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Show i r '. . .'' - : - ' I' M .'V-'-V- A- - ' :- ;.; 7 -' ; ' "":-- 7 '.. .r 7V :;r.'r ' 1 , I v''-- ::;:;v.v'; . !:.v-- . XX : , , ., 7 .. 7x;X; 7X, 7 .' -; X , X. HERALD PHONES Provo Of flees Orein Office " ......... 1 . ........ .1 FR 50 AC 03 -- CLOUDY throadi " For Advertising, News i Provo Society.. ! -- Fit Warmer tonlrht. Cooler Thursday, nirh .... 84 . SEVENTY-SECON- Allies Ask POCATELLO, Ida. (UP) Bannock County iCoro- ner Allen Manning said today an inquest will be held Thursday into the death of five Pocatello High chool teenagers in an auto drowning, mishap here Monday . Tunisian Issue To Be Raised In Wednesday's NATO Councit Session ' night. ' By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent France's NATO allies demanded an explanation today for the ,r bombing, of a Tunisian village. Norway served notice it would raise the Tunisian issue in today's meeting of the NATO Permanent Council in Paris on the ground that Tunisia plays an important role in. the Western world. .Thor Myklbost, director of the Norwegian Foreign Office press section, said in Oslo that Norway took the view that .vhat happens much for 'the ; in Tunisia means not belong to do countries which the Eastern or Western blocs. of NATO Planes . Question One of the first questions expected to be .raised was whether any NATO planes and equipment had been used in the' attack on the village of Sakaet idi Youssef. Moscow took the occasion to reinforce its frequent denials of the defensive purpose of NATO by asserting j' the American weapons used by the .French were purely for. aggressive purposes. ' French Premier Felix Gaillard met with his cabinet this morning to seek ways of limiting the damage to Frances world" position caused by adverse foreign reac' -- I , ; party. 0 - ; The Pocatello High School's flag flew WASHINGTON CUP) i CD-Ar- k.) e.) . j HERALD INDEX Provo City Report Cites Need for Increased Revenues .... S Orem Council Okehs Opening of New Street. .............. t One County Political Chairman Says He Won't Run, Other Says Qe. Win . t Everything Rosy for Cats But ' Trouble Lies Ahead Colorado State Starts Rise In 7 Skyline Basketball Panel Appraises Utah Economic Outlook ; Central Utah News 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 t ...... 14 15 ..'....11 Editorial Page ............. ...13 National, World News zV 14, 16 Obituaries .................... 4 Society ..11 Sports , 7 Stocks 4 ;" ','' i n a1 - - By WILLIAM E. HOWARD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP) President Eisenhower today that the recession will start to end next month and employment will pick up. In a special, written statement, 'the chief executive acknowledged that unemployment currently is bringing hardship to many Americans, but he said he is convinced that better days are in sight. The President issued his "chinsup" statement in the pre-diet- ed -- wake of estimates by the Labor and Commerce departments that unemployment went to 4,494,000 In the highest since level misconduct contained in the Called First Step "A union bf the Arabs has always been a national aspiration, and the union we are dealing with now is the first step," he said. "We believe other countries could follow the example of Yemen. v "The question of, joining the union is in internal question left tq the discretion of each state," he said. . 'It is up to each state to choose the moment to loin." Asked whether the present Imam or the of the U..R. would hold executive authority in Yemen, El Badr made it clear Yemen would keep its jown system of government separate from that of the "The internal machinery of government wiU be maintained by both states," he said. president i U-A.- R. 1950. S papers, i; Schwartz said he also took a large collection of what he called his own ''working" documents to Sen. John J.l Williams But Williams said he did not have jx any of the papers. "Political Immorality" The Miami case Schwartz will be questionedj about involves an award of TV channel 10 by the Federal Communications j Commission to National Airlines. The FCC overruled its field examiner in making the award to the airj ; ' j ! ; x PRAYS FOR STRICKEN DAUGHTER Robert Backover, 28, who traded his freedom to return home to try to help'nis leukemia stricken daughter, Paula Ann, 6; in her-- f igAt for life, : is showni in this exclu sive United Press photo, Wedijesday, J with Mrs. Backover as they took their little girl home' from the hospital in Washington, D. C. Backover returned from California Tuesday and turned iVimselfj .over to police to face charges of larceny in the theft of $2137 from a bowling alley where he worked. He was released on $2,000 bond to return to daughter's bedside. (UP Telephoto). action on outer speedy East-Wes and disarmament problems spac in a new letter being preapred for Sovi-Premier Nikolai Bulganin, administration officials reported today. The President's letter to Bulganin is in the "drafting stage," it was said, andwill - be dis- Lpatched soon for preliminary, con sideration by North prior to Moscow Treaty nations ' delivery. The departure from .the capital Tuesday of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Thursday's scheduled departure by the President suggested the letter is almost ready to go. Officials said the President's letter J will not budge from the American position that a chiefs-ofista"summit" conference must be "adequately prepared" in advance at lower diplomatic levels. But the role of a formal foreign uch ministers conference in preparation is 'expected to be minimized. Dulles said Tuesday, however "it isn't essential" to have a foreign ministers' meeting in advance of a summit parley. ' His statement amounted to a green light to the Soviets to begin talks through ambassadorial channels in Moscow and Washington. st Natural Gas Bill Killed By $100,000 Texas Fund United Press Staff Corespondent WASHINGT ON (UP) A $100,000 Republican fund raised by Texas oil tnen today appeared to have killed for-- second time their politically explosive natural gas bin. Some congressional figures who called the bill as good as dead compared the fund with a $2,500 campaign contribution offered Sen. Francis Case by an oil 1956 a similar when in company bill was .btfore Congress. Case publicly rejected the contribution, causing a sensation. . (R-S.D.- ) Atlantic i pre-sum- mit . Winter Expected to Return To Utah; More Snov Predicted which would The measure, over controls federal relax sharply for natural gas, producer prices passed then . but was vetoed by President Eisenhower because of what he called "arrogant lobbying tacts" in the Case affair. . He said the principles of the bill were desirable nevertheless. Summing up today's sentiment of several ' congressmen, . Sen. said: Ralph E. Flanders "The oilv and gas people are using oil and gas to cook their own goose." "The Last Straw" Flanders, who voted for the measure in 1956, said he would be in the negative if it came up again because "now the merits (of the bill) are obscuved by the J, people pushing it." Rep. Morgan' M. Moulder who' also endorsed the bill earlier, said he was likewise switching to the opposition after the Washington Post and Times Herald reported the Texas fund was raised to muster GOP House (Continued on Page Four) , ; (R-V- t) , , Burning Ship In Dash to , - ; '! i (D-M- o) ' Reach Port v5 . te . wiJULSGTOX N.Z. (UP)-T- he 130Mon targo liner Persic radioed today it had caught fire at sea and was making an emergency dash to reach Wellington. The report said the ship, three Five Killed . days out of South Island, N.Z., could not teach port here before Sunday. It; was not believed carrying passenger. . : The fire broke out about midday and engulfed the captain's quarters :. and the ship's bridge, the radio report said. It said the crew,, fighting desperately, managed! to bring the flames under control after several ' hours, but bad not extinguished the fire. The captain . said emergency steering gear was used while seamen on the bridge battled to keep the blaze bom spreading to the " . As Jet Rams Into Building . RAPID CTTY. S.D. (UP)-F- ive persons were kSled and six others inhered late Tuesday when a BS2 jet ' bomber rammed through a concrete building while landing in a snow squaSl at Ellsworth ' Air " Force Base. Killed were two. of the eight 'I ' airmen aboard ' the demolished cargo..' He said the fire had done no eight million dollar plane and all structural damage to the ship but three men in the small instrument landing' building. The surcaused serious damage to the were treated for minor invivors ; forcing it to torn back to New' Zealand. juries. Witnesses said the giant plane, The fire broke out in sheep fodder stored ' below the captain's the nation's costliest bomber hit quarters. The Persic bad been ad scepped a power line as it bound .for! London by way of umbered in through the snow, for South America and Bad aboard an a landing. It skidded 50 yards down the South America and had aboard an (3 ,000 shipment of breedbs runway, smashed through the 10-ca sheep for Callao, Peru. Four) . . ; By 'UNITED PRESS Winter was expected to return to Utah today with the forecast calling for cloudy skies and snow or rain showers in the north and west portions. The five-da- y forecast called for recurring periods of rain or snow with a lowering trend in temperatures. Forecasters at the Salt Lake Weather Bureau said temperatures for the period wZL aver . ; j age about five decrees bcSow norN mal. v. High readings Tburaday s are expected, to range between S3 and 43 with lows during the' night from 25 to 25. , . SL George recorded the warmest temperature in the state, during the past 24 hours, a reading of 2. Coldest pot in the state duricg the same period was Bryce Ccyca with a reading cf three. : . - i - :v ' ! a WASHINGTON (UP) President Eisenhower is planning to. urge -- -- -- By VINCENT J. BURKE Outer Space . ot j Ike to Ask Action On 6f Reaches Congress that 'the administration take drastic steps promptly to prevent a depression. By UNTTED PRESS In March Better, The nation's marathon cold wave He said that from the best ad- claimed a mounting toll of lives, vice he could get he believed .today and weathermen said o that we have had most of .o.ir letup was in sight bad news on the unemployment Fresh. snow flurries whipped up- -' ' front." New York, already strug-- . state t "I am convinced that we are gling under the burden of three-fonot facing a prolonged downswing snow accumulations and towin activity," he said. "Every indrifts. Heavy snows fell as dication is that March will com- ering far soutty as Texas during the mence to see the start of a pick. up in job opportunities. That night. A United Press count since the should mark the beginning of the in our frigid blasts hit the nation Thursend of the down-tur- n we apply our day night showed at least 76 pereconomy, provided to 'the 4b sons died in accidents blamed on confidence with selves traffie exposure, weather-cause- d ahead." ;;, accidents' and fires;j re we "As Americans have a A tragic fire today killed A fasponsibility to work toward the early resumption of sound growth ther and his seven children when in our economy." they were trapped by fire on the The President added, I have second floor of their Alliance, confidence in the recovery of our Ohio, .home. 7 .'.!' economy later this year. . ." Fire Chief Milo Sights said the Tuesday he announced a two father, Robert L. Lilly, 40, apbillion dollar program for modern- parently tried to flee but was ization of post office buildings and overcome by smoke. The children equipment during the next three were too frightened to jump and to five years as one major "pump-primin- were found huddled together in a effort to speed an eco- clothes closet, firemen said. nomic upturn. Several Fires Public Works Projects Other fires caused heavy dam Today he said the administration is engaged in "systematic age in several o o m fireand comprehensive planning for around the nation. Twenty-si-x of men and policemen suffered inexpansion and modernization lighting a public works and buildings, all of juries and frost-bit- e these useful public projects to be stubborn blaze in a Milwaukee, taken off the , shelf when they Wis., business section. Fire swept through Young's dei could most appropriately be unpartment store in downtown Kandertaken." "In all these matters of gov- sas City Tuesday, and other is blazes caused damages totaling ernment policy," he said, an thousands of dollars in Farmers-burwell to remember that with Ind., and Louisville, HI. economy as complex as ours, it is necessary not only to avoid the Heavy rainsr measuring up to taking of wrong steps but confi- one inch, doused the North and dently take the right ones. This Central Pacific Coast. Coldest spot in the nation early we propose to do." unHe conceded that the latest today was Pellston, Mich., with v below' zero j reading. a a. employment figures indicated Light snow and frigid temperasharper than usual drop in economic activity ' for this time of tures swept Eastern Colorado and '. Wyoming, with three inches of year. ." snow falling at Laramie, Wyo. Up us are of He said while "all a foot of snow caused snow to deeply, concerned about the hard ships suffered by the families of slides in the Colorado mountains, tiie unemployed and by the loss one of them blocking Red Mounof production, these developments tain Pass 'between Silverton and have , to be viewed in proper per- Ouray in the southwest part of the state. 7 r spective. The forecast for today called for t Reasons For Optimism He based his confidence on an continued Very cold weather east economic recovery later this year of the Rockies, continued rain in the Pacific Northwest and more on two principal reasons: . "unsnow in the Western Plains. His conviction that the derlying forces of growth remain strong and undiminished." The (Continued from Page One) o ' line. ; Morse sai4 his hasty perusal of the files indicated to him that "they bear dut that the Easenr (Continued en Page Two) of Cold Wave Death Toll . " " month increase 1,100,000 in the number of Jobless caused official and public alarm. The President also obviously was concerned about demands n (R-Del- .). hower administration is honeycombed with' p o 1 i ti c a 1. immorality." Harris promised that he will press th House investigation under a new chief counsel. He said enough probe lt"'wiT"''''sure of any irregularities. is Schwartz, in a statement late Tuesday, assorted he had uncovered evidence of "the payment of money" to k federal communica tions commissioner in a disputed TV channel case. He did not name the person or case. He declared die had "planned one-- The - j . ( cd Ps Dad Rislcs His ito See Liberty Stricken Girl k WASHINGTON (UP) Feeling "like a heel," Bobert Backover, 28, prayed today! his return from a fugitive hideout might help his leukemia-stricken- f little daughter. The father said "laybe there is a chance Paula Ann, 6, whom he traded his' litSerty to see, will recover from tlje nsually fatal disease, cancer f the blood. Cheered by hfer father's sur prise appearance!I at Iher bedside, Paula Ann was dismissed from the hospital to go pome for a while. She will have to.ake return visits will have to make return visits for blood transfusions v and other treatment. Ioctors have given her up to six months to live. Backover held "an emotion choked reunion with his daughter for two hours Tuesday after stepping off a train jjfrom California. Then he surrendered on a grand larceny charge that he fled with $2,300 from a Hyattsville, Md., bowling alley vhere he was ' j assistant managev ' After his release on $2,000 bond a few hours later, Backover learned that the insurance company which had epaid the stolen funds will ask authorities "to drop (Continued on: Page Four) " g" munltiti ! "It j 23-degr- ee ''' -- ! J r .. p unit-hav- l.r-r,-- . -- :: ' -j-.s't-- : ---,. 4 j g, EISENHOWERS PLAN GEORGIA VACATION TRIP - ; . r : " The Air the first one to put the missile WASHINGTON, the' into operation. that Force atnnounced (VP)j today first squadron picked to operate It wiU be activated at Cooke its Atlaa intercontinental' ballistic missile will star! training April along with the 393rd , Missile an1 at the1 Cooke Air: Force Base, Training Squadron whkh. the ; . :; nouncement said, will actforas the Calif. ,; the "training organization" It. said the squadron and a sep- 567th follow-uand "operational" e arate training been as" '''. squadrons! f signed to the StiategiCi Air ComCommanders , of the first two mand's First Missile Division at ICBM squadrons, the Air Force Cooke and wiU I be ' activated" -to "in the are f ..v April. 1. v said, J Air Force Secretary James H. near .future .; It said all SAC missile units Douglas has estimated the Atlas wOl be trained at the Cooke Air CEM missile wll be . ready-focperational use About December, Force Base. . They then will be lZ3. deployed tothe Francis E. WarAn . Air Forcf , announcement ren Air Base firing range at said the '576th Strategic Missile Cheyenne, Wyo., . aad to "other Squadron will bef the first "oper-- missile . sites ca they become atkxnal ICBM" scjuadron, meaning available." .. ; .,, Squad ron to Operate Atlas To, Start Training April 1 V t Employment to Pick:Up In March, President Ave rs - mid-Januar- y, A House Space Travel y" m., n iv. Held Vital In "ex-cellenU- r V half-ma- st . . imi K.wmmmm.mmMmk&mm i uompa nion, steel chamber simulating the conditions of a flight into space. Steinkamp indicated he had reached his conclusion from observing Farrell during his stay in the chamber since Sunday, but would not say so specifically. Steinkamp pronounced Farrell mentally keen" and doing at 'he end of the third (Ccriinued on Page Four) - Ousted Chief Counsel Subpenaed to Testify On Explosive TV Case Prince three-by-five-fo-ot uijM mi ii 0T1 j Yemen To Join Arab Federation Classified Comics' - : at PRICE TIVE CENTS - . . - of Space DepartmentMedicine, has been watching Airman Donald G. Farrell's reactions 2, 1958 Tuesday, symbolizing the grief over the traffic drown-- . ing. An alien quiet pervaded the school building as students walked t6 classes with sobered expressions. Many of the girls cried unabashed. . . as he "pilots" a . -- (D-Or- - WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY i(siniDUTk; C(S . '" . 45. , " . Force's !.-- today 46 to 52. Low tonight 30 k( 35 and hlch Thursday 38 to r(QD(g'Ss j HotrDv " The five died, when their car crashed through a dead-en- d street barrier and plunged into the Portneuf River. They were returning home from a church I Investigating Subcommittee today subpenaed its ousted chief counsel, Bernard Schwart?, to testify Thursday on a politically explosive Miami Ty case. Schjivartz said he would accept service of the subpena later toV day. He talked witlr newsmen after conferring briefly with Subcommittee Chairman Qren Harris at. Harris' committee offices. Schwartz said he was called to the, office by. Harris. Schwartz was subpened shorttion! after Sen. Wane Morse ly Gaillard was strengthened on agreed to return to Harris' the domestic front when he won some files which subcommittee an unsolicited vote of confidence had been turned over to him by 'in the National, Assembly early to- Schwartz after Schwartz was day ly an overwhelming vote of fired as subcommittee counsel-- . 333 to 179. But Morse, who already had v The vote . ignored foreign critistudied the documents, said he cism of the bombing- and concen-trate- d would ask for a separate Senate instead on the. French position the bombing was "legitimate inquiry into allegations of highdefnese" because Tunisia had: given refuge to Algerian rebels. Face Squeeze Play Gaillard also faced a difficult position in Tunisia itself where a massive squeeze play was being tightened agafnst French military installations in an. effort to drive out the 25,000 French troops. And while Tunisia tightenedthe squeeze, it made-- new charges against France. An official comBy WILBUR G. LANDREY munique Tuesday night said United Press Staff Correspondent V (Continued on .Page Four) CAIRO (UP) Crown Mohamed Seif El Islam El Badr of Yemen said today he believed the "federal union" he is negotiating with the new United Arab Republic of Syria and Egypt .could serve as ;an. example for other Arab states to follow. El Badr said Yemen would retain its own system of government, its traditions and its diplomatic representation abroad. , In Cairo For Negotiations SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UP) The The crown prince made the lirst space traveler should have statements in an interview with a companion rather than rocket United Press as he sat in his blue alone" above the earth, a doctor and gold fringed robes in an upsuggested after observing the first stairs, drawing room of luxurious three, days of a man's simulated Tahra Palace, once the home of Queen Farida. He has been stayitrip to outer space. "A cabin which would support a ng- there since he arrived Feb. 5 crew of two or more- -a mutually for the negotiations. El Badr is negotiating on bedependent 'crew woul be more half of his father,! Imam Ahmed; orbital desirable, for future flight," Dr. George H. Steinkamp the absolute ruler of the .ancient Red Sea kingdom in the southsaid Tuesday. western Arabian peninsula. chief of Air the Steinkamp, 1 Ok POCATELLO SETS INQUEST INTO DROWNING OF FIVE Explanation r Of Bombing . PROVO, UTAH COUNTY. UTAH. YEAR NO. 187 D -- - In nearby .mountains. and Circulation I Occasional Thursday. snow, or rain and snow- - mixed . tonight and Thursday, with snow ' v , WASHINGTON (UP) President and Mrs Eisenhower fly to Thomasville, Ga.t .Thursday for about 10 days of rest and relaxation. They will stay on the Milestone pfantation ' 7of former Treasury Secretary and Mrs. ' George M. Humphrey, just outside the city of Thomasville, which is located In the southwest corner of Georf 7 gia. V ; U will be me President's fifth winter trip to Thomasville, where he particularlyv enjoys the quail shooting and golf. President aid Mrs, Eisenhower entertained 76 guests Tuesday of two dipnight at-- - the second ' the lomatic dinners honoring heads of &4 foreign, missions hers. j j " ''. j . . |