Reno Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - April 4, 1961, Reno, Nevada GIVE TO YOUR RED CROSS Fund Membership Campaign Is Under Way In Washoe County EVENING GAZETTE A Newspaper for the Home Information and enjoyment for every member of the family WEATHER High Fair Through Tonight and fooler Minimum to Noontime 61 EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR PHONE FA RENO NEVADA TUESDAY APRIL 4 1961 PHONE FA 18 PAGES 10 HYDROGEN WARHEADS TOTAL 59 Arms Comparison Is Top Secret WASHINGTON AP The United States now has 59 missiles with hydrogen bomb warheads ready if needed to hurl against targets in an enemy country The nation's tile force soon will reach 91 These include the At- las ICBM equal to more than two million tons of TNT and the sub- Polaris with a mile range and warheads equal to tons of TNT By way of comparison the World War II atom bomb which wrecked Hiroshima was rated at tons of TNT How U S missile strength stacks up against that of the viet Union is kept secret but President Kennedy said in his budget message to Congress this week that it has been publicly acknowledged for several years that this nation has not led the world in missile strength ATLAS TOTAL IS 27 The latest missiles to go on the line were nine Atlases in three launching bases near Offut Air Force Base at Omaha Neb These bases were turned over to the Strategic Air Command day SAC crews would lire them in event of an enemy attack on the United States These nine plus 15 emplaced earlier near Cheyenne Wyo and three at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California bring the ready force of Atlases to 27 The Nebraska launching sites Turn to Page 13 Col 5 Reno's total tax rate would be if all political subdivisions received the amounts they are asking The tax rate in Sparks would be for each of sessed property valuation under ike conditions and the rate in Washoe County would be We Reshape Defense For ICBM Attack WASHINGTON of Defense Robert S McNamara said today this country is ing its defenses so they can ride out a massive ICBM attack The new Pentagon chief spelled out for the Senate Armed ices Committee details of a military budget as re- vised from the one former dent Dwight D Eisenhower sent Congress The problem of deterring an all-out nuclear war has been greatly complicated by the duction of intercontinental tic missiles into the arsenal of our major adversary in the world McNamara said SURPRISE ATTACK A year or two from now our principal concern will be a prise attack by large numbers of ICBMs He testified behind closed doors but newsmen were given copies of a prepared statement he took to the session McNamara said a study of our general war tion brought a decision to re- duce our dependence on deterrent forces which are highly able to ballistic missiles attack or which rely for their survival on a hair-trigger response to the first indications of such an at- tack Instead he said this tration will place greater em- phasis on the kind of forces which could ride out a massive nuclear attack and which could be applied with deliberation and always under the complete con- trol of constituted authority That is why McNamara said the new administration is step- ping up production of the Polaris and Minuteman missiles both ing solid and Ing off future production of Titan long-range missiles Battle Lines Drown for Washoe Budget Combat But the Nevada Constitution limits the rate to for each Thus the lines for the spring battle of the budget are drawn At least one budget official said this morning the dollar problem could be settled without going to the Nevada Tax Commission Most years the commission is called upon to squeeze all tax beneficiaries into the limit TAKE CHANCES will ask for and receive I it does not appear to be enough cigaret to !v- bused on fulfilling all Procter Hug Sr tendant of said today The spokesman for another to be no chance division of government has de- clared unofficially he wants to take his chances with the com- mission The Washoe County School Dis- of reducing the district's share of the tax rate to affect the rate Work on figures may be by ihc get revision is underway and of the week according to the there is any adjustment it will be made by the board April 11 Ithe administrator advised yoar js on a Legislative action last week I Reno Sparks and Washoe irate for that of means we will pick up some haven't received official city charter Reno's Hug said benefits of a new and stronger j rate to and the higher figure i Turn to 13 Col 1 ail figured i out yet but I anticipate a cutback City Manager Joo Latimore ad Tuesday Latimore predicted a AFRICANS ON WIFE SLAIN BANDLEADER IN CUSTODY Spade Cooley Admits Slapping Estranged Mate BAKERSFIELD wife of former western bandleader Spade was found dead of blows Monday night and her daughter told of- today she saw him ister the beating Melody Cooley 14 said she be- came frightened at the sight and fled the couple's home on a big ranch in the California desert southeast of here Deputy Sheriff John Howard who disclosed Melody's story also said Cooley's daughter-in-law told officers she saw Cooley in blood spattered clothing Monday night at the door of the palatial desert home Dorothy Lee wife of John Cooley 28 son by a previous marriage said she left without entering the house and drove to nearby Lancaster to tele- phone her husband Cooley arrested at Tehachapi Valley Hospital where his wife was pronounced dead on arrival Monday night was taken to the sheriff's substation at IA o j a v e hen brought to the Kern County Jail here this morning Cooley was booked on suspicion of murder NATHANIAL WILSON Life of Service N E Wilson Former Mayor Dies in Reno Nathaniel Estes Wilson for 70 years -a resident of Reno for- mer mayor of the city and long South African Break Is Asked UNITED NATIONS N Y Soviet Union threw its support today behind a call by 25 African nations for a worldwide break with South Africa in reprisal for its racial laws The Soviet move foreshadowed a floor battle with the United States which has made plain it opposes sanctions against the Union government at this time Soviet Delegate Arkady Sobolev told the special political committee his government supported the African resolution be- cause it reflected the de- of people throughout he world The was split over the question in civic service activities died and this a leader fraternal morning at a local hospital He was 93 Mr Wilson came here in Melody Cooley and her Donnell 12 have been with a family friend Mrs W P McWhorter while attending school in Rosamond Melody told officers Mrs Whorter drove her to the Cooley ranch called Water Wonderland for a visit about 7 o'clock day night Mrs McWhorter she said left her there and went on to see some other friends ning to return in about 30 utes The child told officers she en- tered the house and saw her ther beating her mother She fled outside ran down the road and Turn to Page 13 Cal 3 Boy 13 Turns Gun on Mother DELAWARE Ohio AP Something kept telling him to do it Gary Geiger told authorities So he got a shotgun sneaked up his mother while she was playing the organ and fatally blasted her in the back Monday night the sheriff reported At first Sheriff Harley staff said Gary told of a man breaking into the house and ing his mother Lucille Geiger in her late 30s But the boy 13 broke down under questioning the sheriff said and admitted slaying her X-ray to Check Out Plane Bombs BALTIMORE Md AP An official of the Westinghouse tric Corp reported today that his company has developed a able X-ray unit to check airline luggage for bombs Edwin H Seim manager of the Westinghouse X-ray division said however that any film ried in the luggage would be ruined by exposure to X rays Kennedy to Toss Out First Ball WASHINGTON Kennedy a right-hander plans to inaugurate the major league ball season Monday by tossing out the first ball The Washington Senators and Chicago White Sox open the American League season that day Griffith and remained to become one of the city's best known and eading citizens He was born Oct 15 1867 at Orono Penobscot County Maine of old New England stock and lis ancestors had settled in ica in 1638 from Scotland and Ireland His mother was a ber of Estes family which traces its genealogy back to the year 400 to the personage of a Count de Este of Italy PENN STATE After attending public school in N E Wilson went to the Pennsylvania State College aratory school and in 1888 was graduated from University of Maine with a degree in chemistry and in 1889 received ais master's degree He spent a year in post graduate study at Cornell University then was a chemist with University of mont experiment station later en- tering the Standard Oil Co of New Jersey laboratories at Moving to Reno in 1891 he was a chemistry instructor at the uni- versity until 1906 when he re- signed He engaged in the drug business as a member of Dalton Clifford Wilson Co and in 1916 he bought out the other in- and organized the N E Wilson Co Inc His drug store was at First and Virginia Streets in the Masonic Temple Building until a few years ago when he Turn to Page 13 Cal 1 of sanctions Failing to reach a compromise two factions in the roup came forth with rival lor dealing with the theid question The 25 African members of the United Nations threw their mous support behind Ghana's call for sweeping sanctions that would sever all diplomatic and c ties with the South African halt all postal and communications and close all ports and airfields to South African craft India Ceylon and Malaya put n a resolution that would permit nations individually or to take what action they deemed fit to force South Africa to change its treatment of its 10 million The United Arab Republic though sponsoring the Ghana de- mand later decided to add its name also to the three Asian tions draft The split may serve to pate some of the resentment which has been brewing over a Turn to Page 13 Col 4 MARILYN Monroe and Joe DiMaggio scamper away from pursuing press at Tampa Fla airport They've been dating steadily since Miss Monroe divorced playwright Arthur Miller Biggest News On Laos Scene Soviets Agree WASHINGTON AP Diplo- matic informants said today the Soviets have agreed informally an effective cease-fire must be verified in Laos before a nation international conference can meet to seek a settlement in Jobless Total Shows Decline WASHINGTON CAP ployment declined in March to This was the drop in six months and was less than seasonally expected A normal drop would have been about Giving the figures today the Labor Department also reported hat employment rose by in March to a record of The total labor is people working or available for in March by 000 to Because unemployment failed decline as much as expected in March the seasonally adjusted rate of the idle to the total work force increased from 6.8 per cent in February to 6.9 per cent in March The actual unemployment rate for March without seasonal ad- justment was 7.7 per ing that 77 out of every workers were unable to find jobs last month Corral Blaze the war-torn nation That optimistic word came as high-level American and British officials worked on the aries for conferences centering on Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and President Kennedy TO WASHINGTON The prime minister flies into Washington today He was pre- ceded Monday night by Foreign Secretary Lord Home who held a two-hour slate department session today with Secretary of State Dean Rusk The question of timing on Laos a cease-fire or the should come been the major bling block in settlement efforts among the great powers Up to now the Soviet have been vague on the point leading to Western suspicions they might be aiming at long talks while backed rebels overran the east Asian country The sources who reported the Kremlin move toward the western timetable also said they believe a cease-fire can be reached in a few days and an international control commission can go into the field at the same time DR R BERNARD FINCH has showed no emotion while jury deliberates his fate in Los Angeles There are only two alternatives on he and fendent Carole or death in the gas chamber The jury started deliberating yesterday still hasn't made up its mind Doctor Says Pills Not Excuse for Death QUINCY Reno doctor testified today an overdose of pills would not have affected the judgment of Caroll Butler the day before his old stepdaughter was fatally en with a bullwhip The logger had fied at his murder trial that he took nine pills in 12 hours on Jan 6 instead of two as prescribed Dr William A Teipner ortho- surgery specialist said the overdose would have no cant effect on the type of ment AIRPORT SEIZURE IS FOILED Capital City An Armed Camp Africans Amok ELISABETHVILLE the Congo President Moishe Tshombe thwarted in a move to seize the Elisabethville airport from forces angrily called on his supporters today to get ready to fight the United Nations Two hours later he ordered them off but cans already were running amok on roads leading to the airport At midafternoon the strong man leader of secessionist Katanga Province ordered full mobilization and turned this capital city into an armed camp He handed the L forces an ultimatum to render the airport within two hours Then as tension mounted Tshombe announced he and officials had reached an ment to avert an explosion ABOUT Even as this was announced frenzied Africans were milling about uniformed Swedish soldiers them with stones and smashing their cars Two Swedish drivers were cued by white members of the Katanga army That army the most disciplined in the Congo is commanded by Tshombe but many of its officers are Belgians retained by be Belgium formerly ruled this country These were the events leading Mrs Butler had to the Katanga both she and her husband the child on Jan 6 and 7 I She pleaded guilty to slaughter and was given a one to ten year sentence Butler testified that child got sick at breakfast Jan 7 said his wife whipped the girl be- cause she wouldn't leave the table Butler said he himself left the table and went back to bed j Judge Bertram D James is hearing the trial without a jury A platoon of 24 Katanga Turn to Page 13 Col 1 Texas Senate Race Features Many Elections Su p Associated Chilean Soccer Team Feared Lost on Plane SANTIAGO Chile AP Chilean airliner was missing day with 23 persons aboard in- members of a al Chilean soccer team The plane was on a flight to Santiago from Castro 600 miles south of the capital Aboard were part of the Green Cross team The rest of the team had flown back on an earlier plane The missing plane was due in Santiago at Monday night jits last message from near Judge Bertram D James who is hearing the case without a jury the doctor said If he took 12 I would worry but nine no Teipner also testified that the body cast which Butler wore would not effect the free ment of his arms Butler was on the stand most of Monday He earlier admitted lashing little Amanda with a nine-foot bullwhip but said his pregnant wife Dorothy 20 also the child He blamed her for the slaying The child died Jan 7 AP -A brush 150 blaze over five acres ushered in no hint an early forest fire season a suddenly dried out area where there had been snow five days ago Thirty men and two bulldozers fought four hours on the level of Robb's Peak in El Dorado National Forest and succeeded in keeping the fire from spreading to valuable timber Workmen had been doing trolled burning near a tunnel of the Sacramento Municipal Upper American River project Wind caused the fire to jump for Baby WINCHESTER Ky AP When new mothers leave Clark County Hospital they get a pak for the baby The set of nursing bottles contains enough formula for the infant's first day gift of the hospital South Viet Nam Probe Is Asked Employe Suicide By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS vote today to select a Senate replacement for Vice Lyndon B Johnson Republicans get the first I on their campaign to cut into j Democratic strength in the big Off as Louis elects a Other elections across the SAN FRANCISCO AP future mayor's races in Lot Clarence Walker fil an and Aurora 111 and ated Press teletype operator for state officials in cently hospitalized with arthritis leaped to his death today On Monday Democrats the Golden Gate captured seven of nine races known suicide from the span Walker who had been with The for statewide offices in Michigan The outcome of the other two Associated Press since 1923 was stricken with severe Arthritis a proposal for of a convention the back while on vacation and spent a week in St Luke's pital He was released tT f SP er told a 10 SAIGON South Viet Nam s but a Pla to the state to use So million of its credit for new industrial or projects wag The doctor Ngo Dinh Diem's 15 r am going to have I Most interest today centers has appealed to the to I'm not Texas where the ballot is that I want to tered with 71 names Nn control commission to make an immediate and getic investigation of growing Communist terrorism and sion throughout South Viet Nam I f I Kl A a government source said in Budget Director Begins Jail Term in Colorado tered with 71 names No date is expected to receive the re- quired 51 per cent vote in the cial election and a runoff is uled June 3 between the top two candidates The election is to fill the WASHINGTON vacated when Johnson re Kennedy's budget director said to become president day that if business improves An estimated 1.25 million wiH markedly in the latter half of this vote the expected billion jeral budget deficit might INDEX ably turn into a surplus mot portents DENVER Colo phy 35 a newspaperwoman to a jail term for contempt was introduced to her Denver County jail routine day with a dinner of beans bread tea and stewed prunes The first day seemed like two mother Mrs Murphy said in an Warden Dan Stills said Mrs r interview at the jail where she is Murphy is being treated the samei one of 27 women prisoners jas other women prisoners i Powers Breaks Arm The mother of four is a She is allowed no er for the Colorado Springs privileges She was assigned a I SACRAMENTO AP She was single cell for the time Gov Harold J Powers broke Mrs Murphy reported to the Budget Chief David told Anl sements jail Monday She was allowed Commerce Department's take cosmetics a toothbrush Advisory Council that pictures of her children to of events is Possible but cell The children are being cared for by her husband and her Ann Landers 7 Classified Ads Comics U to jail for refusing to normal procedure for newly ar- close the source of an advance rived jail inmates She will be copy of a petition filed with the moved later into Colorado Supreme Court with other prisoners his arm Monday in a fall from a horse at his Modoc County ranch Powers 60 was roping a calf when he fell Puzzle 4 Earl Wilson 2 Editorials 4 on Bridge 20 Legal Notices 14 Local Regional News 9 Markets 13 Sports Sylvia Porter 8 Television Log 13 The Doctor Says 18 Vital Statistics 13 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