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For All Department Dial LI 2-5454 he ernon aily ecord Partly Cloudy Through Monday VOL. 213 (AP) Means Associated Press VERNON, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JULY 9, 1961 THREE TWENTY-SIX PAGES WEEK DAY 10c Nikita Announces Increase In Soviet Military Spending OVER BELGIANS Katanga Temper Flare Toward U.v Russian Sucsests SPRINGTIME IN IV? It is well known that kite-ilying season is during the mild, breezy days of March, April and May, and not in July. But Richard Owen can he excused for heeding the call to fly a in the middle of Summer, because this is no ordinary July and no ordinary Summer. The mercury still hasn't reached KM) in 1961 and Saturday it didn't even reach 90. ELISABETlIVILLE, Katanga i ister Godefroid Munongo, was ar- (APi smouldering Jested by LN.

Swedish forces in feud with the United Nations flared up Saturday in a bitter quarrel over U.N. expulsion of a Belgian adviser to this mineral- rich secessionist province. Angrily retaliating for the expulsion, Katanga Interior Ministry ordered the entire Belgian consulate staff to leave the province. But President Moise Tshombe stepped in, revoked the order, and apologized to the Belgians. The adviser, Georges Thyssens, a personal friend of Interior Min- Advisers Hold Weighty Talks Ban Threatens Berlin Row BERLIN threatened Saturday over a Communist ban on a major Protestant church rally.

A spokesman for the organizers said he still hoped to hold special of Germany and divided Berlin, Bibie classes, communion ser- situation in Southeast vices and concerts of sacred mu- Mrs. Gandv, Pioneer, Dies Here HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (APi- President Kennedy spent nearly five hours Saturday with three of his top diplomatic and military advisors, pondering the problems sic in Communist East Berlin. will be on church premises, he said, "and cannot be affected by any ban." The spokesman denied a Communist charge that the meetings are part oi the cold war. He pointed out that Bishop Hermann Kunst, chief evangelical chaplain of the West German armed forces, had asked soldiers not to go to the meetings.

They are due to start July 19 and end five days later with a The weighty talks, described as began at Kennedy's summer home overlooking Nantucket Sound and continued the Kennedy family's 52-foot cruiser Marlin during a cruise on the sunny sound. Conferring with the President were Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and Gen. Maxwell B. Taylor, military advisor to Kennedy.

They began their conference at midmoming, and conferred until Mrs. W. E. Gandy, 93, pioneer resident of Vernon died at her home, 221.6 Wilbarger, Saturday af- for a summit conference on Berlin ter an illness of about two years, and Germany. She had lived here since 1918.

Salinger said the President had 1 Final rites will be conducted in no immediate comment on Henderson Funeral Home Chapel statements. with Rev. Neal Jones, pastor of Lunch and the swim provided I First Baptist Church officiating, the only brief breaks in the long Other arrangements are not com- conference. When it was over. Rusk and McNamara flew- back to Washington, Taylor to New' York.

mass meeting West Berlin late afternoon. Olympic Stadium. About 20,000 No details of the conference participants are expected from were revealed. West Germany. Many additional The four men lunched on hot thousands would have been ex- i dogs and fish chowder while the pected from Red-ruled East Ger- Marlin was anchored oh Dead many, but the Communists have Neck Island, about eight miles begun a campaign that is bound offshore.

to frighten large numbers away. McNamara and Taylor went for An order from Maj. Gen. Fritz a Kennedy and Rusk Eikemeier, Communist East Ber- stayed aboard the cruiser, lin police chief, said, the Kennedy ife, Jacqueline, interest of preserving calm and joined the four men for the cruise. Lawyer Savs Cisco outh plete.

Mrs. Gandy was born in Evergreen, July 4, 1868 to Mr. and Mrs. I. Cook.

Her mother died when she was about 16 years old. From Alabama the Cooks moved to Louisiana and Mrs. Gan- his home Friday night and hustled out of A shot was fired and son beaten. Informed sources said Munongo ordered the consulate staff expelled because it failed to intervene and protect Thyssens, a Belgian national. The chain of events began earlier in the week when Munongo ordered the arrest of Charles Muller, a diplomatic adviser on the Belgian consulate staff, and accused him of collaborating with the United Nations, U.N.

authorities, on hearing of the arrest, then decided to seize and expel! Thyssens for in local politics." They said Thyssens had told Katanga authorities Muller was a Socialist sent to work with the United Nations, which is unpopular in this part of the Congo. After the U.N. action against Thyssens became known in this capital, the Interior Ministry took action. Muller was taken from jail and put on a plane to Europe. Katanga security police raided the consulate, seized some documents and, for a time, detained Consul Jules Herkens, When Consul-General Henri Crener protested, the Interior Ministry or- Latin Fund Is Proposed WASHINGTON of a huge revolving fund to help Latin-American countries withstand the jolt of declines in prices for basic products was proposed Saturday by a hemisphere committee.

Additional proposals also were many suggested to help stabilize prices One must call not for but and improve the markets for cof- 59 Germany Summit MOSCOW Premier talk and rocket-wav- Khrushchev announced Saturday ing in a Kremlin speech. He de- that the Soviet Union is increas- dared the moves to heighten Soing military' spending and halting viet military effectiveness were the cutback in its military man- forcd measures, power because of what he called I threatening gestures by the West NIKITA, in the Berlin crisis. But at the same time he called for a summit conference on Fire Sweeps lee and other key products of the hemisphere. The recommendations were contained in a report drafted by a group of experts for the Inter- American Economic and Social Council conference starting Aug. 5 in Punta del Este, Uruguay.

The report said the revolving which help would be expected from the United States, Canada. Western Europe, Japan and other be carried out for the next few years with a fund of about $900 million. La tin-American countries would be expected to contribute something to the fund in years when things were good. Use of the money by countries in need would be on a loan basis. The study group was headed by Ernesto Fernandez Hurtado, manager of the bank of Mexico, with Felix Ruiz, of the Central 108 Killed for he said, without suggesting either time or place for such a conference.

Naming President Kennedy. British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan and French President i i mo Charles de Gaulle, he aid the (AP, Soviet Union had the right to ap-, roaring fire swept through a peal to them display wisdom coal in Carpathian in the solution of the German Mountains killing 108 miners Fn- problem, to attend a coherence day oiilcia! news together with other peaceioving Ceteka sported Saturday, states and to conclude a peace I the rapidly spreading fire in Dulka mine was battled until early morning by rescue teams rushed in from throughout the Ostrava Karvina coal basin. Cause of the fire was not an- dered him and his staff out of Bank of Chile, as vice president. Katanga. The recommendations covered But Tshombe, who relies heav- a wide range of proposals, includ- ily on Belgians for help in nan- I mg: closer cooperation among ning this portion of the former Belgian Congo, stepped in.

He asked Crener to convey his apologies to the consulate and Belgian order and to assure peace, the Evangelical Kirchentag is forbid- The weekend White House said it was not an emergency confer- den in the capital of the German 1 ence, rather, another in a series Democratic Republic (East Visitors from West Germany have to cross 110 miles of communist territory to get to West Berlin. Business Heads To Meet Kennedy WASHINGTON (AP) Thirty business executives will meet with President Kennedy Monday to lend their support to his proposed foreign aid legislation. The arrangements were announced Saturday by Warren Lee Pierson, chairman of the newly formed Commtitee for International Development. Members of the group's executive committee will him at the White House conference. Home Town By JERRY COFFEY Word has been received of the death of J.

D. Lewis, 84, former Vernon police chief, who died Friday at Artesia, Calif. A native of Travis County, Mr. Lewis came to Vernon in 1889 and later served approximately 23 years as the ehief of police. Hi resigned from the force in the 1930s and shortly afterwards moved to California.

Survivors include two brothers, M. Hyson Lewis and Blake H. Lewis, both of Vernon; and five daughters, Mrs. Mary Barnes, Mrs. Grace Norris, Mrs.

Addie Marshall, Mrs. Wilma Carson and Miss Dora Lewis, all of California. Nothing is known here about funeral arrangements. MRS. HOMER STRANGE of El Paso and Mrs.

Weiss Wilson of Abilene visited this week with Mrs. Myrtle Lewellen, 2630 Bowie. Mrs. Anton Sosolik, 2811 (See HOME TOWN, page 2) oi continuing discussions on Ber lin. Before he boarded the Marlin, Kennedy was advised ot Premier Khrushchev's announcement the Soviet Union has suspended plans to reduce its armed forces, because of the tense world situation.

Press secretary Pierre Salinger said Kennedy also was informed of reports Khrushchev had called Death Claims Mrs. Mitchell Mrs. Press Mitchell, 58, of Chillicothe, died Saturday at 2 p.m. in a Quanah hospital. Funeral services are pending at Ward Funeral Home in Chillicothe.

Born March 9. 1903 in Greenville, she and Mr. Mitchell were married in Chillicothe March 23, 1925. Surviving include her husband, two daughters, Mrs. Andy Hamilton of Chillicothe, Mrs.

James Roberts, Vernon; one son, George Mitchell, Dumas; three sisters. Mrs. Walter Perry and Mrs. Calvin Cox, both of Greenville, and Mi's. C.

Vaughn, Dallas. Also, three brothers, George Lynch and Tom Lynch, both of Greenville, E. T. Lynch of Sulphur Springs; and seven grandchildren. am was EASTLAND, Tex.

lAP) An atornev for accused slayer Nathan Curry said Saturday the 15- year-old Cisco youth was into giving his statement and can remember nothing of which it contains. Alien D. Dabney a partner with his son in an Eastland law firm, was retained Friday by the Curry family. The high school student is accused of the brutal beating and stabbing death of Mrs. Florence Hussey, 53.

Secretary at First Baptist Church. Young Curry remained in Eastland County jail, where he has been held since officers took a lengthy statement from him Tuesday night concerning the sensa-it Officer's said the statement w'as a confession, but newsmen have not been permitted to see the document nor interview a policy which Dist. Atty. Earl Conner Jr. said would remain in effect.

Dabney, who said he would take all legal steps to get the youth out of jail, declared Curry was (See ISCO CASE, page 2) dv attended classes at rural government lor rash decision. Latin-American countries in freer trade; specialized conferences to work on specific problems; trade agreements fostering greater commercial interchange; an ap- schools. Mr. and Mrs. Gandy were married at Negrete, Dec.

8, He farmed in Louisiana on property that formerly was a part of his plantation. Mrs. Gandy often talked of emancipated slaves who refused to leave because they could not believe there was a better life other than under their former owners. Mrs. Gandy father at one time owned 100 slaves.

W. E. Gandy was a building contractor for many years in Vernon until he died in 1932. She was a member of First Baptist Church and was active in church work until she was unable to attend regularly. Among those surviving are four sons, E.

H. Gandy, Kansas City, J. E. Gandy. Miami, R.

D. Gandy, Crockett, W. H. Gandy of Spearman; six daughters. Mrs.

Lucille Castleberry, Vernon, Miss Agatha Gandy, Vernon, Mrs. D. Branch, Yuma, Mrs. F. D.

Crable, Tucson, Munongo is considered one of the strong men in this province which, in addition to feuding with the United Nations, has been at odds with the central government in Leopoldville since the Congo was declared independent last year. treaty (on sense and once again common sense is needed above all, Khrushchev went on. Khrushchev is particularly interested in the sovereignty of Communist East Germany, which "In nf superhuman efforts the Western powers refuse to rec- to save ifie trapped men, Ceteka said, miners lost their The premier coupled soft peace mine is near Dolna Sueha, a town about miles south of Ostrava, one of the largest cities in the Slovakian section of the country. The area produces about 80 per cent of coal and ranks fourth among European coal-producing areas. trava is the nation steel center.

(Neither Ceteka nor Prague radio added any further details. Communist regimes often soft pedal newrs of any disaster that might be taken as a sign of government mismanagement.) Two mine disasters occurred in Czechoslovakia last year. On May 22, 54 miners died in a methane gas explosion in an Ostrava mine. And on Sept. 23, 20 died in a fire the Vaclav mine at Negro Fills International Affairs Post HYANNIS PORT, Mass.

President Kennedy Saturday named George P. L. Weaver, a veteran labor man, to succeed George Cabot Lodge as assistant peal to European nations for few- secretary of labor for internation- er restrictions on exports of Latin al aifairs. America; internal measures for Weaver, 49, is the first Negro better economic planning and, appointed an assistant secretary where, indicated, a cut in produc- by Kennedy. tion; better marketing methods; Robert C.

Weaver, also a Ne-; RUChjoVjce jn the Cladno area national plans to finance the or- gro, is Kennedy's federal housing derly marketing and warehousing administrator. The two men are of basic IIS SOI TH VIET MM Terrorists Grenade Hits U.S. Ambassador's Car not related. Il George Weaver has been a spe- jUillCS dal assistant to Secretary of La- SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) men believed to be Viet Cong Communists threw- a homemade grenade at S. Ambassador Frederick E.

car Saturday as he drove home to lunch. It landed on the car roof but failed to explode. Worried government officials feared the attack was the prelude to a new Communist terrorist campaign aimed at Americans in Mra- this capital. Two Americans have been wounded in grenade attacks tie Springs, and Mrs. C.

Graham of Edgewood, M. Also 19 grandchildren, 42 grandchildren and two great-great- grandehildren. ALASKA VISIT 49th Rich in Resources, Space and Scenic Beauty WEATHER Temperature readings for the 34-hour period ending at midnight Saturday: Maximum 93 degrees Minimum 79 degrees Midnight reading 70 To date J2.50 Same date last year 17.87 Forecast: Partly cloudy and little change in temperature through Monday. Possible afternoon and nighttime thundershowers. High Sunday 84 to 92.

By K. H. NICHOLS Some years ago a slogan, America was coined in connection w'ith a campaign to counteract the idea that only interesting and important places could be seen in older sections of the world, mainly in Europe. There is much of interest to be seen in the United States. For grandeur of natural scenery none of the continents offers more than North America, and one can do a great deal of traveling and learn much of what the physical world is like without leaving the United States.

Incredible Distances It had been my good fortune to visit in every one of the 48 states of the Union, prior to the admission of Alaska in 1958 and Hawaii in 1959 as the 49th and 50th states. A few years ago I visited in Hawaii and then again in 1959, but had never been to Alaska. A little more than two w'eeks ago I started on a trip which was to bring realization to the long-cherished desire to visit the one state in the Union which outranks Texas in size. Relatively little time is required for a fairly thorough visit to Alaska if travel is by airplane. Any other form of transportation is not only time-consuming but makes it next to impossible to visit some of the remote, but highly interesting, points in the new commonwealth.

Texans are accustomed to great distances but compared ith those involved first in reaching Alaska and next in seeing the country Texas distances seem negligible. For example, it is approximately miles by air from Seattle, to Juneau, the capital of Alaska. From Juneau to Anchorage, Alaska's largest city, the distance is upwards of 800 miles. Fairbanks is 350 miles further north. But travel by air is fast, comfortable and convenient.

One of the new jet planes flies from Seattle nonstop to Fairbanks in slightly less than three hours. Yet Fairbanks is two time zones west of Seattle and is almost as far west as Honolulu. Nome, on the Bering Strait opposite Siberia in Soviet Russia, is several hundred miles further west than Honolulu and is more than 100 miles nearer Tokyo, Japan, than it is to Denver, Colo. Over 600 Miles Per Hour My itinerary called for departure from Wichita Falls airport at 7 a. June 23.

Next came a hop from Dallas on a jet airliner (Continued on Page 6a.) since April and a number of Vietnamese killed or injured. Nolting apparently was unshaken by the attack. A U.S. Embassy spokesman said he quietly drove on to his house, a few7 blocks away, after the incident. The attackers apparently had waited in ambush on a street corner for car.

When it appeared, the grenade, 6 to 8 inches long and 3 or 1 inches diameter, was thrown at the rear window'. But the aim was bad and it landed on the roof. bodyguard in the car fired three times at the assailants but apparently missed. They hopped on a motorcycle and escaped. Nolting, 50, a career diplomat whose home is in Chantilly, was appointed ambassador to South Viet Nam Feb.

23. Just last Tuesday, a U.S. aid official, Reginald S. Davis, was fired at as he drove away from a radio construction site in Thu- duc, about nine miles outside Saigon. Four bulkts hit the rear door of his car but he uninjured.

In April, during a violent outbreak of Viet Cong activity in Saigon, three grenade attacks were made on Americans. Two Americans, M.Sgt. Carl F. Cox, 34, of Salem, and Howard C. Thomas, 47, an aid official from Fort Myers, were injured.

bor Arthur J. Goldberg. The international affairs post pays S20.000 a year. Lodge is the son of Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican candidate for vice president in last year's election. Young Lodge remained in the international affairs post after Kennedy took office because he was serving as an official of the International Labor Organization.

Weaver, a Pittsburgh native who attended Howard University Law School, went to work for the old CIO 1941. A year later, he became assistant to he CIO secretary-treasurer and director of the organization's Civil Rights Committee. After the AFLCIO merger in 19.55, he was appointed executive secretary of the AFL-CIO Civil Rights Committee. In 1958 he became assistant to the president of the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers and directed the IUE political education program. Dies, Age 87 Mrs.

Martha james, 87, died Saturday at 4 p.m. at the home of a friend, Mrs. Pearl Smith 2129 Bismarck. Mrs. James had been ill for several months.

Funeral serices are incomplete but burial is to be in Wilbarger Memorial Park under the direction of Sullivan Funeral Home. She was born Aug. 18, 1873. She and S. M.

James were married in Mineola. her home at that time, on March 27, 1952 and came to Vernon with her husband that same year. Mr. Jones died May 13. 1960.

She was a member of the Pearl Street Baptist Church. Surviving are a step-daughter, Mrs. Myrtle Ray of Coolidge, Arizona; a step son, N. A. James; a step niece, Mrs.

E. L. Norris of Vernon; and one nephew, A. W. Lopper of Irving.

POLITICAL OPPOSITION FLARES Police Disperse 300 Students In Tense Dominican Republic CALENDAR MONDAY Noon Junior Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Susie No. 1 8:00 p.m. lOOF meeting IOOF Hall TUESDAY Noon Rotary Club luncheon, YVlbarger Auditorium 7:30 p.m. American legion meeting, Susie No. 1 WEDNESDAY Noon Optimist Club luncheon, Wilbarger Auditorium Noon Sertoma Club luncheon, Susie No.

1 THURSDAY 7:00 a.m. Optimist Breakfast Club, Susie No. 1 Noon Kiwanis Club luncheon, Susie No. 1 7:30 p.m. VFVV meeting, Post Home FRIDAY Noon Lions Club luncheon, Wilbarger Auditorium CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Domini- day.

It was the first such rally Radio Caribe. now broadcasting can Republic po. by opposition party since fr0m emergency studios, noted lice fired semiautomatic carbines eralls-simo Rafael L. Trujillo, who into the air Saturday and dis- was assassinated May 30, took persed 300 students who ran power three decades ago. through downtown streets shout- ing antigovemment slogans.

Brothers, 11, 12, some in the attacking mob shouted. Paredon, This cry of the execution often is heard in Prime Minister Fidel Castro's Cuba. Sporadic disturbances flared up throughout this capital, still Admit T.llll Theft The progovemment rado sta- after a night of and 011,1 1 11 Vf Dominicana quoted Two brothers. 11 and 12 years 1 police as saying, the left, ist Popular Dominican Movement old, ere released to juv ende been trying to cause authorities Saturday after ad- disturbances such as mitt mg to ernon police that There were hints the MPD mfil- that followed the first public op- position political rally here in 31 years. President Joaquin Balaguer, who has promised to permit broke in Sumner Colley peaceful political opposition, an-; dumber Company, 1830 Maiden, I nounced drastic instructions early Saturday and stole a .22 have been given national police Calibre pellet pistol and a gas- to prevent further disorders.

ered BB riile, Balaguer ordered an mvestiga- tion into whether Communist or pro-Castro elements were in- I volved in a mob attack Friday night on the progovernment Radio Caribe. The radio station w-as burned. Two employes were feared dead in the blackened ruins and damage was estimated at $800,000. The mob went wild after a rally held by the Dominican Revolutionary whose leaders returned from exile trated the PRD rally and set oif the violence. After the attack on Radio Caribe, a progovernment mob of about 50 persons attacked the The guns were recovered less MPD's newly opened headquar- than a block from the store, ters and burned it.

Maximo police said. pez Molina, MPD's secretary- Entrance to the was and an admirer of Fidel gained by breaking a glass in Castro, disclaimed any responsi- a rear window. The break-in was i bility for the attack on Radib discovered at approximately Caribe. a. m.

when employes noticed the Of Balaguer threat to move broken glass, against his party, Molina An investigation at the scene said: 'This appears to be a ma- led police to question the twoineuver to make our party illegal, boys, and they led officers to; We are neither f'ldelistas nor where the guns were stashed,.