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The Holland Sentinel SIXTY-SIXTH YEAR--NO. 94 SUBURBAN DELIVERY WEEK DAY EVENINGS ZcelcnJ, 9 West Olive, Hud.onv.1lc, Fcnnville, HomiUon, Sdugatuck, Virginia Pork, JcnUon Pork, Macatowo Pork, North Shore Drive ond District No. 2 HOLLAND, MICHIGAN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1961 FOURTEEN PAGES PRICE SEVEN CENTS ITALIAN LINER BURNS Dense smoke billows skyward from the Italian liner Bianco after an engine room blast wrecked the vessel Sunday. Two crewmen were killed and 18 persons injured, but 600 possen- gers and crewmen were quickly rescued from the burning ship. The Biancn C.

exploded and caught fire as it entered the harbor of St. George on Grenada, British West Indies. (UPI telephoto) Blast Wrecks Liner; 2 Killed 'E' Awards Won by Six More Firms i i a Beebe, industrial di vision chairman today announced six additional winners of the coveted Award for Outstanding Citizenship, bringing the total number of employe groups to 22 in I he current United Fund drive. New gioiips are Smith-Douglas Co, me Michigan Bell Telephone Co Donnelly Mirrors, Edwin Raphael Scott's Inc. and Precision Metal Products Co Beebe advised that 11 employe groups in the industrial division of the campaign have thus far qualified for the award To be eligible for the award the total amount pledged by an employe has to be equivalent to 70 per cent or moie of an average day's total payioll The corporate gift is excluded in determining eligibility.

Other industrial groups qualifying earlier in campaign for the award are Hart Cooley Manu a i Holland Hitch Co. De Pice Sligh-Lowry Fuim- i Co and Lithibar Co Leonard 0 Zick campaign chairman, in congratulating the gioups said the other 11 employe groups a i i thi.s distinction are First National Bank, Seven Up Bottling Co of Western Michigan. Holland Evening Sentinel. Hernck Public Libiary. Administrative Department of City ot Holland, Peoples Stale Bank, Ottawa County Department of Social Welfare, Netherlands Information i St Francis dc Sales School, and Holland Litho Service The average pledge in the above groups range from $11 to $1(5 per employe, Zick said Gerald Ford Breakfast Set Wednesday Plans have been completed for the "Breakfast With Jeny" Wednesday at 7 30 a in Hotel Warm Friend Rep Gerald Fold.

0 re re -senting the fifth district, 13 others among the 600 passed i ll! i crtin ent facts on past k'HISlatlon as upll as rmnnrtsnt PORT OF SPAIN. Trinidad I A engine-room explosion v. recked the Italian liner Bianca in Grenada Sunday, killing two crewmen and injuring Soviets Hint They Have New Anti-Missile Missile Claims West Preparing To Attack Red Defense Minister Repeats Same Line; 'Won't Attack First' MOSCOW (IJPI)--Defense Rodion Malmovsky suggest- today the Soviet Union has developed a successful anti-missile missile and said that "imperialist" powers are preparing to aunch a surprise attack on Rus- gers and aboard. So far as was known there were no Americans aboard. Fire raced through the ship causing such intense heat that a light plane i over stricken vessel at an altitude of 900 leet was tossed about like a leal by rising air currents.

The ship exploded and caught fire as it was entering the harbor of St. George on the British island of Grenada. Passengers and crewmen were fenied to shore by lifeboats and local launches Late Sunday night the ship was still burning fiercely. The S. Coast Guard reported it a total loss The liner was on its way to England from the Dutch island of Curacao Second engineer Rodiza Napale and an unidentified oiler died in hospital of burns.

legislation as well as important legislation now on the docket including foreign relations. The breakfast event, replacing the former cracker barrel sessions, is arranged by the Congressional Action Committee of the Holland Chamber of Commerce. Ford's subject will be "The sia Malmovsky made what was be- icved to be the first Soviet claim 0 having conquered the danger of 1 rocket attack During a speech to the 22nd Soviet Communist Party Congress, ie boasted that his armed forces iave "successfully coped with the ask of destroying missiles in 'light." a statement interpreted as indication of a major military breakthrough. Malinovsky said the danger of surprise attack compels the Soviet Union to remain in a state of constant readiness. He said the Soviet Union plans to attack no one.

but will destroy any aggressor who starts a war Malinovsky said a war inevitably would mean the use of rock- CEILING COLLAPSES A riremun of the New Orleans Fire Department looks under the seats of the Nola Theater late Sunday killing one elderly woman and injuring several dozen other persons. A person in the theater said many were saved from death because after the ceiling of the theater- collapsed, they ducked under the seats. (UPI telephoto) ets and nuclear weapons and would turn whole nations into Holt Not Seeking Grand Rapids Post City Manager Herb Holt said today that he has not applied for the position as citv manage! of Grand Rapids nor has he been offered I he pobt I have had the normal contacts with city officials in Gidiid Rapids and in other cities, but at the present time the manager post has been offered to Doug Weiford of L'au Clane, VVis whom I also know. I feel it would be unwise for me to give the matter consideration or comment at this time Holt said. Selecting a city manager to succeed Alfred Rypstra in Grand Rapids has become a hot controversial issue among the Grand Rapids City Commission.

Weather Hold Suspect In Burglary Holland detectives this morning were questionging a su.spect in connection with a Sunday morning burglary at the Eagle Lodqe at 76 East Eighth St in whicn S400 in bills was taken from a cash box Detectives picked up the suspect at a The Eagle Lodge was broken into Sunday morning sometime after the 2 a closing time The theft was discovered about 9.30 a Detectives said the thief had pried open a rear door and gone to the hidden cash box. taking the S400 five, ten and 20-dollar denominations The bui glar left Slfi7 in small bills and change in the box, detectives said Bartender Darwin Overway discovered the theft Sunday morning when he came back to the lodse to clean up He reported the breakm to police at 9 37 a Detectives said only the cash box had been tampered with Notn- ing else in the club had been disturbed. U.S. Rep. Gerald R.

Ford, Jr. Shape of Things to Come in Congress" but his talk will be fairly short to allow questions from the breakfast group The committee in charge of arrangements consists of Harold Denis, chairman. Clarence Klaasen. Robert Snyder, Paul Winchester, Henry Klemheksel and Dr. Geoige Smit.

Reservations may be made with the Chamber of Commerce not later than Tuesday deserts. The Soviet Union is less vulnerable to nuclear attack than other countries but its wartime losses would be exceptionally heavy, he said But a new war would spell doom for capitalism, he added. (Observers noted that this was the same line that Premier Nikita Khrushchev had used in the past Malinovsky cited figures from what he said was a U.S. congressional report saying that West Germany, for example, could be devastated by eight hydrogen bombs He said that densely-populated countries should especially remember the nuclear facts of life Referring to Undersecretary of Defense Roswell Kilpatnc's speech on American nuclear pow- ei last week, Malinovsky threats do not frighten Fall Weather Turns Violent us Scattered showers or thundershowers and turning a little cooler tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy and cool Low tonight 38-42.

high Tuesday 50-56 Wind southerly fa- 25 miles, becoming westerly late tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy and cool. The sun sets tonight at 5:50 m. and rises tomorrow at 7:07 a.m. The temperature at 11 a.m.

today was 53 Local Report For the 24 hours ending 5 p.m. yesterday the instruments recorded the following: Maximum, 55. Minimum, 42. Precipitation, none. One Year Ago Yesterday Maximum, 58.

Minimum. 3fi. .06 (rain)'. Girls Slightly Injured When Car Strikes Tree Helen Vander Vliet. 18, of 96 West 26th St and her ten-year- old sister Margie were treated for minor bruises and abrasions and released from Holland Hospital this afternoon following a one- car accident at 17th St.

and River Ave Holland Police said that Miss Vander Vliet was going south on River Ave. when her car jumped the curb and struck a tree about 12 45 m. Lakeview District Sets School Vote Tuesday Voters in the Lakeviow school district which lies both in Ottawa and Allegan counties will go to the polls Tuesday to vote on a $240,000 bond issue for a new school addition and to remodel certain sections of the present building. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Residents of the district at least 21 years old, resident of Michigan six months or more, and owners of property assessed for taxes in the school district may vote Husbands or wives of such owners jlso may i Recommend Eight For Top Post LANSING UPI- Eight senior officers of the Michigan National Guard were recommended to Gov. John Swainson today as candidates for appointment as commanding general of the 46th infantry Division. The recommendations were made by the State Military Board at the governor's request- in his attempt to replace Maj Gen Cecil Kennedy, Flint, who will retire next January Recommended to the governor were Maj Gen. Ronald McDonald. Okemos: Brig.

Gen Noble 0 Moore, Albion; Brig. Gen. Carson R. Neifert. Okemos; Brig.

Gen Cecil L. Simmons, Grand Rapids. Col. Joseph VV Boardman, Utica: Col. Howard Arbury.

Midland, Col. Leo C. aker, Lansing, and Col. Gerald P. Sullivan, St.

Clair Shores. Billie Farnum Appointed LANSING (UPD--Billie Farnum. deputy chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, was named today as auti- tor general by Gov. John Swainson Farnurn. 45( was named to succeed Otis Smith, whom Swainson appointed two weeks ago to the State Supreme Court bench The appointment of Farnum was made known last week in Detroit area newspaper reports but Swainson said the reports did not come from his office He said he made his decision on naming Famum to the post "during the weekend" although he said Farnum was "one of the leading contenders" throughout his deliberations Farnum was in the Department State from 1955 and served as deputy secretary of state from July 1.

1957, until he appointed to the party post. The new auditor general first entered government service in 1941 when he served with the Office of Price Administration and the War Production Board. A native of Saginaw, Farnum was graduated from Vassar High School 1933. Farnum was one of the early United Auto Workers organizers a the Pontiac division of General Motors. The governor said he "fully expects" Farnum to run for election as auditor general in November, 19(52.

Stomach Upsets Hit 97 At Hope All danger of a threatened mass food poisoning epidemic at Hope College is over, according to Dr. Otto van der Velde, head of the Hope College clinic. Dr. van der Velde said 97 students had stomach upsets in a 12- hour period Friday and Saturday but none was seriously ill or ha to be hospitalized. He believes the upsets result ed from a fish dinner eaten Fndaj night, but preliminary tests by th State Health laboratories in Lans ing showed no evidence of fooc By United Press International Stranded hunters beat then way i snow clogged passes in the not them Rockies today and the Aorst flood in 17 years inundated a i along Virginia's James River.

New Orleans Movie House Roof Falls NEW ORLEANS 'LTD--A massive concrete ceiling collapsed with a thunderous roar and dumped a ton of debris onto a crowd watching a horror movie Sunday night in a small neighborhood theater. One woman was crushed death and 45 others were injured Gale winds and high tides sub-1 unidentified man Big Nuclear Device Fired poisoning. Holland's director of Environ mental Sam Stephen son said a final report on the fooc involved should be available with in the next 24 hours. For the last two weeks, the Hope College Clinic has had its share of students hit by intestinal fh with several reporting each day From eight to 10 reported this morning. Tourists Meet Mayor Briscoe DUBLIN (UPI)- A gioup of Bay City, citizens discussed a sister city arrangement here today but were told by.

Lord Mayor Robert Briscoe that Dublin could not legally enter such an association. The Bay City group was cordially received by Briscoe at his official residence thus morning before their departure from Shannon Airport. Briscoe said that "under the law as it now stands Dublin cannot twin with any other city He said the city, had "no statutory authority to incur expense for such an arrangement He suggested instead that Bay City form an association with the Irish-American Society. Briscoe was formally invited to participate in Bay City St. Patrick's Day celebration March 18 but he had already accepted an invitation to be in Chicago on that date.

sided from New York to noithern New England today after the passage ot tropical storm Gerda. A slow-moving cold front which brought snow and day-long near- freezing temperatures to North Dakota Sunday advanced into the corn belt, dropping the mercury 10 or moie degrees as it passed. Some 500 hunters were caught in the mountains of Utah and southern Idaho by a storm which dropped up to four inches of snow over the weekend. The greatest concentration of the stranded occurred near Burley. Idaho, where more snow was expected.

National Guardsmen and local authorities took snow vehicles into the mountains to rescue the hunters Food drops from planes were planned in areas isolated by snow- blocked highways. The rescueis were hampered by dreakdowns in telephone i to the Twin Falls-Burley area due to the storm. The storm hit after hunter? took to the woods Saturday for the opening of the deer season in Litah and Idaho It left up to four feet of snow some mountain areas. Snow also fell in parts of Montana and North Dakota Yel- stone. reported 9 inches.

Virginia's James River was expected to crest nine feet above lood stage today. Virginia's western highlands had 11 inches of ram over the weekend while trop- cal storm Gerda plowed northward through the Atlantic The floodwaters blocked roads Virginia's Wight, Louisa and Goochland counties. Although few lomes were endangered, the flood eopardized livestock and farmers vore moving their animals to iigher ground. The flood the Chesapeake Ohio Railroad tracks in joochland County, forcing rerout- ng of trains Mile-a-mmute winds and tides feet above normal were sub- iding today from Long Island to Jaine after causing serious damage in aieas 17-year-old boy was missing Long Island Sound and author- ties found his 10-foot boat over- a warning a split-second before the chunks of mortar plunged down It probably saved the lives of other persons in the audience. They had a chance to dive underneath the seats.

The concrete crushed many of the seats, but gave enough protection for the persons underneath to stagger out the theater, choking and gagging on the dust. Most suffered only minor injuries "It sounded like thunder or an explosion," a dazed girl sobbed. She was looking for her 13-year- old cousin who had gone to see the show "Homicidal" with her at the Nola Theater. Mrs. Mary Odienet.

65. did not a a chance to move out of her seat. Firemen said she was crushed under the debris that fell from the 30-foot high inner ceiling Many of the injured were children. of them suffered face and head cuts They were taken to four different hospitals. Several were in serious condition and kept for observation, but most were released after emergency European Sources Feel It Was 50-Megatons; White House 'Skeptical' by United Press International Russia today detonated a giant nuclear device in the Arctic which European detection stations said may have been Nikita Khrushchev's promised 50-megaton bomb.

But the White House was Des- cnbed as "highly skeptical" that the explosion involved the big bomb, labelled by this country as a terror weapon. A spokesman for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission said indications were that the Soviet test was not in the 50-megaton range. But he ruled out any official statement pending a study. The commission's worldwide detection stations have recorded all of the explosions in the current Soviet series.

Both the French Atomic Energy Commission and the Sweden's Uppsala University Seismological institution said the new Soviet explosion probably was in the 50- megaton range. European detection networks agreed that if it wasn't the 50- megaton weapon, it was the biggest detonated by the Russians so far in this series. President Kennedy received intelligence reports on the explosion he prepared to return to'Wash- ington from his weekend retreat at Newport. I. Twice during the morning White House sources said that on the basis of information then available.

American experts were "highly skeptical" that this was the 50-megaton weapon One well informed Washington official advised a reporter to treat the report of a 50 megaton explosion with caution. He said the Russians set off a nuclear device today but it was believed to be far less than the eqiuvelent of 50 million tons of TNT. "Khrushchev said the 50 megaton explosion was coming at the end of October, didn't he?" the official reminded. Reports of the blast came first Tom Sweden's Uppsala University Seismological Institution and then "rom the French Atomic Energy Commission Both have recorded and announced previous Soviet nuclear explosions in the current enes The Uppsala institution recorded the explosion at 3.35 a.m., EST, was set off in the Russian's arctic testing zone at Noxaya "emlya Markus Booth, a spokesman for he institution, said "it robably that this explosion was Caused by the 50 megaton bomb treatment. Parents with children which Khrushchev reported would inside detonated toward the end of battled police and firemen trying to hold the crowd back.

They wanted to get inside to look for their children I was a turmoil, a panic, said district fire chief Raymonc Hennezy His company wa first at the scene. "My men had to fight through people to get in," he said. They were trying to get to their chii dren." urned. Numerous other raft were damaged. small Armed U.S.

Troops Aid Diplomat in East BERLIN I Nine American soldiers carrying M14 rifles with bayonets fixed marched into East Berlin twice Sunday to help a US diplomat get past Communist East German border guards. It was the first such American military operation ever carried out here. It "served blunt notice to the Communists that the United States will use force if necessary to defend its rights in Berlin. The surprised East Germans made no move to resist the American soldiers. The U.

S. Berlin command lodged a strong verbal protest with the Soviet command in East Berlin and was expected to follow this up with a written protest. The incident was touched off when East German border guards stopped E. Alan i 53-year-old chief of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Berlin, as he drove across the Friednchstrasse border crossing point.

The guards refused to let him pass because he would not show his identity card. The Un i States insist only Soviet military personnel have the right to ask for such identification. Eight military policemen led by a 1st lieutenant marched across the white line and 200 feet to Lightner's Lightner's i was sitting beside him. The MP's escorted the car two blocks into East Berlin and then out again past the Communist checkpoint. The East Germans melted away at the approach of the soldiers and made no move to interfere.

Fifteen minutes later. Lighlncr drove back to the checkpoint, this time with another State Department official instead ol his wife, and the East Germans stopped him again. The American soldiers repeated their previous escort maneuver with' the same success. This time three more jecploads of Americans were drawn up at the bor-, der. Two blocks away were four M48 tanks and four armored personnel carriers, but they were not needed.

The march into East Berlin was unprecedented It was believed to have been ordered by Gen. Lucius Clay, President Kennedy's personal representative here. After the two rescues, Lt. Col. Robert A.

Sabolyk, Army provost marshal, went into East Berlin and delivered a "very strong" oral protest to a Sovie! colonel. After the prolest, Lighlncr drove into East Berlin a third time and was not stopped Other American automobiles followed him. Hope to Switch Local's Mind KENOSHA. Wis UPI The two top negotiators of American Motors Corp. are scheduled to come here this week to aid the United Auto Workers "education" campaign tor Local 72.

George C. Gullen. labor relations director at A.MC and Vice President Edward Cushman are slated to meet with the local's executive board Wednesday Gullen said he expects the meeting will help the union's leadership get across to membership the idea that the profit sharing proposal of AMC will give them the best contract. Local 72 was the only one of five locals (o reject the plan in recent elections and the UAW has ordered a new vote Local 72 represents about 12,000 workers, but only about 3,000 turned out for the election Oct. 8, when the proposal was rejected 1,507 to 1,440.

Motorist Hits Tree Theron Wiercnga, 16, of 106 East 13th was examined and released at Holland Hospital today after the car he was driving skidded off the road and hit a tree in front of 669 Graafschap at 1:05 p.ra. 1 this month Several hours later the French Atomic Energy Commission said it had detected a "very, very powerful" explosion which was "probably of the 50 megaton, size The French spokesman said his statement was based on first mfoimation obtained through seis- mologicdl ana acoustic instruments. He said tney showed the test took place the atmosphere where it would produce heavy radioactive fallout. In Washington, AEC officials responded with "no comment" when asked if this really was Khrushchev's super bomb. Reports from Newport, R.I., where President Kennedy is spending the weekend, said the agency would issue a statement later in the day.

The AEC wouldn't even confirm this. The Uppsala University seismograph is one of. the Western observatories closest to the Soviet Union's arctic testing grounds. It las detected and announced other explosions in the current Russian series, which started Sept.l. The announcement said the explosion was more than double he force of the big Russian ex- losions on Sept.

10 and Oct. 6. The AEC has said only that the explosions on those dates were in he "several megaton" range, The Oct 6 explosion, it said at the ime, was bigger than a "several megaton" blast set off a few days previously. FWSPAPFRI Condition Is GRAND RAPIDS Allen Solomon, 40, of 2159 MarJacobft Holland, is reported In good ondition today in Blodgctt Mem- irial Hospital with a head injury uffcrcd when his car collided With cement light polo on RJvcr Second St. Holland Saturday morning.

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