Post-Herald (Newspaper) - January 1, 1962, Beckley, West Virginia INSIDE TODAY EVERYONE n t 63 No 1 ADVOCATE of the and its PEOPLE Po Beckley W Va Monday Morning January 1 1962 QUICK QUOTES W News Service H ATE VER Is worth doing all is worth doing Dormer Price Seven Cents viet U.S Help Flooded Congolese LEOPOLDVILLE Congo and the United States are racing to Piy emergency relief to a vast area of the Congo River basin crippled by the worst floods in the river's recorded history Political considerations were Sli by the their ing waters which flooded Bands of families from of a region already made shaky by the upheavals of Congolese in- dependence The high waters flowed more than a thousand miles down the Congo reaching crisis levels first at Stanleyville then at ville where the river crosses the Equator Points further stream including Leopoldville Follows Threats Bom b Dam ages Jewish Temple CHICAGO AP A dynamite bomb blasted a North Side syn- Sunday morning Economic Gains Told By Hodges AP tary of Commerce Luther H Hodges said Sunday the nation's economy increased by more than 3 per cent this year and he looks for a 4 per cent improvement in 1962 And he said I think that we must have a larger sphere of free trade if we are going to ly have the growth we have been talking about Hodges made his statement ing a recorded television interview ABC's Issues and Answers Hodges predicted that m the long run there will be regional trade compacts similar to the Eu- ropean Common Market He said the United States would have to belong to one or more of them But at present he said none of us proposes we join the Com- mon Market but we propose there should be some kind of working relationship with the European community known as the Com- in order protect ourselves on some tial items we ship abroad Hodges said he believes the more liberal reciprocal ting authority President Kennedy is expected to ask for next month will probably be the most im- portant thing before Congress this session Bus Faced By New Yorkers NEW YORK midnight strike of 7.000 workers against private bus lines carrying 1 lion riders daily appeared ble Sunday night No talks were scheduled and neither side gave any indication that the deadlocked contract might get moving again Michael Quill president of Transport Workers Union anc several local officers sent tele- gram to Mayor Robert F Wagner urging that the city take over the bus lines An early evening meeting of bus line officials with the mayor al Grade Mansion his residence described by a spokesman for the mayor as inconclusive Quill charged that the Fifth Avenue Coach Lines and its sub- Surface Transit Inc which operate in Manhattan anc the Bronx have abandoned their franchises by refusing to accept what he called the very fair franchise changes offered your administration The bus companies motive Quill added is to get bus fares raised from 15 to 20 cents ng its basement and shattering in nearby buildings A second unexploded bomb was ound in the debris in the ment of the one-story brick The bombing came after a cries of threatening letters en dent and two forays by Bomb squad detectives said the was definitely the work if two men who forced open the ear door of the synagogue at p.m Saturday The officers said each bomb contained three sticks of mite Twice within the past six weeks the das Orthodox Jewish Synagogue as been smeared with swastikas The superintendent Harry Yablon told police he had three letters threatening us life and the synagogue The etters he said threaded that ic and the synagogue would be blown up if he did not quit his job as superintendent The blast wrecked the basement of the building and blew open street doors At least 20 windows nearby buildings were broken Rabbi Julius Goldman 65 head of the congregation was He rushed to the synagogue to retrieve the con- holy scrolls A synagogue spokesman said except for the earlier ka incidents there had been no trouble in the mixed Jewish and Gentile neighborhood Damage to the building was at by fire are preparing to meet the rents The vital river port of Matadi lad to close its harbor tions last week because of the threat of rising waters River level at Coquilhatville was expected to reach 19.5 feet this weekend the United Nations said far above the previous high level of 14.5 feet set in 1909 Two helicopters are being sent to Coquilhatville to airlift re- lief supplies to isolated villages in the interior where roads and tracks have off Stanleyville water and supplies were cut off three weeks ago and will not be back to capacity for three to six months according to mates Residents reported had the air of a ghost town without drinking water without lights with countless for- lorn families camping out on high ground outside the town until the river recedes The home of Antoine was cut off by encircling flood waters Emergency generators have been flown in from other parts of the Congo and five new tors were to be flown down this week by the U S Air Force Revolt Quickly Kennedy Visitor Francoise Auterio the barefoot French girl who caddies for Joseph P Kennedy the President's father on the French Riviera is coming to the U S this January to help near Miami Fla Also she will visit the elder Kennedy ill in a West Palm Beach hospital ists Captured Hostages Unharmed BEIRUT Lebanon AP Arab rightists and a small military faction tried to seize power Sunday and failed They were repulsed in a battle in Beirut then rooted out of a mountain stronghold and cap- tured by loyal army tanks armored cars and loads of troops Five persons were reported killed and several wounded in the fighting that erupted in Beirut before dawn and ended less than half a day later in the towering purple hills outside the city Key officers seized by the els as hostages were freed unharmed Large bers of suspected plotters were arrested Quiet returned to the city by nightfall The insurgents members of the rightist Popular Social party two army captains and about 40 beaten back in a battle at the Defense Ministry They made a last stand in the mountain stronghold of Wadi el Karm 30 miles above this tal with a cousin of President Western Leaders Optimistic Troubled Mankind Hopes For Better Year In 1962 By ANDREW MEISELS AP Staff Writer From Times Square N Y to Piccadilly Circus London from Red Square to the Berlin wall a troubled mankind joined hopes Sunday night in a brief interval of worldwide unity Their words of greeting were different but the sentiment was the May the new year be better than the year that has passed Western leaders expressed optimism over the chances for together with a ness for whatever 1962 may bring President Kennedy in Florida at the bedside of his ailing father expressed hope in the success of this nation's design to achieve a world of freedom Guarded optimism was ed also in an exchange of sages between President Kennedy and Soviet leaders Soviet Pre- mier Khrushchev sent sonal good wishes to Kennedy his family and the American people There is no doubt that on the of affairs in relations depends very much whether humanity will go towards peace or war In his pressed hope that 1961 strengthen the foundations of world peace and will bring an im- provement in the relations be- tween our countries upon which so much depends Many Americans went to their churches to pray for peace on the eve of the year since the birth of Christ the prince of peace Others tried to forget their Small Road Toll Points To A New Year Record troubles for a night and live for the present amid revelry and New York City assigned 450 to handle the throngs that normally jam the Tunes Square area on New Year's Eve to come the new year Americans were not the only ones celebrating In Rome Italians street at the dis- card of the old year In a more serious mood ians gathered at St Peters Square to receive Pope John last public blessing of 1961 In Japan meanwhile thousands By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Traffic 166 Fires 42 Miscellaneous 31 Total 240 Driver Charged With Car left Wayne Giles 24 Mount Tabor was booked at the Raleigh County at 6 p.m Saturday on a charge of interstate trans- of a stolen motor vehicle Giles was arrested by an FBI agent en a federal warrant ing him with stealing a car from a used car lot in Plymouth Ind and driving it to West Virginia Giles was taken into custody Saturday by Oak Hill police In a hearing here before U S Commissioner W A Riffe he waived to the federal grand jury meeting at Bluefield April 10 and By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The New Year's holiday end showed signs Sunday of be- coming the safest on record The president of the National Safety Council praised the motorists for holding the toll down If the encouraging trend con- the traffic toll will be be- low not only any previous New Year's three-day weekend but less than any three-day holiday weekend on said NSC President Howard The safety council had ted 330 persons would die in fic accidents during the holiday span from 6 p.m local time day to midnight Monday The lowest traffic toll for any three-day New Year's holiday since the council began keeping records in 1946 was 269 deaths is being held bail in custody under The Weather West Cloudy with snow Monday high Partly cloudy Maiday night and Tuesday with snow flurries In the tains continued cold Tuesday STREAM Normal stage and clear Lake Normal clear 3 gates New gauge 2.6 feet at Hinton w w mtm m recorded in The vh m sons died in traffic accidents 68 three-day holiday on record fires and 78 in miscellaneous Memorial Day 1948 when 204 during that three-day sons died in traffic The council pointed out a period there were fewer automobiles by the Associated the road in those p.m Friday Dec 8 to mid- The deadliest New Year's Monday Dec day weekend was that of died in traffic 42 in fires when there were 374 57 in miscellaneous accidents deaths Last New Year's 338 a total of 446 1 West Killed In By THE ASSOCIATED the forecast for West Virginia West Virginia moved for occasional snow Sunday second half of the long and Monday changing to weekend Sunday with still flurries Monday afternoon one reported traffic death State Police said that all there were indications of were open in the state late bad but that were John Paul Craft 44 of in areas where new snow son was killed Saturday when falling car was in collision with a crews were out in the on 63 near County area and State County at Elkins said that the and one person in the truck of a light new snow minor perhaps three-fourths of an The state also had recorded was to leave all roads fire that of slick Michael Ray Rose son of Mr also began to fall again Mrs Douglas Rose of near night on the West Virginia ster Springs Five other in the Flat Top area escaped injury when fire Beckley but State Police AC year as part of a religious tion practiced for hundreds of years New sacred day for the no time for loud tions Each temple bell rings out 108 times to atone for the 303 sins the Buddhists believe man commits during the year Japanese flocked to the and shrines to pray for health and prosperity in the year of the tiger according to the oriental Zodiac Russians celebrate New Year's as the biggest of the holidays Comrades exchange gifts while children receive them from Grandfather Frost the viet nonreligious version of ta Clans Between the merrymakers on both sides of the iron curtain stands the Berlin wall as a grim reminder of the differences that still separate mankind Edgy lice on both sides of the wall have forbidden noisy fireworks Across the wall in West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt assured they would remain free in the coming year rely on the words of our friends We certainly will not be saved from new strains but we will preserve peace and help to secure he said Fuad Chehab among their tages An army communique saying mopping up operations were con- announced the arrest of the chief of the Popular Social party Abdullah Saade and said he was carrying the equivalent of in foreign money Premier Rashid Karami's Western government in a com- blamed the attempt at violence on a few members of the army and the Popular cial party an organization with a long history of violence The ty opposed to United Arab Re- public President Gamal Abdel Nasser's ambitions for Arab unity is outlawed through most of the Middle East The insurgents launched their abortive coup a few hours after midnight One armed the army supporters stormed the Defense Ministry in southeastern Beirut After a battle the rebels were re- pulsed Several were captured However at the same time the insurgents were having greater success with their plans to nap prominent military leaders They surrounded the homes of a number of loyal officers and were able to grab at least four and take them to the mountain hold The hostages included Lt Col the army chief of staff hab a commander in Beirut and cousin of the president Cmdr Toufic chief of security and a police colonel The army then sent a lar force of armored vehicles and troops into the mountains and the rebel stronghold capitulated Large numbers of insurgents were reported seized in the moun tains and the army said all of who were lost have re their duties at their posts Reporter Finds New Lead Actress Piper Laurie and her finance New York Tribune reporter Joseph hug in the City room See that paper on the If you've ever seen a newspaper's City Room you know this is just nothing 31 Years Of Tyranny End Changes Today SANTO DOMINGO Dominican by the late dictator Generalissimo Republic 31 years of tyranny Dominicans prepared Sunday night to usher in 1962 with a and new hope for democracy A Council of State will be inaugurated on New Year's Day at the national palace replacing the regime left behind Butler Rite Set eral for Paul M Butler 56 former chairman of the cratic National Committee will be held at Wednesday in Sacred Heart Church on the University of Notre Dame pus Butler died Saturday after fering a heart attack in George Washington University Hospital in Washington D where he had been a patient since Dec 5 for treatment of a severe cold and complications 3 Escape Into Free Berlin Cow Led From Perch ASHTABULA Ohio AP A moo in a Jersey heifer named blindfolded and dragged down a dozen narrow steps of a barn day Thus ended her stay on a load of hay John B Perry who owns a in the same area found acre farm at Rome Ohio said hole in the wire and slipped his son his brother and father through too Rafael L Trujillo The rule until after general elections next December give Dominicans the first new form of government since the U S Marine occupation ended in 1924 A big boost to the new regime is expected to come almost im- mediately with lifting phere sanctions against the try The sanctions imposed ing the Trujillo by the of American States were kept on in the that followed tion last May President Joaquin Balaguer has promised to step down as ary head of the council as soon as the OAS diplomatic and eco- nomic sanctions are ended a step expected next week Balaguer said in an interview the ending of the bans would be a able help in facing the nation's biggest economic creasing foreign exchange re- serves The first open sign that the council was not going in with the full blessing of all political tions developed Sunday when the 14th of June group criticized the creation of the cil as having been done behind the backs of the people The group's leaders previously had said they would not obstruct the work of the council In a statement the 14th of June group also censured the National BERLIN AP Three fully armed East German policemen escaped to West Berlin during the night West German reported Sunday One of them j Civic Union the biggest of the brought his wife factions for planning to Western officials said two of the I become political party The Esst German policemen called cut a hole through the barbed wire fences along the der in the southwestern fringes of West Berlin while on duty there Then they skipped out the wife of one and asked West Berlin police for asylum A short time later a third spent down a half hour gettin from her strange hayloft Daisy snow and ice that covered quarters of the country and brought chaos to roads Hundreds were reported snowbound in trucks tourist buses and cars in the northern half of land and throughout Scotland France's problems in Algeria continued through the new year as terrorists took no holiday New Year's Eve noisemakers In At first I thought someone stole Daisy Perry said We dis- covered she was missing Friday night at 8 o'clock I sheriffs office and Deputy Lachey came out to help me Perry and Lachey heard a noise in the barn and went up in the hayloft to investigate They found Daisy quite comfortable big load of hay Meanwhile the U.S Army was showing its teeth in enforcement of a ban against travel by the viet commandant into the can sector A Soviet lieutenant colonel asked to identify himself called the crossing into West Berlin i refused for a time to enter a U.S spokesman said The incident occurred at at the Friedrichstrasse In- crossing on the Charlie to the Americans Algeria were grenades and I couldn't understand how Soviet officer was in a jeep three other soldiers He re- tic bombs punctuated by the lone could carry her off Civic Union was originally as a nonpartisan watchdog group Steel Rise Seen WHEELING AP A ing Steel Corp official predicted here that the first six months of will bring a high rate of steel production and shipments and a moderate but continuing ment in the economy William A Steele chairman and resident of the firm said in a year-end statement that there probably will be a stockpiling of steel by customers looking toward a possible industry-wide strike the answer a screams from the wounded year-old Perry said because she Question Who are ation U Thant Appeals UNITED NATIONS AP Secretary-General U Thant called upon the of the world Sunday to resolve their differences peacefully through conciliation mediation and dying At least 20 were killed and I weighs 800 pound in Russian on a In a New Year's message Meanwhile State Police were needed d snow late Sunday afternoon in tell drivers to exercise care I Preston and Randolph counties officer implored Raleigh Has Quiet New Year's Eve Ski Mishap Fatal PETOSKEY Mich CAP One man was killed and several sons were injured when a ski Hft out of control and dashed It was relatively in leigh County New Year's Eve according to State and Beckley police West Virginia Turnpike police reported one minor traffic mishap when flurries began falling two cinder spreaders and one cinder truck was sent to Fiat Top where snow began sticking and to White Oak Mountain and leigh Hill No accidents were re- the State Road said light siwy beginning at 7 The SRC said primary and p.m was making county roads were in fair1 Michigan winter resort Sunday The accident occurred at Nubs Nob 10 miles northeast of within what witnesses called d frightening few seconds Larry Orr 32 a Grand Rapids schoolteacher died of in- juries a few hours later in Little Traverse Hospital at Petoskey hazardous again A car driven by Carl Raymond Organ of Venice Fla ran into the rear of a tractor-trailer truck at mile post 29 about p m causing little damage and no injuries The truck was op- by Henry H Lange of folk Va Both vehicles continued under their own power The SRC said few snow showers were reported during Sunday but condition The turnpike was in Pledges Traded Maxim's and the Lido to 79 come in the new year while ers danced the twist at cabarets In Taipei President said his Chinese government must effect total mobilization for recovery of the China land He urged the people of the PALM BEACH Fla the close of a troubled year On the mainland Communist ident Kennedy reminded Soviet official newspaper Premier Khrushchev Sunday of ping Peoples Daily said in an put er 16 years ago Let us start the new year BERLIN AP British Labor he said with the resolve to ad- Gaitskell Plans Tour We blindfolded Daisy some rope on her horns and j party leader Hugh Gaitskell further firm in step upon pulled her down those wooden i scheduled to arrive here Uhis road Perry said We had to for a visit as guest of real slow but Daisy didn't seem I West Berlin city government On unhappy all I think she's glad j his A tour of the to be back with her mother Sarah wall through this divided though I their joint and grave ity for strengthening the base of peace in J 962 In an exchange of messages condition with exception of Flat with the Communist leader Top where snow was making pledged the best effort of road slick Cinder crews were the United States in the coming sent there late Sunday State Police asked drivers to use snow tires They ed chains for W Va 16 and also for W Va 33 which leads to Odd and dell year to improve relations be- tween the two nations and relieve global tensions Khrushchev in a message to Kennedy made public in Palm Beach made the same kind of pledge editorial of New Year's that the situation was very for construction of true communism in China Cuban Premier Fidd Castro received messages of tions from Communist Chinese leaders on the third anniversary of his revolution Warning Castro to watch out for the United States the message sakl present U S imperialism is to carry out zealously a frantic intervention England AP Finally Richardson could stand Farmer Percy Richardson found himself on the horns of a dilemma Friday night He had the choice of facing a mad bull or freezing to death Richardson was flung into a pond by the bull after a furious chase across a meadow For 20 minutes he stood chest deep in the freezing water while the bull ed by the edge pawing the covered ground the cold no longer He from the water and made for a nearby tree The bull caught and tossed him into the lower branches For another 15 minutes ardson clung to his haven shouting mad A passing farmer heard the shouts and came to Richardson's rescue with a tractor Trie bull was cornered and later shot Cars Collide Beckley State Police reported a head-on collision on U S near Ghent at 11 p.m Sunday A spokesman at headquarters sard the mishap apparently was not too serious One car was re- ported over an embankment No injuries or deaths were reported No Skating Today Because of the warming trend there will be no skating today at the New River Park and un- less the weather turns much colder there will be no skating tonight a park spokesman an- Sunday night
