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a a News Of The World THE WEATHER DAILY FOR GREENVILLE AND Fall Leased Wire Report of yo VICINITY: United Press International and Only Daily Newspaper mild mild with tonight. Mostly scattered cloudy showers and Full NEA Service Partly and continued In Darke County Wednesday. Aduurate coludy 8 VILLE-1793 FORT GREENE Vol. 77, No. 166 Weekly Advocate ablished tablished 1893 1883 Greenville, Ohio, Tuesday, November 15, 1960 Phone LI 8-5757 Before 1 P.

M. If Carrier Misses Your Paper. Price Five Cents OVER "SPACE BALLPARK" Plane Bags Capsule At 9,000 Feet HONOLULU (UPI) An Air Force pilot whose plane fielded the longest fly ball in history Monday when it snagged a million-mile space capsule, flies historic package Fold back to mainland America today. The catch of the 300-pound capsule from Discoverer XVII was made 9,000 feet over the United States' "space ballpark" in the Pacific, 500 miles northeast of the Hawaiian Islands. It had traveled almost million miles in two days of space flight.

It was only the second time in Virgil A. Royer ROYER IS WINNER history that a satellite capsule has been caught in the air. Another was recovered from the sea, and a fourth was sighted but lost in turbulent seas near Christmas Island. Almost Misses Chance The Air Force plane that made Monday's catch was nearly "benched" because of mechanical trouble. However, repairs were made and the "Pelican II" C119 joined eight other planes and two Navy ships in the recovery area.

The pilot, Capt. Gene Jones, 39, of Walla Walla, and New (Continued On Page Ten) Wayne A. Maloon Maloon Will Not Request Recount The closest race for a Darke county office at the November 8 election was settled today when Democrat State Rep. Wayne A. Maloon announced that he would not request a vote recount.

On the basis of unofficial returns on the day following the election, Rep. Maloon lost to Republican Virgil A. Royer by 24 $15,000 Damage In Farm Blaze UNION CITY-Loss is expected to exceed $15,000 in a fire which leveled a 50 by 100 foot barn containing 3,000 bales of straw and damaged two other barns three miles east of Union City Monday afternoon. The blaze occurred on the farm of Harry Armstrong on R. R.

5, Union City, about 3:20 p. m. when sparks from diesel tractor ignited hay in the first barn, according to Union City East Side Fire Chief Carl Wright Jr. Assisting the East Side department in their five-hour battle were Ansonia Fire Chief Garold Oswald and his men who brought a tank and a pumper truck. Red 73 Creamery at Union City also sent a 3,000 gallon water tanker to the blaze.

A shower of burning straw spurted out when the first barn collapsed, igniting another 50 by 100 foot barn only 12 feet away and an adjacent 40 by 60 foot building. Damage occurred to the roof and siding of the other two barns which firemen saved. Chief Wright said the tractor and other farm equipment in the barns were saved along with 16 head of cattle. Before leaving at 10:15 p. m.

the smouldering straw was bulldozed away from the area of the barns by firen n. Loss will be partially covered by insurance, it was reported. The Armstrong farm is located on Route 47, one mile west of the Mississinawa Valley school. Wounded Woman Leaves Hospital Mrs. Carl Carey, of R.

R. 3. Union City, today was dismissed from Wayne hospital here where she had been hospitalized for an accidental gunshot wound in the left arm. Sheriff E. R.

Pequignot said the wound was inflicted by her son, Marvin, 15, who was repairing his gun at home last Friday night when the .22 caliber rifle discharged. The bullet hit Mrs. Carey in the arm as she walked from the kitchen to another room in the house, Hint Kennedy May Use Republicans In Some Key Positions AM "MALICE TOWARD NONE" MEETING Surrounded by photographers, President elect John F. Kennedy shakes hands with Vice President Richard M. Nixon at the latter's va- cation hotel at Miami, in their first meeting since their fourth campaign TV debate.

Nixon called the meeting, set up by the President-elect, a "very gracious act" and Sen. Kennedy said he found his defeated opponent "very cooperative" and the meeting "very beneficial." BLAME CUBA FOR UPRISINGS Armies Of 4 Nations Unite Against Rebels United Press International Concerted action by the armies of four nations appeared today to have crippled uprisings they described as a Cuban attempt to "export revolution" to lands neighboring the strategic Panama Canal. In Guatemala, troops armed with flame throwers and rocketfiring bazookas were up for what authorities expected Admiral Among 9 Air Crash Dead MANILA (UPI) Separate crashes by a U.S. Navy plane and a Marine Corps helicopter that went to the rescue today killed nine persons, including the popular commander of the U.S. naval forces in the Philippines and his wife.

The two craft plunged into the jungled slopes of the Mariveles Mountains near Manila several hours apart in perfect weather. Naval officials were at a loss to explain either of the crashes. Rear Adm. Arthur F. Spring; his wife; an accompanying officer and three crewmen died when their engine Albatross plunged into the mountain before dawn while, Air returning Station to from Cubi a dance Point at Nichols Air Base.

After daybreak a Marine helicopter from the aircraft carrier Hornet, hovering over the Albatross crash site, suddenly plunged into the mountain itself carrying three of the eight men aboard to their deaths. Killed in the helicopter crash were a U.S. Marine and two Philippines constabulary men. The pilot and co-pilot were not injured. A Navy doctor was slightly bruised, an enlisted man suffered minor burns and another Marine suffered a broken arm.

Two men who had parachuted to the Albatross wreckage saw the Marine helicopter drop out of the sky. They radioed the casualty reports. A ground party was sent to the site to bring back the bodies. The jungle was too thick for helicopters to land. Spring had gained a reputation as one of the most popular American military commanders ever to come to the Philippines.

He sponsored large "fiestas" and invited thousands of Filipinos to join American servicemen in social functions at U.S. bases. Spring was born in Laconia, N.H., on Dec. 25, 1908, and attended high school there before entering the Naval Academy. He graduated in 1930.

His wife was the former Clare Murphy of Oakland, Calif. They are survived by a son, Ens. Arthur T. Spring of the Navy's nuclear power training unit at Windsor, Conn. Township Officials Will Meet Nov.

18 Members of the Darke County Township Trustees and Clerks association will meet at 7:30 p. m. this Friday in the assembly room of the courthouse here. The program will feature a discussion of association activities for 1960, it was announced by C. Ray Fourman, president, Believe He And Nixon Discussed Idea At Meeting PALM BEACH, Fla.

(UPD). President -elect Kennedy works today on the organization of his new administration with strong indications he may use prominent Republicans in some key positions. Democratic Gov. Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, a staunch Kennedy supporter, was on hand for conferences at the presidentelect's vacation retreat i in the Florida sun. Kennedy held an unprecedented meeting Monday with Vice President Richard M.

Nixon, his defeated Republican rival. Both men were reluctant afterward to discuss the substance of their 63-minute conversation at Key Biscayne, where Nixon is vacationing. They agreed it was cordial and productive, and anmeeting will be held, probably early next month, in Washington. May Use Republicans There were indications, however, they explored the general area of using prominent Republicans in some key posts of Kennedy's administration which officially begins next Jan. 20.

Nixon was asked after the meeting, "Do you have any reaction to the idea of having Republicans serve in a Kennedy administration?" "I would have no comment on that question at this point," Nix(Continued On Page Ten) Bessie Frick Dies At Union City UNION CITY- Bessie Viola Frick, 57, of 311 South Plum street, died Monday after an illness of eight weeks. She was a member of the German Baptist church. include the husband, Glenn; a daughter, Mrs. Dorotha Dean Young of Union City; three grandchildren; three brothers, Charles and Pete Neff, both of Ansonia, Ohio, and Perry Neff of Versailles, Ohio; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Avery of New Lebanon, Ohio, and Mrs.

Cora Hoblit of Gettysburg, Ohio. Services for Mrs. Frick will be held at 2 p. Thursday at the Union City District German Baptist church. Rev.

Marvin Skiles and Rev. Floyd Hyre will ofticiate. Burial will be in the Gettysburg, Ohio, cemetery. Friends may call at the Fraze and Timing mons funeral home from 7 to 9 p. m.

Tuesday and after 2 p. m. Wednesday. Memorials may be sent to the Union City Salvation Army citadel. Greenville Hunter Suffers Minor Wound Grant E.

(Gene) Riegle, a Greenville hunter, suffered a superficial gunshot wound in the head during the opening hours of the hunting season about 10 a. m. this morning. He was hunting with a companion, Arthur Shipp, of 1324 Dayton road. According to the Darke county sheriff's office, Riegle had tramped on a brush pile to scare a rabbit out.

Shipp, standing about 30 feet from him, raised his shotgun to fire. A twigg, apparently caught in the trigger guard, fired the weapon, the department said. Riegle, well known race horse driver, lives at 1143 Fort Jefferson road. The accident occured in a field back of the REA building about a half mile southwest of Greenville on State Route 121. lle was treated at Wayne hospital and released.

Salvation Army Truck In City Three Days A Salvation Army truck will be in Greenville for collection purposes next Friday, Saturday and Monday. The Welfare Office in the courthouse should be contacted for pickups. Men's clothing is reportled to be urgently needed, '117777 to be a decisive attack on Puerto Barrios, a big Caribbean port seized Sunday by rebels. President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes announced Monday night that loyal troops had recaptured Zacapa, the only other sizeable Guatemalan center taken by rebels he described as "Communists. to the Fidel Castro government." In Nicaragua, official announcements indicated organized rebel resistance ceased with the surrender at Diriamba of about 14 invaders who had been holding 200 school children as hostages for safe withdrawal from the country.

Head For Border Nicaraguan tanks and troops were reported hunting down remre nants of the rebel forces reported 6 Dates Set For Wabash Hearings CELINA-Six dates for hearing objections to Wabash River Conservancy, district assessments were set at a meeting of the district board here yesterday. Forty objections have been filed with the board. They were to be heard at yesterday's meeting in the Mercer county common pleas courtroom, but the meeting was adjourned at 11:45 a. m. with the new dates set.

The hearing dates are Nov. 28 and 29 and Dec. 5, 7, 12 and 15. After the assessment hurdle is over, bids will be asked for 38 miles of channel work, the erection of three dams and the construction of reservoirs to retain flood waters. The watershed drains 126 square miles, eight of which are in Indiana.

Ninety per cent of the land is in southern Mercer county. The other ten per cent is in northern Darke county. Three thousand property owners will be assessed $228,294.14 under conservancy district plans. The board has gone on record that $45,186.55 is the extent of damages it will allow and that it will pay $47,487.35 for land that it acquires. The Wabash Conservancy district was created by court order in 1958 after 500 property owners in Mercer and Darke counties signed a petition urging its establishment.

Last-Ditch Effort To Avert TV Strike NEW YORK -Negotiators called a last ditch meeting today to try to avoid a threatened midnight by network television and radio entertainers that would cut off live shows from TV screens but leave filmed and taped programs on the air. Sessions between American Federation of Television and Radio Artists AFTRA and the four major networks, NBC, CBS, ABC and Mutual, were to resume at 10 a. m. EST, today. Talks Monday produced little results in the way of a contract settlement.

Elks Birthday Dinner The November birthday dinner of the Elks Lodge here will be held beginning at 6:30 p. m. Thursday with swiss steak on the menu, officers of the lodge have announced. trying to flee across the border to Costa Rica. Reports from Costa Rica mentioned heavy firing on the Nicaraguan side of the border, indicating loyal troops might be battling a sizeable rebel force.

Honduras rushed troops to its Guatemalan border to block any possible rebel attempt to flee (Continued On Page Ten) 2 Rape Slayings May Be Linked PAULDING, Ohio (UPI) Authorities, lacking clues and with only the sketchy description by a 4-year-old girl to go on, kept at day night's of 14-year their investigation a today of Sun-old Nancy Eagleson. The victim was abducted as she and her sister, Sherrill, 4, walked home from a movie. "It was a man in a big car that got my sister," sobbed Sherrill. She said the man asked them if they wanted a ride first and, when they refused, grabbed Nancy. Sherrill ran to the nearby home of John Larson, a neighbor who often served as babysitter for the girls while their parents were at work.

Larson called police and a search got underway. About five and a half hours later, at 2:30 a.m. Monday, two raccoon hunters discovered the girl's body in a wooded area 100 feet off Paulding County Road 176. Joseph C. AvFrance, 38, and Kenneth W.

Nelson, 43, both of Pauling, thought at first it was a discarded halloween costume. The abduction and murder of (Continued On Page Ten) Union City Woman Dies At Age Of 66 UNION CITY Mrs. Rosie Davis Cox, 66, of 509 Railroad street, died Monday afternoon after an illness of several years. She had been in the Union City hospital for five days. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs.

Thelma Royer of Union City, a son, Cecil Louk, also of Union City; nine grandchildren; 12 grandchildren; four sisters, Mrs. Louella Malloy, Mrs. Clara Wilson, Mrs. Nancy Cline and Mrs. Sally Edwards, all of Union City; three brothers, William, Joseph and Orla Davis, all of Union City.

Services for Mrs. Cox will be held Wednesday at 2 p. m. at the Pilgrim Holiness Church in Union City. Rev.

Donald Teegarden will officiate. Burial will be in Union City cemetery. Friends may call at the Fraze and Timmons funeral home after 1 p. m. Tuesday.

Darke Girl To Sing In Televised Choir Miss Martha Hair, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Hair of R. R. 1, Ansonia, and a junior at Miami University, Oxford, will sing with the Oxford Methodist Church Chancel Choir this Sunday two at 8:30 a.

m. over Channel on the TV program, "Church by the Side of the Road." Miss Hair is a 1958 graduate of Ansonia High school. The program is now in its 12th year on television and is the oldest, continuous religious program on radio, INTEGRATE NEW ORLEANS SCHOOLS Escorted by U.S. Marshals, a Negro mother takes' her young daughter into previously all-White Williams Frants elementary school New Orleans integrated two public schobls as ordered by federal court. (NEA Telephoto) votes.

An official tabulation of the election returns, completed last Friday afternoon by the election board, boosted Royer's plurality to 26 votes. The respective official totals were: Royer, Maloon, 234. In making his "no recount" statement today, Rep. Maloon said: "If I had been elected by 26 votes I would have accepted the count as being right and I see no reason to question the honesty or the ability of the individuals who serve on the election boards in each precinct of Darke county just because I First Since 1950 Representative-elect Royer, who resides on Arcanum R. R.

2, will be Darke county's first Republi(Continued On Page Ten) Redecorate Guild Theatre's Lobby The lobby of the Greenville Art Guild's Workshop Theatre, 214 East Fourth street has been decorated for the opening of the 15th season for the Guild Players here. The first production of the season is, "Love Rides the Rails," an old-fashioned melodrama, which will be presented at 8:15 p. m. on Sunday, Tuesday, and Friday, Nov. 20, 22, and 25.

Vaudeville acts will be included in the evening's entertainment, with moustaches available for theatregoers. The play, which has a cast of 12 and a production staff of Mine persons, has previously been presented i- the upper Miami Valley. Tickets are available at McGreevey Rexall Drugstore and will be on sale at the door on show nights. Scout Uniforms Are Needed Here Brownie and Girl Scout uniforms are urgently needed by girls who wish to participate in the Court of Awards ceremony. Anyone having uniforms to sell or exchange is asked to contact Mrs.

Myron Boyer, 761 Wayne avenue, Greenville. Change In Game The Franklin-Monroe Newton basketball game will be held this Saturday at Pleasant Hill instead of Friday as previously announced. The first game will start at 7 p. m. in the Newton school gymnasium, Negro Girls Return To Classes Today BULLETIN NEW ORLEANS (UPI) A gang of chanting, teen-aged whites tried to follow four, 6-year-old Negro girls into two formerly all-white schools today, but police drove them back.

NEW ORLEANS (UPI)-Four Negro first graders, protected from jeering crowds by rings of U. S. marshals and city police, returned to special girl classes Darke GOP Plans 2 Organizations Two GOP organizations will be formed during a meeting Wednesday, Nov. 16, Mrs. Richard Miller, R.

3, Arcanum, chairman of the Republican party in Darke county, has announced. The meetwill be held in the service building of the Dayton Power Light company on Central avenue in Greenville. The Greenvilie Women's Republican Federation will be organized in the first portion of the meeting beginning at 7 p. m. A young Republican group, for persons 35 years of age and under, will be formed in the second part of the meeting beginning at 8 p.

m. Mrs. Katherine Kennedy Brown, of Dayton, national committeewoman from Ohio, will assist in the forming of the groups. Anyone interested in either of the two groups is welcome to the meeting, Mrs. Miller said.

Scholastic Honor Goes To Greenville Youth WESTERVILLE Mike Christian, senior at Otterbein college and son cf Mr. and Mrs. Willard Christian, 609 Central avenue, Greenville, has been made a member of Torch and Key, national scholastic honorary society. He has maintained a high grade average throughout his college career in order to be eligible for the honor. Books On Display The Carnegie Library is displayling books published during the past year for children and young people in the library's assembly room in observance of National Book Week, Miss Kathleen Moore, librarian, has announced.

She invited children, parents and teachers to examine the books for possible 'future reading, gift and classroom use, today in the city's second day of integrated education. The four Negro girls who nerve ously walked into two previously all white public schools in the Deep South's largest city Monday marked the first time since Reconstruction that the races mixed in primary education in Louisiana. The move was made under the protection of U. S. marshals and city police in defiance of the state legislature, the governor and crowds of screaming white mothers.

School officials said they were "heartened" by the lack of violence when the 6-year-old girls sat side-by-side with white girls in class as well as in a schoo! cafeteria as nearly 200 uniformed policemen outside the schools kept sidewalk traffic moving. Although class attendance fell off, New Orleans School Board president Lloyd Rittiner predicted school attendance will begin to rise to normal. More than 150 (Continued On Page Ten) Greenville Rate Case Reopened -The Dayton Pow. er Light company got another chance yesterday to offer more evidence in support of its application for a natural gas rate increase in the city of Greenville. The utilities commission modified an Oct.

17 order that upheld the city's motion to dismiss the applications. Dayton Power had claimed that a report by utilities commission experts was evidence enough of a need for a rate increase. But the commission said, in the Oct. 17 ruling, that the company would have to produce its own evidence, and allowed 10 days for Dayton Power to file a motion to reopen hearings. The company filed its motion within the 10-day limit.

No date was set for the additional hearings in yesterday's modified order. In City Tonight City Council. Beta Sigma Phi. Council No. 28 D.

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