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COLUMBIA RECORD FINAL HOME EDITION Serving The People Of South Carolina For Mora Than Three Score Years VOL 64-No 328 Phono Alpine 6-3461 Saturday Mir 13 1961 Columbia SC 0 Box 150 Daily 5 Centi: Sunday 20c WEATHER Partly cloudy and warn tonight and tomorrow Low tonight High tomorrow 84 Sunset 7:17 sunrise tomorrow 1:24 Additional weather Page B-B DOCUMENT SIGNED Execution Date Set June 9th Supreme Court Denies Motion Cease-Fire Agreement Is Reached For Laos document and the government's concession to hold major political talks here came during long morning and afternoon meetings held in a dirt-floored schoolhouse Weak Position Military representatives of the three-nation International Control Commission were present The atmosphere was extremely friendly but there was no doubt the government found Itself in a weakening position The meeting was conducted by the head of a delegation representing Prince Souvanna Fhou-ma's Pheng Phong-savan former president of the National Assembly He and other delegates representing the neutralist prince sat at the head of the U-shaped truce table Right-wing and left-wing representatives sat on either side Legal Government The neutralists and the pro-Communists both claimed that rump government to still the legal one in Laos despite the fact that he fled to Cambodia in December and the king supports the right-wing regime be lied Before the Ban Namone agreement was signed the International Control Commission reported to the Geneva talks that It had been assured by all warring Laotian factions they will respect the cease-fire except when attacked Britain and the Soviet as cochairman of the Laotian peace tonally published the text of the Indian-FoUsh-Canadian commission'! report in Geneva Saturday Report Signed The commission report signed by Chairman Samar Sen of India declared: "Irrespective of a formal ceasefire agreement the commission to satisfied that a general de facto cease-fire exists and such breaches that have been informally complained of are either due to misunderstandings or to factors such as the terrain and the nature of the disposition of forces both regular and irregular of all parties BAN NAMONE Laos (AP)-A formal cease-fire document was signed here today by delegations from the government and the pro-Oommuntot rebell They agreed to open full-scale military and political talks here Sunday Delegations from the pro-west em government in Vientiane the leftist Pathet Lao rebels and neutralist political groups will participate in the talks aimed at setting up a coalition government and possibly sending a unified Laotian delegation to the 14-natkm conference in Geneva Separate delegations already are in Geneva Concession In Ban Namone a village In rebel territory there was speculation that the talks here could eventually lead to a meeting among the three key figures in the Laotian political neutralist Prince Suvaima Fhouma Prince Souvanouvong chief of the Pathet Lao and Gen Phoumi Noaavan military strongman of the Vientiane government The signing of the cease-fire Cuban Invaders Rescued Hid on Island In Caribbean By BEM PRICE WASHINGTON (AP) A well-informed official confirmed today that survivors of the Cuban in vasion were concealed on i small Caribbean island He said they later were flown to the mainland The source who cannot be identified said the last of the survivors including hospital cases had departed the Marine bate at Vieques Island on May 2 He said he did not know where the survivors were now but presumed some were In Miami Fla The departure of the survivors thus would have came 15 days after the military fiasco at Cochinas Bay where 1200 invaders sought to pit themselves against Cuba's 30000 well-armed troqps The admission finally that the survivors had been at Vieques Just off San Juan Puerto Rico came two days after The Associated Press published reports that some of the survivors might still be on the island Except for the reported time of the survivors' departure from the island the published repots and the official's account were in essential agreement Previously aU efforts to check the reports had been fruitless Meanwhile all access by reporters to the marine base at Vieques has been shut off The Defense Department the White House and the Central Intelligence Agency are holding firm on the no admission policy Since Vieques to primarily a marine training base the reason (Continued On Page Nine) PLAYWRIGHT ARRIVES IN CITY Ben Irwin California playwright and business executive arrived here today to attend the world premiere of his prize-winning play "The Commentator' He won the $1000 competition sponsored by The State-Record Co In cooperation with Town Theater which will produce the play Premiere la Thursday May 23 Left to right are dim Alford publicity chairman for Town Theater Latimer Jr editor and publisher emeritus of The State Mr 11a good Bostick secretary of the Columbia Stage Society Barry Knower director of the Town Theater Irwin SI Blalock president of The State-Record Co and dames Dreher president of the Columbia Stage Society Blalock greeted the prizewinner and welcomed him to Columbia on behalf of the Columbia newspapers and the town Theater (Rerord photo by Dick Beebout) BRIDGE COMPLETED Residents Seek Kart Raceway New Interstate Final Line Opens Tuesday Public Invited Highway 76 To Half Go A complaint tiled with the office in the Court of Common Pleas by seven Highway 76 residents asks for a permanent Injunction to stop go-kart racing in their neighborhood Sarah and Thomas Mur- By ROBERT FFAKR Of The Record Staff Douglas Westbury and Otis Britt must die in the electric chair June 9 the State Supreme Court ordered today for the murder of State Highway Patrolman Harry Bay The court unanimously turned down motions made by lawyers for both men in their efforts to gain new trials on the baste after-discovered evidence A third defendant in the case who to serving a life sentence Lee Von Tilson recently confessed that It was be who fired the shot that took the life of the patrolman near Santee Sept 7 1958 BXotloa Denied During trials in the case West-buiy and Britt accused each other of firing toe fatal shots When Til-son who could not be tried again made his confession attorneys tor Britt and Westbuiy asked too State Supreme Court for permission to go before a circuit Judge and seek a new trial -The court denied their motions Date Set Arguments were beard by the court this week Britt and Westbuiy have been twice sentenced to death by Juries The Oder today set date of the electrocution as the fourth Friday after service of the notice on the condemned men at the penitentiary Mayor Enfers Photographer Police Dispute Columbia Mayor Lester Bates today agreed to inquire Into a dispute between the City Police Department and a radio-TV newsman over a photograph Officer! detained Bob Truere 0 News Director of WNOK-TV and radio after he photographed an arrest sear City Hall Friday afternoon Truere said he was grabbed by an officer and taken to a squad car He was detained 20 minutes later without charge having been placed The disputed picture was shown on Trtiere's news broadcast last night Gty Attorney John Stolen-berger aaid he had questioned the officers Charles A Grubb and Howell and that they told him they had subdued the man bring arrested after a tussle with him and that when the picture was made it Incensed the man and the fight began again In Recorder's Court this morning the arrested man Herbert Allen 30 of Johnson Gty Va was found guilty of drunk and disorderly conduct charges and with resisting arrest He was fined $66 (Cbntinued On Page Nine) mvrmrHrf $14000 TALE OF WOE Rusk Gromyko Fail to Solve Their Dispute GENEVA IT Secretary! of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko met today but failed to solve their dispute over how Laos should be represents ted in the international conference on the future of the Southeast Asian kingdom The issue of Laotian representation kept the conference from starting on schedule Friday In his first try at personal diplomacy has been depreciated with the Soviets Rusk conferred with Gromyko in a Soviet hillside mansion to try to end the dispute Rusk told newsmen after his meeting that the United States would not accept the Soviet demand for full and equal status for the Communist-led Pathet Lao at the conference table week and hag from unmuffled go-karts much as three hours causing excessively obnoxious It is charged by that they have been peaceful enjoyment television listening carrying on normal and that their children their school borne work The complaint alleges plaintiffs have been regularly scheduled planned and charges constitute a private and foe value of A hearing on the for 10 a May 19 Circuit Judge John RECORD Astro Guide Bridge Missing Sergeant Gives Up in Texas ly sponsored by the Highway De- contractor and others directly eon-partment and the City of Odum-Inerted with the construction bia Mayor Lester I Bates wfillthe facility No formal imitations are befog extended The public is Invited The exercises will be culminated with a motorcade over toe bridge to a traffic Interchange on 1-126 and return over the same route The bridge one of three on Elmwood Avenue in addition to toe George Beil Timmerman structure over Broad River waa constructed by Cbpeland Construction Company of Orangeburg on a low bid of $431567 Competitive bids were publicly opened May 14 1959 and the contract waa awarded the following August 19 Only Expressway Interstate 126 is the only expressway extending from Columbia business district to Interstate 28b Access to fully controlled beginning at the new structure to be opened to traffic Tuesday Interstate 126 has been open to traffic for several months but because the Seaboard overpass was not completed Columbia traffic (and 76 traffic) has been approaching and leaving it by Laurel and Huger Streets Now with the new overpass completed Columbia traffic particularly from the northern part of the main business district will flow directly from newly widened Elmwood Avenue to the main river crossing and expressway leading northward to Newberry Clinton and to Greenville (on 276 (Continued On Page Nine) preside and the ribbon will he cut by the Chief Highway Commissioner officially opening to traffic the last link in Interstate Route 126 the multi-million dollar connection to Interstate Route 26 the Chariest on-Asheville expressway which to now either com-pieted or under contract for the greater distance throughout this state Among those expected to he present from officialdom are District Highway Commissioner Berne of Columbia members of city council chamber of commerce officials and the Richland legislative delegation highway department officials the bridge Church Plans Memorial Fund For McCurleys Fellowship Baptist Church has voted to establish a memorial fond to the memory of Mr and Mrs Altai McCurley who were killed in an auto accident March 19 The Rev Glenn Britt said the church hopes the fund will be sufficient to purchase some chimes perpetuate the memory of two of our finest church members" tiashaw Lloyd and Peace Fulmer A Burnside and A Marion and Hail have brought the action against Columbia Go-Kart Raceway and Lukas Leasing Co The complaint charges that the raceway operates seven days a five to IS racing for aa at a time loud concentrated noises" the plaintiffs of of watching to radio cannot do that the informed that racing is now that the go-karts nuisance their property matter Is set before Fifth Grimbnll INDEX 6-A 6-A Classifid Ad 6 8-B Cbmics 6 7-A Crossword Puzzle 6-A Deaths 5-B Editorials 8-A Explore Your Mind 6-A Motion Pictures 9-A Radio-Television 9-B School Lunch 6-A Sports 4 5-A WInchell 9-A Women's Pages 1 2 3-B Winning Playwright Arrives Ben Irwin California playwright and business executive who wrote the award-winning play "The Commentator' in the competition sponsored by The State-Record Company in cooperation with the Town Theater arrived in Columbia today in preparation for the world premiere Irwin was met at Columbia Airport by Blalock President of The State-Record Company Latimer Jr editor and publisher emeritus of The State Mrs Hagood Bostick secretary of the Columbia Stage Society James Dreher president of Columbia Stage Society Barry Knower director of the Town Theater and Jim Alford publicity chairman for the theater Irwin member of a Los Angeles public relations firm left the coast city at 2:30 a today and arrived here at noon He will be In town for two weeks during which he will aid in rehearsals and then watch the world premiere of "The at the Town Theater Thursday May 25 "The Commentator" which will run through June 2 la the second effort of Irwin Back about 20 years ago he recalled he wrote "The Showdown' which was produced aa an Off-Broadway production It was his first trip to Columbia but he was in South Carolina during World War II having been stationed in Charleston for five months Irwin won the top prize of $1000 (Continued On Page Nine) cident should be held for grand Jury action Conflicting Testimony There was a good deal of conflict in the testimony Hite himself took the stand to testify that the McCurley car came out of Woodbury Road and into his lane of traffic whereupon he swerved to the left in an unsuccessful effort to avoid a collision On the other hand Jerry McCurley 14-year-old son of the dead couple said hia lather was turning left off Highway 1 into Watling Road when Hite's car struck them on the left aide Jerry said his family (including two other children) had been to Cblumbla Jp drive his father home from work (he was mechanic for Greyhound Bus Lines) They had Just left Interstate 28 and Intended to go up Watling Road to a church-owned cemetery he said Hite's version of the wreck was The final link the Columbia expressway connection to Interslate Route 26 the bridge over Seaboard Airline railroad on Elmwood Avenue will be formally opened at 10 un Tuesday morning May 16 with a ribbon cutting on the east approach Chief Highway Commissioner Silias Pearman announced today Brief Exercises The formal although brief and simple exercises are being Joint- Tuesday met a couple of women who wanted to "live it up" and did After they parted company Morrissette learned that practically all of the money bed had left was missing too One Dollar He had only about one dollar in change in his pocket when he surrendered here Morrissette was taken before SL Commissioner Fete Van Orden who set bond at $5000 The sergeant failed to make bond and was Jailed Van Orden set a final hearing for Tuesday when papers from South Carolina officials are pected to be on hand he reaches Watling Road first and Woodbury turns left 29 feet further down There to poor risibility at the Woodbury intersection The first dear mark on the road wii a goughed out place in the pavement 23 feet beyond Watling Road and on the left hand aide of traffic line he aaid There was loose dirt possibly from the colliding care for 15 or 20 feet east of this ha said The McCurley car was pushed sideways 59 feet from tire print of that gouged out place apparently made by collapsed metal the patrolman said He added that the Hite car had to be traveling "pretty fast" to tear us the errs like they were Hite himself estimated his speed as "about 55 milea per hour" The large court room waa practically filled with spectators Coroner Caughman began the hearing with a prayer ymtywwMtetaai DELIBERATES UNTIL 2 A Lexington County Jury Fails To Fix Blame in McCurley Auto Deaths FORT WORTH Tex (AP) -An Air Force stall sergeant who disappeared last weekend with $14438 cash from a South Carolina Air Force base commissary surrendered here Friday and told a tale of woe Arthur Romeo Mbrrissette 30 was charged in a complaint filed by FBI Special Agent Corbitt at Sumter SC with theft of government property Live It Ip Mbrrissette came to a Carswell Air Force Base gate reported he was AWOL from Shaw Air Force Base at Sumter and said "I want to turn myself In" Morriasette told the Investigator he landed In Atlanta Ga backed by a 12-yea r-oid boy who nid he was "pretty sure'1 the McCurley car was the one he met si he rode hia bike down Woodbury Road away from Highway 1 And a Negro man who passed the scene Just before the wreck said he saw a 1956 Ford pulling up to Highway 1 on Woodbury Road Just before the accident However he and his two companions did not return to the accident scene Several witnesses said Hite's car passed two or three cars across a 'double yellow line Just before he reached the fatal intersection but they agreed that the Lexington County youth pulled back into his own lane of traffic Just before he got to Watling Road ralrolmaa'a Findings Highway Patrolman Raymond Scruggs described the position of the cars after the wreck and the evidence on the highway Aa a me tost proceeds west on Highway "This represents an Injection of a new idea by the Soviet Rusk said "This was not the basis on which we were Invited to the conference" Rusk and Gromyko were together at the tree-shaded Soviet mission for 70 minutes The American decided to call on the Soviet foreign minister to explore ways of breaking the deadlock a move encouraged by other Western leaders Meanwhile five leaders of the Western-backed Laotian government reached Rome on their way to Geneva as the delegation from Vientiane They aaid their part in the stalled meeting would depend on a complete and continued cease-fire in Laos The Country Parson "Church members transfer a good deal these I guess they get tired of staying sway from the same church ail the time Today's Chuckle Lexington Jury was unable to agree upon a verdict Friday night at an inquest into the March 19 auto accident deaths of Mr and Mrs Alton Mc-Curlry of Lexington County Coroner Raymond Gmghman said another jury will be drawn and another inquest held at a date to be determined The Jury deliberated more than four hours after eyewitnesses told what they saw at the wreck scene on the Lexington Highway (U I ghway 1) at the point where Watling Road goes off to the south and Woodbury Road to the north The case was put in tite hands at 9:45 At 2:05 this morning Foreman William Grice reported that the jury was unable to agree The principal question facing the Jurors was whether Walter Hite 18-year-old driver of the other automobile involved in the ac NEW TREASURER SWORN HERE New Bk'htend County Treasurer Tom Elliott right la congratulated by Sen Walter Bristow Jr after he was sworn today by Deputy Secretary of State John Stokea Jr left Elliott waa appointed by Gov llol lings to fill the varancy left by the death of Joe Berry He was formerly a member of the Richland House delegation (Record photo by Vlo Tutte) know The Idle man does not hat It la to ehjoy rest 0 I 4.