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Brooks Rites Likely to Be Monday Cinmln burning Jpuritgl CITY EDITION and Nebraska State Journal CITY EDITION 93RD LINCOLN 1, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1960 3 SEVEN CENTS ss vs'-jl- a Brooks on RIAL mourns officially the death of its governor by flying flags at half staff, as is shown on the Statehouse, and by the Nebraska National Guard firing a 19-gun salute, at right. Cease Fire Ordered in Congo Leopoldville, the Congo i.4V- The United Nations announced the Congolese army has issued cease fire orders to its troops throughout the Congo. This order, if obeyed, would put an end to the bloody warfare in Kasai Province and end Patrice I.umumba’s planned invasion of rebellious Katanga Province. Premier Lumumba's press officer said the report is not U'ue, The United Nations appeared to vu)n a major victory over Lumumba but the statement cast doubt on the fire. Lumumba meanwhile was issuing one bitter blast after another at the United Nations and Secretary Grneral Dag A spokesman said a truce supervision operation will be installed Sunday on the borders between Katanga Province and the provinces of Kasai and Kivu.

It is not believed any large-scale fighting has started along these borders yet. The spokcMiian said steps are taken to insure that the C' fix'-c is observed on all It was assumed that similar orders were being issued in Katanga l.umumba, whose position as premier is in dispute, told newsmen there was danger of a world war starting in the Congo. He said he wanted to avoid this turn of events, although he has accepted Kus- sian planes and trucks to prosecute his war against political rivals in the Congo, He accused of to provoke an internal war in the Congo to impose a IS a solemn and pathetic appeal to all nations to intervene to prevent the Two Die In Traffic Aecideiitis Li Child Killed by Tnrk Congo from becoming a battlefield of World War Lumumba said. President Kasavubu stood firm in his determination to end rule and rid the territory of Communist influences. Secretary General Dag defended the of Congo airports and Leopoldville radio by forces in a midnight session of the Security Council.

Under fire from the Com- mum.st bloc, he put the issue squarely up to the 11-nation council for consideration and a 4-hour session that carried on until after midnight, the council adjourned until late Saturday to debate the actions of the U.N. peace force trying to keep order in the turbulent African nation. The Soviet Union declared meanwhile nothing can stop it giving aid to the Congo government if it wants to. Rotunda May Be Setting Ules Honrs After Senate Rare Derision The funeral of Gov. Ralph Brooks is expected to be held Monday although arrangements were still pending Saturday afternoon.

Governor Brooks died peacefully at m. Friday while talking with his wife, Darleene, at Lincoln General Hospital. The governor had been hospitalized since Aug. 2.3 with a heart ailment. He was 62 The physician said heart failed a matter of While funeral arrangements were not complete, it is possible that services for Nebraska's first Democratic gover- since 1940 may be held in the rotunda of the State Capitol.

Wadlows mortuary is in charge. Gov. Dwight Burney said that one of his first acts as governor will be to clo.se the Capitol offices the day of the Brooks funeral. Brooks is the first Nebraska state governor to die in office, hut there is a precedent for holding memorial services in the Statehouse. This had been done in other states upon the death of the (hief executive.

In Nebras- Ka, former Gov. Sam McKelvie was so honored in 1956. The death came about 4 hours after a dramatic announcement from his hospital bed that am sticking in the as a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate. Messages of condolence immediately began pouring in from all over the nation.

In- )V. Biiriiyv; Traffic Fatalities Nebraska Co. Lincoln 1966 19.59 181 232 16 5 4 2 I life OOlrial I Hrather Rurrau Nebraska: (lenerally fair through Sunday. Not quite cool Saturday night. Warpier west and south Sunday.

Low in upper 40s to lower 50's. High Sunday in 80s. Lincoln; Fair and warmer through Sunday. Low 55 High Sunday 83. Weather FIsewhere, Page 11 I lNf OI TI.MPFR\TI’RF>i OOifial Wfathfr Bureau Keadinct pm.

pm 4 am a.m. am. 7:30 a m. 4:30 a m. a m.

m. 71 7 38 38 8 8 38 10 10:30 a.m.’ 11 30 m. 11:30 ITI, 12 a m. 15 3 1:38 a m. 55 1530 2 30 a.m.

53 m. a 51 3:30 pm. Hiata temperature a jrear aao law 6:47 Sunriae 6:01 a Barometer reading at 12:30 30.20. Relative humiditv at 12:38 p.m., Wk. Tiitv month to date.

06 an inrh; normal to date. .80 of an tneh Grontng veaann 1 to Ort to date. 2170; normal to date. 16.57 Total year to date. 26 71 normal to date.

int I'all noon On Sunday! To report delivery or service errors on your Sunday Journal and Star. Call Circulation Department. Phone HE 2-3331 before noon on Two Nebraskans have been killed in separate traffic mishaps. Dead are: Johnny Allen Foust, 2, of Ht. 5, Uneoln.

Valeska Newbauer, 87, of Sidney. The Foust child, son of Mr. and Dcwaync Foust, was struck by a truck and killed on a county road 3 miles north of Lincoln, He had been playing in front of his farm home. The driver of the truck, Dale Lutz, '20. of .5.340 told Safety Patrolman Cletus Karthouser he was driving west at about 40 m.p.h., when the youngster bounded into his path.

ivfT -I vs rv struction company which is currently doing work on the Inter.state Highway in the vicinity, said he attempted to brake his semi-trailer truck but was unable to do so and the truck jackknifed into a ditch. Patrolman Karthouser said the truck was registered to the Abel Investment Co. of Lincoln. Dep. Co.

Vtty. William Blue said no will he conducted. Surviving in addition to the parents are sisters. C. nthia, and Vicki Lynn.

4 months; grandmothers, Mr.s Esther Foust of Nampa, and Mrs. Dorothy Gartner of Caldwell, Ida. and grandfather, George Watson, also of Caldwell. Newbauer died after suffering injuries when struck by a ear at a downtown Sidney intersection. Authorities identified the driver of the car as Danny Hentz.

17. of Gurley. by DoiTt You For a special Sunday dinner try a white Cocoanut cake flesh at Wendelin Baking, South, Donna Rips Florida; Tampa Area in Path Heuvv Miami i'ompiled From News Wires Donna smashed wind blasts as high as 166 h. against the Florida Keys and Everglades and began pushing up the West Coast resort area. In her destructive path were 160 stubborn residents of two Gulf islands who refused to head for the safety of the mainland.

most of them becau.se rescue helicopters would not yooiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiHiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiis I Schedule I Of Echo I I Here are the times Echo 1 satellite will be visible over lake their pets along. Officials said persons remained past the deadline of Captiva Island and 129 to 1.33 on Island, both off Ft. At least two dead were reported in the violent wake. Miami was hit by winds of 80 m.p.h,, just over hurricane force. -Although the huge metropolitan area missed the worst of the severe storm, damage to properly appeared substantial.

refused to let anyone on the and many telephone lines were out. ilies in Path A warning of the killer storm, which claimed more than 100 lives last week end in the and Puerto Hico, enabled Florida resident to ride it out in relative safety. The body of an unidentified white man was found at Tavernier in the Keys, and a youth was killed in a car wreck on the mainland, hut reports of heavy i casualties were not subtantiat- ed. In the big path lay Ft. with 22,000 population, Sarasota with 33.000, Bradenton with 19,000, then Tampa with some 270.0IMI people and St.

Petersburg ith The Tampa Weather Bureau I urged quick evacuation of low coastal sections of the entire area. It said Donna would pass close or just to the east of Tampa Bay early Sunday. High storm tides, ranging from 5 to 11 feet, were forecast for the coast in path Lighthouse, in the Florida Keys, reported wind up to 166 h. hen Donna burst through. 'I 69c i Small, Kushners, 1733 0, Lincoln; Ml 6 19 45 10 )4 Saturday S4 honmn.

16 tivi horuon. I.eague Chicago (XlO (K8) im-l 9 3 010 OOx 4 8 0 Anderson, (4), Drabowsky 'Si. Schaffernoth and Thacker. Taylor (5i; Friend and Burge Home run Bittsburgh. Stuart (19).

San Francisco innati, jKistponed rain. Sen. Otto Demo Ctindidate For I Covvrnor a Saturday meeting of the 86-member Democratic stale Central Committee it appeared certain that Slate Sen. Norman Otto of Kearney would be picked for the candidate for lieutenant governor. The vacancy came about when Edward Dosi'k of Lincoln, who defeated Otto in the primary election, withdrew from the race earlier this week.

meeting of the committee began at 2 pm. in the Cicorgian Hoorn of the Corn- husker Hotel. it was not e.xpected that the would name a candidate to rejilace Gov. Brook.s in the race, but that probably they would set a date for a later meeting. i ovh' end Due Stale Fair and continued relatively cool.

the welcome word the Weather Bureau has for the week end. Be Sure BetuI NOT W.ANTED tells Nikita to stay in U. SKY SHIELD Air tense exercise affects flights here Department bluntly while at 2 WIIITHKR III BABY hit the trail for far-away places PHEP FOOTBALL OPENS as high school teams open season Cleat.s dig turf I960 gridiron Ann Landers 5 City News 3.H Comics 16 Cro.s.swords 16 Deaths 11 Editorial 4 Farm Markets Sports State vStalistics 6 12 9, 10 7,8 ..12 Theaters TV-Hadio Want Ads World Women 6 11 12-15 ...2 ...5 'I've Iteen Dreadinii Tins' Pagte 1 I eluded were messages from two national Democratic figures Former President Harry Thurman and Sen. John Kennedy, Democratic presidential nominee. The death of Gov.

Brooks left two vacancies one as governor and one in the senatorial race, where Brooks was the Democratic candidate opposing Fiepublican incumbent Carl Curtis. The governorship was filled iminediateiy by the succession of (iov. Dwight W. Burney of Hartington, a Republican. Action Is pending on a successor to Gov.

Brooks as a senatorial candidate. The Democratic State Central Committee will name a substitute candidate. Meanwhile, mourned its governor with lowered flags and, in Lincoln, a 19-gun salute by the National Guard which Brook-' had commanded in his posi lion as governor Mrs. Brooks went into seclusion in the mansion, which she and Brooks had occupied since his upset election victory over Republican iclor Aiwicrson in 1958. death came after 17 of ho.spitaliza- tion It was the 4th time 'he nad been hospitalized his 20 months in office Gov.

ailment was described bv bis physician as heart a description a weakened heart an an aeeumulation of fluid in the body. were notified of Gov. death in a one- sentence statement issued by Robert Conrad. Conrad, who served as ad ministrative as.sistani toi Brook.s during bus stormy! term as govcrnoi, handed cewsri.cn this terse statement Ralph G. Brooks, after apparently rallying this morning, expired suddenlv at 3:10 p.m.” Conrad said Mrs.

Brook.s I wa.s with the governor, talk-i mg, when he gasped and died Gov. Brooks made history with his death as he did while lunning the state government He as the first governor tii die during ora 93 years of state! hh Tlie first territorial iior of Nebraska died in ol- liee Det. 18, 1954. He was I raneis fiurl. 'I'wo other governors failed I Coivlinued on Page 11 Dwight W.

Burney 30th governor. Conrad Offers Resignation BurneY Declines Brooks Aide's Action; 'Don't Want to llnrry' By Frank Rail Robert Conrad, administrative assistant to the late Democratic Gov. Ralph Brooks, offered his resignation to Republican Gov, Dw'ighl Burney. But Burney declined to accept it at this time. Conrad offered his resignation Friday.

Conrad, top aide, ('onrad A. C. Eich- the post un- also told tite new Republican governor that the office staff will give Burney its complete co-operation and that he would receive Big Burney said he did not ask for resignation, and neither did he accept it. want to hurry Burney said. a governor wants his own people working with Conrad said he told Burney; resignation is offered to you and give you every a.s- Mentioned is berg, who held der former Republican Gov.

Eichberg was out of the city and not available for comment and it was not immediately known whether he would consider such a position if it were offered Burney, 68. a farmer, said he has idea of changes in state government but It IS to get into them. Burney automatically assumed I lie governorship upon Friday. Iturney said he does not plan to things upside One of (tie first things he will do. the veteran legislator said, IS liial he be given the governor's oath of office in tiie Capitol S.

Beek has said this is not necessary hut it is typical of attention to detail and iiidiea- tive of his long legislative career where he gave much attention to wording and meaning of state law. Burney, his second two-year term as lieutenant governor, was slated to arrive in Lincoln late Saturday by automobile from his home Burney was a state senator for 12 years and as lieutenant governor was the ehief pres- siding officer of the Legi.sla- lure lor 4 more. He is seeking re-eleetion as lieutenant governor. Tlie govtu nor eventually into tiie mansion but certainly wait unt Brooks farm)5 is the meantime he will gov- i lh(' Midway 0 8 Hiwher Rut Crandstnnd lake at Fair Off An unusual spending pattern developed at the 1960 Nebraska State Fair. Final tinancial reports from the midway show the William Collins organization had an all-time Nebraska fair gross, over $70.000.

3'hat tops the previous high of $69,000 set in liM7 by another carnival. Meanwhile, overall grandstand attendance appears to have taken a decided dip. Attractions this year included revues headed by Pat Boone and Carmel Quinn, auto races and an auto tlirill show, plus a vaudeville ernoon only) attraction show Schultz rcportcil. But the Quinn show lagged and the auto races did not match some of their past pcak.s. Schultz was pleased with the 3.32,500 per.sons estimated to have come to the 91st annual fair.

If, as expected, final attendance audits back 4 nf-tll 464 all-time gate record The mark was regc-tered without a single day when 100.000 or more toured the grounds. When the previous high-water standard was set, in 1958, there were 118,000 persons present on a Sunday. year showed up during the 7 days of the event. Nasser Will lie at C.N. Cairo.

Egypt The United Arab Republic has coiifiriiied rcjiorts that President Abdel Nasser will attend the UN. General Assembly session Sept. 20 in New York. I ho Hoad Holopitioii I a (I Yugoslav- J.I il Ph President Tito A'ugoslavia will lead i cuuntry's delegation to the I riitiHl Nations General seinbly this month, the Yu- news agency I'anjug announced will temporarily stay at the Lin-i ojifim dell Hotel. Ruppoitj, al Aiai.