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Spring Influence Western Pennsylvania Mostly cloudy Monday and Tuesday with a chance of snow north portion Afternoon. temperatures a bit milder in the low 30s both days. Much warmer Monday night (Temperatures oh Sports Page) Published in the Birthplace of the Oil Industry First Daily Paper in the Oil Region Established 1865 SEVEN CENTS TITUSVILLE, MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 14, 1960 Over 6,900 Copies Sold Daily THE DRAKE WELLr-1859 Soviet's Has'Khrip'; Paris Visit Postponed First Time Khrushchev Illness Ever Disclosed MOSCOW (AP) Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev Sunday postponed his visit to Paris, which was to have begun Tuesday, because he has influenza. Moscow radio announcers broke into a musical program Sunday afternoon with the announcement. They described the illness as "khrip," from which the French word grippe is derived.

This was the first time an illness by the 65-year-old Khrushchev ever was publicly disclosed. It will take the Premier seven to 10 days to recover, said an official Tass news agency statement, and it is expected the French and Soviet governments will set a new date for the Khrushchev visit as soon as he gets well. Soviet Ambassador Sergei Vino- gradov, in Paris, informed French President Charles de Gaulle Saturday night of Khrushchev's "great regret" that it would be impossible for him to arrive in Paris Tuesday, the statement said, De Gaulle, who was host to British Prime Minister. Harold Macmillan at the time, expressed his regret and sent best wishes for a. speedy recovery.

Khrushchev had planned to spend about five days in Paris and nine days touring the French provinces. He returned only eight days ago from a 25-day visit in the Far East. The talks between the ebullient Khrushchev and the dignified and taciturn De Gaulle had been viewed as an extraordinary opportunity for a matching of wits between these two unusual and contrasting personalities. The visit had been planned as one of a series between East-West leaders in preparation for a summit meeting in Paris in May. Jerry Lewis And Martin Reconcile LAS VEGAS, Nev.

Lewis and Dean Martin reconciled early Sunday on the same stage where they once had their worst fights. Patrons at a Las Vegas hotel even saw some of the old Martin and Lewis comedy routines for the first time since the team split four years ago. The reunion stems from an incident several weeks ago. Dean was shooting the movie "Oceans 11" in Las Vegas when he complained of severe headaches and dizzy spells. Word got out he might have a brain tumor.

Jerry was shooting his movie, "The Bellboy," in Miami Beach at the time. When he heard of Dean's fears, he forgot the feud and called his old partner. Fortunately, Dean's headaches were caused by overwork, not a tumor. A few days rest and he bounced back. Two Stubborn Jurors Keep Finch from Paying Penalty LOS ANGELES (AP)-The enigma of whether it was murder or accident when socialite Barbara Jean Finch fell dying with a bullet in her back is still an enigma.

It could remain so forever. But only two jurors, out of 12, stood between Dr. R. Bernard Finch and a murder conviction, it was disclosed. A retrial is upcoming after Saturday's anticlimactic announcement of a hung jury in the murder-conspiracy trial of the wealthy surgeon and shapely Carole Tre- goff.

But a prosecutor conceded that a conviction, or even a verdict, usually is harder to get on a second trial. This, he said, is because jurors at a second trial hesitate to be more severe than their predecessors. Despite.the judge's warning to jurors not to discuss the case, jurors Louis Werner and Genevi- eve Lang told the Los Angeles Times the seven women and five men split this way: Ten to two to convict Dr. Finch of murder, 8-4 to acquit Miss Tregoff. The physician and his pretty mistress seemed crushed after the mistrial announcement.

Both sobbed. Both appeared utterly desolate as they headed back to jail to await the March 17 hearing at which the new trial date will be announced. From one point of view, they had something to be thankful for: Had the jury convicted them of first-degree murder they could have been sent to California's gas chamber. Werner said Dolores Jaimez, 33 Eddie Lindsey, 28, held out for Finch's acquittal and Miss Tregoff conviction. "They said that the law was improperly written," Werner said.

"They recognized no degree of murder and insisted that the de- fendants either be sent to the gas chamber or freed. Those two said they would vote for death or nothing in and nothing would change them." Werner, 66, retired sales manager, said he and nine other jurors agreed from the first that Dr. Finch was guilty of second- degree murder. Mrs. Lang said she voted Cardie innocent and the doctor guilty of second-degree murder because she had some doubts about his guilt.

Jury foreman A. W. Aim announced the poll in this manner: 4-8 on both murder and conspiracy charges against Miss Tregoff; 10-2 on Finch's murder charge, 4-8 on Finch's conspiracy charge. Aim did not say which way the votes went. The feeling among participants in the long, often sensational trial was one of tremendous letdown, of disappointment at lack of a verdict.

One Juror Caused Uproar, Another Juror Discloses Meeting Is Held By 1,500 Negroes SAN ANTONIA, Tex. (AP)Some 1,500 Negroes met in a mass rally with officials of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People Sunday to plan for possible segregation protests here. The NAACP has mailed a formal request to at least six downtown stores asking for de- seregation of lunch counters by Thursday. Teachers Get Rules on Deductions WASHINGTON (AP) The Internal Revenue Service Sunday issued detailed guidelines for teachers who claim income tax deductions for educational expenses.

IRS since 1958 has permitted deductions for the cost of courses taken to maintain or improve skills required in the taxpayer's job or to Tneet the requirements for keeping his salary, status or employment. Educational expenses never have been deductible if incurred primarily to obtain a new position or a substantial advancement. While the regulations apply to all taxpayers, the new guidelines deal with" cases involving teachers and professors. For example, IRS says a teacher or professor cannot deduct the cost of education necessary to meet the minimum requirements For employment in the teaching field. In the case of elementary and ligh school teachers, it says the minimum requirements have been met if a person is eligible for a teaching certificate and is not required to take additional educa- ion toward another type of certificate.

A university or college faculty member has met the minimum requirements when additional education is not necessary as a condition for remaining on the faculty. Steel Planning Huge Expansion Program By W. A. SWARTWORTH PITTSBURGH (AP) The American steel industry, faced with growing challenges home and abroad, is embarked on a huge long-range program of modernization and expansion. Mill improvement and rehabilitation, while a continuous process since World War II, is taking on new significance for the industry due to increased competition and the country's rapidly expanding economy.

The industry plans to spend an estimated $1,600,000,000 this year for new equipment and construction. This would be a near-record outlay, second only to the $1,722,000.000 spent in 1957. And some steel- men the 1960 estimate might be'exceeded. In most steel companies, the emphasis is on cost-reducing modernization rather than outright expansion: For example, Jones Laughlin Steel Corp. has stressed it is year to boost mill efficiency and cut production costs.

The steel industry entered the 1960s with annual steeimaking capacity at a record level of some million ingot tons, nearly 50 per cent higher than 10 years ago. Even so, John F. Smith president of Inland Steel said recently the industry must add about 22 million tons to its annual production potential over the next 10 years to keep pace with the nation's economic growth. Smith said increasing sums will have to be spent on research, development and modernization to meet this challenge and that of "increased competition from foreign steel, aluminum, plastics and other materials." At East Chicago, Inland Steel is operating a modern high- speed slabbing mill that illustrates Smith's point. Almost completely automatic, the mill can be nm by man operating two pushbuttons-one to start the mill, the other Mr stop it.

An elaborate elec- Six He Threatened To Toss Her Out Window, She Says LOS ANGELES (AP)-A woman member of the Finch murder trial jury said Sunday that a male juror threatened to throw her out of a window as the panel battled to a bitter deadlock. Bailiffs halted the near-violent dispute, which occurred Friday. Saturday the jury announced they were hopelessly deadlocked. The district attorney's office immediately announced plans to retry Dr. R.

Bernard Finch and his mistress, Carole Tregoff, on charges that they murdered the doctor's wife, Barbara Jean. Genevieve Lang, 34, a secretary, declined to name the juror sHe said'yelled at her: "I'm going to pick 3'ou up and throw you right out the window," Mrs. Lang said the man "started to pick up the jury started to take off his coat. I was scared, "One woman ran for the buzzer and buzzed for the Bailiffs. Another screamed hysterically at the door.

It was terrifying to realize we were locked in there that way." "One man had been throwing insults at almost everyone on the jury. He threw insults about my family, and I got mad, and told him to be quiet. That's when he said he was going to throw me out the window." The jury room was on the second floor of the courthouse. Mrs. Lang said that when bailiffs quieted the dispute she told them: "I want off the jury." But soon thereafter, she said, 'we decided it was all over with." The deadlock was announced.

15 Persons Flee China JOHORE BAHRU, Malaya (AP) party of 15 men, women and children who fled Communist China in a small.junk landed on the west coast of Johore Sunday after an two-month journey. They.were detained on illegal entry charges. Four of the five men were alleged to have left Malaya in 1949 on the choice of six months jail or deportation for helping terrorists. The men are in police custody. The three women and seven children one of them born on the trip from Hainan Island off southern allowed bail and are being cared for by a Chinese organization.

Five More Alive In Quake Ruins RABAT, Morocco (AP) Two women and three men, all Moroccans, were dug out alive Sunday from the ruins of Agadir after being entombed 12 days under debris shaken down by earthquakes. This brings to 20 the number of survivors rescued since last Tuesday. The five rescued Sunday were found in the casbah, the Moroccan quarter, a 100 per cent ruin. There is still hope of finding more survivors in an apartment house near the Saada Hotel. Saturday night rescuers with stethoscopes heard knocking under the rubble there.

Says Forces Cut TOKYO (AP) Communist China said Sunday it reduced its armed forces by million men between 1951 and 1958. The announcement, broadcast by radio Peipmfr did not give the strength of Red China's present armed forces. 'Perry Mason' DA Caught In Party Raid HOLLYWOOD (AP) Television actor William Whitney Talman was one of eight persons arrested Sunday by police who raided what they called a wild, nude, marijuana party. Jailed with the 45-year-old attorney on "The Perry Mason television producer James H. Baker, 39, actress Lola C.

Dewitt, 31; Richard Reibold, 31; Peter Neil Hes- telt, 29, and his wife, Suzanne 'Elizabeth, 24; Mrs. Peggy Louise Flanningan, 25, and Mrs. Willie Jean Donovan, 26. Sheriff's deputies said the party was in Reibold's apartment. "It must be some kind of mistake," said Talman, who has been known as Dist.

Atty. Hamilton Berger on the Perry Mason program for three years. "We just dropped into a friend's house for a drink and suddenly we found ourselves in the middle of a rumble," he added. A detective said he found all eight defendants in various stages of undress. Officers who raided the apartment later said they picked up several marijuana cigarettes and a quantity of loose marijuana lying around.

Ed Sullivan Deletes Part Of Program NEW YORK (AP)-Ed Sullivan deleted from his CBS television show Sunday night a filmed portion on Irish playwright Sean O'Casey. Sullivan said he had bowed to the judgment of a number of people who had telephoned him in advance to object to the O'Casey He'did not elaborate. But later Sullivan told a newsman that the people who called, including representatives of Irish and Protestant groups, objected to O'Casey on grounds he was anticlerical and a political leftist. "The Irish felt," Sullivan said, "that Casey was a rather shabby expression of Ireland on a St. Patrick's Day show." In both his plays and his autobiography O'Casey has strongly criticized the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland.

Insurance Firms Balk In Penna. Merit System ForDriversHeld Unworkable PHILADELPHIA (AP)A group of insurance companies may drop the merit system re cently adopted for Pennsylvania drivers on grounds it is unwork able in the commonwealth. "The members of the organization feel that the safe driver plan whereby drivers supposedly are penalized for a moving traffic vio lation, is unworkabl saic Thomas Finley executive vice president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Mutual Insurance Companies. The federation represents 35 firms writing about 20 per cent Oi the automobile insurance business in Pennsylvania. Under the system, safe motorists are charged lower premiums, while traffic violators and those involved in accidents must paj higher rates.

Finley said the main obstacle to the system has been the difficulty of obtaining complete information on accidents and moving traffic violations. "Our companies have discovered that a great many aldermen, justices of the peace anc magistrates have not been sending records of moving violations to Harrisburg," he asserted. Finley said a special investigation by insurance companies showed many drivers who received clean bills from the Revenue Department at Harrisburg actually had accidents or traffic violations. About half of the 300 insurance companies writing automobile casualty policies in Pennsylvania have adopted the safety merit system of the National Bureau oi Casualty Underwriters and the National Automobile Underwriters Assn. Ex-Deputy Of Defense Killed by Car CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP)-Reuben B.

Robertson 51, deputy secretary of defense from 1955-57, was killed Sunday by an automobile. Robertson, of the Champion Paper of Hamilton, Ohio, was struck after alighting from his own car, which had brushed a man who had gotten out of a stalled auto. Robertson and his wife were en route to their home in Glendale, a Cincinnati suburb, early Sunday when the accident occurred. The police report said an automobile driven by Clausell 'Ran- 55, of Cincinnati ran out of gas in the center lane of a highway, in front of Robertson. Wilson Dock, 21, a passenger in the Rankin car, alighted.

Robertson swerved to avoid the stalled car but -sideswiped Dock, who suffered minor leg injuries. Robertson stopped, got out and was walking back to the stalled auto when he was hit by an auto police said was driven by Willie Griffin, 31, of Cincinnati. Police said the impact knocked Robertson 50 feet and killed him amost instantly. Fan Mail for Combs Four-year-old Alice Combs and her foster parents, Mr, and Mrs, Richard Combs, look over mail that has crnne to their Old Bridge, N. home since the State Board of Child Welfare ruled they can't adopt her because they are not interested enough in culture to her the upbringing her high I.

Q. deserves. Thv board wil! review (he case. Arms-Talks Will Open Tomorrow British Of ficial Sees Prospects Of Agreement GENEVA (AP)-Britain's min ister of state said Sunday nigh he believes the 10-nation disarmament talks opening here Tuesday "have a very real prospect reaching agreement." Arriving to lead his country's delegation, David Ormsby-Gore told newsmen at Geneva airport the three-stage Western disarmament plan will be introduced in the opening days of the conference. He said he expects the rival Soviet plan also to be brought in promptly.

The Western plan agreed upon in in Washington and Paris represents an elaboration of proposals first voiced by British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd at the U.N. General Assembly last fall. The disarmament talks, organized this time with-equal representation for East and West, will tackle the toughest diplomatic problem of all. Basically, an attempt will be made to reduce the arms burden weighing heavily on the taxpayer; of all the major powers without disturbing the balance of strength between the Communist and non- Communist worlds. The ultimate aim in both the Western plan and the Soviet proposal, originally enunciated by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, is complete disarmament.

Representatives 'of the United States, Britain, France, Italy and Canada will negotiate with teams from the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Bulgaria, Communist China is not represented at the talks. Radio Peiping said in a broadcast Sunday night that Red China would not consider itself bound by any agreement reached in its absence. The Western plan, which has not yet officially been made public, is believed to take into account the fact that ultimately all powers, including Communist hina, would be brought into the system. The Western and Russian plans provide for disarmament in three stages but details and priorities differ. The Soviet scheme stipulate four years as the period to accomplish total disarmament.

The Western plan does not mention a time limit. Considering McKean Park BRADFORD, Pa. (AP) Rep. Albert W. Johnson (D-McKean), -louse minority leader, says the commonwealth is considering the wssibilities of a state park in VfcKean County.

Johnson said Maurice Goddard, secretary of the Dept. of Forests and Waters, promised him that the state would consider any suggested site in the area. Johnson's announcement was made Saturday night at the 31st annual meeting of the Northwestern Pennsylvania Camp Assn. at Bradford. He said the state had no speci- ic place in mind for the proposed park at present.

But' he urged county sportsmen's groups and chambers of commerce to notify he state of any suggested sites. Garage Burns In Waynesburg WAYNESBURG, Pa. (AP) 7 ire roared through the Burge ind Thralls garage and repair hop in downtown Waynesburg early Sunday causing a loss estimated at about $20,000. No one was injured in the blaze. Firemen from Waynesburg battled he flames for more than an hour iefore bringing the iire under con- rol.

Seven cars, several trucks and tools and accessories were destroyed in the fire at the me story wood and tin structure. Fire officials, who made the lamage estimate, said the cause the blaze was not ascertained mmediately. Will Oppose Race Betting PITTSBURGH The official board of the Mount Lebanon Methodist Church announced Sunday that it will officially oppose he legalizing of pari-mutuel bet- Russia Said To Have 100 Big Missile Bases On Western Frontiers Suspended for Paddling Teacher Bohdan Pashkowsky, 30, relaxes at home while awaiting word from the Pittsburgh school system about his future. Pash- kowsky was suspended for paddling 30 students who didn't prepare their lessons. Radio Flash to Satellite Beats Russians' Record Travels 375,000 Miles in Space To Pioneer JODRELL BANK, England (AP) giant radio-telescope Sunday night flashed orders 375,000 miles through space to the American Pioneer satellite, thereby breaking a Soviet space record.

The orders switching on the satellite's radio transmitter traveled 85,000 miles farther than any radio commands previously sent by the Soviets to their Sputniks and Lun- iks. American and British scientsts at Jodrell Bank said the satellite sent back signals loud and clear. It described the signal as "a fairly high-pitched wavering whistle." The satellite's transmitter was switched off by a radio command from earth. A Jodrell Bank Observatory spokesman said the Soviets switched on a transmitter aboard Lunik III at a distance of about 290,000 miles after the rocket had taken pictures of the hidden side of the moon. He said Jodrell Bank's next con- act with Pioneer scheduled for Monday afternoon is "likely to tonight's figure by a lot." Pakistan Finds Lead Deposits KARACHI, Pakistan (AP)- deposits of lead have been discovered in the village of Mihal near the northern frontiers of West Pakistan, official sources reported Sunday.

A gological survey showed deposits of about 400,000 tons with a ead content of 72 to 80 per cent- very high grade. 10,000 Cairo Hear CAIRO (AP) Evangelist Billy Graham preached Sunday night to an overflow tent meeting of 10,000 Egyptians. Christian leaders here said it was the largest Christian audience assembled in this Moslem capital in their memories. When Graham called for a show of hands from those wishing to make decisions for Christ, at least 2,000 responded. Means (AP) Associated Press New Setback In Rescue Operation LOGAN, W.

Va crack rescue team, trying to save 18 coal miners trapped for five days by cave-in and fire, groped to within 250 feet of its goal Sunday, then turned back. Hours later directors of the operation indicated they, had encountered a new setback in their agonizing efforts to reach the men entombed nearly three miles from the opening of the mine eight miles southwest of Logan. Mine safety engineers calculated the miners still had enough air to live several more days in a sealed-off area where they were believed to have barricaded themselves from the flames and smoke. "We are going underground to survey and evaluate our problem," said Crawford L. Wilson, West Virginia mines director.

"Upon our return we will have a conference with the officials of the Federal Bureau of Mines and the United Mine Workers." BRITAIN REAPPRAISING Nuclear Deterrent Power By ARTHUR L. GAVSHON LONDON is neck deep in debate over whether the nation can afford to maintain its owrk nuclear deterrent indefinitely. Officially Prime Minister Har- Id Macmillan's government has nsisted Britain's "independent contribution to the nucler power of the West" already "is settled until beyond the mid-1960s." But in fact the big rethink already is under way. Defense planners are pondering low to insure that Britain's deter- rest really does deter in a period of scientific advance. What should replace fixed-site rockets and atomic bombers after 1965? These are Britain's main retaliatory mi- ing on harness racing in AHe-'clear weapons.

$heny County. Eventual outcome of this reap- At a special meeting, the board adopted a resolution opposing the fssue, which is to be put on a pub- praisal, say senior Allied authorities, might be an extension of U.S.-British nodear partnership. lie referendum in April 26th! The North Atlantic Treaty Organ- prinwry election. might emerge as a nuclear "power" with the British supplying the warheads and the continental Allies cooperating in producing the vehicles. Talks on these problems are imminent.

NATO defense ministers meet in Paris March 31 when Gen. Lauris Norstad's concept of making the alliance a nuclear power comes up for informal discussion. Britain's delegate, Harold Watkinson will go on to the United States late in May to see if U.S.- British cooperation in the vechile field can be developed. The British have about abandoned their own $1,400,000,000 program for the Blue Streak H-bomb rocket fired from underground pits. They figure it has been outdated.

Watkinson has expressed interest in two U.S. missiles, the Sky Bolt, a long-range rocket that can be fired from an aircraft, and Isris which can be fired from be- nsatb the sea. 200,000 Men Manning Them Under Separate Service Branch, Senator Says WASHINGTON (AP) The Soviet Union now has 100 major missile bases along its western frontiers capable of launching death and destruction from Scandinavia to the Middle East, Sen. Kenneth' B. Keating (R-NY) said Sunday.

Keating said these bases and the principal Soviet missile production; centers have been woven into a separate branch 'of the Soviet armed forces the missile arm. This branch of 200,000 men is under the command of an engineer general who is also in charge of all missile testing sites and factories producing nuclear bombs; rockets 'and guided missiles, Keating added. Keating mentioned the Soviet missile setup briefly during a program taped for New York television stations. He elaborated on it in a separate statement. He said the main Soviet missile bases are located along the Baltic seacoast mainly in northeast Prussia, in the Lake Ladoga area between the Baltic and White Seas, in the Thuringian Forest of East Germany, and in the southern Ukraine and the Carpathian Mountains northwest of the Black Sea and northeast of Bucharest and Budapest, and.

pointing toward Turkey, and the Middle Keating located the principal Soviet missile productions centers in the upper Ural Mountains near Vorkuta and in the Tiksi area at the Lena River delta. Blue Law Issue Complicated 'ALLENTOWN; Pa. (AP) It was business as usual today at the Two Guys From Harrison discount store. Whether anyone will be charged later with Blue Laws violations, or be arrested for trying to enforce the laws, is something no one would say tonight. There was an air of tension in the suburban Whitehall Twp.

store today as Dr. Donald Timmerman appeared. He heads a citizens committee seeking enforcement of the laws against Sunday sales. Assistant store manager Joseph McGlynn saw Timmerman but didn't know if the retired minister was gathering information on which to swear out warrants. Timmerman wouldn't say.

He did say, however, it appeared customers would have to be on guard against possible arrest by the store. Neither McGlynn nor George Hubschman, store manager and an official of the Two Guys chain, would say whether the firm was ready to issue more warrants against those trying to issue warrants against their employes. Late yesterday three women members of the citizens committee appeared in the store with a constable. They had warrants charging three clerks with violat- ng the sales ban last Sunday by selling them goods. Before the clerks could be found, a constable hired by Two Guys handed warrants to tha three ladies, charging them with violating another section of ths Blue Laws banning all worldly activity.

Farmers Protest PERIGUEUX, France (AP)More than 15,000 farmers assembled here Sunday to protest government farm policies. The demonstration was calm. The farmers demanded that farm prices be pegged to the cost of living index. They claim gov- policy fails to put agri- julture on the same footing as industry so far as income goes. Analyzing The News tin Arttefe DRUMMOND On Far.