The Albuquerque Tribune from Albuquerque, New Mexico • 1

i mu he AlMquerqie Tribime LOCAL FORECAST) Briefly equally winds and an occasional thunderstorm this afternoon and evening and again tomorrow VoL 37 No 91 PnMUMd Dtlly Albuquerque New Mexico Monday July 20 1959 KaUrwl Hand Out awttar hn Office Albuquerque 1C 32 Pages in Four Sections ersoll yni verse INSIDE YOUR TRIBUNE TODAY Albuquerque Catholic Girl Ihanges Mind US Aid Program In Free Viet Nam Has Become Fiasco Western Big 3 Offer Compromise Comics D-7 Crossword Puzzle D-7 Editorials B-2 Ferguson B-2 Fleeson B-2 Harrison C-6 Inquiring Reporter C-4 Markets A-i My Day C-2 Off the Beaten Path C-7 Patterns D-7 Pony Express B-2 Robb B-2 Ruark B-2 Sports C-l-2 TV Criticism A-7 TV Programs -A-7 TV Scout A-7 Weather Data C-2 Wilson B-2 News A-4 hCily Accused Of 'Working Men Like Dogs' Gl Forum Asks Changes for Sanitation Men (First Article of a Series) By ALBERT COLEGROVE Seripps-Howard Staff Writer SAIGON Viet Nam July The American aid program in little free Viet Nam is an outrageous scandal The true story of this footless fiasco has been tidden from the American public which is paying for it bureaucrats who abide the mildest criticism have tucked the damning facts away in secret files Meantime their press agents have produced bales oi rose-colored propaganda crammed with half-truths about here In less than five years taxpayers have spent roughly $2 billion to help this newborn anti -Communist nation about half toe size of New Mexico and with a population roughly equal to that of the metropolitan New York City area Only in Korea have we spent more Wasted Millions Drue enough we have accomplished our main mission Wa have kept Viet Nam from Communist conquest and from economic collapse But at what a cost! have wasted many millions of dollars and still are a gutless foolish made-in-Washington policy of forked over bundles of American cash to toe fledgling inexperienced Wet Nam gov- See AID Page A-7 More Sessions Due on ACF Plant Strike Men Who Walked Out Criticize Working Conditions ACF Industries management and representatives of the striking Machinists Local 794 were expected to meet with federal labor mediators either in separate or joint sessions late this afternoon Meanwhile pickets were pa troling the ACF plant at 336 Woodward Rd SE Union members voted to strike Saturday morning Many workers stood by the plant area or gathered a nearby lunch room A sheriffs car also was stationed toe area toil morning Working Conditions Church Bans Swim Suit Appearances LONG BEACH Calif uly 20 UPi Miss New Mexico who once said she was in the Miss Universe contest to stay despite her opposition pulled out today Curvy Sue Ingersoll 22-year-old brown-eyed redhead from Albuquerque had been told by her Catholic archbishop at Santa Fe not to enter as she would be required to wear a bathing suit in public He said this is improper Today the day before competition actually begins Miss Ingersoll waa scheduled to give statement explaining her withdrawal It was not however forthcoming A spokesman said she might have one later this afternoon "Own Free Pageant Director Oscar Mein-hardt said: "Sue is withdrawing of her own free will we very much regret decision On toe other hand it may be much better for all concerned for any question having to do with an individual's belief or private conviction has no place in toe (At Santa Fe a spokesman for toe archbishop told toe Associated Press today: sorry but well have to give you the same answer as before We have no The office had been asked to comment on the withdrawal of Miss Ingersoll) Miss Ingersoll a hair stylist in a beauty parlor in her home town issued four-page statement when she arrived In it she said: "For toe good of my church and in the interest of understanding between all of us feel 1 have the serious responsibility to continue I do not feel it is in any way immoral Where the contest takes place Catholics are allowed to By the latter remark toe apparently meant that many other Catholic girls are contestants Actually about 25 per cent of the 79 contestants ere Catholic No others have indicated they came here over church opposition Of the stand taken by Archbishop Edwin Byrne of New Mexico toe said: "I am not under threat of excommunication erroneously blisses Studio Tour The penalty toe said would GENEVA July 20 Sov iet Foreign Minister Andrei A Gromyko was reported today to have rejected tentatively a western proposal for a continuing conference of foreign ministers to work on a German peace settlement The proposal was made in an effort to get Gromyko to cut his price for a truce in the Berlin crisis Gromyko has demanded toe big powers turn over committee of East and West Germans toe problems of unification and German peacemaking during an 18-month moratorium in toe Berlin dispute Secretary State Christian A Herter presented toe western compromise offer The purpose of toe Soviets in putting forward toe proposal ia all too clearly to perpetuate toe partition of Germany" Herter said in a speech to the Big Four in a formal session at toe Palace of Nations Increasing Contacts He then made toe western counterproposal which would retain direct big power respon sibility for German unification and a peace treaty but would specifically provide for increasing contacts between West Germany and Communist East Germany Here is the text of the proposition which has West German approval and was reluctantly agreed to by France Saturday after a week of western disagreement: "The Geneva conference of foreign ministers as at present constituted shall continue in being for the purpose of considering the German problem as a whole Other Questions "It should also consider questions relating to toe extension and development of contacts between toe two parts of Germany "For these purposes toe conference shall meet from time to time at such level and at such place as are agreed "The conference may also make special arrangements for the consideration of particular questions arising out of its terms of reference defined above" Under toe western plan toe Big Four could direct the West and East Germans to form a subcommittee to discuss specific items But any decision would still rest with the Big Four sacraments of her church if she appears in a public swim suit contest This is how Miss Ingersoll who was Miss New Mexico looked yesterday as she rode on a float in the pageant parade (UPI Telephoto) QUITS CONTEST: Sue Simone Ingersoll of Albuquerque today withdrew from the Misa Universe contest at Long Beach Calif Miss Ingersoll is a Catholic and rules of the Santa Fe archdiocese can deny her the at in at "This is not a wage dispute working conditions fighting a striker commented today Atkins of Albuquerque and George Hillenbrand of San Francisco federal mediators had hopes of some additional negotiations before the day is over Jimmy Jones grand lodge representative for the union said "We're subject to call by the federal However he would not comment further on the strike situation Both ACF and the union have declared a "news There has been almost no official word on just what the union is asking or what the company has offered Reportedly wage increases and fringe benefits concerning vacations sick leave holidays and hospitalization are concerned Ivan Hayes who said he is a striking machinist at the ACF Industries plant said today think we will stay out until we get what we want from man agement" Hayes said "What management offers is an insult to the working man I think there are 1200 men at the plant who agree with He said he was referring to the flexible See ACF Page A-2 Gov Long Is En Route Here Must (Put Up on Visit City Plans No Prolest By BOB BRASIIEAK Charging that the city makes men of the Sanitation Department "work like toe GI Forum has asked City Manager Edmund Engel to make changes in working condition for garbage collectors Vicente Ximenes business adviser for Albuquerque Forum No 2 outlined the feelings of toe men in a letter today to the city manager He said forum members working for toe city agreed at a recent meeting to a request that Engel change the 10-hour working day and the requirement that sanitation men pick up trash from backyards "The request is to have thej owner place the garbage can in his front yard ready for pick-up on appointed days' Ximenes wrote Termed Logical Changing the pickup point from toe back yards of homes to the front yard waa requested for three reasons "logical from the standpoint of everyone Ximenes said 1 Too many workers are being penalized by complaints of owners who claim the doors to their back yards are left open and pets escape 2 The type of garbage allowed in cans includes everything from weeds grass dippings rock dirt and of course garbage These garbage cans must be carried by one person who at times must make two trips into a back yard to haul out the distances of 50 to 300 feet he charged 3 The men are getting injured as See CITY Page A-2 Squally Winds Forecast Here Board Invites Gov Burroughs The city will not appear before the Public Service Commission to give testimony on gas rate increases requested by the Southern Union Gas Co Maurice Sanchez City Commission chairman said today he felt that the City Commission could not rightfully enter any opinion since the gas rates are not within their domain "We could give testimony as individuals but pretty hard to shed your official capacity even in trying to give such an opinion as an he said City Manager Edmund Engel said the city only uses gas for heating its buildings and in the old water plant "We plan on appearing at the hearings either as a customer or as a representative of city he said The board of directors of the Girl's Welfare Home today asked Gov John Burroughs to attend a board meeting to help make the decision on a proposed $130000 gymnasium for the home A spokesman for the board which met today said Gov Burroughs contacted by phone reported he would let them know when he could meet with them in the near future The funds available for the gymnasium total about $150-000 The board also considered but did not act on plans for a buzzer system and other safety measures needed to fight toe fire hazard A representative of Britt Electric presented a plan that would cost about $35000 See SUE Page A-S Briefly squill? winds late this afternoon and this evening and again tomorrow afternoon will be accompanied by occasional thunder storms the forecaster said The forecaster declined to make a gueas on what the wind velocity would be this evening But it was recalled that no wind was predicted for Saturday Not only did the wind show up it also hit 62 miles per hour Last paak velocity was 25 mph It will be hot again though The high today wai expected to be 92 degrees The peak yesterday was 91 Another high of 91 is predicted tomorrow Lows this morning were 54 in the Valley and 62 at the Airport Early tomorrow morning the lows will be 56 and 62 There also was a trace of rain here yesterday The normal mean tempera ture for today ia 79 degrees The extremes for this date: 98 in 1952 and 58 in 1958 The relative humidity at 9 am was 46 per cent Sunrise tomorrow will be at and sunset at 7:17 By A DE COLA Tribane MKIral Eillar Pleasure-loving Earl Long the cussing-and-fussing governor of Louisians may give Albuquerque the pleasure of his company for a or for the at the Hilton Hotel The visiting chief executive who on occasion has threatened to shoot newspapermen covering his trips to El Paso Juarez and points in between was expected to arrive here at pm with the dozen people in his party His party is carrying several guns press dispatches said Sheriff John A Flaska said that his deputies patrolling the country area along US 85 over which the governor waa travelling would extend' every courtsey to the governor and his party Put Up Guns Asked if Gov Long would be relieved of his guns the sheriff said: "The state law permits people to carry a gun while traveling But if he checks into hotel here he will have to put up hit guns wherever he stops which would be keeping the guns in his City police apparently were not going to roll out the red carpet for the Louisiana governor "He ia just another tourist coming to said Police Chief Paul Shaver He will get no special attention or priv iliges unless we get orders to extend them either from the city manager or the public safety director" State Police already had been alerted to offer to Gov Long and his party on his travels in the state But Chief A (Penn) Winston said he had received no ACCIDENT FACTS In Albuquerque 1158 acrid rule to date 4695 Number same date 1958 2819 Injuries to date 716 Deaths tola year 15 Deaths same date 1958 I Misses Big Day Bill Is Passed SANTA FE July 20 Members of toe New Mexico congressional delegation informed Gov John Burroughs today the Indian sanitation facilities bill passed the House and now goes to President Eisenhower for signing It provides for federal aid on sewerage facilities on Indian reservations Planning Board Postpones Meeting The City Planning Commission meeting slated for tonight has been deferred to July 27 Planning Director Cob-lentz said all items advertised for hearing at meeting will be heard next They Give Reasons Man Is Injured Jack Trimmer about 30 of 1516 Elizabeth NE is reported in condition at Bataan Memorial Methodist Hospital today after a single car accident near Edgewood early today 37 Foreign Born Get American Citizenship This was to have been a big day for pretty little Ilona Bostic the 5-year-old adopted daughter of Mr and Mrs Karl Bostic of Corrales Ilona who was born in Germany waa to have become an American citizen in Federal Court ceremonies today and had been looking forward to it for a long time Ilone was not present when the oath of allegiance was administered to toe new citizens however Instead she was confined at Presbyterian Hospital with severe throat wounds More than a week ago the child was attacked by a St Bernard dog while visiting friends in Albuquerque The dog inflicted such severe wounds about her throat that it was feared for a while that she would never be able to talk again Ilona ia making good progress at the hospital but she probably will be there at least another two weeks Her American citizenship win have to come another day SUNSHINE CHART This is the 201st day of 1939 The sun has shon? here on 199 days during the yean 886 Motorists Given Citations SANTA FE July 20 (UPI) State Police Saturday and Sunday cited 888 drivers for traffic violations and warned 340 to fix defective vehicles In all 35189 cars and trucks were stopped at roadblocks at the New Mexico borders and across the state The drivers were warned to observe the traffic laws A (Penn) Winston State Police chief felt his was a contributing factor in a deathless weekend sons given for wanting to become citizens of the United States: Mrs Anastacia Monahan 25 Ireland: "I want to belong to this wonderful Michele Colombino 48 Italy: "1 like it here very Mrs Ann Mari Cronin 21 Germany: "My husband and children are Americans We are not as free in Germany as we are Mrs Cissia Violet James 64 England: "I have been here more than 20 years and want to spend toe rest of my Ufe Mrs Kathlyeen Maureen Swi-hart 26 Scotland: "My husband and baby are Children Are Americans Mrs Helen Pavletich 70 Yugoslavia: 1 have been here 37 years My seven children art Mrs Josephine Margaret New 23 England: This ia a request for his men to escort toe visitor and hla party and would not do so unless he-quested Chief Winston also said that toe driver must obey all traffic laws while traveling in toe state He said See LONG Page A-2 Thirty-seven foreign born residents of New Mexico including four children were granted American citizenship here today during Federal Court ceremonies in which each of toe adults explained to US Judge Carl A Hatch why he or she wanted to become an American citizen Judge Hatch told tha prospective new citizens before toe oath of allegiance waa administered to them that he wanted each of the adults to rise as his name was called and tell toe court why he wanted to become an American citizen "Something Explaining that this procedure was "something for Citizens Day ceremonies Judge Hatch said he wanted toe' citizenship candidates to become a part of the ceremonies themselves instead of sitting and listening to speeches and music as in toe past These wer some of tot sea BASEBALL TODAY Hurt in Crash Lee Charles Erisman 3218 La Veta NE 18-year-old employe of the Santa Fe Railway was injured when his motorcycle and a car collided at the intersection of Second and Constitution NW shortly after gn today police said aon of Santa Fe a native of France Mrs Hans-Joachim Schmidt 626 Candelaria NW from Germany Joseph Smolders 231 taguayra NE from Belgium Ann Marie Cronin 3012 Carolina NE Germany and Mr Schmidt Germany (Staff photo) GRANTED AMERICAN CITIZEN-SHIP: Five of the 37 foreign-born New Mexico residents who were granted American citizenship here are shown chatting after the Federal Court ceremonies They are (left to right) Mrs Sophie Helene Narvaiz National Los Angeles at San Francisco (starts late) Chicago at St Louis (night) Only games scheduled American No games scheduled See Page A-t.