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Two Logansport, Indiana, Pharos-Tribune These Juveniles Not In Delinquent Bracket NEW YORK UP If we can stop yapping about juvenile delinquency long enough, it might be well to' ponder the fact that a couple of our juveniles are international sensations. One is Boddy Fischer of Brooklyn, who at 14 set the chess world on its ear by defeating grand masters to win the U. S. championship. He now is entitled to a crack at the world chess title, held-by Smyslov of Russia.

The other is Van Cliburn of Shreveport, ar.d Kilgore, who at 23 set Moscow on 'its ear this week by winning the Tchaikovsky competition. international piano This extroverted Irish-Texan (both his mother and father are of Irish descent) gave his first public concert in Shreveport at the age of 3, When he was 6, he and his mother, a concert pianist, were giving recitals together. On his first day in school in Shreveport, the teacher asked him if he-coifld read. "Yes," ife said, "I can read imtsic." When he came here in 1954 to compete for the coveted Edgar N. Leventritt award, they laughed nvhen he sat down to play (honest, that's what I'm told by those who were there).

He looked like a misplaced basketball player. He's U.S. Route31 No. 1 Killer In Indiana INDIANAPOLIS (UP4-U. S.

31, a Great Lakes to Gulf of Mexico highway which runs from South Bend New Albany and Jeffer- soiwille through Indianapolis, won a reputation today as Indiana's svorst "killer" road, Indiana State Police tfaeir annual summary of traffic deaths for 1957 did not label it as such. But they picked out 10 sections of rural highways where the largest number df fatalities occurred. Ike Planning Another Golf Trip to Dixie WASHINGTON (UP) Back stairs at the White House: President Eisenhower hopes to spend another weekend at the Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club this spring, according to White House aides. He curtailed his usual Easter vacation of a week or 10 days there to three days last weekend to return to work here on the recession and international H'he succeeds in getting back to Augusta, it probably will be later this month. But it could be as late as mid-May.

There appears to be little chance that it will be any later because some of the greens on the Augusta National are "killed," then for the sum- Four of those sections were Only one of Eisenhower's 23 U. S. 31, Marshall, Miami, visits to Augusta has been in Hamilton and Scott Counties, and It was in 1949 and was one the deaths on that one highway of the four times he was there be- in those counties totaled 30. ifore he was elected President. He Second most deadly highway! stopped off tnere en route back was U.

S. 41 running from Key West, and com- mond to Evansvffie through Terre plated his convalescence a Haute. Two stretches in Newton digestive ailment he suffered here and Parke Counties recorded 201 while back on temporary duty at deaths. 67 in Marion and Delaware Counties accounted for 16 deaths. The three highways together hogged 55 fthe fatalities among 6-feet 4-inches but has a mop of 185 listed for the 10 "kdller" sec- curly hair that springs up so that I tions, which also included U.

S. he looks about 6-feet-7. 6 in LaPorte County and U. S. His hand spans inches.

He with a gangling lope. His piano style is as Russian as his dialect is east Texan. When he finished playing, he had won the award. Mrs. Leventritt decided to a reception for him after his first New York Philharmonic appearance.

She told him to "bring along any friends from home who had come to hear him. Came the reception, and Mrs. Leventritt had to fight her way into the room through a mob of strangers. "Honey," said Van, sweeping an arm toward 75 Texans, "See these people? These ihere are a few of mah friends." Cliburn was born in Shreveport, where his parents founded a mission that grew into a 1 church. To keep him quiet when he was a tot, his mother used to give him a triangle to bang on during the church music.

In Kilgore, the 36 in Hendricks County. The 1957 statistical summary showed that: was the "safest" month with only 69 traffic deaths! and October the worst.with the Pentagon. Eisenhower is by no means the first President to visit Augusta George Washington visited there in 1791. Others were James Monroe in 1819, William McKinley in 1898, William Howard Tail, on several occasions and Warren G. Harding in 1923.

Woodrow Wilson lived there as a boy and came back for a visit in 1912 before he was nominated for President had five or including Martin and Switzerland with only one each. largest numerical increase in traffic deaths over 1356 was 23 in LaPorte, and the largest decrease was 29 in Porter County. were 34 death-free days out of the year's 365, five of them in June, The President-Jto the delight of i Ms personal physician, Maj. Gen. trawic fleams, Howard Mc more and using electric cart less on the golf course.

The President started using an electric cart to go around the links after he recovered from his heart attack in 1955. But now he rides the cart only on 'the hilly fairways. It only two instances of two death-free days in a row, one in May and line other in June. biggest one-day toll was 13 on Saturday, June 22. Three of the year's four 10-death days occurred December, two of them during a three-day span Ohristaiias week.

The heaviest toll on a na- family joined the First Baptist tional holiday was eight on Mem- Ohurch, and Van sang in the orial Day. choir. In New York, he joined the Calvary Baptist Church, just down the street from Carnegie HalL He has written hymns and short pieces for the church, and composed a choral setting for a psalm was sung on the radio here. New Procedure Used on Hit-and-Run Drivers American Municipal Association indicates a new procedure may help catch hit-and- run drivers. The hit-and-run driver is the target of Utah's new requirement that all damaged autos must have stickers from a police officer before they can be repaired, the AMA said.

According to the association, Salt Lake City and Denver also have launched the procedure in an effort to make certain police are informed of all accidents. officials also said, the AMA disclosed, that the device saves police time formerly spent checking on damaged atrtos that previously had been reported. Subsidize Exports NEW YORK Cabot Lodge, U. S. ambassador to the United Nations, said Wednesday night that the government may eventually have to subsidize American exports if this country is to win -the economic war with Russia.

Lodge said that in a few years the Soviet Union could be expected to undersell certain American Stockyard Co. Of Indianapolis Revises Rule "Hie Indianapolis Stockyards Company announced Wednesday a revised rule will go into effect 'May 30 strengthening the present regulation against "dual representation on tihe market." The company said it would force a commission firm' to ask for bids on livestock on the open market before filling orders tor out of livestock consigned to it. The rule requires the price to exceed the highest offer for the livestock ia open trading. The. company said the "substance of the new rule was taken from the Secretary of Agriculture's regulations." The company said it "has added further regulations which the company understands to be consistent with the enforcement policies of the secretary." Check Stompcmoto's Paper for Clues HOLLYWOOD Jota- rry Stompanato's papers were examined by police today in an attempt to determine whether he used illegal means to obtain loans that financed his career of love.

The papers, found in a warehouse, already have disclosed loans of $65,000 from British millionaire Sir Charles A. Hubbard and $8,150 from Mrs. Doris Jean products in foreign markets "for! Cornell, a local widow, to Lana the sake of Soviet prestige." Turner's dead lover, police said. Hie walking and riding distances on the three golf courses he has played most in recent weeks Augusta, Gettysburg, and Thomasville, Ga. The President left one boy overjoyed at Augusta last weekend.

Five-year-old Bobby Cousins had been begging his Army captain fader to bring him from nearby Camp Gordon so he could see the President as he got on his plane. Bobby, who was perched on his dad's shoulder alongside the steps leading up to the plane's cabin, not only got a good look at Eisenhower. The President also gave the lad a friendly hair tousle and a smiling "How are you, son" It's Possible: Space Weapon to Paralyze Enemy, Not Kill Him WASHINGTON (UP) An Air Force general today drew an imaginary picture of a space-age weapon that could paralyze an enemy without killing him. -It's not impossible, 'he said, although some will doubt it. Gen.

D.L. Putt, deputy chief of staff for development, said it is "entirely possible" that this fantastic weapon win be developed for use by U.S. space ships of the future. Putt conceded that this was "a ihigWy imaginary possibility now" and some may: call it impossible. He recalled that in 1941, there were those who didn't believe there could be an atom.

bomb. Putt, who has announced his re- tirement, prepared his testimony for deEvery to the Hause Space Committee. Thursday Evening, April 1555. if permission were granted immediately. Von Braun said he was convinced the Redstone space flight could be made before the X15i rocket plane is scheduled to carry a man into space near the top of the earth's atmosphere.

He estimated cost of the proj- Dr. Wernher von Brawn, Army at 10 milron dollars and Report No Polio Cases In Indiana INDIANAPOLIS (UP)-iIndiana racked up another week without a case of polio being reported to the State Board of Health, leaving the 1958 slate clean. A year ago, 14 cases had been reported by this time. The five- year median is 12 cases. Other childhood diseases were reported in more or less profa- not yet received official permis-iaf trade between the two owm-1 sion.

sion for the project. But he said tries," the Tass News Agency re-1 The weekly morbidity report there were volunteers ready to) today. Representatives of I showed cases of measles missiles expert, told the committee Tuesday the Army nas proposed to send a man 150 miles above the earth's surface in capsule borne by a Redstone rocket. He would drop into the ocean and be fished out alive, after a lO-minute flight. Von Braun said; the service had said Russia now has capability to shoot a man to an altitude of 150 miles.

NEW SOVIET TRADE PACT MOSCOW PUP) 'A new Soviet-Iranian 'Commercial "will greatly increase the volume trip. He said it would take about a year to prepare for the attempt the iwo nations signed the ipaiet i were reported to the board dur- in Tehran, capital of iran, the week, compared with 550 Jay. to 6,160 the number reported thus far this year. da addition, 208 cases of mumps were reported compared with 124 the weak before; 223 cases of German measles compard with 411 the. week before; U37 cases of scarlet fever compared with JilS the week before, and 146 c'ass of compared with 94.

The board reported 138 cases of influenza, down slightly from the 210 of the week before, but raising ae year's total to 3,842 compared with 952 a year ago and a five- year median of OUTTALKED ITHACA, N. University co-ed Sieglinde Dicken out- talked three males to triumph'in the finals of the school's annual the last preceding week, raising I Rice Debate competition. DAVID'S INSTANT-DIP deans direr hi simply dp, rinst and ckyi INSTANT MP, America 1 lorded tolling. utvor now contains Mognkfa, Ibo wonder ingredient that retards Fetarnidring. owagr tilver way old-foihieaed abroiim pofaba do.

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Goldwater listed the freedom in a speech at a national "outstanding young farmers" award banquet. He said big government is seeking to take away more and more rights, of the 'people, big business is "a source of evil power" to the detriment of small business, and unions have too much authority over the rights of union membership. gnaw without EASY-OFF, tho non-inflanimoble 'mirodo" jelly on any own jorface-lot it jtand, then wipe witb warm water. onds icropina. and tcrubbing.

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