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111 i A 1 tmm Dial Di 4-6100 Da Di 4-6100 SIXTY-SIXTH YEAR FILL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STEVENS POINT, WISCONSIN, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 9, 1961 COPY 6c TWELVE PAGES Will Billion Latins As KISSES GALORE Moscow Gives Wild Reception To Titov By PRESTON ROVER MOSCOW (AP) Soviet spaceman Gherman Titov returned to Moscow today for a hero's welcome, kissed his welcomers right and left -and warned that if the "enemies of peace unleash another war, the Soviet Union has the wherewithal to crush the aggressor" Standing atop the Lenin-Stalin tomb, the 26-year-old Titov told the applauding multitude jamming Red Square his space flight was dedicated to peaceful purposes and "we use our mighty rocket technique for the sake of prog Aid Years IU ver Amherst Fair Set To Open On Friday Carnival rides are being assembled and the finishing touches applied to buildings and grounds as the Portage County Fair at Amherst prepares to open. The fair will run from Friday through Sunday, with harness racing once again a feature attraction. "Everything looks fine," said Thomas Guyant, Fair Association president, as he supervised last minute preparations Tuesday. I US Goes Along With Big Prog ram Bv WILLIAM L.

RYAN PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay (AP) The United States, happy with the progress of the inter-American economic conference, gave its blessing today to an ambitious appeal by Latin nations for a 10-year inflow of at least $20 billion, from U.S. and other foreign sources. The U.S. delegation to the Alliance for Progress assembly, bowed gracefully to Latin sensitivity even helped revise two planks in the momentous Declaration of Punta del Este. The planks had aroused strong opposition among sovereign-minded Latin-Amercian statesmen.

One would set up a public information machine. The other would establish a commission of "seven wise men" as an advisory and coordinating body for national development programs. i formed up as much as 2Y miles from Red Square, the spaceman's motorcade made its slow way into the city past densely packed, cheering Flowers carpeted the route, and the car carrying Titov and Khrushchev was repeatedly slowed as the eager Muscotives pressed forward. Red Square was filled with thousands carrying banners and flags. Bunting with huge Communist slogans was draped from the buildings.

As the motorcade neared Red Square, a flight of helicopters released a hail of small flags bearing Titov's portrait. Forty Ef Eight Convention Here This Weekend Chuck Haase, 17, lay unconscious in his strekher as Air Force Convair Tuesday afternoon for transfer to Madison. iffL nvnv -Witt-ruin. mmmi Air Force Lends Hand To Help Injured Youth The U.S. Air Force lent a hand Tuesday in the fight to save Charles Haase's life, A military hospital plane flew the irfjured youth to Madison for treatment at the University A hospital spokesman said in Madison today that the youth remains critical and that there were no immediate plans for surgery.

To cut red tape, Air Force personnel had to carry their request all the way to the Pentagon in' Washington, D.C. Exhibit space is about filled, he reported, and the list of en tries for the harness races is heavy almost too heavy, in fact So far, he said, 41 entries have been received in four classes, Only 10 horses can be started at a time, so a couple of the classes will have to be divided into two divisions if all the entries show up. Harness racing is scheduled Saturday night, under the lights and on Sunday afternoon. On Sunday night, before the stage show, running races are planned. A highlight of the three-day event will be the crowning of the 1961 fair queen during a program in front of the grandstand at 1:30 p.m.

Saturday. A field of 10 was in the running for the title Nancy Firkus of the New Hope Handy Helpers 4-H Club; Kay Potterville and Sharon Tork of the Stevens Point Horsemen's 4-H Club; Janice Young and Betty Schultz of the Almond Busy Bees 4-H Club; Kay Engebretson and Mary Lynn Lamb of the Amherst Future Homemakers; Patsy Lamb and Caroline Sopa of the Almond Sunnyside Climbers 4-H Club, and Lynda Budzbanowski of the Amherst Carey Corners Cubs 4-H Club. The list has now been narrowed to three, Miss Potterville, Miss Schultz and Miss Engebretson, and from these the queen will be picked. She and her court will distribute free dairy products at a booth on the fair grounds Sunday afternoon. Friday is children's day, with free admission to the grounds.

In the evening, amateur acts will be presented. A stage show, climaxed by the crowning of the queen, is scheduled for Saturday at 1:30, and harness racing and another stage showwill take place in the evening. Harness racing will be featured Sunday afternoon, with a stake show in the evening. There will be no admission after 6 p.m. Sun day.

Crops, baked and canned goods and 4-H, FFA and FHA exhibits will be judged Friday afternoon, starting at 2. Saturday morning, beginning at 9, cattle, swine, sheep, horses and clothing will be judged. Attractions at the fair, in addition to races, rides, shows and exhibits, will Include a wild animal display and an Indian village. All amateur artists of Portage County are eligible to enter their pictuFes in the County Fair Art Exhibit, it is announced. Each artist may have two entries suit ably framed and original work.

All entries must be in by 4 p.m. Friday. At least one picture from each entrant will be hung. All paintings must be labeled with name and address of the artist. They may be portraits, land or sea scapes or still life.

First, sec ond and third prizes in each class will be given. LOAD INJURED YOUTH he was lifted into a U.S. the University Hospitals at Another Airliner Hijacked NEW YORK (AP) A Pan American World Airways jet plane was hijacked and diverted toward Cuba today, the airline reported here. The plane was en route from Mexico City to Guatemala City at the time. A Pan American spokesman estimated that the plane would reach Havana by 3:30 p.m.

EDT. It was a DC8 jet with 72 passengers and a crew of 9. It was the fourth hijacking of an American passenger aircraft in three months, the second this month. Two Americans took over a Continental Airlines plane in El Paso, saying they intended to fly it to Cuba. However, they were overpowered after nine hours.

Previously, a National Airlines plane and an Eastern Air Lines prop jet were seized by aerial hijackers and flown to Cuba. The Eastern Electra still is held there, although its passengers and crew were released. In Washington, the White House was informed by the Federal Aviation Agency that the DCS jet may have been hijacked over Mexico. President Kennedy was advised. inventories, merchants' stocks and farm livestock.

Sen. Clifford Krueger, R-Mer-rill, said he would not agree to this change. He was the author of that portion of the Senate bill which set such personal property tax relief at 50 per cent in order to increase real estate tax relief. A coalition of Republican dissidents and Democrats could deadlock the tax revision bill. The Assembly's vote of approval came after nine hours of debate which marked the end of seven days of heated discussion on the tax measure.

Three Republicans voted with the Democrats against the bill. They were Louis Romell of Adams, Harvey Gee of Wisconsin Rapids, and Thomas St Angelo of Cumberland. Before the final vote, Assemblyman Glen Pommerening. R-Wauwatosa, called on Democrats' to "abandon slogans, face reality and vote for the bill." But Democratic floorleader Robert Huber of West Allis said his party will continue to oppose the GOP tax meaeur. I 7 ress.

But, he added, "We have all the means necessary to rebuff an imperialist, attack, and I as a military pilot am ready to fulfill any task given me by the Communist party and the government." Titov said that his space ship, although completely automatically controlled, could be guided by manual controls to a landing on any spot on the globe. The young Communist said he was particularly glad to serve as a member of the Soviet Communist party and that he would be a "faithful son of the party until the very end of my life." Premier Khrushchev, standing at the spacemen's elbow, led the applause after each of Titov's sen tences. The Soviet premier, following the new Soviet hero to the micro phone, said it was symbolic of the greatness of the Communist party that for the second time Moscow was greeting a Russian newly returned from space. The first Soviet cosmonaut Maj. Yuri Gagarin, stood nearby and shared in the plaudits.

Titov was flown to Moscow from Saratov, a Volga River city near which his space ship was reported to have landed Monday after or biting the earth na times in 25 hours. He bussed Khrushchev, top offi cials of his country, his parents and his wife. Children heaped flowers on the hero in the wild reception at the Speaking extemporaneously and waving his. arms and shouting, the premier declared: "We were the first to build socialism, we were the first in space and we will be Jie first to build communism." "The most sober-minded leaders of the West cannot help understanding that socialism is the launching pad from which these flights began," he said. He awarded Titov the titles "Hero of the Soviet Union" and "Pilot Cosmonaut," already awarded to Gagarin.

Gagarin, who accompanied Titov through the ceremonies, stepped over and shook -his comrade's hand. At the end of his speech, Khrushchev gave Titov a bear hug and kissed him on the cheek. Mrs. Titov stood proudly next to her husband. An emotional welcome at Moscow's airport began the ceremonies.

In rapid succession the returning space traveler bussed Khrushchev, other top Soviet officials) his parents and his wife. It was the first meeting for the major and his dark-haired wife, Tamara, since the weekend space flight. They barely had time for a brief embrace before being swept off to Red Square. Mrs. Titov, 24, clad in a stylish, tight-fitting light blue summer dress, turned away in tears.

The central decoration at the airport was a cluster of three huge portraits Khrushchev, Lenin and Titov. Titov's picture was in the center. Before the embracing began, Titov delivered a brief report to Khrushchev. "Comrade first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist party of the Soviet Union, chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics I report that the assignment of the Central Committee and Soviet government has been completed," Titov's report said. "All the space ship's equipment w-orked without fault.

I feel in excellent health and am prepared to carry out any assignment of the party and the government Titov, major." Titov and Khrushchev grabbed each other, grinning broadly, and the spaceman got the jump on the premier with an enthusiastic kiss on the mouth. When Gagarin made his triumphal return, Khrushchev did the kissing. Titov had been flown to Moscow from Saratov, a Volga River city 4.10 miles southwest of Moscow. His space ship Vostok II was reported to have landed near there Monday after orbiting the earth IT'i times in just over 25 hours. Smiling and trim in his air force major's uniform, the 26-year-old spaceman climbed into an open car covered with flowers.

As Russians watched on television, Titov, his wife and Khrushchev rode at the head of a motorcade down the highway to Moscow, renamed today the "Road of the Cosmonauts." As thous and at aafohan The $20-billion proposal, introduced at a night session was accompanied by an ap peal to all governments to get their programs ready within 18 months. This 'made clear the sponsors wanted each nation to do its own planning. The United States studiously Ig nored a two-hour harangue Tues day night by. Cuba's economic czar, Ernesto Guevara. A delegation spokesman said the vitriolic assault on the Kennedy program would not be "dignified with a response." The United States was disturbed by the idea that Guevara may have embarrassed the gov ernment of Venezuela, which is engaged in an aggressive program of economic and social reform.

It was considered that Venezuela was one of the many targets of the Cuban attack. As for Guevara's charge that the United States plotted to kill Raul Castro, Fidel's brother, July 26, was brushed off here as nonsense. When Guevara finished speaking, several Cuban exiles in the audience screamed "assassin" at him and two leaped on the stage shouting. Fists swung as security guards hauled the demonstrators from the packed chamber. The $20-billion resolution was submitted by Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru.

It differed from U. S. proposals on two major points. First, the resolution watered down the U. S.

proposal for a powerful committee of "seven wise men to coordinate econom- planning for Latin America Th five nations made clear they intend to plan their own economic programs and substituted a pro posal for an inter-American plan ning statt with advisory powers only. The five also junked the dis- Duted American "cheme for an elaborate information and cultural campaign to publicize the economic and social reforms that are the aims of Kennedy's program. An Argentine delegate said pri vately the united States was "largely in agreement" with the resolution, which is expected to form the backbone of a joint declaration to be signed at the close of the conference. The resolution declares that Latin America's economic ills require "a supply of capital from all external sources during the coming 10 years of at least $20 billion the bulk of which should be in public funds." This was the figure Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon mentioned in his address to the conference. Dillon stressed, how ever, that the size oi the aid would depend largely on whether the Latin-American countries take the "necessary internal meas ures to insure rapid economic growth and development.

The United States already had promised to contribute more than a billion dollars a year to keep the program going. Dillon men tioned Japan and nations in West em Europe as potential sources to make up the balance. Delegates turned to closed-door sessions today to try to get the gigantic aid program off the ground. They will study the five- nation resolution and other pro posals and will draft a final dec laration to be signed before the conference closes Aug. 16.

One Vote Short Of Special Session UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) The Asian-African-Soviet coali tion seeking a special session -of the U.N. Assembly on the French- Tunisian dispute was ocy one na tion abort todajt. Stevens Point's population will temporarily swell this weekend with a deluge of delegates in town for the 40th annual Grands Promenade of the Wisconsin Grand Voiture, 40 et 8. Registration begins Thursday at the American Legion Hall with meetings of various committees in the afternoon and a confab of the Grand Cheminot at the Elks Lodge starting at 8 p.m.

Xhe first general session is scheduled Friday at 9:30 a.m. in the Hardware Mutuals Auditorium. It will recess at noon and resume at 2 p.m. On Saturday morning Grand Cheminots in even numbered districts will be elected in district caucuses to be announced. At 9:30 the organization will open the second session of the Grande Promenade in the Hardware Auditorium.

On noon Saturday is a Past Grand Chefs de Gare Club luncheon at the Whiting Hotel. The general session trails into the annual Memorial Service to which the public is invited at 3:30 Saturday afternoon in the Hardware Auditorium. The annual Grand Promenade banquet at 5 p.m. at the Legion Hall will feature an address by John M. Hobble, 1960 Chef de Chemin ie Fer Passe.

Following the banquet, at 8 p.m., will be the annual parade slated to start at Clark street and S. Michigan avenue, moving west on Clark to pass before a review ing stand at the Legion Hall. Every conceivable type of Wisconsin 40 et 8 boxcar, jalopy and crazy car available will be included along with comic groups, bands, drum corps, floats and marching units, according to Lawrence Kranig, general chairman of the convention. The annual assembly will close Sunday morning after a meeting of the New Grand Cheminot at the Legion. Quadros To Visit US In December WASHINGTON (AP) Brazilian President Janio Quadros will arrive in Washington Dec.

5 for a three-day state visit. The Weather Wisconsin Partly cloudy and warm with widely scattered show ers or thunderstorms north and west portions this afternoon or tonight. Thursday scattered thun-dershowers likely, turning cooler north and west portions. Low tonight in the 60s. High Thursday 75-80 northwest, 80s southeast.

Winds Southerly 8-15 m.p.h. Stevens Point Temperatures Yesterday's maximum, 85. Last night's minimum, 62. Noon today, 76. Precipitation, .08.

Five-day forecasts: Temperatures will average 3- degrees below normal. Normal high 76 north, 84 south. Normal low 56 north, 62 south. Turning cooler northwest and west central portions Thursday and over all of state Friday. Warmer Sunday and turning cooler again Monday.

Precipitation will total one-quarter to one-half inch in showers Thurs- lifcxxiajr. ANGUS ROTHWELL School Lunches Affect Learning, Says Rofhwell There are still children whose only well-balanced meals are pro vided by school lunch programs, Angus Rothwell, state superintend ent of public instruction, said here this morning. Rothwell, making his first ap pearance here since taking office in July, spoke at the opening ses sion of the fourth, annual school lunch workshop at the Central State College fieldhouse. About 1,000 lunch personnel and administrators from schools throughout the state were here this morning, with a maximum at tendance of 1,500 expected for the three-day affair. Rothwell said that as the heat ing, lighting and seating in school affect a child's ability to learn, so does the lunch program.

"You are very important peo ple," he told the audience. "You are a part of this great family that is striving to provide boys and girls of the state with a good education." But, warned Rothwell, you can't please 'em all. "Children would be glad to have hamburgers and French fried potatoes every day of the week if you would provide them," he said. "Hot tamales, I understand, are also a very popular dish. A large number of children would be will ing to substitute soda drinks for milk.

"No matter how hard you plan, there will always be a few who are not satisfied with what you offer." And these few, he said, might include some teachers. The workshop delegates broke up into sectional njeetings this afternoon. On Thursday morning at the fieldhouse, they will hear talks by Gov. Gaylord Nelson and Ivan Nestingen. under secretary of health, education and welfare.

More sectional meetings will be held Thursday afternoon, and the workshop will end late Friday morning with another general session at the fieldhouse. Mrs. Margaret Tyler of Wauwa-tosa, president of the Wisconsin School Food Service is chairman of the workshop, which is sponsored by the state Department of Public Instruction and CSC In charge of local arrangements are Dr. R. E.

Gotham, Dr. Agnes Jones, Keith Briscoe and John Amacker of Central State, and Albert P. Moldenhauer, Stevens iPomt wperiatendent of schools. Seventeen-year-old Haase had been unconscious and in critical condition at St. Michael's Hospital here nearly two weeks, ever since July 27 when his motorcycle collided with a car on Highway 10 near Amherst Junction.

He suffered a fractured skull, ribs and left leg. Local physicians have been In close touch with Madison specialists since the mishap, according to Mrs. Myron Haase, the youth's mother. It was felt the facilities and staff at the University Hospitals might be able to help, she added. Chuck's father was at the Municipal Airport around noon Tuesday to talk with manager Ken Barlow about renting a small, private plane for the trip.

Chuck was too critical to be taken by an ambulance. About 1:30 p.m., after the senior Haase had left, an Air Force Convair landed to pick up a serviceman hospitalized here and slated for transfer to a military hospital at Great Lakes, 111. En route was a stop at Madison's Truax field. The plane's pilot, Capt. Thomas Mathews, overheard talk about the proposed air trip for Chuck and volunteered to ask official permission to take him in the Convair.

The pilot telephoned his home base, Scott Air Force Base, Belleville, 111., and explained the situation to Capt. Walter Stark, assistant operations officer of the 11th Aero Medical Transport Squadron to which Mathews and his crew are assigned. The request for permission to fly Haase was hurriedly channeled along the chain of command, all the way to military officials at the Pentagon. Within an hour Mathews had his answer: go ahead. I About 3:30 p.m.

the uncon scious youth was taken by city ambulance from the hospital to the Municipal Airport and the waiting plane. Mrs. Haase ac companied her boy on the flight. It was to be her first plane ride. "I never thought it would happen," she remarked about get ting an okay to use the Air Force plane "I didn't think Chuck would get such a priority," the anxious mother added as she watched personnel load her son's stretch er.

The wait for approval and the transfer of the Haase boy put Capt Mathews' flight about two hours behind schedule. He was supposed to land at Scott about p.m. after stops at Madison, the Naval Air Station near the Great Lakes and Chanute Field near RantouL III. The hospital place ti arcBoftr-i ily used for transporting injured military personnel or their relatives, Capt. Mathews explained.

Known as the C-131 "Good Samaritan," it is part of the Mili tary Air Transport Service (MATS). On the plane in addition to Capt. Mathews were a co-pilot, flight nurse, two medical technicians and a flight mechanic. The plane had left Scott Monday and stopped at Grand Forks, N. Duluth, Minneapolis and La Crosse before coming here, where it was scheduled to stop about 20 minutes.

The Convair trip from here to Madison was to take only about half an hour and an ambulance was scheduled to meet the ship when it landed in Madison. "I hope they (Madison special ists perform the same miracle they did the last time. He really (See HAASE page 11) Whiting Wants To Raise Level Of McDill Pond The Village of Whiting will ask the state Public Service Conv mission lor permission to raise McDill Pond about a foot when the dam is restored this 'ill. Dr. Henry Anderson, village president, said a 13-foot head of water is the "historical level" of the pond, and state permission is needed to change it.

Shoreline residents, he reported, have expressed an interest in raising the pond to provide better fishing, boating and swimming. "It will make it a better recrea tional area," said Dr. Anderson, and at the same time, through its effect on the underground water table, may furnish a better water supply for the paper mill wells downstream on the Plover River. The village does not believe the higher level will cause damage in upstream areas, including Iverson Park, he said. A hearing on the village's request will probably be ordered by the Public Service Commission.

McDill Pond has been drained down to the river channel since late last summer because of the poor condition of the dam. Dr. Anderson said bids on a new dam should be ready for opening by early September, with work completed and the pond filled sometime this fall. Construction will probably go on while the village's application to reiec Una ievel is being Tax Revision Bill Returns To Senate MADISON (AP) The state As sembly passed the Republican tax revision bill Tuesday and sent it back to the Senate where a complete deadlock threatens and may kill the measure. Senators may start considering the bill today.

The final Assembly vote was 51-48, slight improvement on the one-vote margin by which the GOP got its tax measure through the Senate July 26. Both the Assembly and Senate versions of the bill 'include a three per cent retail sales 4ax on a long list of products and serv ices. But the Assembly added two features to the bill that appear to face rock hard opposition in the Senate. One Assembly amendment pro vides for a withholding system of collecting state income taxes. starting next Jan.

1. to gain acceptance of withholding, all 1961 state taxes except on capital gains would be forgiven. The Assembly also boosted from 50 to 100 per cent personal property tax relief on manufacturers'.