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i HOME EDITED INDEPENDENT Partly rtewdy tealgM aad Saturday Law taalM 41 high Sat arday 78 High yesterday waa a aid the law Uria aiaralaf 4 Mara drtalla aa page 11 Paico Kanqawick Richland Wash Friday May 17 1957 15 PAGES Singla Copy 5c Shortage Of Money Forces Curtailment Bottle Of Poison Was Her Answer Red Cross To Cut Services a Here Some counties he laid voted to increase their blood handling charga to hospital! from $3J0 $3 per pint but his board voted against this Whitemanh and the county Red Crota executive-secretary Mrs Rena Landt both agreed that Increased blood donation! would serve lo ease foe financial problem THEY EXPLAINED that overall par-pint costs of operating tea Yakima Blood Center are lowered when the volume of blood they handle increases They pointed out that while many Franklin County residents gave blood faithfully at aU drawings the part year the Mood collection like the fond drive also foU short of quota Mrs Landt uid the county chapter collected 541 pints against 841 used at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital and a 860-pint quota for the year we could malts our blood quotas aU foe time It would reduce foe coat to the Red Crou" Mn Landt uid adding that the June 8 drawing quota wiU be up IS per cent (from 130-158 fonts) to assist civil detenu Mrs Landt who now operates foe Puco Red Cron office daily (without clerical help) for $200 a month (besides being on call 34-houri daily) hu offered to open the office half days after June 10 INDEPENDENCE Me (I) -TaaUka Samuel 18-ysar-eld Ja yaaria war ferida drtaaad kar Iwa Httla bays aad bar UUIa girt la their ray bait Tbaraday aad tbey aat dawa wHfe a caba la bara a UUIa party taba pat faar flaeeei aa tba table Ska aabad the yonag-atara to drlab tba "madtetoe" la than Sba dawaad ban aad fell te tba Hear Say Eagaaa Saaiart wba la 4 raa daw Beta lrs far bla graadmatbar Mr Daaald Tbaaipaaa Ha aald be bad alp-pad tba "aMdlctaa la bla glass bat It did aat taata saad Mra Tbaaipaaa called ta bar baabaad aad be raa a Mack ta a fin atatlea ta eal paUea aad aa aabtain Detaeilra Bgte Lhyd Baer aad Deaa Mesa aald tbla la wbat they fnad: A anal pataaa battla la a traab caa la tba hitches Aa astn piaea at edbe wlib a ate: My Darib Has-' A tetter ta TwnUta Dan bar baibaad Bay Eageaa Saanel at MeChard Air Pane Baaa Ta-earns Wash Ha asked Tamlka far a dtveree aa be eaald aiany a waaaaa be bad net la Waab-lagtea A three page letter la hand tt aald: tail I my anwardar-Bng Fararcr I lava eaty yaa aad ta chUdreaa daddy la aaly yaa tea deal yaa think aa darting Darlas pretty seen I leave thla werid year free bat year nv baabaad ferever Daring I think af esarae yaa dsat want chldrea lee se I take levity children wUk Daring hen la my deein at final be aan aat ta target Meaiarlal Day tar a levity three children" Mra Theenpeea said her sea married Tamlka abant flva yean age while ha waa at aliened la Japan- Taodka am la la critical caa Milan at Independence Heapltal Friday The three children are daiag fine The ether twa an David 8 aad Darathy Ana 3 Beck's 'Chore Boy' Takes 5th Amendment 71 Times Widow Finds Mess' V- On Returning Home A Kennewick woman to whom tabling her personal property Yakima Blood Center were faced with similar problems THE FRANKLIN County board Including Whitamarsh Bob Hall George Dyer Gilbert Hartman and Cliff Churchman Pasco and Mrs Thomas Thompson Connell la determined to keep the blood program going the chairman said "Soma counties are talking of conducting special fond drives to complete their said Whitamanh pointing out that Walla Walla County recently boosted ita fond by $4000 through a "command performance" style radio marathon He said so far no special drive is seriously contemplated in Franklin County No Major Cutback Planned No major cutback in Red Cross services is expected in Benton County but expenditures are befog kept to a bare minimum because of a lack of funds Mrs Grace Anders executive eecretary said today She said the matter of curtailment had not actually been discussed by the board but abe indicated there would be general curtailment of service! in little ways and rigid adherence to policies don't exactly know how we are going to get by" Mrs Anders uid The fund drive foil year foil $13000 short of the $41901 goal while coats went up in general There are two paid employes of the Benton County chapter and it is impossible to run the office with lees Mrs Anders said Stenographic work is done by volunteer! Volunteer Campaign Launched A voluntary membership recruiting campaign for the Kennewick Chamber of Commerce is forming today after announcement yesterday by president Manly Cor derman Jr the chamber faced doom unless more fundi are raised Cordermafl told the Thursday chamber meeting the organization had just $500 in the bank ae of Wednesday noon CHAMBER Manager Edward Hopkins explained today that was what the group haa in its operating account but that it alio has assets in the form of a savings account and land southeast of Kennewick He also eta led "We don't owe anybody anything" Corderman set $6500 as the minimum amount the chamber can get by on the the rest of the year providing the Tri-City Industrial Development Council does not need the $3500 mentioned as the group's aasesameot The chamber president eet forth three possibilities: closing down organizing a recruiting campaign and hiring a professional recruiter He personally found little favor with the last named TODAY THE second item seemed to be the one that will be put in force One member baa already volunteered to bead a membership drive and others have offered to befo A minister also haa taken out a number of membership blanka to contact prospective members of hia profession The budget for this year waa set at $18408 predicated on a membership of 500 This morning the chamber bad 303 members and had collected $7065 Schut Disagrees With Roseliini OLYMPIA IB Gov Rosellini'a personnel policies provoked a minor disagreement Thursday between Executive Secretary Norm Schut of the Washington Federation of State Employes and the organization's official publication State Emplqye" In a front page editorial the publication said it appeared that some of Roaellfol'a personnel policies are "purely political considerations" Schut told newsmen in a statement after meeting with the governor that things wen not as bad as the editorial indicated "There have been areas of dispute regarding the dismissal of certain Schut uid we are working them out" By CHARLES LAMB mid sun Writer Franklin County Red Cross services will bo curtailed after Jims because of a funds shortage Bncs Whitemanh Pasee eeualp chairman salt only tba blood program wield net bo eat Coots if this program will la-ereaN IMS daring tbs scat fiscal year wbleb starts July The annual funds campaign during March brought in about $6-S00 The county's quota was Franklin County's shars of the Yakima bloodmobils program will be $3108 next year Whits-Diinh gaid He Mid 10 other Washington and Eastern Oregon counties under the All-Atom Fleet Planned OSAKA Japan III The 8 Navy la "now planning to replace all combat ship with nuclear propulsion units" an American nuclear expert told Japanese scientists hero Friday Performance of the nuclear-propeDed submarine Nautilus has led to Navy orders for 18 more atom-operated vesaela including an aircraft carrier and a cruiser said A Martin director of technical sales in North American Aviation Inc'e atomic division Martin spoke to about 100 delegates from Japan the United States and Southeast Asia at the closing session of the Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy The conference moved from Tokyo to Osaka and Nagoya for the fina forum Nuclear research by marine engineering firms and rcat -tor-mui-ufacturora Indicated that merchant ship propulsion is one of the most economically promising applications of atomic energy" Martin said He gave an outline of plana for the first A -driven commercial vessel: It would be a combination cargo-passenger ship of 13000 tons deadweight S8S feet long with a 70-foot beam Service peed is expected to be a conservative SI as opposed to X85 knots for the standard-powered Queen Elizabeth Power will be provided by a pressurized water reactor similar to that used in thp Nautilus is hoped that development will start later this year on in actual experimental or prototype reactor engineered epecifically for merchant ship application" depending on the outcome of present research Martin added Democrats Due Tonight For Meet Slate Democratic Party officials begin arriving tonight for a weekend of meeting and social activities in Richland Of primary interest is the meeting of the State Central Committee at 10 am Sunday Panel diecuasiona will be held at 1:30 pm tomorrow in the Richland Community Housa for county chairmen and vice-chairmen but also open to the public They Will concern dissemination of information led by Gordon Cochrane Richland finances by Archie Wilson Richland and and the duties of precinct committeemen led by George Starr King County Chairman At 7:30 pm Saturday the Democrats will turn their attention to a Spring Hoedown in the Bamboo Room at West Richland A necktie rummage sale la expected to attract interest Ties have been received from Adlai Stevenson unsuccessful candidate for President Sen Warren Magnuaon and Gov Mennen Williams Michigan Sen Henry Jackaon and Rep Don Magnuaon Young Democrats of the state also will meet in Richland during the weekend with registration starting at noon Saturday The host committee includes Ralph Davis Benton City Bob Hettinger Richland and Rudy Rice Richland Ed O'Bannon Kennewick and Pat Chochrane Richland etata committeeman and atete committee-woman are official hosts for the meeting first one to be held in Richland to cut down expenses Whitemanh uid ideu of seeking lower office rent and ether means of uving money are also being studied WHITEMABMI Mrs Land! and Mrs Francis Whitemanh county Red Crou Blood chairman uid that although the 1187 fond drive te over additional foods would be welcomed They Minted out that a per rentage of foe county's fond quota must go to the national chapter for diuster work "Diustrrs could occur in Franklin County as during the 1858 Connell and Meu Mn Whitemanh uid adding that the American Red Crou te always there to assist from foe Teamsters payroll on March 31 this yesr decline to answer under the Fifth Gesert uid That was his answer to every question Kennedy asked therei iter Including queries to whether ho knew Beck or Beck's wife Chairman McClellan broke into Kennedy's questioning and asked Gessert whether he knew his attorney Edward Carey who wu sitting next to Gessert decline to uid the witness asked that question" Me Clellan uid show how ridiculous and frivolous then things esn get" By the time tee hairing ended 31 minutes after McClellan rapped it to order the committee count showed test Gessert had taken foe Fifth Amendment 71 times He even declined to give his name and refused to confirm his Seattle address Carey uid ha had since advised Geuert that the address ha gave might tend to incriminate him The address te in a fenced In area embracing Beck's palatial home and several residence ir occupied by Beck relatives Committee counsel Kennedy refers to it Beck Compound" Gesaert hunted nearly two months by federal marshals seeking to serve him with a subpoena finally wu found In Ellensburg Wash earlier this week after an auto chau from a motel Some of Kennedy's questions referred to earlier testimony that Geuert while on the Retail Clerks Union payroll helped build Beck's lavish home When Gessert declined to answer these questions McClellan uid: "In other words you refuse to say whether you worked for Mr Beck while you were on a union payroll? Don't you feel the poor union members who work hard to pay their dues money are entitled to an accounting lo hear answers from you on theu questions?" Gesaert declined again Asked after the hearing what he thought of Geuert'! performance as a witness McClellan told reporters: something dearly dclri-mental to labor unionism These people owe an accounting for their actions involving the use of union funds Those funds are held in trust for the benefit of unionism and not for the personal profit of union officials and their Angry Wife Dies SEATTLE ID An angry wife smashed her fist through a glasa door of her rural King County home Thursday night and died half an hour later a a result of her injury Mrs Ruth Todd 57 who lived near North Bend severed an artery in her arm County Detective Sgt- Mike Cummings slid Mrs Todd thrust her hind through the glass after becoming angry with her husband Lloyd for taking a friend home He estimated foe first section of pipe was about 12 feet from the boy and said the pipe would enable foe work to proceed rapidly A fireman peering down foe well laid tee boy known lo have been alive for hours appeared to be covered with sand For several hours after the child fell Into (he 34-foot wrll he was heard crying and talking but by dawn he was silent I tragedy is no stranr returned to her tamer home at 711 Date St this week to have her heart broken again by lie discovery that the house had been entered and her belongings had been strewn about the yard and partly dntmyed Mrs Kennsth Bennett said aha locked her house securely lait December when ehe and her family moved to Norwalk Calif when her huiband died unexpectedly Feb 3 This week Mrs Bennett left her four children witb-Meode and returned to to get some of her things she had left locked in her house Many of the family's belongings and reminder of their late husband and father wen acattered in the yard Mn Bennett said she found the back door wide open and upon investigating fflseovemd the cupboards trunks and boxes con- Branch Manager Of PUD Resigns assignation of Stan Gordon Pasco bnnch manager for the Benton County Public Utility District was announced today by manager Owen Hurd Gordon who was former Kennewick general foremen is leaving to accept a position ae electrical superintendent in Fairbanks Alaska His resignation effective Juno 1 comes after nearly 10 years with tiro Benton County PUD Hearing Terminated WASHINGTON III The House Rules Committee ended its hear-Jigs on civil rights legislation Friday after hearing a final Mast of denunciations of the measure by Southerners The committee has reed to meet Tuesday to vote on the measure It is expected to send It to the House with provisions for several day debate WASHINGTON ill Norman Gesaert cousin of Teamsters president Dave wife Friday invoked the Fifth Amendment 71 times in refusing to say whether he realised more than $100000 from tee Teamsters Union Gesaert a graying nervoua man nabbed as a witness after a two-month search monotonously intoned the Fifth Amendment to a long list of questions by Robert Kennedy counsel to the Senate rackets investigating committee Kennedy uid Geeeert drew more than $50000 in salary and ofeenses from the Teamsters Union from April 1954 to March 31 1937 a priod in which Kennedy uid he spent most of his time doing chores for Beck Before that Kennedy' uid Ges-sert was on the payroll of a local of tea Retail Clerks Union which had ite headquarters hi the Teamsters building in Seattle Kennedy uid the clerks local wu a group beholden to foe Team- In addition Kennedy uid Ged-sert received about $51000 in through the ion Merchandising Co a firm he said specialized in selling things to the Teamsters including a batch of toy trucks to Teamsters locals all over the country The company also sold the union furnishings for tha Teamsters palatial headquarters building here Guest's appearance before the unitors was a sort of anti-climax to a go-round Thursday with Beck Beck took foe Fifth Amendment to all question! about hia finan- Guns To Go On Display At Hanford NIKE guided missiles radar unite 130mm guns communca-tiens equipment and other articles used at Camp Hanford win be on display Saturday during the Houm" from 8 am to 4 pm Residents of the area are invited to visit foe camp and see the displays which will illustrate the theme of Armed Forces Day for A review parade wiU be held at 10:10 am oa the Parade Ground Awards wiU be presented at the parade Coffee and cookies wiU be available at a model field kitchen operated by the 519th Gun Bn and free movies win be shown at the Port Theatre Lt Col Leidy Reel Jr Ja Armed Forces Week project officer for Benton and Franklin Counties FISH COUNT McNARY DAM Thursday 505 Ctynook 37 jack 3 rteelhead River flow 531500 cCi rial affairs and foe session wound up with Chairman McClellan (D-Ark) urging that tha Teamsters Union conduct ite own probe to see for Itself whether Beck should be booted out the union's president Gesert wu even leu communicative than Back had been Kennedy'! first question to Gessert wu why he'd been removed Next Step By Probers Uncertain WASHINGTON The Senate rackets investigating committee has not yet decided what next step it will take In ite search for wrongdoing in tabor unions and industry- Counsel Robart Kennedy uid Friday foil may be dri sided next week Kennedy uid he hopes the investigation of Teamsters president Dave Beck has been concluded but that it could be reopened Hearings on Teamster affairs in foe New York City area which originally had been earmarked to come next remain postponed indefinitely Kennedy uid te avoid conflict with the trial of New York racketeer John (Johnny Dio) Dioguardi Dio hu been indicted in connection with the arid Minding of tabor columnist Victor Riesel He will be a witness in the New York hearings after hia trial Kennedy uid Kennedy uid an investigation of the United Steelworkers Union election foia year is still in preliminary stages and that so is an investigation of a variety of tabor unions in Philadelphia He declined to say which of many Investigations now is ready for a start 'of public hearings Atomic City Blacked Out Four Hours Half of Richland waa without power for several hours during the night when an automatic sleeve pulled out of the power lines John Budd superintendent of the electrical unit uid that foe outage started at 13:41 am and affected the north half of town The hospital and business area were put back on power in afcut two hours and the residential section was oa in about four hours Some loss occurred at Richland Bakery where bread waa being baked but the main loss waa in time setting bread deliveries back several hours An emergency generator at Kadlec Hospital started operating when the main power went off had bear opened and ransacked the contents opened and promiscuously about the house and in many cases broken or torn She said the damage undoubtedly was done by children but that she blame them as much as an appliance deatarwhom she understood unlocked the dwelling to repossess her television act then apparently neglected to lock up agate In making her report to police Mrs Bennett said she seriously questioned a dealer's right to enter the house without eilber-a osuii orderer her per- zonal consent She said as fSr she knew he ha3 neitbar $33000 Bid Low On Old Ward Farm Three Prosser farmers submitted the high bid for an 180-acre tract of the old Ward farm which was auctioned by the General Services Administration Wednesday A joint bid of $33000 wag offered by Henry Anderson Archie Joe Anderson and Elmer Anderson at the oral auction which attracted approximately 35 bidders The land is adjacent to the Hanford project on the south dope of the Rattlesnake Mountain IS miles north of here It was hot wanted by the AEC so wu sold as surplus An official at the GSA office in Seattle said this morning the offer wu being considered and expected the sales papers to be completed this afternoon Major League Scores NATIONAL Brooklyn at Chicago postponed rain and cold with us NEW MISSILE UNVEILED The Boom re IM-Sf interceptor missile site aa Ite bumsMag platform at left aad roan late the air at right aa II Is fired at Air Ferce Missile Test Center Patrick Air Farce Base FlerMa These are first photographs released en the huge gnead-to-alr literrepter missile produced by Boeiag Alrplooe Ceaipaay for the Air' Facer The weapon la described a hoot 47 feet tea fort longer thaa Urn 748 Sabre Jot fighter pis with a wlagapaa af 18 fret lac boo (AP) Fight Manager is Decapitated LOS ANGELES UFl -Boxer Billy (Sweetpea) Peacock's manager Joe Stanley 51 wu decapitated Friday by the wheels of a locomotive Police listed the death as a possible suicide A cab driver Ralph Snyder' said he drove Stanley whose legal name was Joseph Quatle from the Wilshire District to the Union Station to catch a train Snyder said the man paid hia fare then walked directly into a alow moving freight train MANY TRI-CITIES STORES OPEN TONIGHT For Your SHOPPING CONVENIENCE SHOP DINE 0UTI Courtesy Your Tri-City Harold TO RESIDENTS OF RICHLAND: If you are thinking of buying your home you are cordially invited to telephone or come in and discuss your Rescue Workers Fear Boy Trapped In Well Is Dead financing needs MANORVJLLE NY Ill Effort! to tuad to a bey trapped la a dry well 18 been failed cwapMely Friday Fraittefras-cuc waiters toned to aew methods MANORVULE NY (It-Pros-pecte of uving 7-yeer-old Benjamin Hooper trapped IS hours at the bottom of a dry weU appeared dim Friday as rescue workers tunneled near him From foe fop of the wen he appeared to be covered by sand The workers tunneling horizontally from a hastily dug excavation beside the well finally succeeded in getting into place a section of culvert pips to keep the tunpd from raving in' Working in one section of pipe they could dig ahead and tber shove a slightly sm slice plica of pipe through to hold their gain be long now" Edward Bridge Brookhaven town police chiel uid at pm.