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i ,1 I 1 I LOCAL TEMPERATURES 1'Mtnit; Tear Ae Blfh It Lew 24 23 Weather yesterday: 1 Partly closdy. -t THE WE Vermont: 9 ly clondy. i Rutland Ares: Pi 1 cleudy, mild. if 4 (Monday, December O) ESTABLISHED 174 VOL. NO.

307. RUTLAND, VERMONT, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 24, 1957. 24 PAGES PRICE SEVEN CENTS Ike Asks Nasser Claims fam Road Safety Study Slowed By Finances K-v ShowOf 4 4 4 -r a it Time, Public Support, Stronger Laws Needed as Weapons. Egyptian President Tells Cheering Countrymen He i Won Battles of Cold War, Starvation, Isolation. Seeks Peace NationObscrvesAnnivcrsary of British'-French Troop Withdrawal; Embraces Reds, Lashes at U.S.

Private Douglas Heywood, 28, and hla wife, Vickie, take theft 9-month-eld baby, DeugUe Jr. from the arms of Stewardess Harriet Vidette at Angnita, Ga. airport The lUUe fellow was flown from San Diego, where he was born just before papa was inducted Into the Army. He was left In bearding haute until he could be re suited with his parents. (Herald-AP photo via Photofax.) Boat Division of General Dynamic Corp.

at Groton, Conn, where the submarine was constructed. (Herald-AP photo via Photofax.) Sailor raises flag on stern of USS Skate, third atomic submarine to be commissioned in the United, States Navy. Ceremonies took place at the Electric Santa Navv Launches For evwoods i Its Third A-Sub WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 M) President Eisenhower called on Russia's leaders tonight for cleat evidence of Communist integrity, and sincerity in negotiations and in action to ease international tensions. He expressed a constant readiness both for himself and Secretary of State Dulles to make any conceivable effort that might realistically help to reduce world tension." Eisenhower, with Duties seated beside him, issued this challenge to the Kremlin in a nationwide television-radio report on the results of the Atlantic Pact summit Conference in Paris last week.

Eisenhower nodded approvingly as Dullea turned a cold shoulder to Russia's new proposal that a special session of the 82-nation United Nations Assembly be summoned to deal with the East-West rnryrnv tw ts disarmament deadlock. GROTON, Conn, Dec. 23 The President, reading carefully. The U.S. Navys third and most the windup section of his speech, streamlined nuclear submarine, the I charged Russia alternating USS Skate, joined the Atlantic between threat and blandishment USS Skate Joins Atlantic Fleet; Most Streamlinec of Nuclear Trio.

PORT SAID, Egypt, Dec. 23 IP President Nasser led a cheering celebration today of the first an-r nlversary of the British-French troop withdrawal from Egypt He claimed victory on battles of the cold war, starvation and isola tion. Paying his first visit to this battered Sues Canal port since the British-French attack nearly 14 months ago, Nasser reviewed a military parade consisting mostly of Soviet-made equipment and addressed thousands packed Into the sports stadium. Seated near him on the reviewing stand were 70 representatives from the Soviet Union, Red China, North Korea, North Viet Nam and Outer Mongolia here for an Af- rican-Asian conference beginning Thursday. In his speech, Nasser called for world peace, supported the communist program for banning nuclear tests, and disclosed what he said was an imperialist plot to depose him a year ago.

He charged the plot was hatched in Beirut, capital of West-leaning Lebanon, where two Egyptian friends of former King Farouk, Hussein Khairy and Ahmed Mor tada El Maraghi, former interior minister, allegedly paid a $500,000 bribe to an Egyptian officer to get rid of our government and install a government from the fin perialist, left the.aa called imperialist nations unnamed, but he obviously referred to the West. Cheered repeatedly, Nasser hailed the people of Port Said tor their heroic struggle against British-French invaders who he were trying to destroy Arab freedom, independence nationalism. Nasser said that after the Imperialists failure in Egypt, they began looking for collaborators in Syria and Jordan. They failed in Syria, but with all regret they were successful in Jordan," Nasser said. I consider this a temporary success.

Economically weak Jordan has accepted U.S. economic and mill tary aid. It has been under propaganda attack from Egypt and Syria. Nasser claimed Imperialists then started a battle to isolate and starve Egypt. In.

hit plea for peace, Nasser said I invite the world to work for peace and remove tension and end the cold war. He added: Being part of humanity we call for the banning of hydrogen and atomic tests the Middle East looks for eternal peace and In spite of suffering here we are fol- No Easy Solution UrgencyofEmergcncyCoun cil Grows With Mounting Highway Death TolL (Morning vPres Bureaa) i MONTPELIER, Dec. 23 Money time permanency public support stronger lows These are among the weapons needed by the Emergency Council on Highway Safety to combat the growing menace of carnage and cost on Vermont roads. The urgent 'need of these weapons was pin-pointed today after the Vermont highway fatality mark soared to a new all time high over the weekend with two more fatal accidents. The total for the year now rests at 103, one above the previous record set in 1934.

There is no quick and easy solution to this problem, says Richard A. Bottamini, sub-chairman of the council Its going to take time and money, adds William L. McKee, council secretary and director of the state safety campaign. Miracles just dont happen In this field." Bottamini and McKee conceded in a joint interview some people have already written off the council as a failure because the highway fatality rate in Vermont has continued to rise. But they are confident given fair chance the council- will prove effective in making Vermont roads safer for the motoring public.

In a nutshell, the council has adopted this philosophy: The problem is big and complex. It cannot be solved quickly and it cannot be abated without considerable effort. And to cope with it at all, the council feels, it is necessary to attack the problem at the grass-roots. Tbe council was created by the 1957 Vermont Legislature to come up with a long range attack on what the Assembly called an "appalling? highway death and prop' erty damage problem. This is precisely what the council has set out to do, according to Bottamini and McKee.

The five-member agency serving voluntarily and without pay is concentrating primarily on drafting a program for presentation to the next Legislature. Although no conclusions have lyen drawn in the preliminary stages ot the council study, the members are concentrating on engineering, education, licensing, en' forcement and the necessary legislation to make improvements in those categories. Bottamini and McKee said the council is working under quite a handicap" because the Legislature while recognizing the problem as appalling failed to snake available any funds for its work. If the program is to be at all successful, said Bottamini, funds will have to be made available. It boils down to whether Vermont wants to pay for safety and how much it wants to pay.

He also believes the present work of the council will go for naught if the agency isn't made permanent. The council has raised $1,055 from various business firms and other organizations in a subscription campaign. Meanwhile, it is going forward with the five-point study ot engineering, enforcement, licensing, education and legislation. One of the biggest pre-legislature projects in the works is formation ot county and local groups. It Is here," says McKee, where we expect the really effective work will be done." A 14 member advisory committee, with each county represented, will serve as the nucleus for the grassroots program.

McKea Is gathering statistics on (Contined on Page Three) Pilgrims Crowd Celebration of 1 4 Arrives Sought On Rocketry Bv Amateurs National Fire Protection Assn. Cites Growing Program as Dangerous. Two Fatalities 1 BOSTON, Dec. 23 VP) The National Fire Protection Assn, today termed extremely dangerous amateur rocket programs which, said, already have resulted In two fatalities and numerous- non-fatal injuries. The NFPA, which disclosed neither the names of the victims nor whfcre the incidents occurred, said amateur rocketry should be prohibited in the interest ot public safety until safe launching sites are established and supervised by thoroughly competent per onneL" The NFPA, an International clearing house ot fire safety said in.

a statement that beside the serious explosion hazard associated with rocket launching, there also ate lesser but very real dangers Introduced by the handling and mixing of rocket fuels, not to mention the threat to life and property from missiles cheated by successful rocket launchings." Specific recommendations made to public safety officials by the NFPA were: 1. Because of the danger to the boys themselves, as well as to others, the hazardous phases of rocketry fuel handling and rocket launching should be conducted only at specified safe locations (such as outdoor riCi ranges) and under strict supervision by qualified persona thoroughly familiar with the Involved hazards. 2. There Is ample evidence to in dicate many teenage rocket builders are unaware of the hazardous nature of their projects and are uninformed on various technical aspects of rocketry. Assuming this interest in the dangerous business ot rocketry is actually stimulated by a desire for science education, some statewide method of communication should be established whereby amateurs can obtain from experts answers to their rocket building problems.

3. Until safe launching sites are established and until thoroughly qualified personnel competent to supervise an amateur rocket program can be provided, it appears to be in the best interests of the general public to discourage the manufacture and prohibit launching of rockets by amateurs. The NFPA did not identify the dead youths. University to Build New 1 Mens Quarters at Durham New Hampshire Students Dormi-, torjr Will Coot $890,000 President Calls on Soviet Leaders for Clear Evidence of Sincerity in Negotiations and Actions. Cut Tension Chief Executive Nods Approval as Dulles Turns Cold Shoulder on New Red Proposal.

i during the past years in dealing with the free world. He then said: To bring about such easing of tension, we believe that clear evidence of Communist integrity and sincerity in negotiations and in action is all that is required. Only with such evidence of in-tegnty, and-euicedtyjuid with the spirit of conciliation on both sides, can there be achieved a definite beginning of progress toward universal security and peace, which the world so earnestly seeks. For no nation, for no individual among us, could there be a finer Christmas present nor a better New Year." Russias words, pretentions, and actions, Eisenhower said, have all tailed to inspire confidence in. free men.

The President, talking solemnly in his White House office, did not spell out what he had in mind as clear evidence" of Russias sincerity, The view he expressed corresponded to the long-standing American attitude toward Russia to prove by deeds not words its readi. ness to enter into negotiations. Eisenhower left it to Dulles to spurn the proposal for a special UN meeting to handle disarmament. Dulles, speaking somewhat hoarsely from a sore throat, denounced Russia's refusal to- stop making atomic-hydrogen bombs. He noted the Soviets have now served notice they will refuse to join a 25-nation U.N.

disarmament commission which was set up tq continue exploring the prospects of an East-West agreement on arms limitation. Dulles then said the Soviets talk vaguely about a bigger U.N. conference to discuss disarmament. A meeting of 82 nations, Dulles said, obviously cant be a negotiating body but can only lay down broad principles. This is exactly what the United Nations has done in the past by authorizing detailed disarmament talks by a subcommittee whose views Russia now rejects, he Dulles recalled that last weeks Atlantic Pact summit conference offered Russia an opportunity for a foreign ministers'-level meeting on this issue.

The Atlantic Pact nations, he added, are in deadly earnest" in their desire to find a formula for cutting the burden of world armaments. Eisenhower said and recalled that he has said it many times before that he waa willing to make any conceivable effort that would realistically help to reduce world tensions. But, he said, what la needed is (Continued on Page Two) News at Glance. DOMESTIC RUTLAND Raymond R. Beane, longtime bualneaaman, dlea of bear attack in Ft.

Lauderdale, Fla. Paga 13. MONTPELIER Time, money, atnrng- at lava aeen needed aa yeepona to, combat growing record of atata nig deatba Paga 1. BOSTON Amateur rocket program! ahould be prohibited. National Plra-Protectlra Aaan.

warn Paga 1. WASHINGTON Uaenhower and Dullea Join In half-hour radto-TV report; Security Council meet-Page 1. SPORTS I RUTLAND Raldera drop OranrtlTe, N. Y.t Cathedral bumpa MSJ Page 11. NEW YORK Weet Virginia take dm place In hoop poll Paga 19.

EDITORIAL 1 INEZ ROBB Wbat Ooaa On Karel Paga ROSCOB DRUMMOND Waahlngton Viewpoint Paga I. LEONARD B. ARCHIR JR. "oka for Vermonter Page g. Cancer Hits Ex-Leader Of Flying Tigers Gen.

Claire Chcnnault Tells Newsmen His Lung Condition Is Incurable. Returning to U.S. TAIPEI, Formosd, Dec. 23 0B-Claire L. Chennault, leader of the famous Flying Tigers of World War II said today he has lung cancer and no operation can cure him.

The 67-year-old retired major general Jooked tired and haggard as he discussed his condition frankly at a news conference. He puffed on a. pipe, coughed occasionally and spoke just above a whisper. He blamed this on a cold. Chennault said the cancer was discovered in a physical checkup in the United States in August 1955.

He had a tumor removed from his left lung but he said the malignancy developed again. He is chairman of the board ot Civil Air Transport which he founded in Shanghai 11 years ago. The company moved to Formosa after the Communists conquered the mainland in 1949. Chennault came to Formosa Dec. T3 on company business.

He plans to return to the United States Jan. 10. Chennault organized the Flying Tigers, a group of Americans, to help Chiang Kai-sheks forces fight the Japanese before Pearl Harbor. They flew the old P40 fighter plane, with a ferocious looking tiger sharks head painted on the nose. After the Umted States entered the war, the Tigers were absorbed Into the U.

S. 14th Air Force. Chennault became the commander with headquarters at Kunming, in southwest China. He told the conference he tried to organize a Similar flying group in 1954 to fight the Communists but said the U.S. government decided it was not wise to have such an organization aa it might provoke the Communists into all-out war.

But he said he thinks the United States still should sponsor such a group because it would deter Communists from starting small-scale wars. On his trip here, Chennault is accompanied by his Chinese wife Anna, 34, whom he married in Shanghai in 1947. They have two daughters 8 and 7. Holy Land For Birth of Jesus Protestants will hold their own services, among them An-gehcans, YMCA, Evangelical Lutherans, Presbyterians and others. A Christmas Eve service will be held on the hill overlooking Bethlehem where the Bible says an angel of the Lord appeared and told the shepherds Christ was born.

Shepherds still graze their flocks on the hill's aides. Protestants have kept the shepherds' field much as it was in the time of Christ the hill country around Bethlehem was fertile. Now, much ot the Holy Land is barren, but the shepherd's field still is grefen. For the first time years there is no war scare in tbe Holy Land. Yet, it ts hard to get away from signs ot var.

The Israel frontier la only tnree miles away from this holy hilltop town in Jordan territory, In the Judean Hills around Bethlehem Arabs and. Israelis face each other over barbed wire fences in plain view ot the pilgrams aa they travel from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. Anny Private, WifcReunitcd With Young Son After an Eight-Week AUGUSTA, Ga, Dec. 23 ff) -Santa Glaus came to aee Douglas and Vickie Heywood i head of schedule on the wings of an airplane. Out of a gunny sky, from faraway California, the plane brought the 26-year-old Army private and ha wife their young son 4 They hadnt seen 9-month-old Doug Jr.

for nearly eight week. They hadn't counted on seeing all tills Christmastime but two newspapers and two air line teamed up to bring them together. At 2:44 pjn, a Delta Air Line plane landed here. Stewardess Harriet Videttif stepped out carrying a red, oversize Santa Claus stocking and flashing a brimming smile. In the stocking was little Doug.

Merry Christmas." she said, as she handed stocking and baby to Mrs. Heywood at the loot of the ramp. Tears streamed down the mothers cheeks but she smiled. Baby looked at mother and started to cry. Standing solemnly nearby was the father, his face flecked with big Crowding around were 2S or 30 spectators.

All the women were crying. Baby Doug was born prematurely at San Diego, where Heywood was an IBM machine operator. When the Army drafted the father and sent him to the Southeast Signal School at Ft. Gordon near here, the parents left the baby in a boarding home until they could prepare to care for him properly. Then, they found they couldnt meet the board bilL Reporter Pat Kelly heard of their plight.

His paper worked out the Santa Claus solution. Good Saint Nicholas himself couldn't have done better. Everybody along the way seemed to have caught the spirit The plane was loaded down with Santa Claus tokens. The air lines, passengers and people along the route wanted to send presents. Here, the Elks Club hoisted a gaily decorated Christmas tree in the one-room apartment of the Heywoods.

Gifts for baby, mother and father were piled in a heap beneath it Brink Suspect Isi Arrested -In New Holdup CHELSEA. Dec. 23 (P) -Thomas Ballou, 27, of Charlestown, who Is accused of being an accessory in the $1, 1 219,000 Brink's robbery of Jan. 17, 1950, today pleaded Innocent to attempted armed robbery and illegal possession, of; weapon. District Court Judge John L.

MacLeod set bail at $5,000 and continued the base until Jan. 3, 1958. Ballou was arrested at gunpoint Saturday night after -a 1 gunman tried to rob Philip Goldstein, Hull sportsman. Goldstein shouted and ran and the gunman fled. Ballou waa arrested secondj later.

i Police Lt' Robert Renfrew testified the FBI is interested in checking a .43 caliber pistol found at the scene of the attempted Ballou was picked up In the Brink's case after eight men 'were convicted of that fantastic fatickup on the evidence ot a confessed member of the gang who has yet to be sentenced. The life sentences of the con- yicted men have been appealed. Fleet today in America's bid to overcome the growing threat, of Russia's underwater sea power. (SenM-t ftatafax) COMDR. CALVERT The Skate, described by naval authorities as one of the country's finest underseas fighting ships, was commissioned at the dock of the Electric Boat Division, of General Dynamics also buiider of the worlds first atomic submarine, the Nautilus, and the second atomic sub, the Seawolf.

Vice Adm. Frank R. Watkins, commander of the Atlantic Fleet anti-submarine force, said at com missioning ceremonies that All Navy vessels, whether surface, submarine or aircraft, were designed to play some part in antisubmarine warfare. Watkins warned that the greatest threat to our control of the sea today is the large and constantly increasing number of Soviet submarines. The Skate is the first production atomic sub to be built from a design which will be followed in the (Continued on Page Two) -x onbnui Police Charge Woman Threw Acid at Friend FITCHBURG.

Dec. 23 P) Mrs. Ann Nutting, 47, suf-; fered acid burns on the face and upper body today which she said were inflicted by a woman friend because of a difference of opinion." Police accused Mrs. Barbara Fallon, 49, of Luenburg ot the attack and charged her with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. She was held in $1,000 tor district court arraignment tomorrow.

Mrs. Nutting was burned in her left eye, face and upper body. She waa given emergency treatment at Burbank Hospital where ddfctors reported her in fair condition. Mrs, Nutting was found semiconscious In the entry of her Payson St, home ahortly aft er police received 4 telephone call that acid had eeft splashed on a woman there. 4 There waa no explanation of the nature of the difference of opinion." I Two, Services Order Speedy i New.P anes Air Force Plans 2,000 mph Bomber; Navy After.

Jet 1,000 mph Fighter. 1 "WHS NniM "'ToRkcc B52 WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 The Air Force said today it has ordered the model of a plane to fly at more than 2,000 miles an hour and the Navy announced a contract for quantity production of its own fighter, 1 The Air Force contract, made public only in sketchy form, is for final development work leading to future mass manufacture of new basic intercontinental bomber capable, of speeds in excess of 2,000 miles an hour lor long distances at ceilings of over 70,000 feet. No figures were given, either in dollars or quantities, but spokesman said the contract with North American Aviation, Inc. contemplates one or two models built by hand.

These would serve as a basis for tests and several years hence presumably quantity production. The Navy, however, said it hat awarded to Chance Vought Aircraft, Inc. of Dallas, a 200-million-dollar contract for production of the F8U 2 Crusader fighter plane, a new development, and for continued production of its predecessor, the F8U 1. The original Crusader last year get the first aupersonic transcou tinental record by flying the Los Angeles-New York route in 202 minutes. The new model is to have an im proved jet engine, better fire control and radar.

Like the original Crusader, it will be armed with sidewinder missiles as well as conventional arms. The original Crusader joined the fleet last March. The new plane being pushed by the Air- Force is the reiult of re search begun in 1955 and of a design compatition in which North American and Boeing Airplane Co. participated. Air Force spokesmen said most details of the new craft are being kept secret.

They left officially hazy the question whether will be powered by jet engines or by a form of rocket, which would operate in airiest space as well as in the atmosphere. But a spokesman did say that the craft is designed to use an advanced fuel, giving more thrust per weight than conventional petroleum products. In its development stage the plane had the nickname, chemical bomber. No Paper Christmas Day The Herald1 will not publish tomorrow, Christmas Day. The News Department will be closed today but will open atj 9 a.m.

Christmas Day. The Business Office will be open as usual today but. will be closed Christmas Day. (Contined on Page Three) The Weather Rutland Skies Today TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24 Sunrise 7 2 dunas 4 19 pm. Moo met 6:10 p.m.

Pint Quarter Deo. IB Prominent Star Betelgeuae, low In cut 6 03 m.j Rlgel. rliei 47 Visible Plineti Venus, below the Moon; Jupiter, rlsee 2 -22 s.m.; Mar. low In southeast 121 am. VU Times Eastern Standard) WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25 Bunrlso 7-24 am Sunsst 4 20 pm Moonset 9 .10 Pint Quarter Saturday night Esenina Star Venus now at tbs peak of 1U brilliance.

Outshining by far every star and planet, it seta 7.05 pm. Morning Stars Man, rises I 20 Jupiter, In the south at sunrlss, (All Times Eastern Standard) FORECASTS Vermont and New Hampshire Partly cloudy and mild today, with chance of a few sprinkles north portions. Fair and somewhat colder tonight. Christmas day will bs fair with no important temperature changes. Albany Weather Bureau forecasts for Rutland.

Addison and Bennington Counties Partly cloudy and mild today, high near 50. Fair and cooler to night. low 25 to 30. Fair tomorrow, high 40 to 45. TEMPERATURES BOSTON, Dec.

23 (A 8J Weather Bureau maximum temperatures for 12 hours and minima for 18 hours ending at p.m, E3T: Mai. 51 .58 40 00 53 50 41 53 51 -i 00 73 30 48, 54 58 71- 50 01 Mia. 20 38 35 51 47 19 17 35 Albany Boston Burlington Charleston, 0. Chicago Concord, N. Denser Hartford Kansas City Los Angeles Miami Minneapolis -Montreal New York Philadelphia Phoenix Portland, Main St Louis Sad Franclaco Washington SO 08 30 34 40 34 47 30 50 37 39 BETHLEHEM, Dec.

23 m-Pilgrims of many nations crowded into the Holy Land today for Christendom's celebration of the birth of Jesua 1,957 years ago. By Christmas Eve 9,300 pilgrims are expected to be here Americans and English, Irish French, Italian, Germans, Span- iards and other Europeans. A few Chinese and Japanese were seen in Manger Square and the Church of Nativity. Roman Catholic festivities begin on the afternoon ot Christ- maa Eve on the cobble-paved Manger Square in front of the Church of Nativity. It reaches its climax 14 hours later in a tiny rock-strewn grotto where tradition says Christ was bom.

Following midnight Mass in 1 adjacent Steatheruno Church the aged white bearded Patriarch of Jerusalem 'Alberto Gori, an Italian, will carry the figure of Christ to the He will lay it on large silver atar which the faithful believe if tbe exact spot where Mary brought forth her first born. i DURHAM, N. Dec. 23. (P-The University of New Hampshire announced today it has awarded a contract for construction ot a new $890,000 men dormitory, to Blanchard Stebbins Inc.

of Manchester. 7 Construction will start next April, with completion scheduled by September, 1959. 1 The three-story brick building will houoe 320 students. It will be located just off College road and near three recently completed men dormitories. i .1: 1 4 -Ay,.