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More Clouds Cloudy with periods of rain to. day and tonight; cloudy with occasional showers Thursday. IDAHO STATE JOURNAL Tfie Lafesf Indonesian visitor to Piioatclto receives latest information on events in his country. See story, picture on Page 8. VOL.

LXII, NO. 160 POCATELLO, IDAHO, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1963 TEN CENTS U.N. Unit Asks Consideration Of Red China By TOM HOGE Associated Press Slaff Writer UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) --The U.N.'s powerful Steering Committee recommended today that the assembly consider two controversial membership for Communist China and treatment of Buddhists in South Viet Kami The vote on the China question was 12-1 with 8 abstentions. Nationalist China cast the lone negative vote.

Nikolai T. Fedorenko, the Soviet delegate, gave immediate support to ihe request of Albania that Ihe assembly take up once more the China representation issue. He said absence of the Communist Chinese from the United Nations could only harm the organization. U.S. delegate Charles'W.

Yost said his country would not object to assembly consideration but added that it regarded the debate as useless. Similar proposals went (town to defeat Ihe two previous assemblies, "There was no objection from any member of the committee as it approved the South Viet Nam issue. The 21-imtion committee took the action after hearing Ceylonese and Indonesian delegates declare lhat the situation in South Viet Nam Kas become a matter of international concern. The committee was acting on the more than 80 items on the assembly's agenda. It a placing South Africa's raclaI segregataon policies on the agenda despite ar objection from that country.

Before the assembly is a re quest from a special com mittee that the assembly and the Security Council consider withou delay expulsion 'of South Africa from the United Nations because of its refusal to abandon its racia policies. i HENRY D. MOYLE Succumbs in Florida ienry Moyle, Leader, Dies at Expel South Africa, U.N. Group Urges UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) --A special United Nations committee asked the General Assembly and the Security Council today to consider expelling South Africa at once from the world organization for its policy of rigid racial segregation.

It also cal.led on U.N. members lo carry out penalties against South Africa suggested by the assembly last year. These include an arms embargo, a petroleum embargo and an end to foreign investment in South Africa. The 11-nation special committee of Asian, African and Latin- American nations was established last year to review South Africa's racial policies. Its report was submitted to the assembly shortly before the U.N.'s Steering Committee met to draw up an agenda for the 18th General Assembly session.

The powerful 21-nation Steering Committee had an agenda of more than 80 items. It was expectec to approve all controversial questions for debate during the ses sion. The assembly opened Tuesda; in a spark of hope generated he limited nuclear test-ban tree y. But the first meeting was ful if surprises. Albania, black sheep of the So viet flock, seized the initiative an ssued a surprise call for assem jly debate on giving Red Chin he U.N.

seat held by Nationa st The Soviet Union had been ex peeled to make the proposal de spite its ideological dispute wit Peking. The Russians made clear, ever, they will support the di mand for seating Red China, eve though it came from Albania, Pi (Continued on Page 2, Col. 4) I.F. to Consider Daylight Bid IDAHO FALLS (AP)--The Ida ho Falls mayor and city counci have given no consideration as yet to the city's unknowing in volvement in a proposal for day light saving time that will appear on Pocatello's Oct. 8 city election referendum, Mayor W.

J. O'Bryant said Tuesday that although he was contacted last week by Pocatello Commissioner George V. Hansen concerning the daylight saving time, he and the city council have Ihe matter no considera- given tion. The mayor said, however, that the council will probably give some form of consideration to the matter at its meeting Thursday night. The proposal set for Ihe Poca- tetlo election issue has a rider attached lhat if approved by voters there, it would not go into effect i a similar plan for daylight saving time was adopted by Bannock County, Blackfoot, and Idaho Falls.

The Pocatello City Commission, in a special Monday afternoon, approved placing Ihe a before voters during the coming election. Meanwhile, A. Owens, Bon- ncvHle County commission chairman, said the county government here, which would be directly affected by any involvement of Ihe city of Idaho Falls, has never been contacted concerning the daylight saving time matter. Treaty Gains 81st Backer By ERNEST B. VACP.ARO WASHINGTON (AP)-Sen.

Jac Miller, R-Iowa, declared 'his su port today for the limited nuclca test-ban treaty, becoming the 81 senator lo indicate approval. Ratification of the agreement prohibit all tests except unde ground will require a two-tlrirc majority in the Senate--G7 if a 100 senators vote. An Associated Press shows 13 senators opposed to ra fication and six uncommitted. The Senate agreed today tote next Tuesday morning he question of ratification of realy, Miller had been among the committed until his annotmc ment today which bristled with criticism bub concluded that the military risks are "acceptable." "Within reasonable limitations, we have a moral obligation to keep trying for better relations with the Soviet Union in our ef- 'orts to secure a just and lasting JFK to Talk Negroes On Birmingham WASHINGTON (AP) President Kennedy will talk Thursday with the Rev. a i Luther King Jr.

and six other Negro leaders on the racial situation in Pierre Salinger, White House press secretary, announced today plans for the meeting. He said the seven Negroes five of them from Birmingham have indicated they want to give Kennedy a report on conditions in that city. Racial tension, already taut, was heightened by the Sunday bombing of a Negro church at Birmingham. Four Negro children were killed. Salinger said he had no indication as to what, if any, specific action the Negroes might ask Kennedy Is take.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) Henry Moylo, high official of the hurch of Jesus Christ of Lattei- ay Saints (Mormon), died in his eep early today at a church- perated ranch at nearby Deer ark. The 74-year-old first counselor the president of the church had sen in Florida since Sunday on usiness En connection with Des- ret Farms of Florida, a ranch in Orange and 'sceola counties, Death was a i to a heart ttack. The church had offered 2,500 cres as a site for a university be built in central Florida and planned to accompany nembers of a selection commit- ee today on an inspection tour if the land. Moyle was staying at the ranch icadquarlers southeast of Orlando in adjacent Osceola County.

Stricken at Service Moyle spoke at an Orlando church Sunday night and at the Deer Park Church Monday night le became ill for a short time during the Deer Park service bui completed his talk. He was accompanied on the trip by his wife. He had planned to attend a meeting of ranch direc- orr. today. The first presidency, composec of the president and two coun selors, is the two million-member VIormon Church's executive tri umvirate.

As first counselor, Moyle was largely concerned with the multi million dollar holdings of the church in this country and arovmi the world. He also was in charge of the Tar-flung missionary system of the church. Moyle was named to the first presidency in January, 1959. He had been for 12 years a member of the Council of the Twelve Apostles, the next highest spiritual body of the church. Attorney, Businessman Before his appointment as an apostle in 1947, Moyle had carved out successful careers as an at- toiney and in the livestock and oil industries.

He was a former president of Deserct Livestock tnland Empire Refineries and Wasatch Oil Refining Co. and vice president of Idaho Refining Co. He sewed on the University of Utah law school faculty for more than 25 years and was a district attorney, assistant district attorney and assistant U. S. district attorney for one term each.

He was a director of the Ameri- Petroleum Institute and a Cleaver, Brennan Take Petitions For Commission Two moro persons have taken out nominating petitions for the Pocatello City Commission election Oct. 8. latest potential entries in the field seeking seven commission seat? are Paui Cleaver and Don Brennan. Cleaver ir. a sanitarian tor the Southeastern District a Department and a member of the Pocatello School Board.

Brennan, 5U9 Hyde, is boys counselor at Irving Junior High School. Filing deadline is Sept. 25. So far, incumbent George V. Hanson and Fred J.

Lee hava liled for the election. Petitions have been taken out for six persons to Dying Hurricane Triggers Cloudbursts; Hundreds Flee to Higher Ground BEAUMONT. Tex. (AP)--Dying hurricane Cindy, stalled over this southeast Texas industrial area, set off cloudbursts that measured almost two feet today. Widespread flooding sent hundreds of persons (teeing their homes to higher ground, many of 1 them rescued by trucks and boats.

Cindy struck the Texas coast with winds up to 80 miles an hour a but almost immediately lost its force. It was Negroes Said to March On Montgomery MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) An integration leader says Ne-, jroes from across the nation are ready to march on the state capital "even if our blood flows in the streets." Tim Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, an interview Tuesday, said Gov. George Wallace nor anyone else could stop the march.

Shuttlesworth said it's definite that Negroes will march to pro- lest a church bombing in Birm- nghani Sunday which left four Negro girls dead. He said no details of the march have been decided. Rights Law Talking Shape WASHINGTON (AP)-A tough civil rights bill was taking shape in the House Civil Rights subcom- Indonesians Burn British Embassy mittee today although several key decisions arc still to be made. After months of hearings and weeks of closed discussions the subcommittee has put together bill that is even stronger in some than seven-part measure requested hy Pres Kennedy. JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) Indonesian demonstrators protest- creation of anti-Communist Malaysia looted and set fire lo the British Embassy and attacked domes of embassy personnel today.

The three-story embassy was left a burned out shell. Indonesian troops were reported moving tonight to quell the rioting, the most savage in a three- day outburst of mob violence di reeled against the new federa- a Monday with backing from four former British colonies. colonies Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, anci North Borneo. President Sukarno of Indonesia, who is believed to have designs denounced the new nation as British plot to prolong colonialism art tion. i i Britain's centered north of Houston today, retaining no damaging winds but dumping massive rainfall.

i 11 north of Orange, reported 22.76 inches of rain by late morning. Latest reports showed Oranga with 18 inches and Beaumont with 15. Torrents also poured down on Ihe southwest corner of Louisiana tapering into steady, soaking rains. 'Decaying Slowly' "Cindy is decaying slowly duo lo a large portion of the circulation still over the Gulf of Mexico," said a Weather Bureau advisory. The bureau predicted the i a now reduced to the The big question at ihe moment, The British nag was ripped however, is what the subcpmmit-jf j( staff, torn and burned, tee will do about the administration's proposal for a ban on racial discrimination in places of public accommodation, regarded by many Negro leaders as the hear! of the bill.

Tests Confirm Woman Bitten by Rabid Bat Medical tests have that a Pocatello woman was bitten by a rabid bat at her home last week. Ivan. dir.eclot,-of the Southeastern District Health De- artment said Ihe woman, not dentified, is under treatment by doctor for (he bite. She is not iciievcd to be in serious condi- i 1:1111 rtuiuiuuiu iiksiuuit; iuiu it peace, he said a speech ln( mber of hc Petrole urn Council. During World War II Senate.

One of (hose opposed, Sen. Carl T. Curtis, assailed the trealy today in a speech prepared for the so-called "Great Debate." "A missile-atomic age has moved our country into the front line of a possible war," said Curtis. "A treaty a weakens our missile defense endangers Ihe security of our military defenses, our cities and our homes." he was a member of Ihe oxecu- (Continucd On Page 2, Col. 3) Today's Chuckle "I'm warning you," said Ihe ex asperated piano teacher to his pu pil, you don'l behave your.sel' tell your parcnls you have talent." City Warned On Flooding The City of Pocatello was warned today by a man who owns property along Ihe Portneuf River lhat he will hold the city responsible for any damage from future river flooding.

Henry O'Leary, 524 West Halliday, addressed a'public statement today to Mayor Earl Pond and the city commission. In it, he said his damage ac- ion would be based "upon neg- igence on the part of the officials of the cily to carry out a flood control program that has been voted by the Cily of Pocatello. He said his property has suf- 'ered from previous floods, and eels that the property is being unduly exposed to future Hoods, 'particularly in view of the channel work which has been done upstream, which channels more and more water directly into Poca- illo." "While this work has been going on upstream," O'Leary said, "we have observed that your body has takc-n no action whatsoever, al though repeated demands have beeij made upon yon to do so." He said under the circumstances, he fell that property owners along the river "will have a very good cause of a i agains the city for any damages suf fered by any who suffer from fu lure floods. City Attorney Gerald Olson sail the city has taken every action necessary lo initiate and follow up adequate flood projects, bu "any undue delay is not the faul of the city of Pocatello, but oihe 1 authorities." voman in her bedroom. The ani- nal was captured, and sent to ioise where tests confirmed that was rabid.

Health officers of five south- Frazier said the bat bit the lastern Idaho counties have been nformed of the case, he said, and 'eterinarians and physicians have icen asked to give immediate no- ification if any other bat bites re reported. Frazier said persons should no- ify doctors immediately if bitten. Last year there were just two cases of rabies nationally, -Frazier said, one in Texas and one at Grace in which a boy died, iresumably from being bitten by which had rabies. He suggested that residents should not handle bats or any strange or wild animals, and if is a question about immunization of pets, a veterinarian should be called. Information on the bat bite was also given to local law enforcement officers, so if any other cases occur, the animal can be captured and identified, Frazier said.

broke out of a third loor balcony window in the modern, three-story chancery building and spread throughout the top floor before they subsided. Rioters from a mob estimated at 10.000 methodically a socking the building, tossing out papers and furniture. Five cars were set afire--three inside the embassy compound and two outside--and the odor of burning rubber filled the air. In London, Foreign Secretary Lord Home summoned Indonesian Ambassador Burhanudin Mopa- mad Diah and demanded that the Indonesian government immediately stop "such, uncivilized behavior. In Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia, the government announced it was putting the country En "a slate of preparedness" because of hostility from Indonesia and the Philippines.

Indonesian i Minister Subandrio, pausing in Manila on a flight from Jakarta to the United Nations in New York, told newsmen "things look very difficult." British on Malaysia's Borneo states. lmsl i of a storm-would ease northward at 5 m.p.h. or less. All Beaumont schools opened to. house flood refuges.

Water lapped into many Beaumont stores and homes, and each passing rescue truck set up waves which caused more waler damage. Big trucks rolled through water up to their radiator caps to move J325 persons to higher ground rom Beaumont's West Side dnr- ng the night. An Air Force truck carried six a i I i menaced by rising vaters from their homes in ths rcen Acres and Fannett communities near Port Arthur. The Red Cross and Civil Defense vorkers reported 100 persons evacuated from homes in Orange bounty, just east of here. Orange i the county seat.

J. Cullen Brosvning, editor of Orange Leader, said the county was converted into "virtually Ett inland sea." City Flooded Pat Wortman, Red Cross disast- chairman, said flooding occurred in all parts of Beaumont, a city of 120,000. Only high-wheeled trucks could travel in much of the area. About 3,600 persons fled their homes in Texas before Cindy hit and 10,000 were warned to flee in Louisiana. Less than an hour lat- sources said Ambassa dor Andrew Gilchrist and his staff were safe and unharmed.

Al one time about 20 armed troopers with bared bayonets concen rated on collecting a dozen he British Embassy personne and rushed them to safety in one corner of the compound as the mob swept by. The Federation of Malaysia union of four former Britisl Bannock County, Chairman Mike Savings Bonds Lag in Idaho Sale of U.S. Savings Bonds in seven southeastern Idaho counties last month totaled $64,580 including $40,106 in eccording to MacBulch. Total 1963 sales in the area al the end of August were $704,953, or 5S.9 per cent of the year's quota. Bannock County buyers accounted for $424,052 or 51.5 per cent of the quota for the year.

Statewide, sales for the year were $5,256,593, or 65.5 per cent of the 1863 goal. "Nationally, August sales hit a seven-year high, amounting to S3M million," said MacBulch ANDREW GILCHRIST British Envoy Safe Rites Conducted for Negro Girls Time Changed For Dedication The time of the Highland Hig' School dedication Saturday has been changed from 2 to 1 p. m. Supt. Rulon Ellis announced today that the dedication will be an hour earlier than planned "to avoid conflict with other community activities." Among the other activities is he Idaho State University foot- all game with University of Nevada which was scheduled at 2 It has now been rescheduled 'or 30 p.m.

That leaves an hour and a half between the -start-of he dedication and the start of Ihe Another change in the dedication schedule is the hour.s for lours of the new school. The lours now will run from 2 until 5 Blackfoot Mayor E. A. I.ind- quisf said no one has contacted ElAckfoot cily officials about possible daylight saving i plans. But.

he added, if enough residents request il, (lie cily council would be willing to place the matter on the ballot. Blackfoot vole Nov. 6 for cily council posts, and tlir; DST question could be settledl then, he said. The Dlackfoot City Council met Tuesday, and Ihe matter was not brought up, he said. "Personally, I sec no reason for daylight savings.

I think il lends to confuse things," Lindquist said "But if Ihe people of Blackfoot a it on the ballot, we will along." By HOYT HARWELL BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) They held the funeral today for Ihree victims of a church bomber--and already memorial servic- for Ihe four Negro girls killed by the explosion are being organized over the country. The funeral for one of tile girls Carole Rosamond Robertson, 14, was held Tuesday wilh hundreds of persons, some while, paying silent tribute before she was buried in Ihe red clay bjneath cedar tr9es. Nationa! Negro leaders, including Roy Wilkiiu of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored were en route to join in tribute lo Denisc Mc- Nai'r, 11, and Addie Mae Collins and Cynthia Wesley, both 14. In Congress, resolution asked President Kennedy to set aside next Sunday the 101st anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation announcement--as a dny of mourning for the four girls.

The Congress of Racial a i ty in New York asked 100 of its chapters to observe mourning Sunday, and (ho 10 chairmen lasl month's march on Washington asked all Americans to do Ihc same. Wilkins, NAACP excculive sec- rotary, was lo be joined at the aflernoon funernl by Dr. Mnrtin Luther King Jr. of Atlanta, president of Ihe Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Bayard Ruslin, deputy director of the Washington march; Fred L. Shut- llcswortli, president of the Ala-.

bama Christian Movement lor heartless criminal atrocity" an Human Rights, and others prominent in the integration fight. In Washington, assistant Senate majority leader Hubert K. Humphrey, and oilier senators asked the President to proclaim Sunday "a day of nalionn observance in memory of these children and day of rcdedica- lion in this nation lo the principles of law, equality and tolerance." Humphrey said leaders--what he called "the Southern have a calculated policy of enforcing inequality and segregation on Negroes lo further their own economic interest. The Alabama congressional delegation said in statement a Ihe church bombing was "a a blot on the name of our fair srnte." The four girls were killed Sun- clay morning when a dynamite blasl rocked the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church during Sunday School. Twcnty-Jhree other persons were injured.

Later in (he day two Negro boys were shol to death as racial feeling here increased sharply. There was no hint of revenge at Carole's funeral, however, "The greatest tribute you can pay lo Carole is to be calm, be lovely, be kind, be innocent," one minister told the congregation. "For we know that all things work togellwr for good to them JFK Endorses Tax Statement WASHINGTON (AP) Presi dent Kennedy endorsed today a congressional statement that tax reduction would mean adoption that approach for boosting the economy, to the exclusion of any further big government spendinj just for that purpose. Kennedy, wKb goes before the nation tonight to try to stir up popular support for the proposed 511 billion tax cut, wrote Chairman Wilbur D. Mills, of the House Ways and Means Committee, that he subscribes to the views on lax cutting and spending policy Mills has expressed in connection with the bill.

Mills read the President's four- line letter to the House Rules Committee, which is procedures for the House debate on the bill next week. Republicans are seeking the best opportunity to try to write into the bill provisions making part of the tax cut contingent on a spending hold-down. In advance of Kennedy's 7 p.m. EDT speech over all the national radio and elevision networks, they demanded a dollars-and-cents pledge ol spending control. The Republican congressional leadership, in a fresh statement today, called on Kennedy to back up his plea for a tax cut by halting what they termed runaway spending.

Sen. Everett M. Dirksen. R-IH and Rep. Charles A.

Halleck, R- the Senate and House min- oritv leaders, told their weeklv news conference they favor a reduction in faxes but not unless thi President puts Ihe brakes 01 spending. Kennedy's letter to Mills wa well short of any promise to cut spending. er, Civil Defense officials said the main blows of Cindy were over and they could leave their shelters. Several waterspouts seagoing tornadoes were sighted later in the day in the hurricane area but caused no known damage. instead of 3 until 7 p.m.

as scheduled previously, E. Roland Harriman, a i a of Ihe Union Pacific Railroad hoard of d'reclnrs, will give the main address. He will be introduced by Gov. Robert E. Smylie Architect Grant Brnwer will present the building to the schoo 1 district, and it will be acceptct on iwhalf Ihe district by Schoo' Board a i a l.leyd Call.

Ellis will he master oE ceremonies. "We would like to have many of the patrons as possible attend the dedication," Ellis said. "We want lo stress again that everyone is welcome, We feel the school is a very functional one, it's beautiful and the construction has Iwen rather inexpensive. We would like to have patrons see Inquest Called In Home Fire RIGGINS, Idaho (AP) A survivor of a fire that leveled a rame rest home near here has credited the ringing of an aulo- nalic fire a a bell wilh saving its life and that of his roommate. Meanwhile, Adams County Coroner Gene LaFay has ordered an nquest into the holocaust which claimed the lives of seven elderly men and left 30 other patients nomeless.

Prosecuting Attorney Carl Swanstrom said the date for the inquest will be set afler three members of the rest home staff are ally able to testify. He day lhal they were in Such a stale of shock that they could not yet be questioned. He named them as Mrs. Ruth Sailer, wife of the home owner, Bob Sailer; Mrs. a i Sunderland, a nurses' aide, and Mrs.

Lucille Fry, a licensed practical nurse. Joining LaFay and in (he investigation were Sheriff Charles Durkholder and three of- licials of the Slate Health Depart- II did, however, put him on record against spending just for ''pump-priming" purposes if (axes arc cut. Some economists of the "out priming" school nave long argued that the government ou(rht to run up a deficit and engage in hig spending in times of business recession in order to give business a shot in the a what they're money. 1 Ellis $10.28 getting for their said the building costs square fool, "which we a love the Ijrd," said another, understand is lower lhan the cost the pastor ol the bombed church, of most high rtchools." Georgia College Drops Race Bars VAI.DOSTA, Ga. (AP)-Racial barriers fell without incident al Valdosta Stale College in this soulh Georgia city.

Two Negroes, Druwnell Thomas, 17, and Robert Pierce, 18, both of Valdosta, Tuesday joined more than 300 while fieshmen at the state-supported college. They were accepted voluntarily in action similar to thai lakcn bj Georgia Tech in the fall of 1361 re phy; aid Tu 'SLC- Tues- ment. The privately operated Paradise Pines Rest Home about 14 miles south of Riggins on the Little Salmon River near U.S. Highway 95 in west central Idaho. Swanstrom said the blaze was apparently touched off by an overheated wood furnace near the center of the 100 by 200 foot building and not far from the annex where (he seven victims were sleeping.

The dead were identified as John Passi, McCall; John Zillow, Cascade; Joe Bugle, Cottonwood: Dan Stowe, Crangeville; Frank Rowland, McCall; Otto Korb'm, Riggins and John Brodahl, New Meadows. Dr. T. 0. Carver, slnle health administrator, said dcpartmenl of.

ficinls were sent to the to check on the 30 patients who survived the fire. "We want to know what kind bt treatment and care they are ceiving," Dr. Carver said. He said the rjst home was IN censed by Ihe Stale Health Department as a nursing home..

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