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i I 1 Serving The GreaterMattodrT Area Since 1856 uggesteaRcading: Editorial on Law Day USA -Page 4 106th Year No. $7 Charter Member Audit Bureau of Circulation MATTOON, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1961 Member Associated Pr. All Phones AD 5-5S58 Price 7 Cent Dick Tate arid Phyllis. VdnGundy Reign at Central Junior High Party Council-Considers ri." x-r Ijl'ir-'re) r-r; tion in 1 a MatibnaLSecuriftL- 1 1 1 1 1 ii 1 f-f I ossiBfcui. Interven Laos By JOHN M.

IIIGHTOWER Pathet Lao President Credits Shapiro For Close Illinois Victory i i Don't Forget To Change Clocks Clocki will be moved ahead one hour tonight as the city and state begin the summer observance of daylight saving time. Daylight saving time officially begins at am. Sunday throughout the state to continue until the last weekend in October. Residents are cautioned to set their clocks ahead before retiring tonight If they don't, they will awake Sunday to find themselves running one hour behind schedule. Dolce, Dorothy Briscoe and Greg Rorichettl.

"Stairway to the Stars" was the theme of decorations for the dance and party. who assisted in the coronation ceremony. Members of the royal court are Steve Mcdellan, Kathy Fickes, Chris Seals, Janice Greene, Gall Shriver, Dennis day night In the Achool gymnasium. Placing the crown on Miss VanOundy Is Supt. Virgil H.

Judge. Supt. Judge Is Hanked by Linda Craven and Steve Bouck, Frenchmen in Algeria Call (or New Uprising The mass of Algeria's million Eu ropeans seemed resigned. Few leaders of rightwing un dersTound movements came out into the open during the short lived revolt. But authorities are aware that between 5,000 and 000 arms disappeared from gen darme depots during the revolt and not all have been recovered Meanwhile, Louis Joxe, French minister for Algerian affairs, met far Into the night withrgovem' ment officials In the heavily guarded administration building here, discussing new steps to im pose De Gaulle's will on the army and restive settlers.

Among government measures announced so far were penalties against 200 high-ranking officers and dissolution of several crack paratroop units totaling about 000 men. In Parte. Gen. Maurice Gour Launches New Attack VIENTIANE, Laos Two hundred pro-Communist "rebel troops launched a dawn attack this morning on gov- eminent positions just 44 miles north of Vientiane, military sources reported. The rebels attacked Ban Keun, key government city in the district 10 miles east of the north- south highway between Vientiane and the royal capital of Luang Prabang, informants said.

More than 300 royal troops were rushed to reinforce Ban Keun's garrison of one company. A hell- copter returned to Vientiane from the front with four wounded royal soldiers, but details of the fight ing were scarce Just hours before, Gen. Phoumi Nosavan, the pro-Western govern ment's military strongman and deputy premier, sent out an emis sary with a white flag, hoping to work out a cease-fire date with the Pathet Lap rebels. After waiting four hours in no-man's land, the emissary returned to Vientiane without making contact with the rebels. The government, meanwhile, announced roy al soldiers have been ordered not to shoot unless fired upon.

It was reported the government radio tonight will broadcast i message to the rebels, fixing an other date and time for a meeting to settle on a time for stopping the shooting. Both sides have agreed to a cease-fire but the problem has now become one of getting them together to agree on a time. Tass, the Soviet news agency said today Phouma of Laos has set a 48-hour deadlinclor the proWstern La-otian regime to send delegates to a peace conference. ATjispaichJromIjaossaM Prince Souvanna made the state ment at a news conference in commenting on plans for a cease fire. According to the dispatch, he said non-arrival of pro-Western delegates at peace talks indicated the Boun Oum regime did not wish to achieve a cease-fire.

Cigarette Tax To Increase Monday SPRINGFIELD, 111. UPl Cig arettes go up a penny a pack in Illinois Monday when a tax to finish paying a bonus to Korean War veterans goes into effect again. Thestate Legislature recently relmposed the additional cent to raise $2 million in outstanding bonus claims. The present tax is three cents a pack. The Illinois Revenue Depart ment, reminding retailers and wholesalers of the increase, said Friday it applies to all cigarette stocks on hand at the close of business Sunday.

After the bonus claims are paid off, the tax is to revert to three cents. However, a proposal is pending- in the Legislature to make the four-cent tax perm anent. aud, the French commander atjiations would make his appearance Constantino who iolned the rebel- tbMrfcnpossible, Constantino who joined the rbef Await Dulles' TestimonyOn Cuban Fiasco WASHINGTON. Cfi A Senate subcommittee today awaited word from Allen W. Dulles, chief of the Central Intelligence Agency, on whether he will testify about the CIA's role in the ill-fated Cuban invasion.

Dulles sent word to the Senate Latin-American Affairs subcom mittee Friday he would advise it of his decision over the weekend. jChairman Wayne ajkta Dulles to appear with Act ing Secretary of State Chester Bowles Monday for secret" briefings covering the invasion fiasco and future plans concerning Cuba. The closed hearings were to have started Friday with testi mony from Bowles. But the hearing was postponed until -Monday after Morses said Bowles- had told -him that "sev- en emergencies loreign re- A State Department spokesman said Bowles asked for a postpone- mmtfcecsuseheTeasxtra husy, not because of any special crisis. Later Morse met with his sub committee and its parent Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

He said all of those present including Sens. J. William Ful- bright, chairman of the full committee, and Mike Mansfield of Montana, Senate Demo cratic leader "agreed there is need for a lull and candid brief ing on Cuba, and the re-establish ment of a liaison between the sub committee and the State Department' Sangamon Jail OI SPRINGFIELD, 111. Pour-teen prisoners in Sangamon County Jail are on a meal-a-day diet after an escape hole was discov ered in their cell Friday. Authorities found a two-foot- wide hole chopped through three layers of brick in an exterior wall.

Only one more layer of brick stood between the 14 prisoners and freedom. A six-Inch iloor bolt, a steel mop head and a mop handle found In the cell served as, improvised tools. WASHINGTON () PreST ldent "Kennedy summoned the National Security Council into extraordinary Saturday session today amid a deepening anxiety here over Soviet-backed rebel military successes In Laos There was speculation the ad ministration might be close to a decision for Allied military intervention on the side of the pro- Western Laotion government, but officials declined to indicate what if any nSw steps the President might order. Kennedy flew back to Washing ton early today following a speech in Chicago Friday night, where he said: "We are the chief defender of freedom to a time of danger. We have committed ourselves to the defense of dozens of nations.

This we are determined to do." Today's conference was an nounced as a meeting of the National Security but some officials who do not regularly at tend its meetings were observed entering the White House. These included Charles E. Boh-len, the State Department's top-ranking expert on Russia; Edward -R. Murrow, director of the UJ3. Information Agency; and Secretary of the Army Elvis J.

Stahr. Allen W. Dulles director of the Central Intelligence Agency, arrived carrying maps and charts. Kennedy, speaking to 5,000 Democrats at a fund-raising dinner, threw away his prepared text, dealing mainly with domestic matters. He spoke off the cuff for about 15 minutes, and then abruptly ended 1 his speech.

"We can only defend the, freedom of those who are ready' to defend themselves," he said. "Our greatest ally is that people desire to be free," Secretary of -States Dean Rusk flew back to Washington this morning from a meeting of the Centra; Treaty Organization at Turkeyiisklhadibeen scheduled to arrive here Saturday midnight, but the Ankara confer ence completed its work a day ahead of schedule. Kenned called the Security Council. meeting for He had been expected to return from Chicago later today but pre-" sumably cut short his stay there in order to get back to Washington quickly and give his personal attention to the latest reports on the Laotian crisis. The Security Council has "also discussed the Cuban situation, although officials have Indicated it might be some weeks before new anti-Castro measures were put into following the failure of the rebel invasion.

State Department authorities were reported still hopeful the Communist side in the Laotian civil war could be prevailed upon to carry out the Soviet-British cease-fire agreement before the military situation deteriorated further. Postpone Paint Job CHARLESTON, HI. A volunteer paint up day at the Coles County fairgrounds scheduled today was postponed because of cool temperatures and recent rains that left the buildings too wet to paint. The project has been rescheduled for Saturday, May 6. Mattoon Temperature 11 a.

m. 58 GREATER MATTOON AREA Generally fair today and to night. Increasing cloudiness Sunday. Gradual warming trend. High today 58-66.

Low tonight 40- Yesterday's Temperatures High Low Mattoon 53 Albuquerque 75 Chicago 52 43 48 39 36 34 34 29 33 52 35 45 7 61 43 51 38 54 49 42 Cleveland 48 Denver 71 Detroit Fairbanks 45 Indianapolis 48 Los Angeles Louisville 57 Memphis ......1. 72 Miami 91 New Orleans 83 New York 80 Phoenix S3 St. Louis 55 San Francisco 69 Seattle 64 Washington 67 Yesterday's Precipitation This Yi rhls Yl Last Yi 12 Tr To Date To Date Avg Tr. 10.31 6.36 11-01 Mattoon Skies Sunrise, 4:49 ajn Sunset 6:47 pjn. Moonriss Moonset p.m.- 4:31 a-tn.

Weather By DEAN JOHNSOS CHICAGO (JPi President Ken-j nedy and top Illinois Democrats sang each others praises Friday night at a party fund-raising din ner. And Kennedy jokingly credited Lt. Gov. Samuel Shapiro With his Novembei1 presidential victory. Kennedy, before turning to the; serious part of his speech which treated the Communist menace and American determination to thwart it, surveyed his audience of sbme 5,500 party faithful and declared I would not be here tonight as president but for the strong support of Maybr Richard J.

Dal ey, Gov. Otto Kerner and all of you. I dont know whether to thank or not. But here I am." Kennedy's audience rocked with laughter and applauded as he con tinued: If all of you had voted the oth er way I would not be here tonight as President of the United States." Kennedy, who captured Illinois by less than 9,000 votes from Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon, then said of Shaniro- "I introduced Sam Shapiro' all over the state, and I thought I was really helping him out.

He told me tonight he won by votes. I grabbed Sam Shapiro's coattails and he dragged me in." Kennedy speaking at a 100-a- plate Democratic dinner in Chica go's new McCormick Place expo-sltion hall, was' flanked at the speakers' table by Kerner; Daley; Sen. Paul Douglas, D-m. Ren. William Dawnson, State Treasurer Joseph Lohman; Atty Gen.

William Clark; Paul Powell of Vienna, speaker of the Illinois House, and Donald J. O'Brien of Chicago, minority leader of the state Senate. Kennedy's appearance" helped Illinois Democrats increase the party coffers by about 4500,000. Kenedy, who "flew Tnto O'Hare International Airport in late aft-ernoon, spent several hnnrii rlosrt. ed in his suite at the Conrad Hilton Hotel with Kerner and Daley.

Crouds estimated at 750,000, en thusiastically cheered and waved along the President's route to downtown Chicago. After his speech, the President was whisked back to O'Hare and Immediately took off for Wash ington, D. C. Report Thousands Slain in Angola JOHANNESBURG, South Africa tfl One, thousand whites and thousands of blacks have been re ported slain in a six-week wave of violence in the Portuguese colony of Angola, say press reports reach ing here. South African correspondents posted in the colony's capital of Luanda said Negro marauders armed with everything from swerds to automatic weapons made in Czechoslovakia have slain white men, women and chil dren The Luanda correspondent of the cape Town Times said gov ernment officials have expressed doubt the whites can conquer the rebel bands rampaging through the northern areas.

Contest dent of Jim Lunippi senior. Nancy Rlgby, senior, another absent. Contestants representing 37 classes at- the high school participated in the Dick Tate and Pbyllia Van-Gundy, aeated, were crowned "Mr. and Miss Central" at the Central Junior High School ninth grade spring party Fri First Manned SpaceShot Set Tuesday By TttEU 8. HOFFMAN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fto.

W) -rThe C. 8. space program will thrust closer to that of the Soviet Union one morning next week when the first American astronaut is rocketed on a high are ride Into near space. The NWtoAerwtta Space Adnilrdstretionrannouwlngj plans for a limited man-in-space shot, made official today what has been an open secret iiere for days The tall, white rocket and the pace capsule atop it already are in place on the launch pad. NASA said the launch climax fng about 2 years of Project Mw prepairatlon- wia ilVmifc "ain Ihoiir after daybreak "mi the next aseek or so From other sources, it was learned.

Tuesday au goes weu. That would be 20 days after So-et-tdrcrce-Mh-jri-Ggtrin became the first known man to orbit the earth. The Soviet Union claimed he did so In a five-ton spacecraft. Next week's U. S.

manned space trip will not be as ambl tlous. In the lingo of space agen cy people here, an orbital voyage bv- an American is down the road." It may come later this year, On this coming trip, an astro naut, whose identity is still a se eret, will be strapped Into a capsule and sent aloft by a relatively low powered Redstone ballistic missile. The planned course would carry the chamber to a peak attitude It would land at a point south east of here where Navy-and Airl Force ships and planes will be poised to recover it and its pass enger from the water, During a 15-minute flight at up to about 4,500 miles an hour, the astronaut will experience eibout five minutes of weightlessness, anl eerie sensation, and terrific forces' up to 11 times tha of gravity. One of three men, all married and fathers of children, will get the historic honor of making the first U. S.

space tour. They are Marine Lt. Col. John H. Glenn 39, of New Concord, Ohio; Air Force Capt.

Virgil I. Grissom.l 35, of Mitchell, and Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard, 37, of, East Derry, N. H.

Found 51aiiv CHICAGO W-Mrs. Marie Fritts, 87. a grocery store owner, was found shot to death beside her rifled cash register on the Southwest Side Friday. She operated the stnallshop with her frusband, Christie, 56, who was out to lunch at the time of the shooting. Tux Rentals.

Order now for Junior-Senior. Earl Ross Clothiers 5-1 Open House Sunday afternoon from-1 pk to 5 p. m. at 413 Oklahoma Moore and Moore Builders "Inc "I-6H Shake Sale Saturday and Sunday 12 oz. 10c 16 I5c.

Sandwiches: ham burgersix for $1, barbecue six tor $1, fishfive for $1, tender loinfour for $1. Fries 10c. CharlieVi Drive-la 15th and Wabash Phgne AD 4-9093 Two Resign CityWater Board Posts By TERRY MeCULLOUGH Robert L. Reilly and Roy Eaton resigned from the Board of Water Commissioners -Friday night as the board met to wind up Its business before the start of a new city administration. Terms of both men were scheduled to end Sun day.

Reilly, a partner in Hart "and Reilly Construction served on the water Tboard six years. Eaton, a plumbing, contractor, had. been a board member for- four years. Reilly, announcing his resig nation, expressed his thanks for cooperation of other board mem bers during his tenure." The! board then approved motions thanking Redly and Eaton for their contributions to the water board and stating that the resig nations were accepted with re grets. City Commissioner Gene Alex ander, chairman of the board, stating "I might not be able to return," also took his leave.

Alex-t ander said his. future connections With. the water department is not yet certain, pending organization of the newly elected City Com mission. Alexander thanked the board and Supt. Karl J.

Fuss for their cooperation during his term as. chairman, Other members of the water! board are L. C. Hardin, Ted John son, Dan Hamdley and Don Bouck, secretary. were present at Fri day night's meeting, called to clear up some routine items of business as the old admindstratlon draws to an end.

A similar 'lame duck" meeting or tne City Commission is sched uled tonight. The administration of, Mayor-Elect Carus Icenosle assumes office Monday. The water board tabled for further study a proposed lease between the city and Logan County Roadtoulkiers, doing business as Tri County Road Materials, Joliet, on a gravel pit at Lake Mattoon formerly leased by Frank Prahl. Under the proposed drawn for a primary term of five years with a proviso for extension as long as sand and gravel are produced up to 19 years, the city would receive royalties on each cubic yard of material sold. The royalties would range up to 15 cents per yard, depending on the grade of sand and gravel sold.

The board asked Fuss to de termine the business rating of the Joliet firm before a recommenda tion on the lease is made to the City Commission. Action was taken concerning three leases at Lake Paradise. The board approved the transfer of Lease 18 from Emery and Doris Hamilton to Charles B. and Mil dred E. Moore and a request by John Jaroi for permission to con struct a storage area on Lease 19.

The board also approved a motion to cancel an option held by H. H. and Esta Myers to lease one half of Lease 100. Mr. Myers died earlier this month.

The board also approved a mo tion to file letters written by Fuss to the state Department of Mines and Minerals concerning the In vestigation of pollution at Lake Mattoon and Lake Paradise, ap parently caused by oil and oil field wastes." Fusssald one oil pipe line break has been found and repaired but salt water- is still entering the lakes. In Ms monthly report, Fuss said water measured one and a half inches above the spillway at Lake Paradise Friday and one inch above the spillway at Lake Mattoon. He reported 45568,000 gallons of water were pumped so far this month, compared to 47, 20100 during April, I960. By ANDREW BOROWIEC ALGIERS UP) Diehard rightist settlers who remained underground during the abortive revolt against President Charles de Gauile emerged today with defiant calls for a new uprising. Less than three days after the cAnAral' rwrtlit.

was r.nishwl on the streets of Algiers calling for resistance to De Gaulle. Tracts of the "Organization Secret Army" threatened a new uprising in a desperate bid to preserve European domination of this North African territory. No one bothered to erase dozens of OAS slogans painted on streets and walsr Government busy with a sweeping purge of the army, police and civilian tkm, admitted the European bn derground organization posed i threat. -Bulrasr-BTrestsEffilzzh the rightwing press and a purge of police and administrative serv lees were expected to reduce the effectiveness of the underground. Missile Base Strikes Cost Taxpayers By MILTON KELLY WASHINGTON UP Sen, John L.

McClellan, said today costly strikes and work slowdowns at missile bases hivite a tough new la to outlaw-nnionr responsible for such things McClellan said his Senate In vestigations subcommittee in hearings this week produced "evi dence beyond any reasonable doubt" that organized labor at the Cape Canaveral missile base abused the strike weapon to enrich its members at taxpayers' expense. The subcommittee has heard a parade of witnesses denounce the 109 strikes and uncounted work slowdowns reported at Canaveral in the last 44 "years, charging these have inflated costs by mil lions of dollars and slowed the program McClellan said lt was clear that most of the strikes were called on flimsy grounds with "the othrowlng missile projects behind schedule so workers could draw overtime pay in a rush to catch up, The subcommittee has produced J. umuy a electricians drew wages up 10 $764 a including overtime computed at four tinjes "the "reg ular wage rate. Robert Palmer, top labor leader at the base, has acknowledged strikes "must have" slowed the missile program. He denied, any strike was designed to force over time wage' payments, and swore he never authorized a walkout, Joseph, W.

Morgan, Teamsters Union CAnorol nrornntinr In Vlnrt- da, invoked the Fifth Amendment constitutionals provision against! possible self-incrimination- when asked Friday about his own role in a strike which virtually para lvzfid the him for fnur vm1t In the peak of the rush to- gear up missile programs, Moose Dance Saturday night. Annual Officers' Dick Hooper Or chestra. Favors for the ladies. 4-29 lion, was taken to solitary confinement In Sante Prison. prisoned chief of the rebellion, Gouraud could be sentenced to death by firing squad or guillo tine.

Mother, 33, Who Kept Children In Closet Jailed PEORIA, HI. UP) A mother who police said admitted locking! her two children in a tiny closet for four years "because they hoi lered and I didn't want to be bothered with them" was held to day on criminal charges! Elizabeth Lou Degeir BlevM ins, 33, a waitress, was charged in County Court Friday with "en dangering the life and health of a child." She was jailed when un able to post $3,500 bond. Mrs. Blevins' children, Charles James 12, and Amber, 8, were found huddled, naked, In a cramped closet by authorities who were summoned to her apartment to investigate a quarrel between the mother and her landlady. Police Oajpt.

Wiltard Ktoeppel said nurses at St. Francis Hos pital wept when the children were brought in for treatment. Jimmy's legs were so underde veloped he walked like a 4-year- old, Koeppel said, and both their bodies bore rope burns. He said Amber had never attended school and the boy hadn't, since 1957, when the family moved to Illinois from--Arkansas. vr- Scholarship Finalist ROCHESTER, N.

Y. Thomas Jilmh Nl1w fThfirUytfrm Tit of 31 finalists in the 18th annual Bausch and Lamb science scholar ship competition, is in Rochester as a guest of the University of Rochester and Bausch and Lomb, Inc, The finalists participated In a series of tests, interviews, class room visits and campus and in dustry tours during the three-day visit that ends today. NloMes is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L.

NfckleSii s- fnfftri IntPhtiniK Tu make a will are of no avail In settling an estate. Make your Will now and name our bank as executor-trustee. CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK Safety' deposit boxes available, -4-29 Railroaders Meeting 7:30 p. Byers Hotel, Monday, May 1. Mattooq Railroad Finalists in MHS Spelling tv 1 vV -it IJ I in in Teachers of America Club.

Miss White is a sophomore. Also seated are Susan Burke, junior, second place" and Pat Ar-nall. Standing are Shar-: on Lackey, senior; Paula Bills, I junior; Sharon Tlngley, Jimmle Jean White, seated center, is the spelling champion of Mattoon High School. She is shown with six other finalists la an all-school spelling contest sponsored by the school's Future Employes Assn. 4-29.