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1 Iff Bristol Herald Courier Your amily Newspaper or More Than 87 Years ourteen Pages Daily Sunday 15c BRISTOL VIRGINIATENNESSEE TUESDAY JUNE 9 1959 87th Year No 20990 Bristol Western Artist News Briefs Rocket Ship Slain At Performance Youth ires Golden Rifle ENTLER RED ROBERT COWAN SR Death Closes amous Act Soviets Admit Talks Approaching Showdown which HELMS EVERETT Election At A Glance American Thread Officials To Meet Launched rom Submarine Voters To Polls Today Mail Transported SouthwestVirginia 1 By Guided Missile Elections Slated The riirry Parson man tai' can tell when grown he stops A TALLAHASSEE la (UPI) Subpoenas were issued Monday for nearly 50 witnesses to testify at the trial Wednesday of four while youths charged with the mass rape of a Negro coed State Prosecutor William Hop kins summoned 20 witnesses in cluding the 19 year old victim He said he probably will have sub poenas issued for or more before the trial begins 71 45 56 65 66 65 63 1 69 65 70 72 64 64 62 70 57 50 63 69 51 50 72 66 56 WASHINGTON (UPI) President Eisenhower said Monday night that GOP victory chances in 1960 will depend in large measure on the vigor with which congressional Re publicans fight tor his fiscal and economic policies He said his economy drive was not a mere matter penny pinch ing but an overall struggle to keep America strong and to that a dollar earned today will tomorrow buy for the housewife an equal amount The President addressed more than 3200 Republicans who paid $100 a plate to hear him Vice Pres ident Richard Nixon and other GOP leaders speak The dinner was expected to net about $300000 for the campaign war chest Before the speech making gold pins were presented to 23 Republi can members of Congress who have served more than 20 years and to four members with more than 30 years service The latter were Reps Joseph Martin Jr (Mass) Carroll Reece (Tenn) Edith Nourse Rogers (Mass) and John Taber (NY) In his prepared speech Eisen hower praised GOP solidarity be hind administration proposals in the current Democratic controlled Con gress 86 86 90 92 78 88 87 i :101 85 64 90 89 63 61 87 90 77 The Post Office said the tests showed that carrying mail by missile highly practi It looked forward eventually to (Continued on Page Two) Two Southwest" Virginia youths were in Roanoke Memorial Hospital last night suffering from polio Rickie Ray Menton' 6 of Salt ville is suffering from bulbar polio Hospital attendants said he has not been placed in a respira tor' His condition was described as fairly good Raymond Maxwell 13 of Pu laski was also reported suffering from paralytic polio He was de scribed as "doing last night The hospital said these were the only polio cases in the hospital at the present although one other case is under study Doctors have not completed their diagnosis By James Baxley The voters of Bristol Virginia today will close out a relatively quiet election campaign by choos ing two members of City Council who will begin four year terms of office next September 1 Hot Weather Yesterday and May 12 were the hottest days on record so far this year the Bristol area The mer cury leveled off at 88 degrees on both days iiilw 9 mail known to have been carried by missile will go to government officials including President Ei senhower members of Congress foreign postal officials and others Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield called the successful experiment major new tech nique ot communication that is of historic significance to the peo ples of the enljre world" He pre dieted further important develop ments in the new technique would City Manager Robert Morrison "one must dial emergency num bers inncluding police fire and Morrison will request the man ager of the company to make these changes in its system as1 a public service' The plan of calling the operator would apply to all emergency calls "If a person suffered a heart attack for instance it might be impossible for him to be able to dial the emergency Morrison said It was pointed out that a fast call to the telephone operator would greatly facilitate help in the emergency situation In other action at a special ses sion the council approved an ex (Continued on Page Two) Power System One is the underground power system now being constructed by the Utilities Board which has been tied to lack of a reduction in power rates The other Is a proposed new fire station in downtown Bristol All of the candidates believe the city needs fire sub station in West Bristol Some think this should take priority over a new downtown fire hall These issues however are not considered as important politically as the struggle for control of City Council This is part and parcel of the though none of the candidates have mentioned it pub licly or the past two years Council men Powell and Jesse Eve ridge have been sitting on what Powell has referred to as the "other side of the Often they are on the short end of three to two votes The two holdover councilmen (Continued on Page Two) have conducted a handshaking "vote for campaign Two possible issues however have been pointed out by some of the candidates Trial Is Set or White Youths CARRIES THE The US successfully carried the mad by guided missile carrying approximately 3000 letters at nearly the speed of sound from a submarine Lt Commander Carlos Dew is shown taking the mail 9 A Soviet spokesman said the ministers were the stage where the work of the con ference Is to be accomplished" There was no clear indication whether the Russians were ready for a temporary agreement on a Berlin truce which would pave the way for a summit conference or whether the month old parley would break up in stalemate Spelled Out In Detail US Secretary of State Christian A Herter and his British and rench colleagues handed Grom yko an informal on the Berlin issue to start the filth week of Geneva negotiations Sources said the document spelled out in greater detail the demands for security in Berlin and Soviet guaranteed free access to the Western sectors of the city The sources emphasized that the document was not a proposal for a wind up communique to 'end the conference but rather an of bed rock propos als ot last week But the Russians stood fast to their original demands while pub licly expressing optimism over the conference Gromyko's press spokesman (Continued on Page Two) 58 Memphij 59 Miami 41 MllwaukM 63 Minneapolis 65 Orleans 56 New York ss Philadelphia as Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland Me' Richmond St Louis San rancises Seattle 70 Tampa 70 Washinoton 59 Winnipeg GENEVA (UPI) Mon day spurned fresh Western terms for a Berlin truce at a secret ses sion ot the Big our foreign min isters conference A Soviet spokes man admitted the conference was approaching a showdown Western sources reported ed at the New York offices This program is being her alded as one of the most advanced in the textile industry The group will then discuss their parts in the program Also included in the meetings will (Continued on Page Two) Candidates in the race are Rob Kelly and Lyman Sevier who did ert (Boh) Cowan Sr red Entler (Tobe) Everett and (Jake) Helms The two top men in the election who will join three holdover mem bers of Council will succeed Robert lash Of Life BAYONNE LB Tricia Hardy a fashion model in New York as well as an undertaker trainee in her funeral par lor here She says she's serious about both careers progress" at the hour secret meeting in Soviet oreign Minis ter Andrei A Gromyko's villa The Soviets refused to budge from their stand that the Western pow ers must clear out of West Berlin and that it be turned into a "free demilitarized city" lke Addresses Republicans Pins Awarded Area Youths Hospitalized With Polio A group of 22 American Thread officials from 10 states will gather here today to open a three day meeting on distribution Bristol was picked as the site for the session because it's the largest distribution center of Amer ican Thread Co The conferees who will meet to day include representatives from each of the company's 11 distribu tion branches plus seven officials from its New York headquarters Among the latter will be Harry Horrocks a company director and vice president in charge of yarn sales production and distribution the first time in four years the branch office manage ment group has gathered for a combined meeting 1 The group will get a complete briefing on the electronic data pro cessing program now being install PARIS President Charles de government Monday served notice it will refuse "new to the NATO alli ance unless the United States and Britain share atomic secrets with rance support it on Algeria and make it an equal with them on global strategy 1 I The warning was emphasized by Gen Pierre Billotte Da wartime chief staff who told newsmen at the 14 na tion Atlantic congress meeting in London that he feared a "new major in NATO Billotte said there was a possibility rance might withdraw from the defense organization unless it Is given equality with the United States and The rench delegation to the Atlantic congress proposed that NATO strategy be planned on a global basis rather than regional ly and that all NATO member he party to defense data' in technical and political iieids Municipal1 offices in at least eight Southwest Virginia towns will be filled in town elections scheduled today a look at the elections: BIG STONE GAP Voters will elect a mayor and six councilmen Candidates for mayor are Lane Sr Cummings and Strong Candidates for six council seats include: Barker Charles Rogers Jl Wolfe Jr Robinette Paul Quillen and James Hensley all incumbents: A Pierce James Collier John Kelly Bryant Tucker Carl Johnson Paul Harry Miller Earl KilbourneA Sandt uller Clifford Here's a quick look at today's municipal election in Bristol Virginia: To be Two members of City Council who will take office next September 1 i Robert (Bob) Cowan Sr red Entler (Tobe) Everett (Jake) Helms Courthouse Stonewall Jackson School Virginia Junior High School George Washington School Voting 6 a to 7 Voter All persons who are properly registered and who paid their poll tax on or before last December 9 are eligible to vote EDWARDS AIR ORCE BASE Calif (UPI) The experimental rocket ship X15 Monday complet ed its first powerless glide flight over the Mojave Desert The sleek aircraft first manned space vehicle glided back to earth on its own stubby wings without fuel The test flight was considered a complete suc cess Test pilot Scott Crossfield 37 set the dart shaped craft down on the Rogers Dry Lake runway of this base four minutes after it was dropped from the right wing of the B52 "mother at an alti tude of 38000 feet "I felt so good coming down I felt like asking for raise in said Crossfield after a de briefing on the runway as he stepped from the multi million dol lar ship "It's a pretty airplane to the North American Aviation test pilot commented was working We made a routine procedure pattern and the launch was very clean rom then on it was just a matter of getting down It worked exactly as we Prohibits Hiring LITTLE ROCK Ark (UPI) An Arkansas law prohibiting hiring of members of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People by any state county city or school agency is unconstitutional a three judge federal court ruled Monday The three judges however up held a law which requires teachers in public schools to sign affidavits listing all organizations to they belong or contribute Lazo Resigns Post WASHINGTON (UPI) Agustin Torres Lazo first secretary of the Nicaraguan Embassy resigned Monday and pledged his support to "the revolutionary in Nicaragua He said that during his two year stay in Washington his "democratic spirit has been and he has been able to abandon the eternal concepts of freedom pro claimed by Thomas Jefferson" He submitted his resignation in a letter to Nicaraguan President Luis Somoza Debayle Nuclear Test Proposal GENEVA East and West breathed new life into the eight month old nuclear test conference here Monday by introducing sepa rate proposals for studies of high altitude explosions and Russian officials pre sented the proposals when the three power nuclear talks re con vened at the Palais des Nations after a four week recess One Year Extension WASHINGTON (UPD The House Monday approved a one year exten sion of high Korean war tax rates on cigarettes beer and liquor new automobiles and corporate profits The Eisenhower administration sought the bill to prevent a $2033 000000 drop in federal revenues on June 30 when the present law is scheduled to expire Smith and Body Jr Another earlier candidates Bailey whose name will appear on the ballot withdrew from the race be cause he has a contract with the town to cut timber The three incumbent councilmen William Young Joseph A Gardner and Stewart A Stidham are unopposed for re election Pat Roberson and Boggs are campaigning for the post of mayor Incumbents Willis and Wright plus Harold Jackson and Roberson are candidates for the four council seats to be filled ST Incumbent Mayor Hol (Continued on Page Two) rance Warns Allies Must Share Secrets Husband Sobs 'I orgive Him' By Curwood Garrett A Bristol woman who teamed with her husband in one of the na tion's leading Wild West perform ances was killed yesterday at Pittsburgh Pa when a nine year old boy accidentally fired one of her two golden rifles which ho found lying on a bunk Mrs red Peniman who former ly lived on Sixth Street in Bristol Tennessee died en route to a hos pital Mrs Peniman the former Mamie Alice Collins married her husband here 23 years ago They met one night at a dance and were married in a taxicab early the next morn ing Known throughout the nation and in several foreign countries too a "Cody and their sensa tional acts with knives guns and whips caught the fancy of the world of show business Peniman is known professionally as "Wild Bill 48 yeari old and has a daughter Mary Alice 9 Yesterday the act was playing at rontier Village erected in Point Park as part of the bicentennial celebration "I know it was a real sobbed rank Monaco was holding it when all of a sud den it went bang and I heard a woman Wandered Into Cell The youngster was touring the exhibition with his parents when the mother and son wandered into the cell of a make believe frontier sheriff's office The boy saw two golden rifles lying on a bunk and asked his mother "Can I play with the Believing them only dum mies she assented and the young ster pulled the trigger of one The fired and the bullet struck Mrs Peniman who only i minutes before had loaded the rifle I with 29 rounds of live ammuntion in anticipation of her performance She had stepped outside the build ing to await her cue Most of those who saw Mrs Pen! man collapse believed it part of the show until she gasped "Get me an ambulance been Mrs Peniman and her husband had toured from coast to coast had iolayed overseas in Thialand Hong auu uayau or two years the famous couple (Continued on Page Two) Temperatures By Tfi Associated Press 88 89 66 83 80 79 86 85 92 89 82 89 90 88 84 85 87 71 BRISTOL Albany' Anchorage i Al lente 7 Bismarck Buffalo Boston i Chicago 7 Cincinnati Cleveland penver pes Moines petrolt Bwf Worth taeianapolls Jicksonville Kansas City Lea Anaeles Weather BRISTOL Tuesday and Wednesday continued sunny and warm with high in upper 80s High yesterday 88 low 58 READINGS ROM 4 PM 4 6 8 9 10 Negro Kills i NC Deputy SANORD (UPI) A slim Negro fugitive opened fire on offi cers who flushed him in a wheat field Monday and killed a deputy sheriff A posse of more than 200 heavily srmed men then tracked him down cornered him in a swamp and ar rested him after an exchange of gunfire The 'Negro was wounded and screamed for officers to kill him i Deputies rushed to the fugitive lying on his back and shoved a knife at his throat while he was be ing disarmed He was questioned about the rape of a white woman last week about shooting a white man from ambush and the theft of a shotgun But he refused even to tel! officers his name Bleeding from chest and shoulder woudnds the Negro wailed me kill me please kill me I don't want to go to the gas Completes Desert light WASHINGTON (UPD The Post Office launched itself into the missile mail era Monday It safely transported 3000 letters in a guided missile from a subma rine at sea to a lorida Naval air base The unprecedented postal deliv ery was an experiment but the letters were official mail They were unloaded from the Regulus missile which carried (hem more than 100 miles from the submarine Barbero to the I be made soon Mayport Naval auxiliary air sta tion rom there they: were rushed to nearby Jacksonville la for regular postal proces sing The letters the first Operator's Aid Needed Council Requests Change On Emergency Phone Calls Bristol Virginia City Council yesterday authorized the city man ager toirequest the Inter Mountain Telephone Company to install a system permittinng subscribers to call the operator on emergencies "The way things are said Bristol Virginia Voters Elect Councilmen Today not seek re election' Holdover members of City Coun cil are Mayor Duke Moretz and Councilmen Powell and Jesse Everidge Outside of newspaper articles and advertisements the four candidates It was erroneously reported Sunday that one of the four pol ling stations in Bristol Virginia today would be at Highland View School The polling station is at George Washington School Voting also will Lake place al the courthouse at Stonewall Jackson School and at Virginia Junior High School XfSBBL V' Sr1 ft 5 a 4 I I' id wily 'Sr '1'3 UK1 BB Br I I II IBS Bio I Jm' KBy IBL IbIK i bI CsmI wBha mH Lr JKL 4a jb "BBBB Bll Bml ijl "I I yII rB I WW" 1 1 I.