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OTTAWA HERALD VOL. 65 NO. 249 OTTAWA, KANSAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMER 29,1961 7 CENTS TEN PAGES Syria Proclaims Freedom Side Swipes BATH, England (AP) "Pre- meet thy God," says a sign in six-foot letters on the roof of the local Baptist Church. Thursday, 60 years after the message first was put Bath's town planners ordered it to be taken down. They said it was advertising.

"The sign was affecting the visual amenities of the area," said J. G. Wilkinson, planning officer of the elegant spa city in Somerset, which is fussy about such things. But the church minister, The Rev. W.

H. Parsons, declared: "It is not a text from the scriptures. The City Council has been asked to decide the issue. "Bugged" Prof GROTON, Mass. (AP) The story came out today how three students at exclusive Groton School "bugged" the headmasters study some time last year and recorded the pickup on tape.

Stately Groton sent such nota-1 bles as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dean Acheson into the world. The unidentified students are now at other schools. They were expelled last spring for denying knowledge of the evidence showing they ran wires from a microphone hidden in Headmaster John Crocker's study to a tape recorder in a dormitory. How long the boys listened to what occurred in the study was not clear.

The faculty discovered something was wrong when students began talking matters they were not supposed to know. The net closed when science teachers checked on electronics equipment loaned to certain boys for outside the classroom. No Legs, Please LONDON (AP) Conservative party ladies were urged today not to turn the party's annual conference next month into a leg show. A piece of advice from party headquarters on how the ladies should deport themselves was carried in "Right Approach," a magazine issued by the ruling party's central office. "From an audience viewpoint," it said, "the front row of the platform and the front row of a chorus have one distinctive feature in legs, legs." With engaging frankness, the magazine told the lady delegates: "First of all, sit up straight and well back in the chair and in all circumstances keep your knees close together.

"If you must, cross your ankle but never cross your knees. "And please, oh please, never assume the 'knees-wide' position so popular with football teams when being photographed." Pops Question SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A messenger delivered a note Thursday along with a carrier pigeon, two dozen roses and a bottle of champagne. "If you agree to marry me," said the note, "set this bird free." Stunned, but delighted, Marilyn Fagan, 24, freed the pigeon and it returned to its coop across town where Robert Bourke, 32, was waiting. The wedding date hasn't been set but Bourke sighed, "I'm relieved." SAUDI AKABIA Nasser Troops Are Withdrawn BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Syria's army rebels installed a new civilian government today and declared their independence of Cairo. "The regime of tyranny has gone forever," declared Damascus radio.

Accusing President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic of turning Syria into a prison, the broadcast said: "We do not oppose Arab unity. We dispute your claim to Arab leadership." Nasser announced from Cairo WASHINGTON (AP) The United States held to a strict lands off policy toward the anti- passer Syrian revolt today while losely watching for new develop- REVOLT IN officers claim they were fully in control in all parts of Syria (shaded) in military revolt against the United Arab Republic. President Nasser in Cairo ordered Egyptian troops in the Syrian region to march on Damascus (underlined), Syrian capital where rebels struck first Find Brother Of River Victim The Weather COUNTY FORECAST Rainy tonight and Saturday; scattered thunderstorms this evening and tonight; cooler Saturday; low tonight 55-65; highs Saturday 60-65. High temperature yesterday, 67; low today. 52; high year ago today, 84; low year ago today.

record high this dav. 101 In 1963; record low this date 27 In 1908; hourly temperatures, 24 hours ending 8 a.m., today: a.m S3 9 p.m 55 10 a.m 67 10 p.m 56 11 a.m 63 11 p.m .64 66 2 p.m 67 3 p- 67 .65 .62 .68 4 p.m. 5 p.m. 6 p.m. 7 p.m.

8 p.m. 58 Midnight 60 1 a.m 60 2 a.m 61 3 a.m 61 1 a.m 62 5 a.m 62 6 a.m 62 7 a.m 63 I a.m 65 OLATHE ended today for the twin brother of a 56-year-old man whose body was found in the Marais des Cygnes River near Osawatomie Aug. 6. Homer Kurtz of Williams, was found at a telephone booth at 55th street and K32 near the Turner bridge in Wyandotte County, shortly after he telephoned an uncle, Henry Kurtz of Eudora. Authorities had been looking for him since a body, identified as that of Harry Kurtz, was found in the river.

Homer Kurtz, questioned at Olathe by Miami County sheriffs officers and agents of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, said he did not know of his brother's death until today. He told officers he last saw his brother July 26 near Ottawa. He said they were looking for work, but decided to split up because of difficulty in obtaining food and lodging at farms in the area. He said he had been in Louisiana since early August. Flying Child Home To Die AUGUSTA, Ga.

(AP)-A Japanese-American girl, unconscious for more than a year, is flying home to Tokyo where doctors say she soon will die. Mira Oensel, 10, once a pert, peppy 68-pounder, has wasted away to 30 pounds since she was stricken with a brain tumor last year. Doctors say she may not be strong enough to make the trip but her American father and Japanese mother want to reunite the family, if possible, while there still is time. Flying with Mira is her mother, Takako Oensel, who has been at her bedside since last winter, praying and singing to the sleeping child. Mira's father, Frank Oensel, is a consulting engineer with an American firm in Tokyo.

Born in Japan, Mira is an only child. Following The Echo The U.S. Echo satellite will move northeast in an arc 78 degrees above the horizon north of Ottawa at 5:18 a.m. Saturday. Troops At Katanga Border ELISABETHVILLE, Katanga, the Congo Nations authorities confirmed today that troops of the Congolese central government are massing near the Katanga border but said they so far have not crossed.

Conor Cruise O'Brien, U.N. special representative, said "a large number" of troops had been moved by commercial airliner into Luluabourg, Kasai Province, and heavy material is being brought up by river. "We are aware of these movements," O'Brien told a news conference, "but it is not a matter for the United Nations to interfere with movements of the central government troops within its borders." O'Brien said the United Nations insists as a matter of urgency on the removal of more than 100 European military and parliamentary personnel assisting the army and poke of Katanga's President Moise Tshombe 1 that he had recalled two army regiments, air units and the entire Egyptian navy sent to suppress the revolt. He said he did this to avoid bloodshed. A group of 120 parachutists, dropped before the orders reached them Thursday night, were ordered to surrender, he said, because the Port of Latakia where they were dropped already had been captured by the rebels.

One Syrian broadcast claimed 200 Egyptian paratroopers were wiped out and another said 120 commandos were captured, but the broadcasts may have been different versions of one action. Addressing a rally of 100,000 in Cairo, Nasser denounced the Syrian revolt as a "separatist, reactionary, imperialist movement' and indicated he still was refusing to compromise with the rebels. "We lost some battles" he said but he predicted the Syrian people "will not be conquered" by reaction. The government of King Hus sein. long a foe of Nasser quickly recognized the new revolutionary government of Syria, and wishec it success.

Jordan's action was in Amman immediately after a Cabinet meeting presided over King Hussein. There was speculation in Lon don that Jordan might follow up her gesture of political support bj sending aid to the Syrian rebel unless the conflict with Nasser ii quickly settled. There also wa: speculation that other Middli Eastern opponents of Nasser might follow Hussein's lead, par ticularly Premier Abdel Karim Kassem of Iraq. Dr. Mamoun Kuzbari, 48, poli tician with a long record in Syrian cabinets before the 1958 merge with Egypt, took over as head the new Syrian government witl the blessings of the revolutionarj command which staged the upris ing at dawn Thursday.

Kuzbari is best known as a sup porter of former dictator Adib Shishekly, but also served in a later leftist regime. He took the posts of foreign affairs and defense as well as premier. ments. State Department press officer bseph W. Reap outlined the U.S.

non interference policy Thursday saying the cause of the uprising appears to be purely internal fomented by an outside power. The United States recognizes he United Arab Republic and has riendly diplomatic relations with he Nasser regime. Reap added that the Americans Syria are believed to be safe. An estimated 400 to 600 U.S. citizens, depending on the number of American tourists, are in the area.

U.S. authorities reported no evidence at this time that Moscow was directing the revolt. But they were mindful of past occasions when the Reds were quick to step in to take advantage of Middle Eastern turmoil. Traffic Toll TOPEKA (AP)-Kansas traffic death log: 24 hours to 8 a.m. For For 1961-393.

Comparable 1960 CH 2-3092. adv. FOOTBALL GAME TONIGHT University Braves vs. Sterling. Place: Cook University.

Field, Ottawa Kickoff time: 7:30. Invitations To Book Fair Given To County Schools Further plans for the Book Fair to be in Ottawa the third week in November were made at a meeting of committee chairmen in Carnegie Free Library yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Ben Park is acting as general chairman. It was announced that county schools will be invited.

Local P.T.A. groups are co-operating and will give skits or dramatizations concerning the event at their October meetings. Announcement was made that two authors of children's books have accepted invitations 1 to attend the fair, and others are expected. The two who have accepted are Alberta Wilson Constant, author of "Miss Charity Comes to a William Al- len White award book, and Mrs. Georgia Tucker Smith.

Miss Katharine Pappas, 0. U. speech and dramatics teacher, will provide entertainment features. On display will be original illustrations from several children's books. Plans have been made to have more than 1,000 selected books on display.

They will represent such interests as science, history, biography, the arts, and children's classics. There will be a large group suitable for first graders and pre-school children and a group of about 50 recent paper backs for adults. The high school art depart- ment under Tom Jordan's direc tion, will make posters for th fair. Grade school class mem bers will make pictures for i lustrations, the best of whic will be used in the fair. It is planned to present sum mer reading program award during the fair.

Committee chairmen workin with Mrs. Park are: book selec tion, Nell Barnaby; book sales Mrs. Carl Ziegler; decorations Mrs. Loren Matthews; hostesse; Mrs. Ray 1 Kelly; special exhibit and programs, Mrs.

P. R. Jam son and Mr. Carl Ziegler; schoo relations, Kendall Hay, and print ing, Mrs. Patricia Wigglesworth The next committee meetin will be Oct.

18 at the library. Hands Off Policy By U.S. QUICK BALANCE John Mack, Ottawa High senior, works with new analytical balance in school laboratory. This balance which costs $185 and weighs material to 1000th of a gram, requires only 30 seconds to use, compared to 12 to 15 minutes for the one it replaces. The government paid half the cost.

(Herald Photo) Children's Letters Bringing Book Award Winner Here Casey To Manage N.Y. Mets NEW YORK (AP) Casey Stengel today agreed to a one- year contract to manage the New York Mets of the National League which will start operation in 1962. Stengel was let out last year after managing the New York Yankees to 10 pennants in 12 years. He was 70 years old at the time and had just lost the World Series to Pittsburgh. George Weiss, president of the Mets, announced he had reached an agreement with the 71-year-old manager by telephone.

He would announce no financial details. The Mets said Stengel was not certain if he would be able to attend the World Series because of a few business details he had to clean up. Stengel was out of baseball this year, spending his time in his bank in California and writing his memoirs for a magazine. As part of the magazine deal, he was reported to have promised to make no decision on a comeback until the end of the season. Keith Robertson, Hopewell, N.J., the 1961 William Allen White Children's Book Award winner, will visit Ottawa Wednesday afternoon enroute to Wichita to receive the award.

His visit is the result of correspondence with a Eugene Field School fourth grade teacher, Mrs. A. M. Harvey, and some of the pupils who were in her room last year. The correspondence began fol- lowinjyjfre announcement of the award winner when one of her pupils, Davy Mudrick, noticed the author's name was the same as the author of two favorite books, "Ticktock and Jim" and Tick- tock and Jim, Deputy which Mrs.

Harvey has read to her pupils annually for several years. Pupils wrote congratulatory letters to the author as an English assignment, and Davy Mudrick, Martha Christie, Sandra Yates, Cheri Farnsworth and Dale Sauer mailed their letters. Robertson sent a letter addressed collectively to the fourth grade pupils to Mrs. Harvey, and individual letters to the pupils who had written to him. He thanked the pupils for voting for his book, "Henry Reed, which won the award, and for the compliments on the Ticktock books.

He said "Ticktock and Jim" was his first book. It first was published in England under Joint Effort To Appoint UN Head UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) and neutral diplomats joined today in efforts to appoint a temporary secretary-general after latest U.S.-Soviet negotiations on the issue broke down. U. S.

Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson and Soviet delegate Valerian A. Zorin met twice Thursday. The United States was said to have turned down the latest Soviet plan for a four-man executive to run the United Nations. Zorin said that the four would have to agree on any decision, but added that they would work as a team with a rotating chairman.

This, he claimed, would eliminate the idea of a veto which had been the main sticking point in the Soviet Union's old troika plan. The United States was said to have turned down this proposal on grounds that the veto still wpuld be present. U. S. officials also are reported opposed to the plan because the four would be chosen from West, neutral and Communist nations, thus injecting a political element into the U.

N. administration. Final Tribute To Charlie DETROIT of industry, labor, and the nation's armed forces paid final tribute today to Charles Erwin Wilson, former General Motors Corp. president, and secretary of defense. Wilson, who died Tuesday at the age of 71, was buried in Acacia Park Cemetery in suburban Bev erly Hills, after the simple services of the Episcopal Church.

The Rt. Rev. Robert L. Dewitt, suffragan bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Michigan, conducted the services at Christ Church Cranbrook. He was assisted by the Rev.

John H. Albrecht, assistant rector at Christ Church Cranbrook. Ten enlisted men, representa tives of the Army, Navy, Marine Corp and Air Force, served as pallbearers. he name, "A Watch for A Philadelphia man who bought he book in England suggested he it in this country which le did. This book, largely autobiographical, is the story of a boy who raded an heirloom watch for a Mny.

It's sequel is "Ticktock and Jim, Deputy These Docks still are popular although written some time ago. Robertson says he may follow he suggestion of the Eugene Field and write more horse books, jarticularly since he has three children who like horses. His 20th jook, another about Henry and Midge, is in process now. Robertson was born in Iowa and when he was in 4th grade lived in Caney, Kas. He entered the U.S.

Naval Academy at Ann apolis in 1933 and, followng graduation, became an engineer. During World War II, he spent most of his time aboard a destroyer and was commander when the war ended. He then decided to become a printer. Robertson and his wife will be at Eugene Field School at 2 p.m. Wednesday to visit the pupils.

At 3:15 p.m., children of other Ottawa schools may visit with him there. Between 4 and 5 p.m. he will be at Carnegie Free Library for a "Meet the Author" session. Children who have copies of Robertson's books may take them to the library to be autographed. Following the visit at the library, Mr.

and Mrs. Robertson will be guests at a dinner at Colbern's. LOOK INSIDE FOR: Ottawa area people help themselves, Editorial, Page 4. Slow readers may be dozing between the lines, Dr. Nason, Page 10.

Extension Council elections set, Brown's Bylines, Page 6. Emotion illness common ail- 1 ment, Dr. Molner. Page 4. OHS Band To Supply The Dash Dash, dash, dash.

That's what 70 Ottawa High School band members will be doing tomorrow. The group will leave Ottawa for Lawrence at 7:45 a.m. to participate in Band Day festivities at the University of' Kansas. One of 75 bands, the Ottawans will be No. 10 in a parade through Lawrence and will participate in three numbers, "Double Your "Symbol of and "Golden Glory During halftime of the KU- Wyoming football game, the group will participate in the card stunt spelling of "Band Day at KU-1961.

Ottawa's part, the (dash). Democrats Plan Meeting BURLINGTON (AP) Democrats of the new 5th District will meet here Saturday with Rep. Robert Harder of Topeka as principal speaker. The meeting will sponsored by Democrats of Lyon, Coffey and Osage counties. See Early Ford Agreement In Spite Of Strike Threat DETROIT (AP) Both Ford Motor Co.

and the United Auto Workers Union today aimed at an early settlement on a new three- year labor contract despite a strike ultimatum from the union. UAW President Walter P. Reuther served notice on the company Thursday that the union was setting a strike deadline for 10 a.m. next Tuesday "in the hope that this will stimulate the company to recognize the sense of urgency needed to consummate a national contract." Ruether claimed that the com- pany last Monday in offering to match the settlement the union made with General Motors Corp had implied there was need of a strike deadline. At that time, Ford Vice President Malcolm Denise suggested that two weeks would be required to solve difference between the company and the union.

After receiving the strike notice Denise refused to quarrel about which side was to blame for failure to on a contract patterned after the settlement last week at General Motors Corp. No Plans For Investigation Of Gambling Stamp Holders (See Story on PS. 7.) TOPEKA (AP)-Atty. Gen. William M.

Ferguson said today he has no immediate plans for investigating holders of federal tax stamps for gambling purposes. "We will take the lists and observe the areas," Ferguson said. However, he pointed out that it is not a violation of Kansas law to hold such a stamp. Any individual gambling charges would have to be proven separately, he said. "The legislature considered, but dd not pass, a law that holding of gambling stamps is a violation uer se." Ferguson said.

He also said that enforcement of such laws is primarily a problem of county officials, "although if we get requests or reports we move in." Explaining the state's difficulty in doing anything about enforcement at this stage, Ferguson said: "The federal government can require stamps for a machine which may not be utilized for gambling purposes under Kansas law." A report today showed federal stamps have been issued for 307 machines and 26 taking bets in Kansas. The list on' page 7 includes 32 cities, including Ottawa..