Casper Star-Tribune from Casper, Wyoming • 1

Avercg daily circulation (morning and evening) 21,669 Largest of any Wyoming newspaper Home Edition 67th Year No. 282 Twelve Pages Price 5 Cents casper, Wyoming Oil Capital of the Rockies Monday, January 5, 1959 Trading Winds Succeed Frigid Wave, Cause Damage Off Payroll Of Airline Cose peims in District Court WASHINGTON I About 20,000 of American Airline's 22,000 employes were fur-loughed today as efforts continued to settle a 17-day strike by pilots. Progress was reported in nar to The attention of millions of merchants and their customers all over the United States was centered in Casper Monday as the first test of a city ordinance banning the use of trading stamps began in district court. District Judge T. C.

Daniels presided over the trial in the federal courtroom. Suit against the city was initiated last fall by the Sperry L- Hutchinson S. II.) Trading- STDO Due to Enter Capital City Still reelm? from onslaught of frigid weather. Crvr residents received another blow from the weather Monday. Gusts of winds, following the rising temperatures, reached a peak velocity of 60 miles per hour at the airport Monday morning.

The wind made driving on the highways hazardous and caused 1 some damage in downtown Casper. The piate class window of the Arcade Bar was blown out at 10 a Monday, and he window of the Horn Drue Center. First and WoJcott. was blown out Sunday. Anol'er window was blown out at the Po-t Office.

The wind is expected to diminish during the niu'nt, a Weather Bureau said Monday afternoon. To frigid temperatures which left the area Sunday afternoon, left in Ms wake a heavy toll in damage to water lines, automobiles, and resulted in more than ST. (too in vehicle damage. Plumbers in the city, along with house-owners, spent many hours during the weekend thawing out frozen pipes and getting reluctant furnaces functioning again. The Traffic Bureau at the Police Dept.

reported 39 accidents in a three day period beginning Thursday and ending Sunday afternoon. U.S., Canada Set to Talk Trade Issues ednesdav Stamp Gold Bond Stamps. and Paul E. Steffey. owner of the Zephyr Cleaners in Casper.

Actual defendants- named in the suit to hae ordinance declared unconstitutional are the mayor, chief of police and municipal judge of the city. A group of Casper merchanis have interpleaded as "parties do-1 and their attorney. Robert R. Rose, was also appointed to represent the city without fee during the suit. Attorneys for the plaintiffs include Houston Williams and Robert Burgess, both of Casper.

Donald Rggers of Minneapolis for Gold Bond Stamps. and Robert Sweet of New York for S. H. Stamps. OPENING STATEMENTS As the trial began, opening state- nance July 21.

Although Steffey admitted he distributed the stamps for only one full month June he estimated their use had increased his business approximately 20 per cent and speeded up the Dayment of his accounts receivable before the fifteenth of the month in which they were due. SIGNED PETITION Steffey said he signed a petition as one of approximately 300 signers who presented it to the city council early in July, asking passage of the anti-stamp legislation, but changed his mind after attending the meeting at which the ordinance was read and discussed for the second time a week later. "I decided the ordinance wasn't what I wanted and wasn't what the people wanted," Steffey declared on the witness stand. He has lost some customers since rowing issues between the airline and striking members of the Air Line Pilots when a mediation session broke up early today. Another meeting was scheduled for 10:30 a.m.

American had announced in advance that the furlough order taking the employes off the payroll would become effective at midnight Sunday night if the strike was not settled. Employes kept on the payroll are in supervisory, maintenance and protective classifications. Leverett Edwards, chairman of the National Mediation Board, said he would try to keep the negotiations going until a settlement is reached. The sessions are being held in his office here. American is the nation's largest domestic airline from the standpoint of passenger miles flown.

It normally carries an average of 22.000 passengers daily, serving 77 cities in the United States, Canada and Mexico. About 1.500 of the airline's pilots walked out in a demand for more pay and fewer hours of flying time on the new jet airlines the carrier plans to put into service soon. As negotiations continued in the American dispute. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell said the recent rash of airline strikes requires a new look at the Railway Labor Act, which governs labor troubles in both the railroad and airline industries.

OTTAWA (AP) Top U.S. and Canadian officials oper annual talks tonight aimed at reducing friction that could hurt their seven billion dollars worth of across-the-border trade, a world high for any two countries. Secretary of State Dulles was to lead the group of high U.S. officials due at nearby Uplands Airport this afternoon for with Canadian officials headed by Finance Minister Donald M. Flem ments were made bv both Burgees i the ordinance caused him to -Marketr In Brief Br LARRY ALLEN HAVANA t.F Fidel Castro and thousands of his hard-fighting soldiers continued their slow westward march of triumph today, savoring the adulation being heaped on them as they approached Havana.

Tens of thousands in cities, towns and villages turned out to cheer wildly as Castro and his motorized columns made their way from the Oriente province center of their rebellion which overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista last week. The progress was slow: Cams-guey. 300 miles from Havana, Sunday night; tonight, Santa Clara, scene of the decisive de feat which forced Batista to flee, 140 miles further along the march; Tuesday. Matanzas, 50 miles from the capital. Castro and his men were expected in the capital Wednesday afternoon for one of the greatest welcomes in Cuban history.

In a prelude, Manuel Urrutia, named provisional president by Castro, was flying from Santiago de Cuba this morning to take the central government reins in Havana. A big welcome was arranged for him, with government offices closed so mployea could NEW YORK (AP Markets at a glance Stocks Mixed: early rally fades. Ronds Mixed; governments decline. Cotton Irregular; mill commission house demand. CHICAGO: Wheat Lower; scattered profit-lakmg.

Corn Irregular; mixed influences. Oats Higher; light demand. Sobcans Lower; profit-taking. Moss 50 cents to St higher; top V8.75. Cattle Slaughter steers steady to 25 cents higher; top S29.75.

ing. Dulles and his companions likely are after assurances that Canada won't be using her new tough antidumping laws to discriminate against U.S. textiles and other exports. The United States has already lodged formal protests, charging that the new laws enacted last year are a breach of Canada's international trade obligations. Canada's conservative administration has rejected the protests, arguing the legislation is fair and reasonable.

With Canada holding a strong bargaining lever in the antidumping laws, the four-man Canadian ministerial team is" likely to seek American concessions in oil, lead and zinc and wheat. The officials are meeting as members of the cabinet-level Joint Trade and Foreign Affairs Committee, set up in 1953 as an annual conference in attempts to head off trade issues that could lead to friction between the two countries. The talks are to open after dinner tonight. The American delegation will return to Washington Tuesday afternoon. Havana WAITING FOR TRANSPORTATION: Rebel guns form the backdrop for these Havana tourists awaiting transportation home from this strife-torn city.

On the grounds of the Hotel Nacional with suitcase ready are Millicent Buck-ner, right, New York City, and Joyce Gorfine, center, Providence, R. I. At left is Mildred Tessler of Havana. Standing with the group is A. Efrain Aranibar of Lima, Peru.

Misj and Williams for the plaintiffs, followed by Rose's opening statement. Burgess and Williams maintained that they would produce evidence and testimony in court to sho.v that trading stamps are of value to merchants in increasing the volume of their business and are of value to the customers of merchants licensed to distribute the stamps by the stamp companies. In his opening statement, Rose said allowance of the use of the stamps would force local merchants out of business because, he declared, "the little businessman has no choice; he is coerced into subscribing to the stamp plans." Rose also maintained he would show in court that what he termed "these stamp schemes" take "masie amounts" of money om of the cuy, but contribute nothing. "Under a tight analysis of the Rose said in conclusion, "the Casper city council had a right to pass this ordinance. It is not confiscatory, not discriminatory, as the law has been interpreted in this First witness called by attorneys for the plaintiffs was Paul E.

Steffey, owner of the Zephyr Cleaners in Casper. Under examination by Burgess. Stetfey testified that he had been in the cleaning business since April 1, 1938. and that he used only newspaper advertising and Gold Bond Stamps to promote his business. He said he asked the Gold Bond company for a license to distribute the stamps to his customers and used them from May 23 until final passage of the anti-stamp ordi- discontinue the stamps.

Steffey said, "because if you don't give them their stamps, they're not going to stay." Previously in his testimony, Steffey explained that he bought 10 books of 5.000 stamps each from the Gold Bond company for S140, and distributed them to customers at the rate of one stamp for each 10-cent purchase. In cross examination. Rose led Steffey to admit that he did not know for sure w-hat caused the 20 per cent increase in his business during last June, and that he had never examined the books of the previous owner of the cleaners to determine whether or not he was doing mere business during that month than the previous owner 1 done during the same month in the previous year without distributing trading stamps. PETITION INTRODUCED Rose introduced as an exhibit the petition bearing Steffey's signature, and asked Steffey if he had been contacted by officials of the stamp company regarding becoming a co-plaintiff in the suit. Burgess objected to the question, saying that "even if Mr.

Steffey was contacted by the company, that fact would not make him less a plaintiff in this case." Rose said trie question was an attempt on his part to establish "operating procedures' of the company, but when the question was allowed. Steffey denied that his entrance into the suit was never discussed with officials of the stamp company, although he said he had had visits from company (Turn to Page 2. Col. 3) Buckner handles one of the rebel guns (AP Wirephoto). Isaacks Trial Is Under Way A crowd of onlookers filled the district courtroom here Monday as attorneys questioned prospective jurors in the case of the state of Wyoming vs.

John David Isaacks I on charges of rape and attempted murder. Judge J. O. Spangler of the Fifth judicial district (Big Horn Basin) presided in the absence of District Judge T. C.

Daniels, who is hearing the trading stamp litigation now under way in the federal court room at the Postoffice building. County Attorney Harry Leimback is acting as prosecutor and Attorney William Drew, appointed by the court, is representing the defendant. Complaining witness is Mrs. Lyda Sharp, 130 West 10th St. The case was filed in district court last iOct.

2. Je Inlkkey participate. STRIKE ENDED The people of Havana awaited Castro with full stomachs for the first time since the collapse of the Batista government and the dictator's pre dawn flight to Ciu-dad Trujillo. The rebel chieftain, now commander in chief of Cuba's armed forces, ordered an end to the paralyzing general strike which had closed the nation's stores, business and industries and tied up transport and He had said he would call off the strike when he was convinced Yokes Omkh As Ooveirmioir Thief Leaves a Clue OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) Police have one clue to a men's store burglary here Saturday night.

They said 53,000 worth of clothing was stolen. All size 42. i Havana was safely in the hands crats and two Republicans, adding: "Each elected official recognizes 'LUNIK' NOW CALLED 'MECHTA' Signals Cease as Rocket CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) J. J.

Hickey was sworn in today as Wyoming's 23rd governor. A crowd, estimated at 500 people, jammed the House of Representatives gallery to see Hickey and five other elected state officials take the oath of office. In a brief inaugural address, Hickey said the need for reorganization of Wyoming's state g( vernment is recognized, "but there is disagreement on the precise methods and detail of organization." Hickey is Wyoming's first Democratic governor since Dr. Lester C. Hunt left office in 1949.

It is the first time in 20 years that Democrats have controlled the state Orbit Approaches Solar By HAROLD K. MILKS I MOSCOW' (AP) The Soviet Union's cosmic rocket continued its headlong dash toward a solar orbit today in man's greatest conquest of space. Its radio signals ceased as the ll-2-ton devicenow called Mech-! "The program of observations and scientific investigations of the rocket has been completed," an announcement said. This predicted the rocket wilt finally enter an orbit around the sun Wednesday or Thursday. Mechta is due to take 15 months the responsibility for cooperation with the end of good government in mind.

We have pledged cooper- ation with each other so that we i may better function in the inter- est of the peoples of Wyoming." Hickey, Gage and Miss Linford are Democrats. Mrs. Mitchell and Rogers are Republicans. Miss Lin- ford and Mrs. Mitchell were re- elected to their second terms, Rogers is a former state treasurer, secretary of state and acting governor, who is returning to the statehouse after an absence of, four years.

Gage served one term as state superintendent of public instruction from 1933 until 1936. HONORED AT LUNCHEON Governor Hickey and the other new state officials were honored by the Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon at noon. A reception will be held in the governor's office irom 7 to 9 p.m. tonight, followed by the inaugural ball. The University of Wyoming band held a concert in the rotunda of the Capitol Building to touch off the inaugural ceremonies.

The Very Rev. Hubert M. Newell, Catholic bishop of Cheyenne, delivered the invocation and The Right Rev. J. Wilson Hunter," Episcopal bishop of Wyoming, the benediction.

The Wyoming National Guard fired a 19-gun salute and a flight of Wyoming Air National Guard jets flew over the Capitol Build-; 1 sun averages 93 million miles I from earth. The name Mechta was applied I to the rocket today by Pravda the Communist party newspaper. When it was announced last Satur-' 1 day that the rocket was headed toward the moon, it was called Lunik, a combination of Luna (moon) and Sputnik. Scientists here figured that it i was travelling at a maximum speed of 1.52 miles a second when i it passed the moon Sunday at a distance of 4,700 miles. ta (dreamt went past an estimat-jto go around the sun, traveling ly I.

S. Weather Bureau Casper and Vicin ity; Cloudy Monday night and Tuesday' Vv- with scattered light snow beginning late Monday night and ii' I continuing through' Tuesday. Colder Tuesday. Continued L2ii strong winds Mon- SNOW day afternoon decreasing Monday night. Low Monday night 23, high Tuesday 23.

Wjoming: increasing cloudiness Monday night becoming coudy Snow beginning in the mountains and west of the Continental Pnide Monday night spreading through the eastern portion late Monday night and continuing Tuesdn. Snow locally hcay in the southern mountains Tucsd.iv Warmer tonight and colder Tuesday. Low Monday night in the 20 SE portion to 10 to 20 elsewhere. High Tuesday 20 to 30. Five-Day-Outlook: Temperatures expected to average 4 to 12 degrees below stasonal normal.

Turning colder at the beginning of the period, wanner towards the middle, and colder toward the end of the Meek General snow beginning of p. with frequent snows in ihe 'uountatns. General snows in state at end of week. Normal high, 3o to 38. normal low.

5 to 16. Sunset Monday sunrise Tuesday 7 30. Maximum wind Sunday Mas SW. Mean temperature Sunday was minus 2, departure of miuns 23. Temperature at 2:30 p.m.

39 21-hour extremes: High 31, low Airport extremes: Hih 24. low 13 Extreme temperatures for the 24-hour period ending at 5:30 a.m. Monday Max. Min. Pep.

rig Piney -5 -20 Billings 7 1 Bismarck 3 -19 Cheyenne 19 2 Chicago 1-9 Denser 11 -4 Douglas 30 5 Houston 39 27 Kansas City 8 0 Lander -5 -18 Laramie 17 8 Los Angeles 64 52 New York 43 IS Rapid City 7 -Hi Rawlins 1 8 Salt Lake City 27 18 San Francisco 51 51 .38 Shmdan 0-12 fciitca 47 of his men. There were still some scattered Batista holdouts, but reports from his commanders in Havana assured Castro the situation was fully under control and nothing could upset his hard won victory. There were immediate signs of a return to normalcy in the tense excited city. Newspapers began appearing again. Stores flung open their doors to do a landoffice business selling foodstuffs to hungry Ha-vaneros.

Taxis and buses resumed operation. Industrial workers began preparing to return to their jobs. PATROL STREETS Castro's bearded soldiers patrolled the streets with rifles, pistols, and machineguns, guarded government buildings and banks and roamed the lobbies and corridors of hotels, on the alert for violence. The security situation was enhanced by the rebel high command's order to the thousands of jubilant young militiamen, many of them self-appointed, to turn in their guns. Most of them apparently obeyed.

Only a few were seen armed on the street. The hunt continued for remnants of the Batista government. Jails were filling with ex-government officials and persons branded by the rebels as "enemies of the Cuban people." Speedy executions already had been meted out to at least five Batista henchmen. They were Capt. Jose Garcia Menocal, a police inspector in the western province of Pinar del Rio: Brig.

Gen. Joaouin Casiila, Batista's commander in Las Villas province, and three of his top staff officers. Among those under arrest was Dr. Joaquin Martinez Saenz president of the National Bank of Cuba. TOURISTS CALMER The frantic exodus of thousands of American tourists eased off.

Scores who had been planning to leave decided to stay. More than Hickey said in discussing reorganization: "It is evident that our role as I public servants must be to do something about this need so widely recognized and so long overdue. This must be accomplished by diligent study, slow and cautious deliberation, and specific rec- ommendations to the legislative branch." SUGGESTS SURVEY Hickey earlier had told Demo- cratic party legislators that he would suggest a complete survey of Wyoming's governmental organization and call a special ses- i sion, if necessary to enact any recommendations that the study may disclose. Results of radio transmissions ed 370.960 miles in its plunge away elliptically. from the earth.

It had then been in The Russians calculate this or-f light 62 hours. bit would have a maximum diam- Resources for feeding the radio i eter of 214U million miles. The equipment had become exhausted. rocket would get no nearer the the Soviet news agency Tass said, i sun than 91l2 million miles. The Parents Waiting Anxiously For News of Kidnaped Baby between the rocket and ground I stations will be published as scon as they are analyzed, Tass said.

I The 62 hours of radio communi-) cation enabled observations to be made of the rocket's movements, and on the work of the scientific instruments aboard. would encompass distances so vast they are outside the range of human conjecture. It would lie beyond the immeasurable galaxy known as the Milky Way. Kukarkin said that higher speeds than those needed by Russia's space rocket to escape earthly gravity are probably attainable in the near future. space ships will be capable of traveling beyond the boundaries of our solar system," he declared.

It is possible to go still further and think about even further tasks. "We can not only leave our solar system, but even our galactic system," he added. (In Nuernberg, Germany, Prof. Hermann Oberth, who recently resigned from a post as adviser to the U. S.

Army's missile program, said the Soviets possibly wanted to hit the moon with their rocket but "slyly covered up" an error in calculation when they established that it would bypass the moon and continue its travel in space. (He said he did not 'think the Russians were more than two or three months ahead of the United States in rocketry. (But in London. Prof. II.

S. W. Massey, who directed British rocket research for the International Geophysical year, said he thought the Russians intended all along to overshoot the moon and put the missile in orbit around the sun. (This view was backed up by Kukarkin, who wrote in the Soviet Communist party newspaper Pravda that the rocket easily could have hit the moon but "this tatk waa not irsUnded for Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred H. Blume administered the oath of office to Hickey and Su mg at the conclusion of the The actual number of dr.ys that 1 will be required for the solar orbit will be 447.

scientists said. This is 82 more than it takes the earth to go around the sun. Dr. G. M.

Clemence, scientific director of the U. S. Naval Ob-j sevatory in Washington, said that I some time in March or February the earth will pass between the rocket and the sun. i Soviet newspapers Sunday were preme Court Justice Glenn Parker, who was elected to an 8-year term of the court. Supreme Court Justice Harry Hamsberger administered the oath of office to Secretary of State Jack R.

Gage, former Sheridan postmaster: State Auditor Minnie Ex-President Takes Annual Fishing Trip an especially watchful lookout. San Francisco police sent here a description of a woman who tooK a baby from Mt. Zion Hospital there three years ago. The description fitted the woman seen at St. Peter's.

The California woman was identified as Mrs. Betty Jean Bene-dicto. 31. who is wanted for parole violation. She lost a baby in 1945 and was unable to have more.

The California baby was left with a priest nine days after the kidnaping. The baby weighed seven pounds when born Friday night to Mrs. Chionchio, 26. Mrs. Chionchio.

who has one other child. Gerardette, cne, remained in St. Petes's. Doc NEW YORK (AP) Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Chionchio waited anxiously, hopefully, prayerfully for some news today of their kidnaped newborn daughter. A city shared their anxiety, their hope, their prayers. An intense, agonizing search by police and FBI agents continued for the missing infant. She was taken from a fourth-floor nursery of St. Peter's Hospital in Brooklyn Friday night, only 2la hours after birth.

"There are no leads," Det. Chief James B. Leggett said Sunday. Police and private citiens were on the alert for a heavy-set bleached blonde believed to be the kidnaper. She was seen loitering in the hospital before the kidnap-iai.

TrunporUUoa mployei kept filled with comments on tne per MIAMI BEACH, Fla (AP) Former President Herbert Hoover 'taded today for a month's vacation and his annual fishing trip in the Florida Feys. The 84-vear-old former Presi formance and predictions of new space ventures. But there were no further details on the rocket itself, its launching site or power. On a Moscow radio broadcast Prof. Boris Kukarkin.

deputy chairman of the Soviet Astronomical Council, mentioned the possibility of a space ship soaring out- A. Mitchell; State Treasurer C. J. (Doe) Rogers; and Stale Superintendent of Public Instruction Vel-ma Linford. Former Gov.

Leslie A. Miller served as master of ceremonies for the inauguration and escorted Hickey to the rostrum. Hickey pointed out that th five elected officials who comprise the atata board includa thxea l)emo- the states dent arrived here from New York 1,000 had returned to by special ships and planes. AU commercial airlines were given permission to resume flight! Sunday aboard a National Air Lines jet plane and said he found the trip "a true revolution in air tors described her as 'vtry up- side the entire solar system. Mt." 1 Tb area waa trying about (Tana Col.

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