The Huntsville Times from Huntsville, Alabama • 3

YOUTH KILLED AT CENTREVILLE Mother Here Thinks Son Is Unidentified Dead Boy A Huntsville mother is afraid, her son was the unidentified auto victim buried a few days ago in Centreville, Ala. Only a difference in the color of his eyes gave hope to Mrs. Mary McNeese that the hitchhiking youngster buried without a name is not her son, James Estle Byles. "The rest of the description fits perfectly," she declared. Several calls by The Huntsville Times last night only fed the mystery.

But effort to positively pin down the identity by comparing fingerprints were futile. Even a picture of the dead boy--sent her by the Bibb County sheriff-did not answer the question for the distraught mother. "The resemblence is so strong I just have to find out," Mrs. Me McNeese, Pictures a made waitress, in years said. past of her son bear a marked resemblence to the one sent by the Sheriff Harold (Duck) Dailey.

Here is why Mrs. McNeese and the boy's father, Ernest (the parents are -think the dead youth may be their son: A young boy hitched a ride on Monday, March 27. Shortly afterwards the car rammed into a bridge rail and plunged into the Cahaba River in Bibb County and the youth was drowned. He had no identification on him. Mrs.

McNeese's -working in Pensacola, Fla. building had called her March 25 on Saturday, asking for money and saying he was going to hitch-hike to Savannah, looking for work. She hasn't heard from him since. always called every week or so. He wasn't much to She called the sheriff a couple of weeks after the accident-al day or two after the boy was buried in Centreville-after having read stories of the burial.

The sheriff asked her to send a picture of James which she did. However, Sheriff Daily was emphatic in saying, the victim had blue eyes. had brown eyes, his mother vows. James' father checked with his former employer and learned that the lad had left Pensacloa about the time he said he would. Receiving the picture (on pamphlet being distributed) this week, Mrs.

McNeese called The Times yesterday, saying the description "fits better than ever." She said her boy was 17 in March. He was arrested in Pensocola in June, 1960, she said. The Times called law enforcement. officers in Pensacola and verified this. They listed his birthdate as March 16, 1945 which would make the boy only 16.

An official in Centreville told JAMES BYLES Thought Missing The Times last night two extra marks of identification, not released to the general public. Without telling the mother, a reporter questioned her in detail and her answer matched what he had been told. The Byles boy was staying at the Southern Hotel in Pennsacola, his father said, but was to go to Savannah to work for the same company. The fater called the hotel and was told that James had agreed to write after arriving Savannah, but had not written. He had not written a girl friend, Barbara, either, a man at the hotel said.

Unidentified Youth Killed At Centreville Fingerprints were taken of the accident victim. However, the fingerprint department of the Escambia County Sheriff's department in Pensacola was closed last night so that a check could not be made on Byles' fingerprints. He was booked there June 20, 1960 for breaking and entering and for petty larceny, an officer there told The Times. Meanwhile, in Huntsville, mother and father keep hoping a call will come- or a -to tell them it's just a coincidence; that James Byles is not the stranger who sleeps in a Centreville cemeItery. Street Study Continued From Page One fit to the press, said he had explicit orders from the State not to show the contents of the report to the newspaper, yet at one point he said he had loaned it out and could not remember who had the report.

The State Highway Department was asked for a copy but spokesman said he could not release it because the Bureau of Roads in Washington was studying "additional information." The Bureau of Public Roads, asked to release it, said they would in due time. Palmer Baker Engineers, who made the survey, would not release it because the State was their "client" and the release would have to come from them. Palmer and Baker was asked altwice, the state three times and the U.S. agency twice. Despite all this cloak-and-dagger business, The Huntsville Times secured a copy of the survey that was hailed as a "master plan, not just for.

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MEMBER PARK-SHOP THE SOUTH'S LARGEST HOME FURNISHERS HUNTSVILLE-FAYETTEVILLE-SCOTTSBORO PHONE 534-5681 Continued From 1 Page One would back the President in such a move if Kennedy considered it necessary to stop the buildup of the Communist beachhead in Cuba. If Kennedy got any similar assurances 'from Eisenhower, the former president didn't tell men about it. Kennedy and Eisenhower had before them Soviet Premier Khrushchev's latest blast accusing the United States of financing and arming the Cuban invasion and calling the maneuver a crime. It had been delivered to Kennedy just after a meeting of the National Security Council at the White House Saturday morn-ular ing. While the President declined to reply to Khrushchev's message, he approved a State Department statement denouncing the Soviet premier's note as a "distortion of the basic concepts of the rights of Kennedy earlier this week responded to a previous attack by Khrushchev by pledging the United States would act to meet any armed intervention in Cuba from the outside.

He also had said Cuba would not be abandoned to the Communists and that the United States might find it necessary to act, alone to counter Red penetration of the Western Hemisphere. After Kennedy and Eisenhower completed their luncheon talk, the men met. briefly with about 100 newsmen and photographers. No formal statement was issued. Then Kennedy and Eisenhower drove together to the landing pad where helicopters had brought them together.

For seven minutes sat in Kennedy's black limousine, continuing their talks. they Eisenhower could be seen gesturing with his right hand and Kennedy nodding his head. Kennedy patted the former president's arm as they said goodby. The President had flown up from Washington and was on hand to greet Eisenhower, who flew over from Gettysburg, 25 miles away, in a helicopter furnished by the White House. Eisenhower and Kennedy were smiling they emerged from the cottage for a brief report to newsmen.

Kennedy said he had invited Eisenhower to "come and have lunch with me today" so that the former president could 1 be brought up to date on recent events. He sought, Kennedy added, the benefit of Eisenhower's "thoughts and experience." Asked if he had anything to say about the conversation, Eisenhower who had been obliged to have something to say after such meetings in his eight years as president grinned broadly and said: "It is very nice to be in a position where you are not expected or even allowed to say anything." After Eisenhower departed, A-3-THE HUNTSVILLE TIMES -Sunday, April 23, 1961 Cost Of Program Will Be Determined Heart Of Huntsville Plan Property-Appraisal Pacts Let Two contracts for appraisals of property in the $10 million Heart of Huntsville plan have been let by the Huntsville Housing Author- This contract letting could considered the most important step taken to date in the project, because the fate of this but costly face-lifting project may hinge upon the findings of the two appraisals. The reason for this i is simple, since it involves money. These two appraisals will determine how much money-taxpayers' money-it will cost to acquire the property, and how much the Huntsville Housing Authority can expect to sell the property for if it is developed. G.

W. Jones Sons have been given a $5,125 co contract for an acquisition appraisal. The Huntsville firm will determine how much money the property in the first phase of the project is worth. Josiah Sibley of Atlanta, has been awarded a' $4,500 contract for a market ability study and a disposition appraisal. This firm will tell the HHA what it can expect to sell the land for after it is developed.

Last December HHA received a $116,699 loan from the federal government to be used in the final planning of this proposed project. This money must be paid back to the government. At the same time, the Urban Renewal Administration set aside $1,805,687 in funds for the acquirbeing and redevelopment of land if application is made by Huntsville to go ahead with the project. This reserve allocation is no financial windfall. Because if the City Council eventually decides to make the Heart of Huntsville plan a reality, the allocation will be figured into the total cost of the project.

Thus the City would be committed to finance a third share re of the estimated $6,134,000 deficit following the sale of the redeveloped land. Early financial estimates of "phase one" have been set at 275,000 less returns from land sales, for a net cost of $2,641,000. The City's share of the net would be about $176,000 for each of the five years it is expected to take to complete the first project, or $880,000. A 10-year target date has been set for the entire project. General boundaries for the plan are Clinton Avenue on the north, a Jefferson and Madison streets on the east, St.

Clair Avenue on the south and Leeman Ferry Road, Huntsville Spring Branch and Pin- hook Creek on. the west. The first phase is a portion of the Housing Authority's urban re-. newal program and involves redevelopment of 196.16 acres of land for public, commercial, residential and light industrial use, immediately west of the central business district. It includes the construction of a connector street between Memorial Parkway and uptown Huntsville.

The proposed four-lane street will tie into the Parkway about halfway between Clinton Avenue and Governors Drive, near the site of the new shopping center which is developed. About 10 being, land surrounding the proposed route of the road, between the present west end of Williams and Memorial Parkway, south of the Clinton Street redevelopment project, would have to be acquired. There are some 270 structures on about 220 parcels of land in the first phase' of the project. Most of this is residential, some is commercial. There is considerable City property including schools, but most of the City property and some of the commercial property has been excluded from the project.

Jones cannot begin his appraisal until the Huntsville Housing Authority authorizes him to proceed. And this can- A HARE-RAISING TALE-A mama cat named Tis, upper left, seems not to mind at all that a baby rabbit shares the bed and board she provides her two kittens. Tis, who resides in the vicinity of Clay Avenue, adopted the little hare the other day after it hopped into her not be done until Ewald and Associates, who are planning the project, delivers various maps to the authority. Ewald was given a $40,000 contract last December to plan the Heart of Huntsville project. He was given 10 months in which.

to do the job, but the appraisers can start work as soon as they receive preliminary maps. Nathan Porter said the disposition appraisal will follow survey. When these two are accomplished, then the project would be at a point where the tire plan could be engineered. Jones has 75 days in which to complete his work after ordered to proceed; and the Atlanta firm has 45 days. Ewald's contract covers about a 10-month period.

His report will determine how much the engineering will cost. Both appraisals plus Ewald's planning report will be a part of the Heart of Huntsville budget which will be submitted to the City Council. And upon the City Council will rest the decision to proceed with the plan, or let it die. K. Assails (Huntsville traffic ills for almost a generation? Some of the information contained in the report is outdated, and was outdated from the very day the report was started.

For Example: This master (street plan calls for a grade separation, or overpass on Memorial Parkway where it intersects with Holmes Avenue. This was called for between now and 1980, although the overpass was constructed years ago. The State Highway Department has neglected to the information contained in the report, although it was readily available. For Example: The report published in July and given to the State Highway Department recommended a traffic interchange at Clinton Avenue and Memorial Parkway and a grade separation at the railroad tracks east of the Parkway. It recommended the two be incorporated.

This would mean that Clinton Avenue would go over Memorial Parkway, and the overpass would extend over the railroad tracks. At this time the State had the report, but a month later, on Aug. 7, the State let a contract for the overpass on Memorial Parkway, rather than having Clinton Avenue going over the Parkway. To further compound the confusion surrounding this report and to underscore the possibility that the report may be dead even before it is officially published, consider this: It was made to project Huntsville's traffic needs beyond 1980. The engineers predicted 100,000 population in the City by 1965.

But Mayor R. B. Searcy told them at that time he expected Huntsville to reach that population figure by 1962. Admittedly "caught by surprise" the engineers said they would have to re-evaluate the situation. But there is nothing in the report to indicate a re-evaluation was made.

Contrary to reports being circulated in Huntsville by opponents of the inner-ring road, this report does recommend one, and it is called a U.S. Highway 72 by pass. Moreover, it recommends an Outer Ring road as an absolute bypass of the City. 1 These two roads, plus what the Palmer Baker report recommended for the entire City, will be dealt with in subsequent stories. De Gaulle Continued From Page One who flew into Oran Saturday morning with full powers to put down the insurrection were "assuming their responsibilities." This apparently meant that Louis Joxe, Algerian affairs minlister, and Gen.

Jean Olie, named by De Gaulle as commander in chief for all Algeria, had escaped capture by the dissidents. After sending his top lieutenants to Algeria, De Gaulle called the Cabinet session which proclaimed the state of emergency and decreed Challe and his comrades Gens. Raoul Salan, Andre Zeller and Edmond Jouhaud, and Col. Yves Godard would face a military court-martial. The emergency gives De wide police powers for the next 12 days.

He can impose censorship, close theaters, arrest without warrant and in general take almost any precaution necessary to maintain control of France. The proclamation followed a general tightening of security throughout the country. Military leaves were canceled and police reinforcements placed at strategic spots. Continued From Page One United States feels it has the right to help bring down Castro's -backed regime because it threatens American security, then the Soviet Union has an equal right to destroy American backed governments on its own borders. He insisted, however, that Moscow would not try to do this.

He concluded with an appeal for better U.S.-Soviet relations. This was the third in a series of letters between the President and the premier on Cuba. Khrushchev started off on Tuesday by warning that the Soviet Union would provide Castro "all necessary aid" to repel the invasion. Kennedy replied several hours later in a letter warning Khrushchev to keep the Soviet Union out of Cuba and expressing U.S. sympathy for the rebels' cause.

The President insisted the United States "intends no military intervention in Cuba" but would honor its obligations to protect the Western Hemisphere from "external aggression." MOVING? White-Mayflower 00.