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THUMBNAIL EDITORIAL Due to 'technical' difficulties, we hoar, Cuba has de. velopcd an acute housing shortage. he Palm Beach Post Sew York Slock Market VOL. LIV: NO. 179 wvst palm r.KAni, n.v, Saturday morning, seitkmijer s.

so VAcis today price 5 cents JFK Asks New! Ja County Racked Up Fii st GI uildup Death From Encephalitis WASHINGTON (LTD President Kennedy asked congi-ess rriday for authority to order 130,000 military ready reservists to active duty for one year Ixn-ause of international crises ranging "from the Berlin Wall to power tulka on violence alimc the Castro Culm. lie alto might authority to r-tend (tr one yenr the enlistments ml periods of service of an member of Hie armed irn'iiri or National Guard whose tiiur o( Berlin VII. Shortly before the jirrlitea. fluty would rxmre In-fore next Feb. 24, West Hollywood Woman Succumbs In Bethesda lial action, Republican Dtngrr.

Ions I leader proMied that Coo-(peu pan a KoritMiM lp res olution authorising the lrel- dent to use American triHi If necessary la the Cuban situs- Hon. Under the proposed bill sent to At the Mint time, Russia transferred Into lt rewrves all servicemen wha had served their mandatory training period and railed up all youths Ixirn In 1313, presumably an replacements. Kennedy, who ordered a similar rall-up In Inst year's Berlin crisis, acted In the face of the Russian aided arm buildup in Cuba and in the wake of refusal trl engage in four- Congress, no member of the "ready" or paid reserves whu waa involuntarily called to By ANITA JONI.S I'alrn Beach I'ost Slxtf Death of a 20-year-old West Hollywood woman Auk. 8 In Bethesda Memorial Hospital, Bouiton Toach, has duty during the last Berlin crisis would be called up involuntarily (Continued on face t. Col.

J) ji. Ji (r been attributed to viral encephalitis, according to Dr. Gabino S. Cuevas, associate medical examiner in Talm Beach County. The woman's physician qualified tlie diagnosis, however, saying the disease was meningo cntvphalitis, a form of and "more than likely" different from the encephalitis occurring in Pinellas County.

'Passive Attitude Dutch Rap JFK Over New Guinea The County Health Dept. further qualified the diagnosis by asserting that the tests to determine the woman's illness were insuffi Encephalitis Said To Be X'. 'fey. cient to cite encephalitis as cause of death, according to Dr. R.

E. Kaufman, assist THE HAGUE (LTD Premier Jan de Quay and Foreign Minis ter Joseph Luna said Friday Tlie Netherlands "had to accept" mui ant director of the settlement with Indonesia over disputed New Guinea because of the "passive attitude" of the Kennedy administration. At 'Plateau' The two top Dutch officials sharply criticized the United States MAN, BOY ArrL.lD HANGING OF EFFIGY Across From Parochial School In Harvey, La. UPI and in effect charged it with welshing on a 1958 agreement author Autopsy was performed Aug. ft on tlie body of Mrs.

Delols McCinwan, 20, of West Hollywood. She was admitted Aug. izing Dutch troops to use American airports in case of an Indonesian ST. PETERSBURG. (LTD attack on West New Guinea.

Seven new cases of suspected en Their statements in the lower 22 In Bethesda in Boynton, where Negro Hanged In Effigy her mother live. house of parliament came during a debate on ratification of the Support Right Results of tests of microscopic Dutch Indonesian Treaty trans slides prepared at the time of the cephalitis were reported in Pinel-las County Friday, but health authorities said tlie outbreak had reached lis plateau. There were no new deaths reported. Gov. Farris Bryant said here Thursday he was informed at a meeting of health officials that indications were tlie number of ferring the Pacific territory to Catholic School Door Riddled Indonesia after interim supervi autopsy were received Thursday by Dr.

Cuevas and indicated Mrs. McGowan could have had viral sion by the United Nations. The treaty was signed last month after the United Stales mediated the To Work Bill, Burns Urges encephalitis, tlie doctor said. That type could be one of tlmse dispute between the two nations. cases would begin to decrease.

ransmitled by insects, such as are affecting Pinellas County Dr. Cuevas said. I)e Quay said supplies of Soviet s9ms to Indonesia "were so big that an open war threatened to break wit early In Support of businessmen of this NEW ORLEANS (LTD Six pistol shots smashed the door of an integrated parochial school Friday, demonstrations continued at another and a white boycott forced a third to close in mounting segregationist ac- However, tlie medical ex area for a "right-to-work" law in Florida was sought here Friday aminer said that the type of encephalitis the local victim had Dr. W. C.

Ballard, head of the Pinellas County Health Department, declined Friday In comment on the governor's Ktntenient other than to say the plateau had been reached. "Under no circumstances will I discuss tlie governor's statement at this time," Ballard said. Ballard explained that the out by David Burns of Tallahassee, an The Netherlands had "the tivrty in and around New day as they brought children to Our Lady of Prompt Succor School. A white man was arrested for spitting at a white parent's car. Another Westwego resident spat at tle car of Mrs.

Mercedes Robert, a 25-year-old Negro housewife, as she brought her two children, ages 6 and 7, to school. The doors of Our Lady of Good Harbor School in Buras, a delta town 60 miles south of New Orleans in Plaquemines Parish, were closed. No children showed up for classed Friday. Normal enrollment is 3-10. The 12 to 18 white parents who had been sending their children to the technically-integrated school agreed to stop sending them.

Nick Lavelpieello, a Buras oyster fisherman said he and other parents who had been sending children to school met and said they felt they were "putting the nuns at tlie school through too much of a strain." oivurred near dawn and no one was hurt. Jefferson Parish (county) Sheriff George Gillespie said his men were investigating. The doors of the school were patched with cardboard. The school, in Harvey, located across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, had admitted one Negro pupil. In the nearby Jefferson Parish town of Westwego, white demonstrators held behind barricades jeered and taunted white parents and a Negro mother for the third Is really not known, and would remain unknown because such executive of the Slate Right-To- choice" of abandoning the terri- Orleans.

Work Committee. tory or war, he said. "Under these circumstances A Negro was hanged in effigy outside St. Rosalie Roman Cath. tests must he made while the person I alive or immediately Burns told a large gathering at the Dutch government chose the after death.

break had reached its peak and the Hotel George Washington that only alternative to continue had, for tlie past few days, been the talks on the basis of the olic elementary school in Harvey, several hours after a fusillade of shots from a 38 caliber pistol smashed the double glass front door. The shooting such a bill "will be introduced in both the Senate and House on the continuing on an even keel. He Kaufman said his department would ask Cuevas if any blood specimens from tlie woman are American compromise proposals which led to the present settle available to be checked further ment, which we had to accept." with the State Board of Health. Replying to criticism voiced by said he could not predict if the number of cases would begin to decrease or increase in the near future. There have been 168 suspected cases reported to the county health department since the outbreak began in early August.

The Demo In His Post? Soblen Still the opposition Labor party during the first reading of the bill The possibility suggested by Kaufman that the woman's body was embalmed before tlie autopsy Lake Okeechobee At Good Level, was performed, thereby making tests inconclusive, was denied by Thursday, De Quay rejected the labor call for Luns' resignation on the grounds that his "anti-American policy is not in the interest of the nation." first day of the 1963 Florida legislative session." Burns said a "rIghMo-work" law protects provisions In the Taft-Hartley Law, protects the Job of a worker who does not wish to Join the union at the place where he works, and "curbs" what he railed "union monopoly power." Efforts to pass this type of legislature have been tried unsuccessfully since 1955, Burns explained, but this year a statewide pre-legislative session campaign to gain support is already in full Gorham Delays Plans To Quit Is In Coma; Medics Anxious LONDON, Saturday Dr. Robert Sobicn remained in his But Future Dim If Luns resigns the cabinet will follow suit," the premier said. the woman's physician. The woman had not visited In Pinellas County, her doctor slad, thus discounting the possibility that rbn could have contracted encephalitis In Pinellas. Mrs.

McGowan was the wife of Elton McGowan, 4621 SW 23rd MIAMI Lake Okeechobee, be outbreak was announced Aug. 21. There have been at least 25 susiected eases In the state outside Plnellns County, including eight suspected cases In Sara-sola County. The death toll attributed to the disease, similar to sleeping sickness, stood af IS. Twelve of the deaths have been in Pinellas County, with one each in Fort Lauderdale, Gainesville and Wild-wood, and one in South Carolina low normal water level for more than a year, has now reached a By BERYL B.

LEWIS Assistant City Editor "The governor could prove he can be a statesman by calling an plnrtinn think fhnt wrttilH hp "We have the freedom to criticize the I'nited States for its midden change of policy, even if the Cnited States Is a big nation," he added. "We have crit drug-induced coma early today. Doctors kept a round-the-clock check on symptoms of heart ex desired level for this time of swing. It is utilizing films, pam County Registrar Daniel Got- th ly fair thin let the West Hollywood. Her mother was Mrs.

Ivy Martin, and the dead haustion. phlets. 17 special speakers, a ham is sweating out his hopes oi pie decide. woman gave her Delray Beach There was no sign Sobicn was becoming a priest. address as 320 NW 10th Ave.

year 13.2 feet above mean sea level. This information was part of a water condition report for an 18-county district made by Zeb Grant, director of operations for "I feel it is my duty that, if I do resign, the people be given an responding to the treatment ad icized it for its attitude In a dignified manner." Luns spoke next arid said American policy with regard to New Recently he revealed his hopes Another case of suspected en- ministered since he lapsed into opportunity to express their and said he would resign after (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) receiving clearance from the the coma on his way to London mailing list of 3,000 letters a month and public opinion polls. Burns said Palm Beach County to date has only 10 persons in his organization. "I know that, without prodding, the Palm Beach County legislative delegation will never vote for a right-to-work bill, (Continued on Page 2, Col.

4) I the Central and South Florida Guinea may have caused an increase in Soviet influence. bishop and a clear cut statement from Tallahassee that the Flood Control District, at an FCD 'Quiet' Prisoner Airport Thursday morning. Soblen's wife Dina, like him a New York psychiatrist, flew in from New York and was permuted to spend a few hours In his Ilillingdon Hospital bedroom. i choice." He said he has fulfilled all the duties of his office as county registrar even though he has contemplated the priesthood for some time. Because of his personal priesthood aspirations, he has never married.

A directory Indicates he Is married and that his "wife" is named Mary. board meeting in Miami Friday. However, the water level in the upper Kissimmee Valley is way below normal and is feeding water to Lake Okeechobee at only 60 per cent of normal, he added. Grant warned that we are now Flees Policemen resulting vacancy would be filled by election by the people and not by appointment by the Governor a Democrat. But the Republican registrar snid Friday, "It seems as though we can just forget about having an election here.

"Now if I can get permission two medical bulletins sum marized the condition of the 61- involving a youth who had visited in Orlando. Eight of the deaths in Pinellas County have been confirmed as due to tlie disease, as have two of the deaths outside the county. Ballard said he will seek authorization to set up a virus research center in the county, using county funds. Bryant said Thursday tlie state would want a center to research all vims disease before the state could give financial aid. The State Board of Health has Included In its budget to be presented to the next legislature, plans for a $150,000 regional laboratory In the Tampa area, a 240,000 laboratory in Pensacola, and a $160,000 virus laboratory In Jacksonville.

Ballard said Friday he still year-old Soviet spy. INSIDE Bridge Column 12 Civic Activities 20 Classified Ads 1519 Comics 12 Court Reports 7 Editorials, Columnists 4 Obituaries 2 Palm Beach Notes 8 Radio Clock 20 Society Sports 1314 Stocks 67 Theaters Weather Map, Table 7 "I have never been married A 52-year-old man who was quietly arrested for disturbing the peace escaped from officers at is my sister," Gorham more than half-way through our rti wiwlivi. said. rainy season and that unless we city jail shortly before he was to be locked up Friday night, police from the bishop to hold off for another year, we will hold off resigning for a year. He added that he has mod-(Continiied on Page 2, Col.

4) get more than a normal amount (Continued on Page. 2, Col. 4) reported. At 10:20 the hospital announced: "Dr. Sobicn remains unconscious.

His heart is showing signs of exhaustion. His condition gives rise to anxiety." Six hours later came the announcement: "Dr. Soblen's con- (Continued on Page 2, Col. 4) Officers combed the area around tlie jail but, late Friday night, had not located Roy Swit zer, 356 Pilgrim Road. Switzer was arrested on a war rant taken out by his wife.

Police said he called them to ask if his wife had sworn out the warrant and, when he found out she had, he came to headquarters quietly. But when officers arrived at the jail with Switzer, he suddenly ran from them. would like to have a center in Pinellas County devoted entirely to research on the encephalitis virus. Pinellas County has had three outbreaks of the disease in the past four years. We can't help wondering if the Florida Highway Patrol is suffering from a shortage of pencils.

On Labor Day a highway patrolman made an arrest on Southern Boulevard and Congress Avenue and had to radio to another officer for a pencil to write the ticket. Wonder what the arrested driv Coming Your Way Sunday Iii The Post-Times Partly Cloudy Partly cloudy through Sunday with scattered mostly afternoon thundershowers. Variable winds of 5 to 15 m.p.h. Predicted low this morning at PBIA 74, high this afternoon 94, low tonight 74. Temperatures recorded for 24 hours ending at midnight Friday at Palm Beach International Airport, high 94, low 74.

Precipitation .26 Humidity 74 Barometer 50.00 Wind: High 15 m.p.h. Prevailing Wind SW Sunrise today 6:03 a.m. Set 6:33 p.m. Moonrise today 2:18 p.m. Set 12:10 a.m.

TNLET TIDES TODAY High 3:09 a.m.; 4:08 p.m. Low 9:49 a.m.; 10:32 p.m. OCEAN TIDES TOrAY High 1:41 a.m.; 2:40 p.m. Low 8:03 a.m.; 8:46 p.m. 'turn.

Qpska- I 1 1 er would have said if he were asked for his pencil so the ticket could be written? Employes at McCrory's Store at xa Clematis Street have been extremely sad for the past three days since the store's pet parakeet disappeared. The net, whose name Is "P.J.," apparently was stolen Wednesday. The parakeet had been at the store for four and one-half years. One of our readers called in Friday and told us about a new trick of some youths who ride their bikes to school in the vicinity of the 1000 block of Gregory Road. She said the young bicycle riders wait for a car to come up behind them and then spread out across the road so the car can't possibly get past.

Have a nice day. And please drive carefully. The weekend news is getting a lot more newsy nowadays-example: While Russia is again charging us with an illegal U2 flight, Japanese defense sources say the Soviets make an average of three violations per week with reconnaissance flights over Japan. BRITISH TEACHERS REPORT a new alphabet introduced a year ago as an experiment is a "fantastic success" and is yielding "amazing results" with children. A worldwide appeal is being launched by an out-country town in South Africa to make it an international shrine for the Boy Scout movement Neutralist Cambodia, a dreamy land, has tlie world's great powers by their diplomatic tails.

DADS ARE DISINTERESTED and rule by mom-ism is here; university students want more attention and are going to get it through lobbying; the Lookin' Around column expresses the thought that waterways deserve equal protection along with highways; Venus may yield tlie key -answers to the universe and life itself, says a prominent space physicist; and turkey production is skyrocketing in the U.S. of these articles and many more will provide you with diverse, absorbing reading on Sunday in The Palm Beach Post-Times. South County Pollutes Lake Steps to stop pollution of the waters of the Intra-Coaslal Waterway south of the cJty of Lake Worth will be discussed in four-part series beginning Monday in The Palm Beach Times. The series reveals that Del-ray Beach is now dunif ting- raw sewage Into the waterway and that the communities of Lan-tana and Boynton Beach are discharging "semi-raw" sew-Rge into an area which could become one of the top recreational spots in the state. Don't miss this revealing series by Palm Beach Times reporter Anita Jones.

SHE WANTS TO STAY WITH EDIE Bctte Le Kovacs (right), 15-year-old daughter of the late Ernie Kovacs, breaks into tears outside Los Angeles court where she testified she did not want to live with her mother, preferring her father's widow, Edie Adams. Miss Adams comforts Bette as her sister, Kippie, 13, and Kovacs' mother watch. Bette Lee testified that when her mother visited them in recent weeks, she "tried to discuss world affairs with her," but all she got was "a vague smile." L'PI.