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71 p.m. 70 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1960 On Guard for 129 Years Vol. 130 No. 131 40 Pages Eight Cents World Owns Nancy Now MONTAGUE'S MIGHTY PROUD Miss America Ttefs Our GjVi jS. 4 EARLY HIXDAY morning, Robert and Virginia Fleming, in Atlantic City with their ifiughter, called home to see how things were going.

Sue told 1t dad: "We're getting alonj fine, and when are you getting home?" The Flemir.gs expect to be back Thursday. dishes and answered the telephone. ACROSS the street at a neighbor's, the younger Fleming children were playing. Brother Bob, 11, thought it was "just fine" his sister was the nation's beauty queen. Sister Mary Ellen, 9.

hoped she could talk with her sister on the phone. And Pam. 7, who looks like Nancy, smiled shyly and giggled. Baby David wondered if he C4uld have his picture taken. Sue tipped off a secret about her sister when she brought out the Montague High School yearbook.

Miss America was shown in her penior picture wearing glasses. She now has contact lenses. BY JAMES M. MI DGE Free Press Staff Writer MONTAGUE They could have danced all night and almost did in the hometown of Nancy Anne Fleming, Miss America of 1961. Still a little sleepy-eyed, but excited after a celebration that ended near dawn Sunday, Montague was glowing with pride over "their girl's" victory in Atlantic City.

Along Ferry business center of this community, they were cleaning up signs of the rip-roaring civic party that broke out late Saturday night. More than 2.000 people from Montague and next-door-neighbor Whitehall kicked up their heels to salute Nancy's triumph. IN TODD'S Pharmacy, where Miss America worked a year as a jill-of-all-trades. customers jammed around the soda fountain. The girl with the laughing green eyes worked there on weekends, after school and during vacation.

"She has a magic touch, said her former boss, Robert Todd, who suddenly found his store famous. In a quiet white frame house on Old Channel Trail about a mile away, the five younger brothers and sisters of Miss America were still bug-eyed with excitement. Except for David, 2, the Fleming children stayed up late to celebrate their big sister's btg day. Sue, 15, with the help of her friend Linda Walker, tidied up the house, washed I i i I i A i i 4. fi I i Nancy's Beau Couldn't Make Ball Page 3.

Other Pictures on Back Page BY AN SHARI.EY Free Press Staff Writer ATLANTIC CITY A happy-sad Michigan father and mother Sunday surrendered their eldest daughter to the world. They waved goodby to Nancy Anne Fleming, of Montague, chosen Saturday night as Miss America of 1961. Eighteen year old, green-eyed Nancy flew off to New York City to begin a year of frantic glamor that will enrich her by $60,000. SHE LEFT a sometimes-happy, sometimes saddened father standing on the sidewalk in front of the Madison Hotel here. Sh left a tiny, tearful mother who whispered: "I ho (vp you won't rnme hack to us wearing too much makeup.

The Robert Flemings then left Atlantic City by car, an hour after their daughter. In it. they carried home the clothes that helped their daughter win the contest and a huge anchor of flowers left over from the United States fi66 HOJVIE OF NANCY FLEMING Nancy Fleming: A smile through the tears Proud Montague was quick to advertise its No. 1 product mm UTllMj I 'Vi- 1 flt 4. My i f1 v3 New President Named at U-D Arts Dean Takes Reins; Sleiner Becomes Chancellor etkMMel The Very Rev.

toward a OX THE SEVEN -MILE ocean boardwalk, in the jammed hotels, on the sun-decks and in the 10-seater jitney buses, this pageant-mad community talked past sunset about the magic of the girl from Michigan. She had the town at her feet from the first. There were girls just as pretty, the Miss America rultists agreed, but none pro- jected her personality so quickly. The four runners-up, in order, were: Miss California Su7anne Marie Reamo, 20, of La Mesa: Miss North Carolina Ann Herring, 19, of Winston-Salem; Miss District of Columbia Ruth Rea, 18, of Chevy Chase, Md, and Miss Indiana Tommye Lou Glaze, 21, of Culver. CAFT.

BILL CADE, of the local police, for eight years assigned the chief custodian of the girlish harems of contestants, put it bluntly: Th kid started running the day she got here. She Turn to Page 6, Column Ransom Yanks Pad Lead; Tigers Win Pair The Yankees Increased their American League lead to a full game ounaay wim a aouoie- header victory over the Cleveland Indians. Baltimore won its single game from Kansas City, but still lost ground to New York. The White Sox also gained a half-game on the Orioles with two victories over the Red Sox. THE TIGERS swept their double-header with Washington at Briggs Stadium.

Frank Lary went all the way for the first-game decision, 8-3, and Bill Fischer earned the victory in the second, 8-5. The Lions staged a 75-yard touchdown drive In the final three minutes Sunday to tie the New York Giants. 16-16, in an exhibition game at New Haven. Conn. The Olympic games closed In I Rome with a tradition-filled I ceremony which was witnessed by a crowd of 100.000.

The 18-day event wound up with Russia the unofficial winner with 807 points to the United States' 564 ri. In gold medals the Soviets led 43-34. (Details In Sports Section.) Storms Illegal GULF SHORES, Ala. (UPI) The town council of Gulf Shores passed an ordinance making it unlawful for a hurricane to hit within the city I limits. Navy's gesture breakfast party.

i "SI1K WON', SHE ON." Miss America's sister, Sue Lynn Fleming, 15, hears in Montague as she gets a phone call from her parents. Her brother, Robert, 11, and sister Pam, 7, hear the good news, too. Nancy Is Worth RIGHT NOW. Montague is waiting to gieet Miss America with a welcome she'll never forger. There was a vague feeling of sadnes.

"Montagu'j on the map." said a man on the corner. "But maybe we've lost something, too. That irl belongs to the world now." 19 61 N. Carolina Lashed by Hurricane Warnings Extend North to N.H. Free Prei Wire Services MOREHEAO CITY, N.

C. AP) Hurricane Donna slashed a destructive path through Eastern North Carolina Sunday night and threatened the entire East Coast northward to Portsmouth, N. H. The vicious ttorm, having cut a swath of death and destruction the length of Florida, crashed into the. Mainland for a second time a ross North Carolina's holiday playground.

PICKING VP and intensity in her brief ocean tour after leaving Florida, Donna's hurricane winds and churning waves tore at costal installations, snarled communications, uprooted tretn anl smashed small buildings as she moved inland. The Weather Bureau warned that all emergency precautions should be taken immediately in the coastal anl adjoining areas from Eastern North Carolina to Portsmouth, N.H, fir winds of 115 miles and hour and higher gusts. Tides of 5 to 7 feet above normal Mere forecast, even higher In some bays and Inlets. Donna was tearir.g along a northeast courf at 40 miles an hour and was expected to speed up to 45 miles an lour in the next 12 houirt. The present course and snoed would put it off the east end of Long Island Turn to Page 9, Column 1 Plane Falls In Rockies; Eight Killed DENVER persons were killed Sunday in the firey crash of an Air Force C12.3 transport plan in the Rocky Mountains west of D'Miver.

A ground search party from Lowry Air Force Base reached the site Sunday night and reported that ail aboard were killed. The twin-engine plane was flying from Lowry to Hill Air Force Base in Utah. Identity of the victims was withheld pendirj; notification of the next of kin. ueen's Congo Foes Take Row To the UN Rival Delegates Ordered to Session UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.

(UPI) Moderate Congolese President Joseph Kasa-vubu and ousted pro-Russian Premier Patrice Lumumba Sunday ordered rival delegations to fly to New York to woo United Nations Security Council support for their opposing regimes in the chaotic country. The council scheduled another Congo crisis session Monday afternoon to debate the confused political-military situation in the African nation. AS THE two rivals vied fori ti fw onR0' tnere 1 were these other developments UN" troops from Ghana turned back Lumumba and 20 armed men when they tried to seize the Leopoldville radio station at gunpoint. 0 Two secessionist leaders Katanga Province's Moise Tshombe and the "Mining State's" Albert Kalonji promised to support a UN-supervised truce in the Congo. But Tshombe reversed his stand favoring a loose Congo federation and vowed instead to keep Katanga completely independent.

UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold in a note published Sunday, warned the Soviet Union against "the precedent that may be created" by its flying Congolese government troops around in the Congo. 0 The Soviet press whipped up support, for Lumumba and backed his "legitimate" demand that UN troops leave the Congo. Joseph Heo, Lumumba's rival for the premiership, announced he would soon be Turn to Page 4, Column Woi man swent Over Niagara NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y. jP A woman was swept over the American Falls here Sunday night after she waded into the Niagara River rapids about 300 feet from Prospect Point, police said.

She was tentatively identified as Marguerite Allan, 42, of Philadelphia, Pa, On the ATLANTIC CITY Nancy Fleming was "that sweet little girl from Michigan" until she stole the show. Sunday, she had a price on her head. WV7U1 Steiner, S. president of the was named to a new post as university chancellor Sunday. The Rev.

Laurence V. Britt, S.J., 48, dean of the U-D college of Arts and Sciences for four years was named to succeed him as president. New Arts and Sciences dean is the Rev. Malcolm T. Carron, S.J..

43. All appointments will be effective Oct. 30. In his new post. Father Steiner.

62, will be responsible directly to the president and will devote full time to directing the university's development program. The new president was appointed by the Most Rev. John Baptist Janssens, S.J., general of the Society of Jesus, Rome. IT WAS announced to Jesuit members of the university community at a simple ceremony before the evening meal in th refectory of Lansing Reilly Hall, the faculty residence. The Very Rev.

John A. Mc-Grail, S. J. provincial of the Detroit Province of the Society of Jesus, said that the growing complexity of the university had added immeasurably to the responsibilities of the president. "In keeping with the university's long-range objective of continued planned development, it seemed advisable to appoint a new president at this time, while continuing to take advantage of the invaluable experience and Wisdom acquired by Father Steiner in the rourse of his many constructive years as a university president," he said.

Father Steiner has been president longer than any other man. In his tenure, enrollment has expanded from 119.841 to 13.588 and faculty from 458 to 685. Five buildings with a total value of more than 7 million dollars have been added to the Turn to Page 11, Column 1 Marshall Honor BONN Uft West Germany is going to commemorate the memory of the late American general and statesman George C. Marshall wth a special 10-cent postal stamp. Celestin J.

Steiner years, left it up to her nephew to look into it. BUT WHEN Mrs. Christa mentioned the missing money and jewels to a friend visiting her, the friend reported it to the police. Saturday, when Standley was arrested, all he would say was that he did take some money from his aunt. Police said he Is unemployed and gets his money from his aunt.

They said he handles all her finances. But unless Mrs. Christa signs a warrant, they aren't sure if Standley can or should be prosecuted. Jet Record LONDON UPI A Pan American World Airways jet flew non-stop from Chicago to London in a record 6 hours and 55 minutes Sunday. What's The Very Rev.

Celestin J. University of Detroit 11 years, Rev. Laurence Britt Ike's Pastor Hits Apathy GETTYSBURG, Pa. (UPI) President and Mrs. Eisenhower heard their minister warn Sunday that Christians are too apathetic and overly concerned about material comforts.

The Rev. Robert A. MacAskill assailed the "cult of the comfortable getting something for nothing" philosophy which he said appeared to be the chief interest of too many Americans. The Eisenhowers, who spent the weekend at their farm, drove three miles 'through a hard rain to join about 250 other worshippers at the service. Inside.

xr ft. Yi Nephew Held as Fortune Vanishes Auntie's Surprised at Fuss BY ROBERT COTTER Free Press Staff Writer She said he was her nephew, and if he needed money all he' had to do was take it. She doesn't know what all the fuss is about, but she certainly isn't going to sign a warrant against her own She worth a queen ransom commercially. Minutes after she donned the velvet mantle, she was signed to a dozen appearances across the country. One, the Washington (D.C.) Cherry Festival, will bring her $250 a day and expenses.

That's April 6 and 7, 1961. oot var the fee for an an- pearance by Mis America was $150 a day, plus expenses, rne fee is $500 a day if the asker is not affiliated with one of the five major sponsors. a THERE WILL BE few days during 1961 when Nancy won't be making money. The estimate is $60,000 gross. The five big sponsors will be strict as she goes out to tour her territories.

Her only soft-drink will he Tepsl-Cola. her only cotton dresses by Everglaze, and her only shampoo by Toni. She'll he a queen in a carriage by Oldsmobile. By rights, she should listen to and look at only Philco products, but pageant sponsors admit this will be difficult to arrange. THE ROBERT Flemings will have nothing to say about where they daughter goes next year.

The contracts are signed. After Nancy's victory on the huge, deserted convention hall stage, Lynda Lee Mead, Miss America 1960, came over to talk to them. She told them her year as Mis America had been the happiest of her life. She said she had a good time and officials said she made about $40,000. nephew.

After all, he is her only heir. And the $56,000 was in the safe, ahd he did have the combination. Why shouldn't he take it? Detroit police still don't know if Joseph W. Standley, 42, of 9324 Woodward, helped himself to part of his aunt's fortune. BUT THEY'RE holding him on an open charge for investigation.

Standley's aunt, Mrs. Ber-nadine Christa, 84, of 13026 Houston, is unconcerned. She told Detective Sgt John Truchley, of Conner precinct, that Standley told her Friday that the money and $30,000 in jewels had been taken from her safe. Mrs. Christa, who has been bedridden for nearly two The Coming Faee of Space I.

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