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9 TELEPHONE 98 99 KANE and MT. JEWETT, PA WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 25. 1957 SEVEN CEKTS A COPY rn W) PARATROOPERS BOROUGH SETS PRELIMINARIES FOR BLEACHER INSTALLATION AT GLEN VOOD MEMORIAL FIELD ALLEGED IS J' BLEACHER BASE li aBssw Compelled to Intervene: Ike WASHINGTON MU.P.) President Eisenhower told the nation Tuesday night he was compelled to intervene with federal troops in the Arkansas integration crisis to uphold the law of the land against mob rule. Eisenhower appealed to the people of Arkansas to help him end "extremist" resistance to allowing Negro children to attend Central High School in Little Rock.

He said mob interference with a federal court's integration order was a blot on the nation's honor. The President, who flew here Tuesday specifically to make the speech, flew back to Newport, R.L early today to await the outcome of his drastic move to prevent further interference with court ordered integration in Little Rock. The Chief Executive was alternately praised and condemned for his use of federal troops a seldom invoked step that never before has been taken in the integration struggle. A number of southern governors and political leaders, including so called expressed grave concern over the use of federal troops. Some denounced it as dictatorship.

1 Eisenhower's 13 minute speech was delivered in a solemn and unsmiling manner. He outlined the seriousness of the Little Rock situation. He said unless he had acted "anarchy would result." Castigating the crowds that blocked Negro attendance at school as "disorderly 'mobs" led by "demagogic extremists," the President declared: "Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts." Eisenhower asserted the federal troops are not being used to, "relieve local and state authorities of their primary duty to preserve peace and order." He said they are in Little Rock solely to prevent interference with the integration orders issued by Federal Judge Ronald N. Davies. THIS IS AN ARTIST'S conception of the long range program for Glenwood Memorial Field in the north section of Kane which makes a major advance this year in the purchase of bleachers and arrangements for their installation.

Also, a memoriai fountain has been donated and reconstruction of dugouts and other work has taken place. Pictured is the bleacher section at lower left, which can be extended for majorevents through borrowing bleachers from the high school. Also shown are the proposed tennis courts, picnic tables, swing and sand box areas, fire places and a horseshoe court, all in the planning stages since 1946. 'How Peaceful It Seems' From Disbelief to Cold Fury What Does Little Rock Look Like After Dark? (EDITOR'S NOTE: How does Little Rock, an American city practically under military occupation, look. Louis Cassels of the United Press Washington staff flew into Little Rock Tuesday night and the first thing he did after he arrived was to ride over town.

This is how he found it). By LOUIS CASSELS United Press Staff Correspondent LITTLE ROCK, Ark. XU.R) The first thing you io about Little Rock is how peaceful it seems. White South Shocked By Ike's Troop Decision By AL KUETTNER United Press Staff Correspondent ATLANTA U.R) Emotions of the white South ranged from shocked disbelief to cold fury today over President Eisenhower's use of the armed forces to compel the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. It's the "official" start of a seo.

MAKE CROWD GIVE GROUND Convoy Roars Past Crowd Half Hour Aftef Start of Classes. LITTLE ROCK. Ark. (I.P) Central High School was integrated today under the protection of bayonet toting paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division. The Army regulars escorted nine Negro students into the high school building at 9:22 a.m.

C.S.T. without incident. The Negro children arrived in a green Army station wagon, convoyed fore and aft by jeeploads of troops. The convoy roared down the street, past a crowd of perhaps 200 white civilians who had been kept at a distance of one block from the school, and drove directly to the door of the school. The nine students got out of the station wagon and walked quietly into the building to their classrooms.

Classes had been underway about half an hour when they arrived. Twenty minutes after the Noo children entered the school, a detachment of 25 troops advanced with fixed bayonets toward a crowd which had gathered at another intersection a block from the scnool. This crowd was a little slower in dispersing. One teen age boy stubbornly stood his ground, and a paratrooper prodded the sharp end of his bayonet gently into the small of his back." The pinprick did not draw blood 4ut it persuaded the youth to retreat in some baste. There were no crowds, no demonstrations, no disorder of any kind within the heavily patrolled irea immediately surrounding the school.

Shortly before the Negro children showed up, a squad of eight paratroopers, with bayonets pointed menacingly forward, drove back a crowd of 115 persons who had snickered derisively when an officer ordered them over loudspeakers to disperse. The crowd retreated quickly before the determined looking paratroopers advancing with out thrust' bayonets. No one was scratched. Troops Ring School About 500 battle garbed troops, members of the famed fighting division which said "nuts" to the German army at Bastogne, ringed the two block long school. The inner perimeter of guards consisted of soldiers standing at parade rest, rifle butts on the ground, about five feet apart An outer perimeter, consisting of detachments of 8 to 12 men, held every street section at a distance of one block from the grounds.

Roving squads, on foojt and in jeeps, moved constantly around in the "no man's land" between the two perimeters. An Army helicopter hovered overhead directing these roving squads to any potential troubled spot Small Crowds Gather Comparatively small crowds of white people, ranging from as few as a dozen to a maximum of 150, gathered at widely scattered spots around the fringe of the outer perimeter. Anyone who tried to move forward was promptly and very firmly pushed back by a phalanx of troops holding bayonetted rifles at port arms, athwart the waist. Only when a crowd ignored orders to disperse or move back did the troops swing their bayonets around to the out thrust, or ready to stick, position. Maj.

Gen. Edwin A. Walker, commanding the federal forces in Little Rock, addressed an assembly of white students at Central High before the Negro children arrived. "No "one will interfere with your coming, going, or your peaceful pur Continued on Psge 8) EISENHOWER ACTED TOO SLOWLY: LEADER PITTSBURGH (UE) Governor George M. Leader says President Eisenhower acted so slowly in intervening in the Little Rock integration crisis that "mob psychology" was allowed to take charge.

The governor, in an interview over television Station KDKA TV Tuesday, said Eisenhower should have intervened more quickly and more forcefully, and then Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus would have "backed down." He said the Arkansas governor made a "horrible mistake" in using the guard to prevent Negroos from entering Central High School. Leader said the President made matters worse by failing to move with greater speed and firmness. SCHEIE TOLD fx Democrat Leader Says Contractor Collected Did Not Deliver. HARRISBURG (UE) The trial of Victor Prep, operator of the Prep Construction Frackville, went into its final stages today after another defendant gave details of how he went into a scheme to defraud the Commonwealth in an alleged cinder fraud "to make a fast dollar for myself." John W.

Crerand, Manchester RD 1, a former Democratic chairman of York county and a former district highways superintendent, told a Dauphin county court jury Tuesday Prep first approached him shortly after the contractor received an order calling for delivery of 10,000 tons of cinders at $2.14 a ton. Pleaded Guilty Crerand, who has pleaded guilty to charges of cheating and false pretense, said he was asked by Prep if he had any political commitments. "I told him I had the usual expenses $100 dinners and other contributions which were expected of me," Crerand testified. "He said he did not see why I should pay them, since no one else did. "He said he had worked out a 'foolproof scheme' during his year's of experience at furnishing cinders to the state.

It involved the district highways superintendents. I was to accept phony cinder receipts from him and insert them among the valid slips to be sent in for payment. I was to get $1 a ton for each ton he was paid for, but didn't have to deliver." Received $2,500 le testified he received $1,000 on 1 of two occasions and $500 another time, but when he attempted to withdraw from the alleged scheme after he received payment for the first batch of bogus receipts Prep told him "You are in this as deep as I am; I'll call the On cros examination by attorney David S. Kohn, counsel for Prep, Crerand denied, demanding the payoffs from Prep on the ground his predecessor in the highways post had "collected plenty." Prep is charged with being the central figure in a $45,000 cinder fraud and the current trial is the first of 26 charges against him. He still faces trial on the other charges involving two other former highway officials Frank S.

Jamieson. West Chester, former Chester county highway superintendent, and Mlip J. Price, Columbia, formerly the highways purchasing division or the Property and Supplies Department. 'May Not Be Wise To Get Flu Shots' Dr. Charles E.

Cleland, of Kane, last night weighed the values of inoculation against Asian flu at a regular meeting of the McKean County Medical Society at the Penn hills club near Bradford, holding it might be better for many persons to take flu in stride and build up an immunity for the future, rather than take the inoculations each year. He reported to the meeting on surveys discussed at the recent Penna. Medical Society convention at Pittsburgh in which he served as a delegate. In his talk he weighed mass inoculation values where vital production would be impaired by a high rate of absenteeism, pointing cut necessary protection to specific key groups and especially age groups. There was no indication of plans for mass inoculations from infants to the aged on the basis of reports today.

Also from Kane at the meeting were Dr. Elizabeth Cleland, Dr. William Anderson and Dr. R. E.

Hockenberry. The Big News Story Overseas? By United Press The big story abroad today was integration situation in the United States. Newspapers and radio broadcasts on every continent played it big, and there was some sharp criticism of developments in Arkansas. But, for the most part, people in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America approved President Eisenhower's action in moving troops into Little Rock. And the more responsible elements overseas adopted an understanding viewpoint.

The Communists and their satellites, of made propaganda capital of the situation, a fact to which Eisenhower alluded Tuesday night when he said "our enemies are gloating over this incident." BEST WISHES: IKE NEWPORT, R. I. (U.PJ Presl pnt Eisenhower today offered the I jews "the best wishes of our hearts" for the Jewish New Year, whish begins at sundown tonight. 1 Baseball Bleachers Plus Fountain To Be Installed This Fall Kane Borough Council today advertises for bids on concrete base and drainage work at Glenwood Memo rial Field in cooperation with plans for installation of bleachers and a memorial fountain by the Kane War Memorials Committee Lloyd P. Thompson, chair man of the memorials com mittee, has announced the purchase of bleachers from a special fund which was provided largely a contribution by Stackpole Carbon company two years ago.

The program was launched 11 years ago and moved into major promise two years ago when Stack pole Carbon company gave the committee $2,500 for bleachers. Mr. Thompson said this morning that the all weather steel and wood bleachers would be installed this fall as soon as the base work is com pleted. Memorial to 'Sonny A memorial fountain provided through funds from Co Ed in mem ory of Frank "Sonny" Nicolazzo, will be placed when the concrete work is being done. There will be ten sections of bleachers, seating a total pf 500 Plans have been made for dedication and placing of a suitable plaque at the bleachers next baseball season, Mr.

Thompson said. The fund lias been accumulating slowly, given a good boost only recently by the Kane CounciL.Knlghts of Columbus, in its benefit baseball game which featured, the All American Girls. Phil Jacobus, general chairman of the K. of C. event, termed the benefit completely successful and turned over a check for $227.51 t( Mr.

Thompson. At that time, Mr. Jacobus explained that some checks had been received as contributions to the War Memorials project and suggested the committee let it be known that donations are welcome and should be sent directly to Mr. Thompson. He said it was his impression that numerous persons, businesses, industries desired to help in the long range program at Glenwood Memorial Field but were not sure how to go about it, or where to send a donation.

Mr. Thompson explained that considerable work has been done at the field this year and that the arrangements for purchase of was set and installation hinged on installation of concrete slab bases and some drainage. Kane Borough Council indicated willingness to cooperate in the program but required a definite set of specifications and requirements. At a recent meeting the Park Committee of Kane Borough Council was authorized to proceed with advertising of bids as soon as specifications were set. A few ago, the plans and specifications were approved with the resultant ad toaay.

The bids will be opened at a regular meeting of Kane Borough Council with a deadline on Oct 7. Bids are for the construction of a catch basin, relocating a manhole and putting in a new drain from a fountain to the manhole. Also, there are ten sections of concrete slabs for the bleachers. The War Memorials Committee hopes to secure additional bleachers in the future some possibly by organization contributions as memorials. Much remains to be done to the field itself but today each project shows a definite pattern of development.

Fof sevral years, work on the field was "under ground" grading, filling, draining and jobs where there was little evidence of the progress. Mr. Thompson said the tennis courts which will double for a skating pond in winter months are one of the next major projects. It is planned to have a prepared blacktop coating on the courts with coated embankments bo that they can be flooded for ice skating. Five Day Forecast Western Pennsylvania: Temperature will average two to four degrees below normal.

Cool north, somewhat warmer south portion Thursday. Turning cooler during Friday and cool weather over the weekend. Warmer Monday. Scattered showers Friday and rain, mostly in south portion, about Sunday. Total rainfall around one quarter inch.

U. S. VICTORY IN U. N. UNITED NATIONS, N.

Y. (UPJ The U. S. resolution barring debate on admitting Red China to the U. N.

was approved Tuesday night, 47 27. IB mmmmmsmmi 1 SET IT15JG1; SCHEDULED II lURCH Kane Chapter of American Red Cross last night set up preliminaries for its March; 1958, campaign and established a quota of $5,761 of which the local chapter's operating share will be $3,312. Balance of the fund goes into the local chapter's share of the national Red Cross quota, set up on a population basis. William Bunce, chapter chairman "who' presided at the session, discussed appointment of a fund chairman for the 1958 campaign so that all phases of the effort can be planned well in advance of the kick off date. Reports were given by committee chairmen including M.

R. Donovan, who announced that 151 pints of blood were collected here on Sept. 19 and that the next visit of the bloodmobile would be Nov. 14. Mrs.

Clara Mills, chairman of volunteer services, announced that the Christmas on the High Seas program would again be sponsored by the local chapter this year and that 24 boxes of gifts would be prepared here to be delivered to members of the armed forces who are en route overseas on Christmas Day. Miss Martha Skooglund and Miss Frances Maher will assist Mrs. Mills in the arrangements. Thirty three cases of home service were handled by the local committee during the past three months according to Mrs. Helen Davis, secretary.

Jack Hill, chairman on disaster, reported on activities of his committee during the past month. FALL WEATHER OVER PA. TODAY. THURSDAY PITTSBURGH (UP) Fall weather took over in Pennsylvania today as a Canadian high pressure which centered over West Virginia caused cool dry weather to move over the entire state. Continued cool and dry weather with clear skies was predicted for today; tonight and Thursday.

High temperatures today were expected to range from the upper 60's in northern regions to the low 70s for southern portions. Low temperatures tonight were predicted to be in the upper 30s in the mountain sections. Temperatures at 6 a. m. oday were: 30 at Philipsburg; 35 at Mt.

Pocono; 34 at Brookville. The fliers, attached to the Air Research and Development Command, coming in for a landing at Wright Patterson Air Force Base when they crashed. "I had just finished eating supper and started outside when I heard a noise and then a boom came from next door," Maurice L. Bishop, Vanzant's neighbor, said. "It blew me clear out into the yard.

When I got up, I was a little dizzy and started running toward the alley. Then I thought, 'My God, my wife and children are in there eating." Bishop's front porch was torn off but he got his family safely' out of the house. The plane tore the second story from the home of Harry Kidd. He and his wife and son were in the kitchen and were not injured. However, the son had just come downstairs when the plane sheared off the top story.

DUOTfl Heart Beats In Our Hometown Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bryant, who moved to Ash street, Kane, when the former took a chemistry and biology instruction post in the high school here, will tell the world they are happy they moved to Kane. A few days ago, their four year old daughter was stricken seriously ill with a bronchial condition that required midnight hospitalization. There was a problem their five months old child.

Mr. Bryant explained it Lights in nearby homes went on and in just a few minutes, neighbors moved in to offer assistance. They took over while Mrs. Bryant went to the hospital with her daughter neighbors taking care of the infant to permit Mr. Bryant to handle his classes until he could get assistance from out of town relatives.

Mrs. Bryant, who accompanied their four year old daughter, Denise, home from the Community hospital yesterday, said simply, "We have wonderful neighbors." the corner of 14th and Park, and pulled to a halt Directly ahead of us was a barricade. Behind the barricade, bathed in floodlights, was Central High school. In front of the barricade, standing smartly at parade rest with rifles firmly grasped in their right hands, were half a dozen GI's of the 101st Airborne Division. Stopped By Private We walked toward the barricade until a soft voiced private in fatigues and paratroop boots lifted his rifle slightly and said "That's far enough, mister." "We're newspapermen.

Can we talk to somebody?" "Sergeant of the guard," sang out the private. Moments later, Sgt. Kenneth Gage of Davis, emerged from the shadows. We told him we wanted to know how many men they had, where they were stationed, that sort of thing. "You'll have to go doWn to headquarters," he said politely.

"We can't answer questions A convoy of jeeps rumbled down the street and into the barricaded high school grounds. Behind them came five open Army trucks, loaded with troops. All of them were wearing full combat gear helmets, rifles, bayonets in scabbards. They were silent, grim faced, not like troops going on maneuvers, more like men moving into battle. "I'd hate to tangle "with those birds," said Bryce.

So would I DULLES, AUSTRIAN CONFER WASHINGTON (UPJ Austrian Foreign Minister Leopold Figl talked over U. S. Austrian relations with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles Tuesday. He termed the half hour discussion "helpful and useful" but gave no details I don know exactly what I was expecting to find when I arrived from Washington last night. But it certainly wasn't the calm, business as usual atmosphere of Little Rock airport.

Nor the quiet, almost empty streets through which my. cab drove to the Marion Hotel. A few bored looking men in business suits were sitting around in the hotel lobby reading newspapers. "Where are the troops?" I asked the desk clerk who shoved a registration card at me. He shrugged and didn't answer.

Could this be the city into which federal troops had just moved to restore order? No Rocks Thrown I walked two blocks down Louisiana Street to the United Press office in the Arkansas Gazette Building. Nobody threw rocks at me. "Where's all this tension and trouble you've been writing about?" I asked Bryce Miller, the United Press correspondent who's been covering the Little Rock integration story. "Come on, I'll take you for a ride," he said. We got into Miller's station wagon and drove down Main Street, a wide, brightly lighted thoroughfare with nice looking department stores and shops.

"No riot here," I commented. "No people either," he replied. That was the first time I. had thought to look at my watch. It was just 8 p.m., but the streets were as deserted as you would expect to find them at 2 a.m.

The few people who were abroad were walking in groups of three or four and walking fast. We swung down Ninth Street, the main business street of the Negro district. The pool halls and beer parlors were doing very little business. Here and there a little knot of Negro men stood on the corner, talking earnestly. In the Negro residential section, most of the houses had the lights on and the shades drawn all the way down.

"Don't you feel it?" Miller asked. City Is Scared "Yes," I said. "I'm beginning to feel it. This town is scared." Others cars were cruising the streets. A lot of them were police cars.

Many cars were filled with teen aged white boys. They were wearing black, tight fitting blue jeans and shirts that had been dyed black "Is that a high school fad here?" I asked Bryce. "First night I've noticed It," he said. "It seems to be some kind of uniform." Half a dozen cars full of white teen agers were parked at a dairy bar drive in. Suddenly police cars pulled up from three directions.

The cops jumped out and told the kids to disperse. Some of the youngsters wanted to get tough about it, so the police loaded them into the prowl cars and took them td the station We counted about 15 who were arrested. Bryce drove a few more blocks, to ond reconstruction period in the South, warned Sen. James O. Eastland (D Arkansas Gov.

Orval Faubus should close the schools, said Rep. Bob Sikes (D An unidentified Virginian tried to enlist to fight federal troops In Arkansas. Alabama Gov. James E. Folsom, nominally non commital on the civil rights controversy, said he would discharge every member of the state's National Guard before per mitting its federalization.

"Surely we can find some other way than the use of American sol diers with loaded guns facing law abiding American citizens," commented Tennesse Governor Frank Clement who last fall called out the National Guard to enforce the orderly integration of a school in Clinton, Tenn. Sen. Richard B. Russell (D Ga.) said that Eisenhower was using "totalitarian rule" to integrate Little Rock schools and warned "it would have a calamitous effect on race relations and on 'the cause of national unity." Russell was the leader in the Senate civil rights battle of 1957 and was credited with engineering an amendment prohibiting use of armed troops to back up the measure. In Texas, where there is a new law cutting off state funds to any school integrated without approval of the voters, Gov.

Price Daniel fired a telegram to the President saying: "Does this mean you will occupy with troops every non integrated school in the South? If so (Continued on Paje 8) Flu Epidemic Is In Second FLAGSTAFF. Ariz. (UPJ Arizona has become the second state hit by' a flu epidemic, and mounting numbers of flu cases were reported today in all sections of the nation. Arizona Health Commissioner C. G.

Salsbury said late Tuesday that the flu rate has "reached epidemic proportions." Elementary and higTi schools at Clifton, were ordered closed due to the outbreak, and at Flagstaff, school absenteeism reached about 15 per cent The Arizona cases, like those in most other parts of the nation, have not definitely been identified as Asian flu. Tests are underway to determine the flu strain responsible for the outbreak. Earlier this week, Acting Director Joseph P. Kesler of the Utah state Health Department reported a flu epidemic in his state. School attendance dropped as much as 50 per cent in parts of Utah.

The U. S. Public Health Service in Washington urged manufacturers Crippled Air Force Bomber Slams Into Homes; 4 Die INDICTMENT FOB IIOFFA NEW YORK (UP) James Hofft, vice president of the Teamsters Union, was indicted today on five counts of perjury by a federal rackets jury. The indictment accused the 44 year old union leader of lying during an Investigation of wiretapping. Declared Western Sfate of Asian flu vaccine to distribute their supplies under priority recommendations from state and local officials.

The first major flu outbreak was reported in the populous Chicago area with about 1,000 suburban Oak Park River Forest high school students and 480 students at Proviso High school were stricken with the ailment. At Norman, Oklahoma, coach Bud Wilkinson and two of his University of Oklahoma football players were stricken. An outbreak of flu at Fort Hua chuca, was blamed for the death of Pvt. Kenneth N. Rock stroth, Danville, 111.

Doctors said Rockstroth died Sunday of complications of inflenza "probably the Asian type." About 740 persenos at the Army base have been afflicted by the disease. The soldier's death was the 16th fatality in the nation believed caused bv Asian flu. Another outbreak has hit 1,500 students at Texas College. DAYTON, Ohio (U.PJ One of the worst plane crashes in this aviation pioneer city took four lives and damaged seven homes Tuesday. At dinner time in an East Side residential area a crippled Air Force 26 bomber roared down, clipping the tops of four houses and bursting into flame.

"I was just coming out the front sidewalk when it hit," the 10 year old daughter of Herbert Vanzant said. "I saw something coming but I didn't know' what it was. My uncle was out back cutting grass. Daddy and mother and my dog Fluffy were in the house." Vanzants wife, Elizabeth, about 40, and his brother in law, Walter Geisler, 53, were killed. Also dead were the pilot and co pilot of the plane, Maj.

James E. Meiancon, do, an Antonio, father of two. anrt Punt, Heikkinen, 31, Ramsey, Mich..