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KANSAS—Colder southeast this att
ernoon and tonight warmer Saturday:
low tonight 15-20 mu thwest to mid 2i
southeast: hign Saturday 50s northwest
to mid 40s southeast
Vol 68—No 126
Speaker Feels
All Religions
Must Be Known
' Big Boost To
Brotherhood
NEW YORK (i13)—Amcricans are
plagued with an educational blind
spot—knowledge about each other's
religion
This is the view of one of the
country's leading educators and in-
terfaith diplomits Dr Lewis Web-
ster Jones and he sees the problem
as an increasingly critical one
"It's immensely serious" he said
"We have a religiously illiterate
population And this is true of some
of our most educated people"
Neglect of the subject he said
In an interview has left people
with garbled and often absurd
notions of their neighbors' beliefs
and has been a breeding ground
for misapprehensions false tales
and ill will that strains com-
munity relationships
"It's one of the worst of all social
diseases" he said "and one of the
most dangerous for the welfare of
the republic Religious divisiveness
can do more to destroy the union
than any other"
Dr Jones a veteran university
administrator is now president of
the National Conference of Chris-
tians and Jews whose wide-ranging
nationwide program aims at
bringing fuller understanding
among the country's various relig-
ious groups
It sponsors the annual "Brother-
hood Week" being observed this
week through Sunday
Dr Jones said that inter-religious
hostility almost invariably stems
from ignorance yet people have
scant chance to learn about the
faiths of others since public schools
ban the subject on the principle
of church-state separation
At the same lime parochial
schools offer their own separate
religion which does little to pro-
vide broader information
Congolese Forces
Tired of Wailing
Town Said Looted
LEOPOLDVILLE The Congo (IP)
Congolese soldiers a pp are ntl y
bored with waiting for the start of
a m ilit ary offensive rampaged
through the town of Lisala looting
property and molesting women the
United Nations reported today
A Malayan officer of the small
UN contingent in the town tried to
contact the local district commis-
sioner but the Congolese soldiers
stopped him from getting to the
commissioner's office
The civilian population gathered
together Thursday for an angi y
counterdemonstration and marched
through the town threatening to
attack the soldiers
The situation appeared to have
quieted by nightfall
Lisala lies in the eastern area of
Equator Province where the Leo-
poldville army commander Gen
Joseph Mobutu has gathered sol-
diers for an invasion of Lumumba
Oriental Province
The UN military commander
Gen Sean McKeown of Ireland
conferred with Mobutu Tuesday but
told newsmen he had been unable
to secure firm pledges that Mo-
butu would not attack
The UN spokesman quoted un-
confirmed reports tha t detach-
ments of Lumumba soldiers had
penetrated into Kasai Province and
reached the vicinity of Lutuabourg
the provincial capital Kasai is
nominally under control of the
Leopoldville regime but its popula-
tion is strongly pro-Lumumba
Suspects in Pond Creek
Bank Robbery Indicted
OKLAHOMA CITY (P) — Three
teenagers accused of burglarizing
the First State Bank of Pond Creek
are among 29 persons named in
indictments returned Thursday by
a federal grand jury here
The three are Larry Charles
Clonce 19 and Doyce Wayne Bo-
mar 17 both of Tulsa and Robert
Dean Phelps 19 Enid
0 THE WEATHER
AT PONCA CITY AIRPORT
(Data from FAA Flight Service
Station)
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7 am 32 1 pm 41
Today's high to 1 pin 41
Yesterday's maximum 49
Minimum past 24 hours 32
Relative humidity 43 percent at
1 pm
Maximum wind velocity 24 mph
Time 1 pm
Barometric pressure 1 pm 2902
falling
Barometric pressure reduced to
sea level 3008
AT FIRE STATION No 1:
Today's high 41
Yesterday's maximum 52
Minimum past 24 hours 33
Five-Day Forecast
During the live-day period Saturday
through Wednesday temperatures will
average four to seven degrees above
normal with warmer temperatures over
the weekend followed by cooler the
first of the week Normal maximum
53-53 Normal minimum 21 northwest
to 38 southeast Precipitation will
average about 25 inch in eastern Okla-
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PRESIDENT KENNEDY with Secretary of Labor Arthur Gold-
berg by his side announces Thursday at the White House that the flight
engineers for six of seven airlines have agreed to end their wildcat
strike immediately At the hastily called news conference the Chief
Executive said "the men are immediately available to return to Nv o r k "
The severuh airline Western has not given assurance of no reprisals
against the flight engineers as the other carriers offered and is not
included in the agreement t A P Wirephotol
Russians Pushing
For Congo Report
UNITED NATIONS N Y til'i--The Soviet Union pressed today for
an immediate report on United Nations progress in forcing military and
political Advisers out Of The Congo
In a move obviously intended to harass the U N operation in The
Congo and Secretary-Gentral Dag Hammarskjold Soviet Deputy Foreign
Minister Valerian A Zorm complained Thursday that three days had
passed since the Security Council adopted its new peace plan for The
Congo but council members had been given no information on withdlawal
toeasures
The Soviets did not endorse the peace plan originally abstaining
when the council voted And Zorin's arithmetic was in error since he
wrote two days after the council -
action early Tuesday
The resolution authorized U N
Cold Front Moves
troops to use force if necessary
to end fighting in The Congo and Into States Snow
called for reorganization Of The
Congo army along nonpolitical
linos as well as withdrawal of Bel- Falls in O C Area
gian and other foreign military and
political personnel not attached to
By The Associated Press
the UN But Zorin ignored the
other features of the plan and tie-
A fast-moving cold front swept
across Oklahoma Thursday night
(dared: "The subversive activity
dumping up to two inches of SII0A
of Belgian personnel and mercm-
on parts of the state
aries still remains the chief cause
Temperatures turned colder ir
of tension in The Congo" a
The Soviet delegate w h o is
boycotting liammarskiold direct-
ed his j r otes t to Sir Patrick
Dean of Britain Security Coun-
cil president for February
Hammarskjold met Thursday for
the third time with his Congo ad-
visory committee to discuss ways
of putting the peace plan into ef-
fect He scheduled another meet-
ing for today
So far no announcements have
emerged from these meetings but
reports from The Congo Iiictured
the UN command there as cau-
tiously optimistic about ending the
civil war
Brig G e n Paul W a r d com-
mander of UN forces in North
Katanga met Thursday with Pres-
ident Moise Tshombe of the seces-
sionist Congo prol
1Vard then left for rebel-held
Manono where he was expected
to seek neutralization of gro-Lumumbist
rebel forces sent in by
Antoine Gizenga's rebel regime
in Stanleyville
The K a tan g a government ad-
mitted its troops were still on the
offensive against Baluba tribesmen
in central Katanga even though
Tshombe reached a pact with the
UN to halt troop movements
likely to cause friction A Katanga
spokesman claimed "our troops are
only advancing in the Bukama
area and as they are not meeting
any opposition they can't really be
said to be fighting"
LATE NEWS
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla (T1—
A new more powerful Atlas mis-
sile seeking an initial success
after three failures blazed away
from this test center today on the
start of a 7000-mile test flight
Driven by the most powertul
set of US rocket engines ever
flown the 82-foot intercontinental
range giant rose smoothly from
its pad spewing a brilliant tail of
fire as it raced toward a target in
the south Atlantic Ocean
The first three missiles in this
new Atlas series fizzled in flight
shortly after launch all plunging
Into the Atlantic several miles off
the cape
Any additional failure could de-
lay Air Force plans of having this
advanced Atlas combat-ready by
late this year
OKMULGEE (—Charles Poul-
ton suspended Oktnu igee city
clerk who surrendered Thursday
night at Oklahoma City after be-
ing missing a week was accused
today of taking more than $15000
In city funds
County Atty Harry Pitchtord
filed an amended embezzlement
Information after conferring with
City Matiager Carroll Fry City
Atty Dale Rainey and Auditor
Graham Smith
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Wire and Features
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By The Associated Press
A fast-moving cold front wept
across Oklahoma Thursday night
dumping up to two inches of snow
on parts of the state
Temperatures turned colder in
the west as the front moved in
late Thursday but eastern Okla-
Loma had warmer weather during
the day Highs Thursday ranged
from 43 at Guymon to 72 at
McAlester Overnight readings
dropped to a range of 23 at Guy-
mon to 38 at Ardmore
Light snow fell in the Panhandle
and northwest but two inches 'ac-
cumulated at Oklahoma City before
the snow ended about sunrise
Waviest moisture total tor the 24
hours ending early today was 19
of an inch at Oklahoma City and
22 at Altus
Skies were clearing in the Pan-
handle and forecasters said the
precipitatm would move eastward
out of the state by nightfall
However before the end of the
snowfall accumulations of two to
Sour inches were expected in a
zone about 50 miles wide from
Sulphur to Okemah The precipi-
tation was expected to be mostly
rain in the south and southeast
Colder temperatures were fore-
cast for southern and eastern
Oklahoma today and tonight with
highs today from 35 to 42 south-
east and in the 40s northwest Lows
tonight were expected to range
from 15 northwest to 30 in the ex-
treme southeast
Governor Signs Bill
OKLAHOMA CITY GP)—A bill
authorizing counties and cities of
any size to acquire right of way
outside the corporate limits of any
city or town for limited access
highways was signed into law today
by Cm J Howard Edmondson
Must Make Decision
t
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Oklahoma So Ions Have Many Choices
By LARRY OSIUS
Associated Press Staff Writer
OKLAHOMA CITY ort — Okla-
homa legislators have a choice—
s horrible OM' some say—of rev-
enue raising measures
'Fifteen bills have been intro-
duced in the House where all tax
bills must originate under the con-
stitution They would raise any-
where from $2 million to mil-
lion for the next two fiscal years
and they would tax everything
from soda pop to trading stamps
The House Revenue and Taxation
Committee began a series of pub-
lic hearings on the suggestions last
week The schedule calls for a
windup late in March by which
the House leaders hope the mem-
bers will have sorted out the meas
ores and decided which they like
the best—or least
of course the cioice of any 1x
increase hinges on the bac ques-
tion—whether House members will
PONCA CITY OKLAHOMA FRIDAY FEBRUARY 2Z1 1961
Article Tosses 1
New Charge Into
School Hearing
Patient Said
Paddled by Boy
OKLAHOMA CITY (iP) — A new
charge that one patient used a
paddle on another while a "moron!
looked on has been thrown into tile
Enid State School dispute
Meantime state Health Director
Dr T Glyne Williams has tcl
visiting how s at the school will be I
relaxed in the face of complaints 1
from parents I
The latest charge was reported -
Thursday in a copyrighted article
in the Oklahoma City Daily Okla '
homan The newspaper said it has
obtained a sworn statement signed
by Mrs Henry D Ehlers an at-1:
tendant at the school infirmary
alleging the beating
The statement claims that Billy I
Jack Wamp ler a patient was Int
with a paddle by Billy Hale while
a cottage matron stood by and
watehe d the newspaper re-
ported Mrs Ehlers also claimed she
nessed the alleged beating in I959
said the Oklahoman
Garfield County and school of
ficials maintained when questioned
about the alleged incident that
Wamp ler was not beaten on school
orders
Garfield County Attorney Robert
L Gregory said a report of the al-
leged incident Vas turned over to
him by the Board of Charities and
Corrections but he could find noth-
ing that would warrant filing
charges against any person
The Oklahoman said school su-
perintendent Mrs Anna Scruggs
conceded Wampler was paddled by
another patient
She said "it was reported and
followed through It was all
documented and investigated An
accident report was made and the
family was notified"
Mrs Ehlers is expected to be
called next week before a House
c o 10 mitt ee investigating the
school
The change in visiting hours at
the school resulted because Dr
Williams said the mental health de-
partment has received "a number
of complaints" on this He sald
plans still have to be worked out
Visiting hours now are limited
to weekday afternoons in order to
give employes time off on week-
ends Nixon Makes Short
Visit in Oklahoma
TULSA (A)—Former Vice Pvesi-
dent Richard M Nixon whom Tulsa
gave a rousing welcome during his
unsuccessful Republican campaign
for the presidency last fall paid a
brief return visit Thursday
Ile and Mrs Nixon chatted with
admirers who recognized them at
municipal airport when the private
plane in which they were flyIng
to Phoenix Ariz made a refueling
stop here
While Nixon shook hands and
mingled with strangers in the ter-
minal lobby Mrs Nixon talked with
a group of women at a loading
gate
"It is nice to be back in the state
which gave the GOP such a large
majority vote" Nixon commented
"We certainly remember the wel-
come Tulsa gave us last fall"
Drexel Biddle Picked
As Diplomat to Spain
WASHINGTON (P) — President
Kennedy today chose Anthony J
Drexel Biddle member of a noted
Pennsylvania family to be ambas-
sador to Spain
The 64-year-old Biddle now is
adjutant general for Pennsylvania
and lives at Annville Pa
Diplomacy is a familiar field to
him He was appointed US minis-
ter to Norway in 1935 by President
Franklin D Roosevelt and was
named ambassador to Poland in
1937
For a while he was ambassador to
France and served in London as
I iaison man with the exiled govern-
ments of Poland Belgium the Neth-
erlands and Norway until he left
the diplomatic service in 1944 to go
on actvie duty with the Ann Yi
Biddle is a Democrat
on Tax Revenue
decide to raise taxes at all An
increase of some sort will be nec-
essary unless the lawmakers decide
to abolish or transfer some agen-
cies and reduce appropriations to
others in order to get within the
$220 million available for the next
two years
Here is a rundown (in all the
major tax increase hills including
nine offered by Rep Leland Wolf
House floor leader Wolf says he
isn't "married" to any of them but
merely proposed them to give the
legislators something to consider
All would provide extra revenue
for the general fund This is the
fund from which the legislature
makes it appropriations as distinct
from ' earmarked" funds which go
directly to zinte agencies such as
7‘ta to welfare
All the revenue estimates are just
that—estimates
1 A one cent increase In the
bales tax that would raise $33
c
America's Air Travel'
Resumed Engineers
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Demonstrators In
'pan Anologize
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apology for lie antnwrit1
to Tokyo kos ilycli math to to
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The outbreak led to cancellation
of former President Dwight IL Eis-
enhower's scheduled visit to lapan
Hagerty x‘ho was in Japan arrang-
mg things for Eisenhower was
mobbed at a Tokyo airport and
was resciwd by helicopter
One of the four Japanese stu-
dents Yoneto twanage of Waseda
University said Thursday night:
"On behalf of Me Japanese stu-
d(nts I want to apoh)gize to the
American nation for the diviston
between our two cituntries 111 the
serious damage to the unity of the
free world caused by the deirion-
strations we led last June which
prevented your President Eisen-
hower from visiting japan"
Hagerty was asked by a news-
man if he planned to relay the
apology to Eisenhower who is in
California Ile said he did not "I
guess he'll read it in the papers"
he added
The apology was tied in with the
Moral Re-Armament movement
which is sponsoring a world tour
of a play The Tiger" written
produced and acted by students
who participated in the riots The
drama deals with Moral Re-Armament
and includes a snake dance
depicting the Tokyo riots
A troupe of 50 presented the play
Thursday night before a capacity
audience of 500 at the Westchester
County Center
Hodges Adds Areas
To List of Places
Needing Money Aid
WASHINGTON (A'--Secretary of
Commerce Luther H Hodges told
Congress today more than 100 urban
and uncounted rural areas are suf-
ficiently depressed to need help
from President Kennedy's program
for centers of chronic unemploy-
ment Hodges appeared before a House
Banking subcommittee open in g
hearings on legislation to carry out
this multimillion dollar phase of
the administration's economic pro-
gram Hodges said 20 major urban areas
and 83 smaller ones are suffering
from "substantial and persistent un-
employment" and so would come
within the definition of arr'i to be
redeveloped under the proposed Het
"We must add to this the rural
areas of unemployment whose exact
number and location have not yet
been determined" Bodges said
Hodges 1'aigly defended Ken-
nedy's proposal to give the Com-
mkfree Department the over-all re-
sponsibility for carrying out the
program Many backers of redevel-
opment legislation prefer a separate
agency and this provision is con-
tained in a bill on which Senate
committee hearings already have
been held
Hodges said his department al-
ready has the nucleus of a staff
experienced in problems of area
economic development and thus
could take on the job efficiently
and economically
sponsibility for carrying out the Into Engineers Strike dell was originally from Epworth
program Many backers of redevel- Ga
opment legislation prefer a separate WASHINGTON 01 — President
Sgt Bobby Reese 29 who
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agency and this provision is can Kennedy today created an emer- S ived with his wife and four chil-
Wined in a bill on which Senate gency board to investigate the dis dren at Clinton was originally frorn
committee hearings already have pute between Northwest Airlines
-
Redondo &wit Calif
been held and its striking flight engineers
The patrol said the accident oc-
Hodges said his department al-
Pierre Salinger White House eurred three miles east of Lone
p
ready has the nucleus of a staff Wolf at the intersection of two
experienced in problems of area press secretary quoted Francis A
O'Neill chairman of the National state highways—Oklahoma 9 and
e c o n o m i c development and thus Mediation Board as saying Ken- 44
could take on the job efficiently nedy's action requires the engineers A man and a WOn1111 were killed
and economically to return to work in a eGilision of two v e h fele s
Salinger said about 200 flight en- Thursday near Woodward
gineers are on strike but this bas The victims:
Thompson In London
put a total of between 5000 and Bobbie Dean Miller 34 Okla-
LONDON GPI—Llewellyn Thomp- 6000 Northwest Airlines employes hoina City
son US ambassador to Moscow sr- out of work Mrs J B Lancaster about 70
rived in London today after confer- The dispute is separate front the Guymon
enceS With President Kelmedy and wildcat walkiait of engineers AhiCh The Highway Patrol said a car
the State Department lie said be until today had had other big trunk driven by Miller collided with the
would spend two days in London aidines shut down for a week A other vehicle driven by Mrs Lan
and return to Moscow Sunday different union is involved casiees husband Jerry Lancaster
75 on U S Highway 183 about 17
In iles Southeast of Woodward
Lancaster was taken to a Wood-
ward hospital in critical condition
lion for the biennium and regard-
ed by many as the most likely
choice
2 A one cent per 1000 cubic feet
tax on natural gas estimated rev-
enue of $15
3 Restoration of the one third
cut in state income taxes voted in
I947 $19 nUllion for the biennium
4 Abolition of the $1000 1ersonal
exemption on state income taxes
$12 million for the biennium
5 Abolition of the federal income
tax deduction on state taxes $30
million
6 Increase in use tax on loots
bought outside the state from two
to three percent $26 million for
the biennium
7 Increase in motor vehicle ex-
cise tax from two to three percent
$72 million for biennium
8 Limit on amount of natural
gas g r 0 s g production tax ear
marked for teacher retirement t
$3 million tor We biennium Jew
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14 PAGES
Strike
No Decision
By Western
Over Firings
NEW YORK (11—Ait'll(3rts aul'und
th natio ium nw
n ld with activity
again today and the ing passenger
planes 400med into the air in n-1
creasing numbers with the end tilHi
a flight engineers' strike
Thu six-uay work stoppage worst
tieup in American iiviation history
cost crippled airlines all estimated
Oil million
Many more millions were lost by
vacation resorts and industries con-
-- — '''' base shut down three days began
A District Sales Manager Roy
Many more millions were lost by ht1'Ting 1"111
vacation resorts and industries con-
Fuller said his line expected to have
peeled 1vith air travel Railroads
its normal numberof flights oper-
and bus lines reaped an unexpected
revenue harvest however aline through the city after missing
a morning flight lie said connect-
ing flights at some points might not
Travel plans of an estimated 500-
be on schedule until the weekend
000 persons were affected during
the shutdown period Many of them
r-
were stranded away from home
American expected to be on neaty full schedule by Sunday About
when the strike began and had
ficulties obtainIng alternate 40 percent of its flights were in op
transportation eration today District Sales Man-
With whine of big jets and the ager F G Malbeuf reported
roar Of propeller-driven aircrait About 2800 of AA's 4500 cm-
once more heard on the runways ploy es here were idled by the
strike causing payroll and purchas-
Pan American IN'orld Airways was
the first to restore full service It
mg losses estimated at $600000 by
announced this morning that op- Vice President Lucian J Hunt
erations were back to 100 percent In Oklahoma City airport spokes-
Other lines ranged downward to men said full service is expected to
as low as 30 percent Some said it be restored Sunday
might take them a day or two more Ken Stowe American district
to get all schedules going again sales manager said five of Ameri-
Miami Beach estimated its rev- can's 14 scheduled daily flights
enue loss at $3 million a day during would operate today Ile said about
the strike So did the Caribbean BO percent service is expected by
area including Puerto Rico the Saturday
Virgin Islands and the Bahamas Don Epperson TWA district sales
The end of the strike was an- manager said TWA planned to op
flounced personally Thursday by - erate two of its four outbound
President Kennedy flights today and all four Saturday
Flight engineers agreed to go American and TWA furloughed 84
back to work immediately while i employes in Oklahoma City during
a presidential commission started D the engineers'
work on finding a way of remedyingl — strike
the basic cause of their strike
The men are members of the
Flight Engineers International As
sociation
Kennedy made the announce-
ment late Thursday at the White
House At his side was Secretary
of Labor Arthur J Goldberg who
had a large part In bringing about
the end of the walkout
For Goldberg it was the second
major strike he has had a personal
hand in settling since he took office
a month ago His very first task
was to end a strike of railroad
ferrymen in New York City that
had virtually cut off commuter rail
service
Six airlines—Pan America n
American Trans World Eastern
National and Flying Tigers—began
cranking up their operations Thurs
For Goldberg it was the second
major strike he has had a personal
hand in settling since he took office
a month ago His very first task
was to end a strike of railroad
ferrymen in New York City that
had virtually cut off commuter rail
service
Six airlines—Pan A in e r c a n
American Trans World Eastern
National and Flying Tigers—began i
cranking up their operations Thurs-
day night All were resuming many
flights today and expected to be
hack to normal by Saturday or Sun-
day
Western Air Lines one of those
struck by the engineers refused to
join the agreement
Western's situation was left
countermand ta n dhazy orders
1300 nonstriking employes But
llhefurilionuegbdini:
Western said nothing new about
Its flight engineers
engineers would be fired and sup-
WTesTeltrn'sappaantne(niutnly announcement efttlt itnhattotrhcee
planted by pilots
Boo rd Created To Look
k11101Leb Rescue Workers Dig
Out Body of Miner
ing estimated $17 million surplus
for general fund KITTANNING Pa (tP) — Rescue
o
9 Inchision of auto accessories in
amount on which motor vehicle teams early today dug ut the body ex
eise tax is based $6 million for of the second of two coal miners
the biennium killed in a cave-in at the INallwork
In addition to Wolf's bilk to aid
mine Ire a r Kittanning about 33
the general fund he proposed one
miles northeaid of Pittsburgh
to revise homestead exemption It
would raise ion estimated $9 million Rescuers conked f o r about 12
a Year at the local level hours before reaching the body of
Rep sam sumvan of Dm ant has Witham Titus 38 about three hours
proposed a stiffer increase in state before they found the body of Paul
income taxes than Wolf one that Bisch 40
would net about $40 million more The mine roof caved-in Thursday
for the biennium afternoon as the two Men worked
Rep Maynard Blackard of Mu- about a mile and a half inside the
drow proposed a one cent per but- mine A third miner said he lett
tile tax on soft drinks that he esti- the scene shortly before the roof
mated would raise about $6 million fell
a year The two deaths made a total of
Rep Ed Cole of Okmulgee pro- four front mine mishaps in west-
posed a tax of $5 on each $15 book ern PCIIW3- Mini a in 24 hours A
of lidding stamps sold to a re- eave-in oil iecho5olo y ot US Steel
tailer lie estimates it would raise Corp Itobena No 3 time near Car-
on to $G0 million a year and pro- michaels Greene Count y also
nooak ti Love it to the cities I killed two workers
ling estimated $17 million surplus
I tor gencl'al fund
9 Inchision of auto accessories in
amount on which motor vehicle ex
cise tax is based $6 million for
poses to fovos it to the cities
Published Daily Except Saturday al
and Second Class Postage Paid at
Ended
Airlines in Slate
Resume Flights
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LA id'i—Anierican and Trans
Vvriirld Airlines ‘k ere operating in
Tulsa tday with the end of
a flight ellL'111C0IS' five-day strike
American's big Tulsa maintenance
base shut down three days began
humming again
TwA Sales Manager Roy
Castro Names Guevara
New Industrial Leader
HAVANA (71—Fidel Castro recast his government today in a Coin-
munist-shape mold and gave Ernesto Guevara direction of the nation's
industries
The sweeping governmental reorganization after a marathon Cabinet
session also spelled out the functions of the three-month Central Planning
Council headed by the prime minister His brother and heir apparent
Armed Forces Minister Raul Castro was named council vice president
i Expected for several weeks the reshuffle came months after teams of
Cuban administrative technicians visited Iron Curtain countries They
spent considerable time in Czechoslovakia and diplomats here said the
li
bulk of the changes were drawn up in Prague
Guevara the ultraleft Argentine soldier-of-fortune who fought with
the Castros in the hills of Cuba was clearly established as third in line
in the revolutionary hierarchy by
Two Chnton-Sherman being named head of the key new
Ministry of Industries He had used
Airmen
amen Die in Crash his previous job as head of the Na-
tional Bank to shake off economic
By The Associated Press ties with the United States and link
Two airmen at Clinton-Sherman Cuba's economy to the Soviet Union
Air Force Base were killed today and the Communist bloc
in a two-car callision near Lone vara and all other ministers was The council which includes Cue-
Wolf to raise Oklahoma's traffic made the over-all supervisor of the
death toll for the year to 82—ten nation's economic life much as
more than a year ago such councils function in the Corn-
munist states
The Public Information officer
at the base identified the dead as: But Guevara was given virtually
Sat Clau f d gene Dunn 27
‘S: ' m I' d -' dictatorial powers over the nation's
industries Among his powers he
more than a year ago
The Public Information officer
at the base identified the dead as:
S Sgt Claud Egene Dunn 27
who litnr with his wife at Cor-
dell was originally from Epworth
Ga
S Sgt Bobby Reese 29 who
lived with his wife and four chil-
dren at Clinton was originally frorn
Redtindo Beath Calif
The patrol said the accident oc-
curred three miles east of Lone
Wolf at the intersection of two
-
lccaslonal snow or
east colder except
y fair and not so
tonight IS north-
st iaigh Saturday
Price 5c
Noman
lielease
Years
!d With
Husband
h filD)—A little old
dark eyes and an
told the men on
Parole Board why
ve the prison that
le since 1933
r long left in this
''l would like to
kovski 85 is the
10 women prisoners
ouse of Correction
to life imprison-
:o after a jury con-
olsoning her third
senic
ing Judge in a
It was thought
red her spouse to
'ranee The judge
there were indica-
killed her second
Line way although
brought to trial
ki a plump pleas-
mither said at her
was innocent She
story to the parole
in hopes that Gov
son will commute
laking her eligible
rski 41 when he
aad arsenic powder
an attempt to heal
dy she said Some
apparently got into
n
en know what it
iecond husband died
after eight years
ne and Ziolkowski
orker were married
and her first hue-
reed nd daughter of her
are still living
tevara
lader
nt today in a Corn-
ton of the nation's
a marathon Cabinet
th Central Planning
and heir apparent
incil vice president
onths after teams of
ain countries They
mats here said the
le who fought with
hed as third in line
onary hierarchy by
cad of the key new
ustries He had used
3 as head of the Na-
shake off economic
nited States and link
r to the Soviet Union
unist bloc
which includes Cue-
ther ministers was
all supervisor of the
mic life much as
unction in the Corn-
was given virtually
ars over the nation's
ong his powers he
aecific authority to
and modify" all
s and to establish
m i c financial and
ion and administra-
im and mines insti-
administrative de-
Indus trialization
mills were placed
tediate jurisdiction
r were under the
rm Institute which
Into a mammoth
rdom after it was
e over the nation's
m private owners
)ost Guevara is ex
Cuban industriali-
out Castro's an-
d making Cuba no
mt on agriculture
y on sugar which
fe blood of the is-
complete Industrial
n sent to Cuba from
countries Govern-
ay at least 60 will
ast this year
ice Fight
ing Workers
Police riot
lattled thousands of
rd workers who
traffic in downtown
ng in the streets
policemen and itn
number of strikers
injuries in the hour-
ig rkers in this north
the Adriatic have
for several days
ed wages and other
r of fighting today
red But a new kind
promptly developed
1 transport workers
or strike to protest
ion against the ship-
t workers halted
!re they were
OKLAHOM — Occasional snow sir
sleet extreme southeast colder except
Panhandle: generally fair and not so
coid Saturday low tonight IS north
west to 27 southeast high Saturday
42-52
200 North Third
Ponca City Okla
Price 5c
Elderly Woman
Wants Release
After 18 Years
Charg ed With
Killing Husband
LANSING Mich (41—A little old
lady with bright dark eyes and an
unwrinkled face told the men on
Michigan's State Parole Board why
she wants to leave the prison that
has been her home since 1933
"1 haven't very long left in this
world" she said 'I would like to
be free"
Elizabeth Ziolkowski 85 is the
oldest of some 400 women prisoners
at the Detroit House of Correction
She was sentenced to life imprison-
ment 28 years ago after a jury con-
victed her of poisoning her third
husband with arsenic
The sentencing Judge In a
statement said it was thought
that she murdered her spouse to
collect his insurance The judge
now dead said there were indica-
tions that she killed her second
husband the same way although
she never was brought to trial
for his death
Mrs Ziolkowski a plump pleasant-faced
grandmother said at her
trial that she was innocent She
still says so
She told her story to the parole
board Thursday in hopes that Gov
John B Swainson will commute
her sentence making her eligible
for parole
John Ziolkowski 41 when he
died brought lead arsenic powder
and used it in an attempt to heal
sores on his body she said Some
of it she said apparently got Into
his blood system
"I didn't even know what It
was" she said
She said her second husband died
of a heart attack after eight years
of marriage She and Ziolkowski
an auto plant worker were married
four years She and her first hus-
band were divorced
Only a son and daughter of her
eight children are still living
being named head of the key new
Ministry of Industries He had used
his previous job as head of the Na-
tional Bank to shake off economic
ties with the United States and link
Cuba's economy to the Soviet Union
and the Communist bloc
The council which includes Gue-
vara and all other ministers was
made the over-all supervisor of the
nation's economic life much as
such councils function in the Com-
munist states
But Guevara was given virtually
dictatorial powers over the nation's
industries Among his powers he
was giv en specific authority to
"create dissolve and modify" all
state industries and to establish
their "e conomi c financial and
juridical direction and administra-
tion" The petroleum and mines insti-
tutes and the administrative de-
partments of Indus trialization
and of sugar mills were placed
under his immediate jurisdiction
Both formerly were under the
Agrarian Reform Institute which
mushroomed into a mammoth
economic czardom after it was
created to take over the nation's
farm land from private owners
In his new post Guevara is ex-
pected to spur Cuban industriali-
zation to carry out Castro's an-
nounced aim of making Cuba no
longer dependent on agriculture
and particularly on sugar which
has been the life blood of the is-
land A number of complete Industrial
plants have been sent to Cuba from
Communist-bloc countries Govern-
ment leaders say at least 60 will
be going full-blast this year
Italian Police Fight
With Striking Workers
TRIESTE Italy iP1 — Police riot
squads today battled thousands of
striking shipyard workers who
sought to block traffic in downtown
Trieste by sitting in the streets
At least four policemen and in
undePrinined number of strikers
suffe ed minor injuries in the hour-
long skirmishing
Shipyard workers in this north
Italian port on the Adriatic have
been striking for several days
seeking improved wages and other
benefits
After an hour of fighting today
calm was restored But a new kind
of traffic jam promptly developed
when municipal transport workers
callediiorileserp-sho
q rotu wnkr strike to protest
police intervention against l halted
st the
yard workers watkl
their buses where they were
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