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242 TELEPHONE 83 S3 KANE and MT. JEWETT. SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1959 SEVEN CENTS A COPY 1 i IP i rf (71 IT3 fTD nn nQ ffV Vj rfc va a ry na nn Queen Meets Two Louisiana Governor Down to Settling .111 Jllliifl Mpri essM' Men Who Figure In '60 Speculation Two Country Inquiry Follows Crash During Summer Thunderstorm MILAN, Itaiy CP) A two nation inquiry opened today in the flaming crash of an American airliner that; disintegrated in a furious summer thunderstorm, killint? Rest in Tiny Motel CORNWALL, Ont UP) Queen lizabeth II today visits what's been COVINGTON, La. Gov. Earl called the "createst encincerinn K.

Long, just one busy day out of project in the world" and meets a mental institution, settled down two men who may contend for the today to about a week's rest rec 1960 Republican presidential nom ommended by a team of psychla trists. ination, all 68 persons aboard. The royal yacht Britannia, after The governor, staying at a tiny sailing through the St. Lawrence country motel, said he would follow Seaway in a symbolic opening with the doctor's Instructions. "I would Eyewitnesses said they saw a huge lightning bolt rip into the four engine Constellation Friday.

But aviation experts were inclined to doubt that lightning alone exploded the Trans World Airlines plane and caused Italy's n't have sent for them If I hud in President Eisenhower aboard, headed for the Cornwall Massena, N.Y., tended otherwise," he added. RUNAWAY TRUCK SMASHES THREE HOUSES, KILLS THREE PERSONS Remalns of a runaway, loaded grain truck are partially buried in the debris of a house, one of three smashed by the truck in Duluth, Minn. Three persons were killed and four others injured. The truck ran out of control down a steep, curving street, smashed into an auto, Jumped a curb and plowed through the homes. Dead were Ralph Redlin, 60, of Ellendale, N.

driver of the truck; his wife, Ruby, and Ray Cich, 28, of Superior, Wis, driver of the smashed auto. The Injured were in the houses. His words Friday indicated the worst air disaster. urea where the St. Lawrence power project operates.

Eisenhower returned to Washington Friday. contrary. He talked of renewing his campaign for re election. "I thought I would have to make 300 Vice President Richard M. Nixon RAHIANS VOTING TOR and New York Gov.

Nelson A. Rockefeller arranged to welcome speeches next fall to fin, but now I think I can do it with 100 speech the Queen and Prince Philip es. Coupl PflEBIC es, a Car, Ceremonies greeting the royal cou A platoon of doctors took over ple are set for Eisenhower Lock; Story of Four A Prom and a the governor's routine by invitation, banned' all contact with the press, IV Moses Saunders Dam, and at the in ternational boundary. all nonessential visitors and all un The plane had taken off from Malpensa Airport in this big north Italian industrial city just 17 minutes before, ft flew north toward the Swiss Alps and into the storm. It was headed for Paris and then a nonstop flight to Chicago's 0' Hare Airport.

At least 28 passengers and i crew members were American. Bodies, so badly mangled that identification of most was not in mediately possible, were collected at an improvised shelter in the woods. Three Mile Trail Bits of the giant Constellation were scattered in a three mile trail along the ground among the crowd Train Nixon and Rockefeller, both fre necessary activity. Speeding quently mentioned as potential riv BY ROBERT TUCKMAN Trail of Vengeance This voluntary medical tieatment may slow the 63 year old governor's (EDITOR'S NOTE: If you'll be driving next weekend, the 4th of Jul week ais ror the Republican nomination next year, are slated to speak and Elizabeth is listed for a statement HONOLULU JP Hawaiians progress along a trail of vengeance againt Louisiana politicians the gov 4end, take it easy. This story tells of what can happen to happy, carefree people in an automobile).

voted on statehood for a last time today and picked candidates for ernor feels have done him wrong. acknowledging the welcome. However, the festivities today emphasize electric, not political, power. their first state election a month No new reprisals were announced. hence.

Long ended 27 days of confinement in two mental hospitals at From all sides came predictions ed villages north of Milan. that the islanders would give an The St. Lawrence power project, though not exclusively Canadian, is one of Canada's most spectacular midmorning Friday. overwhelming "yes" admit the People on the ground said thev saw the lightning bolt hit over By SAUL PETT Associated Press Writer SHELBYVILLE, 111. UP) item: A train smashed into a carload of eight young people near Mattoon early today (May; 16), killing seven and critically injuring the eighth.

The youngsters had been to a prom at Shelbyville High School last night. The mid Pacific island chain as the 50th The governor had the State Hospital Board petition him to dismiss State Hospitals Director Jesse state. They had done so in two earlier Bankston and Dr. Charles Belcher, NEW THREAT Mike Sibole, 7, of Miami Beach, who woa the sympathy of the nation three years ego when he swapped his eyes' for a chance to' live, now may have deadly lung cancer, doctors fear. Mike's eyes were removed in delicate surgery to prevent cancer from spreading to his brain.

Castellanza. All reported the plane then tumed into a fireball. It continued aloft with its gas tanks exploding, they slid, then hit ground near Marante in the shadow of the industrial projects. 'Greatest in World Former President Herbert Hoover, himself an engineer, termed it "undoubtedly the greatest engineering project in the world." All the components have i been plebiscites and have been pleading trcr vvere laenunea as acting superintendent of Southeast Louisiana mental Hospital at Man deville. This action removed all for statehood for half a century.

The Hawaii Statehood Conunis blue suit was new and his green 1956 Chevy shone like new. Alpine resort country. opposition to Long's release. sion said its straw vote last week The U. S.

Civil Aeronautics Ivan Moon was proud of his car installed, generating more than one Mrs. Long, Sen. Russell Long (D showed 12 to 1 approval for ad Board, which dispatched Martyn It was to be a big nisht, and (here was no particular point in recalling that years ago tomorrow very early iomorrow his father was killed in an auto accident. As usual, his tired, black, old cocker Mitzl, followed him mission to the Union. billion kilowatts.

When running at maximum, it is second only to the Clarke, Us assistant chief safely Judy's 18th birthday. Tonight she was going to the prom. In 12 days, she would graduate high school. A girl couldn't ask for more momentous events. The girls were now ready.

They should have been they had been getting ready all nfernoon. Candidates of Asian descent pre' the governors nephew, and Dr. Arthur Long all were absent from Friday's proceedings. The three concurred in the decision that Grand Coulee on the Columbia Ri SlU DEUOI QUILL dominated on the primary list and engineer, to work with Italian officials, has no. record of any air liner blowing up in flight after being hit by lightning.

tne nrst state election July 28 is expected to send at least one Oil over. Mitzl always waited' at Irene's house until Jerry brought her hdme resulted in Long's flight to Galveston, for psychiatric treat ment and subsequent 16 day stay ental to Congress. ver in Washington state among hydroelectric plants of the western world, t. i The St. LawTence River, dropping 92 feet in 40 miles between Ogdensburg, N.

and Cornwall, DIES IT WARREN PA. from a date. The Last Signal TWA said the last radio ciirnal Tonight the "music was supplied by Frankie Leonard and his nine piece orchestra from Springfield. Hawaii will elect two U. S.

sena At the Moons' house, a small tors and one representative next square frame building with TV but heard from the plane was a report that it had climbed to 10,000 feet. But witnesses said they saw the month. Five of the eight leadirg In their powder blue Jackets and dark trousers (as classy as anything no inside plumbing, the walls trob AFTER LENGTH! ILLNESS aspirants are of Japanese or Chi and always kept his tires up. That afternoon he had washed it and polished it and vacuumed it and filled the gas tank. At 22, there is soul satisfaction in dressing up your car for a big.

Friday evening and telling the man, "fill it up." He backed out of the Moon place, a small farm and saw mill operation two mjles north of Shelbyville, and drove up the country road. It was a clear night, cool for May, and the windows of a car could easily mist up. Ivan drove past the home of his friend, Jerry Hill, just 200 yards from the Moons, and headed for Dorothy Thomas' house, a mile up. All three houses were on the same and the same party line one fcffthree shorts for the Moons, you see in Chicago), they played bed with excited charter. Girls Excited provides a vast force to spin turbines in ,32 generators 16 on each side of the international boundary.

plane flying much lower. nese ancestry. See 85 Percent Vote Investigators from the Italian under the east basket. Mostly they played sweet, slow music, like 'Sep Jerry and Ivan gave the girls Election officials predicted the at John Sealy Medical Center. Mrs.

Long also asked that the governor be committed to Mandeville. The governor Thursday filed for separation from Mrs. Long, who slipped out of the Ktate for parts unknown Tuesday night. After getting the hospital board to dismiss Bankston and Belcher, Long fired State Police Supt. John Nick Brown.

Long npparently was miffed at Brown and state troopers who took part in whisking him to Civil Aviation Administration also planned to talk to the eyewitnesses, their wrist corsages of white carnt. tions. The girls bubbled. The flow Combined Ktatniinnrl rfaMnrtum none of whom was known to be and party primary would brine out schooled in aviation. ers, they would look divine around the boys' shoulders as they b3 per cent of the nearly 170,000 The victims included Americans.

Mrs. Sarah Devonia Durnell, 84, of Warren, mother of Melvin Durnell of Star Route, Kane, a resident of that place for the past two years and a former resident of DeYoung for 25 years, 'died Friday evening at 7 o'clock at her residence in Warren. She had been in ill health for the last four years. Mrs. Durnell, who was born in White Plains, Sept.

16. 1874, re eugioie voters. Italians, French, British and sev Canced. They were so excited they couldn't cut the lapel hols in the In addition to congressional eral other European nationalities. boys new suits where each would nominees, voters also picked party One of the dead was Maria Sac arate lables, "No Love, "Star dust," "Blue Moon." All Are Dancing Only every fourth number approached rock 'n roll and they were mild versions.

In Shelbyville, the girls can dance fast but many of the country boys are too heavy footed for the speedy stuff. Ivan Moon and his group entered the gym and took more pictures and then went to their, table. Lyle Pfeiffer and his group arrived later and went to their table. And Mandeville. wear his carnation.

Mrs. Moon cut candidates for governor ahd for chetti Fermi, a Rome teacher iden Armstrong Wants To 'Blow Joint' SPILETO, Italy UP Louis Armstrong's condition continued to improve today after a bout with pneumonia. "I want to blow this joint," the jazz king told a hospital attendant. Satchmo, as millions of fans around the world call him, slept heavily through the night. Shortly after midnight his nurse said his temperature remained normal.

i short, two longs for Jerry; four the 76 seat first state legislature, tified as the sister of the late Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb. With Republicans running unopposed for major nominations, atten sided in DeYoung prior to moving to Warren two years ago. She was PLAYLOT ATTENDANCE tion in the primary focused on Fermi died of cancer in Chicago five years ago. contests, within the Democratic party. soon they were all dancing.

the holes. Nobody was more excited than Irene Moon. A pretty blond girl, she sparkled in a new white floor length formal. She wore low heels so she wouldnt be taller than Jerry. Besides, it would be easier to dance and Irene just loved dancing.

After dancing, her greatest love was horses. She had her own brown riding horse, named Dinah, in the pasture outside. Every day that Irene returned from school, Dinah waited at the corner of the pasture nearest the roaifor the school bus. Irene was a fine student and had TI DIE AS PLANE FALLS Before long it was 11:15. Some time thea, or before, Lyle Reveal 129 Strikers a member of the Women's Benefit Association in Warren and a former member of the First E.

U. B. Church in Warren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Wesley Durnell, in 1914. Survivors include four daughters, Mrs.

Edith Randolph, Springfield, Mrs. Viven Latt, Cherry Grove, and Mrs. Bernice Uplinger and Mrs. Ena Niswonger nt home; four ffeurer and his group decided to merge with Ivan Moon and his bhorts for Dorothy. And boys being boys and girls being girls, it was beginning to look like the three houses would be linked for a long time by more than a country road or telephone line.

Ivan dated Dorothy, and Jerry dated Ivan's younger sister, Irene. They double dated frequently They went cat fishing together and bowled together and sat in driw ins together. The boys took turns with their cars. Last Sunday they drove to Ramsay Lake in Jerry's car. Tonight, prom night, it was Ivan's turn.

Ring for Irene Jerry had just bought a ring for Irene. But. she was only 16, just CLARION COUNTY He hod many visitors Friday es he sat up In bed, pretended to play the trumpet and hummed "The Sunny Side of the Street." The raspy voiced king of jazz, 58, bounced back from a grave attack of pneumonia that mnde doc tors fear for his life. They said his group, Why? One can only guess. HERE PROMISES TO BE THE HIGHEST IN HISTORY At the conclusion of the first week of the PTA soonsored playground, Paul E.

Montgomery, playground director, reports that this year's attendance promises to be the largest in the history of the, project. As in previous yeais, West Side Judy Keen and Dorothy Thomas CLARION, Pa. UP) A light were best friends. They could have been the catalytic agents who sons, Claude Durnell at home, Char brought the two groups together. Lost Jobs Because Of Erie Shutdown ERIE Some 129 strikers of IUE (AFL CIO) have lost their jobs as a result of the 84 day strike against Erie Resistor Corp.

The strike ended Thursday. It' was pointed out, however, that plane crashed on a farm near here Friday during a rainstorm, killing the two occupants. strong recovery was remarkeble. (lie Durnell, Celoron, N. Sher just made the National Honor So Besides, the Pfeiffer car had a bear man Durnell, Ridgway, and Melvin ing shot.

Ivan Moon's car was in BENKZETTE HOME FIRE Killed were Reynolds K. Lobauch. Durnell, Kane R.U. good shape, as always. ciety.

On Monday, she was to be initialed. Another Car And a little after 8, on the night ST. MARYS, Pa. 0W Neighbors Also surviving are two sisters, And they left together and about 58, of Clarion, Kenneth Paine, 36, of Knox. Looaugh was owner of Lobaugh Ice Cream, Inc.

rescued Mr. and Mrs. William Wit Mrs. Orvilla Evans, Bradford, and crowded into Ivans car. Mrs.

Margaret Jones, Tupper Lake, both ir. their late 70's from their burning home in nearby Benezette It Wa 11:45 of May 15, while Ivan Moon and his group were driving in fom the The single engine, four place has the record for the largest number of children attending James City is off to a good start, too. During the first week, the handicraft classes made baskets from They drove the 27 miles Mat 1,1 mi. I miica Well plane, owned by William Crawford N. 35 grandchildren, several great grandchildren and several great great grandchildren.

Several the 129 are not presently listed on the company's payroll, and that this action by the company will not in rw.IU i.U Df. north, Lyle Pfeiffer was about ready loon in a5out Tne of Brookville, took off from Clar to drive in from the west ion Airport about 5 p. m. nieces and nephews also survive. sucker sticks.

Later in the summer I "ny affect the Present working Fifteen minutes later it crashed Friday. The elderly couple had been overcome by sjnoke. They were treated at the home of a neighbor. Firemen from five surrounding communities fought the blaze, which destroyed the two story home. Friends will be received at the force, speed was not unusual.

The road was straight, flat, uncrowded. The speed limit was 65 by day, 60 by night. (Continued ou Pare 6) Peterson Funeral Home in Warren on a farm near Route 66 about a mile north of Shippenville. The at the usual visiting hours, 10 to 12 a. 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 craft split apart on impact, strewing wreckage across a field.

beginning this evening. Funeral services will be held at Peterson's State Trooper Thaddeus Droast Monday morning at 10 ocIock with said a number of persons heard the crash but no' One saw it. the Rev. Frank Kehrli, assistant at Most boys who go formal to the Shelbyville High prom rent their white jacket, black tie, shirt, studs, cuff links, cummerbund und black pants from Richardson's Clothing Store, on Main Street, for $9.75. But not Lyle Pfeiffer and his friend, Jerry Hayes.

They were COLLEGE MEN. They had brought their formal clothes down with them from Champaign, where they were freshmen, fraternity brothers and roommates at the University of Illinois. Lyle was 18; Jerry, 19. Both were handsome, cleun cut, excellent students. Because his own home was so far, Jerry Hayes often spent weekends at Lyle's home.

The Pfeiffers the First Presbyterian Church In Warren, officiating. Interment will Although the list has not yet been released, workers will learn their fate when the list is read at a union membership meeting scheduled for 3 p. m. Sunday. A statement from the company Friday pointed out that some of 129 former employes listed "had long service Others were "top union officials." Union representatives Friday asked for a copy of the list of striking union members who have been "permanently replaced." In its statement the company explained that law provides a com there Will be another opportunity for sucker stick projects.

Next week, the children will make the popular plaster objects. In order for the plaster to dry properly out of doors, the weather should be warm and sunny. In case of rain, this project will be postponed to a more favorable time. There is a five cent charge for each of the plaster objects. Wiffle ball again seems to be the favorite game with he boys.

The girls' games are just beginning to get under way. Monday, evening at 8 o'clock at the Senior High School, there will be in Barnes Cemetery, finishing her Junior year In high school, and Mrs. Moon said she couldn't accept the ring unless she told Jerry it would be a long engagement. Irene hadn't told him yet. That is where their romance stood on the night of Friday, May 15, 1959.

Ivan and Dorothy were much farther along. She was 18 and graduating in 12 days. She had been wearing his diamond a year and it wouldn't be long now. Ivan had a steady job as a mechanic in a farm equipment store in Bethany. Things looked good.

Ivan expected they would be married before the end of the summer. Cpn turned off the road toward rricw frame house where Dor oiiiy lived with her aunt anti uncle, Betty and Bob Agney. She had romc to live with them when she was 6, when her parents separated, nt a time when the Agneys had no children of thVlr own. Since then, the Agneys had had children of their own. But that made no difference.

Dorothy was the first child in their house. She was still something special. "It'll lake us a day to get the plane back together to a complete investigation," Droast said. Police did not Immediately determine the cause of the crash or who was piloting the plane. Pa.

Guards Equipped To Tire Warheads $1,000 TAKEN FROM FUNDS AT MAYVILLE INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. UP The Pennsylvania National Guaid pany may fill the job of a striker for the first time will be equipped with a permanent replacement. Per be a meeting of the PTA presidents, parents and all those interested in I 1 'MvxfXfi' wun weapons capable of firing manent replacement means an end continuing the playgrounds beyond to the job and job rights of the atomic Adj. Gen. A.

J. Drexel Biddle re employe repluced, the statement the five week period now planned. had grown fond of their son's friend and began to regard him as one of the family. But one may reasonably suspect that Lorraine Pfeiffer's feeling toward Jerry Hayes wasn't exactly familial. He was attractive, intelligent, attentive.

And he was a COL outlined. Anyone with Meas as to financing ported rnday the guard received three eight inch howitzers designed the playgrounds for a loneer pe to fne shells with atomic warheads riod is asked to pass their sugges The guns were assigned to the 1st MAYV1LLE, N. Y. A 42 year old Chautauqua County probation officer, arrested Thursday and charged with using county funds for his own use, was released on $5,000 bail last night. The county aide, Raymond F.

Lindberg, of Jamestown, was arrested in his home by officers from the county sheriff's office after an Investigation showed that over $1,000 was taken from county funds. Lindberg was given the probation officer job in 1957. Along with handling court probationarics, ho also collected divorce monies, the sheriffs office reported. tions along to Mrs. Carmen Hill, for Central; Mrs.

Rose Lundeen for rocket howitzer Bn 108th Artillery, mundelphia. Clay Street; Mrs. Elinor Gtntilman The weapons will be kept nt the for West Side and Mrs. Betty Ro military reservation here until the lick for James City. As they left, Mrs.

Agney asked that they return with Irene and Jerry i so she could see "how everyone looks." They promised, and headed back to the Moons. At Jerry Hill's house, things were Jumping. He hud been talking nhout nothing but the prom for 108th. part of the Pennsylvania's 28th Infantry Division, completes us annual riem training, Aua. la.

KADETS HEAD FOR After that, the weapons will te housed at the 108th armory in FIRST COMPETITION The colorful Kane Kadets will more than a week. Now, at last, he came downstairs, a slender, slightly fl.UIlic Philadelphia. Troops will be train LEGE MAN and 19. Lorraine, who still lived at home and helped her dad milk the cows at 5 A.M., was only a Junior in high school and 17. And on a clear beautiful night filled with stars and the whispers of May, Jerry was taking her to the prom.

They were double dating with her brother, Lyle, and his, girl, Judy Keen. The pre dance excitement was such that Lorraine didn't want to be home where the boys might see her getting ready. So she spent the afternoon at Judy's an afternoon of girl talk and girl preparations. About 8:30, Lyle Pfeiffer and Jerry Hayes arrived at Judy Keen's small frame house in Shelbyville. They came In on the tail end of a ed with dummy rounds.

No tomic step out tonight at 7 p. m. in their A Little Man Plane Wreckage MILAN. Italy UP A has gard little man ducked pust po lice lines today, slipped through a grove of trees, then dashed for the wreckage of a TWA airliner which had crashed Friday, killing 68 persons. Police ran after him.

They are under orders to keep everyone away from the crash scene until an official investigation Is completed. As police escorted him out of the zone, the man sobbed: "But my sons! My two sonst They're in there!" He pulled out documents lden tifylng himself as Calo Caval lantl. His sons, Gabriele and Franco, died in Hut wreckage rt ooy, scruDDea ana siisiennia projectiles will be stored at Indian new blue suit. first parade of the season at Allegheny, N. Y.

town Gap. TIIK MAILMAN'S FRIKND HOUSTON, Tex. Postman Dallas Henderson has a friend who has solved the problem of dogs with a taste for mailmen. Cocoa, a medium sized pooch with week before, he hnd turned Sam Weston, drum major, will AMONG PLANE VICTIMS ROMEUP) Chester Linskv of 19 and got, from his mother and brothers, a buck seat radio speaker tnr his car. Tonight, a man of head the 35 man Unit as it competes with some of the top corps in the area for top honors.

This Kane drum und bugle corps has been practicing all spring and now is out a known owner, hus appointed himself Henderson's escort for the dally deliveries. Kubstance, who neid a steady joo QUADS BORN TO STUDENT COUPLE Still a bit surprised, Bessie Kajourda, 26, and her husband, Alex, 30, of Brooklyn, hold up fingers to indicate they sre parents of quadrupletsthree boys and a girl, born In Staten Island's Marine hospital' The parents attend Columbia university and live In a small, five room apartment. The quads, normal but put In Incubators, are the first children for the Kajourases, State College, among the 68 persons listed as killed in the crash of a Trans World Airlines plane Friday near Milan. Linskv "1 don't know where he cot the flg daytime manager of Broverman's Pool Hall opposite the fire house In Shelbvvllle, Jerry Hill was taking 1,13 girl to the prom. confident that its; snappy cadence Idea I needed protection," Hender boarded the Chicago bound plane at Milun.

and colorful music will once again party. This day, May 16, 1058, was son said, "hut I'm ulad to have bring winning season, i him uround.".