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'Where Do We Go From Here' 1:30 F. M. Today KRCG-TV, Channel 13 st-iritame tee Preparing The Industrial Park Uproar in the Senate VOL. 97. NO.

35. JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI, MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 20, 1962 FINAL EDITION PRICE TEN CENTS Strike Apparently Resumed At Space Flight Center Workers Walk Out After Return to Jobs HUNTSVILLE, Ala. A strike at the Marshall Space Flight Center apparently resumed today when workers, after returning to their jobs briefly walked off again. A spokesman for the flight center, heart of much of the nation's missile and space development work, said: "Although the federal district has enjoined the strike, virtually all the Local 558 Interna- tional Brotherhood of Electrical members expected to resume work failed to appear at construction sites. No Work "The few members who did report had not begun work at 10 a.m.

"A majority of other skills involved in the strike did report to work sites. Although some of those reporting started to work, 'most of them have by now left construction sites." The Marshall spokesman was asked if operations at the space center were again at a standstill. He replied: "It would appear so." The strike had lasted a week. Nearly 1,500 workers imployed by private contractors were under a federal court order to end their walkout The strike was called in protest against a 'handful of nc union electricians on one job. The Marshall Center spokesman did not know what would be the next step in the space agency's efforts to end the strike.

Officials of the space agency indicated last week they would consider terminating the contracts of private firms unable to continue because of the walkout by their employes. Earlier today it appeared the strike was at an end, with the almost 1,500 workers returning to work. The spokesman at the space center said no picket lines were en the gates, and that the first crews were arriving as scheduled, and "we assume they all will return. But then it turned out that most of the 150 striking electricians were not on the job, he said, and even most of the more than 1(200 buildings trades workers were either idle on the site or had left. Brumley Youth Drowns in Lake A drowning in the Lake of the Ozarks between 2 and 2:30 p.m.

Sunday claimed thel ife of 17-year- old Ronnie Lutterell, Brumley. According to the highway patrol, the youth was swimming with his brother, Terry, and two other boys. Lutterell had just entered the water about 80 yards downstream from the Swinging Bridge on the Glaize arm of the Lake. After swimming about 60 feet toward the far bank he suddenly dropped out of sight A group of bystanders immediately started rescue operations. The body was recovered about 3:30 by Trooper Ralph Rider and Paul Plank, Eldon.

conservation agent. According to reports, the youth had eaten about 30 minutes before going into the water. Hundreds Vaccinated Smallpox Case Sets Off Hunt by Health Officers NEW YORK officials of two nations worked against an awesome deadline today to find and vaccinate all persons who may have come in contact with a young Canadian smallpox victim. The stricken boy, James William Orr, 14, flew here from Sao Paolo, Brazil, Aug. 11 on a plane with more than 80 other persons, including his parents and a brother and sister.

Toronto. In Toronto the boy, described by his missionary father as feeling "under the weather," was taken to a. doctor and eventually to a Canadian hospital. Tests Continue Canadian authorities said the boy's illness was virtually certain to be smallpox, although confirming tests were still to be made. U.S.

Public Health Service offi- He passed through Idlewild Airport, traveled by cab to Grand Central Terminal and sat in the huge station's waiting room for hours I I before boarding a train for Third Bond Vote Test Due Soon A new test of community authority to issue industrial development bonds may be decided by the Missouri Supreme Court in the next month or so. And the legality of bond issues in a half dozen cities may swing on the test, brought by Eldorado Springs, Mo. In the form of a mandamus suit, the Cedar County city of 9,000 is trying to force state auditor Haskell Holman to certify worth of general obligation bonds. The voters approved them last May 8. The vote then was 484-68 on the bond issue designed to provide plant space for a printing firm.

A second Eldorado Springs bond issue for $45,000 also was approved but is not made part of the test Store Building In St. Louis Police Herd Crowds Back From Falling Walls of Structure ST. LOUIS (AP) Flames engulfed the old eight-story Carson Union May Stern building at 12th and Olive in downtown St. Louis today and police fought to keep crowds away from collapsing walls. Nine firemen were treatec at City Hospital, most of them for smoke inhalation.

Fire Chief James Mullin, who sufferec from smoke inhalation, and one other fireman were admitted to the hospital as patients. The flames spread to the old Post Dispatch building across Olive Street and to other nearby structures as a stiff breeze whipped the flames. The fire spread to the largelj unoccupied fifth and sixth floors of the old Post-Dispatch building but were cuickly brought under control. There was heavy smoke and water damage there, Workers Evacuated wlost employes of stations KSD and KSD-TV were evacuated from the studios on the first two floors of the old Post-Dispatch building The station managed to remain Mayor of West Berlin Orders Crackdown on Riots at Wall Blamed on U.S. Test Brandt Issues cials said there was no doubt.

Ion the air, switching its operation suit. Not Certified Holman refused to certify the bonds for sale because the court has never ruled on validity of the constitutional change approved by the voters in the 1960 general the enabling act passed by the 1961 Legislature. Twice the Supreme Court has ruled against pending bond issues without ruling on the amendment or the new law. Last February the court knocked out Charleston's proposed general obligation bond issue pi $300,000. The decision said Charleston's voters approved the bond issue before the enabling legislation became law.

The 1961 law carried an emergency clause to make it effective as soon as it was signed by Gov. John M. Dalton. He signed it June 26, 1961. Charleston held its tion almost immediately.

But the cpurt said there was no emergency in the law and so ii could not become effective until Oct. 13, 1961, or 90 days after the legislature adjourned. Thus the early bond election was invalid. Monroe City The court used the same theory week in striking down Mon(Continued on Page 10, Col. 3) WEATHER: SUNNY AND HOT Jefferson City and vicinity: Sunny and hot this afternoon, cloudy tonight and Tuesday with thundershowers likely.

Low tonight 70-75, high Tuesday 90s. THE THERMOMETER Noon 100 2 a.m T8 3 p. 103 4 a.m 76 4 p.m 104 6 a.m gpm 302 8 a.m p.m 92 10 a.m 94 p.m 86 TOO Midnight 81 2 p.m Hish ycsteraay 104: Low yesterday 81. High "pis' years 101 In 1936; Low past 44 years 47 in 1950. PRECIPITATION Nrwt-Tribunc Weather Bureau Rtadinsf 0.0 for the past 24 hours ending at noon today; heaviest rain same dfttc in 44 years 1 S3 in 1949.

Total to date this month. 2.25: normal this month to date. 2.56; this year to date, 15.77: normal, 26.27. WEATHER BOOK Barometer. 30.00 steady Relative Humidity.

26 per cent Highest wind velocity lor 24 hours ending at noon today: Memorial Airport, at. 15 mph 12 noon today. THE SEN 1 Sunrise today 5:27: Sunset today 6:58. RIVER STAGES River: Kansas City 5.2 8.1 8.1 JeJfmon City Rim: o' the Ozarkt S8.1 No Oar Authorities Probe Railroad Derailment WATSEKA, HI. searched today for the cause of a three-car derailment of the Chicago Eastern Illinois' Dixie Flyer which killed two persons.

A sleeper and two coaches at the rear of the Florida-bound train carrying 91 passengers left the rails Sunday and bounced along the tracks for two or three blocks. The main line was cleared late Sunday. The derailment occurred at nearby Pittwood, about 70 miles south of Chicago. Burns Fatal KANSAS CITY (AP)- -Richard A. Tharp, a 26-year-old floor finisher, died Saturday of burns suffered when dust in a room exploded while he was sanding floors in a new houss Friday.

Most of his clothing was burned off. It was the first confirmed case of smallpox in the United States since 1947, they said. The development left New York City with the staggering taskof running down all who may have come in contact with the boy here those who handled his baggage at the airport, the cab driver who drove the family to the city and those few from among the thousands at Granc Central Terminal who may have touched or passed near the boy in the waiting room. The city health department se1 up 12 vaccination centers in Manhattan and the Bronx, while issuing a call for -all those who may have come in contact with the boy to step forward without delay. Smallpox "is a highly communicable disease that can be fatal if unchecked.

While the city vaccinated more than 300 persons at its centers Sunday, the U.S. Public Health Service gave vaccinations to more than 400 others at Idlewild Airport Work Around Clock Centers in the city and at the airport were put on a round-the- clock schedule, while officials tried to hunt down the cab driver who transported the Orr family. The father, who first described the driver as a Negro, later said he was white with a dark complexion and a foreign accent. There are about 12,400 cabs in New York City with some 40,000 drivers. Aerolineas Argentinas provided a passenger list of its Flight 322 '(Continued on Page 10, Col.

2) Riley to Drop Vote Charges Charges of vote fraud against three persons will be dropped by prosecuting attorney James T. Riley as recommended by the recently dismissed Cole County grand jury. Riley said today that charges against Judith Ann (Deel) Vieth and Mr. and Mrs. Hector Gardner would be formally dropped "when I get around to it." The move will officially bring to a close the much-publicized vote fraud cases which developed at one point into a political war and came to a climax when, Riley requested the formation of a grand iury.

No longer facing Mrs. Vieth is a felony charge of voting illegally which carried possibly jail terms, lines and disenfranchisement. The Gardners, who now live in Memphis, now no longer misdemeanor charges of attempting to Vote absentee while not a resident of the city. The grand jury in its presentment issued last week recommended that charges be dropped in both cases because there appeared to DC no willful violation in either. to its transmitter in- St.

Louis County. A large section of the Carson- Union-May-Stern building, which was in the process of being torn down to make wat for erection ol a 25-story building, collapsed at 11:08 a.m., one hour after the fire started. Burning embers set fire to -the roofs of the Statler-Hilton hotel, the Scruggs-Vandervoort Barney Department store, and the Merchants Mart, over an area of several blocks in downtown St. Louis. Flames leaped from an air conditioning structure atop the tall Scruggs building at 10th and Olive and a call was sent out for additional fire fighting equipment there.

The fires at the Statler and Merchants Mart were quickly brought under control. As sections of walls of the Carson-Union-May Stern building began to collapse, police officers chased spectators back. Fell In Fortunately the main part of the wall facing 12th where several fire trucks were parked, fell into ruins of the collapsing structure instead of into the street. A smaller section had fallen into the street minutes earlier, cutting utility lines and showering bricks into the street. Spectators one block away from the 80-year-old structure held up their hands to shield their faces from the heat.

Embers and soot mixed with spray from the fire iioses rained down over the heart of the city. This put the crowds of spectators on the run, where police had been unsuccessful in urging them to retreat Women held newspapers over their heads to ward off embers and soot. Men found their clothing- covered with tiny specks of soot, carried down by the spray. The Grossman Wrecking which was razing the old building, said .12 workmen were on the job when the fire was discovered in an elevator shaft at the southeast corner. Several of the men went to the first floor and tried to put out the fire by pouring water on it.

'When the water hit the grease New Radiation Belt FoundcaiiforCaim BOULDER, Colo. new and perhaps menacing radiation belt is in the atmosphere around the there, scientists say, by a United States high- altitude nuclear test blast July 9. Little is known of the new belt except: 1. It could imperial astronauts in future space flights, and hence might cause the United States to delay its Project Mercury program. 2.

It emits radio frequency signals and therefore may interfere with some radio astronomy. The presence of the radiation belt, 600 miles and higher above the earth, was disclosed by Dr. James Warwick of the University of Colorado's high-altitude observatory, in a copyright article by science writer Victor Cohn of the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune. Dr. Warwick's comments were substantiated by Dr.

James A. Van Allen, who in 1958 discovered the principal radiation belt encircling the earth. The Colorado scientist said the effect of the Pacific high-altitude test blast last month was to greatly intensify the so-called Van Allen radiation ring. (Continued on Page 10, Col. 3) Six Blazes Reported Hottest Day Intensified By Brush and Grass Fires CAMDENTON (Special) Six one started when the sun's rays shone through the glass of a broken make Sunday one of the hottes days in local history here.

Norman Harlan, district fores' assistant at Camdenton, said mos' of the fires were caused by trash Durning and sparks from trains which tindered the dry grass. in the shaft there was a burst of undergo a series of tests. After flame," said Richard Smith, a foreman. "The fire seemed to spread everywhere." California Man Wins Fair Ham Championship SEDALIA, Mo. F.

Burger of California, has ex- libited his third grand champion lome-cured ham at the Missouri Fair, and gets permanent possession of the Sen. Thomas C. Hennings trophy. His father, E. M.

Burger of California, had the second place jam. The grand champion slab of bacon was exhibited by the Alwell brothers, Hugo and Emil, of Concordia. that, she will be transferred to the Illinois State Training School for Girls at Geneva. At the age of 21, she will appear before the Illinois Pardon Like Coney Island on Fourth President's Pacific Dip Causes Stir 0 1 ito weren't 1 "S't Girl Enters Guilty Plea In Slayings BELLEVILLE, HI. tfarie Stone, 14, accused of having a hand in the double slaying of a Belleville man and his little daughter, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in St.

Clair County Circuit court today. Judge Richard T. Carter ac cepted the plea, declared for the record that she was 14 years olc and ordered her turned over to the Illinois Youth Commission. The Stone girl was charged with aiding her lover, John Edwin Myers, 33, kill George Ballard and his 10-year-old daughter, Aug 30, 1961. The two also are accused of wo other slayings.

Myers is under a death sentence in Texas or one of the killings. Only two witnesses were heard court today. Both gave testimony that the girl was of at least average intelligence and knew the difference between right and wrong. One was Gordon Dodds, superintendent of Edwardsville, 111., schools, who produced the girl's records when she was a grade school student there. The other was the Rev.

Eugene Lamport, pastor of the First Christian Church in Edwardsville, which the girl formerly attended. Judge Carter said the girl will be sent to the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet where she will One of the larger fires, near Hugo in Camden County, burned about 100 acres of grassland and two outbuildings. It was brought under control by the forest crew and local volunteers. The fire started about 10:30 a.m. and burned until about 4 p.m.

Harlan said the forest crew had trouble keeping the fire under control, as it broke out repeatedly in the dry grass. In Laclede County near the Sleeper community, 200 acres were burned. Harlan said the fire apparently started by sparks from a train on 'nearby railroad. Efforts of the railroad crew, combined 17 Die in Bloody Weekend on Roads County Man Among Accident Victims Death struck 17 times on Missouri highways the past three days, killing five Friday, six Saturday and six more Sunday. A Cole County man was includec in the fatality toll.

Bernard John Herman Schnieders, 50, Rt. 3, was dead on arrival at St. Mary's Hos pital after a car in which he was riding missed a curve on Old Schu bert Road and struck a tree. The car was driven by Mr. Schnieders nephew, Paul Edwin Schnieders.

The result lifted the traffic toll for the year to 578 as Of today nine more than on the same date with the forest detail'and volun- ast ar and biggest gap so teer fire fighters brought the firelff! 1 th year Eari '5 this year under control. Local volunteers put out a fire swept over 80 acres in Dalla County, caused apparently by Lrash burning. A barn at the edge of Camdenton was burned by a spreading grass fire that was extinguished by the Camdenton city fire department. Trash from a burning dump started a fire along the shores Lake Ozark, covering about an acre. And in Morgan County the sun shining through the glass of a broken bottle in shimmering 10, degree heat, started a grass fin that singed about an acre.

"About two more degrees anc we wouldn't have needed that bot tie," commented Harlan dryly. Mayor and Clerk To Miss Meeting The starting lineup for the Citj Council's regular meeting tonighi will reflect some necessary sub stitutions. Councilman John W. Riner, mayor pro-tern, will preside in the absence of Mayor C. Forrest Whaley who is on vacation, and Mrs.

Margaret Christian, deputy city clerk will be sitting in for Harold 3aker Jr. The agenda for tonight's meet- ng calls for action on routine business. A "state of the city" report from he committee of the whole has been postponed until the mayor returns. Riner is chairman of the committee. and Parole Board which will de- City Engineer ex- termine her fate.

She could be freed or imprisoned for seven more years, making a total of 14 years in custody, the maximum for voluntary manslaughter. pected to report to the council results of an extensive survey on the effects of improper downspouting on the city's sanitary sewer system. Therstoe girl displayedf no emo- Don V. Cline. Third Ward Coun- liv- £3 AI i Alt nf Hrt tion and'had nothing to- say toyman and chairman of.

the parking and traffic commission, is expected to seek new ordinances on "emergency" traffic problems. newsmen. In the courtroom were her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.

H. Stone of Chicago, and her grandmothrr, Mrs. Theodore W. Lischmann- of Edwardsville, with whom she was staying before she joined Myers. No Trouble Develops From Liquor Sales JOHANNESBURG, South Africa first weekend on which South Africa's nonwhites could buy liquor on an equal basis with whites passed today without the and street fight- dent Kennedy, weekending here, deiobviously helped the cause of cided to take a swim in the Pa-lDemocratic Edmund G.

he total was as much as 40 below ast year's figure at the time. Capt. John A. Berglund, head Highway Patrol's traffic- safety division, said he thought the extreme hot weather might have been a factor in the heavy week end toll. Three of the deaths were in southwest Missouri Sunday, Shar on Leigh Wilcox, was fatally in jured in a two-car accident a Springfield.

Miss Helen Jean Hampton, 20, Springfield, was kill ed in a one-car accident south Springfield. Eugene Reagon, 16 Cassville, was killed west of tha city when his motor bike was hi by a car. A resident of Pfesque Isle, Maine Theodore Wilbert Murphy, 59, wa killed Sunday when his car left S. 36 and plunged down an em bankment 11 miles, west of Chilli cothe. Charles A.

Lodder, 43, Marc line, died early Sunday of in juries received in a two-car co lision Saturday night six mile southeast of Marceline on Rout ZZ. Two youths from the Swee Springs area, James Ray Coch, 1 and Henry Atwood, 23, were kille (Continued on Page 11, Col. 1) Mercury Hits 104 As City Swelters Through Hottest Day Jefferson i i a sweltered through the hottest day of the year Sunday. The- mercury climbed to a scalp-drying 104 degrees. With each degree the tennis courts became a bit emptier and the swimming pools a bit fuller.

Downtown Jefferson City's streets were empty parking meters. People decided not to get a good suntan. Sports fans turned their attention to electric fans. It was hot. One nice thing about it the humidity was only 12 per cent.

Sent to FBI cific and was almost swamped by a throng of 1,000 admirers. The scene was reminiscent of Coney Island on a muggy Fourth of July. The Secret Service, to a man, was in a mild state of shock. Bystanders walked into the sea fully clothed as the President strode into the ocean in front of the Santa Monica beach home of his brother-in-law, Peter Lawford. President's 33-hour visit to Southern California, a flying trip which ended shortly before midnight when the presidential jet took off to return to Washington, B.C.

It had been billed as a non-poli- Brown when they dedicated the 5511-million San Luis Dam in central California on Saturday. The President spent much of his time in Southern California with Lawford whose wife, like the President's, is vacationing in Europe. The President and his film star in-law spent much of Sunday lounging by the pool of the actor's It happened Sunday during the home, tossirg around a football, and enjoying second helpings from the Lawfords' well-stocked larder. Film stars Doris Day, Janet Leigh and a bikini-clad Sue Lyon (the films' "Lolita' watched the President's iwunming jaunt, but party and stayed clear of the scene which ensued. It started when the President, apparently without prior warning to his security guards, emerged from Lawford's beachfront home and set out for the surf 100 yards across the sand.

The house fronts on a public beach at nearby Santa Monica. Some 100 bathers, who had been waiting for hours for just such an appearance, let out a wild cheer. The cheers brought other bathers from out of the sand, from under blankets, from everywhere. They closed in on the smiling chief executive, many trying to (Continued en Page CoL i) More Fingerprints Found In Probe of Mail Robbery BOSTON discovery to the Federal Reserve Bank in of additional fingerprints was dis-jBoston. closed today by one of the chief! The biggest previous cash haul j.v.pj investigators seeking the bandits)in the nation's crime annals was took part in the nation's Sl.219.000 Brink's robbery in Johannesburg police said there robb in lym outh'January i960, for which eight men was no unusual number of com- iwere sen(cnced fo In Radio Speech BERLIN Willy Brandt today ordered West Berlin police to crack down on rioters "with the necessary vigor" after wild weekend demonstrations at the Red wall brought attacks on Americans as well as Soviets.

East and West Berlin police also were involved in the melees. Brandt appealed for calm in a radio speech. Thousands of angry West Berliners marched, shouted and threw stones at Soviets, Americans, the wall, East German border guards and their own police Sunday. Huge slingshots were used to hurl tear gas grenades from the Communist side. Protest Shooting The rioting was to protest shooting by East Berlin border guards of a young refugee trying to escape Friday.

He was left to die slowly on the East side of the wall while American troops and West police watched from the other side. Maj. Gen. Albert Watson, the J.S. commandant, disclosed the soviet command had refused an nvitation to discuss the increased with American, British and French commandants at U.S.

leadquarters. Watson had offered lift a ban on the Soviet commandant visiting the U.S. sector. Young West Berliners best (Continued on Page 10, Col. 6) iscapees Given taw Sentences Three prison inmates had time added to their sentences after heading guilty to escape charges )efore Circuit Judge Sam C.

Blair today. Edward Gregory, serving two rears for burglary from Jackson -ounty, was given two additional years for walking away from the penitentiary here July 16. Gary Heckart and George Swearingen, two Algoa inmates, had three years added to their sentences. They both pleaded guilty to escape charges and admitted breaking into a cabin and stealing food April 26. Wayne E.

Wilson, 18, was ordered held in Cole County jail by Blair today pending a presentence investigation. Wilson pleaded guilty to a charge of, stealing an automobile from a local used car lot July 1. Lawrence E. Simmons, 23, was granted parole effective Sept. 4 by Blair.

Simmons pleaded guilty earlier to a charge of breaking into a local food market Mar. 30 and stealing about S10 in cigars and candy. plaints. William F. White, chief New i White said investigators are not England postal inspector, toldilookmg for.any specific suspect by Stoddard Probe Partly Completed BLOOMFIELD (Special) A Department of Agriculture investi- ator has apparently completed at east one phase of a probe of eged irregularities in the Stoddard ounty ASC William Payne, the USDA in- estigater, returned to Washing- on Friday after five days in the ounty.

reportedly concentrating checking charges made by State ep. Tom F. Baker III that some SC employes were campaigning gainst him and that farmers irere threatened with reprisals if icy did not vote for his opponent. Investigation into other charges ASC irregularities, including ne alleging improper practices cotton allotments, will report- dly be made later. The controversy, which has irred up a hornets nest of charg- and countercharges, picked up dditional steam last week with a eport by Prosecuting Arty.

Paul IcGhee that voting irregularities ave been discovered in the prim- ry, in which Baker defeated Norman Elaine Harty for, the Democratic nomination by 844 votes. McGhee said a farm laborer ii M. C' England postal inspector, uv Gh said a farm laborer Hearst, SlXth WltC jnewsmen the prints were found name at this stage of the mves- mgde an Qral statementi later re I I trirfrtc? licrorl Kir tKa WtKltArC Il23tl0n. 31.4.J VIA Unn 'on road signs used by the robbers LAS VEGAS. Nev.

(AP) George R. Hearst, 58, oldest son of the late publisher William Kan- dolph Hearst, has his sixth wife for the second time. Hearst and his wife, Rosalie, were wed July 16. 1960, in Juarez, Mexico. The couple were rewed here Sunday.

They said they wanted to be remarried in thf; United Stairs. They live in Pain springs, Calif. to detour emptied a 551,277. traffic while mail truck of tigation "We just don't know, as he said, "who actually was involved in the robbery." White said investigators at this The prints were sent to FBIj tjme can sec no connect ion be- headquarters in Washington. tween the robbery and a man Investigators earlier found jx)tted in Buffalo yesterday in a gerprints on at least one of the; ar carrying a revolver, a rifle automobiles used in the precision-! anf a submachine gun, planned robbery on Route 3 last! white said there arc indications Tuesday night.

The money represented from Cape Cod banks five men and a young woman were in the team which ambushed the money-carrying mail truck. judiated in writing, that he had voted three times in the electioi and had driven six other men three polling places where all voted. McGhee planned to meet wJ Circuit Judge Arthur U. Goodm today on the advisability i impaneling a grand jury to hive'" gate the alleged vote frauds. grand jury is called, it will be first summoned in the coanty.