The Opelika-Auburn News from Opelika, Alabama • 1

ederal Injunction Is Seen As Next Move In Vol 70 OPELIKA DAILY OPELIKA ALABAMA MONDAY OCTOBER 19 1959 No 151 Transmitted Back By Lunik III night club act Administration Leaders Marshaling Strength George In Gilchrist Bill Bid using A news confer and informa Mexic0 tion about the physical properties New California Brush ire Is Cuba Seeks Gain of idel were fired before was to the country man 3 president cri of a long frustrated Ei Harvest Carnival Planned Thursday TA Meeting required two the the bloc moved to re then to table that to eliminate the Gil also includes a organization of contest which and continued Starkey said the charged with the TV shows or expen observing that differences can Pocahontas Ark (ZP) un eral services were scheduled at nearby McDougal today for a fa ther and three children killed in the year a drive was increase consumption Mar is shown ad sea Palm Springs Calif (ZP) ive members of one family were killed today in a flaming crash on Highway 99 about 10 miles north of Palm Springs A young man his sister and two of her children were flung from their auto as it careened over a highway divider after blowing a See Page 3 uonnsun at uuua iuul jcaio with the labor element of the par ty had as guests Jerry Holleman See Page 3 on re in the the to au off in a directions Madera Calif (A1) ive children four from one family were killed and four other young sters injured Sunday in an auto collision at a rural intersection two miles east of Madera The youngsters were in a sta tion wagon driven by Lorraine Chandler 32 wife of a Madera ranchhand The station wagon was hit by a car driven by Howard Jordan 17 of Madera Killed were Patricia 14 Sheryl 9 Earl and Lonnie 4 all chil dren of Mrs Chandler and Kay uller 11 a daughter Two other Chandler children Hazel Louise 15 and Jim 12 were in fair condition at Madera County Hospital Donna Medlin 13 and Joyce Boone 11 were slightly hurt Mrs Chandler was hospitalized suffering from shock Dist Atty Lester Gendron said Mrs Chandler had the right of way Jordan was jailed and charg ed with manslaughter of the moon Among other things hq said the data will help locate the center of gravity and aid in stu dies' of the inequalities in the rotation As the Lunik headed back but into space speculation again arose about its ultimate fate Mi khaylov writing in Pravda said it might crash into the moon or burn up in the fierce friction of the denser atmosphere on a future circuit The present orbit is be yond the atmosphere but Mikhaylov said the orbit could be changed by the gravitational pull of the moon on another approach Youth Sells Parking Rights On Playground Detroit (ZP) The boy the picture of enterprising youth as he beckoned busily to cruising latecomers headed for the Detroit Lions San rancisco foot ball game Sunday orty motorists eyed the casy in easy out lanes and glided into parking spaces on the big field near Briggs Stadium The dollar asked by the youth seemed rea sonable enough When the parkers returned af ter the game their cars were there but the hustling lad Tucked into each windshield was a $3 parking ticket The con venient parking lot was Detroit's Nagel playground a fire which left the mother ticallv burned William Malden 31 a laborer his sons loyd 7 and Levi 1 and daughter Jeanette 2 died when flames destroyed the fam frame home at nearby Rey no Ark Saturday Mrs Malden was reported im proved but still in critical condi tion at a hospital Doctors said more than 60 per cent of her body was burned Three other Malden children got out of the house Two Alice Sue 10 and Jeanie Louise 9 had mi nor burns and a 5 year old son not identified was not hurt Auth orities said a can of kerosene near a wood stove caught fire and ex ploded Name That Tune Goes Off Air After Tonight York (P) That goes off the air after to show The Columbia Broadcasting Sys tem announced Sunday it was scrapping the TV musical quiz program in line with its new pol icy of dropping all its with big money awards sive prizes rank Stanton CBS said last riday that the network was dropping the quiz shows be cause of the impossibility of guard ing against dishonest practice The National Broadcasting Co has said it will continue its quiz programs Local Reserve Unit To Be Inspected Oct 21 The Inspector General Section of IV Army Corps (Res) in Birmingham Ala will continue its check of Reserve units in Ala bama lorida and Mississippi dur ing the next two weeks IV Corps headqauters has disclosed All Army Reserve units in the three states with the exception of units scoring superior ratings in last inspection will be inspected The inspections will determine the preparedness of each unit IV Corps (Res) is repsonsible for all Armv Reserve and ROTC activi AMILY Bing Crosby saw his for first time and then visits backstage with them in Hollywood (Oct 16) He and his oldest son Gary have been on the outs for some time but they posed for pictures with Gary putting his arm around his father Others from left are Phillip Lindsay and Dennis (AP Wirephoto) We know that all things work together for good to them that love God (Romans 8:28) PRAYER Dear heavenly ather forgive us for our wilfulness Help us to submit to Thy will Teach us that in all things Thou dost work for good to those who love Thee In name Amen At Northside Plans for a have been announced for Thursday night at Northside elementary school The carnival which will take the place of the usual Halloween carnival at the school is being sponsored by the Northside PTA with proceeds to go to the school library Starting time of the carnival is listed at 5:30 pm with the fun and entertainment to continue through 8:30 Retired School Teacher In Hospital Just Once Is 100 Among the units scheduled for inspection is Battery 4th How itzer Battalion Opelika October 21 Autaugaville Ala Mrs Mattie McNeel who had never been a patient in a hospital until she broke her hip at the age of 90 celebrated her 100th birth day here Sunday Throngs of visitors paid tribute to the retired school teacher and widow of a former member of the Legislature at the home of her daughter Mrs orrester Smith MARSHALL AS GENERAL AND shall who died at age of 78 in Washington (Oct 16) as Chief of Staff (left) when he visited ort Benning Ga in 1942 and as Secretary of State (right) in (AP Wirephoto) class and her social activities But two years ago she broke the other hip and has been con fined to her bed since then She has been a member of the Autaugaville Methodist Church for 92 years and taught a class for adults 54 years In the years she taught school in Autaugaville she was never absent even one day be cause of illness And from time she first voted in an election in 1920 she has never failed to cast her ballot Mrs McNeel helped organize one of the first grammar schools in Alabama Stale Department Considers Ejecting Soviet Diplomat By JOHN HIGHTOWER Washington (jP) The State Department is reported to be con sidering ejecting a Soviet diplo mat from the United States in re talliation for the Soviet Union's ouster of the security chief of the Embassy at Moscow The prospect that such a step will actually be taken is at the moment highly uncertain Sen John Sherman Cooper (R Ky) called Sunday for such a move the absence of an from the Kremlin The uncertainty is due partly to the fact that some officials con sider direct retaliation in such cases as an empty gesture But it is also the result of great puzzle ment here about what the Soviet move itself was supposed to ac complish One theory advanced in diplo matic quarters is that the Krem lin wanted to warn the Soviet peo ple to be wary of friendly con facts with Americans in spite of the official policy of the of Camp preached by Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev following his conference with President senhower three weeks ago See Page 3 PRflyER MOIL TODAY ROM 'Cbc Upper Prestige In Number Directions By RICHARD VALERIANI Havana (ZP) Cuba feeling her oats has galloped number of unfamiliar to round up prestige The chief destination regime remains agrarian reform but the government has undertaken various other projects to focus hemispheric and world wide attention on this island of seven million Cuba is developing a national movie industry and will aim at international prizes and mark ets Shooting is scheduled to start soon on the first films The gov ernment has guaranteed a five million dollar box office to start Cuba will have a government sponsored national theater The theater house rising ultra mod ern at a cost of 5 Vz million dol lars is expected to open before the end of the year Plans are on the drawing board and 2 Vz million dollars in the bud get for the first national aquari um Its directors want to attract foreign ichthyologists to take vantage of the abundance of life in waters A designed lure foreign as well as Cuban thors figures in the touristic fu ture of the Isle of Pines The is land is being dressed up as part of the two million dol lar plus campaign to make Cu ba a ranking tourist attraction The minister of communica tions Enrique Oltuski has an nounced plans to establish a pow erful transmitting station to com pete with the Voice of America BBC and Radio Moscow These projects have caught the imagination people Earlier in launched to of domestically produced goods She re covered rapidly after breaking her of the hip a decade ago and returned to teaching her Sunday school Lyndon Bandwagon or President Picks Up Steam Dallas Tex (ZP) The Lyn don Johnson for president band wagon picked up speed today as Texas Democrats moved to put the drive on a national level House Speaker Sam Rayburn hitched wagon to a presidential bid Saturday an nouncing he was starting the campaign for the Senate majority nomination for president Johnson long time protege was noncommittal He has left himself open to a draft in recent weeks after vowing for months that he would not seek his highest honor Shortly after the Rayburn an nouncement former President Harry Truman told a rally of some 6000 Democrats here that Missouri is heard he would be for Texas next He told the crowd he has many Texas relatives next to Mis souri I like your state Johnson sat on the stage back of Truman Sunday Truman and Rayburn flew to the Johnson ranch in ths Kill country west of Austin Tex where the senator is entertaining President Adolfo Lopez Mateos of Believed Arson Los Angeles (ZP) A new brush fire believed set by an ar sonist added its destruction today to that of a blaze still raging out of control through valuable water shed Authorities reported that a man in a dark sedan was spotted speeding away from both the new fire which spread at a terrific rate and a third which was quick ly contained resh fire fighters were sum moned bringing to 3000 the num ber fighting the two fires in Angeles National orest The original fire which started last Tuesday had destroyed 12 700 acres from the northern out skirts of Los Angeles foothill com munities northward for several miles The first fire took its second life Philip Chavez 27 a Zuni In dian from Zuni died after becoming ill Sunday An earlier death occurred when a man fell and struck his head on a rock Bulldozer operators building fire lines plunged beneath alumin ized asbestos blankets to save their lives when flames swept over them They suffered first and second degree burns Turkey Gains Bui Noi Enough or UN Seal United Nations (ZP) Turkey edged up slightly today Communist Poland but sumed balloting failed to break the stubborn deadlock over a seat in the Security Council On the 26th secret ballot in the 82 nation General Assembly Po land received 41 votes and Turkey 39 This was the closest Turkey had come in the began last Monday on Tuesday Neither has the thirds majority however and nei ther seemed ready to yield On the 27th ballot Poland re ceived 41 and Turkey 40 The assembly trying to elect a successor to Japan on the 11 na tion council took 25 inconclusive ballots at three meetings last week The record is 36 ballots taken in 1955 before a deadlock between the Philippines and Yu goslavia was broken by an agree (ZP) Administration leaders are a long weekend recess to try to regroup strength around the Gilchrist small loan uiu The House passed measure supported by Gov John Patter son took an 18 11 shellacking on a test vote riday night A substitute bill drafted by a majority of the Senate appeared to have the upper hand unless ad ministration leaders can change the situation before the Legisla ture reconvenes Wednesday The lawmakers normally would come back from weekend recess Tuesday but they postponed it a day because a convention caused a shortage of hotel space That' gives lieuten ants an extra day before the next vote comes The crucial vote riday fol lowed offering of the majority measure as a substitute for the Gilchrist bill Tuscaloosa County Sen Ryan deGraffenried sought to shove the substitute aside in favor of the bill sponsored by Rep Bob Gil christ of Morgan County He was outvoted 18 11 With their new found strength the majority consider and motion so as ehrist measure as the one to be considered But administration forces start ed filibustering and managed to prevent the bloc from carrying out its aim until the Senate ad journed for the weekend about 10:30 Substantially more liberal terest rates are proposed in bloc's substitute bill than in Gilchrist plan On loans up to $90 it would al low the lender to charge $1 for each $5 borrowed It has a repay ment formula that allows 15 days for the payment of a loan of less than $15 and $5 every 15 days on loans from $15 to $90 rom $90 to $100 the borrower would pay a maximum of $20 a year and from $100 to the max imum small loan of $200 he would See Page Is Cancelled The October meeting of Lee County TA Council sched uled for Tuesday night has been cancelled according to an an nouncement by Mrs Harold Cooper council president The cancellation was decided upon due to a conflict with an I Mrs McNeel whose husband educational meeting in Auburn rank was a widely known farm that night which will require the er is mentally alert with keen presence of many Lee County eyesight and hearing school officials Next regular meeting council will be on Nov 17 Tragic Accidents Take Heavy Toll Of Entire US amilies Rockefeller Is Openly Seeking Party Nomination Atlantic City (ZP) New York Gov Nelson A Rocke feller aiming at the Republican presidential nomination moved openly on to the national political scene today with a call for sweep ing improvements in public health programs The 51 year old governor made the first of a series of planned statements on top national issues as he headed for the Midwest in a critical test of his ability to overtake Vice President Richard Nixon for the GOP nomina tion Nixon holds a commanding lead Rockefeller is opening an all out campaign to see if he can catch up The New York governor in his first major political venture out side his home state invades Chi cago today for a hectic round of activities designed for maximum publicity and political value Before flying west he speaks here at the American Public Health Assn convention He declared in his prepared speech that there is need for fresh approaches and new methods in public health His own administration he said is already at work mapping fresh approaches to major health prob lems These he said include ris ing costs of medical care Rockefeller reserved the first 15 minutes of his Chicago visit for newspaper television and news reel cameramen ence follows The schedule talk to a major newspaper executives two local television interviews and recep tions by two Republican organi zations The official purpose of the vis it meeting with the Civil De fense Committee of the Gover nors Conference was sandwiched between the various other ac tivities Rockefeller is chairman of the CD committee The New York governor has in sisted he has not yet decided whether to challenge Nixon for the presidential nomination But Rockefeller conceded to re porters last week that he would not be surprised if his sudden ap pearance on the national scene were interpreted as a sign he is seeking support for the nomina tion The unhappy steel strike fact find ers handed to President Eisenhower today their report of failure to settle the longest steel strike The President is expected to or i der an 80 day back to work in junction quickly to halt the 97 day walkout The three member board of in quiry named 10 days ago as the first move toward invoking the Taft Hartly national emer gency procedures arrived at the White House 15 minutes early I Each man carried a copy of the bulky 37 pages plus ap pendices At 10:17 they went into Eisen office The board had striven for a week to combine a last ditch med iation effort with its fact finding It got the issues some thing the parties had not accom plished since the dispute flared in and got each side to make rome concessions But Sunday night the negotia tions collapsed finally Chairman George Taylor of Philadelphia said the collapse was break down of collective White House press secretary James Hagerty said there is time on the study of the report of his board of inquiry which tried for a week without success to bring agree ment between industry and the United Steelworkers This apparently left time for them to make voluntary moves to ward agreement by bargaining But three member fact finding board gave little hope for early success in their 37 page report to the White House we submit this report the parties have failed to reach an agreement and we see no pros pects for an early cessation of the the report said board cannot point to any single issue of any consequence whatsoever upon which the parties are in There was almost universal be lief that Eisenhower would be ob liged to call on Atty Gen Wil liam Rogers to obtain an in junction probably in Pittsburgh US District Court forcing the steelworkers back to work for at least 80 days while new mediation efforts are organized The fact finders headed by Dr George Taylor of Philadelphia spent one hour and 14 minutes in office with Secre tary of Labor James Mitchell and White House staff members Then they met reporters in Hag erty's office Hagerty said the report had been discussed fully have no announcement of any presidential action he added Hagerty said Eisenhower wants to study the report Taylor told newsmen the board reached the end of the mediation road very sad hearts be cause we feel this is an extremely critical parties have a continuing obligation to resolve these Taylor said after the board feels the be resolved obligation will not be discharged until they can sign an agreement which is their duty in a democracy such as ours to avoid the possibility of an imposed decision is the belief of the board that if we ever come to that im posed decision in labor disputes we have the same kind of Taylor was referring to recent proposals for stronger government action to settle major disputes through compulsory arbitration and other actions demanded in the last few days by some mem bers of Congress Suspect Held After Girl 8 Is Assaulted Hannibal Mo Officers seeking a man who raped an 8 year old girl seized a motorist early today after a wild chase Sheriff Melvin man would be crime Several shots the man chased for miles through northeast Missouri was trapped on a dead end street Police said the arrested identified himself as Charles Har old Burch 29 of Decatur Ill Several persons who saw the rapist in Troy Sunday night be fore the girl was lured away from the picnic there' were to view Burch These included two older girls who had refused to get in a car with the man who picked up the younger girl with an offer of candy The victim was released near a farm house four miles from Troy about two hours after the man picked her up She was hysterical An examination showed she had been raped officers said When the search started the ra car was described as having Alabama license plates Officers said car bore an Illinois license plate from a car stolen at Havana Ill and that Alabama license plates were found inside the vehicle City's Most Ambitious Sales Event This Week gosiavia was broken by an agree nimy xteteive anu xukj ment to split the two year term ties in the three states between them Btoh Poland and Turkey have rejected proposals to divide the term i Geese Seen lying South This Morning The first report of geese flying south was called in to The Daily News this morning by Mrs rank Edwards 1406 irst Mrs Edwards said she sighted the harbingers of changing seasons about 9:20 a There were about 100 in the formation she said Three big valuable grand prizes await some lucky per sons for registering at one of the 70 participating stores during this annual Opelika Harvest estival The three day sales event gets underway Thursday and continues through Saturday with Opelika merchants again going all out in offering outstanding bargains East Alabama shoppers The trio of grand prizes consists of a beautiful four piece bedroom suite an automatic dishwasher and a Polaroid camera outfit complete with case and flash equipment All of the prizes are on display now in the at Rhodes urniture on South Rail road avenue Registration cards will be avail able at all of the participating stores during the entire three days The drawing for the three grand prizes is scheduled for 5 pm Saturday in the vicinity of Ave A and 8th Street Registrants do not have to be present to win Harvest estival decorations be gan to go up today as corn stalks were in evidence on the streets and participating stores began their decorating for the event A special Harvest estival edi tion of the Opelika Daily News will appear Wednesday listing hundreds of the money saving items to be offered by the Opelika stores Other Side Of Cold Sphere Seen By Man or irst Time Lunik III raced away from the earth again today after reportedly sending the earth the first pictures ever taken of the hidden side of the moon The Soviet News Agency lass said' the photographs are being processed and will be published giving mankind the first view of the far side of the moon never seen from the earth Scientists expect the pictures to show the same sort of cratered face as the side of the moon which the earth sees The pictures presumably were taken Oct 6 two days after the launching of the 614 pound flying observatory when it swooped within 4375 miles of the moon as it hurtled out into space Moscow Radio said the Soviet space vehicle completed its first circuit around the earth Sunday and continued on its vast orbit running 17 minutes behind a pre viously announced schedule The next radio contact with the traveler officially called an automatic interplanetary station is fixed for Wednesday afternoon when it is scheduled to be 242335 miles from the earth When the rocket was launched Tass science writer Eugenyi Bogo yavlensky predicted that the Lu nik would fly close enough the whole hidden side of the moon to be The Soviets have been cagey about the equipment packed into the space traveler There was no official mention of camera ap paratus Another Soviet scientist Direc tor A A Mikhaylov of Pulkovo Observatory said telemetered sig nals from the rocket had provided Rucch Savs Moon Pictures Are i Steel Strike Deadlock 'v 1 ft 1 fs.