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THE KOKOMO TRIBUNE THE KOKOMO DISPATCH VOL. m-NO. 283 CITY EDITION KOKOMO, MONDAY, JULY 31, 1961 ASSOCIATED WIRE SERVICE UNITED WIRE SERVICE NEWSSTAND Britain Asks Membership In European Common Market LONDON (AP) Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced today Britain will apply for membership in the European Common Market He told the House of Commons that Britain's actual entry into the six-nation economic will depend, however, on what arrangements can be made to protect liie interests of its partners in the British Commonwealth. "To enter these negotiations, it is necessary to make formal application to the ultimate decision must depend on results of the negotiations," he explained. "These negotiations must inevitably be of a detailed and technical character.

They may theiefore be protracted and there can of course be no guarantee of success Macmillan added that when the negotiations have been concluded "it will be the duty of the government to recommend to the House what course we shall pursue." 'No agreement will be entered into uiMil it has been approved by the House after full consultation with other Commonwealth countries." he said. The Common Market, founded by the Treaty of Rome in 1957, has as its goal the erection of a common tariff wall against outside imports which threatens British trade with a large part of the Continent. It reduces tariffs among members. The six nations of France, Italy West Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg also aim at a loose degree of political integration. Macmilian's proposal already has stirred up opposition in both Conservative and Labor party ranks where it is feared competition would hurt some British industries and workers.

Other objections include a probable ioss of some sovereignty if Britain actually joins the Common Maiket. Britain's adherence to the terms of the Rome treaty as it now stands would wreck the imperial preference system. To a nation like New Zealand, for in- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) 4-H Fair Begins 6-Day Stand At Greentown By MARK RUST Gales to the Howard County 4-H Fair in Greentown were swung open to the public at noon Monday as officials kept a weather-eye on the sky in the hope that threatening thundershowers would by pass the area. Clear weather was expected to bring a record attendance to the fairgrounds Monday night for the beauty contest to select a queen to represent Howard County at the Indiana State Fair. In event of rain, the program will be moved to the Eastern school gymnasium.

The annual 4-H exhibit at the Greentown fairgrounds opened with a horse and pony show Monday afternoon and will continue through Saturday. Widely scattered thundershow- crs have been forecast for Monday night with the low temperature near 70 degrees. The five day weather forecast indicates an average of one-half to one inch of rain with a chance of locally heavier amounts. Thundershowers were seen as "most likely" Tuesday and Wednesday and again Friday or Saturday. A crowd estimated at more than 2,000 attended an outdoor religious service at the fairgrounds Sunday night.

The Rev. Russell F. Blowers of Indianapolis was the speaker, and music was provided by the King's Men quartet of Kokomo. Earlier Sunday, the 34 contestants in the first beauty pageant scheduled at the fair braved a hot afternoon sun during a two-hour rehearsal for the Monday night show. It was the third assembly for candidates for the queen ti- Glance Inside Editorials 4 Edson Column 4 Lawrence Column 4 Riesel Column 4 Deaths 2 Births 7 Hospital Notes 7 News for Women 8-9 TV Programs 8 Theaters 8 Sports 10-11 Classified Ads 12-13 Comics, Puzzle 9 Tipton News 2 Today's Chuckle Message found in a Chinese fortune cookie: "Please disregard previous cookie." Tribune Telephone GL 9-3121 Indiana Weather (Kokomo is In Zone 4) 1-2: Scattered thundershowers and not quite so warm tonight.

Low 66-70, Tuesday partly cloudy with little temperature change and a few showers likely. High in mid 80s. 3-4-5: partly cloudy, hot and humid through Tuesday with widely scattered afternoon and night thundershowers. Low tonight near 70. High Tuesday around 90.

6-7: Partly cloudy, warm and humid through Tuesday with scattered thundershowers, mostly in afternoon and nighl. Low tonight in low 70s. High Tuesday in mid- 80s. Wednesday toutlook: Continued hot and humid with widely scattered afternoon and night thundershowers. Tribune Weather Report For 24-hour period ending noon Monday: Maximum, 92; minimum, 68.

At noon Monday: 88. Reading July 31, 1960: Maximum, 82; minimum, 55. Sun sets Monday at 7:59 p.m. tie. The girls were entertained at a swimming party last week and were judged for personality at a dinner Saturday night in the Eastern school cafeteria.

During the Monday night show, the candidates will be judged in bathing suits and in formal dresses. George Willeford, Indian- Summertime Throws Book At Kokomo Summer threw the book at Kokomo over the weekend with high humidity, rain and sizzling temperatures in the chapters. Weekend precipitation totaled 1.61 inches for the period from Friday through Monday morning. Sunday, one of the season's muggiest days, had a high temperature of 92, making the combined heat and humidity summer's most miserable. Rains Sunday night and early Monday morning were accompanied by lightning and thunder.

More storms for this area were predicted Monday morning by the U. S. Weather Bureau whose short-term forecast reads: "Partly cloudy, hot and humid through Tuesday with widely-scattered afternoon and night thundershowers." Low Monday night is expected to be in the 70-degree range following a Monday higvi prediction of around 90. Tuesday's high is also expected to be in the 90- degree bracket. The bureau's five-day forecast says temperatures from now to the weekend will average near normal for the season (high around 90: low around 65.) Rain will average one-half to one inch with heavier amounts in some areas.

Thundershowers will occur most likely Tuesday and Wednseday and again Friday or Saturday. Guy Wilson Named Purdue Trustee For Another Term Guy Wilson, prominent Howard County farmer, was reappointed to the Purdue University board of trustees Monday. Gov. Matthew Welsh, who made the appointment, also named Mrs. Marshall Vogler.

of Near Hope, to replace Mrs. John W. Van Ness, Valparaiso, on the board. Wilson has served several terms as a trustee of Purdue, under appointment by Republican as well as Democratic governors. apolis television entertainer, will be master of ceremonies for the program, and Sheila Wilson, "Miss Indiana State Fair" last year will crown the Howard County queen.

Music for the show will be furnished by the Don Woolpert band, and vocal numbers will be sung by Von Hi- ait. Trophies will be awarded to the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth place winners in the contest. A special award will be made to the girl named "Miss Congeniality" by votes cast by the 34 contestants. The present "Miss Indiana State Fair" is a native of Clinton. She will travel to the Greentown Fairgrounds in an official state (Continued on Pogt 2, Column 7) McCloy To Report On Parley With Khrush Special U.

Session In Doubt By A. I. GOLDBERG UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) 46 Asian-African members of the United Nations appeared divided today over whether to iress for a special session of the J.N. General Assembly to take up the French-Tunisian impasse over the Bizerte naval base.

A number of countries from sia and Africa were reported reluctant to support Liberia's call for a special August session. The called a closed-door meeting this afternoon. There was considerable doubt the to new African nations who belong to the French Community would go along with the proposal. The goal of those seeking a special assembly is to brand France an aggressor against Tunisia and to firce the French out of their Mediterranean naval and air base at Bizerte Turkey, Japan, the Philippines and several other Asian members of the bloc were reported dubious of the advantage of a special assembly unless new violence erupts in Tunisia. If the bloc unanimously the proposal, special assembly is virtually certain.

It equire- 50 member signatores to convene the 99-nation body and he 9-nalion Soviet bloc is expected to support the move. So are Yugoslavia and Cuba. Assembly President Frederick City Is Pushing Street Resurfacing Vigorously The city of Kokomo is pushing its street resurfacing program and has spent $50,000 so far this year for that purpose, Earl Hemmeger, city engineer, has reported to the highway committee of the Kokomo Chamber of Commerce. There are around 30 miles of secondary streets needing resurfacing, and at the rate of approximately $7,000 per mile it will require almost two years to complete this phase of the program. Hemmeger said.

The funds used are derived from the state gasoline lax. Need for a west outer-belt to ease the flow of traffic from northwest to southeast in Kokomo was noted by the committee. This would tie in with the Begin Probe Of Crash Of F-706 Jet Bunker Hill Air Force Base officials began an investigation Monday into the crash of an F-106 Delta Dart on a farm at 800W-500N Friday night. The bulk of the supersonic jet interceptor was buried in a clover field on the farm of Russell Merrill and officials planned to dig the craft out Monday afternoon. Capt.

Robert M. Garrison, 39, safely ejected himself from the aircraft when it ran out of fuel. County Bridge Work Cost Estimated At $75,000 Bridge repair, rebuilding and maintenance will cost upwards of $75,000 in Howard County this year, it was estimated Monday. Major projects include the construction of two new bridges in the southeastern part of the county and upkeep work on three bridges in Kokomo. Costlies job is Ihe one in progress at Wildcat Creek on Apperson Way where repairs totalling $40,605 are being made.

Repairs to the Phillips Street bridge over Wildcat Creek are expected to total $14,086. The Ohio Street bridge over the creek has already been completed for an expenditure of $3,355. The two new bridges are located on 500S, the dividing line between Howard and Tipton Sun rises Tuesday at 5:44 a.m.!Counties, and are at 1080E and, 1380E. Cost of the two projects will be borne by the two counties on a percentage basis with Howard paying a shade under 78 per cent and Tipton giving slightly more than 22 per cent. Both new structures are to be of prestressed concrete and will cost a total of approximately $8,000.

Contracts probably will be let Aug. 14. Plans, meanwhile, are being prepared for the replacement of the West Liberty bridge at 1250E- 300S. It is to be constructed under federal aid. Replacement of another bridge at 400E-375N is under study.

Also on the bridge program for 1961 is the extension of two box culverts over the Airport and Gresson Ditches on the $170,000 (Continued en Page 2, Column H. Boland reportedly received word in Dublin to be ready to return to New York at once if the members decide to place the Tunisian crisis before the assembly. Liberian Ambassador Nathan Barnes announced he would seek i call July 22 to stop the fighting support for special assembly de- rp bate on Tunisia after the Security Council failed Saturday to take any action on Tunisia's aggression charges. The council issued a cease-fire Today's News Briefs BERLIN Communist rules go into effect tonight that could make trouble for Western planes flying into isolated Berlin. But U.

S. officials say they do not expect any incidents. INDIANAPOLIS Appellate Court Judge Warren W. Martin of Boonvillc was appointed Indiana public counselor today by Gov. Matthew E.

Welsh. NEW YORK price trends and fractional changes made for a mixed stock market early this afternoon. Six Drownings Occur In Indiana On Weekend city's thoroughfare program, which is financed by a 10-centj tax levy. Most of the available money from the thoroughfare levy is about to be applied to the widening of South Washington Street ever the stretch south from the Boulevard to (he new county hos pital. The cost of this $200,000 project is to be divided three ways, the city providing $50,000, Howard County $50,000 and the federal government $100,000.

The city administration will seek to have the thoroughfare tax rate increased by five cents, to 15 cents in the tax levies planned for the coming year. The next project on the thoroughfare program, the committee was told, is the extension of Lincoln Road from LaFountain St. to Home Avenue. Dale Yoeman, committee chairman, said the county commissioners have requested a traffic control device at the intersection (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) By THE ASSOOATED PRESS Hot and humid Hoosier weather brought thousands of persons to the state's waterways over the weekend resulting in six drown- ings. One victim was a bride of 14 hours.

Mrs. Ima Jean Poynter, 25. Indianapolis, drowned Sunday when an 18-foot cabin cruiser carrying her wedding party capsized on the White River at the north edge of Indianapolis. The party of 10 were swept overboard when the boat toppled over. They had been aboard only 25 minutes when someone shouted the cruiser was taking on water.

The survivors clung to side until two boats nearby rushed to pick them up. It was not until they were all on shore that Mrs. Poynter was discovered missing. A state police skin diver recovered her body minutes later. The bride and her husband, Curtis Poynter, 32, were married Saturday.

Charges of vehicle taking were entered against the pilot of the boat. Leroy Owens, 40. Indianapolis. Owens said one of the wedding celebrants had approached him in a tavern and asked him to take the group for a cruise. The boat belongs to Wilber Tuttle, also of Indianapolis.

Owens said he had permission to take the cruiser at any time, but Tuttle denied the claim and charges were filed. Mrs. Dorothy Grogan, 40, Rt. 3, Newburgh. drowned in another boating accident Sunday.

Investigators said she was standing on the roof of a small houseboat in the Ohio River near Evansville and fell overboard. Mrs. Grogan, unable to fight the Look at Bizerte: Describes City After French-Tunisian Fighting NOTE: Richard K. O'Malley. chief of The Associated Press bureau in Paris, flew to Bizerte for look at the city following the French-Tunisian fighting there.

By RICHARD K. O'MALLEY BTZERT-E (AP)-The tall Tunisian, soldier shook his head and said: "Nobody is allowed in the Casbah except with a special pass and you have to get it from the governor." Behind him the Casbah baked in a hot sun. The narrow street- way was deserted. Behind me, about 50 yards away, a little group of French paratroopers stood behind sandbag emplacements. Along the street tanks were parked.

There was no traffic. Bizerte, a city a normal population of about 30,000 people, was as quiet as a village on Sunday. There was lift air of tension nor of expectancy. French paratroopers joked and laughed quietly. Not far off, in the buff and while alleyways- leading into the Casbah, Ihelmeted Tunisian soldiers kept to their posts.

A veiled woman slipped out of a door and padded down the street. There had been reports that the Casbah was being fortified in case of more of the fighting that broke out nearly two weeks ago, when Tunisians blocked roads leading to the big French naval A Tunisian police officer said no, but refused to discuss Ihe TunisiamFrench crisis. Down at the docks a few French families boarded a ship for the return to France. "If we all go, there won't be seven people left in the European part of town," a young French- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) choppy water, was churned into a series of whirlpools near Lock 47. The victim and her husband lived in a nearby camp.

Also drowned Sunday was Larry Sisco, 14. Dunkirk, when he tried to swim to shore from a raft in a lake at the Frank Merry Park five families west of his home. The youth's father. Dewey. and an uncle, Ronald Miller, Dunkirk, heard him yelling for help and dashed to his aid.

They said they were unable to rescue the boy because he was struggling so hard. Rescue units found the body 10 minutes later in 15 feet of water just 10 yards from shore. Attempts to revive him failed. An Illinois teen-ager drowned Saturday after he and three companions decided to take a dip in an abandoned coal mine pit. Paul (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) between French and Tunisian troops around Bizerte base and in the Sahara south of Tunis.

The council also called on all troops to return to posiitons they held before fighting flared July 19. Tunisia has accused France of continuing aggression and of refusing to pull back her troops in (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) Kennedy To Meet hen Cheng WASHINGTON After another pleasant outdoor family weekend on Cape Cod, President Kennedy returned today to his and to the sweltering heat of the capital. Topping the host of problems facing him were Red China and the stalled Geneva disarmament talks. The presidential jet landed at Andrews Air Force base in suburb in Maryland at 10:12 a.m. EST.

Within an hour after his arrival at the White House, the President was to see the vice president of Nationalist China, Chen Cheng, and three other Chinese emissaries who want to talk to him about keeping Red China and Outer Mongolia out of the United Nations. He was awaiting a first-hand report, probably Tuesday, from his special disarmament adviser. John J. McCloy. who was ordered home from Moscow.

McCloy, who spent three days conferring with Premier Khrushchev, could also give the President some idea of (Continued on Page 2 Column 3) Nine Persons Killed In Accidents Over Weekend By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Nine persons died in weekend Indiana traffic accidents while the National Safety Council cited South Bend and Anderson for their perfect traffic records in the first six months of 1961. The two Hoosier cities had no traffic deaths during the first half of the year and NSf said the national death rate dropped to a record low in the period. The two Sunday crashes in Indiana killed one person in each and injured a total of 14. Mrs. Patricia Ann Pope, 28, Muncie, was killed when thrown from her auto as it collided with a car driven by Edward F.

Weise, 26, Rt. 4, Elwood, at the junction of Ind. 28 and a county road 12 miles northwest of Muncie. The victim's sons, Tony F. Angle, 4, and Mark A.

Pope. 5 weeks, and a nephew, Bobby Burton. 6, were injured. In the other car. Weise.

his wife, Donna. 24. and their daughters. Barbara. 4, Debra, 5.

and Brenda, 14 months, were all hurt. Weise told police Mrs. Pope failed to stop coming off the county road. The Delaware County highway super intendent, Herb Melvin, whose home is near the intersection, heard the crash and ran out. Melvin said he found Mrs.

Pope in a ditch, the infant lying on the highway in front of the Pope car, and another child under its twisted fender. He said two little girls from the other car were lying on the highway near it. Finds Evidence Concerning Lincoln's Assassination GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP)-A research chemist by chance has come upon a cryptic allegorical statement scribbled in an old journal which points an accusing finger at Edwin M. Stanton, President Abraham Lincoln's secretary of war, as having helped plan Lincoln's assassination.

The accusation was scrawled by Bng. Gen. Lafayette C. Baker who died under mysterious circumstances three years after Lincoln's death. But whether the coded message will cast a new light on the assassination 96 years ago appears to depend on Baker's flamboyant character.

Handwriting experts have authenticated Baker's message. Similar accusations have been directed at Stanton previously. The old, English military journal was found by Ray A. Neff, a Gibbsboro, N.J., research chemist who investigated the (Continued on Page 2, Column The injured were taken to Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie. Physicians said none was hurt critically.

Earlier Charley A. Anders, 73, Valparaiso, was killed in a two- car crash at a blind and unmarked White County road intersection five miles southeast of Remington. State police said Anders died when his auto smashed into the side of a car driven by Ralph D. Hoover. 16, Monticello.

Injured were the victim's wife, aged 69 a son, Vernon, 37, Valparaiso, and two grandsons, James McKechnie, 13. Lansing, 111., and Donald Ludington, 14, Valparaiso. Hoover and a passenger, Ralph B. Vanatta, 16, Ida- (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) U. British Hold Alert In Berlin BERLIN (AP) Berlin's U.S.

British and French garrisons held another early morning alert today, practicing the defense of the threatened city. At 4:30 a.m. loudspeaker trucks woke residents of the areas where married troops live. Many members of the Allied garrison in West Berlin have their families with them. Both soldiers and civilians attached to the Allied missions were ordered to their duty posts where they remained until they got the "all clear." Allied officials called it a routine exercise of the kind that takes place at irregular intervals West Berlin police also held a night training exercise, but headquarters insisted that this was not coordinated with, the Allies.

About 2,000 refugees from Communist East Germany poured into West Berlin in the 24-hour period ending at 8 o'clock Sunday night. The number 200 greater than the previous day- was a record for any one day since June 1953, when anti-Communists revolted in East Germany. Returns Home From Moscow WASHINGTON (AP)-John J. McCloy will report to President Kennedy tonight on his discussions last week with Soviet Premier Khrushchev on disarmament and the Berlin crisis. White House press secretary Pierre Salinger said McCloy, the President's chief adviser on disarmament, would be accompanied to the White House by Secretary of State Dean Rusk.

McCloy completed an urgent flight from Moscow to Washington Sunday night in response to a summons from Kennedy. He brought an informal personal message from the Soviet leader to the U.S. chief executive. In advance of his meeting with Kennedy. McCloy was scheduled to give Rusk a detailed report on his conversations with Khrushchev.

McCloy already has sent a long cable giving Kennedy a preliminary report nn his talks with Khrushchev. This report was forwarded to Kennedy over the weekend at his Hyannis Port, vacation home. Salinger declined to give any hint of the tenor of Khrushchev's talks with McCloy. But there have been widespread reports that Khrushchev was disturbed by the firm attitude taken by Kennedy last Tuesday night in his report to the nation on the Berlin crisis and his decision to shore up U.S. armed forces.

McCloy went to Moscow two weeks ago to try to work out arrangements with the Soviet government for a new East-West disarmament conference. He failed to reach agreement due, primarily, to Soviet insistence on talking about the substance of disarmament issues instead of the procedures for organizing the conference. Last Wednesday at Khrushchev's invitation he visited the premier at his Black Sea vacation villa and spent a day and a half discussing disarmament and the Berlin problem. McCloy said on arrival here that there had been some change in the Soviet position on disarmament. He foresees further efforts to arrange formal negotiations, probably some weeks in the future.

He was asked by the Kennedy administration to rush back to Washington, however, because of the information he can supply on Khrushchev's latest views on Berlin. He saw the premier immediately after Kennedy's Tuesday night speech calling for expansion of U. S. armed forces to meet the Soviet challenge over the divided German city if Khrushchev pushes his demands to the point of a military showdown. McCloy sent dispatches reporting briefly on his meeting with Khrushchev and officials indicated that the Soviet leader had not softened his position on Berlin in any way.

Some reports said the talk between the two men had produced very sharp exchanges, but State Department informants said that while the discussion of Berlin was "frank" the atmosphere was "cordial." Driver Exams Suspended For Current Week Driving examinations will not be given at either motor vehicle branch in Kokomo this week due to a driver examiner's school at Indianapolis. Normally, examinations are available Monday and Friday at the downtown branch and Tuesday and Thursday at the south- side branch. Motorists also were reminded that they need now renew their licenses on their birthday. This can be done any time during the birth month. Banker Dies DURHAM, N.

C. (AP)-John Spmnt Hill, 92. millionaire banker and philanthropist, died Saturday. Hill, a lawyer and founder of the Durham Bank Trust was born in Faison. N.

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