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Idaho State Journal from Pocatello, Idaho • Page 12

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12-IDAHO SUNDAY JOURNAL Sunday, August 18, 1957 Triumphal Yank Train Rumbles Toward China Nole: I.eary Moyer of Brooklyn', one of flic 41 Young Americans who circled to travel from Moscow to Pel- ping after allontling Ihe World Youth Feslvnl, Is now en route to the 1 Chinese Communist capital'aboard Ihe Trans-Siberian Express, In Ihc following article he describes Ihe almo- phere on the By LEAKY MOVER Wrlllcn For The United Press ABOARD MOSCOW- PEIPIN'G EXPRESS (UP)--Forty-one Americans en route lo China are enjoying what is triumphal trip, Russian crowds wilh flowers, gifts and led by brass bands meel the train at every slop. At Kirov, SO miles east of Moscow, group of Americans with a oanjo and guitar entertained the Russians on the platform during a 20-minute hall. Hoi Mcnls Dally The Russians have given us a new sleeper train Quipped with ThreeIdahoans Join Faculty At College Here Three Idahoans arc among the new faculty nnd slalf members at Idaho Slate College this fall. Their appointments were nn- Saturday by Dr. Carl Jlclnlosli.

ISC president. When school starts next II will he a homecoming for Mrs. Elizabeth Hoskyn "of Pocalcllo, new lecturer In foreign languages. She taught French and Latin at the University of Idaho Soujhern Branch from 1924 lo 1929 nnd Is a graduate of Idnho Technical Institute. Southern Branch nnd Id.i ho Tech were two.

of the schools proceeding Idaho Stale on the Po- calello campus. Mrs. Hoskias received her AB degree from Ihe University of California and has done graduate work at Columbia University. She also taught at Chaffey Junior College, Ontario, Calif. Arvln D.

Rounds, who rcllitd after 25 years service with (he State Highway Depaitrwtil, was appointed instructor in engineering. A graduate In civil engineering of Iowa Slate College, he served in the Army during bolh wars, worked as a construction engineer on the Salmon Dmn and as a civil engineer for Union Pacific Railroad. Rounds is president of Ihe South- cast Idaho Chapter ot Ihc National Society of Professional Engineers and past the Pocalello Chapter, American As- cociatlon of Engineers. Jim Melton, wriler-photographor for the ISC Nfws Bureau, was graduated from Idaho State in 1955 and lias done graduate work at Stanford University has worked for three Idaho newspapers, The Post-Register in Idaho Falls, The Aberdeen Times and The Burley Herald-Bulletin, and while attending ISC was a reporter for The Salt Lake City Tribune's Pocatello bureau. Boy, 14, Wins Chess Title CLEVELAXIJ, i Jlpberl Fischer, of Brooklyn, N.Y., won Ihe chamnjonshirj lille of Ihe 58th a a National Open Chess Tournament Friday night, besting any number of older players before tying tonrnnrnenl eran A Blsquler of New York City.

At first, young Hobby was declared the Insor, a called his mother in Brooklyn to make Ihe sail admission thai lie hart not gained the, international chess crown. He and Bistiuirer, nn IBM prob- lemist, had lied al 10 points. Then, two mathematicians re- figured Hie highly complicated system of computing honors. Aflcr consulting (he Enclyclopcdia of chess, the experts named tbe teen- Age lad champion- Thai called for a second phone call lo mother. a modern dining car in which we are served, four hot meals daily.

Most "of us arc spending the time writing letters home, a i books on China, discussing (ho trip, or Just sleeping. Today we Joined the Indian lOOlh of India's struggle for independence. Unnl Krishna Mcnpn, a cousin of Ihe Indian defcsc minister, was among the delegation. For Ihe first 24 hours, the landscape wyis broad and a dotted with forest farms and wooden houses. Dig factories and Ihe golden domes of Byzantine churches dominated the landscape.

Everywhere peasants in embroidered blouses stood on green meadows the tracks, waving and cheering to passengers leaning out of the train windows. Many Nations -On Tour The American parly is (ravelling wlih several hundred Indians, Australians, New Xealanders and Arabs. We arc on the world's largesl cilrccl (rain jnurney, using Ihc Trans-Siberian railroad, which was started In 1891 and completed in 1905. Seen from a window of the train, the dislance helweeti Sverdlovsk and Omsff is covered by oceans of golden wlieal, Ihis being one of Ihe Sovlcl Union's great breadhaskcts. Beyond Omsk and toward Novo- sibirsk, Ihc Industrial capital of West Siberia, the country is largely mountainous and dolled with new i i a cities ioldom visited by foreigners.

The Iraln is due to reach the Chinese frontier Tuesday. Here the railroad changes from Ihe wide Russian gauge lo the narrow Chinese gauge. Passctigers will not leave their cars, which arc mechanically hoisted and transferred to the Chinese track. Dr. Langmuir Dies at 76 FALMOUTH.

Mass. (UP)--Dr. Irving Langtmiir, 70, world renowned scientist am! winner of Uic Nobel Prize, died Friday al the summer home of his nephew. Langnuur, who retired after DR. IRVING LANGMUIR Rainmaking Pioneer serving 41 years with Ihe General Electric Co.

in Schencclady, N. in 1950, won Ihe Xobel Prize in 1032 for research in chemistry. He mario his home in Sclicnec- Indy. Tlie. scientist's research was said to have saved Hie A i a public billions of dollars a year In electric lighl nnd lo have helped csublish modern radio and television broadcasting.

Lansmuir's experiments with oil films on opened an entirely new field of chemistry, known as Uvo-tlimensional or surface chemistry. The scientist also made significant contributions lo the developing science of weather control. In Debt, She Slays Family For Insurance COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (UP)--A letter from Inc.dead ex plained Saturday a a war hero's a i of jour was shot lo death Thursday so their life Insurance could pay tlielr debts, Mr. and Jlrs.

Irving Harris, owners of Ihc cottage In Colorado Springs where M-Sgt. Leo Dan(toy's family of four lived and died, said Mrs. Magdalena Dandoy, 31, wrote Ihcm a long letter explaining why she killed her family and hrr self. Police said Mrs. Dandoy shot her 41-year-old husband and their two sons, Daniel, 11, and Kdralln, 10.

while they slept and then turned the revolver on herself, Mrs. Dandoy said In her letter that Ihcy purchased a new car July 19 for $4M5 and that she borrowed the balance, above an $1800 tradein, from a loan company without her husband's knowledge. She handled the family funds. She said her husband thought they had the cash to pay for the car. "He believed me about savings," the Idler staled.

have a confession to make. I lied to him." She said they owed a bank another $1,706, in addition lo other bills amounting Iq $788. She wrote a she didn't know how to make Ihe payments iml'J she thought of the life on Iwr husband and $2,500 on herself anrt the boys. "1 went to oney borrowing, forging his (her husband's) signature." she wrote. "I have ruined his and our sons'.

These must all come to an end." AEC Again Postpones 'Shasta' Explosion LAS VEGAS, Nov. -Detonation a i device "Shasta" early Saturday was postponed for Ihe 10th time when Atomic Energy Commission officials determined wind conditions would result in an unacceptable fallout pattern, The A rcschedued the test, which was set for 5 a.m. n.H tor Ihe same lime Monday morning, Associated Press Wlrephotp His Reason for Living Is Gone J. A. George keeps a lonely vigil by the body of his wife, was killed by an auto as she crossed the highway to mailbox at their Marked Tree, home.

They had been married 58 years and he was my only reason for living." Two Soloists To Appear With Band Cornet soloist Kenny Karlen, and tenor' soloi.l Ken Dastrup will highlight the ncxt-lo-last band concert today at 6:30 p.m. in the Ross Park bandshcll. Harleri will play "Bride of the Waves," and Daslrup will sing "Celeste Aida." from "Aida" 'by Verdi, and "For You Alone," by Gershwin. Band under the direction of Guy Gates will include "Liberty Bell March," Sousa; "Dancing Tamborincs," Polln; "Light Calvery Overture." Von Suppc; "Tico Tico," Abreu; "Them Bases March," Huffine, featuring all the brass instruments of the band; "Egyptian Ball." Lugini, and Ihe "National EmUem March," Bag- Icy. Reds Face Battle in Jiny Land As Nun, 80, Figfifs SAN MARINO (UP) Sister Veronica Scrri, an.

80-year-old nun, stood firmly loday against plans, to I this smallest Communist nation in Ihe world into a full- fledged Marxist The aged but tough abbess of Ihc aoO-yeor'-old Santa Chiara convent school Is fighting the Communist-controlled Grand and General Council of the Republic of Snn Marino which announced it would turn the republic into a Marxist stale. I a i included "democraliza- lion" of the government, nationalization of private properly through a stale lease system, eventual state ownership of industry and "closer diplomatic relations witli Ihc peoples democracies." But Ihen it allackol religious educolion. Secretary of Slalc for Internal Affairs Domonico Mor- ganli ordered the to close their school and send their pupils lo Ihe state run schools which leach the" principles of Marxism. She lold Morganti from Ihe hill- lop abbey where she has taught since 1898 thai siie will carry Ihe fight to Ihc council itself and, if Ihe 15,000 Inhabi- 30-square-mile re- necessary, to tanls of Ihe public. Her school has been In opera- lion since 1609 and il boasts that Sisler Veronica's girls consislenl- ly outshine Ihe girls of IKe slate school in slate exams lo cnler higher schools.

Many of Ihe wives of tlic lop parly bosses were taughl by Sister Veronica. U. S. 'Copfer Lifts 'Angel' To Top of Italian Church SAC1LE, Italy A new angel watches over this tiny (own SO miles norlh of Venice, compliments of Ihe parish priesl and the U. S.

Army. Ten Ihousand villagers watched in breath-taking silence Friday as an Air Force helicopter lifted the copper statue and its iron base to (lie top ot San Nicola Church where workmen il nnd secured it lo Ihe belfry 200 feet above the ground. Only Ihen did the villagers sliout approval and clap their hands. Tlie copper stalue replaced a wooden "aiigci" lhat stood on Ihe belfry for centuries. In 1936, howver, an earthquake rocked Ihc lown, damaging the wooden stalue; and last year It was struck by lightning.

The people of Sacile reluctantly agreed lhat Ihe statue must be replaced. They quickly contributed funds enough for a new, and grander, stalue. The local sculptor, Pielro 'Piccinini, produced a beautiful angel replica with wings spread wide and his right hand lifted toward heaven. His icfl hand pointed over the village in a protective gesture. The big problem which arose, was lo -get the eight-foot stalue and its iron base up Ihe rickety old steps of Ulh Century church.

i The priest called on the U.S. Army's South an Task Force in Udine. The Army, in the persons of Capt. William M. Strawn of Mor- ganlown, W.a., co'pilot 1st LI.

Ramon P. Warner of Fillmore, Utah, and specialist pilot Richard L. Boyd of Arcola, W.a-, flew lo Ihe rescue. With 10,000 villagers and farmers watching, they chained the stalue to the helicopter and hoisted it lo its perch above Ihe town. The whole thing took IS minutes.

STERN TRUTH PROVO, Utah (UP) Afler he liad swiped a bicycle parked at a community swimming pool, then tried to sell It $5, a 12-year- old learned from police the awful trulh: Ihe bike belonged to a son of Juvenile Court Judge Monroe Paxman. The youngster explained he needed the money to support his "hard-up Brothers' Cars Crash Head-on WIXTR HAVEN, Fla. (UP) -The Rev. Harrison Crews of Aubnrndale was returning home when his car collided head on with one driven by his brother. Doyle Crews ot Wauclmla.

Stale Iroo Glomt A. Swafford said Doyle Crews' car swerved lo the left of Ihe center line as it rounded a curve. Neither of the men was but Mrs. Doyle Crews received head injuries. Damage lo car was estimated at $300.

The (wo tars were insured by "'the same company. Dr. Foote Named Defense Assistant WASHINGTON President Eisenhower Friday nominated Dr. Paul Darwin FooEe, a physicist and retired oil company executive, to be assistant secretary of defense. Foote was senior physicist for the National Bureau of Standards.

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