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fyf Vfvf rf Serving THE BIG BEND in FLORIDA. Since 1903 Vol. XLVII, No. 279 Tallahassee, Florida, Friday Afternoon, October 6, 1961 Price: Daily, 5c Sunday, 15c FAIR AND MILD Fair and mild through Saturday. The high today 80, the low tonight 58 and the high Saturday 82.

ifif Jk. WK Jkwftt. 1 1 if inn fn irai 1 ayourn BITS West Powers Enter Protest On Shootings British Chief Makes Call On Russian ictim; ancer rayers Asicea ti'WMt i J' It JLMa No Hope Is Held Out By Surgery DALLAS, Tex. (AP) Time appears to be running out lor Sam Rayburn. The 79-year-old speaker of the House of Representatives has cancer and it has spread to such an extent that doctors said Thursday "no further surgery is anticipated." GOVERNOR HAS A BUSY PRESS CONFERENCE Florida's Gov.

Farris Bryant had these expressions at his last press conference in Tallahassee before he takes off on his trip to Europe to seek a means whereby the British can buy more of the state's citrus products. The governor's trip to Europe is part business and part vacation. (AP Wirephoto) Answers Today? President, Rusk To See Gromyko WASHINGTON (AP) President Kennedy meets Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko today, seeking to learn if there has been any significant change in the Soviet, position on Berlin. ble by both Moscow and Washington is Thant of Burma.

Mi ffM-Til-niriflMiMii In Washington, President Kennedy asked the nation to join him and Mrs. Kennedy "in prayer for Speaker Rayburn, who has served his nation so well and so faithfully for so many years." Depending on "Mr. Sam's" stamina, one doctor said, he could hold out for several months, even longer. Another said "two or three weeks" seemed more likely. A non-medical aide to Rayburn said folowing Thursday's exploratory surgery the end could come in several days.

IT'S TOO EARLY' An official hospital spokesman told newsmen "it is too early" to say that Rayburn's cancer in incurable. "Is he going to die?" a reporter asked. "It is too early to say that he is going to die," the spokesman said. He added that it also is too early to say that Rayburn would recover. Asked if it was possible for Ray burn to recover the spokesman re- plied in the affirmative.

He said Rayburn would be al lowed to return to his home in Bonham if he wished to do so "and if we feel he is well enough to go," but "his condition would have to change before he could go back to Washington." The House speaker spent a restful night Thursday, an aide reported this morning. GLAND REMOVED Rayburn's lymph gland was re moved during Thursday's sur gery. A hospital bulletin said "the biopsy revealed a metastatic ma lignancy" and "the most likely primary site of the malignancy is the pancreas." Not His Day WAUKEGAN, III. WV-Come-dian Jack Benny loosened the grip on his billfold and the stork was quick to take advantage. In a rash moment Benny announced he would open a $39 bank account for every child, born Thursday in Waukegan, his home town, and 13 mothers delivered 13 takers.

Births in Waukegan have been averaging four a day, but the redoubtable miser of radio-TV fame apparently picked the wrong day to step out of character. "I'm getting worried. This is costing me money," said Benny when informed of the mounting births late Thursday night. He retired before the final count was announced. Well Healed HAMBURG, Germany (AP) Three high schools here told girl students they would have to quit wearing spike heels.

The schools' linoleum floors were taking a beating. The girls showed up on Thursday in spike heels, opened their satchels, took out flat heeled shoes, put them on, and went to classes. U.S., Russia Okay Thant; Issues Remain UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. AP The United States and the So viet Union were reported agreed today on Thant of Burma as temporary U.N. secretary-general but many problems remain.

Informed diplomats said the chief of Burma's U.N. delegation is acceptable to the Soviet Union and the United States. There was no coniirmation from either The U.S. or Soviet delegation. A U.S.

spokesman said, howev er, that Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson conferred on Thursday with Thant. If the agreement is affirmed, still to be worked out are the two basic questions of how the interim official is to be elected and what his powers will be. The late Dag Hammarskiold ran the executive branch of. the world peace body.

But the Soviets who fought to unseat the Swedish diplomat up to the very hour of his death in an African plane crash, want to surround the temporary official with advisers. SOME COLD WATER Before leaving for Washington and talks with President Kennedy, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko threw cold water on a small nations' plan to name an interim secretary-general with five assistants in place of the Soviets' controversial troika plan. "We think three is best," Gro. myko reiterated to reporters.

Presumably this would call for naming undersecretaries from the United States, Soviet Union and a neutral nation to work in close concert with the acting secretary-general. The advisers would have no veto. If Ambassador Thant gets the top post, this probably would result in an executive composed of a Communist and two neutrals with only one representative from the West Governor Airs Pike Shifts At Leesburg By The Associated Press Gov. Bryant says some modification of the turnpike extension route may be made in the Leesburg area to meet objections raised by Lake County residents. Bryant.

also said that despite some delays be expects dirt to be turned on the 156-mile extension from Fort Pierce to Wildwood by Dec. 15. While the detailed route of the extension hasn't been announced Lake County residents have protested vigorously that the link through Lake County to Wildwood would hurt the county economy. In a Leon County circuit court hearing Thursday Leesburg attor ney Walter Warren complained the extension would run through the heart of valuable citrus groves in southern Lake County. The governor told his news conference he had written Beverly Grizzard of Leesburg, leader of a Lake County group opposing the extension, that he shared that county's concern over the extension.

'MAXIMUM BENEFITS' "I told him that I was going to see to it that the extension provided maximum benefits and minimum harm," Bryant said. He didn't say what modifications he had in mind. Pending in the Florida Supreme Court is an appeal from the Sept. 14 order by Circuit Judge W. May Walker validating $160 million in bonds to finance the extension.

The state merit system came in for detailed discussoin during the news conference. Bryant said he might ask the Florida Supreme Court for an advisory opinion as to whether five Miami area road department employes who had been fired for accepting payola should be reinstated. REINSTATEMENT ORDER The Merit System Council, appeals body in merit cases, ordered reinstatement. By a 3-3 tie vote the Cabinet Personnel Board earlier this week defeated a mo tion which would have reversed that order. The governor said the courts (Continued on Page 2, Col.

5) I By The Way Small boy, turning green puffing on a cigarette, looked sickly at his chum and admitted, "Even with 20,000 tiny filters, I get sick." This means, a doctor explained. that the malignancy has spread from its original site to other points in Rayburn's body. Rayburn had not been told lata Thursday how serious his condU tion is. He was under heavy seda tion to relieve extreme pain but talked briefly with members of his family who remained nearby during the night. BULLETINS PLANNED Baylor Hospital, which Rayburn entered last Monday for a series of tests, set up an emergency around-the-clock press room and planned to issue up to four medi cal bulletins daily.

When Rayburn laid down his gavel late in August and left Washington before Congress ad journed, he was suffering from what he said doctors had diagnosed as lumbago. He continued to lose weight while at his Bonham farm and finally yielded to persuasions of friends and doctors that he enter a hospital for a check-up. Before his departure from the House chamber, over which he had presided more than twice as long as any predecesor, Rayburn designated Majority Leader John W. McCormack of Massachusetts to substitute for him. The house unanimously elected McCormack speaker pro tern, a designation he will retain when Congress reconvenes Jan.

10 unless the House changes its mind or Rayburn re turns. Word of the gravity of Ray- burn's condition brought expres sions of sorrow and regret from all over the nation. Telegrams by the score poured into the hospi tal. So many flowers were re (Continued ou Page Col. 2) made Rayburn speaker more than twice as long as any other man.

DREAMS OF POWER The dreams of power so long suppressed by strong and capable members of the House while Ray-burn ruled the roost seemed bound to burst into reality. And a many-sided struggle for the job whose holder is third in line for the presidency should soon develop. A possible obstacle to McCormack may be supplied by the White House. But, the possibility of President Kennedy intervening is considered a long-shot possibility at this point. Kennedy and McCormack have been at political odds in the past in Boston, their home city.

And, in the last session, McCormack antagonized the administration by insisting that parochial schools have some share in proposed federal aid to schools. McCormack's view, shared by some other congressmen, was a key factor in helping cut the heart from Kennedy's ambitious school aid legislative program. CHIEF CHALLENGERS McCormack's chief challengers at the moment would appear to be the handful of men who help run the House the chairmen of the important committees: the party whip. Rep. Carl Albert.

his assistant. Rep. Hale Boggs, the astute and greatly liked Rep. Francis E. Walter, who has indicated he may retire; Rep.

Albert Rains, a Southerner with strong Northern backing, and Rep. Rich- (Continued on Page 2, Col. S) BERLIN (AP)-The three Western Allies sharply protested today to the Soviets against two shooting incidents involving Communist East German police in Berlin's French sector. British Commandant Sir Rohan Delacombe called on his Soviet counterpart, Col. Andrei I.

Solov-yev, to deliver the protest on behalf of all three Western commandants, an Allied spokesman announced. Delacombe told Solovyev that the incidents resulted from "dangerous and irresponsible action" by the East Berlin Communist police. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, President Kennedy's personal representative in Berlin, this morning made an on the spot inspection of the dangerously tense sector the Bern-auerstrasse.

SCENE OF INCIDENTS The street, divided by the Communist-built wall now cutting through Berlin, has been the scene of two shooting incidents in the last two days. The State Department in Washington has called on Soviet authorities to avoid shooting incidents on the Berlin border. Max Maron, the East German Communist interior minister, sent sharply worded protests to West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt and the French commandant, Gen. Jean Lacomme over the shooting. He said any more such incidents will be "a threat to peace." Clay had discussed the explosive situation with Brandt before the mayor flew off on a three-day visit to New York.

WALKS WHOLE LENGTH Today, Clay drove to Bernauer- strasse. With an aide, he walked the whole one-mile length of the street occasionally going right up to the wall erected by the Communists, which measures from 8 to 10 feet in height. He also talked to local West Berlin police officers to receive eyewitness accounts of the incidents, which have sharpened ten sion in this divided city. Gunshots rang out for the third time within 36 hours Thursday when Red police fired warning shots at a West Berlin policeman and at a workman laying a cable who stepped across the forbidden Inie into the eastern sector. East Berlin police also en gaged in a rock fight with jeering West Berliners.

TENSION MOUNTING Mayor Willy Brandt of West Berlin asked the Western powers for authority to increase his 15,000 man police torce as tension mounted along the barricades di viding the city. The latest flareups began when a Communist policeman was wounded Wednesday nigtesth.W wounded Wednesday night. West Berlin police said they opened fire when shots fired by Red police at fleeing refugees whizzed by them. Castro Cries Aggression At U.S. Again KEY WEST (AP) Cuba's Prime Minister Fidel Castro at tacked the United States again Thursday night and declared that this country is continuing plans for a new military aggression against the island republic.

Speaking at a mass rally at the Presidential palace to welcome President Osvaldo Dortieos home from a visit to several Socialist countries, Castro charged that the United States "is doing everything possible to seek a collective action from Latin American countries to break relations with Cuba." Documents of an alleged Cuban conspiracy against the govern, ments of Argentina and the Phil ippines were "forged and pre pared by the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department in their continued efforts to iso late Cuba," Castro claimed. Index Bridge Comics 12 Crossword 12 Datebook 3 Editorial, Columns 4 It Happened Here 9 Markets 2 Obituaries 2 Society News 6. 1 Sports 10, 11, 13 TV-Radio 12 Want Ads 13, 15 Weather 9 But U.S. officials did not expect the session, set for late afternoon at the White House, to provide a dramatic opening for peaceful settlement of the long-festering German dispute. Kennedy is prepared to listen to any fresh instructions Gromyko may have received from Moscow and to prod the Soviet minister for further explanation of the Soviet position on Berlin.

Kennedy also was ready to re-emphasize to Gromyko Western determination not to yield on Ber-lin rights a message Gromyko likely relay to Soviet Premier Khrushchev when Gromyko returns to Moscow Sunday. ANOTHER MATTER Another matter that may come up in their conversation is the United Nations. The Soviet Union and the United States were reported Thursday night to be in agreement on a candidate for temporary U.N. secretary-general, a successor for the late Dag Ham-marskjold. The candidate reported by informed diplomats to be accepta- Hurricane's Blasts Will Fan Bermuda MIAMI (AP) Hurricane Frances was expected to fan Bermuda with gale force winds today as it sped northeastward up the Atlantic toward the polar region.

At the latest report, the season's sixth tropical disturbance was about 215 miles west-southwest of Bermuda or 500 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, N.C. It was moving toward the northeast at 13 miles per hour. Frances had winds up to 110 miles per hour near the center and gale force winds reached 200 miles to the northeast and 140 miles to the southwest The center was expected to pass 100 miles or a little more to the west and northwest of Bermuda, with gale force winds hitting that resort island most of today. Small craft in the vicinity of Bermuda were advised to seek shelter. McCormack Next House Speaker? WASHINGTON (AP) Sam Rayburn's long, unchallenged reign as speaker of the House of Representatives apparently has cleared the way for an orderly succession by Majority Leader John W.

McCormack to Rayburn's seat of power at least temporarily. Gromyko said Thursday he may bring up the whole subject of U.N. leadership when he calls at the White House. SINGLE SESSION Kennedy plans only a single ses sion with Gromyko. The President's schedule allowed for a meeting of about two hours before he was due at a state dinner be-ing given by visiting President Ferik Ibrahim Abboud of Sudan.

Secretary of State Dean Rusk will sit in at the conference. It follows three exploratory talks Rusk held with Gromyko in New York. No plans have been made for another separate Rusk-Gromyko meeting. Officials stressed, however, that this depends entirely on Gromyko. If he wants one, the State Department is ready to go along.

The objects of these sessions is to find out if the Soviets are willing to negotiate on terms acceptable to the Wrest. NOT SPELLED OUT U.S. sources said Gromyko has not yet spelled out the Kremlin position sufficiently to enable the Western powers to decide whether fruitful East-West negotiations are possible. For one thing, the Soviets have not been precise on how their proposed peace treaty with Communist East Germany would affect West Berlin rights which the West deems vital. Miami Expecting Bryant Word On Missile Option By The Associated Press Gov.

Bryant may make an announcement in Miami today regarding location of a multimillion dollar missile fuel and testing plant in the southern end of Dade County. Aerojet has obtained options on 50,000 acres of land in an isolated area south of Homestead and is seeking a lease, with option to buy, on 25,000 acres of state land in the area. approval on the outcome of the revolt before he would be willing to exchange envoys. The Syria regime has promised elections within four months. The Egyptian leader assailed governments that already have recognized the new Damascus re Eime.

He termed Turkev fascist Iran pro-Israel, Jordan a feudal republic, Nationalist China an out cast, and Guatemala a fruit com' pany Government. In his broadcast. Kuzbari said Syria not only agreed to an Arab League committee investigation but "we demand it and that it in vestigate the conditions of Egypt and Syria. We will give them the tacts." SUFFERING FROM CANCER Sam Rayburn, veteran Speaker of the House of Representatives, Is suffering from cancer, Baylor Hospital officials have revealed in Dallas. (AP Wire-photo) Ford, UAV Renew Wage Talks Today DETROIT (AP)-Full bargain ing teams from Ford Motor Co.

and the United Auto Workers Union return to national contract talks today. It promised to be the first ex tended session since 120,000 union workers struck Ford Tuesday morning. Progress at the national level was expected to depend on how successful the two sides had been in reaching local agreements dur ing the past 48 hours. National talks had been in recess, except for two half-hour sessions Wednesday, while both company and union officials tried to work out differences at 47 local bargaining units in the national Ford empire. Six members of the union's national bargaining team spent the recess in the field.

The company, likewise, dispatched top manage ment officials to key plants efforts to effect settlements. Monday 38 local agreements had been announced, including 12 locations which had no new demands. However, M.M. Cummins, Ford local relations manager, said two or three more plants have reached agreement but have not yet signed contracts. At about 10 or 12 of the other bargaining units, "just a little movement" will bring agreement, he said.

good example by discarding all its armaments. Mrs. Khrushchev declined to agree. "We do not want to be the only ones who throw our bombs into the ocean," she said. She added that in the past 40 years, the Soviet Union has had many unfortunate experiences with war and does not want to be in a position where it could be trampled upon again.

Thirty-one persons from the United States and Western Europe participated in the march, which began in December of last year in San Francisco. Among those having tea with Mrs. Khrushchev were: Bea Herrick of Chicago, Millie Gilbertsen of New York, Jules Rabin of New York, and Regina Fischer of New York, mother of U.S. chess champion Bobby Fischer, 'Not Getting Ready' Mrs. K.

Placates West Peace Group Olive Branch For Syria The grip of the strong-willed, but kindly Texan on the speakership has been so strong no rival faction ever developed. And his tenure has been so long the ambitions of any potential rivals have cooled with age. So, it would seem almost certain at this point that McCormack, a Bostonian, would follow the traditional upward path and ascend to the speaker's chair when Congress convenes Jan. 10 for the second half of its current session. McCormack, 69, is already speaker pro tern by formal vote of the House.

He was elected late last month when Rayburn was forced by illness to return to his home at Bonham, Tex. Rayburn is gravely ill with cancer and aides say his days may be sharply limited. No predictions of harmony and order would be valid beyond the next session, however. McCormack, despite 21 years as Rayburn's lieutenant in the House Democratic leadership, has nothing like the solid support that Bulletin: JACKSONVILLE MV-A twin engine navy jet bomber was reported to have crashed in Lake George 75 miles south of Jacksonville today. The plane, an A3D based at Sanford, normally carries a crew of three.

The craft was on a practice bombing mission on the huge lake. Easing Off? Nasser CAIRO (AP) President Nasser, virtually conceding the. death of his United Arab Republic, says he will not oppose efforts of the revolutionary Syrian regime to join the United Nations and the Arab League. In a dramatic address whose conciliatory tone astounded observers in Cairo, Nasser declared "there is no need for a political or diplomatic blockade of Syria because the Syrian people would suffer." Only a short time before, the Cairo press had been denouncing the rebels as imperialists. The address at first delighted the Syrian revolutionaries, and Syrian Premier Mamoun Kuzbari offered Egypt the hand of friend MOSCOW (AP) -Mrs.

Nikita Khrushchev told a group of Western "peace marchers" today that the Soviet Union was making no effort to build air raid shelters. "There is no defense in a nuclear war," said Nina Khrushchev, the wife of the premier. "Therefore we are not building any bomb shelters. We are not getting ready." Mrs. Khrushchev made her re-marks after spending an hour exchanging pleasantries and debating disarmament with the marchers, who arrived here Tuesday.

The debate took place at Moscow's "House of Friendship," where Mrs. Khrushchev's aides served tea, chocolate and apples. Most of the marchers did their best to convince Mrs. Khrushchev that, if the world refuses to disarm, one country should set a ship. But he took a new, skeptical attitude this morning.

A Damascus broadcast quoted Kuzbari as saying Nasser agreed not to oppose Syrian membership in the United Nations only because he realized it was inevitable. Kuzbari said Syria had been promised free elections" and "our only wish is that the Egyptian people would have the same opportunity." Nasser, speaking slowly and with deep emotion, said that Cairo will not recognize any Damascus government "until the free will of the Syrian people is manifested and she herself decides her path." Nasser indicated he wants a Syrian plebiscite stamping voter.