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The RMnelander Daily (r and THE NEW NORTH FORTY-THtRD YEAR-NO, 241 RHtNELANDER, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, I960 12 PAGES TODAY PRICE SEVEN CENTS Negro to Head Housing Agency Trained Economist He Will Direct Vast Programs PALM BEACH, Fla. President-elect John F. Kennedy today names a to be picked for a top job in the new chief of the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency. Kennedy scheduled a late morning news conference for formal announcement of appointment of Robert C. Weaver, 51, now vice chairman of New York City's Housing and Redevelopment Board.

He has a Harvard doctor of philosophy degree. He also has served for the past year as national chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Selection of Weaver became known Friday night after the president-elect had chosen W. Averell Harriman, former envoy to the Soviet Union and former governor of New York, to serve as his roving ambassador on important special missions abroad. Kennedy said the overseas assignments he has in mind 'for Harriman will be carried out by a man "who has the full confidence of the president and an intimate knowledge of all aspects of United States policy." Weaver arrived in Palm Beach Friday night for a meeting with the president-elect at the Kennedy seaside home in advance of today's news conference.

He told newsmen he was sounded out earlier in the week about his availability for housing post, and later got word he had been confirmed for the job. It will cost Weaver $1,500 in salary reduction to take ove direction o'f federal housing pro gram His New York position pays $22,500 annually compared witl $21,000 in the new position. Norman P. Mason is adminis trator of the Housing and Horn Finance Agency in the outgoing Eisenhower administration. The agency has policy supervision over the operations of the Federa Housing the Pub lie Housing Administration, and the National Mortgage Association.

Weaver was trained as an econ omist at Harvard. He was a New Deal brain truster in the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration in 1935, serving first as an aide tt Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. Later he was a specia assistant in such agencies as the Housing Division of the Works Administration, the 'National Defense Advisory Commission, the War Production Board and the War Manpower Commission.

He served as New York renl control chief in the Harriman ad ministration. His writings and re search have combined to bring him recognition as one of the country's outstanding housing experts. He has been a civil rights crusader for about 30 years, but feels the best way for 'Negroes to achieve equal opportunity is to "fight hard and legally and don't blow your top." France Ends Year With Nest Egg PARIS is ending the year with a healthy $2.1 billion in gold and foreign currency holdings. This nest egg has been built up from almost zero two years ago wheji President Charles dc Qaulle returned to power and the French recovery started. Weather Forecast: Cloudy with some light snow flurries north portion and near Lake Michigan today and cloudy with, a few light snow flurries near Lake Superior tonight.

Colder north portion today, continued cold Sunday. Highs today near 15 extreme northwest to Jower 30s southeast. Lows tonight zero to 5 biglow extreme northwest to 12-18 southeast. Rhinelinder Weather: Friday's temperature range was from a low of 12 to a high of 31 degrees, with $ie 5 p.m. reading being 27; overnight the lowest reading was 13, and at 7 a.m.

today it was still 13. "Hiere was a trace of precipitation Friday as a result of light snowfall, Weather One Year Temperature range, from a low of 5 to a high of 28 degrees; no precipitation, but fog was recorded. Second Nuclear Sub Gees Underwater CHARLESTON, S. C. nuclear powered and nuclear- armed submarine Patrick Henry is sliding silently beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean today, ready to launch her powerful Polaris missiles at any aggressor.

The big sub was sent to sea on a war-ready basis Friday, joining her sister sub, the George Washington, and doubling this nation's striking power from undersea launching sites. Strife-Wracked Belgium Fears New Violence BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) Belgians today uneasily awaited the new year, feeling it would bring new violence to the nation torn by strikes and political squabbling. The strikes and violence whic have raged for 12 days throughou Belgium showed signs of easing during the holiday, but the political differences remain a large as ever. The first week of the new yea brings several events officials fea could spark new violence. Premier Gaston Eyskens goe before Parliament Tuesday in an effort to ram through the govern ment's controversial economic re form program of his Catholic-Lib eral government over bitter So cialist opposition.

Socialist leaders have sched uled huge demonstrations and walkouts for Wednesday in Brus sels and Antwerp. The bloodiest fighting yet broke out in Brussels Friday. An order ly demonstration turned into sprawling brawl with 3,000 rioters armed, with stones and clubs pit ted against mounted police wield ing sabers. One man was killed and 12 persons were injured. Strikers and police also clashed throughout the industrial at Mons, Couillet, Marcinelle, ant at the northern port of Antwerp Cobblestones were thrown a homes of workers who refused to join the strike.

Eyskens charged the strikers with insurrection. He said Com munists were behind the violen opposition to his program to offset Belgian losses in the Congo The program calls for cuts in social services as well as higher taxes. King Baudouin, his honeymoon in Spain cut short, called in Socialist party President Leo Collard to discuss the walkout that paralyzed the industrial south. Murder Suspect Ordered Observed Wounded, Carries Wife's Dead Body, Claims Ambush HUDSON (AP) Sidney J. Stamper, a 33-year-old man who remarried his first wife while facing first degree murder charges the death of his second, Friday was committed to Central State Hospital for observation to determine whether he is competent to stand trial.

The 30-day observation period was ordered by Circuit Judge Bruce Beilfuss. Stamper is accused of slaying his second wife, Dorothy, Oct. 9. She was pregnant. Authorities said Stamper shot he former New Richmond girl, whom he married four months earlier, during an automobile ride.

Phey said he pushed her body out of the car and then fired four rtore shots into it. He was pur- ued and caught by a party of duck hunters who witnessed the laying. Stamper was remarried Wednesday to his first wife, Doores, of St. Paul, Minn. The eremony was arranged by au- horities at Stillwater, Minn-.

They jad been divorced a few days ore he married Dorothy. 13 Children Die Under Landslide BOMBAY, i dj a (AP) een children were killed in a andslide in Sural Friday. A hill- ck of yellow earth was being dug by peasants who plaster the walls of their mud huts with it. Tons of earth buried 16 children playihg nearby. Only three were saved.

MENOMINEE, Mich. (AP) A young Milwaukee man wounded in the shoulder though apparently unaware of brought, the bullet body of his wife to a Menominee hospital early today and told authorities they were anv bushed while to Escanaba for a holiday visit. Mrs. Mary Jane Degnan, 21, was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Joseph-Lloyd Hospital.

She had been shot, apparently with a .38 caliber pistol behind the left car. The bullet lodged in the check. Her husband, Robert, 23, of Milwaukee, had a bullet wound in the left shoulder. Hospital attendants discovered the wound as they prepared to treat him for shock. The Degnans had b.cen married only four months.

Both are from Escanaba although they had been residing in Milwaukee. Mrs. Degnan's father is Michigan state plumbing inspector. Degnan's story, as related to Sheriff Ed Reindl, was as follows: His wife was driving and he was dozing in the back seat. Degnan felt the car slow down about a mile and a half north of Menominee on U.S.

Highway 41. He woke up just as the car stopped, and he saw another car ahead of them. A large man about six feet tall and wearing a red jacket approached the car from his wife's Mde. His wife rolled down the window and the stranger told them there had been an accident up ahead. Robert started to crawl over the front seat and as he did so heard what he thought was a firecracker.

He felt himself falling, then noticed his wife slumped over in the seat. The stranger started to run away. The man got into an old model car and fled. Degnan drove to the Peru Breaks Off Ties with Cuba; Others May Follow By The Associated Press Peru broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba jn a move that diplomats say may trigger off a mass by Latin American governments to isolate the Fidel Castro regime. Growing anger among leaders of hemispheric neighbors was evident over the activities of Cuban agents charged with spreading revolutionary propaganda among the masses.

Uruguayan President Benito Marrone told an interviewer Friday night that his government may expel the Cuban ambassador in Montevideo and cut all ties with Havana. Others May Follow. There was speculation among diplomats in Lima that Columbia, Venezuela and Chile may follow suit and freeze out Castro agents. A petition was being circulated in Panama appealing to President Roberto Chiari to break diplomatic and trade relations with Cuba. Five other Latin American Haiti, Nicaragua, Paraguay and the Dominican Republic have withdrawn their top diplomats from Havana.

The Peruvian government accused the Cuban Embassy with evident interference" in Peru's internal affairs by handing out Communist revolutionary propaganda among other acts. In one of the strongest denunciations of Castro's regime by a South American government, Peru declared, "The foreign affairs policy of the current Cuban government violates all standards of international law." Cites Church Attack. Havana was charged with subsidizing subversive agents to incite "destruction, of the legally constituted authority of public powers, those of the Catholic Church and of the armed forces." The Cuban charge d'affaires was ordered to get out of Peru Three Killed Near Neenah in Headon Crash; Heavy Toll in Nation Foreseen; Care Urged hospital in Menominee. Sheriff Reindl said the couple apparently had not been robbed. State Airlines Have Big Gains MADISON airline industry in Wisconsin showed gains in passenger, mail and cargo during 1960, the State Aeronautics said Friday.

An increase of 10.7 per cent was registered in passenger' travel with 568,522 travelers compared with 513,723 in 1959. Air mail was up 32 per cent with 1,447 tons compared with 1,098 tons last year. Air cargo rose to 5,164 tons, a boost of 29 per cent, compared with 4,004 tons in 1959, In each case the agency said, the figure was higher than the national average. The heaviest passenger travel was recorded in Milwaukee, with Madison second and Oshkosh third. he embersf staff.

Peruvian Primd 'Minister TPedro Beltran's newspaper La Prensa said that Cuba had been spending $20,000 a month in Peru to foment a pro-Castro revolution. Opposition against Castro was reported hardening inside Cuba itself. A clandestine radio Friday night denounced his regime in a broadcast the announcer said was coming from "somewhere in the free territory of Cuba." Underground sources had put out word of the impending broadcast and it carne on right on schedule at 9 p. m. with a 15- minute-long manifesto calling for "unity in the struggle for freedom." Fidel Castro showed no outward concern.

The prime minister planned big New Year's supper dance and foreigners thousands of including about 400 see the "glorious achievements" of his revolution. The midnight celebration will be held in Camp suburban Havana military outpos.t from where two years ago on New Year's Day deposed dictator Fulgencio Batista fled into exile. Multiple Deaths Give Grim Boost To Rising Toll By The Associated Press Traffic 38 Fires 7 Miscellaneous 5 Total 50 Multiple fatalities, including seven in one accident, gave a grim boost to the number of traffic deaths in the early hours of the long New Year's weekend. A young mother and her two babies were among the seven persons killed In a shattering two- car crash on a rain-slicked highway near Alamogordo, N.M. Two- other persons were critically injured.

In other multiple fatalities, three young persons died in a two- car crash in Wisconsin and two sisters were killed in an accident near Bethesda, Md. In all, 38 persons were killed on the nation's highways since the count began at 6 p. m. Friday. Seven others died in fires, and five in miscellaneous accidents for a total of 50.

The 78-hour holiday period extends, until midnight Monday. The National Safety Council estimated 340 persons might be milled during the period and safer ty campaigners pleaded for caution by travelers and holiday revelers. Restaurant concessionaries along a number of highways offered free coffee to motorists. Police were on special alert in many -communities and in some were directed to transport overly happy revelers to their homes rather than let them risk driving. The weather added a foreboding note for many sections of the country with forecasts of snow or freezing rain or drizzle.

During a similar three-day period over the Christmas holiday, 488 deaths were counted in traffic accidents. Just a year ago, a record number of deaths for a three-day New Year's weekend were counted with 374 in traffic, 63 in fires and 76 in miscellaneous accidents for a total of 513. Beloit Appoints New City Manager BELOIT H. Calland was appointed by the City Council Friday as Beloit's manager to suceed the late D. Telfer.

Calland, a member of city government in various positions for 14 years, had been acting city manager since Telfer's death Oct. 2. FATHER SURVIVES Able Vosburgh, 63, is led from scene by a married daughter after his farmhouse burned and his wife and 11 children perished. Vosburgh suffered shock and burns. Tragedy occurred in Noyan, area, which is 50 miles south of Montreal.

Daughter is Mrs. W. Maybce, of Grand Line, Que. A son also survived because he was visiting neighbors. (AP Wirephoto) Anxiety, Hope Seen as Peoples of World View New Year; Bitter Conflicts Rage NEW YORK tonight the hands of the clock will merge precisely.

Midnight! Time, as measured by man, will die for a flashing instant. And instantly it will be reborn. The year 1960 ends; 1961 begins. But time, in this brief void, cannot be measured by man as he would measure a meadow in Nor as he would measure in miles. Time, in this instant, is a heart- jeat and can be found in the learts of heavy with anguish, some light with hope.

Pope John XXIH, at his special Year's audience for diplomats, spoke of the anxiety in his leart. But he also said he was search- ng on the dawn of this new year 'to find in the uncertainty of an agitated world, some glimmer iromising serenity." As the 79-year-old head of the toman Catholic Church spoke, here was anguish and strife on iiree continents. Despite the "little black spots ibturping the horizon" the pon- iff said he hoped 1961 would be year "of spiritual renewment and of harmony between heaven and earth." Fighting Is Bitter. As the old year came to a close, man fought man on the continents of Eurqpe, Asia and Africa. In Asia, it was the blood bath in Laos.

In Europe, it was rioting in Belgium. In Africa, it was war between opposing 'factions in the Congo, and racial tension further to the south. So, on the first day of the new year, the head of the world's peace organization, United Nations Secretary-General Dag Ham- marskjold, will be flying to some of these trouble spots, seeking peace. Hainmarskjold will talk with Congo President Joseph Kasavubu in an effort to avoid possible civil war between followers of Kasa- vubu and his leading rival, Patrice Lumumba, former Congolese premier now imprisoned by Kasa- vubu's army. Then Hammarskjold will journey to South Africa to discuss steps aimed at easing the tension caused by South Africa's racial segregation policies.

Will Visit Nasser. Hammarskjold also will visit Gamal Abdel Nasser, president of the United Arab Republic, and Prime Minister Nehru of India. The role of the United Nations was a matter of serious concern meanwhile in New Zealand, a South Pacific nation always sensitive to events in Asia. In his New Year message, New Zealand Prime Minister Keith Holyoake said there were some hopeful signs for the future of the United Nations despite the 1960 attacks which threatened its existence. For New Zealand, as for all small countries, Holyoake said, attempts to undermine the strength and authority of the U.N.

must cause the most serious concern. In Asia, Holyoake said, the most immediate danger was the trouble there, the prime minister said, could present New Zealand with an important and difficult decision. On the home front, 19C1 promised to be an eventful year for Americans. On Jan. 20, a new president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, will assume the heavy cares of the free Western world.

President Dwighl D. Eisenhower on that day will retire from eight years of the same heavy cares, a period of constant world turmoil. Government economists closed their books on the old year and expressed cautious optimism about the new, They said they expected the American economy to pick up no later than spring although unemployment was likely to continue heavy for the next few months. Invasion of Laos By Communists Is Reported, Doubted VIENTIANE, Laos mier Boun Oum's pro-Western government announced today seven Communist North Vietnamese battalions supported by artillery had invaded northeast Laos and were attacking the town o'f Non get. Prince Boun's office said his Southeast Asian kingdom, which the United States- supports with military and financial aid, "reserves the right to appeal to friendly countries" if the invasion is not halted.

Word of the attack came in intelligence reports from the commander of the mountainous second military region, the government said. (In New York, United (Nations officials said the Laotian delegate, Sisouk Na Champasak, called on Secretary-General Dag Hammar- skjold to discuss the situation. A spokesman said no request was made for U.N, intervention. (In Singapore, a British diplomatic source said information received there' did not indicate any' invasion of Laos had taken place. "Our information indicates these reports should be discounted," the source saidJ.

Bad Ballasting Caused Breakup? NORFOLK Va. A Norwegian skipper who watched from his bridge as the tanker Pint' Ridgo broke up said he believed ballast amidships probably contributed to the disaster. Capt. Lars Farstad of the tanker Artemis expressed that opinion in a written statement introduced into Friday's Coast Guard inquiry. The Ridge brokf up in heavy seas Dec.

21 off Capu Hatteras, N.C., with the loss of seven lives, including the; captain and Raymond Brazner, 33, whose parents arc Green Bay Wi.s. Residents. In other testimony Friday the manager of maintenance and repair for Keystone Shipping Co. said the ship's hull and bulkheads were inspected and repaired in October and November. Statements from the crew previously alleged tluTi 1 were large holes in cargo tank bulkheads.

The Coast Guard inquiry will hear more testimony Tuesday. 'Croppers Relax As Court Orders Forbid Evictions SOMERVIiLLE, Tenn. (AP)Some 700 Negro sharecroppers in this rural area relaxed today behind a shield of temporary federal barring their evic- court orders tion. The Justice Department won the preliminary victory in its historic first test of a section of the 1957 Civil Rights Act which bars intimidation or coercion of potential voters. Negro leaders here in Fayette County and in adjoining Haywood hailed the two court rulings with delight but cautiously declined to predict the future.

The big legal tests are yet to come. The government has civil suits against landowners, merchants and bankers in both counties charging organized economic pressure against Negroes who register to vote. The effect of the temporary orders is to stay eviction notices until trial is held. No date has been Some lawyers feel the trials may plow new legal ground. Ii seemK certain that the issue of property rights will loom large in the arguments.

The Justice Department contended that the eviction notices were part of an economic drive against Negro voters. Over 60 per cent of the population in the two counties is Negro. The defense said the notices were simply the result of farm mechanization which reduced the need for human hands. The rulings took the pressure off the Fayette County Civic- and Welfare League, which was struggling to set up a tent city lor evicted Negroes, The league, which the drive to reigster Negro voters, planned to erect enough tents to shelter 300 families in a "freedom village." Thus far the village is just a straggling linu of 11 family sized tents pitched on a Negro leader's farm. No Edition of News Monday Because Monday, Jan.

2, will be observed as a legal holiday since New Year's Day falls on Sunday, there will be no edition of The Daily News Monday, The next edition of this newspaper will appear Tuesday, Jan. 3, 1961. Three Men Die Near Madison as Car Hits Pole By The Associated Press The deaths of nine persons three since the start of the New Year Holiday weekend have raised Wisconsin's 1960 highway toll to 913 compared with 821 on this same day last year. Two accidents Friday each claimed three lives. The grim count holiday deaths began at 6 p.m.

Friday and ends at midnight Monday. Eight persons died during the New Year Holiday last year. Kay Spiegelberg, 19, Route 2, Neenah; Ruth Ann Schultz, 19, Route 1, Neenah, and William Tiffany, 22, Menasha, were the first victims of the holiday period. They were killed Friday nigh) when two cars collided headon a mile west of Neenah on a Highway 114 curve. The women were in one car and Tiffany in the other.

Car Hits Utility Pole. Accidents which occurred prior to 6 p.m. Friday included: Robert Briscoe, 32, Portage, the driver; Aaron 'Tatu, 45, rural Camp Douglas, and John Gilbert, 43, Rio, were killed Friday when their automobile went out of control on Highway 73 about 12 miles east of Madison, crossed the highway, glanced off a tree and struck a utility pole. The fourth man in the car, Robert Larsen, also of Camp Douglas, was treated at a hospital and. released, Authorities said the men worked for the Milwaukee Road at Roundout, and were heading home for the holiday.

Mrs. William Bohl, about of Sparta, was killed Friday in a two-car crash on Highway 71 about five miles southeast of Sparta. Authorities said bales of hay apparently fell from a truck and were hit by one of the automobiles and caused it to go out of control. Five other persons were injured. Taken to a Sparta hospital were Mrs.

Virgil Bohl 26, Sparta, and her son, Wayne, Otto Schroeder, 65; Frank Mitchell, about 65, and Mrs. Hugh Evans, 60, all of Kendall. None were seriously hurt. Wayne R. Schmidt, 27, rural Beaver Dam, was killed Friday when his car was struck by a Chicago and North Western Railroad passenger train at Lowell in Dodge County.

He was alone in the car. The train was delayed for about an hour. Mrs. Harold Wisco, 39, of Waldwick in Iowa County, was killed Friday when a car she was driving and a truck collided at the intersection of two town roads near Waldwick. Her son, Harry, 13; her mother, Mrs, Dean Van Matre of Fayette, and Duwayne Johnson, 22, Blanchardville, the truck driver were Hospitalized at Dodgeville.

The extent of their injuries was not known. Wife Abductor Is Taken After Chase RED WJNG, Minn. Sherbourne, 41, Albert Lea, sought in the abduction of his wife, was captured by iff's officers early today as he fled from a roadhouse. His wife, Caroline, 21, disclosed Shcrbourn's identity as she got out of their car and went to a restroom in the Wagon Wheel Cafe. at Zumbrota, a small community .25 miles south of here.

Sherbourn, armed with a revolver, was captured after a high speed chase, "You go home and pray, you only had a one second drop on me," Sherboum told the arresting officer who cornered him on a dead end road, near Zumbrota. Sherbourn, who had broken out of jail at Water town, S.D. a week ago while being held on a bad 1 cheek charge, abducted his estranged wife at gunpoint Wednesday night at a cafe near Blairsburg, Iowa, where she was employed..