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THE'. KANE '1EPUBLICAN Zaiy Temperatures Overnight minimum 21 Noon Temperature 56 WEATHER REPORT Saturday scattered showers or thunderstorms likely; mostly clou ly and mild. VOL. LXVIII. NO.

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1961 SEVEN CENTS A COPT mm rn WW TflLtS OF MASS KRROR BILL CREATING 73 JUDGESHIPS SENT Astronaut Alan Shepard Lands Safely Rocketed Across Space Threshold CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (IP) The United States' first space man, Alan B. Shepard rocketed briefly across the threshold of space today and landed safely after a 5,100 mile an hour journey that carried him 115 miles high and 302 miles down range. Cmdr. Alan Lt CoL John Capt VirgU Shepard Glenn Grisson 1 I I Tbis Is the space capsule which carries the astronaut jpP 'I I 1 nis ono traveled 4,200 mph before hM BV inMiu James E.

Webb Is jf NASA director. 1 1 ear Ifir 111 d2t rmfp i Pfi iiSsMm 4 1 i tt 1 i I i md A i I i I 1 1 1 aOTB if'r. that lasted about five minutes. The medical monitor at the control center during the flight reported: The pilot's condition appears to be excellent. The pilot is beginning the process of firing his reverse rockets.

"Everything very smooth," he reported. The No. 1 reverse thrust rocket has fired and the second and third retro rockets fired. The pilot is preparing to jettison the retrorocket gear. Control center reports excellent voice communication with pilot and medical reports OK.

The retrorocket packet attached to the capsule has been jettisoned. The spacecraft is beginning to' enter the atmosphere and pilot reports beginning of gravity pressure. He is now up to 9 Gs. "OK," he reported. Peak gravity forces now but still reporting OK.

'All Data Excellent' All data of the control center is reported excellent. Pilot reports he is at 30,000 feet on the way down. The pilot is talking to Grand Bahama Island and they are reading him. First parachute out. Pilot reports all systems in the capsule OK.

Control center says pilot OK as he approaches the Atlantic. The main parachute now has been deployed. The capsule is now floating to the water 660 seconds from liftoff. Shepard says he is at 7,000 feet and coming in for landing. Communications at this point are reporting "little rough." Control center people said they expected this.

Recovery forces downrange report seeing capsule. The pilot reported he is coming down 30 feet a second. The control ships reported that the capsule has landed and recovery crafts dispatched. Kocket with bell shaped spaceman cap Cape Canaveral control room. Data flows in on all orbital sule atop.

Biff gantry crane Is at right capsules. The flat world map Is 8 feet high, 24 feet long. INTO THE WILD BLUE NOTHING Here are Cape Canaveral man into space. The three astronauts here are the "final scenes backgrounding the U.S. experiment in putting a ists" of the seven, Jrst chosen to train for space flight CALLING ALL KIDS NO DECISION YET ON RT.

68 NORTH FROM RED BRIDGE John E. Bender, in charge of road relocations in the. Kinzua Dam area for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, last night at a meeting of representatives of more than a score of local organizations stated that no decision has been made on course of Route 68 from Red Bridge north to an intersection with the new relocation of Route 59. Mr.

Bender discussed the route from Red Bridge to Marshburg and a "perimeter," or so called "Scenic Route," from Red Bridge north alng the west side of the lake area to the present site of Kinzua village. OP III SPITE OF CENSORSHIP MIAMI, Fla. UP) Reports of mass terror against opponents of Fidel Castro's regime are seeping out of Cuba despite a curtain of total censorship on news communi cations and mail. These reports tell of suffering among thousands of detainees ounded up in the wake of the abor tive anti Castro invasion of mid April. They tell of thousands in humanely crowded, without food and sanitation, in detention centers; of uprisings born of desperation among the prisoners; bloodhounds and police dogs used to threaten the prisoners.

It is now confirmed that the regime has imposed complete censor ship on all outgoing news messages, which mustbe cleared through the chief of telecommunications. Mail censorship, long in existence behind the scenes, now is out in the open. Huge piles of mail await censorship at the office of the tele communications chief, apparently in cnarge of that job, too. This is the story of what has been happening to thousands suspected of opposing the regime, as pieced together from the reports from the island: Between 25,000 and 40,000 Cubans and foreigners, including a number of Americans, were rounded up in Havana alone after the invasion. The detainees were herded into requisitioned buildings, such as the Sports Palace and the Blanquita Theater.

At the Blanquita, there were between 6,000 and 7,500 prisoners, jammed into the auditorium, without any arrangements for food or sanitation. The only food available was that brought by relatives of persons held there. Litter of Filth Midway through the first week of their detention, prisoners were screaming for food, and fighting their way through a litter of filth and excrement for a chance to use the few toilets. Many became ill. At least three typhoid cases were yported.

Reports from those who saw it in Jerson say that at one point the prisoners tried to rise up against their militia guards. Several shots were fired into the crowd. Two prisoners were wounded, but this failed to quiet the detainees. Then bloodhounds and police dogs were paraded across the stage, and the militiamen threatened to turn the dogs on the prisoners if they failed to quiet down, The prisoners attempted another uprising, overwhelming some militia guards and seizing their wea pons. But later young Castro militiamen entered the Blanquita to serve as guards, and met no trouble.

Finally, in desperation, the detainees threatened to burn the theater and everyone in it if they were not given food and some decent sanitation. Shortly afterward Tastro authorities began freeing' gome of those under detention and taking others elsewhere. 'S IS WARREN The body of James A. Winchester, 33, Bell Telephone Company employe who fell into the Allegheny River at Warren 19 days ago as he apparently was working on his outboard motor following a trip to Tidioute, was found at 8 p.m. yesterday near Irvine.

Fred Cross was searching the area when he discovered the body lodged at the edge of a small island, six miles south of the Irvine bridge. Identification was made through cards in a wallet. Search for the victim, which had been underway since April 15, was interrupted numerous times by high water and flooding conditions. Removal was made to a Warren funeral home, where County Coroner Ed Lowery said he would issue a certificate of accidental death today. An autopsy will be held in, an effort to determine exact cause of death.

The victim was known to many Kane residents, having worked here several weeks at a time through the years as a cable splicer for Bell Telephone Company. VIENTIANE SENDS MILITARY DELEGATION HIN HEUP, Laos OR The royal Laotian government disregarded Communist backed Prince Souvan na Phoum's call for political negotiations today and sent an all military delegation to this' village to negotiate with representatives of the pro Communist rebels. This emphasized the Vientiane government's determination to nail down the cease fire before entering into negotiations on a coalition gov ernment for Laos. VOTE RECEIVES QUEEN VATICAN CITY UP) Pope John today, received Queen Elizabeth II in audience and told her that her visit crowned the friendly relations that have exist ed between the Holy See and Great: Britain. TO THE PRESIDENT WASHINGTON UP) A bill to create 73 federal judgeships in eluding seven in Pennsylvania, has been sent to President Kennedy for his signature.

Congress passed the measure Thursday, by voice votes. The bill would provide for three more district judgeships in eastern Pennsylvania, two in Western Pennsylvania and one in the Middle District of the state. It also calls for one additional circuit judgeship in the Third Circuit (Philadelphia) which covers Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and the Virgin Islands. Also a temporary judgeship in Western Pennsylvania would be made permanent under the measure. With 19 vacancies already existing, Rep.

William M. McCulloueh, Ohio), said the bill would give Kennedy 92 appointments to fill the most a President ever had at one time. Rep. Emanuel Cellar, (D N.Y.,) chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said the judgeships should not be handed out as prizes to deserving. Democrats, but he added: "Being a realist, candor impels me to say that being a Democrat will not hurt one's chances for appointment." Republican Protest Republicans protested that 73 judgeships 10 for circuit court, 63 for district court were too many.

They argued that the Democratic controlled Congress had refused to give former President Dwight D. Eisenhower any new court posts to fill and that the number was inflated to provide political plums for Democrats. Kennedy urged enactment of the measure to help relieve crowded federal court dockets. I AT THE EICHMANN TRIAL JERUSALEM, Israel UP) The terror of the "Einsatzgruppen," the Nazi death commandos who round ed up the Jews during World War II for bloody massacres, was resurrected today by prosecution wit nesses in the trial of Adolf Eich mann. Atty.

Gen. Gideon Hausner told the court he had evidence that 'Eichmann's department was in the very center of this plan." An official report on the Einsatz gruppen activities in the Baltic, made by Eichmann's "old friend" Franz Walter Stahlbecker, was in troduced by Hausner as evidence. Testimony on an Einsatzgruppen operation in Poland came from Abraham Aviel, who said he was a boy of 14 when the Germans occu pied his village near Radom, Poland. "In April 1942, the Germans clos ed off the ghetto," Aviel said. "About 100 Jews were given spades and were marched off to the west.

My father was in that group. After about half an hour we heard automatic weapons fired. "We knew what was in store for us, but there was nothing we could do. Then a second group was marched off. This included my brother.

I tried to join him. The Germans would not let me. Hours went by. I tried to hide my family in the attic." Eventually, Aviel said, the' Ger mans discovered his family and they all were marched out to join about 1,000 other Jews who were led away to a graveyard. "When we got there, we were told to kneel, heads down.

"I was small so I could raise my head without being discovered. In front of me there was a large trench, about 30 yards long. People were made to undress on the edge of the trench. Then there was a machine gun burst. 'One Must Survive' "I saw a group of Jews digging graves.

My brother was among them. I saw him. At that moment I thought, 'One must survive so he can tell what "I jumped forward. I managed to reach the end of the road." Aviel said he joined his brother on the grave digging detail and succeeded in returning to the ghetto. A few days later the two fled to the woods where they met their father.

His father and brother were later killed as partisans, Aviel said. U.S. BALLOON FLIGHT ENDS IN TRAGEDY ABOARD ANTIETAM, Gulf of Mexico UP) A Navv medical of ficer soared from the deck of the aircraft carrier Antietam to the greatest heighth ever reached by man in a balloon, then after a 25 foot fair from a rescue helicopters harness. The officer, Lt. Cmdr.

Victor A Prather of Bethesda, helped set the altitude record Thursday as scientific observer and comrwin ion to Cmdr. Malcolm Ross, the Navys veteran balloonist. The pickup occurred at a.m. (EST), 19 minutes after the Redstone booster rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral at 9:34 a.m. Two helicopters from the Lake Champlain rushed Immediately to the scene.

One lowered a hook to raise the capsule upright. It was on its side in the, water. this was done, Shepard climbed out an escape hatch and as pulled into the other helicopter. A few minutes later he was on the deck of the carrier. Officials on board reported that he walked from the helicopter under his own power and immediately went to a medical facility below deck.

The flight reached an altitude of about 115 miles and lasted 15 minutes. The 37 year old Navy commander's good condition was evident throughout the flight when Shepard reported such things as: "What a beautiful sight!" in describing the earth below. He radioed back that he could see the outline of the entire East Coast of the United States. Throughout the rest of the journey, he said everything was "O.K." Ships, planes and helicopters raced to attempt recovery of the astronaut when his cabin plopped into the water. The successful shot puts the United States back into the space race with Russia.

Soviet scientists copped the first big prize 23 days ago when they boosted the world's first space traveler, Yuri Gagarin, into a 188 mile high orbit and returned him to earth 108 minutes later. Today's suborbital shot does not match the Russian achievement but is a major step toward orbiting an American which the National Space Agency plans to do later this year. Conclusive Proof The purpose of today's flight was to determine if man can perform useful chores in space. Shepard proved conclusively it could be done. He reported constantly throughout the flight that he was able to do certain tasks, such as pushing levers and buttons and operating manual controls.

All the way through he told the control center at Cape Canaveral by radio that everything was okay. During the flight, Mercury officials said that Shepard was reporting facts and figures just like a test pilot would. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration made this official announcement: "Test No. 108 is terminated. This was the pioneer U.

S. man in space flight. The mercury spacecraft is on the deck of the aircraft carrier Lake Cham plain and the helicopter js about to land. Shepard is about to come out of helicopter." Shepard's report on the "beauti ful view" came only three minutes following launch, after a periscope in the capsule protruded to give the space pilot a view of the earth. Shepard had entered his space cabin at 5:18 a.m.

(EST), after a final medical examination and a breakfast of filet mignon, scrambled eggs, sherbet and peaches. He remained there 4 hours, 18 minutes, during a countdown that had been delayed several times by technical troubles and weather. 83 Foot Rocket The slender rocket, stretching 83 feet tall with the capsule and 15 foot escape tower on top, flew a true course as it knifed into a clear sky. As the missile accelerated, forces six times the pull of gravity pushed the astronaut against his couch. At 141 seconds after launch, the capsule separated and the escape tower designed to jerk the capsule free and parachute it safely to earth in case of trouble was jettisoned.

Automatic controls then flipped the nine foot tall capsule over 180 degrees so the blunt heat shield base led the way, with the pilot riding backward. About four minutes after launch, Shepard tumbled, as if over a precipice, into a weird and weightless world an exhilirating experience EYEWITNESS VIA TV 1500 MILES AWAY With prayers in their hearts, their eyes on television screens, Kane residents today saw history in the making in a half hour of one man's life. Wherever possible, residents watched the 'blast off" at 9:31 standard time and exactly a half hour later heard the report from the Lake Champlain aircraft carrier that spaceman Alan Shepard was climbing out of the helicopter to be herded away by doctors for immediate physical examination. The event was as emotionally stirring to the TV viewers as to those "on the spot." Dam. It was brought out that heaviest Four Children Die In Fire Parents At Prayer Meeting KITTANNING, Pa.

UP) Four children perished in a fire that swept their home at Adrian, RD 1 Thursday night while their parents were attending a prayer meeting. The Anderson home was about eight, miles north of Kittanning. The dead boys were found huddled together near the fireplace in the living room. The victims were: Joseph Anderson, Randy Anderson, Paul Anderson, 6, all children of Mr. and Mrs.

Paul Anderson; and Thomas Hartman, 14, a son of Mrs. Anderson. Firemen, called to the scene by a neighbor, found it impossible to reach the children because the home already was engulfed in flame smoke. Another child of Mrs. Anderson, Kathy Schreckengost, 10, had gone to the prayer meeting in Adrian with her parents.

Police said the children were watching television when the Andersons left the house. The neighbor who called the firemen, Sandra White, rushed to the home after making the call, but was unable to do anything to save the children. The home was a total loss. All the bodies were recovered. Cause of the blaze was not learned immediately.

Fire officials were investigating. traffic into the dam area will be irom me nusourgn ana omer southern areas funneling through Kane. This was cited in view of the $15 million recreational devel opment programming of the Allegheny National Forest. Mr. Bender said that the Army Engineer Corps has plans for recreational points along the lake area, using areas presently under private ownership.

These will in clude boat landing areas, picnic areas and some beach areas. The discussion of the highway routes apparently firmed Kane's viewpoint on the road system providing for major use of recreational areas in the ANF. Also, Mr. Ben der's discussion strengthened the view that the choice will influence the recreational program in that a "perimeter" road at the west side would cut through the potential recreational areas. Some discussion was held on the Forest Service road from Gibbs Hill to Devils Elbow on Route 59 and the projects keyed to that construc tion.

Henry Hebda, committee chair man, introduced Mr. Bender and briefly explained the purpose of the meeting. He announced that the third meeting with a representative of the State Highways Depart mentwill be set in the ensuing few weeks. FISH RAMA IN EVERGREEN PARK TOMORROW Pond Stocked with Blue Gills, Crappie For Annual Event v. i Annual Kajie Fisrt and Game Club Fish Rama will be held from 1 to 3 p.m.

at Evergreen Park Pond tomorrow, afternoon with two prizes each for boy and girl anglers. Gil Lathrop, president of the club, said today the event is for all youngsters up to 12 years of age but stressed that those six years of age and under must be accompanied by a parent or adult. The pond was stocked with 300 blue gills and crappie Wednesday, secured from the' State Fish Commission by the local club. The club committee in charge of arrangements includes Mr. Lathrop, Carl and Henry Bergmark, Cliff Moyer and Clyde Hottel.

They will be assisted by Junior Conservation Group members Tom McCormack and Dave Hallberg, as well as nunierous members of the adult club. The annual event attracts scores of youngsters and usually "fishes out" the pond with the 300 pan fish headed home by the time the two hour angling event is concluded. The committee noted that the event goes on rain, shine or whatever the weather may be. SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION BILL HARRISBURG UP) The State House has passed, 173 6, a $300 million increase in state aided school construction and sent the bill to the Senate. COMMUNIST SWITCH WASHINGTON UP) The Communist drive for control of Southeast Asia is reported shifting from Laos to South Viet Nam.

Insignia the Susquehanna from the far away northern woodland areas toward the State Capital gave the Buck tails a color and a reputation that helped to insure them a warm reception upon their arrival at Camp Curtin, near Harrisburg. It should be noted that young Landrigan served his full three years of enlistment. On one occasion he carried badly wounded colonel from the battlefield. After the war was over and General Kane had returned to McKean County to resume life as a private citizen, he brought with him, as all around handyman, James Landrigan. It is altogether likely that when the General entertained President Grant at his home in Kane that Landrigan went along on that famous fishing trip near Wilcox.

However, if fines were assessed, as the story goes, it is to be assumed that the General paid them. AGE BILL SI fiST UE WASHINGTON (JP) President Kennedy signed today with "great satisfaction" the bill putting another 3,624,000 workers under the minimum wage law, and increasing the minimum for those already covered. The minimum for workers now covered by the wage law will rise to $1.25 an hour by 1963. Those put under the bill for the first time will receive a minimum of $1 an hour for the first three years and $1.25 in five years. Kennedy signed the bill before a large group of congressional leaders and officials of the AFL CIO headed by President George Meany.

Describing $1.25 as "a very minimum wage," he said, "this does not finish the job but it is a most important step forward." He predicted "greater gains in the months and years ahead." Kennedy commented that this is the first time since the minimum wage law was first enacted under the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt that "we have been able to extend the coverage." Passage of the bill was a major legislative triumph for the Kennedy administration, which had given top priority to the legislation. The new law takes effect in 120 days. Six Die in Fire in City of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH CP) Fire roared through a 3 story brick home in the city's Sheraden Section early today and killed a family of six. The Allegheny County Morgue said the victims were Robert War fel, 34, his wife, Gay 32; a daughter, Bobbie, 5, and their sons, Tim, Marin, and Billy, 3.

A spokesman for the morgue said all died of burns and suffocation. The bodies were all recovered. Firemen estimated damage to th structure at about $8,500. An unidentified neighbor spotted smoke and gave the alarm. 15 DAY ORDEAL ENDS NEW ORLEANS, La.

OW U.S. officials kept 12 ludf starved Cubans, believed to be survivors of the ill fated Cuban invasion, under security wraps today. Delirious and wild eyed, the Cubans ended a 15 day voyage across the Gulf of Mexico a 25 foot opef sail boat Thursday. He told of the responsibility of the Army Corps on highway re placement and of the other agen cies involved, federal and state. Whatever route is followed hg said, would be a "first class black 1 top road, 18 feet of pavement with berms," instead of the existing pavement of 15 feet more or less.

As for the route from Kane north to Red Bridge, Mr. Bender confirmed earlier statements that this replacement is a responsibility of the State Highways Department and indicated the state engineers would do an adequate job on that link of the access. As announced, the meeting set by the Special Highways Committee of the Kane C. of C. was for public information the Army point of view on the highways.

Mr. Ben der made no recommendations on either of the two routes but he further clarified many points of high way planning and construction, along with terrain and other prob lems involved. He discussed the present three mile relocation of Route 59 at the dam as No. I to permit closing of the present route as construction of the dam advances arid reported that the extension via Kinzua over the old state road to Marshburg now is in engineering stages. In his discussion he mentioned the steel bridge to be constructed in the Kinzua area for Route 59.

It was indicated this bridge will possibly be 2.000 feet in length. Kane's primary concern is access to the area as the "Southerm Gateway to the Kinzua Dam Area" from the South. Route 59 now is 18 foot and will be 24 feet; Route 68 will be widened as previously reported. In some instances the state will stand the costs of widening while the "replycement" is included in project costs. Mr.

Bender noted that the old law of "replacement in kind" has been superceded by a law which makes a replacement adequate to conditions. He said a traffic count is being taken on the Kinzua road under existing conditions. He drove over the road yesterday and enjoyed a laugh with the audience last night over seme of the comments from local observers cn status of the patch work route today. He noted that State Highways Department trews" now are at work building new Sluices which may be, an indication of the improvements to come. The State Highways Department has had an almost constant maintenance problem on the route.

Status has remained uncertain pending action on the Kinzua Origin of the Bucktail TRAILER TAX BILLS HARRISBURG UP) A package of bills putting trailer homes under local property taxes was approved by the State House and sent to the Senate for further action. PA. APPROPRIATIONS BILL HARRISBURG UP The state House finished business for the week without taking action on the $899 million general appropriations bill. statement: While young Landrigan was loitering near the Bennett House he chanced to see the carcass of a deer hanging in a nearby butcher shop. Whipping out his hunting knife, he cut off the tail and placed it in his hat band and joined the group waiting orders from their leader.

As soon as Kane saw the decoration, he immediately exclaimed, "We'll call our boys the Bucktails." Of course there was an immediate rush for the butcher shop and soon every hat was adorned with a proper looking piece of skin that would iri a pinch do for a "Bucktail." When the boys from Elk, Cameron and Potter banded together at Emporium and Driftwood, there was 'another rush to find similar insignia for those of the 315 men who had not heretofore been supplied. Thus the choice of an insignia and the building of rafts to expedite their way down By C. W. LILL1 BRIDGE McKean County i Historical Society It is likely that each of the 965 regiments of the Union armies had its significant insignia. The Buck tails were particularly fortunate in the choice of their regimental symbol.

The Bucktail not only appealed to popular fancy but was at the same time emblematic of the wooded solitudes, from whence many members of the Bucktail Regiment came. The MeKean County Historical Society has in its possession a history of the regiment which has on the flyleaf the name of the original owner, James Landrigan, formerly of Turtle Point, Annin Township. In the spring of 1S61, he with others came to the county seat to join Kane's newly formed Rifle Regiment. Attached to the flyleaf of the history there is in part this.