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Fair and tonight, 4-10. Tuesday, increaj- change, high 26-30. Max Min Snow on Gd Sun. 7.98 35 5 2 In. Mon.

7.94 3J JO 2 In. THE LOCK HAVEN EXPRESS Not Only a Community Asset THE EXPRESS the newt of Clinton County and adjacent areoi, and prtvidit the most effectivt odvertislna dium to reach that entire section. Est. March 1, 1882 Vol. 79, No.

12' LOCK HAVEN, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1960 VO Pages Seven Cents Pentagon Sees Red Lead Only with Missiles Gen. Taylor Says Trend 'Against Us' Be Changed WASHINGTON (APt-The Pentagon's top military scientist says the Soviet Union has more missiles than the United Stales "but we have more of everything Dr. Herbert F. York added "even the more missiles is not a permanent situation." York, director of defense research and engineering, again said defense officials feel that at no time in (lie future could the Soviet Union attack the United States with impunity. York and others slated their views Sunday during television interviews.

Trend 'Against Us' Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, former Army chief of staff, said he be lieved "the military (rend is against us. And unless we change that trend we will soon be facec with trying to live with Commu nism as an inferior. I don't be lieve that can be done." Thomas G.

Lanphier World War II flying ace who recentlj quit as an executive of an air craft firm so he could criticize the administration's defense policies said President Eisenhower does not seek the advice of key military men in defense planning. In Buying Defense Sen. Clair Engle (D-Calif) said that in buying defense "security ought to the budget figures." He said there wasn't any question that the budget figures have been a controlling factor as far as the Eisenhower administration is concerned. Sen. Kenneth B.

Keating (R-NY) said the Soviet Union now has 100 major missile bases along its western frontiers. He said these bases are capable of launching destruction from Scandinavia to th'c Middle East. Dr. T. Keith Glennan, administrator of the National Astronautics and Space Administration, said it will be some years before the 'United State matches the propulsive thrust of Soviet missiles.

Car Wreckage Scattered Through Hanna Park A wheel and part of an axle from (he car of nicncing with a collision with a parked car on Robert M. Shaffer, 126 E. Bald Eagle lie in Susqiiehanna Ave. Other parts of Die aiitomo- Hanna Park, a short distance from a tree which bile were scattered about the park. One Car's Fender Imbedded in Another's (ore off (he right rear door in a crash coin- Adenauer Defends Gov'f Democracy Watch W.

Va. PrimaryVote WASHLNGTON Virginia's May 10 Democratic primary is being watched by politicians as a possible test of whether religion will be a major presidential campaign issue. But in an overwhelmingly Prot- cstant state, the balloting will in-(breakfast "with Francis Cardinal NEW YORK (AP)-West man Chancellor Konrad Adenauer i says his nation today is a practic- ing democracy, ancl he blames recent anti-Semitic incidents there on a "minute minority of neo- Nazis." "Be convinced," said AdenauvH- Sunday, "that- this Germany is a democratic Germany and that none of its Jewish citizens will suffer any harm or damage." Soviet Blamed Adenauer said: "Behind everything that is being said here and there against Germany, there is the concerted will of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union wants to drive. a wedge between the German and American people in order to shift the political balance of the world in favor of the Soviet Union, "I assure you that the spirit of Germany today is far from being anti-Semitic or Nazi." Practicing democracy, Adenauer said, "seems to be a difficult thing, as you can sec from the debate in the United States Senate." He apparently alluded to the civil rights debate.

Asks Tolerance "I might, therefore, ask your Sun Satellite Setting Records with Radio Data Pioneer Hits nearly 6,000 mph on Way into Space WASHINGTON America's Pioneer satellite sped 0:1 through space today after setting a new long distance communications record. Around noon today, the beach- ball-size sphere was expected to pass the 500,000 mile mark in its vast solar orbit. Thc new record was set at 8 p.m. Sunday when NASA receiving stations in California Hawaii picked up "excellent" radio signals from the sphere which then was miles out, soaring along at 5,955 miles per hour. Pioneer IV, launched a year tolerance and linden-standing for ago, set the previous long distance the German Parliament and at limes our federal government," he said.

The 84-year-old German leader has a busy Sunday. He spoke at a luncheon of the American Council on Germany. Earlier, he had (Express Photo) Here is a photo of thc cur of William J. Sknm- of parked near his home 1 showing a fender of Robert M. Schafl'er's car imbedded in thc fender of (he Skanuiruk car.

The Sehall'cr automobile continued on for more than 500 feet and ended up wreck in Hanna Park, (Express Photo) Robert Schaffer Fair after Crash Demolishes Car Many Stitches Needed; Injuries Are ot Critical Robert M. Schaffer, of 126 E. Bald Eagle was very severely but not critically hurt 'Saturday night at 7.40 on Susquehanna Ave. near city line where his car hit a parked automobile, traveled erratically for 555 feet and landed, demolished, with no rear wheels, near the middle of Hanna Park. Schaffer, who is 40 years old, was reported in fair condition this morning at the Lock Haven Hos- Finch and Girl Face New Trial; luryHungup Woman Juror Had Been Threatened, in Bitter Deadlock LOS ANGELES (API Wnin gling by jurors in the Finch murder trial almost erupted into Icnce as the seven women five men deliberated to a bitter, exhausting deadlock.

This was, (lie report today ofj He suffered severe cuts of the two members of Ihc a chin, lesser cuts of the scalp, face woman who said that at one point nose a left foreleg: had his left a male juror threatened to split, and his right ear nearly icr her' out a window of the loni from nis llcad He was locked jury room. rayed for possible fractures of the The jury' was dismissed sku11 aw chest ribs lcft le lay after 'failing to agree whether i ancl lcft ni P- There wil1 be a fur Dr. R. Bernard Finch. 42, and; ther re rl nis mistress, Carole Tregoff, 23, Use More Than 70 Sutures Car a Wreck after Landing in Hanna Park without Rear Wheels Ready for the is the automobile of Robert M.

car on Susquehanna Avc. near the city line. The driver Is In the of 136 E. Bald Eagle its rear wheels gone and one Lock Haven Hospital in fair condition after sustaining number of i(s doors missing af(er a 555-foot jaunt after hitting a parked of painful but not critical injuries. had plotted ancl killed with a bill- The attending surgeon, who let-in-Uie-back the doctor's cs-! worked for more than an hour and (ranged wife, Barbara Jean a half, said that more than 70 Face New Trial sutures were required to replace The- wealthy surgeon and his thc ri ht ca and close ol her cuts onetime receptionist broke into In face of an apparent absence of sobs when thc jurors announced 1 0 01 11 1 the doctor they were deadlocked.

They face addofl: He a luck bo another trial. A dale will be set! Schaffer was traveling south on Thursdav. jSusquehanna Ave. His automobile While all seemed outwardly' 11 1 'he car of William J. Skama- screnc during thc eight days of deliberations, reports of shouts, rak, 269 Susquehanna parked in front of Number 337.

The im- insulls and near-violence came )act tore off the ri ht rear fender from two jurors-Louis Wcrne! of lhe Schaffer car and left it imbedded in the left rear fender of the Skamarak car, whose damage amounted to $200. Climbed Curb, Crossed Curb car proceeded for 225 feet and jumped the west curb. After travelling for an additional 120 foot, it crossed the avenue and leaped the curb into the park. From the east curb to the point it dicate to Sen. John F.

Kennedy (D-Mass) and others how much effect his being a Roman Catholic will have on his chances of winning his party's nomination. Kennedy is opposed in thc Democratic primary by Sen. Hubert IT. Humphrey (D-Minn) in wnat amounts to a popularity contest. communications record.

It sent back signals from 407,000 miles before its radio batteries went dead. The sun's rays provide electricity to operate the newest Pioneer's radio. Information relayed back from the spheres is being accumulated i Eleven Furloughed from PRR Shops Eleven employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. here were furloughed about 1 p. m.

today upon completion of a special car conversion program. The lay-off was announced by Ambrose Daulby, car boss at the Attack of Flu Penalties Urged in B.C. Man Hurt Delays Nikita's Violation of Orders near Renovo Trip to Paris and Genevieve Lang. Mrs. Lang, 34, a secretary, said a male juror turned the locked jury room into a panic Friday when he shouted at her: ing to pick you up and throw you out the window." She said thc juror, whom she did not identify, started "to pick up the jury started to take off his was scared.

Bailiffs Called By JOHN CHADWICK WASHINGTON (AP) Visit Postponed to March 23; Deny 'Diplomatic Illness' Woman Saved from Spellman after Mass, and visited the MetroDolitan Museum of Art. Sunday night he attended a rate dinner. The is enroute Search for Apache to Tokyo for a state visit, will go 'Eisenhower administration House support today for a civil: IN I i i penalty provision which the rQIQ ASSQSSIfl DV cut from its own bill fasti cck iOff-Dutv Officer Ally. Gen. William P.

Rogers UUI vMIHUI MOSCOW 23 has 1 "it is of thc utmost impor- SPRING-FIELD, 111. we were locked in that way." After bailiffs quiled the dispute, Mrs. Lang said: "1 want off the jury." However, she stayed on the panel and the next clay they an- JRun. west of Renovo, when a IU)UIU C( lne to 2 to came to a halt 140 f'eet-555 feet in all. At the "One woman ran for the buzzer! of ils lea P' from the east curb and buzzed for the bailiffs.

A.i-l the park th re wa a 3 foot other screamed hysterically at 6 01 1 wherein there were door. It was terrifying to no tracks whalsoevei Bowes of. Beech Creek was badly injured I this morning about 8.5,1 at Hall's The car passed between two trees in the park, smashing broadside into one of them and tearing the right rear door off. The rear wheels were already missing at that' point, presumably having bulldozer ho was operating, went convict ilc bakiing surgeon of jbeen torn off at or near the east over a bank. He was admitted temporarily at lhe llenovo Hospital where he- was treated for shock.

second-degree murder and 8-4 to acquit his pretty mistress. Werner, Ofi, retired sales man- iilcniilied the two male An Arransi'menls wuro quickly made! jm 01 am between Finch and anal zcd Jatc1 agreed upon as the new that Congress authorize off-duty state trooper raced across' fur his lransfor llu 1)ivinc five-year-to life prison sentence Uor Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush- fines and prison sentences against Providence Hospital at Williams-, Dolores Jaimez, 33. and Edrlia IU1 1 iCiniCM illlU pUMJIl M-mUlll-l-a iiycllIlM D.K.l/prl mcL- 0 -il uuv, chev to visit fiance, (he Soviet persons who willfully use force iport. They did not have any re- Lindsay, both Los Angelcr, to Washington Tuesday to confer with President Eisenhower. State Funds for Roads llAniUSBURG Gov.

Lawrence reported today that distribution of the first part of 30 million dollars in state aid to communities for road construe- inews a I .71 I 1 till IIIW L.i.iwiuikwui Tass announced to-threats of force to interfere with tcrnfieci molhcr flcc f' there at noon. postal employes. Missing in West U. S. BURLEY, Idaho (AP) jday.

Thc visit will continue unlil court-ordered integration, man who told police ho was hired At the Renovo Hospital, whercj pj nc Carole remain Aprils. in Khrushchev originally Eliminated by Senate 'by 'f; lc Donate last week eliminated BURLEY, Idaho Tl)c Donate last week eliminated -xw- search was under way today lanncd to start his vi a provision after first amend- State Trooper William a light airplane reported missing ut was announccd he IS it lo apply to interference kamp. unarmed, brouj-hl on a flight fromBurlev Idaho ll ovcr with federal court orders in labor; die 1 1 Las Vegas, Nov. becau Aboaixl the Piper Apache were Wes Stoddard, 50, of Anchorage, I Cllt lo 12 Da vs -Alaska; his wife, Helen, 49; their Tilc new SL liet lllc cuts thc ia fifth week of debate on its own crushing her car into his. her husband to kill her was not fully examined due iojcounty jail.

Their attorneys ray his condition, he was believed will ask for their release on weekend because of an attack of ()thcr disputes as well im Dahl- dowji with a Parts of the car were strewn over a wide area of the park. A rear wheel, with the tire still intact, and a part of the axle came to rest near a tree which tore off the door. (See pictures on this page). City police said that they had not found any witnesses to the crash. Richard A.

Munro of Munroville, who was visiting at a Susquehanna Ave, home, said i MI-. i i- i i VJt a mumc, have possible mternul The d.slnct attorney says hc saw (he dpjver slandi possible fractures. Bowes, aged about .30, his fellow i employes said, was removing 1 I will oppose such a move. integration. I t1 11 III I .1 til VI .1 I flying tackle ate Saturday nr-nt eun on Meeting after the woman attract- i I 1 Tim l.nr-k Havnn Mit'h Sell daughter, Mrs.

Hoi-ace Comoc, Although thc Senate is starting; his attention by deliberately The Lock Haven High School side the wrecked oaf after the accident. An ambulance took Schaffer to the hospital. Police visited the hospital last night at 7 but did not question French visit to 12 days. He its leaders still are counting 1 Burris. a grave digger, rom-PrS nroeram 1 011 bcg April 1- The a1 1 28 also of Anchorage, ancl inall had lanned to cnd 011 eventual passage of whatever quoted as saying lhat Alfred F.

was announced by locatlon provide local road son. Randy, 6, and Stoddard'si bul some adjustment had I measure thc House passes. paid him the construction funds for all town- local shops. The conversion a changing passenger cars to sleeper cars, involved the work of 42 men. Of that number, 21 been added to box car work and 10, to work on camp cars.

There has been no indication as 'o when the 11 furloughed be re-called. ships, boroughs and cities. aunt, Mrs. Joseph V. Lee.

Today i cx eclcd in vi of is the boy's birthday. I schedule of French (he tight The penalty provision still is 0 kill Mrs. Sdiweska, 28, President the House bill, but Rep. Edwin'mother of three. the class of has called a reunion Schaffer due lo his condition.

He meeting tomorrow at 8 p.m. at: will probably be interviewed jlhe home of Mrs. Keith Kelly, 700 later. Walnut St. Committeemen re- county Accidents Two local girls, reported miss- port the addresses of all 222 ing to Missing Girls Returned Saturday Two accidents on county roads from U.

S. flown to Battle Area' in Time Test Charles de Gaulle this spring. said an amend-; Schwc.ska. an engineer, was a turned FT. CAMPBELL, Ky.

Red noscd militai 'y transport NOTES ON THE NEWS- "A filibuster is what mother fjcts ichcn she talks up a resort vacation." taken in peacetime and is De Gaulle will begin a four-day state visit to Britain April 5. only two days after Senate voted to do. mcnt will be offered to extend its rested and charged with being a lalldo lc lo other kinds of cases as accessory before the fad of state pohcu March 2. re- graduates have been oca ed. checkw slale yc slerday to their homes from Or-, Thc tenth reunion.will be held on resulted Saturday, police 2o, with a dinner and dance.

Barfa 8DuBoi m- tended murder. today. The girls, Miss Loy leaves. De Gaulle will go to the Rogers sent his new request in Burris was charged with break-JGuerriero, daughter of Mr. and rlVC UI6 On United States April 10.

(the form of a letter Sunday an( or ns tj lc Schweska! Mrs. Lewis Guwriero, 1-10 Ivj By THK ASSOCIATKl) I'RKSS TJie prompt announcement of Rep. William M. 0 me with intent to commit a and Donna Lee Craw-; At leant seven persons died active Route signed to flex the muscles of this' new date for the visit dissolved! (K-Ohio'. who had asked tiis' on y.

Barbara L. Allen, 23, of DuBois, sustained a severely cut lower lip from one of the two crashes. Slate police said Miss Allen's car, south on Legisla- 18021 in Dunnstablo i 1 i planes were transporting shiver- nation's missile-age defenses speculation that he might be suf-, views in the light of the Senate ing, red-nosed troops from purpose is lo see how quick-! fc from a "diplomatic ill-jaclion. covered United States bases to-jly the Military Transport Service i ncss Di lomats hcre had scoffc i' Knforco Orders day to weeks of maneuvers in jean speed battle-readv al this speculation all al balmy Puerto Rico. jthe world's hot spots The split-second airlift schcd-i speed battle-ready troops tr al this say-; Court ord(jrs thc c.i-int Three Young Boys ford, daughter of Mr.

and in Pennsylvania ovi-nTownship at 5.20 p.m., skidded on Donald Crawford, Farrandsville.jthe weekend, tiie second lowest.a patch of ice ancl collided with returned by bus of their own ac-Uoll of Uie an.oncoming car driven by Paul one member of the liner- Five were highway victims and E- Bower, 38, of 804 Seminary ing he was eager for the presum- with De Gaulle. riero faniih 1 i two died in fires. Jfte split-second airlift schcd-i Those taking part in the io-il talks ith De ui ule, which will last throughout the Army-Air Force exercise inchde! Nation Shocked exercises will get 700 soldiers Utah National Guardsmen and 1 The nation was and hundreds of tons of equipment to thc Caribbean commonwealth by midnight. Before the operation ends, 18,000 soldiers cases will be enforced." Rogers Qjg jf) TWO FlrGS wrote, "and the interests of the nation require that it be done in KASOTA, Minn. nvilh-j hocked when a orderly mob anguislied "My i 'Radio Moscow announcer broke i violence and without tiie necessity are in there!" sent firemen back) into a blazing apartment and 11,000 tons of equipment willlland.

Pennsylvania Reservists. Others will come from such i into a routine Sunday musical pro- a lls 1L federal troops." widely separated points as to announce that Ho said the section "has as 0 Pacific Northwest and had the the Sov oti () j( purjwses preventing. There, huddled in the bathroom; Critical Stage Reached in Attempts to Rescue Miners be sent to Puerto Rico and returned. of the troopers from Ft. where the temperatur grees.

Nine hours the men will be where the ed to reach the 80s. para- Campbell, The first planes took off at 12:30 i a.m. and the schedule called for' are-similar flights, each carrying 10'AdmitS Holdup rvtnn of the grippe, or influenz.i. a recurrence of what happened in where the flames were tiie woiv, Little Rock, in 1957." Foil- were three c-ral troops were sent to Lifle baby sitter. brothers ancl their LOGAN.

W. Va. Work-! men striving to reach 18 trapped almost within shouting miners Jiacl a new approach today 150 feet of their target deep be Jersey Shore. Police estimated $600 damage to both cars. At 7.45 a.m.

Robert H. Kusten- border, 37, pulled a farm tractor from a private drive onto Route 780, two miles east of Tylersville and collided with a pick-up truck One rescue team had reached operated by Miss Eleanor Marie to where the men are believed hind the tunnel which has been holed up, ancl the rescue with a smoldering fire Rock then to quell mob violence 1 Mark Olson, 4, died of his buns, said, "We're at the critical and slate fall since last Tuesday with battle equipment, every NEW IBERIA, La. whicli accompanied the entry of His brothm's, Michael, 8, and Ter-i now!" half hour 'during most of the next morning. But rescuers have had JIW! 01 me next se James Tneriot, 23, was ar- nine suiuenis mio ui.je ry, 2, ana tneir sitter, Q-awford L. Wilson, state mines tie-1two weeks.

Most of the men rc sted today in the S45.000 arnwl Hock's Central High'School. Kranz. 1C. were burned said a new airline Negro students into Lit.io ry, 2, and their sitter, Stevonj Crawford L. Wilson, state mines, to return for fresh oxygen supplies RiC ly tW robb a New bank i her ers havc tontcilde(1 tiial ayS Th FBr said all the money tak-'any such penalty provision, if had been set up and onverged CHESTER.

Pa. Two with the first one. lui 4 MJlif (C Ol is expect-, ilights took off Saturday from a branch of the is enacted, should apply to brothers died today in "These lines of approach taneously from Ft. time and again. Grieb, 18, of Loganton R.D.

2. Damage to the truck was estimated al $300. Kustenborder received $200 damage to his tractor. Joseph Yednak of Westport, driving west just off the west end bridge in Renovo collided with janother car operated by Robert Fate of the men who wereJKnauff of Seventh approach- Exercise Big Slam-Puerto PineiMcGuire Air Force Base' is one of the largest airlifts of men and equipment ever under- points. and eleven other New Iberia National Bank recovered from an air co trapped six clays ago remains as shrouded as the smoke and gas- ank leronce with any kind of court'fire which damaged their lionw- certain and safely clogged air.

However, rescuers 11.15 Use in school while their parents were doing tin- said Wilson as he spoke to news- believe thcv had time to barri- $125 di departure at tiie man'e home. Theriot alone would unfair and di5- family wash i admitted the holdup, officers said. criminatory, Uiey say. poke at a self-aervije jmen after a conference with officials of Island Creek Coal Co. ing from the opposite direction.

The accident which occurred at m. yesterday resulted in damage to the Knauff car cade themselves off with heavyj and $75 damage to the Yednalc canvas. There were no injuries..

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