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Frosting on Cake Western Pennsylvania Saturday variable cloudiness and cool, high 50 in north, 59 in south. Sunday fair and slightly warmer, high 58 in north, 65 in south. on Sports Fife) 1859 1959 Published in the Birthplace of the Oil First Daily Paper in the Oil Established 1865 SEVEN CENTS TITUSVILLE, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 16, 1959 Over 6,800 Copies Sold Daily CENTENNIAL OF OIL I I Youth Kills Self in Car; Pedestrian Is Killed Two Injured When Auto, Hits Group Crossing At Intersection ST. Fla. (AP) despondent motorist shot himself while driving in downtown St.

Petersburg Friday, bringing death to himself, a pedestrian and injury to two others. The driver, Vernon Donald Kelly, 22, of St. Petersburg, died at a hospital of a head wound. Police said be shot himself with a 7.56mm automatic pistol. Percy Lonsdale, 70, was pinned beneath Kelly's car and dragged half a block.

He died in a hospital. The other pedestrians were Thelma Mitchell, 37, fractured left leg and multiple cuts and bruises, fair condition: and Emily Fitchman, 37, fractured left hand and right foot, plus cuts and bruises, satisfactory condition. Three suicide notes were found on the seat of the car driven by Kelly. The injured pedestrians were crossing at an intersection with a green traffic "Not one of them had a chance to get out of the way," one witness said. Jack Parzen of, Miami stopped the Kelly car half a block past the intersection.

"I ran after the car, opened the door and got my foot on the brake," be said. "I knew the driver was aot in control of the car. Sprenz Due For Mental Examination CINCINNATI (AP) Frank Lawrence Sprenz, notorious bank robber and airplane thief, will be examined by a psychiatrist within a few days. U.S. District Judge John H.

Druffel Friday granted a defense attorney's motion that the 29-year- old Akron man's sanity be tested before he goes on trial May 20 for the $25,955 robbery of a bank in Hamilton, Ohio, last March 2. Sprenz, who was captured in Mexico last month, is having strange ideas, Harry A. Abams, one of his court-appointed attorneys, told the court. The lawyer said Sprenz still is on the hunger strike he began more than a week ago. He also said Sprenz gave him a match box containing food particles he claimed were poisoned, and that he denied holding up the bank.

Boy Drowns In Bathtub RICHMOND, Va. (AP)-A 2- year-old boy drowned in a bathtub Friday as a 4-year-old girl, "playing mother," attempted to give him a bath, police reported. The child, Robert Brewster was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital. A. C.

Davis of the Chesterfield County police department gave this account: The boy and girl were playing in the bathroom at the home of Mrs. W. T. Perrin, mother of the girl, shortly before 8 a. m.

The little boy was in the tub filled with four or five inches of water. The boy apparently toppled over and before the sound of running water attracted the attention of Mrs. Perrin, the child had drowned. Davis said the youngster's parents are divorced and that the child was being boarded at the Perrin home. Higher Tuition At Lafayette EASTON, Pa.

(AP)-Lafayette College announced Friday that effective September, I960, tuition would be increased from $1,000 to $1,200. President RoaW Bergethon Mid the increase was necetttry because current tuition payments won't pay for basic after this year. He said specifically that salary competition industry and other oofteges for qualiffed facioRy members, and rising costt iir gewewl prompted the boost. Negro Co-ed Is Beauty Queen; i She's Miss Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) "It must have been because God wanted it to happen," a dazed but happy Negro coed said Friday after being named "Miss Indiana University." Nancy Streets, 19-year-old sophomore from South Bend, is believed the first of her race ever to win a beauty queen contest on the IU campus.

She will compete for the "Miss Indiana" title as part of this year's Miss America contest. 'I took my prayer book with me to the contest," she added, "but I didn't think I'd win it. I've been praying all week, and my boy friend and sorority sisters have been praying with me." A major in speech and theater, Miss Streets edged 14 white coeds to win the first beauty contest she ever entered. Miss Streets, who has stage ambitions but says she would drop a career for marriage, measures 34-24-35. She won approval from a five-judge panel after appearing in a bathing suit, formal gown and performing a dance interpretation of "Harlem Nocturne." Asked how fellow IU students took her precedent-shattering victory, the fetching coed replied: "On the whole, everybody has been very nice.

A few don't go for the idea, but I don't let things like that bother me. Nobody has said anything unfavorable to me directly." Other sources on the university campus confirmed that most students are satisfied with Miss Street's selection. A member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, which sponsored the contest, denied rumors of "violent reaction" from alumni and other off-campus sources. The fraternity has no Negro members. Miss Street, daughter of a dentist, is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, a Negro sorority, but lives in a university dormitory.

The judges were Bloomington Mayor Thomas L. Lemon, two university professors and two local businesswomen. Man and Dog Are Rescued From Grand Canyon Rapids Swim Downstream After Canoe Upsets In Wild Waters GRAND CANYON, Arir. (AP)A couple of days battlinj nine miles of the Colorado River's rapids and rocks led adventurer Earl Francis to this sober conclusion Friday: "A guy's kinda foolish to try something like that." The 27-year-old vacationer from San Manuel, Ariz. soaked, exhausted and hugging his dog, Cadillac was hauled from the water by National Park Service rescuers Thursday.

He had been struggling downstream since Tuesday when his canoe capsized in the Sockdolager Rapids. Search for him began when his drifting canoe was sighted at Phantom Ranch at the bottom of the'Grand Canyon. Wearing preservers, man and dog drifted or swam most of the way. At a few breaks in the sheer canyon walls towering hundreds of feet above the water they were able to walk or crawl. But at night, they had to wait, curled up on a rock or a sandbar, The trip began May 7 at Lee's Ferry, about 70 miles upstream.

Francis said he wanted to get pictures of the rugged country. "It was my first attempt to run the river by canoe. And I believe it will be tie last, too. "They tell me it's foolish to get on that river without a special rig. They require a permit and inspect the rig before approving any trips and that's the way it should be done.

But I didn't know about it" How did the dog take it? "I guess he made out better than I Usual Courtesy ISTANBUL (AP) American and" Soviet warships passed in the Dardanelles this' week and played each's other's national anthem. "The usual courtesies," explained Vice Adm. Clarence E. Ekstrom, U.S. 6th Fleet Commander.

2,344 Wilting To Visit Space MOSCOW (AP)-A total of 2,344 people have volunteered to be shot out of the Soviet Union on a rocket to outer space, the Communist party newspaper Pravda reported Friday. Some volunteers are women, Pravda added, but it didn't say how many. Court Orders DennisToPay $350 Month LOS ANGELES (AP) Dennis Crosby was ordered Friday to pay $350 a month -for -a-chtld he denies is his. The mother said she has only 80 cents to her name. The support will continue until a trial is held to determine paternity of the 18-month-old daughter of Marilyn Scott.

The child is named Denise. The 27-year-old divorcee claims that Dennis, 24, son of Bing Crosby, is the father. He has been paying $300 a month on a voluntary basis but has never admitted paternity. The mother asked $460 a month. Before Friday's action started, Dennis' filed an answer to Mrs.

Scott's paternity suit, formally denying the charge. Dennis said his income is around $1,200 a month, $900 of which comes from the estate of his mother, the late Dixie Lee. He said his expenses are $1,000 a month, which puts him $100 in the hole after paying $300 support. He said he thought $300 adequate. Dennis has been a disc jockey and now is rehearsing with his twin, Phillip, and.brothers Gary and Lindsay for a theatrical act they are taking on tour UP) Means Associated Press Mapping the Universe This M-foot-wide radiotelepscope on Sagamore Hill, Ipswich, is probing the universe and will "draw" map for space travel and defense intercontinental missiles.

It operated by the U. S. Air Fores Cambridge Research Center, The "dish" weighs Pedestal which holds it is 56 feet high. Labor Bin Criticized By Kearns ERIE, Pa. (AP)-Rep.

Carroll D. Kearns (R-Pa) Friday called the Kennedy-Irvin labor bill inadequate and said he plans to introduce new labor legislation in the House next Wednesday. "I can't buy any part of the Kennedy bill," Kearns, ranking Republican member of the House Labor Committee, said at a news conference. Kearns introduced an administration sponsored labor bill some time ago, but he said the legislation he plans to introduce next week will be tougher. Referring to the administration bill, he said: "I certainly had no pride of authorship.

It wasn't my bill." The Pennsylvania congressman said his bill will be aimed at five specific points. He said they are: democracy within unions. within unions. men and small employers from coercive picketing and secondary boycotts. of criminal elements from the union movement.

forum for every dispute. Kearns told newsmen, however, he felt the proposed legislation stands a slim chance of He cited Democratic strength in the House as the reason for his doubts. Institution Patient Kills His Parents WARWICK, R. I. (AP) A trusted mental patient who killed his parents less than an hour after walking out of the State Mental Hospital Thursday night, was described in his latest medical report as showing "no gross abnormality." Russell J.

Chace 25, was arraigned Friday on a double murder charge. A plea of inno- cet was entered and he was held without bail for hearing May 28. He had been a trusted patient at the hospital with privileges to visit home 'occasionally. The patient's "trusted" status made it easy for him to walk out of the hospital Thursday night. He went directly to his home, where he battered his father, Russell J.

Chace 52, with an iron bar. Shortly afterward he chased his mother, Annice, 55, into the yard and there, in full view'of neighbors who had been aroused by her screaming, he killed her with the crowbar. The younger Chace was captured by police after attempting to flee in his father's automobile. Shorts Not For School DALLAS, Tex. (AP)-Twenty boys at W.

H. Gaston Junior High School appeared for class Friday wearing Bermuda shorts. School authorities made short work of the shorts wearers. They were sent home to get their long pants, school officials said. "Those who were tardy received detention time to make up," Asst Principal A.

M. Erickson said. Fourteen boys fortunately had their long with them, but $ix others received detention time. To Visit Nepal KATMANDU, Nepal (AP)-India's Prime Minister Nehru plans to visit this Himalayan kingdom Jam II-M, presumably to confer on the delicate question of neighboring Red-ruled Tibet. Nehra hm kst in Keel Is Laid For Nuclear Destroyer Called New Era For U.S.

Navy By Saltonstall QUINCY, Mass. (AP)-The keel of the Navy's first nuclear-powered, guided missile destroyer leader was laid Friday at Bethlehem Steel shipyard. Sen. Leverett Saltonstall, (R- Mass), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told shipyard audience the event ushered in "another bright new era for the U.S. Navy another milestone for JJ.S.

leadership throughout the world." Present for the ceremonies was Rear Adm, Hyman Rickover, USN, father of nuclear power in ships, who inscribed his initials on teh keel plate. The new ship, the second nu- clearpower Navy craft to be built here, is to be named the Bainbridge for Commodore William Bainbridge, hero of the Tripoli War and the War of 1812. The guided missile cruiser, USS Long Beach, now under construction, is scheduled to be launched in July. The Bainbridge will be armed with surface-to-air Terrier and will have the most modern antisubmarine weapons. The 7,600 ton craft will be capable of "virtually unlimited" cruising radius at higher speeds than conventionally-powered destroyers.

It will be 540 feet long and 56 feet wide. Steel Talks Get Down to Solid Issues NEW YORK (AP)-Steel wage "talks that could 'have 'a strong bearing on the nation's economy got down to bedrock issues Friday. "We're really in basic discussions now," said David J. McDonald, United Steelworkers president, after a two-hour bargaining session between four-man management and union teams. R.

Conrad Cooper, chief industry negotiator, said the teams had "good exploratory discussions." But as the talks recessed until Tuesday, neither would elaborate on what was discussed. The union announced at the beginning of the talks May 5 that it would seek substantial wage increases and shorter working hours among other proposals. Failure to reach an agreement by June 30 when the present three- year contract expires could lead to a strike by half a million steelworkers and cut off 90 per cent of the nation's steel production. President Eisenhower has counseled against any. settlement that would spur inflation through steel price increases.

The industry has proposed a one-year freeze on wages and other benefits to hold the line against inflation. The union contends wages could be increased without increasing prices. McDonald will attend an AFL- CIO Executive Council meeting Monday in Washington. He said he probably will report there on how the negotiations are progressing. Eisenhower Heads West WASHINGTON (AP)-President Eisenhower will take off early Saturday for a brief trip to Colorado.

He plans to be back in Washington Sunday evening. The White House announced Friday Eisenhower will leave in the presidential airplane Columbine III at 8 a.m. EDT and arrive in Colorado springs at 1 a.m. MST. He will visit the new Air Force Academy, which will hold its' first commencement exercises early next month, and then fly to Denver.

There he will rejoin Mrs. Eisenhower, who has been visiting her ailing mother, Mrs. John S. Doud of Denver. Mrs.

Eisenhower will accompany the President back to Washington, leaving Sunday at 11 a.m. Firemen Called As Shed Burns Titusville firemen were called to the West End about 1:35 (his morning where a shed on New Street believed to belong to Ernie Mallory was burning. The blaze got a good start before it was discovered and the alarm tamed in. The flames were extinguished quickly. Strike Idles 3,000 at Canaveral Work Slowed at Launching Pad Construction CAPE CANAVERAL, (AP) Carpenters Union strike Friday idled more than 3,000 workmen at the missile test center and nearby Patrick Air Force Base.

Hope for an early settlement came with a report that several off-base contractors reached agreement with the union. Some 400 Brevard County of them at the Cape and air at dawn in a wage dispute with Associated General Contractors. Nearly 3,000 other union workers refused to cross picket lines at the test center- and air base. Work was slowed on several million dollars worth of military construction, including a new 2R million dollar launching pad at the Cape. The strike was not expected to affect missile launchings.

A. L. Johnson, Carpenters Union business agent, reported late Friday that many contractors working on nonmilitary 'projects in the county had signed new pacts. He said more than half the striking carpenters were covered by the agreements. Johnson said union demands were met in all new contracts.

He said they included a one-year contract with a 25-cent-an-hour pay hike retroactive to April 1, when the old contract expired. The new wage scale gives carpenters an average salary of $3.10 an hour. Contractors working at the military facilities belong to the Patrick Air Force Base Contractors Assn. and. are negotiating as a group.

The association has offered a two-year contract with staggered pay raises totaling 35 cents an hour. Electronic Gremlins Hobble X15 EDWARDS Al KFORCE BASE, Calif. gremlins are hobbling the X15, America's 120-million-doIlar entry in the space prestige race. Originally scheduled to fly last December, the black rocket is still undergoing captive tests locked under the wing of a B52 bomber. are having the expected teething trouble with its complicated systems," a government official admitted Friday after disclosing that the craft's expected top speed is 4,000 m.p.h.

The X15, at first scheduled for only one captive flight, has been carried aloft three times and is due for two more. Trip No. 4 is tentatively set for next week at this desert test center 100 miles north of Los Angeles. The all-out effort to blast 100 miles or more to the edge of space, once expected late this spring, is now "sometime this year." Current major trouble with the X15, says a source close to the program, is its auxiliary power systems. These operate the hydraulic system which works the controls.

The hydraulic system must function perfectly before the X15 can fly alone. West's Plan Rejected; GromykoRevives Old Scheme for Germany Frenchman Claims Engine Will Operate on Crude Oil U.S. Population Center Moves WASHINGTON (AP) The government has moved the nation's center of population 17 miles from its old location in Illinois to reflect the granting of statehood to Alaska and Hawaii. The Census Bureau said Friday the new center, based on figures collected in the 1950 census, is about three miles northeast of Louisville, 111. The old center was eight miles north- northeast of 'Olney, 111.

Mansfield Would Halt Foreign Aid WASHINGTON Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont) proposed Friday halting all foreign economic aid other than loans within three years. He also urged reductions in military aid and said secrecy labels should be stripped from the amounts given each country. Mansfield, assistant Democratic leader, said "time is running out on foreign aid" and the program must be drastically curtailed if it is to continue. Unless this, is done, and economic aid is shifted from gifts to Joans, he told the Senate, the next session of Congress "may well see a tide of public reaction so strong it will swamp the entire undertaking." Most of Mansfield's proposal, except for elimination of secrecy classifications, would go into effect July 1, 1960, although it would be written into the bill carrying funds for the year starting next July 1.

President. Eisenhower has asked $3,900,000,000 for all foreign aid next year. Condition Of Dulles Worsens WASHINGTON (AP) The condition of former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has worsened, the State Department said Friday. Dulles, suffering from cancer, developed last weekand what was described as a mild case of penu- monia. The State Department press officer, Lincoln White, reported late Friday: "Mr.

Dulles' pneumonia has not completely resolved. There has been some further decline in his general condition." The 71-year-old former Cabinet officer is in Walter Reed Army Hospital. Says His Internal Combustion Job Is More Efficient TULSA, Okla. (AP)-A new in-, ternal combustion engine the French developer claims can burn any kind of liquid fat or oil was announced Friday at the International Petroleum Exposition. It was described as so efficient it burns 20 per cent less fuel for a given output of power, gives 20 per cent more useful torque at a given speed and generates 20 per cent more horsepower.

The engine is said to be able to burn unrefined crude oil, whale oil, vegetable oil, kerosene, kitchen cooking oil or even hair dressing without adjustment or change as the fuels are switched. The announcement was by M. Paul Berliet, president of Automobiles M. Berliet, of Venisseux, France, near Lyon. At present, Berliet said, the engine is designed for heavy military or industrial uses but holds promise for conversion into power for family automobiles, for which gasoline mileage would be doubled.

Since the inception of the internal combustion engine, designers have faced a formidable barrier fuel converted to heat becomes energy but much of the heat in standard gasoline or diesel en gines is wasted, expelled through the exhaust or removed by a cooling system. The Berliet engine converts much of the wasted heat into usable energy. Its three elements are new departure in piston head design, a revolutionary air induction system and an unconventional fuel injection system. Arraigned In Death of Twin Babies DUBOIS, Pa. (AP)-Mrs.

Mary Loncaric, whose newly born twins were found dead in the furnace of her home, pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of concealing their deaths. The 37-year-old mother of six other children made the plea at her arraignment before Alderman Merritt Edner. He ordered her held in $1,000 bail, pending further court action. Police Chief John Rokosky, who found the twins' badly charred bodies, quoted Mrs. Loncaric as saying the twins died shortly after she gave birth to them unattended April 23.

He said he checked the home on complaints from neighbors. Mrs. Loncaric said she was too frightened to call police so she placed the iiu the furnace, Rokosky added. The sex of the twins was not determined immediately. Dr.

John Unger of Brookville, a pathologist, was to perform an autopsy. Shaken Godfrey Leaves Hospital; Tells of Close Brush With Death By ROBERT FARRINGTON NEW YORK (AP)-Arthur Godfrey left the hospital Friday, a weak, trembling man, movingly grateful to be alive. He broke down as he told how very narrowly he escaped death from a spreading lung cancer. "The surgeon would have been perfectly within his rights in sewing me up and saying, 'I can't do a thing'," Godfrey told an impromptu press conference at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. His lips trembled and he dabbed at his with a handkerchief.

The 55-year-old television and radio entertainer said the cancer not only had invaded his left lung but had wrapped around the aorta, the main artery to the heart. His voice broke as he toid newsmen: "But I got a got it oot, tmder eircomstaneef so trying that one flip one way or the other and I wouldn't be here talking to you. I'm grateful for it and I'll do my damndest to deserve it." Godfrey underwent a five-hour operation April 30 for removal of a part of his cancerous left lung. According to generalized figures from the American Cancer Society, the chances are 25-1 to 50-1 against Godfrey's survival. There is no immediate way of knowing whether the cancer spread.

If it didn't, medical practice still regards a five-year period of freedom from symptoms before claiming a complete cure. Godfrey will return to the hospital from time to time for Xray treatments. He'll rest for a time at home here and later go to his Virginia farm. His return to any regular basis, at myiy weeks away. hell fry get back bf tot, his 30th anniversary on the air.

About two months ago, Godfrey complained of a pain akin to indigestion. X-rays disclosed a tumor in the lung. He entered the hospital April 27, referring to hii cancer-suspect tumor as "this horrible, skulking thing." Then he was robust, ruddy, acknowledging only a normal fear of the eventual outcome of hit operation. As he came out of the hospital, he leaned on a cane. He appeared weary and unsteady, although he managed a grin as he slumped into a chair.

His color was good and his. face was not drawn. Aides tried to shield him from newsmen but Godfrey raised a protesting hand and toM them: "No. Wait a minute. I've got to tell them Aw," He bonwri for a mo- mart, to collect Then teW of tfw Demands Run DirectlyCounter To West's Hopes For German Reunification GENEVA (AP)-Soviet Foreign' Minister Andrei Gromyko called Friday for prompt signing of a peace treaty with each.side of ermany.

His demand ran directly counter to Western hopes for a phased reunification of the divided nation. Gromyko rebuffed the Western 30-month package plan for solving the Berlin, German, and European security problems, which provides for a peace treaty with an all-German government after unification. Speaking for 45 minutes at the Big Four foreign ministers conference, Gromyko declared attempts to handle these problems together would bring the talks "into deadlock from the very outset" 'The Soviet government sees no other possibility than the conclusion of a peace treaty with the two German states," he said, "and, if a German confederation is formed at the moment of signature of the peace treaty, then witii the German confederation well." The immediate reaction of the United States was disappointment that Gromyko was standing pat on the, Soviet line put forward by Moscow in a proposed draft treaty was-rejtJc'tai at the time by the Western powers. British Foreign Secretary Set wyn Lloyd pointedly called Gromyko's attention to, the fact new Western plan, introduced Thursday, contains a.number of concessions' 'to the Soviet viewpoint. He denied Soviet charges that the West was tangling up issues to complicate the current negotiations.

Gomyko declared the Western package would make the German problem insoluble. Lloyd took direct issue with him on this point The Briton declared the Soviet government confused the discussion of the- items in the package with the carrying out of solutions. A U.S. statement issued after the two-hour, seven-minute conference session contrasted the tin- budging Soviet position on a German peace treaty with the activity of the Western powers in the last four months to develop a new approach. W.

E. Strike Authorized SHARON, Pa. International Union of Electrical Workers authorized Local 617 Friday to take strike action against Westinghouse Electric Corp. plants at Sharon and Greenville. Albert Bell, the local's business agent, said the dispute was over "unresolved grievances." He said the grievances concerned job ratings and classifications, the combining of work loads and other various matters.

A Westinghouse spokesman at Sharon said the plant has had no notification of what the grievance! are. However, he added, "they are not the ones that, have been causing the most recent labor disturbances." Bell said a membership meeting wil be called "in the near future" to take a strike vote. A wakout would affect 5,000 employes at the two plantt, producers of transformers. NBC Strike Is Settled NEW YORK and technicians employed by National Broadcasting Co. voted Friday to end work that started April 27.

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