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Show t Herald Telephones Fair With For Ads, News, Circulation: Provo Office, W. 4th N ISO Orcm Office, 741 N. State For Society ...... ........ .V Fit Ytrlable high cloudlnegf throcrh Little chinje Jn Wednesday. AC 51603 temperature. High, tonlfht, 10 to 12. to 39. Lovf FR PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH YEAR; NO. 107. EIGHTY-SEVENT- H r 28 , PRICE FIVE 'CENTS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1959 - v a ' lilt 4 Vv ' ' j i Aes ' S. ' r ''. ' . ' VI l I V i. Fact-Findin- Says Tests Will Not Resumed Without Advance Notification Be ?J - t i DISTINGUISHED VISITORS IN AUGUSTAA group of top Washington officials flew tp Augusta today for a conference with President Eisenhower on the nuclear test question and other policy matters. Shown upon arrival at airfield areT from left, C. Douglas Dillion, of state; John A. McCone, AEC chairman; Secretary of State Christian Herter; Thomas Gates, secretary of defense ; and Gen. Nathan Twining,Telechairman of joint chiefs of staff. (Herald-UP- I under-secretor- y. photo) . UTAH RESORT TO GIVE UP POST OFFICE KocKereiter Will S upport Nixon; Veep Plots Strategy - NelALBANY, N; Y. (UPI) son A. Rockefeller will actively support Richard, Nixon, for presi- The New York governor said however he would not acon the ticket cept second-plac- e Rockefeller said Monday night his decision against funning for vice, president on the GOP ticket was "final and irrevocable" and ''a high source said the vice president's job was contrary to Rockefeller's temperment and training. "Nelson has always been in "administrative and planning work," an associate said. "Being governor of New, York affords him a much better opportunity to carry rn in fViat fiol Htha ntVif nffirf fit vice president," The source described as "wishof Demoful thinking" on the-par- t was a crats there split betvyeen Rockefeller and Nixon and that there was "bitterness" in the govwithdrawal from the ernor's White House race. "The governor and vice president have been on the most friendly terms," a high tate Republican said. "They referred to each other by their first names." Rfrtrns" nf tflppTnms. telenhnnp calls and letters have been at the executive offices ii) Albany since Rockefeller quit the th" presidential contest, One caller from Texas asked an aide to ii 117. i,rii n vviifinei tiuuri.t:iciici governor ...t..iu.. might ' be persuaded to change his : ' mind. . Rockefeller lias brushed aside with a smile such questions as "Would you accept the nominal, o,- ioi president if you were d1 fteci by the conv ;ntion?' dent.- " " . re-ce-v- ed - - lisiness Vill Boom in 150 Deadly Storm Hits East ; With Impact WASHINGTON The Northeast reeled today from an onslaught of snow, sleef. and freezing rain that disrupted communications and blacked out thousands of homes. In upper New York State, the sleet storm was described as the worst in 30 years. The Buffalo area was hardest hit. Ice piled up on wires until , they cracked and utility men said it would be days before full service, is re- 1930. An informal poll of the econo- mists' views, was' taken Monday after Paul W.- McCracken, a for irier member of President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers, predicted higher prices and a drop in unemployment in - Vice guard" label on him. Nixon, how an almost sure-bfor the Republican --presidential nomination, became the target ot attacks stepped up Democratic over the week end identifying him with the conservative wing of the GOP. The vice president's supporters showed no open concern but privately they feared the "old guard" tag might swing libera) stored. and independent votes away from The ice and snow made get-- ; Nixon if the Democrats could ting to work a major project in make it stick. X recities throughout the The Democrats lost no time in situafeared the and gion it;was ' tion would get wwse. Heavy snow branding the withdrawal Saturday of Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller warnings were issued for New from the GOP presidential picture Hampshire, Vermont and south- as a victory for "bossism" ad ern Maine. t the party's conservative element. High . winds which pushed the Nixon's camp noted that his storm through the Plains states and Middle West and battered ieading backers also have bean Lake Superior witl the worst prominent supporters of President gales in 'a half century were di- Eisenhower and said that the Eisenhower administration has nevminishing. been described as "old guard " er But the last great storm system of the year still carried heavy Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey snow for the eastern seaboard. one of .those who joined The weather bureau posted in the "old guard" criticism suggested Monday heavy snow warnings for much of "modestly" if the Nixon could he beat New New night England, including to nomfit see should Democrats Vermont Maine. and Hampshire, him for inate of New York State were president. Parts told to expect .several inches-oet six-sta- te - - (D-Minn- .), f snow. , The heaviest snow depth in the east was at Lebanon, N.H., which reported 10 inches of snow on the ground. v Rain, fog and sleet preceded the storm into the East Monday. Heavy fog shut down three New York area airports for a time, . of travelers Say Economists el (UPI) President Richard M. Nixon? strategy advisers today weighed possible moves to counter Demo cratic efforts to pin an "old Scores of flights were diverted to Washington; D.C, from New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore be A subWASHINGTON cause of the fog. At one time, (UPI) , of 03 some more than .zuu aircratt were stantial majority aeconomists attending (Continued on Page Four) conference here have agreed that the business boom will continue in top-lev- (R-Uta- HERALD Amusements Central Utah News Classified Comics Editorial INDEX 10 4, 5, '6, 7, 12 10, 11 19 ,. 18 National, World News 2, 16, 17, ?o Obituaries Society , Sports Stocks h) Wallace F. Bennett reported today the U.S. Post Office at Saltair nas been deemed no longer needed in the area and .will therefore Moves to Counter Label of 'Old Guard' United Press International it landing hundreds - Sen. Nixon Advisers Weigh New York Governor Won't Accept Second Place on GOP Ticket -- By United Press International ... 4 14 13, a 4 . be converted into a rural station. , Bennett said the decision to convert was made following a thorough survey and investigation of the Saltair installation, once a famous summer resort in the state. As a rural station, the installation would provide facilities for the sale of stamps, money orders and for the acceptance and dispatch of mail. Eisenhower extend the formal U. S. moratorium on nuclear weapon tests but promised that they would not be resumed without advance notice. , At the same time, the President denounced the attitude of what he called "the politically guided" Russian experts in the Geneva negotiations seeking agreement on a permanent prohibition of nuclear overall figure of $1,653,597 announced as budgeted for expenditure during 1959. However, of this total figure, $137,500 was budgeted as the county's share- - of a new. health center (to which roughly the same amount was to have been n added in funds) and the health center has been, for the present - at least, dropped from county plans. Thus, commissioners did not raise the 1959 budget when they revised it. but they have $137,-50- 0 in it originally budgeted for a health center which apparently will be spent for other purposes. Public h e a r i n g on the county's proposed 1960 budget of $1,520,594 is scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday in the county commission chambers. Hill-Burto- '. Earnest Dean, explaining why the safety committee had a sur plus of $3200 this year, protested Ariz. (UPI) At the moment a B47 bomber was same n a F. off from Arthur former taking Burns, of a the chairman young mother council, aiso Air Force Base warned the annual- - meeting of ivas riding her ' son's bicycle near American Statistical and Econom- the airport. ic Associations that the economy The jet was just 300 feet off infla the ground Monday when the may be in for long-rang- e tionary pressures, despite the ad- plane's commander noticed someministration's effort to hold down thing was wrong. The parachute used for jettisoning empty wing prices. The poll of economists was tak- tanks ' was slipping out and flapen by a show of hands, with no ping wildly as the craft, gained specific figures compiled. It wa3 speed. alter "Commander to understood that the forecasts were to less course ol popua settlement immediately contingent upon lated area," Capt. Donald R. Shil- the steel dispute. TUCSON, Davis-Montha- pilot Casa Grande, Ariz., said over the plane's intercom to the pilot, 1st Lt. Thomas A. ,Detra, 25. Milwaukee. Detra answered with the usual "roger" and . began to bank the bomber but it was too late. Before, the plane could swing out of the area, the tank containing 1,700 gallons of jet fuel broke loose and plunged toward the ground. Moments later Mrs. June David, 32, the mother of, two sons, was engulfed in flames. "I saw something drop, followed by a burst of flame up Comoanics Charge Deadlock Caused By Union Position . The general superintendent of U. H. Steel Corp. Geneva Works labeled as "untrue" today reportn that a vote for the tcel company's latest contract offer ; was a vote against the union. The denial was made by C. C. Morgan. He was referring to the upcoming vote by the National Labor Relations Board to determine whether union members desire to accept the company's latesOoffer in the Ily WILLIAM J. EATON United I'rrM International WASHINGTON (UPI) if Union y and company officials claihrd today as President Eisenhower's Hoard con cluded hearings In the slccl dis pute. Verbal fireworks between R. Conrad Cooper, chief management negotiator, and steclworkers Pres ident David J. McDonald underscored the gloomy outlook for an j bit-UrJ- Fact-findin- g "No one will be asked to choose between the v company and the union in the balloting," Margan said. WASHINGTON (UPI) A staff report by the Joint Congressional Economic Committee charges that the adtests. ministration has "sacrificed" U. S economic growth in an The Eisenhower statement, re unsuccessful attempt to halt inflation. settlement. leased from the vacation White The report, made public Monday night, said the na- early bouse here, meant that, while tne tional since theGeorge W. Taylo,r chairman of off rate has substantially "tapered growth panel adjourned U. S. would not renew the morabecause the federal government "stepped the hearings after the exchange torium which has run for 14 1953, primarily brakes." too on and fiscal the hard and monetary said the board would concen-tiat- e months, it was not planning an -- .' three-ma- n immediate resumption of tests.. At the same time, it reserved the right to do so at any time after giving notice. Utah News Roundup high level officials who flew here from Washington this morning. A major topic of their discussion was the nuclear test moratorium which expires Thursday. An Ogden OGDEN (UPI) The group was headed by Sec- mother and her daughretary, of State Christian A. Her- ter, a finalist in the 1958 Miss ter, Secretary of Defense Thomas Ogden beauty pageant, hovered S. Gates Jr., Chairman John Mc- near death in a local hospital toCone of the Atomic Energy Com- day, following an early morning mission, and Gen , Nathan F. shooting in" their home. Twining, chairman of the Joint attendants at Dee Memorial Chiefs, of Staff. Stella Thomp- Eisenhower pointed out that ne- Hospital said Mrs. gotiations with Russia and Great Bntain on a permanent test ban had been under way for. 14 2 Deaths Raise Utah (Continued on Page Four) Toll to 204 13 . Fatality cutting its budget from By United $7150 in to $5000 in 1960. '"Due to delay In finding qualified staff, we didn't use the full budget this year, but need all of it next year," he said. Dr. C. M. Smith said $7000 surplus in health also was due to failure to find an entomologist thi year, but he said it was urgent one be hired next year because of hazard of an encephalitis epidemic from . mosquitoes. Utah ' County had two known eases last year ana two mis year, ;out proD ably had many more, due to the fact that double laboratory , test sre necessary to prove that a brain fever was of the equine encephalitis variety carried by mosqultos, he said. (See Page Six for detailed story on mosquitoe situation). Departments over their budget included: County commissioners, $1850; due to budgeting full salary of their secretary rather than half of it to their department. Law ' library, $250 to buy more books; Clerk,' $1000. Auditor, $1250 for salaries and supplies. Attorney, $150 for a salary increase. Aeses-so- r, $1200. Surveyor $2500, due not to increase in his own spending but to transfer into his department of building licensing and inspection. Courthouse and grounds, $2000. 1959 $2000. Capital a new auditing machine, $10,000. Jail $300, and animal registration (to hire a dog outlay, including" catcher, $2700) . Commissioners briefly discussed yhether jail board cost of $3 a day per prisoner for Provo, Orem h and other County orison' wards from the ground," Carl W ers covers cost to the county, but Mover said. "There was a wom- did not action take Monday on any an riding a bicycle in the street. it. The next thing I sawshe was raising lying in the, center of a circle of flames. Her bicycle was Cuban Reaime Ready thrown about 25 feet ' from her To 'Stand Alone' body." An Air Force spokesman said In Case of Invasion a structural defect apparently was HAVANA (UPI) President the cause of the accident. He ' 0?valdo Dorticos Torrado said said there was nothing the plane's crew could do when the tank Monday night Cuba's revolutionstarted to slip off. ary regime, distrusting t Mrs. David is survived by her peace machinery, is husband, Ernest, and her sons ready if necessary to stand .alone against a possible "invasion." Jeffery, 8, and Stephen, 12. non-Uta- "50-fo- ot " : inter-Americ- on preparing its report to the President which is due by Jan. 6. Cooper read a concluding "statement in which he accused the union of evading its duty to bargain in good faith. He said the , One Dead, 2 Critical In Mass Shooting In Ogden Agreement Expires Thursday Eisenhower's statement was issued after he had conferred with Non-department- al, ling, i steel strike. County Okehs Revised Budget For Year 1959 Utah County Commission Monday 'afternoon approved a $27,200 "adjustment" of this year's budget, diverting $3200 from public safety $7000 from health' and $17,000 budgeted in advance to .coyer half of next year's election expenses to cover $27,200 in deficits in other general fund departments. There was no increase in the Bring Angry Excha n g e ! Hearing 2 p.m. Wednesday on 1960 Amou nt Arizona Mother Burned to Death as Fuel Tank Drops From Bomber in Freak Mishap 1960. f Prei refused today to c1ent ( Jan. 6. i Steel Talks WASHINGTON (UPI) President Eisenhower's g Board ended public h tarings in the steel dispute today and said both sidesarc now wider apart than when the panel entered the cum two months ago. panel would concentrate on Taylor said the three-ma- n to which is due by its the President report preparing Negotiations By RAYMOND LA MR AUGUSTA, Fla. UPI loci s -- : WvjQuft - ? Hits Soviet Position In ' ''''' 1 Wo So mjs Dubl : .: an tionary" agreement. sen, 56, and her daughter, Janet, 20, were both in "critical" con dition with multiple gun shot wounds. The Utah Highway Patrol rush ed- - blood supplies from Salt Lake City to Ogden for the daughter. Police said the mother and daughter were shot by Harvey L. Thompson, 56, husband and father of the wounded pair. Thompson took his own life short ly thereafter in the kitchen, of home on the city's their five-roobench. The shootings apparently follow ed an argument early this - morn ing in the Thompson home, po l'.ce said. Thompson, a conductor for South ern Pacific Railroad, killed him serl with a 22. caiber automatic pistol, the same weapon used in the shooting of the , two women said Thompson Investigators and his wife apparently were ar guing when he produced the pis tol and shot her. Janet attempt ed to run from a back bedroom out the front door. She was shot down just as she opened the front door. Thompson then took tiis own life in the kitchen of the dwelling, located near WTeber College. " m Press International Utah's 1959 highway death toll climbed to 204 Tuesday with the deaths of a Carbon County coal accident and miner in a one-ca-r a Hooper woman in an Ogden hospital. The latest victims were Christopher DeHerra, 52, Royal and Mrs. Shirley Ann Craghead, 24. DeHerra was killed when his about truck overturned three miles north of Helper. His body was found Tuesday in the wreckage. He had been missing since Christmas Eve. Mrs. Craghead died in the Dee Memorial Hospital in Ogden of injuries suffered in a three-ca- r accident near Roy Saturday. - Kennecott, 4 Locals Hold Contract Talks SALT union was seeking recommendations from a neutral body which, he said, would produce an "infla- LAKE CITY (UPI) Contract talks between Kennecott Copper Corp. and four locals ' were scheduled for today, following negotiations Monday with three craft groups. No settlement was reached at talks, according to Monday's commissioners of r the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service who are supervising the ne- five-roo.r- -- ri 5 Planes Destroyed In Cedar. City Fire . Asks Congressional Study McDonald shot immediately back with a call for a congressional investigation 6f what he called the steel companies' ''monopoly power." Meanwhile, Senate --Republican Leader Everett M. 'Dirksen of Illinois told a UPI reporter he ldok for a steel settlement that will avoid a resumption of the stel strike'. Dirksen said President Eisenhower probably would send a special message to Congress on the steel situation if the strike U resumed and if legislative action appears necessary, but added thit "I just don't believe they'll go back out on strike because I think we'll have !a settlement." ' Congress should find out why some steel firms were . on . the verge of signing new contracts with the union but were prevem-e-- i from doing jso, McDonald said. ' He did not identify the firms. McDonald said the steel com panies were "impaled on a hook" Dccause ot tneir campaign against inflation which, he. dubbed "pseudo-patriotism- ." his statement, Cooper said unions latest proposal would cost the companies? nearly 50 In V he cents an hour over an period, or three times what' the companies had offered. Says Demands Inflationary "We submit this is the essence ot irresponsibility in utter disrc-- ; gard for the public interest," Cooper said. Earlier, the "bi2 11" steel" com panies charged that the union's demands are "highly Inflationfor the deadary" and responsible ' lock. Cooper said the companies have increased their offer several times, but the union recently th Five CEDAR CITY (UPI) planes5 were destroyed Monday night in a $100,000 fire at an airport hangar near Cedar City. Destroyed by the blaze were Cessna belonging to the an 9 Utah National Guard and four privately owned light aircraft. It was believed, the fire start- raised its, demands. "This is the very antithesis of ed in a storage shed at the front gotiations. of the hangar and spread to the union responsibility and proves beSeven small craft unions have hroof. Cause could not be immed yond question that it is the union's" not settled with Kennecott in, the policies and bargaining practices iately determined. lengthy copper strike in four westof have been solely iTesponsible an that Charles Wirlick, employe ern states. Until these unions the Federal Aviation Agency at for the continuing deadlock," ' reach contract accord with Ken- the Cedar. City airport, and an- Cooper said. necott, full production at the Utah other FAA employe managed to union proCooper said the latest Copper Division cannot be re- pull two planes from the burn- posal, was made " despite the ur- sumed. , ; (Continued on Page Four) ing hangar. , L-1- - J ' -- Frigid Spell Holds Utah In Wintry Grip A frigid cold spell, aided by clear skies, held its wintry grip on Utah today, keeping temperatures in most parts of the state well below freezing Roads were slick and dangerous in many places fas the chill weather glazed highways in canyons and higher elevations and kept . snow from a recent storm from melting. , Low thermometer readings in "Utah communities ranged from eight below zero at Bryce, Canyon to a 16 degrees above read- En Route to Rose Bowl Game 4 Washington Killed in Oregon Four EUGENE, Ore. (UPP students of Washington University en route to the Rose Bowl game were Hilled early today in a head-o, collision between their station wagon and a tank? truck and trailer on an icy highway five kmiles north of here. . State police identified the vic' ' at tims as Derwood Burr Nordin, 23, Blanding. ing The weather bureau said the Palos. Verdes Estate, Calif.; Myra cold wave' is due to linger on Lee. Taylor, 21, Tacoma; Evelyn with little change in. the temper-matur- e Joy Simons, 20, Shelton, Wash., readings of the past three and William Robert Moser,- - 22, n. ( 1 days. U. Students Tacoma. , w; Head-O- n Barbara Jean 'Hill, 21, Seattle, was in critical condition at Sacred Heart Hospital. The two men in the truck were not seriously hur The accident occurred about ' 1:50 a.m. on Highway 99. State Policeman Allan Lindlcy said the tank truck and trailer, owned by Pacific Intcrmountain Express, Oakland, Calif., was northbound when it slowed for a car ahead. The truck jackknifed or. the icy highway and collided with the station wagoa. |