Wilmington News-Journal from Wilmington, Ohio • 1

I iiw A 1 Wilmington Ohio Monday ebruary 12 1962 24 Pages Two Sections: JtC zr x3 Mfr Ji A A 7 Wilmington News Journal EVERYBODY'S MARKET PLACE Read the News Journal Classified Ada Price Seven Cents lv f( 5 iht 7 2 i i 4 Vs a The Weather Occasion! light snow to night low tonight in 20s Mostly cloudy Tuesday lit tie temperature change 1 'i 'v One Hundred Twenty ourth Year No 100 ftA' 14 4 21 '7 I fr CLOUDBURSTS HIT CALIORNIA New Misery iMMy wwiw yWtHliOft pop handily US Congress Student reed Sabinans Pass Consolidation I Circlevil le Resolution pm south 64 de pm south 81 de' pm north 83 de' been left basement of Bran of Bran estimatrd by smoke He had a happy reunion with his hometown barber Harry Mock of New Concord Ohio who torn and HOW THEY Nine Clinton County high school coaches and their team captains assembled in the foyer of the courthouse today to pull little white pills out of a box The above diagram is the resulting bracket for the annual basketball tournament which will start Wednesday night at Xenia Central ieldhouse Three games John Lewis 82 Today WASHINGTON (AP) John Lewis once the top labor union leaded Celebrated his 82nd birthday today He retired two years ago as president of the United Mme Workers' It was understood that the ses sion would be confined to the single subject of disarmament based on a set of principles agreed to by the United States and the Soviet Union at the United Nations last What stand the United States and its allies and perhaps a num are scheduled during the first night with the doors opening at 5:45 for holders of season tickets and comps Doors open at 6 for general admission On the following nights doors will open at 6 and 6:15 respectively Winner and second place team will participate in the Dayton District Class A tournament Sixth Day of Deluge Brings lash loods 20 Lives Are Claimed ber of non aligned countries will take in response to the Khrush chev proposal will be determined in urgent consultations expected to begin immediately The White House and State De partment declined any immediate comment as word of the reported new Khrushchev maneuver quick ly circulated through the capital There appeared to be no likeli hood whatever that Kennedy would agree to a meeting with Khrushchev and other govern ment "chiefs at the outset of the' March 14 talks The President often has said there must be adequate advance preparations for a summit con ference He told a recent news conference he did not think a meeting with Khrushchev would be advisable under present condi tions However if the Geneva dis armament group can make pro gress toward translating general principles of disarmament into concrete programs of action there is reason to believe Ken nedy might be willing to go to a summit meeting at a date stage of the negotiations The Geneva group is to report to the United Nations June 1 The new Soviet proposition re portedly was delivered when Mik hail Smirnovsky ranking offi Khrushchev Proposes 18 Nations Gather Soon for Summit Conference JAKARTA Indonesia (AP) US Atty Gen Robert Ken nedy arrived in Indonesia today for a six day visit Before his arrival soldiers scratched off anti American slogans crudely painted along his route 'into the capitalV The airliner that brought Ken nedy and his wife Ethel touched down at the Jakarta airport three hours late Indonesian Atty Gen Gunawan who had invited Ken nedy to visit the Socialist island republic led the welcoming party Kennedy and his wife had flown from Hong Kong to Singapore A resolution extending an invita tion to residents of the Simon Kenton school district to consoli date with the Sabina school system was adopted Thursday night by the Citizens Committeea group repre senting Sabina school district resi dents Should this proposal be rejected "an open invitation "would exten ded to residents of the former Rees ville Rich and school district to consolidate with Sabina MANCHESTER Vt' (AP) The mistress of planned today as mil lions of other Americans remem bered the 153rd anniversary of the birth of her great grandfather on US territory en route to West New Guinea Last week students stoned the US embassy here in protest 1 The United States has banned such flights but commer cial Dutch airliners carrying troops in civilian clothes can still land on US territory Kennedy will have several meetings with President Sukarno he has met and other government officials in cluding anti Communist Gen Ab dul Haris Nasution the national security minister On the eve of arrival the Indonesian army sent 10900 Mary Lincoln Beckwith 63 says she is proud to be a member of the distinguished Lincoln family but thinks illogical to something for a relative who was dead before you were Since 1938 she has operated the 1000 acre dairy farm built by her grandfather Robert Todd Lincoln only son of the 16th president to reach maturity Her neighbors say Miss Beck with much care about her distinguished ancestry always provokes she said' people stare and say: great grand just my luck he was related to Her farm was built at the turn of the century 30 odd years after Robert Lincoln first visited this southwestern Vermont town with his mother Mary Todd Lincoln while he was a Harvard under graduate Her cousin: Lincoln Isham 68 lives in nearby Dorset where he works on his cqllection of Lincoln lana much of which has been do nated to the Smithsonian Institu tion in Washington Her brother Lincoln Beckwith operates a farm in Virginia None of the three Lincoln descendants has children Their great grandfather was said to have visited Springfield Vt during his first term Stephen Douglas the famed with whom Lincoln engaged in the memorable series of debates was a native don Vt and a graduate don Academy Abe carried Vermont against native: son Douglas win ning the state by 25000 votes in the 1860 election Today was a legal holiday for state employes and most banks in Vermont remained closed But for Mary Lincoln Beckwith indif ferent but proud of her ancestor it was just another work day and they used their unexpected stopover there for a fast sight seeing drive about the British Commonwealth island Indonesian youths painted signs saying go and States no Indonesia on walls and buildings They also handed out posters and leaflets Told of the signs during his stop at Singapore Kennedy said smil ingly seen them before? Indonesians were annoyed be cause the United States permitted chartered Dutch airliners with uniformed troops aboard to refuel WASHINGTON (AP) Con gress shunts aside most of its legislative business this week to give its Republican members a chance to go home and mend their political fences while eulogizing Abraham Lincoln was the order of the week in both the Senate and the House although several com mittees on both sides of the Capitol planned to hold hearings Routine floor sessions were sched uled for Monday and Thursday in both chambers Several controversial proposals are ready for tests when Congress returns to work next Monday One of them is President Ken reorganization plan to create a Cabinet status depart ment of urban affairs and housing headed by Robert Weaver a Negro The plan becomes effec tive at the end of March unless either the Senate or the House rejects Also ready for House debate are bills to increase pie national debt limit and to provide for a program of manpower retraining for 'displaced: workers With the debt nearing the current $298 billion limit the House Ways and Means Committee last week ap proved an administration request for a $2 billion increase: in the ceiling to $300 billion "WASHINGTON (AP) The schedule of visible passes of the Echo I satellite over Ohio this week: eb 12:40 pm south 82 de grees above the horizon moving southeast eb 7:52 pm north 83 de grees SE eb pm north 72 de grees SE: 9:11 pm south 46 de grees SE eb grees SE eb grees SE eb 17 6:47 grees SE: 8:55 pm south' 29 degrees SE eb pm' south 45 degrees SE WASHINGTON (AP) Soviet Premier Khrushdhev has proposed an 18 nation summit conference on disarmament to meet in Gen eva in little more than a The West seemed certain to turn down the proposal though a' later summit session seems a definite possibility 1 The Soviet news agency Tass announced plan to day The proposal was contained in a letter to President Kennedy delivered at the State Department Sunday morning In the letter Khrushchev pro posed that the 18 nation disarma ment conference scheduled to be gin March 14 in start work at the summit level 9 PRISONER TRADED Con victed spy Rudolf Abel was ex changed by the for rancis Gary Powers US pilot It was the first time since his capture that the Russians had admitted any interest in Abel although the considered him one of the top Soviet espio nage agents eh 21 7:00 PM 5 7 cial at the Soviet Embassy met Sunday morning with Secretary of State Dean Rusk at the State De partment Smirnovsky reportedly gave Rusk a seven page letter from Khrushchev addressed to Rusk immediately got in touch with the President who was spending the weekend at Middle burg Va Late in the afternoon Rusk called in the ambassadors of Britain rance Italy and Canada The Khrushchev letter is said to have been sent in reply to a proposal which Kennedy and Brit ish Prime Minister Harold Mac millahnfade to him last Thurs day It called for the Geneva meeting to be opened by foreign ministers of the United States Britain and the Soviet Union Los Apgeles AreaSuffers Rockefeller Denies He Swings to Right NEW YORK (AP) Gov Nelson A Rockefeller says he ia not to the The potential Republican presi dential candidate in 1964 waa asked on a nationwide television program Sunday night if he was becoming more conservative in his politics in the slightest' he snapped Earlier he had conceded he might have been passed ever as the 1960 presidential nominee because he wasi 'lce LOS ANGELES (AP) Southeni sixth day of satura tion started spectacularly today as cloudbursts opened up on parte of the Los Angeles area creating lakes up to seven feet deep There were flash floods in the Hollywood Hills and a house at 2934 Beachwood Dr was loose from its foundation pushed into the street Storm drain covers were ping open from excessive pressure in many parts of the city A woman at 6456 Deep Dell Place in the Hollywood Hills re ported water was rushing through her living room At the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway early this morning the water was seven feet deep It was four feet deep on Ver mont Avenue between 88th and 90th streets in Los Angeles It was over the rooftops of automo biles at some other points The police flood control offieo said all major streets in the Holly wood area were awash More than 20 deaths had been attributed to the one at the heaviest in the history violent down pours Nearly eight inches of rain had fallen in Los Angeles since th storm started last Wednesday Two children died Sunday un der tons of mud and three per sons were presumed drowned in rampaging currents Another boy drowned Thursday and a woman was crushed by a tree that had been undermined by rain i Police blamed15 traffic death on the storm Dams overflowed over weekend sending water into som homes and imprisoning other res 1 idents on isolated Inolls Score of major intersection wr closed i Residents in ontana east at i Los Angeles reported "damag ing twister kicked up by wind accompanying the rain More than seven inches of rain had fallen in Los Angeles Mor 1 than 20 inches fell at Juncal Dam 1 in Santa Barbara County and sev eral mountain areas reported 14 inches Season rainfall totals wer run ning five inches above normal in the Los Angeles area the first time they have been above norm al in several years Dennis Ray Milne 8 apparent ly died in his sleep when tumbling hillside muck burst into his bedroom in suburban Monter ey Park ab 3 pl ico loagua 1 Bob Kennedy Now Visiting Indonesia Motorist Discovers He Is Driving 2 Cars COPENHAGEN Denmark (AP) motorist drove into a garage outside Odense' and complained his car wouldn't go as fast as usual The attendant found another car hanging on to the rear bumper It had caught on when the motors ist maneuvered out of a parking space two miles away jungle fighters to eastern In apparently to start infil tration of West New The United States favors nego tiations between Indonesia and the Netherlands in hopes of reach ing a settlegpent Kennedy was carrying a letter from his brother the President to Sukarno but the contents were not made public This is fourth major stop on his trip After Japan he had an unexpectedly prolonged stay in ormosa before continuing on to Hong Kong where he had planned a weekend rest Ex President Prefers Backing Youngsters WASHINGTON (AP) President 1 Dwight Eisenhower is reported to have told Republi cans he has no intention of cam paigning for in this elections Eisenhower who is 71 was represented as pressing party members to work for the nomina tion of young candidates for gov ernor and Senate and House seats Some confidantes quoted him as saying he wanted no haired old running on the GOP ticket if it could be helped This serve the youth movement apparently led the former presi dent into some difficulties in his adopted state of Pennsylvania He convinced Sen Hugh Scott in telephone conversation that Scott ought to make himself available for the party nomination for gov ernor Scott reported that Eisenhower said he could support actively a ticket on which Scott was a mem ber but could not campaign for a ticket on which Judge Robert Woodside of the State Superior Court would run for governor and Rep James Van Zandt would oppose Sen Joseph Clark a Democrat for the Senate seat Somehow the word got out that Eisenhower considered this a ticket What' was reported was that Eisenhower said privately that he thought the Woodside Van Zandt ticlost too old A Woodside is 57 Scott is 61 but looks younger Subsequently Eisenhower felt" constrained to say in a telegram to Van Zandt who is 63 that what he had said was not any way intended as personally derogatory to CIRCLEVILLE Ohio (AP) ire struck in downtown Circle ville early today for the second time in" 24 heavily dam aging the Eagles Home on Main Street The site is one block west of the business building in which three establishments were burned out early ire Chief Talmer Wise said the blaze in the old two story brick Eagles Home burned most ly within the walls but that most of the loss which he at $20000 was caused and water A gas: fire that had turned on high in the was blamed ire of unknown origin de stroyed a nearly 100 year old frame building in the dewntown area here Sunday causing an es timated loss of $50000 Ralph Ward owner of the build ing and operator of an upholstry shop in the center section of the two story structure suffered a mild heart attack during the blaze Ward in his 60s lived next door to the destroyed build ing iremen from Circleville Ash iille and Williamsport battled the blaze for two hours before bring ing it under control UZSpyPilot To Be Grilled RANCIS GARY POWERS Soviet prison are: What really happened the morning of May 1 I960 when he was downed deep inside the SovietUnion? How much did he tell the Russiansbout his mission? Preliminary questioning pre sumably began shortly the 32 year old pilot crossed a Berlin bridge into American hands Satur day in a two for one trade for Soviet spy Rudolf I' Abel Official sources are not saying Powers is in military or govern ment custody but i ever since he 'crossed a white line where Com munist East Germany ends and West Berlin begins a carefully eontrived secrecy has cloaked his movements All the White House would say in a brief announcement Sunday was that Powers was home again and that he had been reunited with members of his family In a far flung game of hide and seek dogged newsmen tried to find out for themselves where Powers and his wife Barbara' were holding their reunion Vari ous leads pointed to Eastern Shore but the exact meet ing place could not be pinned down The White House declined to say what family members Powers saw but presumably he met also with his parents Mr and Mrs Oliver Powers of Norton Va The Central Intelligence Agency was believed to be setting up a board of inquiry to look fully into the Powers case CIA Director John A McCone will determine tlie composition AnotherTigure in the unprece dented exchange arrived home Sunday James Britt Donovan the 2New York la wyer who defended Abel in his 1957 espionage trial and then negotiated his deporta tion in a trade for Powers andstudent rederic Pryor brought word still another American im prisoned in the Soviet Union may win his freedom Marvin Makinen 22 a student from Ash burnham Mass is serving an eight year sentence in Kiev on espionage charges 1 Timetable or Balloon Moon eb: A Pat 2 Downtown ires Battled '3 'V Paris Riot orce Girds for Clash PARIS (AP) Thirty thousand jpolice and riot forces stood by in the Paris region today as wor ried government officials girded for possible street elashes and other violence Security forces were concen trated to counter a banned dem onstration scheduled for late afternoon on the vast Place de la Republique in eastern Paris The rench Socialist party called for a but dem onstration against the right wing Secret Army Organization and against police repression of dem onstrations last Thursday which left eight dead and hundreds dn jured Ike Says Don't Run 'Old Men' Highway Kill Is Average COLUMBUS Ohio (AP) was ah average Weekend on 17 persons were killed The toll was down considerably from last near record but it still equalled the average interrupted a vacation in ort piled up so far this year over Lauderdale to visit hi long time seven weekends customer 15000 Peruvians Hear illy Graham LIMA Peru Billy Gra ham preached to 15 000 Peruvian in a bull ring Sunday night and afterward hundreds came for ward in answer to his call to make for The American evangelist refer red to the current Peruvian elec tion campaign and said he had sensed some of the Latin Ameri can enthusiasm for politics not give the same enthu siasm to a renewal of faith in he asked knows when Christ will return but one thing i sure: The last word on this world will be spoken by Christ and not 6t3GXM7 By Reds Asks To Be Ignored ANN ARBOR Mich is an opportunity to make a lot of cheap propaganda slam ming East do it in my said rederic Pryor 28 Sunday on his return home after his release from a Soviet prison tomorrow forget he said 7 His 7 graying mother Mrs Millard Bf Pryor beamed is what I have been waiting She had been waiting five and a half months The scene was nearby Willow Run Airport with a New York Detroit airliner a backdrop Less than 48 hours earlier rederic had been released by East German Communists who had picked him up as an espio nage suspect in East Berlin last Aug 25 His rriother and father who learned of his detention three weeks afterward had spent most of their time since in Berlin To Be Quiet This Week Glenn Preps or Big light Astronaut's Orbit Set for Wednesday CAPE CANAVERAL la (AP) John Glenn Jr climbs into his space suit today for what he hopes will be last make believe trip around the world before the real thing on Wednesday As the Marine lieutenant colonel suited up for a full 4 hour and 50 minute run through his triple orbit flight space officials hud dled over weather charts and studied reports of wave conditions across the Atlantic Ocean With the towering Atlas missile and its complex Mercury space craft reported in go condition for the flight clouds and waves ap pear to be the only thing that could stand between Glenn and his oft postponed rendezvous with the stars Clouds 'over Cape Canaveral could force another postponement as they did on Jan 27 just 20 minutes before takeoff Heavy seas in the key 'recovery areas off Bermuda also could cause a scrub riendly and unruffled as al ways Glenn showed no signs of strain from the long delays when he attended Sunday services at Lincoln's Great Granddaughter Plans No Special Celebration 'f i 4 Ist place loagvto KEAO llwl A I HQ) AMrUCtnfi Hi 7t3O By Experts What Really Happened a When Powers Downed Deep Inside Soviet? 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