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Reno Evening Gazette WEATHER Cloudy Tonight and Sunday Continued Cool DRIVE SAFELY YOU CaN help CUT NEVADA'S DEATH TOLL 55 HAVE DIED IN 1961 A Newspaper tor the Home Information and enjoyment for every member of the family TEMPERATURES Minimum 43 Noontime 53 EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR NO. 35 PHONE FA 3-3161 RENO, NEVADA, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1961 PHONE FA 3-3161 16 PAGES 10 CENTS mm wm )o tornado Kills 15 as Storms Rip Through Southwest Redoubled Endeavor Pushes Gongres CITY, WASHOE COUNTY FACE TAX BOOST I ffir Fund rais Taxes and assessed valuation in Reno and Washoe County will go WASHINGTON (AP) Gleeful over the first U. up next year. manned space flight, Congress seemed willing and eager Washoe County Commissioners today to provide extra money for the substantial revealed late in the week they've larger effort" President Kennedy promises for space puEed out all the stops to clear the- way for County Assssor Al exploration. Minutes after he learned of Cmdr.

Alan B. Shepajd successful flight Friday, Kennedy issued a state bert B. Boyne to re-evaluate Reno and Washoe County as he did this year with Sparks. ment saluting the feat but 10 Seconds LIST 57 HURT IN TWO TOWNS HIT BY STORM POTEAU, Okla. (AP) tornado that didn't last 10 seconds killed 15 persons and injured 57 late Friday as it tore through two tiny-towns in eastern Oklahoma.

A family reunion turned into a tangle of horror when 13 died or were hurt as the twister smashed Reichert. Then it tore away half of Howe, a community of 500. Eleven died in Howe, four at Reichert. It may have ripped a wing off a light plane. A young boy said he saw this happen and said he saw smoke rising frcm the forests on Winding Stair Mountain after it crashed.

The death toll may go higher. So could the number of injured. Both lists fluctuated Friday night, with victims taken to a half-dozen nearby cities. "It didn't last 10 seconds," said Charles Lewallen. But in those 10 seconds the big, happy reunion turned into a nightmare.

Four members of the fam Closer Unity calling lor redoubled endeavor for a true conquest of space. Later, at a news conference, the President pledged "a substantially larger effort" and said he The change won't mean increases for everyone but should produce sizeable revenue increases and provide more cushion for bonded indebtedness, commissioners told Procter Hug superintendent of schools. Hug met with commissioners and urged a boost in assessed valuation. He said it was needed would ask Congress for additional funds to carry out the space Against Reds Urged by Rusk With success still sweet, many to bring the county to the stale jeers were for the slowdown in government orders that has forced a cutback from 12,000 men employed in 1959 to some 2,400 today. BOUQUETS AND JEERS bedeck Chrysler's missile plant in Detroit where the Redstone rocket that carried the first U.S.

space explorer aloft was built. The bouquets were for the achievement, the congressmen on both sides ot the aisle seemed in a mood to average and eliminate a school formula penalty which is taking $220,000 from the school district WASHINGTON (AP) Secre go along with him. tary of State -Dean Rusk flies to Europe today to tell Allied for With the Soviet man-in-orbit this year. It's also needed, he said, to allow more room for bonds. eign ministers that the strongly still fresh, many felt like Rep.

Richard L. Roudebush, aggressive operations of the The school district can bond Communist bloc in such places who called the U. S. rocket success "a tonic for the whole na Court Order Re-Opens Turf Club Despite State Closure NEW SNAG DIMS LAOS PEACE BID TREASURY MAY URGE TAX SLASH only to 10 per cent of the as as Laos and Cuba make greater unity and military strength im sessed valuation and has reached perative. tion it certainly boosts my morale." Sea Styles Bridges, ranking Republican on the Sen Rusk heads for a meeting of its limit.

Hug told commissioners the school district faces construction expenditures at Incline Village, Verdi and Stead Air Force Base. The proposed devel the North Atlantic Treaty For CARSON CITY VPi The Elite injunction and declaratory judg eign Ministers Council in Oslo, HIN HEUP, Laos (AP) Pre WASHINGTON (AP) The ment against the commission aft Turf Club reopened in Reno Fri ate Armed Services, Space and Appropriations committees, and chairman of the Senate GOP Norway, starting Monday. He is liminary talks aimed at working er gaming control agents pad opment of a section of Pyramid day after winning a district court restraining order against the Ne Treasury is considering an income tax cut for next year. due in Oslo tonight. locked their bookmakjng business out a cease-fire for Laos bogged down today as representatives of Lake may mean additional school Policy Committee, said he be vada Gaming Commission but Wednesday.

President Kennedy told a news conference Friday that he hopes problems there, Hug predicted. This was indicated Friday by lieved Congress would provide the kingdom's warring factions Dist. Judge Grant Bowen issued County Manager C. B. Kinnison Secretary Douglas Dillon, al NATO "will be strengthened bv wrangled over where negotiations a special deputy attorney general questioned the court's authority to block the commission's emer 15-day restraining order pend told Hug that Boyne advised the should be held.

the meeting in Oslo and that we though he carefully avoided mak additional funds "within reason" to speed the 'day when the U. S. sends a man into orbit. Sen. Richard B.

Russell, ing a hearing May 15. will make a more determined ef Military negotiators teams of ing any commitments bout gency suspension order. county board of equalization early this year he could re-evaluate the entire county by all if he re However, Deputy Atty. Gen six army officers each sent by the future tax policy. Elite operators Phil Rosenberg ily were killed, nine injured, including two children.

The storm was the worst of many that blanketed most of Oklahoma for the second straight day. It came on the first anniversary of a tornado that killed 13 and injured more than 100 at Wilburton, just 40 miles to the west. Twisters struck in neighboring Arkansas, a few miles away. One Turn to Page 11, Col. 6 chairman of the Senate Armed pro-Communist Pathet Lao and fort." "I believe that as other situations become more difficult there is a common recognition of the and Abe Cohn petitioned for an Michael Wendell, special legal advisor to the commission, told the Associated Press he believed the ceived financial support to hire the royal Laotian government Services Committee and an influ Questioned by the House Ways and Means Committee on present appraisers.

deadlocked shortly after the open ential member of both the space Boyne got it, Hug was told ty court had no power to block the ing meeting Friday. group and appropriations com and future plans, Dillon remarked Mike Mirabelli, commission chair- closure. need for closer collaboration," Kennedy said. "That is true of NATO." mittee, said Congress stood ready noyai oincers insisted perma with apparent approval: There is He declared that only final nent negotiators should hold the to support fully a program that Turn to Page 11, Col. 1 commission orders are subject to would give the U.

S. predomi next session here in Hin Heup. Rusk is expected to tell the that as pressures from the "one theory the income tax, especially, should be somewhat lower. The idea is that a tax reduc judicial review. The rebels argued that it should nance.

Congo Airport Bars UN Planes After Complaint LEOPOLDVTLLE, the Congo, be Ban Namone five miles north Wendell quoted a section of the A feelinz of relief and a col- immunise oioc increase in cnt- i i i ward and nearer rebel territory, lPf-tive 'well-dnne' arose from the lcal areas OI COld war COIffllCt 1959 state gaming control act that tion would be an incentive to but that they would have to await hearts and minds of 180 million me Umted btates may face the says in part: higher economic activity." word from higher authority, prob When questioned about a step- "The judicial review. be need lor drastic measures to meet the Red threat and that it Americans with the news of Cmdr. ShepardV him from a ably Sunday. the exclusive method of review of Third Peacetime Medal in History May Be Shepard's WASHINGTON (AP) If the (AP) The Congo Republic has by-step reduction, Dillon said it is under study but that he doesn't wants the support and under Representatives of Britain and standing of its friends for such closed its important Brazzaville Airport to United Nations planes, know what his department will 750,000 Claim New Jobless Pay WASHINGTON (AP) More than 750,000 unemployed workers have filed claims for extra unemployment benefits. This report from the labor de commission actions, decisions and orders, and shall preclude the use of any of the extraordinary com the Soviet Union went to the Indian foreign ministry in New Del actions.

recommend. successful visi. iter space," Russell said. er, we cannot spare lebration or self-congr "We must' incss forward from the U.N. command reported to Within NATO itself, U.

S. of- hi early today with instructions for the International Supervisory day. 1 1 T- I iieiais saia, tiusn wm urge an A U.N. "spokesman said Presi increase in the conventional mil WEATHER THREAT Medal of Honor is awarded Cmdr. Alan B.

Shepard Jr. dent Abbe Fulbert Youlou of here until we have achieved pre itary forces which could be used Commission to proceed to Laos to certify that a cease-fire has taken place. the neighboring Congo Republic WONT MAR DERBY for his space flight, as some mem mon law writs or other equitable proceedings." Judicial review, the law says, can be sought by any aggrieved person upon "a final decision or order of the commission made after hearing or rehearing by the commission." to meet the initial thrust of an dominance in space operations. The Congress stands ready to fully support such a program." charged U.N. planes have been bers of Congress are suggesting.

attack in a NATO area. partment Friday came three weeks benefits for jobless after extending up to 13 additional buzzing his capital, Brazzaville he Will be the third to receive: it for exploits other than in combat. The spokesman denied the charge The next step," said Sen. John Hunch Players Get Nice Payoff weks benefits for jobless after and termed the airport closure a By special act of Congress, the nuisance action. A number of medal was awarded Dec.

14, 1927 The law also specifies that a their regular unemployment pay ments run out. Stennis, "is to complete the orbit with followup efforts to reach other planets. We must continue our efforts to the utmost. Hacienda Hotel Hits CAB Ban LAS VEGAS UPi County com ALBANY (AP) A cat scam- u-N. pianes are stationed in petition for judicial review "shall The legislation was one of Pres pered away from her.

6-day old Brazzaville and use the airport not stay enforcement of the de for supply missions to the Congo. cision or order. the com We cannot be second best in this field." to Charles A. Lindbergh, then a reserve captain, for the first New York-Paris nonstop flight; and March 21, 1935 to Maj. Gen.

Adolphus W. Greely, soldier, scientist and Artie explorer who LOUISVILLE, Ky. (D Fifteen of the country's top 3-year-old colts were posed for a shot at racing gold and glory in the Kentucky Derby today. There was a threat of showers and scattered thunderstorms here but it didn't chase any of the hopefuls from the race. Actually, some trainers seemed to welcome it as their charges tried for the first place jackpot of $120,500 in the first leg of racing's triple crown.

kittens at Golden Gate Fields Friday and settled in stall No. 3 Tension has been building up mission itself may grant a stay upon such terms and conditions ident Kennedy's major anti-recession measures. Nearly half the claims for extra benefits through April 29 came for several days between the Rep. Joseph W. Martin of missioners backed a plea by the Hacienda Hotel today for a quick hearing before the Civil Aeronautics Board on the hotel's package airline flights.

as it deems proper." Brazzaville regime and the central government of The Congo Massachusetts, former GOP House leader, said the flight Wendell said the Elite Turf before the fifth race. So some superstitutious bettors plunked their money down on No. 3. Sure enough No. 3 Juanro won the fifth race and paid 523.40.

headed by President Joseph Kasa- will win the applause of all from six states: California with 80,200, Michigan 64,100, Pennsylvania 62,500. Ohio 61,500. New Club's action may bring on a con- died that year. Greely's exploits included reaching, in 1881, the farthest north point ever reached by man at that time. Commissioners approved the re vubu.

Americans and is an emphatic quest for support, pointing out Kasavubu's officials halted Turn to Page 11, Col. 4 York 58,400 and Illinois 4Q.900. demonstration of the great progress of American space efforts." Congo River ferry traffic between Leopoldville and Brazzaville Fri they were not taking sides with the. hotel. The hotel, seeking a certificate of public convenience Amid the rejoicing, however, there ran a current of realization and necessity to operate the flight that Friday's lob through space day after Youlou charged the central government's arrest of Katanga President Moise Tshombe was "banditry" that 'Murdered Woman1 Found Alive In Las Vegas, Husband Jailed LAS VEGAS (AP) The on-againiing in a Las Vegas apartment to- was ordered by the CAB to dis still didn't bring the United States continue its flights several weeks abreast of the Soviets.

ago. Sen. J. W. Fulbright, shattered hopes of peace in the Congo.

The Hacienda obtained an in I II IHMMMI I II I I I I HI I II II HI I I II I I I I r. -l i -i, I I Jl vcLJr M- I (' -r V-C I day. The couple said they had not was one who cautioned as did junction delaying the action. Youlou, president of the former Kennedy that much remains to French Congo, is a good friend of read newspapers since they arrived in Las Vegas April 28 and that they were unaware of the be done even though "this is a big forward step." Tshombe, who walked out of the Spaceman Complains INDEX Amusements 2,3 Ann Landers 16 Churches 8 Classified Ads 12-15 Crossword Puzzle 4 Earl Wilson 3 Editorials 4 Extension News 16 House of the Week 7 Jacoby on Bridge 3 Legal Notices 11 Local, Regional News 9 Nevada Politics 4 Sports 6 Television Log 11 Vital Statistics 11 Weather Table 11 Women's News "1 unity conference of Congolese Even before Shepard's "for identification. Hamilton, also known as Wil off-again identification of a decapitated woman was off again today when police found the supposed victim living in Las Vegas.

A woman's head found in a vacant lot in Garden Grove, Calif, this week was tentatively identified twice during investigation as Mrs. Dorothy Hamilton, 52, of political leaders in Coouilhatville ward step" and Kennedy's plea GRAND BAHAMA ISLAND (It-Spaceman Alan Shepard said to last week. Tshombe charged Ka- liam Bryan Brewster, was booked savubu was bowing to what he day "The only complaint I have on suspicion of passing bad called U.N. interference in The is that the flight wasn't long checks in Fresno, Calif. for a redoubled effort, the House Space Committee had authorized $126.6 million more than Kenne.

dy's budget request for the 1962 space exploration program. Congo's affairs. enough." Police from Los Angeles who carried their investigation to Las He made the remark when Tshombe and six of his top asked by a Mercury press officer vine idea is to show a sense Bell, Calif. A brother identified the head from a picture. Mrs.

Hamilton and her husband, William, 39, were found liv- vegas said tnere were no new clues to the identification. The if he would issue a statement for Belgian advisers were arrested 10 days ago after the president's walkout. of urgency," said Chairman Overton Brooks, D-La. body was not found. newsmen.

Soviets 'Pooh-Pooh' American Space Tri Hero's Welcome Awaits Astronaut Shepard as U.S. Charts Plans to Put Spaceman Into Orbit pared with the 108-minute flight made no mention of his attempt CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ard and their daughter, Pauline. Kennedy will wait until Monday as will the nation to give Shep A heartened America cheered around the world by Soviet space ing to control his spaceship The governor was thinking of ard his welcome. pioneer Yuri Gagarin.

dren watched on TV, too, at their Virginia Beach, home. "This is just a baby step, guess, to what we will see," Mrs; Shepard said. To the question of' whether she would like to see her husband orbited around the world If the Soviet Union was reluc proclaiming a state-wide celebra The difference is clearly the New York City and Los Angeles tion in the space pilot's honor space pioneer Alan B. Shepard Jr. today, and stood by to give him a hero's welcome while the Soviets pooh-poohed his grueling trip 115 miles into space.

huge Soviet rockets and their tant to credit the feat, Shepard's offered ticker tape parades whenever Shepard was ready. hometown of Deny, N. was not. and some Derry residents seemed ready to change the name of the ability to carry more weight at greater speeds into space. There was little doubt that town to "Spacetown, U.

S. But at least on existing evi The whole town exploded into But Shepard. whose code name in a rocket, she hesitated, then Shepard's feat and the perfect shot of his Redstone rocket- Shepard will have to wait until said: "WelL it is a hard question. is "Freedom is far away from all this. dence, Separd's attempts to control his space capsule even a lull-scale holiday when new arrived that Shepard and his space capsule had splashed down his trip to Vashington to be reunited with his parents and his but, yes, since he wants it so very badly." I though it was backed up by auto were a major step for the U.

S. man in space program, aimed at putting a man in orbit before the He faces two days of seclusion matic systems that insured against error seemed somewhat year is out. on urand Bahama island and a scientific grilling to wring from him the most minute details of wife. WTiile the parents were tensely watching their son's exploit on television at Derry, Shepard's wife, Louise, and their two chil safe and well into the Atlantic some 302 miles off the Florida coast. Residents hailed Shepard's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Alan B. Shep Mrs. Shepard, 34, seems to know the same side of her rocksteady husband as do the psy- Turn to Page 11, CoL 3 more than Gagarin's. The Soviets have told little of what Gagarin did, but they have But the official Soviet news agency Tass said the Project Mercury shot could not be com his 15-minute adventure.

The White House and President SPACE TRAVELER PLUCKED FROM THE SEA 1.