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OJcalhJt Sioux Falls area. Warmer tonight, mild Sunday. Low tonight 12, high Sunday 37. Details page 2, column 4. AMGUS-UEADER ft mm MM sMm A -M ABOUT FAT SUNDAY'S ARGUS-LEADER 10 PAGES SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1960 TELEPHONE ED 4-5811 10 CENTS SIOUX FALLS France Explodes Atom Bomb Cuba, Russia Sign Trade Agreement HAVANA (AP) Anastas I.

from Tower in Sahara Desert PARIS (AP) France ex ploded a plutonium bomb deep in the Sahara Desert today and became the world's fourth atomic power. President Charles de Gaulle announced France's first nuclear blast in a communique issued by the Defense Ministry. It declared France is now in a better position to negotiate with the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union toward nuclear disarmament. The. terse communique said an "atomic device" went off successfully from a tow from the test site 1,500 miles south of Oran to De Gaulle in Paris.

BLAST ANNOUNCED The dramatic announcement was made in the French capital as dawn broke. Most of the gov ernment ministries were empty. "The explosion took place in the conditions of strength and secur ity foreseen, tne communique said. "Thus, France, because of its national effort, can reinforce its defensive potential, that of the (French) community and that of the West." ARABS REMOVED Only some 600 scientists and v- ff A Can You Guess Who Won? 1 10fh St. Golden Gloves Butler Tuesday when tourney takes stories on boxing meet at the Coliseum.

will be in action again the final night of the place. (See photo and today's sports page). He's down here but Dave Butler of Sioux Falls got up and went on to score a close decision over Keith Bergstrom, Lead Deadwood, in a thrilling lightweight fight in Friday night's Argus-Leader Vt i i i wmmmmmmmMm ill il v. -fill 'mtimf 1 j-y 1 Widening Sought Widen the roadway on the 10th street viaduct to four 12-foot lanes, to provide a smoother and safer- flow of traffic. A proposal to that effect will be presented to the City Washington.

He said he had tons of rock to go" to monument. He calculates 1948 he has moved 1,400,000 (AP Wirephoto) CRAZY HORSE SCULPTOR IN OMAHA Korcak Ziolkowski, sculptor of Crazy Horse Monument, Custer, S.D., and his two oldest children John. 11, and Dawn, 10stopped if in Omaha Thursday en route home after a trip to Boston, New John IT. Hedin, 84, Retired Circuit Judge, Dies in Si. Viaduct by the Sioux Falls Chamber dous increase in the peak load after the interstate crossing on E.

10th street is completed." BUILT IN 1930 The viaduct, built in 1930, is more than 700 feet long, stretch ing between Reid street and Franklin avenue. Its overall width is 50 feet, and the roadway is 36 feet wide between curbs, City Engineer E. Bragstad pointed out that the river bridge at the west end of the viaduct is already of sufficient width for two additional lanes. Earlier this week the proposal was informally presented to Gov. Ralph Herseth, Highway Director E.

F. McKellips and members of the State Highway Commission. Making the trip to Pierre were Anderson, Chamber Manager Gordon Olson, Si Rogers and J. E. Roningen, U.S.

Rep. George McGovern met with the highway committee Friday afternoon. He reported that he has introduced a bill in the House for the building of a bridge over the Missouri River west of Platte. A companion meas ure has been introduced in the Senate by Sen. Francis Case.

Truce Reached in Speed Trap Fight HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (AP) -Motorists traveling U.S. 41 from Chicago to Miami no longer will pull up short after seeing this sign at nearby Crofton: "Warning: Speed trap operated by local parasites." Motel owner Joe Noffsinger, 41, who erected two such signs, agreed Friday to take them down after the prosecution agreed to drop criminal libel charges against him. "The situation has been remedied," Noffsinger said. er at Point Zero at Tanezrouf, deep in the desert near Reggane at 6 a.m.

TESTS SUSPENDED The explosion came after more than a year in which no atomic blasts had been announced by the other powers pending negotiations on a test ban. France had made plain, however, she did not feel bound by this "gentlemen's agree ment" to ban tests. Three hours alter the bomb exploded the Defense Ministry said that there was no radioactive fallout in inhabited regions of the Sahara area. News of the blast was flashed John Medin drawing up and securing passage of several changes in criminal procedure of the laws of South Dakota and was afso responsible for the Juvenile Court Law of 1915. He was joint author of the Constitutional amendment which gives the courts the right to sus pend sentences of first offenders.

REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN Active in the Republican Party he served as chairman of the group's county convention in 1906. In 1932, he was chairman of the South Dakota delegation to the Republican National conven tion in Chicago. A member of the YMCA since it was organized in Sioux Falls, Mr. Medin found time each week for a few games of volleyball until his illness. He joined the Knights of Py thias in 1898 and held all of the offices in the organization at var ious times during his member ship.

He had been a member of Unity Lodge since 1912. BOARD MEMBER Mr. Medin was a board member of the First Methodist Church and taught Sunday school for 35 years. He had been chairman of the Sioux Falls Social Com mission at one time. Survivors include Mrs.

Medin and daughter, Mrs. M. F. Eliott, Dixon, 111., and three grandchil dren. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m.

Tuesday at the First Methodist Church. Miller Funeral Home is in charge of arrange ments. I i 1 I fvi York and "only 5 million complete the that since tons of granite. technicians saw the blast. Arab nomads in the area had been cleared out by French desert pat rols.

The announcement said the pow er of the bomb was what had been expected. It was understood to be equal to about 20,000 tons of TNT the strength of the first Ameri can A-bombs to hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. The Sahara blast is expected to have the following effects on diplomatic and military fronts: 1. Strengthen De Gaulle's hand when he plays host to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev next month and during the French President's ensuing trips to London and Washington. 2.

Mark a big step toward giv ing France atomic capability al though she will not have an ap preciable nuclear punch until 1963. 3. Boost the morale of French military leaders who have been sensitive about not having atomic weapons in their arsenal, a factor that could improve French cooper ation within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. POWER BOLSTERED The explosion will also go a long way toward restoring the power of France in the councils of the aims one of De Gaulle's prime aims since he took power in 1958, France exploded the bomb to force her way into the nuclear club which she had said should be disbanded. The French have announced they want 'ironclad agreements leading to abolition of atomic stockpiles.

Until such agreements are in sight, the French plan to continue tests and development of atomic armaments. NOT AT CONFERENCE France is not taking part in the lengthy negotiations at Geneva seeking an end to experimental nuclear explosions. The official French position has been that any agreement to halt tests would be a delusion as long as big stocks of atomic arms exist In remaining aloof from Geneva negotiations France announced she would not be bound by results The bomb was an all-French ef fort. The government had pre viously denied any foreign techni cians were used. The United States had furnished France with enriched plutonium but all this had gone into other atomic energy projects.

CAUSES UPROAR France's announcement that she was going ahead with the Sahara test touched off an uproar last fall in the U.S. General Assembly. It brought a storm of protest from all the independent African states The General Assembly put through a resolution in November urging France to call off the test. The French made plain that they would go ahead despite the Assembly's stand. French Bomb To Create Problems By JOHN M.

HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (AP)-France's 'nuclear club" of the great pow ers is likely to raise more prob lems than it solves in relations between Washington and Paris. The explosion of a French atom ic device early today in the Sa hara had been anticipated by Al lied officials for many months. The problems it seems certain to raise have been foreseen. But it appears that President Charles de Gaulle's desire for U.S. assistance in making France an advanced nuclear power, with sophisticated weapons in its ar senal, will now be reinforced in French government and popular opinion.

POSITION BOLSTERED The French are in position to argue that they must be consid ered in some degree at least as qualified as Britain to receive U.S. assistance in the nuclear field. The difficulty in American ac ceptance of this point of view, however, lies not so much in the still limited nature of France's nuclear effort as in fears in offi cial quarters here about France's political stability. There is known to be deep un willingness among congressional leaders to make any change in (Continued on Page 2, Col. 5) Ulcers: Things you get from mountain-climbing over molehills.

Terrace Park Half-4-Half. Makes cereals twice as good! (adv) Mikoyan and Prime Minister Fidel Castro today signed an agreement by which the Soviet Union will buy five mil lion tons of Cuban sugar over five-year period and give Castro's regime a 100-million-dollar credit to be repaid in 12 years. Under the agreement, which the Soviet deputy premier signed only four hours before his scheduled departure, the Soviet Union will buy a million tons of sugar annually. The Russians have been buying from to 600,000 tons a year. Of the sugar purchases, tons will be paid annually in dollars representing purchases, on the world market.

TO BUY MACHINERY Cuba will use the 100-million-dollar Soviet credit to purchase' Soviet agricultural and industrial machinery and will repay the loan at a low rate of 2Vi per cent annually. The announcement of the trade treaty said it had been drafted in an all-night session with the Cuban delegation headed by Ernesto Guevara, leftist president of Cuba's National Bank. The semiofficial newspaper Rev- olucion, which announced the trade agreement as it was being signed, made no mention of two other possible results of Mikoyan's 10-day visit to Cuba. OTHER ISSUES These are resumption of diplomatic relations broken off by former President Fulgencio Batista and Mikoyan's offer to "sell war-planes to Cuba if they ask us for them." Mikoyan appeared on a nationwide TV broadcast Friday night and said he had come to Cuba only to promote Soviet Cuban friendship, not to upset historic U.S.-Cuban relations. In Washington, U.

S. officials viewed Mikoyan's trip as a Mos cow propaganda move to capital ize on the low of Cuban-American relations. 1 Will Tregoff Testify? LOS ANGELES (AP) Carole Tregoff and her attorneys must make a crucial decision. Shall the pretty co-defendant tes tify in the Finch murder trial? Can the defense afford not to put Carole on the stand? Carole, 23, and her lover. Dr.

R. Bernard Finch. 42, a socialite surgeon, are accused of murder and conspiracy in the July 18 shooting of Finch's wife, Barbara Jean, 36. The defendants and Carole's lawyers met Friday while the sensational trial was in recess. The lawyers were asked if Carole would testify.

"We don't know yet," replied Don Bringgold, one of Carole's three attorneys. "We'll probably know for sure on Monday." The trial resumes then. Carole is the only one who could support the surgeon's story told in eight days of nerve-wracking testimony that they went to his wife to talk her into a quick Nev ada divorce. rying the most modern antisubmarine equipment the Argentine navy possesses, was ordered to the search scene from patrol duty several hundred miles to the north. More powerful depth charges are being flown from the United States.

Navy authorities reported spot ting the sub in Argentine waters in the South Atlantic 15 days ago. Later they said the craft had been tracked into the Golfo Nuevo, a 40-by-20-miIe body of water sep arated from the ocean by a narrow entrance. Despite the navy's claims, many Argentinians are dubious about the sub's existence. The international law experts reportedly told Frondizi that he can act under the 1958 Genva conference on territorial waters. This holds that forign vessels must get permission to operate in another nation's territorial waters.

Submarines are required to operate on the Russ Discover New Planet NEW YORK (AP)-A Soviet newspaper says Russian astrono mers have discovered a new planet wheeling far out around the sun. This would mean our sun has 10 instead of nine sons or daughters. American astronomers polled Friday by the Associated Press say the Russians may well be right. The all expressed a desire for more details so they could look for themselves in the international check-and-recheck spirit of sci-! ence. The nine known planets were Mercury, Venus, Mars, Ju-; piter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

Pluto is the outermost planet, wheeling in an orbit more than Vh billion miles from the sun. It was discovered by U. S. scientists in 1930. Its existence was guessed from perturbations or influences of its gravity pull upon othe planets.

The reasoning was that something had to be out there. By careful hunting, Pluto's ex istence was found. Dr. Gustva Bakos of the Smith sonian Institution in Boston said the irregularities in Pluto's orbit have suggested that there might be another plane out there. So the Russians may have found one.

Flu Deaths Jum() 20 In Nation WASHINGTON (AP) Deaths from influenza and pneumonia in 108 large cities have been running 20 per cent higher than they were two years ago during the 1957-58 Asian flu epidemic, Surgeon General Leroy E. Bur- ney of the Public Health Service, announcing this yesterday said an increasing number of such deaths are being reported. The 108 cities reported 4,033 deaths from influenza and pneumonia during the first five weeks of 1960. That was 44 per cent more than the 2,798 reported for the same 1959 period and compared with 3,357 in the first five weeks of 1958. New Satellite 'Not Russian' HAVANA (AP) Anastas I.

Mikoyan, Soviet first deputy pre mier, said Friday a mystery sat ellite reported speeding through space was not put up by the So viet Union. "The Soviet Union has no mys terious satellite," he told report ers before a scheduled TV appear ance Friday night. "The world knows all about our satellites." Mikoyan also told newsmen at a reception given by the Cuban Assn. of Industrialists that the Soviet Union is willing to supply war planes for Cuba. "If we are asked," he said, "we will sell planes to Cuba." HOTEL BURNS KANSAS CITY (AP) An ex plosion in a business building triggered a fire that destroyed one hotel and threatened two others Friday night, driving dozens of.

guests outside in 17-degree weather. There were no known fatal ities. Commission Monday morning of Commerce highway com- mittee. The commissioners will be asked to adopt a resolution call ing upon the South Dakota State Highway Commission to provide the proposed improvement. REMOVE SIDEWALKS.

State Sen. Art B. Anderson said today the widening can be accomplished by removing the pres ent concrete sidewalks on both sides of the viaduct. It won't be necessary, he said, to widen the structure itself. Anderson, chairman of the high way committee, said the present sidewalks would be replaced with hanging steel catwalks on the out side of the rails.

The space gained by removing the sidewalks would be filled with a concrete-filled steel grid floor at the same grade as the exist ing roadbed. TO COST $200,000 Estimated cost of the improve ment is $200,000. Anderson said the state and federal government stand 44 and 56 per cent of the 1 cost, respectively. The committee's proposal is be ing put in the form of a resolu-J tion addressed to the city officials. "With all the rest of E.

10th street being widened to four lanes," Anderson said, "the via duct would be a bottleneck if the roadway remained confined to two lanes. Counts have shown that as many as 3,000 motor vehicles have crossed the viaduct within one hour. We look for a tremen Paar Alters Decision to Quit NBC NEW YORK (AP)-Jack Paar softened a bit today and said he'd be willing to resume television work for the National Broadcast ing Co. under certain conditions In press interviews the star comedian said he would be agree able to resumption of his "Jack Paar Show" on a once-a-week ba sis, with the Friday night pro grams consisting of excerpts from previous However, Paar said he pre ferred to do a "person-to-person type of program, with an opportunity to travel. Paar said he also expects more money for fewer hours and shows involving less "intrafamily con troversy.

NBC had no immediate com ment on these matters but offi cials continued to express hope that Paar would return to the net work fold. Paar continued to maintain that he will never go back to his four nights-a-week stint. He scoffed at reports he earned half a million dollars a year or more under his current contract, which runs through 1962. Paar said he had abandoned a plan announced for taking a long vacation in Europe, Bodies of 5 Gs Founcf In Desert WASHINGTON (AP) The bodies of five of the nine crewmen aboard the fabled World War II bomber "Lady Be Good" have been found on the Libyan Desert, the Air Force said today. The almost intact bomber, which disappeared on a bombing flight April 4, 1943, was discovered 10 months ago.

Searchers found signs then that the crew had left the scene of the forced landing 440 miles southeast of Benghazi and started hiking toward hoped-for safety. Members of an oil company exploration team discovered the five bodies. They said they believed others might be buried in the sand in the same area. The bodies, along with personal equipment, were found about 85 miles from the wreckage, on the edge of the sand. Individual identification of each of the bodies is awaiting analysis of a U.S.

Army mort- tuary group. STAY DENIED WASHINGTON (AP)-Justice Black today denied death-cell author Caryl Chessman another stay of execution so he could make his 14th appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. JAPS TO PROTEST TOKYO (AP)-Foreign Office sources said today Japan will make a formal protest to the French government over Francee'i explosion of an atomic bomb. CARDINAL BURIED ZAGREB, Yugoslavia (AP) Alojzijo Cardinal Stepinac was buried today with impressive rites in Zagreb Cathedral that Yugoslavia Communist gov ernment barred to him as a prince of the church.

SNOW IN TEXAS DALLAS, Tex. (AP) A snow storm- blanketed the southern half of Texas under as much as 10 inches of clinging, wet snow Friday. The storm caused three deaths. John Theodore Medin, re- tired judge of the Second Judicial Circuit District, died at a local hospital today at! 9:40 a.m. He would have observed his 85th birthday next Saturday.

Mr. Medin, who retired last July because of ill health, served on the bench for 50 years and was the oldest circuit judge in the state, both in -terms of age and service. His 50th year on the bench brought congratulations from prominent persons throughout! the nation, including President Eisenhower. He was in the law field for 55 years. Mr.

Medin, who resided at 600 W. 25th was bora Feb. 20, 1875, at St, Ansgir, Iowa, where he resided until he was 14. He then moved to Kensett, Iowa, and later to Dell Rapids when 18. He attended St.

Angsir Seminary and Nora Springs Seminary before attending the University of Iowa, receiving a law degree in 1903. TAUGHT SCHOOL From 1893 to 1898 he taught school and worked as a well driller during the summer months. He also was in partnership with his brother in the furniture and undertaking business in Dell Rapids from 1901 to 1906. It was on Jan. 1, 1904, that Mr.

Medin entered the law business with A. J. Christopherson in Sioux Falls. He remained there until his appointment as county iudee April. 1908, and Circuit judge 11 years later.

Appointed by Gov. Crawford, Medin was known as an insur gent and was referred to in the newspapers as "Crawford's Mis take." When Medin was honored in 1956 for service to Minnehaha County, Supreme Court Judge Herbert B. Randolph called Me din "one of the best loved and most revered men in the state." 7 Judge Medin was credited with STRIKE INSURANCE MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP)-Trucking industry employers revealed they are considering some form of strike insurance or mutual aid plan to help combat walkouts by the Teamsters Union. Argentine Public Demands Action to Capture Sub BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) 'The "battle of Golfo Nuevo" went into the 15th day to-i day with Argentinians thirsting for action.

There was growing impatience and suspicions about the mys tery submarine the navy claims it has trapped in the remote inlet in the south Atlantic. Official silence about how things are going only whetted the appe tite of the man in the street who recalls that twice before within 21 months the navy reported sighting foreign submarines in Argentine territorial waters. Both got away without being identified. Informants said that internation al law experts had told President Arturo Frondizi that Argentina is on firm legal grounds in attacking the submarine. This reassurance came after the navy reported it had been firing away with depth charges in an attempt to force the strange intruder to emerge and surrender.

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