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tf. 4 IT LIGAN M4 CIRCULATION Delivery evealnga (Except Boaday) la BeMdave, Oft proa. OtModa, (tardea Prairie, Poplar Ore' Manage, Cherry Valley. -Vc. rl fia 281 BELVIDERE.

ILLINOIS EIGHT PAGES 1959 MONDAY. NOVEMBER PRICE TEN CENTS MHHIILM-g' 1 I I UIIUIUtlUHlJ Fireproof mMmgam TT quired; Kaddr- School Rises Out Of Ruins Radio I -1 "iii i i -nil chev Ms AddressfSldfed: orter Finds II i Before Departure fS'iaiKAt Reluctance To On 1 r-NationTrip; Talk About Fire Kelitongress BY WILLIAM J. CONWAY CHICAGO AP "If there ever SIR WINSTON CHURCH1IX shares the spotlight with his wife, Lady Churchill, as he poses for his birthday picture. Churchill reached 85 years Monday. NEA Telephoto.

aaaaaalMasJaaWl vas a fireproof building, this is it- iB ANTHONY PEARCE Hungary AP -Jande Kda-tolc' the opening Session wf Cofnmunlst Inrty con- WASHINGTON AP President Eisenhower will go on na tionwide television and TO'didv Thursday evening to discuss5 his goodwill mission abroad, and such domestic problems as the steel strike. THE WHITE House announced' Monday that Eisenhower-will speak over all major networks for .15 minutes starting, at 6:15 p.mT -Immediately after the talk, he win go to Andrewgi Air Force in" nearby Maryland and depart op a. 22,000 mile tour, to 11 nation in j--Europe, Asia and Ii A WORKMAN made that comment to a reporter as they stood pear a construction site at the northeast Corner of Avers avenue find Iowa street. They looked at a sturdy steel md (Concrete skeleton that is ris S'fsg Monday that Soviet troop ill Hungary "as long as by the ternation Jf Health At 85 Churchill's 'Ekcellenf Khrush- 1 ing, from the ashes and "charred bricks of the Our Lady of the Angels School. w' 111 THE ONLY wood in the new mil ft I.

it 1 1 i' ft lion dollar, three story building BY EDDY (ilLMOKE LONDON AP Sir Winston Churchill's doctor pronounced-his patient in excellent health Monday the 85th birthday of one of the world's most amazing men. I will be in the doors. 1 A new fire alram box already stands like a sentry on the side walk on the Iowa' street side. It 'symbolizes the determination that Mmf itit4wtBrested listener. Weerft hew had specu- fotw iKhhishctev Biight Use1 this Wt hitt tat to $0,000 'stlU-.

Jlngry. expected to 'address the eon- fvkaUf, Hungarian. -party -chief, mdarfld, "troops remain' in Hungary of the world's iailUrt, to settle international said the government ad-vecates nUitua? of foreign troops, an obvious reference to U. S. forces in Europe.

accused' United BY EDDY GILMORE LONDON AP Sir Winston Churchill's doctor pronounced his i mi ii I a rinitii i l.y..JLi ithere shall be no repetition of the patient ih excellent health Monday I blaze that swept up an open stair well of the old school Dec. 1. 1958. The President's TV radio theme will be twofold, Press Secretary James C. Hagerty -told newsmen.

EISENHOWER will, deal first, With his Dee. 3-22, trip abroad. He' will discuss "the strengthening of cooperation' among those countries' in pursuit of their own security and progress in the attainment world peace with justice." In addition, Eisenhower will dis-1 cuss the domestic Hagerty put it this way: "The President will talk about the need for stronger cooperation among the several groups i that make up the American economy so that, the nation's progress to ward peace may be insured PANAMA NATIONAL Guardsmen hold back Panamanian demonstrators at Panama City, Panama, intent on parrying Panamanian flag into the Canal Zone where battle-ready GI's stood grim vigil behind barbed wire barricades. The National Guard Cooled off the demonstrators in about three hours. --NEA Telephoto.

THAT fire cost the lives of 92 BHS To Have Conference On Careers Belvidere high school's first career conference will he held Thurs children and 3 nuns. Our Lady of the 'Angels pupils the 85th birthday of one of the world's most amazing men. The unannounced appearance of the doctor, Lord at Sir Winston's London house put gloomy Pxprj'isions g. reporter's faces until Lord Moran 'emerged smiling. attend classes elsewhere while workmen labor on the new Traffic Toll States of spending huge sums for A NEWSMAN who revisited the day.

The event is scheduled for Less Than Blase Destroys RodiffooxH Store scene recalled the eerie silnce agitation and conducting a ctmpaign of slander, by I that shrouded the area that short. 7:30 p.m. in the high school study hall and is sponsored by Belvidere dark, cold day almost a year ago. Spectators had gathered behind high school students and faculty for Junior, seniors and interested renewing Rebate in? the united iWfttiw tprj the Hungarian' issue, ls Met -the. United Sutes hd.

drafted Jnttf thp, army ,000 1-1 fire lines to stare at the ruined parents Rockford's biggest fire of the year completely, gutted tl a wr to the nearby church to offer si- lice Confer rimarutnK who sdok reiuge i ip THIS is the first of such con iM! ,1 V'i 1 ferenoes Theme of the vc diaic uii uivounaj atcuuci v.uui( 1 lent prayers an estimated $150,000 in damage, and injury to one fire-? I that was a silence ot mass With Heed activity is, JVouth Looks at the man. Cause of the four-alarm blaze was not immediately shock, it has been replaced by a nnathe Cbhirmiiiist sovirnmmt X. Future. mum reluctance to talk about the determined, but fire department authorities speculate BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 'Thirteen persons died on highways over the four day riay con siderabiy. fewer than me'Twmber killed, in the same holiday period test n-- SIGHT died in fires and 2 in cellaneous Deaths in fires, were more than 0fl2 Rortie Virgil McAllister, principal, feel frt hate been fh iff fthi "I rather not talk about It, BY-JACK 'BELt Mrs.

Joseph Modica told a reporter who called at her home. iiamiaAtmM ntore mrerno." BESIDEf $50,000 in damage to the building, stock Valued at was a complete loss, and smoke "OF COUr3E he didn't send for me," said the doctor In reply" to questions. "I just called to offer my congratulations on his birthday." Churchill's robust health despite his twe major' strokes and two bouts of pneumonia V-rf amazes everyone except some of his closest friends. A SPOKK8MAN; it Churchill's home said the former attend a birthday parr ty -a- with a huge internationally Sivored oake featured for about -people at his home hight, "And he plans to attend Parliament before-that," the'spokesman added. 1 THE FOUR-tier cake was baked from ingredients brought from more than 120 countries to signify greetings from friends all over the world.

A quiet day was plannedfor Britain's elder statesman. The hWASHNGTON Cbh ing for" junior, Jand, senior students to have some practical information anfl structton "in vacational guidance. asked. Rut dolph guidance to a prbgram suit the HER 3, nadi VmM oeuijtrieji: at Jhft The -first order greaflipnah leaders both'' parties' IHKP II KM VI II IV. ktartel ork I IU II I I VI tmW I fft her.

He took Wrtets ot th.4ay.-aa.aletiofW'of the con- double the number in that category -a year. ago. Two fires damage to adjacent tore was set at $25,000. The sole injury was In piedgeayifiiantmoug- backing Hlon dayrtoJ'reaideht Eieewhower" oii trig forthcoming tour of ftee world' na' pi me aipnaoei mai were maae sttaents -career of cereal a ads eliid ihem im Sticks I claimed 5 lives during the current Hod; i-j rw'us tals snell out 1 hJtiV-tt) tfosebh. I SURVEY was taken of all holi-my, 3 to: Chicago Friday and To Hospi 8.

iriJoliet Saturday. promise to db my "best to do my juniors and Seniors to determine which vocatiohs and careers they CHAIRMAN jf. JViiyam-Fulbright (D-Ark) of the Senate Foreign Re duty to God and to my country, DiaiOra.iHaiAagiving last year. would like to hear about. The top to be square and to j- lation committee said Democrat ic leaders who breakfasted with 24 died ihfAffic, 3 in fires ftnd'7 in miscellaneous accidents.

In a He never finished hfs project. He After Crash CHICAGO AP At least 41 three fields were aviation, med icine and business. Sbssa presidium. Khruschev and foreign dele-tjitiohs-Voted. fme 'natiohal news 'WtTl reported, Western tainfpi I were not etmitted to Hed, the congress in the spa eiousi headquarters, of.

the. rVOrkeia Trade Union, I There were no special security pretatttions- evident at the airport J. -tha beaming Soviet leader errtergei frjJm a TU1M Jet airliner with his Svife. AlTMofcJClH Khrushchev's visit died in the fire. the President all gave.

their' ap- AT ANOTHER neat brick home period surveyed by The Associated Press two weeks ago. 20 roval to Eisenhower forthcoming excursion in personal diplomacy. 1 persons were taken to hospitals tiie neighborhood, Mrs. Joseph Mondav after a crash of elevated Makowski let the reporter in With these fields in mind, the program will consist of three speakers, who are experts in these person's died, in traffic, 6Jin fires and 1 in a. miscellaneous accident.

beam on his face is as broad as curred from falling glass by Capt. Henry Johnson of Engine company No. 5. He was struck" on the wrist, and received lacerations. Fire fighting efforts were rebuffed by freezing weather and smoke.

Smoke repulsed efforts to work on the Interior of the building. While the streets became treacherous with their icy sheath. THE FIRST call was received by firemen at 5:03 a.m.. when a policeman discovered smoke issuing from the doors of the building. Before the blaze was under control at 12 :48 p.m., four fire companies had sent men and equipment to que'J the 1 i ever but his effervescence has Arnontt victims late in been calmed by the infirmities of fields.

PROFESSOR Walter Ditzler, su the holiday -period which began at old age. LADY Churchill, who Is 74, per pervisor of the Institute of Aviation at the University of Illinois, will sonally "supervised; preparations trains on the Side. Police through an entry hall where a said none of the injured appeared of Mother of Christ was severely hurt. enshrined on a wall. She lost a i if son, Raymond, in the fire.

THE ACCIDENT occurred at Le- She didn't want to talk, either, land avenue and Broadway, about But she did mention one detail of a block north of the Wilson, avenue her sorrow, station where 7 were killed and "HE was going to be 13 that 150 hurt three yars. ago in a Christmas Eve," she said, similar collision. In these homes and elsewhere t4wk tamo rr ctirtru-t- -r tiim-kie for a birthday party for, 20; guests discuss all phases Of aviation Ernest Blak, director of the' Rock- including the four Churchm children, Randolph, Diana ford School oi Business will speak on business possibilities for future Churchill's home irt Hyde Park, Masked firemen first entered the graduates and, Dr. Wesley Olives of the Belvidere Clinic wi'l talk on the advantages afforded in the Gate was a beehive of activity, An eight-car Howard Street train a tot of bitternegs in the parish. carrying passengers, northward rectory denled of phy.

with a steady stream of'gifts and. building after breaking the glass in a door. After chopping a hole field 6t medicine. cables from world leaders, person? at friends and admirers.5 1 Head not been announced by local newspaper or Budapest a trowd of hand to ehter. Communist party chief Jane kadar led the welcoming Hun-gariah delegatSon.

Khrushchev em-oracad, him and planted kisses ou )bm cheeks. iTlte--congress A Is scheduled to the ,1956. uprising, and Khrushchev is expected to deliver 6fl -of. the speeches before the Sessions end on THB Soviet rPremier's presence In Hungary coincides with another Imminent airing in the N. General Assembly Western criticism! of the continued Communist Koljf-rufi Iftmgafy; Khrushchev; recently upbraided Western criticism of Soviet inter in the floor to insert a piece of fire fighting apparatus, the fire old man" as Britons af fectionately- Calf Churchill-teokedr in good health although he suf-' men moved through- the dense smoke to the west side of the building, where they again chopped a hole in the flooring.

The den vv he suggested to Eisenhower that this is "a very propitious time to bring about "a settlement of difficulties in India ijnd EISENHOWER wiJi countries, on. bis nation; ,1 Fiibright said, Eisenhower. re-1 plied be id hopeful he.wuMi beablen tjbjpontrlbute' toward settiemeni of free worid differeoce. HOUSE 'Speaker Sam RaybunC (-Teti emerged from the break-. tast with the- commonf that President undertaking stjw udus piece of business.

I Senate Democratic don B. Johnson- of Texas said that Eisenhower "will take 'with' him our prayers and our hopes for a successful journey." JOHNSON said Eisenhower indicated to the group while he does not intend to enter into any negotiations with heads of other governments he does expect to outline the objectives and pur- -poses of the United States in the present worid situation. Senate Republican Leader Ever-' ett'M. pirksen of Illinois Said the Democrats present at the break 4 fered recently from a cold. uW iuui sical or mental breakdowns car train which was standing, among nuns a8" a wlteh signal.

XHK PASTOR, Msgr. Joseph F. POLICE and fire department res- Cussen, suffered a stroke last May. cue squads took injured jjpur But after a long stay in a hospital, hospitals. he has returned to his post as head Power was shut off from Wilson of one of Chicago's largest par-avenue 'to the city's north limits, stopping traffic.

jje arranged an anniversary THE ACCIDENT occurred dur- Magg for tne fire victims at 6 ing the morning rush "of south- pm Tuesday, bound traffic of workers and -mii: fibk lpft ipoarv nf litir. sity of the smoke with flames ac ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY SPRINGFIELD. 111. AP Atty. Gen.

Grenville Beardsley of Chicago is the first of the incum 6 p.m. wednes.lpy and ended at mcdnigbt- Sunday: MBS. ROSE -Covey. 74, Chicago. wa9 injured" 'ttrally Sunday in a twe-caf brash 'south of Kankakee.

75,1 of East St. LouuiN was struck and killed by a car In East St. Louis Saturday night. OTHMAR H. Tittel.

78, of Evans-ville. 111., was killed Saturday when his car collided with a bus near Waterloo Saturday: Will Powell, an elderly Free-port Negro, burned to death in a fire which destroyed his small shack Di Freeport Sunday. ED Smith, 54. of Georgetown, died Sunday of burns suffered when his trailer home burned Saturday. Eleonidos De Jesus, 35, of Calumet City, was struck and killed Saturday night by a Chicago subway BULLETIN CHICAGO AP Former governor Joe Foss of South Dale- aco Marine flyer of World War II, today was named com-mtefltoner of the- aew American Footftall League, The 44-year old Foee signed a three year contract at an ondls- loed sum.

companying compelled the firemen to turn back. A SECOND alarm was sounded at 5:15 a.m., with two others coming at 6:01 and 7:07 a.m. Firemen's efforts to get inside A question and answer period will discussion Professor Dttzhr. has, his bachelor's degree from Iowa State Teachers--? his master's from Ohio State university, and his doctor Of ptiilosphy degree from the University of Iowa. HE HAS had eight years of 1 i school supervision and teaching; 10 years of teachers education and extension field work with Iowa State Teachers college; thr-r years of active duty as an engineering officer with the U.

S. navy during World War II, and three years at the University of Illinois Institute of Aviation as supervisor of curriculum and ca- (ConrJnneii On Page 4) bent Republican state officers to announce as a candidate in the April primary. of the building from the rear were Christmas shoppers bound for the tion as well as sorrow. Suits seek-downtown district. ing a totai cf $2,305,080 in dam-Fire department ladders were ages have been filed against the raised to the L.

structure at Le- Roman Catholic archbishop of land avenue and Broadway. In: Chicago, who controls the school jured were taken to hospitals. property, and the City of Chicago. CRIMES INCREASE WASHINGTON AP Violent cimi continued to show a substantial increase across the nation further thwarted when, after breaking down a steel door, a grated door barred their way. Flames and smoke poured from the portal barring another effort of the firemen.

WHILE firemen were futilely WITNESSES said they heard a They have been filed in behalf of in the first nine months of 1959. the families of 16 of the pupils who FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover re vention in vthe rebel-lfon and asserted he Hungarian fteopW were happy about their relationship with he soviet Union. ft rrCcAM HtTS MIAMI t(ord coii hit Florida Monday ai Mfa weather gripped the en-tfweaiterjjseaboaRjw Illecdrded a low of 43 de-gHis1)a(texifig therecord for Hik dati aft 1845 when the mercury dipped td 45. Eveh the daytime high Sunday was chilly 4 59 degrees on the beaches and 58 in town.

died and six of the 80 children who were injured. ported Monday. lastfast expressed unanimous ap Aerialists Ascend 15 Miles; trying to enter the building, the fire climbed the western wall of the building, reaching the building's roof. A false ceiling of steel kept firemen from fighting the Maze at this angle and flames proval Eisenhower's plans for the trip. 1 i OTHER Democrats invited to thei' breakfast, session included fCharivu' man uThomaa Morgait' of mer House.

Foreign Affairs committees Take Photos Of Planet Venus (Continued On Page 4) (Coatinaed Oa Page MANHATTAN, Kan. AP could do it," say aerial bump, but damage did not appear extensive. The accident scene is a few hundred feet north of the spot where a crash on Nov. 5, 1956 killed seveh persons and injured more than 150. In the crash three years ago, a jam packed northbound El train rammed a heavy North Shore Line train standing in the Wilson Avenue station during the evening rush hour.

THE 1936 crash resultejd in a program costing several millions of dollars to eliminate a bottleneck in the CTA's north south system. An extra southbound track has been newly opened. The system, with four tracks, has had only two tracks between the Wilson Avenue station and the Lawrence Avenue station to the filled their emergency parachute. THEY jettisoned the balloon as the gondola touched ground, but ists Malcolm and Charles (B. iii i ii i i i i.i 4' 1 Room Drops Out Of Sight Moore of weekendi the parachute dragged their ieven The We or heV jaunt into t8e stratosphere, foot aluminum sphere a quarter- LOCAL READINGS: City Acquires New Patrolman The Belvidere police force will be brought up to full strength Tuesday when William McGill, 28, begins his duties as a city patrolman, chief Ted Richardson announced Monday.

McGill, who lives at 611 West Locust street with his wife and three children, will begin a six-month probationary period on the force and will be assigned initially to a day shift according to Richardson. iThe ew patrolman currently operates McGill 's coffee shop on Logan avenue. He is a veteran of eight years in the Navy reserve. McGiU's appointment brings the department to an authorized strength of nine. Richardson said Herman Highland, who has been wording as a temporary basis, will continue on the force until another regular patrolman is added.

widening the channel about 200 feet out. The dredged sand was being pumped around to an eroded beach on i the Atlantic Ocean side of the island. Apparently suction' from the dredging removed earth from under a sea wall that separated the rear of Wynn's house from the north. mile across a rough pasture. Moore wasn't hurt but Ross was shaken up.

Helicopters whisked them; about 80 miles to the Schilling Air Force base hospital at Salina, for an overnight rest. THEY went up to 81,000 feet photograph Venus because at 'that altitude the atmosphere isv free of dust particles that cause the stars to twinkle. "The outstanding sight of all was at sunset Ross said. "We could see it getting dark on earth and all the lights were coming on the little towns and ROSS, a commander in the Navy and Dr. Moore-, a scientist, rode in an.

instrument-filled gondola under a huge plastic balloon to 81,000 feet where, they took photographs of the planet Venus through a 16-inch It is "wonderfully pleasant" up there, they said. THE MEN ascended from Rapid City. S. D.r at 11:16 a.m. Saturday and landed at 3:30 p.m.

Sunday in a pasture ahout 30 miles northeast of Manhattan. Ross, who had made six previous trips into the stratosphere. once to 86,000 feet the land-ing was until surface wind High Monday 36. low 21. High year ago 20, low -1.

High Sunday 29.. Tuesday sunrise 7:02 a.m., sunset 4:19 p.mv NORTHERN HXiNOIS: Mostly sunny and warmer Monday afternoon. Increasing cloudiness and a little warmer at nifiht. Tuesday mostly cloudy with little temperature'ehange. A few showers likely by aftermxw.

Low Monday night ix the upper daughter, Marjorie, huddled in the upstairs front of the stucco house, Wynn and police investigated. Also vanished a 60-foot strip of the Wynn lawn, the den, a dock and cabana. Atlantic Beach is on the west tip of-Long Beaoh, an island just off the coast of Long Island and not far froth "the 'New York City limits in Lartg Beach is separated from the mainland by Reynold's Channei; which is where Wynn's living-room had gone. WYNN and the police spotted bugs dredge busy deepening, and YACHTSMAN DIES OCONTO FALLS, Wis.i AP ATLANTIC BEACH, N. Y.

AP A strange noise awakened Nat Wynri Sundiy. He yawned, slipped on his Slippers, trotted downstairs, and found his living room had WHERE the living room used to be there, now, was wall wall ocean water. 5 Wynn trotted back upstairs, told his wife, Edith, that the- living room was. gone. She yawned and asked where.

he thought it might have gone. He said he" didn't know. So he called police to report a missing living room. WHOLE. Mx8.Wy:av and their i 'u ---v.

channel. This apparently pulled Wynn's living room floor, "the fmboygan yachtsman and business niture and the rest into the chan man, was pronounced dead on ar nel. There was no trace of any of it (- The dredging 'company' sent pile drivers to shore up the-waterfront. rival at the Oconto Falls hospital Sunday after his caThitf' a concrete bridge abutment knd plunged into a river, i High in the msJ lie 4'X it Wets still daylight where we were. Low Tuesday ia the 0..

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