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CENTRALIA-CHEHALI5. WASHINGTON FIVE CENTS THURSDAY, FEJBRUARY 20, 1958 16 PAGES 67TH YEAR, NO. -43 Atlas Blows Up in Sky After Takeoff A CANAVERAL, Fla. Wl An Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile exploded in the air Thursday two minutes, 20 seconds after blasting off its launching pad at the test center here. The Air Force the mighty missile blew up seconds after it ended the powered phase of its flight and went into its ballistic coast- trajectory.

It blasted off the missile pad at 12:48 p.m. (EST). No reason was given for the fail- The "Big roared straight upward for about 30 seconds, then arched slowly over toward the east, leaving a vapor trail across the sky. TWO MINUTES after the start of the flight, observers saw a huge ball of fire and the Atlas could no longer be seen. i The Atlas was the same one the Air Force attempted to launch last Saturday.

It fire and steam on that occasion but its engines were cut off by the test conductor a split second before it would have roared skyward. That one was the sixth Atlas, the Free World's only experimental ICBM, to be test flown. The first two were destroyed when they wavered off course soon aft- 214 Workers Die In Mine Explosion CALCUTTA, India At least iU miners were belisved dead Thursday after an explosion in India's most modern coal i Which Hooded two other mines. Reports reaching here said only men emerged alive after the blast Wednesday night at Chi- takuri colliery, about 200 miles northwest of Calcutta. A fire drove back rescuers.

The blast caught night ihift miners below ground. It touched off flooding of the neighboring a Blowrah mine, where at least 20 miners were feared dead, and of the Ms- halbani mine farther west at jlharia, vhere 15 miners drowned. THE BRITISH-OWNED Bengal Coal owners of the Shinakuri eclliery, said cause ot the underground explosion was unknown. The Chinakuri colliery is Ike May Go -'y Arizona Ga. President Eisenhower may visit Phoe: nix, briefly Sunday if nii decides to vacation in that for a few.

days. Announcing thit a White House secretary James C. Hagerty spoke of snch a trip.as still only a possibility. The President and Mrs. Eisenhower have been guests of former Secretary of the Treasury George M.

Humphrey at their plantation estate here for the last week. The press secretary said that Mrs. Eisenhower has been wanting for some time to visit friends in Phoenix. If she decides to go, Hagerty added, the President may fly the First Lady out there day aboard his private plane, Co- II. Asked whether the First Lady is considering such a trip for health reasons, Hagerty replied: "No, not at all.

It has nothing to do with health at all." Ruling out more than I few hours stay in Phoenix for the President, Hagerty said i n- hower has business engagements scheduled in Washington Monday morning. He has a major speech oh foreign aid scheduled in the capital Tuesday evening. Hagerty indicated that speech- seeking public support for the $3,942,100,000 foreign aid program he sent to Congress Wednesday- may be carried nationwide on radio and by the four principal net- works. The weatherman forecast a high of 52 degrees for today, which might mean tne President would gel a chance to hunt for quail, or perhaps get in a round of golf. Yesterday, with the temperature In the he went for another automobile ride--his second since coming to Thomasville.

He toured Humphrey's sprawling estate for about Wi hours during the afternoon. Maj. Gen. Howard M. Snyder, White House physician, reports that President's cold continues to improve each'day.

His voice still is a bit husky but his sore throat has about cleared up. Snyder is understood to feel the stay at the Humphrey lace has given the President his best rest since he took office more than five years ago. James C. Hagerty, White House press secretary, told newsmen Eisenhower has been getting in a lot of bridge at the plantation, and also has been working an average of about four hours a day on government business. RAIN Cloudy Friday, with rain late in day.

High temperature, 48-56; low, 35-J2. pride of the Asansol coalfield. It is the deepest in India with workings 2,000 feet down. The last pit disaster in the region occurred in August 1956, when a roof cave-in trapped miners. Forty-six were rescued.

The remaining 39 were given up for dead but 18 days later of them crawled out safely. Heart Fails For Farmer MOSSYROCK A 69-year-old Mossyrock area farmer, George E. Hendricks, died near here Wednesday afternoon while operating a tractor. Lewis county Coroner R. B.

Maddox said Hendricks died of a ruptured aorta, the main heart artery. suffered no other injuries, when his tractor overturned the attack. said Henricks had driv- his' tractor Imfi- field oilo Mountain highway two miles south of Mossyrock at 3i20 p.m., when the mishap occurred. Mr, Hendricks was born on April on Klldcitat Prairie near here and had lived all of his lUe in the area. Survivors, in addition to his wife.

Charlotte, at home, include three sons, Robert, Chehalis; Vean, at Morton, and Frederick, Onalasxa; two brothrs, S. A. Hendricks, Onalaska, and T. 0. Hendricks, Chehalis; one sister, Mrs.

Susan. Swofford, Chehalis, and 10 grandchild en. Funeral arrangements a pending at the Fissell mortuary in Chehalis. Plane Pilot Blacks Out SEATTLE Three persons escaped injury Wednesday night when their light, single-engined plane came into a', rough landing at Boeing Field after the. pilot blacked out at 700 feel.

Pilot Robert Owens, 37, Port Angeles, said the plane must have virtually landed itself. The craft bounced along the runway on its unguided landing and then nosed to a stop. Owens suffered only face cuts and bruises and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Owens, also of Port Angeles, escaped injury.

Owens, a building contractor, said he had received clearance to land from the Boeing tower, hac his plane trimmed and the flaps down when he suddenly felt ill. "I remember looking at the altimeter and noticing we were ai 700 feet," Owens said. "That's the last thing I remember until I re- ga i consciousness on the ground." Owens' parents said they were a a of their son's unex plained blackout until the plane came into its rough landing. er leaving the ground. THE NEXT two, the Air Force said, performed successfully over 600-mile ranges.

The fifth one destroyed itself four minutes after the blastoff, when il was 30 miles high over the Atlantic Ocean. No reason ever was given by the Air Force. The Atlas is designed to carry a nuclear warhead miles at an average speed of 10,000 miles but il probably will be late this year before an effort is made to fly one the full distance. It also is being considered for possible use in the U.S. progiam to put bigger earth satellites into orbit.

A second ICBM, the Titan, is under construction but has yet been tested in flight. Parole Is Received By Leopold SPRINGFIELD, 111. MV-Nalhan Leopold, surviving member of the Locb-Leopold thrill murder team of 1924, was granted a parole Thursday. The Illinois Parole and Pardon board's announcement said Leo- told has been granted "a definite sentence parole." It added that "the location and occupation of subject is to be in- 'estigated by parole-supervision immediately." That meant Leopold can get out of prison aftef investigation of his arrangements for a job and a wme. The division of parole su- wrvision handles the invesliga- ion, and there 1 was no indication how long that would take.

LEOPOtp now has served almost 34 years prison fo jart in the slaying of Bobby Franks in May, 1924. Roger Touhy, one-lime Chicago gang leader who is doing a long stretch for kidnaping and prison Breakout, was also granted a parole. His parole on the kidnaping charge makes it possible for him to be freed in August, 1959. Leopold has told the a board he wants to work in a rura: hospital operated by the Church of the Brethren at a a Puerto Rico. His partner in the wanton killing of young Franks--Richard Loeb--was slashed to death by a fellow convict in prison in 1336.

LEOPOLD and Loeb were sentenced at the end of their sensational 1924 trial to life for murder and 99 years for kidnaping The 99-year term was cut to 85 years by Adlai Stevenson, then governor of Illinois, alter Leopolt had served as a human guinea pig in malaria experiments in (Please turn to page 2, Col. 6) Mossyrock Bid Date Set MOSSYROCK Bids on con struction of the new Mossyrock high school have been called, Su perintendent Ralph Morris said Thursday, and will be opened on Mar. 12. They will be for new classroom and physical education buildings to be built on "a site adjacent to the Mossyrock grade school. The new school, 48,000 square feet in area, will be of timbe construction with some bricl trim.

A separate heating plan will be built to take care of th existing buildings as well as th new high school. Included in the construction wil be classrooms, a multi-purpos' room and a gymnasium which wil seat 1,000 spectators with a play ing area of 88 by 96 feet. Archi tect for Die school is William Arild Johnson and Associates, Ev erett. Beck Sentenced To State Prison SEATTLE (gi Dave Beck retired and wealthy 'resident of the Teamsters Union, was sentenced to up 15 years in prison Thursday for stealing $1,900 from iis union. His son, Dave Beck a short while earlier had een fined and his sentence deferred three years or taking $4,650 from the Teamsters.

The much stiffer sentence handed the father follow- lengthy arguments by efense attorneys pleading or leniency and the prose- demand for harsh- ir treatment. The up (o 15 year sentence is mandatory under Washington law. The minimum term will be set the State Board of Prison 'crms and Paroles. Superior Judge George Re- 'elle and Prosecutor Charles 0. both said Ihey would rec- mimend that Bock Sr.

serve hree years. Beck received (he sentence without any s'ww of emotion. Staring iut the sunlit courtroom window or a moment after the judge had Inished speaking, he softly and turned away. IN SENTBNCIKG the son an lour before, Judge Revelle had rdered Beck Jr. to pay court "osts and to sever all connections with labor organizations, either as Ji employe or an officer.

In sentencing Beck Sr. the judge laid solemnly that if he were in Seck's position he would have expected to receive the maximum permissible penally for violation of trust and responsibility. Beck's attorney filed written no- ice of appeal and judge Revelle wrmitted the former union president to remain at liberty under $3,000 bond. As he was leaving court the elder Beck first declined comment, then added: "1 don't have to live with any- but my conscience and I am no more.guilty than anyone this BECK SR. goes on trial next toy on federal charges of income ax evasion.

fining the young Beck the judge said repayment' should come from the 37-year-old labor organizer's own funds. THE JUDGE fold Beck 'The factor with the greatest weight in the history of your life is that you as an adult did nol understand that justice does not permit blind obedience to parents. "That does make your case different than others that have come before me." The younger Beck had testifiet during his trial that he had turnec the $4,650, derived from the sale (Please turn to page 2, Col. 6) 53 Killed in Ship Blowup MANAMA. Bahrain Wl A Brit ish freighter that put into i Persian Gulf oil port with a fire and 150 tons of explosives aboan exploded at her anchorage Wed nesday night, burned and partial ly sank.

The ship's agent said 53 per sons were killed'and 19 were in jured. The fire and explosion causec no damage to oil lackers nearby and did not endanger harbor in stallations. The Seistan, one of th. most mode.m ships in the Britis! merchant fleet, was burning whe she entered the Persian Gulf three days ago, en route from liver pool with tile explosives and othe supplies for the Iraqi oil fields. The Welsh skipper of the year old motor ship, Capt.

W.A. Chap pell, dropped anchor at Manam to put out the fire. About 80 ton. of explosive had bee unloaded and the ship was bein moved to shallow water for (low ing when the explosion rocked th harbor. An injured seaman from ship said it "seemed to jump ou of the water.

Flames were burn ing everywhere." Capt. Chappell was among Ihos reported killed. The chief mate wife and 8-year-old son, the onl passengers, escaped. Los Angeles Deluged by Heavy Rains LOS ANGELES A hit-and- un storm dumped 2.32 inches of ain in 12 hours, swamped cars, ooded homes and streets, closed lore than 100 schools'and caused idespread damage here. Drying out and mopping up un- er partly cloudy skies Thursday, ciggy Angelenos beheld up to 24 nches of new snow visible at 3,500 eet on nearby mountains.

The storm abated shortly after oon Wednesday, leaving: Damage estimated at perhaps a million dollars to a partly built, 5-million dollar steam generating lant of the Los Angeles Department of Power. At least eight automobiles and wo trucks completely submerged i 10 feet of water on the Santa Freeway at Atlantic Blvd. A BRIDGE under construction I suburban Torrance washed out Nine Inglewood factories closed flood waters. At least 20 families temporarily vacuated from flooded homes in South Bay area Manhattan leach, Hermosa Beach, Torrance in many cases by skiffs pliec ver streets turned into akes. The Los Angelei Hiver, normal- dry or nearly so, filled with water.

Office ymrkers street ivers with skirts v'held above were a common sight. More han 100 employes had to leave an oil company building through hack windows when eight feet of water filled the basement. Grade School Project Seen Study JC Physical Ed Center Centralia school heads, in session Wednesday night, opened consideration of a $30,000 project to convert a part ot the Lincoln elementary school to physical education use for Cenlralia Junior College. The Lincoln structure.this autumn will be turned over to college, the graders moving into the.expanded Jefferson school leaders said it is possible, by walling in the north outdoor play area at Lincoln, to install dressing rooms and ibcwen to join gym- nasium. The play area is already roofed.

NO DECISION has been on the building improvement. Directors also entered orders for furnishings for the new junior high school building totaling about $65,000. and specified a 30-member staff will man the school plant this autumn. Only five of the staff will be new to the district, however. Landscaping of the new Junior high grounds and those at Jefferson Lincoln is scheduled to be done by Reichardt, Cen- lralia landscaper and director also look under study a plan fo uniform district wide scboo hours lo be from 9 a.m..

to 3:3 a.m., for all students. The pla may be necessary because of bu transportation difficulties, it wa said. Dr. Kenneth Mallery, Centr, lia school superintendent, was ai thoriied by the board to atten the American Association i School Superintendents' co vention March to at Sat Francisco. LA STREETS RIVERS fwd strett in downtown Los Anjtlts during height of Wednesday's rain stwm which dumped mere thin two inches on Legislator Writes Director etty before noon.

Street! wtre turned Into rivers when itorm drains failed to handle water. More ii forecast for southern California, -AP WIREPHOTO. Green Hill Plan for Older Youth Brings Local Appeal for More Security Fencing Residents Evacuated ORLAND, Calif, (ft The 1,200 residents of nearby Hamilton City were evacuated Thursday as more han 400'men battled to save a evee which was holding back the rain swollen Sacramento River. Levee sandb aggers were reported "keeping ahead" of the river. Evacuees were being cared for )y the Red Cross and volunteers at Orland Memorial Hall, the Ilenn County Fairgrounds and in irivate homes in this town 125 miles northeast of San Francisco.

Hamilton City, a farming community, is half a mile from the rampaging river, 10 miles to the west. Sheriff Lyle Sale declared an emergency in the area at 6 p.m. Wednesday. Fear Child Is Drowned WALLA WALLA Ml Dozens of searchers fanned put Thursday along the banks of Mill Creek and around an irrigation reservoir looking for 3-year-old Lynn Cone who disappeared from his home west of here Wednesday. Engineers pumped water from the reservoir Thursday after diversion from the storm-swollen creek revealed no trace of the youngster's body.

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cone and their family moved here from Hermislon, Ore. three weeks ago. Cone works for the Bor.neville Power Administration sr.d has five other children.

New and additional security measures at the Green Hill school for boys in Chehalis were urged Thursday in a letter by State Rep. Joe Chylil of Cliehalis to the head of the State Department of Institutions. The representative voiced his suggestion in view of the fact the department plans to open its Fort Worden installation in April, rearranging the types of boys to occupy that center and Green Hill, leaving the older boys at Chehalis. "I FEEL THAT additional security measures should be immediately affected at Chehalis," Churchill Is Comfortable ROQUEBRUNE-CAP-MARTIN, France Sir Winston Churchill's fever from pneumonia and pleurisy has dropped but his condition otherwise has not greatly changed, his secretary said Thursday. Montague 'Browne, 1 Churchill's private secretary, gave this official bulletin on the 83-year-old health: "Sir Winston's condition is not changed since yesterday.

He is comfortable. His strength is maintained, and the fever is a little lower." The bulletin was signed by Lord Moran, Churchill's personal physician who flew here from London Wednesday, and Dr. David M. Roberts, his physician on the Riviera. Lord Moran gave the diagnosis of pneumonia at the base of the lung and pleurisy late Wednesday.

Churchill's secretary said the former British prime minister spent Wednesday "in good spirits, reading papers, talking to his family and dealing with correspondence. He also smoked two cigars, Browne noted. Churchill the Riviera Jan. 15 for his annual winter visit. Monday he visited the yacht of Greek millionaire Aristotle Onas- sis.

Browne said Sir Winston apparently suffered a chill during the visit. He was put to bed Tuesday and Jforan was summoned Dr. Roberts said before Lore Moran arrived that Churchill was suffering from a chronic bronchial condition, "but there is no question of his dying." After the first medical bulletin newsmen asked Browne about Roberts' a i statement. Browne replied, "If Dr. Roberts said his condition is not dangerous then am prepaied to accep 1 that this is true." Churchill had pneumonia in February, 1913, in London and again in December of that year after meeting in Cairo and Teh ran with President Roosevelt Chiang Kai-shek and Marsha Stalin.

He has suffered two strokes-in 1951 and 1953. the slate director. The renresen- Chylil wrote to Dr. Garrelt Keyns, lalive said that, specifically, fencing in the boys' compound at Green Hill is necessary because that is (he area around the buildings from which mosl of the boys run away. "If Hie boys were well screened at Green Hill, I feel that it could operate with both maximum and minimum security areas.

In planning (his program, the two new cottages opened recently and the other new buildings now in the planning stage could be used as the minimum security area, giv- ing the boys something toward which to work, he said. CHYTIL SAID that actually he is not so much concerned with youngsters running away from the school as with the fact they get into additional troubles after they leave. Most important, he declared, is the stealing of automobiles in Centralia and Chehalis, as well as elsewhere. "It must be evident," the Lewis county man wrote to Dr. Heyns, "the program at Green Hill is not strong enough to keep boys there, and, unless something is done, serious and tragic results are bound to occur." ree Jeep, Tank Rides Chronicle's New Lenfen Feature Continues Daily The Daily Chronicle's 1958 Lenten feature, "Jesus Loved Them," appears today on page 2.

The series will continue throughout the 40 days of Lent. The Daily Chronicle is proud to present the oustanding word and picture series of the most important people who came in con- lact H'ilh Jesus during his lifetime. Through past years the newspaper presented the famed Lenten Guideposts, which were excellent and stimulating. This year, however, a change has been made to a feature involving both text and art. The Daily Chronicle sincerely hopes 'its.

readers approve of the change. Art for Ihe new 40-paneI series is by Sam Patrick, well-known newspaper artist. An expert in portraiture, Patrick has been one of the nation's leading arti foi 32 years. Omar. Garrison is the author of the new Lenten feature A serious student of all religions Dr.

Garrison is Ihe religion page editor of the Los Angeles Mirror News at the present time. Hi academic background include, extensive courses in theology am Bible history. Both text and art of the "Jesu Loved Them" series was scnipu lously screened by panel 01 re ligious leaders of all faiths. Th 40 panels selected were, accoro. ing io Scripture, the most impoi tant characters to enter the lif of Jesus.

The. panel of religiou ksders also found the contents be completely acceptable to a denominations' and creeds. Read "Jesus Loved, Them" day. Guard's 'Open House' Is Saturday Holiday Feature The Twin Cities and Lewis ounty pause Saturday for a gen- tor a the ral holiday observing the birth- ay anniversary President George Washington and the ounly's Washington National iuard units hold the spotlight for oliday activity. Saturday is "Muster Day" for nits of the 803rd Tank Battalion the Washington Guard, and a pecial open house event is sched- led from 9 a.m., to 4 p.m., at he armory building in Cenlralia.

EVENTS AND activities for Muster Day" include tours of IB armory, its facilities, movies, ank rides for everyone over 16 ears of age, jeep rides for all, efreshments and general fun. Capt. Percy C. Connick, Cheha- is, and Lieut. Berry Rouquette, Centralia, in charge of iuard's third annual "Musler Day" said the entire public is in- 'ited to attend with special em- ihasis on young men with mili- ary obligations, parents, ex-serv- ce men, school, church and business officials.

Trained Tippler HUNT1NGTON, W. Vi. A Police Sgt. LM Swing, on rush assignment, observed a familiar figure in familiar condition ntar courthouM. Not having ts stop, Swing shouted from hit cruiser: "Go on and register in, Allen." Returning sonw time later, sergeant found, as he ex- (xcted, "Allen" had charged himself with being drunk was it off.

"It's all a matter of training 'em right," slid Swing. Kaul To Be Candidate Arthur A. Kaul, Chehalis accountant and enemy of fluorida- lion, announced Thursday- he is a write-in candidate for the office of commissioner of finance for liehalis, thus opposing George Thompson, the only candidate for the office on the Feb. 11 primary ballot. City Clerk Margaret McChord said "sticker" candidates may seek an olfice in either city pri- ma'ry or general elections, but their names will not appear on printed ballots.

Kaul, in his candidacy announc- ment. boasted he successfully blockW fluoridation in Chehaiis six years ago and thus has saved the city approximately $9,000. Currently the city is preparing to junk its fjuoridation equipment, bought riever used although fluoridalion foes were defeated legally, and Kaul the top bidder it $103, EARLIER THIS week, in another event of "Muster, Days" the guard battalion pt-Jl honors to fhe press executives of the Twin Cilies, expression appreciation for the support and interest given the Guard by their mediums. "Muster Day" is a part of the Guard's "Operation Ceiling," a drive for new recruits and which will extend through March. The 803rd's quota has been set at 50 men, and complete information on Guard enlistment and service can be secured at the armory.

WASHINGTON'S birthday date is a general business and industry holiday for the Twin cities, and has been proclaimed as such by Ihe mayors. Most retail business firms in Cenlralia and Chehalis will be closed, although some food mar- kefs will be open as usual. All city, county state and federal offices and most industry are on 3 five-day week and will be closed anyway. Dairymen's Meet Near An estimated 900 dairymen 'rpm Lewis and Pacific counties will convene in Chehalis Monday morning when Ihe Lewis-Pacific Dairymen's association holds its 39th annual meeting. Manager Ernie Sorensen of Chehalis announced Thursday.

Sorensen said the continuous ausiness session will open at 10 a.m., at the civic auditorium, with lunch to be served at noon, and conclusion is scheduled for about 1:30 p.m. Featured highlights of the annual event will be reports on business conditions by stale dairy leaders, election of two directors and the distribution of the anual patronage refund checks to the 1,187 members of the group. Out-of-town speakers include: E. E. Pedersen.

vice president'oE the Consolidated Dairy Products Seattle, the marketing agency for the L-P. Dairymen's association, and II. B. secretary of the Washington Stale Farmers Cooperative council, Seattle. Other talks will be given by Ralph Roffler, Lewis county extension agent, Sorensen.

who will present the operating statement, an L. F. Ray ton, route 1, Che- halin, association president, who will give the president's report. Directors with expiring Jhrec- year terms to be elected or reelected are Ray'lon and Charles Crawford, Menlo. Catholics Arrested WARSAW A Roman Cain- olic priest and seven parishonen were reported arrested Thursday after a riot pretesting a communist mayor's burial in consecrated chinch.