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Till tin ESTABLISHED Local Forecast Ttomfcj limit ft (DttalM rtprt 1) VOL. US-NO, 67 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1990 Maine's New First Lady Is 16 PAGES PMCE SEVEN CENTS Newport resident to- Maine's lady when'the husband she "married at 1944 became Maine's new governor, following the-'sudden death of Gov. Clinton A. Miss Cora I is the.wife.of John Reed, of Fort who was presideh the.state Seriate when 'the nor died. Under Maine law, a gov- enor who dies in office is succeeded by the Senate president and not by the lieutenant' governor.

His term will run to Jan. 1961. Mrs, Reed's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Join A.

Davison of 6 Ledyard-St. A.sister, Miss Ruth son, is a Portsmouth school teacher. Her father, an armature wirid- er, retired. as a government em- ploye at Qupnset last year. new- governor's wife, who OT wasborn in Haverhill, came MAINE'S NEW FIRST FAMILY Gov.

John II. Reed, who be- I wife, the former Miss Cora Davison of Newport and their daugh- in 1942 mth her fam came the Pine Tree State's chief executive today, is shown with his I ters, Cheryl, 14, and Ruth, 12. employed at the Naval i Supply Depot, she met Ens. John A. Reed, a romance developed, and on March 24, 1944, in Jel Training Station chapel they were married.

They left'Newport short- ly afterwards to make their home I A Reed a Republican; V'wUSCS VOl Teacher Salary Boosts July 1 Now Being Eyed Storm Here who probably is the youngest gbv-1 A in the nation, has been in A politics only a short time. He was elected to the Senate presidency this year after he Skidding accidents were numer- term ous as a' two-inch snowstorm descended on the Newport area overnight; but moderating tempera- have two-daughters, 14, and Ruth, 12.. New England Coastal Floods Do Damage In Millions; Heavy Snow In North "A major effort lift salaries I talked of in a general way at the generally will probably be made committee sessions. He said the "She is probably too confounded to now to call." Davison indi Occurring eight, days after th cated he would get in touch with storm, toe latest his daughter later. The Davisons have two play was not accompained by th sons, same sever? i cold and its effect 'Edward.

F. Davison, an electrical were much less. Partial clearin with the Boat an a. little colder weather is in Co. in Grbtpn, and John A.

store for tonight. Davison an engineer in North Today, another unusually hig Plainfield, N. J. ttde was observed along Newport' shoreline. There was no waterfron I damage, in contrast to the havo in area yesterday when gale winds sent tides crashing on to the shore.

City sand and salt trucks, were out all night but no plowing was necessary. Although the sun was obscured most of the morning streets-'were as -the mercury city, works' depaft- VVASHINGTON (AP)-Sen. Hu- "lent sanded, and salted a few bert H. Humphrey (D-Minn) to- trc ub spots on the Ocean Drive, day plunged officially into the particularly the-'hill leading dowfl race for the 1960 Democratic towards the Fort Adams entrance, presidential nomination. Humphrey announced at a news conference that his name will be Sen.

Humphrey Throws Hat In Presidential Ring entered in presidential primaries in Wisconsin, the District of Columbia, Oregon and South Dakota. Humphrey indicated he will campaign primarily on foreign policy and national security issues. He aimed immediate barbs at the Eisenhower administration. "We can no longer tolerate a government mat reacts instead of taking the initiative," he said a statement handed to reporters. "Vie cannot afford to have an administration that spends all of its time repairing damage instead of'building solid, long term programs.

Humphrey became the first among the Democrats most prominently mentioned" as presidential possibilities to get officially into the race. Sen. Jolm'F. Kennedy (D-Mass) returns Saturday from a Jamaica vacation and is expected to confirm then that he also seeks the prize. A trio of other major potential contenders for the.

nomination -Adlai E. Stevenson, Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri -are expected to continue for sometime to play it cozy.

In response to questions from newsmen, Humphrey declined'to say whom he regards as his leading opponent as a reporter phrased it--for the nomination. Humphrey said: "I consider no good Democrat a an addmg that the potential candidates were all his good Mends Humphrey also said: 1. The Republicans have only one presidential candidate "with several positions on every issue." This was a reference to Vice President Richard M. Nixon Humphrey added: "I am co'n- In last week's storm, the 'city sat tight and ignored the Ocean Drive in an attempt to hand of the state, which has made the-drive part the Rhode Island highway system. It was made plain by the state last week, however, that the designation of the Ocean Drive was only a nominal action, as far as the state public works department is concerned, 'and that no state plows can' be expected on this "state highway." Only one injury was reported in a series of accidents.

Early this afternoon, Arnold A. Stankus of Osborne Street, Fall River was brought to Newport Hospital after his car had gone off West Main Road in Portsmouth and hit a utility pole. The town fire department, transported Stankus in its rescue truck, said he had an injured leg. The' car, which was said to have skidded on wet pavement at Lawton's Valley; was badly damaged. Late last night, traffic wa tied up for about half an hour on the Mount Hope Bridge by a three- car collision on the Portsmouth end.

State police said Alvin W. Bliv- BOSTON (AP) Coastal England struggled today agains the ravages of yesterday's tida flood that caused millions of doi lars damage. Meantime, Northern areas of th iix-state region were digging ou from under more than a foot snow. Hundreds of property owners visited ocean fronts and beache today to survey' the damage tc summer cottages and homes- pushed over by a raging sea as if they were doll houses. Hundreds of year round rest, dents were sheltered by relatives or friends.

As the rampaging Northeaster passed over the Maritime Provinces, leaving a 'loot of snow on Nova Scotia, the weather bureau forecast more rain or snow for New England New: Year's Day or Saturday. The New England death toll stood at 10. New Hampshire got from 12 to .6 snow'iij winter's first gast to esorf-'owners who regard New Year's business as one of their-big veekends. Several seacoast roads the vicinity Hampton and Rye were closed temporarily. Up to 14 inches of snow fell in Maine.

South Maine beaches-were 1 hit hard, Kennebunk losing a portion of sea wall. Connecticut, got an overnight snowfall that left from -two to four inches. Sanding -and plow crews were out again as driving continued hazardous in some areas. Cloudy weather prevailed in Boston today and- temperatures were 'expected to drop to the 20s tonight. Communities along 30 miles of the Greater' Boston shoreline suffered the brunt of the flood devastation as the Atlantic Ocean spurted a stormy anger from Maine to New Jersey Tuesday.

The highest tide in 108 years-- L4.3 feet--brought ocean water to a depth of seven feet on some streets and into the first floors of many homes. The flood tides driven by a northeast storm which battered England for the second successive day. More 700 families were breed to flee their, homes in the own ofijluli' Shore. of-women- and child-" eh were.plucked from first floor windows-by rescuers. Oast Guard craft and private xats were' called to aid in the Pelting ram, sleet and hail hammered at windows.

Patrolman Maine's Gov. Clinton Clauson Dies In His Sleep At The Age Of 64 Paul Dunn waded shoulder high in water to rescue two women and two children in Hull. were'evacuations and rescues in Quincy, Scitiiate, and Cohasset on the South Shore and at Revere, Winthrop and Nahant- north Boston. At Scituate, June Ragge was looking out her window when the ocean broke through the sea wall. "Then came tons of stone," she said, "and water cascaded across the road.

My children panicked. I called police and they got us out" More than 300 evacuees were housed overnight in public build ings in Quincy. Thousands had to seek shelter elsewhere throughout the flood area when water rose several feet their cellars and extinguished 'urnaces. At Camp Ellis, Maine, an unoccupied house washed into Casco 3ay. Iii New York 44,000 homes-were without power when the.

storm when the-full-year 1960-61 school budget to go into 'effect July 1, is being written, Supt. Charles L. Whitcomb said today. He gave this as his personal opinion and said there had been no commitments or caucussing of opinions among School'Commit- tee members, who have held two recent executive sessions to discuss budget matters. The immediate task at hand is preparation of an interim three- months budget for April, May and June, covering the city's switch to a pew fiscal calendar starting July 1.

The past and current fiscal years have run from April 1 to March 30, but the system be shifted to coincide with federal and state fiscal years. No salary, changes are being planned or contemplated for the interim budget, Whitcomb said, since the present salary schedule is in effect through the end of the school year. There may be a few minor, adjustments'within the present schedule in order to get teachers on the ratio's where they belong, but the schedule itself mil be unchanged during the interim period, the superintendent said. Whitcomb said the matter of future salary hikes had only been committee recognized that there was a problem that had to be examined, 'Ihc problem is in a bal- between "what ought to be paid" and "what, can be paid," Whitcomb said. Neighboring Massachusetts has gone.to a $4,000 minimum salary for teachers in the coming year and Connecticut was already ahead of the rates paid here, the superintendent noted.

He said that in order to draw qualified teachers from outside, a differential of $100- J200 was useful. (The Newport salary schedule for 1958-59 i 53,800 minimum and 55,800 maximum, the same as in 1957-58. Because of budgetary pressures, the School Committee last winter rejected a schedule proposed by Dr. Carl H. Porter-Shirley, then superintendent.) The committee held the second in its of executive sessions on Dec.

22. No' more are scheduled "prior to the regular meeting of Jan. 11. At that time, the interim budget will undoubtedly be ready for adoption, Whitcomb said. The three-months figures have been discussed in detail and there have -been general talks of the projected figures for the full-year budget which will be drawn up in the.

spring, to take effect July 1. Whitcomb said the interim budget- presented a problem in that school revenues are normally slim during that particular of April, May and June. Destroyers WiD Be Open To Tourists Next Summer Ike To Address Congress Jan. 7 AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) President Eisenhower will deliver his State of the Union message to snapped power lines.

Two men were electrocuted by fallen-wires. Newburgh, N.Y., a Greyhound bus bound New York with 18 passengers aboard skidded and overturned on the New York Thruway. Scores of parked cars suffered sea. water damage when they were floodE(i up to window height along streets and in industrial parking lots on the Greater Boston' water- Congress person Thursday, en of 55 Harvey Road, Middletown, approaching the Portsmouth side of the span, slowed to avoid striking a car ahead which was skidding on the snow-covered pavement. A car driven by Anthony W.

DeSaniis of 22 Pope Newport, collided with the rear of (Continued on Page 4) AUGUSTA, Maine (AP)-Gov. Clinton A. Clauson (D) died in his sleep at the executive mansion early today. He was 64. The one-time chiropractor, a native of -Mitchell, Iowa, in his first year of a four-year term.

Under Maine's constitution he is automatically succeeded by the president of the state senate--Republican John 38, a well- to-do potato grower from Fairfield. Reed said Clausen's death "is terrible news for the whole state of Maine, He was a much beloved man and this is a great los to the entire state." Maine has no lieutenant governor. Reed's office is virtually the equivalent. Reed will not. necessarily fill out the whole of Clauson's term.

A constitutimnal amendment changing the term from two to four years also provides that in (he event of a governor's death more than 90 days prior to the primaries in an "off" Senate president will serve only until (lie first Wednesday of the next Jan- nominated and elected in 1960. Clauson was the first Maine governor to die in office for almost 40 years. Dr. Joseph R. Crawford said the -cause of Clauson's death was undetermined but "in all likelihood it wa -heart or a cerebral hemorrhage." The governor was dead when Dr.

Crawford arrived at Blauie House, the executive mansion at 2:35 a.m. '(EST). The only member of the family present was Mrs. CLauson, former Ellen Kelleher of Waterville. The governor also leaves a son, Cornelius of Waterville.

and a daughter, -Mrs. William Chasse of Brunswick. Clauson came to Maine as a young chiropractor. He settled in Waterville where he served as city treasurer in 1930 and mayor in 1956 and 1957. In recent years he had been in the oil distribution business there.

Active in Democratic party affairs for more than 30 years, he was U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for Maine from 1934 to 11953. front. Mercantile establishments reported hundreds of- thousands of dollars in damage loss when stock stored in cellars became soaked. The hazard from wet wiring forced power companies in the New England flood areas to cut off the power supply.

Other crews shut off water and gas lines in fear that the pounding sea would cause them to spring leak. The Boston fire department asked the Coast Guard to assist with firefighting. equipment along the waterfront where several wharfs, many of them with apartments on them, were flooded. Jan. 7, the -day after' a new ses- son opens.

The annual budget message will be submitted to the legislators on Monday, Jan. 20, and the economic message two days later. The schedule was set up today when Eisenhower conferred with two aides who flew down from Washington, the assistant to 'the President, Wilton B. Persons, and speech writer Malcolm Moos. Persons has been talking with congressional leaders about the fining of.

the- nearly two and Vhalf hours thismorning smoothing out language in a draft of the State of the Union message which the chief executive brought with him when he arrived here Sunday for a week's vacation. This is the message which lays down in general terms the administration prpgrani for the year ahead. Details will be spelled out in supplementary mesages later. For example, White House press secretary James C. Hagerty said there will be a specia farm message.

Today's speech polishing ses Weekend i i i privileges aboard designated ships of the Destroyer Force at the piers here have been added to Newport's tourist attractions for next summer, the Navy announced today. From mid-June to mid-December, three or four ships will be made ready each weekend to hold open house for vacationing tourists, some of whom have only a scant acquaintance with the Navy's warships. The plan will be given the widest possible publicity by the Chamber of Commerce and the R. I. Development Council.

An innovation here, the extended-, period open house was held in other areas, particularly on the West Coast, prior to World War II, a Navy spokesman said. "We feel we're a part of the community and are a kind of attraction in the same way as the Old Stone Mill or "The Lt. Cmdr. Raymond A. Komorowski, Destroyer Force public information- officer, said this morning.

He said the plan had been per- sion out of the way, Eisenhower went back to the Augusta National Golf dub links for his fourth round in four days. On Saturday Eisenhower will meet with Budget Director Maurice Stans and three other officials for another check on the spending program for the 1961 fiscal year which starts next July 1. ROKs Fired On Ship, Russians Charge sonally endorsed by Rear Adm. Edmund Taylor, Destroyer Force commander, as a means of acquainting large segments of the public with the work of the Navy and as a way in which the Destroyer Force can make an immediate contribution to the attractiveness of the Newport area. The admiral had been particularly impressed with the public response last summer to open house held aboard DesLant ships which toured the Great Lakes region.

Visitors came 600 miles just to see the Newport ships, Komorowski noted. The "guided tours" aboard ship ill be handled by the normal duty sections of the crews, the visits will not mean that any extra men will have to be held aboard on weekends or that there will be any extra expense to the government, Korhorowski said. He said experience had shown that crewmen took particular pride in displaying their ships to visitors and liat it added to their own appreciation of their units. Full cooperation has been prom- sed by the Naval Base, "land- ord" of the destroyer piers, and will be erected ashore direct- Leonard J. Panaggio of Newport, publicity director for the R.

I. Development Council. Information will be-printed in the various brochures and maps that are-sent out early in the spring to tourists. If sufficiently publicized, the open house would draw attention not only'from vacationers in the Newport area, but from those stopping at resorts throughout New England, the planners feel. Liquor Curfew Rings At 1A.M.

New Year's Day The curfew or tocsin or whatever it is will peal at 1 a.m., by state law, for New Year's Eve celebratprs who are being sold or served liquor in licensed establishments. The rule on shutting off the flow Of spirits is inflexible, but the closing of the doors of licensed places--is another matter. Seine communities in the state have been granting extensions of the dosing hours, so that patrons can presumably enjoy what they have invested.in prior to 1 a.m. Outlining the Newport situation City Clerk John F. Fitzgerald said no extensions have been asked or granted.

He pointed out mat the bulk of licenses here, some 60 of them, arc Class BV permits Technically speaking, these are for restaurants which can be open around the clock for service of food, Fitzgerald said, although the 1 a.m. shutoff of liquor service prevails. The hotels are in the same classification. Newport has only two genuine licensed saloons, which do not have food-serving permits and which must shut down at midnight, the city clerk said. Reds OK Summit Date, Say British LONDON (AP)-The Soviet Union today accepted the Western proposal for a 16 summit meeting, responsible London sources reported.

Notes from President Eisenhower, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and French President Charles' de Gaulle suggesting the -May 16 date were delivered in Moscow only Tuesday to Foreign vinced I could win over Vice President Nixon." 2. Withdrawal of Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York from the GOP presidential "is a plus- factor for tlie Democrats." Humphrey said Rockefeller's decision indicated it is difficult, "for any man ot any liberal persuasion to find a welcome inside the Republican party--particularly from the bosses." 3. He not enter the New Hampshire presidential primary because Sen.

Kennedy is "much stronger there." 4. He plans a vigorous campaign in the South, but will not enter Ihe Florida primary because there is a gentleman's agreement to leave that to Sen. George A. Smathcrs as a favorite- anybody "violates the rules of the game" he will not hesitate to contest 'anywhere. Asked nt today's news conference If he would accept a vice- prcsldenlial nomination, Hum- 1 phrcy said he fails to make a good showing in the presidential primaries his only plans are to seek a third term ns senator from Minnesota.

Humphrey snid that Walter But- lor, a.Minnesota supporter, is national flnnndo director lor presidential efforts. Body Found In Tangiers May Be One Of Two Missing U. S. Girls WATERTOWN, N.Y. (API second American girl is reportei missing in the west Mediterran'eai area where police are seeking the Identity of a girl's body sew-n in-a sack.

The remains are believed those of an American 01 British girl'. The parents of 22-year-old Har riet Benton of Ogdensburg, N.Y. say they have not heard from her since receiving a post card from Gibraltar dated Oct. 8. The State Department.

Coast and a U.S. congressman have, been asked to help locate the tall, brunette college graduate, who was on a European vacation. The body of a girl or- young woman was found in a sack Dec. 15 in the brush Tangier, Morocco. -Tangier is 36 across the Mediterranean from Gibraltar.

Police said the victim had been beaten about the head, strangled and probably raped. Tangier iwlice at first identified the body as that of a 19-year-old American named Muller. Henry Mueller (correct)' of New York City said that his daughter? Helen, a former student at Hunter College, sailed in mid-October for trip abroad nlone and that her last letter came from Tangier. Later r.c from Tangier, uary--in this case Jan. 4, 1961.

So, a governor will have to be Aworld War I veteran, he was a member of the American Legion. He also was a Mason and a Shriner. At one time he was president of the Maine Assn. of Chiropractors. He was elected governor in 1958 succeeding Edmund S.

Muskie sure the body was Miss "Multerls. An identified as William JMpore, being held for questioning in connection with the body, He, was under guard in a hospital where he was taken after slashing his wrists. gave this account of Miss Benton's disappearance: Her Edward P. Benton, an Ogdensburg highway department employe, told the State Department his daughter wrote she had.signed on as first.mate aboard the yacht Raider going to Casablanca and hoped to go on to the Canary Islands and the West Indies. The State Department said it lincl determined Raider was owned by N.

J. Gallon, a British army colonel who had bought it .0 sail around the world. The department said it also earned that the Raider stopped in jibraltnr in October, no race ot the yacht or the girl could found. The Coast Guard said it had checked the U.S. Eastern Seaboard finding cither, Miss Benton was rom Syracuse University in 1958.

the hnd majored in liberal arts. After graduation she worked for year for nn advertising iigcncy however, said that police were not in'Boston (Ray Barren und Ruth, 12, (D), now Maine's junior U.S. Senator, Clauson did not have the backing of Muskie or other top leaders of their party in the 1958 primaries, but defeated their candidate, Maynard and went on to a victory over ex-governor Horace Hildrcth (R). That was the last of Maine's traditional early September elections. In 1960 Maine will in November with the rest of the Ciausbn was the first-governor elected iq a.

four, rather than a two-year term. Arrangements for the governor's funeral have not been completed. His successor is in his second Senate term as representative of potatorgrowing Aroostook County. Reed is in business with his father and a brother, Walter, growing and shipping potatoes. He also joins them In a love of harness horse racing.

The family owns a stable of racers and Sen. Reed president of the Northern Maine Fair, which conducts summer racing at Presque Isle. A University of Maine graduate, he served as a Naval officer in World War II. Reed and his wife, the former Cora Davison, of Newport, R.I., have two daughters, Cheryl, 14, moved slowly out to sea after ing visitors to the berths. would be between one and two Depending on the demand that feet above normal today, com- LONDON (AP)--Moscow Radio develops, probably one or two pared to yesterday's three feet or ships, an older destroyer and one warship fired on an unarmed So- of the new types, would be open viet vessel off the east coast of each weekend.

Possibly a destroy- eontinucd through the night from North Korea and caused casual- er tender, with its maze of shops the Great Lakes region and Ohio bes among the crew. and technical compartments, would be open too, said. Pennsylvania and N.e\ curred in an East Korean bay Plans for the first summer of the over most of New The Dec. 2S, and also caused destroyer house are being Weather Bureau said the threat damage" to the Soviet vessel, the worked out in collaboration with Moscow reports had indicated of more heavy snow had ended, at hydrogeographical service ship Ted C. Jarrett.

Chamber of Corn- Premier Xikita Khrushche least temporarily. expected to accent the date. WINTKK'S fRACKKV Today's snowstorm casts a soft blanket lawn beside Redwood Library as Mrs. John T. Hop! of 10 Red Cross Terrace snaps picture of.

her own while being photographed by her husband. Iso o( lasting Jo Creeitos point. however the 11 ttevtl a th.