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Al noon 11 ptr ctnt. (Sot dettilt on Ptgt 1.) EMTIO! DAVENPORT BETTENDORF, IOWA MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1964 30 PAGES 109 YEAR Dial 326-5111 10 CENTS Court Voids Florida OK on Bibles in School. DEMOCRAT Strikes Loyalty 0) 111 IN IN SCOTTISH OUTBREAK Stab Wounds Kill Child of Prominent Waterloo Resident If Typhoid Hits Another 37 WATERLOO (AP) The twice stabbed body of Diane Kay Gable, 19, daughter of a prominent Waterloo real estate and insurance owner, was ABERDEEN, Scotland AP) A typhoid in this city of 186,000 struck another 37 Monday after officials had voiced hope the epi demic was leveling off. 1 i 1 '1 WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court overturned Monday a Florida court decision that upheld Bible reading and recitation of the Lord's Prayer in Miami public schools. The tribunal cited its 1963 decision in a similar case from Abington Township in Pennsyl vania.

In the Abington case, and also In a case from Maryland, the Supreme Court last year held that required Bible reading and prayer exercises are unconstitutional. Moral Training Florida's Supreme Court, in the decision overturned Monday, said that state's law requiring Bible reading was based on secular rather than sectarian considerations, and was intended to require moral training and inculcation of good citizenship. The highest tribunal, in an unsigned order Monday, said it was reversing the Florida court with respect to issues of constitutionality of prayer and Bible reading in schools. It said other questions raised in the case were not ruled on. These included validity of religious baccalaureate o-grams, the taking of a religious census among students, and conducting religious tests as a qualification for employment of teachers.

These latter issues, the Su- COURT (Continued on Page 2, Col 6) You Can Win $2,62500 This Wetlc'i Priitl Clip Bonanza Puzzle BONUS ON PAGE 2 Voting in Bolivia With her small son strapped to her back in a multi-colored blanket, a bowler-wearing Bolivian woman deposits her vote in a ballot box in La Paz as she voted in the presidential election. President Victor Paz Estenssoro won a second successive four-year term in an election that was boycotted by the opposition. found in the living room day. The young woman was stabbed twice in the chest and her clothing was in disarray, said Dr. Eugene Smith, deputy county medical examiner.

It was not immediately deter mined whether she had been raped. Parents Fishing Miss Gable's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mack Gable, were fishing in the Harpers Ferry area along the Mississippi River when her body was found by an employe of the real estate firm. Larry D.

McGreevy found the body after going to the Gable house when Miss Gable failed to show for work at her father's office. McGreevy called the parents after he found the house locked. Gable told McGreevy to break down the door and find out what was the matter, Dr. Smith said no weapon had been found. He said she ap parently had been dead since Sunday night.

BULLETIN DALLAS (AP) Three court-appointed psychiatrists recommended Monday that a sanity hearing be held for condemned killer Jack Ruby. However, Judge Joe B. Brown said he wanted to confer with them before deciding whether to grant the hearing. Kennedys Lose Baby WASHINGTON (AP) Mrs. Edward M.

(Ted) Kennedy, wife of the Massachusetts sena tor, lost an expected baby through a mis- carnage Monday. Dr. William J. Cusack, Mrs. Kennedy's personal physician, said Ken nedy was resting comfortably at George- town Universi-ty Hospital Kennedy here.

She was in the early stages of pregnancy, the doctor said. Mrs. Kennedy, 27, entered the hospital Sunday in an attempt to avoid a miscarriage. Cusack is professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology at Georgetown University Medical School. Mrs.

Kennedy lost another expected baby by miscarriage in May, 1963. She and Sen. Kennedy have two children, Kara, 4, and Edward M. 3. Sen.

Kennedy, youngest brother of the late President John F. Kennedy, returned to Washington Sunday from Boston after canceling a speaking engage ment in Providence, R.I. I tl'i'TO4Sw f' 1 j. "'1 i -1 a AP Wirtphoto By Phil Hutchison Iowa Vote Of 340,000 Is Expected DES MOINES (AP) Iowans were nominating candidates Monday for Congress, the State Legislature, and state and most local elective offices, but no con test stirred much statewide in terest. Veteran observers predicted a turnout of 340,000.

Although registration is not required in every county, there are an estimated 1.7 million Iowans of voting age. Democratic Gov. Harold Hughes was without opposition in his bid for nomination to a second two-year term. Atty Gen. Evan II 1 1 a was the only candidate for the Republican nomination for governor.

Lt. Gov. William Mooty was challenged for renomination by Robert Naden of Webster City, a of the Iowa House. State Sen. Robert Fulton of Waterloo was the only seeker of the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor.

There were mult i-candidate contests in the Gth and 7th Congressional Districts in western Iowa. 3j 1 I 4Kssssrf i of her parents home Mon Weekend's Traffic Toll Tops 400 ASSOCIATED PRESS Traffic accidents killed 429 persons throughout the nation during the 78-hour weekend of Memorial Day. The deaths occurred between 6 p.m. Thursday and midnight Sunday, local times. The weekend toll was only slightly more than an actual nonholiday weekend tally in mid-May this year.

It was within the bracket of the National Safety Council's estimate of 415 to 490 traffic deaths. Nevertheless, the fatal record was a high for a three-day Me morial Day period. Tha vious record was 371 iri 1958, Probably, safety experts said. a great increase in the number of cars in use, and in miles traveled, accounted for last weekend's total. The heaviest toll was Sunday as millions of motorists jammed highways headed for home aft er outings.

Reports indicata nearly 150 persons were killed TRAFFIC (Continued on Page 2, Col 3) The truck was demolished, but McConnell escaped injury, patrolmen reported. "Fairly Good" Mrs. John Oelerich, 72, of 1207 S. Concord Davenport, is listed in "fairly good" condition Monday at Mercy Hospital to which she was taken after, police said, she was struck by a car operated by her husband. Oelerich, officers reported had pulled into the driveway at his home and was waiting for AREA (Continued on Page 2, Col 6) Page 10 Page 5 Miss Garland I i 1 One Dies, Five Hurt In Area Accidents ere Is Your I I 1 A total of 227 persons is in hospitals 197 of them confirmed typhoid cases and the others suspected victims.

City health officials said the epidemic appeared to have sprung from a supermarket meat slicer. But a town council meeting heard a suggestion that it may have been attributable to what one official called a deterioration of hygiene in the city's public lavatories because of the recent withdrawal of attendants. Health officials said1 they would investigate. Fears the outbreak had spread to the British navy were quieted. A British navy cook and seaman from the submarine Rorqual were hospitalized in Glasgow as typhoid suspects but the Admiralty reported the two sailors were suffering from gastroenteritis, an intestinal inflammation.

Schools have closed and social life is suspended in Aberdeen. One woman has died of ty phoid thus far. SECRET TALKS Key U.S. Advisers Mull Asia HONOLULU (AP) Top U. S.

strategists opened secret talks on Communist plagued Southeast Asia Monday as the shaky coalition government of Laos ap peared to be falling apart. The virtual pullout of the pro- Communist Pathet Lao from a patched-up coalition with Lao tian neutralists and rightists deepened the crisis atmosphere surrounding the talks. Just about every key Amen can otncial concerned witn Southeast Asia was present for the two-day conference behind closed doors at Pacific Com mand headquarters overlooking Pearl Harbor. Secretary of State Dean Rusk ASIA (Continued on Page 2, Col 1) 14 Are Dead As Result Of Blazes ASSOCIATED PRESS Fourteen persons have perished in three home fires around the nation. Nine of thern were children.

A family of six died early Monday when fire swept their single story frame house in the Central Park district of Buffalo, N.Y. The mother, Barbara White, 28, and her four young children perished in the fire. The father, Charles, 26 died eight hours later in Columbus Hospital. The children were Mark, 4, Kevin, 3, Scott, 2, and 6-month-old Charles Jr. The cause of the fire was not FIRES (Contini on Page 2, Col 8) fy And One person is dead and five were injured as a result of holiday accidents in the general Quad-City area.

Killed was 19-year-old Mrs. Sue Ann Spletzer of California in a crash three miles east of Clarence in Cedar County. in Davenport Opposing candidates for the Republican nomination for Scott County auditor, Ruth Reynolds and George Oxley, were among the first to cast ballots when Davenport polls opened at 8 a.m. Mrs. Reynolds voted at Smart Junior High School and Oxley at Taylor School.

Her husband, Carl Spletzer, i of Mount View, is listed as "fair" in Mercy Hospital, Cedar Rapids, to which he was taken after his car and a semitrailer truck operated by Ronald McConnell, 18, of Botna, Iowa, collided on Highway 30 Sunday. The body of Mrs. Spletzer was taken to Turner's Mortuary, Cedar Rapids. Highway patrolmen said the Spletzer car, en route to Gary, where the couple planned to visit, crossed over the center line into the path of the truck. Scott Turnout Runs Behind 1962 Pace Early voting reports indicate that today's primary election turnout wiil be light in Scott County.

Today's Chuckle Isn't it amazing how many people there are who long for immortality but can't even amuse themselves on a rainy evening? New Daily By JIM ARPY Today we launch the brand new Times-Democrat and we know the feelings of the men at Cape Kennedy who push the buttons to put the satellites into orbit! The "countdown" for today's launching of the merged Daily Times and Morning Democrat into the new Times-Democrat has been taking place for weeks. With this day's issues, it becomes a reality. Here's anothei first! Now we bring you a Monday mornmg edition as part of our policy of providing you with full news coverage and features around the clock, seven days a week There were myriad details to be mapped out for this event production schedules to be decided, personnel assignments to be made. We're happy to report everything about our launch has been "A-OK." Now we'd like you to help us celebrate! It's our intention in the morning and afternoon editions of the new Times-Democrat, to bring you a newspaper as modern as ihe Space Age, while still retaining much of the oersonality and characteristics that made both The Daily Times and Morning Democrat Quad-City favorites for a combined total of 187 years. We're certain there are exciting times ahead and we want to share them with you.

In the new Times-Democrat it will De possible to "have your cake and eat it, too," because the best features of both The Daily Times and DAILY (Continued on Page Col 4) It Was in The T-D! Only readers of the new Manday morning issue of the Times-Democrat got the full report of the marathon baseball game between the San Francisco Giants and the Mets in New York Sunday. The game, which consumed 7 hours and 23 minutes, was carried in detail, along with box score, and was an exclusive in the Quad-City area in the Times Democrat. The limes Democrat Monday morning tarried reports of other baseball games, both in the majors and the Midwest league and other sports as well. Judy Out of Hospital A noon spot ohec-K of 21 Dav enport precincts showed that 541 persons had voted since the polls opened at 8 a.m. Rural precinct voting began at 9 a.m.

All of the counties 50 precinct polling places close at 9 daylight saving time. Most precincts checked indi cated that voting was running slightly behind the 1962 primary pace. Heaviest vote was recorded in the Sixth Ward, Second Precinct at McKinley School, where 86 votes had been cast by noon. Eighteen Democratic and nine Republican candidates for district and county offices were being nominated without opposi tion today, while seven Repub lican contests and one on the Democratic side were stirring interest among area voters. Holding attention on the local level is the seven candidate race for five Republican nominations for the Iowa House of Representatives.

Oemocraisi have just five candidates, so all are assured of nomination. Bidding foi' OP House nomi nation are A. Linton Lundy Mrs. Elizabeth Shaw, Warren K. Wood, John J.

Duffy, Edgar H. Holden, H. T. (Tom) Lewis and incumbent State Rep. Paul Knowles.

Under the temporary reap- SCOTT (Continued on Page 2, Col 3) Vole Count Headquarters for election returns tonight will be newsroom of The Times-Democrat. Due to the fact that the polling places will be open until 9 p.m. first returns are not expected to be received until about 9:30 p.m. An invitation is extended to the public to visit the newsroom where the latest returns will be posted. Also returns will be available by telephone, The public is invited to call The Times-Democrat 326-51 'J.

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