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JEB 17 1964 mu ILY odk up Snmicaftrca oif kidiniap 'hoax' 582 acres of marshland purchased in region for duck production areas in deminal charge By JOSEPH A ST AMANT LOS ANGELES UPI The government was expected to call some key witnesses today an effort to refute defense charges that the $240000 kidnaping of Frank Sinatra Jr was a 80TH YEAR NO 118 HOLDREGE NEBRASKA WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 12 1964 OIMCQ retituunni dermorDdledl IW Svneti Beatlemania hits Washington teens WASHINGTON iUPI' The last time the British came to Washington in such force Dclly Madison had to roll up the Con- siitutkm and smuggle it out of i Union today demanded that the Swiss return defected Soviet The Constitution and the security official Yuri I Nos-White House and the Capitol senko believed to have seemed secure today but there I secret information on Soviet was some doubt about the rest nuclear arms production of the city after Britain's mep- Nossenko nty officer top Beatles made their debut wilh tlie delegation to here- the 17 nation disarmament con- Fans screamed they ference here disappeared last shrieked they clappjd i Tuesday The United States stomped they laughed they said he had defected and asked howled but especially they for political asylum squealed for the Beatles Tues- Semyon Tsarapkin head Prize package By JOHN A CALLCOTT GENEVA 'UPI Soviet Press manhunt for slayer of Iowa girl DES MOINES Iowa a friend Jeri Ann Grant 16 The manhunt stretched out of state today for a man who stalked a high school girl and gunned her down on an icy street to die Police would not tell what they believed to be the motive in the outwardly senseless killing of pretty popular Diane Linn McConnell 16 only hours before she was to have gone to her first student council meeting at Technical High School An all points bulletin was issued for the arrest of her stepfather Doyle Hileman 30 It was believed he was in Minne sota although there were several reports that his 1959 pink and white Dodge sedan had been seen in Des Moines and elsewhere in Iowa Mrs Evelyn Hileman 32 who married Hileman seven years ago told police her estranged husband was not at her home Tuesday but had been on Monday Diane left home for school as usual Tuesday morning and rode a bus to 35th and Franklin She started walking along 35th Street toward the home of whose father usually drove Jeri Ann Diane and several other girls to school Jeri father Vernon Grant said Linn got within two houses of us before it A neighbor Mrs Dana Reed said she heard shots then saw girl half lying on the icy street and half running and man behind her catching up After the shooting she said the assailant dashed to a car and "burned rubber getting A woman ran to Diane Linn's side and the girl lying among her school books and crying said me help me I'm it She died en route to a hospital Friday Feb 14 BASKETBALL Holdrege dusters vs Curtis Aggies senior high school gym 8 pm Reserve game starts at 6:15 of the Soviet delegation angri-v charged at a njws confer ence today that Switzerland permitted "foreign agents" to engineer Nosscnko's disappear- ance Hc apptaritl to be implying tht lmUd Stalcs was behind thu defection but he did not ac-! lt directly jc saU thal tnlej that Nossenko is really in the1 hands of the United States au- i (in hp "art of the Sttisss Swiss Western comment officials did not -nUn'c i ghg But" earier they had said Nossenko's informa-1 tion could be very valuable to the West in devising strategy for the talks Nossenko's information is be-j lieved here to include whether the Kremlin really wants an agreement on general and com- IJtc disarmament Saropkm blamed Switzer- land directly for the official's disappearance This can only mean authorities not only do Fish and Wildlife Service with offices in Hastings The area purchases are a part of purchases in nine south-central Nebraska counties Some 2000 acres have been purchased to date in the )asin area most of which is located in Clay and Fillmore counties where there is a greater amount of such wetlands To date approximately $200000 has been spent for such marshland purchases The local purchases include 240 acres of a basin area north of Atlanta Legal descriptions of the tracts are the north east quarter and the east half of the southeast quarter of Sec 21 5 north 19 west In Kearney county a tract of 160 acres south of Minden was xmght (southeast quarter of iec 14 5 north 13 west Dealing also underway for other tracts Kearney county A quarter section in Gosper county and another tract of 224 acres both located north of Ber-rand have also been purchased rhe quarter is the northwest quarter of Sec 12 north 21 west and another tract of 224 acres is in Sec 1 Some 90 areas in the nine counties have been designated for possible purchase Mr Richardson said and told the Citizen that if anyone in the area has such marshland available if they would contact the office at Hastings the owner would be notified if such land is included in the designated area Inquires may be addressed to the US Fish and Wildlife Service at the Werner-Whelan Plaza at 5th and St Joseph streets Hastings Nebr Walter Vail is the office supervisor The new waterfowl production area program was started by the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife in the basin" in the fall of 1962 Primary objective of the program is to conserve existing waterfowl habitat Through systematic purchases of such brood areas followed by proper management for wildlife pro duction the areas will be improved for waterfowl use Lagoon and marsh areas with the highest waterfowl potential are being concentrated on at first in order to insure that remaining habitat will be protected Adams York Seward and Saline counties are also included in the wetlands area The bureau plans to plant native grasses in the area immediately surrounding the basin to prevent siltation which spoils the marshes for waterfowl Where size of these border areas permit grazing leases may be given by the bureau with priority going to the former owner or tenant The tracts are being purchased with duck stamp monies Under existing legislation 25 per cent of all revenues from such tracts is returned to the counties and earmarked for school and road pur- a to sile crisis Laos and the Bay of Pigs as major problems of the past "Relatively Johnson said don't have the problem that Mr Khrushchev has with Communist China When they fall out among themselves it is something that must concern both of them" Many of his remarks seemed to be directed at recent Republican criticism particularly from former Vice President Richard Nixon and Sen Barry Goldwater R-Ariz Both have charged that Johnson did fi Little Bit on most anything Richard Beck was delayed reporting to the senior high school last Friday night to play in the Holdrege-Ogallala basketball game The elementary teacher taking tickets recognize the Dus ter center and sought to collect the regular admittance charge until he brought help from someone who vouched that he was a player Installation of railings on the new two-lane bridge across the Platte river on highway 183 is about half completed day not only at the jam-oacked Washington Coliseum but in the hallowed confines of her Britannic Em- bassy More than 8000 teen aqers most of them girls and all of them some wat dement packed the Coliseum for the tirst live US performance bv the bushy-haired combo from oi61" CI" 1 0 Beatles who go back to Nev York later today leaving the capital to visiting British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home went off to the embassv to conquer the lifted-pinkie set I not understand foreign or was not meeting them prop-1 ery The greatest balancing act since Wiffh Wlro 12 1 rJ i High Wire Blond in pranced above Niagara Falls is taking place among the top Democratic politicians in Tex- A total of 5824 acres primarily marshland have been pur chased in Phelps Gosper and Kearney counties for wildlife the Citizen was told today by Edward Richardson of the US Wet snow falls over wide area The confused weather scene continued with another midwinter today in Phelps county although any form of moisture is a much-appreciated commodity here Actually the moisture came down in the form of mushy snow which melted as soon as it hit Uie ground It started about 8 Bm Temperatures were mild Springlike weather has prevailed through most of the tall and winter months with only a few brief cold snaps Drought-like conditions prevail over most of the midwest with some areas not recording any appreciable mois-rccording any appreciable moisture since last spring Many parts of Nebraska including Phelps county have also not had the usual fall rains or heavy snows Total moisture recorded in this area since the first of the year amounts to less than half an inch compared with 71 of an inch in 1963 Probably another tenth will be added after the wet snow today Ily United Press International Wet snow was falling over a broad portion of central Ne hraska today and more of the same was predicted into the night in all sections except the Panhandle Rain is to change to snow in the southeast corner during the sight But fair skies are ticketed for Thursday The mercury will tumble to near 20 in the central and the mid-20s in the east tonight rising to the 30s in the southeast and to near 40 in the north-central Thursday Warm air sent the mercury1 up to 54 at Chadron Tuesday while the highs in the east were in the 30s Bellevue's high was 36 The overnight lows were in the 20s and 30s with 27 at North Platte and Imperia the coldest reported in Nebraska Chadron reported 13 inch through early this morning Temperatures through the upcoming five days will average four to six degrees warmer than normal for mid-February with a warming trend taking over during the weekend Precipitation during the five-dav period will he confined mostly to tonight and Thursday morning Sen Kjar files for re-election Albert Kjar Lexington has informed the Daily Citizen that he has filed for re-election to the state legislature from the 39th district which includes Phelps Gosper and Dawson county Mr Kjar is serving his second term WEATHER LOCAL FORECAST Occasional snow extreme south tonight Cloudy Clearing Thursday Low tonight lower and mid-20s High Thursday 35-40 CLEARING THURSDAY TEMPERATURES- Despite what bellyachers say the world still likes us LBJ Observers speculated Frank Jr would be among those appearing today for the prosecution to back up the denial oi the defense's charge In this third day of the trial in federal court before Judge William East prosecutor Thomas Sheridan planned to continue to lay the groundwork of the case against the three men indicted for the Dec 8 kidnaping at Lake Tahoe in northern California Sheridan paraded 10 witnesses to the stand Tuesday and they testified about such things as the purchase of two guns by one of the defendants in Phoenix Ariz telephone company records purportedly dealing with ransom negotiations involving young Sinatra and the renting of a hide out in the Los Angeles suburb of Canoga Park Before the first government witnesses were called Tuesday attorneys representing the three defendants Barry Worthington Keenan and Joseph Clyde Amsler both 23 and John William Irwin charged in opening statements that Sinatra Junior consented to the and joked and drank with his custodians Attorney George A Forde representing Amsler with attorney Morris Lavine said a prominent singer not Sinatra senior financed the kidnap activities including rental of cars and houses involved in the plot this was a kidnaping be on the next moon-shot said Forde He said young Sinatra had been offered $100000 for his "personal story" of the incident by a publication Forde pictured young Sinatra as a youth from his fairiily since he was 14 US removing women children from i WASHINGTON UPI Women and children will be removed gradually from the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba the Defense Department announced today The purpose is to improve the "garrison posture" of the base a spokesman said No more dependents of either military or civilian personnel will be sent to the base and the 3000 already there will be brought home by early 1966 the department said The department also announced that several hundred of 3300 Cuban workers at the base already have been fired and are no longer working Others are to be released later in line with a presidential directive The announcements were made by Arthur Sylvester assistant defense secretary for public affairs at a Pentagon news conference becoming a political Oliver a member of the National Council of the John Birch Society since the society was formed has been on the University of Illinois faculty since 1937 He is considered an outstanding scholar in classics and has held Guggenheim and Ful-bright fellowships for study $3 million to Titan rocket By ALVIN WEBB JR HOUSTON UPI Engineers spent more than $3 million to calm down the vibrations in Titan-2 rocket but it could mean an extra margin of safety for astronauts on future rides into space It started off as an emergency project to eliminate or at least reduce vibrations in the Titan-2 that could prove annoying and possibly dangerous to the two-man space teams it will lift into orbit The program not only toned the Titan-2 down to safe levels but also paid off in knowledge that can and should be applied to the bigger and better space boosters of the future Jerome Hammack chief of launch vehicle launch systems integration for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said ja switches sides soviet security agent Yuri Nosenko 10 be Slde The United States said Nos senko had asked for political asyl lum' but dd dlscose his whereabouts Informed sources said Nosscnko used his posse sJnn of secret information as a bargaining point in seek- ing refuge What effect Nossenko's defect tion would have on the future course of the conference here was uncertain Disclosure of his flight surprised most dele- Rations and first reaction of the Russians was one of sil- Two satellites for Bi-States DOUBLE TAKE This curiously painted actress seem ingly prepared for a split-personality role was photographed on the set of the film "Rencontre a Salz-bourg" bding filmed in Nice France Castorbean meeting is scheduled An informational and signup meeting on castorbeans will be held in Holdrege on March 5 starting at 1:30 pm at the municipal building it was reported today by Jerry Schmoker county agent Present at the meeting to discuss castorbean production will be Swinbank ex ten i agronomist at the University of Nebraska Art Haberlan state department of agriculture will also attend the meeting to discuss contracts This meeting will be signup day for anyone inter-'ested in growing castorbeans Agent Schmoker said that contracts will be with the South Central Nebraska Agriculture and Industrial Development' corporation with contract price being $474 per hundred weight Farmers can plant castorbeans on diverted acreage and receive 50 per cent payment on the lowest fed-grain base price Nbraska has a castor bean acreage allotment of 11000 acres he said and they can be grown on either irrigated or dry land farms Reports also have been received of increased corn yields on land following castorbean bean production This meeting sponsored by the Phelps county extension service should be good opportunity for farmers to get information on the production and marketing of castorbeans Mr Schmoker said Banks to close on Saturdays All banks in Phelps county are announcing today that they will be closed on Saturdays starting Feb 29 except for the 9 to 10 am period That period is intended for the accommodation of merchants needing change Terry's wife to seek state office? LINCOLN (UPI Terry Carpenter's wife is reportedly thinking of running for the lieutenant governor nomination on the Democratic ticket Carpenter a veteran Nebraska politician from Scotts-bluff is a Republican He was at one time a member of the Democratic Party tone down vibrations shouldn't just let this work stop Hammack said vehicle systems can benefit from it so let's don't be selfish about using He suggested that giant super-boosters such as the 14 million pound thrust Saturn-1 the Saturn-5 moonrocket and the Air Force's mighty Titan-3 might find some useful chapters in what now amounts to a veritable encyclopedia on the so-called problem is the nickname applied to vibrations that shake a rocket from nose to nozzle at a certain point in flight All liquid-fueled rockets suffer from it some worse than others On Titan-2 technicians discovered a bounce of 11 times a second with such force that it was feared an astronaut could be shaken so badly that he could not keep his eyes on his vital instrument panel not provide delegates to international conferences with suffic- WASHINGTON 'UPI' The ient protection security and Federal Communications Corn-guarantees but also allow the mission has granted construc-provocative activity on their tion permits to Bi-States Co 1S soil of foreign agents" he said Holdrege Neb for two satel- uemocraiic Western officials said infor- lite stations in Nebraska mation possessed by Nosscnioj The FCC approved the tTve for "the Democratic COuld by very valuabe t0 the application for permission to Democratic 'est in devising strategy for build and operate stations on the disarmament conference Channel 8 at Albion and Chan-The 36vear-old defector was an nel 4 at Superior The approval ThiT delicate5 balance be agent for KGB' the all'Pur' uas 8ranled without hearing tween conservative and liberal P036 Russian intelligence and since there were nc competing iween conservative ana nnerai tv agencv app ications the VC said Democrats could leave every body happy or anyway less leads Catholics designed to avoid Democratic primary contests for either nomination which might so damage the party as to permit the Republicans to elect an- i other candidate to high office as with President Johnson in charge The President is trying to balance the ticket in Texas The ticket maybe balanced with a conservative shoo-in for the Democratic candidate for governor and a Democratic liberal shoo in to run for the US Senate the Pope planned to smudge the foreheads of his aides with ashes in the Sistine Bircher says US to learn JFK 'curse' By MERRIMAN SMITH WASHINGTON President Johnson says that Americans a much beloved people throughout the world" despite their differences with other nations The President slapped back at critics of his foreign policy in informal remarks Tuesday to a gathering of Internal Revenue Service field officers at the White House Johnson gave a rundown on problems facing the United States around the world from Panama to Viet Nam But he also cited goodwill generated by American aid since World War II and said: regardless of what you hear and regardless of what some of the bellyachers say we are a much beloved people throughout the world We are respected and we appreciate it" The Chief Executive conceded that the United States had its differences adding: of different ancestries men of different tongues men of dif-different geographies do not see everything must make allowance for the other Johnson said good way to treat him is just to assume that he wants to do for his own people what you want to do for your own Try to find an area of agreement instead of an area of The President declared that are living in a frustrating period an exciting period a developmental but continued "I have seen times when the skies were He mentioned the Cuban mis Adult education classes slated Adult education classes for the second semester were scheduled at organizational sessions at the Holdrege high school Tuesday night but interested persons may still join the classes Taping instruction will be in room 202 on Monday nights starting at 7:30 pm with Jim Van Marter as instructor This can be either beginning or intermediate typing Shorthand will also be in room 202 with Mrs Karen Priester as instructor meeting Wednesday nights starting at 7:30 pm Tailoring class will meet on Thursday nights but will hold its next class in two weeks on Feb 20 at 7:30 pm with Mrs Wilda Carr teaching It is in room 113 All classes will continue far 10 weeks in Texas Pope Paul VI led the world's Chapel in an early morning cer- Texas has been tending a bit 500 million Roman Catholics to-: emony The ashes are from toward two-party politics Re- day in Ash Wednesday services palms burned last year on publican presidential can- marking the opening of Lent Palm Sunday and blessed by didates carried Texas in 1928 the 40-day period of fasting and the late Pope John XXIII 1952 and 1956 Lyndon Johnson penance before Easter A special audience was sched- was put on the I960 Democrat- With the traditional words i uled for the rectors of Roman ic ticket by John Kennedy "Remember man that thou art i parish churches and Lentin to hold the Texas electors 1 dust and to dust thou shalt re- preachers before the usual mid-day general audience A solemn procession was I planned during the afternoon on i Rome's Aventine Hill to the ad-: cient church of Santa Sabina The Pope was to lead the line of friars chanting the Litany The procession is the first of six "Roman Stations" of LqJ i the Pope will observe before Easter Observance of the sUF-j tions was revived by Pope John after a century of disuse bat he was too sick last year (b take part in the rites Pope Paul was to be driven from the Vatican to the of St Alessio on the garden covered Aventine Hill to lead the foot procession on the 1 600-yard walk from St Alessio the church of Santa Sabina -Lent is traditionally a time for meditation and abstinence from worldly pleasures It cupies the 40 weekdays leading up to Easter the high point in the Christian calendar celebrating the belief in the resub reetkm of Jesus Christ from the dead The period parallels Christ's fasting in the desert His triumphal entry into Jerusalem through palm-frond arches the last supper with His apostles His arrest crucifixion and urrection CHAMPAIGN 111 (UPI) A John Birch Society leader who said American would learn to the late President John Kennedy worked today on another article outlining the lessons of Kennedy's assassination University of Illinois classicist Revik) Oliver said Kennedy was slain because he fell behind in a Communist timetable for taking over the United States Oliver's article appeared in the February issue of American Opinion official magazine of the John Birch Society He said he would publish another article oa the same subject in the March American Opinion He said in the 16-page' article that memory would be "cherished with distaste" Robert Welch Jr founder of the society and editor of the monthly publication said the article was a commentary" if the international vermin succeed in completing their occupation of our Oliver wrote will remember Kennedy while live and will curse him as they face the firing squads or toil in a brutish degradation that leaves no hope for anything but a speedy death" Oliver said Kennedy did much for Communist conspiracy" but was falling behind a scheduled date of 1963 for the capture of the United States" and he was Temperatures through Monday will average 4-6 degrees above normal Colder at the beginning of the period with a warming trend during the weekend Normal highs are in the 40s south-central and in the 30s elsewhere Normal lows are 14-20 Precipitation will average 10 inch or less in the extreme south and little if any elsewhere occurring as rain or snow mostly tonight and Thursday WATER FOR GUANTANAMO At Norfolk Va the United States fleet oiler Tallulah takes on water for a trip to Cuba Guantanamo has declared itself independent of Cuban water supplies.