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Cloudy, sonic showers and cook er. More woollier Page 2, VOL. LVI, NO. 48 IDAHO STATE JOURNAL POCATELLO, IDAHO, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1957 Scout-o-rama I8W Scouli to here Saturday, TEN Plane Crash Kills Ex-PocatellgnJDewey Crash Also Kills C. Detweiler Of Twin Falls HARHY DEWEY Dies in Wyoming Crash Ike Trims Aid Request, Makes Strong Appeal WASHINGTON (UP)-Prcsident Eisenhower made a strong appeal to Republican Democratic congressional leaders today, for passage of a foreign aid program of at least $3,580,000,000 for fiscal 1958.

Senate Republican Leader Wil. liam K. Knoivland said after the White House conference of more than 90 minutes' that Elsenhower probably will submit'his detailed to Congress early next program week. The. President originally asked $4,400,000,000 fqr the mutual se' curity'program.

Today, he.scaled it down to 52,800.000,000 for 'military assistance and $1,050,000,000 for economic aid. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon D. Johnson said -understood from the President's presentation today that the reduction'of slightly more than 50 million dol- lars'will be a real saving, not just deterred -spending. CONGRESS MUST DECIDE In view of the apparent difference of opinion between Eisenhower and Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey over ernment spending, Johnson said, it will be up to Congress to de- A former Idaho State College engineering department a Twin Falls man prominent in Idaho business and political circles and a pilot Were killed Wednesday when their light plane crashed.

into and burned on a mountainside near Story, Wyo. Dead are Harry Maxwell Dewey, 45, head of the ISC engineering department in 1950 a 1951, Claude Dctweiller, 53, president of Dctireiller's an electrical contracting firm Verlc Perry, 44, company pilot. All were Twin Kails residents. Dewey of the Del- weller firm's electrical department. The company owned a plunged into the foothills of the 3ig Horn Mountains near Story, jetween 11:15 and 11:30 a.

m. Wednesday en route from Casper to Sheridan on a business trip. Johnson County Coroner John Adams told United Press the plane "was demolished and the jcdies were burned beyond recognition." The pilot had reporled at 11:15 a. m. that the plane had run into bad weather and was returning to Casper.

-Adams said Dick Bard, a rancher, heard the plane fly over his ranch heading "straight toward the mountains" and shortly after beard a crash, Adams said the plane and bodies were badly burned. He said bits of clothing and, In one case particularly, dental work was used to identify the victims. The plane ias a Piper Apache. The' Wyoming Highway Patrol said the Story area was covered by fog. at the lime, crash.

Catise 'of the crash has not been determined. Dewey, a native of Wild Hose, N. headed the engineering department at ISC from February 1950,, to July 1951. He did a road survey for Bannock County ir 1933 and 1944 and served as assistant road engineer from 1935 to 1937 for the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Fort Hall. He served as chief of the en- Jrewery Ties Jeck's Power Beer Deal cide what the final foreign aid figure will be.

Twcnly seven members of Con gress, 14 Democratic House and Senate leaders and 13 House anc Senate Republicans, took partin the meeting. Prior lo the legislative meeting the President received a report from Ambassador James P. Richards on Jiis 59-day Eisenhower Doctrine tour of the i a t. Both Richards and Secretary of Stale John Foster Dulles, who joined in Ihe preliminary meeting, took part in the bipartisan congressional conference. MORE TROUBLE SPOTS The Elsenhower budget was in I trouble on other fronts: --Sen.

Everett M. Dirltsen IR- Senate Republican whip, said the U.S. Information Agency has "not been too successful" thus far in its bid for Senate restoration of 30 million dollars of a 38- miHion dollar House cut in its fund for fiscal 1958. --The House Education Committee prepared to vote out a reduced federal school construction bill in hopes of beating Ihe economy drive. The committee Wednesday slashed the two billion dollar bill to $1,500.000,000 for five years--much less than Democrats wanted but Jiot far from Eisenhower's proposed figure.

Spokesmen for both parties criticized Eisenhower's defense at his news conference Wednesday of his nearly 72 billion dollar budget for next year. The President said his budget could not be cut "markedly" without slicing programs Ihe people want or reducing nalional defense. gineering division, for the U. Army Engineers This is scene of Wyoming plane crash that killed three Idaho men, including an ex-Pocatellan. (AP WIREPHOTO) from May, 1952, to January Dewey's survivors include 1914.

Dewey was a graduale of Ihe University of Idaho ami taufihl there in 1941 and 1944. He served as a naval lieutenant from 1914 to 1956. He moved to Twin Falls from Pocatello (hree years ago. His widow, Lucille, is (lie daughter of F. Moore, co-owner of Moore Drug, 308 East Cen- ler.

She is a sixth grade teacher in Twin Falls. Detweiler was a 11-known civic leader in Twin Falls, a leader in Idaho Republican Party circles and a past president of the Twin Falls Chamber of Commerce. His firm is one of the largest electrical contracting firms in the Northwest, built up from a small appliance shop. Detweiler was horn Jan. 22, 190-1, in Harrisonburg, a son ot Da vid F.

and Marietta Detweiler. He has been a leading Twin Falls resident since 1911. He was president of the Detweiler Enterprises which include Detweiler and Del- weiler; Delweiler Detwcil- ers, Power Engineers. He also was president of the Magic Valley Processing Monte Vista Starch Co. in Colorado, and the son, James B.

Dewey, 17, and Harry Maxwell Dewey his mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. August Allan, Kelso, brother, Howard Dewey, KUm- alh Falls; two sisters, Elizabeth Swanson, Kathlamet, and Mrs. Ralph Karrcr, Klamath Falls, Ore. Surviving i are his widow, Theresa M.

Detweiler; a son, Robert H. Detweiler, Monte Vista, a daughter, Margaret Jacobsen, Kansas City, four brothers, William H. Detweiler, Huzelton, David H. Delweiler, Jerome, Paul H. and George H.

Detweiler, Twin Falls; -four sisters. Sadie H. Detweiler, Denver; Mrs. Bertha Nesbift, I.os Angeles. Mrs.

Maricfto-Coiner, Hansen, and Mrs. Mattic Hilty, Nampa; and seven grandchildren. Perry is survived by his widow, Mrs. Bernice "Dee" Perry; a son, Richard Perry, Twjn Falls, and a daughter, Mrs. Delores Lmit, Salt Lake City.

He was a member of (he Masonic Lodge and bad been a resident of Twin Falls for many years. He was active in local flying organ- a command pilot in Air Patrol. The bodies of all three victims are lo be received by White Mortuary, Twin Falls. Detweiler Mechanical Contracting Lawmen Check ISC Students Two law officers were checkini al Idaho State College today learn the names of students wh had access to the two building which were struck by fire Mon day and Tuesday. 1 Sheriff H.

B. Parker said th officers, Deputy Sheriff Willia Wade and Slale Patrolman RCCH Minor, Mampa, chec nodical records of Hie sluden' 'or "anything suspicious" in ihcl backgrounds. They will report today at at Parker's office at a conferenc determine who will be calle for questioning. Th records check was a con inuatlon of a probe which bega iVednesday Into the fire which the second floor in Ihe ol Trade Industrial Building earl Tuesday and two small fires lat Monday in a nearby storage shed Stale Commissioner of Law En 'orcemcnt Earle 1C. Kocliler, wh arrived here late Tuesday lo co ii'dinalc the investigation, fie jack to Boise Wednesday.

He wi KJ informed of any developments Stale Police LI. B. Nogo sail Sieve M. Kennedy, Ogden, Utah agent for the Naliona Board of Fire Underwriters, sai hat so far, the investigalion ha not linked the separate fires. "It's slill a little early lo sa; it's a coincidence," he added, Kennedy was lo leave this afl for another fire investiga ion at Lovelock, bul ivil return here, next week lo complet ils probe.

Kennedy Is a forme FBI agent. A campus patrol by sheriff's dcp ulics and slate 'patrolmen and sign-in system to keep labs on slu Jcnt movements from midnight 6 a.m. will continue "until we'r satisfied Ihe fires were not sel, said Xogo. Coinword Stops Challengers Cold Nobody won last week's Coin- word worth $300, the Journal Coin- word ctlitor found today. The prize goes up to a nice $325 i the new puzzle Friday.

"There were several awfully close entries If lhal's any comfort to the fans," the editor said after a long day Wednesday checking the thousands of entries. The puzzle has foiled residents now for Ihe twelfth straight week. Look for the correct answers on Page 14. Ezio Pinza, with Mary Martin in his most famous role as the middle-aged lover of "South Pacific," died this morning. (AP WIREPHOTO) Singer Ezio Pinza Dies STAMFORD, Conn.

(UPi Operatic basso Ezto Pinza, who scored his greatest success after he left the staid Metropolitan Opera House for Broadway musicals, died at his home here today. Pinza. 65, had suffered three strokes since last August but his death came unexpectedly. Just one week ago the matinee idol's wife said he "was resting comfortably." Pinza was a star for the Metropolitan for 20 years when he suddenly signed to play the lead in the Broadway musical "South Pacific" opposite Mary Martin. His last musical (n Broadway was "Fanny." He became a "new slar" overnight the Idol ol bobby-soxers, housewives, grandmothers and of men of all ages.

Pinza was a silver-haired grandfather at the time of his Broadway success and upset the stereotyped concept of "the lover." Born the son of a carpenter in Rome, Italy Pinza mai'e on May 18, his singing 1892, debut with a provincial opera company HOLf-VWOOD (UP) Sing- Mary Martin today termed the death of F.7lo Pinza. a "great shock" and said she would miss him "deeply and always." at Soncino and was an immediate success. After World War I he joined nn opera company and scored sue cesses all over Europe. The ropolilan signed him up in 192i where he became a favorilc in 'Don Giovanni," "Faust," "The, Marriage of Figaro" and other operas. Pinza suffered his first stroke while on vacation at a villa at Ccrvia, llaly, last August.

It ended his career. Upon his return to the United States he'learned he never would be able lo sing again. In December he suffered his 'second attack. Pinza as placed in an oxygen lent at his altar his third attack last month and later was reported illghtly Improved. Blackfqot Flooc Threat Eases BLACKKOOT The flood cres of the threatening Blackfoot Rive had dropped six inches today, re lieving fears of homeowners Ihe south edge ot the city an farmers.

Chief of Police F. S. Hunt sai the six-Inch drop developed In Ih last 24 hours. The swollen Blae foot was down actually 14 Inchc from ils Monday peak. Although Ihe Pocalello Wealh Station reported a series of show crs Wednesday night over Blacl foot area the cooling temperature at high altitudes In the mountain to the east slowed the melting snow.

The expected cool temperature through Friday should give Blac foot residents optimism, th Weather Bureau said. Kunz said the situation Is we under control. Concerted actlo Monday, Tuesday and Wcdnesda In diverting the rampagii stream's waler Into canals and into unused sandy areas on Fort Hall reservation itemmcd minor disaster, wu WASHINGTON' (UP1--A brewery ficial said toddy a Dave Beck cd his power ns a Teamsters nion leader lo gel a mammoth idwelser distributorship. The official, general counsel wight D. Ingamells ot Anheuscr usch, St.

Louis, testified be- re the Senate Rackets Commlt- which is Investigating Beck's nancla) activities. The distributorship was de- cribed as Ihe largest in area cov red--much ot the Northwest and Inska, Beck was said to have ranged (or his son to be put in inrge of it. The committee produced docu icnls in wliich offi.lnls of Ihe rewery pictured husky l)ave Bee) r. as "an overgrown spoiled boy' hose Indulgent father demanded hat he gel $1.000 a month plus nickel a on all Budweise: old in Alaska, Commiltee counsel Robert ennedy told newsmen meanwhlli lat Ihe junior Beck and two othe ilsslng witnesses had.slipped Ind anada "strictly" to duck quc-s oning by investigators who Iwv een" hunting them for weeks. Ingamells said a majority of the rewery's 8,000 to 10,000 worker; members of Beck's union.

Hi aid company files showed lha he elder Beck carried. on mos if the negotiations which won th ar- ranging distributorship fo Beverage Co. of Seall.ci. Irm in which a slock loldcr, vice and. late ircskde.nl.

Beck helped financ KL but was not listed it'on of Its officials. Committee investigator Salinger read documents-from A icuscr-Busch including nterofficc memo In on brewery ollicial lold another tha he had Bee and his firm "more 1 territory rtia anyone else In the United' Stale's. The memo added that Anhcusc Busch would "like lo remain as friendly terms as possible" wit 3eck, who was then chairman'c the 11-state Western Conference Teamsters. Bul it said ideal whole salers "resent outsiders coming and taking all the profits and Ih cream." Besides Beck said, to be in Vancouver were No nan Gesscrl and Joseph McEvo --relatives of Mrs. Beck Sr.

U.S. Marshal.Bob Parsons sai Seattle he had "no Idea" as he location of a fourth witness-'red Ferschuercn Sr. who als being sought by, the committee -'crschuercn was the Teamsler Jnlon's western auditor and als believed have kept Ihe sen or Beck's books. The committee wants to qucs Ion the four about whether Hie rere "fronts" for Beck to tak rofits out of the union treasury Kennedy said the commute could nol force Beck ftlcEvo and Gessert to return to the coun ry. He explained they had no been indicted or found guilty any crime and so could -not be extradited from Canada.

Today's Chuckle A woman can be mighty iwec when she wants. Late Briefs LONDON tUP) Seven U.S. Airmen were plucked from Ihe by iWp In "(food condi- lon" loday within hourt after ditching Iheh- flying tanker 35 mllei east ol Azorei, WASHINGTON (DP)-The Senate today confirmed, to 20, he controversial nomination of icotl Mol.rod as ambassador to Ireland. All 20 voting against onfirjiiallon were Democrats. Republicans unit 18 voted -for confirmation.

JAYSON HOLLADAY School Board Holladay Seeks School Post JaySon Hotladsy, 5I Harvard, to day announced he will be't candi dale' In the May'21 school bqart election, Uoiladay-w)H oppose'Mrs. H. A Lyman- (or the' Zone-'4. seat -now held by Board Chairman JSmes A Holladay said he the question of released lime, from school for pupils to attend th LDS Seminary an I i 'thl campaign. The' issue' raised a slorm controversy In the 1955 clectto: and there been -'reports I would be raised again In (hi election, Holladay said, however, hi will, nol be a -parly to reltglou controversy.

Holladay- was graduated from Pocatello High- School' and altend ed Idaho Stale College for ine year. He-took a journalism degrei st the University of Utah In.1948 and a 'law degree at the sain school in If he is elected, Holladay said he will work to sec If "something can be' done about students' who complete public schools wllhou the' ablllly lo read, speak or ivrlti a presentable'business or persona letter." is one; tiling (hot dofln Itclyiatamrs me," he said. Hollady serves 'ns chairman of the Pocalello Menial Health Board and Is fast president of the Southeast Idaho Bar Assn. and the Pocatello chaplcr the Idahc Writers League. He was an.

un successful candidate tor CITY Commission in 1951. Holladay and his wife have two daughters Dawn, 13, a pupil Franklin Junior High School, and Roanna, 3. Deadline for filing in Ihe elcc lion May 14. Incumbent K. Hart Is Ihe only candidate to date In Zone 3, the other seal al slake In the election.

Pile of Shale Caves, Buries R. Young, 35 C. Ray Young. 1537 SourJi Second, died early today under' a pile ot shale which caved In oil him at the Westvaco Mlneril Producls nlvlslon plant weil 'ft Ihe city, where he worked. Young's death was the second it Wcslvaco within a month nd the sixth since the plant began cration in Ihe fall of 1919.

Young's body was discovered by heavy equipment operator Samuel Olsen, 512 Ridge, shortly after a.m. on grale through which ihf shnle dropped onto conveyor elf. Olsen summoned plant guardi eorgc Larsen and a lens, who administered oxygen vain attempt to revive him. as pronounced dead on arrival I a Pocalello hospital. H.

W. Nichols, plant Industrial clntloDs manager, said (here, witnesses lo the accident bdt ml apparently Young, a operator, had climbed atop ap glit-fool pile of shale He said thai evidently the as undermined and that emit ad formed on'lop. The pile apparently gave wa'y nd Young fell lo he shale covering him, aid. Olsen found Young's body he shale worked through'the nch squares In the grate. Oitei assisted by shale unloading oreman Vcrn Mason and shlH leclrlcian William.

H. Malthewif, Power County Coroner H. Dii- Is and She riff Rulon, Neal were ummoned 16 Investigate. The death of Irijurlei at the plant was April fhcn Sidney W. Wilson, 231' Fair 1 anks) died in Bannock Memorial Wilson njurles-April 8 when ht pfe ned between Ihe ol (older i4 Young had at.

Weslvace) ace-'-Afay-'I2i-'1953, lie ivasibonG Jiine 17,. 192J, jrfr. Charles Ray Young. Funeral services pendf'nf Manning Funeral Blackfoot Will Get Potato Firm Plant The Journal's Idaho BLACKFOOT Ttie American Potato Co. will build potato de- lydrafing and granule manufac- plant at the outskirts of.

fllackfoot soon, it Wednesday by Hoy Roberts, tn agent for the Vacaville, com pany. He released the newi after lest- ing Chamber of Commerce opln- nion through B. Tegaiden ind Dr. P. Merrill Packer, co-chairman of the Industrial development commitlcc, and Leyburn Slallcry, chamber manager.

General manager Wallace Widde- flcld will arrive about July 1 from a present assignment in Wlscon sin. Groundbreaking tentatively Is set for early June. The site is at tha west outskirts of Blackfoot on State Highway near the Clous Hulen potato warehouse. UK manufacturing build laf, plint will Include a poU storage cellar, a warehouse fo and finished produc storage, and an office. The granules, coarser than flou ut finer than meal, are expeclec be under production next October.

The company plans to dl tribute through wholesalers an large users of -mashed potatoc such as restaurants. Under th trade name "Whip" the granule make Instant mashed potatoes wil the addition of water and milk. Dave Daniel of California wl be construction engineer. At Ihe start from 50 lo 7S loci persons will be employed but it expected that outside technician will be brought In by the com pany. Roberts potatoes will bought from local growers on field run basis but only of hlg qifalily russets.

Product Is the same as that pr duced by J. R. Simplot Co. Buricy and by H. T.

French Massachusetts? Fires Rage On BOSTO.V iaehusells woodlands i tale of emergency Wednesday light. The-stale was the'worst hit In of forest arid brush ftret vhlcji continued to sweep icrosi s'cw England. Itfore than reported, 14 of which umed major proportions. Other brush and forest fires rerc reported In Vermont, New lampshire, Maine, and Rhode ia- and. In Massachusetts, the wortt forest fire outbreak In ten yearV romptcd Gov.

Fosler Furcolo a stale of emergency Vcdnesday night as two major brest fires raged out oif Some fires were' believed Jo be he work of arsonists. Near Plymouth an unchecked, erno raged over, eight miles of woodlands and charged he Atlantic Ocean, destroying about 15 small cottages near the bore. A 2,000 man force fought he blaze which was driven by 9 Q-mile-an-hour wind. Another uncontrolled fire raged near Otis Air Force Base and ISe own of Mashpee on Cape -Cod. "he blaze started when a flaming et plane crashed Into the woods tilling the Lt.

'lower of Yonkers, N.Y.' Nearly 3,000 firefighters, many of them airmen, subdued the blaze early Wednesday evening but It broke, out anew at midnight. At one limt tie fire raged Within 100 yards of the Mashpee Town Hall and doz- men were reported burned or. injured In Ihe battle, none riously. More than 1,500 acrei ol woodlands were destroyed. Latins to End Border Row TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras Nicaragua and Honduras announce loday acceptance of a plan by the Organization of Slates to prevent new clathei In their border dispute, informed sources said.

The plan, eoncernlof the refill latlon of troop ha been worked out by OAS military mission headed U.S. Army Col. A. A. Greene.

Details of Iht not pttbHe' la.

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