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SIXTY-FIFTH YEAR--NO. 265" The Holland Evening Sentinel SUBURBAN DELIVERY WEEK DAY EVENINGS Zeelond, Sougofuck, Dougloi, Wot Hudsonvflle, Fennvlllf, Hamilton, Eatt Sougatuck, Montello Central Park, Virginia Pork, Jenison Pork, Macatawo Park, North Shore Drive and District No. 2 HOLLAND, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1961 TWELVE PAGES PRICE SEVEN CENTS Thousands Cheer LBJ In Manila Vice President Says U.S. Will Honor All Commitments Abroad MANILA Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson told the ippine Congress today that 'the United Slates will "honor her commitments" to liberty everywhere.

Johnson addre.ssed Congress during a biusy round of functions which began after his arrival from a whirlwind visit lo South Viet Nam. But he showed i efiects of the fatigue he must have fell from lack of sleep --he said he had had only 30 minutes. In his speech--interrupted time and again by cheers and applause from the packed house--Johnson said: "America will honor her commitmenl.s to the cati.se of freedom throughout the community of free nations. Our friends can count on America and we know we can count On our friends -none more than our old and cherished i Philippine people." The vice president, said the Filipinos, who fought the Huk Com- mtini.sl guerrillas and combined this victory with social-economic reforms, gave a "great example for the world to remember and a lesson the world must apply." Johnson deviated several times from his prepared text to mention the significance of his visit to South Viet Nam where "he held 10 hours of meetings with President Ngo Dinh Diem a came up with common objectives and common answers'' in the fight against Communism. Johnson wore the same gray suit he had on upon his a i a from Saigon.

He received a mendous ovation as he walked slowly to the rostrum, grinning widely and shaking hands i many of the 200 congressmen and senators assembled in joint session. Before addressing Congress, Johnson reaffirmed the United Slates determination to stand, by the Philippines "today and tomorrow and tomorrow" just as in World War 11. "We will stand together for peace and progress and common defen.se as once we siooci together and never wavered in our a dedication the darkest hours," Johnson told an audience at the University of the Philippines i ceremonie.s in which he received an honorary LL. D. Johnson leaves Sunday for Taipei.

HUNDREDS FLEE FIRE A giant brush fire in California's Hollywood Hills, whipped up by 40-mile-an-hour winds, drove hundreds of people before it as it raged out of control Friday. An undetermined number of homes have been destroyed and damaged by the blaze. Here one of the doomed dwellings is shown completely engulfed in the inferno. (UPI telephoto) Rusk Huddles With Gromyko Red Writers I I u.j. I A I i--Touring sian journalists have chided United States for "producing skeptics" while the Soviet Union was "producing Sputniks." The newsmen took heated exception to the suggestion a sian cosomnaut Yuri Gagarin was second in space behind i a i Ilyushin, son of a prominent Soviet airplane designer.

Aleksei B. Romanov said it was known in Russia a Ilyushin injured in a automobile accident and has been partially disabled since that time. "They asked us to produce Ilyu- shin to prove it wasn't true." Romanov said, "but he is i as a i a technician in China. We did get a cable from him disproving the story." Romanov, an observer for Soviet press, i i a i a i of thr Union of Soviet Journalists, said he believes "it i.s generally accepted in this country and Russia that a a i was the i The Russians left here today for Des Moines, Iowa, where they will tour the farm of Roswel! Garst. the Iowa farmer who hosted Soviet Premier i i a Khrushchev.

They arrived in this country eight days ago and toured New York before coming here Tuesday. A I Secretary of Stale Dean Rusk met with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko for 70 minutes loday in a vain effort to break the deadlock that has stalled the start of the peace conference 'on Laos. "No progress yet," a grim faced Rusk said alter the meeting at Gromyko's villa. Another roadblock to the opening of the conference was raised i the arrival of an advance party of the royal Laotian government delegation which said the cease-fire had not been arranged when the group left Laos Friday. Ngon Sananikone.

Laotian minister of economy, said his government would not participate in the conference until the cease-lire is verified. The United States and Britain have taken the same position, but Friday the International Control Commission in Laos sent word that a cease-fire was effective. Rusk, i a i here for the first i with the Russians since he became secretary of state, said deadlock centered around Russia's last i insistence to seat the pro-Communist Laotian rebels at the 14-nalion conference which was to have started Friday. The secretary's vain effort to settle the conflict set off a round of meetings here. Foreign Secretary Lord Home and Foreign Maurice Couve de i went, to U.S.

delegation headquarters to huddle i Rusk, while I i a Defense Minister V. K. i a Mcnon was meeting i Gromyko. Couve planned to call on I he- Russian leader a today, and Home had scheduled a meeting with Red China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi. Rusk and roving ambassador Averell Harriman, who will replace him as chief U.S.

Delegate to the conference next week, drove to Gromyko's villa for the meeting which it was hoped would iron out East-West differences. The two Americans emerged unsmiling 70 minutes later. When Rusk was asked when he thought the conference might get under way, he said with a laugh, "Don't give up your rooms, boys." Girl, 5, Injured When Hit by Car HAMILTON Five-year-old Barbara Siebersma. daughter of Mr. and Mr.s.

Stanley Siebersma of Hamilton, was listed in good condition today at Holland Hospital i injuries suffered when she was struck by a car on River Rd. in Hamilton about 3 p.m. Friday. Hospital i i a said the girl abrasions of the left cheek and a fractured left arm. Allemin County deputies identified the driver of the car that struck I ho girl as Irene R.

Slotman, of route 3. Allegan. Deputies said the girl darted into the street from behind two parked cars i the a of the Slotman vehicle. The mishap occurred about a block west of M-40, deputies said. Mount Etna Erupts Again CATANIA, Sicily (UPI)-Mount Etna blasted rocks as big as trucks up to 5.000 feet into the air early today, then subsided from violent eruption to low-key rumbling.

A small river of lava oozed clown its slope towards the inhabited lowlands and the volcano's fiery glow could be seen for hundreds of miles. The Catania Volcanology Insti- said eruptions which began Friday night shortly before i night sent molten rocks soaring high into the air. Experts at the i i said thp violent activity lasted until the early morning hours. During the height of the eruptions, nearby towns and villages were put on the alert for possible evacuation. By early this morning, the lava flow had reached a point about 1.500 feet northeast of the crater, but officials said no town or village was in immediate danger.

Catholic Pilgrims Mark Apparition of Fatima FATIMA, Portugal (UPI--Hiind- reds of thousands of Roman Catholics from all over the world gathered under warm, sunny skies ioday to celebrate the 44th anniversary of the apparition of "Our Lady of Fatima." The pilgrims marked the day with prayers commemorating the appearance of the Virgin Mary to three poor shepherd children. Many of the pilgrims spent the night in the open, curling up to sleep in 'the first unoccupied spot they found. Others prayed steadily throughout the darkness. Troops Set For Trouble In Algiers ALGIERS I --Twenty-thousand troops and police under orders to "shoot if necessary" stood guard in Algiers today to prevent any trouble on the third anniversary of the European settler uprising whicn resulted in President Charles de Gaulle's return to power. As thp curfew cleared Algiers' streets at 9 p.m.

Friday, rightist foes of De a set off five bombs in different parts of the city i i a half-hour period. Three bombings were reported in Oran, three in Sidi bei Abbes, home of the French Foreign Legion, and two in a i there were PO injuries. The explosions added weight to the fears of the French authorities that the settlers might be preparing "another blow." Stripped of their hopes of army backing by the collapse of the "generals' revolt" last the settler i could no longer hope to topple the De a regime they helped set up i their abortive insurrection May 13. 195H. But "commando" i of the settler underground were capable of spectacular acts of terrorism, a i i feared.

These could include provocation of riots between and settlers, or Arab a i a i and security forces in the city. i armed with an estimated 10,000 a a i weapons handed out during the insurrection last month, the underground had the power to assassinate or kidnap top French officials. Fire in Hollywood Hills Destroys 29 Big Homes Total Loss May Exceed $3 Million Youngster Slightly Hurt In Car-Bicycle Mishap Eight-year-old Ricky Savage, son oi Mr. and Mrs. John Savage of 334 Maple was discharged from Holland Hospital after treatment, for bruises of the abdomen and chin suffered when the bicycle he was i i struck the side of a car at Maple Ave.

and 13th St. at 5:10 p.m. Friday. Holland police i i i the driver of the car as Herman H. De V'ries.

53. of 220 Norwood Ave. Police said De Vries was headed south on. Maple and the youngster rode his bike into the right side of the De V'ries auto. Weather Partly cloudy and mild tonight, low 56-62.

Sunday considerable cloudiness, showers and thunderstorms and turning cooler, high in the 70s. Winds southerly increasing to 15-25 milos this afternoon and tonight. Monday fair and a i cooler. The sun sets tonight at 7:56 p.m. and rises tomorrow at 5:24 a The temperature at.

11 a.m. today was 76. Local Report For the 24 hours ending 5 p.m. yesterday the instruments recorded the following: a i f2 i i 51 Precipitation, none One Year Ago Yesterday Maximum, 58 i i 34 precipitation, none A PF X.3X -i IS 5 5 i Soar Six Candidates For School Board Six local residents haye qualified as candidates for the two positions on the Holland Board of Education at, the annual school election June 12, following the 5 p.m. deadline for filing petitions Friday.

Candidates for the two four-year terms are Harry Frissel of the science department at Hope College; Lawrence .1. Overbeck. salesman; Paul Vander i salesman; Mrs. Leon KleLs. housewife; Harvey vice president of Holland Motor K.xpress, and Hans Su- county CD director and associated with a local glass company.

Frissel, member of the board for three years, is the only person seeking reelection. He has served as president the past year. SKIP'S DRIVING A and miniature golf course now open evenings on US-31 between Holland and Adv. Freshly Seeded Farms Flooded in Middle West By United Press International Slow moving flood crests slid downstream in southern Illinois and Indiana today, turning freshly seeded farm fields into muddy lakes filled with bobbing debris and dead livestock. In the flood zones, scores of families waited for the water to go down so they could begin the seemingly hopeless task of cleaning up.

Downstream, local authorities aided by a i a Guardsmen and volunteers raced against steadily rising rivers lo make levees and dikes higher and stronger before it would be too late. Scattered showers and thunderstorms billowed toward the flooded countryside from the Great Plains and Mississippi Valley, but saw in the possibility ol a i no advantage for the flooded. Illinois Gov. Otto Kerner ordered fresh National Guard troops into southern Illinois Friday night 1 State Police Supt. William Morris flew typhoid serum into Carmi, 111., in a county where half the land was under water.

i Press International correspondent Ray Serati flew to Carmi with the serum. "South of Carmi, the Wa- bash covered all of the farmland." Serati said. "Cattle were huddled together on hilltops and chickens and dogs were on the tops of houses and barns. "The tops of large steel poles which a power lines into the Carmi area could barely be seen from the a i he said. "In many places the i poles were submersed." At Mount Carmel.

floodwaters surged tip to the crossbars of goal posts at the high school football field. At Carmi, townspeople rode to and from dry ground on a big National a truck called the "Blue Goose Special." An Army truck picked up Diane Traylor. who waited in a blue-green formal and ferried her to nearby Crossville and a high school prom. A F.ngiueiTs joined flood fighters at where the White i drove 30 families from i homes three days before the flood crest was due. The American Red Cross estimated about 21,000 persons were affected by the floods and the tornadoes which preceded them in the Midwest and Southwest.

An estimated 4.200 persons were involved in floods in southern Illinois alone. Author Aldous Huxley's Home Burned; Falling Electric Wires Blamed HOLLYWOOD I A massive wind-fed fire exploded in the Hollywood Hills Friday night, destroying at least 29 homes--including that of author Aldous Huxley. No fatalities were reported in the leaping flames that destroyed up words of 1,400 acres--about half of it inside famed Griffith Park. Both the park observatory and zoo were threatened by the fire, before its advance was stopped. Assistant Fire Chief Henry J.

Sawyer announced 12 hours after the blaze began--apparently due to falling electric wires--that the 10-mile perimeter of the fire had been surrounded by the 500 firemen who fought it nightlong. Damage estimates ranged as high as $3 million. Injuries among the hundreds of residents forced to flee luxury canyon homes were few and minor. Sawyer surveyed the steep brush and eucalyptus covered hillsides by helicopter at dawn today and tipped the official estimate of destroyed to 29. More than a dozen others--many in the class--were damaged, he said.

Huxley's rambling home overlooking the city was a charred ruin, and flames came to within four doors of burning actress Spring Byington's home. At the height of the fire--with the leaping flames visible for perhaps 40 miles around officials prepared to evacuate the zoo. But firemen held the fast moving flames at a road just above it. Wind gusts ot up to 40 miles an hour added to the difficulty of i the blaze in the steep canyons. Huxley fled the fire and went to the home of friends.

He said he managed to escape with a few manuscripts including one for his latest book, "Island," which he termed a Utopian fancy. The famed author said he lost most of his priceless books and manuscripts in the fire. "But thanks to a bright, alert boy who maneuvered the car out of. the burning garage, we still have a car and the clothes my wife and 1 are wearing. The fire blackened more than 1.000 acres in the picturesque area near 'famed i i Park Observatory.

The observatory was not damaged by hungry- flames which licked within yards of the structure. Observatory officials cancelled a show and some 300 persons were evauated from the planet a i The i i Park zoo and bird sanctuary were threatened firemen reported. Hundreds of persons grabbed only the barest necessities such clothes, bedding and cherished belongings along i persona! papers and dashed to safety. Other homeowners a smoke and flying sparks not to mention walls of flame to remain with their homes, i i a on the rooftops with garden hoses. Julian Smith, owner of the Hollywood Riding Stable, saved his ranch's fiO horses by a i his way through sheets of fire to lead them to safety.

Among the animals saved were several race horses. Smith told firemen. A Girl Scout camp with 150 youngsters was not evacuated despite the fact flames lapped at the doorstep. Firemen said they preferred putting a fire line around the to having girls wandering around the hills. OPEN NEW POST OFFICE Hamilton Postmaster Herman Nyhcf stands before the new 530,000 Hamilton post office, which opened for business Friday.

The 37-by-60 foot structure stands at the corner of M-40 and Pine about two blocks south of the old pest office. Construction work on the new building started last October, and workmen finished interior work this week, just prior to the opening. Hamilton's four regular and four substitute postal employes have occupied the old post office for over 20 years. The new site includes a large blocktopped maneuvering area for post office vehicles. (Sentinel photo) Lawmakers End Session Friday LANSING 'UPI) Republican majorities in the legislature put the brakes on spending in the 1961 session, completed Friday night, hoping to restore the state's fiscal reputation.

Democratic Gov, John B. Swain- son said the cure was worse than the disease. Lawmakers a Swainson's recommended million operating budget to a tight $462 million which is still a record. The governor said the move "unrealistically cut back budgets in a i mental a and other i a areas under the guise of 1 A year-long "cash crisis" ing 1959 when the treasury was empty and a state payroll delayed gave Michigan a nationwide black eye. While the current operating budget is pegged to eat up all the revenue which lawmakers expect i fiscal 1961-62.

there was hope a improved business con- i i will bring in enough extra 'money to start i i away at the i i estimated at $62 i lion 3 0 Lawmakers even i backs on a pair of proposals a i some S25 million in federal money to Michigan. Plans to come under President Kennedy's plan for aid to dependent children of unemployed workers were killed by lawmakers, partly because they opposed the a and partly it would require an a i i a welfare exp i of SI.8 i i It would have brought an est i a S20 million to local welfare agencies in an unemployment- plagued stale. A 55 i i bonus in federal highway funds was lost because i legislature refused to adopt ar. act to regulate billboards on i a highways. On the credit side, lawmakers pointed to the fact that no new taxes were voted during the session.

A S.il) million package of nuisance taxes on beer, liquor, cigarettes, telephone and telegraph service and corporations passed in the casn- crisis to ease fiscal conditions was allowed to expire. A penny hike in the state sales tax, voted last November by the people, was the major reason for hiding the line on taxes. The four-month meeting of 1961 sckeci both the drama of the 1959 session when money problems kept state government in turmoil, and the bitter partisan struggles over taxes spat marred the 1960 session. Speed Chase Ends in Crash A HAVEN--A 26-year-old Flint driver. Lawrence L.

Stebbins. led state police in a chase at speeds up to miles an, hour early today and ended up in a smashup off the U'S-31 doverleaf from which the driver calmly walker! away. State police took up the chase at 2:10 a on US-31 in Spring Lake Township. As officers attempted to overtake the car, Stebbins accelerated his speed and as he approached the Third St. exit ol the new overpass, the car went out of control and was lost in a cloud of dust.

Officers found the car in a field on the south side of Third Si. Stffbbins' injuries were minor. The i lodged in the county jail i arraignment later on a reckless driving charge, told officers the right rear tire blew out. causing the 1956 convertible to go out of control. Consider Plan For United Congo States LEOPOLpVILLE, The 'UPI' Non-Communist leaders meeting in Coquilhatvilie today were considering a plan for the creation of a strongly governed "United States of the Congo," it was reported.

The plan envisions a centralized nation organized along somewhat the same lines as the United States instead ot the loosely-knit federation favored by President Moise Tshombe of Katanga Province, who has been jailed in Co- quilhatvilie as a "traitor." Dispatches from the provincial capital where the conference was in progress said the new a i with Leopolriville as its capi'al, would include Albert Kalon.ii's "Kingdom of South Kasai" and an undetermined number of other states carved out of the Congo's six provinces. It would have a president--almost certainly Joseph Kasavubu-- and a premier, a federal cabinet and a federal congress. The federal government would control the nation's defense, foreign, affairs, currency, customs and communications, and would have the power to make laws for the nation as a whole. -The i i i a states would ad- minster their own local affairs, including primary, secondary and technical education and land and mineral concessions. Reject Appeals WASHINGTON Civil Aeronautic Board has refused to reconsider its approval of the merger of United and Capital airlines into the nation's biggest airline.

Culver Teacher Killed I In Auto Collision SAND LAKE 'UPl'-Jame? H. Bishop. 68, a teacher at Culver Military Aacadamy. Culver, was killed Thursday in an auto accident. Bishop was the driver of 3 car biew a tire and crashed into a tree off U.S.

south of Sand Lake. Nine Minors Arrested In Raid on Beer Party Ottawa County deputies raided a beer party in a wooded area near Pigeon i in Port Sheldon Township, just off Baldwin about midnight Friday and arrested nine minors for having beer in their possession. According to Sgt. Gerald veen. about 50 persons were drinking at the party.

Witteveen said only the nine minors were arrested. F.ight deputies and two coli- siables from Park Township made the rnid. The majority of the minors arrested are students at Hope College. The nine minors were to be arraigned later today or Monday, sheriff's officers said. OPEN HOUSE Saturday 1-7 P.M.

Kenning Realty Co. Soe Classifieds for Details Adv. Predicts U.S. Moon Shot KANSAS CITY. Mo.

U'PH A noted space i researcher Friday i told an audience here a an unmanned moon rocket, will be launched i i a year by the i Stales. Dr. Robert chief of theoretical division of (todiiard Space Flight Center, said, first major i in the a program is expected to take place in less a a year, when a space- a known as the Hanger is launched toward the moon." Rut told thp young scientists a i the a i a Science a i I a i a a for all the breakthroughs and now discoveries. "Ihi.s is i the model-T era oi the space age." The i i the Ranger was under development the Propulsion Laboratory ol thr Cali i a I i of Technology. He said that it i be at least a decade before the i States a manned lunar exploration i Grand Valley Board Seeks Key WHITE TABLECLOTH PAPER For Banquets.

Old 'News Printery Adv. A A I 1 The Grand Valley State College Board of Control began today the job of selecting personnel to staff the new school. The board passed a resolution at its meeting Friday which set up a i i list of activities for which the new president will be responsible. It also created a three member a i i on personnel. Members consist of Board Chairman L.

i i a Seidman of a Rapids. Grace 0. i of a a and Arnold C. Ott of Muskegon. The i i a i i i for the president-to-be include: Selecting key academic and business administrators.

2. Determining the a of the a i a program. 3. the a i and const i of campus, 4. Creating the image ot the qu.ilily of the i i i and the a of the service to the comm i eloping i interest and in the area for higher education.

Relating the college to the i as a focus for a development. Thr personnel committee will pick administrative pending the selection of a dent, and also set up the standard? to be used in measuring candidates for tne top said the committee will make i i i recommendations at thp June board Dr. Herbert Wood, consultant from the University of Michigan, presented to the hoard a nine- pagf outline of qualities to look for in a new president. The board hopes to have the president picked by Dec. bin Wood warned it might take i 1962.

Thr iegi.slat'.ire has appropriated Sl.iO.OOO for the college which i be used for i i top olficiais. Seidman. who said the college hopes to use experimental teach- ins methods, it should operate for "the average college student" instead of the "gifted lew in the top 5 or 10 per cent." Dr. Chris A. Do Young of Illinois State Normal i i the first coordinator, his Jotter of resignation.

He said his work had been i The board announced it has in cash, a i more a SIT.000 of the $300,000 needed' to buy the sile on the Grand River in Ottawa County. The first $1 million collected can not be used for site purchase. Thr bonrd has picked up for 5I," acres of the more a 700 desired, and will besin actual purchase next week. WSPAPERfl H1V.