The Emporia Gazette from Emporia, Kansas • Page 7

THE EMPORIA GAZETTE 72nd Year: No. 217 Wednesday, the Eleventh Day of Twelve Pagci Walkout: N.Y. Teacher Strike Leads To Pupil Riot Children Running" Wild as Number Of Schools Close NEW YORK than half of the city's 40,000 school teachers struck today for more pay. Classes were disrupted and many unruly children ran wild. The Board of Education said at noon that more than 22,000 teachers had not reported for duty.

A number of the city's 840 schools, with one million pupils, closed for lack of classroom supervision. The strikers urged that all be, closed "for the protection of pupils and property." Boys freed. from discipline got into wild melees at some schools and tossed articles from school windows. Those who left school pounded parked automobiles and tossed rocks and eggs. Some 15,000 of the teachers are members of the striking United Federation of Teachers, which is bargaining agent for all.

Many non-members heeded picket lines set up by the strikers. Heavy police guards ringed the schools. The police reported 4,300 pickets were marching at 595 schools. The teachers walked out despite the state's Condon-Wadlin Act, which provides for dismissal of public employes who strike. Possible impact of the strike on the political fortunes of Republican Gov.

Nelson A. Rockefeller and Democratic Mayor Robert F. Wagner was being watched in GOP and Democratic circles. Rockefeller and Wagner, who may be a candidate against him for governor this fall, have been blaming each other for the situation. The strike was the first on such a large scale to hit the city's schools system.

The federation sponsored a one-day demonstration Nov. 7, 1960, in its fight for recognition as bargaining agent for the teachers, but the schools remained open. Teacher salaries range from $4,800 to $8,600 a year, with bonuses for special categories. The union is seeking to increase Ihe figures to $6,400 to $9,500 a year, plus bonuses. The situation in the first hours after the school bells rang today was highly confused with no accurate figures of just how many teachers were off the job.

Cogen, the union president, called the walkout highly effective and said he believed it would be wise to close the schools to prevent disorder in them. Reports gave this picture: Rowdiness broke out among some 2,300 gathered in the auditorium of the Seward Park High School in lower Manhattan. The school, was closed after the outbreak." Similar scenes erupted at Evander Childs High School in the Bronx and at Stuyvcsanl High High School in Manhaltan. At Taft High School in the Bronx, in an hour-long spree, eggs and bag lunches were tossed at picketing teachers. In the huge residential district of Queens, only 8 of 50 schools checked were in regular operation.

Pupils for the most part sat around in auditoriums and gymnasiums waiting for officials to decide what to do. Bethlehem Follows U. S. Steel In Announcing Price Increase BOOK FAIR by a citizens committee, Emporia State, College of Emporia, Emporia Public Library and Ihe Cily Library, a book fair opened Tuesday for a three-day run at 712 Commercial St. The fair is part of National Library Week, April 8th through 14th.

By 5 p. m. Tuesday, 500 of the supply had been sold. Hour's for the fair are from 12 noon to 9 p. m.

Above, Mrs. Clarence Walz, 832 Union (left) scans through one of the books. Full bookcases line the wall and cover the center of the room, which formerly housed the Emporia Plumbing and Heating Company. Kennedy Will Discuss Hike At Conference BULLETIN WASHINGTON (AP)-Presi- dent Kennedy said today a new round of steel price hikes constitutes "a chilling and irresponsible defiance of the nation's interest." Kennedy told a news conference the price hike would increase the costs of homes, autos, appliances and other items for evsry American family. Furthermore, he said, he has been advised the increase would add a billion dollars to the cost of national defense "at a tune when every dollar is needed." "The facts of the matter are," Kennedy said, "there is no justification for an increase in steel prices." Good Evening: Our favorite coed is ignoring National Library Week she says she can't stand book-, worms.

Today's Forecast KANSAS Partly cloudy to cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Thursday with scattered light rain or drizzle west tonight and extreme southwest Thursday; cooler east this afternoon and northwest tonight; low tonight near 32 northwest to near 40 southeast; high Thursday generally in the 50s. Raise Affects Auto, Other Big Industries BULLETIN CLEVELAND Republic Steel Corp. today announced an increase in the prices of its steel mill products averaging about 3V2 per cent. The third largest steel producer in the nation followed the lead of the U. S.

Steel Corp. in boosting prices for the first time since 1958. The increase is effective with shipments today, the company said. Specific products affected by the hike were not listed. Emporia Skies Wednesday, April nth Sunset today 6:57 p.

m. Sunrise tomorrow m. Moonsec tomorrow 1:06 a. m. Full Moon' April loth Prominent Stars The Twins, north of the Moon the brighter Twin, is nearer the Moon); Procyon, 1 WO major StCCi ptOQUCerS south of the Moon; Sirius, well bclo Procyon (and much brighter).

PITTSBURGH (AP)- Laboratories Authorized Book Fair Draws Lookers, Buyers; Board Lets Bids for Old Post Office Work TO WASHINGTON (AP) Emporia Weather President Kennedy will From FAA: followed the lead of U. S. Steel Corp. today and announced price increases. Bethlehem Steel the nation's second largest producer, sav what he thinks of the 2 P- 61 Degrees sa id it will hike the price of its High Tuesday 50 degrees ro steel products by 3.5 per steel price increase in a state- Low last night 42 degrees ce nt, effective Thursday.

ment at his news conference Jones Laughlin sted Corp TT Barometer 30.07 falling ourt biggest producer, also an-today. He is certain to say Wind ENE 10 nounced a price increase, but de- Precipitation 14 inch A big backlog of business was cleared away in a tedious four- hour meeting of the Emporia Board of Education Tuesday night, and what the session lacked in excitement was made up in the dramatic steps taken to improve the school system. Two major projects were approved. The first was letting of bids for remodeling the former post office building, Nine new classrooms are being built in the structure and the board awarded contracts totaling $84,364 to complete the work. This money comes from the special building fund of the district, the same source used to pay for an addition at William Allen White School recently.

The general contractor for the work will be Robert Tcale of Wichita. His bid of $45 200 was more than $3,000 below the other three. The plumbing, heating, ventilating and air conditioning contract went to the Emporia Plumbing and Heating Company for and the Marshall Company of Emporia was low for electrical work, $13,500. Stanley J. Hagan is the architect.

He met with the board after opening of bids Tuesday evening to discuss alternates and advise the members on contracts. (Other bids are listed below. The other project was approval of two electronic language laboratories to be installed for classes next year. These systems are to l)e purchased from the Frank Bangs Company at Wichita at a cost of with helf of the price to be paid by the federal government under a National Defense Education Act provision. Junior High First ior High School early this summer.

It will have 34 booths, each containing a tape recorder and intercom equipment connecting with an imposing control board operated by the teacher. Each of the students can listen through earphones to recorded lessons in a language; then the student can recite the into a Many other schools in the state already have equipment of this type, but the Emporia board has been holding off to see if the new teaching system is successful. Results have been excellent, it is reported, and because of the electronic systems, enrollment in language courses has soared in the schools. The Bangs company microphone and'in turn hear his was one of three bidders on the own voice and that of the instructor that have been recorded on tape. The teacher can listen in any of the 34 stations to see how the youngsters are doing, and can offer comments from her "control center." The teacher also can hook in several of the booths for a group lesson while other members of the class go ahead with the course at their own speed.

Late this summer, but before school starts, another laboratory like the one at Lowther will be installed at Emporia High School. Msgr. Strecker Is Named Bishop Wichita Priest to Head Diocese in Missouri equipment. Others were Steve Smith Camera's, of Topeka, and Hoover Brothers of. Kansas City, Mo.

Cafeteria Improvements More improvements were approved for the school cafeteria. The board authorized spending' of new equipment in the kitchen and serving line and made plans for remodeling, to be done by school workmen. Modernization, of the cafeteria was started during the Christmas vacation last year. Two-line serving was set up and a "continuing remodeling" Bookniks, have been swarming i around the offerings at the Em- ne doesn 1UCC poria Book Fair ever since the xiie White House said Kennedy i doors were opened at noon Tues- would have no comment on the bhowers iotal .14 incn day. The event is sponsored by the Emporia Public Library, the College of Emporia and Emporia State libraries and is part, of the National Library Week activities for this area.

The fair 5s being held in the former Emporia Plumbing and Heating Building, at 712 Commer- press secretary, said Kennedy re- cial and will be open until ceived his first word of the $6-per- big steel company's action before his televised conference. He had said he would make his comments in a statement expected before that time. That word came from the President at a White House social function Tuesday night. Andrew T. Hatcher, assistant The April showers which started Tuesday morning totaled .14 inch at the FAA station, Emporia Airport.

The bluestem pasture country to the southwest in sections of Lyon, Greenwood, Chase and Bu'ler counties, has had heavier rains during the -past week, cattlemen report, and grass is making a' good start." 9 p.m. tonight and from noon to 9 p.m. Thursday. Tuesday. $350 worth backs were sold.

B. B. Richards, E-Slate librarian, said that if any profits are made by the fair the money will be divided evenly between the two colleges for use as scholarships. Two prizes of gift certificates, good nt Bruckner's Men's Store and Poole's Department Store, will be awarded at the end Ion price hike by U.S. Steel from ft Roger Blough, board chairman of Cool and Unstable of paper- tne at a Pe nal meeting in the White House late Tuesday.

Weather tO LontlHUC Hatcher said Blough requested the and came from Pittsburgh to see the President. They were together in Kennedy's office for nearly an hour, starting at 5:40 p.m. Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg also was present. There had been no indication at the time that Kennedy had met with Blough.

will be installed at Lowther Proceed With Test Plans Soviet Resistance Does Not Yield to U.S., British Efforts WASHINGTON (AP) The United States and Britain appeared today to be completely stalled against an unyielding wall of Soviet opposition in their last- ditch effort to get Moscow's agreement to an enforceable treaty banning nuclear tests. While formally expressing hope that Soviet Premier Khrushchev will yet reverse his policy against r.n international inspection system to police a test ban, officials here VATICAN CITY The Rt. Rev. Ignatius Y. Strecker, chancellor of the curia at Wichita, was named by Pope John XXIII today as bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Mo.

He was born at SpearvUle, in 1917. The new bishop succeeds Bishop Charles H. Helmsing who recent- Tlie first of these laboratories was to the Kansas u- St OSC ph DiOCBSe. He will administer Roman Catholic affairs in an area comprising 25,000 square miles in southern Missouri with a population of 823,000. His parents, William and Mary Strecker, still live in Spearville.

The new bishop has been chancellor at Wichita since 1948. Previously he was assistant pastor of St. Mary's Church in Newton, chaplain at St. Rose Hospital in Great Bend, and auxiliary chaplain of the old Great Bend Air Force Base. He attended Maur Hill High School and St.

Benedict's College in Atchison, Kenrick Seminary in St. Louis, and studied canon law at Catholic University in Washington, D. C. He was ordained at Wichita Dec. 19, 1942.

plan was devised. Wallace Evans of the Emporia Coffee Company (See Book Fair, pg. ten) appeared with Lowther Principal Clarence Williams before the board to answer questions about SLVUIH the cafeteria. Mr. Evans has been helping with plans for the rennova- tion Greet Governors at Another official visitor at the meeting was the school attorney, Samuel Mellinger, who told board members of the next steps to be taken toward selling the (See School Board, pg.

six) Ferguson to Seek Another Term as Attorney General TOPEKA (AP) William F. Ferguson announced sday night he will seek a second term as Kansas attorney general. Ferguson, 44, is a Wellington Republican with a background in law, ranching, cattle and banking. He is a former four-term state legislator. Ferguson said he is seeking reelection because "my office has several programs under way home-front political pressure to continue demonstrating the desire to put an end to all tests.

By agreement between Kennedy and Macmillan, the United States and Britain issued' a joint statement which amounted to a warning to the Russians and to the world that without a change in the Soviet position, "the test series scheduled for the latter part of this month will go forward." Macmillan also sent a new pcr- Native Kansan Is Killed. actually see no prospect that this sonal message to Khrushchev Crash of 647 Bomber will happen. President Kennedy is therefore going ahead with plans to start atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons in about two weeks. The tests will be held over the Central Pacific during a period of about two months, and officials indicate (hat there will be between 30 and nuclear explosions involved. British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told the House of Commons in London Tuesday that ho will go on pressing for East-West agreement on a test ban "to the Jast possible moment." It became apparent Tuesday that while Kennedy shown reluctance to the lest series, Macmillan is under much greater making a direct appeal for a modification of Soviet policy with the argument that the purpose of in- specticn "is not to increase suspicion but to dispel it." He thus sought to overcome the Soviet contention that the Western powers want to put international inspection teams on Soviet territory for purposes of espionage.

The essence of Mucmillan's argument, made many times in recent weeks by U.S. and, British leaders, is that without a system of international verification none of the big powers could be sure that a test ban was being faithfully observed, and therefore suspicion of violations would inevitably grow up. PALACIOS, Tex. (API Maj. Robert E.

Gorman, 33-year-old pilot born at Bethel, and another Air Force flier were killed Tuesday when a burning B47 bomber crashed on the Texas coast near Palacios, midway between Houston and Corpus Christi. Capt. Leo E. McC'omb. 28-year- old navigator from Swansea, was killed and the third man on the plane, Lt.

George li. Wilson, 28, of Kent, escaped by parachute. The Strategic Air Command said the six-engine jet was on a routine training flight from its horrte station, Little Rock Air Base. William F. Ferguson which cannot be completed within the limitations of a single term." Primarily, Ferguson said, this refers to hi? program to improve handling of juvenile problems.

He said he also wants to seek enactment of laws relating to search and seizure. He said he also contemplates a campaign aimed at preventing fraud practices on consumers, particularly in the home repairs and improvements field. NAGOYA, Japan U.S. governors were greeted in this industrial city today by crowds so huge the Americans wanted to make speeches. Thousands of waving Japanese were on hand when the governors stepped from the train.

More thousands plus a brass band turned out for the governors' arrival at the Aichi prefectural (state) office. Gov. Grant Sawyer of Nevada turned to his Democratic Party colleague, David L. Lawrence of Pennsylvania, and said, "it's a shame to pass up so many people without saying a few words." With Lawrence and Sawyer are Steve McNichols, Colorado; W. W.

Barren, West Virginia; John Anderson Kansas, Archie Gubbrud, South Dakota, and Farris Bryant, Florida. The governors left the fog- shrouded a Mountains where they had attended the second session of the U.S.-Japan Governors Conference and rode an early morning train down Japan's eastern coast past Mt. Fuji and through elaborately tilled farmland. It was a tossup between Fuji and the farmlands as far as what impressed the Americans the most. Farm state governors, especially Gubbrud and Anderson, were more impressed with the hillside terraces and rice paddies.

As they have since April 5 when the Americans arrived, Japanese officials went to great lengths to spread the red carpet. One half of the huge, busy Nagoya railroad station was closed to the public and swept and mopped for the Americans' arrival. Since this is cherry blossom time, traditionally a period of exuberant celebration, there were a number of tipsy celebrants in the station before the governors arrived. But a police squad hustled the bewildered merry makers outside. Gov.

Mikine Kuwabara greeted the Americans at the prefectural office and arranged to take them on a tour of Nagoya's famed textile plants. He also has arranged a Japanese-style banquet. Thursday the governors are to tour irrigation projects, a pottery Y)lant and then leave by train for Kyoto, Japan's cultural capital. TOPEKA unstable weather lingered in Kansas today with more showers likely through Thursday. Much of southeast Kansas still had cloudy skies early today after rains Tuesday from a half-inch in the Pittsburg-Parsons-Coffeyville area to .92 of an inch at Oswego.

Most of the showers today and Thursday are predicted for the western side of the state. High temperatures today were expected to be in the 50s with overnight lows from the 30s northwest to 40s southeast. 5: Dirksen Is Nominated For Senator in Illinois CHICAGO (AP) Sen. Everett M. Dirksen, Republican leader in the Senate with nearly 28 years service in Congress, coasted to an easy victory in the Illinois primary election Tuesday.

The 66-year-old veteran political campaigner, bidding for a third Senate term, piled up a G-l victory over Harley D. Jones, 69, a politically unknown Chicago lawyer. tails on it were not available immediately. Bethlehem said the increase will affect a wide range of steel products in the high tonnage category classified as rolled steel. Included in the category are basic steel products for the automotive industry.

Meanwhile, the president of Reynolds Metals a leader in the aluminum field, said the U.S. Steel increase is justified. Richard S. Reynolds said, "As I have pointed out many times, industry cannot continue to have rising costs without increasing prices." The price hike by U. S.

Steel, the nation's largest producer, was announced Tuesday, jew hours before it took effect. It added an average of $6 to the cost of a ton of steel, which has been selling for a little more than $150. U.S. Steel customarily sets the pattern for prices in the steel industry. Steel prices have an effect on prices in the auto, construction and appliance industries, all big steel users.

The increase came less than a week after U.S. Steel and 10 other big firms signed new two-year labor contracts with the United Steelworkers to lake effect July 1. Those pacts, granting a 10-cent- an-hour package increase to each basic steelworker, were hailed by President Kennedy as responsible and noninflationary, adhering to the President's plea for an early, noninflationary steel settlement President Leslie B. Worthington of U.S. Steel said the price hike was necessary because of continuing cost-price squeeze on profits since 1958.

He said these costs have continued to rise without even considering higher labor (See Steel, pg. six) He Wins Bi-Pdrtisan Commendations Landon Campaigns for Tariff Legislation TOPEKA M. Landon, remembered principally as the Republican nominee for president 26 years tgo. has started a new He has supported the program in speeches before the National Press Club in Washington, at the 24th Annual Farm Institute at time for the pro- Des Moines and at Chamber of gram of a Democratic president. His work is in behalf of President Kennedy's request for tariff legislation.

It has made him forsake at times his rule of recent years not to make speeches that force him to spend the night in a hotel or on a train. Landon. active and hearty nt 74, has been keenly interested in foreign affairs since he was governor of Kansas in the 1930s and his presidential race in 193G. Through the World War II years he was consulted more on inter- Commerce dinners in Kansas City and Hutchinson. He is urging Congress to give the President authority to lower tariffs across-the-lward to deal with the new European Common Market.

Landon hopes to convince the rest of the country that Kansas and the Midwest, generally considered isolationist and conservative, are leading the way in support of the program. "Kansas has broken the ice in the Midwest in supporting the tar- nstional problems than is general- riff proposal." Landon said. "Kan Kansas Traffic Score traffic death log: 24 hours to 9 a.m. 1. For April 9.

For ly known. The tariff problem fits into that interest and its importance, to Lnndon, transcends political or normal business interests. The future of the free world is at stake, he says, and it is the sure way to take the initiative from Communist nations. Tonight he will preside at a conference of eight Kansas leaders on the tariff problem. The meeting on "Our Stake in World Afiairs" is identified as "in support of the President's tariff legis- up furnish a chance to snap out lation now pending in Congress." of it, he says.

sas must have surprised the rest of the country in rallying behind the common market. "The meeting brings together for Mhc first time in many years, on the same stage in Kansas, the lit-ads of business, labor rind agriculture in support of the President's tariff program." Landon believes that the United States has been trapped into a "All through the Truman containment policy and the late Secretary of State Dulles' self-styled we talked of the battle for the minds of men a world court and a rule of we constantly lived on a high cloud and tried to build the roof before the foundation," he said recently to a group of fellow Kansans. "In a nutshell, the combining of Europe and England which was) savagely attempted by war is well on the way to peaceful accomplishment for the common good by tradesmen, assisted by politicians with foresight and imagination. "If we work with them and they work with us, that would serve as a rallying base for the nations of the western world. The trend would logically be in that direction as world conditions become more chaotic and the futility of the.

United Nations becomes more apparent." A businessman ioil and radio stations), Landon knows that lowered tariffs will hurt some groups. But, he says, the over-all effect losing game in the battle of ide- ast possibilities the ology since World War I. The economic nation's economy. His determined support of tho (See Landon, pg. six).