The Logan Daily News from Logan, Ohio • Page 1

WEATHER SOVTIIKHN CK.NTKAL OIIIO Mostly fair south, variable cloudiness with occasional snow flurries central and continued cold today. Tonight mostly clear in south and west central, partly cloudy east central and a little colder, low 12-20. One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Year, No. 282 Logan, Ohio, Thursday, December 1, 1960 tf OH Shopping Ml CHRISTMAS Seven Cents Cubans Claim U.S. Rocket Hits Near 3rd Largest City HAVANA.

Cuba (AD-Military authorities at Holguin, in eastern uba. said early today parts of a space rocket fell near the city Wednesday afternoon. There was no damage. A military headquarters spokesman reached by telephone from Havana said rocket fragments, some weighing as much as 40 pounds, fell on a hillside about 10 miles from the renter of the eity. Cuba's third largest, at about 3 ni Farmers reported the incident to authorities.

They said the fragments looked like pieces of a falling airplane. Holguin lies near the north shore of easternmost Oriente Province, roughly 500 miles from Havana. A two-headed I space rocket was fired from Cape Canaveral, Fla at 2 50 The rocket was later destroyed in flight. A spokesman for the semioffi- Cold Grips Major Part Of Nation By Till: ASSOC TATI-: II PRESS Coldest weather of the season chilled the major part of the na tion today. It was bitter cold in northern midwest areas and freezing in Dixie Temperatures plunged to 18 degrees below in Aberdeen.

and in Gainesville, in northwest Florida, the mercury dipped to freezing below seasonal levels. Even Miami felt some of the cool morning air as the mercury hit fid and many Miamians slept under blankets for the first time this fall. The mercury climbed into the low 80s Wednesday. Skies cleared and winds dimin ished in the icy air across most sections from the Rockies to the Midwest. But more snow ami strong winds hit areas in the Great Lakes, the upper Ohio Valley, Western New York and northeastward into Vermont.

COLl'MBl'S. Ohio (AP) Offi cial Weather Bureau summary of Ohio's weather outlook: There was little change in Ohio weather overnight. Snow flurries continued in most areas except in the extreme southwest along the Ohio River. Early morning temperatures today were again in the or low 20s. with Findlay reporting 17 under clear Fair skies in Fair and cold weather gripped the Hocking Valley today.

The temperature at noon was 30 degrees the same as high. Last night's low was 21. cial newspaper Revolucion said markings on the fragments which fell clearly identified them as made in the t'nited States. Sources at Cape Canaveral were concerned lest the rocket fall on Cuban soil and provide a new occasion for Prime Minister Fidel government to assail the United States for against Cuba. The Cuban news agency said rocket debris rained on several settlements around Holguin, causing "loud explosions and great alarm." The incident seemed likely to provide ammunition for fresh attacks on the United States by Cuba in either the United Nations, or the Organization of American States, and possibly in both.

An aide for the U.S. Defense Department said he could not exclude the possibility that remnants of the rocket might have fallen as the Cubans reported certainly are concerned about he said, "and we are investigating it further." At Cape Canaveral, authorities declined comment. The 80 foot Thor Able-Star rock et was destroyed by the range safety officer when a malfunction developed in flight The rocket was to boost two satellites into 203-pound Transit III. a navigation satellite, and a 40- pound radiation-study sphere carried as a hitchhiker. Thor Able-Star was blown up less than three minutes after launch, out of range of ground ob- Daisy Pearsall Of Rockbridge Dies At Age 83 Mrs.

Daisy Huls Pearsall, 83, widow of James P. Pearsall. Rockhridge, died this morning in her home. She had been in failing health for some time, but her death was unexpected. She had spent her entire life in the Rockbridge area She is survived by three daughters.

Mrs. Zetta Mathias and Mrs. Betty Ash. both of Rockhridge and Miss Erma Pearsall of the home; six grandchildren and six grandchildren A son James died in August. She was the daughter of Owen ami Susan Huls and was the last of a family of eight children.

Her husband died in 1939 She was a member of the Advent Christian Church of Rockbridge. Funeral services will be Saturday at 2 pm at the church with the Rev. Curtis Kirk officiating. Burial will be in Eairview Cemetery. Friends may call at the Hcin- lein Funeral Home after 2 m.

Friday. servers. But the Defense Department delayed 40 minutes tioforc reporting that the satellites failed to achieve orbit. It was another hour and 20 minutes before it was announced the rocket had been deliberately destroyed. Newsmen were frustrated in attempts to learn the reason for the delay.

At a prelaunch press briefing, reporters had questioned launch authorities extensively about the intended path over Cuba and the possibility of it landing there in case of trouble They ducked the questions. Only one other American rocket has flown over Cuba, That was another Thor Able Star which lofted a pair of satellites into successful orbit last June. Sources reported then that the countdown was delayed twice while launch officials and State Department representatives conferred by phone on the reliability of the rocket. Water Bills Mailed; New Rates Charged Cards for current water and sewer rental bills have been places! in the mail, Mrs. Garnet Tucker, city water office clerk, reported today.

The new hills are the first based on the new water rates and cover the three months period from July 1 to Oct. 1. Sewer rates remain unchanged Water rates were raised by city officials this summer for the purpose of providing funds to modernize the city water system, such as water line extensions, electrification of the waterworks and construction of a reservoir. The new rates are: First 15.000 gallons at $1 per thousand gallons, next 22.000 gallons at 78 cents per thousand, next 38,000 gallons at fiO cents per thousand, next 300 000 gallons at 42 cents per thousand, next 375.000 gallons at 35 cents per thousand gallons ami 26 cents per thousand for all water used over 750.000 gallons. Mrs.

Tucker reported the collection period will last from today through Dec 15. After that date, a 10 per cent penalty will be added If a bill is not paid by Dec. 30. the water service will bo shut off. Water office hours are 9 a m.

to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to Saturday. Soviets Launch 3rd Space Ship Into Orbit 2 Dogs Given Ride In Latest Vehicle Zipping Around Earth State Dept. Post Goes To 'Soapy 7 Reds Change Ministers LONDON radio disclosed today that Marshal Andrei Grechko was acting as Soviet defense minister, but gave no explanation of the whereabouts of Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky.

i the Cincinnati area permitted the temperature to drop to 20. Cleveland and Columbus, with cloudy conditions, reported 26 and 25, respectively Snow flurries will continue today except in the extreme south portion. Clearing is forecast for the remainder of the state tonight ex cept in the extreme northeast where snow flurries will continue through Friday. Wednesday night, in the snow belt of Ohio, the area east of Cleveland, depths averaged 3 to 5 inches, with 1 to. 3 inches in Greater Cleveland.

Unlimited Long-Distance Calls At Monthly Rate Eyed TOKYO violent off season Typhoon Ophelia, carrying 161 mile center winds, battered Pacific atolls today and headed for the Philippines. All buildings on the tiny U.S. administered IJlithi atoll were re ported destroyed, except for a concrete Coast Guard station. NEW A sweeping change in long distance telephone service is being readied for the near future. In effect, it will mean extension of the local or area calling long-dis lance calls at a flat monthly rate.

The giant Bell System of American Telephone A Telegraph Co is working on such a long distance zone calling idea and hopes to have it ready for submission to the Federal Communications Commission in two weeks. declines to elaborate on details of longdistance zone calling until the projvosal is actually filed. are absolutely prohibited from discussing any details," a spokesman said However, the plan under consideration would permit a New York telephone subscriber, for example, to buy a service for a fixed monthly rate that would permit an unlimited number of calls to, say, Chicago. Or, if he estimates he will lie making 25 calls to Chicago monthly, he would able to buy a service at a specified fee for possibly 30 three minute calls to that city or any other phone number in the same zone. The new system would divide the country into six zones.

Customers could buy service to any one or combination of zones or even all six. For a specified fee that may run under $3,000 a month for one telephone line, a subscriber could make an unlimited number of three-minute calls to anywhere in the country. Overtime calls would be charged for on a time talked basis. Whether the system would result in lower telephone hills remains uncertain MOSCOW (AP) A third So viet spare ship carrying animal passengers was launehed into or bit today. The Russians said the vehicle was shot aloft for research.

Two dogs were alxiard the 5- ton orbiting vehicle, Tass said. There was no word on whether Soviet scientists will try to bring either the dogs or the ship back to earth. Two canine passengers were returned from orbit in An gust. Laika, the first Soviet space dog sent up two years ago. jx-r- ished in space.

The announced aims of vehicle, its equipment and even its weight was matched closely by the August space flight. A series of musical chimes, traditional for important an nouncements here, preceded a midday broadcast of the flight communique over Radio Moscow. The announcement also was carried in the overseas service of the Soviet news agency Tass. The 5 ton vehicle, Tass said, also carried other animals, insects and plants for Soviet scientists to study their condition via radio-television and other tering devices aboard. Its exact counting the carrier rocket that boosted into final listed at 10,037 pounds.

The dogs, latest in a series of Soviet canine space travelers starting with the space dog Laika, were named Pchelka (Little Bee) and Mushka (Little Fly). It was described as the space ship" by Tass. The launching was the first space exploit announced by the Soviet Union since Aug 21 when the U.8.S R. it had sent a 41 ton space ship into orbit and safely recovered its cargo of two dogs and some rats, mice, flies and plants. The two dogs.

Belka and ka, were later exhibited in their space suits before newsmen in Moscow. The Soviets said the animals were catapulted from the space ship and were landed gent ly in a capsule at a speed of 13 to 18 miles per hour. The first Soviet space ship was put into orbit last May 15. Altogether the Soviet Union has placed seven satellites in orbit around the earth since she opened the space age 38 months ago In addition it has a cosmic payload orbiting the sun. (The United States orbited nearly 30 earth satellites and two satellites around the sun.

(In Washington a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the agency could not make any offi cial comment on the Soviet launching until it received more details But he added that on first glance the Soviet project not look like anything new U.N. Awaits Kennedy Views Assembly To Recess Until Inauguration Hartman Seeks Hike To Be African In Sheriffs Budget Affairs Chief UNITED NATIONS. N. General Assembly is mng an unusual winter reet it the views of the new aw nedy ton. The state mier th th (AP) plants to Ken- ministration in Washing- assembly, still in sort of a of shock since Soviet Pre- Nikita tablo- nping antics at the start of session, has not taken action on a single major in the past two months.

It has given up hope' of ending its business on the target date of Dec. 17. Most delegates feel that the United States cannot make any hard decisions until Se'n. John F. Ke nnedy takes over the presidency.

They do not 99 nation assembly to reconvene before the middle of February. Many hope that with a new U.S. president not bound by the commitments of the Eisenhower administration, the Soviet Union may a more conciliatory position on its major conflicts with the United States. So far the major accomplishments of the assembly have been the perennial decision to shelve Communist China's bid for membership and seat the Congo delegation backing President Joseph Kasavubu. But other debates have so bogged down the schedule that night and Saturday meetings are set in the Trusteeship Committee and the assembly itself in a drive to clean up a bulging agenda of colonial issues before the recess in mid December.

Still coming up for discussion are acrimonious debates on Hun gary and Tibet, and resolutions by the Soviet Union and Cuba eusing the United States of gression. ac- ag- Unemployed Ranks Continue To Climb COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) The ranks of unemployed work ers continued to swell as November draws to a close, the Bureau of Unemployment Compensation has reported. Claimants unemployed a week or more as of last Saturday nuni be red This compares with an average of 90.936 in November 1959. The all time high for number of claimants in Ohio since the 1939 unemployment law went into effect was an average of 218,422 a week in April 1958. New claimants last week totaled 27,245.

'1, 2 And 3' Rob Couple In West Jeff WEST JEFFERSON. Ohio (AP) prominent Jefferson druggist and hi-, wife hurried to police headquarters shortly before midnight and told of being robbed about $10,000 by three hooded gunmen Merrill Mellott, 73, and his wife Beth. 65, said the referred to each other as and waiting at the Mellott home when the couple arrived alxnit 10 m. They took drugstore receipts and telephone bill collection money and Mrs Mellott purse, then forced Mellott to a safe in the home. The couple said the three wore black hoods and gloves, carried revolvers and kept the house blacked out throughout the rob- relying on flashlights They tied the Mellotts with rope and masking tape liefore departing.

Mellott freed himself and his wife about an hour later. men also called one another and the couple said. Mellott is well known in central Ohio political circles and was elected a delegate to the 1960 Republican Convention. Sheriff elect Paul Hartman presented a tentative 1961 budget of approximately $36,000 to the Hocking County commissioners today. This is about $10,000 more than appropriated this year for out going Sheriff A J.

Waldron. Hartman asked that two new cruisers be purchased for the department. with the 1958 cruiser to held in reserve. The commissioners discussed the possibility that one new car could I purchased at the start of the year, and a second next summer if funds permit. Hartman told the Ixvard he will appoint three new deputies to establish his force, and indicated would like to add a fourth deputy later.

Purchases of new uniforms and Girl Killed, Boy Hurt In Odd Shooting URBANA. Ohio police were faced today with a puzzling double shooting in which a bullet went through the head of 17-year old Louise Blosser into the brain of 14 year old Walter Slone. The Blosser girl, a senior at Urbana High School, died instantly Wednesday night. Slone is in critical condition at Hospital in Columbus. Police Chief F.

I). Storts said it is not known who pulled the trigger. The weapon was a 38 caliber pistol, and the shooting occurred as the pair sat in the lxxlroom of the home of the mother, Mrs Della Slone, a widow. Storts said the teen agers ran away to Kentucky about six weeks ago in an attempt to get married, but returned after a week or so. The Slone family originally is from Ky.

The wounded youth is an eighth grader. Mrs. Slone was sitting in the living room Wednesday night, and the bedroom door was open, but she was unable to shed any light on the mysterious shooting, police said. maintenance of the jail building were also discussed briefly. "I know asking for a lot, but I expect to at these things." the sheriff elect stated.

He touched on plans for patroling and traffic control. "We want you to have a good department." Commissioner Otto Shaw said, and stressed the board will cooperate as much as possible to accomplish this aim. Kennedy Says Job Is Second To None Bobby Darin, Starlet Plan To Be Married PARSIPPANY, Bobby Darin and starlet Sandra Dee obtained a marriage license here Tuesday. The former Bayonne, ,1., girl gave her name as Sandra Douvan; home, Beverly 1 fills. Calif age.

18. Today's News In Brief NEW YORK (AP) A single railroad vv i would stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the wide Missouri was outlined in detail Wednesday. The road would result from merging the Norfolk Western Railway, the Nickel Plate Road ami the Wabash Railroad. Previously, a Nickel Plate and merger was under discussion Bringing the Wabash into it, a new development, meant the proposed road would run farther west than any other Atlantic rail. LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo Joseph bu today broke off diplomatic relations with the United Arab Republic and ordered Ambassador Murard Ghaleb and all his staff to leave the Congo immediately.

In a letler to A R. President Abdel Gamal Nasser. Kasavubu said Ghaleb had plotted to overthrow the in the Congo and sought to encourage ex Premier Patrice Lumumba. CARACAS. Venezuela (AP) Hard core leftist students, trading gunfire with troops, still held out in their self-styled dormitory at Caracas University today.

Disorders spread to half a dozen other cities. President Romulo Betancourt's moderate Socialist government cracked down hard on his leftist enemies in an effort to crush the week long insurrection of Com- PORTLAND, Ore (AP) Hope slowly faded for the life of Beverly Ann Allan. 19, a Washington State University sophomore from Port Townsend, Wash, who disappeared while on a Saturday night date with Larry Ralph Peyton. 19, a Portland Slate College student. WASHINGTON (AD President elect John Kennedy today picked Gov.

G. Mennen (Soapy) Williams of Michigan to be assistant secretary of state for African affairs. Kennedy called the job second in importance to no other position in the new administration. It was his first major appointment outside of his White House staff. Speculation has been raised as to whether a Negro might receive the post.

Kennedy made the announcement on the doorstep of his Georgetown home with Williams standing at his side. They had conferred at a breakfast meeting. Williams, who has served six terms, will retire as governor of Michigan Jan. 1. The announcement bore out advance indications that Kennedy had passed the talking stage and was at the point of making actual official assignments.

In addition to Williams, he had appointments today with Robert A Lovett, former secretary of Defense; Gov. Abraham A. Ribicoff, and Rep. Stuart L. Udall, D-Ariz.

All have figured in Cabinet and sub Cabinet talk. Kennedy and Williams without topcoats or hats in freezing weather while Kennedy read a statement. "I have asked Gov. Williams to accept a position of responsibility second to none in the new administration assistant secretary of state for Africa." he said. "African countries make up one quarter of the nations in the General Assembly of the United Nations.

The continent of Africa is now a giant testing ground to determine whether freedom can be maintained in conditions where great masses of people live on the marginal edge of existence, struggling against illiteracy, disease. malnutrition and civil division." Kennedy went on to say that the fate of Africa now is the object of "a giant Communist and that its future affect vitally the-security of every citizen of the United States When Kennedy concluded his statement, Williams read one saying he is ready to serve the United States "wherever and in whatever capacity I can best serve and I am called upon to Williams returned Monday from a tour of Argentina and Brazil with a number of other governors. GOP To Investigate Alleged Vote Frauds In Election Henry M. JacJ nounced today Democratic effective Jan. an- (AD D-Wa he will resign as ational chairman, inauguration day Little People Gather For Small Talk LAS VEGAS.

Nev. people can handle big jobs. the theme of a convention that by all odds is one of the zaniest this gambling resort has seen. Bartenders, blackjack dealers and bellboys are baffled by the comings and goings of 300 men and women a minute," as one said. the first annual convention of the National Association of Little People of America.

"Our organization includes both midgets and dwarfs," said Bob Brower, 33, a l)es Moines, Iowa, supermarket operator "We prefer to be called little people." And little they ure. At 4 10, Bob is the tallest of a group that scales down to 2 11 That's hip high to a middling man and a clean six inches above a conventional office desk. never spot the littlost chap behind a waste basket. wife, Marcella, a dancer, is 4-1H. Always keeping an eye out for the house, the Hacienda Hotel built ramps and steps for its pint- size guests at the dice tables and other games of chance.

The little people mind gagging it up. They posed with eight in a bed They welcomed the platforms around the take yer money gadgets with which this gambling center abounds. But with their laughs, the delegates are serious about some things. why here. "We want to make the big people understand that little people think the same as they do," one delegate said.

we want to show we can do a man-sized job as well as the next fellow. There are lots of things that require a 6 reach." What sort of jobs do they fill? Delegates include veterinarians, commercial artists, a lawyer, an industrial engineer, salesmen, wrestlers and entertainers among other things. What do the conventioners chat about? One of them shrugged. just small said. Hollywood Disagrees With Ban By Church HOLLYWOOD.

Calif (AP) "We do not agree that Hollywood has made a and unprecedented' departure from previously accepted moral says the Association of Motion Picture Producers. The association commented Wednesday on a statement issued in Washington in which a committee of bishops urged the 40 million U.S. Roman Catholics to stay away from movies not meeting acceptable standards. Student Performs Well LOS ANGELES (AP) Police officer A. Chitwood was late for class at an auto theft insti tute at lxis Angeles City College.

reason: he was arresting tho driver of stolen ear. Red China To Buy Sugar From Cuba TOKYO (AP) na agreed today tons of Cuban malizing a in Havana agreement, at leas) ha gar a year The deal New Chin; -Communist Chito buy a million gar 1961. for- five year pact signed ast July The original which stands, was for i a million tons of su- was announced by the News Agency in a broadcast from Peiping. The agency said Cuba also will get loan credits totaling 240 million rubles $60 million by Communist reckoning. A joint communique signed by Maj.

Ernesto Guevara, head of National Bank and the country's economic chieftain, and Chinese Finance Minister Li Hsien men pledged closer friendship, the agency said. NEW YORK (AP) The New York Herald Tribune reported the Republican party will announce today a major undertaking to investigate alleged vote frauds in tho presidential election. The newspaper, in a dispatch from Washington by Robert J. Donovan, said Sen. Thruston B.

Morton. Republican national chairman, will announce a committee of high party officials from all sections of the country The Herald Tribune story eon tinucd: Morton himself will chairman of the committee, and he will soon set out to visit states, including New Jersey Tex as and Illinois, where elect John F. lead has been challenged by Republicans on grounds of fraud, stolen votes and so on. other things, the committee will be charged with raising funds for legal work and investigation. As a starter, the Republican National Committee has already received $15,000 in contributions.

The newspaper said that Republicans sent investigators into eight states after the election. It continued: preliminary reports are now in, and on the basis of the findings, the decision was made to go the in ing Son. The final action was taken Wednesday at a secret meeting between Morton and Leonard Hall, former Republican national chairman who was ice President Richard M. Nixon's campaign manager, the Herald Tribune said. Will a recheek of ballots in Chicago have any effect on the That question loomed larger to day in the wake of Gov.

William statement that the Illinois Electoral Board may not certify the 27 Democratic electors if and tangible" evidence of vote frauds is pre sented, Stratton, a Republican, is chairman of the GOP dominated board. The function is to canvass tho vote reports from the 102 counties and make an official proclamation of the results. Reports from the 102 counties show President elect John F. Kennedy is entitled to the electoral votes on the basis of his defeat of Richard M. Nixon by 8.849 votes.

Across the nation. Kennedy has 300 electoral votes. If the 27 from Illinois were withheld, he 'till would have more than the 269 required, if there are no shifts elsewhere. or the next day. kson made the armounee- after a 20 minute conference President-elect John Kenin the Senate Office Build- men1 1 1 li nedy mg.

He recalled the chairman: cratic Nationa Angeles, he to serve only the election. that in acceptim hip at the Demo Convention in lac id said he plannee until shortly aftei Potteries, Union Reach Agreement CLEVELAND (AD At-ivo- mont on a new year contract covering 4,900 pot 1 cry workers in nine dinnerware plants was reached Wednesday night about two hours before a midnight strike deadline greeim nt, announced by Mediator Clair Wdlrneth, for no immediate wage but three-cent hourly in- one year from today. An five cent hourly payment is earmarked for insurance, health and welfare, making over all vahie of the two year package about eight cents an hour Willimclh said Current average hourly rates are $2 25 for men and 69 for women. At the start of bargaining association had projxised potting wages hack to the 1957 level, while union sought "a stantial increase." The a Federal provides increase FP SP additiona.