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Friday, Sept. 30, 1960 2 The Casper Tribune-Herald a (P it Ji IA ft i i ighvay i Adenauer Cancels Out Trade Pact BONN, Germany (AP) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's government served notice today it is cancelling the trade agreement between West and East Germany. The action, taken after top-level conferences, was ordered as a countermove to mounting pressure by the Communists against divided and isolated West Berlin. The cancellation notice orders erasure of the trade agreement by the end of this year. 1 tem dates back to December of 1953 when Etlin E.

Peterson of Casper was awarded a contract for the substructure of the Platte River crossing at a contract price of $87,500. In April of 1954, the Rie-desel-Lowe Co. of Cheyenne was the successful bidder on the superstructure work with a bid of rXwH- i 4 1 7 With the passage of the 1956 Federal Highway Act, legislation which launched the construction of the interstate highway system, it was possible to accele Ribboa cutting ceremonies to mark the official opening of the Street Urban Route along the north edge of Casper will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday, it was announced by the chamber of commerce. The section of Interstate Route 25 linking Las Cruces, N.

with Buffalo, Wyo. will be opened as Mayor Earl Johnson, David Basket, chairman of the chamber's highway and transportation committee; Tom Pancratz, chairman of the chamber's special committee for the ceremonies, and John Atkins, district engineer for the Wyoming Highway Department officiate at either end of the three-mile, four-lane highway. After cutting the ribbons, Mayor Johnson and Baskett will board a police car at the eastern end of the project and Pancratz and Atkins will board a highway patrol car at the Center Street end, drive to the center and mark the occasion with brief ceremonies at their meeting-place. Total contract nrice for all work rate work on the badly-needed Government authorities said Adenauer and his aides agreed Bonn would withdraw the cancellation if the Communists take the heat off Berlin. Windsor, Onf 1 8-YEAR-OLD CONNIE UNHAPPY: Connie Dickerson, 18, one of the three underdeveloped children hidden by their mother and stepfather in the attic for 1 1 freeway.

years, cries as she watches her 13-year-old sister and 15-year-old brother taken to the Children's Aid Society shelter in Windsor yesterday. The children had just returned from Toronto after undergoing tests at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. Connie is outside C.A.S. jurisdiction (AP Wirephoto). Chicago IKE GREETS REPUBLICAN DINNER: With a broad grin and upraised arms, President Eisenhower greets crowd attending Chicago Republican fund-raising dinner Friday night.

In a closed-circuit TV address to similar gatherings in other cities he praised the ability of the GOP presidential candidate, Richard Nixon. At' right behind President is Jim Garard, chairman of the United Republican fund (AP Wirephoto). Mobutu Says Communists 1 1 1 A The Riedesel-Lowe Co. was the successful bidder on a $73,585 structure over the Bryan Stock Trail at the' April 24, 1957 letting of the Wyoming highway commission. This was the first pr'oject awarded on the system in three years.

On the same date, a contract for grading, draining and paving 1.4 miles of the route between the Platte River and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad was awarded to the Long Construction of Billings, on a contract bid of $846,182. Activity' picked up at this point. On June 24, 1957, Etlin E.k Peterson was named the contractor for a pair of 165-foot crossings over McKinley and Center Streets on the basis of a $177,573 bid. In August of the same year, the Rognstad-Olsen Construction also of Casper, was the successful bidder on a 258-foot underpass on tne svsiem. oauna uacit iu we construction of the bridge over the North Platte river, amounted to slightly more than $3 million.

Since 1 lanrrfh rf this nrrtiapt mm Felix von Eckardt, press spokesman for the Bonn government said this meant the Communists would have to guarantee freedom of movement in and out of Berlin and within the city itself. The East Germans have been applying pressure bit-by-bit restricting movement in Berlin, which lies 110 miles from the nearest point in West Germany, despite claims by Britain, France and the United States that they with the Soviet Union are the sole authorities over this phase of the city's life. Today's action nullifies a trade agreement which provides for East-West trade totaling around two billion marks (about $470 million). Von Eckardt told a news conference the Western Allies had agreed to join in the trade embargo, provided a new contract is not negotiated by the end of this year. Renegotiation seemed unlikely since it would have to in Still Operating in Congo the interchange wnn u.a.

on me east to the Rancho interchange is and two others at his heavily guarded home in the army's Camp Leopold II. He displayed a powerful German-made radio transmitter and a Hungarian receiver which he said were found nearly three miles, the average cost was slightly more than $1 million per mile. The first contract on the sys- LEOPOLD VTLLE, the Congo (AP) Congo strongman Col. Joseph Mobutu charged today that Communist agents are continuing clandestine operations here two weeks after they were supposedly ejected "from the country. in the Czech Embassy.

He also exhibited some 25 boxes of shotgun shells and pistol bullets in boxes labeled "Made in Czechoslovakia." t- volve a major backdown on the "I part of the Communists. Mobutu, the Congo army chief of staff, said that his men seized a powerful radio transmitter and receiver and a stock of ammunition Thursday night in the closed-down Czechoslovak Embassy. The colonel told newsmen that broadcasts had been made regularly each night from the embassy but that the Communist agent who bad been broadcasting escaped. Mobutu ordered Czech and Soviet diplomats out of the Congo American, British and French embassies declined official comment but representatives of the A i ii three governments said privately they were pleased. which was to be built under the main line of the C.

B. Q. mainline. The bid price for this work was $246,203. The following month, Peterson was again the low bidder on a project which included widening the existing Platte River Bridge and constructing a bridge over the river on the frontage road.

Peterson's bid for this work amounted $324,297. By the late summer of 1958, work on the central portion of the system had progressed to the point where additional grading, paving and structure work couM be started on the connecting links on the east and west. In August of that year, two contracts totaling $297,836 were awarded to the Knisley-Moore Co. The action was taken after two HUNT IS PRESSED (Continued From Page One) In the kitchen sink were indica--tions that the killer has washed some of the blood off his hands before leaving the old couple lying on the floor in the narrow hallway. In the neatly painted one-room cabin at the edge of the property where Johnson had lived, officers found several of his personal effects, including his razor and clothing.

On the seat of his abandoned ca- were a visored cap and a woman's black-and-gold dress belt. Although some Powder River residents speculated about robbery as a possible motive for the attacks upon the elderly Bakers, it could not be determined definitely that they had any sizeable amount of money or that it was kept on the premises. The Bakers have lived in the Arminto area for some time and have leased the Conoco station on the eastern edge of Powder River for the past several years. Mrs. Baker who broke her hip while alighting from her car in the adjoining garage about three years ago has attracted considerable sympathy since that time because she frequently waited on service station customers from a wheelchair during her husband's absence at his dishwashing job.

At the scene of the murder on Thursday afternoon, the station clock was still running, a sponge and chamois still lay in a water-filled coffee can out front, hollyhocks still bloomed along the west side of the building, and a sign on the wall still offered "Friendly Service." But inside, "Little Joe" Baker lay dead. In the hired hand's cabin, each days of urgent consultations A i Samuel Moore Is Dead at 82 Samuel L. Moore, resident ef the Central Wyoming area for the past 25 years, died at Memorial Hospital in Casper Thursday evening after a lengthy illness. He was 82 years old. Moore was horn Feb.

13, 1878 in Allerton, Iowa. After farming for several years near Stella, he and his family took tip among the governments with Wil when he staged his military coup Sept. 14. They packed up and flew away but said they would be back. ly Brandt, Socialist mayor of West Berlin, playing a prominent role Mobutu also said that a Com 'V munist journalist employed by the French Communist organ L'Hu-fnanite returned to Leopoldville Thursday.

He said his men were keeping a close watch on him. It was an explosive step since the general expectation is that the East Germans will counter with some strong action of their own, perhaps even a blockade, like that of 1948. Heinrich Rau, deputy premier of Communist East Germany, said earlier when discussing possible economic sanctions by the Bonn government: "We have the President at Funeral of Mofher-in-Law DENVER, Colo. (AP) President Eisenhower flew to Denver today to join his grieving wife at funeral services for Mrs. Eisenhower's mother, Elivera Doud.

The President arrived in a jet plane from Chicago. The plane stood by to hasten the President back to Washington tonight. Associates said the continuing East-West conflict at the United Nations precluded any long family visit away from the capital. The time Eisenhower, the son-in-law, borrowed today from his responsibilities as hesd of government and of his party was a testimonial to his real individual grief. The President was devoted to the bright-eyed 82-year-old "Min," who died in her sleep Wednesday night.

He. and Mrs. Eisenhower visited her often, the last time exactly two months ago. He broke a precedent by taking her on one of his campaign tours. The scene of the funeral services, Mrs.

Doud's big graybrick house in a quiet residential Denver area, is full of associations for him. He and Mrs. Eisenhower were married there in 1915. Many mementoes of his long Army career i of Douglas for grading, draining and paving the section west and north of the Platte River bridge and for building the interchange structure at the Rancho interchange. In September of the same year Mobutu received this reporter Citizens for Kennedy HQ longer lever." Nevertheless, Adenauer had N.

J' a contract was awarded to the Rissler-McMurry Co. of Casper, been described as anxious to move swiftly in response to a Soviet note early this week which in effect pronounced the four-pow on their low bid of $650,740, for grading and paving nearly one a homestead in the Pavillion area in 1935. He moved into Casper in 1954. He and Mrs. Moore, the former Effie Reedr were married in Shenandoah, Iowa in December of 1898.

In addition to his widow, Moore is survived by. five daughters. Miss Leora Moore of Casper, Mrs. Joy Standerfcrd of Humbolt, Mrs. Earl Jordan of Cheyenne, Mrs.

Arthur Wempen of Gas Hills and Mrs. Gordon Doris of Boise, Idaho; seven sons, Lloyd, Harrj't Carl and Virgil, all of Casper, John of Denvre, Delbert of Portland, Ore. and Lynn of Riverton; 30 grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Another son preceded his father in death. Funeral services, to be held early next week, are being arranged by the Horstman-Gay Mortuary.

er occupation status of Berlin dead and said East Germany had MURDER WEAPON: Daniel DeGroot points to the short, stout club that an assailant used to beat Joe Baker, Powder River, to death. The bloodied club was found just outside the Baker home (Tribune-Herald Photo). mile of the route from the railroad underpass east, and the construction of an interchange structure at the intersection of Inter full authority over the Eastern sector of Berlin. The chancellor and Brandt were state 25 and U.S. 87.

This contract also called for constructing a simple separation structure linking the service roads on the north Set Up Here Citizens for Kennedy headquarters for Natrona County opened in the brightly decorated lobby of the Rex Theater on South Center St. Friday morning. Accompanying the official opening of the independent headquarters was an announcement by James Shepherd, state chairman of the organization, that Mrs. Tom Pace will serve as chairman for the Natrona County group. Mrs.

Rug Barhaugh is executive secretary of the county chapter. On hand for the opening ceremonies was Walter Spolar from the Patterson Urges Bold New Missile Develoomeii I Steps on Sept. 24, 1955 that Eisenhower For the Record BIRTHS perhaps the most talked-about of all al illnoccoG Vint tViat did not prevent him from seeking and winding a second term. The President was driven direct Bold new steps in missile development, including nuclear propulsion, were urged Thursday by William H. Patterson, assistant to the vice president of Convair Astronautics JJivision of General Dynamics Corp.

Patterson said the U.S. has made great strides in the missile field since 1953. Convair is the builder of the Atlas intercontinental ballistics missile being installed at sites in Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska. "At the time (1953) even I did to the Doud home from the air base. About 25 or 30 persons were Citizens for Kennedy national headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Spolar was to leave Friday for other points in Wyoming where county headquarters of the orgnization are being opened. The headquarters in Casper will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Mrs. Pace said, to provide information to voters on registration procedures, the Democratic platform and Sen. Kennedy and his running mate Sen.

Lyndon and south of the main highway. The final project on the system was awarded to Jalco of Wyoming, still another Casper firm, on Aug. 18, 1960. This contract calls for the installation of the mercury-vapor lighting system at a cost of nearly $100,000. Work on the lighting system will be completed after the formal road opening.

The Casper route is the second urban system to be constructed in the state. The first, also on Interstate route 23, was built along the west side of the Cheyenne corporate Jimits, between the city and Warren Air Force Base. Since the Cheyenne route was opened to traffic in December of 1958, it has carried more than 2,750,000 motor vehicles without a serious motor vehicle accident. A third system is presently under construction in Sheridan on Interstate route 90 while work is in the preliminary stages on a freeway route to the south and west of Laramie on Interstate route 80. Initially, highway department engineers anticipate that up to vehicles will use the urban gathered near the residence when the President arrived.

The street was closed to traffic until after day of his stay in Powder River had been carefully marked" off on a calendar. Wednesday, Sept. 28, was also checked, and in that square was was painted, "Yeh." Mao's Book Disputes Top Red's Thesis TOKYO (AP) Excerpts published today from a new volume of Red China Chairman Mao Tze-tung's works again dispute Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's thesis that war is not inevitable. Mao has said that it is impossible to compromise with imperialism and the alternative is a "just war." The new collection will be released in Chinese bookstores Saturday, the 11th anniversary of the formation of the Red Peiping rvernment. The excerpts were issued today by the official New China News Agency.

In one of his writings, Mao declared "it is futile to persuade the imperialists and the Chinese reactionaries in the hope that they will become kind-hearted and turn over a new leaf. The only course open to us is to organize our forces to fight them, to expose the imperialists, provoke them, overthrow them, punish them for offenses against the law and make them behave themselves, and forbid them to say or do what they ought not." the funeral. The President spent only 10 minutes at the Doud residence, then was driven to the Brown Palace Hotel. On arrival here today, the sub- Boy Mr. and Mrs.

Donald E. Ainsworth of Mt. View, Sept. 30. Girl Mr.

and Mrs. Luther Little of 3120 South Poplar, Sept. 29. Girl Mr. and Mrs.

Benn A. Roby of 719 South McKinley, Sept. 29. Boy Mr. and Mrs.

Buckley Win-teroud of 2213 East 10th, Sept. 30. We wish to thank the doctors and nurses, the Bustard FuneraJ Home and friends of Eransyila who expressed their sympathy In so many beautiful and practical ways during our sad bereavement. These kindnesses have been deeply appreciated and can never be forgotten. Mrs.

John Rodgers and family Johnson. not dream we could come from near zero to competing with Russian missiles as we have accomplished now," Patterson told a Casper civic club. Patterson also commended Rep. Keith Thomson, for his efforts in behalf of space programs. He explained that he had worked with many congressmen on missile development, with about half of them not understanding the subject.

"Wyoming is fortunate to have Thomson, one of the most informed congressmen 7 have encountered," he said. He does a very fine job for Wyoming and for the nation." Gov. Joe Hickey toured one of the 13 sites surrounding Cheyenne Thursday. He said the facilities are "staggering when considered with the responsibility they play in the defense of this country." He said he was assured by safety factors built into the system. "No inadvertent action could set off one of the missiles," Hickey said.

"I think there has been some concern along this line." One of the sites has been declared operational and is capable of firing six ICBM's at an enemy target in case of war. disturbed by an' implied threat in the note against the use of the three Allied air corridors into Berlin for transporting West German civilians in and out of the city. Cancellation of the trade agreement will have a severe effect on the economy of East Germany. Last year. West Germany shipped about $257 million worth of goods to East Germany, one-fifth of that in iron and steel basic to the East German economic buildup.

West Germany received from East Germany last year goods totaling $43 million less than the amount shipped eastward. Bonn officials said the East-to-West flow was worth about $214 million. Chief among items received from the East were soft coal, kerosene, textiles and meat. Fire Wipes Out Sleeping Family of 5 MARSHALL, Mich. AP) A mysterious explosion and fire destroyed a rural home near here today, wiping out a sleeping family of five.

Searchers recovered all five bodies. Officers said the bodies were distributed throughout the ruins of the lVfc-story frame home in Con-vis Township, about nine miles northwest of here. Robert Lane, assistant fire chief, said the fire was at first believed touched off by an oil stove explosion. He said, however, the oil stove was not connected and "now we don't have any idea what started it." The blaze destroyed the home of Delmar Brown, 25; his wife, Hilda, 24; and three children, Pamela, 5, Daniel, 3 and Sally, a year old. dued chief exec utive walked quiet ly down the ramp and talked brief ly with an old friend, Aksel Nielsen of Denver, and Maj.

Gen. C. H. Anderson, commanding gener-' al at Lowry. "I thought it would be very cold 3 uner ciL6 Broom Sales Net 53,500 The third annual broom sale sponsored by the Casper Mountain Lions Club was deemed a complete and swift success Friday by club officials.

The sale of 300 brooms, 900 whisk brooms and 900 doormats netted the club approximately it was announced, an amount comparable to that raised in previous sales. All records were broken for the speed of the sale, however, with a complete sell-out of the broom stock in four nights. The sale has continued for about two weeks in previous years. All the items sold by the club members were made by the blind and purchased from them. The net proceeds of the sale go to various projects sponsored by the Lions Club in the Casper area.

Historical Society's Trip Is Postponed The Historical Society's trip to Midwest, originally, scheduled this Sunday, has been postponed until Oct. 9. Members will meet a week from this Sunday at 1 p.m. in front of the city-county building and will go from there to the archeological exploration site. Refreshments will be available throughout the day for visitors.

Manning the headquarters will be volunteers from the organization, including Mrs. Robert Rose, Mrs. Lee Coffman, Mrs. Earle G. Burwell, Mrs.

James Shepherd, Mrs. Brian Tobin, Mrs. Jean Wilcox, Mrs. Milton Coffman Mrs. Barry Mahoney, Mrs.

Robert Murphy, Mrs. Murray Colgin Miss Cass Stelter and others. Woman Injured in Collision Here Marjorie Jean Dugan, 22, of 2325 East Sixth, was treated by a physician for a "whiplash injury" to the neck after her car collided with one driven by Arthur Jack Welch, 23, of Alcova Route, at Con well and Second Thursday at 10:40 p.m., police reported. In another accident, a 1960 Ford station wagon owned by Electric Service 1120 East rolled from a parking place on Cottonwood 90 feet, across nearby Railroad and crashed into a telephone pole Thursday at 7:02 p.m. Damage to the broken pole was set at $75.

A car driven by Mrs. Victoria Russell, 39, of 742 St. Mary, hit the city's new road grader Thursday morning, with damages of $200 to the car. Mrs. Russell told police she stopped short to avoid striking a child crossing the street.

porstman'Gaq 23 4-C234 710 the President said, removing his topcoat and handing it to an aide. In talking to Gen. Anderson, he asked him several questions, including how long he had been at Lowry. Mrs. Eisenhower arrived from Chicago Thtrsday.

She did not meet the President at the air base, but awaited his arrival at the Doud residence. President and Mrs. Eisenhower are occupying the Presidential suite at the Brown Palace during their brief Denver stay. The funeral was at 2:30 p.m. )today at Mrs.

Doud's residence with the Rev. Robert S. Lutz of Corona Presbyterian Church officiating. Mrs. Doud had been a member of the church for many 'years and the Eisenhowers frequently have attended services there when visiting in Denver.

Mrs. Doud was to be buried in Fairmount Cemetery where her husband, John Sheldon Doud, was buried nine years, ago. Also here for the services were another daughter, Mrs, G. Gordon Moore of Washington, and Mrs. TkniH' hrnthpr.

Jnpl Carlson route each year and that the figure will grow to 4.500,000 vehicles per year by 1975. The system will prove invaluable in routing nonstop motorists and commercial truckers around the present Casper street system, thereby opening the door for increased usage of arterial streets and downtown streets by local residents and visitors to the city. Work on the system was under the supervision of Resident Engineer W. E. Comin and District Engineer John A.

Atkins of the Wyoming Highway Department. All field and design work was under the general direction of J. R. Bromley, superintendent and chief engineer of the department. When construction activity was at the peak, scores of workmen were employed by the various contractors.

With the completion of the Casper freeway route, more than 90 miles of new, four-lane Interstate highways have been completed in Wyoming. In addition, more than 150 additional miles are under contract. Ultimately, the Interstate system in the state will consist of some 916 miles of highways, nearly all of which will be dual lane routei with full access controL Building Permits Reach $357,362 Building permits for September reached a total of $357,362 in Casper, the city engineer reported Friday. This compared with the September total a year ago of The figure included 17 residences at $280,500, six commercial structures at $57,262, 11 garages at and nine remodeling jobs at $6,950. The total for October is expected to jump with the addition of the new $1 million state office building.

The contractor has started excavation. A'ew at Spw Ph. 23 4-7123 Red China Says New Border Pact Readied TOKYO (AP) Communist China announced today that a new treaty settling another part of the border dispute between Burma and Peiping will be signed Saturday, Red China's 11th anniversary as a nation. Details of the pact were not announced but it was apparent only a partial agreement had been reached on frontier areas still in dispute. Peiping and Rangoon each yielded slices of land to erase trouble spots dating back to the days when the British ruled Burma and the Nationalists ran China, A flowersI Passengers Push Bus From Railroad Tracks LAKELAND, Fla.

(AP) Thirty-six passengers saved a city bus from destruction when it stalled on railroad tracks with a freight train approaching. They jumped out and pushed it off. "It was too close for comfort," said driver George Johnson. A II 7 Occasions Dial 23 7-25 77 146 South Onter M. Boone, Iowa..

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