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at Pearl Harbor Base Occurred 19 Years Am SEE STORY BELOW Light Winds Variable cloudiness Wednesday, Wednesday night and Thursday; moderate westerly winds Wednesday with slowly rising temperatures; high Wednesday 42; low Wednesday night 25; high Thursday 48. 75th YEAR NO. 219 ASSOCIATED PRESS BILLINGS, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 7, 1960 UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL PRICE 10 CENTS BLINKY THE CZAR CORDIAL MEETING Gangland Influence Alley Adjacent lo Shop Center Ordered Closed In Boxing Probed By BILL DANIEL The bell sounded for another round between the city of Billings and H. F. Hustad, owner of the Buttrey's Shopping Center (c By FRED S.

HOFFMAN WASHINGTON (AP) Frank "Blinky" Palermo, reputed standin as underworld czar of boxing, was named by a Senate investigator Tuesday as shadow manager of Sonny Liston, ranking heavyweight contender. Palermo is "the important one" to see in arranging bouts for Liston, special counsel John G. Bonomi told a tyvsu vim i last night. I A petition was received from six property owners across the galley south of the shopping center requesting the dedicated i 10-foot alley be closed. The City I Council accepted the petition and I passed a resolution closing the alley.

Hustad contends ownership of I the north half of the alley plus the half of 13th and 12th Streets I West that adjoin the property. iA fight by the city to get curbs, gutters, sidewalks and right-of- By MERRIMAN SMITH WASHINGTON I UPI) President-elect John F. Kennedy and President Eisenhower agreed Tuesday at a Iff III s'i 1 7 icordial three-hour meeting way around the property has been waged for over a year. Prior to Labor Day, only a threat by the city to fence off the shopping center stopped the blocking of 13th and 12th Streets West in an attempt to retain ownership of the streets. 1 fc 1 il v.

s' 1 "We can't maintain half an alley," Bill Purvis, city engineer told the council. I Purvis said that if Hustad would dedicate the north half of alley, it should be re-opened. I Move Departments At the recommendation of a special committee headed by that Eisenhower may undertake "future service" for the country as it pursues its i quest for world peace. Kennedy said after the un-; expectedly long White House conference that he raised the question of Eisenhower's i availability and the President i assured him he would be will-1 ing to be of service. Kennedy said he had no particular as- signment in mind at present.

In Jovial Mood The 43-year-old president elect and the 70-year-old President were in a grinning, jovial mood as they met to discuss the problems involved in transition of the govern-jment from a Republican to a Democratic administration, i So well did it go that Eisenhower offered to hold a second similar meeting and Kennedy said he Senate Antimonopoly subcommittee probing gangland influences in bigtime boxing. Truman Gibson, former president of the onetime powerful International Boxing clubs of New York and Chicago, agreed with Bonomi's statement about the alleged Palermo-Liston relationship. Major Developments The day's hearing also turned up these major developments: 1. Investigators produced grand jury testimony in which former fight manager Herman (Hymie the Mink) Wallman of New York agreed that mobster Frankie Car-bo virtually controlled matchmaking in Madison Square Garden. Palermo allegedly is exercising Carbo's powers while Carbo is in prison.

Wallman was in the subcommittee witness chair when the grand jury testimony was read into the record. He supplemented it by saying Carbo pulled strings to obtain Garden bouts for fighters Wallman managed. No longer managing, Wallman said Carbo exercised his influence through matchmaker Billy (Continued on Page 11, Col. 1.) Alderman Harold Gerke, the council voted to move the city recreation department from city-hall to the Pioneer Park fire station. In the same action, the council voted to move Fire Chief (Continued on Page 11, Col.

6.) County Calls Bids on Jail might take him up on it. Their TEACHER TAKEN Joan Solberg, 28, St. Regis schoolteacher, rested after telling officers she was abducted in St. Regis by a 17-year-old boy and taken to Butte. The youth, identified as Robert Dahl, was apprehended near Butte.

(See story on page 22). AP Wirephoto. amiability was in marked con itrast to the frost iness that, has marked some other conferences i between outgoing and incoming INFORMED SOURCES SAY: presidents. Talks "Extremely Informative" In a joint statement issued alter their talk, the two leaders (Continued on Page 11, Col. 6.) ranged up to eight feet.

AP Arizonan Selected DIGGING OUT A Jamestown. N.D., businessman starts long job of shoveling out during blizzard. Drifts in Jamestown CHURCH COUNCIL PLAN Troy Woman Killed in Crash Interior Secretary Would Ban Package High in the running for agriculture are Rep. George S. 1 TROY 'AP Mrs.

Rose E. Schultz. 66. was killed Tuesday when she was thrown from a pickup truck that went out of control on an icy downgrade curve and roiled over an embankment. Govern, and Fred V.

Heinkel, president of the Missouri Farmers Association. Bids have been called for on the construction of a new jail for Yellowstone County, Fred Plath, chairman of the county commissioners said late Tuesday. Bids on four phases of completion of the 7th floor jail will be opened at 2 p.m. December 28, Plath said. Work and bids have been broken down to four posts, general, mechanical, electrical and equipment.

General Bid Covers The general bid will cover finishing off the walls, floors and ceilings, plus partitions in the 7th floor. The mechanical bid covers plumbing, heating and air conditioning. The electrical bid will cover wiring and lighting while the fourth bid will be for the jail equipment such as cells. Commissioner Charles Barney said thev estimated the total cost at about 8310,000, of this, about S210.000 will be for the equipment. "Unless something comes up, I think we have the money to pay for it," Barney said.

Financing Criticized Commissioners said they did not foresee any difficulty in meeting payment for the work even though the method of financing was criticized by the State Examiners last spring. Just when actual construction of the new jail will start will depend on when the new elevator is started, Chris Rubich, county clerk said. The present two elevators go only to the 6th floor, Rubich said. Taverns Sales by McGovern is only 33 years old. His supporters believe that Heinkel is being backed by Sen.

Stu- art Symington of Missouri and i former President Harry S. Tru- man. sidered one of the leading contenders for the interior post. He and Kennedy became acquainted during the House-Senate fight to pass a labor reform bill. Like Kennedy, Udall incurred the dislike of Teamsters President James R.

Hoffa during the congressional battle. Udall Westerner As a Westerner, Udall has been interested in matters falling under the jurisdiction of the Interior Department. He has served on the House Interior Committee which has jurisdiction over reclamation projects and similar programs. By Tl'I) III HELENA (UPI i Legislation I to prevent any packaged liquor goods sales through taverns will sought by the Montana Council of Churches in the legislature when it convenes here in January. The pickup was driven by her husband, Gus.

who escaped with only a bump on the head. Highway Patrolman Dan Ma-gone of Libby said the accident happened at 8:20 a.m. on the Forest Service Yaak road near the couple's ranch home eight miles northwest of Troy. Mrs. Schultz was dead on arrival at a Libby hospital.

She was the first traffic fatality in Lincoln County since August and the county's louith victim of the year. The death brought Montana's lBiil) toll to 200, compared with 22." one year ago Wednesday. l'he council, which represents 70.000 incnihi'i's ol major Proles-; taut denominations, mloptcd the report ot its liquor control sub-1 committee to introduce legislation which "would allow taverns and' liars to sell liquor only by the' drink." WASHINGTON iL'PD President-elect John F. Kennedy has picked 40-year-old Rep. Stewart Udall of Arizona be secretary of the interior in his new cabinet, informed sources said Tuesday.

They said Kennedy will announce the appointment in New York Wednesday. Udall is considered one of the brightest and most politically adept young Democrats in the House. Big Three Unnamed Kennedy still has not named his cabinet "big three" the secretaries of state, defense and treasury- It was reported Tuesday that he has decided to put off a final decision on his secretary of agriculture until he has named men for these three top posts. One of Adlai E. Stevenson's closest associates.

William Mc-Cormick Blair, was summoned Tuesday to Kennedy's home, presumably to discuss Stevenson's role in the Kennedy administration. The two-time Democratic presidential nominee has been mentioned lor a number of diplomatic posts, including secretary of state, ambassador to the United Nations, and ambassador to the i North Atlantic Treaty Organiza-j tion in Paris. May Fill Posts Kennedy's reported decision to delay naming an agriculture sec- retary led to speculation that he1 shortly may fill the state, defense; and treasury posts. Editor Urges Election Reform report continued. The council's report also calls for legislation possibly to halt issuance of further licenses to fraternal and veterans organizations and to prevent a member of the liquor industry from serving on the liquor control board.

The reason tor its stand on a halt to licenses tor fraternal and veterans organizations is that "many of these groups are formed solely tor the purpose of obtaining liquor license." In Competition "This creates just another tavern or bar and is not restricted to the members ol the organization, hut operates in competition with other taverns and bars," the report said. In opposing any legislation which would allow a member ot the liquor industry to serve on the liquor control board, the council said. "The board is composed of three sincere ami concerned persons united in the purpose ol serving the people ol Montana. To allow one of these persons to be a representative ol the liquor industry could bring strit" and disunity (Continued on Page 11, Col. 4.) tional iiistiluiions.

education, men-, tal health, obscene literature and marriage and divorce laws. The county of churches repre-j sents Presbyterian, United Church of Christ (Congregational and Evangelical and llc-f or modi. Lutheran, Methodist. Christian and Baptist bodies in Montana. The aim of its proposed legisla-' lion to oievent packaged good sales in taverns is to enlorce ox-! isting laws prohibiting juvenile! purchase and use of intoxicating' beverages.

"If package liquor had to he purchased through slate liquor stores it would become practically impossible for youth to obtain," the council's report said. Change Proposed "We propose that a change be made in the present law which allows tavern operators to sell liquor by the bottle. The proposed law would allow taverns and bars to sell liquor only by the drink. Liquor by the bottle would be sold only through a state liquor stove. This is the practice in most slates where the government has a monopoly on the sale of liquor." the Udall, a congressman for only six years, long had been con- Retired Doctor Dies at Cody CODY.

Wyo. Dr. Roy V. Rogers, 77, former chief medical officer for the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs in five western states, died Monday of an apparent heart attack. He had served in Montana.

North Dakota, Utah. Idaho and Arizona. Dr. Rogers was born Jan. 3,: 1882, in Weaver, Iowa.

He wasi graduated from Keokuk Medical' College of the University of Ohio in 1903. He started medical practice at Bottineau, N.D., in 1905. In 1927 he became the senior! physician for the U.S. Indian Service. In 1951, Dr.

Rogers re-i tired after 24 years of service i with the Indian Department and The churches will likely come into opposition with the Montana Licensed lieverage Dealers on this) issue. The dealers, represent ing tavern owners, are seeking a I.V per cent discount on wholesale i The new third elevator will rise from the basement through the sheriff's office and travel nonstop to the seventh floor. It will be for the jail and sheriff's use mrchascs Iron) the state so that ICf, -x I taverns would be able to sell' tot tied liquor at a price competi-! RED LODGE (UPI) The Carbon County News has called for a law designed to eliminate all-night stands on election nights in Montana. In an editorial, Owen Welch, publisher of the Red Lodge weekly, proposed changing the law to permit precinct workers to start counting ballots before the polls close. Urging a law that would show SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS only.

Otis Elevator was awarded a $44,973 contract for installing the elevator earlier this fall but have not started construction. Rubich said the commissioners wanted the third elevator in so it could be used by contractors in transporting materials to the 7th floor without disrupting the tte with stale liquor stores. Aims Approved The (lunch council's committee on social education and action, whose members are chairmen of various including the liquor control legislation sub-; committee, also approved legisla-j nrv itm i iTumiiii ive aims in the holds ol correc-i (Continued on Page 11, Col. 5.) REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR? 19 Years Ago We Waited Jap Move some mercy to bleary-eyed precinct workers, election officials, newsmen and office-seekers, Welch said his proposal "would inconvenience no one but would get the returns in hours ahead of the usual time possible under our present law." The editorial explained: "It would be as simple as this: Approve a law providing that in larger precincts those having separate counting boards such counting boards shall start their work in a separate room during the afternoon, sny 2 o'clock. "In order to eliminate the possibility of the counting boards catching up with the ballots in the medium-sized precincts, it would be stipulated that when they come within 50 of the number of ballots already cast at that they should stop counting until a sufficient number of ballots has accumulated.

This is designed to prevent the ballots being counted as they are cast, preserving the rule of secrecy of the ballot." and it rained a little in the alter-1 noon. But it didn't hurt attendance at a civil dclense school lor law! enforcement officers held lierej that day. Instruction included: By ADDISON R. BRAGG It was about like any other Sat-! urday. There was war news in the I paper, sure.

Alter all, with that1 headline in the evening Gazette, I "U.S. Awaits Japanese who was around at the time who'd State Buildiniis Lcgitloton Diicuii Planning Pog, 12 Meat Output Up Montana Plants Set New Record Page More Letters On Varied Topics and Issuoi Page 4 Railroad Merger Laurel Unions to Study Plan Page Urges Sales Tax Study Billings Kiwonis Club Airs Views Page 2 i His a was Sen. B. K. Wheeler remember? People in Billings danced that night and drank that night.

They laughed at a stage show, "The Man Who Came to Dinner" and they sat at home, counting the shopping days until Christmas. There were fifteen. The night clubs, the theaters and the bars closed. Lights in homes went out over the city, And people slept the last un troubled sleep they were to kno for many years. I (Remember?) (People traveled, all right and for many, it was a one-way trip.) At the First Presbyterian Church the next morning, parishoners would sit and listen while the choir sang "That Radiant Hour." (How could they know the radiance of the morning that even then moved swiftly across land and ocean to a place called Pearl? At least one person was in Billings that day who could speak with some authority on the subjectand here's what he said: "1 have felt the Japanese are blutfing and don't want war with the United States." nual stag party planned that Saturday night in the Commercial Club.

(You got in late and woke up with a headache remember? And people in town were talking about "hat special Christmas tree display in a local coffee shop which traced the development of the holiday symbol from the Kith century up to the present with one big "Tree of All Nations" to demonstrate the brotherhood of man. i Remember, Nazi Germany was represented on it? I Skies were cloudy that Saturday measures to lie taken in case of air raids. (Air raids, cm you imagine? A person would think this country was going to be attacked.) The Montana Highway Department, at any rate, wasn't seeing bogey men in the Pacific or the Atlantic it adopted "Travel Strengthens America and Builds Health, Wealth and Unity" as its slogan for the coming year. argue things weren't looking bad? That was 19 years ago. Bad, that is, for the rest of the world.

Bui not for us. Not for the United States. And certainly not for Billings. Jaycees, at any rate, weren't letting Ihe international situation interfere with plans for their an.