Post-Standard, The (Newspaper) - December 31, 1962, Syracuse, New York Puzzle Prize Now See Page 8 FINAL YEAR THE Number 101 N DECEMBER 1962 Weather Partly coM morrow High today I Low M Page 7 SEVEN CENTS CNY GRIP OF FRIGID BLAST A Syracuse area home appeared nearly buried as drifts and snowfall piled up around In yesterday's wind-blown weather In THE WIND HUFFED AND PUFFED AND THE SNOW BLEW AND BLEW the center one ol the many county plows ing snow apparently got the best of the big weic out in force yesterday trying almost swallowing it up At the to keep the roads clear But the shores of Onondaga Lake bubbled and frothed as the icy wind whipped the waters to a depositing a thick coat of ice on rocks and shrubbery along the shore Subzero Family of Three Escapes Flames A husband and wife and month old child were forced out into weather when A fire broke out in a supermarket adjoining their home at Midland and Bellevue Avenues late last night men stood out in the wind to re- route traffic from the intersection The stoic's owner Tied P Corey of 411 Shonnard St who had closed the about 10 OS p said ho was summoned The special alarm fire began m back to the scene several the basement ot Corey's IGA Superette Mid land Ave Dense smoke the store and residence of Joe Martinez and his who works in thi said he had just sa down to a late supper with hi wife when smoke bil lowed up the heat registers and tilled the small home at to the rear of the market 3 Below Zero Pausing only to put something warm on his wife am Martinez ran from the building into zero weather Mrs Martinez and the babj to the home ot friends anc Martinez returned with the aid of was to get some personal belongings valuables and baby clothes hampered by bitter cold and icy were often enveloped in black smok as they attempted to get to the fire and its origin Some oxygen masks had to be discarded a the lace plates froze over when firemen attempted to use them Street teed Water gushing out the store's front door flooded the creating slick ice as fire men ran and skidded in and ou of the buildings Their a became encrusted with ice as they passed sprays water Many curious up in the braved the chil winds to gawk at the firemen and police at work Several pa trol car and motorcycle Packers Still NFL Champs Stary M Page YORK Green Bay won the National ball League title Sunday as Jerry Kramer kicked three field goals and Jim Taylor scored their lone touchdown in a victory over the New York Giants at Yankee The who ated the Giants last New Year's Eve in Green had to fight for their in this rematch Unloaded Rifle Kills Playmate ALBANY of suburban was wounded Sunday police a playmate pulled the trigger ot a rifle he believed was utt loaded The Tally boy was visiting the home of his whose name not police said the old wm shell from rifle and believing it was and littd at utes a call the owner ol Leonard's across the street from bis market Corey said that he had a but was unable to estimate his loss early this morning Motor Suspected The cause of the which gutted the was not immediately but firemen indicated it appeared to have be- gun near some compressor motors Corey told police he had been having trouble with one of the motors lately Deputy Chief John and District Chief Peter ski directed the of men from Engines 21 Truck 1 B and the rescue squad Six Persons Killed in Fire MC Flames flashed through a house killing six persons A tenant his their three children and a teen-age perished in the The victims were Paul liis Lois James Barr Monty Barr Kim 8 and Judy Graham of an overnight guest in the home All were in bed when the room frame house caught Tire A neighbor eaw the flames about 4 turned m an alarm t couldn't enter the house It was too hot Firemen were able to keep only one comer cf one room from The cause of the blaze was not By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Traffic 150 Fires 23 Miscellaneous 27 New Year holiday motorists djed on the nation's highways in ever-increasing numbers Sunday as the four-day weekend moved to the halfway mark Traffic accidents killed 150 fires claimed 23 lives and 27 persons died in miscellaneous mishaps The total holiday death toll was 200 At the beginning of the weekend from 6 p.m Friday to midnight traffic deaths were fewer than the tolls for like periods in recent New Year days But deaths mounted swift ly Sunday The National Safety concerned over the warned motorists to be cautious Its warning stressed two factors that nave figured largely in cas of previous holidays and driving too last tor conditions A Saturday stonn dumped snow on s ing zone m the the hazards of raced through a farmhouse near Me killing six per sons But the fire toll was low despite freezing weath er that enveloped most ot the eastern half of the country During the recent long mas weekend also four days persons died in traffic 107 in and 85 in other kinds of mishaps for a total of 83ft The council has estimated that between 420 and 480 Americans will lose their lives in traffic dents during the current holiday period During a recent four-day non- loliday an Associated Press survey showed 371 traffic 64 deaths In fires and 76 n the miscellaneous Bracket for an over-all count of 511 The od ran from 6 p.m Friday Dec to midnight Tuesday Dec 11 The lowest traffic toll for a period since war II recorded in the celebration It was 375 M Page Sunday Deaths Tshombe Vows Fight to End Boost Holiday Highway Toll U N Forces Seize Katanga the Congo UN Congo command tightened its note Sunday on the military and nerve centers of Ka- claiming widespread gains against flagging resistance President riedly fled from to Rhodesia There he vowed his secessionist province fight to the rather than accept forced reunification with the Congo central government In New the United tions claimed victory and said its military operations in Katanga have ended It said Tshombe leH Katanga of his own and it offered him guarantees of his personal safety if he wishes to re- turn Secretary-General U Jhant sent congratulations on the success to Robert K A chief of operations in the and Gen commander of Con- go forces Going Back In Southern Tshombe told newsmen he not fled his rich back to Ka- tanga He declared the United Nations not have achieved victory in his capital because he had de clared Elisabethville an open city to avoid destruction United Nations has ed a new Algeria in Tshombe said angrily the United the United Stales which supports the United take full blame for what has happened shall not leave Katanga because the United tions wants to force a solution on us We have always been pre- pared to but if they wish to force a solution on all including north and m the south in the troops saw we their drive to force Tshombe's capitulation The United Nations said dish jet fighters almost lv eliminated the air destroying two British Vampire and four or five converted trainers on the ground at airfield Shelters at 150 miles northwest of were reported destroyed a military said one Western diplomat Lt Prem lender in eaid were low on both sioes in of heavy fire He said this was because moment meant business they At least 50 African civilians were reported killed in the Albert township of Elisabethville during the battle over a roadblock reports said four and two killed in an others crossed the border into Northern Rhodesia and were dis- armed Some armored cars mounting guns were de clared to have been abandoned without a announcement and radio to diplomatic embassies in Leopoldville told of waning tion to clear roadblocks U N defense activity wounded were variously Tshombe flew to Salisbury at 24 or 26 troops were said to have extended their perimeter around Elisabethville to control all that area within 12 miles from the ter of the capital messages said some Ka- tanga gendarmes had thrown ing the day in a Rhodesian air force piane and at once conferred with Prime Minister Sir Roy We lensky of the Central African who has been tic to his cause The president also away their weapons and on Col Castro Demands Balk Exit of More Relatives er to die Cites Algeria Asked how long he thought the would keep fighting Tshombe said resistance would continue longer than tn where there were seven years of guerrilla war shall not use the same methods as the he said launch an offensive of the Algerian type forces the capture of Kamina In the U.S Robots to Seek Life On Planet Mars in 1966 By ALTON PKM Writer PHILADELPHIA The States plans to land an expeditionary force of robot on Man in to search life there A space agency official an- the date Sunday and ingenious being eloped or studied to carry he exciting assignment on Mars surface The Mars landing would start question of how life in the universe Princeton scientist hat ig of and scientific questions ot our Man Is Bui we're working on the postulate said Df Freeman by of the the IM date first detectors will ht nV to hunt for the most common form of life on he toid the American sociation for the Advancement of Science One detector the sticky has been an- would pick up a ple of any bacteria in it grow in a culture medium with radioactive atoms taking up the radioactivity as they multiplied could then be detected Dr Quimby said re- under NASA are working An to detect the genetic material of life on earth In any Martian A device carrying dyes which change color when into Another arrangement to trap detect bacteria through changes in or other aspects of a culture urn A miniature laboratory that would carry a variety of chemi cat reagents to detect and Dr Davenport of the University ot California at Santa Barbara outlined another ity using the Hying spot of light from television lube to detect any tiny thing moving about in of liquid picked up from Mars or another planet If the devices on the first Mars landing send back negative re man will still have to gn to Mid Dr S- here may be wme forms wlin the stuff rtf of Princeton far life A mass to or trom or hi ihert itt from tarty Iht Wg HAVANA The Cuban government said Sunday it would permit those wanting the to do so only if Pan American Airways resumes flights between Havana and Mi- Fla A communique issued by Fidel Castro's office also denied reports the bearded prime minister had any intention of going to the ed Nations to negotiate release of 21 Americans imprisoned in Cubs The broadcast by Havana further denied that Castro ever promised to lei tional relatives of ransomed sion prisoners leave Reports have circulated that they would be allowed to leave on Red chartered ships bringing the bal ance of million in medicines and ransom for pris of the Bay of Pigs The government was swamped with applications for exit permits after the African Pilot took out relatives of ransomed prisoners James B the attorney who negotiated release of the in- vasion said Saturday in Lake that it was tro himself who raised the ol his coming to the United Nations The radio President Kennedy's welcome to freed Bay of Pigs invasion at Saturday and pro revolutionary government will maintain Its policy ing the departure Iron the try of alt those wanting to leave as soon as the airline resumes its flights ed by decision of North American No elaboration of the statement was given A Pan American spokesman In Wew York the airline had little desire to resume normal service to said lions and limited travel had re- Hi heavy losses rm Cuban in the past several years Private and commercial flights to and over the island were banned by United States ing the crisis over Castro's con- struction ot Soviet missile bases In commenting on Kennedy's visit to Miami to greet the re- turning Havana radio admitted his par and contribution in all steps related to satisfy the in- demanded by ban revolutionary justice to free the The radio described Kenneoy as an aristocrat and discriminating who persists in policy toward in open violation of the United a Land made a real effort to forget his Yankee aristocratic when he called crs these contemptible Latin Americans born in the dio said It said the Cubans who packed the Orange Bowl were and women without a try Members of the Cuban invasion brigade shouted the word during the Havana dio back in April 1961 were full of terror im- Motorists Advised to Avoid Travel Temperatures Plunge as Wind Causes Drifting Blowing snow throughout the Central New York area caused poor visibility at ports and highways with hard packed find ice on for the second straight day yesterday The Stale Thruway remained open with icy conditions but motorists on the section ftom the Syracuse area to Ro- chester were halted at service area road and warned to drive cautiously at 30 miles an hour with lights on Heavy winds and drifting snow m that area caused traffic to be held up at times at the Geneva and chester interchanges The way report advised no sary travel State police of Troop re- ported all roads open m Central New York but heavy drifting in places caused poor visibility Many secondary roads were due lo drifts Reduce Visibility Throughout Onondaga County the story was nearly the as intermittent falling snow mingled with wind-blown drifts to reduce visibility in spots The County Department of Public Woiks the crews were out in lorce yesterday and complaints were at a mini- mum Plows and sanders were being used to keep roads a spokesman said In Syracuse roads were termed clear by a Public Works who said Saturday night crews had taken care of most trouble spots He said eral salters were standing by yesterday to but no trouble spots had been reported Law agencies in the area reported numerous property age accidents and only a few involving injuries counly and city police reported several cars skidding off roads j due for peace of the most ridiculous of the show staged by and his mercenaries was the to the fake brigade flag which Kennedy promised to re- turn Gome aay to what he called a free the radio apparent lack of caution on icy roads Drivers Cautioned Accident division spokesmen for ail police agencies again sounded the word of caution to avoid unnecessary and to use extreme caution if travel is needed Pedestrians A diplomatic source in on the lookout said Friday that Castro's on an offer to allow more Cubans to leave the island on a second ship chartered by the American Red Crocs James B the ney who negotiated the release of the invasion said in Lake that under his agreement wilh an additional relatives of the are to come to the ed Slates Donovan saia it was himself who had raised the of hts coming to Die ed speak at the United Nations and enter into tions for freeing 21 Americans prisoned in Cuba Donovan said Castro gave no indication of when he might make the trip West Police Mystified By East Berlin Blasts Jcy conditions Motorists should expect to face continual icy con- ditions throughout the holiday and are urged to drive at speeds consistent with tions A Niagara Mohawk Power Corp spokesman iast night said no bad been with the but several utility poles had been damaged by sliding cars The Syracuse Police ment reported the reversal of a situation which has long plagued them None of the patrol cars yesterday had to be taken out of service for heater on Page In Today BERLIN A sion was heard In West Berlin early Monday Minutes an anonymous telephone call to I he Associated Press office here said an action evidently had set off three Masts two official buildings in Eart The caller said the blasts were Ml til People's Police ters on and at a building housing the Society for friendship The the culler were a token of resistance against the East German regime of Wai Syracuse Headlines FOUR m MTf I ler Ulbricht and a protest the irresponsible Ice of the free in the face of the Berlin wall The caller identified the group as Group Peter Peter Fechter the old East Berlin construction er who bled to death at the Berlin wall 17 after being struck by from East German der guards he attempted to cape His death near n point touched off rioting by West WeM Berlin police had no ex pi a nation t-t the nor WANK SINATRA APPEARED AT 6 Astrological Forecast 14 Pme Puzzle 8 Comic Pages Crossword Puzzle 15 Death Record Editorial Morning's Radio-TV Programs 7 4 4 13 Syracuse News Suburban News A Tell Me Why 14 Women's 5 Bridge Deaf abte Ift confirm caller's A reporter Inspected nf the alleged blasts in Rasl hut no sign of any activities or any extra lice patrols No damage was Lyons Pen Jr 9 Berlin guards Drew 9 Checkpoint the SAW tm mil Victor S far me T f I
