Star-News (Newspaper) - December 6, 1957, Pasadena, California Shoppers May Get Emergency Bus Lines NO SMOG 92 PAGES SOUTHERN FINEST EVENING NEWSPAPER CLASSIFIED SY OTHER PASADENA CALIFORNIA FRIDAY DECEMBER 6 WALL STREET FINAL 10 CENTS Russ Say U.S Holding Sputnik Booster K ASSERTS MISSILE EXPLODES ON GROUND MERCHANTS VOTE FOR RIDES Transportation Plans Still Need Approval The mercantile committee of the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce today voted to spend up to provide some sort of emergency bus service for Christmas pers during the current bus strike Details of routes and ules were to be worked out later by a subcommittee sub to approval of the ber board the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen which has jurisdiction over striking adena City Lines drivers and the Embree Bus Co which would provide the buses on a par diem contract RIDES The buses would be free to riders and would not go out of the city limits Though an earlier plan to provide service from parking arris in the Rose Bowl anil Victory Park was not ruled out at today's meeting the of the 30 merchants present was In favor of some sort of regular south service on tour or five major streets to bring tomers into the downtown district These buses would tie in with one or more traveling east and west on Colorado street Adams II chamber ager reported that the Em bree Co would furnish as many buses as merchants dered at a cost of per 13 hour day for each ger bus PLEDGED Costs would be defrayed by individual merchants sub- with chamber limited to under a motion made by Hammond Nash at the conclusion of the Turn to Page 4 Navy Blimp Sinks at Sea 8 Saved blimp in distress settled and sank in the turbulent Atlantic 55 miles off Georgia but the eight men aboard slid down dangling lines into a destroy er's boats and were rescued without getting their feet wet the Navy reported today None of the en- tire injured a spokesman at the ters of the Atlantic Fleet Naval Air Force reported The big airship went into the water 9 o'clock last night the Navy reported alter the blimp had suffered a com- plete engine failure The men on the blimp began radio messages shortly after the power failure and began shooting flares after their radios went dead CARRIER FELL SUNDAY PLAN BUS SERVICE Stewart Hayward left of the Independent Howes chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Mercantile Committee and Adams II Chamber ager discuss possible routes for emergency bus service Chamber will sponsor for Christmas shoppers during current bus strike Transportation would be free Pasadena Bus Talks Off Until Monday A threatened bus strike in Long Beach has apparently stymied Pasadena's efforts to settle the strike here at least until next Monday City Manager Don C McMillan reported Washington Denies Moscow Allegation MOSCOW tP Soviet Com- munist party chieftain Nikita Khrushchev said tonight that the carrier rocket of the first Soviet Sputnik plunged to earth over American territory ast Sunday but the will not give it up to us Khrushchev made his ation to foreign correspondents at a Finnish embassy tion We know the carrier rocket fell over the United Khrushchev said But they do not want to give it back to us We relied on their decency but they did not live up to it We know it fell somewhere in the United States and will announce it publicly soon with a request that they return it to us NOT JOKING A reporter asked Khrushchev whether he was serious or was joking I am absolutely Khrushchev replied this afternoon Officials of National Ci Lines which owns the Pas dena and Long Beach comp nies have been called to neg with Long Beach unio Finds No Shortage of Parking There is no shortage of parking spaces in the Pasadena business district despite the current bus strike a survey by the Pasadena Police Dept indicated today Apparently shoppers are staying away from the downtown area under the belief that the bus strike has caused all the available downtown parking to be a police department spokesman said So far at least this isn't so If it should become true as the Christmas shopping season progresses we will recommend that bus stops be used to provide additional curb parking for shoppers But for now that doesn't appear to he necessary r 0 SHOPPERS URGED TO POOL RIDES TO DOWNTOWN is the word in Pasadena while s buses remain idled by the strike Join In car pools where possible or organize them yourselves When you're going or shopping ask your neighbors if they want to ride with you Sharing rides will help cut down heavy traffic and alleviate parking representatives under a strike deadline which expires at midnight Sunday he said TALKS OFF TOMORROW This means they won't be able to attend a meeting callec for 10 tomorrow in McMillan's office though the meeting has not been officially called off We'll try again for next Monday or as soon after then as the city manager said Both union and management representatives have indicated their willingness to attend the meeting here and the federal mediation service has also given its blessing to our efforts to end the local tie-up CITY ASKS ACTION McMillan was instructed by Pasadena city directors at an adjourned meeting yesterday to do everything in the power of the city to bring about HONORARY POLICE CHIEF DEAD EL CAJON UP The chief of police of El Cajon Galley was found dead in his lome after most of it was by fire last night He was George Fernandez 9 who for more than 20 years ad worn a badge with the Mission Indian Police Fire Chief F M Halgren s aid the fire may have started r om an electric circuit over- by a heater which r andez was given by a friend s A doctor had told t Asked whether he meant over the American continent the United States itself or the Atlantic Khrushchev No It was not the Atlantic but United States territory He added that Americans launch a Sputnik and if that Sputnik falls over Soviet territory we would return It promptly The conversation at the re- ception in honor of Finland's 40th anniversary of freedom took place before news of the EXPLODES IN MOON TEST The rocktt flames up in a giant ball of and smoke in today's attempted satellite launching at Cape Canaveral Fla There were no injuries failure of the Vanguard missile at Cape Canaveral Fla reached Moscow STATE DEPARTMENT PUZZLED BY CLAIM WASHINGTON UP A spokesman said today the Department would be glad to said Ike Planning to Attend NATO Talks WASHINGTON ftp Pres dent Eisenhower has decide to attend the North Atlanti Treaty Organization NATO summit meeting in Paris Dei 16 it was learned today Only an unexpected n his rapid recovery from mild stroke or a firm veto b his doctors could alter his de to head the U.S delega tion to the crucial cold war meeting administration get what information we can on a Russian rocket carrier falling upon the States if the Russians want to ask about it The department appeared puzzled b y Khrushchev's Moscow comment that the carrier rocket of the first Sputnik fell in the United States last Sunday and that Americans are withholding it from Russia A spokesman for the guard satellite project i n Washington There Is no evidence of that at all Reliable informants sale plans are being made for the President to make the trans atlantic trip Formal announce ment of his decision may br put off however until day or Thursday of next week The Chief Executive's doc tors are expected to make their final checkup prior to the announcement sometime after Eisenhower ends his current long weekend stay at his Get Pa farm lim he had pneumonia Miller to Stand Trial as Adult LONG BEACH CNS John Lawrence Miller admitted killer of a 22 Rolling Hills baby today was declared unfit to be tried as Juvenile Miller who appeared before Superior Court Judge Fred Miller in Long Bench Juvenile Court sat Impassively as the he be tried tinder the general law as an appearance HUNT FAILS TO FIND GIRL 7 SYCAMORE 111 W The widening search for little Maria Ridolph and the unknown man with whom she was last seen Tuesday night failed today to turn up a single clue to the girl's mysterious Scores of volunteers and law enforcement officers fanned out wider through the flat countryside tracking other searchers who had scanned every foot along the streams which cut through the area Some 15 FBI agents questioned known sex offenders In a area along with and former inmates of a training school for delinquent boys Deputies at the office of Sheriff Alfred re- ported that every home and building In this town of some has been without turning up thing which might lead to a solution of the child's dis- BRITISH WRECK TOLL NOW 93 LONDON IPI searching for four to nine more bodies cut today into the last railroad car remaining at the site of Wednesday's disastrous train wreck Tlie first body brought out this morning mangled almost beyond recognition brought the death toll to 93 Another 177 were injured 110 of them seriously BELGRADE Yugoslavia OP A passenger train slammed into a stopped freight train in Zagreb's railway station last night killing 5 persons and injuring 23 Jet Airliner Undergoes Test BURBANK Lockheed AFL-CIO EXPELS TEAMSTER UNION ATLANTIC CITY UP The AFL-CIO convention today expelled the giant Teamsters Union on corruption charges The vote came after more than three hours of debate The vote was in favor of expulsion and 497 against George Meany AFL-CIO president revealed in a speech just before the vote that James R Hoffa Teamster elect had made repeated over- BURGLAR HAS EAGLE EYE FOR BEAUTY The man who broke into Melvin Buchanan's home at 11619 Magnolia St El le was a pretty clumsy burglar but he has an eye for feminine appeal Buchanan told the turcs during the past few weeks for conferences to try to compromise the ouster threat Through all of it there was an indication Hoffa wanted to resign and get out of the Meany toltl delegates Hoffa had been the principal pie City sheriff's deputies of the corruption None Hurt See Delay Army to Try CAPE CANAVERAL Fla The Vanguard rocket test vehicle exploded on its stand at the moment of its launching a satellite today It was officially announced hat there were no ties The explosion ended a week of effort to get the sky iant Into launching condition An earlier attempt was called iff 50 minutes short of ng time Wednesday 0 DAY DELAY The attempted launching lay came at EST Pasadena time fter a preparatory countdown starting at 6 In Washington the Penta- gon said another test ably could not be made for about 30 days Meanwhile there were ations that with the failure the Navy's attempt the Army spon might go ahead nth its own effort A Jupiter C missile which he Army says could have a satellite before the did is on the ig pad here OSS OF PRESSURE At Vanguard headquarters a said today's failure as the result of a loss of pressure in the first age after 2 seconds The rocket fell back on the tand and toppled over to lie east toward the water n it exploded The initial burst of flame out from the se of the rocket resembled at of any normal blastoff But as watchers looked for e rocket to rise the tower flame rose instead Black smoke obscured the e for 3 minutes then cleared ay Columns of water could seen playing on the rocket wcr On Bird Watch Knoll r observation point one on- shouted Now let's let 1 Army try it only one thing was 8 hy 10 picture of his wife in a sweater and shorts It charges which resulted in MORE OX expulsion vote was frame removed on the from the mantel The thief got into the house by a large rock through a window Aircraft new airliner The Electra flew hour and 27 minutes today on its maiden flight took off from Lockheed Air Terminal at and QUAKES JOLT ITALY GROSSETO UP Earth emors from dawn until most noon today sent i In Washington Navy Capt Peter Horn said at the control center an hour after the misfire it was pre- the rocket had been de- It is safe to say that it is JAKARTA Indonesia In- destroyed to the point where cannot be Horn Expelling Dutch donesia began expelling c subjects today in its campaign to win West Guinea At the same time re- ports poured in that sian employes throughout this sland republic wore seisin ened residents of a dozen business enterprises tral Italian villages fleeing into the streets Schools were closed as a cautionary measure but BORREGO SPRINGS ari See story on page 2 DIET BORREGO SPRINGS landed shortly after noon was damage and on of this desert resort was reported hurt The bothered much by were felt in the tern pera l u seto area 40 to 75 miles The high for the day west of Rome was 55 and the low was mentioned there nre two more rockets at Cape Canaveral but said they have yet to be tested a process The Army has been called into the satellite project with its Jupiter C missile since Russia's Sputniks went into Turn to Paffe 1 adult The search however through the town was renewed out incident Chief engineering pilot Her man R Fish Salmon said he flight couldn't have been better The airliner is large enough to accommodate from 66 to 98 passengers EAST GERMAN REFUGEES RISE BERLIN IPi The West lin refugee office reported to day that the largest of East Germans In fouryears sought asylum in West lin during last weekend The refugees totaled compared to the average end figure of 700 The increase was attributed to reports that the Communists plan to en controls around West In attempt to halt the flow of refugees into the ern lector QUEEN DUKE SIP TEA PALACE MAY LIFT BAN ON DUCHESS OF WINDSOR LONDON OT An official announcement from ingham Palace that Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Windsor had tea together renewed speculation today that the court may he about to lift its ban on the born twice-divorced duchess The duke usually drops In to sec his niece on his fairly frequent trips to London from his home outside Paris Rut this was the first time since Elizabeth became queen In 1052 that the palace hnd announced such a visit Docs this mean the Windsors arc now 10 be restored to a place in a columnist in the Dally Mail Will they take a house In England and re- turn from exile that has lasted 21 Hie court has officially Ignored the duchess since Edward VIII abdicated his throne to marry her The Weather Tartly cloudy today and tomorrow but considerable sunshine both days im 11 WHERE TO Sports Radio TV 81 OTHER Classified 25 through 30 Comics 14 Crossword Editorial 8 Pictures Flash News 8 Financial 18 Radio TV 31 San Tron 17 Theaters Vital Women Society Home 7 World News
