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1 1 JFK Vows Early Action On Minimum Wage, Area By'MCRRIMAN SMITH WhnVHovM PALM BEACH, President elect John F. Kennedy and his Democratic congressional leaders, concerned about unemployment and the "Inck of vigor in the economy," today promised to press for early action next year, in House and Senate for aid to. economically distressed areas and an increased minimum wage, Kennedy mid the leaders also forecast speedy meas-, urcs providing, (or federal aid" for school construction, public housing and medical care for the aged, Kennedy wound up nearly two days of legislative talks at his home here with Vice President- elect Lyndon'B, Johnson, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Sen. Mike Mansfield-of Montana, expected to be the new majority leader of the Senate. The four men held a joint npws Conference Puts New Hope Into W.

Va. Economy By BILL BARRETT CHARLESTON (UPI) New hope was pumped into West Virginia's sagging economy Monday when some 185 business, labor, education and other leaders met to make plans for bringing new industry into the state. They agreed the Mountain State faces critical which W. W. Barren, who called Ihe conference, must overcome before any great influx of new industiy is obtained, opened the two and one- half hour session by calling for a "collective examination" of the problems.

"By your presence, you recognize the fact that we need a comprehensive program for industrial development, for and loads--a program for the welfare of our people." Discussions later indicated basic needs of the State centered around creation of a good indus- phasis on education, sis on education Robert Shattuck, Parkersburg, president of Marbon Chemical Division of the Borg-Wamer pointed out that without a favorable industrial climate the stale could never hope to attract new and expanding industry. "Most companies considering moving into an area know more about the town than the local chamber of commerce," he said "It knows about the schools and type of labor and thinking of its people as well as information about taxes and property costs." Dr. Joseph Marsh, president ol Concord College, said state needed to provide a "sound basic education" for citizens. "Sucl an investment will pay more anc belter dividends, but not i quick results, rather jt will be a blue chip investment with the big payoff to come later." James Harless, Gilbert lumberman and Charles Ho'del, Beckley newspaper publisher, called for attention to the stale's renewable resources--water and Umber. Harless said "the potential "the wood industry in West Virgin ia is beyond comprehension be cause it has never been exploit ed." If it were, he said, "Wei could put some 50,000 men to work immediately a we I have the finest hardwBod grows in the world." ,,4 (Continued On Page 1) 1-6 Inches New Snow Forecast CHARLESTON (UPI) A cold front from out of the West was to move into West Virginia today, bringing with it from one to six inches of new snow and freezing temperatures.

Weather observers issued both snow and hazardous driving warnings for the Mountain State in anticipation of the new storm. The Northern Panhandle area was expected to be hit first, wilh the cenlral portion of the state scheduled for the onslaught tonight The sections around Northern Panhandle were scheduled for both snow and sleet, with accumulations of from to six Temperatures in the teens were forecast for tonight. Meanwhile, observers said the remainder of the state could get from one to six-inches of new accumulation, along wilh freezing wind and temperatures ranging tonight between 15 and 20. All state roads were reported in good driving condition early today, with excsntion of certain highways in Taylor Cauntv where chains were recommended. However, the driving conditions could change in a mailer of hours if the new cold front proves to be as potent as expected.

CLEAR TO HERE; conference in the patio of Kennedy's home and from this meeting came these other points: -Johnson will take over chairmanship of the President's advisory council on space. --Kennedy also Johnson responsibility for overseeing work of the government contract compliance committee, which seeks" to eliminate discriminatory employment practices on government contracts, --The a broader role in the executive branch for, Johnson, saying he would work with his vice president on matters of national se- curity, national defense and International particularly with countries of Latin'America. --Kennedy took a hands-off attitude lowaid rules changes in the House and Senate, saying such matters were to be decided by the House and Senate. He added, however, that he was anxious thai the procedures of Congress "will permit a majority of the members of the House and Senate to work their will, but (he form of procedure is up to the House and Senate." Change Of View --Kennedy said that his electoral vote victory Monday seemed to be convincing National Chairman Thruston B. Morton Of the Democratic victory in November.

The President -Selected observed, -however, that Morton had vigorously since the election than miring the (Continued On 2) 46 Known.Dead In Brooklyn Navy Yard Blaze Fire Guts New Carrier FROM HERE By ROBERT LILES NEW YORK Navy began an investigation today into the use of wooden scaffolding that fed a 12-hour, $75 million fire in the aircraft carrier Constellation and caused 46 deaths. The wooden scaffolding on the hangar and galley decks of the Constellation being outfitted at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was set ablaze: Monday. by spilled kerosene-type fuel ignited by a welder's arc. The holocaust burned through the day and' into Monday night before being brought under con- rol. Forty six bodies were recoy- red from the fire scarred ship nd 43 persons hospitalized.

A otal of 157 was treated for in- iries. The Navy said 36 bodies have een identified and that 10 men isted as missing may be account for when the 10 other bodies ire identified. May Use Metal "This fire may have taught us ornelhing," Vice Adm. Charles THEN THIS Third Naval District, said. "We are going to check into the feasibility of replacing wood scaffolding wilh metal." "I never saw as much wood in a steel vessel in my life," Fire Commissioner Edward'Cavanagh, who directed the massive fire fighting and rescue effoit, said.

The long carrier was a blackened hulk, its main deck buckled and its interior plates still Hot from the searing blaze. It was listing more than 2 degrees and icicles hung from its superstructure. Water stood 3 feet in some of the flooded passageways. In spite of the possibility all the missing might be accounted for, (he search went on. A Navy board of inquiry was expected to be convened today to.

investigate and to free some of the scores trapped by the smoke and flames. Some were not lucky enough to the blaze. Fire Officially. Out At 3 a.m. the fire, was declared officially out and work crews prepared for a stem to stern inspection of the crippled ship.

The side of the carrier was Vellborn, of the with holes cut to fight the fire ablazi have been reached in time. In one group found Monday there with 11 men lying on the floor huddled Saratoga Survivor Among Fire Dead NEW YORK (UPI) Leonard Rizzo, 39, blinked back tears Monday night and remembered. He spoke of his brother, Michael, two years younger than he. "A very brave guy," Rizzo said. He said Michael had been in the Navy in World War II, and was a crewmember of the aircraft carrier Saratoga in February, 1945, when it was set afire by.

Japanese planes that scored seven direct bomb hits. The story of the Saratoga was one of the miracles of World War II. Shuddering under the impact the wounded carrier into port. Four months later the Saratoga was again at sea During the battle to save the Saratoga, Michael Rizzo had helped rescue one of his buddies, but had been badly burned on the legs, his'brother Leonard said. Monday, Michael Rizzo was one of'the 4.0W men working on the giant carrier Constellation when it too was swept by flames.

of" the bombs, her flight deck, Leonard Rizzo had just identi- DomDS, ner mgnt, UCCKI ijeuumu nit. she seemed ready to ex-lfied his body. together with their handkerchiefs I ship broke out suddenly Monday u. An AnA AKnuf A nflfl over their mouths. All were dead.

Fire equipment and police trucks still were on the dock and spotlights played over the sooty ttilk in spite of the bright sunlight. The fire was.the second disaster in Brooklyn within four days bringing the total killed during the Christmas season to at least 180. Eighty-four passengers aboard United Air -DCS were killed about plode and sink at any moment. But order to' abandon ship never came. Her crew fought the flames to a standstill then guided yard.

Friday. Six were killed on when the plane crashed 2 miles from the Navy the ground and 44 others aboard a TWA Constellation which had collided with the DCS and crashed in Staten Island. Delay Ship's Commissioning Damage to carrier, which coincidently had the same name as one of the crashed planes, was put at $75 million and was expected to delay commissioning of the ship for one year. It had been scheduled to be commissioned in March. The fire aboard, the $250 million 1 Section SINCE 1880--BECKLEY'S OLDEST INSTITUTION 16 Pages VOL.

81--NO, 154 BECKLEY, WEST 'VIRGINIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON. DECEaiBER 20, 1960 AT STANDS--5 CENTS WEATHER Cloudy with snow and. slippery roads tonight, lowest 15 to 20. Wednesday, windy and cold with snow flurries. TODAY'S HI-LO NEV; YORK (UPI)--The highest tcmncrature reported Monday to the U.S.

Weather Bureau was 81 degrees, at Imperial, The lowest reported today was 13 bflow zero at International Falls, BECKLEY High yesterday 34 Low last nighl 20 7 n.m. today 10 a.m. today i 30 Noon today 31 OAK HILL High yesterday Low last night IE 7 a.m. today 25 River Ccnditions Greenbrier: normal, clear. Lake: normal, clear, 1.3 gates open.

New: gauge 1.7 ft. MOON PHFFHI--Hete is the sad photo story of the lunar probe rocket which was supposed to have sent a satellite orbiting around the moon from Cape Canaveral, Fla. It got off all right, but exploded into nothingness about 40,000 feet and a minute later. Photo at top is a double exposure, tlie moon. caught with a telephoto lens, the streak with a wide angle lens time exposure, No more o- tap, so that ends that for a while.

Test Capsule Back At(ape CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) The one-ton space capsule successfully fired from Cape Canaveral Monday completed its round trip early today when it was flown back to the cape by Marine helicopter. The bell-shaped capsule was shown to newsmen and the only apparent damage to it was a slight searing of the paint on the lull and a broken window pane on one of the ports. National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials explained that each of the port windows had three to four'panes in it and the loss of one would not lave cfcated-a-problem had an astronaut been aboard the capsule. A ddailed examination of the bell-shaped capsule will help sci- (Continued On Page J) (astro Threafens To Wreck World Sugar Market HAVANA (UPI) Premier Fidel Castro threatened early today wreck the world sugar market "imperialism" tries to develop new sugar growing areas at luba's expense. In a 3-hour-and-41-minute marathon speech supposed be As-.

voted strictly to sugar problems, the bearded Cuban shouted new defiance at his foes in the church apd the U.S. government. Castro spoke at a meeting billed as a. "plenary.session of the sugar industry," which in fact was boycotted by all but 218 of the 65,000 members of the. Cane Growers Association.

The audience was made up mainly of uniformed members of Castro's militia. The premier hailed the 218 Cas- troite canegrowers as the nucleus of a new national association of small farmers. He promised them help in crop diversification and other agricultural improvements. The pro-government minority in the Cane Cowers' Association had demanded that it be dissolved and its leaders imprisoned including Castro's elder brother Ramon. The premier called U.S.

officials "bandits" and denounced their "brutal, criminal suppression of the (sugar) quota to which we have a historic right." that Cuba will produce 7 to 8 million tons of sugar this year, compared to 5.5 million tons last year. He said the surplus would be stockpiled or Listening To Transistor Radio Passenger (May Have Course 10:30 a.m. About 4,000 persons, bout as many as live in Bar Har- or, Maine, or Beaumont, ere aboard. lift-truck sheared off the (Continued On Page 2) Disaster Recalls NormandieFire NEW YORK (UPI)-Oa another leak Monday nearly 19 years go the' Navy was refitting a uge ocean liner for war duty. It ras the once proud queen of the French merchant fleet, Nor- mandic.

Fifteen-hundred workmen were aboring to convert the luxury mer into a World War troop- hip on Feb. 9, 1942. The on vessel had been renamed the Lafayette by the U.S. government vhich had seized the ship shortly fter France collapsed to the Axis forces. Some'of the were using acetylene" torces.

Others were using blow forties. Suddenly the' dread cry of lire! fire!" rang through the ship. In a short time the ship ras engulfed in flames. Firemen pumped thousands of gallons into the fire. Ice formed on the deck and superstructure.

Workmen were rescued as quick- as possible. Only one workman was killed rat at least 200 civilians, sailors and Coast Guardsmen were in- iured. The flames spread. More water was pumped in. The began to'list heavily to port.

All hands were ordered off the ship and the once proud liner, her three upper decks destroyed; succumbed the following day to the ravages of fire and water. The sleek Normandie rolled on her port side and settled into murk on the Hudson River jottom. In 1946 at was sold for scrap for $161,680. -An air WASHINGTON safelxXexpert that a passenger listening to a transistor radio might have caused a United Airlines DCS to itray off course and collide with i TWA Constellation over New York City last week. He raised the possibility after Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) Chief Elwood R.

Quesada said a preliminary investigation showed he United jetliner failed to stay a holding pattern and reported one ol its two navigation receiv- ers was of business." Cla IYOO i- -I converted into stock feed. Castro's threat to wreck the sugar market by "dumping" surplus sugar apparently was inspired by reports that the United Slates plans to promote sugar- growing in Florida and elsewhere to replace the sugar it used to buy from Cuba. Soviets, Cuba Strengthen Ties MOSCOW (UPI)--Western observers said today Cuba's new trade treaty with Russia wil' strengthen Soviet, influence on the Caribbean island republic 90 miles south of Florida. They said the agreement, obli gating Russia to buy 2.7 million (Continued On Page 2) Unfinished, But Donald of Capital Air Lines. McDonald, who first asked that his name be withheld, is regional accident investigator for the Air Line Pilots Association and central division safely chairman for Capital.

Quesada said the precise collision point, above Staten, Island, apparently was about 11 miles from the holding pattern which the jet was supposed to be occupying. The air safety expert, who is 1 dent investigator, said the suggestion that a transistor radio might have caused the plane's course indicator to go haywire was "strictly a theory." "But the United pilot sure as hell didn't fly off course on purpose," he declared. The death toll in the air disaster is now 134. The United jet crashed in a Brooklyn street. The Constellation came down on Staten Island.

The Flight Safety Foundation, a private aviation research 'organ, zation, has warned that' ce'rtai types of transistor equipment wi! cause the course ind. cators on airliner instrument, pan els to malfunction. is no FAA regulatio banning the use of transistor dios or tape recorders on airlii ers. But several airlines--incte ing i print warning against them on passenger ticket or placards in the planes. )-Month Recess NATIONS, N.Y.

(UPI) --The 15th General Assembly drove toward a three-month recess today more confounded by strange problem of the Congo when it convened last Scp- iember. Sleady sniping at Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold by Soviet Union and its colleagues has undermined the con- iidence once placed in the United Nations chief and plunged the assembly into bickering and doubt over how to pacify and restore the new African state. The assembly debated the issue until 1:49 a.m. EST today, adjourning at the end of a 100-min- ule speech by Indian Defense Minister V. K.

Krishna Menon. He attacked an Anglo-American proposal to strengthen Hammar- ikiold's hand in thc-Congo. -Sleepy delegates sat upright (Continued On Page Z) Court Upholds Junkyard Law CHARLESTON (UPI) A controversial "junk- law passed by the 1059 Legislature to regulate operation and sites of junk yards was affirmed Quotes The Mews (Reg. U.S. Pat.

Off.) By United Press International WASHINGTON An air safely expert commenting theory that a transistor the radio Qakwood Ave. To Be Opened Efforts of (lie city have resulted in a Christmas present Ip ninlcli nil'holiday gifts for Reckley area molorisls--0akwood Avcniic is being opened to traffic Wednesday. may have cause'd a jet (airliner to stray off course and collide wilh another plane? "The United pilot sure as hell didn't fly off course on 1 Sherwood Glutz Says: Prosperity Is'comin back to West Vir- sum uv 1 our best citizens met In Charleston yitterday and planned to go after It. Prosperity Is period when are lot uv alter dlnne speakers allei; dinnets to speak after. Mayor Cecil L.

Miller announced that the State Road Commission has agreed to haul gravel lo form a base for two-way traffic from Neville Street lo Central Ave. THE MAYOR SftlD J. Alfred Hnwes, district SRC engineer, was In town last weeki rind, after conferring with Street Commissioner D. E. Warden, agreed to have gravel hauled to make possible pre-holldny opening of Hie Rt.

10 relocation, although l.lw project is (Continued On Page 2) NEW YORK--Skin diver Marie Prendergast, on'why she believes more and more women will take up the under water sport: "It'll be just like the women took up They'll wise lo where the 'men arc." WASHINGTON A deiightcc 5-year-old Colecn Brashenr, cerebral palsy victim, on scein; Sfata Claus at the annual Christmas concert for retarded children: "Santa wears glasses just like me!" NEW YORK--Fire Commissioner Edward Cnvmuuigh comment' by the a with Prank Raymond dissenting, igh court ruled that the statute vas a valid exercise of the state's lolice powers and did vio- ate the constitutional rights of unkyard operators. At the same time, however, the ligh court ruled that strict application of the law to a Fayette County operator who filed life ap- seal would be unreasonable and herefore invalid in his The law requires, among other hings, that no such facility may je closer than 1,000 feet to a primary highway or 300 feet from a econdary road. Those in exist- before the effective date of of the statute, the high court agreed with Farley thats its application to the "peculiar circumstances" of his case made it "ar- jitrary" and therefore not appli- he law could, be only 100 yards rom such roads, but had to be shielded from view through fenc- ng or shrubbery. The case was brought by W.C. Farley, operator of the Oak Hill Wrecking Co.

near Jean. Tayette County, a a i State Road Commissioner Pat C. Graney, who is charged wilh enforcing )rovisions of the new 'Kanawha Circuit Judge Frank j. Taylor had upheld provisions of statute but had certified his opinion tb Ihe higher court for a iinal determi Farley bad contended a a strict enforcement of the statute (Continued On Page 2) Son-Slayer Suicides; Wife, Daughter Hurt SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPI)-Raymond Fraley, beat his five- year-old son, Raymond to death with a claw hammer, injured his wife and a seven-year-old daughter, and then killed himself Monday.

Mrs. Rita Fraley, a native of Wcston, W. was in fair condition at a local hospital. The daughter, Reda Denis, was reported in critical condition. Authorities said Fraley, after beating the others, cut his throat with a butcher knife.

Mrs. Fraley kept repeating, "I just don't know what happened. I don't know what got into him." Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. J.

ricll uuiyilumciuvii. wl ---While upholding Ihe general va-'A. Davis of Wcston, W. Va. U.S.

Resumes Military Aid To Torn Laos WASHINGTON (UPI.) The United States resuming mili- aid to' turbulent Laos in lopes that pro-Communists have jeen ousted there and a stable, iro-Western government finally The State Department authorized military arms shipments to government of Prince Boun 3um, which took control of the capital of Vientiane in a shell, tank and guniire fight last week and sent Soviet-armed troops fleeing to, the northern part of the country. U.S. arms shipments to the land-locked Asian kingdom were first reduced and then cut off entirely during the civil war between jpro-Western, Communist, and neutralist factions which followed a neutralist coup Aug. 8. Officials here kept a wary watch for signs that Laotian pro- Communists led by paratrooper (Continued On Page 2) Shortening The News From Wire Dispatches Finance Minister Vasily Barbu- zov announced in Moscow today that the Soviet Union planned to cut military expenditures in 1961 and concentrate financing heavy industry in line with Premier Khrushchev's avowed aim to outstrip the United States.

Garbuzov also said appropriations for science would be increased by 16.6 per cent over the 1960 figure State lawmakers in Louisiana said today that teachers at the two integrated schools in New Orleans definitely go payless this Christinas as far as the Legislature is concerned, here was no word on "whether e. Legislature would pay'teach- rs at the still-segregated schools New Orleans, as it did last Halle Selassie's rmy roamed the Ethiopian coun- ryside today ferreting out the last diehard. Imperial Guards who ied to overthrow the throne last eek. THE UNITED STATES asked srael'two weeks trying tb make atomic eapons but still has received no nswer, the State Department dis- osed Monday. Secretary of State hristian A.

Herter made the re- uest to Israeli Ambassador Abraam Barman Dec. 9, the same ay "intelligence information" received that Israel was seek- ig to build an atomic arsenal. uthorities, searching for three nasked bandits who burglarized a ranch bank office in Youngstown, hio, of an'estimated $135,000 arly Monday, haven't found the tilprits yet but did nab a trio suspects in other burglaries in 16 process. President osepb Kasavubu flies to the equatorial Province capital oquilhalville today for. what may be a new.move for national nity.

FEDERAL JUDGE Emett Chote in Miami has ordered a psy- (Continued On Page 2) Strengthen Remaining Schools With Money Saved Delegate Would Abandon 3 Or 4 State Colleges Ing on Iho scaffolding Inside the tiro ravaged air crntt carrier Constellation: CHARLESTON (UPI) If Del; J. C. Cruikshank of Clay has his way, Iho 1061 Legislature will lake steps to abandon one or more state -supported colleges in an effort to divert more money to the others. The Democratic lawmaker stud Monday he's thinking about the idea of having the abandon possibly Ihrce or four the state-supported. colleges and turning Ihe money that goes into I I I I I i I I I n.i "1 never sn'w 'as much wood annual budgets lo strengthen a steel vessel in my life." 'the positions of the other schools.

'West Virginia just doesn't have the money lo support nine colleges Cruikshank said. "It would make 'or belter economy and efficiency in the long run lo consolidate some, of (he colleges." 'As It Is now, we have a lot of schools," Cruikshank said. would be better to have five lirsl-rale schools instead ot nino third-rale." Crulkshtink, who was In for W. W. Bwron's 1 prc-icgislalive conference, said ho'ginia Slate, lad not yet figured out what'for mula would be used to determin which of the colleges would abandoned, He said, however, en rollment declines In some of th schools and a reduction in popula lion In certain areas should Inken Into The nine' stale supported co leges under the jurisdiction of th Stnlo Board Education -n Blucflcld, Falrrnon Glcnvlllc, Marshall, Shophen West Liberty Tech and West VI: I R.

Correspondent leal Laboring Girl PINEVILLE (RNS) T'ia Reg- ster's new Pineville correspondent, Mrs. Jack covered a story, called a cab, checked in at the Pinovillo Maternity Clinic, and gave birth to her fourth child Monday night. The baby, a son, was bom at IT: 14 1 p. Mven pounds, one ounce. He was born on the birthdate of a brother, Billy, who is threo years old.

Other children are Cathy, 7, and Donnie, 5. Mrs. Martin Is the former Miss Evelyn Hlekman. maternal grandmother Is Mrs. William Hickman, 'Plntvlllt nal 8 rents 'Mr.

Mrs. J. W. Martin, Mrs. Martin annual' Christmas program Pineville Orach Schwil.

over dutlM cwmpwdwt while she It convaltsclntj will Mrs, 'Mlnlnel, former liter corrtspendtnt In.