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'Armed Forces Day Fort McClellan and Anniston Ordnance Depot are planning for extra large observance of Armed Forces Week and open house will be held at each during the event. See story, Page 2. VOL. 76, NO. 1 228 TV APPEAL DUE Ike Prepares Public Plea For Support tial news conferences and a nationwide television address in the near future.

-possibly outside Washington. At the same time, the President prepared to ask Congress, for reduced foreign aid program. Administration sources said the President would ask Congress in 10 days to approve a $3,900,000,000 program-a half billion less than his original request, Foreign aid is a prime target of congressional budget cutters who are continuing to speak of overall budget cuts totaling morel than 3 billion dollars. House Democratic Leader John W. McCormack (Mass) Monday night predicted budget cut of possibly 4 billion dollars.

Chairman Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.) of the Senate Armed Services Committee said the budget can be cut about $3,500.000,000. Russell also forecast a possible tax cut. Other congressional developments: Natural gas--The House Commerce Committee planned to open hearings on new natural gas bill that. would ease federal controls over producers natural gas.

The President vetoed a more far reaching bill last year, charging that some of the bill's used lobbying tactics. But he said he supported the general principle of the bill itself. Costs--A House agriculture subcommittee sought methods of cutting the costs of processing and distributing food. It scheduled the first session of hearings. Back pay- House passed bill that would give about 000.

in back pay to some 6,000 Filipino scouts for time they spent on parole Japanese prisoners auring World War II. The bill was sent to the Senate where a similar bill died last year. Civil rights: Chairman Thomas C. Hennings, of the Senate constitutional rights subcommittee said Monday night approval of so-called right-to-work amendment "would be kiss of death to any civil rights The Missouri Democrat said the phrase right-to-work is a "tragic WASHINGTON (UP) -President Eisenhower today was reported preparing a major campaign to swing public support behind his embattled budget, Informed sources said the campaign will include use of presiden- E. L.

TURNER, JR. named to board E. L. Turner Is Selected For Board E. L.

Turner, local businessman, was appointed as a member of the City Board of Education this morning during a meeting of the Anniston City Commission. Turner will replace Mrs. Robert J. Rowe on the five-member school board. His term will.

run until April, 1 1962. At other business during the weekly commission meeting, Hodges and Company was awarded a contract for the widening of one block of East 15th Street from Nobie Street to Wilmer Avenue. Dear Firm Bids Hodges, with a bid of $6.121.20. was under the only. other bid submitted on the project.

Henry Dear Construction Company submitted the other bid of $7,671.10. The Commission also passed resolution agreeing to refrain from installing signal lights on the new Quintard Avenue from 5th to 18th Street except with the consent of the State Highway Department. contract for construction of the roadway has been let by the State Highway Department and work on the link will get underway soon. The resolution was in keeping with regulation of the Federal Bureau of Roads which prohibits municipalities from curbing the flow of traffic on federal highways except with the approval of the federal agency. Takes Post Immediately Turner, general manager of Turner Dairies Company, will assume his seat on the City Board of Education immediately.

Other members of the board include N. C. Wilbanks, chairman, Mrs. F. A.

McCartney, Robert P. Warnock, and Erman Turner is well known in local civic affairs. He has served' as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International House Foundation, president of Alabama Dairy Producers Association and president of the Dairy Council of Northeast Alabama. His father, E. L.

Turner, served -for many years as member of Board of Education. The erection of four street lights were approved this morning in other action by the city commission. The lights are to be erected at the intersections of 25th Street and McKleroy Avenue; 27th Street and McKleroy; 27th and Moore Avenue and 25th and Moore. The Commission also granted permit for the operation of a onehour dry cleaning establishment at 1217 Noble during the session Murder Charge Filed Against Negro Driver COLUMBIANA First degree murder charges today faced a Birmingham Negro held for the traffic deaths of three school children. The murder warrant was sworn out against Sip Nixon, 26, by Charley Latham, father of two of the dead students.

Charles Latham, 8, Donald Ray Latham, 13, and Sylvia Elizabeth Darden, 16, were fatally injured. Wednesday. The accident occurred near Montevallo. The children had left school bus and were walking along the roadside toward their homes when they were struck by Nixon's car. The Anniston Member ABC and NEA "Your Home Newspaper Since 1882" ANNISTON, ALABAMA, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1957 DEATH PLANE FOUND- -This is part of the twisted wreckage single-engine private cabin plane that crashed Friday in Cleburne County, carrying the pilot and only occupant to his death 15 miles southeast of Heflin in a rainstorm.

The dead man was identified as Joseph R. Hill, 52, of Birmingham. Searchers brought the body out early Monday night from the isolated mountainside. B'ham Man Found Dead In Airplane Crashed Ship Located On Lonely Mountainside In Cleburne Area By SAM JONES The body of a Birmingham since last Friday was found near on lonely mountainside in Positive identification was Hill, 52, of 15 Sheridan Lane, AF Slates A-Missiles For Formosa TAIPEI (UP)-The U. S.

Embassy announced today the 'American Air Force will station Matador guided missiles on Formosa. The missiles are capable of carrying atomic warheads. A joint statement by the United and Nationalist China said "This action is taken wholly for defensive purposes of deterring and if necessary repelling attack." The statement made it clear the Matador unit of the U.S. Air Force is not here now. There was no indication when it will arrive.

The Matadors operate at speed of more than 650 miles an hour and have a range of several hundred miles enough to reach the Chinese mainland across the Strait of Formosa, The statement said the United States and Nationalist China have agreed to the stationing of Matadors on Formosa because of the continued Chinese Communist military build-up on the mainland opposite Formosa. The missiles will not be given to the Chinese Nationalists but will be handled by U.S. Air Force personnel. There was no indication if nuclear warheads were being sent here with the Matadors. Colonel Gets Trial Delay ATLANTA (UP)-Defense counsel for Col.

John C. Nickerson, central figure in Army. Air Force guided missile controversy, has won a 41-day postponement of his trial and the right to look at classified information. Third Army headquarters, which has jurisdiction in the case, said the trial date has been act June 25 at Huntsville, homie of Redstone Arsenal where the Army officer is stationed. Nickerson is charged in courtmartial proceedings with distribu-1 ting a memorandum containing alleged classified information about the missile.

Nickerson denies he gave away lany, secrets in the document, Negroes Aver Results Of Drive Discouraging MONTGOMERY Negroes I registered Efforts as voters in Montgomery County a will continue despite discouraging" results so far, a Negro leader says. In adjacent Elmore County continued efforts were also promised. Large groups of Negroes applied in both counties yesterday, although one spokesman said there was no connection between the two drives. And in Macon County, which adJoins the other two on the east, full board of registrars met yesterday for the first time in two years but didn't receive applications because it had no office equipment. Rufus Lewis, who has directed the drive in Montgomery, said only'are News, Day, Night Star day UP edition Station Sunday From at and 4 is 6 p.

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p. Star each flashed Star's m. arrives before final over ABC. AP and UP News breakfast time. 40c a WEEK by CARRIER Governor Urges Record Spending As Session Opens No New Taxes Asked In Folsom's Address By CODY HALL Anniston Star Staff Writer MONTGOMERY-Gov.

James E. Folsom today recommended record 1 budget of almost half a operation the next two fiscal increase over present budgets; and called for no new taxes. The recommendations were SEARCH CRAFT DOWN- Two Civil Air Patrol members searching for the crashed plane in Cleburne County yesterday were forced down on Highway 78 cast of Heflin when an engine cowling came loose. The emergency landing damaged landing gear and wingtip on the Swift two-seater. Both occupants were unhurt.

man helping load the wounded plane onto truck sustained injuries when a speeding car struck him. (Photos by Bill Wright). $1,630,000 COST SEEN Expansion At Hospital Approved By Trustees Memorial Hospital trustees expansion of the institution and Almond, has notified City Proposed new construction, the hospital 270 or more beds in all 300 beds, General Almond said. "In adopting the plan our board is of the firm opinion that we have selected the best plan for the funds available," the board chairman wrote Mayor George T. Morris and County Commission Chairman Dan Gray, "and this is to advise you of our decision." City and County Commissions some time ago committed funds to be used with Hill-Burton Ack funds in construction of the addition.

Architect Prepares Plans Architect James M. Hoffman is preparing plans for the building and has been asked to keep the trustees advised of his progress, Almond said. Complete plans must be prepared and approved by Clay Dean, director of the Hospital Planning Division of the State Department of Public Health, before application for Hill-Burton funds can be made. Hoffman, Dean, the medical staff, the administration and the trustees of the hospital have been in consultation on the expansion plans. General Almond said the trustees hope to get the plans.

okayed and the money committed for the expansion next summer in time to be included in the Federal budget of fiscal 1959, which starts July 1, 1958., Ready In 1960? It progress goes according to hopes and the expected time schedule is met, it will be 1960 before the hospital addition will be ready, the chairman added: The addition is planned for the south side of the present hospital building. Space in front of the hospital could not- be used for lack of space for the building needed and for fire safety standards. General Almond said the addition plans contemplate future expansion vertically, instead of horizontally, in accordance with modern hospital planning. The new addition will be a fourstory, modern, fireproof structure accessible to the area facing Johnston Junior High School. 110 More Beds Aim Plans call for an additional 110 new beds.

The site provides a convenient area and grades for approach drives and parking, additional emergency and doctors' parking with no revision of the existing drive and parking facili(See Hospital. Page 2, Col. 5) billion dollars for state government years, giving most agencies a slight for the first time as governor he oil company executive missing his burned and shattered plane Cleburne County yesterday. made of the pilot, Joseph Robert Birmingham, the Civil Ar Patrol land the Highway Patrol reported. Discovery of the crashed plane and body was made by Civil Air Patrol and other volunteer searchers Monday afternoon: Hill had been reported missing Sunday.

Hits Rainy Weather The CAP said Hill took off alone from Atlanta airport Friday, bound for Baton Rouge, without filing a flight plan. His single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza ran into low, rainy weather In Eastern Alabama and crashed into trees at the peak of Turkey Heaven Mountain in the Trickem1 community, 15 miles southeast of Heflin, an hour out of Atlanta. The plane hurtled several hundren feet down the side of the mountan, throwing the body free. Both the plane and the body were badly burned. The spot was reached with difficulty following the discovery about p.m.

Vehicles were driven to the site by way of a fire lane in the rough terrain to bring out the body. He Was Experienced Flyer Hill was, an executive of the Standard Oil Company. He was said to be a cautious pilot with more than 4,000 hours of flying experience. A CAP plane in the search mission was forced to land on Highway 78 east of Heflin prior to the discovery, but its two occu-. pants were not burt.

A loose engine cowling brought the plane to the ground. Another CAP officer, F. W. Milan, 41, of 1014 Commerce Anniston, was hurt while loading the disabled plane on a truck when he was hit by a speeding car on the highway, the Highway said. He suffered six fractured ribs and bruises of the back and admitted to Memorial Hospital, where his condition is reported to be good today.

The driver of the car that struck Milam, Harvey, A. Wilkerson, 23, of New Bern, N. was arrested by the Patrol on a reckless driving charge and lodged in Cleburne County Jail without bond pending outcome of Milam's injuries, Sherit Fratus Owen reported. They Escape Injury Albert E. Berisford, pilot, and William Noblin, his companion, both of Huntsville, were in the search plane that landed.

Neither was injured. Joining in the mission were CAP members from the Anniston squadron and from wide areas of the state, including Mobile. A ground party got the first clue to the crashed Beechcraft Friday when questioning a farmwife in the Trickem vicinity who said she had. heard a -flying plane and an explosion late Friday during the rain. A CAP plane directed to the area spotted the wreckage and guided ground searchers to the scene.

The body was taken out to Guntharp Funeral Home at Heflin and later transferred to Birmingham. Some 20 CAP planes and 15 mobile units, including nearly hundred personnel, with other volunteers participated in the successful search. Gov. James E. Folsom, whose pilot is member of the CAP.

visited Anniston briefly during the hunt yesterday, 9 Killed In Algeria ALGIERS Nationalist rebels struck in five areas across Algeria in the past 24 hours, shooting civilians, attacking farms a burning property. At least nine persons were killed. made in the chief executive's address to the opening session of the Legislature. Two Calhoun County lawmakers, Senator A. C.

Shelton and Representative Woodrow Albea, had total of four bills they planned to introduce today. Shelton's first bill would reapportion the governing body by redistributing the present 35 senators and 106 representatives. It would give Calhoun the same representation it now has. Highway Commission Urged Another of his measures would create a three Highway Commission replace the Highway Director in 1959. The third is a proposed constitutional amendment permitting other cities and counties to raise ad valorem taxes for school purposes up to 12 mills.

Calhoun already has this taxation. Albea's bill would remove the disabilities of minority from persons over 18 but under 21 years of age. Representative Hugh Merrill said this morning he has some measures he expects to drop in the House hopper probably on Friday. There was a holiday air in the Capitol today as the state's law. greeted old friends and colleagues.

The chief activity was signing of each other's bills. Clerk To Be Named The big question in the House was the election of a clerk to replace R. T. Goodwyn, who died April 13. Representative Joe Dawkins of Montgomery, Folsom's floor leader, seemed to be running neck and neck with Oakley Melton, also of Montgomery, who was assistant House clerk under Goodwyn.

Folsom's recommended budget of $497,337,550 compares with an estimated $479 million in stand spending in the fiscal years, 1955-56 and 1956-57. Only substantial increases in the recommended appropriations went to the Alabama, insane. hospitais at Tuscaloosa and for welfare a and health purposes. The spending allowance for the mental hospitals goes up from $5,681,167 estimated this year to $6,517,343 in 1957-58 and $6,599,000 the following year. Pensions Unit Cited For the pensions and security department which administers the state's welfare program the genferal fund appropriation is boosted from $4,280,000 this year to 000 for each of the next two years.

This department's overall budget, including federal funds, would jump from $63,691,000 this year to $75,754,000 in 1957-58 and 886 in 1958-59. The state health department which will spend an estimated 408,000 this yeaf would get (See Governor Page 2 Col. 4) Mrs. Stricklin Dies At Kilpatrick Home Mrs. Etta Mae Stricklin, wife of the late Thomas Fornie Stricklin, a former councilman of Anniston, died at her home in Kilpatrick, Monday afternoon after a long illness Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m., Wednesday, at Kilpatrick.

Mrs. Stricklin is survived by three sons, two daughters and 11 grandchildren. Newest Atomic Reactor Consumes Ceramic Fuel DALLAS (P) -The first successfullic operation of an atomic power reactor using only ceramic fuels was disclosed here today. Four scientists and engineers from Argonne National Laboratory described the new type of fuel in report to the national conference of the American Ceramic Society. The ceramic fuel is used in place of metal.

C. L. Hoenig, Western Springs, R. J. Naperville, J.

H. Handwerk, Joliet, and C. R. Breden, LaGrange, Ill. in prepared report Argonne is using ceramic, pellets of uranium oxide and thorium oxide to produce heat for electricity from nuclear reactor.

They said tests indicated ceram- FORBIDDEN TO Sweden's King Gustav Adolf has forbidden his pretty granddaughter, Princess Margaretha (shown above in a picture from files) to marry the piano-playing nephew of British nobleman because he had "no money and no position." Beck, Others May Be Asked To Quit Posts Good Evening ORATCHEE, U. S. A. Being for argument and finding none leaves the fattest of flat feelings. Late last night, with the family asleep, 1 decided nothing was going to stop "Good morning." greeted the family at breakfast this morning.

There were fresh flowers on the table. The brightness of the room seemed a deliberate attempt at frustration. Only a criminal would -destroy such cheerfulness. taking plane," 1 said, after two sips of coffee. "I'll be gone for several days." There was no gloomy response, no expected protest.

I was the only one upset. "We knew that." someone said. "The airport called." Now all my planned arguments are wasted, all the logic and the determination. There's a gullfeeling, uneasy longing to call off the journey. A man is doing good when he keeps up with his family.

He should remember this when he thinks of getting ahead. (c) TOM: SIMS work is ahead, General M. have approval to plans for sheen, and County Commission heads. at a cost of $1,630,000, will give and provide service facilities for Flashes Nats Pick 'Cookie' DETROIT (R) Charlie Dressen was fired today as manager of the Washington Senators and Third Base Coach Henry Arthur (Cookie) Lavagetto was named to succeed him. Postal Hike Favored WASHINGTON (AP) The House Post Office and Civil Service Committee today voted in favor of raising the postal rate on first-class, or letter mail, to four cents from three an ounce.

Melton Gets Post MONTGOMERY (UP) The Alabama House of Representatives today elected Oakley Melton, of Montgomery to the lucrative House clerk post. 200 Inmates Rioting BISMARCK, N. D. (UP)-Twe hundreds inmates of the Dakota state penitentiary rioted in the prison yard today, and authorities said two guards were "stranded." WASHINGTON (UP) Team- sters Union leaders may ask Teamster President Dave Beck and two vice presidents to resign or "retire" as a result of AFL CIO charges of corruption, informed sources said today. The charges, presented the union Monday by the AFL-CIO Ethical Practices Committee, indicated the AFL-CIO ultimately will demand that the union either oust the three national officers and a number of local union officials or get out of the AFL-CIO.

The Teamster Executive Board including Beck requested and received "reasonable time" to prepare a reply to the charges. The committee set May 24 to hear it. Beck was scheduled to make return appearance Wednesday before the Senate Rackets Committee. He also faces "trial" May before the full AFL-CIO Executive Council on charges that his conduct has brought the labor movement into disrepute. The committee charged that Beck and Teamster Vice President Frank Brewster of Seattle, have used union funds for "personal purposes" and their official union positions "for personal profit or advantage." The committee said the charges were based on disclosures by the Senate Rackets Committee, Beck's nationally-televised admission that he "borrowed" more than $300,000 of union funds without interest and on his use of the Fifth Amendmnt 117 times to avoid answering questions before the Senate committee.

The committee also charged Teamster Vice President Sidney Brennan of Minneapolis with corrupt activities." He has been convicted of accepting money from an employer for alleged. "strike break-. Dr. Davis Gets Car At 'Surprise' Affair A new automobile was presented to Dr. B.

Locke Davis by friends and members of his church last night to honor him on the double occasion of his birthday and his 11 years as pastor of Parker Memorial Baptist Church. The presentation took place as 1 "complete surprise" Dr. Davis said, at a dinner arranged at the church by C. L. Buchanan and Probate Judge G.

C. Brittain and attended by some 60 persons. The Weather 70 or 75 Negroes got a chance to fill a out applications of the more than 200 who sought to do so yesterday. The Montgomery board chairman, Mrs. C.

B. Willis, said limitled number facilities of restricted who to could four the persons apply at one Some Negroes took "a long time," she said. "I dare say we won't get 10 persons registered out of that group." Lewis said. "The results of this whole effort have been very discouraging in terms of those who apply being registered. But we will continue." Mrs.

Willis said all applicants will be treated "the same as usual" and the qualified ones registered "regardless of whether they white or colored." fuels appear to have several advantages and to be a major step forward in making atomic reactors of high efficiency. Development work was done at the laboratory's main site at Lemont, and the pellets are now being used in an experimental reactor at Argonne's branch at the national reactor. testing station near Idaho Falls, Idaho. The research team said ceram ic fuels will withstand high tem peratures and are highly resist ant to corrosion in water. The scientists.

said ceramics as fuel elements in a reactor do not, like metallic fuel elements, grow and become distorted under intense irradiation. FORECAST: Fair and mild today, with high of 76. Fair tonight and not quite as cool. Low. 48.

Wednesday, continued fair and mild. High, 78. Winds, light and variable. High today, 78: low tonight, 50. WEATHER TABLE High Atlanta Birmingham Denver Nashville New Orleans Miami LOCAL WEATHER STATISTICS Highest this date, 1958.

1944. Highest degrees. .00 Inches. Sunset today. 4:31.