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DAILY SIKESTON STANDARD 7 OcS Published Daily Except Sunday OUR 51ST YEAR SIKESTON, SCOTT COUNTY, MISSOURI, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1961 NUMBER 258 Spacecraft That May Later Land on Moon Will Be Sent On Test Flight in Few Days Ras. WASHINGTON Ran- I version of mjne whether the earth, as a vehicle that later this year may i viewed from a distance of 500.000 crash-land on the be)miles, is followed around the sun launched on a million-mile round- a comet-like tail of hydrogen trip journey into space within the next lew days. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration described in detail today its newest and most complicated experiment in lunar and planetary exploration. But NASA declined to give the exact date the launch attempt will be made at Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA the 675-pound Ran-j gor will be fired first into a brief orbit" 115 miles above the earth.

For about 13 minutes Vicious high winds ripped Sikes- Ranger I will zoom along at ton yesterday around 3 p.m., caus- miles an hour, high above jng considerable property damage, the Atlantic Ocean, as though jt Several wires were reported down- were a regulation earth satellite. ecj but as far as can be deter- Then its Agena-B second-stage mined, there was no damage done rocket will fire up for a the live wires. Although time to accelerate Ranger 1 to pertv damage will run into the a velocity of 23.800 miles an thousands of dollars, there was no hour and start it on a trajectory 1 loss of life or personal injury. JFKs Speech Is Tomorrow Night Scenes of Destruction in City Vicious Winds Cause Damage In Sikeston be was In Sikeston, the worst damage done at the Sikeston Drive 635.000 miles out into space It deliberately will not med at the moon. Inn.

where the screen was blown The craft is expected to reach over for the third time in recent the perigee, or closest to years. The screen is coveted by phi th of its eccentric orbit in insurance, according to Wendell September at an altitude of Shain. manager of the drive-in, -)(M) some 58 day? after but it is doubtful that the screen launching. rebuilt in linie The spaceship may be unable to this summer. At the Lit-1 orbital course, however, tie League ball park, the score- snd mav plunge into the earth board was blown a quarter mile atmosphere and be destroved by into a bean field, one of the two dugouts was battered down, and NASA said there also is a slight the protective screen was ripped possibility the craft mav reach as the tornado like winds bent I earth escape vilocity.

In that it backward a considerable event it would join two U.S. gree. IV and Pioneer A home under construction two Soviet probes in or- Collins addition was totally demol- hi. -round sun. at 6 000 according to Bud Col- Designed a jiins.

builder of the structure. Frag- complicated spacecraft svstem. i Will Discuss Decisions on Crisis President's Message To Congress Scheduled For Wednesday WASHINGTON Kennedy, after another weekend on Cape Cod. returned today to the White House to tie down details of the major address he will make to the nation Tuesday night. That speech, to be broadcast nationally on television and radio, will reveal what measures he has decided are necessary for the nation to face up to the Soviet threat to Berlin and world peace.

He will tell Congress on Wednesday what action he hopes it will THIRD SHOWING, GONE WITH THE the third time to carry out his decisions, in its history, the Sikeston Drive In lost the huge screen after gusty The decision on how to winds toppled the all-wood structure. This marquee indicates why the back up notice to Mos- drivo in is closed, rather than hat was showing. (Standard Staff photo) DRIVE IN SHNE WITH THE WIND FIREWOOD? shattered pile of wooden framework is all that remains of the Sikeston Drive Inn screen. The miles an hour wind yesterday afternoon brought the big screen crashing down, ending the drive-inn movie season for this summer. (Standard staff photo) French, Tunisia War ol Words Each Claims Other Trying For Military Advantage In Defiance of U.N.

Cease-Fire ments of the hou.se were blown as swelled between the French and Ranger I has 19,520 working eiec- TUNIS war of words ------------------------------------------------------massive naval and air at far as 100 yards, into the parking Tunisians today in the wake of Bixorte from Tunisian efforts to of vehicles lot of the hall park, the battle of Bizerte Each side take it over. instrument- Thp Pine Motel, Highway 61 south, the other was maneuver-1 There was a totally un- with hnd an awning peeled off the side ing for military advantage in confirmed report that a French cans. The eight were booked on BONGOS, BEER BRING BAY BEDLAM SAN FRANCISCO Bongos and beer begot a bit of bedlam by the bay Sunday. Barefoot and bearded. 50 beatniks were lounging at Aquatic Park, sipping suds and thumping; their bongos.

When six gals clad in bikinis started dancing to the bongos, hundreds of spectators mobbed the area. Outraged housewives phoned police. The mob dispersed as police squad cars arrived, leaving three bongo drums, eight groggy sun-! bathers and hundreds of beer tronic parts. It is a forerunner that will rough-land fherk refine men of the gilding and onto the roof, defiance of the UN. cease-fire parachute detachment dropped at charges of drunkenness, orotamty make soft land- Just aCrops the Wcbb order.

noon on Bizerte. though the value interfering with the law. is metal awning was sent Tlie French Admiralty declared neie an on "pros. north about a block by the gale. Tunisian civilians were evacuat- Several trees were reported down, ing ancient Casbah 1o but none caused considerable pro- let troops and volunteers trans- heintf designed to achieve ()f pertv damage.

its narrow' streets and traffic lights at the inter -1 stucco dwellings into an armed and Artillery emplaced there ings 1er the Surveyor, pector and Voyager on page 6 timately manned occupation the moon. Ranger II, a similar shot, New section of highway A TUNISIA AMBASSADOR Cuba Prepares dun rusk cow that Berlin will be defended at all cost was hammered out last Wednesday at a meeting of the National Security Council. Kennedy went to his summer home at Hyannis Port. for the weekend to work over his speech revealing that decision. But he got in some relaxation too on Cape Cod.

He had no appointments scheduled today and aides said he planned to spend the day working on his speech. All sorts of reports are out about what Kennedy intends to do. For a time the possibility of a declaration of a state of national emergency claimed attention. Talk of this has dwindled lately. There have been reports that Kennedy was considering adding two or three billion dollars to his $43-billion defense budget.

Word has spread that he was considering such steps as calling out reserves and National Guardsmen, increasing their training or service, expanding the draft and Army manpower and ONE OF THE MOST HEAVILY DAMAGED pieces of property was buying more arms for convention- this new home under construction in the Collins addition. Damage was al forces, pulling some ships from estimated at The roof, which had been completed, and the walls the fleet." calling for were strewn over a block area, tearing down electrical wires in the process. Staff photo) when they were repair- between the ed. An electrical fire at 117 N. Lake Bizerte Handy, caused by the lightning.

Information Mediterranean and Ranger it. a similar mhh way were knocked out from the fire on French ships trav-, UfoloAIYlD planned for time of the storm until 9.30 this ersfcig the 300-yard wide canal TvUlvUIIIC For Cosmonaut 1 HI is on program for late this year. It is designed to i inornin8 Ministry moon and to crash into the moon shortlv after releasing a 50-pound schools did not I French troops at Cap Blanc, five instrument pack that could sui- the wralh. A mini- miles north of Bizerte. 1 mm ing an sen mum 2.000 worth of damage A Paris government spokesman -n Haia hack eailn.

I was reported at Senior high w'hen commented that the Cap Blanci come next Sravel blowing off the roof shat- area lies within the French peri -1 kick off the giant celebration of world tered a great deal of glass. Some meter established during the the eighth anniversary of roof damage was done to the Air-: Bizet te fighting and that there revolution. ive a moonquake data back to earth. The remaining two shots in the Ranger series would year. WASHINGTON Tunisian Ambassador Habib guiba Jr.

today called on Secretary of State Dean Rusk on the Bizerte crisis and urged immediate action to halt what he termed new French landings in Bizerte. Blazing with anger, the envoy HAVANA prepared told newsmen, after a 30-minute a hero's welcome today for So- call on Rusk: "I suggest the free viet spaceman Yuri Gagarin to world act now before another Soviet Trawler Reportedly Snooped on Grissom Landing a special tax increase and trying to persuade the allies to take parallel steps. The White House has fended off on page 6 NINE ACCIDENTS IN TROOP AREA 0VER WEEKEND; FOUR HURT Although the primary mission, port school and the Senior high, may have been some movement of Ranger I is to ana 1 test the equipment and teehniqu? for lunar and interplanetary research. the cratt will carry a dazzling array of experiments of its own. Ambng the eight scientific assemblies aboard will be devices to study the nature and activity of cosmic magnetic fields, and radiation and dust particles in CAPE CANAVERAL Fla.

trawler equipped with Q00-pound thrust Redstone rocket! radar reportedly cruised within ai 7.20 it ended 16 minutes Fidel It was an unveiled reference to 20 miles of the si)Ot where as- latei' in the Atlantic Ocean after jxjssible Soviet intervention in the tronaut Virgil I. space Grissom reached an altitude of Havana airport was clost'd to Tunisian crisis. capsule landed in the Atlantic ng miles and had flown like a of men within the perimeter, au commercial traffic to clear Young Bourguiba said he Ocean. bullet 303 miles down range from Travelers from Bizerte said it the way for the 27-vear-old cos- called on Rusk to keep him in- That was the gist of reports here, appeared the French were en- I monaut flying here from Gander, formed of a which does fr0m a National Aeronautics and their perimeter. High-, where he made an over- not look at all DREW PEARSON SAYS: Catholic Congressmen differed on school bill; Rep.

Madden of Indiana blistered Rep. Delaney of New York for blocking aid to education; Cardinal Spellman has long record of opposing aid to education. FOI TOOAT DIO Che Upper The craft will try also to deter larging ways in 1 he Bizerte area are I night stop on the trip from Mos- He said controlled by French-manned cowl troops are roadblocks, some of them 15 The youthful Soviet air force were being planned to miles inland. major is being given equal billing This, he said he told Rusk, is this happening during Nine accidents which injured The Tunisian radio charged with Castro the four-day eeie- how the French high command suborbital flight. Soviet trawlers four persons and killed none oc- that French paratroopers were bration of the 26th of July Move- apparently intends to implement have been seen many times oif ler curred over the weekend, accord- fortifying points taken in their ment that sparked the revolution the U.N.

Security Council resolu- the United States coast in recent ing to a report from Troop four-day battle to protect France's 'Continued on page 61 tion calling for a cease-fire and months. At the Space Administration official and tragedy, that French another source Sunday, being poured into There was no indication steps prevent another end there was near The side hatch on the space capsule, Liberty Bell 7, secured by explosive bolts, blewr off prematurely. The capsule subsequently sank in 16,800 feet of wa- Flash Floods Forecast For Miami Area MIAMI. Fla. winds lashed i.JP) the State Highway Patrol.

Two of the nine were in this immediate area. At, 4:10 p.m. the patrol reports, a car driven by Carolyn 20, of Dexter had stopped behind a stopped vehicle when the auto she w'Sik driving was hit from be- hind by Benny Willis. 19. who skicl-j ded on the viet pavement hen he; tried to stop.

Marla Kitchen, a passenger in the Humes car. slightly ipjured. The accident happened in Dexter. Two Paducah. men were Hurricane involved in a British Star William Shalner on Hand Cameras Begin Rolling at Bunn Hotel for a return to previous positions in Tunisia.

Reports from Paris had previously indicated the French did not consider themselves bound by the Security Council resolution. Asked what action the United Lt. Col. John A. Powers, personal spokesman for the astronauts, reported recovery forces saw the trawler in the general area of the impact zone Friday.

James E. Webb. NASA administrator. was asked about the restates could take, Bourguiba said: ts that soviet trawlers had honp to spp tv 'We hope to see fact, it is time 13-Year-Old Rape Victim Near Death The word of the Lord was rare in those days: there was no frequent vision Samuel 3:1. RSV.) PRAYER: 'O Great Lord of the harvest, send forth, we beseech i Thee, laborers into the harvest of 1 the world, that the grain which i is even now ripe may not fall and i perish through our For the sake.

Amen. WEATHER JOPLIN. Mo. A 13-year- Amid a maze of wires, lights, 1 three-car accident; cameras, microphones and men, nice pe 0 two miles east of Essex on High- shooting began today in and a- lhr in a smalj round the Dunn Hotel for I 11 duras coast today and dangerous way 61 the patrol rejiorts. A pick- iouna me uunn noiei 101 ine 111- WQUj(j my he explained PADUCAH, Ky.

Edwin flash floods were forecast for a up truck driven by George Wag- truder." On hand for shooting to- stars ln the he explained J. Paxton 84. owner and pub- wide area. ner, 53. stopped when a vehicle day was the star of the movie, are stavjng at the Sands Motel lisher of the Paducah Sun-Demo- erat, died Saturday.

Paxton en- Anna. the season's first hurri- stopped in front of him. Wagner William Shatner, who portrays the ciose ty Charleston ane, was about 20 miles east of; was then hit from behind by Ray- Several scenes were Mangrove Creek, British Hon- mend Kimbro, 42. There were no shot this morning. with more to duras.

at 5 a.m.. a spot close to injuries. According to the patrol, come this afternoon. bits parts the movie, a cus- Hc bcgan new.s- the Guatemala British Honduras this accident occurred during the According to Shatner. the scenes loin Gormans.

Crowd shots border. Its force was dwindling worst part of the rainstorm when shot this morning are the first in to be made Monday and Tuesa little but the peril to Central visibility was greatly limited. the movie, when Intruder'' Julv 31, and Aug. 1, at the America was far from ended, arrives in town and checks in at A- B. Webb School in East Prairie interests around the Gulf CAMP RIPLEY, Minn.

the hotel. A crowd of interested and at the Charleston of Honduras and especially along The commander of the 35th Di- on lookers watched the exterior Fridav, Aug. 4. 1 he Guatemala and nearby coast- vision cf the National Guard says scenes being shot from the street. is based on a 1 areas should continue pre- the outfit will return to home and then moved onto the sidewalk novel of the same name by Charles been sighted ditring a TV-radio interview in Washington.

of course I do not know exactly whai ships were there or what they were there for. But old girl who was kidnaped, beaten would guess they were there to and raped, was near death in a If I wanted to KUDIISVlCr learn as much as they could of Joplin hospital today town, Sikeston 1 wjjole Webb redlied. Ljsa Schuh. daughter of Mr. A NASA spokesman said Gris- and Mrs.

H. Russell Schuh of sorn, 35, his wife, Betty, and Wichita, was seized in front their two sons, Scott 11. and her grandmother's house in 7 were expected to fly to their, Joplin Sunday by a man with a Several areas and towspeople lpieci a hospital seven week ago jlome Newport News. gun. Paducah, Publisher Dies DARK AND THREATENING MISSOURI Mostly fair west, partly cloudy east today with occasional thundershowers southeast; a little warmer extreme today; partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with scattered thunderstorms northwest and north after fracturing a vertebra in his paper career as editor and publisher of the Paducah Evening Sun in 1900.

KIWAMS CLUB TO HEAR SPEAKER FROM ST. LOUIS To wmid up its July list of central tonight and west and north Tuesday night or Wednesday An ex convict. Claude Harvey Tuesday, warmer extreme east, morning tor a week vacation. Odom, 29. was arrested within an coojer northwest Tuesday; high to- Thc Aii Force captain has been hour aftei the kidnaping The day 90.95 except 95-100 southwest undergoing exhaustive question- bloody clothing, a jow tonight 70-75 ing by scientists, doctors and lsto1 were 0dom 5 car- pohce TUESDAY, JULY 25 psychologists about his 5.280-mile 11 Walter Flcnncr said.

Sunset todav 7:12 ride into space Friday. Ftenner quoted Odom as tomorrow 4:58 a i might have (tone it. drew space There will now be a period in which the instrument data re- Odom, a three-time loser todav areas cautions against tides of 10 leet stations Aug. 6 as scheduled. in front of Hie Dunn to watch the Beaumont.

It concerns a small grams the Kiwanis Club is due for corded bv radio will be examined sentences of five and three and hurricane force the Maj. Gen Charles H. Browne Jr. action inside. The director of the town where things move slowly un -1 an interesting talk tomorrow night and Grissom will return for ad- years from Springfield.

in Weather Bureau said. of Horton. told unit com- movie, Roger Corman, plans to til a trouble maker appears, intent by Stan M. Keesling of St. Louis ditional sessions with the scion- 1949 and 1952 for burglary, and; rains will cause dan- manders Sunday there was no shoot several of the interior se- on stirring up some friction in the Safety Director for the American tists.

a 10-year term from Wichita, Kan gerous flash floods in this same basis for a report that the 35th quences in the Dunn later this town. The movie covers three days Automobile Association. Mr. Kees- Grissom was the second Ameri- in 1954 for burglary. He was area and through all of British would be frozen on active duty week.

in the life of the town, and ends ling will have some informative can to enter the fringes of space, leased while training here. Shatner, the only star here for, with the rabble rouser being shun- to present along with some The first astronaut w'as Navy At the latest report, Anna's we always train for shooting, when asked the ned by the entire community. He suggestions for increasing driving Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard who winds had dropped from 90 to 85 mobilization, I know of no mobili- traditional question, do you is left a lonely broken man after safety.

The meeting begins at 6:20 made the flight on May 5 For Grissom the big adventure Wellington. Kan. the last three Computed for oiKesion Sunrise The Muon rises 5:14 p.m. and rides low. Full Moon July 27.

Prominent Constellation Sagittarius, below the Moon. Visible Planets Mars, low in west 8:19 p. m. Jupiter and Saturn in southeast from the Kansas prison las' February. Odom told police he worked uv 8 48 p.m.

the city electrical department at Venus, rises 2:17 a m. northward for 125 miles for 59 and ration alert or plans for the think of this town? he vainly trying to create some p.m. in the Dunn Coffee Shop ban- Browne said. replied, a lovely little town, trouble, which never quet room. I began with the ioar of the Continued on page Frank.