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Show MOSTLY CLEAR Pagre Central Utah News 5 Obituaries 7 Business Pare 4 Sports Section Women's News, Features ...15-1- 8 19 Editorial Pae Church and School News . . . 1 22 Dally Comics Page 5 Classified Ads 2-- 6 ' throurh Sunday, rjsing tempera tures. High today 48, low tonirht 24. Highest temperature recorded 11-1- in Provo area Friday was 36, lowest Saturday mornlnr 22. Precipitation .02 of an inch. 20-2- 23-2- PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 1957 VOL. 34, NO. 43 PRICE TEN CENTS Sot Chides Committee Charges Beck Took NIXON SUFFERS 'FLU' ATTACK $270,000 President Richard M. Nixon was admitted to Walter Reed Army Hospital Friday night WASHINGTON From Union No Evidence Found of A Loan or a Gift, Says Senate Probers By HERBERT FOSTER And JOHN A. GOLDSMITH United Press Staff Correspondents WASHINGTON (UP ) Chairman said John L. McClellan ComSaturday the Senate Rackets mittee knows teamster President Dave Beck took $270,000 from unstarted behind the hotel's kitchen stove. More than 500 ion funds with "no evidence of a persons were in the hotel when the fire broke out, but loan or of a gift." there were no deaths or injuries reported. (U.P. Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy added that the investigations can show this whether Beck over his personal financial turns Mass Search Goes On Tuesday Deadline records or not. Beck, summoned to appear with for Plane, 67 Aboard his records next Tuesday, has said he borrowed and repaid some TOKYO (UP) The largest $300,000 to $400,000 of union funds. a air-esearch since Far East McClellan commented on Beck's d the Korean War at a news conference in finances 70,000 miles of the Pacific he which reported receipt of a Saturday but reported no sucrank- - and- - file comof number cess in its hunt for a missing 7 plaints alleging mismanagement with 67 Americans and misuse of union funds. aboard. He said he has ordered the legal Planes and ships investigated Gov. SALT LAKE CITY (UP) to begin a study of legislastaff of. report after report objects George D. Clyde still had 15 bills tion needed or "desirable" to prewhich might be connected with to act upon today before the dead- vent "dissipation, misappropriathe missing plane. All turned line out "negative." tion, or any improper use" of Tuesday midnight. in15 measures The union funds. Officers at Johnson Air Base unsigned A committee accountant testicluded two bills involving gasoline air rescue headquarters here taxes. The two bills, one carry- fied at committee hearings Friday said privately it was doubtful Stratocruiser the ing a rate of six cents a gallon that Beck repaid some $270,000 of was able to land on the storm-tosse- d and the other carrying the pres- the $300,000 to $400,000 he said he waters Friday without ent rate of five cents per gallon, borrowed when federal tax agents conflict with one another and fi- were on his trail in 1954. The acsmashing to bit and killing all on board. nal action by the governor is countant, Carmine S. Bellino, said (Continued on Page Five) pending study by the attorney general's office. The measures involved are a Senate bill which provides for a refund for fuel used for agricultural purposes, and a House bill which increases the tax. In addition the governor still (D-Ar- I ii .. h Big al a Smoke ELKO HOTEL RUINS OF continues to rise from ruins of Stockmen's Hotel in Elko, Nev. after a $1,250,000 blaze destroyed the three-tork long building-- Firemen said the blaze FIRE-RAVAGE- D y . half-bloc- 125 Million Blaze Sweeps Hotel in Elko ELKO, Nev. (UP) The three-ttor- y Stockmen's Hotel, one of thre major hostelries in this east-r- n Nevada city, was levelled by fire Friday night in the worst blaze in the city's history. Damage was estimated at $1,250,000. Ther were no injuries, although the hotel was crowded at the time. Manager Dick Toothman a bushel basket and was suddenly out of control," he said. Within 45 minutes it was raging through the structure. Before midnight, the thick brick walls had collapsed and all that remained habove the smoking rubble were two grotesque y spires at opposite corners of the building which covered a quarter of a city block. The blaze was confined to the hotel but cars and their equipment in adjoining auto agency were removed as a precautionary meas- said the blaze broke out in the hotel's kitchen behind an oil range about 4:30 p. m. "The fir was only as uig as one-stor- ' ure. Arizona Gets Glen Canyon Damsite Town WASHINGTON (UP) Fred A. Seaton announced Saturday the townsite for Secretary workers transfer Future Farmers of America in the hotel when the blaze broke out evacuated the building in an orderly fashion. Toothman reported some casino money had been saved but that "an undetermined amount" was lost. Oil feeding the kitchen range apparently spilled onto the floor and ignited from the heat of the stove. "I used three or four fire extinguishers trying to stop the fixe but it just kept worse," Toothman declared. All three pumper units of the Elko Volunteer Fire Department were on the scene until midnight, and one sprayed water on the ruins throughout the rest of the nisht. Owner Dan Bilbao, former Boise. Ida., businessman, said "we will start to build as quick as we but he was unable to say can, if a New Stockmen's Hotel would be constructed at the same Interior building Glen Canyon Dam will be located in Arizona on the southeast side of the Cofrom the lorado River, a half-mil- e dam. Southern Utahns had hoped the (own would be located on the Utah side of the border so the bulk of the new community's needs could be satisfied from their area. The site was selected after the Navajo Tribal Council agreed to f Clyde Still Has 15 Bills To Act Upon criss-crosse- C-9- four-engin- ed Strike Grows In Britain getting i 53,000 acres of reservatin Utah and Arizona to ion land the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation for construction of the dam. Reclamation Commissioner W.A. Dexheimer said a decision on the location of the townsite was reached "only after very careful investigation of all possible locations on both sides of the river." He said, "The site chosen is on a mesa slightly above the surrounding area." Dexheimer added that, "A single pumping plant to provide water from the Colorado River will take care of the town's water needs. A water system, sewage disposal plant, schools, churches and adequate shopping and service facilities are also provided for." LONDON (UP) One million British engineering industry workers walked out Saturday in the first wave of a series of "snowball strikes" just as hopes rose for settlement of another walkout by shipyaird workers. Leaders of 40 engineering unions warned that unless there is a settlement of their demands for a 10 per cent pay increase, they will extend the engineering strike to include 3,000,000 workers by April 16. The new walkout began after a substantial pay raise headed off a railway strike and labor officials predicted that B r i t a i n's worst labor crisis in 30 years would end next week workers are The engineering members of the confederation of shipbuilding and engineering unions whose shipyard walkout went into its second week yesterday. Both the shipbuilders and engineering factory workers are asking 10 per cent wage increase. 200,000 SEQUEL TO 'SECRET SICKNESS' Utah Lacks Hospital For Mentally III Children By JOAN GEYER He was only eight when admitted to Utah State Hospital. He wasn't delinquent; but he failed at everything. Nobody quiet knew what to do with him, for Utah has no resident treatment center for children who are mentally ill. At an age when the average U. S. Addicts Blamed child has closest ties with parents; when energy flows out in For Marihuana endless activity, the waif of eight TIJUANA, Mexico (UP) Police was locked into a ward with Chief Ernesto Reyes blamed this mentally ill men. He was frightened and lonely, border town's heavy marihuana traffic on addicts in the United retreating into himself until he States today. became a "human vegetable," Admitting Tijuana's position as said a doctor. a major marihuana center, Reyes Utah Hospital has reluctantly off-highw- ay has More than 500 persons, including 212 k) care at dren too ill for a child guidance clinic is in a children's center with specially trained staff who are at once parent, nurse, psychiatrist, teach-e- r. out-patie- nt About 100 Utah children need resident psychiatric treatment, say some doctors. Dr. Owen Heinger, State Hospital superintendent, thinks the is even greater. However, need Traffic he adds, "with concentrated resident treatment, many could be discharged in a few weeks." Why do children suffer mental breakdown? Excluding those with known organic injury, boys and girls admitted to State Hospital are said: 'The principal demand admitted several very young "anxious, frustrated children so comes from north of the border." children and has about three hemmed in by their emotions and He said police records show only dozen teenagers. inhibitions their lives have be-- ( lft local users of the narcotic. Continued on Page Fire) Preferred treatment for ohM-' . t the- - responsibility of appoint- ing members of three new boards the road board, the parks board and the land board. Each board will have five members serving in an advisory capacity and a full time director. The governor signed 15 bills into law Friday afternoon. The measures: Rewrites the present law on licensing of contractors. Requires that all boats operating in Utah carry one life preserver for each occupant. Decrease from 25 to 10 the number of employes required for group life insurance. Discontinue temporary licenses before examination of life insurance salesmen. Makes a $7,300 deficit appropriation to the Department of Business Regulation. Increase maximum benefits under the needy retired educational employes assistance act. State that any article bearing a may be used registered trade-mar- k only by the owner. Direct the state land board to sell lands of the state within the Utah and Ouray Reservations. Provide for retirement and retirement pay for supreme court justices. the state to buy mortgages guaranteed by the Veteran's Administration and the FHA. Require marketing agencies that handle the sale of any livestock to make collections from the producers for the purpose of promotion by the various livestock Allow Cars, Buses Trapped By Blizzard No Serious Injuries As Tremors Continue Vice (UP) suffering from influenza but was permitted to leave Saturday long enough to attend two official functions. Nixon tired and HI after his three-wee- k African trip, was a running temperature of 102 when he entered the hospital. However, his fever was down considerably Saturday morning and, against the advice of doctors, he left to attend "a memorial mass for the late President Ramon Philippine Magsaysay and to visit his office briefly. U.S., Britain By DON THACKREY United Press Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, (UP) San Francisco residents rode out the continuing aftershocks of their worst earthquake since 1906 Saturday with a patient calm that replaced Friday's shaky panic sometime during the night. The aftershocks continued to rock and roll the city; for more than 24 hours and seismologists said more couji be expected. v Almost miraculously there were no serious injpriei from the series which was cap-- 1 ped by a 5.5 magnitude quake at 11:45 a.m. Friday. Property damage was in h millions but was mostly of a minor nature and so widespread that it would be weeks before an accurate figure could be determined. Worst Since 1906 The "big shake" Friday morning was the worst felt here since the 1906 quake set off a fire that levelled the city. That quake had an estimated magnitude of 8 25 on the Richter scale. San Franciscans were admitBy MERRLMAN SMITH scared by the big shock and tedly United Press Staff Correspondent of the more stern of the some by TUCKER'S Bermuda following temblors yesterday aftTOWN, President Eisenhower and ernoon. (UP) British Prime Minister Harold But by Saturday, when the total discussed of shakes registered on the UniMacmillan Saturday n secret highly versity of California seismograph common for defense plans against had passed the 60 mark, the any Russian attack. shocks were being taken in stride The two leaders, who are wind- and had become merely a topic ing up four days of talks here, of conversation and subject of planned to issue a formal com- joke. munique on their discussions toAs a matter of faqt the residay. dents were beginning to recover The President and Macmillan late Friday. To the utter surprise were expected to put their final of writers and players with the stamp of approval on their com- Boston Red Sox American League munique Saturday after a fare- baseball club, a crowd of 21,023 n well dinner party at the turned out Friday night to Seals Club. stadium in the heart of the quake-shake- n The two chief executives concity to watch the San ferred for about two hours Sat- Francisco Seals play the Red urday, whUe their foreign sec- Sox. retaries met separately to hamSaturday an aftershock at 9:35 mer out the language of the final a.m. which reached the magnicommunique. tude of 3 evoked only minor inThe communique was expected terest and such comments as: n to repair the shaky "We're still rockin' and rolUn' " relations in the wake of the "I'm getting so I like them." Suez Conference. about And numerous White House Spokesman James whose "fault" it is.puns The quakes Hagerty said the earlier descrip- are caused by slippage of the tion of a "gratifying measure of earth's crust along the San agreement" on conference deliber- Andreas fault. ation stHl stood for the conference Map Defenses Against Russ Anglo-America- , Mid-Ocea- Anglo-America- Tapering Off Asked whether the conference Dr. Perry Byerly, head of the has been "generally satisfactory," University of California seisHagerty replied, "Yes." laboratory in Berkley, British sources said earlier Sat- mology out that the aftershocks pointed urday that disagreement over how were coming with les frequency (Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Five) as a whole. By UNITED PRESS slammed Plains Saturday, trapping motorists and blizzard A spring through the West-Centr- al autos on highways covered with huge drifts of heavy wet snow. Some 86 members of the Jop-liMo., high school orchestra were stranded for several hours in two snow-stallbuses west of on a trip to Denver. Garden City of the highway patrol Members found the youngsters, who were given shelter in nearby farm homes from the storm which weathermen feared might be a - n, ft At least one death was attributed to the snowstorm at Clarendon, Tex., where a motorist was killed when he drove his auto into a creek after missing a bridge during a blinding snowstorm. An area from western Nebraska . Egypt today was reported to have proposed a Suez Canal plan calling for a ? "Users' Association" of private shipping and oil companies to help plan the development of the disputed waterway. Informed sources in Cair told United Press the plan was j being outlined by Egyptian Prudent Gamal Abdel Nasser to United Na-tio' Secretary General Dag in crucial negotiations on a Nile River island,, today as Disclosure of the plan cap the Egyptian Suez Canal authority announced that ships as big as 2,500 tons could use the waterway, as of Sunday. The previous top limit was 2,000 tons, fhe cajal is all scheduled to be cleared : in about three .wej-ksshipping The proposal, as reported $y th Cairo sources, appeared to ffclj far short of the international guarantees demanded by the majors,West-er- n canal users. Under the reported plan. igypt would pledge in wriing ti set aside a certain percentage of shipping tolls to develop the J anal. But the sources said Egypt vould insist on full authority overjcanal operations, and would not i;;agre to share control of funds fortcanal " development. The reported plan ruled any users' association such a$ has been formed by 14 Western govns Ham-marskjo- ld fi ot i ernments, Instead, an association ofv,lnter-este- d private parties whose firmi use the canal could form a committee to consult with the 'Egyptian Suez Canal authority on J canal development plans, the 6urcM I ' said. , H1. lYjft ".!( it -- - itJ v flfp r. ' Suez Canal Plan Drafted By Nasser V- - ed record-breake- ' ; tgf. southward through western Kansas and northwest Oklahoma was paralyzed by the storm. Weathermen feared the blizzard which inches of already has dumped snow over the area might be the most severe in years to strike 5-- 10 the plains section. They said the storm probably would dump 5 inches or more snow in the region before k abates, possibly sometime Sunday. Highways were clogged with autos stalled by the blowing snow and deep drifts. At Garden City, a state of emerproducer organizations. Allow foreign corporations to ac- gency was declared, and National quire and enforce debts secured Guardsmen were called out with trucks to rescue motorists in (Continued on Page Five) 10-1- stalled cars. Japan Seeks Ban On Nuclear Bomb Tests Algerian Rebels Kill 2,212 Since 1954 (UP)-Jap- an's Socialist to Naan sent ALGIERS, Algeria (UP) appeal the United Party neto tionalist rebels have killed 2,212 States, Britain and Russia gotiate a treaty banning nuclear civilians hi the Algiers region TOKYO tests. since the insurrection The appeal, signed by Party started Nov. 1, 1954, French offiChairman Mosaburo Suzuki, was cials reported Saturday. Of the 2,212 victims, 432 were sent to President Eisenhower, a i d. British Prime Minister Harold Europeans, the officials Macmillan and Soviet Premier There were 1 ,782 wounded, includanti-Fren-ch " Nicolad Bnilgamin. ing 866 European. it HIGHWAY TORN OPEN BY QUAKE State Highway Patrol Sgt Walter Davis inspects section of the coast- highway, three miles north of Edgemar, Calif. j that settled 14 inches when quakes hit northe-- n California Friday. Three quarters ofia mile of the two-lan-e highway either sank or was covered with sand, requiring all U . traffic to be rerouted. (ILP. Telenhoto) - I |