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i I THERE rS NOTHING SO POWERFUL AS TRUTH" N04 Daniel BURLINGTON DAILY Webstar NEWS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1961 PRICE 7 CENTS Federal Tax Cut FOR SEMI-INDEPENDENCE Algeria Votes Oh De Gaulle Today Plan Front (FLN) which to the polls and to provide waging a six-year war i porta tion for them where French for independ- sary. warnings through the that the first Moslem votes in the referendum his throat cut. rebels called on all Mos- The voting will be held in the Algerian countryside today and Saturday. On Sunday ballots will be cast in the big cities of Algeria, such as Algiers and Oran, boycott the referendum and throughout mainland France, and wait for final If Da Gaulle gets a yes vote PARIS (UPI) Moslem villag- Liberation protected by heavily aimed French soldiers against death threats from nationalist rebels, smarted voting today on President Ciiarles de Gaulles p'ans to loosen Algerias ties to France. Hundreds of thousands of French soldiers were on the aletr for possible attempts by either Moslem rebels or rightwing European settlers to disrupt the na-tonwide referendum with violence.

Fifteen French warships with thousands of sailors and marines were standing by at the big naval bn sei of Mers-el-Kebir. been the ence, sent underground who will have The lems to as a fraud liberation. On the Moslems land have speeches French that I to vote The he will have popular support for his plans to grant more home rule to the Algerians immediately and prepare for an ultimate referendum in which Algerians will be allowed to decide their own future continued integration with France, a looser alliance or DEATH IN THE Firemen and police probe through the still burning ruins of the Beauregard home in East Fairfield Thursday afternoon in hopes of recovering the body of six-year-old Julien Beauregard who per- AFTERNOON ished when he re-entered the blazing farm house with his father. Rescuers recovered the body at midnight after a six-hour search through the wreckage. (Staff photo Bill Smith) Militia Is Moving In On Church Cuban Crisis Grows Healed HAVANA (UPI) Premier Fidel Castros militia was reported today to have moved in on half a dozen Roman Catholic institutions starting what may prove to be major offensive against the church.

Castroite mihtiawomen closed the printing plant of the Catholic bi-weekly Quincena, the last publication in Cbba that had dared criticized the government, and posted guards at the Salesian Convent that housed it. The nuns were not molested. The militia also occupied the downtown headquarters of the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic laymens lodge, and the Catholic Workers Association. Seize Seminaries Reports fro mthe provinces said militia detachments had seized seminaries at Calvario and San tiago de las Vegas. Reports that at least five priests had been arrested oould not be confirmed immediately.

Cstro alerted the militia over the weekend, charging that a U.S. attack on Cuba was imminent. Thursday, Castro forces emplaced howitzers and anti-tank and antiaircraft guns along Havana's Ma-lecon Waterfront drive. Second Invasion Scars It was the second time in barely two months that Castro had started talk of an American invasion" of Cuba. (In Washington, Rep.

Victor An-fuso, charged Thursday night that the recent intensification of Castro's hate-America campaign, which led Tuesday to a break in U.S.-Cuban relations, was designed to cover up the installation of Russian missiles on secret launching pads In Cuba. f.S.'c CUBA, page 2) Senate Group Meets Today MONTPELIER (UPI; The Senate Committee on Comittees as meeting this morning to discuss appointments to standing committees, Meeting at the State House were Lieutenant Governor Ralph A. Foote, president Pro Tern Asa S. Bloomer, of Rutland, and Senator Robert B. Eldredge of Montpelier.

Results will be announced Tucs-dav. The leadership of the National to encourage the Moslems to go Youngest Governor Begins llis Term in State House independence. Kennedy Is Advised By Experts NEW YORK (UPI) Presidentelect John F. Kennedy was armed today by his chief economic advisers and organized labors leadership with strong support for a temporary income tax cut this spring i feconomic danger signs increase seriously. A special task force headed by economics professor Paul A.

Sara-uelson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recommended that Congress give Kennedy the right to cut federal income tax rates by 3 or 4 percentage points if the current recession does not show signs in March or April of righting itself by late summer. Called Very Sensible Sen. Paul Douglas, chairman of the House-Smate Economic Committee and head of a recent Kennedy task force on aid to chronically depressed areas, said a 3 or 4 per cent reduction in the normal income tax withholding rate would mean a saving of aboit $10 a month on an average wage of $35 a week. Douglas oalled the recommendation very sensibe" as a quick, dramatic measure if current economic conditions worsen appreciably. Coincidentally the AFL-CIO Ex- ecutive Council recommended giv- ing Kennedv discretionary power (See KENNEDY, page 2) Deadly Fire Slated to Be Investigated Tlie Quebec Provincial Fire Commission will investigate a fire that killed a mother and children in Noyan, on th- Q.ieliec-Vermont bolder Dec.

29. A spokesman sard the investigation would cover all aspects of the fire, one of the worst rural disasters in Quebecs history. A Montreal insurance broker, John P. Boyle, intimated earlier the Town of Noyan had failed to have tire house where tlie victims lived inspected and that no one in the town would rent a house to the large family because it was poor and numerous. A coroners inquest ruled the deaths accidental.

Castro Charges Thrown Out By United Nations Session If the Security Council is to remain an effective organ for peace it should not allow the type of allegation we have heard here. He noted that both Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa and Soviet Ambassador Valerian A. Zorin, who touched off the debate Wednesday ith vituperative speeches against the United States toned down their remarks MONTPELIER (UPI) -Gov-eroar F. Ray Keyser Thursday tok the oath of office administered by his father as the youngest governor in Vermonts history The 33-year-old Governor was sworn in by Superior Judge F. Ray Keyser Sr.

at a joint session. In his inaugural speech, the gj emor askbd acceptance of his which he said represented "financial plan of progress for the next two years. Vermonters Are Arrested By New Jersey Troopers UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI) Premier Fidel Castros charge planned an imminent invasion of Cuba waa buried in United Nat.ons files today after his regime failedto produce any supporting evidence. The 11-member Security Council declined Thursday night even to vote on a mild resolution expressing hope that the United States and Cuba would settle their differences in a friendly manner.

Chile and Ecuador, which sicn-sored the measure, did not press for a vote on it. Tlie council needed US. Ambassador James Wadsworth who said the midnight brew invasion charge should not be dignified by any action. James W. Barco, deputy chief of the delegation who sat in for Wadsworth Thursday night, told the council its wisest course of action would have been to declare that Cubas charge was not substantiated.

This is tlie viewpoint of the United States and I feel the Security Council would do well to ponder this question for the future, Barco said. Senator Prouly Suggests Longer Jobless Pay Time other hand the 9 million in this been told through and pamphlets from the De Gaulle wants them yes on the referendum. French army was ordered The governor warned that appropriations in excess of his proposed budget couid only mean new taxes. He urged Vermont to be bold and advent) esome and to meet the challenges of both the present and the future. In a morning joint session, Congressman-elect Robert T.

Stafford reviewed the record of his administration and commended the incoming administration for its fiscal policy. Stafford, speak'ng as outgoing governor, said he had He said his measure wouldn't end a recession but would help "alleviate the miseriv of the unemployed and get money into their hands to buy necessities and helpthe lagging economy. Prouty introduced a similar bill when he was in the House three years ago but it was unsuccessful. pleaded guilty to driving without a license. He told the court that he last had an operators license in 1934 when he drove a Model St.

Hilaire was fined $25 and costs. Leo Lavalley, 55, of 475 Manhattan Dr. received a 1-dav jail term when he pleaded guilty to being intoxicated on Jan. 5. Deputy Sheriff Raymond Williams said Laval'ey turned himself in and asked permission to be confined for the night.

200,000 trees to 2,000,000 trees. The Experiment Station has published a pamphlet on the use of plastic tubing in gathering ma-le svrup, saying that a properly I installed pipeline can produce more sap of a higher quality over la longer period than buckets. unsett'ed Two Vermont men, one from Burlington, wanted by tlie city police department, have been apprehended by tlie New Jer sey State Police. The citys law enforcement agency was notified today of the arrests of Donald C. Goodrich, 37.

of 28 Clarke and James W. Williams, 22, of North Bennington. The arrests were made by the New Jersey State police appar WASHINGTON (UPI) -Senator WirLbton L. PRoutv of Vermont has urged the government to provide jobless workers with longer periods of unemployment compensation during recessions. Prouty introduced a measure railing for a permanent standby lederal program of extended unemployment insurance during high levels of unemployment.

entered office with a growing deficit but that he had left it with Vermonts operations balanced. He said Vermont now enjoys probably the best credit of any state in the union. He commended Governor Keyser for his announced fiscal policy of balanced budgets and taxes. Lt. Gov.

Ralph Foote urged the Senate for a shorter and less costly Legislature session than in 1959. After he took the oath as Senate President, Foote said the citizens only ask that the senators vote fairly and wisely, submerge personal and political differences and accomplish appointed tasks with dispatch. An Essex Junction attorney has been named executive clerk to Governor Keyser. The appointment of Philip Kolvoord was announced Thursday afternoon. CLOUDY Cioudy and warmer this afternoon, with occasional light snow.

Not so cold tonight. Fair and warmer Saturday. High today, 30; low tonight, mid 20s; high tomorrow, upper 30s; yesterdays high 16; overnight low, zero. Kent Carter, 21, of 1197 Willis-ton South Burlington was fined $15 when he did not contest a charge that he violated the law of the road on Dec. 23 at the intersection of North St.

and North Union St. Police said an accident followed the violation with extensive property damage to a second auto. Edward Shepardson, an 18-year-old senior at Bel'ows Free Academy did not contest a charge of careless and negligent driving. He was fined $20 and court costs. Sliepardson was allegedly involved in an auto accident on Jan.

2 at the intersection of Bank and St. Paul St. Two people were injured in the mishap, police said. Edward Morin, 18, of 32 North Champlain St. was fined $20 and court costs of $5.70 when he did not contest a charge of careless and negligent driving, accident resulting The accident, a rear-end collision on North Ave.

on Dec. 11 occurred, police said, when the reqrondent attempted to clear fog COURT, page 2) 1 I 1 Castros invasion charge was based mainly on a letter Roa said was sent by the State Department to all Latin American countries that the United States would invade Cuba if work went forward on "17 rocket launching sites there for the Soviet Union. Tlie United States said no such letter ever was sent. Chilean Am-bssador Daniel Schweitzer said (See U.N., page 2) ently Thursday evening as the pair were driving an alleged stolen auto on the New Jersey Turnpike. The pair is wanted by the Maryland State Police for auto theft Police Captain Arthur Carron of the Burlington Police Department said Goodrich is wanted here to answer to a warrant charging forgery.

Williams is wanted in Vermont a charge of fraud. on school was destroyed by fire. Damage was estimated at in the blaze that raged out of control Wednesday before volunteer firemen could start pumping water. Some 46 students have been sent to their homes. Dr.

Max Barrows of the State Education Department says the Lorraine had also run back into the burning building to help her parents and brother save the other two children but she escaped unharmed. Cause of the fire was undetermined. The father said he and his wife were working in the bam when Julien and Lorraine came running to tell them the house was on fire. Tlie family had come to East Fairfield from on, Que. to operate a dairy farm.

I Veteran Driver Arraigned On Violation of Road Law Yt. Sanatorium May Serve As Temporary School Now MONTPELIER (UPI) GtA-emor F. Ray Keyser says a proposal to offer facilities of the Bar-re Sanatorium for use by the Craftsbury School for Boys is worthy of further exploration. Rep. Dorothy Shea, Republican of Montpelier, suggested the move after the main building of the An 82-year-old Burlington resident, who learned to drive in a 1918 Mbdel Ford and who says he has been driving tlie last 42 years, today did not contest a charge that he violated a law of the road.

Robert Humphreys, of 74 Scarff Ave. appeared in Chittenden Municipal Court. He waa allegedly Involved in an accident at the intersection of Maple and St. Paul Street in Burlington on Jan. 4.

In other court action today, Antoine St. Hilaire, 58, of 40 North A motto for th months "Help stamp out mental health." A group in Los Angeles styles Itself the "Let's Have Better Mottoes Association" and selects a motto each month. Sentiment in the group made the phrase on mental health a strong contender this month. However, this month's winner runs: 'Too late to agree with me. I've already changed 1 my mind." Judge Peurifoy of Dallas has been on the bench for 12 years and never had a gavel of his own, but his wife I has come to the rescue.

As the district judge tells it; '1 nev-' er really needed one before, but when Mrs. Peurifoy found I I didn't have one, she got busy." Anyone in his courtroom today will hardly blame the judge if he bangs his gavel I with gusto and a grin. She got him two. Just to make sure he won't be without one, Six-Year-Old Child Dies Trying lo Save 2 Olliers facilities at the sanatorium would provide excellent temporary quarters for the school. Headmaster of the school, Dr.

Charles L. Early and Paul Guare, chairman of the Governor's Committee Studying Possible Uses for tlie Sanatorium, met Thursday (See PROPOSAL, page 2) Student Injured In Odd Accident A 65-year-old Shelburne man drove into a South Burlington service station to get gas Thursday, missed a turn, crashed through the garage door, bit car parked inside and pinned a University of Vermont student against the wall. John K. Galanls, who was uninjured, said he did not know why he missed the him in front of the gasoline pump. The student, Robert J.

Denncf of the Bronx, New York, was token to Mary Fletcher Hospital with Injuries to both Vgs, Less Maple Trees Tapped In 1959 Than During 49 EAST FAIRFIELD (UPI) -A six year old East Fairfield boy died Thursday when he ran 'back into his burning home to help save his brother and baby sister. The parents, Gisele and George Beauregard, said their son, Ju-lieu failed to follow them from tlie house after they saved 10-nionth-old Lillian and three-year old Yves. The fourth child, four-year-old Thee ore sad days for "Bill', the brown donkey in West Hempstead, N.Y. Owner Charles Walls says Billy, who had been used os a Democratic party symbol in local functions, hasn't been the same since folks stopped paying attention to him after the election. The trading stamp fad has been picked up by the Methodist Church in Conyers, Georgia.

Members of the congregation receive green or yellow stamps for each attendance. Those with the most stamps by Easter will be given a picnic uting at Warm Springs, Georgia. The Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station reports that about one-million less maple trees were tapped in Vermont in 1959 than in 1949. Manpower shortages have been Mamed for the decline from 4.

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