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THURSDAY. AUG. 3. 1961 NEA In Berlin Labor Crisis Allies Lodge Protest HI IN (I IM) I'iii protf't with fh. cnmm taisi ms ttk Thr W( sfnr offi( i.il I (IV Cl Gri li'M n.

Ml. V. comni.ttid.iti' sent th' ni-t I ,1 (i with (i; that In pa I i- and Hritish OK upi-d I ity lu th- ii Soviot I ha' hi- iim nu Hi in rnmf'nt it' I'M'i ilin li'oc kadr davs G'T man and Communist 1 anti i ommiftcfs a been hat.r^msr Hcrlinfrs who live the Sovii't hut in Merlin I hp Western ommandant-- chai the riiv.sers fac eviction from tlit'ir homes, d' ni of for their and pol on them from travel to West lodav arni- on the hce's of strpped up Western YOUNGEST LARYNGECTOMEE Five-year-old Joanne Paderscn of Alcimeda who her larynx to cancer when she was three, has a reunion wWh her voice teacher, Mrs. Elsie McQueen, at the 10th annual mcetinq of the International Association of Laryngectomees in San Francisco. Joanne has learned to speak again by a substitute method usod by laryngectomees, of which she is the youngest in i world.

in nrrlin, whf're youth leader Woif- inke opened an army ro ru iampa to prepare for He called on "every healthy enlist the "peo armv" in (asf the W(-t trie-' to its way ac Ger many's afti-r a peare tri aiy is with the I he Communist youth rtuil demand th.it enlist for two or three years was ex- pi (ted to mcrease still more thr I ef ord flood of to West li'i squads of aided by un ts h.ilted pedestrians and 'eirihed buse- auto bui still the rcfuKees Handred- eluded the unprefe furity mi.i.^un^ and (fie aeroHs the l.ast-West Ihe refugee total for the I't two days of this month was 3.000 -ds of others were md sent home. Some re ar resti-d. app( the A tl h.ive to se.d almost every ri( of West border and -t (f) 11 tr.iffic to the ity put an end to flight of tho they control. said that the Red Jo not take stiff the exodus whirh thr of July could re to thousands daily Rf i.ees arriv ng in West He: i there was fear in ast (i- that if the Soviet Union 1 arr es out It-? threat to a pe ti treaty with ast ommunisi reuime this vear, it may off ihe West Berlin escape route Collection of inquent Taxes ID n) by bob Cantrell Mis lark, tv't kiit.v^n a he ni mK and pi play 11 111 ii ned I tk ini ii.iir the the I'MPI one of thi I I ex this Week of Mr Dur 1 .1 -In i .1 ut I 'lex- 'dlegt, iomni'f -f' I IS I. toi tru hility.

(. 11 yti w. named Miss Tawn- ilu' (nt'fiville Jayc'cs I I of the ti'iti i( (HV'fU' had the lU.nlumi beauty. vva n(-. Wayne Cranfill I 1 intiiiii' a trip down into the 1 1 plimii 1 ry today.

Ih' ol to lof)k ii; I 1 't ui and rotn hut the aid there were scmir 11 r't melon j)atche' in tl')t ai a li he had re iH 'ts th just Tiovv rilevale th' big Hlaek Dia- nd he said. No HMire was Jean Tnr- iiir- (omnu nt Wednesday niyht I ui bytills said they had Piore rails for the pups hud we One of the things of the current hot, dry spell is that it Ivis down the grass During the rains, the lawn glass grew just about us fast as could be mowed and there was liitle lime for rest around the Ihe ilry sfK'll has managed to slow down the grass to where one mowing a week wall keep it undei control. It also has brought about a need for waterng flower beds and yards to keep them looking nice and green. 28,000 Air Force Reservists Put On Federal Alert W.ASHINGTDN (UFMi prar- ally JS.OOO A I orre reservists put on alert are likely to b- to a-tiv; duty and many may be smt to I u'oju' in the fa the rlin the today a- the 'tration I military power a tl of I With th( I nion ovt Berl and other 1 ast- Wf-Nt I'. nu If Ru- a should 'ign a pcace treaty with I a-t later this ye.ir and a kade Ber; n.

A F'orfi un.ts loom large in pres, nt planning for supplying the free Western portion of the ('ty i hey may be ordered to operate tanspiirts ui and to fly escort w.th their jet fighter pl.ines West Berlin, which lies lUI miles inside Communist 1 (ieim.mv The Air I orce notified 71 Guard arnl units on I uesday that they had been )-iven priority for recall to activt? Ihe word in today was that the 2H.000 mtm involved should put their affairs in order and i to be It was still however, that some might not be summoned to federal service. 1 he 71 units include 29 fighter and squadrons which eould be sent to F.urope to bolster the more than gular Force squadrons already stationed there. Continues Gain Tollection of delinquent taxes ontmuec to show a steady gain. Fletcher, county tux lo! lector, reports. Fletcher said collections during July amounted to $6,520 75, the argest amount paid the coll-ction campaign was started early this ar.

in July ranged from a low of 99 cents up a high of tax collector said A number of suits to collect deli nqui-nt taxes have filed by Homer aston, who was employed by the ountv aN a tax attoiney early thi rU b- "-aid that the payment of taxes starti'd picking up after rs were written persons who were listed on tax as being behind with their tax pavmentii "Since a number of suits have filed, the have continued to gain the tax "Those who sued are hurrying to pay their taxes before they find named in a tax JFK Kept Informed Of Developments In Jet Hijacking Congressman Calls For Stiff Action By United States WASHINGION (I'PI R.ilph Yarliorough, I) today called for the dt penalty for plane j.if kers He urged t'nited Sf.ites to give Tuba' id(- hour, to return a cap- 'i or f.ii a strict embargo md of all the island Ihe pi-iip of the States h.ivi* b( Vi rv patient with Mr. i omm.in St Yarbo rouL'h s.nd, hut p.it'en-:f to be a Virtue when it rT.i-i: nternational raiy WASHING (I Pte dent Kennedy w.is kept fully ad vised tod.iv of the hijacking of a rimes jetlmer by team armed at FI Tix. Press Mtarv Salinger said Najeeb aicihy, administrator of the I i deral Aviation Ageney ind the I BI kept the i hief executive up to on the itu ident. The St.ite Depirtment waited to learn the fu I (ff the hijacking befiJie dr( iding what action to take. -rn a conL'res man de- that Kennedy 11 ('uban Idei to return ked air- end the the mighty States to just 'it ba- Rep Fdgar a ked Kennedy A manded arv)ther liner or "Is goiniJ Hijackers Free Plane Hostages at ii.f.

Officers Tires to and do nothm Hiestand a tele.ifram Hiestand the hijacking incident vs as re.ison to take on. Hut now. in th li.i^ht of a he -aid "the to you et QLi'i youngsters' interest newspapenng to a pipsqu' ik and call a halt to 1 al ki "i a sports pages, Wayne became proprietor of the News because I continuing aces by ij i-i a nrt Cub I just wanted to see what it would be like to be an editor. I YOUNG EDITOR Wayne Haney, a 15-year-old high school sophomore, is editor and publisher, advertising manager, circulation manag- he is open and typist of the Princeton, News. At an age when most lit P'aying patsy in newspaperinq runs more toward the comics The aviation subcommittee will open hearings Friday on a bill to puni airpl ane hijackers and of violence in the Cha rman k.

S. Monroney, Okla said tho -e to be heard will include the Aviation on, thf Air Transport and any other interested 3 (NEA jad talkini house state laws the HONORS WASHINGTON President Kennedy has proclaimed the week be.ginning Oct. 1 as ntitional F.mploy the Physically Handi- cappt'd Week. Warm Weather Will Continue in Area Higher Bus Fares Get Final Okay AUSTIN state Rail road Commission authorized the first increase in mtercity lex.ts bus fare, since It approved a five per ent higher rate between most point: and set the effective date for Aug 10. The i'ommisnon, however, omitted from the higher rates bus lines serving military per.sonnel around the lort I area, the D.illas Fort WOrth fare, and some bus service in the Rio Grande Valley.

The Valley rates will st.iV the town.s served by the Union Lines and the (iiillev Transit System. There w.is no opposition to the higher rates at a public heann'j held by the commission la.t Bonhamites had a promise from the U. S. Weather Bureau today that warm, dry weather will con tinue through the weekend. Bonham recorded its highest reading of the summer season Wednesday afterrHKin when temperature soared to 97 The previous high had been 9(i The weather bureau that the present hot spell may be expected to last for the next four to five days with little or no precipitation.

Any precipitation will be in the form of light to locally heavy Stattered thundershowers NORTH CKNIRAL TFXAS Generally fair and warm through F- riday. In Swiss Accident 16 American Tourists Die in Shattered Bus Paso Shoot Off Halt Flight EL PASO, (UPI) Four hijackers and their 10 hostages aboard a grounded Continental Airline jetliner left the plane. Federal authorities and police through the $5 million aircraft to take control of it. FBI agent Francis E. Crosby, who had boarded the plane before the surrender gave two hostages a signal and thay jumped' two hi- jacliers, the Teias State Department of Public Safety saia.

One of the hiiackers was identified as David Baardon of Collidge, Ariz The hiiacker fired one shot from a pistol through the floor of olane. Several persons were "roughed during tha scuffla in fha plane, but there were no serious casualfiM. EL PASO, Four man hMcltcd a $5 million Continental Airlines Boeing 707 jet plana 73 persons on board today and ordered the pilot to fly it to Havana, wifH 10 hostages. They were stopped by 15 border patrolman and FBI agents, who ran under the wings and fusalaga and shot out the tires and ona jet engine as the pilot, with a gun his head, was beginning a tace- off. The Teias Department of Public Safety was not sura whether hijackers are Cubin citizens.

A DPS spokesman said two of them are a 51 year-old man and his 17-year-old son, Anglo-Saions who liva in California. Hysterical Rough Spots Being Smoothed Out The rou.gh were moved from several ks in North Center street Thur day morning. F.mployees of the maintenance of the Texas Department were doing the work The street was being converted into a one-way street as was completed on one side at time. North Center street is the of State Highway 7S north and south through the city. 90C May Attend REA Meeting Scheduled Monday Persons who refuse to give up a telephone in an emergency can face under now'.

A nK'asure passed by last tegular session of the Texas Ligislalure sets a fine from $23 to $500 and or up to one month in for the person convicted of while their neighbors down or their child glows worse because they can't get the phone to call the fire de- ivirtmint or dtK'tor. Prior lo the possnge of the public opinon was the rnly meunn of punishment. burns Upwards of 900 members of the Fannin County Rural Idectrifica- tion Co-Operative are to attend the annual membership meeting in Bonham Monday, Aug. 7, W- Cunningham, manager, said Thursday. Members will hear the report of the president, l-'d Dockery of Trenton, and Cunningham, as manager, and from three districts will elect members of the board of directors.

DavenixKt of Austin, assistant to the manager of Texas Co ops, will be the principal 1 speaker ior the meeting which will be held in the American Theatre beginning at 2 p. m. Directors will be elected from Districts 1, 5 and 6, Cunningham said. Candidates for the posts on the board are D. Coston, incumbent, and S- L.

Todd, District Ildward Dockery, incumbent, and Grady Kid well. District 5, a G. W. Clark. incumbent, and l.aron D.

Sheppard, District 6. The six candidates for the three posts on the board were named l)y nominating committee for the meeting. Cunningham said that 30 door prize.s would be distributed to the members during the afternoon's meeting. The Fannin county RE.A serve customers in Fannin, Grayson Collin and Hunt counties and maintains its headquarters in Bon ham. are expecting between 600 and iK)0 persons at the annual membership meeting Monday aft Cunningham said "Many will come into Bonham bo fore and spend the entii day Cunningham said that the re ports would include a review of the past year and plans for Ihi' comuiij LUCF.RNF, Switzerland (UPI) tra tj guide Han- Gut today credited the sun roof of a bus that plun.ued into Lake Lucerne with aving the livs of many of the 38 pa aboard.

10 1 -ts. ot them women, Wednesday when the ink 200 feet below the -urface of the lake. The bus sideswiped a truck coming in the other direction on the narrow twistinij ro.id that winds its way through the Swiss Alps along Lake Lucerne. Twenty-two mcluding the Italian driver and Gut and hi-r. wife, scrambled iM'fore bus went under.

Many of them scaped bv for- ing the sun open Other squiimed out Three of the airvivors seriously injured. Many the others were repyjrtei! in a tieep stale of shiuk. Although most of the Americans elderly women sehool teach ers, a young honeymoonmg cou pie from Connell-iville, was among the Robert and bnde. Ju dith, who were married 22 shortly after -he w.i. graduated from college, rapt without jury.

happened too fast for me to realize what wu' going Work told United Press International next thing I knew, we were in the water It simply indescribable Gut said there w'as panic happened within he said. col lided with an oncoming truck there was a loud noise The bus toppled over the road, broke through a raiiins and hit the wa The bus rested on the bottom of I ake Lucerne in 200 feet of water with 15 bodies inside. One body was brought ashore shortly after the crash. Power Failure Halts Dallas News Presses DALLAS power fail ure halted presses of the Dalla Morning News early today and more than 100,000 copies of the final edition were hours late getting printed. Sol Katz, circulation director of The Nt'ws, said the late papers were delivered to homes about 8:30 a.m.

The power failure caused by line trouble at the Dallas Power and Light oc curred ubout a.m. Gut, who through the un roof seconds before the bus submerged, said first thought was for my wife. She sat behind me I managed to grab her and her to the surface. I tried to rescue other passengers. wom.jn clung to me and I u( eeded in getting her a.shore redits Sun Roof The tour guide said the sun roof kept the death toll down because it prfivided a wide escape hatch.

ones who sat in the ar were not able to free -aid Gut. were mostly elderly and not very agile It was a miracle how I managed to a policeman from the next village, described the scene hr saw as the bus sank. I off my clothes and umped into the lake in my he said. did m.inv others. Many of the survivors were floating in the Like and call m.g for help A group of ramping nearby swam out and rescued some people Witnesses said a man who had just learned how to swim saved four or five persons.

Divers Seek Bus Divers were unable to reach the bus before darkness arui powerful spotlights played on the water and were lowered beneath the surface to aid Frogmen and divers used magnets to try to locate the wreck Lake Lucerne, which is located in the central part of Switzerland. 702 feet deep at its deepest point. The tourists were on a 43-day tour of i'urope, arranged by Gate Holiday Tours of New York City. They came all parts of the United States, The Americans were scheduled to stop overnight at Lucerne and then go on to Paris the final stop on their 12-nation tour. Hijackers Release Passengers EL PASO, Tex.

(UPI) Mrs. Adelina Wysong of San Antonio, a aboard the hijacked Continental Airlines jetHner, today it was the hysteria of a pregnant woman that convinced the hijackers they should release most of the passengers. was sitting right behind Mrs Wyson said. "When she went to pieccis, the Cubans came in and gave us a choice as to who would remain as a hostage. think the Cubans felt they be able to control such a large group of people tf more of us got She said the Cubans walked down the aisle and asked that tho.se who wanted to stay aboard the plane hold up their hands.

Three civilians and one service man held up their hands. definitely was not one of those who held up their Mrs Wysong said. The changed from his uniform into civilian clothes so he would be acceptable as a hostage according to Ronnie Tiner, 18, Marine from I.os Angeles. Although authonties said four Cubans seized the plane. Tlner Said he saw only two.

Both had pistols. saw men, one older than the he said younger man spoke to the other fHlow as .1 father They both were speaking Uncovered to Kill Second Guard GATFSVILLK, Tex ficials of the Gatesville State School for Boys said they have uncovered a plot by two inmates to kill another guard With a baseball bat. William Malone, another guard, was fatally beaten with a baseball bat last week when nine youths broke out of the correctional One of them, Charles Everett (Monkey) Lowe. 17. of Sundown, has been charged with slaying Malone, 43, the father of four children.

Clifford Dean Sheets, 16, will be charged with murder as soon as he is 17, police said. They offered to give up if guaranteed safe piseage to Cuba. The DPS said the of the two men still is in California. Baund for Houston The plane. Flight 54.

originally took off from Los Angeles, ft was lx)und for Houston, by way of Phoenix. El Paso and San Antonio, Tex. The hijackers seized it after it took off on the Phoenix- EI Paso leg of the fHght. They ordered the pilot, Capt. B.

D- Richards Redondo Beach, to fly to Havana. Ha toki them he have enough fual and had to land at El to reftU his unks. (Actually, Continental official said, tha plane had enough fuel. But the hijackers evidently could not read the Before the plane landed at El Paso, a pregnant woman started to become hysterical. The hijackers decided that if she panicked, the panic might spread.

Ask lor Hostages So they asked four volunteers among the passengers to remain as along with the six members of the crew. Four passengers, including a soldier who stripped off his uniform and donned civilian ctothes, agreed to remain as hostages. That mada a total of 10 men and two stewardesses. The plane landed at El Paso at 5:19 a.m.. EDT.

The pacsengers got off at El Paso and a ground crew busily swarmed around, the refueling of the plane. Actually, no fuel was supplied to the plane. The tried to talk the hijackers Into trading the jet for a DC7. He told them the jet, half as long as a football freld, would be difficult to land at Continental officials ordered a four-engine DC7 flown from Denver. Tbay Get Nervoua But at am, EDT, the hijackers got nervous.

tired of waiting. got to let us one hijacker said. The pilot started to taxi out toward the main runway to take off. Despite the ear-splHting whine of the engines, border patrolmen and DPS men ran under the wings and fuselage and shot out the tires and one engine. The plane stopped, framed as in a picture by the mountains in the background.

It wai the second hijacking a plane for Fidel Cuban government in nine days. On July 24, WWfredo Oquendo, a Cuban- born American citizen, hijacked an Eastern Airlines Electra Tampa and Miami, Fla. tlMrt iMve been reports that 4 MEN. Page 4) To Overthrow de Gaulle Coup Reported Sei; for August PARIS (UPI) Rumors of an imminent attempted coup to overthrow President Charles de Gaulle were published today by the influential morning newspaper Figaro and stirred immediate alarm in four powerful labor unions. iront page story iol- lowed weeks ot whispered rumors in Paris that a new attempt might be made to overthrow De Fifth Republic during the August holidays.

Publication of the story brought swift reaction from the powerful Communist led General Workers Federation, the Catholic Union, the Tcachers Unioo and the UW of Students, which announced they were keejwng in contact with each othar oppoM any new The month oi August, whem most Parisians taka the oil and Iowa, hai baen liit HMMt ivMy louled dMfOf.