Titusville Herald (Newspaper) - August 2, 1961, Titusville, Pennsylvania Mostly August Western Pennsylvania Mostly cloudy Wednesday and day night with scattered showers or thundershowers Little changa in temperature High 76 to 84 low at night 58 to 66 Partly cloudy Thursday with little tem chance Temperatures on Sports Page SEVEN CENTS Published in the Birthplace of the Oil Dally Paper In the Oil 1865 TITUSVILLE PA WEDNESDAY MORNING AUGUST 2 1961 THE DRAKE Ammonia Fumes Rout Thousands In Illinois 42 Treated 22 Hospitalized v As Hose Leaks In Area 111 and brown tree leaves gave evi dence Tuesday of the surprise in flux of ing ammonia fumes that forced at least 10000 persons to leave their homes in predawn hours Fortytwo persons were taken to hospitals but none was in critical condition Twentytwo gas victims remained in hospitals for treatment In Chicago the US Labor De Bureau of Labor Standards announced that it is in the hose break that caused the trouble Huge quantities of ammonia gas escaped early Tuesday when a leak developed in a hose that was transferring 900 tons of pres liquid ammonia from a river barge to a dockside tank at Creve Coeur Creve Coeur is across the Illinois river from Peoria Shifting winds carried the fumes to nearby communities of Bartonville Creve Coeur North Pekin and the Marquette Highs area before the hose break was discovered nearly three hours later Many residents had their first warning when the choking fumes poured into their bedrooms They fled in night clothing State police spread an alarm and urged mass evacuations Scores of policemen firemen and Civil Defense volunteers some wearing gas masks raced through the dense fumes knock ing on doors in Creve Coeur In Chicago John D Gallagher regional representative of the Bu reau of Standards said the probe is being made not to attach lia but to determine the reason for the hose failure and prevent possible recurrences Distraught Mother 36 Kills Herself Bystander Helps Police Association Others Involved In Charge Of Price Fixing MILWAUKEE federal rand jury today indicted the American Optical Association wo of the nations largest optical irms and two executive officers of the companies on charges of price fixing and conspiracy to monopolize The indictment returned in US District Court names the Ameri can Optical Association a tary association organized under the laws of Massachusetts the American Optical Co a wholly owned subsidiary of the associa Pulling a gun on three police officers at Miami International Airport O C wanted in Dayton Ohio to face double murder charges was captured when he was grabbed from behind by by stander Guillermo Zamora an Police said Jackson ad mitted shooting Mr and Mrs Charles Larkin fatally in their Dayton home after they fired him from his handyman job The photos were taken by Miami photographer Albert Coya who was at the airport to cover the arrival of a plane from Havana Cuba Adm Anderson New Chief of U S Navy NEW ALBANY Ind AP A distraught mother committed sui cide Monday as authorities sought to bring her into court on charges of keeping her retarded young son chained in a basement The body Logsdon 36 was found in the woods be hind her neat frame home about four miles west of this Ohio River town Meanwhile her son by a pre vious marriage Vincent Floyd Jr 19 sat in the Floyd County Jail here while sympathetic ple brought him baskets of food Mrs Logsdons father Charles Burgess 74 accused Sheriff C Alex Watkins and his deputies of hounding his daughter to her death The sheriffs office denied the accusation Burgess and Sheriff Walkins had agreed Monday night that Mrs Logsdon come into court voluntarily to face charges of child neglect Vincent had been found durinc a search of the house for a Kentucky parole vio lator But those deputies kept hang ing around the house all night the womans father said bitterly They swarmed like wolves around a lambs pen Those men are responsible for her death They hounded her to it However the deputies said they had left Mrs Londons home aft er being assured she would ap pear in court Pastor Dies After Retirement neral services will be held Thursday at St Johns Lutheran Church in Greenville for Pastor Joseph C Klingensmith of Greenville Pastor Klingensmith 65 died day after retiring from 37 years of ministerial service He had been pastor of the St Johns Church since 1947 Burke Retiring After 42 Years Service tion and Bausch Lomb Inc of New York It also names Victor D Kniss of Southbridge Mass executive vice president of the American Optical Co and a trustee of the association and Alton K Mar sters Rochester NY vice dent of Bausch Lomb Inc The grand jury which has been aking testimony in the case since January alleges that for many vears past and continuing to the date of the return of this indict ment the defendants have en gaged in a continuing conspiracy of unreasonable restraint of trade The two counts of the indict ments charge violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act sections which forbid restraint of trade and monopoly The indictment says American Optical operated about 259 branch wholesale laboratories in 1959 and designated about 210 additional franchised distributors Bausch Lomb has about 149 and about 221 fran distributors Faces Swift Prosecution In Shooting Against Erie Firm Resistor Corp Called Unfair WASHINGTON Na tional Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that it is an labor practice to award super seniority to workers who strikers or to strikers who retur to work during a strike The ruling was made in a cas against the Erie Resistor Corp o Erie Pa maker of electron components and plastics Erie Local 613 of the Intern tional Union of Electrical Worke charged the company adopted policy of granting Committee For Defense Buildup Earmarked nn T T I i ension Up in Herlin For Missiles ty to new employes hired as strike replacements and 20 years ad seniority to em ployes and strikers who returned to work The issue arose during a March 31 to June 25 1959 strike over a new contract with Erie Resistor Later in the course of company economic layoffs many strikers who had not been replaced and who had been recalled at the end of the strike were among the first to lose their jobs as a result of the plan The NLRB ruled the supersen system was discriminatory and an unlawful means of com batting the employes right to strike effectively di vides the strikers against them selves the adding an offer of is not merely an to secure new replacements but more accurate ly an offer to benefit to individual strikers to abandon the strike and return to work The Erie Resistor Corp was ordered to rescind its policy and restore I normal seniority to all strikers who sought reinstatement on June Reds Step Up Threat Tempo But E German Exodus to West Increases BERLIN AP Communist East Germany Tuesday increased the tempo of threats to iso late West Berlin and cut off the flow of Germans fleeing from Red rule But more East German ref poured into West Berlin in the darkening political climate At Marienfeld Camp officials said 1322 more East Germans had arrived in the past 24 hours through the Berlin escape hatch That was almost onethird more than a week ago Officials announced that July set a record the troubled days of 1953 with over 32 Japan Still Cautions About Things Atomic Bombers To Accept No Foreign Aid Compromise WASHINGTON AP Adminis tration leaders took a promise stand Tuesday on dent Kennedys fiveyear foreign aid program ANNAPOLIS Md George Anderson Monday as command of a US naval establishment described by his predecessor as ready for the chal lenges of peace or war Adm Arleigh A Burke retir ing after 42 years in the Navy and six as boss of its farflung ships and shore stations told An derson The fleets are manned and captains and crews are ready for our Navy is strong and and all hands stand ready for the challenges that lie ahead Good luck God speed sailing to you sir Anderson elevated to chief of naval operations by President Kennedy while serving as com I Unchanged Cross 25 1959 It also ordered the firm to offer reinstatement to all re called strikers who were laid solely as the result of the plan and CHICO Calif husky them for any loss of pay construction worker faced swift prosecution Tuesday for shootin two men in an attempt to hijack a passenger plane to fly him to Smackover Ark He said he was in a hurry to become reconciled with his second wife Dist Atty C Keith Lyde filed charges of attempted murder against Bruce Britt Sr 40 of Columbus Ohio and Smackover The victims shot in Britts abortive attempt to hijack the plane Monday night were Capt Oscar of Menlo Park Calif a pilot for Pacific Airways and Hicks 35 Chico a Cross agency PITTSBURGH Hos pital Senice Association of West ern Pennsylvania said Tuesday I that its subscription rates for hos j insurance should re main unchanged the rest of this 000 officially registered Informed sources said the actual number may be nearer 40000 since many did not register The East German Centra Dem Bloc a political body warned all citi zens of the German Democratic Republic to avoid trips and visits to West Berlin in the interests of their own security their family and the cause of peace The Communists say the West is luring its citizens to West Ger many by employing trades in human beings A Communist prosecutor in East Berlin Tues day asked sentences of up to 15 years in prison for five people charged with being such trad ers The trial was being tele vised East Germans who have to go to Berlin every day because hey have jobs being put under greater pressure by the Communists According to some estimates these border crossers number as many as 80000 Some have been called to police head quarters and told bluntly to fine jobs in East Berlin Friedrich Ebert mayor of East Berlin wrote Mayor Willy Brandt of West Berlin that the border crossers constitute a problem which is growing more urgent WASHINGTON State Department said today Japan has turned down an informal US re quest that American ered submarines be allowed to stop at Japanese ports The request was made by Sec of State Dean Rusk ro Japanese Foreign Minister Zen taro Kosaka during the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Hyato Ikeda to Washington last June The US statement said Rusk and Kosaka decided it would be premature for US nuclear powered subs to visit Japan be cause the Japanese public does not understand yet the distinction subs at Japanese ports atomic weapons and atomic power used for peaceful purposes Japans cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were hit by the first and only atomic bombs ever used in war The Japanese public has been acutely conscious of the devastating effects of radioactive fallout However Air Force Alerts Air Reserves And Air Guard WASHINGTON Sen ate Appropriations Committee Tuesday voted give President unanimously to Kennedy every US officials noted Japan does have nuclear power plants for peaceful purposes US sources said Rusks re quest was intended to allow shore leave for American sailors aboard the not for servicing or stationing the Senate Unit Favors Conservation Corps Also Approves Cold War GI Education WASHINGTON ate Labor Committee voted Tues day for a Youth Conservation Corps and for a cold war GI education Neither vote is likely to please President Kennedy The youth corps approved I by the committee would set up a I corps 25 times larger than the one recommended by the President The GI was actively opposed by administration leaders The Presidents opposition to the bills was based on economy not principle In fact Kennedy voted for both bills two years ago whe he was a senator The bills were passed by the Senate then aut died in the House The committee approved the Judge Is Fined In His Court penny of the billion he asked for the new defense alert and then boosted the increase to bil lion The extra 51 for bombers missiles and other I the budget for the fiscal year that started July 1 to billion Its the big gest peacetime military in US history The total is over billion more than the House voted June 28 and tops the military budget Congress approved last year by billion Apart from the purely military buildup it includes Kennedys request for million to ac sharply the civil defense role recently assigned to the Pentagon Meanwhile the Air Force took the first step toward getting ready in case Kennedy decides to bolster the regular forces with reserves STEUBENVILLE Ohio AP County Judge Chares B McCann 50 has been fined and costs in his own court at Richmond on a charge of being drunk and disorderly last month The judge pleaded no contest to the accusation brought by the State Highway patrol which said the incident happened at the patrol barracks at Winters ville June 13 The fine was assessed Monday by County Judge Helen M Huntsman of Toronto who was assigned to conduct the hearing mander of the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean accepted the new post with a mixture of pride of inspiration of humility and of confidence We will accept no compromise I recognize the tremendous at this time said Rep Thomas challenge which I accept he E Morgan DPa chairman of Pledged to keep the Navy the House Foreign Affairs course and steaming strong Some legislators including Sen John Sparkman DAIa have said the administration mav have to clear pany ticket agent deal lost the sight of his left eye and was in critical condition Hicks was shot in the back He was expected to recover although his condition was serious Lyde said Britt told him he wanted to reach Smackover in a settle in the end for a threeyear regardless of what the future may portend The traditional ceremony was held at the Naval from which both men were program The House committee gave its formal approval to the fiveyear plan in a 274 vote endorsing a preliminary action of last week The committee cut million from Kennedys re Chief Urges Fluoridation S quest for in foreign aid funds but approved his five year development loan plan hurry and make up with his sec ond wife Melba They have a 7 son George Britt said he planned the hi jacking for two weeks after read ing how a Cuban forced the pilot of an American plane to fly him to Cuba Thro passengers helped over power Britt Palace To Serve Iranian Students TEHRAN Iran Delaware Park racetrack Tues Aii Amini says a day presented the slate with a palace north of Tehran orginal year said it anticipates no change in rates despite incurred losses of over during the first six months of 1961 and record pay ments to hospitals for care of Blue Cross subscribers during that period We can now assure these sub scribers that barring unexpected developments present tion fees will hold firm through 1961 said William H Ford asso president Pointing out that hospital costs have risen slower than expected Ford commented This achievement is a tribute to the sincere efforts of and where Burke took his oath as Tax Figure Down WILMINGTON Dei AP all the time Brandt said there would be no comment New regulations of the East German Communist regime went into effect requiring all planes crossing its territory to report to an East German air safety cen Continued on Page Ten Kills Three Children And Himself ST Ohio A Morristown man fa tally shot his three small children Tuesday wounded his wife and then took his own life the Bel mont County sheriffs office re ported Deputies said Clyde Newhart fa hospitals doctors and Blue wounded his children twins in working together to assure c old most effective use ot our hospital Hi bills by voice vote The Demo crats mostly voted aye Republi cans were solidly against the youth corps and some also op posed the GI The bills now go to the floor of the Senate The youth corps was spon sored by the assistant Senate Democratic leader Hubert H Humphrey of Minnesota Youths between the ages of IS and 21 could enroll for six months to work on projects sponsored by government conservation park forest and wildlife agencies Their work would be similar to that of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the The GI sponsored by Sen Ralph Yarborough would give veterans discharged since Jan 31 1955 the same college ed and other benefits re by veterans of World War II and the Korean War Commandant Pate 63 Dies WASHINGTON AP Gen Randolph McCall Pate 63 former commandant of the Marine Corps died of cancer Monday night at the Naval Medical Cen ter in Bethesda Md Pate who retired Jan 1 1960 The Air Force told 64 Air National Guard and 7 Air Reserve units they may be ordered to active duty and advised them to be prepared Involved were units in 28 states and the District of Columbia The committee in giving tha President more financial freedom to counter the Soviet threat at Berlin and elsewhere added an economy footnote It urged more evidence of cost consciousness on the part of both civilians and uni formed personnel in the defense establishment It is suggested the committee said that civilian officials ad and generals give paj attention to the practice of austerity in connection with their privileges in order to set an example and to popularize the idea of getting the most fight out of each tax dollar The senators responding to the sense of urgency which Kennedy expressed last week in asking for more defense funds called upon Americas free world Allies to gird themselves also The North Atlantic Treaty Or nations should provide the military forces they prom check for as its tax ly built for government share for the meeting which j tions has been approved as a so j years His wife Peggy 28 was reported in fair condition in general hospital in She was shot in the ended Saturday The figure less than last year is cial and political club for Tehran debate i University students 1 gation pol facilities Want New Debate UNITED NATIONS NY AP j chest with a shotgun Fortyfive of the 99 UN Mrs Newhart filed for divorce ber nations have signed a request this morning charging her hus that the General Assembly with associating with other after four years as commandant ised for the joint effort the corn was admitted to the hospital last said adding It is only Hint of Castro Soviet Strain South Africas race women drinking intoxicants to ex policies in the fall and heating and choking her They were married in New Road Opens EDITORS L I The hints that something evidently including CHICAGO AP The U Surgeon general Dr Luther Torn has a new drive to sain approval for water tion in as many communities as possible Dr Terry writing in the journal of the American Dental Associa tion asserted the refusal of com to adopt fluoridation is nothing short of a tragedy Every scientific study made by the Public Health Service and er responsible institutions has re confirmed tha efficacy and safety of he said Ryan AP news analyst has just be wrong developed during the i this predicting that a o vie recent celebration in Havana of single party along the lines of AP Means Associated Press returned from a brief visit Cuba Here he reports on one of his findings By WILLIAM L RYAN Associated Press News Analyst There are hints of a strain de between Fidel Castro and the Russians If it comes to a real argument however diplomats in Havana say they are convinced Castro will lose The Cuban revolution ary chief and current prime min ister these sources say has just about passed the point of no return in his alliance with com look of a contrived tion The reason It came in a headline the next day in the Com the of July Movement marki those in Communist states was to j munist newspaper which con ing the eighth anniversary of the j be formed and that Castro would tended that the demonstration TOKYO AP Peiping Radio says 60000 Red Chinese soldiers helped peasants harvest and plant crops last spring on more than 420000 acres of farm land throughout Communist China Wednesday suffering from an in tumor A native of Port Royal SC Pate was graduated from the Vir ginia Military Institute and had been a Marine officer since 1921 In World War II he fought at Guadalcanal and Two Jima and was awarded the Legion of Merit for outstanding service as deputy to Gen Holland M Howling Mad Smith During the last four months of tha Korean War he commanded the 1st Marine Divi sion His first year as commandant of the corps was marked by the drowning of six young recruits at Parris SC during a dis night march reasonable to expect that all na tions of the free world living un der the threat of Soviet aggres sion do their part by providing the military strength to which they have agreed Sen A Willis Robertson DVa manager of the defense money described it as a balanced program between nuclear war and capacity capacity for for day Castro led an attack against President Fulgencio forces at Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba l announce this in his July 26 i speech And then he went ahead I and announced it anyway At that moment a curious thing ALBANY NY AP New York and Pennsylvania will open a bistate section of inter state Route 81 at the state line southeast of Binghamton Aug 17 showed the people approve the the state Public Depart Many Space Gadgets Only in Vision Stage It was during that celebration i happened Castro often is inter that Castro in the course ot one of his characteristically nonstop speeches announced the revou by cheers and applause But this time his speech was I halted for a full 20 minutes It regimes intention of as started when a small group in the he put it heading toward the i vast crowd of hundreds of thou formation of the united party of Socialist revolution of Cuba It seemed almost a reluctant announcement The prime minis ter earlier in the same speech had denounced those US sands began a shouting cheering dancing celebration which was bound to stop the speaker Many of the rest of the crowd thinking it a good idea joined in And Cas tro just looked on It had all the single party Such a single party could be dominated by the Communists the only truly organized party in Cuba They all but run Cuba now And the outpouring of extrava gant praise of all things Russian and Communist the strains of the Communist anthem heard at least as often as the Cuban national anthem in the four days of celebration do not leave much to the imagina tion with regard to Communist influence or intentions ment announced Tuesday The section includes eight miles in New York built at a cost of million and 325 miles in Pennsylvania costing million The interstate route eventually will extend from the Canadian border at the Thousand Islands Bridge in New York to Knoxville Tenn It will be a di vided expressway Lt Gov Malcolm New York and Pennsylvania Gov Du vid L Lawrence will participate in the dedication By FRANK CAREY Associated Press Science Writer j I Shooting the manned capsule direct from the earth on the nose rt i A of a Nova rocket BLACKSBURG Va AP A a hrust of n mil I lion pounds but carrying extra stages for the return trip 2 Using an advanced version of the Saturn rocket with mil key space agency official Monday exploration beyond the moon will require perfection of devices now only in the thinking and nuclear propulsion At the same time Abraham Hyatt the space chief lookahead planner said the agen cy is considering two possible methods of meeting President Kennedys goal of lofting a man on a round trip to the moon by 1970 He told a Conference of Space Scientists at Virginia Polytechnic Intitule the alternative methods are lion pounds of thrust already un more limited conflicts He add ed that it provides a prudent enforcement of the conventional for our armed forces Pair in 50s Peace Corps Trainees UNIVERSITY Pa AP oldest couple to register with the big contingent of Peace Corps trainees at Pennsylvania State University checked in Mon day night The late arrivals were John Kennedy 57 and his wife Miriam 54 both of Ohio A group of 152 other men and women their ages averaging around 30 report ed for the training course Monday Officials said about 10 others may still report der development to act as a truck that would carry equip ment and fuel from the ground into a low orbit around the earth A new rocket will then be as in space for takeoff to the moon Hyatt is director of program for the training which is to qualify them for teaching duty in The Philippines Kennedy has boon associated with Obcrlin CoUge for the 30 years most recently as regis trar for the conservatory of music He said he and his wife had a planning and evaluation at the srong desire to do something on Washington DC headquarters j behalf of peace had decided of the National Aeronautics and I foreign service offered the most Continued oo Page Ten likely field r
