Titusville Herald (Newspaper) - March 7, 1961, Titusville, Pennsylvania Nol So Balmy Western Pennsylvania Mostly cloudy and cooler Tuesday and Tuesday night with showers and scattered thundershowers Tues day night High 4045 north and 4553 south Low 3237 north and 36 to 42 south Temperatures on Sports Page Published in the Birthplace of the Oil Daily Paper in the Oil 1865 SEVEN CENTS PA TUESDAY MORNING MARCH 7 1961 Over 6900 Copies Sold Daily THE DRAKE Tornadoes Kill Four Cause Loss In Midwest Roads Slicked In Michigan Heavy Snows In Some States By The Associated harbingers of through parts of the Midwest Monday killing at least four persons injuring more than a dozen others and causing heavy property damage Heavy snow plastered spread areas north of the storm belt closing scores of schools and tieing traffic in knots Freezing rain slicked highways in central and western Michigan making driving treach erous Colliding masses of warm and cold air a sign that springs not far away triggered violent weath er from the Mississippi River Vai ley eastward into Virginia A line of intense thunderstorms moved eastward over Ohio while a second batch boiled up over parts of Tennessee and Missis sippi The twisters hit in Tennessee Indiana and Illinois Three persons perished in the wreckage of their collapsed homes when a sneak tornado blasted the tiny community of Freedonia about 30 miles north est of Nashville The victims who lived in ad joining houses were Randle 60 and his wife Emil 61 and Gerald Giles 8 months all Negroes Then the small twister struck again about 20 miles northeast badly damaging two houses and unroofing several bams Swooping down just before day break violent winds demolished the transportation truck terminal near Kokomo Ind The winds hurled a motor unit into a nearby home killing May me Mansfield 68 One Indiana storm toppled eight big smokestacks at Austin in the southern part of the state er swept along what is known as tornado alley in northcentral In diana A rash of twisters and wind storms struck at widespread points in Southern Illinois causing considerable damage but only two minor injuries were reported Crime Fight Fund Asked After Tornado Ripped Chicago Good Bad Four U S News Heard In Detroit Some Car Firms Step Up Output Others Cut It Chicago faced a massive cleanup operation after a tonado accompanied by torrential rain swept through six areas of its south side killing one person injuring at least 78 others while causing an estimated dollars damage Here Authur Hoffman pointing to his home tells his son Ronald how the twister split his home open and moved it off its foundation WASHINGTON AP dent Kennedy asked Congress Monday for an additional 000 to battle two crime syndicates lums and juvenile delinquency The money would go to the Justice Department Of the total 5540000 would be used to hire at to fight the crime syndi cates The other would pay for a program aimed at wip ing out juvenile delinquency In a television interview Sun day Atty Gen Robert F Ken Racial Issue Brought Up In Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH A Jordon a Negro member of Pitts burghs City Council said Monday he declined to eat in the Univer sity Gubs main dining room last week after a question was raised as to whether he should be served The club president Atry Barton Grubbs II said he had no com ment at this time In a statement read into the record at a city council meeting Jordon said he and two white men a club the club for luncheon last Thursday The statement said that the d informed Jordons hosl that club policy prohibited serv ing Negroes in the main dining room Jordon said his host then con the club manager He told my friend that this hat happened before in connection with the visit of a foreign tary Jordon said He said fur ther that the board of director had decided at that time to con the policy of excluding color ed persons from the main dinin room The policy provides that color ed persons may be served as members of groups meeting private rooms on special sions Jordon continued Though we were now urged to stay we refused and left I felt strongly that no exception should be made because I am a member of city council Jordon f Liz Fights Anemia Condition Is Grave did not identify the Polio Victim Who Became Mother Dies NEWYORK AP Ingeborg Cully a polio victim who left her iron lung last summer to give birth to her third child died in a hospital Sunday Her husband Army Sgt John Cully rushed her to Goldwater Memorial Hospital in the morn ing after she became ill The hospital did not fix an exact cause of death but said she apparently took a sudden turn fop the worse in her fight against the disease Mrs Cully 34 was stricken in 1956 while in Japan where her husband was stationed Two years later she was named Queens Polio Mother of the Year Her case attracted attention last August when she gave birth to a daughter Delores although paralyzed from the waist up She left her iron lung for 90 minutes for the delivery cians had feared it would cost her life At her home Mrs Cully had used a lightweight metal lung to help her breathe and an electric wheel chair Survivors in addition to her husband and daughter are a son John Jr 4 bom before she be Under Sedation And Given Transfusions friends with whom he had the came ill and another daughter luncheon date except to say they i are members of the Mayors Com on Economic Development of which Jordon is chairman Indoctrination TOKYO Japanese communications workers report edly exposed to the Hiroshima atomic bomb blast in World War II will visit Communist East Ger J Edgar Hoover were mapping out the drive against organized crime The attorney general called it a forceful program The President in his request to Congress said the additional ap propriation for attorneys in the criminal division would supple ment the that the de originally asked for its legal activities The program against juvenile delinquency would be handled by the Bureau of Prisons which originally had asked Congress for million The prime objective of this effort the President said in a statement will be ju venile and youthful offenders about to be released from federal institutions return to normal com munity life 20800 Students Enroll at PSU UNIVERSITY PARK Pa AP total of 20800 students have enrolled at Pennsylvania State University for the spring semes ter it was announced Monday Of these 15311 are attending classes at the main campus here and 4769 are at the various cen ters throughout the state Last year 19109 students registered news agency says Helen 10 50 Face Trial SEOUL South Korea South Koreas army command will courtmartial about 50 of LONDON Eliz abeth Taylor stricken by pneu monia and weakened by anemia fought desperately for her Hfe surrounded by a battery of medical equipment anc the prayers of her family and Friends The condition of the actress 29 was officially described as still but slightly improved She was being drip fed through her ankle An electronic lung was helping her to breathe through a tube in in her neck Monday night for a time she underwent a blood transfusion Under v sedation the star of movie roles frequently lapsed into unconsciousness But from time to time unable to speak because of the breathing tube she scribbled a note to her husband singer Eddie Fisher 31 who was at her bedside How am I getting along one note asked Fisher reassured her with a smile and said Just fine A medical bulletin long de layed reported at pm Mon day night that Miss Taylor had improved slightly after passing her lowest point earlier in the evening But the spokesman who issued the statement said the screen star is by no means out of and that another bulletin would be published Tuesday morn DETROIT auto in dustry reported both good and bad news Monday On the good side Wards Auto motive reports said the new car sales rate in February was up ov er January Chrysler returned to production at seven assembly plants after a one week shutdown prepared to resume assembly operations Tues day in South Bend Ind after be ing down for six work days On the bleak side Ford and General Motors disclosed one week layoffs for almost 58000 hourly rated employes Ford laid off 17000 at 11 assembly plants this week General Motors will close its Buick Oldsmobile ani Pontiac operations all next week idling about 40300 Wards figures indicate the au virtually matched pro duction to sales last month for the first time in the 1961 model year They built 362265 cars and sold 360277 This left an inven tory estimated by Wards at 1 022000 units or about 68 days supply Wards said a buying spurt in the final eight days of February the months sales rate to 15011 daily compared with 14756 daily in January The January rate was the poor est for the month since 1952 The February rate bettered the reces sion year of 1958 when sales aver aged 13400 daily Screamers Romance Complicated LONDON AP Police Sgt White gave her daughter marching orders Monday because f the girls fri with Lord Sutch Screaming Lord name David an ex plumber turned rock n roll star Apart from screaming he wears lis hair two feet long and tops his coiffure with a pair of buffalo The girl Gillian White 17 said n an interview My mother has old me to go my Navy Ships Diverted To Support UN Forces If Necessary WASHINGTON AP Four U S Navy ships have been di verted from a goodwill tour to stand by in case United Nations forces need help in the Congo The State Department Monday said the task force was back from a voyage to Cape Town South Africa and wa heading for Congolese waters I is due there Friday Jhe Union Monday The Navy said 500 Marines arc diplomatic aboard in addition to the ships fa regular complement of about 750 luncheon given by Dag Ham The vessels are the destroyer Gearing the dock landing ship Hermitage the tank landing ship Graham County and the Navy It W e Port If Negotiations Fail Congo Stand Shift By USSR Unlikely UNITED NATIONS N Y AP tanker Nespelen The destroyer Vogelgesang which completes the goodwill task force is continuing on to Cape Town It is scheduled to rejoin the task force after pick ing up mail fuel and supplies The Vogelgesang carries a crew of 274 The five ships which have been making calls at West African ports have been used previously to support U N operations in the Congo Lincoln White State Depart ing In the early evening low period when the actress was being given blood transfusions for her anemic for attending parties at i condition one of her team of doc high priced restaurants where hostesses entertain Of said the army must live up to the spirit of the austerity program ordered by the govern ment 25 Years Ago Hitler Planted Seeds of War tors Dr Carl Heinz Goldman We are very worried It was touch and go for the four times married film beauty whose private life has brought her almost as much fame as her screen pictures She has two sons by her second husband Michael Wilding and a daughter Liza by her third hus band the late Mike Todd mother my aunt and my uncle and other members of my family lope that by not talking to me theyll force me to stop seeing Dave How narrowminded can people get One of the angles of his lord ships act is to hop about the stage dressed in a leopard skin He says its a satire on other rock singers Dave of course is barrec from our house said Gillian and heaven help him if my mother gets her hands on him what with her being a cop and judo expert Said Screaming Lord Sutch to reporters I dont intend to get pushed around by Gills mother Im in love with Gill and I think its cruel of her mother to inter fere in this way His lordship went on the stage about seven months ago Shortly after this Gillian tried to intro duce him to her mother I never got a chance to intro duce him properly said Gillian Mum took one look at his clothes and shied off ment press officer recalled they were used to evacuate 738 Guin ean soldiers last month when President Sekou Toure ordered them home They also have unloaded food and other supplies for the U N forces at the Congo supply port of Matadi Congolese soldiers took control of Matadi this last week end after bitter fighting In saying the four vessels had been ordered back to Congolese waters White said the ships were vailable for the United Nations needed The action was our idea White said and was not a result f a U N request He noted that it is U S policy o assist the United Nations in its to restore peace and order o the Congo We attach no particular sig to this order White said State Library System Gets OK in House for Ghana President Kwame Nkrumah It was a clear warning that the I Russians will continue to fight any Congo peace plan in which the U N has a at the risk of displeas ipg many nations The snub came on the eve of he resumption of the General Assembly where the Congo crisis is the No 1 issue Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A Gromyko was joined in the boycott by Bulgaria and Romania the only other Commu nist delegations invited Before the luncheon Ham talked with Nkrumah or an hour and late in the after Fall of Town To Congolese Severe Blow To UN Prestige In Congo Fuss o the Congo United Nations com mand warned Monday it will re capture they key port of Matadi from the Congolese army by force diplomatic activity on the eve of Jf negotiations faa A US Nivy tU A 1 W f 1 A I noon Gromyko paid a call on Nkrumah at the tatters suite at the Hotel pre to explain the Soviet po sition on the Congo This was only a part of intense the resumed 15th General Assem bly task force sped toward the Ambassador Adlai E Stevenson to help the UN if needed chief U S delegate had a officials said privately minute breakfast session with UN headquarters in New York Nkrumah who will put his plan I had ordered a standstill in any for an U N Congo 1 military operations to retake Ma command before the opening tadi until 8 pm Tuesday at the sion Tuesday afternoon earliest A spokesman denied Afterward Nkrumah told published abroad that Mor ers Africans combined supI ocean troops were marching on ported by the United I Matadi pointing out that most thats the only way to save the j Moroccans already have left Congo I Congo Asked if they had tne most humiliating defeat Africa for Africans Stevenson tne Congo mission has suffered commented We discussed 135 Sudanese soldiers gam including the rent Bishop Backs JFK On Aid to Education PHILADELPHIA AP Bishop Fred Pierce Corson incoming head of the Worid Methodist Coun cLI said Monday Protestants will fight for President Kennedys stand excluding parochial school support from his They must do so he said other wise the principle of separation of church and state will be ated and become a dead issue in American government Bihop Corson head of his church in the region told a gathering of over 400 Meth odist clergymen from the Phila delphia and New Jersey confer ences It is paradoxical that Protest ants should support Mr Kennedy on his school aid which ex cludes government funds for or Protestant and that the hierarchy of his own church opposes him Mr Kennedy is on firm ground when he says that the Constitution The order provides stiff penal prohibits government support for parochial education and that the Supreme Court has confirmed HARRISBURG AP The House Monday night approved leg that would provide a state wide library system The pro posal was approved 14645 on a line vote after more than an hour of debate Opponents of the measure con tended it would provide state con trol of books going into libraries But Rep Stephen Mc Cann Democratic floor leader said the measure had been written to bar any chance of censorship of reading matter Gov Lawrence has asked 000 for the proposed library sys tem in his 196162 budget Admin officials have estimated j mentary and secondary private the program could cost the state church schools By CARL C CRAMMER Associated Press Staff Writer Twentyfive years ago Tuesday Adolf Hitler plunged Europe into crisis by sending the German His but At one time Monday one of her j The trouble scribbled rotes asked F i s h e r is my girs mum How are the children that Im not a lunatic off He answered her with a smile stage as as on 7 1336 It was discovered later In an adjoining room Mr and j said she wants o marry AP Means Associated Press army goosestepping into the Rhineland A few years before the French Army undoubtedly would have challenged the German dictator It was the most powerful in Europe But nothing happened Hitler carried off a gigantic bluff and concluded that the Al lied powers which defeated Ger many in World War I ixf longer had the unity will or capacity to oppose him Hitlers action was a flagrant violation of the Rhineland clauses of the of Versailles to which Germany had agreed as well as of the entire Locarno Peace Pact of 1925 The French general staff over estimated the size of Hitlers re take action unless the Cabinet ordered at least a partial Actually Hitler sent a puny force into the Rhineland on March that Hitler also had given his commanders orders to withdraw if the French opposed him The French Cabinet refused to order mobilization partly because of the cost and also because Britains Prime Minister Stanley Mrs Francis Taylor the prayer include parochial education in the benefits of the Presidents pro posed or to change the interpretation of the present law of the land on this issue Civil Rights Action Taken By President WASHINGTON AP dent Kennedy Monday night cre ated a committee to prevent any discrim in the government and in companies having federal con tracts Taking his first action in the civil rights field Kennedy set up the committee oy executive order without resort to legislation soning Matadi laid down their arms Sunday after more than 24 hours of battling with rifles ma chine guns and mortars with than 1000 Congolese soldiers Two Sudanese killed U were wounded and 11 are missing Congolese casualties were not known The defeat was a crushing blow to UN prestige at a time when Congolese forces appear itching for a showdown against the they accuse of seeking to disarm them Since UN forces first came to the Congo Congolese officials have been trying to establish con trol over Matadi the Congo River port where most of the supplies are landed Without con trol there the UN operation is at the mercy of Congolese authori ties The terms of the cease fire im posed by the Congolese troops ac knowledged that UN troops the right to return but said Congolese should be consulted on the nationality of troops seat there A UN spokesman said negotia tions are now going on but added If the United Nations fail to get back by peaceful means it is em powered to use force as a last this interpretation The accusation of the Consti that to deny support to parochial schools is dis ties for violations can of government contracts under certain circumstances Kennedy consolidated exist ing government committees ino a single Committee on Equal Employment crimination is fallacious The state He named Vice President Lyndon provides public school education B Johnson as chairman and Sec for all ft is available to all on the same basis Bishop Corson asserted that to not ask for such government support for their ete some million if all potential Protestants will actively op libraries took part in j pose any bring pres of Labor Arthur J Gold berg as vice chairman Through this vastly strength ened machinery in a statement I intend to insure that Americans of all colors and beliefs will have equal access to employment within the govern ment and with those who do busi the plan sure on congress or the courts to I ness with the government Great Advances Are Being Made In Weather Forecasting Science EDITORS NOTE For large winter in the West Rain j homa sections of the nation this has and snow that could spell trouble i Ships and planes radar and sort if necessary Wearing Her Low Heels NORWICH Conn ing a doctors certificate and wearing her controversial low heel shoes Judith Elwell returned from suspension Monday to typing job in the Public Department the typist nor theboss she challenged had any comment The City Pension Board ruled that the boss Public Mgr Philip L White had the right to issue his edict that banned employes from wearing sucB items of apparel as leotards slacks bobby socks and shoes without heels And Mrs Elwell a heavy wom an won the right to wear flat shoes as long as she provided a doctors recommendation to do so Mrs Elwell was suspended last her screamer but admits shes got j been a rough winter indeed But j for the heartland between parents knelt in a bjg problem Four Youths Baldwin declined to back the French The British view was hat Hitler was only moving into German territory The problem of the Rhineland arose from Frances desire to protect its border from German aggression In the World War I peace treaty France sought to detach the western bank of the Rhine from Germany Britain and the United States refused to sanction the chopping off of purely German territory Within a few months after Hitler bluffed his way into the Rhineland Italys Mussolini an the annexation of pia and Spain was aflame in a civil war won with German and Italian help Hitler was on the way to War II John Payne Much Better NEW YORK John Payne hit by an auto last Wednesday as he crossed a street was reported Monday much bet ter but still in great pain The report came from his wife Alexandra who fiew from the West Coast to be with him at Roosevelt Hospital Payne 48 TV and film actor suffered bone fractures in the left leg and severe facial cuts He has undergone five hours o plastic surgery and faces more Mrs Payne said for Schools MEXICO CITY will spend more than million on school construction this year the government reports Sentenced PITTSBURGH AP Four youths received two to fiveyear rison terms apiece on Monday or the attempted holdup of one of the youths grand mother Sentenced by Judge Samuel A Weiss of Allegheny County after pleading guilty were Hughes J McGarrity 20 of Elizabeth Lawrence Jones 19 of Elizabeth Wilbert Whitten 22 McKeesport and Clarence Mof fitt 19 McKeesport McKeesport police said he youths and a juvenile entered the home of er Mrs Mary Kyak last Feb S and tied Mrs wrist before searching her house in a vain Hi tempt to find she was rum ored to have theres cheering news The scien arsenal of the weatherman is growing dramatically This is the First of three articles on advances and under standing the weather By JOHN BARBOUR Associated Press Science Writer SUTTLAND Md er scientists are at last beginning This is the gist of the US Weather Bureaus forecast digest of millions of reports from every ical waters for signs of Whites edict which he said canes Satellites prowl the skies photo graphing the swirls of clouds and designed to end sloppy appear j ance of female employes The suspension was appealed to the Pension Board by Mrs El well who said she wears tow i heels because of her weight ard where in the Northern Hemi storms from above and new Union Communist global weather eyes in space are China Europe Japan and ships i coming soon c at sea j It is a multipronged approach because she is expecting a child Already floods have swamped Predicting the worlds weather e lower Mississippi Valley the to win a great battle That battle How with accuracy to predict what the weather will tomorrow or next month Weathermen are a long way from learning to control or pre vent its dangerous blows But in a lively field of science they are making progress in forecasting weather using new tools and de vising newer ones gaining under standing of the tremendous forces involved And all of these elements are now turned to outguessing spring You can look for Early spring in East Un the Northeast has had a strange weather turnabout from blizzards to warm spring rains crating So vast is the earths atmos phere that if everyone in the i world took an equal slice to ob it was all predicted here at the I we woud each to National Meteorological Center in this Washington suburb where a computer digests raw information and men weigh the evidence sci fed into lie computer watch over million tons of air 24 hours a day But all information that is To Open New Bridge MEXICO CITY foot bridge spanning the Tuxpan River at Veracruz in eastern Mexico will be formally opened by President Adolfo Lopez March IS The computer itself put in op only a few months ago is one of the latest in an expand ing arsenal of weather reporting tools Now radarscopes scan the na tion for brewing sav ing lives with advance warnings month in Texas and Okla this device can in three minutes compose on a map a picture of the hemispheres weather From this map experts in US cities study local data and make their forecasts for up to hours They are right about per cent of the time Next Anatomy of Morn Analyzing The News Read the by DRUMMOND OB FMT
