Beatrice Daily Sun from Beatrice, Nebraska • Page 1

Temperatures High, and low yesterday 81-50 High, low year ago 63-38 Precipitation this month 33 Precipitation this year 6.21 Precip. to date last year 5.69 BEATRICE DAILY SUN Weather Mostly fair and mild tonight, low 5(V55; partly cloudy and cooler tomorrow, high in 70s. t'OL. 60 NO. 242 "If Tou Didn't See It In The SUN It Didn't BEATRICE, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1962 Member Associated Press 7c Per Copy Ask dismissal of'petition in error' action 40 days before any court action will be resumed After a full day of testimony and legal argument, District Judge Ernest Hubka yesterday took under advisement a motion to dismiss a "petition in error" action against County Superintendent Glenn Winne.

The suit was brought by five couples living in former school district 50, north east of Clatonia, in an effort to set aside Winne's order dissolving that district, and attaching it to District 155 (Clatonia). Jerry Snyder, Lincoln, attorney for the "petitioners in error," put on three witnesses yesterday; Reed Carstens, Clarence Grens- man and Winne. (Winne was placed on the stand only for the purpose of identifying certain documents entered in evidence.) Lay Off After the petitioners rested their case, County Attorney Merrell An- deresen moved that the case be dismissed, and Judge Hubka asked the attorneys for briefs, before acting on the motion. He gave Andersen 15 days to prepare his brief; Snyder 20 days to answer; and Anderson five days for rebuttal. So it will be at least 40 days before any court action in the case will resume.

Background of the case is this: District 50 had been contracting for five years with the Clatonia district. Under law, after a district has done this for five years it must merge with an operating district, or be dissolved. In the latter case, the County Superintendent decides what operating district shall absorb the dissolved district. On April 28, 1961, the County Superintendent held a hearing on dissolution. At the hearing it de veloped that those in the north half of the District 50 wished to be absorbed by Lancaster District 42 (Hallam), and those in the south half by District 155 (Clatonia).

A County Superintendent cannot to a district outside his county. He suggested that the people in District 50 accomplish their purpose by petition. Proper petitions were obtained in the District 50 and at Hallam But the Clatonia school board would not go along with splitting District 50. They wanted all of it, or none of it. So this action fel! by the way-side, since petitions must be obtained from all districts involved' in a merger.

Second Petition By this time it was May 10, 1961. Residents of District 50 then got up a second petition, to detach the north half of that district, and merge it with the Hallam district, without mentioning the south half. These were submitted to Winne's office on May 15. The County Superintendent ruled that they were not in proper form, and on May 18 ordered dissolution of District 50, attaching it to Clatonia. One of the key issues is the rule that, attached to petitions, must be a certified list of the voters in the district.

Such a list was attached to the first petition, but not to the second ones. Attorney for the petitioners claim that Winne used a technicality to thwart their purpose, since while the list of voters was not attached to the second petition, such a list was in his possession, on the first petition filed just five days (Continued on Page 2, Col. 5) Centennial stamp discussion subject The Homestead Centennial Stamp will be the subject of discussion when the Homestead His- torial Assn. meets Thursday night. Postmaster Leigh Coffin and Charles Harman, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce centennial stamp committee: will discuss the Homestead Stamp, which will have itr first day issue in Beatrice May 20.

They will also discuss stamp collecting in general, and answer questions. The meeting will be at 7:30 p. m. at 'he Norris Public Power District offices. Refreshments will be served.

Spring has come to Gage County Courthouse lawn Spring has come to the court- louse. Due to the efforts of court- louse custodian, Tom Creek, and lelpers. lawn nad grounds next to courthouse have taken on a beautiful spring-time look long The tulips are now in bloom. Peonies, irir and pfitzers planted under the supervision of the Beatrice Garden Club are all rapidlv developing into something which the people of Gage County may well be proud. Safety checks for bicycles Parents urged to have children participate Bicycle safety checks at the elementary grade schools will start tomorrow afternoon at St.

Paul's Lutheran School at 2:30. The inspection of students' bicycles for safety features, skill tests and sale of city bike licenses is a joint program sponsored annually by the Senior High School safety com mittee, the Police Department, local P.T.A. safety committees and the elemenary school principals. Participation Parents are urged to have their children participate when the safety check is held at their school. They will be conducted on the following dates at these schools: Cedar, May 1, 2:30 p.

Lincoln, May 3, 3:00 p. Paddock Lane, May 3:00 p. Stoddard, May 10. p. m.

Upon completion of a bicycle knowledge safety test and inspection of the stuent's bike, each participant will be issued a "bicycle operator's certificate" certifying that the boy or girl has passed an examination showing his or her knowledge of the rules of the road for bicycle riders, and has passed the bicycle riding test. The card will be signed by the Chief of Police. Licenses At this same time, bicycle licenses, which are required by city ordinance, will be sold by P.T.A, members, under the direction of the Police Department. The cost is 35c. Preliminary ground work has been laid for the bike checks with the placing of posters around the school corridors and films and film strips which have been made available.

Helping Rex Lutr, sponsor of the high school committee, at the schoolgrounds, will be junior and senior high students who have 6th period study hall. A new feature this year will be a service by boys of the Industrial Arts Club. They will install licenses on the children's bicycles if they so desire. Blue Springs banker Assn. president (The Sun's Own Service) LINCOLN A Gage County banker, Tuesday was elected pres-, ident of Group One of the Nebraska Bankers Association at the group's annual meeting held here.

He is F. J. Patton, president of the State Bank at Blue Springs. He succeeds Hebron banker, H. R.

Killinger. Nearly 300 bankers were in attendance. SCHOOL PLAY The curtain goes'up at 8 tonight on Miss Nancy Baldwin's senior high students in a drama. "The Diary of Anne Frank." Tickets may be purchased at the box office before the performance at the LitUe Theater. Businessmen guests on feedlot tour A group of Beatrice business men were the guests last night ol the Southeast Nebraska Livestock Feeders Association at a twiligh tour of three feeder farms and dinner at the 4-H building.

About 35 businessmen viewed feeder operations in farms in an area northwest of Ellis. The farms are operated by Lyman Bartlett and son Fdwa'rd: Claude Bartlett and son-in-law Don Finch; and Laonard Koenig and son Paul. Special guests of the group were Dr. Paul Guyer, from the Animal Husbandry Department of Nebraska University's College of Agriculture; Gone Francis, secretary of the St. Joseph, Missouri, Livestock Exchange, and Mendell Cline of the St.

Jcseph Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Guyer was moderator of the tour The sroup of 70 farmers and businessmen were served dinner by 4-H, Inc. Claude Bartlett, chair man'of the association, was master of ceremonies for the evening's program, which consisted of short talks by the guests from the university and St. Joe.

Local boys admit theft of vehicles Two Beatrice bovs, ages 15 and 17 are being held in the Gage County jail after arrested this morning admitting the theft of two automobiles Monday night, according to Sheriff Fred Steinkamp Jr. An auto belonging to John Baete was stolen in Beatrice and driven to Wymore, where it ran out of gas. Suspicions of a Wymore police officer was aroused, and he took them to police headquarters for questioning on ownership of the car. While being Quizzed, they ran out, and made good their escape. The following morning the automobile of Isaac R.

Williams, Wymore, was missing. It had been taken by the same two boys. But they returned the car to Williams residence Tuesday night. One of the boys was brought in to the sheriff this morning, and the sheriff --picked up the other lad. The sheriff said charges will be filed.

Scientists search for locusts 17-year clock NO ONE KNOWS EXCEPT CICADA By WARD GANNEL NEW YORK (NEA) And Moses stretched forth his hand, as everybody knows, and, lo, it was the plague of the locust. And it still is a plague especially'at this moment in the hallowed halls of science. As this story goes to press the eastern seaboard from North Carolina to Canada, having counted carefully the number of years from 1945, igahi digs in against Bibical- ly certu'n attack of the ancient and mysterious 17 year locust. But the pestilence that comes to field, farm and yard is nothing comparec 1 with the plague this black bug brings on the biology laboratory each time it appears. What goes on in the locust's mind to those 17 years between destructive visits now accounts tor a wide rift among eminent scientists trying to crack open the secret their and emerge as winged locusts.

While the male sings the female flies to a tree branch and begins to lay her eggs by cutting inches in the wood. Six weeks later, the wriggling larvae hatch, fall, burrow to come up again in 17 years. Now, there are many subtle laboratory questions involved in any life hfttory. But in the case of the periodic cicada known appropriately by the name magicicada all the subtleties can be rolled into one big, obvious query: How does the locust know year it ic? Well, nobody knows. On one side stand eminent biologists who claim there is a built-in program a chemical which tells the cicada.

On the other side stand equally eminent biologists, often in the Locust drills holes as first step in a 17-year incubation period, The nursery opens this year. of life. In some laboratories and journals, in fact, this topic brings out the biology of brickbats and catcalls. The outline of the problem is fairly simple: The periodical of the problem Is fairly simple: The periodical "cicada or 17-year locust lays her eggs in tree branches by niches with her sharp ovipositor. This is very bad for trees.

The branches thus weakened break easily, accounting for millions of dollars worth of orchards lost. But it is wonderful for the locust eggs. They hatch in about six weeks and the wriggling larvae fall to the ground where they burrow immediately about two feet down and commence to live on root juices while their parents fly off to die. Seventeen years later, often right to the day, the larvae come up again, this time in pupa form. They climb quickly off the ground on any handy support like log or fence.

There they shed Priority favored for the State Home LINCOLN (AP)-The Beatrice State Home should be given first priority on available funds so that facilities at the institution may be brought up to minimum standards, the Inter-Agency Committee on Mental Retardation told Gov. Frank Morrison in a report Tuesday. The committee asked the governor to order a detailed engineering study to determine the full needs of the institution to meet minimum standards of housing, supporting service facilities and as to educational, social and work adjustment building. This was the first report made by the committee, headed by Mrs. L.

A. Emersen of Lincoln. same laboratory, who says there may be such a chemical program, indeed but where is such a miraculous substance? That we haven't found it yet, responds bio chemistry, doesn't mean it isn't there. In the controversy over chemicals, magicicadas and other unlikely stuff, this reporter has actually heard distinguished scientists lose their composure and resort to such unfashionable concepts as spirit, soul, purpose of life. Meanwhile, the" first" sfgns of stirring can be detected under Carolina orchards on the same site where locusts were first noted In the U.S.

in 1724,. And where, barring an act of well, their offspring will appear on June 6, 1979 Slight break in warm trend To turn cooler tonight and into tomorrow. A slight break in the unusually warm late April weather trend is on tap in Nebraska. The Weather Bureau said it would turn cooler Wednesday night and as temperatures dip in the early hours to the 40s northwest and near 50 southeast. Highs Thursday'will be in the 60s northwest and the 70s southeast.

By comparison, these are a far cry from highs Tuesday which ranged to fll at Valentine. The seate low Wednesday was 39 at Imperial. However, it'll turn warm again before week's end. The long-range forecast called for temperatures averaging 8 to 15 degrees above normal through Monday. Normal lows are in the 40s and highs 65 to 70.

Nuclear trigger is pulled- first of U.S. tests is fired A.E.C. says intermediate Saturn roars to successful second test Bonus operation, dumps 23,000 gallons of water CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) great Saturn booster was launched successfully for tne second time today and was deliberately blown up after the trial lo dump 95 tons of cloud-forming water into the upper atmosphere. With a- tremendous roar and spurt of flame, the world's mightiest known rocket rode 1.3 million pounds of thrust to an altitude of 65 miles.

There a signal from the ground detonated dynamite charges which ripped the vehicle apart spilling the waler into the near- vacuum of space in a bonus experiment. Successful The National Aeronautics and Ketch intentionally sunk--Coast Guard Space Administration announced several minutes after the 9 a.m. launching that the flight was completely successful. Observers saw the water quickly form a huge cloud of snow-like ice particles which spread several hundred feet across a clear sky. The great than any natural cloud has seemingly motionless in the air for only a few seconds, then spread apart and quickly vanished.

As on the first flight of the Saturn last October, only the first- stage performance was being checked. And once again it was a remarkable performance by what is believed to be the largest and most complex rocket In the world forerunner of a rocket designed to carry American astronauts to the moon later in this decade. By the time the explosive charge was ignited 160 seconds after launching, the 162-foot Saturn had completed Its main check-out on the booster itself. The eight powerful engines In the first stage functioned for about 115 seconds, pushing the 463-ton vehicle to an altitude of 35 miJes. The engines then shut off as planned and the rocket coasted up to the point of which occurred some 50 miles southeast of Cape Canaveral over the Atlantic.

Into Atmosphere Two dummy upper stages were filled with water to simulate the weight of the upper assembly to be carried on future Saturns. It was this 23,000 gallons of water which was spilled into the icy ionosphere in a secondary scientific experiment dubbed "Project Highwater," By tracking the cloud and recording its action scientists hoped to gain further knowledge of the upper atmosphere. Officials were jubilant. Two straight successes in the program have given added impetus to America's plan to race the Soviet Union to the moon. Richard Canfield, Saturn project officer, reported the good shots show that a vehicle such as Saturn certainly is feasible.

He said only minor changes have been made as a result of the highly successful maiden flight last Oct. 27. MIAMI. Fla. (AP) The U.S.

Coast Guard ruled today that the ketch Bluebelle was intentionally sunk at sc-a by Capt. Julian A. Harvey and that he killed five passengers prior to the sinking. The five were Harvey's wife and Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur Duperrault and two of the Duperraults' children. A Coast Guard report on its investigation into the tragic sinking last Nov. 12 said Terry Jo Duper- raulr, 11, survived only through "five fortuitous circumstances." Would Drown The report said Harvey did no( harm Terry Jo or her sister, Renee, "probably in the assumption that, they would drown when the vessel sank." Ronee drowned when the BIuc- belle sank but her body floated because of a life jacket she was wearing, the report said. It concluded that Harvey recovered Renee's body and kept it to lend credibility to the story he would later tell after being rescued. These are the circumstances the Coast Guard listed as probably having saved Terry Jo's life: 1.

Harvey was prevented from assuring that she did not survive because a dinghy had gone adrift and Harvey had to retrieve It. 2. Terry Jo knew of a small balsa life float, was able to free it from the sinking ketch and climb into it. 3. Harvey was unable to locate the girl after the vessel sank.

4. The weather was mild enough to permit the 11-year-old's survival with no food, water, shelter, and with scant clothing. 5. She was almost directly In the path of the rescue vessel, tihe Captain Then, on the morning of Nov. 16 when the small life float was spotted.

How Lives Taken The Coast Guard said circumstances would not permit determination of how the lives of the four Duperraults and Mrs. Harvey were taken or the order in which they died. The Coast Guard said the probable cause of the casualty was the slate of mind of Julian A. Harvey at about 11:30 p.m. Nov.

12, 19SI. The report added: "The motives Rwal Homemakeis honored guests Among the principals at the Homemakers Recognition Day banquet here yesterday. Seated (from the left) are Miss Helen Becker of the University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension Service: Mrs. Harold Griffith, general chairman of the Women's Council committee-, sponsoring the event; and Mrs. Ray Dell, Gage County Home Extension chairman.

Standing: Mayor W. Cook and'Miss Elaine Hatcher, Chamber of Commerce secretary. More than 200 home extension club representatives from nine Nebraska counties were the honored guests of the day. (Sun Photo) for the acts of Harvey cannot be ascertained. However, the fact that he ws the sole beneficiary of his wife's insurance policy and that he was sorely in need of funds must be considered." No criminal prosecution was indicated, due to Harvey's death, the report continued.

The Coast Guard recommended that the Bluebellc's owner. Harold S. Pegg, be cited by the 7th Const Guard District commandant for alleged violation of regulations providing license requirements by the operator in charge. The report snid the ketch did not have a licensed operator aboard during the ill-fated cruise. range device Starts few hours after Kennedy flashes go-ahead WASHINGTON (AP) The Atomic Energy Commission announced today the United States fired the firs' shot of its nuclear test series in the Pacific this morning.

The shot, described as being in the intermediate yield range, was set off about 10:45 a.m. EST In the vicinity of Christmas Island. By intermediate range the AEC The Coast Guard report came a means a yield equal to that of day after an insurance company asked a federal court to rule on the death of one passenger. Gage County Gov't Day Student officials to participate in day's activities Officials at the court house are getting ready to receive 150 students from Gage county schools tomorrow for participation in the County Government Day, sponsored by the American Legion. Each of the group, most of whom are llth graders, has been elected or appointed lo a county office for tomorrow's activities.

Program Dean Brandt, American Legion chairman, has issued a program of the day's activities, it includes convening at 9 a. m. with students picking up their election certificates in the County Clerk's office, and reporting to the offices to which they were elected. A general assembly will be held at 9:30 in the District Court Room with Brandt presiding. District Court Judge F.rnest Jlubka will give the welcome followed by introduction of school officials, county officials and special guests.

Superintendent of Schools M. Glenn Winne will present a history of Gage, county followed by the morning's address by George Rotter, education coordinator for the State of Nebraska, on "County Government." State Highway Patrolmen Roman Liekhus and Donald Mayhew will talk at 11 o'clock on "Your State Patrol." County Judge II. F. Mattoon will administer (he oath of office to the students at 11:45. Lunch at Auditorium Lunch will be served by the Legion Auxiliary at the city auditorium.

In the afternoon the delegates will report to the respective county office which they represent fr a briefing on duties. Adjourna- ment is at 3 o'clock. Schools participating are Beatrice High School St. Joseph's of Beatrice, Liberty, Cortland, Odell; Wymore, Clalonia, Virginia, Barnes ton and Fillt-y High Schools. Four lives lost on roads Hubbell man, Humboldt lady latest victims Amoclalccl frrnd A 74-year-old Hulbbell man was killed Wednesday when he fell from a farm truck.

He was Lloyd Thomas who was a passenger in a vehicle driven by Myron Dceke, also of Hubbell. Jefferson County Sheriff Frank Knocke said Thomas leaned out of the truck and fell. The accident occurred on Nebraska 8 one and one-half miles west of Reynolds. Total at 87 The death of Thomas along with those of three Nebraskans who lost their lives In traffic accidents Tuesday raised to 77 the number of highway fatalities In Nebraska this year. On the same date a ye-ar ago the total was 87.

The current figures reflects one dele tlon. The name of Joseph Miller, 90, Table Rock, was dropped. He was fatally injured April 17 when his car went out of control on a driveway near the Martin Luther Home at Beatrice and struck a tree. State Accident Records Bureau Director Tom Ryan said the accident occurred on private property. Humboldt Victim Mrs.

Fannie Frankhauser, 79 Humboldt, was Injured fatally late Tuesday when a car in which she was a passengdr went out of control on a county road 2 miles south and 2 miles west of Humboldt, Uie Accident Records Bureau reported. The car driven by Mrs. Hazel Rist of Humboldt went out of control and into a barrow pit. Mrs. Frankhauser was thrown out, thj- report showed.

Mrs. Rist escaped serious injury, but another passenger In the car. Mrs. Mina Kerl, 06, Wymore, was taken to a Falls City hospital apparently suffering from shock. Also riding In the car, but not seriously hurt, was Mrs.

Ellsworth Frankauser, a daughter-in-law of the victim. Other Victims Other victims Tuesday were 51- year-old Otto Hagemoser of Sward and Roberta G. Arduser, 45, Coleridge. Hagomoser, a highway department employe, was working as a flagman on a construction project 10 west of Lincoln on Highway 34 when he was struck by a semi-trailer (ruck driven by Arlyn Rowan of Fleming, Colo. Lancaster County Atty.

Pa Douglas filed a charge of motor vehicle homicide Wednesday against Rowan, 28. Roberta Arduser was killed when a car she, was driving went off the road 2 1 miles northwest of BeHr-n and crashed in a ditch. The driver was approaching bridge that was out. POLARIS FIRED CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) nuclear submarine Sam Houston successfully fired a Po- the surface of the Atlantic today.

The firing occurred 50 miles east of the Florida coast. Tractor accident is fatal for farmer ST. EDWARD (AP)-The body of Clarence Long, about 5(1, was found early Wednesday in a farm field following a tractor accident. Volunteer firemen who were called to help find Long he went inl'i the field Tuesday morning and had been plowing when a bolt brok- on his tractor seat. Long evidently toppled into the nore than 20,000 tons and less han 1 million tons of TNT.

The AEC said the dvice was dropped from an airplane. The test series started ft few lours after President Kennedy lashed the go-ahead signal Tuesday after months of effort to get he Soviet Union to agree to a re- iable nuclear weapons test ban lad failed. State Department officials de- lared as the test began that the United States would still be wiling to hnlt the series at any time he Soviet Union, would sign a firm est ban agreement with depend- inspection provisions. Meanwhile, the State Department disclosed that Japanese Am- jassador Kochiro Asakai had called at the department Tuesday and formally registered his coun- ry's strong objection to any kind of nuclear testing. Amid Protests Kennedy's authorization for the tests to proceed came in a day of appeals and warnings against resumption of testing.

Thant, acting Secretary-general of the United Nations, and India's Prime Minister Nehru urged the great powers to refrain from In Moscow, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko repeated sian warnings that the Soviet Union would conduct new tests unless the 'United States relented. On Cnpitol Kennedy's qo- ahead announcement was greeted witli general approval, with several members of Congress saying that the President had no alternative. The U.S. Information Agency said today It has found strong support in (lie Philippines, Thai- and mid Latin America for the resumpt'nn of U.S.

atmospheric esling It reported that opinion in areas including the Middle East, outh Asia and Africa is opposed to testinn. Almost Four Years It has been almost four years since the- United States made its ast nuclear tests in the atmosphere, nlthounh it has reported iring 29 small (as nuclear gad- jets go) devices underground in Nevada since last fall. It has been almost eight months since the Soviet Union set off a series of powerful nuclear blasts on her arctic proving shatter the moratorium observed by the Iwo countries and Great Britain since 10, Joint Tnsk Force organi- sation of morn than 12,000 men of the Air Force, Navy, Army, Marine Corps, Atomic Energy Commission rnd contractor employes began preparations last Nov. 2 when Kennedy said the United Stylos would go ahead with standby preparations for a resumption of atmospheric tests. The of preparations lias since Kennedy nounre'l March 2 that the tests would be started late this month unless the Soviet Union afi'ccd to a fool-proof for banning Busy Islands Swarms of military men.

AF.C experts and laborers descended on the hiiliertc 'onely island 1 of Christmas ami 1 f- liter .1 (ir'tish possession close the eqiinlor, the I -liter I' island aiif'fld southwest of Hawaii. There the- task force, supplied by ships and as the facil lies for hurling llv-nno- ntirlear warheads into the space, dropping them from pl-inev auneh.rr; them in 'orpejnes ilpplh equally im portant trying cut new explosive recipes for produrint' more nu clear vidci from -mailer purkanes. By (Jus morning, the scene was 1 set. to shipping and to steer clear of the Tile lived in town. Tlie field 'in which he was 1 working was 4 miles fouth and half a mile west of St.

Edward. into effect 10 The Christ- j. 1 i I plow, was caught and dragged around the field. The body eventti- ally came free and the tractor and plow continued for some distance. Mrs.

Long and a daughter work in and Long's absence- was not noticed until evening. Firemen were called and located the bodv sometime after midnight. mas Island's dt area is a rectangle 600 to K()0 miles, to which, a smaller (120 bv 240 miles (Continued on Page 2, Col. 2) KANSAS CITY CASH GRAIN (Approximate prices paid to-' day on the Kansas City Market for cash grain). Wheat Com, No.

2 or better Milo $1.89.