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Radio-TV ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR SB Weather today. Tomorrow, and warmer. Hlfh today Low tonight Eeport Pafe It, 91 4t SYRACUSE, N. SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1956 FINAL EDITION--FIVE CENTS Scolded for Not Doing Assign ment in GO i kale Proposed I i For Syracuse REUNION AFTER NIGHT OF and Mrs. Joe Pitkavish Sr.

embrace their son, 16 (second from right) and Paul Crawford, 15 (left-), after the boys emerged safely from an old coal mine where they had been lost 24 hours. Keunion yesterday was in Allegheny Valley Hospital, Tarentum, where boys were found to be unharmed, and allowed to go home. (AP Wirephoto). 2 Scared, Cold and Tired Bovs. Lost 24 Hours Safe In Old Mine TARENTUM, May 4 Two scared boys, cold and tired after.

24 hours lost in the dark maze- of an old coal mine, ran into the light from out, blinking in the sudden daylight of a rainy afternoon. After a brief examination at Allegheny Valley Hospital the boys were al, Their- "hookey escapade about 2 p.m. today when they were found by Lloyd Nicewonger and Dominic Bonimo, two mine workers. -During Kille-Moonng Lad, 5, Guns For Principal Junior High Thrown Into Pandemonium SEAT PLEASANT, May 4 (JP)--Reprimanded for! failing to turn in a written assignment, a 15 year oldi boy killed one teacher by i rifle fire today and wounded! two others in a junior high; school. Police Chief George J.

Panagou- lis said the boy, Billy Ray Prevatte, who was expelled from a Raleigh, N.C., school two months ago for threatening a teacher's life, was gunning for the principal when he fired on the thres teachers. The principal was not harmed. Victims of the shooting, which threw the Maryland Park Junior High School, on the outskirts of Washington, B.C., into an uproar, were: Frazer Cameron, 32, bachelor son of a Westfield, N.J. school teacher, whose bags were packed for a weekend visit with his mother when he was killed. Francis Daniel Wagner, 25, the school athletic coach, seriously wounded in the chest.

Robert Hicks, 31, shot in the hand while trying to subdue the out; stiirfibrmg into kriec- led from the mine unharmed. Members of their families greeted Joe Pitkavish 16 and Paul Crawford, 15, as they walked Ul. UliL-L" ClIlU out, and we began marking 200 Search in Vain CORNAVALL, May 4. (fl--State police, bloodhounds, helicopters and some 200 volunteers searched High School had set off a hugeiing several times, they said. search of the 30-year-old mine) We thought we could work our carved into a hillside about 25! miles north of Pittsburgh.

It ended stones We walked around and fi nally came to a place and found we had marked the stone twice. That's when we knew we were lost," Joe said. Finally: "We started walking toward a noise, but lost it. Later we heard some men talking and we saw a flash of light. We ran toward the light and saw the two men." Together with four companions, two boys had skipped away Points Gtm'Inlo A 13-year-old student, Kooert Haywood, gave this version: Study Committee Estimates Cost At $1.5 Million By EDITH SCULLY A pay schedule calling for salaries ranging from $4,000 'to $8,600 for Syracuse's ap- iproximately 1,200 teachers tfor the 1956-57 school year will be officially unveiled (Monday night at a meeting of (community representatives, it 'was learned yesterday.

The proposed pay scale would be one of the highest in the state. Estimated cost of financing tht proposed increases for Frazer Cameron Slain by Schoolboy l-X BOY IN CUSTODY AFTER SHOOTING. Billy Prevatte, 15. in custody of Det. Sgt Richard A.

Pearson and Lt. Earl Huber after a. shooting yesterday in high school at Seat Pleasant, The boy is accused of killing one teacher and wounding two others. (AP Wirephoto). Victim of Acid Hurler Columnist Riesel Loses XV- sonnel for the school year beginning next September is i.5 million dollars.

Present pay range is from 53,200 to $5300. Drawn up after many meetings of a school system salary committee named by Dr. Paul A. i superintendent of schools, to make recommendations to the Board of Education. the proposed schedule also incorporates the thinking of a number of Syracusans prominent in educational and other fields serving as consultants.

Teachers and Officials Both teachers and adminis. trators comprise the salary committee -which will make its formal recommendations to the Board of Education following Monday's meeting in Nottingham High School. Comparative pay figures accompanying the proposed local schedule indicate that it would do much to restore Syracuse to a favorable position in competing for the services of new teachers at a time when fewer young people are teaching field althougiy the need colurnrust Victor Riesel who was "I saw this boy walking down s- assaulted by an acid throwing Coloners Wife Vanishes From Her Wrecked Auto third-floor hall carrying a bolt action .22 automatic-rifle. "Mr. Cameron was in his class teaching.

The boy pointed the gun into the open doorway and fired, hitting Mr. Cameron, "Then he ran down the steps to the principal's office on the first floor. He was going through the last April 5, has lost sight of both eyes. and his secretary, Miriam Goldfine. Or.

the midnight before the assault. Riesel had substituted on has never ja radio commentator program for -PI, Barry Gray, a broadcaster 1 been identified. The newspaperman blamed the assault on his exposures of racketeers in organ- labor. Since the sulphuric acid seared his eyes and face, some of the office door when Mr. Wagner city top eye doctors have tried walked into the hall.

He was to save i ese i ght in the stomach. I think. However. Robert M. Hall, presi- "About that time Mr.

Hicks ran; dent of the synd i cate which han then on vacation. Riesel interviewed two operating engineers, Bill Wilkins and Peter Batalias, who are fighting the leadership of the Long Island local of the notorious International Union of Operating Engineers. Riesel. in this broadcast, assailed the DeKoning mob--WI1- every hospital in the area andjfrom high school classes yester-jup and jumped on the boy, who: dles Rj ese i newspaper column am DeKoning and his son, Wil- jday and wandered into the areajfired again and shot him in the! annmmced it. 1 1 1 A 1 1 1 1 1 tonight for an Air Force officers the base hospi tai at Newburgh wife whose smashed automobile and a sister was sta yi with was found at the bottom of a ravine off Storm King Highway.

Police said Mrs. Mary Dennison, 45, wife of Lt. Col. Jack Dennison at Stewart Air Force Base, haven't found a thing." Police said her husband is the old mine owned by covering from an operation atjghany Ludlum Steel Corp. and Pupils Sent Home was today that the' liam Jr both convicted extor- eves jtionists who have run the Local cone in DOin eves i i was attacked without for man vears was last seen yesterday when she left her home on the outskirts of the base to'visit a psychiatrist at West Point.

Mrs. Dennison. The condition of the house, police said, gave no indication where she was going in the automobile or whether she had left hurriedly. Air Force men. volunteer firemen leased fo Leechburg Mining Co.

Chief Panagoulis said the Pre-j word of warn ntf as jj left Lindy's! The younger DeKoning denied High on a hillside overlookingjvatte boy was looking for the prin-! restaurant at roa dway and 51st'" i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1. 1 ne Or Little Bull Creek the boys built a fire and noticed smoke swirling into a nearby hole, blowing out another some distance away. Paul and Joe decided to try to trace the smoke. When they failed to come back, union had anyj assault on! cipal. John Hrezo, when he startedj st about 3 ajn ith him at knowled shooting.

time was Betty Nevins, a blonde mesel The local contributed to The school was cleared of 0 ass ts him in his newspaper tne reward.fund built up by news- dents and closed for the remainder and ra( ii 0 -work. She was not a ers newspaper organizations 4 i A 1 I I 4 4 residents of the area companions ventured a short have helped with the search, but Police said she had been undergo far their efforts have failed to way into the old workings locking for them, then retreated and noti- "mental up any trace of her move-lfied the families of the missing Her closed coupe, after the crash, police and bloodstained, was found! about 4 p.m. yesterday about four; miles from here at the bottom; of a 200 foot embankment on an; approach road leading to Storm 1 King highway. Police said the car was a total! wreck and biooti was found on bits of glass from the smashed windshield. They believe she! of the day.

Many of the students farmed went home crying from fright. State Atty. Blair H. Smith or-; 1 A 4 dered Prevatte charged-mth mur-: reputation in 10 years of labor der two counts of assault wiOi reporting The Hall Syndicate intent to kill and two of assault! distributes his co i urnn to the New sand labor unions. AP Wircphtos Francis Daniel Wagner Coach Seriously Wounded Post-Standard Columnist 41, built-up a national; with a deadly weapon.

York Daily Mirror and 192 other Dulles for 10-Year Plan To Contain Communism PARIS, May 4 ofj The agency would make out- I 1 1 1 Under preliminary questioning; ncwspapers across the nation. Jn- by Detective Lt Lee Pum-' duding The ost Stan dard. pnrey police said the boy de-j Nearl in rewards have clared he i know why he shot failcd to evoke any clue to Cameron. identity of the acid hurler. Junior Grade A-Bomb Blast Opens New Series ABOARD USS MT.

MCK7NLEYJ nuclear explosions. rose dimly before. At the same time, it would encourage newcomers and veteran teachers to stay in Syracuse classrooms by recognizing their years of experience paywise, reducing from 14 to 10 the number of years necessary to advance from the minimum to the maximum pay step and assuring teachers nearing retirement salaries high enough to provide adequate pensions. According to Experience Present teachers would placed on the proposed schedule to their years of ex. perience.

The Board of Education would not have to pay more than $1,000 extra to any teacher in any one school year regardless of the amount of increase due. Teachers not fully licensed by the State of New York would eligible only for the new state- mandated minimum salary schedule, being transferred to the "certified teacher schedule" with year for year credit for previous local service when full state cer- Itification was achieved. i Tne $4,000 minimum proposed fully licensed teachers the Syracuse schooh is $500 "He treated me fine in school. Riesel's father was an anti-i Saturday. May 5 small atomic weaoon, de- 1T Inl 1VJ 1 JlJ fH height estimated at 15,000 to un its nt may have'staggered away John Foster Dulles today the scene in a state of shock.

Thejcalled on the free world to car went out of its vast moral and ma- trol they said, left the road landed on a pile of boulders inj the heavily wooded terrain. resources in a new 10-year program for holding back corn- right grants, give long and short term loans and buy surplus production of needy countries. The French plan, however, was doused almost immediately with cold water. President Eisenhower A search of the Cornwall reset- voir. about 500 yards the 0 i ministers of the North Atlantic i 1 i 1 I -Pumphrey said the told racketeeri union leader He was taken to Upper Marlboro and lodged in jail there brutal beating, presumably tons of TNT, was explodedjthin sheet of glistening ice crys- tonight 'voked by his crusading nature, early today at this mid-Pacific announcement of Riesel'sJA i More than one minute after the I i A ard A.

Pear- Sgt. thp pvpnts i i son reconsiruciea uie aay Blindness was based on a doctors on Page 6, Column 4) at the school this way: Shortly before noon young Prevatte. an eighth grader, was sent to the principal's office by William report. He made his statement and then told reporters: the sound reached the It was a low. Civil Defense officials aboard rum 1 ikppj ppppL pBBl ppp.

-ppm YT- luc Cookson, another coach, to explain i in his Wasmngton news conference a on being into a scene of the crash, failed to pro-; vide any clues. i Treat Organization that West Mrs. Dennison was checked Russia's advance at as 5 feet 4 inches tall with bluets juncture in world history, eyes and black hair. She wasj But Dulles declared that the wearing a white blouse and blue Atlantic community now polka dot skirt. Iroap out a program frr the next Sgt Alex Kormondy of the to counter the Kremlin's state police barracks" at New! new soft tactics and win over to Windsor said so far there is no freedom the uncommitted peoples suspicion of foul play, but a of Asia.

Africa and the Middlc lCU check with the two psychiatrists East. at West Point showed she had He said that if the free world nn appointment and neither had stand? firm, it could foster an anif Qto ever heard of her. trend toward liberalism "We're checking every possi- now discernible in the Soviet 1 said Kormondy. bloodstains on the giass indicate Dulles warned that Russia'si she may have suffered severe'. trade and aid offensive in facia! injuries.

We've cheeked; underdeveloped countries sue-; iceeds then the ratio of peoples; questioned whether it would be practical for the United States to turn over its aid funds to the United Nations. his failure to turn in a written assignment in physical education! due yesterday. 1 VA -V I -Q "This was a damnable act cal-! co mand shlpt TM ssed Within 15 minutes, the mush- culated to plunge a fellow ather 1 1 TM sp tac froni a cloud had streaked out and) being into a living death of 6 mi es were its shape as the rays of the! Will Rain Once Again I 4 fc-1 A I 1 "Xi Iness, frustration and helplessness. 1 irs outslde te TMV cl The hoodlums of the nation!" 1 ft area Sin two Blkim ibathe. its shape as the rays of the! still below the horizon, Other proposals for expanding might be able to blind one news-j atomic blasts of 3946 i paperman's eyes but they have! In the current test senes, Tne boy went to Hrezo Oifice jrjot his memories or hissed to include 10 or more nuclear; Ol bathed its underside in Fires At Workmen rad was told to wait.

After a rm various proposals tomor- and draft final comrTlun jq Ue IT- TMTM TM co-opera- whfle he kft Elanimin door behind him. Returning in an auto- he crashed the car into a the school and fired several volleys at workmen who seen the crash and had come in the belief he might aid. powers. "Cannot Blind Press" Un Saranac Lake was getting two inches of snow yesterday and the Southland had peratures up tc 80, it was tha same old thing for Syracuse rain with promises of more -p ito come. I The weather was due to clear last night with sunny and Apparently uninjured, he hur- ponticai hc gnri I devices, a big one is scheduled for next Tuesday.

May 8--May "The gangs can blind one news-; S. date. Officials have said! SEOUL. Saturday, May 5 papersman but they cannot blind that it will be a large 0 jj ce S3 presidential cao1 weather predicted for today, nation's entire ibomb, but not the largest, and Shinicky died of a cerebrali out more rain is expected to T5! m. ui, 1 it Tirill nfr tnf 1 fr Yr ri2-.

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wit a low of 40 tonight. 1 Redwing, was touched off on th? ShinickV was 61. He was long a' Temperatures will average 3 to Red China Charts Research Drive shooting, announcing that he would kill anyone who didn't tell him where the principal was. After felling the three teachers he ran outside where he was captured and disarmed by two la- Today wnvr vnvr 01 61 5 on a school annex nUiNU K-UiNiU. Alav 4 it under Communist rule might job.

ij- AV A. XL -A Jo, presiaent 01 tne cninese: 111 3 i TnP TTHTiornrv TA tno 11 tin hrntnrr vJvvlVp.3 of Sciences, said todav 1. DIUWILI Dulles proposed creation of a a OI 5 ie es OTa loaa Young Prevatte came here in of two or three ed tnina aranmg a new March to Iive a arried year plan for electronic research, He said the jroal is to "bring EASTERN LEAGUE Allentcnvn 4, Johnstown 3. Wiiliamsport 3, Reading 1. Pact ministers tc work out practical ways for strengthening NATO in the political and economic China's backward scientific and Ris C.

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Philadelphia 1. Cincinnati 4 Pittsburch 3. St. Louis 10, Brooklyn 3. thc Morson School in Raleigh a 5a id Prevatte was "an average fields.

This committee would s-: technical level to or rt roach plant. port back in the fall to the ine advanced international lev-; rincipa i Ministerial Council France's i Minister Piping radio broadcast Christian Pineau laid before the speech by Kuo before a national student" as far as ability was con- Council a plan for creating a ne of workers in the Red cerrted but had a "bao; temper" economic development Chinese capital. He said Soviet and was suspended for striking a agency. It. would operate within'expert? now workine in China boy hpfore being expelled the framework 'of the U.N.

and were providing specific advice on for threatening a teacher who nnderdeveioppd countries. plan. catigtit him smoking. Comic Pages 7-8 Crossword Puzzle 8 Death Record 6 Editorial 4 Market? Radio-TV Programs Spnrts 9-10 2-5 10-li 3 In 7 Syracuse Women's Your Horoscope COLUMNISTS Blackwood's Bririce Leonard Lynns Drew Biil Rcd iy Robert Ri.iark Pec Simpson Streneth for What's thc Good Word? surface of Runit Island, one of political foe of 6 above normal for the the of land that make up. Shinicky was stricken on a cam-'ncxf i days.

The normal high Eniwetnk Atoll pai to at Iri 12 5 mi es SO 3ow 43. Cooler weather in II was exploded rigr.t on scheo-. 0 Seoul. jexpected ule at 6:25 a.m.--1:25 p.m. Fri- day.

EST. To peering through high-density goggles it was quickly over. There was a dot of white rapidly it yellowed and spread; ovpy no I mirth en tl?" island. Then the gray of the tropical predawn returned. A mushroom cloud, typical of Syracuse Headlines STATE POLICE BCI OFFICERS WROTE OFF FIVE BUR- Claries committed within the past week with the arrest of two 4 4 9 4 16 Comic Dictionary A A FAN A Kpfrtalor sitlinj 500 feet from the plate who ran see better than an umpire standing five feet away.

6. TM 16 YEAR OLD GIRL WAS ATTACKED BEHIND Charles Andrews School yesterday by a l.Vyear-old boy who an occupant of a Jocal 6. DECISION GIVING THE HEFFROV FUND OF THE former Syracuse university College of Medicine to heirs of Dr. John L. Hrffron.

ex-dean of the college, has een appealed to Appellate 6. INSURGENT UNITED DEMOCRATS YESTERDAY Irnced thc validity of designating petitions for than 30 didates who have the backing of the regular Democratic ization in the June 5 primary.