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I i I 1 4 THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL FINAL 124th No 278 MEMPHIS TENN SATURDAY MORNING OCTOBER 5 1963 81 PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS Measures To Prevent I More Latin Rebellions Spur Urgent Debates Aid Men Called Gty Commission To Select Tulsa To Test i Pass Defense i OfMSUToday Tigers Will Be Favored By Two Touchdowns At 130 PM ltriI to Tb CaauMrdal ApqmI TULSA Okb Oct -Memphis State statistically-acclaimed pus defense win get a rather severe test here Saturday afternoon The Tigers who intercepted more passes (18) than any other collegiate football team in the nation last fall will meet the University of aerial aces at 1:30 pm (whbq broadcast win Former Shelby Chancellor Is Chosen By Clement For Alcohol Board Mystery Plane Similar To U-2 EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE Calif Oct 4-(AP) mystery craft with the high-attitude flight characteristics of the U-2 spy plane wu spotted Friday at this test base It wu identified an RB-S7F a drastically modified version of old Canberra light Jet bomber Its chief features are two extremely long tapered wings like the and two enormous engines mounted on them Two smaller J-60 engines are on the fuselage under the wings' Manker Named To Canale Job start at 1:20 pjn) A crowd of 15000 is expected In Skelly Stadium for a game Loeb Successor On Nov 12 US Personnel Withdrawn Armour To Assume Duties For 82 Days In Warning Action On On Suggestion After Resignation Two Recent Coups Takes Effect Next Friday WASHINGTON Oct 4 United States military and ItaCttyCanniaataa onNov wdl appa-at tha wmaarl ome pri o( tha Nov 7 mayoralty atoetkm to HU the unexplrad ttrmL from Honduras and the Do- The eomndmion yaaterday aecepted Mayaa ifjtaiatcan RapubBa when mill-nation effective next Friday and at the suggestion of Public Works Commissioner William Farris decided to let ViceL goverements recently Mayor Cbude A Armour fill the office until after election The order wu mmunrM day by Secretary of State Dean The commission also agreed lRusk State Department re- Dpeal 1 The Commercial A Canab Pete Sisson Woodrow ports made dear that the being publicized the feature of the 1963 season The weather forecast calls to a hot and dry field with the temperature near 90 learned to appoint the mayor-elect to office at its first meeting following the election $250 she won for two hours of cotton picking yesterday Congratulating them was Miss Bobby Faya Gamrnel crowned quean of tha contest the' previous right COTTON-PICKING CASH National champion cotton picker Jonnis Weaver of Henderson Tenn and Mrs Martha Adams (rigtit) of Leachvita Ark admire the $1000 he iron and tha Stsff Mtehota to Griffith Leatherwood Charles Oswald Kennedy Administration fears and Thomas Faulkner military leaders in other Commissioner Armour yea- Latin American countries en-terday laid he "willing to couraged by the Dominican assume two jobs to keep peace and Honduran examples might and harmony and not be in- attempt to seize power in their voived in the nations nit that he anticipated no dif- Officiab here already were Acuities debating what if anything they might do to prevent or have no fears er I discourage similar coups in le said have done it be- other notably Ven-ore and we can do it again ezuela Colombia El Salvador say the Mayor took aland Brazil vacation It the same setup as far as I am con- Even as they debated Bra-cerned Izilian President Joao Goulart I served to six weeks urged hb Congress to declare when Mayor Orgill took a va- a 30-day state of siege a form cation and no one was con-of limited martial bw to cope' cerned This only four with a wave of strikes and political unrest spurred by hb Commissioner ref- soaring inflation erences to and I The overthrow and exile' underscored in the Sept 25 of President Juan face of hb earlier remarks Bosch of the Dominican Re that the commission haspuMic followed eight days reached a firm decision to later by the ouster of Hon name the mayor-elect Nov 12 duran President Ramon Vil-to fill the unexpired term 1 feda Morales prompted hur If the mayorilect takes over ried State Department confer an that date Commissioner ences on preventive measures Armour will-have served fori At the same time it 32 days and will have presided learned that Vffleda Morales at four commission meetings had appealed urgently to the As acting mayor Mr Ai United State! early Thmrsday mour will continue at his sal- for assistance as soon ns ary of $12000 a year The to prevent hb salary is $17500 throw but hostile troops al (Additional Stories os Page 15) ready had surrounded the presidential palace State is a two-touchdown favorite but Tuba hu made no effort to conceal its plan to die upset Hurricane partisans and coaches believe they were unduly embarrassed in a 1961 game won by the Tigers 48-12 Coach Glenn team relies almost entirely on the forward pan to advance the ball It hu standout quarterbacks in Jerry Rhome a transfer from Southern Methodist who led the Southwest Conference in passing two years ago and in Bill Van Buitteo the No 1 Oklahoma quarterback during the same campaign It also hu one of the nation's great receivers in end John Simmons who has played only one season with the Hurricanes but still needs to catch only two passu to establish a new school record What running Tulsa plan to do will be mostly handled by Van Burkleo on the rollout and by fullback Henry Dorsch on the quick openers Memphis State in addition to a defense that stifled Southern Mississippi in a 28-7 victory and held mighty Ob Miss to a scoreless deadlock possesses an adequate all-around of- Furb Sheriff A Hinds and City Judge William Ingram Jr remain in the race following Mayor withdrawal Thursday to accept the presidency of Loeb's Laundry-Cleaners 1 rvmrniiarimw Farris until morning commission meeting was expected to have been appointed immediately by the commission to fill Mayor term The commission is empowered by the City Charter to appoint a successor to the Mayor to serve instead of the vice mayor who otherwise automatically takes office Commissioner Farris however suggested as an informal commission conference started in the office that no appointment be made and that Commissioner Armour serve Dec 31 or until the commission appoints The commission then "met officially for 16 minutes in the Courthousd council chamber to accept Mayor Tennessee Farmer Builds Cotton Throne At Contest Gov Frank Clement yesterday accepted the resignation of John Ford Canab from the State Alcoholic Beverage Core mission and named framer Shelby County chancellor and one-time United States attorney Rives Manker to succeed him White I regret the loss of the services of John Ford Canab on the Alcoholic Beverage Commission I am grateful that we have been abb to secure the services of Rives A Manker to thb important position" the Governor said Manker highly regarded in the bgal profusion and his outstanding bade-pound well qualifies him for thb work I have complete confidence in hb ability to discharge the duties of thb difficult assignment in an outstanding Mr Canab submitted hb resignation from the ABC this week because he hu announced a candidate to demphb commissioner of pub lie works He wu chairman of the commission which began functioning with Jegbbtive authority fate July The new commission mere ler and hb colleagues Carl Jones of Johnson CRy'and Rountree of Nashvilb will decide which of them to be the new chairman Born in Whitesburg Tenn the 53-yearold Mr Manker iu lived in Memphb mote of hb life He a Central High School graduate attended Southwestern and received hb bw degree from Southern Law School He wu admitted to the bar in 1945 and hu practiced bw since He associated in hb practice with Hab Jr Expressway Link Will Be Opened Next Wednesday Another section of the new circumferential Memphb expressway will be opened Wednesday at 4 pm The new two-mib section of Interstate 240 will extend the William Fowter expressway from Walnut Grove Road to Summer Avenue (Highway 70) in Eut Memphb -v Alter the ceTemoov Memphb motorists will have 204 miles of the around-the-dty expressway open to traffic The expressway will be complete from the Mississippi state line east and north to Hummer Avenue represent-ing 30 per cent completion of planned expressway construction in Shelby County Gov Frank Clement will head a delegation of officiate coming here from Nashville to the ceremonies Commissioner William Farris whose department hu handled Memphb arrangements to expressway construction will also attend Palmer Brown president of Future Memphb Inc will be master of By ROBERT KOLLAR Fiwb Tha CobumtcW ikapnl-SIrtlWfiU Aifc Burtttf BLYTHEVILLE Ark Oct 4Nimbte-fingered Johnnie Weaver of Henderson Tenn picked 98 pounds of cotton in two hours here-Friday to take top honors in the 24th aimual atkxial Cotton Piddng Contest 'v It was his seventh try to the title As first prize the new champion coition received $1000 in cash and a kiss from thb contest queen Miss Bobbie Faye Gamrnel of Eudora Mo' and Lbander Bobo (rf Blytheville came in fifth Mrs Martha Sr Adams of Leach ville Ark picked 81 pounds of cotton' to win the $250 first place in the division a housewife who picks 420 pounds a day to keep in She said she concenters ted oil keeping- her picking clean and her rows This her third year in the contest She placed third in 1958 Min Fay Smith of Le panto Ark won $50 and second place in the division sj- The 41-yearold fanner said he plans to use hb winnings to help send hb two sons Bennie Weaver 14 and Danny Weaver 11 through coUege When master of ceremonies Bill Kilbbrew of Memphb asked Mr Weaver how he felt about winning all the happy man could say was In' the seven consecutive years that he has entered the contest Mr Weaver has picked a total of 570 pounds of cotton and has placed in Washington officiab felt it was too late to anything short at a military expedition and that move was ruled out Florida? Coast May Be Target Of Killer Flora several previous events but never came in first 1 Miss Gamrnel started the He said he picked constantly contest off Friday morning at to about three days before thejthe 20-acre farm near contest and in hb words here and then was the guest kinda tore up my fingers too of Blytheville Air Force Base doing for lunch Donald Gardner of Dyers-! Friday night the queen was burg Tenn won the second presented at- the Blytheville- Pine Bluff football game and Saturday night the Bill Black combo to provide the music to the final event of the week-long contest the Cotton Ball The two-hour 1 contest (10 am to noon) Friday was sopnsored by the Blytheville Junior Chamber of Com- The Weather DKPABTMENT OP COMMUCB FOR MEMPHIS and Vicinity Had the Ian formal ly appointed Commissioner Armour to the office he would have been forced to vacate the fire and police commissioner post to which he seeking re-election Under the agreement Com misskmer Armour will serve in a dual capacity He said he will work from hb office at Central Police Headquarters and that Mayor staff win continue to function until a new mayor takes office Commissioner Armour win take office at 12:01 am week from today apparently to serve until Nov 12 when the commission will have its first post-election meeting Should Commissioner Farris win the election and be named to Mr unexpired term the commission also would have to appoint an interim public works commission who mote probably would be the commissioner-elect Candidates in the public works race are John Ford He wu named chancellor in 1956 to fill a vacancy create by the (bath of Chancellor Hamilton Littb He held the Coach Billy Murphy employs three Russell Volhner Olie Cordill and Billy Fletcher and all three are outstanding in nearly any phase of the game Fullback Dave CasindH foe major running threat with sophomore tailback Don Mc-Clard replacing the injured Pete Ingram getting hb first Mg chance at establishing himself offensively McClaid wu a defensive standout in the Ob Miss contest 1 Both teams possess big lines but Memphis State hu the advantage of two of them Tulsa the defending Missouri Valley Conference champion and toe preseason favorite to repeat It hu me game on its 1963 record a 23-13 victory over Montana State two weeks ago Picture and Additional Btorg on Pago Belgium To Pay WASHINGTON Oct 4 Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak said Friday after a- conference with President Kennedy that Belgium going to pay for the first time some of the costs of file United peacekeeping operations in the Congo Speak did not specify the amount He said Belgium would discuss the matter with Sec-Gen Thant judicial port until 1958 when he wu defeated to election to the post by Chancellor Robert Hoffmann He wu named acting Federal district attorney the same year He married to' the former Mbs Virginia McCaslin am the couple hu two children He a Mason and a member of the Chickasaw Country Club and hu been active in Community Chest YMCA and Boy Scout work He an elder in Second Presbyterian Church Mr Manker wu admitted to Methodist Hospital to surgery yesterday morning and in good condition Hb office sak Mr Manker will be confined to about a week 1 Picture on Pago Three) In all 007 miles of expressway chartered in Shelby all to be completed by 1967 under a speed-up sponsored by Mr Farris So far 62 million of 179 million dollars allotted to Shelby County hu been spent Ninety per cent of the money comes from' the Federal Government and 10 per cent from the-state' Japan Boooto A-Power PARIS Oct 4 (AP) -Atomic energy will permit Ja- Kn to produce about 12 mil-n kilowatts within several years science minister Eisaku Sato told a science-economics ministerial meeting in Paris Revenge At Last YPSILANTI Mich Oct 4-(AP) Ypsilanti Township mailman David Milligan has turned the tables on the dogs that have been giving him trouble all these years Milligan has been appointed the first dog warden merce It has remained an annual even through the war since it was established 1940 to honor one of Mississippi leading agricultural products Rusk said Friday the aid staffs were being withdrawn because view the recent MIAMI Oct 4 Hurrkane mjjitary with the Flora smashed through East- utmort' The rebel-em mountains into the un Atlantic Friday night polntingL th to Prwtident itell5-mphwi on a mwtii-Kennedy Alliance to Prog westoly course that put South program hb major plan Florida in line to at bast a fOT hemispheric stability and sideswiping blow development At midnight Flora was just The United States earlier north of the Cuban coast had suspended relations in-about 400 miles southeast of eluding aid with Honduras and Miami and churning toward the Dominican Republic The the northwest at 10 mph steps apparently were designed to emuhasize to other Forecasters said it might be prospective Latin American 24 hours before future insurgents that the United course was definite states will deal harshly with The Miami Weather Bu- illegal seizures of power midnight advisory said This attitude was further em-there would be "probable phasized with the State Saturday to South- pertinent announcement that eastern Florida but did not there are no present plans to specify whether these wouldLeognize the new military le to hurricane force winds or I government of the Dominican gab winds cm fringes Republic The question of rec-The kilter storm with atlognition to the military re-east 47 dead in its wake after gime in Honduras also will be slashing over three bnd areas delayed until after tattered Punta Lucrecia on study and with northeastern coast with other governments 115-mph winds as it crossed Meanwhile in Tegucigalpa the mountains of Oriente Prov-capital of Honduras the nee and roared Into the ocean commander assumed again supreme power Friday and re- There was no way of getting potted the test holdouts among complete reports of casualties Villeda civil guards because of skimpy communica-had surrendered tions in Haiti and Cuba but damages obviously had soared CoL Osvaldo Lopez Arellano to the millions of dollars announced he will act as pro-On its pass over Eastern visional president without the Cuba the storm hit the big junta that usually goes along United States naval base at with Latin American military Guantanamo Bay a glancing coups Honduras remained unblow but no damage was re- do- martial bw but plane ported service was restored and in- coming telephone calb were a large and power- accepted Business houses refill hurricane and continued opened and conditions were northwest movement increased reported normal in the coin-the threat to Southeastern I try oublde the capital the advisory said Military broadcasts prom-The Bahamas ised a electoral string of some 700 bbnds but the apparent target of the stretching southeastward off coup already was out of the east coast were bat- way Liberal Modesto Rodas tened down to the full fury Alvarado a foe of army au-of the fixth and mostttonomy and considered cinch vidous hurricane to succeed Villeda Morales as At bate five persona were re- president in elections set to parted killed in Portau Prince Oct 13 left the country with Haiti's capital which was the president spared the full force of the 140-mph winds that Flora Tuiffai flung at small coastal towni Cosmonauts 10 Visit and remote mountain regions WASHINGTON Oct 4 on the Tlburon Peninsula (UPI) Russian cosmonauts The devastation was untold Yuri Gagarin and Valentina on the peninsula where an Tereshkova will atop in New and little change Saturday and Saturday night High near 90 with light and variable wind Sunday fair and warm Son rim acti REPORT Highest 06 degrees st 2:30 pm Lowest degrees at 5:30 am Mean (midway between high and low) 09 Normal mean or date 68 HOUBLY XEADINGS Aodgnment: Mempkio Now- By LYDEL SIMS 'i Lisa Roney 3 of 1831 Myrna Lane may be a littb mixed up about the Weekly Reader her Mg Mother Kelly brings home but every teacher in town thb week end will agree she has a point' She calb it the Wiggly Reader AND SPEAKING of teachers in town Paul Sutherland of Jackson Tenn arrived all steamed up about a new scientific idea he came across in hb reading recently-of the future wSpace ships which gnashed our teeth here before Late time we talked about it I remember somebody said the Japanese sometimes put up sake in edible containers If Tokyo and Cape Canaveral can do it why not Milwaukee and St Louis? If science can make space ships in six delicious flavors holding up the a new era of the digestibb beer can? W1 A i There On The Indie Paget Overseas Duty Pay Cut THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT cuts off overseas duty pay to 375000 enlisted mu stationed in Hawaii and foreign nations 11 BENJAMIN WILLIS whose salary as a public official was second only to that of President Kennedy resigns as superintendent of the Chicago school syitem under pressure of integrationbt demands 5 A LIBERAL POLICY OF EXTENDING service to rural families without electricity similar to that of the Rural Electrification Administration may be instituted by the Memphb Light Gas Water Division Page 21 r-t- I SPORTS -ROGER "MARIS MAY NOT PLAY to the Yankees in to-1 third World Series game against the Dodgers The New York slugger received a bruised arm in defeat 11 AL BALDING AND PHIL RODGERS share 364iob lead In the rich Whitemarsh Open golf tourney In Philadelphia with one shot better than Mason Rudolph and am at Airport aoaa taawarataral kareaiaUr raaiflaa at YEAX 'AOO Y1ST1XDAY oonMi (Map Porecatto on Page U) a somtehing I have dering about tor a long time been -wondering Tommy Jacobs' think what the auto manufacturers can do 1 with that idea" Jia warned gloomily can go park anywhere and make a meal of the dashboard They could wrack the whole car without even having a i Yeah boy I can hear Junior1 at 'the breakfast fable now the morning after hb Mg date about the fender Pop but my girl wanted a plzza and I A ON THE other hand the idea could do wonders for the beer can problem about may have edible instrument Ipaneb bunks walb and so Mr Suthe land told me' It may be the rest eat thing yet to nit the 'ipece age he figures But as junior Idghadwol teacher he ennt help being meiqr about of thekba Lydel Skin -sun note the aide uaea and I hope you can help mi Can you tell me what you cal a rabbit right-angled Curious Of course It's an oariop Not eariop oariop ly ask that rsbMt Dubious! Well actually no But when you discover a wopd ttka tbit you have to figure out soma way to work It Into the i 'Spoilsports LAGOS Nigeria Oct Nigerians complained Friday that their witch doc-ton and rain makers are getting out of hud again Rest-dents of tha Ihialla Onltaha region of Eastern Mgerla said the rainmakers were causing constant rains deliberately spoil the visits of ministers and government officiab and hinder their work Amusements 24 Ann Landers 12 Births 25 Church News 8-9 Comics 21 nutim Cnmnmamt Crossword and Jumble 21 1 18-23 Edttoriab 1 Markets 2243 20 i i McGrory 6 Mid-South Briefs 25 Night Desk 8 Society Women 18-12 Sports 18-20 Television 17 Today In Memphb 25 Want Ads 2543 Weather Blip River 23 White------ "V' estimated 1000 lost their UvesYork Tuesday and Wednesday in 1954 from a hurricane that on their way to an struck pxtt (Map nearly in the same cal conference in Mexico the I Soviet Embassy announced Two) Friday on Page i.

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