Zanesville Signal, The (Newspaper) - August 19, 1957, Zanesville, Ohio THE ZANESVILLE SIGNAL Associated Press NEA Telephotos 75 AUGUST 1957 SEVEN CENTS Cool OHIO Partly cloudy east and cool tonight with a few ers extreme east early tonight Tuesday somewhat warmer east Yesterday's high 83 Today's low at 6 At today 67 Explosion In Tunnel Fatal to 4 Member of Rescue Team Dies When Oxygen Runs Out Farmers Match Plowing Skill In Annual Conservation Day N Y sion tore through a tunnel cut in rock 100 feet below Lake Ontario and killed three construction ers yesterday The blast turned the tunnel into a filled death trap that claimed an- other worker's life The fourth man was overcome as he worked with a crew trying to bring out the bodies of the three blast victims early this morning Further efforts at retrieving the three bodies were called off until ventilating equipment could be in- stalled Lloyd of nearby one of the approximately 100 who labored at the ran out of oxygen about feet inside the gas-filled nel Fellow workers said he ed running back toward the en- apparently became pan- icky and tore off his oxygen mask Then he collapsed An Army doctor said Matteson apparently was dead when other men brought him out Two Coast Guardsmen working with rescue crews found the men last eight hours after the explosion The bodies were about feet inside the which was being built as part of a new city water supply system The cause of the explosion was not determined The three killed were John goe an Phil the tunnel and tion superintendent Richard Eck 01 Chandlersville plows furrow in annual Field Conservation Day contest day at I B Baker farm on East pike left to are three Soil Conservation Bob Deitrick and John Lewis Deep an bountiful were Cash Goes Into Vault turned as M farmers con tested today before a large crowd at the annual Field Dav and ing Match held bv the Muskingum Soil Conservation Sen ice on the I B Baker farm on Route nine miles east of Zanesville Level land and contour matches were held both junior and senior during the morning A tion of the District's mechanical tree planter was presented Lunch was served bv the Order of Eastern Star at noon Other plowing matches were being held this afternoon with awards to be made at 3 p.m Donors of prize awards include the C H Morns and C M McLoughlin Standard Oil Company Farm Supply County Farm Oil Company Gene White Chevrolet Com- 0 K Coal and Concrete Company Ch de Thompson Funeral State Highway Patrol Muskingum County tional Farm Loan First National First and Savings First Federal Muskingum Sterling Savings and Loan Imlay Dean Zanesville State Russell E Sidwell Marble Cliff Quarries Gulf Oil Pure Oil Hartlev Zanesville Implement Downing Tractor and Muskingum Tractor Equipment Shurtz New Idea Farm Equipment Dresden Implement Moore's Farm Oliver Sales John Little Marine Corps Harold M C H Wilson and Federal Chemical Dulles Danger In Foreign Aid Cut Candlelight Service at Muskingum Closer To Soviet Bloc Purge Rightists From Army Control Lebanon lyria apparently moved closer to he Communist bloc today as Soviet officers purged rightists rom the politically powerful rmy Gen Afif known ut the Middle East as the most xtreme leftist in Syria's ook control of the army over the usually reliable sources a known began to purge ing opponents Thirteen officers pere fired or resigned in us and a number fled to Beirut While Premier Sabri Assali's r i e n t e d government seemed to have been strengthened More than delegates to the convention of the National Youth Fellowship of the United Presbyterian church gathered last night for a candlelight service in the Muskingum college stadium at New Concord Girls are shown here with heads bowed in prayer Interview Many Applicants For City Manager Job Here Ohio total of was found in an open cash drawer at the Farmers Savings Bank Sunday by janitor George who counted the money Stewart showed it to his Harrison who counted the They phoned Stewart's brother and operator of the City Janitor who counted the money The Stewarts then phoned their mother who advised them to tell The Rev William pastor of the Greater Bethel Church Driving the money to the they turned it over to the Rev Mr who counted the money The minister phoned police arrived to find several church members counting the money Detective Woodrow Zeitler phoned J H a vice dent of the after counting the money Bowen counted the money and locked it in a vault he a cashier should have put it in the first place Due Until Election on November 5 A number of applicants have been interviewed by City Council and its committee to recommend a City Manager for The exact number of men already screened was not disclosed by thi but it is understood that at least a dozen have expressed interest in the position The committee has spent more than 50 hours in interviews and in escorting prospective managers on tours of the Under the revised charter proved by voters in the Manager will assume his duties Jan 1 He be appointed bv the next City Council four new members arc elected new 5 IL Rapped At Economic Conference BUENOS AIRES United The new Manager is to be carne under attack today up to annually By thelas delegates to the arrangement Council presi-Jcan Economic Conference opened Million Set Up For Ohio Roads President Shukri fessed neutrality between East Nov It was not revealed the committee ill make its WASHINGTON has or awarded or actually has started 60.3 miles of highways under the federal interstate way building a Bureau of Public Roads report showed day The report covers the period through July 31 Total cost of the Ohio projects awarded or under way is That is an average of a mile 8 miles of way contracts have been and cloudy behind Russian arms a tle more indistinct had once threatened to resign rather than let Communist take complete control of the army But the weekend's virtual coup d'etat by leftists with formal approval of the sick signed a presidential decree Saturday jumping from lieutenant colonel to general and making him army er in chief and chief of an official announcement said amid rumors that ly had Assali de- President flew to Egypt yesterday In Cairo for the third time in six he talked with Egyptian President Nasser for more than an hour The Syrian and Egyptian ies are united under the joint command of an Egyptian officer This is a general scene of the delegates as- at the stadium prior to the start of the candlelight service Dr Gordon Jackson of Pittsburgh delivered the sermon The tion closed today and both are heavily stocked with Soviet arms But Nasser has kept his own Communists suppressed Purpose of trip was officially announced as a medical checkup in Alexandria He flew j -t j Ju i a lie awarded or are under way after Nasser at a total cost of dent perform duties of acting discussions on economic problems and is to receive the Western hemisphere Washington P of Members of the chairman of the committee in addition to Economic and men are Charles H gas cial charged the U.S is and oil Ross not helping enough to sche the works Lann Ralph department stoic He n the United States The national per mile average cost is about Here are some ej and went to a hospital The cnts that brought Com- to power in rhe army of California 95.5 miles at a cost of Illinois 38 1 Syria began in the best fashion of Soviet with charges of foreign plotting to tenths of one mile for Kentucky 1A miles for Michigan 51.7 roiles for Well-informed sources here said and Attorney C Alfred Zinn satisfy the expectations that its position as the economic er of the American community logically has it wishes to preserve gral unity in the American Bermudez United Typhoon Pounds Marine Camp OKINAWA m Agnes buffeted the 3rd Marine Division at Camp Courtney with winds up to 80 miles an hour but no age was a Marine sion spokesman said today The typhoon passed 90 miles off the east coast of Okinawa KILLED ON TURNPIKE was killed day when his car crashed into the rear of a truck on the Ohio pike near suburban Brecksville Two passengers in the car were injured Hurl When Hit by Car Mrs Daisy 58 of Main street was injured shortly fort to understand certain after 10 o'clock Monday aspirations of Latin American when she was struck at Third and Main street by a car driven The conference opened the dis- Herbert P 28 of 1420 after a weekend of for- Beech who was charged and a lot of off the cuff with failing to yield right of way commentary from the delegates to a pedestrian lof the 19 nations taking part who took the injured As the floor debate woman to told i hopes dimmed for a proposed Patrolman Agin who economic that he was making aj High level diplomatic sources New York 44.9 miles for Pennsylvania miles for Texas miles for and West Virginia none The Bureau of Public Roads an- that during contracts for construction of 232 miles of the interstate were rd at a or about a mil Illinois Youth Named Head Of National V P Fellowship Convention Reaffirms Church Assembly's Stand in Favor of Karial Desegregation The National Youth Fellowship of the United Presbyterian closed its and last national convention today after a company in more than delegates and visitors took part in an impressive candlelight vesper service in the darkened Muskingum college stadium last night The vespers followed a program in which Dr Gordon Jackson of seminary delivered the sermon to grees The mercury slipped to a low of 60 degrees here a drop of 23 degrees and forecasters on the cool side although it l be a little warmer from say it will con- the United States was seeking to oust was used as a blind for the leftists The government ordered three American diplomats out of the country after charging a U.S plot to a pro-American regime with economic aid offers after a d'etat The State Department were the ch total cost of 122 and Syrian right turn onto Main street from the proposed North Third street when his car looked on as the of the struck the woman be dropped in She is being treated for bruises favor of non controversial dec- to her left arm and hip of principles Air Force Doctor Attempts To Set New Balloon Record Weather The rain 4 clear clear rain clear cloudy cloudy cloudy San clear High Low 83 75 74 SI 38 77 99 69 68 61 61 60 57 78 70 83 53 58 un A huge silvery balloon climbed out of a cavernous iron mine today an Air Force doctor ward for a 24 hour look at the brink of outer i An endurance test of man's ability to live in an artificial at- for long periods of time at high the flight was expected to give the Air Force im- As helicopters hovered information on what pi- the huge Major David G ons was lifted to an attempt at a record-breaking altitude and an unprecedented in ial medicine Major a native of lots of the future must contend with during travel through space Major chief of the space biology branch of the aero- nodical laboratory at Holoman Air holes in his tiny silver capsule laden with as Air Force project got underway at balloon to a maximum altitude of then re- to Page 6 Jail Prisoner Due to Face Murder Charge Ohio Galli County Sheriff Oscar Baird saic a first degree murder charge wil be lodged today against a old prisoner accused of killing inmate and wounding another in a jail cell here Saturday Rell cf near Vin is accused of killing Loren of who was being held in Gallia County Jai on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor Sheriff Baird said Blankenship also shot Arnold of Porter Cooper Sunday night was reported in satisfactory condition at Holzer Hospital here with a bullet wound near his heart Sheriff's officials said Cooper is a Negro as was a white shared a cell with the two TO FACE CHARGE Ohio Thomas who police in retaliation Two days after the plot the government announced that Gen Tewfik had requested retirement from the post of chief of staff which he assumed last year He left out a apparently at the instigation of the leftis Weighted Body Found in Lake EAST Mich m-A check was planned by state police in an effort to the boly of a man found n Lake Erie near Luna Pier Saturday His hands wer ied behind his back and a cement weight was tied to his feet The Coast Guard recovered the body near the Michigan Ohio line after a fisherman re seeing it Police estimated he body had been in the 10 days The victim was bout 40 or 45 years old in Furs Stolen From Store CHICAGO Burglars whi drilled through walls to avoid glar alarms took furs worth an estimated from a down town store oxer the weekend Abe salesman for the Globe Fur and Novelty at 332 W Adams discovered the los when he opened the shop for ness today Phillip mated the less 300 each worth were missing Police said the burglars entered an adjoining building through tho Herht Fixture Co at 209 Wacker Dr and went to the second floor There smashed a wall of the GeMar Leather Goods and drilled their way into the fur com- pany next door James A a high senior ill elected moderator of the ship to succeed James Brasel Pittsburgh was named secretary of the national council and Anne Gansz of Omaha was ed to he if The goal for the youth project was raised to fo s This year's goal of was exceeded by Whereas this year's funds were used to help establish eight new churches the 1958 objective is to establish a youth center in the Sudan No plans were made for a convention in is the year diat the United ian Church of North America will merge with the ian church in the U.S.A The new denomination will be known as the Unites Presbyterian Church in the United States of America the National Youth which met jointly with to Page 6 row At Municipal the cury touched GO at 6 today and by noon it had climbed only to 67 there according to Lake Central airlines Thermometers in downtown Zanesville registered a couple of decrees higher In its five day the weather bureau says tures are going to be slightly be- low normal There may be scattered light showers in the north portion of he Mate Thursday and Saturday but little or no ram 15 indicated or the south portion Showery the out- ook for most sections of the today except in the and most of the Pacific Warns Of Grave Risk Sen Mundt Favors Repayment Proposal For Foreign Nations WASHINGTON of State Dulles told senators today that whole foundation of our security structure is by the House cut of in the foreign aid appropriations If Congress is unwilling to vide the funds to help allies main- tain their Dulles face a new insecurity and a future of grave The Senate faces a great re- sponsibility to save the nation from this Dulles headed a team of four top administration figures bidding at a meeting of the Senate Committee for ward revision of the Accompanying him to the sion were John B out- going foreign aid Arthur W retired man of the Joint Chiefs of and Nathan F the new chairman Before the session Sen Mundt told newsmen he would try to put Congress on ord as favoring a requirement that nations receiving economic loans must make some annual r payment Mundt announced his proposal as the Senate Appropriations Com- prepared to hear tration spokesmen plead for res of cut by the House from new foreign aid Mundt said he has a proposal to require annual ments on any loans made from a fund Congress has authorized think we should establish the principle that these loans are ing to be Mundt said am not particular how much ey is paid back annually and I am willing to agree to some emergency it will be better ior us and for the recipient countries if they understand from the beginning that they must meet the annual interest payments and at least make a token payment on the principle don't think should permit a situation to arise where a try that has received loan can go along for three or years without paying on either interest and principle and then ask that both be canceled That sort of thing is bad psychology from both their standpoint and cur Congress has authorized a outlay for the fund in the first year and 625 millions in the second year OHIO MAN KILLED Va was ed Saturday night when he v.as from an auto on W Va south of here Officers said the ran over him Completes 32 Mile Crossing The Signal II said admitted driving the auto in the hit-skip death of Olen here will be charged with of- said Jackson turned self over to police Sunday Comic 7 Crossword Puzzle 2 Deaths 2t 6 Serial Story 7 2 Sports 9 Weather Map 6 Women's New 5 Becomes First In History to Swim Ohio Woman Dies In Flaming Truck NEW 111 Ohio woman perished m the flaming cabin of her husband's truck it overturned and caught fire Sunday night after col- liding with another Both truck drivers burned They were reported in critical condition in St John's Hospital in nearby Springfield Fatally burned was Mrs Ira of She was riding her husband m a loaded witn automobile ies Ohio old urged on by an escort of Marines and Navy is the first man in history to swim Lake Erie He walked out of the water onto the beach at Point Canada Sunday night If it had not been for the urging of the escort in boats Dr Harry Briggs a history at the University of might not have completed the mile crossing who fell exhausted on the beach after walking out of the water at Point said he had been ready to give up when he was only a few miles from his goal At that said Gib Shan sports director for Toledo he was unable to see Shanley formerly was a member of the staff of WHIZ Briggs docs not wear goggles to protect his eyes in the water But his vision and Briggs saw the people on the beach cheering him said who was with the swimmer's At that point Briggs told te1 escort he would hit right on a sandy beach ting into the lake stroke suddenly became His more straight hitting the point Bright on the said Shanley Briggs said the first 10 hours of the and grind too good The next 10 Striking Dock Ordered Back on Job LONDON m Sixteen thousand striking and dockers went back to work on union orders The had 100 ships in London docks caused a fruit and vegetable hours were a little but throughout Britain The felt like quitting six miles from the Canadian shore He left Port at a m Saturday and reached Pelee at p Sunday Leading the group of Marine and Navy men urging Briggs on Marine of he 8th near trouble started five weeks ago employes in against a job plan INJURIES FATAL Ohio suffered ago in an auto racing accident at the New l who also accompanied near were on two previous and he attempts to swim the lake fatal to Ervin L lumbus
