The Kokomo Morning Times from Kokomo, Indiana • Page 1

Good KOKOMO ORNING TIMES The Ind.pcnd.nt Voice of North Control IndiaTM 2 No. 167 Wednesday, February 2, 1966 Kokomo, Indiana MS. COURT RULES REDISTRICTIN6 LEGAL Big blow in Washington Snow blowers hurl streams of snow skyward recovered from the snow as runways at National Airport near Wash- D. are cleaned. The city has recovered juum me j.u-iuv;" and is bracing for another.

(UPI Telephoto) mgioii( I IX Tlnenitfll MIAMI (UPI)- A railroad engine smashed into a busload of foreign farmhands at a dark country crossing Tuesday night, killing at least 18 persons and strewing bodies 100 yards along the tracks. The highway patrol said at least 17 of the laborers, most of them believed to be Puerto Ricans, were injured. It was not immediately determined how many were aboard the battered green bus. the Seaboard Air Lines engine, pulling only a caboose, struck the bus at an isolated crossing in the truck farming section of southwestern Dade County. The impact wrenched the bus from its chassis and carried it, draped across the front of the engine, 100 yards the tracks, spilling bodies as it went.

A warning signal light had been installed at the crossing but it wasn't working. Authorities said the workers were returning from a day in the vegetable fields and the train was enroute to pick up produce-laden cars. Its engineer, B.E. Lee, would not talk to newsmen but a crewman said the train was going about 30 miles an hour when the bus "suddenly appeared on track." One witness. Candy Taylor said at least eight of the dead were pinned inside the bus and "they were using blowtorches to get them out.

There were about 12 Owens fined $3,000 or evasion of in taxes CHICAGO (UPI) Jesse Owens, American hero of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, was fined $3,000 Tuesday for evading $68,166 in federal income taxes. District Court Judge Joseph Sam'Perry, who could have assessed a jail term of four years and fined Owens as much as $40,000, chose instead to fine the former track star $750 on each of the four counts. Owens, who had pleaded no contest to charges that he evaded taxes on income of $142,000 for 1959 through 1962, said he "felt wonderful" about the sentence. The judge told Owens, 52, that the fine did not block the possibility that the' government might file a civil suit to collect back taxes. Owens told Judge Perry, "It's very regretful that this the tax evasion charge had to be brought up.

It was not a willful act. I was under many pressures. I was doing a lot of traveling." people lying on the track. I think they were dead." David Nelson, who lives near the 150th Ave and 184th St. crossing, said the bus was dragged more than 100yards, "draped over the front of the train.

There was blood all over'the place." Five ambulances were called to take the injured to Jackson Memorial Hospital and South Miami Hospital in Miami. The Dade County medical examiner received the bodies of 17 of those killed and Jackson Memorial Hospital reported receiving another. Hospital authorities said the injured were laying in the hallway of the hospi- tal, awaiting treatment in the emergency Many of them were reported in critical condition. In May of 1963, a bus loaded with Negro farm workers ran into a canal near Belle Glade, killing 27 of those on board. That was the worst highway accident in Florida's history.

BODIES workers litter the foreground as rescue workers tear thSr way through wreckage of a bus-tram crash at Miami. (UPI Telephoto) State says Candy killed for love; defense tries deceased MORNING CIRCULATION 25,533 Paid As Of Feb. 1 MIAMI(UPI) The state vowed Tues. day to prove that Candace (Candy) Mossier and Melvin Lane Powers murdered Jacques Mossier for love and money, but the defense painted Candy's slain millionaire husband as a hopeless homosexual with a multitude of enemies. Because of his homosexuality, said defense attorney Percy Foreman, "Jac- qjes Mossier laid himself open to black.

moil or possible homicide at very frequent intervals." With the exception of the fetish of collecting women's shoes, Foreman said, Mossier was a victim of all the other sexual deviations mentioned in textbooks, "he had them all, transvestitism, homosexualism, voyeurism. "He had every conceivable sexual deviation that anybody ever had." Foreman also accused Mossier ofbeing a ruthless business baron. The two sides of the case against Candace and Powers were outlined tor a jury i white and three Negro men in opening statements of more than an hour each by the shaggy-haired Foreman, Powers' attorney, and assistant state attorney Arthur E. Huttoe. During Huttoe's statement, blonde Candace, wearing a beige suit, in sue- cession gaped, grimaced and whispered to one of her attorneys: "That's a lie.

not true." But judges may suggest another try for equitable apportionment than in the inhabitants of Ind: Powers sat impassive. The trial was recessed for the day about 5 p.m., EST with Wednesday's session scheduled to start at 9:30 a.m. Mossier died of 39 stab wounds and a severe beating. During the afternoon testimony by the county medical examiner about the injuries he found on her body. Candy broke into violent but inaudible sobs, her face working and her lips moving.

She regained her composure after about a minute. The graying Huttoe, executive assistant to state attorney Richard E. Gerstein 'told the jurymen in a strong deep voice the state intends to prove there were three motives for the slaying of Mossier--" A (Continued OP 3) Queen starts tour BARBADOS, B.W.I. (UPI)-Queen Eliza- bethand Prince Philip arrived here Tuesday to a tumultuous welcome as the began a five-week tour of the Caribbean. Their arrival had been delayed by a bomb hoax in London.

The royal couple was whisked from the airport to Bridgetown Harbor, where they boarded the yacht Britannia which will take them to British Guiana for the official start of the tour. INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) A panel of three federal judges split 2-1 Tuesday in upholding the legality of a 1965 Indiana Congresssional Reapportion- rnent law. The ruling averts a possible third special session of the Legislature. The new law is scheduled to be used by candidates for the first time beginning Feb. 22.

A change of one vote would have meant a hurry-up special session since state officials generally were opposed to the other alternative-election at large. Judge Win G. Knoch of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Chicago, a Republican, joined with Judge S. Hugh Dillin, a Democrat, in Holding the 1965 law to be "not unconstitutional." Judge Cale J.

Holder, a Republican, dissented, and in his opinion criticized "the unconstitutional districting which my colleagues of the bench have contenanced." But while the majority of the panel ruled so as to make possible use of the 1965 law in the 1966 congressional nominations and elections, Knoch indicated that the formal opinion may contain a recommendation for another try at more equal representation in Congress. "We will make strong suggestions for the future," Knoch said. "We expect to set up some guidelines for what they may be worth to the next General Assembly." He commented also that "undoubtedly a more equitable reapportionmont is possible." Holder, in his dissenting opinion, recalled that the federal court in 1964 had refrained from upsetting the old congressional districts in order to avoid "political disorder." Bill Jones has truly been found PERU William Clifford Jones, 38, of 262 Jackson Avenue, missing from his home since Jan. 3, has been apprehended and is in the custody of Spencer County authorities. Jones was arrested Monday in Rockport and lodged in the Spencer County jail on a charge of failure to support children.

He was charged in an affidavit signed by his wife, Janice. He will be returned to Peru by the Miami County sheriffs department. Jones has been undergoing psychiatric treatment for a. year and a half, his wife said. When he left home, he gave no indication of his plans, and it was earlier reported he was staying at the Tell City home of his sister.

Author Edith Roberts dies in California Mrs. Edith Roberts, author and daughter of Mrs. Cove L. Kneipple, 1815 W. Jefferson, died Monday in Los Angeles, Kokomo residents wil! remember Mrs.

Roberts for an article she wrote for Coronet Magazine, "Kokomo, the Town with the Funny Name," Among her novels were "Candle in the Sun "Reap the Whirlwind," "Tamarack," and "That Hagen Girl," which was made into a movie with Shirley Temple and Ronald Reagan in the lead roles. Mrs. Roberts was born in Marion, and later resided in Kokomo, where herfather was manager of the IndianaBell Telephone At the time of her death she was director of the Los Angeles Health Museum. Survivors in addition to her mother are- a son, John Christopher Roberts of sausalito, one sister, Mrs. A (Grace) Mirth of Kokomo and a brother, John Kneipple, Silver Springs, and a grandson.

Memorial services and burial will be Wednesday in Los Angeles. I TIMES TODAY I Inside He said the court then acted in the belief the 1965 legislature would "heed the new judically stated principles governing congressional districting." He said the new state congressional districts "do not follow the teachings of these Supreme Court of these districts when compared with the rule of 'one vote-one man' leaves no other rational conclusion but that the Area news Classified Pages 16,17 Comics Editorials Financial Pages 14,15 Hospital 'notes Page 16 Obituaries. Page 16 Sports. Pages 8 9 Theater Vagell Women's News Page 6 Outside Partly cloudy today, little colder tonight. Highs around 20.

No change for Thursday. inhabitants of Indiana are paying usurious votes in the selection of the congressmen." Holder noted that "two minority congressmen are placed in completely new districts with only their home county retained from the old district" and that 1965 law casts "one minority congressman against another, thus reducing the minority delegation to Congress by one." oinsr rmiuiiou No troubles yet from 6-inch snowfall here The Kokomo area was blanketed with a half-foot of snow by last night, much to the pleasure of the young and "young at heart" but to the disgust of the hurrying motorist and road clearing crews. The snowfall started about 9 a.m. yesterday morning and by midnight last night six inches was on the ground. Weather predictions forecast a 70 per cent possibility of two more inches by dawn.

All roads were reported open and passable at midnight last night with very little drifting expected during the early morning hours. Several minor traffic accidents had been reported by city, county and state police during the evening hours yesterday. One resulted in a 47-year-old Kokomo woman being injured. Howard County and state highway personnel reported all rural roads and highways were clear of any excess amount of snow but added they were slick and motorists should proceed with caution. A battery of ten trucks from the state highway garage at Tlpton were working on both Tlpton and Howard County roads last night In Howard County itself, an additional eight graders, three snowplows and three salt trucks were utilized from early yesterday morning until midnight last night.

Kokomo Police Chief Raymond Kellar issued the following safety tip for motorists going to work this morning: "Allow a little extra time to get to work when the roads and streets are slippery. Getting up a Httle earlier also gives you time to do a good job of clearing snow and ice from your car's windows if it has been standing out of doors." Street Superintendent Bob Hoover said last night all major city streets were expected to be clear by this morning and that his. department would continue working on them. Eight snowplows, two graders and the Pete Pigeon Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. city's new snowblower, In addition to three salt trucks, were working on city streets at midnight last night.

Today's forecast calls for diminishing snow flurries and a turn to colder weather with a high in the middle teens. No public schools or local industry has been reported closed by the season's first heavy snowfall however the story (Continued on 3) Schools await dawn's product Whether or not children and teachers will get together today remains to be seen. The expected snow fall hadn't called a halt to education as of press time this morning. School authorities in the Kokomo area had yet to make a firm decision, awaiting dawn and whatever comes with it. Vincent Guenther, superintendent of Tipton Community Schools, said he's base his final decision on the opinion of.

county highway officials. "We're still going," was Bernard F. De Witt's answer. DeWitt is superintendent of Eastern School System, which operates Jackson, Union and Eastern schools. However, most school officials seem to be waiting for a change in the weather.

One supervisor said he'll decide as late as 6 a.m." today it necessary. 1 hurt in Kokomo At least one person was Injured while traveling on slick streets and roads in Kokomo last night. Taken to St. Joseph Memorial Hospital suffering from a very severe nose laceration and a possible back injury was Gladys M. Walker, 47, 2316 Tam-O-Shanter.

She was taken to the hospital following a 7 p.m. accident on Park Road about 300 feet north of Deffenbaugh St. According to police she was traveling on Park Road when her car skidded on the slick pavement, slammed into the Kokomo Creek bridge, veered across the roadway and ran into a light pole. Her car skidded approximately 207 yards. Peaceful, isn't it A late snow dumped six inches atop Cannon Mountain near Franconia, N.H.

To this skier there couldn't be a nicer thing fn "he worli However, across the country winter is stU paying out a heavy burden to the would-be traveler. (UPI Telephoto).