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TH-E- BATTLE CREEK ENQUIRER and NEWS looking for a tasty tidbit or a luscious luncheon recipe? see the FOOD PACES The Weather Snow or Rain 5 IFTY-EIGHTH YEAR BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1958 30 PAGES 3 SECTIONS CITY EDITION PRICE Gift Seeks Better Care Of Aged, Chronically Second Maws erw VaMiaras Is Fkzfe A grant of $360,000 from the W. K. Kellogg Foun-the infirmary become acutely dation will assist in the development of a new concept1 iu.they Wl1.1. be the general Hospital. The ex- for care of the aged and chronically ill.

perimental program is thus ex- The pioneering venture will involve the construe-; pected to provide more compre- new county chronic hospital ncnslve an? conomicai hospital Irar fnr 11 thai Ammnnitv care for all the community. The project is expected to the new Grand Traverse unit demonstrate that county remove the Stigma of pau- Uents can uerefullv wn perism from county infirmary pauenis. When a patient in the com- munity hospital reaches the convalescent stage or a point where intensive therapy is no longer beneficial he will be transferred to the infirmary. Conversely, when patients in Mackie Irate Breaks in Two After Soaring 20,000 Feet Blasts Smeekens' US-27 Criticism A letter from State Senator John P. Smeekens of Coldwater criticizing State Highway Commissioner John C.

Mackie for his US-27 highway program drew an irate blast from the commissioner Mackie assailed Smeekens for using highway maps "printed at the taxpayers' expense to further his rather obvious political ambitions. The letter, which Sen. Smeekens told the Enquirer and far hi I .) tion in Traverse City of a facility adjacent to the James Decker Munson Hospital. The unit will be built and owned by Grand Traverse County, but largely operated through a contractual agreement between the counfv and the Munson hospital I The innovation means that a county's chronic care program, particularly for the aged, can be integrated with central services more efficiently and economically provided by a general hospital. Services need not be duplicated in a separate and often far-removed county infirmary.

The project is expected to show that a county can provide a center for up-to-date geriatric care in place of the traditional county infirmary, which is usually the most neglected and isolated unit of county government often providing only "poor bouse" care, the Foundation explained. Early Start Planned Construction will start soon on the new structure, which principally will provide beds and recreational facilities, general medical services to be provided by the adjoining community hospital. The Foundation explains that Albion Students Will Have a Ball With 2 Needles ALBION High school students will hop to the needle here a week from Saturday to banish polio. But the needle on the hi-fi won't be the only one in use. To get in, students must have a Salk vaccine shot that will be administered free on the scene by doctor -nurse teams arranged for by the Calhoun County Health Department and the Albion Horizon Clubs.

The clubs settled on sponsoring a "Salk Hop" when they found that more than half of the high school students at Albion haven't had their polio shots and the shots ordinarily aren't free to boys and girls over 14 years old. Dr. Hugh Robins, health department director, Mrs. Alfred Dart Frank Costello and Donald E. Royal of Battle Creek arranged for the National Foundation for Polio to release the vaccine.

So for a polio shot, a record dance at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 13. And for the second shot, a second dance March 15. Students who have had their shots can come by paying a small entry fee.

1 1 I Maps Distributed In This Cover I I Enquirer and Ncwi Photos. Picture at left shows the Vanguard missile as it left its launching pad early this morning in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Ice, caused by liquid oxygen fuel, showers from the missile. It was a successful start but the finish was disastrous. Picture at top right shows the missile in flight with a piece breaking off at lower left Picture below shows the moment of explosion.

The Sad Ending of a Gallant Try Second Navy Vanguard Lives One Vonderful Minute Secret Weapon Good? (Just Ask Robin Hood) WASHINGTON The Pentagon's hush-hush World War II bow and arrow report lay open today for all the world (even We had expected a Vanguard launching the night before. Hour after hour we waited, reporters and photographers, huddled in blankets against the unseasonable cold of the night. We were on top of a flat-roofed building inside the missile test center, only a mile and a quarter from the Vanguard stand. (Please Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) chronic care facilities built as part of general hospitals.

Sharing in financing the new structure, in addition to the Foundation, will be the Grand Traverse County, the federal government, the James Decker Munson Hospital and the corn- munity at large, today. News he was sending to Commissioner Mackie, had not yet been received by Mackie this Mackie fired his answer after a copy of the Smeekens letter was read to him over the phone by a reporter. The letter accused Mackie of failing to live up to campaign promises in regard to "recon- stniction of US-27 between the Indiana line and Marshall." Senator Smeekens pointed out that, according to newspaper 'reports, reconstruction of the highway would not be included in th nlan fnr th next fiv years. Smeekens asked in his letter: "Is your statement of April 9, jj(1957), before you took office. now io ne regaraea as a mere political gesture to be forgotten?" Mackie, in his statement to the newspaper today, replied jthat his program calls for the 'expenditure of 90 million dol lars to improve and reconstruct some 200 miles of this route.

Mackie added that the five- (Please Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) for two weeks to strip its "con- I erating on a "preliminary" $30, 000 budget-found: The "energy input" involved in ing bows depend, on "the The "best use of back and leg produce greatest linger of exposure by sight or 'sound or else result in awkward i -w There are at least seven dif ferent ways to pull back the rubber for launching arrows (Example: "The block and tackle method. Advantage Cheap. Disadvantage: Clumsy to use. Headed by Physicist The first part of the report 27 pages plus pictures (black and white) said the study was headed by Dr.

Paul E. Klopsteg. an eminent physicist and now assistant director of the Nation al Science foundation. The second part 35 pages in eluding pictures (still only black and white) said 48 pilot models of flash less weapons with rubber propellants were turned out. They came in seven handy sizes: Little Joe Pedal, Little Joe IVi, Big Joe 4, Big! (Please Turn to Page 2, Col.

4) jected to the line of questioning taken by Schwartz. The six other FCC commissioners meanwhile have sat in tH hearing room awaiting their turn. Allegations of misconduct on which they will be questioned have gone to Doerfer and four others. Doerfer said yesterday that among various others, he attended a meeting of the Georgia Broadcasters Assn receiving an honorarium of $100 and his hotel expenses. He has contended that under the law an FCC rnmniiwinnrr may accept a reasonable honor arium or compensation I or speeches.

Doerfer said FCC commission ers also had accepted private transportation from private companies in their work. When the company furnishes transportation, he said, the government is not charged with transportation costs. He said the industry coesn't always pay ail the Russians and Cub Scouts) to see. Chuckling Congressmen of the House information subcom mittee prodded the Pentagon l.lul II year-oia report on silent liasn- less weapons V- if V' 'ZrV" Have to Destroy Minxed' Rocket; Hunt for Cause CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. OR The Navy's second Vanguard satellite rocket roared skyward today but ended just like the first in a fiery explosion.

Sixty seconds after a beautiful takeoff at 2:33 a.m. (EST), the bullet-shaped Vanguard wobbled crazily, broke into two pieces and was destroyed by the test range safety officer. If the flight had succeeded. the Navy would have put a tiny moon' into orbit with the Army's Explorer, which was fired aloft Friday by the Jupi-ter-C missile. Blown Apart But the Vanguard climbed onlv about 20,000 feet into a cold, starry sky before the safety officer, R.

D. Stephens, pressed the button that blew it apart and sent it plunging toward the ocean in fiercely blazing fragments. So Soviet Russia, having launched two Sputniks, still holds a numerical lead in the race to solve the fascinating secrets of outer space. Sputnik I disintegrated Jan. 4 but Sputnik II, carrying a dead dog, still whirls silently around the earth.

The first Vanguard rocket, fired here Dec. 6, struggled upward only four feet before it toppled over and was partly consumed in its own flames. Laid to Fuel Leak A fuel line leak, causing a loss of pressure in the combustion chamber, was blamed for that spectacular mishap, which damaged U.S. prestige abroad at a time when Russia had the only satellites in the skies. Experts had hoped that the lessons learned from that first failure would help pave the way to success on the next attempt, but officials emphasized before today's attempt that the odds against getting the Vanguard's 3 1-4-pound moon into orbit still were 1.000 to one.

The slender, 72-foot rocket left the ground surely and gracefully, riding a witch's broom of lemon colored fire straight up into the blue-black sky. Lights Countryside Its blazing exhaust lighted the countryside and the roar of its engines shook sleeping persons awake for miles around. Observers watching the blast- (Please Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) Burton said at the police station: "I'm glad its over. The pressure was getting too much.

I knew I couldn't get away. I had to quit running." Police from four states con verged on this western Kentucky area when the pair, hold ing Lime as nostage, smashed through roadblocks in Little's police cruiser. Burton and Davis, both of Redwood, fled to a remote section of MrOarltpn County late Saturday night. noiea up ai a tarm nome and held Little and Mr. and Mrs Calvin Shelton hostage for 24 nours.

By VERN HAL'GLAND CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. For one wonderful minute it seemed almost certain that a new baby moon was on its way to an orbit. But only for a minute. Harrowing moments later there was the possibility that the giant rocket might turn against the men who had launched it might rain fiery hell down upon them. Scene Is Swiftly Changed That was how swiftly the scene changed at the ill-fated launching early today of the Navy Vanguard test vehicle.

From the first, every one watching and waiting for the new attempt to launch the three-stage Vanguard, wtih the metallic grapefruit satellite in its nose, had his fingers crossed. Many of us had seen the last previous Vanguard attempt Dec. 6 end in fiery ruin on the launching pad. We had seen what could happen within a complex container full of intricate devices, housing six propellants regulated by 680 valves. KleVTestVrd' It leased strenth with linfinitm naiifitv stf nm.l Maybe Tax Cut If Slump Stays-Ike WASHINGTON LB President Eisenhower said today it could be the administration will recommend a tax cut if an expected business upturji fails to develop about midyear.

The President his voice very hoarse and husky Talks Resumed At Dodge Plant DETROIT Chrysler Corp. and the United Auto news conference, however, ing, in the opinion of some newsmen, a bit pale and some what listless. He remarked at the outset of the session, with a (Please Turn to Page 2, Col. 5) Workers resumed negotiations today at the strike-threatened Dodge Main plant. The negotiations, broken off last week, were resumed amid new tensions.

Xn hour before the bargaining session got under way, the company sent home 5,000 workers. The company said, "because some trim department employes at Dodge Main failed to perform regular work assignments, 5,000 employes had to be sent home. Operations, are scheduled to resume Thursday." Dulles Back on Job WASHINGTON Secre tary of State Dulles returned to his office today after spending two days at home nursing a cold. Kidnaper Surrenders; 'Pressure Too Much' PADUCAH, Ky. The grim four-day manhunt for kidnaper Carl E.

Burton ended last night. He ran into police headquarters and and surrendered because "the pressure was too much." Two policemen chased Burton as he ran, hands in the air and a fully-loaded revolver sticking in his belt. It was a dramatic climax to one of this area's most intensive' searches which began wheni AP Wlraphoux This is the rubber band-powered mortar dubbed Joe Lewis. Investigators of FCC, Own Counsel Clash ment. However, the two-part report was a mine of vital information.

example researchers 0D. payments from the radio-TV industry which FCC regulates. Chairman Moulder (D-Mo) upheld Schwartz in his cross-examination of Doerfer in the face of tart objections from both Republican and Democratic committee members. Rep. Harris (D-Ark).

chairman of the parent Commerce committee, declared "we're not here to determine the credibility of the witness" and demanded that Schwartz let the record speak for itself. Both Harris and Rep. Flynt (D-Ga) objected to what they termed repetitious questioning of Doerfer by Schwartz, but were overruled by Moulder. Trying' Him At one point Flynt said if the subcommittee was going to allow Schwartz to "repeat and repeat and repeat," he had other things to do. Rep.

Bennett (R Mich) said the subcommittee was in the position of trying a witness for a felonv. Reps. Hale (R Maine) and O'Hara (RMinn) also ob More Snow Is Due The "drizzle" turned white over the Battle Creek area today and more snow is due tonight and tomorrow. Snow instead of the predicted freezing drizzle marked the morning hours. The freezing drizzle was supposed to have been caused by drizzle from a warm air mass passing through a cold layer.

but the warm air mass proved to be cooler than indicated and the precipitation formed as snow. Weatherman William F. Husted explained. Following an expected period of freezing drizzle this afternoon, more snow was expected tonight and tomorrow. A low of 30 degrees was expected tonight, and a high of 32 tomorrow.

A colder trend will start tomorrow, with the influx of cold air from Canada. At present, this area is under the influence of winds from a low pressure area in the Texas panhandle. The 24-hour period ending at 7 p.m. yesterday was the first day since Jan. 23 when no precipitation was recorded.

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1 6 News Notes, Sec. 3 3 Radio and TV, Sec. 3 3 Regional News, Sec. 2 4, 5 Sports, Sec. 1 9, 10, 11 Stock Markets, Sec.

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3 1, 2 Farm Page, Sec. 1 8 because a cold told a that he still believes it is reasonable to assume business will pick up about the middle of the year. Eisenhower said he looks for the current business recession certainly to continue through this month and next. But as summer comes on, he added, there should be an uptrend. Danger in Too Far' A reporter asked whether the administration will be for a tax cut if the expected uptrend does not materialize.

It could be, Eisenhower re plied. He went on to say that a reduction certainly would be a real stimulant to business. He added, however, that it would be possible to go too far in the tax cut direction. Eisenhower commented that it wasn't very long ago that the country was concerned about inflation. The President turned up at today's news conference look our property and our funds, that will be the day," he said.

Thorpe blamed UAW President Walter Reuther for the Meany action. "I suppose he is taking orders from Reuther," Thorpe said. August Scholle, president of the state CIO which has 700,000 members, said, "I have been expecting it. We will continue doing business as usual until we get formal instructions." Meany's order called on the unions to turn over all "funds, properties, books and assets" to the parent organization. The new state organization will be headed temporarily by Peter MeGavin and R.

J. Thomas, the latter a former president of the UAW and later a UAW regional organizer. Meany 'Dictatorial' Meany told the new group to set up offices in Detroit im- AAFL Defies Orders from Meany Burton and Harold Davis, 33, kidnaped Missouri state trooper William Little at Van Buren, Saturday night. mediately and to begin collection of March dues from both AFL and CIO unions in Michigan. Unions which do not turn in their dues will not be eligible to send delegates to the Grand Rapids convention.

The MFL voted Saturday at a Lansing meeting to boycott the special convention. It was this action which led Meany yesterday to take the unusual action of lifting both state charters. Andrew McFarlane, president oi tne Detroit and Wayne County AFL and chairman of the special MFL merger commit tee, charged Meany was dicta torial. McFarlane said the only Michigan AFL unions which would send delegates to the Grand Rapids convention were those which were so ordered by their national unions. WASHINGTON (Hi A House investigator charged today that Chairman John C.

floeier of the Federal Communications Commission billed the government for a 1954 trip which was paid for by West Virginia and Georgia broadcasting groups. WASHINGTON iTV- Mem bers of a House subcommittee and their chief counsel. Dr. Bernard Schwartz, clashed publicly today when Schwartz challenged the credibility of FCC Chairman John C. Doerfer.

Docrfer is one of five Federal Communications Commission members against whom Schwartx and his aids have made accusations of personal misconduct. Backed by Chairman Doerfer was testifying for the third straight day before a House commerce subcommittee investigating the big federal, regulatory agencies. He has de fended as legal and proper bis acceptance at times of expense DETROIT The 300,000 member Michigan Federation of Labor said today it will defy an order from AFL-CIO President George Meany directing the MFL to turn its $170,000 funds over to the AFL-CIO as part of a state merger. Meany revoked the charters of the Michigan AFL and CIO for failing to merge on a state level, similar to the recent national AFL-CIO merger. Calls Convention The union president, acting at the AFL-CIO executive board meeting in Miami, called a special convention of state labor unions Feb.

24 at Grand Rapids to work out details of the merger. John H. Thorpe, MFL secretary-treasurer, said the MFL would turn in its charter as ordered by Meany. "He can have the charter, but when he gets Davis Cracks Davis cracked under the pressure and shot and wounded himself. Burton fled into the river bottomlands Sunday, leaving Little and the Sheltons unharmed.

Police set up' massive roadblocks within a 50-mile radius. A misunderstanding caused the death of a young woman at one roadblock when her car drove (Please Turn to Page 2, CoL 4).