Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 1

THE STATE eMDURNAL The Weather (U. Weather Bureau. East Laniinf) Cloudy, cooler tonight. Quit cool Saturday. Low tonight 33.

High Saturday 50. ONE HUNDRED-FOURTH YEAR LANSING EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1958 36 Pages ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL PRICE SEVEN CENTS CAMPUS CROSSROADS HOME EDITION LIS 8 MIST 'No Vacancy' Signs Up at Some Colleges U.S. Warns of New A By WILLARD BAIRD (Stat Journal Capitol Bureau) Like busy motels at the height of the tourist season, a few Hi 17 IK 1 'Hh A '4 Michigan colleges are wearing No Vacancy signs. Kalamazoo college, levelling off at 630 students, admitted only 223 of the 700 applicants who wanted in this fall. Albion, holding th line at its present 1,350, also turned many applicants away.

Billsdal college is fast approaching the ceiling of 850 students can accommodate with its pres I -it Prosecutor Would Free McConkey Moves to Drop Charges After Jury Fails to Reach Verdict By ROBERT STUART (Stat Journal Staff Writer) Prosecuting Atty. Jack Warren filed a petition in circuit court Friday asking for dismis sal of charges Kenneth W. McConkey, charged with man slaughter, after a jury failed to reach a verdict Thursday evening. mi xi -i me uiree uay UlOl CUUCU Kit ThursHav aftpr- noon when the McConkey jury went out about 3 p. m.

Judge Louis E. Coash dismissed the jurors about 6 p. after they reported disagreement on a verdict and the case was bound over for new trial in the January term of court. Friday mornins Warren said that in view of the fact that there appeared to be considerable doubt among the jurors and that no new evidence is expected to be introduced in the case 1 Tests of nine days of mourning th a of the Holy Father, Pope Pius XII. (State Journal photo).

lwhen, garbed as a simple priest lha trieifa1 Via ci lino it a nil- He walked into the basil- TO VATICAN CITY From thp Basilira nf St. John led t0 Vatican Citv the tiny state whicft be Baa Been supreme ruler tor la years. He lett it on July 27 to go to his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo. i "li 405 1 1 yoti tiff -iri 1 1Wvi 1 1 Witness Says Ship Hit Geese Big Air Force Transport Plunges to Earth Near Idaho-Oregon Border By KEITH SWANSON PAYETTE, Idaho, Oct 10 (UPD An air force C-123 transport plane that crashed 1 a night killing -19 persons may have been disabled by a flock of geese, witnesses said today. The plane, en route from Pop air force base, North Carolina, to McCord field, Tacoma, plummeted to earth at dusk yesterday after it knifed through a formation of wild geese.

An explosion and fire followed the crash which occurred on the Claude Smith ranch about 10 miles east of this farming center on the Idaho-Oregon border. Air force officials withheld th casualty list pending identification of the bodies and notification of next of kin. REFUELING STOP The plane had made a refueling stop at Hill air force base, near Ogden, Utah, and in with the civil aeronau- tics administration tower at' Boise, Idaho, less than a half hour before the crash. The Boise tower said no message was received from the plane indicating any difficulties. The CAA said the plane was on course for Tacoma when it crashed.

One of the eye witnesses, El-dro Gissell, who operates a ranch about four miles from the crash scene, said he saw the plane fly through a string of about 200 to 250 geese at an estimated height of about 2.000 feet The area is on the north-south "flyway" for wild geese and other migrant wild fowl. "The formation of geese broke up and the birds flew in all directions, honking wildly," Gissell related. "Then I heard th plane's engines stutter and the plae seemed to go into a stall and For a brief moment, the engines roared wide open and the plane seemed to pull up. Then it knifed down toward th ground. A moment later I heard the explosion." A convoy of 10 trucks from Mountain Home air force base, about 110 miles east of here, arrived, at the crash scene early today.

Air police immediately took over from Idaho state police the duty of guarding the area. Officers began the grim task of identifying the badly charred bodies. Mrs. Lottie Smith, wife of the owner of the ranch on which the plane crashed, witnessed the tragic incident as she was feeding her chickens. She immediately telephoned the Payette county sheriff office.

But there was nothing she or anyone could do brush BURNS The burning wreckage set fir to the brush and more than two acres were blackened before fire- blaze under control. Mrs. Smith said that she could not be certain, but she thought the plane struck the flight of geese. irrigation dLstn( water master, also to i0f seeing the plane crash. Norm Meadows, an irrigation 4- i i.

geese ai ine rime dui ne was uncertain whether the plane had run into any. Queen's Cousin Weds LONDON. Oct. 10 (UPD Lord Granville. 39-year-old cousin of juiuxiuvui, waa llini 1 1 a I yesterday to Doon Plunkett, 26- year-old heiress the Guinness 'beer fortune.

it was decided to file a nolle isellors to be sure you are tak-prosequi petition dropping iheiing the proper courses to quali-charges. McConkey. now in the fy for college entrance, county jail, is, expected to bej For admission to the -liberal trance of th Church of th Resurrection as Roman Catholic churches of the Lansing diocese entered th DRAPES OF MOURNING Violet and white drapes floated in th morning breezes Friday morning at the n- Pope's Back By FRANK BRUTTO VATICAN CITY Oct 10 OPI Body Carried to St. Peter's Says Reds Must Quit By Oct. 31 Lodge Informs UN That Failure Would Nullify Ike's Offer By MAX HARRELSON UNITED NATIONS, N.

Oct 10 UB The United States warned today President Eisenhower's proposed one-year moratorium on nuclear tests will be nullified if the Russians continue test explosions after Oct. 31. At the same time, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge declared the United States cannot agree to a complete and permanent cessa tion of tests until progress is made on other phases of disarmament. Lodge spoke before the U.N.'s 81-nation political committee as it opened a comprehensive de bate on disarmament. Valerian A.

Zorin, Soviet deputy foreign minister, immedi ately accused the United States of being unwilling to seek agreement at the coming Geneva talks on a permanent end to nuclear weapons testing. The talks open Oct. 31. ASSAILS SPEECH In a bitter attack on U. S.

pol icy, Zonn declared Lodge speech demonstrated that the United States wanted the cessa tion of tests to be the last step in a series of disarmament meas ures, while the world was clam oring for an immediate end to the tests. He called Lodge's speech dis-i appointing. Zorin singled out for his strongest attack a remark by the U. S. delegate which linked a permanent test ban with progress toward a reduction of both nu clear and non-nuclear weapons and with action to lessen the danger of surprise attack.

"It is not disarmament the United States seeks," he said. The United States seeks to as sume the role of a world gen darme while trying to use its force in various parts of the world and at the same time is trying to convince us it seeks disarmament." Lodge expressed regret that the Soviet Union had resumed testing nuclear weapons on the eve of the Oct. 31 talks in Geneva on a permanent suspension of tests. He said Soviet Foreign Min ister Andrei A. Gromyko had thrown doubt on his govern ment's willingness to stop tests.

GROMYKO STATEMENT Referring to Gromyko's state ment that the Soviet Union might match western tests blast for blast. Lodge asserted: "We hope that what Mr. Gromyko said does not mean he is looking for a way to justify unrestricted testing by the Soviet Union now that some progress has. been made toward ment. We hope that his govern-i ment is not trying to evade acceptance of the offer the United States made.

Lodge said the U. S. offer to suspend tests for one year was made to facilitate the Geneva talks "and it would be regrettable indeed if the Soviet Union took steps which had the opposite effect." He declared that the resump tion of Soviet testing had raised a question as to whether the U.S. offer still holds. "I am authorized," he added.

"to assure the United Nations on behalf of the United States government that, as President Eisenhower announced, we will withhold further testing for one year from the date the negotiations begin unless, of course, the Soviet Union conducts further tests beyond that date." BEHIND SCENES As the disarmament debate opened, the United States and other western delegates were working behind the scenes on a resolution urging all the parties to the Geneva talks the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain to withhold all tests while the negotiations are in progress. Lodge made no direct deference to this proposal in his speech. He expressed the determination of the United States to achieve agreement at Geneva. He also expressed hope for the success of the technical talks scheduled to. open Nov.

10 in Geneva on methods to prevent surprise attack. Tea Break Saves Seventeen Lives LONDON. Oct. 10 (UPD A tea break saved the day yesterday. Some construction workers were off the job drinking tea when 17 tons of steel ana concrete fell one floor.

jThe bo(J of pius xjj St. John Lateran, the pope's I The slow, 'sad procession car I i i nea lne Doay Irom lne Basilica see as isisnop oi Kome. wnere an absolution service was held. The funeral cortege, which ent facilities. Several other" pri vate liberal arts colleges plan to hold the line at 1,000 students.

Even the bigger state universities held this fall's admissions close to last year's figures. At Albion, Kalamazoo, Hillsdale, Alma and several other small private colleges, low enrollment ceilings have been or will be set to preserve their intimate small-s 1 character. Shunning mass'production, their goal is to provide high quality education for, a select student body. At the public universities, budget restrictions due to appro priation cuts clamped the lid on admissions this year. In either case, the- effect is the same only the better qualified students get in.

SELECTIVE ADMISSION. But at many of the other colleges, both public and private, the trend toward more selective admission is "equally evident, even though the institutions are willing to accept more students. Their administrators are confident that higher standards will not discourage enrollment growth. Until recent years, anyone graduating in the top half of his high school class could be reasonably sure of admission to most colleges. Today many liberal arts colleges report most of their students come from the top third of their high school classes.

For the college -minded stu- dent now in junior or senior high school two warnings are in or- der: 1 beef up your grade aver age while, you have the chance, and 2 study the college catalogs and consult teachers and coun- ans colleges in Michigan the stu- dent needs 15 satisfactory units of high school credit, a unit be ing defined as a full school year of study in one course. Three units and preferably four must be in English. At least seven, and preferably nine, units should be earned in mathematics, science, See COLLEGES Pag 3, Col. 1 Education Need Cited Michigan Could Use Four More State Colleges, Survey Shows If Michigan follows a wise course in higher education, a researcher says, it some day will have independent, four-year state colleges at Grand Rapids, Saginaw, Pontiac and Dearborn. The latter two would develop from branch institutions now being set up by Michigan State university and the University of Michigan.

The first two would be new institutions. That the state system should be so enlarged was recommended by John Dale Russell, research director of a two-year. $160,000 study being conducted by a joint legislative and citizens committee. Russell submitted his final report Thursday, the last in a series of 14 staff studies on vari ous phases of higher education ranging from course offerings through administrative control to finance. Russell will discuss his conclusions with committee mem- Se NEED Pag 2, Col.

5 News Highlights POPE PIUS Training as diplomat led to papal throne. Page 16. NASSER'S WOE No balm for U. S. Page 6.

BAGWELL PLEDGES No curb on labor's rights. Page 20. WIFE SLAIN White Cloud man held. Page 9. PANTHERS ON PROWL For Spartans' scalp.

Page 21. Bedtime Stories 11 City in Brief 2 Comics 28 Crossword Puzzle 26 Daily Patterns 14 Dear Abby 14 Dollars and Sense 26 Editorials. Features 6 Eves of the World 15 Health Talks 36 Markets 29 People in the News 15 Postman 28 Radio, TV 19 Senior Forum 16 Society 12-13 Sports 21-25 State Affairs 20 State Page 9 Theater 26-27 Vital Statistics 2,9.30 Weather 1-29 Women's Features 14 started from the pontiffs castle: Lateran, after a ceremony of ab-Gandolfo summer residence, snitinn. the funeral nrocession Red MiGs Out shot, 4 Downed By AL KAFF TAIPEI. Oct.

10 (UPD Chinese Nationalist Sabrejets, outnumbered more than three to one, shot down four Communist MiGs and damaged two today a 25-minute dogngnt near me Matsu outpost islands. the Na tionahst defense ministry an nounceu. A fifth MiG and a Sabrejet col lided and crashed in flames into the Formosa strait, the ministry said, adding that no Sabres were; miui uuwii. The Communist radio, describ- ing what apparently was the same battle, said the Reds shot down two Sabrejets and damaged a third in a dogfight "over Fukien The broadcast made no mention of Red losses. CAPTURED BY REDS The Red radio said one of the Nationalist pilots, a captain who was not identified by name, was taken prisoner.

At the same time, it was announced that the Nationalists have begun moving civilians from shell-wrecked homes in the Quemoy outpost islands to places in less danger of Communist artillery attack. A naval landing ship brought 964 students a 45 teachers from a big Quemoy high school to Formosa this afternoon, and U. P. correspondent William Miller reported the Nationalists are ferrying others here by air. "A shortage of planes left hundreds of elderly men, wom en and children stranded on the i where he died yesterday, ar- nvcu ii me uaami-a at o.i y.

iiuMuicua ui UIUUOOUU3 ui pie were pacKea in me Dasuica and in the streets and piazza adjoining it. Throughout Italy, (Picture and Related Stories on Pages 16 and 30) millions more listened to or A uc city ui i v) 1 1 1 v. iia nouo posted with funeral notices andi" fro brought the festooned with half staffed Italian and Vatican flags, was hushed, almost oppressively so. watched the solemn program onlundredst of thousands jammed Kalian troops stood at atten- Thousands of people stood was. wlln radio and television.

Other thousands had 18-mile route, part the Appian way, as the procession passed. The pontiff, while alive, had been in the basilica only twice sinire ne uccdiue uuue. The first time was in splen- rp. f. Lrf nf flonlition.

of it along; cannons knelt as pallbearers lule? "'e )' lifted the Pontiff's coffin and rr J.UC ruiiui-ia uiuii utnicia, They moved slowly. At their sides were Ul SJ In front of the basilica, who in life carried him trium- V0 tale P.s?esslon the phantly in his throne, carried jbasilica after his election asif. ed as soon as the petition roved. 54-year-old defendant was charged with manslaughter in the death of his mother. Mrs.

Anna McConkey, 79. of 108Vz E. Barnes last May 21. She was found dead at her home on that date with an injury to the hack of her head. McConkey lived with his mother at the same address.

During the trial, Assistant Prosecutor How ard McCowan placed heavy emphasis on the testimony of Dr. Charles Black, pathologist, and a nextdoor Se McCON KEY Page 2, Col. 2 J)ESPITE questioning of nu- merous decisions by the White House, congress and the Conference of State Chief Justices, the recently reconvened supreme -court will disregard criticism of its strong federalization philosophy in cases before it at the current term. Chief Justice Earl Warren is the dominant figure on the high tribunal. In addition to the fact that associate justices hesitate to disagree with the as they refer to him, the Californian has built a solid liberal majority behind him.

Despite Warren's amiability, he has indicated he is ruffled by his eminent critics. In polling the court before delivery of the ruling outlawing the Sm OBSERVER Page 6. Col. 6 WANNA PLAY STORE FOR REAL CASH? Then let me be your salesman I'm O. Howie Hustles, the Classified Ad.

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Phone IV 4-8060 Roman Catholic church on March uiauuu in nui ucdu ui liic 2, 1939. The second time was on Aug.i5Ulua ul 26. durine the 1950 holv year, See POPE Page 2, Col. 3 shell-pocked (Quemoy) airstrip," the mercury in the low 50s Fri-Miller said. day afternoon, with a prospect! in fIlnprai rnhps.

was brought to- nlaopd to rest Sunday or Monday A hushed siience, broken by tne toning 0f st. Peter's bells, pi I over a tremendous tnron" in the great piazza as the funeral hearse moved slowly up Via Delia conciliazione, leading to Vatican City. The dead pontiff crossed the border of the tiny kingdom of which he had been sovereign since March 2, 1939. at 4:45 p. m.

33 -Degree Low Likely Hourly Temperatures it 7 a. si n.i SO Noon 53 9-. bo' JSEr" r. s. ih bum fmix.rmi.irM.

Dropping from an unseasonal. 73-degree high Thursday after noon. the thermometer dipped to 50 degrees early Friday morning as autumn 1 Degan toi give out signs of impending win ter. This complete- flip-flop saw day's five-day forecast. Temperatures during the next five days will average four to six degrees below normal.

Bet Her Speech Sewed It All Up ROBBINSVILLE. N. Oct. 10 This particular stitch in time didn't save anything for Mrs. J.

Z. Watkins of Charlotte, president of the North Carolina Congress of Parents and leacn-ers. On her way to a district P.T.A. conference here, she hurriedly grabbed up her portable typewriter to write her speech here. On arrival, she found she brought her portable sewing I machine instead.

About half of the 5.786 farm-j of near-freezing weather early ers and fishermen who live on Saturday morning. A low of 33 little Quemoy are expected to degrees was forecast by the East accept the offer to evacuate the Lansing weather bureau station, island. Saturday may be even cooler TROOPS LANDED tnan Friday, it appeared. A high TKOOP5 LANDED jQf predicte(j for the mid. Miller also reported that the afternoon hours.

Nationalists, taking advantage of 1 The skies will range from near-perfect weather, landed! partly cloudy to cloudy Satur-thousands of troops, a large num-1 day, but no rain is forecast ber of 155 mm. Howitzers and a in fact, there isn't supposed to record tonnage of supplies on; be any before next Tuesday or big Quemoy during the day. Wednesday, according to Fri- America, Chess and Wine: WHAT OTHERS THINK When you want to know what the peopU think, you ask the people. Associated Press reporters have interviewed hundreds of them around the world to find the real feeling toward the U. S.

The result is a story that mirrors a sometimes misshapen, sometimes funny Imag of America." Don't miss it! CHESS CHAMP Fifteen-year-old Bobby Fischer being hailed as one of the truly great geniuses of chess at least everywhere but in his own country. An interesting portrait of a moody teenager from Brooklyn. JUST ANOTHER JOB Many people might envy Harry WhitteV job particularly when they learn he the official wine taster for the state of Michigan. To Harry, the sipping and sniffing of alcoholic beverage it all in a day's work. His personal view: "You get kind of sick of the stuff.

SUNDAY is always a special day with The Communist radio hinted that the cease-fire in the For- 0 a strait, originally scheduled to last a week, may be ex- ended. It insisted, however; that the Reds will discuss this or any other step toward peace only with the Nationalists, not with the United States. Water in Tea TEA, S. Oct. 10 (UPD The way is being cleared for residents to stop carrying water to Tea.

The government has granted a federal loan of $27,500 to the South Dakota town to construct a water system. At present the water in Tea must be carried or hauled in. 1.