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GAZETTE -MAIL Virginia, January 14, 1962 96 6 Secttooa-- 20 CITY I I THE OUTLOOK Sunday cloadiiMM but moetly fair and warmer. Highest in the upper Sta and lower 40s. Weather Data on page 10A. It I fvi r' t. I vv A i.

A t) VV 0 0 i Storm Slams Rockies South Counfs Crop Losses in Millions By The Associated Press A new major snowstorm sprang up in the Rocky Mountains Saturday while the frost-bitten counted crop losses in the millions. The storm, heading for the Central Plains, prompted warnings of four inches or more of now for most of North Dakota and for parts of Kansas and Nebraska. The Weather Bnrean also warned that northerly wteds of to BLpJi. wffl blow aad drift snow In near kttsxard een- diUons over a large area of the Northern Plains. Snow ranging from 1 to 7 inches niled UD in the valleys of southern Idaho, northern Nevada and western Utah.

Winds with gusts up to 63 m.p.h. hit Topeka, Kan. SOME AREAS in the path of the new onslaught still were under heavy white blankets from last week's storm. The waves of cold. sleet and snow that began to roll eastward to the Atlantic at that time resulted in more than ISO deaths.

Relief was in sight for the shivering South, but it was stung again by harsh cold early Saturday. Tetnperstares shfllvctea below the frmtag level ta the lever Rio Grande Valley ta Texas for the fourth straight night. The rHnM industry te (hat area Us losses at Stt naMan. Damage te vegetables aa4 te cttnn trees was expected te CONGO, GIZENGA FORCES FIGHT STANLEYVILLE NAGGING COLD RELIEVED Cold weather effects on the Elk and the horse were observed in West Virginia Saturday. In the case of the Elk (river) at Charleston, a riverboat cleared a clean path through surface ice.

The horse, a resident of Huntington, resorted to a muffler which wanned his head but did little for his ears. (Horse Photo transmitted by Associated Press, Elk Photo by Noel Beard of the Sunday Gazette-Mail staff). Arms Showdown Seems at Hand LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo-- W-- Fighting erupted in Stanleyville Saturday between the Congo army and the forces of leftist Antoine Gizenga. A U.N. spokesman said 17 soldiers had been killed in the outbreak-- on Gizenga's side, six on the side of Gen.

Victor Lun- dula, the government commander in the Oriental Province capital, and three more Gizenga men, apparently when they attempted to desert to Lundula. The fighting brought orders! from the Congo government thatiP remier Congo. At first military showdown with defiant Deputy Premier Gizenga. Premier Cyrille Adoula's Cab- Lundula has been cooperating with the central government and; has told visitors he would arrest inet in Leopoldville ordered Lun-j Gizenga if given the order by the dula to "take all necessary to restore order" after Gizenga Gizenga accepted the job of was said to have attempted to'deputy premier last August and leave Stanleyville earlier in the formally disbanded his rival regime, but has spent only three weeks in Leopoldville, preferring the isolation of Stanleyville. Since October he has defied attempts by both government and Parliament to get him to return to Leopoldville.

UNIQUE HUMOR Ernie Kovacs Killed in Crash AP Wirtphotot S.t. end additional nonet appear on ImmoknlM. fanainf socttea southwest of Big Lake in had a low of 27 accompanied by! scattered frost and thin ice. Some! ice was reported in cabbages and on the leaves of radishes. Tallahassee's 14 was the coldest recorded there since Feb.

U. 1899. The thermometer registered 39 at 8 a at the Miami International Airport. WARREN 0. JOHNSON, head of the federal-state Frost Warning Sen-ice at Lakeland.

said damage to citrus was slight and I occurred only in the coldest spots. 1 LOS comedian Er-, There was slight damage to Kovacs, a gentle, quiet man whose unique humor i amused and sometimes puzzled millions, was killed Sat-j i urday in a traffic accident. Kovacs. the moustachioed he nave travelin 2 a Hungarian tavern owner, would have been 43 Jan. 23 Police said Kovacs was killed when his station wagon skidded across a wet pavement a half-! block from the Beverly Hilton Ho-! tel and careened into a power; i pole, shortly before 2 a onj Push Is JNear BIvd in West Us Kevacs te a baby of Kovacs' closest friends.

shower te honor of comedian ac 0 Jack Lemmon. went to the Milton Berk's wife. Kovacs and county morgue several hours his wife, actress Edie later to make a positive identifi- Adams, had left the party, at cation. the home of director Billy Wild- Friends said Kovacs had been: er, ta separate ears. usual happy-go-lucky self at Miss Adams, unaware that her th shower-attended by about 20 husband had been in a crash, Ipersons.

Guests included the drove on to their $600,000 Bel Martins Kirk Douglases mansion. She learned afterward, i French entertainer Yves Montand from the Billy Wilders. that Ko- and Lucille Ball and her new hus- day. Lendula's troops preveated his leaving, the reports said. and Ghmga's then attempted to arrest Lnrfela bet were arc vented by the larger Leadala force, laneala was repotted te have arrested fear of A MOTION of censure in Parlia-, A U.N.

spokesman expressed caM to lifting world body's full support of his immunity from arrest, was! Lundula in efforts to quell Gizen- introduced Yriday but it is not to gas forces. debated until Monday. (A spokesman at U.N. head-j quarters in New York said Acting Secretary Genera! Tfcant had' issued instructions to U.N. forces in the Congo to "exert all possible IRON HORSE, MOOSE MEET; ITS A DRAW ASHTON, --A big black moose fought a draw with an iron horse Saturday, then wandered off to timber land.

The train was chugging through snow- covered in eastern Idaho when the engineer, a H. Buffalo, spotted the animal. It was standing in the middle of the track banks of a deep cut of snow. The train stopped. The moose charged the diesel engine, slashing several times with its front hooves.

Then it backed off and butted the machine several blows. The moose ended the match by lumbering away. laeaga INDIGNANT WOMAN TAKES'JUNK HANDS PALO ALTO. Calif. -Postmaster General J.

Edward Day is going to get 400 pounds of mail soon--trucked to him across country from a Palo Alto housevife who got so much "junk mail" that she saw red. 'Gag' Reply Drafted By rejected a de- earuerthJs Uutbereten to LcopoU- withte hoars, aad then -TM- oaBOWnf fcwt aWt BO tlllM? 'efforts to restore and maintain fun fof fen law and order and was reported to have his order after receiving a quest from the central government. Pro-TrujilJo Coup Foiled DOMWC i in quality. But winter began moving out of Florida under bright sunshine and of gradually shifting winds. Laos Accord By Jack Raymond 1H3 TM Ntw Yort Tkntt Co.

WASHINGTON Faced i It all started when Mrs. Senate hearings on military "muz- Robert Richard voiced her in- zling" charges that were dignation over the rate mails. She invited Palo Altoans to Pentagon's rights to censor her speeches and articles by military low bulk fied Saturday, defense officials arc planning to stand firm on the Gizenga without di- Republic-tfv-Thc armed forces rect authority from the govern- Saturday claimed to have iment. ed a plot by navy officers to over' Gizenga was reported to have (he coundl GIZENGA WAS reported to have sought U. N.

protection in Stan-, only a company of about 300 but N. headquarters insta11 regmie. in his bodyguard surrounding his 1 (Please Tarn te Page 10A CoL 1)' A brW eenMinnlejne gave no residence at Stanlewille. th reported plot agaiast the provliioaal council. i which took office New Year's i Day.

It was created te dear the way for elections aad a new government for this nation i after 31 years of TraJUte die- was "Ported to on of wtaUon in Stanleyville. By Max Fraakd York Tlnwi Co. WASHINGTON--W. Averetl Har riman is en route to Geneva by plane to help push the three feuding princes of Laos into one of the most unusual cold-war ar rangemente ever devised by the big powers of East and West Harriman. who at the age of 71 begiaaiag a aew career as assistant secretary of state far Far Eastern affairs, hopes to resane what he regards aa aa extremely fraak ralattoaship with his Soviet caoterpart, Georgl M.

Pnhkte. Together over the past year they have worked out a deal for the small BvddhM cenatry of two mUboa hy which each side expects to vest the good faHa of the ether. In effect, the Soviet Union, as Communist co-chairman of the international Laos conference, has posted limit in I how much, we faster than the that area. don't know." The impact was so great that the left side of the wagon was caved ia. One door oa the passenger side had keen ten open Kovacs lay across the board, his head aad upper outside the right front dump their junk mail at home.

men. They left more than 6.000 The civilian high command also pieces. will call attention to plans for "Really unbelievable," says new procedures and policies in The United Nations also has of Ethiopians in Stanley-l ville and has another battalion that could be sent in. Adoula denied earlier reports from authoritative sources that Mrs. Richard, president of troop Palo Alto's Republican Women's Club.

It will cost 10 per 100 pounds to ship the stuff. But she hopes thereby to stir up a fuss which will result in action against what she calls "junk mail." indoctrination, including vacs had been killed. At first she refused to believe her husband of nine years was dead. She was Sukarno Hints Slight Retreat Honeymoon jTrip Ended, He's Jailed tatorship. The navy chief of staff.

Rear Adm. Enrique VaWez Vidaurre, told reporters, authorities had ar- KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Uncle the Cabinet had ordered Lundula Sam doesn't object to marriage, i listed men. He declined to identify to arrest Gizenga. basic infraction in the threat of communism in various forms.

Aware of charges that the Administration may have been "soft on communism," the Pentagon officials will outline steps that they already have taken te provide materials oa this subject for Iroop lafemattea and Adoula, in making his denial, education. said the question of an arrest had Sen. Strom Thurmond D-SO is- been discussed by the Cab- sued Saturday a lengthy writtenjjnet because Gizenga still has attack on the Pentagon's public parliamentary immunity. affairs policies in the form of ar-j Gizenga set up a rival regime The dealal was takea with a grata of salt by some diatamate here after govenmeat toarces had said Laadala night decide that the best way to carry oat his orders to ratore order woaM he to place the leftist leader aa- a Maiden. W.

man and hisj Political opposition sources im- bride of four days learned here mediately denounced the reported Saturday. He just doesn't want to pay for the honeymoon. Kaozviue city police Det. John Eubank said 34-year-old Robert T. Coleman was beteg held for postal Inspectors in the Kaex County Jail here after be allegedly admitted passing a money order stolen last month plot as a sham.

They charged it was a maneuver by the armed forces chief. Gen. Pedro Rodriguez Echavarria. to keep himself and President Joaquin Balaguef in power. THE ARMED FORCES from the MaMea Post Office.

And Coleman and his bride. band, comedian Gary Morton. cers planned to overthrow the gov emment and install a regime vorable to the Trujillos now living titles available to all news media. Stanleyville after the slaying of Boley Coksman, about The articles constituted, in ef-iLumumba and. with Soviet bloc also admitted passing other, feet, a summary of the charges; backing, claimed for many money orders in Tennessee.

OhioJ prompted the investigation. months he was the rightful Maryland and West Virginia since i Br BOGOR. Indonesia AP-Pres- headed by Sen. John M. Sienms.j i honeymoon began special Armed CHARLESTONS: Both were arrested Friday after; celvaMe pretexts" to stay ta vacs probably died at the instant of impact--his small station wag- need a script--it was bested optimism.

on was wrapped around the pole Just to give him a minute's warn-1 Sukarno met at his summer --and apparently death was caused by a basal skull fracture. Traffic policeman John Belt freund told newsmen: ing and let him On TV, his sometimes puzzled; sponsors let him do pretty much! assumed responsibility for the good behavior of Communist na. Communist North Vietnam and! palace here with members the National Security Council. Later, one of his top military It appears" he pleased. His final TV spe advisors.

Brig. r.en. Armad icial. characteristic of his belief it uiked with reporters, in sight gags, pantomime and! jaai heads the West New visual tricks, was a show Guinea Operational Command British Girl Bares Political Acumen other members of its bloc. Britain.

BuiWing News 9C as the western co-chairman, has Business News IOC assumed a similar obligation for the United States, France and their military allies in the area, like Thailand. Classified 11C-15C HARRIMAN GOES to Geneva convinced that Moscow intends to keep its word. And as he has demonstrated over the past two weeks, he it prepared to apply even severe economic Mnetkms fttBfaMt the. U. S.

taMBMnd right- wing government of Prince Boun Oum to force him to accept the Columnists 12A, 13A Community News HB Current Affairs 3D Editorials 12A Education News 14A Fair and Mild 3A Home, Family 1B-IOB. I1B Jumbo Crossword 11B Magazine 1D-WD Obituaries 11C Page Opposite Priaa 13C Sport? Year Bridgework It got raves from the crit- iics. Said Kovacs: "There's too much talk en TV." that would direct any invasion of West New Guinea. Jani was asked about yean ago. he established such no- next move at the end of a 7 or It was hard to describe Kovacs brand of humor: NMistic.

improbable, iuogkal and somehow funny even when you couldn't understand why you laughed. "Such a possibility does not "It now depends on the outside world whether or not a peaceful settlement of the West Irian KOVACS grew up in Trenton N.J. He had to riock cem-UWeat New Guinea) dispute can (Ptoaae Ten te Pafs NA Col. DJbo achieved. CHKSHAM.

England -Green-eyed Elizabeth Mayo--the girl they call Daredevil Liz -did a striptease at a party Friday night and became the most notorious political leader in Britain. Gruff sounds of disapproval came from members of the Conservative Club in this Bucking- hamshire town. "It's a damn disgrace." said one retired cobnel. Mayo, tl-yoer-oU chair, of Chtahaml Tenac COB- es owned by the local Anglican Word of her exploit shocked strait-laced residents. The vicar.

Rev. Eric Arnold, announced he will hold an investigation of the incident. Daredevil Liz was unrepentant. "What a lot of fuss over a little striptease." she pouted. "This is just a narrow-minded little town, full of gossips.

I couldn't care less." oaac UX EXPLAINED what hap- a weeltny I te "I was the only girl at the party who was prepared te shed her clothes. It was simply a team game of charades. "I popped into a corridor and took all my clothes off. Then I passed them one by one into the room to a boy. "Of coume, our team won Partygoers explained later the charades fame turned into a contest to find which team could string the most items of clothing along a rope.

Miss Mayo's striptease gave her side a clear victory. Miaa Mayo's mother--wife of a naalbj bniiiweaman discs Just a ful or immoral in what my daughter did," she said. Last word from Liz, whose friends call her a daredevil: "I soppote yon could say that Chesham has its own dokre vita set. The young Conservatives here are jotlv lively erowd. "We're awfully keen on all sorts of things politics as well." The party was one of many held by the league to try and attract new members and raise money admission charges.

It was not ndniM was HOtfung at Friday night's function oat it was fairly certaM aew MB hers were attrajctanV JH.

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