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mm Great Bend Daily Tribune FIRST PAPER Throughout The "GOLDEN BELT AREA" Of Wott Control Kansas PARTLY CLOUDY: COLDER 86TH YEAR, No. 133 SINGLE COPY 7c GREAT BEND, KANSAS, MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1962 THIS ISSUE 10 PAGES By U.S. and Common Market Nations Dodson, Chief of Merriam Police, Named to Head Great Bend's Force Okay Broad Tariff Agreement -mn BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) The United States and common market nations will initial a sweeping agreement to cut tariffs on many industrial products Tuesday, informed sources said today. The informants confirmed reports that cuts of about 20 per cent on some industrial items are foreseen. As to U.S.

agricultural products, they will be considered in later negotiations between the United States and the European Economic Community, the formal name for the six-nation common market, these sources reported. They will involve wheat, corn and poultry. 1 The agreement will be initialed by Howard Peterson, special adviser to President Kennedy; and Jean Rey, member of the EEC in charge of foreign relations. The agreement cannot become final until it is approved unani Caused by U.N. Debate on Angola on U.

Ties uW I ft vl ported seeking to get African delegations to put in a resolution that would (1) call on all countries to refrain from supplying Portugal with arms to use against the rebels and (2) ask the assembly's 17-nation special committee on independence for colonies to give its nm -m Indonesian Vessel Sunk In Scrape with Dutch Warships NEW POUCE CHIEF-Jack Dodson, (right) now chief of the Merriam, police force, will take over direction of the Great Bend Police Department Feb. 1. Here he is congratulated on his appointment by Mayor Elden Harwood. The city council in making the appointment gave Dodson free rein in organizing and administering his officers, asking "only that we have a good Council Tempers Flare Over Police Dept. Issue mously by the EEC council ministers, informants said.

1 sources said the agreement also has to go back to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade organizations in Geneva, under whose auspices the negotiations began. A spokesman for the U.S. mis sion to the EEC confirmed that a meeting had been arranged be tween Peterson and Rey for Tues day but said as far as they know. first attention to Angola. Whatever the United Stales or the Soviet bloc might want, the 50-nation Asian-African group was expected to produce its own resolution on Angola and push il through the assembly with little or no change.

istry spokesman at the Hague refused to comment when asked whether the clash meant an a tual state of war between the Netherlands and Indonesia.) Indonesia has threatened to seize West New Guinea by force if necessary and Dutch officials at Biak report small bands of In donesians have begun infiltration but are being rounded up. They said some have been killed in clashes with Dutch patrols. The navy spokesman said the Indonesian torpedo boats were intercepted near Etna Bay. This is a region within easy range of some of the eastern Indonesian islands believed used as a base for the infiltrators. The Hollandia naval chief, Cmdr.

R. M. Elbers, was quoted as saying the Dutch ships opened fire only after sending a number of warning rounds. Kansan On Missing Navy Plane MANILA, Philippines (AP) The U.S. Navy today identified the three crew members of a jet attack bomber missing since taking off Saturday from the attack air craft carrier Coral Sea in the South China Sea.

Planes continued a search of the Mindoro Island area south oi Manda, a Navy spokesman said Units of the Philippine Constabu lary scoured the thick jungles in the mountainous area of southern Luzon and Mindoro Island The spokesman said the missing en were: Lt. Wallace B. Mechling, pilot Oak Harbor, Lt. Thomas Beadles, Winona, and Albert W. Forkner, aviation fire control technician, 2-Class, Oak Harbor, Wash.

Forkner, 23, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Forkner, Clay Center, Kas. The elkder Forkner is a well known Kansas road Jack Dodson, a 48-year-old career law enforcement officer now serving as chief of the Merriam, police aepartment, was today nam ed chief of police here, effec-l live i'eo. l.

Dodson was approved unanimous ly at a special council session short ly before noon. The full council was present for an hour long execu tive session during which the gov erning body's five member screen ing committee recommended Dod son appomtment. Mayor Elden Harwood read over a long list of recommendations from Dodson's associates in Johnson County, in eluding Merriam's mayor and sev eral other civic leaders. Harwood explained that Merriam Shawnee and Fairway, three su burban communities in Johnson County, will soon be annexed into Overland Park, which will elimi nate some jobs in the three police departments. This was one of reasons for Dodson's interest in the Great Bend job.

He will start here at 86,300 a year, ($525 a month) which is the slary he is now draw ing at Merriam, and the salary be mg paid Duane Moore when he re signed as police chief Nov. 15 of last year. Dodson has headed the Merriam department since 1956. Previously he served a year as an investi gator with the Adams County, Colo sheriff's office, and from 1946 to 1955 was an officer on the Kansas City, police department. He served as a military police man in the Army from 1943 to 1946 and had previously served on the Wyandotte County Sheriff's staff During his years on the Kansas City, force he served as an instructor in the department's "Bookie and he taught in the University of Kansas police school also.

Dodson was range-master in the Kansas City department's marksmanship training. A member of the Merriam Chris tian Church and vice president of the Optimist Club there, he been active in youth work, coaching both a baseball team and a YMCA basketball team. Mr. and Mrs. Dodson have two daughters, both married.

Dodson is a towering 6 foot 3 inches, weighing 210 pounds. He played high school football in his hometown of Sweetwater, with the famed Sammy Baugh. Later Dodson attended Cameron College at Lawton, and they played professional football with the Kansas City Cowboys and an early Chicago team. Following his appointment the new chief met Capt. LaVerne Town- send, who has served as acting chief since Moore left the depart ment.

They set up a meeting of all members of the department at 10 a.m. tomorrow. Dodson said he plans to remain in Great Bend through Tuesday getting acquaint- Governor to Ft. Riley TOPEKA (AP)-Gov. John Anderson was out of his office today, scheduled to review troops at Ft.

Riley. His office said he might go to Salina for a civic club appearance after the troop review but his schedule wasn't certain because of time and weather conditions. Belated Notification FRASER, Mich. (AP) Earl Etter, a retired utility company employe, went to retrieve a letter from his roadside mailbox one recent icy morning. He slipped en route and wound up in bed with a strained back.

Etter learned later the letter was a circular from a casualty and accident insurance firm CARMICHAEL 7 7 New Strain today puts a new strain on ties between the United States and its Atlantic ally Portugal. The debate was the first major business as the General Assembly resumes its 16th annual session after a Christmas recess. Asian and European diplomats said U.S. delegates had told them it hoped the 104-nation assembly would adopt a moderate, meaningful resolution that would push the Portuguese toward self-determination for Angola. But Portugal contended that the assembly had no right to even discuss its big West African territory.

It maintained that all Portuguese overseas territories are provinces, not colonies, and their control is a domestic matter outside the assembly's jurisdiction. There was speculation that the Portuguese delegation would boycott the Angola debate as it did on a similar occasion last April. Sources in Lisbon have predicted that Portugal would quit the United Nations if the assembly censured rule over Angola. Diplomatic sources said the United States probably would not introduce a resolution itself but; would try to see that any introduced from' Africa, Asia or Latin America would contribute toward (1) self-determination for Angola (2) a satisfactory settlement of the ll-month-old rebellion there. Communist countries were re Commencement Prayers Said to Be Distasteful SACRAMENTO, Calif.

(AP)-A faculty committee at Sacramento State College is looking into the customary practice of saying prayers at the beginning and end of commencement exercises. A petition with 14 faculty signa tures protesting the prayers as distasteful was received last spring. The committee appointed to investigate has sent question naires to all 500 faculty mem bers. There's Some Days We Might Agree with Her ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) A woman called the city desk of the Albany Times-Union and asked the slogan of the newspaper business.

"What do you call it? The fourth what?" she asked. "The Fourth Estate," a reporter replied "Oh," the woman said, "I just told my daughter it was the fourth dimension." Parliament In Congo Censures Antoine Gizenga By PETER GROSE LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo (AP) The Congo Parliament by an overwhelming majority censured Antoine Gizenga today for his defiance of the central Congo government. The pro-Communist deputy premier was a virtual prisoner of U.N. and Congolese forces encircling his residence in Stanleyville. The government announced Gizenga had agreed to end his self-imposed exile and return to Leopoldville by this Saturday after his personal bodyguard surrendered Sunday to Congolese troops.

His capitulation came too late to avert the parliamentary wrath. After a brief but angry debate, the vote in the Chamber of Deputies was 67 for the censure mo tion, a single vote against it, and one abstention. The parliamentary action left the way open for Premier Cyrille Adoula to oust Gizenga from the deputy premiership he accepted last August but never actually filled. One deputy said Gizenga's gendarmes who battled Congolese troops in Stanleyville over the weekend were in every way comparable to the foreign mercenaries fighting for President Moise Tshombe in Katanga Province. Nearly 300 of Gizenga's gendarmes his military army in Stanleyville have been disarmed and taken prisoner by central government troops a U.N.

spokesman reported. One platoon of about 25 remains to be neutralized, but they were being rounded up in the bush around Stanleyville, he added. Up to the end ot fighting yesterday 14 Congolese troops were reported Reconvened Legislature Starts Slowly TOPEKA (AP) The Kansas House got the second week of the 1962 budget session off to a slow start today as lawmakers waited on committees to process more proposed legislation. Virtually the only action on the floor of the House during a brief meeting was passage of a perennial measure to allow payments of gasoline tax refunds to persons who failed to submit claims within the statutory time. Under Kansas law the gasoline tax must be paid all fuel pur-1 chased but is refunded to persons who use the fuel for non-highway purposes.

The law requires refund claims to be submitted within 6 months but the legislature annually enacts another law allowing payment ot refunds to persons who failed to submit the claims within the 6- month period. Passage today of this year's hill sends the measure to the Senate. East Berlin Reds Release U.S. Men smuggie a girl out of East Berlin were released by the Communists The students, Victor Searles Pankey and Gilbert Page Ferrey, both 20 and both from Tustin, were sentenced to two years imprisonment by an i3ast Berlin court last Sept. 26.

fanKeys tatner, uagar fan-key; and Ferry's mother, Mary Ferrey, both went across to East Berlin today. When they returned through the Fnednchstrasse checkpoint they were accompanied by the two students. Reporters at the checkpoint saw the two young men. Hot Spots which means success in Africa, will represent our biggest victory since World War II." Sen. George D.

Aiken, R-Vt denounced the bond issue proposal Sunday, assergng it would provide the Soviet Union "a long-time escape avenue" for refusing to pay its share of the Congo operation. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana said he is "hopeful that we can get through what the administration requested, and that is a $l00-million bond issue underwritten by us which will be repayable." The U.N. deficit is expected to reach $170 million by June 30. The world organization has been unable to collect special assessments for its Congo operations and its truce supervision in the Gaza Strip HOLLANDIA, New Guinea, (AP) An Indonesian torpedo boat was sunk Monday by Dutch patrol ships inside West Guinea- territorial waters on the south coast, the navy said today At least three Indonesian motor torpedo boats were intercepted and a second may have been sunk, the navy said. The other intruder fled.

(The Dutch news agency quot ed the navy commander in Hoi- landia as saying it was thought the Indonesian warcraft might have been the vanguard for an invasion. A Dutch defense To Study State Withholding Tar TOPEKA (AP)-A withholding plan for collecting the Kansas in come tax was scheduled for dis cussion at a meeting of the House Assessment and Taxation Commit tee this afternoon. But Rep. Lawrence Slocombe, R-Marion, said he has no plan for the committee to draft a bill during the budget session. "We're looking ahead to the next regular session," said Slocombe.

"Some people say a withholding plan will add $1 to $2 million a year in revenue from people who are not paying their tax. "We want to take a look at this and see if it is true. We want everyone who should be paying the tax to pay it. Slocombe said, however, that he does not want to add additional bookkeeping chores to Kansas businessmen if it can be helped. Depending upon the effective date of a withholding plan it could add several millions of dollars of revenue to the state in its first year of operation.

This is because a given fiscal year the state could be collecting the income tax for the current year and also for the preceding year. the meeting is not for the formal signature of any agreement. "Everything seems to be going all right," the sources said. "Meetings of experts are taking place today to examine the last problems still pending. These meetings will continue tomorrow morning if need be." The sources indicated that the French representatives had expressed some reservations about tariff cuts on imports of some American chemicals, but that it was hoped these objections could be met to the satisfaction of the French government.

The pact, it was understood, in. volves up to 20 per cent reductions on hundreds of tariffs more by the six-nation market than by the United States. It also was reported that an arrangement had been made for protecting U.S. farm products in trade with the market. The agriculture problem had been the mam obstacle in the 15 months of negotiations.

That an- parentiy was cleared Sunday wiicn the Common Market ham mered together a joint agriculture program. When the deal noes throunh and informants indicated it may be near (he signing stage the U.S. tariff reductions would be made under the authority already held by President Kennedy. Scores Die In Algerian Riots ALGIERS (AP) In this city death, Albatross reonlnrlv flashes an alert for Chicago. Sirens scream and police cars speed through the streets.

French or Moslem terrorists have found new victims. Albatross is the Alciers TmWea radio network. Chicago means a shooting by Moslem or European Every day at 6 in a half-abandoned government building guarded by five armored cars, seven half-tracks and a comnaiiT of gendarmes, the day's toll of dead is read. young civil servant trainee puts together what is known as tne hunting The countrywide weekend toll just before the il p.m. curfew Sunday night was 48 dead, including 35 Moslems and 13 Europeans, and 116 wounded, including 68 Moslems and 48 Europeans.

At night, darkness and silence shroud the ancient Moslem Cas-bah that no European dares enter. On an adjacent street, near a half-filled garbage can, an old Moslem beggar lies motionless. A steel helmeled French soldier walks slowly by, renortinc over his wakie-talkle that all is quiet. Nearby, in an officer's club, the transfer back to France of a commander is celebrated. Champagne toasts are raised.

In a brightly lit apartment near the university, carpets are rolled up while a record player blares late American tunes. Someone shows the twist and 10 Euronean couples try to imitate the movement. The girls in bare-shouldered dresses smell of fine perfume. The jovial hosts pour champagne and whisky. We are winning," says one of Frenchmen, a supporter of the right-wing Secret Army Organization.

"The government has to deal with us. The rebels are finished." Others just want to dance, to drink and to laugh, as if time is running out. Traffic Fatalities TOPEKA (AP)-Kansas traffic death log: 48 hours to 9 a.m. Monday 7. For January 17.

For 1962-17. Comparable 1961 period 23. The Weather GOLDEN BELT AREA Partly cloudy tonight winds becoming northwesterly; lows in the teens; Tuesday partly cloudy with occasional snow flurries and colder; highs in the 20s; northerly winds 15-25 mph. Local Weather Data Sunday's High 22 Low 22 A Year Ago Today High 48 Low 24 Precipitation for 36 hr. period ending 7 a.m.

Monday .05. Humidity 61 percent at noon. Barometer reading at 11 a.m. 30.03 Steady. Five Day Forecast KANSAS Temperatures Tuesday through Saturday will aver-age 5 to 10 degrees below normal; turning colder early in period, warming toward weekend; normal maximum 37-42, normal minimum 12-20a; precipitation will average .10 of an inch or less except tor about .20 of an inch in the south-' cast, falling as intermittent snow.

Personality clashes and inter committee bickering, a mounting problem the Great Bend city council, flared today in a special session. At one point the council's Safety Committee members asked to be relieved of their assignment, and the whole committee framework came in for cirticism. The dispute came.fter the coun- New Snowstorm Plasters Midwest By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A new snowstorm plastered to day broad areas of the Midwest still digging out from last week's storm. A blast of arctic cold add- the woes of residents in the area. Thousands of automobiles were immobilized on heavily traveled and side streets in Chicago where inches of new snow piled on top of 4 inches left from the earlier storm.

The storm, which swept north eastward from eastern Kansas and Oklahoma, dumped from 1 to inches of snow a belt extend ing from northern Missouri north eastward across Illinois and into southeast Wisconsin, western Michigan and Illinois. The influx of colder air turned rain into snow in southern Indi ana. State highways were snow- packed and icy throughout Illinois and motorists were alerted for occasional one-way traffic caused by drifting. In Chicago, the heavy wet snow tilted down some fire escapes on factories and office buildings and activated burglar alarms. Nearly 500 workers toiled throughout the night to keep main streets open to traffic in Chicago.

Canadian air pushed southward and eastward across the Midwest. Le Mars, Iowa recorded 14 below. Snow depths in the region ranged from 8 to 10 inches with the covering at Muskegon, measuring 15 inches. Daily Iribua I cil had unanimously, and without friction, selected a new police chief (see story at left). Councilman John Tatlock, chairman of the Safety Committee, in charge of police department activity recommended that the pay of Police Capt.

LaVerne Townsend be increased, Several council members suggested that -making' any change in pay of police officers should be held up until the new chief, Jack Dodson, has had a chance to get acquainted with his department. Councilman Parrish proposed as an alternative that Townsend be compensated for his three months as acting chief of police, at the rate of an extra $100 a month. Townsend's regular salary is $400 a month, while the job he has been filling pays S550. (He will continue to fill this post until Feb. 1).

Ultimately the motion was approved. But this proposal appeared to be the proverbial "straw that broke the camel's back" with Tatlock and Councilman Bill Yarbrough, the other member of the Safety Committee. Tatlock asked Mayor Elden Harwood to accept the committee's resignation. The beef was that the council has regularly rejected the committee's mendations (such as that of raising Townsend's pay). Councilman Yarbrough added that members of the council have complamed about how the police department has been managed, have hinted that the department's finances are not being handled ef-1 ficiently, and have generally been carping about department personnel.

He said he and Tatlock have accepted the recommendations of other council committees in their areas of responsibility, and doesn't see why the Safety Com mittee should be singled out. He said he and Tatlock have spent their Saturdays working with the department on matters of administration, and yet have been accused of "running the Yarbrough and Tatlock both said they "haven't the time to run the department if we wanted to." Councilman J. J. Piper had com-(Continued On Page 2) Sen. John Sherman Cooper, of Kentucky, swung behind it.

"We've committed outselves to itr We're in it and I'll vote for it," he said of the U.N. financing plan. But, Cooper added on a television interview CBS "Washington Conversation" the United States should inform all nations it will not continue such aid unless they pay up their U.N. assessments. Elsewhere, Sen.

Albert Gore, D-Tenn a member of the Senate committee, championed U.S. pur-: chase oi the bonds to help "clinch (Soviet Premier) Khrushchev's; defeat in the Conpo." "The one biggest defeat Khrush chev has suffered in the 10 years has been in the "5p Gore said. "Success in the Congo, I sun Phata nMuna nsnunun anuu! tOKlE 0r4 ll THEY CAN DO lS tHE U5 OUT Hi In Briefing for Senate Committee Rusk to Pinpoint World WASHINGTON (AP) Secre tary of State Dean Rusk goes to Capitol Hill today to brief mem bers of the Senate Foreign Rela tions Committee on world trouble spots. One possible subject for discussion is proposed U.S. purchase of U.N.

bond. Rusk appears before a closed session of the committee as Congress members continue to voice their opinions of President Ken nedy's proposal for authority to purchase half of a $200-million N. bond issue. The 25-year, 2-per cent bonds would help pay the cost of U.N. operations in the Congo and the Middle East.

A Democrat, Sen. Harry F. Dyrd, of Virginia, has been vocal and persistent in his opposition to the idea. Sunday a Republican, CHURCH YOUTHS IN DISCUSSION-An ecumenical exchange of ideas and information between the young people of Great Bend's churches if underway. Started by the youth group of the First Methodist Church, the program is designed to allow young people the opportunity to exchange information about their church's customs and philosophies.

In the second meeting Sunday night, 50 youths from the First Methodist and St. John's Churches met at the former's building. Above are eight of that group involved in discussion. They are, from left, front row: Beverly Larsen, Joanna Schraeder, Chloellen Bartoo and Vincent Rhoads; back row: Paul Milford, Tim Vaughan, Marvine and David Howell. Sponsors of the Methodist group are Mr.

and Mrs. Glenn Larsen. Mr. and $rs. Bill Ireland are sponsors of the Episcopalian Young Churchmen, 1.