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Russians Say 'It Is Now A New Moon Some Control Of Space Station Claimed MOSCOW (AP) The flying Soviet space laboratory will reach its closest distance to the moon Tuesday and make mankind's first photographs of its hidden face, Tass said today. Slowed by the relentless gravitational tug the earth, the flying laboratory should come within 4,350 miles of the moon at 5 p. m. 9 a. m.

EST Tuesday, the official news agency said. As'it approached the moon, the interplanetary that's what the Russians call it has separated from the last stage of the cosmic rocket that launched it Sunday, Tass added. The agency said that at noon Moscow time 4 a. m. EST -the station was 248,000 kilometers or 154,000 miles from the earth and over the eastern part of the Indian Ocean.

This was well over the halfway mark. Tass said the apparatus is moving toward the moon more slowly than the first and second Lu- niks. This is to enable it to pass around the moon and be pulled back to earth instead of flying off into space as did the first moon shot last January. An unnamed astronomer declared triumphantly over Moscow radio: "It is now a new moon, and that means that the other of cosmic space and side of the moon is brightly of a flight to the moon ed by the rays of the sun. Whatj and the nearest planet," said as- 1" A.

A. 11 Jt TJ oh A lies there? Soviet scientists will have the reply to this question before Scientists kept trade of the space vehicle'by its radio sig- tronomer Nikolai Barbashev, chairman of the Soviet Academy of Sciences Planetary Committee. Alexandre Anaoff, a leading nals, which sounded like expert, said, i The Soviet rocket proves they can fire a moon rocket with good Chances of success any time they want." The Soviets indicated some be switched on for two hours to- An announcement said the day. satellite can broadcast two to They predicted that the station four hours a day, drawing its ---the third Soviet cosmic rocket shot aimed at the moon would stay aloft for a long time because it will approach no closer than 2,000 kilometers 1,240 miles-to the earth. The flying station was reported loaded with scientific equipment wa Km ft a i space but the official announcements gave no details on it.

from a violin. The launching Sunday on the second anniversary of the birth of the Sputnik was heralded on both sides of the'iron Curtain as another giant step in man's adventure into space. "This means we have already entered the period of planned third JSoviet space rocket" would transmitted back to earth." power from solar batteries. Soviet physicist Lev Ponayeton of Leningrad said data from the unseen side of the moon will help to determine its shape and distribution of mass. He said this would be tremendous help in Felix Zigel, scientific commen- Y.

K. Fedorov, member of theltator for Moscow radio, said the control of the new space station jSoviet Academy of Sciences, said, (projectile will not make an ex- could be exercised from tremendous amount of data'tensive study of the moon. That earth. They announced that gathered by the many measur-'will be done later, he said, from the "apparatus carried by the ing devices is being regularly I a rocket timed to orbit around ItiK moon. Workers Urged To Attend Child (are Meeting "To guarantee success of the Beckley Child Care Center drive, it is imperative that all workers attend the checking and coaching conference tonight," the Rev.

Moorman Parker, director of the campaign to raise $80.000, said today. The director expects. 300 cap- itains and workers, along with the advisory, executive, advance and special committees to attend the 7:30 p.m. meeting in the Beckley Hotel ballroom. The checking portion of the conference will include introduction of the majors, captains, and workers.

The workers will be given the "right answers" to all questions concerning the Beckley, Child Care Center, preparatory to the dinner meeting Tuesday, and the beginning of solicitations Wednesday night Airmen Engage In Tokyo Brawl TOKYO (AP)--Five IJ. S. airmen and a group or Japanese men clashed in a bloody brawl In nearby TacMkawa Sunday. One U. S.

air policeman was badly cut by a flying beer bottle. Another had to beat his way iflirough an angry crowd of Japanese with his night stick. The Air Force put an off-limits ban, on two streets in the night club amd bar districts of the city, home of TacMkawa Air Base, America's biggest air supply terminal in Japan. Japanese police held, four Japanese men for investigation of assault. The Air Force said it does not contemplate any punishment of the airmen.

The injured air policeman was Airman Robert L. Greene, 22, of Howertons, Va. Fifteen stitches were required to close the gash in his head. The other airmen suffered only minor injuries. Howery Named Jury Foreman Clayton Howery, Beckley, is foreman of the Grand Jury for the October term of Raleigh County Criminal Court meeting today.

Judge Harry L. McCreery named Howery before making his charge to the four women and 12 men who were escorted to the jury room at 9:42 a. m. Only nine of the grand jurors originally summoned appeared this morning. William F.

Watts, and E. S. Pugh both of Beckley, were named special commissioners to secure seven persons to make up the required 16. Clayton Howery, Mrs. W.

C. Barnard, Wilfred Wooddell, Joe Lilly, Harry Patterson, Guy Amato, and T. K. Moore are the seven called today to serve. Others on the grand are Kessler Plumley, Abraham; Ear- sal Artie; Austin Privett, Coal City; H.

H. Thompson, Odd; Chris Hinte, Eccles; Mrs. Nathan Matz, Mrs. Jessie Lipscomb, and W. S.

Tyree, all of Beckley, and Mrs. J. D. Ballew, Mabscott. The jury will act on some 103 cases for which" 51 witnesses have been summoned.

The court docket lists an additional 25 appeal cases. ale tab, 1 Section SINCE iSSO--mCKLEY'S OLDEST INSTITUTION 14 Pages VOL. 80-NO. 91 BECKLEY, VIRGINIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 5.1959 AT STANDS-5 CENTS Union Rejects Steel Offer PITTSBUBGH (AP) The United Steelworkers' decision-making Wage Policy Committee today rejected as "completely unsatisfactory" a steel industry proposal for ending the 83-day-old nationwide steel strike. USW President David J.

McDonald said an immediate effort would be made to resume negotiations with the steel industry. He said he was hopeful a session could, be arranged yet today. The 170-member Wage Policy Committee, which must act on all contract proposals, was told to standby for possible second session later this afternoon. The meeting closed to news-igree of high morale, unity and men followed by one day" a determination among our peo- union's 33-mem- eral court injunction be sought. Industry sources earlier re- session 3er Executive Board at which new industry contract proposal, including a money package reportedly was found unsatisfac- ported the management offer would increase labor costs about recommendation of 16 cents, an hour during life jxecutie Board was handed to tory.

A Wage Policy Committee rhortly after today's session had costs would come closer to 10 tarted. Several members who cents an hour during a two-year had attended the executive Joaird meeting said the industry ffer was rejected unanimously. The pessimistic reports raised speculation President Eisenhower will invoke the ey law this week and send the half million to the mills at least for an 80-day cool- period. The union, and management seldom, agree on the costs of la- xr improvements unless it is a flat wage increase. In its newest, proposal, man- timated eight cents an hour to welfare and pension ing-off period.

President David J. McDonald during the first year the, SteelworKers would not ay if the executive board "recommended rejection. But say he has support "of the striking members. After the board meeting, McDonald said: "Reports from the directors who have been close to the men back during this time indicate- a remarkable de- pie." Even before the board meeting ended, there from Washington were reports that government attorneys were working on plans for quick Toft-Hartley action to stop the costly strike. The first step would be for the President to declare an emergency and appoint a fact-finding committee.

Then, if the commit- By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PITMAN, N. J. Dr. Edwin Eliot Willoughby, 59, Shakes- perian scholar, lecturer, author and bibliographer, died Friday. He was one of the few American members of Britain's Royal Society of Literature.

PORTLAND, Maine Frederick H. Libby, 96, believed the nation's oldest member of the Knights'of died Saturday. He was a of the social and charitable organization for 74 years. HOLLYWOOD William 41, Broadway and movie actor and most recently a regular on bhe TV series "It's a Great Life," died Saturday of cancer. HANOVER, N.

H. Dr. Milton 'G. Winternitz, 74, former dean of the Yale School of Medicine, died Saturday. After his retirement from Yale in 1950, he served three years as chairman of the Division ot Medical Sciences of the National Research Council.

TEL AVIV, Israel Aryeih Shenkar, 82, president rf the Israel Manufacturer's died Saturday. Pollution Killing Ohio River Fish HUNTINGTON (AP) The Ohio River and some of its tributaries have become floating graveyards for fish. Tens-of thousands of dead fish are floating in the big river between Point Pleasant and Ashland, a distance of about 60 miles. Veteran fishermen and river- men blamed the mass killing on a combination of pollution and low water caused by near- drought conditions in September. Most of the dead fish backed up at locks and dams were minnows but there were large fish among them, and many larger fish, fighting for more oxygen, barely moved below the surface.

The Gallipolis, Ohio, dam reported its lock chamber "white with the bodies of small fish." A Kanawha River pilot said he saw fish on a trip downriver yesterday. Many fish died last weekend in the. Little Kanawha River, a Wood County game warden reported. W. Va.

Weather Partly cloudy, scattered thundershowers northwest tonight; low in- 50s in mountains, 60-65 elsewhere. Partly doudy, scattered showers, somewhat cooler Tuesday. Extended Forecast Temperatures tonight through Saturday will average 3 to 6 degrees- above normals of 57 in the north and 58 in Tuesday, a little cooler Wednesday, warmer Thursday and cooler Friday. Occasional showers' Tuesday' through Saturday may average to BECKLEY Sunday's high 86 Sunday's Low ...60 7 a.m 62 10 a.m. 76 Noon 80 OAK HILL High yesterday 87 Low last night 53 7 a.m.

today 55 Bluestone Reservoir--Muddy at normal stage, sU gates open, gauge three feet. Greenbrter Rim Normal stage and cloudy. a two-year contract. But un- LOD sources said added labor of benefits and increase wages a similar amount 18 W. Va.

Teams In Safety Meet BUFFALO, N. Y. (AP) More than 250 competitors from eight states were" on hand today for the opening of the three-day National First-aid and Mine Rescue Championships. West Virginia, the nation's largest coal-producing state, entered 18 teams in the tournament, jointly sponsored by the coal mining industry, the United Mine Workers Union amd the U. S.

Bureau of Mines. Included in the Mountaineer state's entry list is the defending championship team in first-aid, the Island Creek Coal Co. team of Holderi, W. Va. The Island Creek team won the title in 1957.

The championships are conduct- every two years. Mine rescue competition opens the tournament with first-aid events scheduled for tomorrow and Wednesday. Winners will be aniwrnnced Wednesday night. M. J.

Ankeny, director of the Federal Bureau of Mines, is general chairman of the event. Other states represented are Indiana, Kentucky, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Ohio. The championships will be determined on speed and profici- sncy in tasks given the six-man' teams. Driver Sentenced In Mercer Death Board Plans Civic Discussion PRINCETON (RNS) Joseph Tatem, stationed with the U. S.

Army at Fort Bragg, N. pleaded guilty to negligent homicide before Magistrate Bee Peck, Princeton, this morning, and was fined $100 and costs, and--sentenced to 12 months in He was charged following a car accident about Saturday on Crumpecker Hill, just outside of Princeton, which resulted in the death of Miss Edlyn Wilson, 20, Dayton, 7 Ohio. Miss 1 Wilson died at 2:05. a.m. Sunday in a Princeton Hospital of injuries received in the accident.

(See earlier story Page 2). This Got Action! Their cars the road, four mothers stand at foot of a hill on Powers road in Farmington Township, while their children walk to school without traffic. The mothers contend the hill is dangerous, because of traffic, and demand that it be widened and graded down. Officials finally agreed. A special" meeting of "the Raleigh County Board of Education will be held soon, probably the first of next week, to consider approving a contract with the State Armory Board which will provide for a civic center to be included in new armory building.

The building will be constructed on a 20-acre tract of. land which is now part of Pinecrest Sanitarium grounds. If the Board of Education, County Court and City of Beckley enter into contract with the armory board the civic center portion of the new structure will be built. Otherwise the armory alone will be constructec. at a cost of $450,000.

Addition of the civic center will make the cost $750,000. Raleigh County Superintendent of Schools Sherman C. Trail said this morning that the exact date of the special meeting has not been set. The next regular meeting is 1-Man'Copier As Second Car! PINEHURST, N. C.

(AP) -With the Little Zipster helicopter, you can drop down ait your favorite filling station, refuel and land in your backyard. The tiny craft, called by its manufacturer the world's smallest one-man helicopter designed for private use, was put through its paces over the weekend at the Pine Needles Country Club golf course. The helicopter weight 450 pounds, sells for $2,000 in kit execution by Mrs. form, and its 60 horsepower en- pard, Shady Spring, against Huf- gine attains a cruising speed of ford Wagner, Iroquois, Raleigh 60 miles an hour. Designer Igor County Circuit Court Judge in Bensen of Bensen Aircraft Corp.

JLUO scheduled for 27. But toe use of a om obfle fuel, deadline for approval or rejec- says its top selling 'point is its of Mrs. Eppard. tion of the. contracts is Oct.

15, session became the special necessary. The Raleigh County Court will to con- meet Friday morning the matter. The City of Beckley has al- approved in a special meeting. Haslam Escapes Serious Injury William Arron Haslam, 51, Mount Hope, escaped with minor bruises this morning when his automobile was involved in an accident at Bradley. Haslam told State Police he was attempting to pass another vehicle when a car pulled onto the highway.

He drove off the left side of the road, strikinig an empty school bus parked there. The imp-act knocked Haslam from the car, and the driverless vehicle crashed into the High Point Drive-In restaurant. The accident occurred about :30 a.m. Damage to the car, owned by the Winding Gulf Coals Tarns, of which Haslam is president, was estimated at $1,000. The restaurant is owned-by Deputy Sheriff "Kenneth Larabee.

This, he said, liberates the 'Wingless Cat' In Court Trial Of 'Winged Cat' PINEVILLE (HNS) A "cat without wings" was the center of attention in a suit opening today in Wyoming County Circuit Court. Mrs. Mary Hicks, of the Pine ville BeoleysvUle Road, and plaintiff in the "Winged Cat" case, was the first on the witness She declared the cat exhibited as "Thomas," which won fame this spring, is not the cat she is trying to reclaim through the courts. This cat is about the same size and color of "Thomas," but" it does not have wings. Defendants are Mr.

and Mrs. Coy Shelton and their son. Douglas. Pineville. Douglas is the youth who reported finding the female cat in a tree near his home.

The appendages attached to the rear portion of its body won it the title of "winged cat," and Douglas took it to New York for an appearance on the Dave Garraway "Today" show. Mrs. Hioks contends she is the owner of the--cat, -which she obtained in California and named "Mitzi." This morning, after being exhibited in the courtroom, the cat removed to the witness room -where other witnesses were waiting until they were called to testify. Also exhibited today was a piece of matted fur of a texture similar to that of "Thomas." ent for the proceedings was said Exhibiting the cat and fur was Shelton's attorney, James C. Lyons, Pineville.

Shady Spring Woman Wins Court Ruling In a proceeding to quash an Othleen Ep- man Knapp ruled today in favor Wagner, who was discharged craft from the airfield and makes which Mrs Ep it suitable to suburban living. Hej" visualizes the copter as stitute for the second car. jpard held was included in the debts covered by the bankruptcy Ready-made models are expected to. sell for $6,995. William Collins, 90, Dies In Cleveland CLEVELAND (AP) William Collins, 90, a.former partner of, n1 the M.

A. Hanna died yes- Jos DeMary, 21, It A A terday at his home in Cleveland Heights. proceedings. PITTSBURGH (AP)--An escapee from the West Virginia State prison at Moxmdsville was aprehended early today as he got off a bus in Pittsburgh. Wheeling police officials said Monongah, W.

walked off a prison farm at He For many years he was man- Moundsville Sunday mghL ager here of the company's giant boarded a bus for Pittsburgh at tae ore and lake coal division was known as the dean of coal DeMary was serving a one to 10 year sentence for burglary. He was sentenced in May of 1958. Police said the burglarv occurred in Marian County, W. Va. Police at Pittsburgh held De- WESTCLIFFE, Colo.

(AP) Mary until a prison guard was Army vehicles churned through! se nt to take him back to the pen- shippers on the Great Lakes. Starving Cattle Fed heavy snowdrifts today delivering hay to an estimated 6,000 starving cattle, marooned mountain pastures. More than the strand- Army 'vehicles loaded with hay. Dozens, of cattle have died as the result of a vicious snowstorm that dumped more than three feet of snow in a three-day span ended last Saturday. itentiary.

Is Linus In Love! He's going to school now, and he's got a new idol! Don't miss the delightfully amusing developments in "PEANUTS" C. M. Schultz's. great comic today--and every weekday in The Register. 10 Dead In Southwest Storms By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Bain fell without letup over most of the Southwest early For Oklahoma, it was'the sixth straight day of continuous downpour.

Parts of were inundated. After a round of punishing blows in. the Southwest over the week end, the rain over into the Midwest early today. Ten deaths were attributed to the weather over the weekend. Five of the deaths were caused by accidents during the Okla homa storms.

At Lapeer, Sunday, five members of a family eight were killed when their car. collided with a -train during a rainy mist. Two persons were missing in flooded of Texas. Property damage in Oklahoma was in millions of dollars. Hardest hit in Oklahoma were Guthrie, Oklahoma City, and smaller communities in easte.ru and central of the state.

Nearly 7,000 families have been evacuated because of the rising Arkansas River and Cottorvwood Workers were ging the waters. The Weather Bureau reported West Plains, had -an overnight rainfall of inches. 6t- tumwa, Iowa, had about inches. About 1 inch fell in Pine Bluff, Kirksvflle, Brownsville' and Corpus, Christi, Burlington, Iowa, Moline, A string of tornadoes rammed north central Texas Sunday, damaging scores of homes and farm property. Five persons were injured: Yuba, and Paris, also were struck by tornadoes.

One woman was injured in Oklahoma. Property was damaged in 1xth states. A cloudburst Sunday struck the ranch country in icentral Texas. Eighteen inches of water were Thousands of head of cattle drowned; damage farm property was heavy. Two persons were tnissing.

In parts of Colorado, where snowfalls last week end piled.ttp drifts of 7 and 8 feet. Army vehicles were used to bring hay to cattle marooned in mountain pastures. Much livestock died in idrifts, unable to forage for feed. Official I View Awaits Information WASHINGTON (AP) American scientists have tipped their, hats to the Soviets who launched a new space vehicle Sunday. But they withheld any big slaps on the back until they see how the space traveler performs.

There was no attempt to discredit the Soviet launching itself only a wait and see attitude on its performance. The U. S. space officials did not know for sure just what kind of a vehicle had been launched, where it was to go and what it was to do. Their information was limited almost entirely to that given out by the Soviets and that was vague.

T. Keith Glennan, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said he had received word of the launching with considerable interest. "We recognize the significance pression they have something they do not," Whipple said. Whipple said it was Ms impression the Soviets put into orbit not a space station but a rocket around the moon. U.S.

Little Joe Space Capsule Test Successful WASHINGTON (AP) A Little Joe booster rocket has turned in a big performance for space scientists. The rocket Sunday hoisted a dummy space capsule with an inert escape rocket system to of this effort to send a probe an altitude of 40 miles above the around the moon and extend our congratulations." he said. "With the rest of the world scientific community we shall await the data from this new probe in us journey between the earth and the moon." There was a question as to whether the vehicle was meant to make one or more circles around the moon or merely include it in a big orbit around the earfch. First Soviet reports described the vehicle as an "interplanetary station" that would whirl around the moon and then go into a orbit around the earth. Moscow Planetarium experts said the vehicle was in fact only another earth satellite that for one circuit would include the moon within its flight.

Dr. Fred L. Whipple, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge. also questioned use of the term "interplanetary station." "I suspect they are using a fancy term to give people the im- Atlantic Ocean. They were intentionally destroyed according to plan about 2 1-2 minutes after launching.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration stamped the test successful. The launching from the Wallop's Island, research station was the first in a series for the Little Joes. The dummy space capsule was only a boiler plate mock-up of the type that will carry man into space. Neither the capsule nor the escape system was instrumented for the test of the rocket's booster, launching and desbruct systems. The Little Joe is a 24-foot, 20,000 pound rocket.

The 10-foot capsule it carries weighs one ton and is surmounted by a 16-foot escape rocket. The escape rocket is designed to pull the capsule several thousand feet above the main rocket if something goes wrong during a launching. It then is suppose'd to open chutes and safely lower the capsule to earth. 'Britain Snobridden 9 Class Distinction Is Political Issue LONDON (AP) Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Labor clashed today on the issue of class distinction as candidates began final campaigning for Thursday's election of a new House of Commons. This mention of class was temperature-rising stuff.

It's the oldest issue in British politics, one with great emotional impact on the nation's 35,400.000 eligible voters. Gaitekell claimed Britain still is snob-ridden. Macmillan deplored this suggestion. The Prime Minister spoke in King's Lynn in the heart of a rich agricultural area of eastern England. "Mr.

Gaitskell is becoming quite desperate," he said. "Last night he said the whole of thej Ministers Talk The Beckley Ministerial Association heard plans this morning for the Usher's Conference to be held at the First Christian Church Oct. 12, from 6:45 until 10 p.m. The Rev. A.

H. Wilson, host pastor, will send out letters to all church ushers inviting their participation. The group voted to discontinue local radio program, "The Pastor's Study," and the Radio Committee -was asked to substitute a program from the National Council of Churches. Jack Boggs, Baptist- evangelist of Charleston, who was scheduled to speak, did not attend. Presiding in the absence of the president, the Rev.

H. A. McClung, was the Rev. J. B.

F. Yoak, pastor of The Methodist Temple. The Rev. Don Francis conducted devotionals. First Negro Runs For Parliament LONDON (AP) For the first time a Negro Is running for Par- ament.

David Pitt, 45-year-old physi- is the Labor Party's candi- for Hampstead, a prosper- suburb. Pitt finds the going tough, politically and personally. opponent is Henry Brooke, minister in the Conservative government, Ham'ostead usually votes solidly Conserva- so Dr. Pitt can't count on in Thursday's election. ian date ous Dr.

both His housin winning Conseirvative party and their supporters were servile and stuffed shirts and all the rest of it. "Whatever Irappens in this election, about half the people will vote one way and half the other. I do not think it is much good one half saying that the others are crooks and rascals. We are all Englishmen, and we have got to live the past some have died together. "It is just bunk to get up and talk that kind of stuff in- the second half of the 20th century.

It might have been all right 100 years ago, "but it is just not true today. We know that this old class war stuff is dead, and people are getting bored with it." Gaitskell said in an article in 3ie pro-Labor Daily Herald that "the class barriers ba've crumbV ed but not disappeared." "There are still indefensible in-; equalities of wealth in our society," he added. "One in owns as much as the other 99 between them. The false values of snobbery still distort the personal relationships with each other which we should enjoy." On the basis of public opinion polls, usually accurate in Britain, Gaitskell's Laborities and Macmillan's Conservatives appear to be neck-and-neck. Driver Charged in 3-Car (rash James Edward Treadway, 21, Fayetteville, was charged by State Police with failing to keep his vehicle under control after a three-car collision at 12:20 a.m.

Sunday near Bradley. Police said Treadway was the driver of a car which ran into the back end of an automobile driven by Raymond Joe Menei, 25. Glen Jean. The Menei vehicle in turn rammed the rear of a car driven by William Fred Burleson, 23, Glen Daniel. Police said damages were estimated at $800.

The accident oc- current in front of the Spaghetti House. Another early Sunday morning accident occurred on Harper Road near the Sears Monument Co. when a 1956.model car driven by Jack Stillman, South Charleston, hit a utility pole and then overturned. State Police said the accident occurred about 12:30 a.m; Stillman lost control of his car. The vehicle was described as a total loss.

Stillman was taken to the Beckley Memorial Hospital where he was treated and released Sherwood Glutz Says: Iffen Beckley, the school bored an county cort doarit sine contracts to assure the Civic center theyll pass up the best bargain since I swapped a sick mule an hound dog who back. tracked fer 10 acres uv bottom land. What a place to hold a kingsized pic supper an square dance!.