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WEATHER Little temperature change tonight. Thursday cloudy with snow changing to rain. Temperatures: 20 at 6 a. 28 at noon. Yesterday: 31 at noon.

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54 PHONE ED 2-4601 SALEM, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1959 18 PAGES FIVE CENTS Kids Don't Tease Leetonia Police Chief's Pet Seven-Foot 'Gator Will Eventually End Up In Zoo By JIM WILLIAMS Some people have dogs as pets. Others prefer cats, parakeets or perhaps hamsters. But such creatures are too tame for Henry Gibson, Leetonia police chief. His pet is a toothy, seven-foot- long alligator which he calls, aptly enough, "The Chief Gibson, 74. an ardent sportsman and photographer, shipped the alligator home while he was vacationing in Key Largo.

17 years ago, when it was only five inches long and barely out of its shell. "My original thought was to have the alligator made into a lamp for the mantle in my living room when got to be about five feet long. I gave up the idea, though, when my wife. Marie, died in Gibson said. IX THE WINTER the alligator stays in a pool in a fenced-off room in the basement of home at 236 Ridge St.

it gets hungry it puts its front feet up on the wooden part of the door and Gibson said. "We feed him ground meat and sometimes fish in the winter and mainly fish during the he continued. In the summer Gibson keeps the Turn to PET, Page 8 DiSalle Recommends Two-Year Tax Increase Bonds May Finance Purchase City To Buy Street Sweeper, Grader Acting on a recommendation of Fred Koenreich finance committee chairman, City Council Tuesday night passed unanimously as emergency measures two ordinances authorizing Harry Vincent, city service director, to advertise for bids and enter into contracts for the purchase of a street sweeper and grader for the street department. The ordinances provide that the city spend no more than $7,000 for the grader. Although the sweeper price was not stipulated.

Vincent told Council the cost should not exceed $11,000. The money to purchase the equipment probably will be ed through issuance of municipal authorized by Council without a 1 he had been informed by County bonds within the 10 mill limi-! vote of municipal residents. Auditor I. J. Vorndran that no tation.

1 Financing the purchase of the more revenue is available for the Passage of the measures comes equipment in this manner would on the heels of much discussion encumber the general fund no by Council on the fiscal con- more than in recent years, since Coyne met with Vorndran in Lis- dition. the city reduced its bonded in- bon during the past week. Mr. Koenreich pointed out to debtedness by about one half Less Relief Money city. Criswell and City Auditor Helen Council that the ordinances are mill during the past year, Koen- not final steps to purchase of the reich said.

equipment. Before the transaction can be consumated, he said, Council must place the necessary money in fund. He said issuance of bonds under the 10 mill limitation was the only method of obtaining the money open to the city at the present time. Bonds within this limit may be $330 Million Proposed Boost forTaxpayers Governor Cites Ohio Financial Status in Budget for State Criwell said he was alsc told that the city will get $5,000 less in He declared Council will have poor relief money this year than to determine in the near future it received during 1958. the term of the bonds and the mil-! He added that starting this week has come to the lage with which they are to be some able bodied men who are on hitter end of an 11-year spree of retired.

relief will start working out their spending more each year than it hopes of securing more relief allotment in municipal jobs Another one- money from the county were shat- at the rate of $1.50 per hour. tered by a report from Ja -------Criswell, city treasurer, who said Turn to CITY, Page 8 COLUMBUS, Ohio Pioneer Nears Moon's Surface Rocket Expected to Reach Orbit Soon 3 Held After Burial Of Box In Cemetery LISBON The stunt of three men who buried a "time in the Moultrie Cemetery and then placed sticks of dynamite over it, has backfired. As a result, the trio was jailed WASHINGTON (AP) Pioneer IV streaked close to the level of 1 the moon today in most successful probe into the mysteries of the farther reaches of space. The tracking station at Goldstone Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert re-established radio contact at 7:33 a.m. EST and reported the gold-plated cone 192.000 The first presentation of the Ki- miles out, with its speed down to wanis Kapers of 1959 was given 4,775 miles an hour.

Tuesday night before an audience An hour and a half later, at 9 of nearly 600 at the Junior High a.m., new contacts showed a dis- School auditorium. The second 600 Persons Attend First Kapers Show TRUST Leetonia Police Chief Henry in dealing with alligators. Gibson is shown in the top picture above maneuvering his in the basement of his home by means of a stick and a firm grin on its tail. A pool (bottom photo) in a fenced-off room in the basement is home to the alligator during the winter months. Would Permit Armories In All Areas Amendment Proposed To Zoning Ordinance City Council Tuesday night gave dinance for such a building in that first reading to an important am- area, endment to the zoning ordinance, and subsequently referred the measure to the City Planning Commission for its consideration.

The amendment states: The Planning Commission has a functions of the United States gov- of 30 to SO days to act eminent, such as armories and oth- on amendment. the eommis- Following a recommendation by City Solicitor James D. Primm. the amendment was drafted for presentation to Council last night. tance of 198,323 miles and a speed of 4,742 miles an hour.

The probe was still on its near- miss course past the moon toward a predicted orbit around the sun where Soviet Union claims it already has a satellite. Revised Calculations Revised calculations indicated the space traveler would make its closest approach to the moon at 5:24 p.m., or about 37,000 miles away. Scientists gave themselves a plus-or-minus allowance of 2.000 miles on the distance computation. At that time the Pioneer should be 239,000 miles from earth. That is more than the distance to the moon itself because of the slight error in flight angle which will carry the Pioneer farther to one side of the moon than the sci- CANTON.

Ohio this! entists at the National Aeronau- is the last place Frank Sprenz is tics and Space Administration had known to have been, the search! hoped. They had aimed at some- for the elusive, sky-hopping bank thing inside of 10,000 miles robber still concentrated here to day. FBI Continues Its Search for Bank Robber performance will be tonight at 8:15. The show, arranged and directed by Dr. Wade McGhee, is done cabaret style and perfor around the music of George Gershwin, arranged especially for the Kapers by Keith Riffle and Tom Williams.

The show opens with the "Kapers singing "Strike Up the Other chorus numbers include My and fined $25 and costs for illegal possession of dynamite. Pleading guilty at hearings before County Judge James L. MacDonald on Tuesday were Ralph L. Shirley, 20, of RD 1, Minerva; PaLmer R. Cook, 19, of Minerva, and Paul Kinney, 18, of New Franklin.

Shirley and Cook were turned over to authorities at Minerva after they admitted breaking and entering the grade school and high school at Minerva. According to Columbiana County Sheriff Russell VanFossan, the three men had planned for nearly two years a metal ammunition box containing assorted articles and then dig it up 20 years Lawmakers Eye Ohio Districts Congressional Areas Subject of Debate third of a billion dollars is needed in the next two years, $37 for every Ohio resident. That was the sobering message delivered Tuesday night by Democratic Gov. Michael V. DiSalle to a standing-mom-only crowd in a joint session of the Legislature.

Ohio has gone from a surplus in postwar 1947 to a financial crisis in which the state government flat broke, the governor asserted. He called for nine separate tax increases plus a 35-cents-a-fifth markup in liquor prices in laying down a budget which, including later to see how their "time cap-. sent Cuyahoga in Congress. COLUMBUS, Ohio bills were introduced in the Legislature Monday to revamp Ohio congressional districts. One, submitted by Reps.

Thomas J. Barrett (D-Mahoning) and William M. Carney (D-Trumbull) was a proposal to reshuffle the counties in nine of the 23 districts. Cuyahoga Democratic price boost delegation in the House sponsored cigarette tax a measure to revise the four districts in that county. Two Republicans and two Democrats repre- Budget Breakdown By The Associated Press Here is where Gov.

Michael V. DiSalle proposes to get the new money for state operations in the next two years (figures in millions): had survived. Why they picked the cemetery explained. The sheriff related that the men, accompanied by a Canton girl, went to the Moultrie Chapel Cemetery on Route 172, a mile east of the Columbiana -Stark co line. Sunday morning and buried the box.

They told the sheriff they plac- Lady Be and ed the sticks of dynamite higher Guests at the cabaret dance to Got and Thee 11 Dance numbers by the include a can-can to and a soft-shoe routine to My Solo numbers are done by Dr. Wade McGhee who sings and "But Not for Norm Houger sings and Walked Right Gordon Scott does "Somebody Loves and Novelty numbers include an ap- The Goldstone station, which i pearance by "Torchy (im- had been out of touch with the personated by Dr. McGhee) sing- The Cuyahoga proposal would divide Ohio's most populous county with two districts in the western section and two in the eastern area. Shifts in wards and suburbs would give Democrats a better chance in all four districts under the proposal. Republicans hold congressional seats in seven of the nine districts up for revision in the other mea- than the box so that anyone coin- Fifteen districts would re- ing across the excavation dig deeper and find the box.

Cemetery attendants, howev called deputy sheriffs after three holes were found dug in the cemetery and the authorities shoveled deep enough to unearth the box. Inside, among other things, was a card with one of the name 3.2 beer tax Increase Wagering tax increase Corporation tax boost Restore penny sales tax Lift sales tax exemption on alcoholic beverages and cigarettes Lift sales tax exemption on services like hotel and motel rooms Increase gasoline tax from 5 to 7 cents Increase diesel fuel tax from 5 to 9 cents TOTAL 40 46 4 6 26 18 44 30 116 337 Vi Where the governor proposes the Turn to CEMETERY, Page 8 But the FBI, which has been Pioneer for more than 15 hours er buildings incidental thereto, shall be permitted in all districts, provided that they are authorized os a special exception by the zoning A public hearing on the amendment has been set for Monday. March 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers in City Hall. Council first learned of the need for the amendment at a committee- of-thewhole meeting Tuesdayt Feb.

24. At that time Eard Grate, owner of the S. Lincoln Ave. property on which the Army Reserve training center is located, appeared before Council with a request to expand present facilities at the center. A representative from the training center told Council that because of the recent reorganization of the Army Reserve program, it is necessary to double the size of the local training center from its present 7.500 square feet to about square feet of floor space.

In checking the zoning ordinance. Council discovered that the area in which the Reserve Center is located was designated as an R-l area, and that no provision had been made in the or- Bill Drive-In, 411 S. EHs. 59 brands beer at same low price. Cold pop.

mix. wine. Close 10. Ad sion favors the amendment Council must pass the measure by a simple majority. However, should the plann i board reject the amendment, three fourths of the seven councilmen would have to vote in favor ot the measure, before it could be ad-, ded to the original ordinance.

pursuing Sprenz across the country for months, admits a man like him "could be A man believed to be Sprenz walked out of a Canton bar Monday and stepped into a small car that stopped there for him. That, authorities say, is the last solid report they have on the 29-year-old Sprenz. Sprenz abandoned another car at the time of the 7:33 contact, Turn to PIONEER, Page 8 Nine Persons Fined, Forfeit Bonds Here Turn to FBI. Page 8 ing "The Man I and "Embraceable Powell Schmauch, who is master of ceremonies for the cabaret program, presents a pantomime on football done in the style of the actor, Andy Griffith. A preview performance of the Kapers was presented Mon day night for high school students.

Proceeds from the entertainment will be used by the Kiwanis Club to help finance its civic projects, including the installment of a new acoustical ceiling for the gymna- Comedian Lou Costello Heart Attack Victim HOLLYWOOD called the final comedian Lou Costello while, by coincidence, Bud Abbott a TV movie of the famed on routine, "Tell me, why was 1 watching that picture at that particular time? I never watch it. After all. seen it thousand Abbott, who hac seen little of hi. old sidekick sine their split-up ii 1957, cried Tues day as he tolc (AP) Death! he wanted to be rolled over cue for chubby his side on Snnice Up for Spring One nour cleaning service Shirts laundered. National Dry Cleaners.

Ad. "I think be more were his final words. Thus ended the comedy career of a modern day Pagliacci who clow ned through a personal life filled with illness and tragedy. In the decade from 1943 to 1953. Costello suffered six serious of them rheumatic fever attacks and the tragic drowning of his only son.

Infant Lou Costello Jr. wandered into Turn to COSTELLO. Page 8 Six persons were fined a total of $370 and costs and three of them were sentenced to jail terms-by Mayor Harold Smith today. Three others forfeited a total of $35 in sium at the Memorial Building, bonds. i -------------------------Fined $100 and costs and sentenced to three days in jail for driving while intoxicated were: Kenneth L.

Wolverton, 41, of Atwater; Sam E. Eckard of RD 1, Salem; and Benjamin Geist, 38. oi 444 Ohio Ave. Also fined were: Robert G. Tippins, 25, of 462 12 Franklin no drivers license, $10; Robert L.

Simms, 21. of Minerva, fictitious license plates, $50; and Carl R. Shinn. 34, of the Depot speeding. $10.

Leaving bonds were: Michael Mercure, 24, of New Waterford. $10. speeding: John T. Hill, 54, of 409 W. Pershing $15, speeding; and Frank A.

Volpe, of Pittsburgh, $15, passing without the assured clear distance ahead Ministers Ask Tavern Owners To Close at 1 Salem tavern owners met with Mayor Harold Smith recently to discuss tavern closing hours. The Salem Ministerial Association has requested that owners close at 1 a.m. Under state law, holders of D5 (night club) permits may stay open until 2:30 a.m main untouched under that bill. Democrats hold nine of the 23 seats in congressional delegation. They gained three seats from Republicans in the election last November.

The governor also sent up a message calling for strengthening of the "conflict of law' designed to prevent public officials acting in dual capacities. DiSalle called for a ban to prevent an elected official from receiving anything of value from any state agency, corporation or individual als0 pr0p05ea t0 save 20 for work done with a state agency, minions in the next two years by The congressional redistricting abandoning the prepaid sales tax bill headed toward some revision stamp system, including the re- by legislative committees but ma- demption and discount features, in jority Democrats appeared confi- favor of a postpayment system. revision is likely this transition period, he money should go: Automatic increases in existing programs provided by law 106 Schools, principally teacher salaries 26 Higher education15 St.te salaries hygiene and welfare 56 SUBTOTAL OF GENERAL FUND 213 Highways 123 Vi TOTAL336 Vi dent that session. Congressional districts were last No decision was reached but revised by the Republican con- Mayor Smith will call another, trolled General Assembly in 1951. meeting in the near future with The new proposal would undo representatives of both the Minis- some of those changes, terial Association and tavern own-; estimates a lag in collections which, over-all, would result in a loss of 29 millions in the first year.

ers. Turn to LAWMAKERS, Page 8 Cigarette, Liquor Tax Tops DiSalle Program COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)-Ciga-1 rette smokers and liquor drinkers would pay more than half the tax increase asked Tuesday night by Gov. Michael V. DiSalle to meet the need for 214 million dol-; lars in general revenue fund. Russian Leader Hints Separate Peace Pact LEIPZIG, East Germany (AP) Speaking before a big crowd in Premier Nikita Khrush- a rain, he insisted all the Soviet chev said today the Soviet Union Union wants is peace, sign a separate peace treaty "However much these people with East Germany if the West he said of Western lead- fails to come to terms on an all- will come of The tap would come in these pro- German settlement.

A crowd which the East posed increases: Khrushchev accused the West of man Communist radio estimated Two cents a pack on cigarettes refusing his proposals on Germa- at of heard the to produce an estimated 46 mil- without proposing any alterna- brief speech without marked en- highways, calls for a record total of $2.076.212,000. Then the new governor did the unheard-of thing of throwing himself Bnd his Cabinet open to questions from legislators. It took Salle hours to deliver his 54-page message. The question-and-answer period, dampened somewhat by the failure of Republicans to participate, lasted only 19 minutes. V.ie governor asserted his budget, swollen by 105 million dollars "built increases and escalator clauses in present law, is 203 minion dollars higher than that of his predecessor, former Turn to GOVERNOR, Page 8 how he receiver Ail Garments Received Thursday Hospitals Again On the news of Cos- or Friday will be ready Saturday.

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tives "that a normal human intelligence can agree The Western Allies have refused I to recognize Premier Otto Red East German regime, which never has faced a free election, as a legal government. The West insisted they would not deal with it on Berlin controls that the Russians propose to give up this spring. The Soviet leader insisted in a 20-minute speech that his government wants only needs peace to carry out its seven-year Ad. economic expansion program. Khrushchev had just arrived for Late Bulletins thusiasm.

They did cheer and applaud, though, when ho spoke of peace. "In the name of the Soviet Un- WASHINGTON (APi President he said, "I declare that Eisenhower said today it would those people could be reasonable noi ordy (utile but disastrous for the free world to have general mobilization against possible attack. Turn to PEACE, Page 8 Forget Kiwanis Kapers Tonight! Ad. Limestone and Siag Service Co. Phone ED 2-4897.

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