The Evening Review from East Liverpool, Ohio • Page 1

WEATHER Cloudy and warmer tonight: Friday, mild with showers in afternoon or evening. X)ani 8 Wednesday 6 p. m. J9, Wednesday midnight 30, today 6 a. m.

31, today noon 51. High 51, low 30. EAST LIVERPOOL REVIEW HOME edition Complete News Coverage of Wellsville, Midland, Chester and Newell Phone FUlton 5-4545 EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1959 30 PAGES 5 CENTS Passes House 100-36 Assembly Winds Up SUB Action Without Emergency Feature Was Varsity Coach 3 Years Karaffa Resigns Basketball Post AS .0 MET DEATH. This is ali that was left of a 1959 automohile after was struck hy a freight train Wednesday near Xenia. O.

Eight Girl Scouts and two mothers, aU occupanU of the car, were killed. lUPl Telephoto) West Given Challenge By Khrushchev Asks Concrete hleas On Summit Talks To Blunt Threat Of MOSCOW Premier 1 School. Nikita Khrushchev challenged the; Karaffa. who served as varsity West today to come up with con- the last three years, said he Crete ideas for a summit confer- 1 intends to continue as a teacher, ence to blunt the threat of war John Karaffa today announced his resignation as head basketball coach at East Liverpool High Seeks 10 Are Killed When Freight Ex-Couvict Holds Auto WT Four Hostages 8 Girl Scouts, 2 Mothers Victims In Tragedy Near Xenia XENIA, Ohio freight train plowed into a car carrying 10 passengers and it open like a tin in a tragic railroad crossing accident near here Wednesday. All 10 -including eight Girl killed.

Police Arrest 25 To Prevent Gan 2 way officials on road construction projects for the state. A State Police spokesman said Underwood her three children were captives. SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. 29-year-old mother and today of a crazed, former convict who said he was only interested in The gunman threatened to torture and kill the four unless au- submit my resigna-j tion as basketball coach at Eastj Liverpool High School. I intend to remain in my capacity as a teach- He submitted his letter of rrv, nation this morning to Supt.

Ralph! over Berlin and Germany. The So -1 letter i viet Union is ready, he asserted, Khrushchev said the Soviet Un- ion is willing to meet with the! I hereby West on May 11 to discuss prob- lems of West Berlin and a Ger-, Liverpool High School. I mtend to, man peace treaty. He again advanced the Soviet lu idea that a conference include all is my sincere wish that the From Ihe 28 nations that fought Hitler athletic program of East Uver- louths, Mostly rrom proposal pool High school will have future East Liverpool, Held has been rejected by the Western: Aft 11 'Powers. Betts said thought has been oneily Wei'lSVlllej Khrushchev issued a statement i gjven to a The resignation came on the JOHN KARAFFA Hands Board Resignation.

Foes Could Force Vote On Measure Senate Down Plan To Set Monday As Memorial Day COLUMBUS. Ohio iAP) Tht red-hot supplemental unemployment benefits act may ready for Democratic Gov. Michael V. signature but not as an emergency measure. Lack of an emergency clause could open the issue to a vote of the op- ponents of SUB say defin- litely whether a referendum will jbe sought.

I They have 90 days after Di- expected signature to filt 'petitions asking the referendum. They would be required to present 197,000 valid signatures to get the issue on the ballot. The bill to legalize simultaneous SUB and state jobless benefits passed the House 100-36 Wednesday after an emergency save the the note read, demand only the FBI work on this Payne entered the home of John H. Baldwin. 31, early Wednesday night on the pretense of wanting thorities released a convict trom The description came the man.

i to use the telephone, from the Rev. Alvin Klotz, one of you have the power toi Then he whipped out a pistol save them from certain death, by: and threatened to kill the whole granting my read the family. Baldwin told police field. There were two or three, a identi -1 The crazed ex-convict bound near the car but the others were Richard I. Payne.

23. Baldwin, his wife Elma, 29. and the first on the scene, who added: were strewn over the evidently designed as his response Twenty-five teenage boys, president address heels of first losing majority of them from East Monday. Ison. This team compiled jg regular season stricken once in the Senate and re erpool, were taken into custody at! previous con- only 3 victories, while losing 17.

tournament play. iinserted in House committee Wellsville Wednesday night meeting' games. police apparently prevented a gang proposed consider a German Rig overall won-loss record for, peace treaty but added significant- three years showed 28 ly that if the West has sonable proposals we are willing! to consider them along with our! The car was dragged 50 feet along the tracks before being shoved to one side. One body, that want their children, Susan, Danny, 17, and Kenneth, 10. Methodically State police described Payne as he gagged each one.

an extremely dangerous mental He ignored Mrs. Baldwin of the driver, Mrs. Lucille patient. 1 mumbled pleas to release the gag, 44 was found 75 feet beyond the behind in his vie- and composed his wild note ad- car. indicating the force of addressed to to Underwood.

Then he herded the mother and want money 1 it continued. crash. The daughters of Mrs. and the other adult in the car, Mrs. Jeanette Randall.

39, were among the eight girls who perished. The girls were returning home from a library here where they had been studying for merit badges. They lived in Beavercreek home, addressed to WesW White Virginia Goy. Cecily H.Unde™^_. In the rambling, five-page tirade, he named another convict, Burton Junior Post, better known as Junior Starcher.

The note said: purpose is to kill and to take the head of my worst enemy Karaffa came to East Liverpool! again was knocked out by 59 vote. The clause needed 7593 her three frightened children into 1955 model car. Baldwin was left tied up in the five-room house. He broke free and notified authorities. said he would kill my wife and torture the children if I called own.

He said the meeting should aim to conclude a peace treaty with 4 U.Xv>J- A Germany and pressing He called attention to President proposal Monday night that a summit conference might be held this summer if a foreign ministers meeting could start negotiations on the Berlin crisis. appeal to the governments who is now out of reach. He is I Baldwin told authorities, the W.Va. Penitentiary at State police Capt. W.

R. Callaghan said Payne was released from the State Penitentiary at Moundsville last week. He had served seven years for an armed robbery in which he shot and wounded a motel owner. Payne proposed to use his captives as a wedge to force release. Underwood was flying to Washington to confer with federal high- Due Salurday Vienna with both East and West Germans in attendance, to pre- Departing Winter Termed One Of Worst Longest (Turn to CRASH, Page 5) Area Trucker Dies In Crash A.

K. McCaffit 44, Is Turnpike Vietim Arthur Kenneth McGaffick. 44, of Rock Camp, a trucker for Toronto concern, was killed Wednesday night in a crash between his rig and another on the Ohio, Turnpike welcome warm weather Copeland reported. The normal chiel said. Other gangs men- Mr.

McGaffick died in the col- of spring Satur- snowfall for such a period is 29.2 tioned were the ending one of the worst and inches. und threats of their generals 1 I condition at seiges of winter the area Rginfall also Police Chief John Hephner of Wellsville said the boys readily admitted they were prepared for a They were questioned and all then released to the custody of their parents. Armed with knives, blackjacks, a wrench, hammer handle and a roll of pennies, the youths converged on Wellsville in several cars and started congregating near the Post Office. Hephner said he had received a tip earlier that trouble was expected. Six extra Wellsville officers, two cruisers from the Lisbon State Highway Patrol and Sheriff Russell J.

Van Fossan and three of his deputies aided in the move. The patrol was stationed on the East super- road to keep a lookout for any gangs of teenagers who might be cruising around and in case a fight should start outside the city limits. No violence or incidents occurred. Hephner said the boys started gathering early in the evening around the Post office. A dance is held on the third floor of the building each Wednesday night by a disc jockey known as Mr.

D. The majority of the boys were from East Liverpool, the German issues from few have Wellsville R. D. address- es. Hephner said.

Some of the boys toucning on even belong to a gang but victories ITurn to KARAFFA. Page 11 Ike, Strategy Talk Macmillan To Urge Flexible Plan For Parley With Reds Charges Face Driver Hurt In 300-Foot Skid Mishap In West End Tears Motor From Wellsville Auto WASHINGTON (API Three charges face a 21 -year- be sustained. The Senate today is due to receive a motion to reconsider the vote on this first defeated bill. The defeat came to a bill to set the last Monday in May rather I than May 30 as the legal Memorial I Day in Ohio. It got 15 favorable votes to 14 against, but under con! stitutional rules it needed 17 te pass.

The Senate passed and sent to the House bills to: Permit out of staters moving into Ohio less than one year before presidential elections to qual- of all nations they IniraeS today tor tserim siraiegy LMH mil nf ron- nnc-ve the war against Hitlerite Germany, ai-j-iyes adopted hy special news conference in negotiations with of Main St Empower the governor to con- tone seemed mild Wellsville. escaped with a survey on the need for KhiushcheUmade a similar pro! The two will go into their week-, injuries, although additional state medical schrols Khrushchev made a simi ar of conferences firmly agreed ggggh was soi The House passed and sent to posal last January in a note to threats it literally tore the motor: the Senate a bill to permit non- We retold at forcing "2 sedan, police profit corporations to establ.slT Germany. Western powers out of Berlin. i dental care programs. and in turn asked the they are clearly divided on released from City' After two hours of debate nine iriers conierCTce" in Geneva or a number of issues involved in Southerland will a Republicans and isters conterence in negotiations charges of carrying a concealed voted in favor of the the Soviets.

weapon. reckless driving and op-1 emergency clause to the SUB bill Before heading to Washington auto without a On final Passage 73 from Ottawa, Macmillan ex-; license, police said. He is in! and 27 Democrats yes. uching off a new war. irom 11 a macmiua.

poiice saju votes were registered by Khrushchev this time seemed to pressed confidence his visits condition at the Democrats and 32 Republi- noon President Eisen- the two capitals serve to abrasions of the face, neck four Democrais i uiuii I eveu uciuug Lu a cgized upon President Eisen- tne iwo capiiais wia seive witn aorasions or me lace, ucv.n. 'heard of the trouble and said they; Monday remark as a and confirm the united forehead and lacerations of cans. just to see the The majority of the boys belong- 'ed to a group called the rxUlrxlt coirl mpn- Fcdiliy. starting point for a new attempt I will of the Western world, to make a summit conference Eisenhower called Acting Fred J. Milligan, executive sec- would like the governments, having cast is in condition i City Hospital with minor cuts.

jhas endured. The State Highway Patrol saidi chilling ordeal, which be- customary 9.44. Mr truck rammed i ggn with a 9-inch snowfall the day Temperatures for the winter. Ihe rear of rig while both! after Thanksgiving, included 20 normals in parenthesis, in- were headed east. Officers said inights of below zero temperatures dude: November, 42.5 degrees the Rock Camp driver may have and a total of 47 inches of (39 December, 19 6 29.5»; fallen asleep at the wheel since almost 18 inches over jgnuary.

23.1 (27), and February, there were no skid marks on the cording to Edwin Copeland of Mil- 39.7 (26 9). road 'Port. U. S. weather observer.

of the and the Hephner said he still is investigating to learn the exact cause of the First reports indicate it was over some Wellsvillt boys joining East Liverpool clubs the scalp and right jaw. Sec-' Gravel thrown from the pave- (Turn to SUB, Page 6 retary of State Christian Herter ment by skidding -p. Western and other diplomatic advisers to auto caused damage to a passing the White House for discussion of 1958 auto driven by Frank i Ti the Berlin situation in prepara-ico 24, of Anderson Blvd. tvH.C0S said. Although Southerland the auto missed by about a i aside tion for arrival.

The actual talks between to sit down at the conference table with Khrushchev said. they have sensible proposals to make, we are ready to examine them, together with our own pro- He then added that if the West Federal Court was seriously ready for talks. two men will get under way Fri- foot, the gravel thrown up his skid damaged the left side and police (Turn to STRATEGY, Page 11) 2 In Kidnaping Case The crash occurred at 11:54 p. Although the 1958-59 winter was second coldest on m. about 15 miles west of the the most severe in hooks.

In 1917. the average tem- Elyria-Lorain Interchange, and g5.year-old records, the weather perature in December was 19.41 marked the third fatality on the marked by a continuous cold which held the district in an frigid; a -18 degrees Dec. 11 tied the grip from Nov. 28 until February. record for a low reading! Copeland said the unrelenting that month, first set Dec.

21. cold contributed to a ground frost Copeland reported. The all- which caused heavy damage to time low on his books is a -28 de- six-way Democratic race for a radiator was holding' three Board of Education posts and ser.uu»., Democratic contest for icv character made wearing their jackets in town, would not hold Two Pennsylvania men charged after the skid. The Mcuired of City Council i III At iiT o4U Cf AvP. a ITI windshield of car, said.

I Investigating officers said i. mmtnew Council And School Board Contests Seen (Turn to RUMBLE, Page 5) lup matters. in November came within one degree of; tying the all-time low for that toll road this year. Mr. McGaffick was a driver of a truck owned by Joe Hollister, and hauled for the Hancock Manufacturing Co.

of Toronto. He was born at Lisbon, a son roads and has remained through-; several years ago. of Mrs. Eva Newlen of the Y. out the warmer periods.

The .3 degrees recorded 0. Rd. and the late Charles observer today was thur McGaffick. jing on stumps on his farm which Besides his widow. Mrs.

Gale- still are frozen and resisting month also, he said, ston (Dutch) McGaffick, and his pull of a tractor. Copeland said one favorable as- mother, he is survived by a The reason, he said, pect of the past winter was the ter, Claudia Marie McGaffick: two lack of a really thaw winds accompanied from November through thus there was 1 i 111 Below zero nights recorded m- heavy drifting of roads, eluded one in November, 11 in example, if snow had oc- cember. 5 in January and 3 the gusty winds February. county would have been com-' sons, Arthur Kenneth McGaffick Jr. and Charles Ernest McGaffick, all at home; a brother, Ray Stock- inan of East Liverpool, and a sister, Mrs.

Jeanette Cisco of Wellsville. The body is to be brought to the Dawson Funeral Home. Arrange- menti incomplete. Besides the 9 -mch pletely tied up, he said. November, there were 12 copeland recalled the winter of in December and January, 3 --------------------------------------February and 11 this (Turn to WINTER, Page II) 5 More Days To Register To be eligible to vote in East Liverpool at the May 5 primary election, you must register with the County Election Board at 129 W.

6th if: You voted at a primary, general or special election in the last two years; changed your name by marriage or court action; changed your residence since the last election; become 21 since the last election or will be 21 on or before Nov. 3, the general election date. A new resident is qualified to vote after he has resided in Ohio for a year and in Columbiana County and his precinct 40 days prior to Election Day. East Liverpool is the only community in the county where voter registration is required. Registration Ends Wednesday with the kidnaping of a Chester: W.

8 th St. at Edwards Ave. the May 19 primaries in Mid woman last August were to be auto straddled the according to filings announc- raigned today in federal court ini medial strip in the four-lane road today by William Smith, direc- Clarksburg. near Shadyside struck a gf the Beaver County Board Donald Lane and Ronald Wilson, utility pole at Edwards Ave. and gf Elections, both of Aliquippa.

were indicted! then went sideways and overturn- Democrats filed for Coun- by the Federal Grand Jury on a'ed, officers said. Southerland was three filed on the Recharge of kidnaping Mrs. Dorothyi town clear about 30 feet Amedeo, 32. of Chester from her the point where the car fmaUy six Democrats filed and three tavern. An accomplice, Wilbur Smith, Republicans.

Democratic candidates for the school board include John L. Hag- stopped, officers said. Patrolman Paul Carter filed the concealed weapons charge uuaiu luvxcvv. Southerland because a .32 caliber Rosatone. Maurice the Allegheny County workhous Roach, John for contributing to the delinquency gj wrecked car.

uccellini, and Stanley Kragulac. of a minor. young woman was fined for The trio also faces charges 7 Hancock County of armed robbery tTurn to ACCIDENTS, Page and kidnapping. They are also ac-1 cused of raping the Chester woman MasonS tloiior 1 rumdii after abducting her from KANSAS CITY. Mo.

(AP) Tavern at gunpoint and then tak-; Former President Harry S. Truing her into nearby Beaver Coun-iman was honored by the Masonic ty. She was robbed of $200, police Wednesday night as a 50- said. year Mason. Republican aspirants are Kathryn Ordich, William Black and Alex Della Valle.

Democratic candidates for three Council posts are John Perkins Lester Trainer Raymond A. Presutti, James P. Henry, Joseph Schulte, (Turn to MIDLAND, Page 7).