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The Lexington Herald from Lexington, Kentucky • 2

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2 The Lexington Herald toy May 18 1151 Rex Smith 58 Veteran Newsman Succumbs Nuclear Plane Hearings Are Planned By Price fester better rdsllons with defense officials and to aootba the ruffled feelings The congressman said he would like to reschedule the hearings ns man ss possible but that there might be considerable delay It depends he said ea haw quickly Quartet is replaced and whether his lucceeeor or rome ether official is tfesjganfed to rido herd on tha Morale plana Va He Joined the Detroit Times to ltlf moved to the San Frans deco Examiner to IKK and the Lea Angeles Tbnea to 1M7 He lie worked as a movia writer during this period Smith went to Europe la 1921 a eonwepondeet then Joined the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune He later spent five years eovcriag Europe far the Associated Prea before moving to Newsweek as foreign editor in 1936 Ha loop became managing editor of the magaitoe In 1911 he became the first editor of the Chicago Sue He Joined the Army Air Corps to 1143 ss major and was dis NEW YORK May 17 IB -Bex Smith veteran newspapermen and retired vice president far public relatione of American Airlines died today et Memorial Hospital Smith had been under treatment far cancer sine March A aewsmaa for years Smith served as editor of the Chicago Sun managing adltor of Now week Magnates aad a foreign correspondent with tha Associated Press la Europe He Joined American Airlines In 1948 after serving in the Army Air Corps He retired from the airline in June 1951 Ha lived in La Jolla Calif Smith was born in Cate City Truman's Wife To Undergo Surgery KANSAS CITY May 17 IB Authorities at Research Hospital here today said that Mrs Beaa Truman wife of former President Harry 1 Truman will undsrgo surflenr Monday Tam Faulkner public relations director at Research Hospital reported this afternoon that the Trurasa family phyddaa said Mrs Triimaa would bo operated on Faulkner said the physician would uot reveal the nature of the operation Mrs Truman has been in the hospital since last Thursday un-dergoiig a series of tests in a reported physical checkup WASHINGTON May 17 ifl-Rep Melvin Price ID-IU) said today ha piaaa to try again to hold public hearings this year on whether tha Pentagon la guilty of footdraggiag and indecision In developing a nudear powered The leoate-Hbuoe Atomic Energy Research and Development subcommittee which Price heed? had scheduled he fint such bearing last week It was called oft because at the death May of Deputy Secretary of Defense Donald A Queries who was to have been the principal witness Price had hoped the piddle airing would give the nudearpow-ered plane project a push be long has contended It needs Member! af hie subcommittee have argued for years that font-dragging at the Pentagon may permit the Soviet Union to score a propaganda victory by getting such a piaaa into the air first There is some confusion now about Just hew bard Pentagon officials Intend to push the project On Friday LL Gen Roacoe Wilson Air Fore research chief said Queries' last decision before his death was to ask President Eisenhower's peimiaden to atop up the development of a audear-powered plane Ha said such a rsconunendation bad bare sent to the President Saturday the Defense Deoart-ment officially denied Wilson'a statement It said tha queetiou was still under eonilderatiou that no decision had been mad and no recommendation had ben sent to-the Whit House What 'did seem dear was that the Air IVns had asked the Defense Department to push tha nuclear plane project which would reverse a stand taken by the department and the Atomic Energy Commission WUh Eisenhower's backing the reasoning has bm that the United States whn it turns out a nuclear-powered craft should have a plane with useful military capability and not Just flying test platform Last February Quarles Masted back at criticism by members of subcommittee He accused them of invalid aad intemperate atatementa which did serious Injury to the nudrer plane pwym Sine theo Pric had tried to charged with the rank of colooeL A private funeral service wiU he held Thursday ta CatnChy Smith is survived by his wifo aad two children Grand National late model stock car race on the one-mile Trentoo Speedway today CABINET Member af the YWCA ExreeUr Cabinet at the Ualrrrittr of Keatarfcy ext fall will tocinie theaa atafcata: Srated IMm left Betty Breaker Aaaabei Stab Tradjr Webb ait Henrietta Jshsua SUadlag Bern left Betty Petty Naacy Seatt Jaae Bnwa aad Pat Detwycfc Nat yreaeat far the picture were Jaae Wheeler Carailae Miller Cay Cut a at It Jaetma Pistone Wins TRENTON May 17 W9-Averaglng over mil per hour Tom Pistone of Chicago drove his US0 Ford Thuaderhird to vie-tary in tbs lSVmila NASCAR Fire Calls West Virginian Elected By National Guilds Of St Paul citr is Ill Owlhi Stmt RM ire Bne xnu wtiiiMut MABUe flN Of Uftrtod the Diocese of Covington at St Catholie Church The mass was followed by an officers' breakfast at the Intel with Hustou Keele Louisville na Uooal treasurer presiding Oram conducted the business session after the breakfast Dominic Tor lone Huntlngtoa Va wa elected preeident of the National Guild of St Paul at the buinea aettioa of the group' fourth biennial convent ion at the Phoenix Hotel yecterday He will aueeeed Bert Oram Lexington charter pmident for the organization Other new national oflicrn are: Milton Mathewaon Chicago vice pmident Lloyd Tharp Lexington treaaurer and Mr Ruth Prygodd Bay City Mich tary The group aim approved adopted it national constitution The convention attended by mn than 400 persons closed with a luncheon at which Dale Fmnds editor of Our Sunday Vielior wa principal apenker If a Catholic wishes to expiaia liia religion to thorn outaido the Catholic Church he mid he mutt we term that can be undentood In publicity safeties und in talks with perton of other faith uae word that mean aomething to the average perton ha adviced his listener The aecond day of the twoday meeting began with a pontifical mu conducted by the Most Rev William Malloy bishop of Ml pk SM Parry KrfK WUliuB BaeS aorupuit Bununc treafc C-MBtp 1:14 el- Kssm Boat OHIpm aentpant BnaU MMiii eaatrayte ty lira Bleat apn4 frau Barmin irufc Cantor's Daughter Killed By Cancer HOLLYWOOD May 17 08 -Marjorie Cantor eldest of comedian Eddie Cantor's five daughters died of cancer today at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital She wee 44 The 67-yeereld comedian who has been ailing himself lately was put under aodatloa And his doctor said ho was enable to peak to anybody Only Mlao slaters were reeent at the time of death as they had been trying to protect their elderly permits from the shock One of the listen Marilyn toM United Press International: had cancer for two years We knew about it but we kept It bom Daddy and Mather until seven week ago when she entered the botptial" Marjorie Cantor who woe unmarried is survived by her family Funeral arrangements pending The family said it would be private Cantor used the tact that ha had five daughters as the baiis for a ruaning gag and often lamented because he Child 4 Is Injured In Traffic Accident A 4-year-old Lexington child suffered minor injuries early yesterday when the ear In which she was riding struck two cars ah Broadway at Maxwell Street Ruth Aon Spark SM North Addison Avenue was treated at Godo Samaritan Hospital for a vom bind PoBoe said the child was riding la the back seat of a vehicle driven by Denis Crouch Jacks Creek Road The Crouch automobile Mt two cars police said that had stopped for a traffic signal Drivers of the other can were James Hot-man of 10 Burley Avenue and James Blaaey South Chicago CTouch was arrested oa two charges of damaging private property and was released after posting $500 bond Blackburn Charged After Woman Beaten John Marion Blackburn XT of 9 Patterson Street was arrested on an assault and battery charge last night and accused of beating a Lexington woman Alice Melvin 88 of SB Patter-soa Street told police that Black-bum beat and kicked her The nan was treated at St Joseph's Hospital for bruises ea her face and body She was admitted to the hospital for observation Typographical Union Re-Eelects Robinson Bingham Robinson was reelected preeident of the Blue Grass Typographical Union 1SS yesterday in the annual Goodloe Street House Is Damaged ByBlaze Pirn af undetermined origin badly damaged a twoatory brick houso at 633 Goodloe Street yesterday Firemen atated that the bias started la the kitchen and spread to the entire home Daman to home and contents wan Usl as several thousand dollars Richard Byrd and Isaac Williams are the occupants of the house which is owned by Julius Rosenberg BRING King-Sized Yo-Yo SAN FRANCISCO May 17 IB -A king-fixed game of yo-yo is beiag played here by engineers tor the Navy A dummy fuH-ilacd version of the Polaris ballistic missile weighing many tons is launched by a tube Attached cables in the form of a check the flight to a hah at point whore the cables are straight out Then the big metal dummy is lowered gently so that launch data recorded on magnetic tap eea be fed late aa electronic brain The operation at San Francises Naval Shipyard la leading up to firing of the Polaris by submarines Turkey produced 41000 metric tens of dried figs in 1958 (ending of them to the United lino focus Other officers reelected ware Clyde Baker vice president and Cletus Luts secretary-treasurer Members selated to the executive committee were Hibbs Beatty- Don Baker and I I Prank Hunter WATCflljHISlSPAg We Are Not Just Another Dry Cleaner VJhen inflation tips the scale you pay for more than you got ready committed to a huge defense budget can lead only two ways To higher taxes or to more and mom inflation We cant get away from paying one way or the other Many congressmen ere already doing -whatever they can to postpone new services however deiirable until we can better afford diem You can assist by giving your representative tha support ha needs to muce sure that dm Government starts living within its income again That wiU strike a mighty blow against inflation and the rising prices it produces has the foremost equipment and personnel to give your nicest garments unexcelled care and appearance A I You can trust our service with your very best Yet we charge no more than you would pay for ordinary cleaning It wiU strike a blow for a stronger Ama lea too because millions of people wiU be encouraged to add to their savingj Not only will a growing nest egg bring a comfortable feeling of independence and security Those savings as they am invested will provide the capital needed for future growth This is tha surest way to the most pro- -peraua yean you or America have ever Imown-a way that begins by aU of us insisting on having a stable dollar 0 1 Brought to you in the interest of every American who it concerned with preserving the value of the dollar INSTITUTE OF LIFE INSURANCE Central Source of Information about Life Insurance 480 MAOISM! AVENUE NEW YOBS not fool ourselves about this Inflation hurts everyone Families who have to live on fixed incomes suffer Their dollars buy si much as before People who salt away some of their pay In savings suffer Men and women on salaries and wages also suffer Sure their pay may be rising But wages always rise at the game rate aa prices In the end eoeryone payi the price of inflation You may think prices are bad enough today But how can we keep the cost of living from getting completely out of hand? There it a way we can atop further inflation At a first step all of us can support every reasonable move to hold down government ipending federal state and local Pressing for more and more spending on new projects at a time when al Inflation is 7fho cruelest tax of all IDLE HOUR SHOPPING CENTER PHONE 6-6991 4.

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