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Cloudy Partly cloudy through More weather on Page 2. LVII, NO. 31 IDAHO STATE JOURNAL Win Pioneer League ilories and box scores--Page t. POCATELLO, IDAHO, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1958 TEN CENTS 49 Killed as Fighter Hits Airliner Women Rout Intruder Holding Baseball Bat Two young women chased a man ivearing women's clothing from Iheir house here after he entered it wielding a basebal 1 bat, Saturday night. in the evening.a man of the same description had frightened a housewife who -turned on a light to lind him lurking in her hallway.

He stood and gazed at her for several minutes while she stood unable to speak or act. Then High Winds Credited With Curbing Floods A brisk wind has counteracted temperatures slighter a rn than normal to remove the threat of flooding on the Portneuf River here. It was 65 Sunday, four degrees higher than normal and 39 last also four degrees higher normal. But river observer T. B.

Fra- reported a river level reading of 3.1 feet this morning, the same as the Saturday reading, and the river is dropping. Flood stage is 3.8 feel. Ralph weather bureau meteorologist, said if tempetra- lures slay near normal, there should be no flood, despite high water content in the Portneuf drainage. Continuing rains that speeded runoff were responsible for the high crest in February and last spring's floods, he noted. The wind, which was blowing again today, speeds evaporation of water on Ihe slopes, and as it moves down the hills, Mick said it has a very marked effect on the runoff.

Today's predicted high was 60 degrees and the weatherman said it will also be cooler tonight. Inkom Cement Plant Reopens; 80 Employed The Journal's Idaho News Service INKOM Some 80 to 85 men went back "to work jit the Idaho Portland Cement Co. plant here today after a four-month shutdown. Prospects were for an "unusually good year, with the general construction picture strong," -according to a statement issued by Warren Chandler, general superintendent. The plant has a production capacity of 3200 barrels of cement daily but can ship 5000-6000 barrels a day from material in storage.

Chandler's s(atement pointed to projects at National Reactor Test- ing Station, general building, ready- mix suppliers, manufacturers concrete blocks and other products and highway construction as out lets- for the company's product. The plant was expected to have a "long continuous run on a 24 hour operating basis," the state ment said. The plant was expected to have a "long continuous run on a 24 hour operating basis," the state menl said. Repair and maintenance work has continued since the plant closec Dec. 20.

Work Starts Soon on Four-Lane Interstate Highway Near A.F. went out the door. He also entered the apartment another woman and took cloth- Ruth I.auridsen and Bente Kris- iansen, South Fourth, said ic man was wearing a blue and scarf with a flower pattern, nd a full length blue woman's oat. 'The coat had apparently been aken from their house earlier, they were at a movie. They returned about 11:30 and rent into the bathroom to put up heir hair, they told police, leaving radio playing loudly.

Miss Kris iansen had finished and was going oward the living room when she confronted by the man holding a baseball bat. She ran to the bathroom. The vomen closed the door and started screaming, they told police. But pushed the.door open, and stood saving the bat with one hand, vhile trying to hold his coat over his face.with the other. They both moved toward the door, and Miss Lauridsen struck lim on the head with her fist.

He ran with the women in pursuit. A going through the door he leld it closed and tried to lock il ivith a key that had been taken from Miss Lauridsen's purse on the titchen table. Taken in addition to the blue coat, were another coat, a blui dress, a half slip, a girdle, three riairs of shoes and a fountain pen Value of the clothes was abou $175. The intruder left a pair men's shorts. The man had apparently been ir the house while the girls were a the movie, then come a later after they returned.

Mrs. Kaye" Owens, "156 Soul! Eighth, was in her Jiving roor about 8:30 watching television when she smclled smoke from th stoker indicating it was out coal. She went through a hallway ind the kitchen where she turned on light. It lit up the hallway, reveal ing a man standing near the bac! They stood staring at on another for, several minutes, sh said, before he went out the door She told officers a nightgow Continued on Page 2) Journal's Idaho News Service AMERICAN FALLS Construction is expected to start by May 1 on a 4.39 mile four-lane link of the interstate highway from the Rockland Junction west of American Falls to the American Falls airport east of town. It is the first of two sections.

The other, expected to be contracted this spring, will fill in the gap from the airport to the Igo overpass. The interstate will pass just southeast of American Falls, connected to it by access highways east of the Rockland junction and just west of the airport. Official confirmation of the contract award for $1,535,334 was received at the district highway office in Pocatcllo this morning, assistant engineer -Robert B. Christensen reported. Chert Brothers, and Sand- kay Contractors, Ephrata, will have 15 days to sign the contract, then must a work within 10 days after word of the signing reaches the Boise highway office.

It is to be completed by Oct. 15, 1959. Christensen said the other section, of four miles, will probably be completed sooner than that, though started later. The junction- airport section includes two major and several grade separations, while the other section will have less structural work, he explained. Delay in federal condemnation proceedings on the 'Igo-airport section caused the 6.0 mile strip to be done in two parts.

The first section will probably be Started from the junction eastward Before work starts, a frontage roac will be built, connecting the inter. change at the junction to the present U.S. 30 N. That will prevent any interference with present traf- fie, Chrislensen said. When the other section is built, a frontage road connecting the present highway with the Igo overpass will also be constructed before the interstate section.

The interstate will pass under Ihe new state road linking Ameri i can Falls with the interchange al the Rockland Junction with 245 bot underpass to be built. It wil also run under the state highway American Falls just west of the airport near the interchange there The interstate will pass over ocal service road to be built eas of American Falls serving the Bureau of Reclamation Michauc And it will pass over the Sun ieam road that links to agricul area southeast of town American Falls. The highway will be four lanes each 38 feet wide, with opposin, ancs separated by a wide strip lines of the opposing lane he 100 feet apart. When completed, the entire set lion is to be used as a model Ihe interstate system. It is part Interstate Highway 82.

This will be the first time in thi area the Interstate has been con structed with all four lanes. Othe construction has been in stages with only two lanes constructe first. 2 Teens Drown In Truck Plunge KELLOGG (UP) Two Idah teen-agers apparently drowned Sun day when the truck in which the were riding plunged into the Coeu d'Alene River near Kellogg. A search was being conducte today for the bodies of Paul Croze 19, and Lauren Stroud, 17, of Osburn. A third youth, Pete Self, 16, was rescued by two men Self's shouting aroused Harol Kuisti, who lives near the seen of the accident.

When he and anotl er neighbor reached the river the found Self hanging to a limb. Sheriff Lewis Gardner'reportc that the truck was found about 30 yards downstream from where went into the river, but no trac was found of Crozel or Stroud. DEATH PLANE A United Airlines DC7 is shown above. Below Is wreckage of the DC7 that crashed in Nevada today. (AP Wircphoto) U.S.

Gets Strong Backing In U.N. on Russian Protest UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP) --The United States had mustered overwhelming support of Security Council members today against Soviet charges that U.S. bombers laden with hydrogen bombs threaten to start World War III by flying toward Russia. The Security Council was called into session to hear the complaint made on Friday by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.

American officials expected a Soviet resolution denouncing Band to Play at A's Game; Trip Fund Mounts to $1,402 The band fund mounted steadily today as plans were advanced for more events to raise money. Including pledges of $157 gained by an auction held Sunday on radio station KYTE by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the fund stood today at $1,402. A goal of $3,500 is being sought by the Band Boosters to send the Pocatcllo High School band to Ihc Portland Rose Festival in June. The band itself already has participated in a telethon and is preparing to entertain for 20 minutes before Ihe Pocatello A's-Idaho Falls Russets baseball game May 2. Members of the band and the Boosters will sell tickets (o the game and the management of the A's has pledged a share of the receipts to the fund.

Another event announced today by Mrs. Roy Lundquist, Boosters president, is a sale oF refreshments in the hallway and north foyer at the high school Friday from 8 a. m. to 5:20 p. m.

during the regional music festival. Proceeds will go to the trip fund. Besides $200 voted Friday hy members of the Lions Club, other contributions have been received from Welcome Wagon, $25: Women of the Moose, $25; and employes of the Intermountain Equipment $25, with the iirm matching the contribution of the employes. Kiwanis Kommenls, a weekly newsletter sent to members of the Pocalello Kiwanis Club, said: "The Pocatello High School band still needs dollars to get them to Portland. It is a real honor for the band, the high.school and Ihe city, so let's get behind the dollar drive." Jniled States would he beaten by a 9 to 1 Security Council vote.

Soviet representative Arkady A. Soboiev was taking Ihe rostrum i I demand measures to put an end to flight by J.S. military aircraft armed with atomic and hydrogen bombs in the direction of the frontiers of Soviet Union." U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge backed by experts of Strategic Air Command, and the Defense and Slttc Departments, planned to answer Sobolcv that would refute Gromyko's charges the flights were "provocative." Member. 1 of the Security Council were prepared to go into an extraordinary night session if necessary to wind up the question as soon as possible.

Lodge, Security Council president for the month of April, was reported to have the hacking of Canada, China, Japan, rent members of the Council besides Russia. URGES STATE AID CHANGE Smylie Praises Multi-Track Plan Mother Sees Pickup Truck Kill Son, 6 Tho Journal's Idnho News Service PINGREE-A G-year-oId Pingrei aoy was killed by a pickup true! near here Sunday. His mother saw the ncciden rom Iheir home. Dead was Marion Van Orden son of Mr. and Mrs.

Morgan Van Orden. His parents placed him im mediately in their car and drov Bingham Memorial Hospital Blackfoot, where he was pro nounccd dead on arrival, He hai suffered a skull fracture, a broke: right log and other injuries. Colombia, France, Iraq, anama and Britain, cur BOISE (UP) Gov. Robert E. Smylie today told the opening session of the two-day Governor's Conference on Education that some means of making use of current enrollment statistics in computing the amount of financial support for local school districts must be found.

He said this means computing state support more fairly was vital. "Currently we are using statistics which are a year old. Idaho, and especially some Idaho communities are growing so rapidly that we need to modernize this machinery to make it meet the needs of schools which have a rapidly ballooning population," Smylie said. The governor also emphasized the importance of continuing the return to the basic fundamentals of an educational system. "The basic tools with which our heritage is transmitted the ablest students more rapidly from generation to generation -reading, writing and arithmetic -must never be neglected," he said.

"And I think too that we can afford, especially in a multi-track high school program to place greater emphasis on the tough disciplinary courses like language and basic science," Some 225 delegates from throughout the state are attending the conference to offer suggestions on state education policy. The suggestions will be offered to Ihe Stale Legislature because some suggestions probably will require legislative action. Smylie spoke favorably of the multi-track idea. Such a program is now going into effect in Poca- tcllo, and Smylie said preliminary work has begun at Kellogg, Mos cow, Boise and Caldwcll. "This will permit us to prepare and at Ihe same time afford both a middle ground and a third program which strongly emphasizes the vocational training and guidance needs for Ihe less able student," said Smylie.

He added that' "this wise effort to give broader opportunity in our high schools will have the immediate affect of doing a better job for all of the students. It will tend to eliminate to some extent the social problems raised by students who drop out of high school without adc quate training and it will assist us in a substantial way to meet the educational needs of an increasingly migratory population." Smylie warned the conference that in reworking and perfacting "our educational effort" that the real values inherent in "an already i system" not destroyed. "Our republican form of govern ment is dependent on broadly ed ucated citizenry," he said. "For that reason we must make sure that we instill in all of our students a love of the basic fundamentals of American freedom with its emphasis on Ihe dignity of the individual human being." Smylie also renewed his demand for legislation which would make Ihe public school and university endowments the funded reserve of the teachers relircmcnt system. In asking for the controversial legislation, Smylie said the "proposal is sound and has the support of most people who have given serious considbration to the problem.

It would solve permanently the problem of fiscal solvency for the teachers retirement system." Smylie urged pnssagc of such legislation in the 1957 session state's lawmakers. It was passed by Ihe House hut failed to gain favorable consideration by the Sen' att. Ave, Rockefeller Back Tax Cuts WASHINGTON (UP) Gov. Avcrell Harriman of New York called today for an anti-recession tax cut, "a large and diversified program public works" and Federal Reserve Board purchase of "several billion dollars" of government bonds to fight the reces- Democratic governor said inn. The Ihe Eisenhower administration must bear the hlame for the recession.

He said it must now "face the facts, tell the people the truth and act positively and convincingly" or lose a vital battle in the cold war with Communism. a i a made his recommendations in testimony prepared for delivery before the House Banking and Currency Commillec. Nelson Rockefeller, head of panel study of the nation's econ omy, issued a report calling for an immediate i to sevcn-biljion dollar tax cut. The report of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, made public Sunday night, urged reductions in both personal and corporation in come taxes as port of a six-poin program to stimulate business anc employment. was Ihe state's 62m fatality compared wil et Plummets Out of Control nto UAL Plane LAS VEGAS (UP) An Air orce jet fighter went out of con- ol high over Soulhern Nevada day, colliding at 21,000 with New York bound United Air ines DC7 with 47 persons aboard nd sending both planes nlo Ihe barren desert.

All 42 passengers and five crew members, as well as the two-man Force crew in the Super abre jet, were killed. An Air Force spokesman at earby Nellis Air Force Base, ome station of the jet i raincr. -said he "understood" iat the military plane developed trouble" while Hying at 30.000 eel and "flamed out." It spiraled irectly down onto the four-engin- airliner. Both planes burst into a big vhite puff of smoke 'that quickly urned to a deathly black pall, "hey spiraled into rock strewn lesert some" 10 miles south of this resort. In Desert First to arrive, at the scene vas "Denny 'Schicck, a photog- 'aphcr for the Las Vegas Review Journal.

He was to an assignment when he 'saw Ihe two llanos collide and drop. He said wreckage was strewn over the desert country for "several miles." The two planes hit ground in he same general area as that vhere glamorous movie actress Lombard met death in a Jan. 16, 1912 crash. It is a barren area, populated mainly by lizards and jackrnb- aits with little or no immediate access to communication. The airliner crew included Capt.

Duane N. Ward, 1st officer Arlin Edward Sommcrs and flight engineer Charles E. Woods, all based in Denver; and stewardesses Pauline Mary Murray' and Yvonno Marie Peterson, both based at Los Angeles. The UAL four-engined plane left Los Angeles at 7:30 with 42. passengers and 5 crew men aboard.

The airline could give no passenger ist immediately. Bound For New York flight, No. 736, was scheduled to have made stops at Denver, Kansas City and Washington Before arriving in New York at 5:45 p.m. Tho hoy 1958 traffic 38 at this time last year. Slate Patrolman Ray Rorhbqch ctr said the boy was driving cow with two brothers, Lee Roy, 14 and I.aync7 11, when a picku truck- driven by Geraldine Young 14, also of Pingree, came over th crest of a hill.

The older boys told Rohrbacke that the wind was blowing liar and that apparently Marion didn hear or see the (ruck. Miss Youn daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloy Young, told the patrolman sh swerved to avoid hitting Lee Ro and the other boy appeared i front of her truck. Rohrbackcr said Marion had ru: into the road and a Miss Younj was imabfc to stop in time.

Bingham County Coroner Home Evans said the parents' attilud indicated this morning that the; felt it was an "unavoidable ace! dent" and that there probabl would not be an inquest. Survivors besides the two and parents arc five othe brothers, Leslie, Lonny, Gaylen Michael and Garth; a sister, Jan et; maternal grandparents, and Mrs. Lewis Fackrell, Pingree and paternal grandparents, Mrs Esther Von Orden, Richmonc Utah. Funeral services will be Wet ncsday at 11 a.m. in the Pingre LDS Ward Church with Bishop Lc renzo S.

Caldwcll officiating. Bu ial will be in the Riverside-Thorn Cemetery. Frends may call at th Howard Packham Mortuary Blackfoot Tuesday i 6 p.m when Ihe body will be remove to lh, a i home "until servic lime. Today's Chuckle The man sawed on his slsak, an he jabbed it, but still, he couldn it, He called Ihc The waiter came over and amincd the slcnk. "Sorry sir, but can't (like It back.

You'vt tat it, Wit ness Saw Wreck Pieces Flutter Down (Editors! Buck Blnine, a part owner of the Golden Nugget gambling casino itt Las Vegas, was flying in his private plane at the time of the crash between a United Air Lines plane and a lighter. His description of the crash follows.) By BUCK BI.AINF. As Told To United Press LAS VEGAS Day. May Day." I heard the distress call rattling over the radio in my Cessna 182 as I was taking morning-flight over the desert. I looked around and saw pieces of wreckage i to earth, then was guided to the crash scene by the plume of black smoke from the fire.

I saw one parachute dropping from the wreckage. The airliner wreckage was spread in an area some two miles long and about seven miles from McCarran Field. As I flew low over the burning plane I could see the blue paint of United Air Lines and on one surface were the letters followed by three numbers. The wreckage of the jet was about a mile west of the railroad community of Sloan, Nev. They were about eight miles apart.

It took about 10 or 15 minutes for the man in the parachute to land and then I saw a helicopter from Ncelis land and pick the man up in a green canvas litter. The helicopter wouldn't answer my radio calls to lind out if the man was alive or dead. Both planes burned for about a half hovr after they crashed and Ihc country is so rugged I don't see how they could get emergency equipment in. It looked to me as though the crashed happened nt about 21,000 feet. That jet had no business being ii in.