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v. i. NEBRASKA: Cloudy with showers and thundenlormi scattered ever state. Cooler southeast, no Important temperature changes elsewhere. Highs 65 west and north, 75 80 southeast.

THE LINCOLN STAR OLN EB IDA! JiyTV.SEVEn A No, 206 LINCOLN HE B.t FRIDAY aj 29 9 SEVEM CEMTl" A A 1 MB 1 ExfOrf ICESSPOOL 4dak. gagjSjk jaSJikf. Army Wins Nike Fund OKd AF's Bomarc Total Cut By Committee Heroines Rescued Space Riders Alive And Well U.S. Fires Two Monkeys 300 Miles High, Returns Them; Manned Hop Nearer Cape Canaveral, Fla. Wv The United States Thursday fired two monkeys 300 miles Into space and brought them back alive and well.

The spectacular recovery was an important step toward putting a man in spare. The two female monkeys named Able and Rakerare the first animals this country has retrieved alive from a W1 irf W. r7 key had been thoroughly trained in a behavior test to mm 4: 6.. WIREPHOTO GENEVA MINISTERS RETURN TO U.S. Secretary of State; Andrei Gromyko, Russia's foreign minister; Couve de Mur ville, the foreign minister of France; and British Foreign Secretary Selwin Lloyd.

(Story on Page 8.) The foreign ministers of the big 4 powers pose on the ramp to their plane at National Airport in Washington just before leaving for Geneva and resumption of their conference table talks on world problems. Left to right are: Christian Herter, Twisters Brush State Areas; Thunderstorms, Hail Also Hit Marysville, was expected to bring rain to Fails City where heavy thunder and lightning was reported. More Of Same The Nebraska forecast calls for continued partly cloudy to cloudy skies Friday and Friday night with scattered showers and thunderstorms. No important temperature changes are seen. Highs Friday are expected to range from 65 to 75.

The North Platte Valley's first hail storm of the season whipped the city of Scottsbluff for about 6 minutes Thursday afternoon, drop ping hail stones the size of big marbles. Preliminary investigations indicated the worst of the storm was concentrated on the city, but Great Western Sugar Co. representatives im GAS NEARLY TRAPS PAIR A hairbreadth escaoe from suffocation in a cesspool sent two Lincoln Sanitation Department employes to a local hospital for overnight observation Thursday. Donald Beaman, 54, of 2500 Orchard, and his son, Earnest Eugene Beaman, 33, R.R. 1, were repairing a cesspool on a farm two miles north of Lincoln on 1st Street, when they were overcome by sewer gas.

The elder Beaman was reported to have gone to the rescue of his son when the 'latter failed to emerge from the 12 foot tank after a period I of time had elapsed. Both I men were then overcome by hydrogen sulfide fumes in the cesspool. They were rushed to a hospital and given oxygen after neighbors came to the rescue and hauled them from the tank. Both were described as "responding to treatment." Top Detective Post Assigned To Henninger The promotion of Det. Lt.

E. K. Henninger to Captain of Detectives was announced Thursday by Police Chief Joe Carroll. The promotion is effective Tuna 1 1711. VUI1C A.

J.1C11 linger, 44, will replace Capt. Joe a a who retired May 15. He will be the department's only detective captain. nninger i the Henninger force June 26, 1938, and except for about 34 years in the Navy during World War II has been on the department continuously. He was promoted to detective Sept.

1, 1947, and to lieutenant Feb. 16, 1954. One of the department's two lie detector operators, Henninger is a graduate of the Keeler Polygraph Institute in Chicago, 111. He is married and lives at 2320 So. 33rd.

STORM PARES HOMES CROWD Thursday evening's rain and severe weather warnings thinned to 1,500 the crowd attending the Parade of Homes, and prompted the Lincoln Home Builders Assn. to close the display shortly after 8 p.m. Officials of the group said that the weather was "definitely a deciding factor" in cutting the size of the crowd. Thursday's attendance brings the overall figure to 18,000. The show of the 18 homes continues through Sunday.

Weekday hours are from 6 to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 9 p.m. The Weather NEBRASKA: Considerable cloudiness through Friday night with scattered nhow rx and thimderrtorm over most of state: cooler southeast, otherwise no important temperature change. Hiffha 6S to 75 west and north. 75 to south east.

KANSAS: Partly cloudy with scattered afternoon and nighttime thunderstorms; cooler north central and northeast. Hlghi in upper 70s extreme north central to south. Linrala Temperature a m.tThur.)73 OT 2:30 a .7,1 3:30 as a.m 73 4:30 p.m..,,,... ft 4:30 a.m 73 5:30 .,..88 5:30 a.m... 72 6 30 p.m........

.85 6:30 a.m.... 73 7:30 p.m.... 82 7:30 a.m.. .74 8:30 P.m....,...8t 8:30 a.m........ .76 8:30 P.m........

.65 8:30 a 78 10:30 p.m ,..5 10:30 a.m ...79 11:30 p.m 64 11:30 a.m .80 12:30 a.m. (Fri.) 64 19:30 p.m 84 1:30 a.m 63 1:30 p.m .86 2:30 a.m 63 High temperature on year ago 84; low 80 Sun tisea 8:00 A.m.: sets 7:49 p.m. Moon rises 12:55 a.m.: sets 12:37 p.m. Normal May precipitation 3.10 inches. Total May precipitation to date 8:53 in.

Total mo picipitation to date 17.27 In. Nebraska Temperatures ML Lincoln 89 72 Imperial 74 50 Air Baa 92 71 Sidney 72 47 Norfolk. 74 58 Scottsbluff 74 45 Grand Island 88 70 Chadron 59 42 North Platte 68 55 Omaha 71 58 Temperatures Elsewhere Atlanta Chicago Cincinnati Denver De Moines Detroit Galveston Kansas City 82 66 Los Angels 72 55 85 67 Memphis 90 68 85 61 Miami 80 71 77 47 New York 87 69 76 60 Phoenix 97 63 83 59 Salt Lake 66 40 8ft 88 76 San Francisco 60 50 69 Washington 89 68 Free Carnation! To the first 500 ladies to visit Q.P. Store, 1554 No. 48 Fri day.

Adv. Count Filed O'Rourke Is Named In Indictment Others Accused Mineola, N.Y. Three Mgh Teamsters Union officials were arrested Thursday night shortly after a Nassau County Grand Jury had In dicted them on extortion and coercion charges. The grand jury returned indictments against a total of 15 individuals. The union officials in custody included John O'Rourke, the second highest 'officer in the powerful union, and Joseph DeGrandis, president of the union's big New York Local 266.

The Nassau County Grand Jury began secret hearings 3 weeks ago into alleged racketeering in the juke box and coin operated machine industry following testimony brought out earlier this year at Senate Rackets Committee hearings. International V.P. O'Rourke is international vice president of the Teamsters Union headed by James R. Hoffa. O'Rourke also is president of the union's Joint Council No.

16 in New York The 3rd Teamsters Union official arrested was Ernest R. Zundel, secretary and treasurer of the big New York Local 266. A 4th man taken into cus tody was identified as Herbert Jacob, president of the Nu Way Vending Machine Co. of Brooklyn, N.Y. Both O'Rourke and DeGrandis figured at the Senate Rackets Committee hearings.

DeGrandis refused to testify, and O'Rourke's records were subpoenaed along with the records of about a dozen other New York Teamsters Union locals. Loaned Millions The Rackets Committee was told during the hearings that the juke box industry had a hand in loaning millions of dollars to gangsters at interest rates running as high as 198. O'Rourke, a long time friend and supporter of Hoffa, was made general organizer of the Teamsters Union last December. He took over the job held until then by Thomas L. Hick ey.

Hickey, a New York teamster leader, had opposed Hoffa for the union presidency the year before. Details of the secret indictments were not disclosed, and those named were not identified until after they had been taken into custody. Philip Losquadro and Vincent Losquadro, described as brothers, also were under ar rest. They were identified as coin machine distributors of Brooklyn. Nassau County Asst.

Dist. Atty. William Cahn headed the investigation. The indictments were handed up late Thursday night to Supreme Court Justice Bernard Meyer. As the indictments were being handed up, some 30 Nassau County detectives working in pairs scattered over the 5 boroughs of New York City, and over Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island.

Not Frightened Athens Premier Con stantine Karamanlis said Greece is not frightened by threats Soviet Premier Khrushchev has been making in Albania. He referred to the Kremlin leader's warnings against setting up NATO rocket bases in Greece. Orange Blossom Meadow Gold's new ice cream delicate orange flavor with lurprise bits of pineapple. At your siore or your uuui u. Washington (J!) The Army scored a victory over the Air rorce inursday when the House Appropriations Committee slashed funds for the Air Force's Bomarc antiaircraft missile and allowed the full amount requested for the Army's Nike Hercules.

The committee, in sending a $38,848,339,000 defense mon ey bill to the House, said it was cutting funds for the Bomarc to focus attention on the necessity for an early de I II cision oy me pentagon in the air defense missile contro versy. Saying billions of dollars are involved, the pursestring group whose recommendations rarely are overriden in the House declared "it is time to re examine what we are getting for our money." A few hours later, Secretary of Defense Neil H. Mc Elroy told newsmen the Pentagon expects to have a master plan for U.S. air defense ready in a couple of weeks. Unsuccessful The Air Force had asked $447,300,000 for the Bomarc, but the House group axed $162,700,000 of that total.

Just before final committee action, an unsuccessful effort was made to trim another 200 millions earmarked for Bomarc procurement. That would have left only 84 millions for test and evaluation work on the missile. The Army asked 95 millions for its Nike Hercules, and every penny of that amount was endorsed by the committee. The Army Air Force rivalry over these antiaircraft weapons has been simmering for some time. Too Short The Hercules, which mounts an atomic warhead and can strike at targets 80 to 100 miles away, has been in oper ation for a year and is em placed at a number of bases.

The Air Force contends its range is too short. An advanced model of the Bomarc made its first, limited range test flight Wednesday from Cape Canaveral, Fla. This weapon, a solid fuel improvement over an earlier model, is designed to carry a nuclear warhead 400 miles. The Army says it will be at least two years before a significant number of the Bo marcs will be installed. Although the House committee did not come out flatly in favor of the Hercules, it tended in that direction.

Twisters Plow Through Iowa And Wisconsin By United Press International A rash of tornadoes swooped across Iowa and Wisconsin Thursday night amidst an almost solid band of severe thunderstorm activity Iowa still seemed to have borne the brunt of the storm. It recorded at least two tor nadoes, though no injuries or severe damage was known. Officials at Prairie Du Sac Dam, near Madison, told of seeing a small funnel pick up several small boats. Several small funnel clouds were believed to have touched down just north of Ripon, accompanied by heavy rain. Anoth er funnel was sighted near usnkosh.

The pair of hit run twisters which struck the Spencer, Iowa, area blew a barn off its foundations and a boat and dock out of the water and onto an adjoining farm. space flight. Navy frogmen helped hoist the nose cone and the nation's new space heroines from the Atlantic at 4:08 a.m. (EST). Only one hour and 33 min utes earlier the monkeys streaked from Cape Canaver al perched in a powerful Jupiter missile.

The intermediate range rocket hurled the payload into space at blinding 10,000 mile an hour speed and dumped it in the ocean some 1,500 miles away In just 15 minutes. The impact area was about 40 miles north of Antigua. The fleet tug USS Kiowa, a Navy recovery ship, discovered the nose cone and plucked it from the sea. Some 4 hours later a medical officer aboard the ship messaged the good news: ''Able, Baker perfect. No injuries or other difficulties." Delayed Difficulty in opening pas senger compartments of the nose cone and a communica tions mixup delayed announce ment that the monkeys were alive.

It was reported 3 hours earlier that the nose cone had been recovered. Thursday night, the Kiowa steamed toward San Juan, P.R., with the monkeys and vegetable and animal matter taken from the giant nose cone. The ship was expected to reach San Juan Friday morning. Able and Baker will be flown to Washington, D.C., probably Saturday. There they are expected to receive a rousing welcome at a news conference of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

NASA cooperated with the Army and Navy in sponsoring this space shoot. The space administration used it to gather data for its man in space program. Radiation Electronic instruments radioed back information on how the monkeys reacted during the 15 minute flight. NASA primarily is interested in how Able and Baker reacted to radiation and the 9 minute weightless period they were subjected to. Initial information indicated they suffered little if any ill effects.

Several tiny samples of animal and vegetable matter also were stocked in the nose cone for a further study of cosmic rays and weightless ness. Included were specimens of corn, yeast, mustard seed, fruit fly larvae, human blood, bread mold spore and the eggs and sperms of sea urchines. Officials said it probably would be several weeks before the affects on the matter could be evaluated. Scientists were ready to study the monkeys and matter as soon as they arrived in Puerto Rico. Important Information received from the tests will be vitally important to the "Mercury the 7 men now training to be the first U.S.

space travelers. One of the 7 is expected to be fired into orbit in 1961. A NASA official expressed disappointment that a major objective of the Able monkey was not achieved because of a telemetry failure. The 7 pound Rhesus mon Try This Special Real Tasty! banana cake fresh at Wendelin Baking. Open all day Memorial Day.

push a telegraph key when a red light flashed on at Intervals in his capsule. "Because of the failure of the telemetry device, the of ficial said, "we'll never know if he punched that key. We considered it an important behavioral response expert However, scientists said other telemetry instruments worked perfectly in both the monkeys' capsules and showed that they apparently suffered only slightly, if at all, from the stress of blast off and the strange sensation' of weightlessness. 'Saucer1 Flights Planned Secrecy Curtain Drops Slightly Washington WH The secrecy curtain was withdrawn slightly Thursday night from a hush hush project which the Army hopes will give the United States its version of the flying saucer. Heavily censored testimony made public by the House Space committee confirmed that the revolutionary new aircraft will resemble a saucer.

It is designed for low level tactical flights, not for space travel. The Army, enthusiastic over its potential, has spent more than 5 million dollars in the project in the last 3 years. "It is one of our high priority programs, said Brig. Gen. F.

H. Britton, director of developments for the office of Army Research. Tests Planned Britton said publicly when he testified April 15 that tests on the new vehicle were to begin shortly. He didn't elab orate on this in his closed door testimony. But he did say that some of the secrecy will have to be dropped "once we start getting out of the security of buildings." The Army, he said, would prefer to keep it secret but that "the fact of its shape and the fact it flies We will have to say something "If we don't say what it is, we are going to get a lot of speculation.

We will be back into flying saucers again." Canada Flights Britton said initial flight tests will take place in Canada where the vehicle is being developed by AVRO Air craft, under a joint U.S. Army Air Force project. There also will be wind tunnel testing at Moffet Field, sout of San Francisco, Britton said. Britton testified during Space Committee hearings on a family of vehicles being developed around the principle of the ground cushion phenomenon. These vehicles, most of them still in the research stag are designed to rise a few inches or feet off the ground by means of down ward air blasts from the bottom or under edges of the machine.

Today's Chucklt It's easy to entertain the boss. Just listen to him Bill In Works Seeking Half Month Payrolls Tornadoes skinned the state Thursday causing some slight da map anrt the conditions which spawned i are likely to remain present in Nebraska thmncrh Friday night. Several tornado 1 were seen near Greelpv iat Thursday and one reportedly touched down 3 miles west ot town destroying a barn and a small shed. A tornado stnirk a fiM a half mile north of Wood River at aDDroximafplv Thursday. Some minor roof uamage was reported, but no other information was avail.

able. Wood River is about 15 miles southwest of Grand Island. A funnel rlnnrl IIHIVIIII 111 northeasterly direction from Milford toward Lincoln Air Force Base was reported bv se wea uier Tower Thursday night. However, it dissipated before reaching the ground, observers said. The funnel was spotted during a rain storm which brought Lincoln another half inch of rain Thursday night and brought the May precipi tation figure to 8.53.

Other Nebraska stations measuring the following rainfall between Thursday noon and midnight were Scottsbluff, Omaha, .79, and Chadron, .05. One Inch Hailstones Rain and hail stones up to one inch in diameter were reported in Grand Island at 6 p.m. Thursday. A funnel cloud was reported seen near Cairo, just west of Grand Island, and still another was sighted just south of Grand Island's Fonner Park. This latter funnel dissipated and went back up into the clouds, however.

A spot check of eastern Nebraska towns revealed light to moderate rain and scattered hail. Anticipated local flooding of the Elkhorn River tributaries from Norfolk to West Point failed to materialize late Thursday. Heavy rains around Madison and over an area 25 miles south and southeast of Norfolk had been expected to cause the flooding. Wahoo Hail Light rain was reported at Beatrice while a five minute hail storm three miles southeast of Wahoo produced hail stones the "size of marbles," according to Wahoo police. About one half inch of rain accompanied the hail, it was reported.

Lieht hail and Rfl inhoe rf rain were reported at Tecum sen Dy ponce, mere was no noticeable rise in the Nemaha River they said. A storm front east of mediately head into the country to see what damage had been done to young sugar beets, which could be particularly vulnerable at this time. County agent George Hamilton said corn also could be damaged. The weather bureau reported .22 of an inch of precipitation during the storm. Omaha Pelted Hail cut across Ralston, the central part of Omaha and Council Bluffs Thursday morning, but did little damage.

Lincoln Air Force Base recorded the state high Thursday with 92. Lincoln's high was 89. Low for the state was registered at Chadron, where 42 was recorded. The capital city had a low Thursday of 72. Larsen told The Star he has made a thorough investigation of the practices of other states in payroll methods and that a great number of them now are paying their employes on a semi monthly basis.

Can't Stretch Cash The treasurer said he has received requests from hundreds of state employes to institute the semi monthly payroll because of the "difficulty in trying to stretch out their paychecks over a 30 day Larsen contended the rising cost of living "makes it hard on the man who isn't earning a great deal of money to buy groceries close to the end of the The state has 13,000 employes on the payroll, Larsen said, approximately 5,000 of whom are on the University of Nebraska payroll. The University, he said, computes and maintains updated records on its payroll, and all others are computed and maintained by the various departments in the State Capitol. The total cost of preparing the payroll under the monthly system is $3,494, Larsen reported, and under the semimonthly system would total $6,488. He noted that the State of New York, with 90,000 employes, pays on a bi weekly basis. Neighboring Iowa, with 18,000 employes, is on a semimonthly basis.

Kansas with 22,000 employes, Colorado with 8,000, and South Dakota with 6,500, all pay on a monthly basis. By Betty Person A bill which would make it possible to pay state employes twice monthly, rather than the present method of once a month, will be introduced in the Legislature next week at the request of Gov. Ralph Brooks. Sens. Hans Jensen of Aurora will sign the bill for purposes of introduction.

Other senators also may sponsor the bill, according to Robert Conrad, administrative assistant to the governor. Brooks noted that for several weeks a study has been under way "at the principal instance of our able State Treasurer Richard R. Larsen" to evaluate salary paying procedures of the State of Nebraska. "As a result of that study, Brooks continued, "it is be lieved that the convenience of I the employes and the best interests of the state can be served economically by paying state employes on a semimonthly basis. Bill Changes Needed The governor said if the bitt is adopted, (it would amend every existing statute which specifies that certain officers and employes are to be paid on a monthly basis) it would also be necessary to amend the overall budget bills LBs 72 and 74 to achieve the "maximum degree of consistency.

He said he was "confident that these amendments to the two budget bills could be inserted during the Legislature's floor consideration of the measures. 1430 South, 7a.m. 10p.m. Adv 1.