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2 Area Fires Two area fires—one in Halsey Valley and the other in Whitney Point — left a family of nine homeless and killed between 500 and 600 chicks. Page 3. THE DAILY BULLETIN Serving Endicott, indwell. Vestal and Western Broome — Eastern Thga Counties The Weather Endicott and vicinity: Increas ing; cloudineM tonight. Light rain and snow likely 'Sunday. Low to day near 30. High Sunday near 35. Vol. 104, No. 11 10 Pag*s Endicott, N. Y., Saturday, February 7, 1959 Talaphon* 5-3355 or Owago 1676 5 C«nft EARLY MORNING BLUES—Scout bugler Luke Diorio of 607 Wilma St., Endi cott, \blows\ Bruce Gorman of 207 Dwight Ave., Endicott, right out of his nice warm nest early this morning. Scouts from Troop 219 camped out last night in Park Square directly across from the EJ Recreation Center to bring attention to Boy Scout Week, which starts Sunday. (See story and picture on Page 3.) School Is Overnight Haven For 54 In Oswego Snowstorm Dulles, Adenauer Agree On West Policy Action Officials Delighted First Titan Attempt Successful On Super Missile Launching CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) — The United States' missile arsenal boast ed a new flight-tested ICBM today—the awesome, ocean- spanning Titan. The Air Force staged its first successful test firing of the bullet- shaped Titan super-missile Friday It blasted well over 200 miles on an ar that reached a maximum of 50 miles in height, using only its first stage engines Officials were delighted Air Force Chief of Staff Gen Thomas D White said in Wash ington that the Titan \successfully accomplished the programmed ob jectives \ his was to test the first stage propulsion and control system In the firing—the first time the Titan has been released from its boltings—the second stage was filled with water The launching of the mighty \war or peace\ rocket came on the third anniversary of the es tablishment of the plant in Denver, OSWEGO (UPI) — Some 54 children, forced to spend the night in their school on the campus of Oswego State Teachers College when the winter's second severe snow storm made traveling haz ardous^ had breakfast with their\ tired teachers this morning and then waited for their parents ?o return them to their homes Meanwhile, winds which had hit gusts of 50 miles an hour, died down and the snow ended after dumping 8 to 12 inches on the ground Roads for the most part were reported open and conditions are not regarded as serious. The last of the youngsters left the school shortly after o a.m. Cabs, buses and prfVatfr- auMJW biles were able to get through the snow with little trouble and most traffic was moving at a near-nor mal pace The youngsters, ranging in age from 5 to 15, appeared to enjoy Denies Death Plot Nye Asks Embassy For Help In Killing Charge HAVANA (UPI)—Former U. S. Navy pilot Alan Rob ert Nye turned to the U. S. Embassy today for help in disproving charges he was a hired gun brought in to kill Fidel Castro for $100,000. Nye. of Whiting, Ind , and Coral Gables, Fla , denied Cuban news paper reports that he had con fessed to trying to kill Castro for former dictator Fulgencio Batis ta. He issued the denial in an in terview with United Press Inter national in his cell at the army's Camp Liberty headquarters The US. Embassy said Nye asked American Vice Consul Hugh Kessler to arrange an in terview with Cuban Foreign Min ister Roberto Agramonte so he could prove his innocence An embassy statement said \the embassy has been in contact with officials of the foreign min ister with regard to Mr Nye's case The embassy has not been notified of the specific charges on which Mr. Nye is being hel dand will continue its investigation of the case \ Nye previously had refused em bassy help in protecting his inter ests. (In Chicago. Nye's mother. Mrs. Daniel Lynch 30. of Whit ing, Ind, announced! she had writ ten -a. letter to Castro saying her 6on was too \honest kind and thoughtful\ to agree to- assassi--and -Thurston nate _tiic ; Cuban revolutionary once. leader. -XSho. -said—. 'N ygifi—• ancestors fought and died in the Spanish American War for Cuba's free dom and that her son was a man of \character without blemish.\) Nye told United Press Interna tional he was completely innocent of all charges listed in the Cuban press. \I did not go to the Sierra Maestra to kill Castro.'* he said. The American Korean War vet eran appeared to be completely at home in his cell He was clean •haven and well dressed and act ed as though he were host to a eociaJ gathering rather than a prisoner LAUGH IT Off Police Nab Escape Artist NEW YORK (UPI) — David Lynn Thurston, 39. an escape artist and one of the FBI's \10 most wanted men.\ lost his nerve and his. freedom Friday night in an attempted restaurant robbery Thurston, a fugitive wanted in Portland, Ore, tried to bold up manager Harry Roth of the Flor- idian restaurant with a gun. Thurston told Roth to fill up a white cloth bag \or I'll kill you\. Roth's reply was: \Get out of here, you bum \ The gunman wavered. \Come on. beat it!\ said Roth. Thurston fled. Restaurant official Herbert Hol lander ran to Traffic Patrolman Herbert Matthews and pointed out fleeing Thurston. patrolman gave chase, warning shot in the air surrendered the prolonged stay in school and several put up arguments when their parents came to pick them up during the night. At first, accommodations were made for 90 children to spend the night in the school after it was decided against allowing the buses to battle (he zero visibility and drMlai But geWtl parwtr-nook--] the The fired a their children home Cots were set up for the 54 who stayed Fifteen teachers remained with the youngsters * and reported that the night passed without in cident But one first grader cried a bit and said \This is the first time I've ever been away from mom my at night,\ as a teacher tucked lhe_bay into, ins JCQL _Xhe teacher said the boy then fell into a sound sleep, One second grader wished \it would snow like heck for the rest of the weekend so I can stay in school \ The latest storm, which began late Friday, and for a while ap peared like there might be a re peat of last December's big snow, ended early today and conditions in this city of 20,000 were not con sidered serious. The new fall brought tlie season total to more than 160 inches, sur passing a record set in 1925-26 The decision to keep the chil dren overnight came at about 2 p.m Classes, which normally end about 3 o'clock, were continued for an extra hour themselves until supper by read ing stories, playing basketball and listening and dancing to music from a phonograph, part of the school's equipment Supper was served in the school cafeteria where amle supplies had been on stock Some teachers organized games and supervised similar types of recreation during the evening. Oth ers made hundreds of telephone calls to let parents know that ev erything was going smoothly in the snow-bound school The younger children, after be ing entertained by several ukelele playing coeds from the college, dropped off to sleep about 8:30, with no trouble. Eighth and ninth graders were allowed to stay up until 10 p.m. The younger children slept in the familiar confines of their own class rooms while impromptu dor mitories were set up. one for the at fboys- and anofter- The. teachers reported they hid Norwegians Capture Red Fishing Boat BERGEN. Norway (UPD -The Norwegian navy boarded and cap tured a Russian fishing boat today two miles inside Norway's fishing waters. The Norwegian naval command here said the Soviet trawler made no attempt to escape and that the boarding crew took over and made for port Vice Adm. Erling Hostvedt said the trawler was being taken to the western harbor of Aalesund It was the first Soviet boat to be captured since 1956, when sev eral were brought in and their skippers fined. The Norwegian Foreign Office said the arrest was a case for the police and will not be reported officially to the government Legal experts said the Russian LaldMjWC^wowk) be Jfcted about.42.-. 000 and Us catch confiscated.When the fine is paid the boat will be set free, they said. The Norwegian navy reinforced its sea and air patrol in the area Friday when another Soviet fish ing boat, part of a Russian fleet of 300 to 400 vessels, was caught inside Norway's fishing border The Russian fleet gathered out side Norway's fishing waters in fa—hunt- 4w -hewing, ^whteh have been running very well Retired State PSC Head Dies PLATTSBURGH (UPI) — Benja min F Feinberg, retired chair man of the State Public Service Commission and former State Sen ate majority leader, died at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Mont real Friday after a long illness. He was 70 Feinberg had been suffering a kidney ailment since last Novem ber He was stricken while in Phoenix. Ariz., attending a meet ing of the National Association of Railroad and Utility Commission ers A native of Malone. N. Y, and a resident of Platteburgfa, Fein berg was appointed to a 10 • year term as PSC chairman by former Governor Dewey. Feinberg's term expired Feb. 1, 1959. but he an nounced his resignation from the $23,000 chairmanship Dec. 17. Feinberg wax sown from Phoenix hospital to Montreal for treatment after be became ill He left Hie Montreal hospital for i week early in January but re turned Jan. IS. While a state senator. Feinberg authored a law which barred Com munists from employment in the state'* public school system. The Feinberg Law, challenged in the courts, was upheld -by the U. S- Supreme Com*. Nap Lajoie, Fame Early Member, Dies DAYTONA BEACH Fla </P> — Napoleon 'Nap) Lajoie R2. charter member of baseball's Hall of Fame, died at a hospital here today. Lajoie was stricken with pneumonia In January. He was be lieved to have recovered and was Capsule News GOP Moves To Reduce Expenses By W. B. DICKINSON JR. United PreM International WASHINGTON (UPI)-Repubil- can * economy fences massed today for an effort to cut the cost of airport and housing legislation now speeding through Congress on Jhc xrest of Dernocratic majori ties. The Senate Friday night passed a 465 million dollar air-port aid bill by a stunning 63 to 22 roTV call vote margin. The bill was twice that recommended by the President But a GOP move to reduce the four-year program to 252 million dollars was defeated by a 53 to 35 vote despite repeated Republi can echoes of the President &-eco- nomy appeals Seeks Conference By STEWART HEN8LEV United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI)—Western diplomatic experts today were ex pected to finish drafting a tenta tive Allied proposal calling on Russia to participate in a four- power foreign ministers conference this spring on the Issues of Berlin, Germany, and European security. Reds Learn U.S. Can Track Jets By CHARLES W. CORDDRY UsMed Frees sstoastlsasl WASHINGTON (UPD — The Russians BOW know how well the Vest's electronic ears and eyes can follow their jet plane opera tions right into their ground con trol centers along the Iron Cur tain. - They learned from the State Department's •'absolutely authen tic** ttpe recorded evidence that Soviet planes shot down an un- armed U.S. transport over Rus sian Armenia last September. The extent of electronic aurveil-, lance of «je-Redr ir secret But I the Soviets are forced to that it is far -flung. They have convincing evidence «s* it is effective. If m JirVertttiszsrtidn <wm *e Rus- I possibly in Turkey, knew the fre- Soviet Georgia, -or Yerevan, in »'« a* tisdlsj ylsftmr that Had pUsss Mi -wot 4 There were 17 men aboard. Six bodies were' recovered but the Russians never have accounted for other eleven. Ref»M Be flirtings' The State Department would not say how it came by its re cording. But evidence of effective electronic nxaiitoring was figura tively written all over the docu ments- made public Thursday. Whoever did the 1 m onitoring. quency on which Red ground sta tions transmitted voice communi cations to jet fighter pilots. The translated intercepts of Russian pilots 'radio conversa tions, the department said, gave a running account of the shooting of what;the Accorded Rus- nsVia i aJ tfcl a—louc ati toteiSJed ffltftf~frorn Adana, fh southern Turkey,_jto^^aMMi^ 0* Irani-j wr via Van, Turiwy, an border. It went down near ML Alagoz, well to the east of Trab- zon and about 31 miles int4d eAr- menia, THe United States said it accidentally wandered of course. Berts Deajr Attack The Russians s aid it crashed in flames; but denied attacking the craft It could have got off course by accidentally picking up the Rus sian radio beacon at Batumi, in Armenia, instead of apparently leas powerful navigation aid* at Turkish check points. Normal international custom in such instances is to intercept an announced border crosier and in struct Kbit to land his plane. The American C130 was vpar- wide study of radio waves WWmsr^ The Air Force says such are. •m*ae-''roarin*iy-- ' world to cheek eoenasuMca- New Penny Ready WASHINGTO N(UPI) — A new penny will be issued next week, but the face on the coin remains the same The new penny — to be issued officially Feb 12. the l.iOtir anni versary of Lincoln s birth — has a picture of the Lincoln Memorial on one side instead of a wreath The other side, bearing the pic ture of President Abraham Lin- coin, remains unchanged Main Stems Carol Wallls being surprised at finding her name misspelled in yesterday's paper (Wal lace) but we're making up for it today. Carol's one of the gals who'll be tripping the light fantastic at the Found er's Day program in West Corners on Tuesday night. Paul Maan of 525 June St., West Endicott. recently arriv ing at Fort Dlx. W J to un- due for discharge from the hos pital this week but suffered a relapse Friday and was placed on the critical list. Lajoie. born Sept 5. 1875 in Woonsockct, R. I, finished his 21 - year major league career in 1916 with a life time batting average of .339. He appeared in 2.475 big league games, most of them as a sec ond baseman with\ the Phila delphia ^Nationals, Cleveland and the Philadelphia Athletics. From 1905 to 1909 he managed the Cleveland club A graceful fielder and a con sistent hitter in the dead ball era, Lajoie was elected to the Hall of Fame in 193? In 1901. Lajoie waa the con- tr«+ figure m * prolonged legal controversy when he broke his contract with the Philadelphia Nationals and \Jumped' 'to the newly organized American Lea gue to play with the Philadel phia A's - The National League club got a court injunction against him Latoie transferred to Cleveland where he played from 1902 through 1914. managing for 5 vrars He returned to Connie Mack In Philadelphia in 1915 and 1916 finishng his big len gue career, but played in 1917 at Toronto and in 191R at In dianapolis before retiring from the game.. Colo, where the 110-ton, 90-foot ICBM is produced The Titan is believed to have a potential range of 8.000-miles. enough to span the biggest oceans carrying nurlear warheads Or it j might be fired into space Au-1 thortties say its booster section, with the most powerful single rocket engine in thr free world could power « manned rocket around tlie moon It was the third tr> at getting the sleek Titan into actual flight Two previous attempts ended in engine malfunction and shutdowns before the boltings were released On Fridays flight, the Titan s first stage engines burned for about two minutes It bored up ward through a blue rift in a\ overcast sky The flight lasted approximately 10 minutes The upper section, shaped like a large - caliber cartridge was packed with instruments to fur nish information and data on fric tion, stresses and the like But it was not equipped with a new pin point guidance system which has been developed for tts use later Its makers, the Martin Co. hope to have the Titan operational *| within a year Eventually it is to be used in luanchtng caverns, ready for firing against enemy nds of miles away. Castro Won't Shave HAVANA iUPI i - Revolution ary leader Fidel Castro refused to shave or wer a clean shirt .today declanne both \symbols of the Cuban revolution \ targets thousand Air Crash Victim's Body Found NEW YORK (UPD—The body of a boy was recovered from the East River Friday night leaving 39 of the vtctlms of Tues day's American Airlines Electra crash near LaGuardia Airport still unaccounted for Police tentatively identified the body as that of Stephen Cozier 10. of Fairfield. Conn His body was found on a mud flat near the crash scene by salvage crews which 1invp also\ located -the sunk- en fuselage where many of the missing are believed trapped Attempts to raise the 50 per cent of the plane -still submerged were hindered Friday by high winds and swift currents, but the work will be resumed when weather permits. Some sections of the plane have washed up on the Long Island shore 30 miles from the crash scene The recovery of the boy's body brought to 26 the number of vic tims found The crash of the tur bo-prop plane as it came in for a landing in rain and fog killed 65 persons Eight survived, but four of them still are in critical condition Joseph Fluet, chief Civil Aero nautics Board investigator, ap pealed Friday to possible wit nesses of the tragedy to come forward Fluet said his 51-man In vestigating team may take four weeks to complete Its study of the causes of the crash Will Discuss Soviet Threats To W. Berlin BONN. Germany (UPI)— Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles said today he came to Germany to discuss means of \common action'' by the Western powers against Soviet threats to West Berlin. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who met him at the airport on his' arrival from Pans agreed this was the mam point of their talks. Both insisted there were no basic or fundamental differences in policies. \These thoughts about meth ods are still n a formative stage but they will be firm, common and united,'\ Dulles said. Moscow said Dulles' visits to London. Paris and Bonn were a \desperate enterprise\ to patch up Western unity. It said the West was split on Its approach to the Berlin crisis and the Germany problem. Adenaser Meet* Dulles Adenauer was at the Wahn Air port in nearby Cologne to greet Dulles. He said \it is only natural that leading statesmen should want to meet, not about the basis of policies, but on methods of deal ing jointly with their opponents. '* In reply. Dulles said. \We have talked in the past often in times of considerable dif ficulties. Now we lace another period of a difficult future, as the Soviets challenge our rights in Berlin. It is not necessary to re examine the fundamentals of our relationship. Those ire unshak able. We do meet to discuss meth ods of common action \ Dulles will confer with\ Adenau er and other West Geran lead ers during his two-day stay. The secretary flew in from Pa ris aboard his special U.S. Air Force Super - Constellation The party drove here from* Coogne by car Before boarding the plane for fuie SOO -mllP flight. Dulles toto re porters at Paris' Orly Airport that U_ ••..nn. ontteftoH\ M-Ht-Vl hit In Alexandria Sobeloff agreed to hear the ap peal after Federal District Judge fAlbert V, Bryan Friday turned defffo. basic eight-week ia**ntry raining in the army Paul is a graduate of U-E High School and Broome Tech. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Mann. P 1—MAIN STEMS af Mark (West Corners) Avery of the Day Hollow Road being forced to give up his Cub- master duties wtih Pack 234 for the time being while he undergoes a checkup at Ideal Hospital. Everybody is hoping for his speedy return. MM. Doyle (De* Mother! TV rids of Day Hollow Road baing prevented from accom plishing her motherly duties while a patient at Ideal Hot- pita]. Her Cubbies and nu merous friends are pulling for a quick return home. Mrs. Cfcarfetto Glasgow of _ getting ready to celebrate a birthday jMt scotca. Virginia School Seeks Delay On Integration BALTIMORE, Md. (UPI)—Alexandria, Va. school board attorneys appear before Federal Appeals Judge Simon E. Sobeloff today to make a last-minute plea for a delay in school integration, schedule Tuesday in the city, a Potomac River suburb of Washington. pone the enrollment of nine Ne- groes in three Alexandria schools from Stratford Junior High Mon day riv» hoard's request to post-1 Norfolk, which enrolled 17 Njs groes. also was reducing the Bryan said he saw no reason to alter his previous ruling that the Negroes»should be admitted to two elementary and one high school. Alexandria School Board' attor neys Henry Crockett John B, Phillips and Earl F. Wagner ar- fgued that the second semester al ready had started and the city needed additional time to prepare for integration. T. C. Williams. Alexandria su perintendent of schools, met Fri day afternoon with principals of the schools to be integrated to make plans' for Tuesday if a de lay is not obtained The school board earlier an- iwunced it would comply with Bryan's order if a stay was not granted. Alexandria adjoins Arlington which, along with Norfolk, made the historic, transition fiom *» to W gauon mm: egrauon ~ttii» week\ uttwitirn announced Hoe fwee assigned po- fc» hlghj he was \very satisfied\ with his talks in the French capital. Talks With French Minister In Paris. Dulles reached \full agreement with French officials on the Western approach to the Soviet Union's diplomatic offen. slve on Berlin and Germany. Similar agreement was reached with Britain's leaders in his talks hi London Dllles chatted for about 10 min utes with French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville before his plane took off at 10 35 a m. f4 35 am. est) for West Ger many. \I wish you a rood trip\ Couve de MurviUe said \any how we will sec each other soon again' Some observers believed Couve dp MurvtHe was referring to the possibility of meeting Dulles at a four-power foreign ministers con ference this spring The Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda said in an edi torial today that the failure of the West to reply to Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's proposals on Ber lin and a German peace treaty are signs of Western discord. \The principal aims of Dulles' present visit consists in finding a common denominator\ Pravda said. \It is a vital and ever des perate enterprise \ Claims Western Discord Pravda asserted that \the much- advertised jnlted front of the West is by no means as solid or as united as it is made out to. be\ It noted that more than two months had passed since Mow- cow's proposals on making West Berlin a \free demilitarized\ city and on conclusion of a peace treaty \with Germany. and three junior high schools. Another legal development in the Virginia integration crisis oc curred in Front Royal where the NAACP asked the immediate re opening of Warren County's only high school, closed since last fall to prevent the enrollment of 22 Negroes The county school board an nounced earlier this week it felt the school could not be reopened until at least September because of administrative difficulties, in cluding the loss of 26 teachers to a private school organization. BULLETIN BALTIMORE (AP)—A fed eral appeals Judge today re fused to delay the admisstoa of •iae Negroes to three public schools at Alexandria, Va-, aext Tuesday. Chief Jaige Mux* E. Sobel- ~*MT * ' t «m U. 8. it* Clrcanr the AWxiadrU 8c*Mt Boar :kat ^Tiws ^«rnsisrr~r»s»c\ro prepare for the totasgaifcl •* Ibey.w^.withdraw all poUctmM ts* .Vefra stadeats. Many observers' in Moscow it continued \consider the West • is delaying its reply mainly owing to the discord which is becoming apparent between the VSJL. BRITAIN. France and West Ger many \ Pravda said that Dulles' visit to Europe shows that the West re fuses to recognize \the true state of affairs' in Germany and con sequently it is fruitless and with out prospects.\ Before going to Bonn Dulles talked in Paris with President Charles de Gaulle and other French leaders in which agree* ment was reached that Weitern rights in Berlin must be main; tained \by all available means.'* Britala Supports Finn Staad British Prime Minister Harold. MacmUlan and other govcrumeut leaders also reaffirmed in talks with Dulles earlier this week that the Western powers must not bow< to Soviet threats. Bjl<S<S m
