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Administration Concludes It's Russia Facing 'Gap U. S. Ahead In Missile Race! EDITOR'S NOTE: A of united Press International mili- writers Charles Corddry in Washington, Alvin B. Webb a Canaveral and Stanley Half Los Angeles, have assessed depth comparative U.S. and Soviet missile strength and the significance of recent 'developments.

Here is their report. WASHINGTON (UPI The administration appears to have concluded that it is Russia rather than States which faces gap." the United a "missile Missile gap" is the term long used to describe the plight America would be in in the early 1960's when, it wa.s held, Russia would have superior numbers of long- range ballistic missiles. It came to symbolize, to many, an overall American military lag behind the Soviets. President Kennedy said as a senator in 1958, for ex- ample, that the "deterrent ratio will in all likelihood be weighted very heavily against us" in 1960-64. He said those likely would be "the most critical years of the gap." There were widely circulated predictions in 1958 that by the end of 1961 Russia would have 500 to 1,000 intercontinental ballistic missiles while America have 70.

U.S.-Leads In Missijes The fact today is that America now has 45 ICBMs and will have 63 at the also has turn of the Polaris year. It missiles at sea aboard five submarines. A sixth such sub with 16 missiles is at or near Cape Canaveral, Fla. The Soviet Union is estimated to have, not 500 or 1,000, but'be- tween 50 and 75 ICBMs. A detailed new assessment of a i U.S.-Russian missile strength will be given Congress early next year during testimony on the new defense budget.

'Sfcy-Spy' Spots Titan Launching By ALVIN WEBB JR. CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) America's newest spy' satellite is proving the success of a system designed to prevent a space-age Pearl Harbor. The' moonlet is a sharp-eyed Shortening The Mews From Wire Dispatches American troops sftorfloV have knocked down the East Berlin wall while it was being built. Sen. John 0.

Pastore, said Tuesday in a speech to the 121st semi-annual convention of the American Hardware Manufacturers Assn. in Atlantic City, N.J. federal judge has set Nov. 8 for the start of hearings on 34 civil suits filed against 99 electrical equipment manufacturers which were convicted of price'fixing. Court attaches in Philadelphia said the litigation may take years.

A total of 120 suits totaling nearly $100 million has been filed by electrical equipment buyers seeking damages from the Firms. explosion police said was caused by dynamite tore apart a concrete block building housing Teamsters Union Local 290 in Miami, Tuesday night. There were no in- juries. Police said they knew of no reason for the dynamiting. RAILROAD managements today awaited the reaction of the New York Central to a revised merger proposal which would create the in; assets; merge the Norfolk "Western" Railway with the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad and the Nickel Plate and Wabash.

-Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Commerce Secretary Luther H. Hodges were called "to testify today at a closed hearing by' a special five-member House committee on whether U. S. exports are aiding the Soviet war machine. U.

S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson predicted agreement will be reached this week and United Nations delegates were highly optimistic today that the difficult secretary general problem would be settled'by the end of this week. WESTERN W410N Telegraph Co. has presented President Kennedy with four telegrams sent to President Abraham Lincoln 100 years ago to mark the opening of the first transcontinental telegraph line.

The messages, dated Oct 24, 1881-, assured Lincoln of the loyalty of Western states hi preserving the "Union. circles in Stockholm said today that Yugoslav author Ivo Andric is-the favorite for the 1961 Nobel prize for literature scheduled to be awarded Thursday. Ross Barnatt, -for the second straight day, refused Tuesday to United Nations Day in Mississippi, saving the world organization was controlled by Negroes from South Africa. contingent "Shortening" Page 2) of New Blast Triggered UPPSALA, Sweden (UPD-The Soviet Union today triggered a new nuclear explosion at Iumbia Novaya Zemlya testing grounds, the Uppsala Seismological Institution reported today. Institution spokesman Markus Baatn said the exolosion force was only one-tenth of strength of the big blast last Monday.

He said today's test was made in the atmosphere at EDTX 9:31 a.ra. (4:31 vS A WEATHER Partly cloudy and warm today, high in the 70s, followed by showers tonight Low tonight 45-50. Thursday, clearing and cooler. FIVE-DAY FORECAST Temperatures will range 2 to 3 degrees below normal high-low of 60-34 in the North and 65-40 in the south. Cooler Thursday through Saturday, somewhat warmer Sunday and Monday.

Showers Thursday and rain probable again about Monday. Total rainfall will be about one-third inch. BECKLEY High yesterday 72 Low last 24 hrs 48 7 a.ra. today 48 10a.m. today 63 Noon today 66 OAK HILL High yesterday 74 Low last 24 hrs.

.....41 7a.m. today 42 River Conditions: Greenbrier: normal, muddy. Lake: normal, muddy, 3 gates open. New: gauge 26 ft. is a space machine called Midas IV was hurled into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base last Saturday.

Tuesday night, Midas TV was its first test when it passed through the skies above Cape Canaveral. Simultaneously, the Air Force launched a 93-foot-tall Titan missile on an ocean-spanning voyage from The satellite's mechanical eye was wide open. Ultra-cool de- Action devices aboard the multi- ton satellite picked up infra-red radiations from the Titan's ex- 3aust less than two minutes after the rocket was launched. Midas "memorized" the-information of tape recorders and continued its orbital flight around earth. When it passed again over the California base, Air Force scientists tapped its "memory" by radio Midas IV faithfully told them that a large rocket was launched at a certain time during its flight.

The test proved that a sensitive station in space can detect the iiring of sizeable rockets quite early in their flights. What this means in turn is that, when the day comes that -a full lock of Midas-type satellites are the skies, America could about double the warning time it would by intercontinental ballistic missiles. At present, the maximum warning available would be about 15 minutes, primarily from a string of BEWS (ballistic early warning system) radar stations. Since an ICBM takes a' little more than a half-hour to make ts full flight, a satellite detecting it early in flight could provide almost instantaneous W.Va, Paper Circulation Off ATLANTA (UPI)--In the past iight years, daily newspapers in the South and border states have added more than 1.8 million subscribers to their circulation lists, more than in any other part of he country, the U. S.

Department reported today. The department's regional office here said newspapers in Florida showed the biggest gams, idding 521,000 subscribers. A report said the net paid circulation of all dairy papers In the South last year was 14,771,000, equal to one paper for every 3.72 persons. West Virginia was the state in region where newspapers showed a circulation loss. West Virginia dailies lost 28,000 subscribers.

Gains made by other states included: Arkansas 32,000, Delaware 21,000, Maryland 57,000, Virginia 135,000, Kentucky 45,000, Tennessee 71,000. and District of Nationwide, department said, the circulation gain was 8.1 per cent. In the South, it was 13.9 per cent, topped only by a 19.7 per cent average gain in the West However, the West added only L4 million subscribers, 'Zombie Special' NEW YORK Zombie Special," a fully automatic, unmanned subway train, is expected to be riding the rails in New York in a few weeks. A spokesman for the New York City Transit Authority said train without trainmen win the run between Times Square and Grand Central Terminal on a shuttle line. The if successful, may run out to the 1964 World's Fair in Flashing, Queens.

The train will replace 12 men who will be transferred to other jobs. L-ITTLB The only thing some people lose on a diet is their self-controL With this assessment and other facts of military power in mind, the administration now has proclaimed flatly -and with illustrative details that the United States nas overwhelming'nuclear superiority. That is America's short answer to Russia's campaign of blackmail, multi megaton explosions and Pacific missile shots. It was given in a remarkable speech last Saturday by 'Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell L. Gilpatric to a group of more than 100 corporation moguls assembled at the stately Homestead Hotel in Hot Springs, Va.

Reminisoant Of Ike The speech, approved.by President Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk, was more reminiscent of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower's final State of the Union message than of the 1960 Democratic platform. Eisenhower said the "missile gap" showed every sign of being a fiction, like the "bomber gap" some years before it. The Democratic platform had contended military position today is measured in gaps missile gap, space gap, limited war gap." Lumping missiles, bombers, artillery and other vehicles, Gilpatric said the United''States has "tens of thousands" of nuclear delivery vehicles and more than one warhead for each.vehicle. He said that even after receiving a surprise nuclear attack American forces could retaliate with at least as heavy a blow as the Soviets' first onslaught, perhaps a a one.

Self-destruction would be an aggressor's reward for attacking America, he said. Mammoth Effort The American ballistic missile program involves the greatest construction and engineering undertaking in U.S. history, in the Air Force's view. The reckons that in eight through the current fiscal year, more than $20 billion has been invested, in ballistic missile research, development, testing, production and construction of land bases and submarines. More than $12 billion of that has-actually been paid out and the rest is committed.

And much more will be needed in the years' ahead. By 1965, without any raising of present goals, the United States will have 834 intercontinental ballistic, missiles, most of them in a d-to-khock-out underground sites, and 454 Polaris missiles in 29 atomic-powered submarines--a total of 1,293 long-range missiles. Of that total, Kennedy administration defense budget increases accounted for 202. The land-based force will comprise 126 Atlas missiles of two types with ranges of 7,360 and 8,000 miles; 108 Titans of two types with ranges of 8,000 and 9,775 miles, and 600 solid-fuel, fast-firing Miriuteman missiles with and City May Buy Bank Beckley's ever-growing problem of inadequate city, hall space may-soon be solved with the purchase of the old Beckley National Bank building on Main Street. Mayor Cecil L.

Miller today said chances are good that the city will enter into an agreement with officials of the bank, "if a satisfactory arrangement can be worked in regard to price and a rent-lease plan." The" mayor City Council and met members, of with Elmer Davis, executive vice president of the bank, members of the bank discount committee and Board of Directors for an hour following Tuesday night's Council meeting. THE PRE-ARRANGED meet- building was held for the purpose of heaping a new proposition from officials about-possible sale of the vacant building to the city. Previously, a $120,000 figure was given by- bank officials as the purchase price, and the city rejected the offer for reason of not having, such" an'amount to spend at this time. Although no sum is forthcoming from the Tuesday night meeting. Mayor Miller said the amount is "substantially less" than the $120,000 figure advanced by the bank earlier.

THE MAYOR SAID bank of- as ficials informed' Council that, citizens of Beckley, they are interested in seeing the building Section SINCE 1880-BECKLEY'S OLDEST INSTITUTION BECKLEY, WEST VIRGINIA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 25, 1961 7 CENTS Dies in Welch Robert D. Bailey, regarded as he strongest political figure this area has ever state's time political died about noon Tuesday at of 78 in a iVelch hospital; He once was Democratic state chairman and in 1948-ran unsuccessfully against Okey Patte- spn for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. In his home coun- of Wyoming, he was unchallenged for almost half a century as served-for many years as Wyoming County Circuit Court judge and the title stayed with of "judge" Bailey had been suffering from a heart ailment and had been in the hospital at Welch about three weeks. In the 1920s he gained national recognition when he refused to sentence a man convicted of first degree murder without a recommendation for mercy. Judge Bailey in Miago County at the time.

He ordered a reinvestigation of the case and the defendant Clyde Beale, later was pardoned. In May, 1960, Bailey was treated to a party-in PineviHe, attended by then-presidential candidate Sen. Hubert Humphrey, now Attorney a Robert Kennedy and Born July 26," 1883, at Baileysville, he was a son of the late Theodore F. And Martha Justice Bailey. His grandfather, James BjHey, came to the Baileysville arecTfrorh another part of Virginia in 1813 (See "Judge Bailey" Page 2) Heated Highway NEWARK, N.

J. (UPI) A section of road that will be heated during the winter has be completed by the New Jersey Highway Department. Workmen put finishing touches Tuesday to ifie experiment where copper cables containing heating coils to cany electric current had been laid under a roadway at the Newark approach to the Passaic River Bridge. The coils will give off a 35 degree temperature and are expected to keep the approach section clear of ice and snow. If successful the plan probably would be adopted on other state highways.

U. S. Troops Alerted In Berlin By JOSEPH B. FLEMING BERLIN (UPI) Communist forces interfered with American traffic across the border of this divided city today, and shortly afterwards all American military forces in Berlin were placed on an official status of alert for more than five hours. American and British tank and troop reinforcements were moved up to the Friedrichstrasse crossing point and the Brandenijurg Gate border sector.

"All Berlin Command troops have been on a status of alert since 10 minutes past 10 (5:10 a.m., EDT) tins morning," a tf.S. Army'spokesman said. The spokesman added that the alert was'lifted at 3:35 pjn. 110:35 a.m., EDT). The 6,500 American troops were alerted -as the Communists challenged U.S.

of Berlin. The alert. came at about the time U.S. soldiers drove three jeeps 400 yards into East Berlin to escort an American civilian automobile across the The move apparently was a dramatic reiteration of, American determination to maintain the right of free access aE parts of the divided Later, two U.S. Army tourist by Communist police.

The vehicles, with 37 Americans including women and children aboard, returned to the American checkpoint at the Friedrichstrasse crossing after more than an hour. A U. S. spokesman said they were piffled back to 'prevent harassment of the women aboard. Meanwhile, two Soviet-licensed vehicles containing seven" uniformed Russian officers rolled through' the Friedrichstrasse checkpoint from east to west without slowing down.

Soviet officers, and others in uniform pointedly refuse to halt or slow down at the crossing point." The jeeps with armed U.S. military policemen formed a convoy for the car carrying two civilians who had been turned back earlier by Communist guards at the Friedrichstrasse crossing point (See 'Berlin" Page 2) Troop Train Crash Killsl MILES CITY, Mont. (UPI)-A troop train carrying Wisconsin National Guardsmen to Berlin crisis duty piled into a loaded gravel truck at a grade crossing today with an impact that derailed several cars and set the truck and locomotive aflame. Police said the truckdriver was killed, and three trainmen were reported missing in the wreckage. None of the Guardsmen, members of Wisconsin's 32nd "Red Arrow" Infantry Division, was believed hurt seriously.

The Milwaukee road troop train was speeding westward with 385 infantrymen headed for training at Ft Lewis. Wash. The Wisconsin division was one of the first big units called up after the Berlin crisis. Ike Blames JK For Shrinking 'Dollarelies- Dwight X. Eisenhower hlarned- President Kennedy Tuesday, night fiscal confusion which be said could eave A.

i a s. holding shrunken-value The, former also lis administration to ask for the Peace Corps, which be- called--a "juvenile Although Eisenhower came to Vew York to boost. the mayoral candidacy of GOP State Atty. 5en. Louis- Lefkowitz against democratic Robert F.

Wagner, his mightiest blows were aimed at Kennedy and the administration's fiscal policies. He spoke at a $100-a-plate fund raising dinner for the Republican city ticket. Eisenhower called Kennedy's expenditures "incomprehensible" and.asked, "If'we can't pay our debts, what's going to happen to this country?" Resort Planned At Pt. Pleasant PT. PLEASANT (UPI)-Elaborate plans have been announced for a big resort area on a 3l-acre site near here.

Backers envision it as second only to White Sulphur Springs' famous Greenbrier in its appeal. An announcement at a dinner meeting of area business and civic leaders Tuesday night said the project would cost $2 million. Principal backers were said to be W. Rolfe Lee, Gallipolis dairy farmer; Ferry, A Wright, veteran Mason river man, and Wflliam J. Marcum, former Charleston insurance executive.

They said the 160-room. motel together with a conven tion auditorium, other meeting rooms and recreational facilities would be built on a section Camp Conley, a former Nationa Guard training area near here. It was indicated that the back ers, who formed a company known as West Virginia Industries Development would conduct a statewide sale cf stock Sisters Susan (left) and Diane Bofenjire in "good" condition at "ffieTBecRfey'Hospifar, where they Husband Arrives He Confuses accused the Him administration of creating a "tornado" of confu- ion, saying it has "done a good ob of confusing me and all my riends." Eisenhower, said that first" the public was told there" would be a balanced budget and next that here be a $6.7 billion def- cit. He declared it was impossible to "spend yourself into pros- president said it perity. The former was impossible to have progress with a shrinking dollar, hat the currency might" become mown as "dollarettes" because here would be so many mores of them and they would be 'worth and their mother were admitted Tuesday morning from asphyxiation.

suffering Shirley Bolen had a joy-Mrs. Tucker of Logan reunion with her husband, -Ronald C. Bolen; today at Beckley Hospital, unaware of the Fact he came on a tragic mission. The naval man was called from duty aboard the USS Roosevelt after his wife and three small daughters found in their Glen White road home about 11 a. yesterday victims of asphyxiation.

THE YOUNGEST of the family, dead following the tragedy but Mrs. Bolen has not yet been in- Formed, of her. death nor of the fact that her other two small daughters, Cynthia Sue, and Eva Diann, 2, were hospitalized. A BOILERMAN first class, Bolen was summoned here through the Red Cross 'and' arrived this morning, The hospital lists Mrs. Bolen's condition as "good" but no ex- planation'has been made to why.

she hasn't been told of her children's" fate. Bolen indicated about noon today that she would be told this afternoon. THE NAVYMAN also said that ais wife had returned to this section from Florida because she did not care to live there, preferring to stay in the section in which she had been reared. She is the daughter of Mr. and formerly Killarney, and Bolen is the son of Mrs.

Ruth Bolen, Chicago. His father, Carl, formerly of Odd, is deceased, Mrs. Bolen and her husband attended Stoco High School. INVESTIGATING State Police said all windows and doors in the house were shut tight and that a gas stove was burning. It was apparent, Sgt D.

y. Lilly said, that all the oxygen in the house had been used up, resulting in the infant's death and causing the illness of the other three. A brother-in-law, R. L. Reed, Glen White, is credited with saving the mother and the other (See "Mother" Page 2) Contract On Federal Building Plans Let The General Services Administration has just informed Senator Robert C.

Byrrf of the award of a contract to Henry Elden and associates, Charleston, for the preparation of plans and drawings for the remodeling of the present Post Office Building in Beckley. The building will be used for the U. S. Federal Court and other Federal Facilities. Estimated completion date of Hie drawing is April, 1962.

In this regard, they said every consideration win be given the city in working out a rent-lease ownership, so as to make the (See "City Hall" Page 2) Cost Of Living Hits New High In September WASHINGTON (UPI A sharp increase in clothing prices and the continuing rise in the cost of services pushed living costs to a record nigh in September, the Labor Department reported today. It' added that another rise in living costs was expected this month. The department's consumei price index advanced to 128.3 hr September. This meant that basket of goods and services which cost $10 in 1949 would have cost $12.83 last month. The previous high was $12.81 last July.

The index slipped to $12.80 in August before resuming its rise last month, Clothing prices normally rise in September. But last month's mark-ups were seasonal and the second biggest in a decade. Women's and girls' clothirig went up 1.9 per cent and men and boys wear by seven-tenths of 1 cent. Most of the increases were on fall and winter lines of wool' clothing. The index for womens' clothing reached a new high.

Easing the pocketbook pinch were sharp reductions for most fresh fruits and vegetables and ja continued drop in poultry pri- ces. Increases for meats, eggs, res- (taurant meals and dairy products jheld the overall drop In retail prices to one-tenth of 1 per (cent. The department reported that the average take-home pay of fac- jtory workers declined because of jthe strike at General I plants, work interruptions caused iin the Gulf Coast region by Hurricane Carla and the observance of Jewish holidays in the New York garment industry. The rise in the general price level further reduced workers' purchasing Five Mothers Tilie Round MORGANTOWN (UPI) Five West; Virginia mothers, including one who has 15 children, started two days of rigorous competition today for the 1951 Mrs West Virginia crown. During the judging, each of five jegional finalists will be in- complete a i quiz, prepare her favorite chicken, dish, bake a cake, prepare a packaged lunch, plan a detailed household menu, style her hair three different ways and several other things.

The finalists Mrs. Marion Heradon 44, Richwood: Mrs. Janice Sickle Gunner, 24 Fairmont; Mrs. Joyce Broyles, 23, Morgantown; Vlary Frances Gross, 41, Clarks- )urg, and Mrs. Alice Douglas, 28- Parkersburg.

winner receive numerous prizes plus an expense-paid' the Mrs. America contest in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Mrs. McQuade is the mother of 15 children whose ages range from 5 to 23 years. Mrs.

Broyles, has a 3-year-old daughter, is the vife of Morgantown University High School football Coach Randall Broyles. Mrs. Runner, mother of a baby boy, is a former Miss West Virginia, representing the state in he Miss America pageant in 1958.. Mrs. Douglas, who has two small children is a graduate pharmacist and Mrs.

Gross is the mother of two teen-agers. Mrs. Shirley Bolen is pictured with Lucy Kolman in tfie Beckley Hospital, where she is being treated following asphyxiation from lack of oxy- gen in her home at Crab Orchard. Hospital spokesmen said she has not yet been told that her youngest child died from apparent asphyxiation after she and her three children were found unconscious in their by brother-in-law. luotes (Reg.

U.S. Pat. Off.) By United Press International NEW YORK Former President Eisenhower, attacking vennedy administration's Peace Corps program: "(A) juvenile experiment We have post card evidence that the people sent didn't even know what an underdeveloped country was." VATICAN CITY Pope John XXHI, addressing the Rome Foreign Press Association: "In working for truth, you are working for the human brother-, hood. For it is error and He which divide men. Truth links them together." UNITED NATIONS Thant of Burma, who is expected to be elected acting secretary general of the U.N.: "I believe that capitalism as it was understood in the 19th Century has undergone a tremendous change.

In the same way communism, as it was known generally a decade ago, has now changed both in structure and in the form of the Russian society." CLEVELVND. Ohio Conservative leader William F. Buckley speaking out against liberalism: "Liberals arc war mongers whetting the appetites of the militarists.".