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339 a.m. 5 p.m. 47 a.m. CeowkjM 1961 Minooolu Star and Tiitxmt Cwnoonv MINNEAPOLIS, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1961 Ttlephona FE 3-31 I I We. 7C Cool HI Twins Regain League Lead Schoo as Plan eC of Dies Battels 3-Run Homer Leads Team Over Angels, 4-2 Candidates Argue Bar Problems Another Multiple Ownership Case Is Disclosed By AL McCONAGHA Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer 671 City Pupils Lett Building 20 Minutes Earlier Lakin had time for one radio message: "I'm in trouble." THE PLANE burst into flames 20 feet from the school charring the brick wall of the building, setting fires in two classrooms, scorching the wall of a house next door and shooting flames over seven cars parked by the school.

The little parking area on which it fell is the only sizable open space on the street. Homes are clustered close together across from the school. "ITS LIKE it fell through a hole the only place it couldn't hurt anyone," gasped a bystander. Ruth Minrow, kindergarten teacher, was in a classroom 20 feet from the blazing plane. "It just flashed up and I saw black smoke.

The janitor was right at the window, closing it, and he stumbled back. "My first thought was, 'Thank God, the children are Since it crashed, I've said 20 prayers that they were gone," she said. WALLS in the first-floor kindergarten classroom were scorched and a small fire started in a sixth grade room upstairs. It was quickly extinguished by the Minneapolis firemen. The home next door, 5533 S.

38th was charred. An engine struck the house foundation, but police reported the William C. Anderson family was not home. First persons on the scene said Lakin's body could be seen, trapped in the flaming cockpit. Fire fighters and ambulance crews from the nearby air force reserve base and naval air station arrived within Crash Continued on Page 12 By WILLIAM JOHNSON and FRANK PREMACK Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writers A two-engine private plane crashed and exploded in flames just yards from a Minneapolis grade school Thursday less than 20 ninutes after 671 pupils had been dismissed for the day.

The pilot was killed. He was identified as Oscar Lakin, 44, Glencoe, 111. NO OTHER injuries were reported, although Lakin's Cessna 310 plunged into a heavily populated area of south Minneapolis. Children from Morris Park school, 56th St. and S.

38th had left their classrooms at 3:15 p.m. The plane, in trouble as soon as it left the runway, wobbled over the residential area and dropped into a small parking area by the school about 3:35 p.m. Boston Tops Detroit, 5-2 New York 4, Cleveland 3 Orioles Shut Out Washington, 5-0 Cullum Praises a Man of Vision (DETAILS in Sports Section.) wm TT" s4 Block Was Quief, Until By DAVID MAZIE and JOHN GOSHKO Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writers It was 3:35 p.m. and classes had just let out at Morris Park elementary school, on the corner of 56th St. and S.

38th Av. A r-school activities were beginning. INSIDE the building, Linda Lambkin, 10, and some 60 other Brownies were getting ready to hold their weekly meeting. Outside, on a playground just east of the school building, 10-year-old Mike Lewis and a dozen other boys were starting a game of baseball. Across the street, 5-year-old Pamela Olson and her sister, Kimberly, 4, were playing while their mother talked on the telephone.

Then, without warning, a red, twin-engine plane crashed into a parking lot only 20 feet away from the west side of the school. It exploded and burst into 4 flames. "I WAS at the Scouts' meeting," said Linda, "when all of a sudden there was a kind of darkening like when the sun goes down quickly. Then a great big boom noise. "I ran out of the school and went to a friend's house to ask permission to call home.

I wanted to tell my mother not to worry." Linda's mother, Mrs. Marion M. Lambkin, 39, 5512 S. 38th heard the crash, too "like a bomb" and did worry. She raced up the street to see if she could find her daughter.

Mrs. Lambkin was joined by her sister, Mrs. Kenneth Marvin, 5612 S. 38th Av. When they had looked near the flaming wreckage and around the school building and did not find Linda, Mrs.

Lambkin fainted. SHE WAS taken to General hospital and then transferred to Deaconess hospital in fair condition. Mike Lewis, 5829 S. 42nd and his baseball-playing friends were on the 3:35 PJV1. Continued on Page 12 MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE PHOTO DWIGHT MILLER Wreckage of plane covers school parking lot; house (left) and seven cars were scorched by explosion Minneapolis mayor candidates Thursday argued city liquor problems following a series of disclosures this week of family ownership of more than one city liquor outlet Another such case was found yesterday in city records.

In a panel discussion sponsored by the League of Women Voters yesterday, Mayor P. Kenneth Peterson suggested the possibility of appointing a board of citizens to pass on liquor license applications and other liquor matters. Arthur Naftalin, who is opposing Peterson in the May 2 primary, said he thinks the city licensing system needs strengthening. He called for a review of "the whole liquor license picture." RECORDS showed yesterday that a husband and wife hold licenses on King's bar, 717 Hennepin and the Hotel liquor store, 228 S. 2nd Av.

The license holders of King's bar are Donald I. Sandler, 3842 S. Ewing and Mrs. Esther Goldberg, 2721 S. France the records showed.

Sandler's wife, Bernice, is listed as the license holder of the Hotel liquor store which is in the Minnesotan hotel. THE 1959 legislature made it unlawful for one person to own or have an interest in more than one liquor establishment in Minneapolis but did not prohibit relatives from holding licenses. Commenting yesterday on the suggestion that the mayor have a more important role in liquor licensing, Peterson said it would be unwise to place this much responsibil-, ity in the hands of a single person. Paul B. Hurley and Carl Feingold, also candidates for mayor, suggested municipal ownership of liquor stores.

Gunnerd Nafstad said he favors establishment of retail liquor outlets anywhere as long as they are not near schools or churches. We need the revenue, he said. David Roe, another mayor candidate, did not appear at the discussion in the auditorium of the main public library. An investigation into family groups who hold Minneapolis liquor licenses is continuing, said Wayne Leonard, city license inspector and police captain. THE INVESTIGATION was ordered by the mayor after the disclosure that Harry i Smull, his family and friends hold licenses of at least six city liquor places.

These liquor establishments are: The Persian Palms, 111 S. Washington Hotel Bar Annex, 253 Hennepin Saddle bar, 415 Hennepin 1400 bar, 1400 S. 3rd Beanie's bar, 1407 Chicago and the Frolics, 314 Hennepin Av. City May Get Some Snow Flurries Today The Twin Cities may get a few snow flurries this afternoon, the weather bureau predicted. Continued cool temperatures are expected.

A high of 45 today and a low of 28 tonight are forecast. TURN THE PAGES TO: Editorial 6 Theaters 8-10 Markets ...14, 15 Women's Comics 22, 23 Sportt 25-28 JFK Tells Publishers for 'Greater Official U.S. Demands Action on Laos Cease-Fire By RICHARD WILSON Chief of the Minneapolis Tribune Washington Bureau of Need Secrecy' the need for far greater official secrecy," the President said. He added these requirements seem almost contradictory in tone, but "must be reconciled and fulfilled if we are to meet this national peril." MR. KENNEDY called for more self-discipline on the part of the press at a time when he said there is no war and none ever may be declared in the traditional way, but "our way of life is under attack." "Should the press of America consider and recommend the voluntary assumption of specific new steps or ma-Newspapers Continued on Page 12 Library Tax Rate Increase Goes on Ballot Minneapolis voters will be asked June 13 to vote on a proposed city charter amendment which would raise the library board tax rate from the present four to five and a half mills.

The charter commission Thursday approved the proposal after a public hearing. THE COMMISSION yesterday also approved a proposed amendment to add to the board of estimate and taxation a representative of the library board. Voters will have to decide that question also at the city general election. The board was reduced to six members by state statue creating the Minneapolis Independent school district. The increase would raise the actual library rate from four to five and a half mills.

TAX LEVY adjustments, however, for the loss of homestead and household goods values in the tax base, by statute exemption, make the present levy now about four and a half mills. The new levy, if approved by the voters, with homestead and household goods adjustments, would be about six mills. Opponents of the proposal included Mary Laddy, library board member. SHE AND others told the charter commission that the library operations, especially its relations with the Hennepin county library system, should be studied before additional revenues are sought. Mrs.

John Rood, library board president, and other library officials told the commission that additional funds are needed to maintain library service. NEW YORK UP) President Kennedy told the nation's newspaper publishers Thursday night that no formally declared war ever posed as great a threat to American security as does the rampant worldwide menace of communism. In view of this deadly challenge, he urged newspapers across the land to reexamine their obligations in the light of global danger and, in presenting the news, "to heed the duty of self-restraint." Mr. Kennedy, attired in white tie and tails and speaking at the annual Waldorf-Astoria dinner of the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers association, suggested there -rflmanac-i He's a Student of Dietet-kks Friday, April 28, 1961 Sunrii 5:07 t.m.l twnt 7:14 m. The wife of a colleague works hard to get small children to eat.

The other night, one of her sons, glaring at the food in front of him, moved two portions of food to one side of the plate, leaving a third by itself. "What's the idea?" his father asked. "Two icks and a good," the boy replied. Continued cool uith a chance of snow flurries in the Twin Cities today. High today 45, low tonight 28.

Then there's the 6-year-old lad who likes cookies but not girls. He won't eat Girl Scout cookies because they are "too girlish." is a need for greater public information, and at the same time a need for a greater official secrecy. THE TASK, he added, is to reconcile these conflicting requirements in these times of national peril. The President assured the publishers he did not have in mind new forms of censorship or new types of security classification. Instead, he asked them to approach every story with the thought in mind of the national interest.

Mr. Kennedy received a standing ovation from 1,700 diners when he arrived at the grand ballroom of the hotel. He had flown in from Washington earlier on his first visit to New York since his inauguration. Mr. Kennedy had been scheduled to attend a pre-dinner reception with the publishers.

But he passed this up to keep in touch with the national security council, meeting in Washington to discuss the situation in Laos. The President sat in on the meeting until time for his departure for New York. ON HIS SCHEDULE for today are conferences in New York with United Nations Secretary General Dag Ham-marskjold, U.N. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson, former Republican President Herbert Hoover and Gen.

Douglas MacArthur. The President expects to leave New York in mid-afternoon for Chicago to address a Democratic dinner meeting there tonight. Mr. Kennedy spoke of two requirements "of direct concern to both the press and the president" in these critical times. "I refer, first, to the need for far greater public information; and, second, to the policy of the United States is to invoke SEATO intervention in the absence of a genuine cease-fire.

What this intervention would be is much in doubt, as is the whole aspect of the continuing Laos crisis. United States aims have not been achieved after five weeks of trying. Britain got an agreement from Russia to call for the cease-fire. The Pa the Lao (Communist) forces responded favorably after the royal Laotian government agreed. But the cease-fire did not materialize.

RED CHINA agreed also, but with the proviso that the United States withdraw its military advisers and stop supplying arms before the cease-fire went into effect, rather than simultaneously with similar action by the Cease-Fire Continued on Page 12 Register Now for Boys' Baseball Clinic Boys in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area can attend free baseball clinic sessions May 6, 13 and 20. The clinic is sponsored by the Minnesota Twins, the Minneapolis Star and the Minneapolis Tribune and will be directed by Angelo Giuliani, Twins scout. Look for the registration blank on Page 28 in the sports section of today's ifli'rniwpolis 4Horninf tribune WASHINGTON The United States Thursday demanded action on a ceasefire in Laos. A move to im-plement Southeast Asia Treaty organization (SEATO) intervention may come if there is no truces President Kennedy outlined the problem to a hastily called bipartisan meeting of legislative leaders yesterday afternoon at the White House.

(LAOS PROPOSES Cease-Fire at Noon Today Page Three.) THIS BRIEFING followed a formal demand on Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Men- shikov by Chester Bowles, acting secretary of state, that the Communist side stop stalling. Bowles, it was revealed yesterday afternoon, called Menshikov to the state department at 9:15 p.m. Wednesday to remonstrate on the delays in implementing the agreed-to cease-fire. (Meanwhile, Associated Press reported from London that Britain's foreign office said it has told Russia it is concerned about the delay in the Laos cease-fire. (A spokesman disclosed that Edward Heath, lord privy seal, called on Soviet Ambassador Alexander Sol-datov Wednesday and expressed to him the British viewpoint, AP reported.) (Reuters reported that Maurice Couve de Murville, French foreign minister, yesterday emphasized to Russian Ambassador Sergei Vinogradov his country's concern over the delay.) OFFICIALS in Washington had revealed previously that NOKOMIS.

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