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Waterloo Way Wins It's Your City-Build It Promote It WEDNESDAY'S WEATHER Partly cloudy end warmer, Compltt WMlher (ortcatt, put 1 FIRST WITH THE NEWS ESTABLISHED 1858 WATERLOO, IOWA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1958 TWENTY PAGES PRICE SEVEN CENTS Faubu Hast Ask U. N. to Halt Atom Tests Schoo Vote Data 1yWiV.M'' lWiiMiiiiiiiiMiriiiiii in. i mihimm mmm mmmmMiihii iriint Mi nf VA -v fc mi. II I ii ii i wrrr umm Raps Board for Halting Football LITTLE ROCK, Ark.

Orval Faubus Tuesday advanced the date of the scheduled vote in Little Rock on the question of integrating the city's schools from Oct. 7 to Sept. 27, saying "time is of the essence." At the same time, a planned demonstration by students 1 if TLX 4 i He Almost Cheated Death Body of victim it almost half wway out of window of Jer- sey Central Railroad coach as it is hoisted from waters of Newark Bay early Tuesday morning, mute evidence of his ef- fort to escape the death trap. Other victims can be seen at windows. Officials believe this coaches that plunged through morning, AjTOCiited was the second of the three an open drawbridge Monday Report Heart Condition Factor in Engineer Death closing of the schools failed escort Negroes into tht building.

It has become a tourist at traction. A number of auto mobiles with out-of-state licenses appeared Tuesday and people were taking snapshots of them selves with the building in the background. Guards ordered them away, A federal grand jury went into session but authorities said it does not foreshadow any ac tion by the U. S. government in the integration struggle.

MEANWHILE hundreds of anxious parents cast about for a way to get their teenagers into high schools somewhere. Scores of students were try ing to get into schools else where, however. Apparently few had success because of crowded conditions in other cities. Ike, Rogers Head Into Parley on Integration WASHINGTON un Atty Gen. Rogers Tuesday headed for Newport, R.

I. confer ence with President Eisenhow er that could have eventual far-reaching effects on South- See INTEGRATION Continued mi page 2, eol (Associated Prts Photofix) Seventeen Pounds of Twins Mrs. Irene Ligman, Milwaukee, poses with her twins, born Friday. Dawn Gerafdfne (left), weighed 8 pounds, 15 ounces, while Jerome James (yawning), weighed 8 pounds, I'j ounces. Their combined weight of 17 pounds, 'A ounce, Is unusually high birth weight, according to hospital officials.

BAYONNE, N. J. (AP) Medical officials said Tuesday a heart condition contributed to the death of the engineer of the Jersey Central commuter train that hurtled from an open drawbridge into Newark Bay. (Another Story and Picture on Page 2) ELIZABETH, N. J.

(AP) Weary divers and barge crewmen struggled under difficult conditions Tuesday at the grim task of recovering dead from a commuter train that mysteriously plunged from an open drawbridge into the waters of Newark Bay-Monday. One Jersey Central Rail UAW to Strike Ford Wednesday if No Settlement First: Reuther tiowever, the railroad said a trainman or others may have gone into it. STILL AT the bottom of the bay was a third coach. It was one which remained for a time leaning upright against the bridge, partially out of the water, enabling a number of passengers to scramble to safe ty. Railroad officials were nuz zled that no more bodies had been found because most of the victims were believed to have been ridine in the car brought up just after mid night Tuesday.

AT THE SCENE itself, i giant floating crane was be ing used to try to bring up the remaining coach but appar ently was having difficulty with tides and the job of tying cables. Meanwhile, probes wen launched in an effort to an swer. the prime question what caused the train to keep goinc down the tracks toward the open drawbridge despite See TRAIN Continued on poije 2, eol. 2 UNITED NATIONS. N.

Y. (AP)-The Soviet Un ion formally proposed Tuesday that the U. N. Gener al Assembly act at once to end atomic and hydrogen tests Soviet Foreign Minister An drei A. Gromyko moved as delegates gathered for the opening' of the Assembly's 13th regular session.

THE ASSEMBLY already was faced with a crowded agenda of controversial issues and was expected to come to grip with the Formosa sit uation before many hours. A Soviet memorandum hand ed in by Gromyko charged that the United States and Britain had laid down impossible conditions in their letters of Aug. 22 in which they offered to end nuclear tests Oct. 31 if the Soviets agreed to their terms. Gromyko proposed that the Assembly separate the questions of nuclear tests from the general disarmament problem and act upon it independently.

Suspension of the tests, he said, would create conditions for the solution of other important disarmament problems. THE SOVIET move came in the midst of intense diplomatic conferences on strategy." Secretary of State Dulles met with U. S. Secretary Gen eral Dag Hammarskjold to re view problems before the Assembly and to get a first-hand report on Hammarskjold's Middle East trip. A U.

S. spokesman accused the Soviet Union of apparent bad faith in proposing in ad: vance the test proposal while agreeing to negotiations out side the U. K. on suspension off tests. The United States, Britain and the Soviet Union have agreed to such negotiations in Geneva beginning Oct.

31. U. N. Assembly Elects Lebanon's Malik UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.

Charles Malik, foreign minister of Lebanon Tuesday was elected president of the U. N. General Assembly for its 13th regular session. Malik, an outspoken pro- western diplomat, defeated the candidate of the Arab League, Sudan's Foreign Minister Mo hammed Ahmed Mahgoub, on the first ballot. The vote was 45 for Malik and 31 for Mahgoub.

i Associated Pren Photofax) Oddities Had Hot Reason for Her Call DENVER (AP) Because it was his first day on the job, Ray Curry asked his wife not to telephone the office. She did anyway to say the house was on fire. It burned to the ground. Curry. 26, his wife and five children spent the night at a neighbor's.

It Came Slowly ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. Ifl John E. Carre, 15, was knocked off his motor scooter by a cannon ball. He was jolted but wasn't seriously hurt.

The cannon ball was rolled down a bridge a few hundred yards from the country's oldest masonry fort by four youths who fled in an automobile. Tip for Ex-Wife ST. JOSEPH, Mo. CTl A deputy circuit clerk said a man required to make $40 monthly child support payments submitted $45 for September. The man explained that he had missed the August payment, but that his ex-wife hadn't complained.

"Just tell he the extra $5 is a tip for waiting," he said. Brucker Says Ike Speech Averted War WASHINGTON tfi Secretary of the Army Brucker, back from a Far East tour, says President Eisenhower's no-appeasement speech last week averted a shooting war with Red China. Brucker said Monday the Formosa situation has eased but still is serious. road coach hauled from the; murky depths early Tuesday contained 13 bodies, making a total of 21 recovered thus far. The railroad estimated that some 40 persons perished.

Thirty-five train passengers were injured. IT WAS FEARED that swirling waters of the bay may have carried some bodies to distant points. In such case, recovery might not be for days or weeks or ever. A second coach was pulled out shortly before noon and observers at the scene said one body could be seen through a window. It was not known immediately whether others were inside.

This coach had been reported as a "deadhead" on the train, that is, running empty has been marked by only one success. A 6.4-inch sphere weigh ing 3Vi pounds was blasted into orbit March 17. lUbaUAi a launching was stymied by a series of "holds" during the countdown minor malfunctions occurred. When everything appeared to run smoothly, trouble again de veloped and the test conductor apparently ordered that the en gines be cut off just before liftoff. There was no immediate ex planation of what caused the shutdown.

Vanguard Engine Roars but Launching Postponed CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)-The mighty engine of a Vanguard satellite rocket roared into action Tuesday but then was cut off a split second before launching. DETROIT (AP)-United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther said Tuesday the union definitely will strike the Ford Motor Co. Wednesday if no contract settlement is made before then. Reuther was asked about the chance of a postponement as he entered another bargaining session with Ford.

STRIKE deadline stands," he declared. "We have no intention of postpon ing it, but we are still hopeful we can reach an agree at Hall City school against the to materialize. Only 10 boys appeared at the school grounds, preparing to stage a sit-down protest, they said. Guards ordered them to leave. TUESDAY WAS the second day of what would have been the start of the fall school term in Little Rock.

Faubus ordered the schools not to open by proclamation issued last Friday, five hours after the Supreme Court ruled against further delay in enrolling Negro students in Little Rock high schools. In his announcement Tuesday about the vote, Faubus also blasted the Little Rock school board for a "cruel and unnecessary blow to the children" in cancelling this year's football schedule and other extra cur ricular activities. "THE LITTLE Rock school board is still working for inte uuaiu id Dim wui mug xvi uuc gration just like they always have," Faubus said. This move yesterday was just spite. The board is using the children 1n its-own -pressure campaign in this cold war for integration.

Faubus said he was not con sulted by the board about its action. The scheduled referendum, now set for Sept. 27, gives the people in the Little Rock school district the opportunity to vote on whether they want the schools to be reopened on an integrated basis. THE NEW DATE falls on a Saturday. Elections normally are on Tuesdays in Arkansas.

Should the people vote against reopening the schools on an integrated basis, Faubus presum ably will move ahead with plans to operate them as pri vate schools, He has not disclosed the de tails of the plan. Monday, the school board said it did not see how students could meet the standards of ac creditation if the high schools operated as private schools. Members said they have written Faubus asking to. explain. There have been indications, from the first, that sentiment was building up against leaving the schools closed for three weeks.

Faubus asserted however that there was no "massive resist ance." ANOTHER GROUP of about 40 boys also came to Hall High school Tuesday. However, they said they were members of the football team and had come to inquire about their status of eligf ility under the board order to drop football while the schools are closed. Quiet prevailed again Tuesday at Central High, scene of the riots last year, and the school where paratroops were sent to $3.3 Billion Needed for Iowa Highways An estimate that $3.3 billion would be required to satisfy Iowa's road needs for highway purposes in the next 15 years, was made at a meeting Monday night Story and picture on page 5. Cedar Falls 6. 14 City in Brief 13 Classified Advertising 17, 18 Comics 10 Considine Column 10 Feature Fare 14 Markets 19 Northeast Iowa 5 Radio Programs 10 Sports 11.

12, 13 Television Schedule 10 Theaters 14 Women's Pages 8, 9 i The Navy announced 10. minutes later that the launching Plan Commission was postponed because of tech- nical difficulties. The shoot will be rescheduled in the near future. JUST AS THE crucial preliminary countdown reached the zero mark, a flash of red flame and smoke was seen and the bullet shaped 72-foot rocket remained poised on its launching pad. The rocket carried a 20-inch, 21Vi-pound satellite which housed instruments to study weather phenomena.

This was the seventh try at launching a composite three-stage Vanguard. The program OKs Courthouse The rjroDOsal to erect West bank of the Cedar Park Avenues, Tuesday had the indorsement of the Waterloo Planning Commission. In a resolution adopted Monday night, the Planning identical insofar as economic issues wages, unemployment benefits, pensions and of living allowances were concerned. They said the contracts differed only on minor matters involving local plant situations. Neither side would disclose specifics about the new offers.

BUT RELIABLE sources said the proposals included: 1 Continuation of extra payments when the cost of liv ing goes up. 2 Extension of company financed supplemental unem ployment payments from 26 to 39 weeks with an increase in the $25 maximum paid under the old contract 3 Increase in pensions for retired workers from $2.25 per month lor eacn year worked to $2.40. 4 Additional pay tot skilled workers. 5 Continuation of the an nual improvement factor un der which workers receive a vearlv increase of six cents an hour or lVt per cent of their hourly wage. Rpnthpr and other UAW of ficials criticized the general contract offered by the Big Three and said it proved that th three auto makers were engaging in industrywide bar gaining.

Temporary Location COURIER BUSINESS OFFICE DISPLAY ADVERTISING CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT NOW OPEN AT 514 COMMERCIAL ST. (Across the Street from Courier Building) SAME TELEPHONES AD 4-7711 CEDAR FALLS OFFICI Remains Same locatiea 210 MAIN STREET Dial COi-1444 ment." Ford. General Motors and Chrvsler Monday made con tract proposals to the union calling for a three-year agreement. Reuther, who has personally taken part in the Ford talks the past week, described the Ford offer as "deficient in many But he made counter proposals at a bargaining session Monday night and said the offer provided a basis for further discussion. UAW SOURCES said the three contract proposals were a new courthouse on the river, between Mullan and Automatic British Government Is Running Itself LONDON The British government is running on automatic pilot.

Prime Minister Macmillan is on holiday in Scotland. Deputy Prime Minister Richard A. Butler is on vacation in Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd is in New York for the U. N. general assembly.

Chancellor of the exchequer Derick Heathcoat-Amory is in Canada for the Conmonwealth Economic Conference. With him are paymaster Reginald Maud-ling and Sir David Eccles, president of the board of trade. Other government leaders are away on business or pleasure. DISBARRED. BUDAPEST, Hungary If! More than a third of Communist Hungary's 3,500 lawyers have been reported disbarred and the rest subjected to political qualifications.

Has Eye on World Title Yankee Chess Whiz-Kid Begins His Training a Year in Advance I v- in Commission said that it "has for the oast 10 years been sincere in its conviction that the development of a Civic Center within the area bounded by Park avenue, Commercial street, Mullan avenue and Sycamore street is one of the strongest single elements which will insure the most desirable economic! and aesthetic growth and de velopment of our city and in deed, our county." Noting that the county board of supervisors has deemed a site within this area as the most desirable for the locatioon of new court house, the planning commis sion resolution expressed sincere appreciation for selection of this site, and added: "This commission gives its indorsement and wholehearted support in the issue to erect this cornerstone of a civic center and a better Waterloo tomorrow." IOWAN DEAD. ALEXANDRIA, Va. Guy L. Bush, 69, a native of Greenfield, Iowa, who had a long career with the U. S.

Department of Agriculture, died here Monday following a heart attack. table. In a few more minutes he had, his opponent, Norman Monath, beaten. Monath is an editor who is helping Bobby, write a book on chess. "You know," said Bobby, "when I arrived in Yugoslavia, all the international players told me they would beat me.

Actually, I lost two games. I should have won them all." BOBBY SAID that there is much more interest in chess outside the United States than there is here, "Why," he said, "I had to sign hundreds of autographs. Abroad everyone knows about chess. It is considered an art." Bobby's mother, Mrs. Regina Fischer, was worried that the lad would not have the money to come home.

But his fifth-place in the tournament provided him with about $340 and that made it easy. WELL, IT'LL BE hard, but a few hours a day while he's cracking the books in English, history and the like, he'll forget about chess. But if he could only get at that Botvennik BROOKLYN (AP) If a boxer began training for a championship fight a year in advance of the battle, you'd wonder if he was kidding. But chess players ah, that's different. BOBBY FISCHER, the 15-year-old-whiz-kid of world chess he's youngest international grand master ever went back to Erasmus Hall High School in Flatbush Tuesday, but he was mentally figuring out his strategy-for next year's challenger's tournament.

In that one, he could wind up challenging Mikhail Botvennik of Russia, the current ruler, for the world championship. When he showed up in Europe for the candidates' tournament sort of an elimination for the challengers' event he wasn't taken very seriously. Still, he wound up in the top six in the competition in Portotoz, Yugoslavia. "I LEARNED a few tricks," he said, "and I can't wait a minute to get started with my practice." He arrived home Monday and within 10 minutes he had sat down at a chess "Roller Coaster Hills" This stretch of road lust ouhide Sioux City is known generally as "roller coaster and by teen-agers as a road with built-in thrills. It is one of the danger spots of Iowa roads.

It was the scene last December of a collision which took fivt lives and injured two other persons..

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