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The Rhinelander Daily News and THE NEW NORTH FOKTIETH 271 RHINELANDER, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 12 PAGES TODAY PRICE SEVEN' CENTS Many Offer Help For Hess Family; Funeral Thursday While arrangements were completed today for funeral services for the three small victims of a fire which leveled the home of the Lcroy Hess family in the town of Little Rice Monday afternoon, offers of help continued to pour in from residents of Oneida and Lincoln counties. Funeral services for the three children, Michael, 5, Linda, 4, and Bonita, 2, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Nick and Sons Funeral Home in Tomahawk. They will toe buried in one casket, which will not be open before the services, with burial taking place in Greenwood Cemetery near Tomahawk. Meanwhile, the condition of the youngsters' mother, Mrs.

Ellen Hess, 46, showed slight improvement in Rivervicw Hospital at Tomahawk. She was badly Durneo in a futile eifort to rescue the children alter they once were outside the house and then ran back inside. Two other childien, Darolci Dean, 16, and Alita, 8, also are in the same hospital with burns. Delbert A. Larsen, director ol the Oneida county welfare department, who is coordinating assistance being offered the family, said today that many calls arc being received asking what items are oi greatest need.

He said all of the remaining children at home, numbering nine, are in need of all types of clothing, including underclothing. The family also needs furniture, cooking utensils, blankets, sheets, pillows, pillow cases and similar items. Persons or groups, desiring to help the family, either with cash or contributions of various articles, are asked to call Larsen at the welfare office to avoid duplication of effort. The children living at home, including the two in the hospital, are as follows: Boys 19, 16, 10, 9 and 7 years of age, and girls 12, 9, 7, 6 years and 8 months. Eagles Plan Dance.

In Rhinelander, the Eagles aerie will sponsor a benefit dance for the Hess family Saturday, Feb. 15, in the Eagles Hall, it was announced by Charles Wittrock. Dancing will be from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Tickets may be purchased by sending a self-addressed envelope to Wittrock, Box 94, City.

The price is 50 cents." The weekly Tomahawk Leader has started a fund for the Hess family and has placed containers in many business places to accept contributions. A supermarket also is acting as a depot for collection of furniture, clothing and household articles which people want to donate to the family. The family is living temporarily in a home owned by Bob Durocher, operator of a neighborhood tavern in the area where the Hess family lived. The welfare department, which has furnished assistance to the family to supplement the father's earnings as a pulpwood cutter, is attempting to lino up a permanent residence. Besides the 10 children still left at home, there are five older sons and daughters who live elsewhere.

One other child died in infancy and one was stillborn. Mrs. Hess is expecting her 21st child in early summer. Secret Bow, Arrow Project Unveiled WASHINGTON Defense Department lifted the lid from its secret bows and arrows project of World War II. The project began in 1943 when the Office of Strategic Services said it needed some "silent, flash- less weapons" in dealing with such persons, for instance, as enemy sentries.

Research was undertaken at Northwestern University where two dozen engineers, physicists, mechanics and draftsmen came up with working models of rubber band powered weapons resembling medieval crossbows of King Arthur's time. One model was found capable of killing a man at 25 yards. Another at 50 yards. Weather Weather Forecast: Cloudy and rather cold with occasional snow flurries tonight and Thuis- day. Low tonight 10-15.

High Thursday in the 20s. Rhiuelander Weather: Tuesday's temperature range was from a low of one degree below zero to a high of 28 above, with the 5 p.m. reading being 2G degrees; overnight the iow was 5, and at 7 a.m. today it was 1C. There was no precipitation Tuesday.

The snow cover on the ground today measures 11 inches. Weather One Year Ago: Temperature range, from a low of 4 below zero to a high of 33 above; no precipitation. Second Vanguard Firing Is Failure By BEN FUNK GAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (ffl The Navy's second Vanguard satellite rocket roared skyward today but ended just like the in a fiery explosion. Sixty seconds after a beautiful takeoff at 2:33 a.m., the bullet- shaped Vanguard wobbled crazily, broke into two pieces and was destroyed by the test range safety officer.

If the flight had succeeded, the Navy would have put a tiny "moon" into orbit with the Army's Explorer, which was fired aloft Friday by the Jupitcr-C missile. But the Vanguard climbed only abdut 20,000 feet into a cold, starry sky before the safety officer, R. D. Stephens, pressed the button that blew it apart and sent it plunging toward the ocean in fiercely blazing fragments. So the Soviet Union, having launched two Sputniks, still holds a numerical lead.

Sputnik I disintegrated Jan. 4 but Sputnik II, carrying a dead 'dog, still whirls around the earth. Fuel Line Leak Blamed. The first Vanguard rocket, fired here Dec. struggled upward only four feet before it toppled over and was partly consumed in its own flames.

A fuel line leak, causing a loss of pressure in the combustion chamber, was blamed for that spectacular mishap, which damaged U.S. prestige abroad at a time when the Soviet Union had the only satellites in the skies. Experts had hoped that the lessons learned from that fjrst failure would help pave the way to success on the next attempt, but officials emphasized before today's attempt that the odds against getting the Vanguard's moon into orbit still were 1,000 to 1. The slender, 72-foot rocket left the ground surely and gracefully, riding a witch's broom of lemon- colored fire straight up into the blue-black sky. Engines Roar Awakens Many.

Its blazing exhaust lighted the countryside and the roar of its engines shook sleeping persons awake for miles around. Observers watching the blastoff from vantage points inside the test center shouted as the Vanguard began its arrow-true climb. But their cheers died in their throats when they saw the missile incline too sharply, break up and plunge back toward the moonlit Atlantic. One huge ball of brilliant fire seemed for a moment to be spinning back in the general direction of. the test center and an alarmed observer yelled: "Look out, it's coming our way!" But the fireball disappeared as it nearcd the ground.

At the same time, other sparkling fragments were seen plummeting into the ocean two to three miles offshore. In an official announcement minutes later, the Air Force, which operates the test center, said the Vanguard was "successfully launched but was destroyed in flight when it failed to maintain its programed flight path." Data Helpful. Maj. Gen. Donald N.

Yatcs, commander of the test center, said it may be several days before there can be a full explanation of what happened to the Vanguard. Short though it was, the flight gave the Navy much valuable- data, through telemetry, photography, radar and radio monitoring. Soon after the explosion, technicians were busy assembling this information, probing for the cause of the failure. The Air Force probably will be asked to try to salvage some of the rocket wreckage from the sea. The small Vanguard satellite may be floating on the water and sending out its beeping radio signals.

Weather apparently could not be blamed for the breakup of the rocket. Winds at 25,000 feet were blowing only 69 m.p.h. The second Vanguard failure started immediate speculation on the future of the program. Officials associated with the project said it presumably would not be affected, since today's rocket was only a test vehicle. Actor Charles Coburn Observes Anniversary SANTA MONICA, Calif, Charles Coburn was honored last night at a party celebrating his (iSth year in show business.

Dan Dailcy. Barbara Stanwyck, Cecil B. Do Mille, Danny Thomas, Gregory Peck and John Carroll were among the screen personalities who attended. Coburn, 80, started in show business as a theater usher in his native Savannah, Ga. After many Broadway appearances, he came to Hollywood in 1937 and Oscar for hit; 1942 supporting performance in "The More the Merrier." 'Pressure Too Kidnaper Surrenders PADUCAH, Ky.

Ml The grim four-day manhunt for kidnaper Carl E. Burton ended last night. He ran into police headquarters and surrendered because 'the pressure was too much." Two policemen chased him as he ran, hands in the air and a fully loaded revolver sticking in his belt. It was a dramatic climax to one of this area's most intensive searches which began when Burton and Harold Davis, 33, kid- naped Missouri State Trooper William Little at Van Buren, Saturday night. Burton said at the police station: "I'm glad it's over.

The pressure was getting too much. I knew I couldn't get away. 1 had to quit running." Police from four stales converged on this western Kentucky area when the pair, holding Liltle hostage, smashed through roadblocks in Little's police cruiser. Burton and Davis, both of Redwood, fled to a remote sec- lion of McCracken County late Saturday night, holed up at a farm home and held Little and Mr. and Mrs.

Calvin Shelton hostage for 24 hours. Davis cracked under the pressure and shot and wounded himself. Burton fled to the river bot- lomlands Sunday, leaving Liltle and the Sheltons unharmed. Police set up massive roadblocks within a 50-mile radius. A misunderstanding caused the dealh of a young woman at one roadblock when her car drove through.

Patiolmen Marion Shelbourne and James Arts recognized Bur- Ion walking down a street here last night. They turned a spotlight on him, ordered him to halt and started after him. Burton, only a few doors from the police stalion, kepi going. He ran into the station and was immediately disarmed. The pistol belonged lo Liltle.

Burton was ordered held under $30,000 bond on a federal kidnap- ing charge and $5,000 bond on charges of interstate transportation of a stolen car. He waived preliminary hearing before U.S. Commissioner Herbert Melton and was ordered held to the April 21 federal grand jury. Burton said "I was trying to make up my mind" while walking through downlown slrcels. "I finally did and came down here.

I couldn't stand it any more." State People Attend White House Dinner WASHINGTON (ffl The chairman of the University of Wisconsin chemistry department, Dr. Farrington Daniels, and his wife, were named on the official guest list for Tuesday night's science- military stale dinner at the While House. listed as guests were the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Stuff, Gen. Nalhan F. Twining, and his wife.

Twining is a native of Monroe, Wis. Legislators Clash With Counsel on Doerfer Challenge WASHINGTON of a House subcommittee and their chief 1, Dr. Bernard Schwartz, clashed publicly today when Schwartz challenged the credibility of FCC Chairman John C. Docrfcr. Doerfer Is one of five Federal i I i Commission members against whom Schwartz and his aides have made accusations of personal misconduct.

Doerfer was testifying for the third straight day before a House Commerce subcommittee investigating the big federal regulatory agencies. He has defended as legal and proper his acceptance nt times of expense payments from the radio-TV industry which FCC regulates. Chairman Moulder (D-Mo) upheld Schwartz in his cross-examination of, Doerfer In the face of tart objections rom both Republican and Democratic committee members. Rep. Harris (D-Ark), chairman of the parent Commerce Committee, declared "We're not here to determine Uie credibility of the i and demanded that Schwartz let the record speak for itself.

Both Harris and Rep. Flynt (D- Ga) objected to what they termed repetitious questioning of Doerfer by Schwartz, but were overruled by Moulder. At one point Flynt said if the subcommittee was going to allow Schwartz to "repeat and repeat and repeal," he had other tilings to do. Rep. Bennett (R-Mich) said the subcommittee was in the position of trying a witness for a felony.

Reps. Hale (R-Mainc) and O'Hara (R-Minn) also objected to the line of questioning taken by Schwartz. The six other FCC commissioners, meanwhile, have sat in the hearing room awaiting their turn. Allegations of misconduct on which they will be questioned have gone to Docrfcr and four others. Doerfer said that among various others, he attended a meeting of the Georgia Broadcasters receiving an honorarium of.

$100 and his hotel expenses. He has contended that under the law an FCC commissioner may accept a reasonable honorarium or compensation for speeches. Docrfcr said FCC commissioners also had accepted private transportation from private companies in their work. When the company furnishes transportation, he said, the government is not charged with transportation costs. He said the industry doesn't always pay all the expenses.

Saying "I could probably go on indefinitely," Docrfcr mentioned trips by private or chartered plane to Camden, Ohio, to inspect industrial use of radio, and to Emporia, and Springfield, to inspect UHF operations. Doerfer, a Republican from Milwaukee, was appointed to the commission in 1953 and made chairman last July by President Eisenhower. Second Polio Case Of Year Reported MADISON State Board of Health said today one polio case was reported to it in the week ending Jan. 25, bringing the total cases for 1958 to same total reported in the comparable period last year. The newest case was in Milwaukee County.

FORTY-ONE battle flames which consume the wreckage of a C-118 military transport plane which collided with a smaller aircraft over the suburban area of Norwalk in Los Angeles, Calif. In a tremendous explosion burning wreckage was thrown throughout the area. About 41 persons on the transport wore Tele-photo) Administration May Ask Tax Cut, Ike Says; McElroy To Boss Space Programs President Assigns Space Defense Jobs to Secretary WASHINGTON President Elsenhower said today Secretary of Defense McElroy will direct nil outer space programs in the Defense Department at this time. Elsenhower told his news conference the scientists who arc advising him expect to work out a program of outer space developments which they believe arc possible and probable. He said this program will be distinct from defense projects in the space field.

The defense program will be pushed under the direction of McElroy and his assistants, the President said. Eisenhower said that Wernhcr Von Braun and other scientists would be among the last lo predict any timing for projects such as sending a rcoket lo Ihe moon. But he said the scientists who are now working for him Intend lo rough in a program of oulcr space achievement. He said they are not so much interested in a time schedule as Ihey are in organizing for space projects. The President made his news conference comments as Republican senatorial leaders lined up solidly against any hasty move to take control of satellites and space weapons programs out of Ihe Defense Department.

Industrial Jobs Down 6.7 Per Cent MADISON Ml The Industrial Commission of Wisconsin reported today thai employment In stale manufacturing industries, including canning, was 327,200 in December, 1957, down about G.7 per cent from the corresponding month in 195G. The lolal workers in industry was 332,400 in November, 1957, and 350,900 in December, 195(5. Average weekly earnings in December, 1957, were $87.34 as compared with $85.85 in November of last year and $88.32 in December of 195G. The work week in December, 1956 was 42 hours while December of 1957 it had dropped to an average of 40.5 hours. Therefore the average hourly earnings were higher in December of 1957 than the same month the previous year.

They were $2.15 in December 1957 and $2.10 in 1950. Industrial employment in Bcloil showed Ihe largest drop in December of 1957, It was 20.2 per cent lower than a year ago there. Other communities where employment dropped included Milwaukee and Waukesha counties 8.2 per cent; Racine County 5.7; Green Bay 4.2; Kenosha 1.3; La Crosse 9.7; Madison 14.2 and Oshkosh 0.2. South Prepares little Rock' Bills NASHVILLE, Tenn. Southern School News reported today that five Southern and border states are a ring so-called "Little Rock" bills to close their public schools if federal troops are sent to patrol them.

Such bills already have made some progress through the legislatures of Delaware and Virginia, the publication said, and have been proposed in Georgia, South Carolina and Mississippi. Southern School News is published by the Southern Education Reporting Service, an agency formed by a group of Southern newspapermen a few years ago to report developments in school integration. The publication said only one announced plan for desegregation of a school district has been made since November, thai in Oklahoma. This would bring to 703 the number of desegregated districts in 17 Southern and border slales. In a review of 145 pro-segruga- lion laws adopted in 11 states during the past four years, the News said nine have been declared unconstitutional.

Several others are pending, including 10 laws using the principal of pupil assignment. Governor Announces He Will Not Call Special Election Meany Offers Formula to End Jurisdiction Fights MIAMI BEACH, Fin. CIO leaders reported progress to- dijy toward working out a formula for settling ancient work Jurisdiction squabbles between rival unions. Agreement was said to be near on formula advanced by AFL- ClO President George Meany to settle job rights disputes among craft and production work unions around factory locations. Solution of the problem would go long way toward ending In- tcrfedcratlon feuding and bringing more unity Into the merged labor organization.

Meany last year won tentative agreement on a plan to assign new construction work around industrial plants to the former AFL Building Trades Union but to concede ordinary repair work to former CIO factory production or industrial-type unions. The plan now Is reported to have been modified lo form more acceptable to the old AFL unions in the AFL-C1O Building Trades Department and to the former CIO unions of the federation's Industrial Union Department. Meuny in a speech last December said unions had organized so widely over the years in each olh- cr's jurisdictions that they never would be able to unscramble Iheir memberships into pure crafts again. He said some arbitrary work division formula was the only solution. The AFL-CIO chiefs scheduled a huddle today on Ihe role they will play in the 1958 congressional campaigns.

The AFL-CIO, which already has expelled the Teamsters, Laundry and Bakery Workers unions on corruption charges, was reported to have decided to make a full-scale probe into affairs of the Operating Engineers and Jewelry Workers unions. The material on the affairs of Ihe Iwo unions was reviewed al a closed 'meeting of Ihe AFL-CIO Ethical Practices Committee. Navy Forced To Back Water FRESNO, Calif. 1 The Navy recruiting poster reads: "Join the modern, mighty Navy." Tuesday someone posted this sign above it: "Modern? How modern can you get? It took the Army to take the first step into outer space." Of course, the posler dicln'l slay up long. MADISON Ml Gov.

Thomson said today he would not call a special election in the First Congressional District to name a successor to the late Hep. Smith (R- Wlst, but would leave Ihe seat vacant until tho regular general election next November. Smith died In Washington Jan. 22, and Democrats have been demanding a special election to fill his seal. The governor had the alternnl.lvc of calling a special election this spring, or allowing the sent to remain vacant.

Question Unanswered. The governor left unanswered question raised by Democratic state leaders Tuesday as to whether two elections would be to fill the uncxpii'ed tonnvmid the other for the new term starting next January. This matter, the governor said, "docs not have to be answered at this time." He said state officials would study the statutes and precedents and decide on procedure Inter. Thomson said In a statement this morning: "After careful consideration of many factors involved, I have de elded to allow the vacancy created by the tragically sudden death of Congressman Smith to be filled at the "lime of Ihe regular general election next November. "Filling this should be clone at a time when there is Uie grcatesl possible assurance that the decision will be made by the largest possible majority of the voters.

This can be best assured during general elections in November. "Moreover, there is some doubt as to the effect of conducting a partisan election in conjunction with, and at a time which has been traditionally set aside for, non-partisan elections. Brief 1'articipation Noted. "In my dcliberallons, consideration was given to the question of representation for the First Congressional District until such time as the representative elected in November can lake office. "During an election year, activities of Congress come to a virtual standstill in Juno as Congressmen are faced with the necessity of campaigning for reelection.

Thus, the real effectiveness of Congress is limited to the first half of this year, and a Representative elected by a special spring election could participate for a scant two months during thai period," The governor had lo decide lo- day whether to call an election llmt would coincide with the regular spring balloting on March 4 and April 1, when the judicial primaries and elections are held. Retired Rock County Commissioner Dies JANESV1LLE Ml Charles E. Moore, who was Rock County highway commissioner from 1913 until 1948, died at Mercy Hospital today. He was 84. Slash Would Hinge on Continued Business Recession WASHINGTON President' ON TRACK OF THE R.

Silvester, left, and Victor R. Siinas check graph of the United States' earth satellite Explorer il the Naval Research Laboratory's Minitrack Ground Station in Blossom Point, Md. Simas is in charge of the tracking operation at the station. AP Wirephoto) Elsenhower snld Unlay it could be the administration will recommend a tax cut If an expected business upturn fails to develop about midyear. The President his voice very hoarse and husky because of a cold told a news conference, however, that ho still believes it lit reasonable to assume business will pick up about the middle the year.

said he looks for the current business recession certainly to continue through this month and next. But as summer comes on, ho added, there should be an uptrend. A reporter asked whether the administration will be for a tax cut if the expccled uptrend does not materialize. 'Would Stimulate It could be, Elsenhower replied. He went on to say that a reduction certainly would be a real stimulant to business.

He added, however, that it would be possible to go too far in tho tax cut direction. Eisenhower commented that it wasn't very Iqng ago that the country was concerned about Inflation. Eisenhower developed a cold and what the White House called a slight soro throat on his return from a weekend of golf and general relaxation at Augusta, Ga. He turned up at today's news conference looking, in the opinion of some'newsmen, a bit pale and somewhat listless. This is Elsenhower's first announced indisposition since he suffered a minor stroke last Nov.

25. At today's conference Eisenhower dealt with those other matters: Summit Conference the United States is working very hard in an effort to make a summit 'Conference with the Russians possible. But at that point, Eisenhow- cr said, he sees no basis for any truly favorable conclusion on either of Iwo points: that U. vlet relations have improved, or that the 'prospects for a summit meeting are better. That was in response to a question as to whether he feels the' series of letlers he and Soviet Premier Bulgnnin have exchanged contributed to any betterment of relations.

Rejects Plan for Atom-Free Zone. On a related point, Eisenhower said emphatically that the United Stales will never agree unilaterally to creation of any atom-free in Europe as part of a armament plan. The other free nations concerned, Eisenhower said, arc exposed to great danger with respect to Russia, and they must be participants 111 any agreement regarding establishment of a zone clear of nuclear arms. Doerfer One of his lawyers has advised him, Eisenhower said, thai members of federal regulatory commissions are entitled to accept reasonable honorariums, or fees, for such tilings as making speeches. Eisenhower made that remark when asked whether he thinks it proper for members of such missions to accept such fees.

The questioner obviously had in mind the case of John C. Doerfer, chairman of the Federal ications Commission, whose ceptance of fees is under 'gation by a House subcommittee. Eisenhower said he knpws very little about the specific case, but that he has read something of it in the newspapers. He said his lawyer advisor told him members of such committees may not engage in other business activities but that the law says reasonable honorariums may be accepted. Former Wisconsin Officer Succumbs GREEN BAY (fft John W.

Reynolds 82, Wisconsin's attorney general from 1927 to 1933, died Tuesday. Reynolds, a Republican, served as attorney general during the single terms ff Govs. Fred R. Zimmerman and Walter J. Kohler Sr.

and during the first term of Gov. Philip F. La Follette. His son, John is prominent in Green Bay, Brown County and state Democratic party organizations..