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I 1 I jO, 115t 115 Ytor No. 62 16 Pout 10c BurtUftO hmMt. 0 Bouttikt loJt Quutpki TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1962 Soviet Union To Propose Kyi iiV rw Big Cut in Nuclear Arms fit wit GENEVA (AP) The Soviet Union indicated Monday it will propose sweeping, uncontrolled abandonment of nuclear weapons over wide areas of the world. Russian sources said the plan would be presented at the opening of the 17-nation disarmament conference Wednesday. 1 Friends move in to greet Francis Gary Powers at news conference following homecoming ceremony in Big Stone Gap, Monday.

(AP Wirephoto) Home Town Greets U2 Pilot Powers Closeups show sugar con label (top) and salt can label (bottom) on con-ainers from kitchen of Binghamton, N.Y., General Hospital, where fsltonfusion in filling sugar can for babies' formulas may have caused deaths. (AP Wirephoto) Salt-Sugar Mixup Possible Cause The Western powers, although given no advance warning of this Russian move, immediately cold-shouldered the idea, considering it an attempt to put them on the defensive. "The Soviet proposals appear to be 'along familiar lines and have been made before," said a U.S. official. In Letters to Thant The form of the Russian move was unusual.

The ideas were contained ki letters Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko sent to Thant, U.N. acting secretary-general, in New York March 10. The two letters were made public Monday by the Soviet news agency Tass. Gromyko, however, did not mention this subject during a three-hour conference with Secretary of State Dean Rusk at the Soviet villa above Lake Geneva.

Informants said they talked mainly about the Berlin problem, failed to find an agreed approach, but parted with the understanding they will continue their search Tuesday for some common ground. Knitting together old Kremlin ideas, Gromyko in two letters to Thant proposed the convening of special international conference soon to draw up a convention prohibiting the use of nuclear weapons and the destruction of all stockpiles. He also endorsed proposals previously made by other nations for atomic-free zones in Central Eu rope, Africa and the Far East. These proposals avoided the question of controls, which are demanded by the West. The Russians did not spell out how their sweeping prohibitions would be enforced to prevent cheating.

As if acting in concert, Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki of Communist Poland arrived for the disarmament conference and immediately urged adoption of his plan for a nuclear-free zone in Central Europe. He told reporters his plan, first advanced several years ago, was not foolproof but would be a major step toward disarmament. He will ask that it be placed on the conference agenda. The Soviet proposals also included a promise never to use nuclear weapons and never to hand them over to other powers. Countries not now having such weapons would promise not to develop or acquire them.

The Russian proposals were made in the context of U.N. resolutions sponsored by Sweden, Ireland and Ethiopia. The resolutions urged steps to halt the spread of nuclear weapons and to prohibit their use. For this reason the West could not publicly brand the timing of the Soviet letters as a pure propaganda move. U.S.

Reply Expected The American reply to the U.N. resolutions is expected shortly. Informants predicted the reply would stress that present legislation requires the United States to Of Death of 7 Binghamton Babies Today's Quotes beled, in the hospital's mam kitchen. The hospital has suspended her, pending further investigation. Seek To Eliminate Salt Four-day-old Michele Dawn Bowser, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Bowser of Binghamton, was the latest to die. Doctors fought to save her and the others in critical condition by trying to eliminate the salt from their blood. State and local investigators worked to pinpoint the causes of all the deaths. A hospital spokesman said one or two might have been caused by other ailments.

Powers said both wing and tail sections were intact. The plane was shot down over Russia in May 1960. He said the welcome made up for his ordeal. "I hope people realize I'm a normal man who has done a job," he said. Powers told the gathering he had "heard you wanted to do this even before the Senate committee hearing was completed and my name was more or less cleared." Comes in Motorcade Powers was brought to Big Stone Gap in a motorcade of about a dozen cars from his parents' home at Pound, a small mountain town about 30 miles away.

He and his parents marched into the armory to the strains of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," played by the Appalachia High School band. A banner over the platform read: "Wise County welcomes you home Gary." Mrs. Barbara Powers, the pilot's wife, was in Milledgeville. where she has been with her family. "She wanted to go home, and 1 needed some time with my parents," Powers said.

BIG STONE GAP, Va. (AP) U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, vindicated by Congress and the Central Intelligence Agency, received a standing ovation Monday from his Virginia neighbors. "I'm very thankful to all of you who had a part in this," he told some 800 Wise County residents attending the welcome home ceremonies at the National Guard Armory. "I don't have words to express my feelings," he said. His mother and father sat to the right of the platform while Powers made his brief talk.

His father. Oliver Powers, a shoe repairman, blinked back tears during the program, which lasted less than an hour. Mrs. Ida Powers frequently clasped her son's hand. Lot of Words' Later, talking with newsmen, Powers said he felt "a lot of people were saying a lot of words about something about which they knew nothing." He said pictures released immediately after his capture by the Russians were said not to show the wreckage of his plane.

"But the plane I saw in Moscow was the U2," he said. Former Burlington Mayor Moran Dies maintain complete control and supervision of American nuclear weapons. Rusk and Gromyko, flanked by top aides, held their discussions over a long lunch. Their meeting was a part of the round of diplomatic visits being conducted as a prelude to the disarmament conference. From all indications, Rusk and Gromyko had plenty to talk about.

The U.S. secretary took the opportunity to get. at the basic elements of the Berlin problem. This took the conversation beyond his previous complaints regarding Soviet harassment tactics in the Berlin air corridors. British Official Paints Grim Defense Picture LONDON (AP) Air Minister Julian Amery chilled the House of Commons Monday night by saying he believed the Soviet Union quite soon will be able to annihilate the United States.

But Amery made clear the Russians have no such capability at present, while the United States does have the power to wipe out the Soviet Union right now. The minister, speaking during a debate on the Royal Air Force, said he and his colleagues believe any attack on the West at this time would be launched by manned aircraft rather than missiles. And he said tests of British and American defenses show enough enemy planes would get through to devastate both nations. Many Would Get Through "We have carried out a number of exercises of (Britain's) bomber command against both United Kingdom air force defenses and the much more elaborate air defense of the North American continent," Amery said. "They show that the defenses will take a toll of attacking aircraft but that at present enough would get through to inflict unacceptable damage upon their target." When a Laborite legislator voiced the opinion that the United States and the Soviet Union now are equally balanced in nuclear strength, Amery snapped: No Nuclear Parity "There is not nuclear parity.

Russia could not destroy or annihilate the United States in the way the United States could annihilate the Soviet Union. "I think they will be able to quite soon, but not yet." Amery argued that Britain must retain its own independent nuclear deterrent in preparation for the time when the Russians can hit the United States as hard as the Americans can hit the Soviet Union the period of nuclear equipoise. "It is not very difficult to imagine circumstances where the Russians might believe, in the period of nuclear equipoise, that the Americans would not come to our (Britain's) defense with all their deterrent power," the minister said. "If this were so, and the Russians thought they could attack us without involving America, without nuclear power, we should be in mortal danger. But so long as we can inflict unacceptable damage on any enemy and this is the position today there will be no miscalculation and we shall be safe." BINGHAMTON, N.Y.

(AP) -The medical director of Binghamton General Hospital declined Monday night to say whether salt poisoning caused the deaths of seven babies, including one Monday, at the city-owned institution. One of the infanta was not given formula containing salt, he said. Ten other babies given the salt were ill, four in critical condition. Salt, instead of sugar, was used in formulas. "We are not sure whether sodium intoxication was responsible for these deaths," Dr.

Jason K. Moyer, the medical director, said at a news conference. He said the cause of the deaths will not be known until autopsies and laboratory tests are completed. 17 Discharged Dr. Moyer said 17 other infants who had been in the hospital during the time formulas containing salt were given had been discharged.

He said tfiree types of formulas were prepared at the hospital, two containing granulated sugar and one containing dextrin-maltose. Pediatricians prescribe the type of formula to be given a baby, he said. Dr. Moyer said one of the dead babies was. given a formula containing the dextrin-maltose.

A practical nurse who was questioned about the salt, which was found in a sugar can, denied she had done anything wrong. In Formula Room The sugar can was in a room where the feeding formula is mixed. The salt apparently was used in the formula. A high concentration can cause heart failure and brain damage. The nurse, Lillie Colvin, 29.

pregnant mother of three, who filled the sugar can last Tuesday, was not charged but issued a statement saying: "I can understand the heartache suffered by the parents. I have done absolutely nothing wrong. My prayers and sympathy are with the parents." She said she was sure she had filled the formula can from a larger sugar container that stands next to a salt container, both la "I urge the court in this case, and with all sincerity, to give this boy (William J. Bleau Jr.) a suspended sentence so he can go home to his family and job. You will never see him again." Saul AgeL Page 9.

"Twice in a long career of unselfish and courageous service to his country the name of Richard Bissell has been in the headlines." William S. White. Page 11. "A Spaulding win in the, opening round of the tourney would mark the first Vermont victory since 1953 when Burlington High, under Buck Hard, defeated North Adams, Mass." Dave Matthews. Page 12.

Snow and High Winds Troublesome in State '7 2 and Interstate 89 in the Bolton area were ifactically closed Monday afternoon during a pel of heavy snow and strong winds. Condi-twnsJriproved in a few hours. Weather Bureau officials said visibility was JWiiind a motorist who came through said "yoteWwldn't see a stalled car until you were right on it." A weather man said the condition -was caused by strong winds aloft being funnelled through mountain passes. "It was a freakish affair lots of blowing and drifting," he said. In southern Vermont, gale winds and snow caused much damage and buried roads in drifts.

Wind which exceeded SO miles an hour at Rutland Airport Mew cars off roads and downed trees and power lines. Back roads were made impassable by drifting snow. Highway crews worked full-time to keep mountain passes open in the Mendon and Mount Holly areas. Power Failure Power failure affected a 100-square-miJe area including Bennington, Manchester, Dorset, Rupert, Pawlet and Arlington. In the Bennington area, winds blew at a steady 45-55 miles an hour for a time.

At 3:45 p.m., a peak gust of 81 miles an hour was recorded. Late Monday night snow was still falling heavily from Rutland to Woodstock. Hodges Argues for Passage Of Trade and Tariff Program Former Burlington Mayor J. Edward Moran, 64, died hi the DeGoesbriand Memorial Hospital Monday evening after a series of heart attacks. Mr.

Moran, who was manager of Burlington's Municipal Airport at the time of his death, had been mayor of Burlington for nine years from 1948 to 1957. He had been a leader in Vermont Democratic circles for more than a decade. Mr. Moran was taken ill in his office at the airport during the afternoon, but went home without assistance. He was stricken again while at home and the emergency crew of the Burling-' ton Fire Department was called to his home, 197 North at 5:42 p.m.

Firemen administered oxygen until the police ambulance was called at 6:20 p.m. Firemen continued to administer oxygen while Mr. Moran was en route to the hospital in the ambulance. Dies at Hospital He died at the hospital between 7 and 7:30 p.m. Mr.

Moran had been ill for some time, although he had been on the job regularly. He suffered from diabetes. As the aldermen gathered for a meeting Monday evening, news of his attacks circulated through the City Hall he loved so much. The report of his death was given to Alderman Clarence G. LeClair (D-2), president of the Board of Aldermen, by former Mayor James E.

Fitzpatrkk, chairman of the Airport Commission, and a lifelong friend of Mr. Moran. LeClair, stunned and grim-faced, relayed the announcement to the board, and the aldermen, city officials and spectators in the Council Room rose for a moment of silence. The aldermen later passed a resolution expressing their sympathy to Mr. Moran's family.

Tributes Offered Tributes came immediately from two men who succeeded Mr. Moran as mayor of Vermont's largest city. Mayor Bing said: "I wish to extend my sympathy and that of all the employes of the city in honor of a man who dedicated many years of service to the city of Burlington." Fitzpatriek, a longtime friend and political associate of Moran, said: "The city has lost one of its most dedicated servants. Eddie Moran spent his life for the City of Burlington." Began Career in 1940 Mr. Moran began his political career in his home district.

Ward 4. He served as an alderman from Ward 4 from 1940 to 1948. He was president of the Board of State Seeks Growth Survey Funds Morning Press Bureau MONTPELIER First steps have been taken here to launch a two-year project expected to provide a blueprint for the future growth and development of the state. ItU 1 UmmohI Thm1aihwiwt TVvrtn ft-pMAnf Viae WASHINGTON (AP) The Kennedy administration opened a new phase of its drive for passage of a major new trade program Monday with a pitch by Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges.

"We are going to have to face a Communist economic offensive and I think it is essential to have free world unity," Hodges said. Hodges urged the House Ways and Means Committee to look with favor on President Kennedy's proposed five-year trade expansion proposal, which could wipe out tariffs completely on some ma jor products and perhaps avoid a trade war among Western nations. The trade bill, one of Kennedy's main legislative proposals, would give, the president special and wide-ranging authority to bargain with the booming European Common Market. This group of half a dozen West European countries is eliminating internal tariffs while maintaining a wall against goods from outside. Hodges, a former textile industry executive who said he spoke as a businessman, told the committee the Common Market was a fact of life and so was the United States' $7-billion stake in West European trade.

pmmmBy Zones ermont Weather (As of 5:15 p.m.) Champlain Valley. North Central. Upper Connecticut Valley-Snow tapering off but remaining cloudy with occasional light snow flurries or light drizzle continuing Tuesday and Tuesday night. No important temperature changes. Highest temperatures Tuesday middle or upper 30s Snow accumulation general ly 3 to 6 inches but 6 to 10 inches on the higher elevations.

Some local gusty winds in valleys 30 to 30 m.p.h. diminishing quite rapidly this evening. Southwest. I)wer Connecticut Valley Snow mixed with a little sleet and rain tapering off with 3 to 6 inches heavy wet snow accumulation likely except 6 to 10 inches on the higher elevations. Mostly cloudy with chance of a few light snow flurries or some light drizzle Tuesday and Tuesday night.

No important temperature changes. Highest temperatures Tuesday middle or upper 30s. He said exports accounted for 8.5 per cent of U.S. sales and "as a businessman. I would say that the loss of a customer ac-countiing for one-twelfth of sales would be for many companies the difference between operating at a profit and operating at a loss." While U.S.

wage scales are the world's highest, Hodges said. "Our advantage in cost of materialsoil, coal, iron. wood, agricultural goods, for instance is so great as to offset our competitors' advantage in labor costs." "There is good reason to believe," he said, "that we can easily price ourselves into world markets rather than out of them." Lists Proposed Coverage Hodges ticked off a list of products that might, but not necessarily would, become tariff-free under the Kennedy program. The list included automobiles, cameras, coal, furs, aircraft, farm machinery and rail equipment, metalworking machinery, chemicals, office machinery and tobacco products. Asserting he is aware Congress members have constituents who feel they will be hurt by imports if our tariffs are reduced.

Hodges emphasized that help would be provided. He said factories hit unduly by imports would be eligible for technical assistance, loans and tax benefits while developing their own plans for regaining a profitable status. Allowances for Retraining Workers displaced in these readjustments could receive allowances of up to 65 per cent of their pay for as long as a year and a haK while being retrained. If imports caused widespread distress in an industry, Hodges said the president could restore tariffs and even impose import quotas. But he indicated he believed such instances would be rare, saying that 60 per cent of all imports have little or no significant competrtrve effect on our producers and me remaining 40 per cent account for only 2 5 per cent by value of the goods produced.

Hodges was the first of a procession of witnesses slated to testify at the hearings, which are expected to run a month. J. Edward Moran Aldermen when former Mayor John J. Burns resigned to become the city's postmaster. Mr.

Moran took over as acting mayor in 1948. He was elected to his first full two-year term in 1949, and he was re-elected three times until he was upset in 1957 by Republican C. Douglas Cairns, an alderman now from Ward 6. In 1958. Mr.

Moran was appointed airport manager. Mr. Moran's short, alert figure was a political hallmark in Burlington during his 17 years in office. He was easily distinguished by his neat, conservative suits and his constant cigar, and was known for his ability to foretell election majorities. Honored at Dinner When he left office, he was honored by an overflow dinner crowd at the Hotel Vermont.

Democrats and Republicans, city officials and employes and civic leaders showered him with praise and gifts at the dinner. Mr. Moran. who said "I'll never quit politics" when he left office, maintained his interest in Democratic politics and government until his death. He often pointed to the construction of Burlington's Municipal Generating Station as the outstanding municipal achievement during his term as mayor.

Born in Burlington Mr. Moran was born in Burlington Dec. 2, 1897, son of Edward H. and Ellen (O'Neill) Moran, and was educated in the city's parochial schools. He was a member of the Third and Fourth Degree, Knights of Columbus; Alhambra, Elks Club, Eagles Club and Holy Name Society of the Cathedral.

Besides his wife, Lauria Bris-son Moran, he leaves a son, Harold B. Moran of Burlington: three daughters, Mrs. William (Janice) Fitzgerald of BlauveH, N.Y.; Miss Lorraine Moran and Mrs. James (Katherine) Fitzpatriek Jr. of Burlington; a brother, Arthur Moran of Burlington: a sister, Mrs.

Margaret Tice of Weymouth, 12 grandchildren, several nieces and nephews. The funeral will be held Thursday at in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. The body will be at the Beady Funeral Home, 71 Cherry St. lilC milium awrcu! ircm m.j applied for federal funds to help finance a comprehensive statewide survey of the state's economic potential, its problems, strengths and weaknesses. The $68,726 in federal funds sought would be matched by $34,363 to pay for a $70,000 survey by a Syracuse, N.Y., consulting firm.

The consultants would dig Into the economic Andrews also noted 18 communities are either completing or have completed "comprehensive" plans for land use, and these communities represent about 40 per cent of the population. These plans would be integrated in the overall statewide planning survey. Evidence of heightened interest in planning is revealed in Andrews' statement that another 50 communities are either preparing for or have expressed an interest in setting up zoning ordinances. These figures, he said attest to growing public awareness of the importance of planning. Although the zoning ordinances adopted usually stem from a public desire to protect land values and use.

they are the foundation on which real planning programs can be built. The statewide planning survey and recommendations made would be coordinated with other interested state agencies, so thai land use programs could be presented as a "package" to the General Assembly. It would also enable state government to take a comprehensive integrated approach to the needs of each region. Political consideration, not of a partisan nature but as it relates to the economics of local governmental organizations and tax structure, would also be explored. "You just can't divorce planning from politics," said Andrews, declaring the survey would provide data leading to recommendations on local organization.

He said it was difficult to say how much resistance would be encountered on the local level and in the Legislature to changes that would be recommended. "All we can do is recommend and back up these recommendations with facts. Then it would be up to the people to decide. We could point out bow these changes could benefit the state, but it still would be up to the communities and the Legislature to adopt them." tory" would be made by the Syracuse firm of Sargent, Webster, Crenshaw and Folley. who would station a resident planner in Montpelier to work under the state's supervision.

Based on the factual data and information developed by the consultants, the department would then spend another two years preparing more specialized studies and then come up with recommendations for appropriate uses of the land on a regional basis. The consultants' study would include data on the state's population trends, economic condition, tax structure and a host of other factors. The departmental recommendations as a result would have a bearing on just about everything including highways, air and rail facilities, schools, water supplies and other facilities needed to service the region. It is when these recommendations have been made that "planning" would get its big test, for the department would go before the Legislature seeking endorsement of its regional planning programs. Among other things, the General Assembly would be asked to enact enabling and mandatory zoning legislation which would prescribe uses for which land can be used.

Of importance would be the priority schedules drawn up to finance construction of faculties needed. Such a program could call for building regional high schools, technical institute, recreation facilities such as regional marinaa or beaches, multi-purpose water reservoirs, highway construction programs and regional airports. While few people can visualize the changes in store for Vermont. Andrews said the public is beginning to see the need for planning. In the last five years 10 communities have adopted zoning ordinances, including three out of five towns considering zoning ordinances at recent town meetings.

facts of Vermont, Us statewide and local economic problems and map the future of Vermont's cities and rural communities. Paul Andrews, director of planning, State Development Department, said the study is the "only reasonable and intelligent course the state can follow, now that we are on the threshold of an era of change." "Planning is the only device we have at our disposal that really permits us to have our rake and eat it too." he said. "It's in the cards that Vermont is in for some rather marked changes, and planning for thescchanges now will enable us to develop in anlirderfy manner." "Most of os appreciate the state's present environment, but we also recognize the need for increased Job opportunities and a broadened tat base. We are faced with this problem of development, by planning for we can guide It and make attractive. "If we do this, planning work now.

we shall be able to develop, yet maintain the environ-ftent we love." Th two-year survey of the state's "inven- HAS OPERATION Surgeons ot Lohey Clinic, Boston, Mondoy removed noncancerous growth from chest of Anthony Eden, 64, former British prime minister. His condition wos reported os good offer operation ot New Englond Baptist Hospital. (AP Wirephoto).