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187 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Thursday, December 11, 1958. 38 Pages Five Cents Orders eamsters To Obey Court Monitors U.Sr36 Other Nations Ask U.N. Watch Hungary Case Asks Rail Service Investigation WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen Clifford P. Case called today foe a Senate investigation of what he called recent efforts to rid railroads of their commuter services and, in some cases, of al their passenger service' Case suggested the SenateTn-terstate Commerce Committee look into the applications for abandonment of passenger service made in the wake of the Transportation Act passed by Congress early last summer. He specifically referred to reported plans to drop passenger service between New York and New Jersey.

The Transportation Act of 1918 was intended by Congress to preserve. not destroy, the essential passenger, services of the railroads of the country, Case said in a statement. Provides Loans The Transportation Act provided for loans and other programs to help the hard-pressed railroads. Congress can and uld change the law if it hinders, rather than facilitates, reasonable negotiation and conciliation at the local and state levels, Case said. The commuter problem can never be worked out while attempts are being made to destroy passenger service." He complained that wholesale efforts are being contemplated for abandoning passenger service between New York and New, Jersey.

He mentioned the' Lehigh Valley; the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, and the Pennsylvania as roads which have applied for reductions service or are planning to do so. He noted the New York Central and Erie railroads have discontinued Hud son River ferries. United Press International FIERY END 1 fashionable vacationing came at Magnolia, near in a predawn blaze that reduced the 400-room Oceanside Hotel to rubble. No one was injured at the swanky resort, which liad been closed for the season. A million-dollar loss was estimated.

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI) The United States said today a reign of terror is still being carried out in Hungary by Hungarians who are in truth agents of the Soviet Union in the presence of the Soviet occupation aimy. Mtinro as Watchdog Together with 36 other coun- tries, it asked the General Assembly to appoint Sir Leslie Munro, assembly president last year, as the watchdog of the United Nations to report to the world on Soviet repressions Hungary. Munro would succeed Prince Wan Waithayakon of Thailand, whose efforts as special agent on Hungary were rebuffed bluntly both by Moscow and Budapest. The resolution would dismiss the five-nation Assembly investigating committed which last year returned the United Nations most scathing denunciation of.

Russian repression of the Hungarian revolution. We cannot now foresee exactly-what his tasksmay-be, S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge told the assembly. We hope bis activity and his reporting role will be a sign to the authorities in Ijungary that the United Nations is watching to see whether the current repressions are ended. Lodge- introduced a- resolution 7 N.Y.

Papers Suspend In Deliverymens Strike Fire Razes North Shore Resort Hotel 400-Room Oceanside Leveled After 50 New Meeting-In March Is Banned Panels Powers Ruled Adequate For Cleanup WASHINGTON (AP) A District Court judge today ordered the Teamsters Union to comply with reform orders of court-appointed monitors. The union was-barred from holding a scheduled new convention next March. Judge, F. Dickinson Letts upheld complaints of a two-man majority of the three monitors that the union under President James R. Hoffa had failed to comply good faith with reform recommendations.

Judge Letts, noting that the monitors are officers of the court and subject to the court's supervision, said they have all powers reasonably necessary to bring about a clean-up of the umon. Obliged To Comply The Teamsters are obliged tn comply with such orders of recommendation (by the monitors) and in good faith cooperate with the monitors, he said. Letts, an 83-year-old former Republican congressman from Iowa, rejected a contention that the role of the monitors is merely advisory in these words The court does not subscribe to the view that the duties and privileges of the monitors aie merely advisory. Letts said in his 12-page memo, randum opinion that the Teamsters, without the knowledge and consent or approval of the court-appointed monitors had issued a call for a convention in the early part of March 1959. He ordered Hoffa and the Teamsters to cancel all plans for the scheduled special convention a session Hoffa frankly arranged to seek' to end the monitorship.

Authority Extended The judge further expanded powers of the monitors so that their approval must be secured before a new convention can be held. A convention date was also made subject to approval by the court. Another federal district judge, James C. Connell of Cleveland. Miss Mabel Choate, 88, Dies; Noted Stockbridge Resident Paul W.

Tontcr Paul Foster Dies at 65 In Barrington Had Been Editor, Legislator and ow flicial GREAT BARRINGTON Paul Whitney Foster, 65. of North Plain Road, Van Deusenville, former newspaperman, state legislator and town official, died early this morning at Fairview Hospital here. Born in Wakefield April 19, 1893, son of Maitland P. and Mabel Whitney Foster, he entered the newspaper field at an early age. His father, also a newspaperman, assigned him as editor and publisher of the Littleton (N.H.) Courier, a position he held for thiee years.

He subsequently came to this town and 1911 joined the staff of the local weekly, the Berkshire Courier, which his father had purchased. Edited, Published the Courier He became editor of the Courier and after his fathers death assumed the post of publisher. While wrih the Courier he wrote a lively and popular weekly column entitled The Devil's Pulpit. While living hcie. Mr.

Foster became a member of the Great Barrington Rotary Club and served as secretary. He also served two term as secretary of the Southern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce and was inMiumental in establishing the chambers information booth on Main Street He was a selectman for several terms and later served as town tax collector and an assessor. His lart position in town government was as member of the School Committee Mr. Foster was probation officer of the District Court of Southern Berkshire several years. But resigned when he was elected to the state Legislature At the State House he was chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Later, the Saltonstall administration, he was named chairman of the Commission on Administration and Finance.

Illness forced his retirement from state affairs several years ago $4 rote Column for The Eagle rEarly Advance Pushes Stocks Near Record High NEW YORK (AP)-A vigorous advance today sent the stock market up to a point where it "as threatening the all-time high set Nov. 20. Gains ranged from a few cents to $1 or more a share in leading stocks. Many stocks had wider gams, extending in some cases to $3 or $4 a share. Some hesitancy developed in late morning.

Steels, chemicals and electronics were among the groups scoring widest gains. Motois weie mixed and oils eased. Some Rises Raytheon was up JL37, -Youngstown Sheet 51, International Telephone Telegraph and Dupont 53.50, Kroger 53 87, Union Pacific 50 cents and Westinghouse Electric 75 cents. The Dow Jones industrial average at 11.00 am. was 2 29 at 567 27.

Its closing record high as 567 44. The Associated Press average of 60 stocks closed Wednesday at 5207.50. Its all-time higi was 5207.70. Pre-Racing Race LOCUST GROVE, Okla. (AP) -A 15-man posse searched the hills today for a greasy pig which broke out of its pen.

It had been greased up for a race at an annual 'pre-Christmas affair here. $200 Raie for Teacher which renewed the UN demand upon Russia and the Hungarian regime to desist from repressive measures against the Hungarian people. The resolutions sponsois lopre-sented all segments of the membership except "the Soviet bloc and Arab and African countries. Specifically, the resolution Condemns the. defiance by Russia and the Hungarian regime of N.

resolutions calling for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary and the bolding of fiee elections in the, country. denounces the execution by the puppet Hungarian government of Premier Imre Nagy, Gen. Pal Maleter and other revolutionary leaders. TDeplorcs the cont.numg repression in Hungary of fundamental rights of the Hungarian po-ple and their freedom of political expression under the shadow of the continuing presence of Soviet armed forces Renews the U.N. call to Russia and its Hungarian puppets to "desist from lepressive measures and to respect the liberty and political independence of Hungary and the Uunganan peoples enjoyment of fundamental human rights and freedoms.

"Declares that the United Nations will keep the Hungauan situation before it 'MV rfli I jay Tegue of the Mission House house, had it moved to Main Street, completely rc'tored it and furnished it with antiques appropriate to the Colonial period. Considered one of the best examples of Colonial design in Newr England, the house has been a prime tourist attraction since its restoration, and only this fall the pailor was included in a book, 100 Most Beautiful Rooms in America. by Helen Comstock, leading authority on antiques. Memorial to Parents The i etiolation of the Mission House, chosen by Mi-s Choate as a memorial to her patents, was assured permanent pieservation in 1948 when she deeded it with an endowment of $100,000 to the Trustees of Reservations, private Massachusetts coiporation dedicated 'to the perpetuation of outstanding examples of antiquity and natuial beauty in thCyStaie. Besides-her conti ibutions to the Berkshire aica through her gardens and the Mission House Miss Choate also was active in the Lenox Garden Club and was.

a rnrmbor of the board of trustees- the Beikshiie Museum'. Her personal collection of antique Lowestoft china was Internationally known and items among her Colonial furniture were included in several New Yoik exhibitions. In New York, sie served as president of the Maternity Center and on the board of the Neurological Institute. She was at one time a vice president of the Garden Clubs of America, and on the advisory council of the New York Botanical Gardens. She was a member of tljo Colony and Cosmopolitan clubs of New York and the Chilton Club of Boston.

Surviving a brother. Joseph II. Choate Jr. of New Yoik; three nieces, Mrs. diaries B.

Harding of New Yoik, Mis Geoffiev Platt of Mount Kism, NY. jsnrt Mis N. Penrose Hallowed of AndoVri, and a nephew. Joseph H. Choate HI of Mount Kisco.

NEW YORK (API Presses of New Yorks major daily newspapers were stilled today as the pa-peis discontinued publication in the face of a strike by their delivery men. Last to call off efforts to keep limited publication going were five afternoon papers, the World-Telegram Sun, the Journal-Amen-can, the Post, the Long Island Press and Long Island Press and Long Island Star-Journal. Ticket Lines Stand Earlier the Daily News, a morning paper, skipped all editions after composing room workers defied their union president and refused to ci oss deliverymen's picket lines. Two other morning papers, the Times and the Herald Tribune, suspended publication after their final editions were out. The lone remaining morning pa-par, the Mirror was expected to halt publication.

The strike, now in its second day, has swept newsstands clean of major newspapers the city of five million newspaper reader. Theie was no prospect of negotiations to end the strike until a meeting set for Friday. Officers of all newspaper unions except for the Deliverers have instructed their members to stay on the job The Newspaper and Mail Deliv-cieis Union struck Tuesday night over wages and fringe benefits. A strike by the same union Monday lasted less than eight hours. The Deliverers originally struck Qucmoy Shelling Heaviest in Month TAIPEI (API The Communists filed 4.231 shells, by Nationalist count, at the Quemoy Islands be-tween noon and 6 pm.

today. The Nationalists shot back. The total of 4,300 rounds was the heaviest for any day since Nov. 5. The Nationalists did not say bow heavy their counterfire was.

3. Protests by John Marshall, head of the local bus drivers union, and Harold B. Gordon, president of the Berk-hire Street Railway Co4, that fir)r company was not getting itstfSharS of school bus business. Harts Tuition Proposal Mr. Harts proposal to add $100 to the out-of-town students tuition is based on his premise that towns that cnd their students here should pay a share of building costs of the schools, termed capital outlay, as well as the operating posts.

Up to now, the tuition has been based on, operating costs only, which is a figure considerably less than the Pitlsfield taxpayer pays to educate each child." Mr. llart based his 5100 figure on the cost of thj two new junior high schools. Ho ran inlo opposition from both Committeemen Edward S. Harubin and John J. Quinn.

Mr. Harubin ohjeited to raising the tuition to include capital outlay costs because he said that is not general practice throughout the stale. Mr. Hart re-lotied that it doesn't make any dif-fcience whether they do it that way elsewhere or not, but that If Mr. IT.milnn insisted on a ptecedent, Dalton did Include -capital outlay costs in its tuition to out-of-town students.

He added: It is inn edible to me that Mr. Harubin mentions the taxpayers but has such flagrant disregard for ihcir Interests. the -newspapers for a S10-a-week wage package, plus improved vacation. holiday and sick leave benefits and 40-pound bundles to replace 53-pound bundles. Agreement Rejected The strike ended when negotiators agreed on a $7-a-vveek wage boost and 50-pound bundles.

When the union membership voted 877-722 against accepting the proposed contract, the union renewed its walkout. -Basic- age under the contract was 5103 82 for a 40-hour week for day drivers. Earth Shocks Shake Frisco And Suburbs SAN FRANCISCO fUPI) A sharp earthquake followed by several aftershocks rocked and rolled San Francisco and a 50-mile area for several minutes early today. out caused only minimum damage. The University of California seismograph in Berkley said' the temblor measured between 4 75 and 5 on the Richter scale and was centered 18 miles southwest of Berkeley in Daly City.

Daly City is a suburb on the southwest edge of San Francisco that suffered widespread damage March 22, 1957. from a quake that had a Richter reading of 0 A). Case Closed PENSACOLA, Fla. (UPD I think I've 'got a maniac driver. trooper G.

L. Hill radioed to headquarters. Im in pursuit. That was lit 9.35 p. m.

At 9 39 p. m. he informed headquarters the car had been overtaken and he was investigating. Thiee minutes later the case was closed with this message: Investigation com 1 e. I'm giving escort to the maternity hospital.

Mr. Quinn raised technical objections to the motion, which did not include the words "out-of-town students. He urged that the motion be tabled. He asked for a rollcall -vote He and Mr. Harubin were joined by Dr.

Donald' II. Welton and Joseph W. Overlock in voting the motion down. Chairman Eugene J. Murphy and Philip H.

Krause, as well as Mr. Hart, voted for it. Mr. Overlock, however, 'immediately said he was not fuily in accord with the $100 figure but coming from West Pittsfield and looking at the antiquated schools we have out there, I cannot be in accord with out-of-town Rtudents paying less than what it costs the Pittsfield taxpayer to educate the student. Teacher Salaries Debated lie made 'a new motion that only $75 be added to the tuition.

With his vote changed, this motion passed, 4 to 3. Mr. Hart comment cd, Three-quarters of a loaf is better than none." Also to be voted on was a raise in the tuition, based on the increase in operating costs only, from $359 to 5104 in the case of high school students and $312 to $354 for junior high. Mr. Quinn and Mr.

Harubin also voted against this raise, but weie outvoted, 5 to 2i This matter disposed of, the com Achool Budget (Continued on 13th rage) Fashionable Years MAGNOLIA, Mass. (AP) general alarm fire early today reduced to ashes the fashionable 400-room Oceanside Hotel, three guest cottages and three shops all unoccupied during thewinter in this Atlantic seaside summer resort. No casualties were reported. Firefighters from more than a half-dozen communities fought the blaze in near-zero weather. At least a half dozen residences and about a dozen other shops along Lexington and Hesperus avenues and Flume road were damaged by the flames or by the intense heat from the burning hotel.

Torch-Like Trees along the thoroughfares bordering the hotel flamed brightly like giant torches in the pre-dawn darkness. Fire Chief Loring B. Blatchford of the fishing port of Gloucester five miles away said be cpuld not estimate the damage immediately, but townspeople ventured esti mates up to a million dollars. They said the five-storv wooden hotel occupving an entire block had catered for nearly 50 summers to many notables from all parts of the United States. Some of the suites in the hotel, they said, rented for as much as $80 to 5100 a day during the season running from May to September.

The wankv hotel resembled a huge pile of burning rubble barely an hour after the first alarm was sounded at 2'30 am. (EST), eyewitnesses said. The cottages which were leveled to the ground weie part of the hotel property and were for the use of guests. Shop Ruined The shops destroyed included a cocktail lounge, a beauty shop and what appeared to be a cloth ing shop. They, too, were burned to rubble.

Firefighters from as far as Lynn, 20 miles away, poured tons of water on adjoining homes and Stores to Keep the flames from spreading. Nevertheless, homes as far as 300 yards away weie scorched by the flames and heat A cedar fence surrounding a rewdence about 50 yards from the ho tel' burned brightly, but firefighters prevented the blaze from igniting the home. An automobile on the hotel grounds was reduce-d by the flames to a steel skeleton. Steam Heat The heat from the flames was so intense that when firefighters wet down the walls of a building across the street it brought hissing steam. Blatchford said two maintenance men are employed by the hotel during TTte winter months but no one was In the building when the fire broke out.

The hotel was owned by Ralph Snyder of Boston and Magnolia, who also owns the Hotel Bradford In Boston, offloiajs said. Magnolia is about 30 miles from Boston on Massachusetts North Shore. All Kind of Foils LONDON (UPI) Noting that geologists claim to have discov-ered fossils 130 million vears old on the site of a new superhighway in northern England, Daily Telegraph columnist Peter Simple said this comes as no surprise to those motorists who have found themselves trying to pass them. School Committee in Stormy. Session Passes Record Budget of $3,537,810 Returning home, he wrote a column for The Eagle for someBtvk had riSRed ot time, then became executive score-.

delegates to insure Hoffa vie-tarv of Hie Reikshire Hills Confer- loDi piesidency on grounds he and ruled only last week that the monitors powers are purely advisory and that under a consent order signed last January by Letts, Hoffa could do as he pleased subject to the Teamsters Union constitution Connells ruling is being appealed. The issues in the case before Letts go back to the Teamsters 1957 convention at which Hoffa was elected president to -succeed' Dave Beck Sr. Beck and Hoffa both had been named in testimony before the Senate Rackets Committee that large sums of union funds had been mishandled. A group of New York area rank and file Teamsters members brought suit here seeking to block Hoffa from taking over the union Board a Compromise That suit was compromised, with an agreement that Hoffa and other newly rleted union officers could take over provisionally with the monitors named to police a union cleanup. Martin F.

ODon-oghue, a lawyer who helped defend the Teamsters in early stages of the case, eventually became chief monitor. After eight months of frying out the novel monitor arrangement, ODonoghue and Godfrey P. Schmidt, another of the monitors, filed complaints with Uetts contending that Hofra was giving them the runaround and ignoring their suggestions for reforms. Schmidt was chief attorney for the original rank-and-file plaintiffs. The third monitor, L.

N. D. (Nat) Wells, Is a Teamsters attorney and has regularly dissented from policies of ODonoghue qnd Schmidt. Foot in Mouth, But Little Ele KNOXVILLE. Term (ITI) -Curtis E.

Thomas told police he was drinking became be had a toothache, hut was fined $50 any. way for drunken driving and pos-session of illegal whisky when fie opened his mouth wide to reveal he hadn't a tooth In hi head. I Miss Choate in front Miss Mabel Choate, long and prominently assqciated with a wide variety of charitable and conservationist activities in New York City and Stockbridge, died today at her New York apartment after a Short illness. She would have been 89 on Dee. 26.

Funeral services will be held at St. James Episcopal Church at 865 Madison New York, Saturday afternoon at 4. On Sunday afternoon at 2, there will be a memorial service at St. Pauls Church in Stockbridge, followed by intei-ment in Stockbridge Cemetery vvheie Miss Choate's parents, two brothers and a sister are buried. Miss Choate was born in New York Dec.

26, 1870,1110 daughter of Joseph Hodges and Caroline Sterling Choate. Her father was a widely known lawyer and served as U.S ambassador to the Court of St. Jamess in London from 1899 to 1904. After several summers in Stockbridge, her father in 1883 built Naurnkeag. the mansion on Prospect Hill which Mis Choate to occupy each summer through this year.

In later years, with the aid of Fletcher Steele, prominent Boston landscape architect, she developed the scries of gardens which have made Naum-koag one of the horticultural show places of the Berkxhires. In several of them she made use of rate items purchased on trips abroad, particularly to the Orient, Brearley Graduate Miss Choate was a member of one of the first classes at the Brearley School, now one of New York's best-known private schools for girls, of which her mother was a founder. She later studied at Barnard College. Probably outstanding among hei many benefactiohs to Stockbridge and the Berkshires was th( moving and icstoration of the histone Mission House, built on Prospect Hill 1739 for John Sei scant, first missionary to the Stockbridge Indians. In 929, Misa Choate bought the The School Committee, as it does every year, Nast night passed the highest school budget in history.

It met in the High School in a session in which free spqech was rampant. It approved a budget of 53.537 -frto, up 5267,356 from last year's 53.270.454. Lions share of the budget is ticketed for teachers salaries 52,780.975. This is 597 944 higher "than last year, and reflects a $200 raise for almost all teachm, well as a new schedule of $3,600 to $6,000. Last year's stale was set at Stormy Meeting The budget was passed in a stormy meeting during which healed words were hurled at the committee by both labor and man.yge-ment representatives of the Beik-shire Sticet Railway.

Pittsfield Federation of Teachers also got in a few licks, although in a more respectful manner, and the committeemen themselves indulged in a moduum of lntra-munJ hostility befoie the budget was passed. The friction erupted on three fronts 1. A proposal by Committeeman Robert N. Hart to raise the tuitiort of out-of-town students by 5100 in addition to another raise orca-iioned by using operating costs. 2 Objections by the Federation of Teachers to aspects of the new alary etup.

cnor with headquarters in Pittsfield. When lie loft that position about five years ago. Mr. Foster became a member of The Eagles Great Barrington bureau until he retired last Apnl J9 The night of his retirement, he fell in his home and fractured his jhip He was hospitalized by the injury until his death. Befoie the Barrington Fair Assn, nun based the local fair grounds, Mr.

Foster was superintendent of grounds and secretary of the Housatomr Agricultural Society. In that capacity he staged the annual HAS fair. iWing that period he served as president of the Massachusetts Fair Assn. Ills last position with fairs was as a member of the board of the Eastern States Exposition in Spring-field. Served hi World War I Mr.

Foster served in an ambulance unit injFrnnce in World War I. He later became a member of the American Legion and served as commander of Sou Item Berkshire Post 127. lie subsequently became a membqr of the Legions state executive committee. Mr. Foster had many interests in addition to lus newspaper and political rarrcis.

For manv years he was a corporator of (lie Great Birunglon Savings Bank He was Paul Foster Continued on rage IB li if.