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J2o Middlebury Girl Slain in Boston TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 163 136th Ytar No. 1 18 Pog.s 10c Buttutfto BtAutiftt UA Ckaf6u Thant Warns Tshombe Patricia Bissette CO Trusted Everyone MIDDLEBURY "She was a kind, sweet girl. and she trusted humanity, that's for sure." The words came slowly from a tearful Mrs. Hazel Bissette of Main Street, mother of 23-m year-old Patricia J. Bissette whose body was found earlier Monday in a Back Bay apartment G3 in Boston.

mv Boston police said "Patty" Bissette had been strangled, apparently the eighth victim in a series of Greater Boston stranglings of women dating back to last June. C5 Mrs. who lives here with her sister, LkJ Ruby Rogers, said the first inkling she had of the tragic death of her daughter came when BOSTON (AP) The partially-clad body of a pretty 23-year-old secretary was found strangled in her apartment Monday, the eighth woman strangle victim in Greater Boston in the past six months. The latest victim in the string of unsolved stranglings is Miss Patricia Bissette of Middlebury, Vt, who lived alone in a first floor apartment at 515 Park Drive, Back Bay. Medical Examiner Michael A.

Luongo said she had been strangled with a blouse, over which were tightly wound two nylon stockings tied together and a third nylon stocking. Luongo said the victim was one month pregnant. He said she had been sexually violated. He listed the time of death as on or about Dec. 29.

To Take Integration Steps 4 1 i Says U.N. Will Quell Any Katangan Attack she received a teiepnone can rrom a Mioajeoury man whose daughter was a friend of Patty in Boston. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI) Secretary Gen-eral Thant Monday warned secessionist Katangese President Moise Tshombe to negotiate integration into the Congo within two weeks or face "other The warning, believed to have been issued with the approval of the United States, was labeled in some circles 'an ultimatum. fixity 1 tsmsthJL vyjTA CO "Howard Foster called me and lold me I had better call Patty's apurtment because some thing terrible bad happened," Mrs.

Bissette said. "I telephoned and a police lieutenant answered the phone. and then I learned what happened. Mm. Bissette said her daughter, a 1958 graduate of Middlebury High School, had gone to Boston in September of 1961 to take a job as a private secretary at a radio laboratory firm.

"She came back to visit us every month or six weeks and he was here for Christmas the stunned mother said. "Everyone liked her. She was so friendly had such a sweet disposition. "I just can't think what happened. trusted everyone' The death of the young girl shocked this quiet, snow-covered college town on New Year's Eve.

"She was a quiet, pretty girl," said one Middlebury woman. "It's hard to believe." Patty attended the University of Vermont in 1958-59, but left after she completed her freshman year. A fellow student who remembered Patty from their UVM days said: "She was so nice and friendly. Everyone liked her and she got on well with everyone. This is terrible." Mrs.

said she planned to leave for Boston to bring Patty back home to Middlebury as soon as arrangements could be made. Six persons were killed when this bus collided with grain truck near St. Regis, early Monday morning and plunged into St. Regis River. (AP Wirephoto) Vermont Weathers Blizzard, Bus Sidesw'Pes Sub-Zero Cold; Relief in Sight (AP Wirephoto) Patricia Bissette to the apartment, Jules Rothman telephoned the jan itor i the apartment build ing.

Christian Van Olest, and asked him to investigate. Van Olest climbed a ladder into an unlocked window of Miss Bissette's apartment and made the discovery. Police U. Edward F. Sherry said the girl's threenroom apartment was in neat order but showed evidence of a visitor.

No Sign of Struggle Dr. Luongo confirmed in his autopsy report that there had been no evidence of a struggle. He said the only marks on the girl's body were where the blouse and stockings were tightly bound around her neck. At her place of employment, Engineering Systems, Com-monweath Avenue, Miss Bissette was described as quiet spoken, very pretty and very pleasant. In her Vermont home town she was described as one of the most popular girls in the 1958 graduating class of Middlebury Union High School.

She had been a member of the school student council, editor of the senior yearbook and the school newspaper, sang in the school chorus and glee club and played interclass basketball. In 1957 she was a delegate to the annual model United Nations assembly at Plymouth, N.H., Teachers College. Attended I VM She attended the University of Vermont and left to work in the communications department of American Airlines in New York City. She came to Boston to work in 1961. In Middlebui-y.

she lived with her widowed mother, Mrs. Martin Bissette, and an unmarried aunt, Miss Ruby Rogers. Miss Bissette's Boston apartment was barely a mile from tlie Huntington Avenue apartment of the seventh strangle victim Miss Sophie Clark, 19, of Englewood, N.J., who was attending school in Boston. Like Miss Bissette, Miss Clark was clad only in a brassiere when she was strangled with her own stocking and slip last Dec. 5.

Tliant put the fugitive president on notice that the United Nations armed forces will not let the routed Katangese troops back into Elisabethville and he warned that the U.N. will strike back swiftly and resolutely against any fresh Katangese attack. The warnings were contained in a page statement issued by Thant at his headquarters to clarify his Congo policy aims, Affirming that the rout of Katanga gendarmes from KlLsabeth-ville has strengthened the prospect of an early reunification of the strife-torn Congo, Tliant also cautioned a number of unnamed countries that he expected them to support his reconciliation plan without sending them reminders." He was believed to have referred primarily to France, Belgium and Britain, which have been frowning at his Congo policies. Tliant urged adoption and rapid Katangan Forces Rallying Around Base at Kolwezi CO UJ CQ Her body, clad only in a brassiere and a housecoat, was found in bed covered by blankets. Follows Pattern Mls Bissette' death follows the pattern of the other seven strangling.

All were women alone in their apartments. Six were strangled with items of their own clothing. The other two were manually strangled. All the deaths are unsolved. Miss Bissette's body was discovered about 9:30 a.m.

after a fellow employe at an engineering firm became concerned about her failure to report for work as secretary-receptionist. After repeated telephone calls ICC Approves Rail Merger WASHINGTON fAP) The money-making Chesapeake Ohio Railway won official sanction Monday for its plan to acquire control of the financially faltering Baltimore Ohio Railroad. The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized this preliminary move toward a proposed merger of the two lines despite protests by the antitrust division of the Justice Department and others. The stock control plan was described by its proponents as a necessary combination of "the weak and the strong' and attacked by its critics as a threat to the jobs of more than 2,300 employes of both lines and as a competitive danger to other railroads. The ICC, which has had the case before it since 14.

I960, said its decision will become effective in 35 days, or Feb. 4. This implementation of his reconciliation plan of last August, and warned: i wish to make it entirely clear that pending such a settlement, the U.N. in the Congo will rot relax its vigilance nor cease to develop its readiness to meet any contingency. It definitely will not tolerate attacks without quick and sharp response." Under Thant's plan, accepted tentatively by both Tshombe and central Congolese Premier Cy-rille Adoula last fall, Katanga would rejoin the Congo which would have a decentralized federal constitution leading a large measure of autonomy to the provinces.

"It is my intention to persevere in the effort to achieve implementation of the plan of national reconciiiutioii. I considered that to be a thoroughly reasonable basis for accommodation of the differences between the central government and Katanga provinca at the time I presented it last August and still consider it to be sound and reasonable. It was accepted by both parties," Thant said. "I would now hope, therefore, for a speedy implementation of its provisions. By this I mean a short period, perhaps a fortnight or so.

before other measures would have to be weighed." Thant did not specify the "other measures" but under the coercive part of his blueprint, Katanga would be subjected to a boycott if she continued her secession. .1 5fudy Group Wants Court Ruling on Apportionment CO CD MONTPELIER Efforts to seek federal or state court rulings on the apportionment of the Vermont House of Representatives and Senate will have the support of the special legislative commission that has been studying the issue, a member of that commission said Monday. State Sen. Charles L. Delaney of Colchester said he and other commission members have agreed to endorse efforts to have courts set "guidelines1 for the apportionment of the Vermont Legislature.

Delaney said the legislative commission members agreed "there would be little to be gained if we tried to spell out some formula that might go against a court ruling." A. I.uke Crispe of Newfane, one of the leader of the newly formed Vermont Independent Vermont appears this Tuesday to have pulled through a 48-hour blizzard with only one death due to the weather. No one froze to death; the only fatality was the death of Royce Farnsworth, 23, of Waitsfield. crushed Sunday when a snow loader rolled on him. A near tragedy resulted in Wilmington Sunday night when a snow-blot'ked road forced two young New Jersey women to spend the night in their car.

Stranded were Miss Marie Medick and Miss Blizabeth Ma-jarian, who were attempting to reach a cottage in the Higley Hill ski area they had rented for the New Year's weekend. They kept the car's engine running all night to ward off the cold, but ran out of gas toward morning. At daylight, they noticed a house nearby; broke a window in the closed summer residence and called state police. Trooper Pete Barton, in charge of the Wilmington outpost, said the women were taken to a ski lodge where they were examined by a physician. Both were upset and in need of sleep but not injured.

Burlington was one of the coldest spots in Vermont Sunday night, with an official low of minus 11. Other low readings: St. Johnsbury, minus 14; Newport, minus 15, and Montpelier, minus 14. However, unofficial readings in high valley areas are expected to have been much lower. With the weatherman calling for temperatures in the teens above zero and a low Tues day night of 10, coupled with only a possibility of snow flurries this Tuesday morning, the worst appears over.

State police Monday night said all major highways were open, although some smaller roads may be closed in isolated areas. One such highway is Vermont 155 in Rutland County, closed between the towns of Weston and East Wallingford on Weston Mountain. U.S. 2 in Grand Isle County was closed Sunday night and early Monday, but later was reopened, as was Interstate 89 between Waterbury and Bolton Monday afternoon. Throughout Vermont, police were swamped with accidents, mostly of the 41fender-bender" variety and nearly all caused by icy roads.

Many drivers sat helpless in their vehicles or were reduced to walking when cars and trucks stalled or skidded into the drifts which blocked roads; in some cases, drifts in driveways made movement of cars impossible, if, indeed, the cars could be started. Conditions Dangerous A combination of blustery snow and glare ice made driving conditions extiemely dangerous. A police officer, asked for advice for drivers, said: "Just tell everyone to drive carefully.1' For many skiers, the snow was a paradox of good and bad. Skiing conditions were reported excellent, but the extreme cold stopped operation of many lifts and road conditions kept most skiers a ay from the ski a reas. LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo, 'AP) Katangan hopes for a last-ditch stand against the all but triumphant U.N.

Congo command seemed Monday night to center on Kolwezi, a lake-guarded air and ground stronghold 150 miles northwest of Elisabethville. President Moise Tshombe was reported to have flown to Kolwezi from his overnight haven in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, to reform his battered armed forces and reorganize his secessionist government. Interior Minister Godfroid Mun-ongo and other members of the cahinet were believed by Katangan ijources to have accompanied Tshombe, who has vowed to fight to the death against a forced reunion of Katanga and the Congo. Tshombe, in a New Year's message to the Katangese people, nufjiidiizeu ST. REGIS, Mont.

'UPD A Greyhound bus full of holiday travelers sideswiped a grain truck on an icy curve Monday and plunged down a rocky bank into the St. Regis River. Six persons were killed, including the bus driver and the relief driver of the truck. Seven other persons were hospitalized and an additional 14 to 18 treated for minor injuries and released. The bus was en route from Seattle to Chicago.

The truck-trailer rig loaded with barley was going to Sunnyside, from Great Falls, Mont. Killed were J. B. Mayer, 54, of Spokane, driver of the bus: Jacob Hoff, 44, Sunnyside, the relief truck driver; Jane McDaniel. 15, Ennis, Mrs.

Cecile Mclaughlin, 50, of Livingston, George Hom-burger, about 40, New York City, and Ronald L. Bakken, U. S. Army, address unknown. Holiday Traffic Toll May Set Safely Record By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Despite some multi-death accidents, the nation's New Year holiday traffic toll appeared late Monday to be headed for a record low, safety experts said.

The count of traffic deaths, which began at 6 p.m. Friday, covers 102 hours, ending at midnight Tuesday. Howard Pyle, president of the National Safety Council, which had estimated a four-day traffic toll of 0 to 480, revised the estimate after analysis of the first three days' experience to a range of 350 to 380. 'This could be the safest four-day New Year's since we began keeping records," Pyle said. He added that the critical hours which remained were those of early night and the midnight to 3 a m.

span the first three hours of the new year. The record low traffic toll for a four-day New Year holiday was 375 during the period of 1951-52. Optimistic Uu.tics had Utile CO LU CQ Free Press Business Offices Closed Today IN OBSERVANCE OF New Year's Day Skybolt Given Death Blow will allow time for possible court challenges which could delay the merger. The Justice Department wanted the commission to study the facts further and then consolidate the case with two other big Eastern railroad merger plans now awaiting action. These involve the proposed consolidations of the Pennsylvania with the New York Central, and the Norfolk Western with the Nickel Plate and Wabash lines.

The Interstate Commerce Commission, however, decided there was a need for expedited action in the case which "overrides any possible benefit" that could be derived by waiting and deciding all three merger plans at once. Party, has said VIP will file a suit in U.S. District Court in Vermont fn an effort to force reapportionment of the Vermont House of Representatives. Delaney said his commission might support Crispe's action in Federal Court. The Colchester Democrat said his commission has also discussed the possibility of seeking a declaratory judgment from a state court on the apportionment issue.

Democratic Philip H. Hoff has already said he would like to see a court decision that would "clarify" the issues that have been raised in the apportionment debate. A special session of the 1961 Legislature passed a measure that temporarily (for the 1963 Legislature) reapportioned the Vermont Senate. At the same time, the special legislative session created the legislative study commission with instructions to report to the 1963 General Assembly on the matter of apportionment of both the Vermont House and Senate. ltmmmmmmmmmmm CO CD Blizzard Isolates Today's Quotes Western England New Year's Resolution: Put this on your list; V- "I resolve to sell oil those un-used items lying around my place, just collecting cobwebs, through the Mighty Fast-Acting Free Press Want Ads! (I con use the money for the items I really wont!) "I further state that I will hire any help I need, rent what I want to rent, and buy whatever I want through the Want Ad pages of The Burlington Free Press (It's the easiest, fastest and most economical method I know of!) "I will remember this number whenever I want to solve a problem UN 33-44-1 (Ask for Merrie Bell) WASHINGTON' 'AP) The Skybolt, a ballistic missile designed to be launched from a plane at a ground target 1,100 miles awav, was officially wrkten off Monday as a future part of the U.S.

arsenal. President Kennedy revealed 10 days ago that the controversial weapon still the development state would be dropped. A formal Defense Department order Monday said the Air Force is taking "immediate action to terminate all production in connection with the Skybok program." Ran Into Trouble Technical difficulties, delays and rising costs have been given as reasons for dropping the Skybok as a potential means of delivering nuclear warheads to an enemy target. The day after Kennedy revealed the missile would be dropped a Skybolt was taken up in a BS2 bomber and fired over the Atlantic Ocean. Hie Air Force claimed the missile impacted in the tar get area, but this statement was contradicted by other Pentagon source.

The missile did not carry a reentry nose cone, and the Pentagon sources said that if it bad the cone would have landed at least 100 miles beyond the target Before this test there were five consecutive failures. A total of $250 million had been spent on the Skybolt as of Nov. 30 with another $307 million appropriated. It was estimated that $2 billion more would be needed to complete development and produce 1.000 of the missiles for B52 planes and 100 for the British Vulcan bomber. urged them into guerrilla warfare against the U.N.

After consolidating its hold on Elisabethville, the U.N, turned its attention to Kolwezi, the main base for Katanga's air force. It ordered Katangan pilots of both civil and military craft to surrender themselves and their planes by noon New Year's Day to Manono, 300 miles north of Elisabethville. The U.N. command said any Katangan planes which have not been given up by that time will be destroyed wherever they are found. The United Nations has claimed heavy destruction of planes and buildings of Katanga's air force in strafing raids over the weekend.

Katangans declare little damage was done. tx By Zones ermont Weather Champlain Valley, North Central and Upper Connecticut River Valley Tuesday fair and not so cold. High temperature in the low teens. Tuesday night becom-ing cloudy with chance of light snow and not so cold. Southwest and Lower Connecticut River Valley Fair and not quite so cold Tuesday.

High temperature in the low teens. Tuesday night becoming cloudy and not cokL I'V UJzZjJ C5 UJ CQ "She owns four pieces of property, and I'm going to attach every piece. Constable Henry Allard. Page 9. "Water doesn't look crowded but Is.

Each drop contains about six sevteUion atoms, Boyle. Page 10. "I doo't fall much any more, but hea 1 fall. I fall: Alvarez. Page 9.

wore long skirts and white blouses. 9 But we didn't have women supervisors thea.H Miss Antoinette Oligny. Page 4. This high delinquency might be decreased in a great extent if the commissioner of taxes was granted the authority to impose tax lien in a manner similar to that provided for with-holding and rooms and meals taxes. Charles T.

Shea. Page 18. Off Today's Editorial Page FIVE-CENT STAMPS 0R THEIR EQUIVA-lents', wiU be required on all first-class letters sent by Vermooters and other Americans beginning Jan. 7. Why is this higher postal rate necessary? IjON'DON AP The west of England was cut off from the rest of Britain Monday night by a new blizzard that struck the area within hours of a partial thaw.

Devon and Cornwall counties were isolated behind a whirling wall of snow. The few automobiles that attempted to get over the high plateau country of Dartmoor and Exmoor were lost in 15-foot drifts. The War Office ordered out troops for night-long work on severed railroad communications into Devon. Helicopters rushed food to snowbound villages that had been without bread since Thursday, when the first blizzards struck in Britain's eek long ordeal of snow and cold. Others answered urgent calls to lonely farms or homesteads, which no ambulances could reach by road.

They plucked frozen motorists from stranded cars and dropped fodder to starving livestock. Nineteen highways also were blocked in Scotland meaning for victims of a bus-truck crash Monday near Superior, which killed six persons. Other multiple tragedies not connected with highway travel included deaths of six persons in an Illinois farm house fire near McLean Sunday and death of a mother and three children in another farm fire near Iowa City, Iowa, Sunday night. Nine members of a tugboat crew apparently lost their lives when their little vessel foundered Monday in raging waters of gale-swept Long Island Sound about 40 miles east of New York City. The three-day New Year holiday a year ago rou ght 337 traffic fatalities, 83 in fires and 59 in miscellaneous accidents 479 overall.

BLAST OFF! New year is given space age welcome as 19-month-old Stephen Ronald Davis, son of Mr, and Mrs. R. O. Davis of Newport News, launches rocket carrying 17-month-old James Michael Livengood, son of Mr. and Mrs.

James H. Livengood also of Newport News. (AP Wirephoto) CQ CD 110nVOtSIDCAVLUN2449tUtUMOTOIVt.