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SITTER 2008 YAOT3 abrotx0 2'YMOHAM TA OUR 78TH YEAR do THE PROGRESS XANDRIA 0080 obesT. THROM 2 2 YEAR TIMES 78th TRIBUNE ALEXANDRIA, INDIANA, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1963 TROOPS SENT TO Case of the missing driver puzzles sheriff's department The case of the missing driver was No. 1 on the docket of the Madison County Sheriff's Department this morning as deputies sought the reasons for an overturned amusement company truck south of Alexandria on Ind. 9. At 3 a.m.

the driver for a Gooding Amusement Company. truck reported the accident at Ind. 9 and the Gilman Road. The truck had left the highway, snapped off two utility poles, and overturned. Sheriff's deputies were on the scene for almost five hours before wreckage could be removed, the truck pulled away, and traffic restored to normal.

Clearing operations were hampered by rain. The driver of the truck, however, disappeared as soon as he reported the accident. The sheriff's department stated that he told a radio station newsman that he had been without sleep for a couple of days, leading authorities to believe he had gone to sleep while driving, causing the accident. They further theorized that the driver had checked into an This amusement company truck was heavily damaged early this morning when it turned over on Ind. 9 just south of Alexandria.

The driver, who reported the accident to the sheriff's department, later disappeared and has not been heard from since. He reportedly was uninjured. Photo by Keith Beilhartz) Anderson hotel to get some just finished a show in Andersleep after reporting the mis- son this weekend, and the hap. He has not been heard truck was believed headed for from since. the company's next engageThe Gooding company had ment.

Chicago reliefers hungry while politicians haggle By FRED MOHN United Press International CHICAGO (UPI) Gov. Otto Kerner met with state officials today to seek a solution to a legislative crisis that has threatened thousands of relief recipients with hunger. Even as the high-level talks svent on, warehouses and welfare agencies were stocked with donated and surplus food that could be on the tables of penniless relief recipients by Tuesday. Illinois' Aid to Dependent Chil-! dren (ADC) and general assistance programs ran out of money two weeks ago. But an emergency appropriation has been held up in the legislature by a bitterly partisan dispute over whether ceilings should be placed on the welfare checks.

Invites Elected Officials JOHN C. NEWMAN DIES IN ANDERSON John C. Newman, 202 Beaubar Circle, Anderson, died at 11 p.m. Sunday. He was the son-in-law cf Mr.

and Mrs. Ted Auler. His wife died two years ago. The body was taken to the Brown and Butz Funeral Home in Anderson. Arrangements are incomplete.

nampunA for space hop MUTT Cooper COUNTDOWN BEGINS L. Gordon Cooper, America's next man-in-space, relaxes as he tells newsmen at a status meeting at Cape Canaveral of his upcoming space hop. Sunday a two-day split countdown began for the 22-orbit space flight of the Air Force major. Mary Parker, former city resident, dies Mary Parker, 56, a former resident of this city, died at 5:15 a.m. Sunday at her home in Spencer after a lingering illness.

She was born in Madison County March 24, 1907, the daughter of William F. and Nancy Ferguson Waymire. She had lived in Spencer 1952. She was married in 1944 to Hoy C. Parker, who survives.

Other survivors are: one brother, Virgil Waymire of Alexandria; and one sister, Mrs. Pearl Greene of Anderson. Friends may call after 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Karl M. Kyle Funeral Home, where services will be held at 1:30 p.m.

Wednesday by the Rev. Fred E. Anderson of the Joyce Chapel Methodist Church. Burial will follow in Park View Cemetery. Russia expels diplomats from U.S., Britain By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press International MOSCOW (UPI) The Soviet Union today ordered the expulsion of one American and one British diplomat for alleged complicity in the espionage case that resulted a death sentence for a Soviet official and imprisonment for a British businessman.

In a note delivered to the U.S. Embassy, the Soviet Union also (oclared three former embassy members allegedly implicated in the case personna non grata (unwelcome). Similar action was taken in respect to four former members of the British embassy here. The American ordered expelled is Embassy security officer Hugh Montgomery. He the only American named in the Soviet note still assigned to Moscow.

The others had been expelled or transferred earlier. The British official ordered to leave is Embassy second, secretary Gervase' Cowell. His wife, Pamela, also was named in the note. The other Britons already had left Moscow. The Soviet notes were delivered just two days after former Soviet scientific official Oleg was sentenced to be shot by a firing squad for passing secrets to an Anglo-American spy ring.

His British accomplice, Greville Wynne, was sentenced to 8 years deprivation of liberty. PUBLIC LIBRARY 2 IS NE tonit ablod duD a nomoW 1 PER WEEN In vobiti ALABAMA Kennedy issues orders to stop racial riots 67. By ALVIN B. WEBB Jr. United, Press International CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI)-An anxious man, a fueled-up machine and unusually good weather today signaled a tentative go-ahead for an attempt to launch astronaut Gordon Cooper Jr.

on America's most ambitious flight into space Tuesday. The man was Cooper himself, a 36-year-old Air Force major who braved four years of waiting and a rash of "inner circle" opposition for the chance to make the prize flight of Project Mercury a planned 22-orbit voyage around earth. Technicians Confident The machine was a silvery Atlas rocket that will boost the slender spaceman-elect into the sky at a speed of 17,500 miles per hour, if all goes well. Technicians were so confident of the rocket's readiness Sunday that they loaded it up with fuel one day ahead of schedule. Around the world, the weather was reported in top a change," as one federal space agency spokesman put it.

Some areas still were being watched closely today, but the foul weather conditions that regularly stepped in to interfere with the previous U.S. manned orbital flights were remarkably absent this time around. Preparations for the flight by Cooper ranked as far and away the smoothest of any shot in the turbulent, five-year history of the $500 million Mercury man-intospace program. Rumors Are Absent even was the usual epidemic of postponement rumors that normally sweep through the tide of newsmen who have poured into the area to cover the launching. "It looks so good I'm really getting a bit worried," said one.

Fire department makes four runs The local fire department answered four fire alarms Sunday, two of them to the same location. At 4:25 p.m. a grass fire was extinguished at the 11th St. crossing of the New York Central Railroad. A return call to the same place was made at 7 p.m.

At 5:55 p.m. an outbuilding caught fire at the home of James Mahoney, 1201 W. Washington St. There was slight damage. A faulty flu caused a fire at the home of Frank Marshall, Scott Addition, at 11:45 p.m.

Damage was slight. In the downstate capitol of Springfield, Democrat Kerner's, invitation went to all of the state's elected officials. Most indicated they would attend. But Secretary of State Charles F. Carpentier, considered the RepubI candidate for governor, said he would not.

Carpentier charged Kerner with "failure to be forthright with the Republican Senate and refusal to accept reasonable ceilings." Chicago, where by far most of the relief recipients live, the bounty of the weekend was large, but not large enough. "There simply isn't enough food to go around," one settlement worker said. 3 Pastors used Sunday sermons Lo request their congregations to take food to numerous distribution centers in Chicago. The U.S. Department of Agriculture began to supply beans, butter, corn meal, dry milk lard, flour, canned meat, rice, peanut butter, cheese and rolled oats.

Urges Neighborliness Private agencies many of which ran out of food during the weekend urged neighbor to help neighbor and donate food and money to help the hungry. The Illinois Public Aid Commission said Sunday that plans had CHon RECEIVE FIRST COMMUNION Second grade children at St. Mary's Catholic Church received their first Holy Communion during the 8 a.m. Mass Sunday. Before Mass the children renewed their baptismal promise.

First row, left to right: Susan Prieshoff, Michael LeRoy, Mary Ann Williams, Gene Riley, Catherine Morgan, Charles Hobbs, Jennifer McMahon, Joseph Antoine, Kathy Jo. Beemer, Billy Duffy, and Theresa Sizelove. Second row: Stephen Crist, Catherine Holding, Jack Malston, Phyllis Addison, Michael Schott, Elizabeth Pitcock, George Patz, Judith Mehling, Daniel Pichler, Joan Roesler, Terry Davis, and Marianna Hellman. Third row: Mrs. Nannette Tunget, teacher, Paul Cripe, Jeff Cleaver, Father Thomas Zimmer, Ann Marie Johnson, Beth King, Debra Rubrecht, John Thurber, Joseph Lustig, Vaughn Williams, and Sister Mary Nevarda, principal.

PRESIDENT By PAUL PHILLIPS United Press International BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI)-An advance. detail of federal forces set up headquarters today five blocks from a Negro section of Birmingham where a four -hour riot erupted Sunday morning. Combat-equipped federal troops were poised at jump-off spots 80 miles south and 60 miles east of this racially-torn industrial city on orders from President Kenne- dy. Eirmingham was quiet and on the surface at least, near-normal today.

An Army colonel commanding about 15 soldiers worked through the night bringing in equipment in an office building that houses several government agencies. The headquarters was set up in the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service area across the hall from the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the 14th floor of the 2121 Building, five blocks from where rioting erupted Sunday. The soldiers arrived aboard a C130 transport shortly before midnight. Ed Guthman of the Justice Department had an office next door to the military headquarters. Heavily armed highway patrolmen remained in the riot-torn area.

Traffic moved along the streets as on any other Monday morning. But at intersections were patrolmen who had slept in patrol cars during the night with carbines and shotguns close at hand. State authorities claimed the crisis here was "firmly under control" and said the riot trained federal troops that flew into Maxwell Air Force Base to the south and Ft. McClellan to the east were not needed. Huge Air Force transport planes began landing the troops at Maxwell Air Force Base 90 miles south of here at Montgomery within an hour after Kennedy issued his order Sunday.

By early morning, more than 10 planes had arrived with cargoes of soldiers, jeeps and other equipment. The steel-helmeted troops, carrying bayonet-tipped carbines, were housed in vacant barracks for the night at Maxwell which was placed on alert. Kennedy said in calling out the troops that he would "do whatever must be done to preserve order" in Birmingham which was rocked by bombings and rioting early Sunday. Twenty-two persons were injured in the pitched battles be('ween Negroes and police that climaxed six weeks of antisegregation Alabama Governor Protests It was the second time in a lit-: tle more than seven months that Kennedy had ordered federa troops into the South in connection with racial violence. He dispatched 23,000 troops to the Oxtord, area last October after University of Mississippi students rioted over the admission of Negro student James H.

Meredith. Gov. George Wallace protested the sending of troops 4 Alabama. In a telegram to the President Sunday, he said "sutticient state law enforcement officers are available to maintain peace anc order" in Birmingham. In another wire Sunday nignt to the Alabania congressional delegation, he said President has pletely ignored lawfully constituted state authority." A source close to Wallace said there was a good chance the ernor would seek a court order enjoining the federal forces from leaving Maxwell.

Alabama Public Safety Director Al Lingo, a shotgun slung over his shoulder, told newsmen Sunday night that "as of now, we've got things tirmly under control. "'We don't expect any trouble and if there is any, I know we can handle said Lingo, head of the State Highway Patrol. He snapped "no comment" when asked for his reaction to the sending of federal troops into the state. Dynamiting Touches Off Battle The stone, brick and bare knuckle battling of Negroes with police was touched off by the dynamiting of the home of Rev. A.

D. King, brother of integration leader Dr. Martin Luther King and of the A. G. Gaston motel, headquarters of the integration movement which began a massive campaign to tear down the racial barriers here six weeks ago.

At least 22 persons were injured. Stores and homes were set afire as were a taxicab and a shriner's gaudy motorcycle. Policeman J. N. Spivey was stabbed twice in the back.

A taxicab driver was pulled from his car and beaten. Police Inspector William Haley was struck with a brick and it took six stitches to close the wound. Later Sunday, at Anniston, 60 miles to the northeast, two Negro homes and a church were damaged by shotgun blasts. There were no injuries. Kennedy's orders included the sending of troops to bases near Firmingham, taking of preliminary steps toward federalizing units of the Alabama National (Continued on Page 3), MRS.

RAY HICKS Mrs. Ray Hicks Church of God 'Mother of Year' been completed for distributing the federal surplus foods. Executive Secretary Harold 0. Swank said the distribution would begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday and continue until 3 p.m.

each day until the legislature settled the dispute. The commission mailed out cards to reliefers to tell them to report for the food pickups. Eight thousand. families were expected to get cards today and 4,000 Tuesday, with more scheduled to receive them later in the week. There are 193,000 persons on relief in Cook County alone.

CITY NEWS in brief COMMITTEE MEETING The planning committee of Cub Pack 382 will meet at 7:30 this evening in the Clinic next to His room number is 307. RETURNS HOME Mrs. Mildred Harrison was returned home from St. John's Hospital Saturday in the Karl M. Kyle ambulance.

NAMED COACH William Stewart, son of Mrs. Lillian Stewart of this city, has been named coach of the reserve basketball squad at Anderson High School. He will retain his position as junior high school teacher. TAKEN TO HOSPITAL Everett Leach was taken for, treatment and observation to Davis-Stricker-Noffze ambulance. ENTERS HOSPITAL Willie Dodd was taken from Tanner's Service Station to Community Hospital Saturday in the Karl M.

Kyle ambulance. SAYRE HONORED Larry Sayre, sophomore at Indiana University, was recently initiated into Eta Sigma Phi, national classics honorary. Larry's record in Ancient Greek last semester and his nomination by a faculty member made him, eligible for the honor. TAKEN TO HOSPITAL Mrs. Nellie Washburn was taken to Community Hospital Sunday in the Karl M.

Kyle ambulance. ENTERS HOSPITAL Mrs. Ethel Johnson was taken to Community Hospital Sunday in the Davis-Stricler-Noffze ambulance. Mrs. Ray Hicks was named "Mother of the Year" Sunday morning at the Church of God during the annual Mother's Day observance.

Mrs. Hicks has been a faithful member of the church for many years, as well as a very active worker of the Women's Missionary Society. She is the wife of Ray Hicks, and they reside on State Road 9, south of Alexandria. She is the mother of two children, Mrs. James Hackett of Alexandria, and Bill Hicks, manager of the Twin City Airport of Menominee, Mich.

The church was filled to capacity Sunday morning as the children made their way to the altar to select flowers for their mothers. The Rev. Dwight R. McCurdy's subject for the morning service was entitled: "Homes and Havens." The sanctuary choir, junior choir, and Mrs. Gone Moses sang special Mother's Day selections.

Mrs. Bea Telfer, chairman of the Board of Education, bestowed the honors upon Mrs. Ilicks, Mrs. McCurdy, and Mrs. Alma Schmidt.

GOP leaders discuss running conservative for President By EUGENE J. CADOU United Press International INDIANAPOLIS (UPD The plea for selection of a conservauve for the 1964 Republican presidential nomination, voiced by John A. Lafayette pub-, lisher, was discussed widely by Hoosier party leaders today. Scott, a former mayor of South Bend and now publisher of the Lafayette-Journal and Courier was the chief speaker at the banquet session of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association Saturday night. "He rang the bell." was the comment of Mrs.

lone Harrington, national committeewoman, who is a national co chairman of the campaiga to draft Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater for the presidential title of the GOP. The Republican State Committee a few hours before had chosen its youngest chairman in years. His name is Robert Nixon Stewart, 34, Columbus. He is not related to the 1960 GOP presidential nominee, however.

The middle name is a family name. Stewart succeeds H. Dale Brown, Indianapolis, who resigned a week ago, partly because he said Mrs. Harrington had tempted to inject the Goldwaterfor-President issue into the Indianapolis municipal primary. Urges Conservative "I would suggest that our party's challenge next year is to offer the electorate a clear-cut choice between the doctrine of states' rights versus federal controls, between a firm and flexible policy toward communism and a vacillating one; between local responsibility and authority and federal intervention into all the affairs of the community and its citizens," Scott said.

"I personally think that a conserva: ve candidate could win, but if he should lose and run strong in the losing, then a brake would be put upon big government because even the Kennedys are responsive to public opinion." The new state chairman pronounced a policy of neutrality emong presidential possibilities and said he would concentrate on winning this year's city elections. Stewart has won victories for his party as Bartholomew County and 9th District chairman in the past. Stewart, who is six feet. five inches tall, is married and has a five-year-old daughter, is a distributor of agricultural limestone, with raising Angus catle as a sideline. The new chairman was born on a farm in Rock Creek Bartholomew County.

He was graduated from the University High School in Chicago and in 1951 from Franklin College. Ristine's Vote Drfended Both Scott and House Speaker Richard Guthrie, who addressed the editors' luncheon, defended the tie- breaking vote of Lt. Gov. Richard O. Ristine that passed the tax program in the recent legislative session.

Ristine is the leading candidate for the 1964 gubernatorial nomination. The Editorial Association elected the following officers: R. T. Mayhill. Knightstown, president; Doyle W.

Oursler, Cynthiana, first vice-president; James Mitchell, Marion, second vicepresident; Roger J. Grossman, Salem, secretary, and James T. Neal, Noblesville, treasurer. Neal also is secretary of the State Committee. Mayhill succeeds David A.

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