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ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE Thursday, Dec. 23, 196 1 Yl Nuclear On Milk Decline Effects Show in S. Probed WASHINGTON Contamination of milk with iodine stemming from Russia's series of nuclear tests this fall has eased off throughout the United States, the Public Health Service reported yesterday. School May Censor Tarzan LOS ANGELES W-There may be a move afoot in suburban Downey to ban all Tarzan books from elementary school libraries. The objection is that there is nothing to show Tarzan, the ape man, and Jane were legally married.

Supt. Bruce Moore of the Downey Unified School District said yesterday the issue was raised at the last school board meeting. A board member said he'd been told a librarian at one of the schools took out all the Tarzan books, and all the western stories by Zane Grey. The board member, Robert L. Ryan, said the Grey books evidently were considered objectionable because they contained a few "hells" and "damns." Moore said there will be an inquiry when classes resume after the holidays.

Moore said the board unanimously favors keeping, the books in the libraries. He said, however, that the librarians are volun i K0et: P' leaf i Jr. Surgeon General Luther L. Terry said the average Iodine 131 level lor November were less than during October at 41 tl 59 monitoring station perated by the federal government in cooperation with state and local health agencies. Levels at 7 stations were the same for both months and increases were noted at 11 stations.

Further Declines During the first week of December, Terry said, still further declines were noted. Russia resumed nuclear tests in the atmosphere on Sept. 1 and in quick order set off an estimated 50. The last one reported was Nov. 4.

Terry's statement gave this as the latest available picture of radioactivity. "Preliminary analysis of levels reported through Dec. 8 show that, with few exceptions, Iodine-131 contamination of milk has dropped below 30 micromicrocuries per liter and at several stations was so low as to be HOME IN RUINS Earl Kerr and his family look over the smoking ruins of their six-room house which burned at Talmetto, exploded. Only 11, was saved after a kerosene heater a doll belonging to Judy, as family escaped. (AP) Track Officials Accused of Deal "WHA' H0PPEN?" Rochester families must be getting bigger! Everybody bought our blaaest size Tom Turltevs Cuba Reports Anti-Castro Demonstration HAVANA (UN) New anti- government violence was re ported yesterday as the Fidel Castro regime made elaborate ffor Christmas dinner this year.

Ve're left with our regular size, 10 to 12 lbs. Hen Turkeys. We NEW YORK (if) A Yonkers Raceway stockholder charged yesterday that raceway officers and directors "se- don want to store them, so we're offerina them 1 cretly negotiated" the sale 'interests" in order to realize to our customers at below wholesale cost! THIS WEEK ONLY-While They Last! Here's a once- In papers filed with Supreme Court yesterday, Harry Slain Minister's Auto Found in Michigan BROOKLYN, Mich. Police found the auto yesterday which belonged to a brutally slain retired Methodist minister. State police, bolstered byj -yeap opportunity to put a couple in your freezer at an all time low price.

plans for a Jan. 2 celebration SC. Nelson said that the officers and directors were paid a of the third anniversary of "secret bonus" to resign next March and permit replace-the triumph of the revolution, ments, who would be picked by William Zeckendorf, real Press dispatches from estate tycoon. Guantanamo City in Orientc! Zeckendorf said, "We are accounting of the entire trans- not stockholders and we have action be made available to SEE OUR PREVIOUS ADVERTISEMENT FOR ALL OTHER HOLIDAY MEAT SPECIALS an air searcn team irom Lansing, blanketed southern I 1 i 1 a I ill lrl ll I 1 A micromicrocurie is one millionth of a curie. A curie named for Pierre and Marie Curie, who discovered radium in 1898 is a measure of radioactivity equivalent to the radiation from one gram of radium.

Cancer Possible Radioactive Iodine-131 usu ally appears in air, water and milk and other foods soon after a nuclear detonation. It tends to be taken up by the thyroid gland and in large amounts could cause cancer. Terry said yesterday's re port confirms a Nov. 24 estimate by the Health, Education and Welfare Department saying there was not enough radioactive Iodine-131 any where in the country to justify the general use of countermeasures. The biggest drop in radio active Iodine-131 noted was at Palmer, Alaska, where the average for November was 60 micromicrocuries to a liter of milk compared to an aver age of 280 in October.

a naimiier, uuunu wun a iupe Dr. Joseph H. Ahronheim, a pathologist, said prelimi- nary investigation revealed the minister apparently suf Ifered a heart attack after the beating and then suffo cated in the burning room. Robinson and several I other crewmen just shook their heads. The crewmen, clad in non descript clothing including some Coast Guard castoffs, Rooked haggard and un 'shaven.

Born in Romania of gypsy parents, Bercovici wrote some 40 books, many of them about gypsies. "The Story of the Gypsies" is considered the standard work on the subject. He also wrote about Ro ever, he added that he had profits realized from the sale obtained options to buy race-! of 1,665,701 shares of stock way stock, but declined to say be turned over to the corpora-how much, from whom, at tion. Michigan and adjoining states Macrj0nald said Trooper Rob yesterday, searching for the ert Darling found a prime ob- slayer of Rev. Roy R.

ject 0f the search, the 1952 72. of nearby TecumselVsedan ovvno(j by the minister, Mich. Police said Dr. Decker's1 The body of the retired si a apparently drove it' minister was found in burn-from the scene. Status teersmostly parents and are not employed by the school district.

"There are parents' groups or PTA's who donate books and act as librarians for us," Moore said. "It could have been one of these parents who removed the books. "If the books have been donated to the school, they can't be taken back again. But if they were just loaned they could be taken back." Police to Auciion 30 Automobiles Thirty cars, ranging from 1949 to 1955 models, will be auctioned off by the Rochester Police Bureau at 10 a.m. today in the auto pound behind the Main Street East Armory.

Lt. Joseph Sheridan, police property clerk, said the cars were abandoned in city streets and parking lots and their owners could not be traced. Emanuel Levy will be auctioneer. ii' "i w.Mt( haihwt iwniw. nuvuux lepuiwu umucuw- fied armed men threw a hand grenade into a nationalized Sears Roebuck Store there, causing heavy damage.

The dispatches said the vigilance of neighborhood "big brother" spy groups in the area made possible early capture of the unidentified attackers. The press reports said the crowd which witnessed the arrests called for the firing-squad execution "of those sold to Yankee imperial ism. The government said Pre- ing bedroom of his summer farm home here Firemen answering an alarm' found the body under a smol- denng blanket. State police said Dr. Decker apparently was beaten with Tarzan's honor was defended by Cyril R.

Rothmund, who was manager of the late Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of the Tarzan stories. Rothmund said Burroughs had Tarzan and Jane legally married in "The Return of Tarzan." Rothmund said this was the second book in the Tarzaa series. ALWAYS BUYING OLD CLOTHING ttt HORKHKAIIM 1040 IAY ST. dsn Nothing Like It! frr "Amtrka'l Tailittf 5 urn Sale STOCK UP! AMtTTt him rjyK it I -s mier Fidel Castro would make perS) tne officers and direc-the keynote speech at nexttors violated their duties by month's victory celebration in conducting secret negotia-Havana, to be featured by anions, military parade and a mass Robcrt A Glasscr) chair. rally in Civic Square.

of the New York sute i YOUNG I I HENS A B'Cjy NONE I i 1 SOLD TO 3 6 I I lib. I low price BK if i jl i I I 640 tmd9 r1, what price or under what conditions. Nelson said that as a result of the sale of raceway stock, the market values of the shares on the American Stock Exchange dropped from $6.25 on Oct. 9, the date of the sale, to $5.50 on Dec. 15.

He added that he owns $50,000 worth of the stock. According to the court pa- application or petition for transfer of stock ownership has been received by the commission. "If and when a transfer of ownership is about to be consummated, transaction will come before the commission for its consideration," Glasser added. He explained that commission approval would require "a complete and full disclosure of all terms, considerations and understandings" involved. Nelson demanded that an me Commission, said no Ten Sailors Plucked Off Battered Dredge BOSTON (UPD Ten men, Asked if there was a possi-plucked from the stormy bility that the Cartagena, a North Atlantic after abandon- 170-foot, workhorse ing their battered dredge, of the seas valued at about $4 landed here last night and1 million, might be saved, Rob-most said they would not said, "I don't think back to try and save the there's a chance." vessel.

I When asked whether they Thp fnact flnnrrl nittor unnlH an hapk tn lhr farta. organized labor movement called on its members to turn out en masse, and urged the hanging of banners across streets and buildings extolling "the socialist revolution." Members of Castro's huge militia and army units mean while were waid "O0 fire Acushnet landed the aways at Constitution wharf. One of the men, Merlin T. Robinson. 47, of Hattiesburg, Miss, appeared to have recov ered somewhat from the inju ries he suffered aboard the dredge, the Cartagena.

of their stock to "Zeckendorf large profits. hfi stnekhnldnrs anH that the Nelson continued that Zeckendorf and his son, William Zeckendorf contracted for the purchase of the stock through Webb and Knapp a real estate firm, and International Recreation Corp. which owns Freedom-land, in the Bronx. He said the father and son either control or own major holdings in the two corporations. Nelson said Zeckendorf earlier this year attempted to negotiate a merger between Freedomland and Yonkers Raceway.

He said Freedom-land was losing money steadily and that a merger could reduce the raceway's federal tax obligations and result in an increase in net income. The board of directors rejected the merger, Nelson said, and instead made their stock "available" to Zeckendorf. Nelson said the stock was sold for $10.50 per share to the Zeckendorf interests when its actual fair market value was $6.25. The difference, he said, was a "secret bonus" that should be turned over to the corporation. lease.

The Wien syndicate will pay $3,220,000 each year for the next 30 years, $1,840,000 a year from 1992 to 2013 and $1,610,000 yearly from 2014 to 2076. Wonderful dinner. But you may pay for it with Acid Upset, so keep Tums relief at hand. 3-roll pack, only 30f. norm no wt nwf Konrad Bercovici Dies at 80 Picture of a man looking for new worlds to conquer Empire State Building Sold for $65 Million NEWARK, N.J.

(LTD New York City's Empire State Building changed ownership yesterday in a $65 million deal that required two years to negotiate and 3,600 signatures to consummate. It took 100 attorneys, ac- it will pay Prudential for the NEW YORK Konrad Bercovici, 80, writer, musician and chronicler of gypsy lore, died at his home yesterday. A noted newspaper and magazine writer, Bercovici also worked as a writer in Hollywood, and won a suit against Charlie Chaplin for plagiarism of the script of the Chaplin movie, "The Great Dictator." BROTHER JUNIPER mania's King Carol, "That: way and bus employes, who Royal Lover," and "Savage, Promptly rejected it and re-Prodigal," a biography of the dtion to poet Rimbaud. incir guns ai euner me am val of the new year or tne revolutionary anniversary. On previous such occasions, troop indiscipline has led to widespread alarm.

Subway Union Spurns Wage Offer NEW YORK Wl-The Transit Authority made a package money offer yesterday to sub The authority's proposal totaled about 15 cents an hour over a two-year contract period. Some 5,000 transit workers voted to continue strike plans after hearing union officials at a mass meeting describe the offer as unacceptable. Earlier Transport Workers union President Michael J. Quill raised the possibility of a wildcat walkout in advance of the deadline at midnight New Year's Eve. "Even church meetings get out of hand," Quill declared.

"People get carried away." Last night's strike vote was tho third conducted by the TWU in less than a month. Nothing came of the prior strike threats. In fact, in the 27-year history of the TWU. Quill never has staged a city subway strike. The TWU is seeking a reduction in the five-day, 40-hour work week to 4 days and 32 hours a demand that the Transit Authority has refused even to consider.

In addition, the union sought a 15 per cent wage increase for subway and bus employes. in ww iiHivftt ftawifc i Tvn SCULPTURE IX- countants, brokers and businessmen two hours and 10 minutes to sign all the papers. Commissions and fees resulting from the transaction alone amounted to about $3 million. Chicago financier Col. Henry J.

Crown, the man who sold the 102-story building, the world's tallest structure, said he parted with it reluctantly. He heads a real estate syndicate. The Prudential Life Insurance headquartered here, became the new owner. But real estate operator Lawrence Wien of New York took control of the building for the next 114 years. Wien, 55, paid Crown $65 million.

Then Prudential paid Wien $29 million for the title to the building. Prudential previously had purchased the ground under the structure for $17 million, so the Empire State's net worth was put at $82 million. It was built in the 1930s, during the depression, at a cost of $40.9 million. Alvin Silverman, attorney for Wien, said Wien's syndicate expects to collect in rents more than twice the amount It's Art Duchvvald, of course I The people and places Art Buchwald writes about are never quite the same afterward. Art's Buch-eyed views of royalty in Monaco, politicians in Chicago, cabbies1 in Paris, or natives in the Congo will have you chuckling and the victims bewildered.

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