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ESTABLISHED, IN 1 79 4 RUTLAND, VERMONT, FRIDAY! MORNING, JANUARY 16, 1959. VOL. 106. Ntt.H. 18 PAGES PRICE SEVEN CENTS High Level i 1 i Talks Urged By Mikoyan Deputy Premier Says U.S.

Cannot Sidestep Parley Forever. Governor Urges Jobless Pay Boost, Nw College Scholarship Setilp, Traffic Law Reforms. Sees Dulles Today UNITED NATIONS, N.Y, (AP) Anastas L'Mikoyan, Soviet first deputy premier, said Thursday his country still wants a summit conference on world problems and the West cannot sidestep one forever. Mikoyan, who will see Secretary of State John Foster Dulles a second time in Washington Friday, expressed interest in Dulles statement that free elections were not the only way to reunify Germany. Roy Rubottom, assistant secretary of state, pinpoints Cuba on a map as he poses Thursday with Rep.

Hayes t(D-Ohio), chairman of House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee. Rubot tom told the committee State Department Is not going to intervene in what is essentially Cubas affairs. (Herald-AP photo via Photofax) 1 T-, kJiuiiuiu iciuuuiicuucu msicau j-j comPaineA that Dulles tha' the tuition on Ve-mone-s aid not come up with a construe- attending the university be main-tive alternative to the Soviet plan tained at the present $343 level. fnr tnnFafiAiMti.AM ur. for confederation of Castro arns U.S.

i Not to Intervene Herald photo Merusl Robert T. Stafford of Rutland is administered his oath ak Vermonts 69th governor by Chief Justice Walter H. Cleary of the Supreme Court. The inauguration took place Thursday, (Other photos pages 5, 7 and 9.) RutlandAttpmey Becomes States 69th Governor; Pledges to Work for EconomicGoodofState. Points A i yj (Morning Rress Bureau) MONTPELIER Gov.

Robert T. Stafford launched a new Re-, publican administration Thursday with a program demanding greater stability and more economy in operation of the government A third major objective of the Stafford administration is to ere ate new jobs and higher incomes through capital investment pro-, jects. "This course, rather than a program of vastly increased expenditures, is the one of real progress," Stafford said upon taking office. Our economy will grow if we do not smother 'it with taxes. Stafford, 45-year-old Rutland lawyer and former attorney general, was inaugurated Vermonts 69th governor before a jam-packed audience of legislators, state officials and spectator in the Hall of Representatives.

He sworn in at 2:29 p.m. by Chief Justice Walter H. Cleary of Newport. In his 26-minute Inaugural address, Stafford laid down these three major 1. To stabilize the cost of government operations as near to the present biennium as possible.

2. To invest in projects best calculated to develop Hie states economy and provide new jobs and higher incomes. 3. To adopt those recommenda tions of the Little Hoover Com-' mission which promise more econ omical and efficient operation of state government. The governor will outline the specific methods for attaining these objectives in a budget message next Tuesday.

Stafford indicated, in perhaps the most far-reaching of his inaugural message items, that he is leaning in favor of split an-'' nual sessions of the starting this year. He said this would permit the state to attack its problems on. a more timely basis than biennial sessions. The budget message will treat this proposition greater detail, administration officials said. Stafford advocated a six-point attack on the Vermonts highway safety problem.

pie plan calls for compulsory driver education courses for new drivers, jail for repeat offenders, adoption of the blood test bill for drunken drivers, a point suspension system, uniform traffic laws and re-examination of accident prone operators. Legislative Power Probe Seen Likely School Aid (Morning Press Bureau) MONTPELIER A University of Vermont plan to lower tuition of resident students to $300 a year was rejected by Go. Stafford Thursday in his inaugural mtssage. Stafford recommended instead lie called at the same ume for creation of a state scholarship board and a revolving scholar- uwuu aim a icvuiviii ship loan plan for needy Vermont students at other colleges and universities in the state. Turning to primary ani secondary school needs, Stafford advocated continuation of the state aid for school building prog, am.

He said details of the administration proposal will be offered in the budget message next week. Stafford recommended to the Legislature that it give public school teachers an' opportunity to decide whether they want to merge their retirement system with the federal social security program. I The Vermont Education Assn, is preparing to offer legislation for social security benefits for teaci.ers. It would require a referendum among the public school teacn ers before taking -University of Vermont trustees last October voted a budget seeking nearly two million dollars) a year more in state appropriations during the next biennium. Approximately 40 per cent the increase or be to cut the tuition of students the liberal arts division from $345 to $300 a year.

The overall apppropriation requeued by the university to subsidize tuition is 010,540. The plan would increase the of Vermonters in ttie College of Agriculture and Home Economics from $225 to $3G0. Stafford said his admininstra tion fo see that the en com aging increase in Hit number of Vermonters attending college is continued. With this purpose in mind. he added, we recommend that tuition at UVM be at $345.

The state began putting up funLs for tuition four years ago. On other matters he proposed: 1. Liberalization of jobless insurance laws. I 2. Higher public assistance grants boosting maxmum payments to the aged, blind and disabled to $75 a month.

3. Creation of a state scholar ship board to take over the present senatorial scholarship program. 7 4. Establishment of a state in dustrial building commission' to guarantee bonds for new plant development. 5.

Setting up an interim com mission to prepare recommendations for changes in the state Constitution. These cannot be offered until 1961 and require, approval by two successive sessions of the Legislature. Stafford seeks changes to simplify the amendment procedures, provide for a four-year term for governor and annual sessions of the General Assembly. He also advocated a change to eliminate the requirement that the Legislature count the, votes for governor, lieutenant governor and treasurer. A lieutenant commander in the Navy during World War II, Stafford called for cooperation between the adminstratiVe and legislative branches of government lo (Continued on Page Two) East and West Germany by mutual 'agreement, before or after a peace treaty Washingtcn speculation had been tnat Dulles statement, at a news onnfflrrtnArt (T.iAnJn..

conference Tuesday, was a hint at a shift in the U.S. line aimed to provoke Mikoyans interest and a change in the Soviet line. The short, mustached Soviet leader answered questions for 40 minutes from among 290 representatives of press, radio and television on his first visit to U.N. headquarters. Mikoyan was to leave New York for Washington by train late Thursday night and he will see President Eisenhower Saturday.

At the news conference, he said the Soviets do not want two powers to solve issues that affect other powers, nor do we want to divide the Americans from their allies However, this does not exclude the leaders of two states or of three states from discussing questions of interest." He declared the great need was to liquidate the cold war and restore international confidence and we cannot, after all, ignore the fact that the cold war is being fostered from the United States." But he also said the Soviet Union did not want to interfere in other countries affairs. He remarked that capitalism had7 had substantial successes in America The Americans today hava a higher standard of living than ours. We also want a high standard of living. Ve would like to overtake the Americans, but this is surely no threat to you. You are living well Like it or not, we are going to live well Therefore, let us compete with and emulate each other." Goldfine Records From Northfield Still Missing Figures for Two Other Mills Are Now1! Available.) BOSTON (AP) Officials of the intelligence division of the Internal Revenue Service announced Thursday that there had been full compliance on the part of industrialist Bernard Goldfine in producing books and records of three Goldfine mills.

The mills are the Lebanon Mills Lebandale. both in Lebanon, N. and George Mabbett Sons Co. in Plymouth, Mass. Officials said some books and records of Northfield Mills Northfield, not been produced.

Goldfine Whs- given a three months sentence for criminal contempt for failing to obey a court order to surrender the records. He is at liberty in bail pending ah appeal. TWO DIE IN CRASH OF AIR FORCE PLANE PORTLAND, Conn. (AP) A four-engine Air Force plane, flying in a blinding fog, smashed into a wooded ridge at dusk Thursday and burned. Two of its three occupants were killed.

The third man, Capt. Letcher Williamson, 38, of Tucson, walked away from the crash with bruises and possible fractures. The other two were not identified. Judge Faces Trial For Contenipt Alabaman Withheld Voter Records From Federal Commission. MONTGOMERY, Ala.

(AP)-An Alabama judge who admittedly courted a jail term by withholding voter records from federal agents was ordered tried Thurs day for contempt of federal courts Circuit kludge George C. Wallace of Clayton, was ordered to appear Sn court Jan. 26 and show cause, if any there be," why he should not be punished for failure to comply with an earlier court order to produce the records. Wallace refused to turn over registration files iri'rural Barbour and Bollock counties to the U. S.

Civil Rights Commission which is inquiring into reports that Negroes are being denied voting rights. He gave them instead to hurriedly summoned grand juries in both counties with the explanation that had impounded the records originally so the juries could look into claims of voting irregularities. The juries ultimately made them available to commission investigators, but U.S. Dist. Judge Frank M.

Johnson ruled there was good cause to believe that the Alabama jurist failed and refused to comply with, the federal court order to produce the records. Both federal attorneys and Johnson declined to say whether the 39-year-old Wallace, who leaves office as a judge next Monday, will be prosecuted under the Civil Rights Act or under the general laws on contempt. Neither would they spell out the maximum penalty. He had contended from the outset of the civil rights controversy that the federal government had no lawful access to the records as long as they were in the custody of his court. Wallace had nothing to say about Johnsons verdict.

However, when he turned the voter records over to the grand juries, he told them he was ready to face the consequences." I I i i -i 7- Says Interference With ExecutionsWouldBring Death to 200,000. HAVANA, Cuba (AP) Rebel chief Fidel Castro' declared Thursday he wants good relations with the United States, but he warned sternly against any U.S. intervention in Cuban affairs. He said -if U.S. Marines were sent to this island nation 200,000 gringos will die." Gringo is a term used by some Latin Americans, often in a derogatory sense, for U.S.

citizens. About 12,000 live, in Cuba. Castro issued his warning firs' In an informal gathering of 60 Or 70 persons as he left the Havana Hilton Hotel on his way to address the Havana Rotary Club. He repeated it before the club but said he had not realized he was talking for publication when he made the statement. I was talking to a group in the Havana he told the Rotarians.

Castro did not elaborate on his reference to U.S. Marines, but it presumably was prompted by statements of some U.S. congress- men that the State Department should act to halt ythe executions that have followed the fall of Ful-gencio Batistas dictatorship. (In Norfolk, the U.S. Navy said Thursday night an Atlantic Fleet amphibious task group that includes 3,000 Marines has been diverted from its intended stop at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to avoid any misunderstanding.

The Navy said operational planning had cal led for the. group to arrive at Guantanamo Bay Thursday, but instead will proceed directly to an exercise area near Puerto Rico. If the United States comes here, Castro declared, we will make trenches in the streets. We want good Relations with the United States yes. But sub mission no.

The rebel leader also said he had been called a Communist and declared: Im not a Communist. They call anyone a Communist who is not sold to the Americans I do not sell to the Americans nor do I receive orders from the Americans. Referring to the executions, Castro said, Here no innocent person will be punished." He pledged (Continued on Page Three) The Weather Rutland Skies Today FRIDAY, JANUARY 16 Sunset today 4-41 pm Sunrise tomorrow 7 22 a Moonset tomorrow 12 42 a First Quarter today 4 26 At midnight tonight the Big Dipper will be rising In the northeast and Cassiopeia will be. sinking In, the-northwest. Halfway between them Is Polaris, the North Star.

(All Tlmea Standard) 'I FORECASTS Vermont and New Hampshire Snow and colder north portion. Freezing rain and sleet changing to snow south portion Mostly cloudy with snow changing to snow flurries and turning much colder Friday night. Saturday partly cloudy, snow flurries higher elevations Windy and much colder. Albany Weather Bureau forecast for Rutland, Addison and Bennlng-ton counties Variable cloudiness, windy with occasional snow or snow flurries thru Saturday. Turning colder Friday or Friday night.

High Friday around 20, low Friday night zero to 10 above. Cold again Saturday with high in the upper teens. TEMPERATURES Atlas Roars Out Across The Atlantic Air Force Hopes to Complete Full Course; Bomarc Hits. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) The Atlas, the free worlds mightiest war rocket, roared spaceward Thursday night on the start of another blazing intercontinental range flight.

1 The Air Force, which gave U.S. missile prestige a big boost Dec. 18 by firing a 4'b ton Atlas into orbit, hoped to shoot the giant rocket 6,000 statute miles across the Atlantic. It was the first attempt to go the full route since Nov. 29 when Atlas cracked the intercontinental range barrier for the first time.

It was learned that in attempt would be made to recover the highly instrumented blunt-shaped nose cone for a data capsule in side after a fiery re-entry from space into the ocean depths. As the 120-ton missile thundered skyward on what appeared to be a perfect launching the now-silent Atlas satellite made one of its few remaining sweeps around the globe. The satellite, which beamed out President Eisenhowers Peace on Earth" message until its unique communications system died over New Years, is expected to plunge earthward in flames within the next six days. Thursday nights spectacular shoot, the 18th Atlas launching in 13 months, also marked the reopening of the ocean scanning At lantic missile range after a two-week shutdown. Except for short flights, the range was closed while a larger and more advanced IBM 709 tracking computer was installed" at the Cape.

The Atlas bolted up into the starry Florida sky at 11 p.m. (EST.) Three powerful engines, firing at full thrust, belched a blinding flash of white flame at the start. A great roar rolled over the launching area as the Convair rocket fctruggled straight up into a mass of clouds and disappeared after 50 seconds. The Atlas streaked through space at speeds reaching 16,000 miles an hour and then plunged back to earth. The entire Intercontinental range trip takes only about 30 minutes.

Bomarc Scores Hit EGLIN AIR FORCEfHASE, Fla. (AP) A Bomarc guided missile launched from a new test center Thursday scored a direct hit on a jet drone flying 87 miles out over the Gulf of Mexico. The unqualified success jjf the test mission was announced by the Ajr Force after the 47-foot interceptor missile roared "off from a launching shelter at nearby Santa Rosa Island. This was the first launching from the multimillion-doll ir center. It streaked off into an overcast sky, tailed by a fiery plume of rocket and ramjet exhaust, and arched over into level flight at a velocity 2 Vi times the speed of sound approximately 1,750 miles per hour.

The million-dollar missile broke out into sunlit skies over the Egun Gulf test range and zeroed in on the drone, a QF80 converted jei. A countdown preceded the launching. The launching was controlled by a special weapons system at Eglin main base, about 10 miles from the launching Later tests will be controlled from semiautomatic ground environment system center undefconstruction at Gitnter 182nd A MONTPELIER (Special) Vermont marked the 182nd anniversary of the signing of its Declaration of Independence Thursday. The declaration that made Vermont an independent nation for 14 years was signed Jan. 15, 1777.

I Reaction To Plan Mixed Dems Mostly Enthusiastic About Split Sessions; GOP Chiefs Reserved. (Morning Press Bureau) MONTPELIER Vermo nt Democrats1 responded more enthusiastically than Republicans Thursday to the Stafford administration suggestion for split annual sessions of the Legislature. Republican leaders in House and Senate received the proposal generally with king-sized reservations or outright opposition. But Democratic party spokesmen in both chambers agreed the time has come to abandon biennial sessions in favor of annual meetings. Gov.

Stafford virtually recommended in his inaugural message that the 1959. General Assembly should adopt an adjourned session" system. I He held it would be in keeping with the faster pace of change in government and other 'aspects of mddern day life. Specifically, Stafford indicated annual sessions would pave the waysjor a more realistic approach to and budget problems. Stafford said he and his ad viserr worked very hard to write a realistic budget for the next biennium, which begins July 1.

Yet none of us is sure what the economic feituation will be in the second year of the biennium! he said. We could plan more accurately upon an annual basis. Rep. Radigan'of Rutland City, hometown of the governor, said he subscribed fully to the annual session plan. Government is so complex in our time, he said, that it is almost impossible to set up budgets for two years in advance." Sens.

Niquette and Marcoux of Chittenden County, both veteran Democratic lawmakers, added their endorsement. Theyd undoubtedly save money, commented Marcoux. Republican leaders were obviously less enthusiastic, some declaring their outright opposition to the plan and some saying they would need more time to study it in detail. An exception in Republican ranks was Sen. Wackerman of Washington County.

It would produce more considered legislation and many economies, he said. In short, I like it. Rep. Lefevre of (Manchester, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said he would prefer reforms to expedite work of the biennial sessions. Rep.

Gannett, House appropria- finance Continued on Page Two) Sen. Niquette Says If No One Else Proposes In 'quiry He Will. i 1 (Morning Press Bureau) MONTPELIER A move is almost certain to develop at the 45th biennial session of the Legislature to investigate the states controversial St. Lawrence power contract with Vermont Electric Power Co. Democratic Sen.

Niquette of Chittenden County said if no one else proposes the investigation he will. It would likely be handled by the Senate Judiciary committee, headed by Sen. Bloomer of Jutland County. Niquette said he has promised previously to see that all planks in the 1958 Democratic platform are introduced at The present session A power contract probe was one of them. If the Republicans or someone else doesnt take the initiative, the Winooski Democratic leader said, the Democrats will propose an investigation.

The investigating committee, he added, would have powers of subpoena to call any witnesses they deemed necessary. Niquette recalled that the House Judiciary Committee in 1939 conducted an inquiry into the Little River dam project. The committee at that time was also headed by Bloomer, then a House member. The contract between the state and VELCO was signed in June, 1957, after! he Senate defeated a bill to have the Public Service Commission build and operate a transmission system. The Senate vote was 16-14.

Opponents of the states contract with VELCO sharply criticized Gov. Johnson and PSC officials for signing the pact before its contents were made public. Robert H. Finch of Redondo Beach, new administrative assistant to Vice President Nixon, -succeeding William Key, who resigned. (Herald-AP photo via, Photofax) Civil Defense Warning System in Surprise Test 9,000 Cities and Towns in 39 States Involved.

WASHINGTON (AP) A test of the national Civil Defense warning system was held Thursday. A signal for a simulated or hypothetical air raid warning was put into the system in the-afternoon. It was intended as a test of the speed and efficiency with which state and local centers relay national Civil Defense warning. The fact that the test would be held but not its exact time was announced Tuesday. The test involved nearly 9,000 cities and towns in 39 states.

There was no public participation; News in Brief 1 1 1 DOMESTIC MONTPELIER Robert Stafford of Rutland inaugurated as state's 69td governor Page 1. MONTPELIER Governor calls for program of higher Jobless pay benefits. new student scholarship setup, traffic law; reforms Page 1. I UNITED NATIONS Mikoyan says Soviets still want summit conference Page 1. WASHINGTON Huge new housing bill offered with Democratic backing Page 1.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. Defiant Alabama Judge cited for contempt Page 1. FOREIGN HAVANA Bitter a'V rising tide of criticism of executions, Castro lashes out st US. Page J. 1 SPORTS RUTLAND Rutland High hosts Windsor, MSJ at Brmttleboro in SVL games tonight Page IS.

BOSTON Bucky Harris named new general manager of Boston Red Sox Page IS. PEBBLE BEACH Little-known LeRoy Silva takes lead in Bing Crosby's Golf Tournament Paga IS. EDITORIAL SYLVIA PORTER Your Money's Worth Page 8. INEZ ROBB What Goes On Herat Page 4. WILLIAM 8 WHITE As Whits Sees It 8.

TELEVISION MARIE TORRE Television Ool- umn Pago 4. Bloomer Cites 'Austerity, Favors emporary Draftsmen 1 i' (Morning Press Bureau) I MONTPELIER The first bill to be acted on this session, a measure to increase the authorized number of draftsmen from two to four, appears likely to be amended when it appears on the Senate floor. The bill was passed by the House under suspended rules without opposition on Wednesday. In the Senate, it was referred to the Rules Committee, which is headed by Sen. Bloomer of Rutland County.

The committee has not considered the bill, but Sen. Bloomer said Thursday he favored temporary appointments for the two additional draftsmen, rather than appointments for the biennium. At present, two draftsmen are appointed by the speaker aAd lieutenaht governor at the beginning of the session. They continue in'office for the next two years, but receive pay only while' they art actually working on legislation. They are paid $19 a day plus expenses.

Sen. Bloomers recommendation is to leave the status of the permanent -draftsmen as it iS, and allow for appointment of one or two additional ones, whd might work two or three months as the need develops. He pointed out that the state is supposed to he on an "aus-terity" program and that the first bill offered called for expenditure of additional, funds. Gen. George C.

Marshall, .78, who was stricken with a shock and taken to Womack General' Hospital, Ft. Bragg, N. near his home early Thursday. IIe was reported resting comfortably. (Herald-AP photo via Photofax) 9 Trace i i i A A AV.

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