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THE STATE eKDUMNAL ONE HUNDRED-SISTII YEAR LANSING EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1960 38 Pages PRICE SEVEN CENTS mm UV I mm FranceHails Fowlerville "I'lTrtHiil CM Ex-Chief Of Tigers Ramsey Eyed for Top Post 3rdA-Bomh Toll Worst Latest Sahara Blast Brings Nation' At Three Grand Rapids Residents Are Close to an Operational Weapon; Reds, Africans Perturbed Killed as Car Hits Tree in 1 Livingston County (State Journal Wire Services) As 2.9 million Michigan motorists took to the hiehwavs over By GEORGE McARTHUR PARIS, Dec. 27 Iff) France today successfully staged its third nuclear test, exploding a small device that officials hope will clear the way for both tactical and giant thermonuclear weapons. French scientists also sought to gain information about protection of persons from the effects of radioactive fallout. The third test, which came about 10 months after the first, the long Christmas weekend, death rode with them. In the 78 hours between 6 p.m.

Friday and last midnight, 28 persons lost their lives in accidents on the state's highwayi was fired at Reggane, deep in Succumbs Scalding Proves Fatal To Fred Knorr, 47, Radio Tycoon FORT LAUDERDALE, Dec. 27 Of) Frederick August Knorr, 47, Michigan radio executive, businessman and part owner of the Detroit Tigers, died of burns last night. Knorr had been in Broward General hospital here since Dec. 9. He suffered burns when he fell into a tub of scalding water.

Mrs. Knorr said her husband slipped, hit his head and knocked himself out while adjusting the water in a hotel bath tub. INFECTION FATAL He lay unconscious in the wa ter for an undetermined time before his wife discovered him. Knorr's physician said today the executive died of "over whelming infection" as a result of the burns. He suffered second and third degree burns of the back and both sides.

The right side of his face and his right ear also were burned. The Bloomfield Hills. man and his wife were in Florida on a combined business and pleasure trip. Knorr had risen from a $27.50 a week radio announcer to president of a group of stations. He also climbed from a high school and sandlot baseball player to part owner and at one time pres- ident of the Detroit Tigers of the American.

league. EX-PIANO PLAYER Knorr, born in Detroit July 9 1913, worked his way through Hillsdale college as a pianist. In 1937 he won an audition spon sored by station WJBK in De troit and went to work as an an nouncer for $27.50 a week. "They didn't call us disc jock-See KNORR Pg. 2, Col.

1 Ship Stern Hauled In Hulk of Tanker Is Towed To Pier at Newport News, Va. NEWPORT NEWS, Dec. 27 Wt The stern section of the broken American tanker Pine Ridge was moored to a pier here today, ending a tragic voyage that started last week in New York and was to have ended in Corpus Christi, Tex. Two tugs pulled the hulk from out in the Atlantic to this shipbuilding center, making about three knots in the last phase of their tow from 4 p. m.

yesterday until they entered the Virginia capes about 7 p. m. Aboard the section was the last member of the crew. Chief Engi neer John Richart of Wilming ton, who remained aboard what's left of the tanker to protect the salvage rights of the ship's owners, the Keystone Shipping company of Philadelphia. A coast guard cutter, the Cher okee, which had stood by the tugs during their three-day haul, was relieved when the ships entered the capes last night.

A formal inquiry into the accident opens tomorrow. Richart was accompanied on the long bobbing ridge aboard the stern section by four crew members of the tug Curb which pulled the stern section along with the tug Lamberts Point. State's Air Chief Admits Being 'Approached' to Succeed Quesada By FRANK HAND (State Journal Aviation Writer) James D. Ramsey, 44, director of the Michigan department of aeronautics, may become the third Michigan man to receive a top post in the Kennedy administration. Ramsey admitted that Monday he had been "approached" on becoming head of the federal aviation agency to replace Gen.

Elwood Quesada, who will retire Jan. 20, the day President-elect John Kennedy takes office. The other two Michigan men named to other posts in the Kennedy administration are Gov. G. Mennen Williams, who has been appointed assistant secretary of state for African affairs, and Robert McNamara, president of the Ford Motor company, who has been named secretary of defense by Kennedy.

ADMITS 'CONTACTS' Contacted by The State Jour nal by telephone while spending the holidays with his parents in Omaha, Ramsey said, those who have contacted me are not members of the administration or those who have the appointing authority." "These people are from various aviation organizations, but I do not know if they represented the organizations in an official capacity," he said. Ramsey said he "did not care" to identify the organizations. The contact gives at least some credence to the rumor going around state aviation circles for several months indicating that Ramsey was being considered for a top post either in the FAA or in the civil aeronautics board. Ramsey reportedly has the backing of four of the most pow- See RAMSEY Pg. 2, Col.

5 Six Fires Hit Homes Minor Blazes Recorded Over Long Holiday; No Injuries Six Lansing homes received minor fire damage during a three-day period beginning Christmas Eve. Loss was estimated at $30 in a 10:30 p. m. fire Saturday at the Myrna Nourse residence, 1223 W. Lenawee which started when candles on a dining room table set the table afire.

A plugged chimney caused minor smoke loss at a residence at 318 S. Mifflin at 12:45 m. Sunday. Smoke loss also was registered at the James Kallman home, 4003 Marland about 8:30 p. Sunday.

A defective oil furnace was blamed. A cigaret caused $10 damage to a davenport at the Don Rahl residence, 1603 Robertson st. The fire occurred at 3:15 p. m. Monday.

An overheated furnace duct set fire to the Fred Van Der Bos residence, 1014 Hickory about 4:30 p. m. Monday. Firemen listed a $100 loss to the building and possible smoke damage to the furnishings. A short circuit in basement electrical wiring of the Clyde Baldwin residence, 612 Vernon caused a $300 loss about 10:50 a.

m. Tuesday. TAKE GLORY OUT OF aim leaser acciueius muuuieu at a The death toll was the fourth In addition two persons died m- fires over the weekend and one person was electrocuted. FOWLERVILLE CRASH The worst accident of the weekend occurred yesterday on US-16 near Fowlerville when William Lippert, 69, lost control of his vehicle on the slippery pavement, plunged over an em bankment and crashed into a tree. All three persons in the car were killed instantly Lippert, his Emma, 66, and their passenger, Kathryn Spicer, about 65, all of Grand Rapids.

Mr. and Mrs. Lippert were killed immediately, state police said, and Mrs. Spicer died about 20 minutes later at McPherson Community Health center, Howell. Minutes after the fatal crash four persons received minor in juries when a car driven by Dr.

Robert Rood, 36, of Detroit, skidded out of control, hit a mov ing car and crashed into a car parked at the fatal crash scene. (Picture on Page 14) He was ticketed for excessive speed by state police. Dr. Rood wife and three of his children were treated for minor cuts and bruises at the Howell hospital and released. The fatal accident occurred about 11.55 a.

m. State police said Lippert was driving west on US-18 when the car went into a skid about two miles west of Fowlerville. Lippert's car left the road and went 30 feet down an embankment to a fence line where it struck a tree broadside. The couple and Mrs. Spicer were on their way home from a holiday visit with their children in Wayne.

The bodies were removed to the Metcalf funeral home, Grand Rapids. Another multiple lataiity ac cident occurred Sunday on a rur-. al road near Cheboygan when two cars collided head-on on a hilltop. Mrs Nellie Belliau, 63, or Men- don, and Mrs. Minnie Wood, 75, of Charlevoix, were killed in the crash.

The drivers, husbands of the two women, and three other persons were injured. CHAIN REACTION A freak accident occurred yesterday on the US -12 expressway near Ypslanti when 13 cars piled up in a chain-reaction accident which injured 14. Authorities blamed smoke billowing from rubbish fires at the Ypsilanti city dump, about 200 yards from the crash scene. Apparently one driver slowed down suddenly when the smoke obscured his vision and the other autos smashed in behind him in two separate pile-ups. As police worked to untangle the wreckage and Ypsilanti firemen turned their hoses on the burning rubbish to clear away the smoke three more cars piled up a half-mile west.

Police termed it a Christmas miracle that no one was seriously injured in the accident. Five persons were admitted to Beyer See ACCIDENTS Pg, 2, Col. 4 JAMES D. RAMSEY Overhaul Endorsed But G.O.P. Leader Feels Congress Should Act On U.

S. Agencies WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 tfl A senior congressional Republi can today agreed with a Kennedy advisor on the need to overhaul federal regulatory agencies. But he said congress, not the president, should do the revamping. Rep.

John B. Bennett of Michigan, ranking G. O. P. member of the house commerce committee which deals with regulatory agencies, commented in an interview on a study made for President-elect John F.

Kennedy by James M. Landis, former Harvard law school dean. Kennedy hailed Landis report issued yesterday as "a most important and impressive analysis" which should be studied by "members of congress as well as the agencies themselves." ROADBLOCKS IN PAST Sen. John A. Carroll," (D-Colo), chairman of a senate subcom mittee studying administrative practices, called for a drive against- "powerful pressure groups" which he said have stymied agency reform in the past Landis has served as chairman of the securities and exchange commission and the civil aeronautics board and on the federal trade commission.

These are among the seven major regulatory agencies he discussed in often biting terms. The so called independent agencies have been set up by congress over the years to regulate and hand down judgments on major economic activities. COZY SETUP Landis pictured the agencies as ridden by outside pressures, as too cozy with those whom they are supposed to regulate, as See OVERHAUL Pg. 2, Cot. 1 Five City Rinks Open for Skating Five of Lansing's outdoor ice skating rinks were scheduled to be open from 1 to 9 p.

m. Tues day. They are: Sycamore, Quen- tin, Bancroft, Pleasant View and Comstock. Flooding operations were progressing at the other four rinks Foster, Stabler, W. St.

Joseph and Everett, and if the cold weather holds out, most of these are expected to be ready for use by Friday, the Lansing park department announced. Work on the one at Everett, however, is slightly behind, as a water main broke Monday night. GANG ACTIVITY cup loo great TO Count. highest in the nation. MayReturn Ike's Rank Congressional Leaders Working to Restore 5-Star Generalship WASHINGTON, Dec.

27 UP) Congressional leaders are working quietly on a plan to restore President Eisenhower to his five-star general rank soon after he leaves the White House on Jan. 20. They conceded privately that some opposition may arise because, as a former president, he also will be eligible for a $25,000 annual pension and office expenses of up to $50,000. Restored rank would pay $20,543 a year. A special act of congress would be required to restore the rank because Eisenhower resigned his permanent five-star commission in 1952 when he was first nomi nated by the Republicans.

CITE PRECEDENTS Sponsors of the move to re store the rank point out that there are precedents for drawing iwo government retirement awards. Some civilian government workers have qualified for retirement after becoming eligible for military retirement pay. After World War congress approved an act that retained all five-star generals and admirals on active pay and duty as long as they lived. They also may have two military aides and of fice space in the Pentagon or elsewhere if they wish. Eisenhower decided to forfeit this when he entered the political arena as a presidential candidate.

Former President Harry S. See IKE Pg. 2, Col. 2 Myth Abominable Snowman Is a Fake, Hillary Aide SAN FRANCISCO, Dec' 27 tfi A biologist member of Sir. Edmund Hillary's recent Himalayan expedition says the Abominable Snowman is a myth.

"It's been a fascinating story and I hate to be the one to destroy it," Lawrence Swan of San Francisco State college said yesterday. Swan was one of two biologists who accom- panied Sir Edmund into ther Himalayas in search of the snowman or yeti, as it is known to the Nepalese. Sir Edmund recently returned with two scalps the natives said were taken from Yeti. Swan, a Himalayan fauna expert, says that the hair on the scalps is fake and that the snowman never existed. "It's time someone set the record straight," he said.

holiday period which started at 6 p. m. Friday, showed 485 killed in motor vehicle accidents. Fires also took a heavy toll, with 77 deaths reported compared to 43 for last year's Christmas weekend holiday. Various types of other accidents claimed the lives of 82 persons compared to 73 last Christmas for an overall total of 644 violent deaths.

Last Christmas the total was 609 accidental deaths. The National Safety council, which had estimated a possible death toll of 510, said traffic fatalities would number 350 on a normal non-holiday weekend at this time of year. It estimates 340 persons may be killed during the three-day New Year holiday weekend. RECORD IN 1955 An Associated Press survey of violent, deaths for a 78-hour non-holiday weekend period earlier this month showed 293 traffic fatalities, 47 killed in fires and 113 killed in miscellaneous accidents, a total of 453. The record traffic death toll for a three-day Christmas holi- See TOLL Pg.

2, Col. 3 PRESIDENT -ELECT KENNEDY'S appointment of C. Douglas Dillon as secretary of the treasury and Robert S. Mc-Namara as secretary of defense have disturbed Democratic liberals. These two cabinet choices substantiate postelection beliefs that the Massachusetts man would not be a wild-eyed radical in the White House.

Secretaries-Designate Dillon and McNamara, as a banker and corporation executive, respectively, obviously will not favor the extreme spending program promised in the Los Angeles platform. Dillon, in particular, cannot shift overnight from his support of President Eisenhower's conservative attitude toward financial, monetary and budget questions. Indeed, the Dillon and Mc- See OBSERVER Pg. 12, Col. 6 FourRelow Predicted New Cold Wave Edging Out of Canada; May Hit Here Wednesday Hourly Temperatures a.

1110 a. 17 7 Ill 11 a. 20 I a. I'll 13 noon 21 0 a. 13! K.

ather Barran temperatures Barometer reading 30.62, rifting The Christmas holiday weather honeymoon is over. A new cold wave was edging out of the Canadian north Tues day, overspreading the midwest and threatening to drop the ther mometer to four below zero here early Wednesday. The low at 4:05 a. m. Tuesday here was six above zero.

By noon it was only up to 21 in contrast with Monday high of 37, To cap this, the Wednesday afternoon high probably won't exceed 18 degrees, according to the U. S. weather bureau station here. The outlook for Thursday is for partly cloudy skies and continued cold. It should ease up a little Friday, but the pendulum is due to swing back again by Saturday.

Only cheerful item on the weather menu was the forecast that there wouldn't be any snow in the immediate future. Heavy i Job9 RIDOTT, Dec. 27 Ufi Bur glars broke into a grain elevator company office over the weekend and carted off a 400-pound safe. Police found it four miles away. The burglars had forced it open and taken all the cash $2.50.

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Oood condition. 375. CaU TU 2-7830. FRED A. KNORR Road Chief Is Named Missouri Highway Head Is Appointed U.

S. Administrator By MARVIN ARROWSMITH PALM BEACH, Dec. 27 Ul President-elect John F. Ken nedy Tuesday chose Rex Whitton, chief engineer of Missouri highway department, to be federal highway administrator. Later, against the background of the space race with Russia, Kennedy started another round of conferences with Vice Presi dent-elect Lyndon B.

Johnson and Sen. Robert S. Kerr, (D-Okla), in line to succeed Johnson as chairman of the senate space committee when the new congress convenes next month. The conferences also dealt again with state department op erations overseas. On band lor those discussions was Rep.

John Rooney, (D-NY), chairman of the house appropriations subcommittee which handles state de partment funds. Whitton, 62, will administer the federal highway act in his new position which pays $20,000 a year. Pierre Salinger, Kennedy's press secretary, said he did not know Whitton's political party amiiation. Whitton has been associated with the Missouri highway de partment since 1920 and has been its chief engineer since 1951. The president-elect chose Whitson after consultation with Gov.

Luther H. Hodges of North Carolina, who will be secretary of commerce in the new adminis tration. Whitton was graduated from the University of Missouri in 1920 with a degree in civil en gineering. In his position with the Missouri highway depart ment he has supervised the state's 32,000 miles of road sys tems. Bandits Get Dearborn Township Bank Target of 2 Men; Their Abandoned Car Found DETROIT, Dec.

27 () Two armed men robbed a branch of the Michigan bank in Dearborn township, located in a trailer, of about $8,000 in a swift holdup shortly alter it openea today, Police said the pair spent no more than two or three minutes in the bank before fleeing in a stolen car later found abandoned in a parking lot One of the two shouted, "Hit the deck!" to a half dozen employes and customers as the robbers burst through a trailer door with guns drawn. Bernard C. Boczar, 36, manager, said the robbers ordered everyone to "get on the floor and keep your heads down. No shots were fired. No one was injured.

The branch bank, just west of Telegraph rd. (US-24) on Ford was opened three months ago. The robbers were described as tall and in the early 30s and wearing heavy growths of beard. One had a porkpie hat. Their car was found in a lot off Telegraph rd.

not far from the bank. Moon Over Miami Wears a Halo MIAMI, Dec. 27 Ufi The moon over Miami wore a lunar halo Monday night The weather bureau said it received "quite a few" calls about it. "We pick up the phone and merely say, 'halo'," a forecaster quipped. 'Healthy Street' HONG KONG, Dec.

27 (UPD Police today reported that Lee Chung Leung, 55, was knocked down and killed by a car while crossing "Healthy st" the bahara, from atop a tower. trench officials said that the de vice was of several kilotons in power. A kiloton is equivalent to 1,000 tons of TNT. The first atomic bombs, made by the United States in World War II, were of about 20 kilotons. The first French bomb, tested Feb.

13, had 70 kilotons power and the second, set off April 1, was considerably smaller. FALLOUT NO DANGER Calling today's test a success. the defense ministry said the device was of small strength. Offi cials said the fallout presented no danger to nomads in the desert. Testing points reported that weak radioactive fallout was noted in an area about 60 miles long and 15 miles wide extend ing southwestward from the firing range.

With the findings from the test, French scientists hope to perfect small operational tactical bombs and detonating devices for thermonuclear or hydrogen bombs. The French said many small animals most of them mice or rats were placed in the test area and are now being flown to Paris for study. Some of the anmials had been injected with substances that might furnish protection against radioactivity, officials said. Oth er animals had been put in a state of hibernation to study how they reacted to radioactiv ity in that conduon. Scientists in protective clothing retrieved them after the blast.

The government gave no de tails of the device exploded, but presumably it was of plutonium, as were the previous two. Device No. 3 was named "Red Jerboa," after a small desert rodent. A statement by French atomic scientist Pierre Billaud indicated the third device was something close to being a useable atomic bomb. The Soviet news agency Tass quickly charged that the French explosion defied the wishes of the UN assembly and was a blow to hopes of disarmament.

There was no immediate com ment from U. S. officials in Washington. AFRICA PROTESTS The test may have been de layed to come after the adjourn ment of the UN general assem bly. Almost all the independent states of Africa have protested the French tests at Reggane, a desert area 1,500 miles south of Oran, Algeria.

The African gov ernments contend fallout from (he tests endanger their popula tions, and the assembly in ses sion would have furnished a spotlighted attacks for new attacks on the French action. The third test was one more step in President Charles de Gaulle's determined drive to gain France a' voice in the exclusive "Atomic club" so far confined to the United States Britain and the Soviet Union. With the third explosion, he may now be able to claim U. S. aid in atomic development with more force.

The U. S. McMahon act limits the sharing of American nuclear secrets to friendly nations that have made "sub stantial" progress in their own development. Previously only Britain qualified. News Highlights STEBBINS HOME Landmark "sees" last Christmas party.

Page 17. TOP STATE STORIES Election of Swainson is first. Page 14. EAGLES CHAMPS Time runs out for Packers. Page 25.

Bedtime Stories' 11 City in Brief 2 Comics 30 Crossword Puzzle 31 Daily Patterns 22 Dear Abby 22 Editorials, Features 12 Eyes of the World 10 Markets 34 Onlooker 31 People in the News 16 Radio, TV 32 Senior Forum 7 Society 20-21 Sports 25-26 27 State Affairs 6 State Page il4 Sylvia Porter 3 The Doctor Says 38 Theater 29 Vital Statistics 2-14-34-35 Weather 1-34 Women's Features 22-23 National Death Toll Falls Below Estimate Treat 'Em as Sick, Sick, Sick Sociologist Prefers 'Psychos' to 'Hoods' Traffic 485 Fire 77 Miscellaneous 82 TOTAL 644 (By The Associated Press) Traffic accidents killed at least 485 Americans during the long Christmas weekend. The nation's traffic toll for the holiday was less than last year's 493 and the lowest for a three-day Christmas period since 1949 when the total was 413. There were fewer lives lost on the highways than the National Safety council had estimated. The council's pre-holiday warn- ning was that 510 traffic deaths were expectable. RATE DECLINES Deaths in traffic smashups slackened last night despite increased traffic as millions of motorists jammed highways heading for home from Christmas vis its.

Rain and ice made driving hazardous in some areas and the death rate dropped slightly. The count at midnight local time) at the end of the 78-hour line psychotics with delusions of grandeur or persecution." Trying to work with them is usually useless, but most gang followers can be helped by constructive activity projects, he said. Dr. Yablonsky told of interviewing some boys after the fatal beating and stabbing of a young polio victim, Michael Farmer, in New York city three years ago by a gang known as the Egyptian Kings. "Each boy interviewed had a different image of the gang." THEIR REASONS He quoted four different boys as saying: "I was walking uptown with a couple of friends and we ran into Magician (one of the gang leaders) and them there.

They asked us if we wanted to go to a fight, and we said yes. When he asked me if I wanted to go to a fight, I couldn't say no. I mean, I could say no, but for old time's sake I say yes." "Everyone was pushin' and I pulled out my knife. I saw this face I never seen it before, so I stabbed it." "He was laying on the ground lookin' up at us. Everyone was kicking, punching and stabbing.

I kicked him on the jaw or someplace; then I kicked him in the stomach. That was the least I could do Was kick "im." "They have guys watching you and if you don't stab or hit somebody, they get you later. I hit him over the head with bat" By ALTON BLAKESLEE NEW YORK, Dec. 27 W) Treat leaders of violent teen-age gangs as "psychos" rather than as "hoods," a sociologist suggested today. "That would take some of the glory out of gang, activity," said Dr.

Lewis Yablonsky of the University of Massachusetts. "Society would thus brand gang action as sick behavior rather than indirectly aggrandize it as is often done." "With gang behavior stigmatized as being in the boy's terms 'crazy or many youths would not participate in the gang and its violence." SEES AN ERROR Dr. Yablonsky, speaking" to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said many people' and even some specialists make a serious error in thinking of violent gangs as definite groups. He holds they are not usually cohesive groups, and said most boys interviewed after "rumbles" or even fatal battles "had no real concept of belonging to any gang or group." The gang is a near-group, he said, but if treated as ah organized group, a group may actually form. One social worker tried to organize such youths into a baseball team, but they turned instead into a violent gang, he added.

Gangs which become violent are loose organizations, and the leaden "are often border.