Palladium-Times (Newspaper) - March 22, 1961, Oswego, New York I LOCAL HIGHLIGHTS Education Board Orders Study of Lab Procedures After Blast Eg 22 New Building Goal of 1862 Fund Drive Pg 8 THE WEATHER Occasional rain with mild temperatures tonight and Thursday Temperature at noon 44 VOL 18 PUSS M Y WEDNESDAY MARCH 22 1961 M DAILY PRICE SEVEN CENTS Sweeping Overhaul Of Foreign Aid Program Asked By President WASHINGTON UP ident Kennedy asked Congress today for a drastically For the coming year the ed long-term foreign aid program would equal the gram the most sweeping i billion sought by former overhaul since the Marshall j ident Dwight D Eisenhower Plan started in 1948 It would include billion in five-year loan authority to i gress Kennedy said It will meet the crucial decade of j both befit and benefit us to j development abroad take this step boldly For we i ITALIAN AT Hands cupped to mouth Italy's Gaetano Martino voices his ment during speech by Soviet Foreign Minister An- drei Gromyko to General Assembly in New York By his side is Egidio Ortona Italy's permanent to the Martino who heads his country's delegation to the current meeting called out in re- sponse to Gromyko's mention of Fascist aggression in Ethiopia under Mussolini Martino shouted from the What about AP Wirephoto Stevenson Blasts Reds In Sharp U N Attack UNITED NATIONS AP Adlai E Stevenson's sharp condemnation of the new Soviet attack on the Congo operation was seen today as a warning that the Kennedy administration won't shrink from a cold war slugging match in the General Assembly Any hopes that world tensions might be eased by avoiding debate on cold war issues in the assembly ed Tuesday when Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei renewed the Soviet attack on Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and actions in the Congo Handyman Gets Reward From Brinks LOS ANGELES An unemployed Negro handyman who returned he found on the is J richer today i But his wife I hope we never find any more ey Since finding the money two weeks ago life has been a hectic series of press ences and telephone calls for Mr and Mrs Douglas liam Johnson But Tuesday the Johnsons got a check from Brink's Inc the armored truck company that lost the 000 Brink's originally offered Johnson a job and a college scholarship for his eldest son Richard 16 son said he didn't want the job and that his son wants to work his way through college I have two other sons and I want to be fair to them Johnson said Brink's then decided on the check The Johnson want to buy a new house Johnson says he has been bombarded with job offers letters and phone calls since solution the Laotian crisis finding the ently dropped from a Brink's truck Not all of the letters were complimentary he said About suggested he was insane for returning the unmarked SlO and bills for economic loans overseas development j for foreign aid In a special message to Con- The President hoped to opposition in some con- gressional quarters both to tne money amount and to his loan systems which would bypass congressional appropriations procedures Key legislators re- ministered through the Penta- authorization for I be separated from the new aid agency plus the foreign aid package year authority to borrow from and placed in the the Treasury to make loans get for economic projects abroad million in the fiscal year starting next July 1 and buffed Eisenhower on similar billion annually for the counts in the past Kennedy 1 Lumping most existing ing four vears The loans would run up to 50 years at no interest or at The President put no over- are launching a decade of de- economic aid programs into a i low rates of perhaps up to two all price tag on his program velopment on which will de- single new agency whose boss per cent and would be But officials figured the j pend substantially the kind of I would report directly to the abb in dollars year total would run several j world in which we and our j secretary of state and the 3 Arms aid now times the billion proposed I children shall live President about billion a year ad- We had hoped at least that the Russians would suspend the j for a Henry Ford Cooper of Liberia told a reporter but Gromyko's ing attack on Hammarskjold and the United Nations opened it all up again Speaking at the beginning of a new assembly debate on the Congo Gromyko again accused Hammarskjold of organizing the murder of Patrice Lumumba demanded the ment by a three-man ate and called for an end to the Congo operation in a month Non-Communist delegates especially from Africa and Asia openly impressed with Stevenson's immediate reply He said spoke in the worst and most destructive traditions of the cold war The U.S delegate said insensate attacks on the secretary-general ed the very survival of the Nations as an effective operating instrument for peace and progress By demanding the from the new African Legislature Seeks To Halt Milk Price Wars ALBANY The state's agriculture commissioner would have broad price-fixing powers to halt retail wars under legislation before the Senate today The measure has the backing of numerous farm groups also would set up a Bureau of Milk Distribution to oversee the sale of milk in the state The passed Tuesday by the Assembly would give the commissioner the power to ban unfair trade practices the re- tail sale of milk below the cost and sales of milk and other products for the products would nation Stevenson said the trying to substitute anarchy for constructive forts of the world at large to achieve peace and tion Since the assembly session on March 7 son and Gromyko had been sparring lightly in public ex- changes while negotiating in private to see if they could agree on dropping cold war items from the assembly da Tuesday's sharp exchange pointed to stormy sessions in the weeks to come GOP Holds M Election Edge ALBANY of pre- dominantly local interest pre- in village elections across the state Tuesday but cial returns showed cans held a edge in mayoral contests However the over-all out- come appeared to have little bearing on the respective strength of Democrats and Re- publicans on the state level Many candidates ran under the banner of independent groups such as the Taxpayers Party or Peoples Party Some of the independents un- seated incumbents affiliated with the major parties Crotty Picks Up Support In Demo Battle NEW YORK Peter Crotty of Buffalo has picked up support in suburban Chester and Nassau counties for election as Democratic state John F English Democratic leader of Nassau and William F Luddy ty chairman gave their views in separate interviews day Luddy said Crotty would be perfectly acceptable to him if the present state chairman Michael H Prendergast of resigned English said Crotty is a liberal and has the intellectual capacity drive and practical background to make an excellent state man Crotty has strong backing among numerous party ers both Upstate and in New York City Lack of federal patronage to the state from the administration is a or complaint against gast The Democratic state tive committee wiD meet here Thursday Despite speculation about his possible resignation Prendergast remained silent He had said previously that he would not resign His two- year term runs until June 1962 Kennedy Reported Ready To Speed More Military Aid To Laos Unless Soviets Agree To End Crisis WASHINGTON AP President Kennedy is reported planning to give more effective military ance to the pro-Western government of Laos unless the Soviet Union speedily agrees to a prompt diplomatic of the Laotian crisis While officials were close-mouthed about the dent's decision today it was believed that initial steps for increased aid would embrace training of the hard-pressed government forces by U.S military men and ably an increase in firepower through providing more modern types of conventional weapons forces are advancing toward Vientiane capital of Laos Should the situation in the little Southeast kingdom suddenly develop into an emergency threat to the existance of the Laotian government it is understood that Kennedy would be prepared to consider ly an appeal for emergency aid on a large scale 4 Carefully tailored grams for each country ing aid based on over-all needs and local resources rather than unrelated projects with special favor toward tions undertaking social and economic reforms 5 Emphasizing loans able in dollars doing away with most of the loans able in local foreign currencies now handed out by the 6 Encouraging other trial nations to share more of the aid burden For the fiscal year beginning July 1 Kennedy said that while he would stick with billian spending request he would shift sharply the use of the funds including transferring million from military to economic aid Mahoney t Carlino Squabble Legislature Hears End Of Session With GOP Leaders Still In Conflict ALBANY AP Republican legislative leaders approached the end of the 1961 session in conflict on three major issues including state aid to education and pay raises for legislators Senate Majority Leader Walter J Mahoney backed by Goy Rockefeller stood firm today against efforts of Assembly Speaker Joseph F Carlino to win an increase in state aid to education Mahoney also was reported balking at proposals for a annual in- crease in legislator's salaries Carlino favored the There also was conflict on a request by the New York City Transit Authority for permission to issue million in bonds to buy 800 new subway cars Carlino favored the plan Mahoney was against it These and other issues were still to be resolved as the headed for ment by Saturday The major question revolved around the amount of aid for elementary and secondary cation The governor's budget proved by the Legislature calls for a total of lion in state aid to school dis- This represents a boost of million over the rent year The Diefendorf Committee school districts Carlino favors an increase that would give all school dis- more money beyond the million Estimates of the Carlino proposal have ranged to million beyond the 4 million recommended by the governor but there has been no specific figure The Deifendorf Committee on School Financing has million or 2 million beyond the ler proposals F The Diefendorf aid would go last year Its major report is largely to and due next year At present however said privately that there is no serious thought of direct intervention by U S forces The question of some form of intervention perhaps by tries in the area may arise when the foreign ministers of the Southeast Asia Treaty meet next Monday in Bangkok Thailand tary of State Dean Rusk will leave here Thursday night to attend that session Kennedy conferred for 90 minutes Tuesday with Rusk Secretary of Defense Robert S McNamara and other top and diplomatic makers No further meeting scheduled today but the President was reported keeping a close personal watch on the Laotian crisis and on the aration of measures he is re- ported to have ordered set in motion to deal with it Following the White House conference Rusk returned to the State Department and met with British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia and French Herve Alphand tain and France are members was created by the Legislature of SEATO along with the I t TORNADO KILLS 180 DACCA East Pakistan UP government today ried relief aid to four districts in which a tornado killed 180 persons Sunday Soviet Demands Rock West At Atomic Test Ban Talks GENEVA UP The ican and British delegations at the nuclear test ban talks concluded today that the viet Union has rocked but not wrecked the protracted treaty negotiations Spokesmen said the ern camp intends to push ahead with the half-dozen new concessions they offered the Russians in an attempt to cost separately and to late the advertising of milk In the event of a war the commissioner could without a hearing reset prices to the minimum that stores or dealers could charge The commissioner also would be empowered to set mini- mum prices for marketing areas for 90 days What's Inside Riutto Editorial 10 Clammed M 16 Obituary IS 11 appointment in Western cles that the introduction of this program at the ence Tuesday coincided with what the West regarded as two steps backward by viet Delegate Semyon K Asked to define the tion now an American source told One has no reason to assume that this conference has been reduced to a state of wreckage U.S Delegate Arthur H Dean and British Minister of State David tend to elaborate on their posal for a three-year on small underground tests and the scientific gram related to it Earlier tht had proposed a while the Russians asked for four years The basic idea of the is to gain time so scientific research can duce some solution to the problem of how to tell the difference between small un- atomic explosions and earth tremors When the conference re- Tuesday after a month recess two diplomatic sions of his own First he warned the U.S and British delegations that more explosions of atomic de- vices by France could kill off any chance of ever getting a nuclear test ban treaty Then he demanded that the top executive post in the posed control organization be filled by three members er than one man The man board would be made up of a Communist a er and a the Russians the same veto they want to get in the The Western powers always have visualized one neutral scientist at the head of the control Executive Mansion To Be Restored ALBANY Gov from the cost these other feller said today his tration had decided to restore the Executive sion rather than build a new one He said the mansion could be restored for about whereas constructing a one would cost million The governor and his wife fled the burning mansion in the hours of March 3 Rockefeller ed the loss at about including many works of art The governor said he would recommend to the Legislature that funds be included in the supplemental budget for restoration of the mansion which is situated in a ment area of Albany In announcing the decision to restore the mansion feHer also released the re- port of the investigation into the fire The report was pre- by Gen Cortlandt V R Schuyler commissioner of the Office of General Services Schulyer said the fire to have been started by a short circuit in a wire installed January The heating device had been installed by a reputable contracting firm and had been approved by the State Public Works Department Schuyler said Security personnel on duty at the mansion at the time of the fire properly carried out their assigned duties on that night said Rockefeller that BRAZIL HUNGARY TO ESTABLISH RELATIONS BUDAPEST Hungary Communist Hungary and zil have agreed to establish diplomatic relations the paper ed today tors prompted the decision to restore the 1 Mrs Rockefeller and I like the neighborhood we like our neighbors and we like the mansion itself It is a com- parade their finery building to live in j Even her personal designer wonderfully adapted for Oleg isn't sure of her and receiving large final choice groups It is conveniently Cassini who disclosed that with respect to the state Jacqueline To Choose Easter Outfit Today NEW YORK The lady makes a decision today that undoubtedly will affect clothes tastes of en all the Sne will choose an Easter outfit It may be that Jacqueline Kennedy's choice won't be known until that April morn when the nation's women Capitol 2 Albany residents who live in the vicinity of the mansion have been most friendly neighbors to us Their interest has been reflected in the large volume of mail we have received since the fire expressing concern for our safety and the hope that the damage to the mansion has not been so extensive as to preclude restoration 3 There is a great tion in the mansion on Eagle Street Many great Americans have lived there Many im- portant events in the history of the state over the last 100 years have taken place there Mrs Kennedy would be fitted today said her decision rests primarily on where she'll be Easter morning During her husband's first months in office she has divided her time between the White House the Kennedy's Palm Beach Fla vacation home and their country house in Virginia Tile radiant First Lady in town for a round of shopping and visits to art museums and curio shops went to the ballet Tuesday night With her escort for the ning United Nations sador Adlai E Stevenson she got a reception that would have been the envy of wood star at a world premiere ed States Australia Pakistan the Philippines New Zealand and Thailand The SEATO membership has been split over what kind of action take since the in Laos flared into a new crisis last December tain and France have been strongly opposed to any kind of outside intervention land and the Philippines felt that the United States should make greater use of the SEATO alliance machinery which could lead to tion House Idle Pay WASHINGTON The House today passed an gency unemployment aid intended to start payment in early April of nearly SI billion in benefits The Senate was scheduled to vote later today Democratic leaders hoped to send the immediately to President who has given it the No 1 spot on his list of tion The President's signature would authorize payments to begin in 15 days to persons who have been out of work so long they have used up their jobless benefit entitlements Administration spokesman estimate as many as three lion persons might benefit ing the two-year life of program the British Jury Convicts 5 Of Espionage LONDON UPi A jury day convicted three men and two women of filching top al navy secrets for the Soviet Union It took the jury 1 hour and 28 minutes to decide that the defendants two British clerks and three for- eigners including two cans had violated the Official Secrets Act Among the information they were alleged to have spirited out royal navy research base was a nuclear submarine blueprint supplied to Britain by the United State Chief Sir Hutert ter Parker summed up the trial today as a spy thriller of jor importance to the state The main courtroom of the historic Old Bailey was ed for the closing session of the eight-day case presented by Scotland Yard's top secret agents after months of ing and surveillance The prosecution had ed: That Henry F Houghton 55 a naval clerk and his mistress Ethel Eliazbeth Gee 46 gave details of the royal navy's un- derwater warfare plans in- plans of the atomic Dreadnought to Gordon A Lonsdale 37 iously described as a Canadian an American and a Russian That Lonsdale conspired with Peter Kroger 50 and his wife Helen 47 to transmit secrets to Moscow from the Krogers suburban home In the home the agents found a radio transmitter on a Moscow beam thousands of American dollars false ports equipment and various gadgets with false compartments for concealment The FBI in Washington identified the Krogers as ris Cohen and his wife Lola American citizens who had in Ntw York Moroccans Free 3 American 8 Other Captives RABAT Morocco Three Americans and eight other foreign oil prospectors kidnapped by Moroccan men were free today and their abductors were hailed as ots King Hassen II after an- nouncing the release of the men Morocco's claim to the Spanish Sahara Rio de Oro south of the border and praised the men who seized the ers in the disputed region The oil men's whereabouts had been a mystery and fears for their safety were growing when the young king American British French and Spanish diplomats to announce their release Tuesday night One Spaniard disclosed the oil men were turned over to the Moroccan army the day tribesmen captured them about miles south of the Moroccan border One of the Americans James Gilbert 25 of field Tex said they were well treated but all were ed The other Americans were Dale Miller 26 of Bakerfield Calif and John Cosgriff 26 of Big Timber Mont Five two Canadians and a Frenchman completed the ty The group had set out from a camp a few miles south of the border March 11 on an oil prospecting expedition Kennedy Changes Time Day Of News Conference WASHINGTON UP ident Kennedy's news ence Thursday will be cast live at 6 p m EST in a change of plan that raised speculation about an important announcement on the crisis in Laos The news conference ally was set for 4 p m EST day That was changed to 4 p m Thursday with word that there would be no live cast In giving the new time today the White House said the sion will be carried live on all major television and radio works Indications were that the reason for the was the situation in Laos Kennedy re- wanted an additional 24 hours before speaking out or being questioned on that matter 23rd Amendment Close To Reality WASHINGTON UP The 23rd Amendment granting the presidential vote to citizens of the District of Columbia may become part of the tion within a or 10 days Tnis was the prediction day of a citizens committee whose promotion work so far has helped to get 35 state Approval by only three mort states needed to get tht necessary three-fourths of states for the amendment which submitted
