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Nab Trio Of Area Burglary Susp —! Hi Sports Roundup Unlon-Endicott. Seton and Ves tal schoolboy basketball teams are in underdog roles tonight. Andy Robustelli predicts 1959 professional football title for N. Y. Giants. Page 10. DAILY BULLETIN Serving Bndicott, End well, Vestal and Western Broome — Eastern Tioga Counties The Weather Endlcott and vicinity: Vari able cloudiness and colder with a few snow flurries tonight and Saturday. Low tonight, 5-10, possibly colder in some rural areas. High Saturday, 20-25. Vol. 104, No. 10 40 P»fl«*-2 Sections Endicott, N. Y., Friday, February 6, 1959, Telephone 5-3355 or Owego 1676 Scouts Prove Successful At Running Village -CAMP ENDICOTT—Mayor Reed Snedaker of Endicott proclaims today Boy Scout Civic Day and hereby decrees parking on Washington Avenue parallel instead of di agonal. Fire Marshal Charles Parsons today put a no smoking ban on the Greater Endicott area, prohibiting all cigarets, cigars and pipes. Meanwhile, at the Department of Public Works, Superintendent Gerald Webb announced plans to have ginger ale piped through the village water works. Mr. Webb said that if the ginger ale works out successfully, assorted soft drinks may follow. Chamber of Commerce Manager Robert Bosman an nounced plans for a move to have the streets of Endicott carpeted curb to curb Mr. Bosman said it would give the village a \plush\ look and in time improve the commerce greatly. Postmaster Dominick Iacovazzi said all and any Endf- cott residents who keep mean dogs will have to come to the post office and get their own mail: the announcement was made over Radio Station WENE by News Director Lee Fox. • • • Bulletin Photog Covers Officials' Boy Scouts ran the village to day _ tke City hail, radio sta tion* and newspapers, bust' nesses, village departments — ail were in the hands of the citizens of tomorrow. From every report. It ap pears as if the Scouts handled every sttsiaeioat with their nstf al eitfeteeey and ability. Just to make sure, the Dairy Bulletin assigned photog Joe Ardslewskt to keep- a pictor ial teoerd of the morning's events. For the results of this effort, please turn to the full page of picture* oa Page f. Officials I Going Easy lOn Couple HOUSTON, Tex. (UPI) — Offi cials, were SQ touched by. Jhe_|. troubles of the young couple who sold their 8-year - old twin boys for $500 that they dropped all charges against them. Offers of help for the couple were pot forward. Dist. Atty. Dan Walton told Justice of the Peace W. C. Ragan Thursday \I He no purpose to be served in prosecuting these people. What they need if help. I recommend dismissal of the charges \ Ragan did just that. \I've been hoping someone would make such a motion,\ he said. Mr. and Mrs. Clark D. Stillion Thursday turned over the twins, Mrs. Stillion's children by a pre vious marriage, to a policewoman and a juvenile officer who posed as a childless* couple The officer gave Stillion $300 in marked bills and promised to re turn in an hour with $200 more In return Stillion made out a \bill of sale\ for the boys The officers arrested the couple and charged them with selling minor children. Besides the twins, who were born in England before their mother moved to the United States, the Stillions have two girls, Nancy. 4, and Tina, 3. Mrs. Stillion divorced the twins' father in England in 1953. and married Stillion, then stationed in England with the U S. Air Force. Walton told city probation offi cials he had talked with both parents and felt there should be no effort to take the children from them. Above are the headline stories Duane Cheney, managing editor of The Daily Bulletin, would have enjoyed writing in today's paper. -However, he was inter rupted by so many phone calls and visitors that he didn't have a chance to tell the city editor to leave space-for them. Today Is Boy Scoot Day, and that's the truth. Twenty-seven Scouts and Explorers in the En dicott District are acting in vari ous civic and business posts throughout the village. The elected representatives acted .in their various positions from 8 a. m. until noon. Atf\ noon they were taken to Hotel Frederick, .guests of their adult counterparts, for lunch. A short program was held •after- the lunenjotv by the Scouts'. Susquenango Couneil Executive D. D. Crisp and Council-Presi dent Dorr Warner attended. This afternoon the young men were taken on a tour of Radio Station WENE and The Daily Bulletin. At WENE, each Scout made a tape recording of his voice to be aired on M30 during Scout Week, February 7 through 13. \This Is the 49th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America. The BSA was Incorporated In Wash ington. D. C, on Tab. 8, 1910. In 1016. Congress granted a fed eral charter to the organisation, More than 4 ,710,000 Cub Scouts. Boy Scouts. Explorers and their adult leaders are ob serving Boy Scout Week through out the nation. 'MAYOR' FOR A DAY—\Mayor\ Reed Snedaker, right, of Endicott-goas over some important matters and receive* some pointers on running the village from Mayor E. Raymond Lee. \Mayor\ Snedaker It among 26 other Endicott District Scouts acting in top official capacities throughout the village today, Boy Scout Civic'Day. National Boy Scout Week will be observed throughout the nation tomorrow through February 13 by some 4,780,000 Scouts. Sunday is the 49th anniversary of the BSA. No Hint Of Disaster Misunderstanding Of New Instruments Crash Cause? . CHICAGO (UPI)—-The American Airlines plane which crashed in New York's Eait River WAS ^'dead on\ course and the crew had no hint 6f impending disaster, according to a crew member who was handling the throttle ' at the time. Flight Engineer Warren Cook, one of eight survivors of the Tues day night crash which killed €5 persons, told his story of what happened in the coddt of the- ill- fated- -turbo-prop--airliner to his New Viruses Discovered Youth Has Close Shave With Death \ ^r^nr^^a ^E ?Su^^?a^^ (UPD—Arie Foot, 8, jenza^- tiad a close brush with death Tuuisday when lie rode his akd down a hill and under a passing car. Motorist Gordon Bushart, 1), braked his auto immediately, but the machine skidded for 85 feet wftfa boy and sled beneath Young Poot suffered a broken thigh, body bruises and cute aJtd possible internal injuries. WASHINGTON (UPI)—Surgeon General Leroy E. Bumey report ed today that two new respiratory viruses, which cause influenza like illnesses, have been discov ered Burney said a recent study by Public Health Service scientists showed the viruses caused more acute respiratory illnesses among hospitalized children and infants than Asian flu last year. Officials told a reporter a vac cine is being developed as protec tion agamst the highly contagious viruses. Burney described the dis covery as \an important advance against one of our major public health problems.\ Study Indigent Cfclldre* The study was carried on among hospitalized indigent chil dren in the Washington area dur ing 1957-58. \Results of the large - scale study on the role of these vi ruses,\ Bumey said, '{show that on a year-round basis they cause 50 per cent more respiratory 111- nes m children than does InOu- OmdaJs noted mat the viruses alto Mike adults. The study covered a range of Bulletin Board tenet's\ Be outlook Tor local area duriag ltM? Doily Balled* staff writers explore* the sttaatioa sad caas* act with \Outlook IMNV a. M-page edHorioJ at Pjctaras Is A *cia «\4 is toaayTs^eaTH^ Area eaatoeojj^_lee4H|rs neve infections front mild, fever • aro- duefog illness to jMwmonia and to -croup, a childhood disease characterized by labored and near suffocation breathing. Anti-Submarine Test Is Planned ROCHESTER (UPD- A giant underwater acoustic tank lor re search in anti-eubmarme warfare and allied work will be demon strated to Top Navy Brass here Feb. 17. The Stromberg-Carlson Division of General Dynamics Cora.' was readying the huge teat facility to day under the direction of Lynn C Holmes. Holmes said the tank will per mit basic' research in ttteeonar Over Fifty investigating Crash Causes NEW YORK CUPD-*fore than 50 experts on flying -and air planes have been utilized up to today in an effort to learn the cause of the crash of an Ameri can Airlines turboprop plane in which 65 of the 73 persons aboard dTecT \ The plane crashed Tuesday night into the murky waters of the East River during an instru ment approach to LaGuardia Field In fog and drizzle. Two days of careful checking of wreckage raised from the muddy river bottom end inter views with survivors, control tow er men and airline officials have failed to indicate what caused the accident Forty persons aboard the plane when it crashed still are missing and presumed dead Three more bodies were removed from the raised tail section Thursday, bringing the total recovered to 25. There were eight survivors, four of them still in critical con dition Joseph O Fluet. regional in vestigator for (he Civil Aeronaut ics Board, termed premature a theory put forward Thursday that the crash might be blamed on possible pilot error due to lack of approach lights and no glide- slope beam to help gauge eleva tion 'The only thing we are sure of,\ a CAB spokesman said. \Is that there is no indication of what caused the accident.\ Soviet Intentions Questioned; Ike Won't Visit Russia wife, Flora. Cook indicated that a. \alfacnB 'ij in reading new type altimeter* in the Electra jet airliners might have been responsible for the crash. The account was printed Thurs day night in a copyrighted Chi' cago Tribune story and by the Chicago Daily News. Cook, who has been questioned Capsule News Nye Denies Plot To Kill Castro HAVANA (UPI)-Alan R. Nye, of Whiting, Ind., stoutly main tains there is no truth in press reports that be has-> confessed plotting to kill Fidel Castro, friends said today. Nye is bell* held J>ri«oner at THOMAS VILLE. Ga fUPtl- T • White House today bluntly challenged Soviat Premier Nikita S Khrushchev's sincerity In invit ing President Eisenhower to Rus sia and said Elsenhower had no present plans to maks such a visit. After studying reports on Khrushchev s Moscow speech of Thursday overnight in Washington and hero at the vacation White House, Eisenhower's spokesman. Press Secretary James C Hag- erty, pointed out that the so- called-\Soviet Invitation was con tained in a speech which also included \very hostile references to United States leaders \ \It seems strange that Premier Khrushchev, if he really wel comes a visit by the President, would extend it in such circum stances,'\ Hagerty said Khrushchev, In addressing the 21st congress of the Communist Party In Moscow, Thursday, pub licly Invited Eisenhower to come to the Soviet Union, \bring any one he likes\ and go anywhere he wants. Critical of Macrualaatlea The Soviet premier at the same 4- 4- • Troopers 1 Exam Slated February 14 ENDICOTT — An open com petitive examination of candi dates for the New York State Troopers will be held in Bingham- ton on Saturday. March 14. Application must be submitted on blanks provided by the super intendent of the State\ ot New York Executive -Department Div ision of State Police. Capitol Building, Albany. Applications filed by mail bear ing a postmark later than mid- night of March 9 may not be accepted, it was reported. Salarv range for New York State Troopers ts $3,150 to $4.- 950 annually, plus food or an al lowance- amounting to approxi mately $1,207.50. This is in addition to lodging, all service clothin* and equip ment, together with retirement provisions after 20 years or 25 vears service and other fringe benefits in the Division of State |Po\ce - — Applicant* must h* between She ages of 21 and 29 aM not less.than five feet ten inches in height fidals, gave his wife virtually the same report as he gave investi gators when she visited him at a New York hospital. Mttatg Between MMa The -Tribune quoted the 35- year > old airman from Aurora, 111., as saying he was sitting be tween the two pilots maintaining 140 knots air speed as the big craft approached LaGuardia Field. The crew members were \com pletely astounded when the plane hit the water,\' Cook said. He said the pilot. Capt Albert De- Witt, \told me to maintain 140 knots air speed and that's what was doing. 'So far as anyone of us knew, this was a perfectly routine ap proach. We expected to break out of a cloud and see the run way lights ahead The pilots were using the in strument landing system and Camp Liberty,\\ headquarters of &e_axny, -Autfcorlfks there ig~[ nored newsmen's request* tor an opportunity to talk to Nye, but friends who were allowed to visij; him Mid be denies any guilt. No* official charges have been tiled against the 31 - year - old American, and it appeared au thorities here are awaking Cas tro's return—probably Saturday— provln before proceeding with the cas by- aviation of-ffrpnr a tour of Ortente ce case were dead on The next thing knew we were in the water \The only thing I can suggest is that they might have had a mixup with those new altimeters. They are a new type and there was some difficulty reading them.\ Cook told his wife the altime ters, which tell the pilot the plane's altitude, might have been misread because \it Isn't easy to cross check between the pilot's and co-pilot's instruments in that big Electra cockpit\ A Golden Egg LONDON (UPI1—Talk about the gooat thai laid the golden egg. A hen belonging to Norfolk farmer Laurie Dunn laid an egg today that would make a satisfy ing breakfast for eight people. The monster egg was 10 inches long, nine inches around and weighed 84 ounces. Strike Near End NEW YORK (UPI) — A ten tative agreement has been reach, ed In the six-day old strike that has tied up more than 400 tug boats and other craft in New York harbor More than 4 000 harbor workers will vote Satur day on the agreement. time was bitterly critical of \dis crimination\ which prevents his coming to the United States. He also attacked the Western stand on B\erhn Hagerty at first declined to comment because the President had heard of the speech only through news dispatches. Appar ently after an overnight study and In consultation with the State Department the White House was ready to react today \Preinior Khrushchev's Invita tion to President Eisenhower to visit the Soviet Union occurred in a lengthy speech which con tained very hostile references to United States leaders,\ Hagerty said. After finding thp manner of ex tending the invitation strange, Hagerty continued \The President has no present plans to make such a visit—in fact, he hasn't received »iy invi tation, except through reports of an off-hand Invitation extended in a political speech \ The White House was careful however, not to slam the door on a future meeting between Elsen hower and Khrushchev. • • > Willing to Go Anywhere \Ever since he has been in of* flee,\ Hagerty said. \President Eisenhower has always madd it clear that he was willing to go anywhere in the world if by so doing such a visit would serve the cause of peace. \Should future developments suggest that a visit to the Soviet Union or anywhere else would serve to advance this cause, then it certainly would be considered.\ The White House has long taken a negative attitude toward invita tions disclosed in public before they reach the recipient on the grounds that bids of this type are made primarily, for public con sumption and propaganda pur poses, Elsenhower took advantage of balmy weather today for another day of quail hunting which was so much to his liking that he, was planning to remain here until Monday afternoon. There had been some talk, of his returning to Washington Sunday, but Hag erty said today tentative depar ture plans called for Monday aft ernoon, • • • Solid West Readying Answer To Russian Peace Conference Plan PARIS (UPD-US. Secretary of State John. Foster Dulles had * \satisfactory' talk about Germa ny today with French President Charley de Gaulle and a Trench source said the Western reply v Russia's Jan. 10 note will be ready \in a few days.\ The source, who stands high in French diplomacy, said France, Britain, the U.S. and West Ger many will reply to the So5St German peace treaty conference proposal well before British Prime Minister Harold Macmillen vuutsMoeco^i&iL* MacmlUan's departure \will not In any way delay the West's re ply to the Soviet note of Jan. 10,\ the source said. U. S. Plans Stern Demand For Account Of Russian Attack PPG Mediation PHILADELPHIA UPI) -Union and management met again today in an attempt to narrow down the unresolved issues to pave the way for possible arbitration of the four-month strike at the Pitts burgh Plate Glass Co plants. Federal Mediator Robert A. Dormahoo said the •negotiators split up into seven , groups Wednesday in an effort to resolve the Issues on an individual plant level. Main Stem Flashes Unemployment Up NUERNBERG,-Germany (UPD Private fee* CM red, former Vestal Central High Scboojer, \Kadlcott Police Chief\ Brace Merrill's car standing out front of Hotel Frederick this after noon with a big yellow park ing ticket on. it. It seems a couple of fellows came -by and noticed no money In the chief's meter and their old tickets. Alfred Weiaer of 129 N. Jackson Ave, donning that ol cap and gown to go up on the platform and accept his B.A. degree in English from the State University of Iowa, at midwinter corronencernent ex ercises on the Iow a City camp* us. Teseie (EJT Fine Welt) Maadyke of Elm Street West Endicott coming to work this morning with her pocket book on one arm and the handle of her umbrella on the other. Soffiewhtre Bong the way she lost it—so if any Main Stem- mers find the better half of her bumbershooL please re» S -rt it to Tesste before It nt. Jack (ao relation to Bob) Hope, well • known Bridge Street barber undergoing an operation at Wilson Memorial Hospital yesterday and doing -»ne today-—1tf»amanTle-iiacfc- at* the barbershop, a certain Mr; Allsel is minding the ahoo. Fred (T. C. Sports) Zappla being sidelined from his bowl ing recreation for the rest of the season due to a broken leg. Fred flame out second-beat whan he slipped on th* ice last Tuesday night after * bowling: venture. Lewis Morse of Adams Ave nue, Endicott. being noted on the guest list at Wilson Memor ial Hospital. Lew is an active Mason in Binghamton and a former IBM employe. His sis- ter,\Drr \Marian Muis*. fumier Union physician, is now doing medical missionary work in Indie Talf of Alpine Drive, Vestal.- a girt after my own heart, hoping that Spring will com* early this year • WASHINGTON (UPI) — Administration officials, prodded by irate congressmen, were reported today to be preparing a stiff new demand that Russia account for the shooting down of an unarmed American transport by Soviet fighters last Sept. 2, Officials said the U.S. govern' ment planned definite stei follow up Its dramatic disci of evidence which It claims proves the Russians deliberately attacked the helpless plane in Soviet Ar menia with 17 men aboard. The U.S evidence Included tape -recording of Intercepted con versations among thp Soviet fight er pilots who staged the attack and articles from the Russian Air Force Journal describing such an incident Burial Today A military burial was to take place today at /Vington Ceme tery for two unidentified * vitims among the six bodies the Russians acknowledged finding in the crash and turned over to U.S. author!' ties. The Russians claim the plane was not shot down but crashed and burned after \violating\ the Soviet al*- frontier They deny any knowledge of the 11 airmen still unaccounted for. The American plane went down about 21 miles inside Russian ter ritory and about 105 miles off its course. The State Department said it had been flytng between three towns m Turkey In an Air Force study ef radio transmissions. Offlf&tls ItsTNt -time, possible courses of future action open to the United States? — —A renewed demand that Rus sia acknowledge its guilt and promise there will be no recur rence of such incidents. —A claim for complete financial compensation for the human and material loss suffered by the United jStates and the families of the IT men. —An appeal to the International Court of Justice to brand Russian conduct In the affair as \uncivi lized.\ CeU War Colder The State Department's dis closure sent the temperature of the cold war down several more degrees. It was regarded as cer tain to stiffen the Western Allies in theft\ current consultations on bow Klneet Soviet \threats against Berlin. The American evidence touched off angry reatkn in Congress. Senate Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield (Mont) said he booed Mocmillcm To Check On Summit LONDON (UPI i — Prime Min ister Harold MacmlUan will in vestigate prospects for an East- West summit conference by sum mer when he files to Moscow Feb 21, informed diplomatic sources said today MacmlUan told Parliament on Thursday he would not attempt any go-it-alone negotiations with the Russians during his <vi*H r but the sources said the British lead er strongly favors a Big • Four summit meeting this year. They said he wants one held either simultaneously with the Big Four foreign ministers con ference expected to be held at the end of April or sometime later, probably during the sum mer, Government sources said Mac mlUan would return from Mos cow about March 4 and would re port as soon as possible to the UTOttiStMci. France and West The sources said the Moscow m idea trip was MaomiUaa's own and apparently took the XreroHn by surprise. Taey said ate Print Minister did not obtain a special Invitation, but took advantage of a standing Soviet invitation de livered to Sir Anthony Eden by a »viet Premier Nikita Xfaraeh- coev during hk visit to Britain three years ago. Emergency Landing TOKYO (UPI)-A four-engined Japan Airlines DC7C .transport with 37 persons aboard made an emergency landing on Wake Is land Thursday because • of-engine trouble, an airlines spokesman re ported today. The plane, carrying nine crew members and 28 pas sengers, was on a fught from Honoluki to Tokyo. Minister Resigns 3*ua vie^'proposodr a Sana tion conference on German reuni- licatkn and eent along a draft treaty of their own. . Heads For Bona 1 The Western reply, now being written by a four-power working party in Washington, is expected to turn down the idea on grounds it is largely a restatement oft past Soviet positions which the east feels-^woukf il freese u -tne di vision of Germany. Dulles was ki London Thursday and will be in Bonn Saturday tak ing fresh diplomatic soundings on the Soviet May 37 date for hand, lng East Berlin over to East Ger man control. He talked wilfc de Gaulle for 14 hours today. American offi cials said afterward Dulles said he was \satisfied\ with the talk. They specified the U.S. and France were in \very definite agreement\ on the necessity that the West must keep free access to Berlin and must not recognize any substitution of East German responsibility for Soviet responsi bility. Agree Oa Righto French sources said both Dul les and de Gaulle expressed \de termination\ to maintain Western communications routes open into Berlin after the May 27 deadline set by the Soviets for turning West Berlin into a 'free City\ He said Dulles and de Gaulle agreed that Western rights should be maintained in Berlin \by all available means.\ Earlier. Dulles conferred for 70 minutes with French Foreign Min ister Maurice Couve de Murville. U.S. officials said the two reached \general agreement right along the line\ on the German prob lem. 9 The French source predicted that a Western Big Four foreign ministers meeting would be held in the near future—possibly short ly after MacmlUan's return from Moscow. Bomber Crashes Killing Airman LITTLE ROCK, Ark. <UPI)— •Otvt maTraSSSTn W~crash of a~~ Ba5.rpisan>ensdne bomber during, a stoet storm at Little Rock AFB Thursday night the second fatal crash at the Strategic Air Command base in three days. Four others aboard the viatagt> aircraft, including Capt. Joan F. Ferry a passenger. White Plains, N. Y., ware injured, but not seri- *Mdy. The dead maa was T-Sgt/ Ed%. win Carey Wilson. 31. of Jack; sonville, Ark., the B25's crew chief. LAUGH IT Off
