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GAZETTE SdFcIiYLns Sciili Africa ICS Oi Year No. 114 CLarter Member Audit Bureau of Crculationa MATTOON, ILLINOIS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 31, I960 Member Associated Press AO Phones AO Prica 7 CaU Tirr'ff Haifa IT nlip To Halt All tlai laim to Oil-Rich Tidelands MMMM' I'GilNCai ACTS DAILY JO jjjRMAjli Court 'Stakes Federa v. bt wira Mcuxixr Keportte Tells futernsk Srory W.UHEtGTO The Snpreaw Ceart today isctied the federal gwvarnsMat Is entitled to nil -rich snhawqia lands awre than three go-graphle taflen aff the eenstn af Lanwaaaa, Mindanppi and Ahv Russian Novelist Credits Publicity for Saving Life rta to Wwna K. Quincy. outgoing secretary of the state association; E.

C. Schlfferdecker. Belleville, outgoing state president; Dr. A. A.

Leffman, president of the Mat-toon club. Dr. P. W. Patterson, a member of the local club and general chairman of the convention; Mayor Morgan F.

Phlpps who presented the keys of the city to Schlfferdecker; George M. Pendell, managing secretary of the Mattoon Association of Commerce, who welcomed state Members of Higb Clubs throughout the stats were in Mattoon Saturday to attend the 15th annual convention of the Illinois' Association of High 12 Clubs. Shown at the opening session are J. Carl Menke, Officials Probe Collapse Of Stands at Speedway officers; Dr. James Lively, a member of the local club and outgoing state chaplain, and Clarence O.

Solan d. a local member, who led the pledge of allegiance at the opening session. Dulles Gives Testimony On Spy Incident WASHINGTON UP The Sen ate Foreign Relations Commit tee, working behind heavily guard- ed closed doors, heard the inside story of the U2 spy plane today from the country's top espionage, agent. Allen W. Dulles, director of the.iorever Editora Net Gastave 8 vi aw.

fenaeriy aaatgaed the Mmmi itaif af The As dated Press and flaent In Kiadaa. Interviewed Boris Pasternak ia 1958 at the height of the storm ever his Nobel Prise. The following story of the Interview Is the art that eoald net he printed while Pasternak was alive. He talked freely te friends and reporters bat saggested, for the sake of his personal safety, that discretion he ased in what they aude pobUe. By Gl'STAV SVENSSON GENiVA lit Boris Paster nak told me, In the middle of the storm over "Doctor that he believed the Noil Prise bad saved his life.

He also said that despite state- ments made in his name, he had never renounced the Nobel award, Pointing to his head and heart, Pasternak said: "It is ia here and In there and will remain there Two days before King Oustaf VI of Sweden, a as to present the Nobel awards to the winners tn Stockholm, Pasternak asked me, as a Swede, to tell the Swedish Academy that he still claimed the prize although he was unable to go to 8weden to receive it in person. "I could send somebody to pick up the prize money for me," he said. He added Jokingly: "I could not our Stockholm ambassador to do it for me because that would be the summit of duplicity." Duplicity and the breakdown of personal integrity in a Commu nist society are the main themes in Pasternak's novel, which the Soviet government has not al- would Inscribe Pasternak as the W56 winner but that the $41420 7 I saw Pasternak on Dec. 8, 1956. six weeks after the academy announced it had selected him for the first literary Nobel Prize ever awarded to a Soviet Russian.

Five weeks earlier, the Communist party newspaper Pravda had published a letter in Pasternak's name declining the award. The storm against the author was still raging at full blast throughout all Soviet propaganda media. He was very isolated and regarded Western newsmen as his! supersecret Central Intelligence Agency, read a long prepared statement. But he provided no copies not even for the commit tee members. Sen.

J. William Fulbright D- Ark), committee chairman, left it solely up to Dulles whether anything he said would be made pub-He' Fulbright promises to meet with newsmen later. The committee is looking Into foreign policy Implications of the spy plane crash with its pilot deep, inside Russia May 1. After that in cident Russia wrecked the May 18 summit conference and renewed an ami American propaganaa campaign. President Elsenhower has pledged full cooperation with the inquiry.

This and Dulles' refusal to tifaui-4nfA rif him tHmnnv Wrr wiHiv inirtin Dulles planned some full answers to the senators' questions. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. An angry group of officials started aa Investigation today Into toe alowmoUon crash of a home-made scaffold which killed two men and injured 82 persons at the start of Monday's SM-mile race. Coroner Roy B. Storms placed the blame on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Management.

He said for years the group has Ignored his protests against the makeshift towers which dot the track's infield every Memorial day. Edwin K. Steers, Indiana at torney general, said a check will be made to determine whether safety measures can be imposed on the privately owned track. Fred H. Under, 36, Indianapolis and William Craig, 37, Zionsvllle, died of broken necks when the 30-foot aluminum tower, Jammed with possibly as many as 130 persons, tipped as its spectators leaned forward to watch th pre-race activities.

The spectators had rented seats at $5 and $10 on the scaffold, Illinois House Honors Rep. Paul Graham The Illinois House of Representa tives has adopted a resolution commending Rep. Paul (Red) Oraham of Mattoon for his service and recognizing his retirement from the House. Oraham, a representative from Fulbright and other committee" mounted on a truck bed Speedway officials for many years have allowed private owners to haul In towers and charge whatever they can for seats. The fan-built stands are not Inspected beyond "looking safe," said Albert W.

Bloemker, speed way publicity director. Under operated the leased scaffold, said William Shortrldge, the victim's father-in-law. The often deadly track proved safer than the spectator area. The race, won by Jim Rathmann of Miami, provided only one Injury-producing crackup. Driver Eddie Russo, Kansas City, was reported in critical condition but was expected to live.

Monday's accident, the first In which spectators were injured fatally since 1938, raised to nine the number of fans killed here since the track opened in 1909. Two persons remained in critical condition today, but most of the others injured were released from local hospitals after treat ment. Firefighters Battle Blaze in Canada OAONON, Que. UH Aided by dying winds and a light rain, nun dreds of firefighters feverishly built defenses today against a for est blrfze that forced air evacua tion of some 500 women, children and hospital cases from this north east Quebec mining town. Twenty-six military, commer cial and private planes moved more than 400 evacuees Monday to Montreal, 600 miles away.

An- 011 wic nawrence, iw mues the southeast. me nre broke out from un known causes on Sunday. Oagnon could only be reached by air because floods had washed out the only road to the town. Former Arthur Man Dies In Areola ARTHUR, 111. Funeral serv ices for Horace Hood.89, Areola, formerly of Arthur, will be at 2 pjn.

Wednesday at the Arthur Methodist Church with burial in the Areola cemetery. Friends may call after 6 pm. today at the Fleming funeral home, Arthur, Mr. Hood died Monday morning at his residence. He leaves two brothers, Eustis, Arthur, and Ed ward, Evansville, and a sis ter, Mrs.

Mae Teal, Indianapolis, Ind. AVTASA. Tirktr Th revelattanary government ed today to stama eat pohtl-, cal aettvtty ia Turkey wita scattered arrests. The roundup followed the ml- tide of Namik Gedik. former in torior minister who director of police iu one of toe most baled members of ousted Premier Ad ma Menderes' regime, The wrests were believed dl rected against attempts to stir Menderes' old Democratic party back to life following last Friday's military coup.

After its first formal meeting Monday, the Provision! Cabinet enounced It was banning "lor the time being party aotivl ties with the aim of preventing all dltcusskms and struggles be twaen brothers which might create angry incideoU." There were unconfirmed reports that some were hoping to organize an attempt to free Men' dcrat. Despite toe arrests, Turkey was returning to normal life. Oedik early Mondf eluded a guard and plunged through a win dow to a paved courtyard four stories below his prison quarters In the army war college. Turkey's new military rulers sod Oedik had had a nervous breakdown. Be was considered one of Meoderes' closest advisers.

The bloodshed which attended repression of student demonstrations against Meoderes was attributed to Gedlk's harsh police methods. Premier Meoderes also was reported a highly emotional state after Ms arrest Friday. Meoderes, former President Ce- lal Bayar and 100 or so officials of their regime were to be trans erred by air from the war col lege to Yessl Ada, an Isolated Turkish naval base island 225 miles northwest of Ankara in the Sea of Marmara. Purpose of the transfer Is to minimise chances of demonstra tions for or against Meoderes. Foreign governments were lin ing up In support of the revolu tlonary government by extending diplomatic recognition.

The Unit 4 State. Britain. Nationalist Chi' oa, Pakistan and South Korea were among the first to give such recognition. Charleston Newspapers Will Merge Rpwtil th Joiimtl-Gtirttt CHARLSSTON, IU. Effective Wednesday, June 1, the Charles- ion Daily News will be merged with the Charleston Courier and both published as one paper six afternoons a week at the present Courier plant.

The pubUoation rights, machinery and other facilities which have been used for the Daily News have been purchased by the Courier and wU be moved to its plant. This purchase did not Include the News Job printing and office supply department and it will remain in operation at the present News bulkUng under the name of Rardin Printing. The Daily News, only morning dally newspaper In eastern Illi nois, was founded in 1892, by James K. Rardin. In 1912 Claude 8.

Rardin succeeded his father as publisher. John B. Rardin, eon of Claude, assumed control in 1932. The Daily News has regularly served the Charleston area since 1802, except for a short period in 1923 when fire destroyed the plant and during World War II while Rardin was In the Navy. Rardin retains the accounts for printing and advertising which have been done in the Daily News plant, but the Courier takes over all subscription accounts.

The consolidated paper will be known as the Courier-News. The paper is published by Benjamin Weir. Teen-Agers Riot At Jazz Concert LONDON Wl Two thousand rioting teen-agers fought a wild, hour-long battle with police quads during a Jarz concert to a London park Monday night. Seven policemen were injured kicked, butted or minched before the screaming, shouting moo was ciearea from the park. Trouble started when a big crowd was turned away from the main enclosure, filled to Its 2,000 capacity for the concert In the tougn, worung-ctaM district In the East End.

It held that Trsas en- titled to sahaMrged land off IU eaasi to ajsHtwe af three lengaas. or a Wot 1U5 land adka, The court also decided that Florida is entitled to a three-marine league belt of land under the Oulf of Mexico on seaward frees IU coastline. Justice Harlan wrote the court's main opinion on the case, a matter of long controversy mvorrmf billions ofdollars, Harlan however, dissented as to the Florida decision Justice Black wrote the court "i mam decision in the Florida ease. Justice Black also wrote a separate opinion In which be die ten tod in the cases of Lcvtaana, Mississippi and Alabama. He favored giving them the same treat-merit as Texas and Florida.

Chief Justice Warren and Jus tice Clark disqualified themselves from the case. Justice Doug-las dissented as to Texas. He aald. however, that Florida's claim was fully established by the standard that he would fix for Texas to meet tn deciding the tldelanda iaeua. The Justice Department tn a suit filed In the Supreme Court against the Oulf states had asked that their submerged property be declared confined to a three-mile belt around the coastline.

But Texas, Louisiana. Florida, MkMlsslppl and Alabama all Insisted that Congress gave states ownership of offshore land as far as their historic boundaries. They said they should be declared owners of submerged lands out as far as 10 to 20 miles. Whel the prolonged dispute has been fought out In the courts, oil production by companies operating under leases has continued. Royalties have been Impounded, with the ultimate division of the money depending on outcome of the suit.

Thieves Take Cigars At Service Station A box containing some cigars apparently was the only thine taken in a break in at raggm Oil Company, 2017 Charleston, Monday night. The burglars had attempted to force open a cigarette maohtna but were unsuccessful, according to a poiioe report. The burglary was discovered at 5.30 am. today by Ernest Fox, Rural Route 2. an attendant at the service station, when he reported for work.

The glass In the front door and a window on the east side of the building were broken. The Weather Mattoon Temperature p. at. 84 OREATER MATTOON AREA Sunny and warmer this afternoon. Oenerally fair, not so cool tonight.

Wednesday partly cloudy and warmer. Low tonight near 80. High Wednesday mid 80s. Low Wednesday night low 60s. ILLINOIS Sunny and warmer thi afternoon.

Generally fair, not so cool tonight but some chance of Isolated light showers during the night extreme north. Wednesday partly cloudy and warmer followed by scattered afternoon of evening thundershowers northwest portion. Low tonight In the 50s. High Wednesday 82-87. Yesterday! Temperatures High Low Mattoon 77 61 59 45 58 53 52 73 54 5 SI 75 38 57 53 48 55 Albuquerque 79 Anchorage 52 Chicago 74 Denver 81 Helena 7 Honolulu 85 Indianapolis 75 Los Anceies 73 ijLouisville 72 Memphis 86 Miami 81 New Orleans 88 New York 77 Phoenix St.

Louis 75 San Francisco 67 Seattle 63 Washington 73 Yesterday'! Precipitation This Yr LastYr i0-Yr. This Yr To Date To Date Ave. Tr. 12.79 12.92 14A8 Mattoon Skies Sunrise 5:18 ajn. Sunset 8:19 pm Moonrise 10:40 aJm.

Moonaet 12:34 am. Pasternak, 70j Nobel Prize Winner, Dies By STANLEY JOHNSON MOSCOW I Ports Paster nak. 70-year-old Nobel prixewln- ning author of "Doctor Zhivago," died Monday night. Friends said the noted poet, novelist and translator died in his sleep at his villa in Peredelklno. a writer's colony 20 miles outside Moscow.

Suffering from a heart ailment, lung cancer and stomach bleeding since May 1. he had been in a coma most of the time for several days. A storm of Soviet criticism broke over Pasternak after be was named winner of the Nobel Prise for literature In 1958. The award is given for the entire body of an author's work, but the timing made it apparent that he was being cited primarily for "Doctor Zhiva go," a quiet but powerful Indict ment of Communist methods and a strong assertion of Individual dignity and Christian humanism. The book, written In 1948-53.

was first printed by an Italian publisher. It rapidly became an international bestseller, but the Soviet re gime has never permitted its pub lication in the Soviet Union. When he first heard he had been cited by the Swedish Nobel committee. Pasternak told reporters the prize ''fills me with peat Joy and also gives me great moral support. Pasternak was drummed out of the Union of Soviet Writers as a betrayer of the Socialist cause who had written "in the interests of fanning the cold war." There were demands that he be exiled.

The quiet writer, who had shunned politics, was deeply grieved by the controversy. Local Youths lam Dole Scholarships at the University of Illinois for the school year 1960-61 has been announced bv the Central Na tional Bank of Mattoon, trustee Funds for the scholarships are provided from Income from farmlands left in trust under the will of Miss Emily D. Oblinger. Scholarship winners Include Becky Wtiepley. daughter of Mr.

anTMrs. Ralph Kepley, 3309 Shelby, a graduating senior of Mattoon High School, who will study home economics: Philip Henry Rathe, son of Mr and Mrs. Henry H. Rathe. R.

R. 4, Mattoon High School, agriculture: Joyce Ann Hurst, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hurst, R. 4.

Charleston, Charleston High 8chool, home economics; David Leslie Dawson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Dawson. R. R.

4, Charleston. Charleston High School, agriculture; Wallace Dean Motley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Motley. R.

2, Oakland, Oakland High School, engineering. A total of 22 applications for the scholarships were received from the graduating classes of the three high schools of Coles County. Applicants were rated on scholarship attainment In high school, financial assistance needed, and high school and extra- currtcular activities. Preference given students desiring to study Each scholarship has a value of $710, which is estimated to be one-half of the current annual cost of attendance at the univer sity. They are renewable from year to year and each could have a total value of more than $2,800 during four years of undergradu at work.

Closed Wednesday afternoon from 1:30 until 4 p. m. to respect for Miss Blanche Gray. MATTOON PTBLIC LIBRARY 8-31 t.h. sit TMatrirt.

la a RDublicaniother 90 were nown to Sept-Iles, Paris Man Heads III. Hi 12 Clubs Gilbert B. Harvey, Paris, was Installed as president of the Illinois Association of High 12 Clubs at the 15th annual convention of the organization In Mattoon Sat urday. Harvey served as second vice president last year. He succeeds Elmer 0.

Schlfferdecker of Belleville. Rev. Howard D. McFadden of Mattoon was Installed as third vice president. Other new officers are Oeorge Olakemier Belle ville, first vice president; Rev.

Brooks C. Barker, Rockford, second vice president; Lee Goby, Springfield, secretary; V. W. Hus ton, Quincy, treasurer; Bene Kinser, Springfield, chaplain and Wesley Roper, East St. Louis, ser-geant-at-arms.

Dr. James Lively and Oeorge Jerdan of Mattoon were outgoing state officers. Dr. Lively served as chaplain last year and Jerdan was sergeant-at-arms. The state convention got under way Saturday morning at the Masonic Temple.

Dr. A. A. Leffman, president of the Mattoon club, called the meeting to orderj Mayor Morgan F. Phlpps presented the keys of the city to Schlfferdecker, and George M.

Pendell managing secretary of the Association of Commerce, greeted state officers In behalf of the local club. The noon luncheon at Hotel US. Orant featured a tajk by J. Hyde, first vice president of High 12 International. Theme of Hyde's talk was "wrong impres The afternoon program featured election of officers and a panel discussion on the work of High 12.

New' officers were installed at the evening banquet at the Masonic Temple by Hyde. Jack Horsley, principal speaker, told of the principles of Masonry and High 12, comparing them to the principles of law, stressing that they both sought truth. Throughout the day. women who accompanied High Twelvians to Mattoon, were entertained by a committee of local High 12 wives. About 130 from throughout the state attended the meeting.

Greenup Postmaster Confirmed by Senate GREENUP, 111. Loren C. Bow man has been notified of his per manent appointment as Greenup postmaster. Bowman served as postmaster at Greenup from 1932 to 1935 and was a postal clerk prior to that. He has been acting postmaster here since May 1, 1958.

Boedecker Rites Set SHELBYVILLE, 111. Funeral services for Otto H. Boedecker, 84, Shelbyville, will be at 3:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Lockart and Son funeral home, Sheifcyviiie, with burial In Glenwood cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 pn. today. Mr. Boedecker died at 5 pm. Mon day in Shelby County Memorial Hospital, ShelbyviHe.

He leaves nil wife, Dorothea; a son, Harry, Shelbyville; two sisters, Mrs Lvdia Meyer and Mrs. Anna Sun derland, both of dillesple, and two brothers, Alvin and Albert, both of Litchfield. Attention Taxpayers Wednesday, June 1, will be last day to pay personal tax and first installment real estate tax with' out penalty. Payment may be made at the City Hall in Mattoon, the County Treasurer's ofjice in Char leston, or by mall. For your convenience the County Treasurer's office will remain open Saturday, Ma 28 from 9 am.

to 12 noon. WILLARD E. STARWALT Count Collector. 1-31 "only friends and remaining links Awardng 0f the Stephen Dex-wth the world." ler rjoie and Emily Jsne Tipton I asked him if the prize brought; Dole scholarships for attendance members have indicated one ma jor question they want answered Is why, Just before the scheduled start of the summit talks, this country took the calculated risk of sending the U2 aloft over the U. S.

S. R. Boy Throws Wild Pitch, Nets $1,050 DECATUR, 111. Eleven-year-old Dennis Waks threw a wild pitch Monday and became a $1,050 "bonus baby" for Mrs. Jes sie Freeman.

Dennis and William McCoy. 8. were playtog catch when one of Dennis's tosses scored a strike with a storm sewer catch basin. The boys lifted the heavy catch basin lid and Dennis retrieved the ball and a woman's purse containing $1,050 lr. United States Savings Bonds.

Police identified the purse and bonds as those of Mrs. Freeman, a purse snatching victim last Dec. 9 in downtown Decatur. Dennis was elated with his find "Boy, more than a thousand he exclaimed. HalL WorkJnj; In cooperation with Civil Defense authorities, the amateur radio operators and Dr.

E. Zlnschlag, Civil Defense director, have mobile units In their cars so they can talk back and forth with the base Amateur Radio Operators Furnish Transmitter for Civil Defense MnHiriol. for wn.tnr from the 34th district. The resolution, House Resolution No. 61, states, i "WHEREAS.

Paul "Red" Ora ham, an esteemed colleague, is retiring from this House at the end of his present term, having chosen to become a candidate for State Senator; and WHEREAS, "Red" has won our respect and admiration for his many sterling qualities and for his competent and painstaking atten tion to the affairs of this assembly; and WHEREAS, He has been the sponsor of many bills aimed to ward the best interests of the peo ple of the State of Illinois, and, in particular, sponsored House Bills 870 and 871 of the Seventy-first General Assembly, which bills excluded from the Use Tax and Retailers Occupation Tax the value of trade-ins; therefore, be it Resolved. By the House of Representatives of the Seventy- first General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at the First Spe clal Session thereof, that we ex press our feeling of friendship and admiration for Paul Graham; that we wish him continued success; and that a suitable copy of this preamble and resolution be pre sented to him. Window Broken A broken glass in the front door of the Raef and Beall Tin Shop, 2021 Western, was discovered by police at 6:10 a.m. today. There was no1 evidence that the business had been entered and police be lleve the window may have been broken by vandals rather than someone attempting to burglarize the business.

Laundry Free! Wednesday and Thursday Wards will wash a 10 pound laundry free in our Supreme automatic washer for the first 20 customers who phone and make an appointment. Free gifts phone AD 5-5401 for an appointment ask for Mr. Myers In the sppianca depart ment. MONTGOMERY WARD 1-1 him all his troubles, and if his1 position was being aggravated by I what was written about him in the Western press This he denied vehemently. 'T smi-os rvtv 1 1 is i Vnco orn a "Once 'Doctor Zhivago' was pub- lifhfd abroad, I had it coming to me.

But I had to write that book and I had to publish it where it could be published. I put all I had of strength and ability as a writer into the book and there is! nothing I would change. "The Nonel Prize was of tremendous help. To me it meant the support of the world. This saved me from the worst.

They cculd not get rid of me." Sanrul-OiUtt PM bt Wirrm K. MM) station operator. Shown with the set are Civil Defense policemen Walter Whitley, Norman Lynch and Kenneth Gardner, and amateur radio operators William Briscoe, Nichols, Robert Lane and Joseph Chamnees. i Civil Defense auxiliary policemen and a group of local amateur radio operators Inspect a radio base station built for use In case of an emergency. The base station, constructed by Fred Nichols, will be installed at City.