester and Thomas D ris assistant secretary of de- fense Cyrus R Vance general counsel of the Defense ment State University Expansion State Aid to Private Colleges Under Study ALBANY aid for and other private colleges is part of a program that goes before the Legislature's Republican majorities today The program also calls for expansion of the State sity and more state ships as part of a broad plan to meet what educators term a crisis in higher education Gov Rockefeller and GOP leaders are drafting the gram to help public and private colleges expand in the face of rapidly rising demands for ad- mission Senate Majority Leader ter J Mahoney and Assembly Speaker Joseph F Carlino ed Republican members of their into separate con- Today's discussions were to be informal GOP leaders will report to Rockefeller Tuesday on reaction to the proposals A final vote is not expected for weeks The plan for state help to schools is ex- to stir controversy among both Republicans and Democrats The state tion bars state aid to schools run by churches Rockefeller and legislative leaders have been exploring ways of giving state aid ly to students at private schools They would turn it over to their respective tions through higher tuition method some Republicans say would not conflict with the constitutional ban No final decisions on the form of aid have been reached Rockefeller plans to submit a formal program on higher education to the Legislature in a special message possibly this week The governor spent much of the weekend attempting to help settle a strike by railroad in New York City Picketing by marine unions has stalled railroad service throughout much of the East The governor's schedule has been thrown off by his in connection with the and his education sage may be delayed a man uid Sunday TOKYO ment from Peiping indicates unrest and sabotage brought on by a drastic shortage of food is bringing new drives against opponents of the Red regime A voluminous communique issued after a meeting Jan 18 of the top Chinese command in Peiping referred again and again to the food shortage which was blamed on the most severe natural calamities in a century following upon serious natural calamities of 1959 The Communists reported last month that 150 million acres were hit by these ties No figures were listed in the latest report but it left no doubt about the seriousness of the problem The official New China News Agency reported four-day cold wave m Kwangtung vince South China destroyed part of the winter crop sweet potatoes a ple food of the toiling masses The Peiping communique said the setback led to a shortage of raw ials for light industry The leaders ordered that new sources of material along with increased production be ed to ensure the supply of the people's daily necessities as far as possible The tasks in 1961 are extra- ordinarily great and the communique said but the difficulties can be overcome The Communists claimed that NAVY PROBES AIR CRASH HONOLULU in- tried to learn today why a huge Constellation ed in flames Sunday taking nine lives on Midway Island Sixteen members of the man crew of the radar picket plane survived with minor injuries Three members of a crash crew died when the blazing craft slammed into their truck Sunday at a m A Barber's Point Naval Air Station spokesman said the plane touched down swerved suddenly flipped on its back and burst into flames as it smashed into the truck more than 90 per cent of the population is loyal to the Red regime and is putting up with their temporary difficulties However it reported an ex- tremely small number of lord and bourgeois elements have not yet been sufficiently remolded and are always at- tempting a comeback This element was charged with taking advantage of the difficulties along with shortcoming in the work at the lower level to carry out taging activities The communique added that China had a few minor Com- munist party officials who though and are inadequate in their ideology consciousness They lack understanding of the fundamental policies of the party the communique said reporting a sort of ment called rectification Eight Perish In House Fire PASADENA Md Negro children and an adult who was caring for them burned to death early today when their frame house ed in flames near here state police reported State trooper Lester weth identified the victims as Donald L Green 9 months and his sisters and brothers Maryland 2 Winifred 3 Yvette 4 Joeline 5 and Aaron 6 Also burned to death were a cousin Regina Wright 10 and the Greens uncle Bernard Green 33 One child Lawrence Green 11 escaped Chenoweth said by jumping barefoot from a second-floor window in degree weather The parents of the Green children Dolores and Ernest were visiting neighbors when the fire broke out shortly after midnight Firemen said the tragedy apparently was caused by a faulty oil furnace Woman Killed Fire Destroys Historic Chautauqua Institution jor fire struck historic Chautauqua Institution for the second time in 55 years day destroying the cultural center's main building The building had been ed in 1907 two years after another fire had wrecked the original ters A woman resident was be- to have in the flames She was Mrs Adda Wright 72 a hotel clerk who was last seen trying to fight the fire with a hand er Firemen unable to find her body after an intensive search through the nibble day night Five other residents of the three-story brick and frame structure fled the flames ly Twelve firemen were ed for smoke inhalation frost bite They were among more than 300 who tried to check the in temperatures No official damage estimate was available but a source at the institution said it would cost to replace the building Firemen said the structure was a total loss The colonnade center of the sprawling tural community in western New York had been built as a result of a 1905 fire that destroyed the former headquarters The cause of the blaze was not determined The building housed the in- offices as well as stores and apartments Chautauqua Institution was founded as a religious in 1872 It conducts summer programs that include concerts operas re- panels and By the Associated Press Winter a month old and rugged held an icy grip across much of the eastern half of the nation today after a record cold weekend extending into the Deep South No immediate general break in the frigid weather was in- but some warmer weather appeared on the way for the chilled Gulf Lower temperatures ever were indicated in the central Mississippi Valley and parts of the tral Great Plains The cold weather and last week's snow storms and zards that swept wide areas have been blamed for at least 70 deaths The fatalities were attributed to exposure shoveling exertion traffic on icy roads and fires Seven children and a old man perished in a fire m a home in Pasadena morning It was below zero again this morning in most sections in the northern tier of states the eastern Dakotas through the Great Lakes re- gion into New England The mercury dropped to more than 20 degrees below zero in northern Minnesota after a -34 in Bemidji the nation's so-called icebox Sunday morning But in Norfolk in western Connecticut plunged to 33 below four de- grees shy of the record ing o -37 in 1943 A old record was broken Windsor Locks Conn near Hertford with a mark of -26 In the South e cold was reported with ing weather into northern Florida The 33 reading Anchorage Alaska was much higher than many Southern cities m n Georgia was the coldest spot in the South with a reading of S below Sunday Three inches of snow covers the ground At- lanta's 10 above was a record for Jan 22 It was 6 below in Gordonsville in central ia Richmond's 7 above was a record for the date In many northern Midwest cities temperatures staved be- low zero ali day Sunday the arctic air held stationary over the snow-covered tions Chicago's high uas 10 after the first zero weather oi 1961 More light snow fell in some parts of the cold belt during the night and early morning including much of the Great Lakes region and the Ohio Valley as well as sections ol the central Mississippi ley Heaviest fresh fall was 5 inches in Houghton in Upper Michigan adding to the 17 in- ches already on the ground SAYS RED CHINESE BEADY TO REVOLT TAIPEI Formosa OP Chains said today Red China is plagued by munist uprisings and spread famine and that the mainland Chinese would re- volt if given the opportunity The Nationalist Chinese dent made the statement in a message marking Freedom Day TO CONSTRUCT WORLD'S LONGEST CABLE MONTREAL than 550 million in contracts have been signed for construction of the world's longest telephone cable The cable running than miles under the Pacific Ocean and linking ada New Zealand and lia u scheduled tor 1864 N E W SVAPEIlfl IC H i V E
