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MARCH 13, 1958 VOL 81 NO. 319 UYL 0) 1 Wider Walnut Street Recommended Receive Rural City's First Negro Firemen 4 JOHN BLAIR -5 1 i- MM if Ronnie Drumm, left, Immediate president of Delaware County Rural mm Lr s- John Blair, 1209 E. Fifth and Huney Goodall, 1418 E. Butler were appointed to the fire department Wednesday by the Board of Public Works and Safety. They are the first Negroes to be named to the fire department in the city's history.

They will begin duty April 1. Both satisfactorily completed a pre-appointment train ing course last fall. Lieutenant Prefers Tavern Business to Fire Department ir il Ok 1 1 Youth Aivard Tht Muncie Star Photo past president, and Doris Bird, Youth, examine the gold award Heavy Snow Hits Plains, Panhandle By UNITED PRESS A coast-to-coast southern storm hit Oklahoma with the heaviest snows in seven years Wednesday night and sent tornadic winds crashing through a Florida trailer camp. The driving March snow storm whipped through Texas, Oklahoma Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas. It was part of a low pressure system which dumped rain, sleet and snow on practically all of the nation's south from California to Florida.

The storm system erupted with 80-mile-an hour winds, possibly packing a small tornado, which smashed a trailer park near Pom-pano Beach, 30 miles north of Miami. 10 Inches in Oklahoma The wild winds knocked over practically every trailer in the park and injured at least seven persons. Ambulances rushed the injured to a hospital near Fort Lauderdale, Fla. More storms raked the west. Four inch hail pounded Safford.

and another hailstorm hit Sacramento, Calif. Up to four inches of snow fell in the Califor nia mountains from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Snow depths were already 10 inches or more along Oklahoma's southern border and all dirt roads in the state were impassable. The state highway department alerted all maintenance crews to be ready to rescue marooned drivers and to sand roads and bridges. Zinc Tariff Relief? 'jf i attached to the Rural Youth Award of Merit plaque, following its presentation by radio station WLS.

The award, which was presented to the 10 top counties in the state, is made annually following statewide competition in the Indiana Rural Youth Organization. This is the second consecutive year that Delaware County has received this award, which is based on outstanding program in education, recrea' tion and community service. i Cabinet Resigns in Cuba Report Showdown With Castro Rebels Nearing Rapidly HAVANA (UP) The Cuban cabinet resigned in a sudden crisis Wednesday and President Fulgencio Batista immediately formed a new government to meet a rapidly approaching showdown with the rebel forces of Fidel Castro. The cabinet crisis coincided with reports of heavy fighting in rebel-ridden Oriente Province and with a government decree suspending all constitutional guarantees and re-establishing press censorship. Censorship Ordered Batista named Gonzolo Guell as new prime minister.

Guell also took over the ministry of state, the post he held in the old cabinet. Batista suspended all constitu tional guarantees and re-estab lished press censorship for 45 day. He also called 7,000 addi tional troops into service raising the total of Cuba's standing army to 35,000. The rebels dynamited the big Castillo Rum Distillery in Santiago de Cuba late Wednesday causing an estimated $2,500,000 damage to the plant. The cabinet fall was precipitated by the resignation of Prime Minister Emilio Nunez Portuondo who was appointed only six days ago as a move to appease Ea-tista's opposition.

Other Ministers Quit Quitting with Nunez Portuondo and not included in the new cabinet were Communications Minister Ricardo Eguilior, Education Minister Jose M. Perez Cabrera, Health Minister Dr. Octavio Montero and Ministers without Portfolio Francisco Pando and Gustavo Nordelo. With those exceptions, the new cabinet contained the same names as before. Meanwhile, reports from Santi ago de Cuba on the southeastern coast said a well armed rebel force of about 300 men launched dawn assault from the sugar mill town of Miranda.

25 miles to the northwest. Army Air Attack The assault group apparently linking up with an estimated 150 rebels who had been operating in the area. They kidnaped the fore man of a nearby farm and forced him to guide them along the Mangos de Baragua Road to the town of Palmarito, about three miles south, where they clashed with Army forces. An Army attack, supported bv bombing and strafing planes, was also underway against rebel post tions in the forest of Mayari in the foothills of Sierra Cristal Mountain range, about 20 miles northeast of Miranda. Previously the government had claimed that all rebel pockets there had been wiped out.

Descent Has Begun LONDON (UP)-Russia's Sput nik II, carrying the remains of the space dog Laika, is coming down and will probably hit the earth atmosphere about the mid die of next month, a leadine British space scientist said Wednesday night. Leopold Given Permission to Take Job in Lab SPRINGFIELD, 111. t-The Illinois Parole Board Wednesday approved thrill-killer Nathan Leopold's request to become a $10-a-month laboratory worker in a Puerto Rican hospital. Chairman Franklin Stransky said Leopold probably will be released from Stateville Penitentiary at 10 a.m. Thursday.

Stransky said he expects that Leopold will have a chance to visit relatives in the United States before he leaves for Puerto Rico. Leopold, the paroled slayer of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, will report to Illinois parole authorities on his release and will be under supervision of Puerto Rico Parole authorities in that country. Call Bids for School Estimate $330,000 Building at Gaston The Washington School Building Corp. will receive bids at 3 p.m. April 19 at the Gaston Banking Co.

for the construction of a 12-room elementary school. Bids are to include the design, complete plans and specitications for the erection and construction of the school building and the furnishing of it. Funds now available for the new school include $75,000 in the cumulative building fund. The holding corporation plans to sell bonds to cover the difference, Kenneth L. Tuttle, corporation president, said.

Estimated cost of the building is $350,000. Alternate bids include a price excluding furniture and the amount to be added for an electrical heating system, and the amount to be added or deducted for the necessary insulation and the conversion of the area designated in the base bid as a boiler room into an art and music class room with asphalt tile and acous tical tile ceiling. If and when the new structure is completed, the present building will be used for high school purposes only, a member of the corporation said. The new building is to have classrooms of not less than 972 square feet, six classrooms to contain one lavatory each; a kitchen including an employes' change room which is to include lavatory and toilet; complete kitchen equipment; a cafeteria of at least 2,835 square feet; toilet areas for boys and girls; an office for the supervising principal; a health room with attached toilet; teachers' lounge; storage rooms; a boiler room and all necessary mechanical and electrical equipment for the proper heating, ventilation, lighting and plumbing. The heating plant in the base bid is to be oil-fired.

Floors are to be asphalt tile on a concrete slab. The roof is to be a 20-year bonded tar and gravel roof on rigid insulation. Finished ceilings in all rooms but the boiler room are to have acoustical tile. Each classmom shall contain not less than 150 square feet of chalk board with chalk rail and suit able tackboard, with 84 square Turn io Page 2, Column 3 FIVE CENTS Designed to Spur Building Nixon Casts Vote to Break Tie in Rate Provision WASHINGTON (UP) The Senate passed its first major antirecession bill Wednesday night a $1,850,000,000 emergency hous ing bill designed to stimulate construction of 200,000 new homes and put a half-million men to work. The roll call vote was 86 to 9.

The action came after Vict President Richard M. Nixon cast a rare tie-breaking vote to kill a Democratic drive to block a provision in the bill authorizing a boost in interest rtes on GI home loans. As approved by the Senate, tha measure would permit the administration to raise interest rates on government insured veterans home loans from Vt to 434 ner cent to bring them more in line with FHA-insured mortgages. The bill now goes to the House where Speaker Sam Rayburn had declared in advance that it would be taken up as soon as possible. Should Create Jobs Senate Democratic Leader Lyn don B.

Johnson (Tex.) called tha bill "one of the most important" the Senate could pass to combat the business slump. He said it could result in jobs for more than 10 per cent of the 5.173,000 now listed as unemployed. The housing bill would provide $1,500,000,000 for discretionary federal mortgage buying, $300,000,000 for direct veterans housing loans purchases of military housing mortgages. The only major fight was over the GI interest provision. The administration wanted to hike the rate to per cent, contending that lenders were unwilling to grant GI home loans at present rates.

The showdown finally came on a motion by A. S. Monroney (D-Okla.) and 22 co-sponsors to kill the higher interest rate. The first-round voting resulted in a 47 to 47 tie vote with a majority needed to win. Another Tie Vote Another tie vote resulted when Republicans attempted to nail down the original balloting.

Meantime, Nixon, who was absent on the first go-around, had slipped into his chair and cast the tie-breaking vote for the higher rate. That made the vote 48 to 47 for the increase. Sens. John Sherman Cooper (R-Ky.) and Homer E. Capehart (R-Ind.) praised the vice presi dent's action.

Capehart said the result was a "victory for the veterans and the unemployed. Cooper said Monroney's plan "in reality was not" in the interest of veterans. The Senate passed the housing bill not long after it approved, 93-1. an anti-recession resolution calling on the President to step up spending on public works projects from funds already provided by Congress. The resolution was introduced by Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B.

Johnson and co-sponsored by 65 other senators. The lone opposing vote was cast by Sen. Norris Cotton (R-ifH). who said it implied that "speedy spending" was the only answer to unemployment. Gas Sale to Canada Cae to Be Resumed WASHINGTON urv-The Federal Power Commission permitted Michigan interests Wednesday to resume presentation of heir opposition to the sale of natural gas to Canada by Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Co.

The FPC permitted all requesting parties to intervene in a Panhandle Eastern natural gas cas-e now before the commission. They include Central Indiana Gas and Kokomo (Ind.) Gas and Fuel Co. Anniversary Noted Quietly by Pope Pius VATICAN CITY (VP) Pope Pius XII quietly observed the 19th anniversary tof his coronation Wednesday with his regular Wednesday -ludienca in the great Basilica of St. Peter's. He cancelled the traditional coronation usually held on this day.

as a sign of grief over thvJ conviction of the Bishop of Prato on charges of defaming an Juli.in couple. '7 Th Mun. ie Bur Hr.otoi HURLEY GOODALL missal was necessary to remove Ratican from the payroll. Need Land Right-of-way The board learned the city is a party to the tangled negotiations to clear title for the right-of-way needed to widen Ind. 32 from Muncie to Farmland.

James Haston, State Highway Department right-of-way abstrac tor, told the board that the city still has a claim on a 16-foot right-of-way running south from 32 to the old Kuhner farm just east of the city limits. The city in 1947 paid $19,759 for the land as a dumping ground and sold it in late 1956 for $24,180 to Ontario Manufacturing Co. Terms of the contract provide Ontario must start construction there by June 30, 1959, or the city may retake the land by refunding the purchase price. Ontario is buying the ground on a contract basis of $1,000 a month andlfie city thus still has an interest in the land and the easement leading from Ind. 32.

Haston said the highway department needs 30 ft. of the easement in its new right-of-way. The state will prepare plats and deeds of the 30x16 plot, and Ontario and the city will be asked to sign over the plot. The city will get $1 consideration. The board agreed to the terms and said they would sign such an agreement it is prepared.

Haston said after the meeting that almost all necessary Ind. 32 right-of-way has been obtained except for that involved in con demnation suits which will have to be filed in court. The board ordered a street light installed at 21st and Elm streets near Roosevelt School. City Engineer Horace Weber was granted the right to order a light put up at Tacoma Drive and Gibson Court after he investigates the lighting there. Amos Sandoe, 200 Gibson presented a petition for the light, signed by neighborhood residents.

Disposal Plant Failures The board signed a letter outlin ing live malfunctions in the re cently expanded sewage disposal plant. The letter will go to the engineers and contractors who designed and built the plant, nameiy Havens and Emerson, Turn In Page 2, Column 4 A Next Launching Attempt by Army to Be Made Soon WASHINGTON (UP) Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker said Wednesday the army would make another attempt in the "very near future" to hurl a second 30-pound Explorer satel lite into orbit around the earth. Explorer I was launched Jan. 31.

Last week, the army attempted to put Explorer II into orbit but the final stage of the launching rocket failed to func tion properly. The army secretary said the Jiird Explorer satellite would have essentially the same size, weight ind instruments as the one that failed to orbit. Riot Over in Prison Convicts Exhausted; Guards in Charge PETROS, Tenn. (UP) A two- day rebellion of more than 300 convicts, chafing under Ions hours in the coal mines, apparently sputtered out Wednesday at Brushy Mountain State Prison. The prisoners, some exhausted and all weary after defying tear gas and gunfire two straight nights, shuffled quietly to work along corridors they commanded a few hours earlier against 100 armed officers.

Kenny Ray Lawson, of Norton, one of the convict spokesmen who Tuesday arranged the truce with prison officials that restored order, summed up the prisoners' position. "The guards still have the leather." he said. Prison guards armed only with billy-sticks watched over the men. Warden Frank Llewallen said, "We are cleaning up the mess." Several of the guards, however, were less optimistic. "They may have been just resting today," one said.

Only one man was injured In the hectic rioting that started Monday night. Fred (Jeep) Roberts, 24-year-old convict shot in the jaw, was "doing fine" in the prison hospital, the warden said. One by one the prisoners listed their complaints to Keith Hampton, state commissioner of institutions who said he was willing to listen to all grievances. Hampton immediately rejected the major grievance, working six days a week, 12 hours a day in the coal mines, a major source of revenue for the prison. "I told the prisoners it will be impossible for them to set rules and regulations at this prison." he said.

Hampton also dismissed charges that convicts were flogged. He said whippings were abolished several months ago. Muncie Man Files for Legislature INDIANAPOLIS (UP)-Candi-dates who filed their declarations for the May 6 primaries in' the office of the Indiana secretary of state Wednesday included: Leon Scott (D-Muncie), representative, Delaware. plate form." Holmes said. "In effect, they told us that according to present rules our industry would have to wait until the in- Turn in rage 2, Column 4 Inside Today's Star Classified Ads 20-21-22 Comics 23 Editorials 4 Junior Editors IS Obituaries 2 Puzzle 23 Radio-TV IS Sports 19-20 Steincrohn 23 Teen-Age Mall 11 Trade Winds 20 Weather 1 Winchc'I Women 9-10-11 City Dads Frown on Proposal Committee Report Requests All New Pavement and Walks A subcommittee of the mayor's Muncie Community Development Committee recommended Wednesday that Walnut Street between Washington Street and the Nickel Plata Railroad be repaved and widened at a cost to the city of about $33,600.

Tha subcommittee, headed by Dick Jennings, recommended that tha asphalt paving on the street ripped up down to its cement base, and a new layer of paving be put dowri; that two feet be cut off each sidewalk, widening the street to 40 feet; and that new curbs and gutters be installed. The projects would be paid for by gasoline taxes. The subcommittee also recommended that the sidewalks along Walnut Street be replaced. The property owners would pay for this. The total cost of the project, which met with some objection from Mayor H.

Arthur Tuhty and other city officials, would be about $53,700. Would Delay Lights The mayor said that the widening of the street would delay installation of the new traffic light system, and that remonstrances of property owners against paying for sidewalks could delay the project by over a year. The mayor said that work on the installing of new traffic lights is expected to start about one month, but that if the street was widened, light standards would have to be moved, and new specifications drawn up before contracts could be let. Marshall Hanley, City attorney, agreed with the mayor that a remonstrance by property owners could long delay a program of re-paving and widening the street. Tuhey said he had talked to members of the Board of Public Works and Safety, and felt they would be agreeable to ripping up the present pavement and repaying the entire street, and also installing new curbs and gutters.

No action was taken on the subcommittee's recommendation pending a conference with consultants on the traffic light system next Wednesday. Members of the subcommittee were instructed to contact property owners along Walnut Street, between Washington and the railroad, and see how they felt about installing new walks. Improvement of street lighting In the downtown area was also discussed, and Ernest Pifer, district manager of the Indiana and Michigan Electric showed members the type of lighting that could be installed instead of the present incandescent lamps. One type was fluorescent lights, which would produce 270 per cent more light than the present type, and the other was mercury vapor lights, which would produce 100 per cent more light. Pifer said one type of each light would be installed on Walnut Street next week, so members of the committee and city officials could see how much and what type of light each would produce.

Want Three Fire Stations A subcommittee on the construction of new fire stations recommended stations for the southeast and northwest sections of the city, and if possible, the construction of a third in the Turn in Page 2, Column 3 Require School Bus Seal for Each Student INDIANAPOLIS -Overcrowd-ing of Indiana school buses, increasing the dancer of accidents, will be outlawed starting next September under a revised set ot regulations approved by Atty. Gen. Edwin K. Steers. The regulations will require a seat for every child riding on a school bus and prohibit doubling-ud on seats or standing.

Gov. Handlcy and a panel of traffic safetv authorities disclosed the revision of the regulations at a news conference in Handieys office late Wednesday. Previous regulations also called for children to be seated while the bus was in motion, but were not clear on the practice of doubling The Board of Public Works and Safety Wednesday approved Chief Orville (Abe) Falls' recommendation that Lt. James Rati-can be officially dismissed from the department effective March 1. He has failed to report for duty since, that date "and has, in no way, contacted me explaining his absence," said Falls in a written statement to the board.

Ratican recently was granted a license to operate a Muncie tav ern, which he opened for business Wednesday. City officials took the position that he could not operate a tavern and also be a fireman. Ratican said he talked with Falls on Feb. 25 and discussed the submission of his resignation. However, he said he had not sent any letter of resignation to the chief.

Board members said that since no letter was submitted, the dis- Plan Phone Expansion at Hartford City INDIANAPOLIS m-The Public Service Commission heard Indiana Bell Telephone Co. officials explain Wednesday a proposed service improvement program for six exchanges in the Marion-Hartford City area. The program would eliminate long distance tolls between Hartford City and Montpelter, Marion and Upland, Hartford City and Eaton, and Hartford City and Upland. The Marion and Gas City exchanges would be consolidated, and a new dial office south of Marion would serve Gas City and the southern part of Marion. Monthly rates would be increased in Hartford City, Montpe-lier and Upland on completion of the program, estimated to take 15 to 18 months.

Eaton rates would not be changed. H. A. York, general commercial supervisor for Bell, said Marion and Gas City rates also would be increased when the program is completed because both already have more phones than their pies-ent rate classification calls for. transport of nuclear bombs over populated arias.

In London, leftwing opponents of the H-bomb said they would use the incident as an argument against United States strategic air bases in the British Isles. In Frankfurt, opponents of atomic weapons for West Germany pointed to Florence as a "typical example" of what can happen if the arms race continues. Asks 'Proper Restitution Rivers and his colleague, Rep. John L. McMillan also demanded that the government make "quick and proper" restitu tion to railroader Walter Gregg this nation's first atomic bomb victim.

The bomb-hit injured Gregg and five relatives, four of them children. It left the homestead looking like a picture from a world war II scrapbook house riddle witn holes and sagging, garage and sheds flattened and a crater in the garden 22 feet deep and 50 feet across. Big Three May Act Summit Parley to Be Proposed MANILA (UP) The U.S.. British and French foreign ministers agreed in a Big Three meeting here Wednesday night to make new proposals within the next 10 days for a summit con ference with Russia. The meeting was held after Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told the full SEATO conference the United States would be willing to attend such summit talks if there were hope of a disarmament accord and an easing of dangerous world tensions.

Dulles warned the eight-nation conference that such tension had brought "us close to the sparks of world war on more than one occasion. Dulles met with British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau at the British Embassy for one hour and a half following the close of the second day of the SEATO talks. A U.S. delegation spokesman said afterward the Big Three ministers discussed the possibility of a summit meeting and reached agreement on presummit procedures which their governments will submit to the NATO council for consideration. $14,000 Fire Loss on Maim Farm Defective wiring was blamed as the cause of a $14,000 fire that raged through a barn on the Elmer Mann farm, six mites southeast of Mimcie on U.S.

33. about 4 p.m. Wednesday. Firemen from the Blountsville and Center Township fire departments were called but the flames had advanced to such a point that their efforts were concerned with restricting the blaze to the barn proper. Included in the damage estimate were $10,000 to the building, $3,000 to farm implements and grain, and $1,000 to livestock quartered in the barn and in the immediate area outside the building.

The Country Parson i -5 y. w3 "Two half truths don't make a truth." I'M Local Executive Appeals for Deferral of Action THE STABS WASHINGTON Bl'REAP WASHINGTON A Hoosier industrialist Wednesday appealed to Congress to defer action on- reciprocal trade legislation until the federal government decides what to do about tariff relief for the zinc industry. Burnham B. Holmes, Muncie. a vice president of Ball Brothers testified before the House Ways and Means committee on behalf of seven U.S.

zinc rolling firms, including his own. The seven companies, Holmes said, manufacture more than 90 Find Metal, Harmless Radioactivity Carolina Bomb Crater SKETCHES By BEN BURROUGHS 'Weigh. Praise Well" Watch out for those who make believe thpy're interested in you creating the impression that their thoughts are tried and true the people who may be inclined to shower you with praise resigned to put you off your guard with underhanded ways be leery of the folk who seem to be in favor of whatever success you attain they wear a wired glove I do not mean to doubt all praise some folks like to exalt I mean that you should take it all with just a grain of salt for human nature is inclined to envy those who rise except of course those near and dear they use no shrewd disguise indeed some praise is genuine the most, in truth, is slack a sugar-coated prelude for a preplanned sneak attack. Copvntht Around South FLORENCE, S.C. (UP) An Air Force disaster team found only twisted bits of metal and a trace of harmless radioactivity Wednesday around a crater dug by a warward but unarmed atomic bomb.

The main part of the bomb, containing uranium, apparently had been blown to bits but without nuclear fission along with the rest of the device. An Air Force spokesman said that "everything" dropped by mistake from a B-47 jet bomber was destroyed when the A-bomb trigger exploded on impact. But one thing was lacking in the bomb that might have laid waste a vast arA of countryside and sent a deadly radio-active cloud over several southern cities. The bomb did not carry one key component, presumably a fuse, and the Air Force emphasized such weapons are never fully armed during transport. Meanwhile the Air Force announced at Savannah, ihe luckless B-47's base, that the aircraft was under the command of Capt.

Earl E. Koehler, a native of Mt. Carmel, 111. Koehler, who has been in the Air Force since 1942, flew 35 B-24 missions in Italy during World War II and holds the Distinguished Flying Cross. Angry Outcries Arise The other two crewmen were the pilot, Capt.

Charles S. Woodruff, Van Wert, Ohio, who flew 19 combat missions in the Mediterranean, and the observer, Capt. Bruce M. Kulka of New York City. Angry outcries against the testing and conveyance of nuclear weapons arose from Washington to western Europe as a result of Tuesday night's incident at the tiny settlement of Mars Bluff near Florence.

Rep. L. Mendel Rivers called for a congressional investi gation of the hazards in aerial per cent of the rolled zinc pro duced in the U.S. Holmes de scribed the intricate industry and said that the Netherlands, West Germany, Belgium, Italy, France and the British Isles also produce rolled zinc. The Hoosier explained that last year the zinc industry sought legislation to raise the tariff on rolled zinc but that the government opposed the measure on grounds that administrative relief should be sought first.

When a petition was filed by the zinc industry, "the tariff commission rules that the language- of the escape clause provision would not authorize the commission to recommend increased duties on rolled zinc products even though they might recommend an increase on slab metal duty that would make the duty on slab metal higher by 100 per cent than the duty on the same metal in sheet form or up in seats. 1.