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mt fin fta Vol. 133, No. 6tautift Ukt, Ckup(u MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1960 'fijapwtyyigM'uyii mmiiiii mii i tt' 1 I Ci i A A 4 -J -j Storms Rip Britain JJT Boy, 8, Killed By Tractor In Sheldon (Obituary details, page 2.) SHELDON Michael George Kane, 8, died instantly at ain. Saturday when a farm tractor he was operating plunged down a steep embankment, overturned, and pinned him beneath a rear wheel. The boy was helping his dad, George Kane, haul logs off a mountain at the rear of the Kane farm on Route 105.

Cpl. Theodore Hamlin of the state police said the father was leading the way on another trac tor as each hauled a log down a steep embankment. Hamlin said the log attached to the boy's tractor became detached, and the tractor began' plunging down the hill out of control The boy's father was unaware of the accident until he turned around and saw the tractor upside down. The rear right wheel had pinned the boy's head to the ground, killing him instantly. Dr.

Henri Baby, regional medical examiner said there were multiple fractures of the skull. Also called to the scene was Dr. Lester Judd who pronounced the boy dead. Shotgun Blast Hits Panion Hunter in Leg PANTON A Vergennes hunter shot a rabbit and a hunting companion with the same blast from his 12-gauge shotgun here Saturday afternoon' about 1:45. State police said Richard D.

Jerome, 24, of RD 3, Panton, was struck in the right leg by nine pellets from a shotgun fired by Lawrence Austin, 40, of Maple Vergennes. Jerome was taken to, the Mary Fletcher Hospital in Burlington, where his condition was reported Sunday as not serious. A trooper said Jerome and Austin were in Two'years ago Prouty and husband were elated to see votes, piling up on election night to elect Prouty os U.S. senator. Wife of U.S.

Sen. Prouty, Is Dead at 53 of Heart Attack President-elect John F. Kennedy gets warm reception as he leaves St. Catholic Church in Palm Beach, where he attended Sunday Mass Kennedy Picks NEWPORT The body of Mrs. Frances Prouty, wife of U.S.

Senator Winston L. Prouty, who died unexpectedly early Saturday in Albany, N.Y., has been taken to Newport. Senator and Mrs. Prouty were on their way to Newport from Washington, and stopped for the night at a motel in- Albany. The senator was unable to awaken her Saturday morning in their motel room, he told police.

A coroner said it had been a heart attack. Mrs. Prouty was S3. She won a long battle against tuberculosis in sanatoria in Saranac Lake, N. and in Connectiut while Senator Prouty was serving in To Plan Jobless Aid She was born in Stanstead, Que.

the daughter of Frank and Cur-rie Moore Hearle. She was married to Prouty in 1939. Mrs. Prouty leaves her mother and three daughters, Mrs. Harry (Currie) Johnson of Wilmington, Mrs.

Elizabeth Friel of Waverly, and Mrs. Ann Panariello of Burlington, also several grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the United Church, Newport, with the Rev. Bryson Smith and the Rev.

Maxwell Reader officiating. Burial will be in the family lot in Pine Grove Cemetery, Newport. The Curtis Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Moves To Fulfill Campaign Pledge PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) President-elect John F.

Kennedy, moving to fulfill a campaign pledge, Sunday night created a committee to plan what he called a desperately needed federal aid program for chronic mr i ii it iwmmmmmmmmmmmmmmuawtmiim(mm limi.nn TL J'i 1 i 292 II Pages 7c lityM FiiKnno The Queen Mary, which had been waiting off Cherbourg since Saturday night, finally took on New York-bound passengers and lifted anchor. Trawler Sinks The 248-ton British trawler Vin- delecia sank in the North Sea during the storm but all 10 crew members were taken safely aboard another trawler. North Sea and Baltic shipping tied up in port as icy 80 mile-an hour winds howled through western Britain, France, Germany and Holland. In dozens of English towns police rowed boats down the main street to help evacuees. There were no reports of casualties.

Gomulka Notes Red Agreement On Coexistence MOSCOW (AP) Wladyslaw Gomulka's pronouncement about the Communist summit meeting, notably that it backed Premier Khrushchev's principle of peaceful coexistence, won thorough attention Sunday from the Soviet news agency Tass. The Polish Communist chieftain was specific in a speech Saturday at the Polish industrial city of Katowice on points omitted from the communique issued at the windup of the three-week secret conference here Thursday. "A Radio Moscow broadcast monitored in London Sunday said President Liu Shao-chi of Communist China publicly recognized the principle of peaceful coexistence between East and West. The broadcast said Liu, speaking in Leningrad described the Soviet Union as a bastion of world peace and then declared: "The initiative of the Soviet government and its proposals aimed at easing international tension and effecting general and complete disarmament and peaceful coexistence between countries with differing social systems has the sympathy and support of all peace-loving nations and peoples." Gomulka addressed a local miners celebration, but his words obviously were aimed at a wider audience. He appeared to be giving the first hard news of what could show up in a subsequent Communist summit declaration.

Agree on Peace The conference of 81 national and regional party organizations agreed, he said, on the principle that "the fight between socialism (communism) and capitalism, between the new and the old world, can and should be decided not by means of a new world war but through peaceful competition between both social systems." This is Khrushchev's thesis, as against the Chinese Communist contention that it will take a war to eliminate capitalism. Later, Gomulka suggested the Communist bloc was strong enough to force world disarmamentand should. "Disarmament, the basic pre-requiste of peace," he said, "must be imposed on the imperialists and it can be imposed thanks to the superiority of the Socialist camp, thanks to the force of pressure from the working class and broad popular masses in the West" U.S. Satellite Launching Try Ends in Failure WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (AP-The first try at lauching a satellite from the Wallops Island testing center fizzled Sunday.

Fen Into Sea A four-stage Scout rocket, powered by all-solid fuel and bearing a polkadot balloon toward a hopedfor orbit around the Earth, fell into the ocean when its second stage failed to ignite. The first stage burned for 44 seconds, taking the rocket to a height of about 70000 feet The vehicle was to have coasted for 28 seconds more, to an altitude of 130,000 feet, and then the second of the four stages was to have fired. This did not happen, however, and the 1730,000 research rocket plunged into the Atlantic 80 miles off shore. Officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the failure was detected both by radio telemetry Information and by optical tracing. It was the first time an all-solid propellant rocket was ued in a talelutelauacbiosj hlnrihern LONDON (AP) Gales and lashing rainstorms caused widespread destruction Sunday in Britain and northern Europe, experiencing the wettest autumn in a century.

Germany Hit By nightfall the storms had abated over the English Channel and along the coasts of England, France and Belgium. But high winds buffeted Germany and seas were reported tough around Denmark's Hundred Islands. In the wake of rains came floods. South Wales was virtually cut off from England. Many areas suffered the worst flooding in memory.

In areas where the storms had died down, shipping standed up to 24 hours began moving cautiously toward port or calmer waters. Economist Sees Brief Recession In Early 1961 WASHINGTON (AP) A brief recession, bringing a drop of $3 to $10 billion in the rate of national production, was forecast Sunday at a business outlook conference of the United States Chamber of Commerce. The prediction was made by Dr. Emerson P. Schmidt, the chamber's director of economic research, despite cautiously optimistic reports from representatives of four key industries autos steel, banking and building.

Sees Recovery Schmidt foresaw a recovery in the second hall of 1961 which, he said, will send total output of goods and services to a record rate of $315 to $320 billion a year from now. "In spite of further adjustments to come, 1961 as a whole should exceed 1960," Schmidt said. "There is no present ground for sustained pessimism." "Unemployment is likely to average higher than in 1960, and be troublesome," he added. In a prepared speech Schmidt said it was difficult to decide whether the economy now is in a "pause, recession, rolling adjustment, or high level plateau." He used the word recession elsewhere, however, and said there is near unanimity among economists that the outlook is downward "not deeply, nor for long, but still down." Reports from other participants on the outlook in their own fields supported Schmidt's forecast of an early 1961 dip and a summer rise. Alburg Family Led to Safety From Swamp ALBURG An Alburg mother, her three children and a Burlington woman were led to safety here Sunday night by Vermont Stale Police and volunteers after they, had become lost in a dense swamp while looking for Christmas trees.

Mrs. Veuna A. Cameron, 30, of Alburg, her three children, Barbara 10, Darwin and Larry, 4, with Theresa P. Jar vis, 20, ef 211 North Bur. llngtoa, were foaad some Vi miles from where they bad parked the Cameron car at p.m.

The search began when Darwin Cameron notified Trooper Bernard Fitisimons of Alburg that hit wife and children had failed to return home when dark-' ness fell The search centered on a jungle-like swamp near what is known as the Isle La Motte Fitzsimons Was led to the area by Cameron where they found the family car. After turn ing on the' police cruiser siren several times, the sound of cries for help could be heard by the search party. Fitzsimons said a group walk cd into the woods with flashlights where they found the badly frightened women and children. Mrs. Cameroi told her has band that the great had made up their minds that they would have to remain la the woods overnight and were preparing to stay anlll daylight wbea they suddenly heard the sound at the The group wai returned to safe ty at 1:30 p.m.

All were badly frightened, Fituimoni laid, but not injured. Rt. Rev. James A. Pike, Episcopal bishop of California, sits with Rev.

Dr. Eugene Blake of Philadelphia in diocesan library on grounds of Grace Cathedral, San Cisco, ot press conference. (AP Wirephoto) Protestant Church Merger Plan Given Edward's Roman (AP Wirephoto) GrOUp among other places, West Virgin-ia, southern Illinois, southern Indiana, Pennsylvania coal and steel areas, western Maryland, and in the Minnesota iron range country. 2. Encourage new job opportunities in such sections.

3. Remove "the handicaps to full development of our industrial potential." 4. Stimulate investment in new industry for the depressed areas. Since 1958 President Eisenhower has vetoed two bills, sent to him by the Democraticontrolled Congress, to set up programs of aid to unemployment areas. He contended the legislation would have channeled assistance to some areas which did not need it.

The vetoes became an issue in the presidential campaign. Kennedy, combining work and relaxation, is spending the weekend at the Atlantic shore homes of his parents. He plans to fly back to Washington Monday afternoon for another busy week there and in New York picking additional members of his Cabinet and holding conferences in preparation for taking over control of the government next month. Before leaving Palm Beach, the president-elect will meet at the Kennedy residence Monday with Sen. Stuart Symington.

who will submit a report on proposed reorganization of the Defense Department. Will Meet Ike Tuesday in Washington Kennedy will meet at the White House with President Eisenhower for discussion of changeover from the outgoing Republican administration to a Democratic regime. Later Tuesday the presidentelect will travel to New York for a series of conferences there through Wednesday. They include a breakfast meeting Wednesday with Dag Hammerskjold, United Nations secretary-general. RENTALS WANTED! Rentals are in demand in the Burlington area particularly apartments.

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a party of four hunters near the Panton-Ver-gennes town line. Austin fired a blast at a rabbit and killed it, but nine of the pellets struck Jerome. State police said the other members of the hunting party were Austin's son, Larry, and Robert Mitchell of Main Vergennes. To Raise Funds Vf. GOP To Publish Information Bulletin MONTPELIER Publication of a monthly information bulletin to be sold to Republican supporters throughout the state was approved at a meeting of -the Republican State Committee Saturday.

The GOP publication, to sell for $5, was voted as a means of raining enough funds to keep the COP headqnarters ia Montpelier epea and allow the party to retain its executive secretary, Carroll P. Adams, fun time. Adams was given a resounding vote of confidence by the committee, which unanimously approved employing him on a "permanent basis." In proposing to make Adams' job permanent, Roland Seward of Wallingford said: "Adams has earned the right to a closer association with the GOP, and the party should erase any doubt in bis mind regarding the permanency of the job. The job will be Adams' as long as he wants it." The party, as Dee. 1, has aa estimated deficit of $8,177.

Campaign expense ia the recent election cost the party around 175,000. National committeeman Edward G. Janeway, chairman of a committee studying the party's financial situation, said Republicans have always been able to raise money, but there has been a lack of direction in-handling the funds raised. His committee proposed writing letters to Vermont Republicans asking for funds, and further suggested publication of a monthly bulletin that would have some advertising and sell to sub-. scribers for $3.

These recommendations were unanimously adopted. I To show the party' ability to raise money, it was reported, the GOP has raised 128,000 in Vermont hi (he last 13 months, not including funds raised locally for use by the town and county committees. Bulk of the funds were raised by two dinners and publication of a year book. Governor elect F. Ray Keyser speaking before the committee, said the Republican Party la Vermont "a live and moving organization." He outlined his philosophy regarding appointments when he said he would cooperate with the committee in naming appointees.

Keyser declared the people who would receive jobs in his administration would be "indi-Viduali who are first qualified, and second, work. big Republicans." He also suggested the stale committee name one person who will act as liaison officer between the committee and the governor's office. And he recommended the "several GOP organizations In the state" have their activities coordinated and directed by an over-all committee. Stale chairman Walter M. Smith of Springfield named a legislative committee to work on legislation affecting the party, which will be presented to the 1961 General Assembly.

Today's Quotes "We are doing everything possible to have (his service restored to the Burlingtoa Airport." Harold E. Woodaman. Page 11. "1 eaa'l see any reason to make any plans Include the bond issue oa the March ballot until we see the planners' recommendations. John H.

McDonald. Page 11. "Outplayed, euUhot and kept fairly well eft the boards, St. Michael's College's basketballing Purple Knights made a pulsating comeback Saturday light to defeat Dartmouth, 78-71. Walt Hickey.

Page IS. unemployment areas. The 11-member committee of business, labor, government and civil leaders is headed by Sen. Paul Douglas, and expects to hold its first meeting this week. Kennedy intends to send an aid plan to the new Congress shortly after he takes office Jan.

20. Asks Immediate Start In announcing the project, the president-elect said he has asked the study group to begin work immediately on a program designed to: 1. Spur economic growth in areas of chronic unemployment. Kennedy said these exist in. Enrollment Hils All-lime High In U.S.

Colleges CINCINNATI, Ohio in the nation's colleges reached an all-time high this fall for the eighth straight year, it was reported Sunday by Garland G. Parker, University of Cincinnati registrar. The 41st annual enrollment survey, made for the educational journal, School and Society, showed 1,016 accredited universities and four-year colleges have 2,039,854 full-time students and a grand total of 2,942.541 full-time and part-time students. S.5 Per Cent Rise Of 933 schools which also reported the fall of 1959, the increase amounted to 6.2 per cent in full-time students. The grand total reflected a 5 5 per cent rise in student populations.

The survey has been conducted since 1919 by Dr. Raymond Walters, now president emeritus of Cincinnati. Dr. Parker took over the job this year after Dr. Walters became ill.

Dr. Parker said. "The big schools continue to get bigger but so do the smaller ones. Higher education appears to be increasingly a matter of large-scale production." Dr. Parker pointed to significant increases in freshman enrollment.

In institutions reporting both this year and last there were freshmen this fall for a gain of 11.4 per cent 'Indicate Trends' "Freshman figures are impor tant not only because they indicate trends in professional choices but also because they presage future full-time and total enrollments," he Examining freshmen statistics by field of study, Dr. Parker reported those training to bo teachers up 13.7 per cent over last year the largest increase for any freshman group. The 1359 increase over 1958 was 6.S per cent. Dr. Parker said, however, "The oncoming rush of students now in the elementary sclraols will create demands for many more teachers than we have in service and in preparation." Art and sciences showed the second largest freshman gain, 12.7 per cent-last year, 6.9 per ctn (AP Wlrtphoto) Patrice.

Lumumba Diplomats See CongoAverting 'Korean' Split LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo (AP) Diplomats said Sunday the arrest of Patrice Lumumba has averted a Korea-like split of the Congo that could have sent war raging across a. new Iron Curtain in the heart of Africa. Stanleyville, Lumumba's old political stronghold, was virtually cut off from the rest of the world as the Communist style local dictatorship vented its fury over capture of the fugitive ex-premier by the troops of Col. Joseph Mobutu. Whites Banned The provincial regime headed by Antoine Gizenga, Lumumba's former deputy premier, banned all whites entering or leaving Oriental Province.

United Nations reports said numerous European residents were being ill-treated by Gizenga's military police, who hold Stanleyville at gunpoint. While Mobutu's regime rejoiced at Lumumba's dramatic arrest. Westerners were dismayed by the ill-treatment to which the former premier was subjected after, he was brought back to the capital Friday with his hands tied behind his back. But diplomats said if Lumumba had made good his escape and reached Stanleyville, the consequences fo- the West and for world peace would have been disastrous. Planned New Government Lumumba, dismissed by President Joseph Kasavubu Sept.

5, slipped out of his troop-guarded residence here a week ago and headed for Stanleyville to set up a new government claiming authority over the whole nation. Mobutu' men picked him up near Port Francqul, 500 miles of Leopoldville. and brought him back to face trial on a charge of inciting the army to mutiny. Western diplomats laid they had definite information the Soviet bloc and several African Asian nations planned to give a Lumumba administration In Stan lryville immediate recognition as the Congo's only rightful govern ment. Communist and some African Asian ambassadors were ready to take oft for Stanleyville as soon as word came that Lumumba had arrived there.

Military and economic aid missions were to fol low. Civil war.woukl have been al most IneviUdlf, tion of the United Church of South India in 1947, when Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Congregationalism and Methodists joined forces. In the present era. Dr. Blake said, with the free world threatened by Marxist materialism, the United States is desperate for the "kind of spiritual vision "and inspiration that only the church.

reunited can give." Four Would Merge and Specifically, be outlined con- crete steps for merging four large denominations United Presbyterian, Episcopal, Methodist and United Church of Christ with a total of about 1814 million members. Any others, he added, that both the principles and the plan would also be warmly invited to unite with us." Both Methodists' and Episcopa- lians have Catholic-type bishops with considerable authority. Presbyterians have strong local church government. tionalists, a part of the United Church of Christ, stress congregational autonomy. Episcopalians, in the Catholic tradition, also attach more supernatural potentialities to certain acts of worship, such as the Lord's Supper, than many reformed-type Protestants.

Preserve Both In'skclching steps for overcoming the long-disputed issues, Dr. Blake said both the reformed and Catholic qualities would be preserved. A key point of his plan provides for the reunited church to start the "consecration of all its bishops by the bishops and presbyters both in the apostolic succession and out of Jt.M The apostolic succession is regarded as a direct line of ordination authority handed down from bishop to bishop sine the time of Jesus' apostles. Insistence of the Episcopal Church on this, heritage along with Orthodox and other Catholic rooted churches-has been a bar rier to Episcopal union with other Protestant churches, which do not adhere to It. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) An extraordinary formula was advanced Sunday for a broad reunion among American Protestants.

It would combine churches, both of "Catholic" and "reformed" practices, on a scope heretofore unachieved a this country. The plan, described as history-making, was presented by the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, of Philadelphia, as leaders of many denominations convened here from across the' nation. Division Tragic "Our separate organization," he declared, "present a tragically divided church to a tragically di- vided world." He set forth a detailed blueprint for bringing together Jie two main strands of Protestantism- those maintaining age-old liturgical traditions and customs, and those with more reformed, non-ritualistic characteristics.

A reunited "church must be both reformed and Catholic," he said, adding that the ultimate objective is "the reunion of the whole of Christ'a church." Dr. Blake, chief administrative officer of the United Presbyterian Church and leader in the ecumenical Christian unity movement, made his proposal in a sermon at Grace Episcopal Cathedral. Hailed by Bishop Pike It was promptly hailed by, the Rt. Rev. James A.

Pike, Episcopal bishop of California, as "the most sound and inspiring proposal for unity of the church in this country which has ever been made in Its history." The move provided a dramatic prelude to the Sunday night of the triennial general assembly of the National Council of Churches. Delegates are here from 33 denominations with 40 million members, most of the nation's major Protestant and Orthodox churches. No action by them on the plan was contemplated, but it, evoked keen interest. Some regarded it as impracticable at the present. However the plan somewhat resembled lj.it uied in the forma.