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Show FR Telephone 3-50- 50 , Low Clouds For Ads., News, Circulation: . Provo Office, 190 W. 4th N. Orem Office, 757 N. State -- ...... FR 50 AC ... - today. Cloudy this afternoon and tonight with a chance of a little snow in the mountains. Partly cloudy Thursday with little change in temperature. High today and Thursday 32 to 36. Low tonight 20 to 24. decreasing- 05 ; YEAR NO. EIGHTY-NINT- H 1 11 ' PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH I' A bed Has ear Fielo for y House1' Post Re D i v. - 'j By FRANK ELEAZER United Press Irttiuational '.,WASHINGTON - (UPI) Bjb Carl Albert, 53, McAlester, kla., a one-timRhodes scholar, .received a- clear field . today ' for election : as Democratic leader of the House. ,' . Albert's only challenger, Rep. Richard Boiling, 45,' a liberal from Kansas City, Mb., decided, to bow out of the race. This ended the e- - -- the post in 21 years. . Albert', .now' . Democratic whip, i , STfxr AonAiic Ton Iiit V Q , 1 J i.. I 4 4 - Boiling- decided to abandon his race for the No. 2 post after con eluding that he had no chance of i defeating Albert, associates said Boiling, a consistent supporter of Fair Deal and "New Frontier" programs, had contended he could do more for. Kennedy's program than Albert. However, the hew leadership team of McCormack and Albert have promised Kennedy most of what he wants from Congress next. year. FOE WITHDRAWS Rep. Car whose only; Albert opponent. Rep. Richard Boil) decided to bow out ing of , contest for choice as tDemo4 cratic ! leader of the House (Herald-UP- I Telephoto) (D-Okl- a.) , (D-M- o. . McCall Sees 'Very Bright7 1962ut!o6lc SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) McCormack, declining to, discuss J; :his expected election as successor D. McCall, Columpresident of the to the late Speaker Sam Ray- -' bia-Geneva division of United burn, told newsmen he foresaw a 'vfv ciirrffui" session nf Cnn- - States Steel Corp.? said Tuesday he expected steel shipments to gress. i continue the increase that began lias uooa cnance last weeks of 1961. the numduring He forecast, passage of a d statement McCall year-enIn a ber of Kennedy's legislature prothe economic outlook overall said andsaid others, including posal 1962 is "very for the West in ima .controversial proposal to cui port Lduties and increase interna- bright," with increased activity tional trade, had a "good chance" expected by most businesses., ' He said government spending for enactment, v Boiling was a .close- associate "of for defense and construction will have an important impact. (See REP. ALBERT Paire 4) ( - ! . . . j ; - Rowe, Millard Retained Temporarily basis former Public Works Direc tor Francis Rowe and former Planning and Engineering and Capital Improvements Director Kenneth Millard. The two will be hired for a period of two; weeks to a month on an hourly basis. Mr. Millard will then leave the city's employ to accept a regional planning position in the greater Seattle area. be worked Many details-musout administratively, as well as major policy decisions made, to effect transition. For example who approves payment of routine bills? Who signs termination letters? Policy on Hiring With new City Attorney Thomas S. Taylor and Auditor Terry J. Oldroyd, veteran finance officer sitting in, the commission Tues day agreed that the auditor would prepare vouchers and the com mission would i pass on them. Major hirings and firing would be agreed upon; by thefull com POINT OF THE MOUNTAIN mission even though each "will his own string (UPI) Two convicts escaped ear- head ments.. Utah ly today from In some .oases an entire departr State Prison. ; ' .The escapees were identified as ment, as parks "and recreation, includes! golf and ceme James Warwick, 49, San Fran which has ' been placed under in-acisco, serving a life term for first tery, commission; in other degre murder and Clay Hughes single staaces, as with public works, the ' Jr., 25, Oklahoma City, servingseca department broken is up and di one' to 20 year sentence for to different visions of it given ond degree burglary. commissioners. -Warden' John W. Turner said Department Assignments the pair pried open, a window in of each Complete the inmate council off ice and fled commissionerassignments not be definite will under cover of a heavy; layer of until divi but tentative Thursday, fog. They escaped under the north sion is" as follows: fence of the prison. Mayor Verl Dixon: Public safe Both were medium security , in ty including police," fire and mates. Turner said. the city re health The escapees were reportedly corder, departments; and personnel. But library seen in the Draper area shortly the how much recorder's' of after they were reported missing just will include has not yet been fice at 8: 38 a.m. today. determined, nor what personnel ; Warwick was incarcerated Sept. will consist Mayor 30, 1959. Hughes was committed Dixon has expressed interest in 'Nov. 23, I960. a continued and .expanded civil service program. Commissioner Brimhalli The J electric department; part of pub- 11 c ... By United Press International works, including water, Cordell Hull, secretary of state sewers, sanitation and buildings during most of the Franklin D. and property r purchasing and fi ts Roosevelt era, was awarded the nance, but just how special Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 for his and so forth may be group role in fathering the United ed in the new structure of admin' (Se CITY COMMISSION Page 4) . manager-administrato- . D U t - : ; 2 Convicts Flee State Prison 1 - of-dep- 1 art fog-shroud- ed . . 1 ' (&3lI .; , " ;l ' ' ' Will Release 2 Natio rial Guard Units vv Action Results From ? : - r 'gs . .( - Conference With, Top Defense Chiefs ' V By MERRIMAN if ' ' I - . f of .two National Guard divisions from active duty later, this year. The White House said the Pres ident's decision rested from. conferences here with Defense Sec retary Robert S. McNamara, "the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other defense officials. The National Guard, divisions to be released when the readiness status of the new "regular Army divisions permits are the 32hd from Wisconsin now in ' training at Ft. Lewis, Wash., and the 49th from Texas, ' now at Camp Polk, La. In Washington, the Army said that more than half the men in the new divisions would be draft ees who have had eight weeks or" " : i n - '. i: JDEFENSE CHIEFS CONFER WITH BOSS President Kennedy, shown as he met with his defense chjefs in Palm Beach, Fla. today.- From left are General George Decker, Army Chief of Staff; General Lyman Lemnftzer, i i - Castro Lopped Envoy to Report Exploratory Off Catholic Talks on Berlin U.S. Am (UPI) Church Roster bassador Llewellyn E. Thompson r today was expected to tell the . A CITY (UPI) Vatican official said today that Cuban Premier Fidel Castro "can be considered to have been ex communicated" from the Roman Portugal British and French enyoys here what progress was made, if any, in preliminary talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko on the Berlin question. Catholic Church. British Ambassador Sir Frank Roberts and French envoy MauDino canonist Staff a, Archbishop The LISBON, Portugal (UPD de rice to of Jean planed to call on Stated Vatican the Secretariat government 'ortuguese today a who said that Thompson for a' discussion of his anyone New expelled lamed the unsuccessful -wasexcom meeting with Gromyko automatically Year's Day: revolt on the coun- bishop municated under church from the Tuesday. try's outlawed Communist party. ' Both Thompson and Gromyko circles said the up Canon law. to disclose any details of declined Castro j expelled the' auxiliary rising was the" first step in a Red their talks, but they said further plan to overthrow the regime of bishop of Havana, Msgr. Eduarmeetings could be expected. Prime Minister; Antonio Salazar. do Boza iMasvidal. The A communique specifically issued by the 'archbishop, Caswhether newsmen 40 50 asked or said attack the by by army rebels on the army barracks at tro had incurred expulsion by his said Beja in southeastern Portugal action against- Masvidal, 'wa an act planned and carried that "whoever- impedes the funcout by the Communist party as tions of a bishop in the carrying part of a general strategy, the but of his work incurrs according details of which the authorities to canon law automatic excommu Assistant ELKO, Nev. (UPI) nication.1" , are now unraveling." Utah State University football The informed' sources said the Castro, he said, "can be con- coach Tony Knapp, 47, and star plot failed because the govern sidered to have been excommuni- end Charles Walker, 201 were in . ment had received information of cated." ac last night in a one-ca- r Leaders of ' the Iron Curtain jured (See REDS BLAMED Page 4) on U.S. Highway '40, 16 cident countries have been excommuni- miles west of Wendover, it was cated, s was former Argentine reported, today. Dictator! Juan Peron when he took Elko authorities said the action against priests of the Cath accidentcounty shortly before happened olic Church. the as pair was returnBut the Vatican official's con midnight ' to Lake Salt City from San ing formation of Castro's excommuni ' Francisco where Walker had playcation came at a surprising time. ed in the East-WeShrine game. Only Tuesday it was learned that a dislocawho suffered Knapp, Cuba had appointed a new ambas ted mild concussion, a and hip sador to the Holy See and that said their car went off the road Pope John XXIII and Cuban Pres on a; patch of icy highway. A PICAYUNE, Miss. (UPI) ident Osvaldo Dorticos had ex suffered face, cuts; but Walker " pilot who bailed out of his strick changed New Year's greetings. both were in good conen U2 jet plane TuesEarlier, a high Vatican source dition this reported morning., day night was rescued today from said the question of automatic ex the .marshland cypress tree where communication for Castro, born a he had hung by his parachute Catholic and educated 'as a Catb straps for more than 10 hours.. olic, "is ;a matter of his own per r A . Coast Guard belicopter found sonal conscience and of his con- Central Utah News ....2,-4- , 5, 6 the pilot, Capt. Charles B. Strat fessor." t- 12, 13 . . Classified ton, 32, dangling in the! tree in a This source said he knew of Comics 11 : , swampy, area near the 'Pearl Riv no excommunication decree signed Editorial X ...10 er. His plane,! the same type in the Vatican concerning Castro National, World News 12, 6, 14 Francis Gary Powers was flying But he said a decree would not be Obituaries .i ...... 4 ..... when he was shot down over Rus necessary for automatic excom 7 ... Society ..i.nMit.MMmM-.- i 8 9 sia, apparently exploded and municationr which can be incurred Sports crashed on; the Louisiana-Mississiin I various ways for violations, of Stocks 4 " specified articles of canon law,pi line near here, j Mi . , - j ur - ; " Well-inform- 4 , Now You Know lac-coun- chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Vice president Lyndon Tele- Johnson; ahd President Kennedy. (Herald-UP- I photo). J Coadi, Star Player Injured In Auto Accident USU " I I U2 Jet Pilot Rescued From J . : st Chute, Swqmp high-altitu- de , HERALD INDEX ; pi - i i rriid-Janua- ry . Provo's Economic Development Fund drive (PED) will be brought to close ,by Jan. 24, Dallen R. Clark, general chairman, announced today. The fund has now reached said Chairman "Clark, and every effort will be made to reach the $50,000 goal by Jan. 24. The money is to be used for an intensive; campaign to bring more industry jand business to the Provo' area.' A group of businessmen will continue! to work for 100 per cent ! , , $36,-00- 0, ! It is not 'negcompletion of the drive by Tues- positive program. action-orienteThe is It ative.' the day evening, Jan. 23, when of the action results will, be announced at the positive program d. Provo Chamber of Commerce annual meeting. , Said Mr. Clark: "The year 1962 will show a great deal of change in the United States and, with the Provo Chamber of Commerce on the alert; the chamber will secure their; share of new industry and business for Utah County. "The Provo Chamber of Commerce is a positive body with a . ; - chamber reflects the conviction of businessmen in the community that the PED Fund can bring industry to Provo and Utah Valley. "Through organized action as members of the chamber, businessmen can contribute materially and financially to the future growth of our area. Participation in this program is the privilege of every businessman in the city ), 1 1 , J new divisions is such, officials pointed out, that the National., Guard divisions probably will not be . released for , a matter of at o GENEVA (UPI), The cochairmen of the nation Laos Peace Conference decided today post pone- any further meetings until after they confer with Laotian neutralist leader Prince Souvanna Phouma. 14-t- - east several months.' Continue on Duty I 'In the interim, , the National Guardsmen will continue on duty as a key element of the Army Che" White strategic reserves, louse announcement said. "The ; ELISABETHVILLE, Katanga, The Congo (UPI) The Katanga National Assembly met tonight for a sched-- . bled vote on the Kitona agreement that would end Kaand effective mobilization tanga's secession from the rest of the Congo, but the quick of this force has demonstrated in meeting broke "up seven minutes laterwithout taking any unmistakable terms our determiaction on the accord. nation to resist Communist 'ag t , . . ... vice President Lyn Johnson, 3. Deputy Defense ' L. Gilpatric , Roswell Secretary and Gen.- Maxwell D.' Taylor, speciM military adviser to the President, arrived here late Tues day? and. were in conference with Kennedy until 11 p.m. The Chiefs of Staff headed by the American sector! until Ameri (See PRESIDENT Page 4) can officials can go - into East Berlin freely. Will Protect Rights "We do not intend to permit our rights to be interferred with, nor will we allow improper treat ment of xur representatives," he Mina:--HeJWciNiamara, Russia Rejects Protests On Border 1 nterference don' By JOSEPH . B. FLEMING United Press International BERLIN; (UPD The Russians have rejected two U.S. protests against German Communist ' interference with official traffic across Berlin border, an the East-WeAmerican spokesman said today.-The spokesman said the Rus- s. id. The spokesman said: sian answer to the American pro"We have made every feffort tests sent Dec. 23 was "wholly not to add to tensions in a period unsatisfactory." He gave no details of the Rus- in which governments are seeking ' to develop possibilities for nego sian answers. : . The official East German . Com- - tiation. comman the Soviet "However, munist party newspaper Neues nevertheless has chosen at dant said Deutschland the Russians told the Americans that the civili- this time to permit his Soviet secpolice to attempt to an aides of Maj. ; Gen. Albert tor German " Watson II, the1 American com- impose improper and offensive of the U.S. com mandant, would have to submit controls on visits to Communist police controls on mander with his civilian aides to crossing the border, to East Soviet headquarters. controls were "These attempted Berlin. for the very first time imposed The American spokesman said '21 cn Dec. and ; Dec: 23 and are Soviet Commandant Col. A.V. to long es completely contrary , and his" political adviser tablished and pracprocedures would, continue to be barred from tices in Berlin." Identity Cards Involved The American notes to the Rus sians protested the barring by Communist police of Watson's en try into East Berlin at the and county whether he be' in crossing point because incivilian three aides with him reagriculture, 'a profession, to their identity cards show or fused dustry, commerce, mining, to . . Berlin East service.. police. The protests maintained that "If you have not sent in your four-powcontribution to the growth of under agreements. Provo through the PED Fund, East German police do "not have let's think positive and buy a the right to check or control of share in the future of Provo and ficial , American , traffic. Utah County. Start the year 1962 One protest was made by Wal as the year of challenges for a ter C. Dowling, U.S. ambassador better way to increase the stabil to West Germany, to Mikhail Per ity and economic, growth of our vukhin, Russian ambassador to Mr. ,East Germany. Another was sent community," rClark. by Watson to Solovyev. st i : j - i - Sol-ovye- v j Fried-richstras- ; er concluded se . ll Visit Mexico By ALVIN SPIVAK ; United Press International PALM BEACH Fla. (UPI) President, Kennedy has reinstated a plan to visit Mexico, thereby indicating the Mexican government may have shifted it? hands- off position toward Soviet-aligne- d Cuba.". .(.: : - ' :. v 4 JFK Changes ' " '. " - gression." Provo CC Shoots for $50,000 PEDGoal By Jan. 24 i ' more of training at replacement training centers. A spokesman said the move would have no effect on draft' calls. He said daft quotas' havebeen going down because the Army is approaching its authorized strength. The January quota. Jias been fixed at 15,000 men and the February call is expected to .. be smaller. U.S. plans to The President's order will in- v CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) tne number of regular; rocket astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. into orbit'around earth crease divisions from 14 to 16 on , Army in have been delayed for at least one week, a permanent basis. The two Ra, it was learned today. tional Guard outfits involved were The new planning date for America's first manned called to duty last Oct. 15 because orbital flight .is now Jan. 23 official sources tolfl United of the Berlin crisis. ' The process of activating two Press International. ed -- off-althou- -- ' - VATICAN . U - ! . , . MOSCOW - SMITH UPI White House Reporter PALM1 BEACIL Fla. (UPI) President Kennedy today ordered activation of two. new permanent Army divisions, permitting release :a--::.:.:.:- , $l-a-d- ay Reds Blamed r For Revolt vy rS 1 - -- u u u LL, I i iL. :C. , In City Comm ission Attacks Problem Of 'Transition' "The .old order changeth, 'place to new' was order of the day .Tuesday as conferences ' began, to change Provo government from an administrative pyramid to a triumvirate in which three commissioners replaced ; a' seven-ma- n legislative council and r, one . Commissioner W. Smoot Brim- hall, who has served Provo as both, a former commissioner and councilman, seemed Tuesday . to favor due deliberation in change over, being careful to "keep lines of communication- opea" so employers at 'all times know "who is - responsible fo whom." To help smooth the transition period; the commission Tuesday approved rehiring on a consultant ri By MICHAEL C. HUDSON . United Press International SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Firemen carried dozens iofj elderly, screaming men and women to safety ' today : from a burning five-stpr- y hotel in San Francisco's south of Market Street district. At least bne man was killed and 10 persons Were injured? thre seriously, iri the four-alarfire at the Hale! Hotel. Between 75. and 80 persons were in the brick building located at 939 Mission Street, one block5 south of Market Stret. The scene was only half a block from where 22 persons died in a fire at the Thomas ' Hotel last Jan. 6. When firemen arrived jaround 6 a.m., they found occupants clus-tere- c on the upper stories of the fire escape j and at fourth and fifth floor windows. j extended ladders and carThey ried to safety those who were unable to climb down. ;:; Some panicky tenants fought firemen and; ' had to be forcibly rescued. Many others were able to escape in their nightclothes by stairways inside the building. t"It could ihave beer 'like the Thomas Hotel fire, but thank-Gowe got here in time," skid Fire Chief William Murray, j The hotel, like many others in the area, is patronized largely by elderly men pensioners and welfare recipients' attracted !by the rates of and up. Many of those rescued this morning were aging, crippled and nearly blind. The,dead man ,was not inimedi-atel- y identified. Attendants at Central Emergency Hospital said he was clad only in undershorts and socks. His age r was about 55. . yield-in- g . . . . San Francisco's Firemen Carry M any to Safety PRICE FIVE CENTS . . 4 . Killed, 10 Injured Jh Hotel Blaze . Va fore Congress returns to tackle President Kennedy's legislative , program. . McCormackV vwho has served in his present post for 21 years, has no opposition 'and appears likely ; . .WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1962 1 m Cormack, 70, a "Boston Irishman, will be tapped as speaker at a -- 'I ; ' It was .announced here and in Mexico City Tuesday night that , Kennedy had accepted an invitation from Mexican President Adol fo Lopez Mateos, but without set ting a date. The announcement said in part: "President Kennedy has accept ed this invitation with pleasure and looks forward to meeting per- sonally with 'the president of, our good neighbor to the south with which the United States has al-- 1 wys enjoyed friendly relations. No date for this meeting has been set. It is expected that a date which is convenient to both presidents will be fixed later." There was speculation the shift in Kennedy's attitude toward going to Mexico may have reflected a change in the attitude of Lopez Mateos toward the meeting later this month of the Organization of American - States (OAS) in |