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Show . , WA-7I"- 5 n "'o U Z7 ' fi U U U Ll r ' - Fair j j ;:;y with little changre la temperature , , r j,..v, ... today. Hirh today S3 to 42. Low I n 24. to 20 tonight r " : Heavy Sn'ov Ties Up YuleT raffi ' ; - - ....-.-- - ; ;' - - ! PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, ; UTAH ' SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1961 ""8 Death Toll Reaches U in Season's Worst Snowstorm CHICAGO (UPI) A paralyzing snow storm bulled its way through the Midwest Saturday blocking, highways, closing major air ter minals and halting bus travel. t"i Chicago's White Christmas insurance added up to 11.2 inches of fresh snow. Des Moines, Iowa, had 11 inches and Cedar Rapids inches. 8 . . 'The jweather bureau 'predicted two to four inches of additional snow by tonight from northern Illinois through northern and ' central Indiana, southern lower Michigan, most of Ohio and western Pennsylvania. Freezing rainV" sleet and snow were predicted for parts of Eastern Pennsylvania and in the Virginia mountains', Iowa's Worst. , At least six persons were dead in Iowas Worst snow storm in years. In Illinois four persons perished as a result of the storm and Nebraska counted one weather fatality for a total of 11. Chicago's bustling Midway and International O'Hare airports were closed to outgoing or incoming flights. Planes heading1 for Chicago were forced to land at nearby cities. More than three inches of snow fell at O'Hare In five hours. An airlines spokesman described the scene at airport terminals as "hectic." Mobs of holiday travelers left both airfields i ,1 4 .. , .v'a - w fir. "a .x J i j fT ' (See STORM GIVES Page 4) X i I Commies Bar Watson From net i r , - Berlin Communist BERLIN (UPI) Border; guards ; Saturday barred U.S. Berlin Commandant Maj." Gen. Albert Watson II from East Berlin in what the Americans called a "calculated affront"., by the Russians to rupture existing four-powcontracts and intensify tenri r. ' sions, f Watson is the ranking American military official in Berlin. The communist refusal to pass a Western Allied commandant was unprecedented and wasconsidered all the - ... , 4 ! er r " , A CITY READY FOR: CHRISTMAS---Th- is is Provo at niffht-tim- e . . ..a city decked in yuletide garb and with' a city ready for Christmas . . . filled lights ablaze with the spirit of "peace on earth good wjll toward men.". The words, "Silent night, holy night; all is camv ... all is bright' seemed fespecially apt to Harold K. pre-Christm- as clear night. Moonlight was sufficient to spotlight the Oquirrh Mountains west of ;the lake;, visible in the picture. Some of Provo's landmarks are readil v, identi Mon- - Yuletide Message hris star in the East,',' the eldest, wonder over the rooftops down Balthasar,; said, "and have come ' passed on along the Voad. In the City of David, which is called Bethlehem j a small boy stood in a doorway of a street-sid- e house that same silent night. His cheeks were sunken from hunger; his clothing; tattered and filthy. His large "eyes were sick'! with famine, but they : stared in . ; . 1 5 . Holiday T raff i c To Gonti n ues To Rise I 1 1 , The frenzied, "Home for Christmas" rush, snarled by a snow storm in the Midwest, pushed traffie'deaths to a rate of more thar seven an hour Saturday , night. .... was rate .The death running about 25 per cent ahead of last year, but under that of the "Black Christmas" of 1955 when a record 605 persons died during a three-da- y weekend. At 12:30 a.m. (EST), more than SO hours after the holiday began at 6 p.m. Friday United Press International counted 225 traffic deaths. The breakdown: Traffic 225 Fire 23 Planes 2 '' . - ; r . Miscellaneous 17 Total: 267. New York led the nation with 23 traffic deaths. State ' motor, vehicle commissioner William. S. Hults said he was "shocked" at Nov You Know h, . Now You Know By United Press International,: The first white man to set foot on what is noW New England was Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold, who landed near New Bedford, Mass., did May 15, 1602. The Pilgrims' until Nov. at ret arrive Plymouth' 21, 1520. .' the crooked old street. For he too had seen a star. It shown with right Orient brightness, ' and soft lights flickered in his eyes when he looked at it. And as he watched, it moved until it 'was standing up over a stable down the street. From afar there was a babble (See CHRIST IS BORN Page 4) - : Snow Unlikely Italy Train Wreck Kills For Ufahns 71 Travelers This Christmas Italy (UPI) Rate Hits Over Seven An Hourf he said, with 5 million vehicles concentrated in the Metropolitan; areas of the state, it was "not surprising that New York has a' relatively high death toll.' ) California had 22 traffic deaths,! Texas 19, Pennsylvania j. 15 and Illinois and Michigan 13 each. National Safety Council; President Howard Pylc also warned the deaths were running ahead of toe council estimate of 500 for: ' the long weekend. , (See DEATH TOLL Page 4) j j i ; 1 By United Press International The weatherman is promising fair weather and little if any snow for Utah for the' Christmas weekend. will range to an High Sunday above average 45 degrees at pomts forein the state, i The fiye-da- y cast indicates that skies will remain clear to - partly cloudy with mild weather through Wednesday. " a of two-coa- ch ot ' jammed aboard. Italian authorities put the death toll at 71 and said about 30 more of the passengers crammed into a coach built for 80 , were injured, some. so badly they were not;ex- pected to live. Most of the victmis were teen - age , students going home for Christmas. -- 1 , The narrow- gauge train filled with students and 'peasants taking their goats and chickens to mar ket in Catanzaro sped out of a -- No Paper Coming AAon day TV Section Published Today There ' will be no Herald Monday, Christmas Day. 'Publication is suspended for this holiday to permit employees of the newspaper, to join with their families in the Christinas season observance. The television section, usual- - X ly published in connnection with the Monday paper, appears this : week as part of today's Herald. With nc-- paper to be published Monday,? it is suggested that readers save and consult today's Sunday Herald for' bar gains and special values for Tuesday shopping. Many merchants are advertising clearance values in - today's paper. In connection with the holiday, banks, post office and all city; county, state and federal offices will be closed Monday as will most retail establishments and grocery stores: Busi- nesses which normally remain open on holidays are expected to operate, although in some cases on a curtailed schedule. : first-of-the-ye- ; ar rj st Berlin peace feelers was particularly welcomed, he said. The next move, the sources said. Will be made by the United States, with U.S. envoy to Moscow Llewellyn Thompson exploring Russia's Berlin peace terms. " "Britain's envoy. Sir Frank Rob- erts, has been given apparently a secondary role, inasmuch as he (See MAC SAYS tunnel, careened .through a sharp curve and onto an ancient' stone bridge when , disaster struck with a sickening lurch that tore up the ; tracks. The engineer, Ciro Micelo, 35, screened ' his locomotive and the remaining coach to a halt high above the s w o 1 1 e n Fiumarella River and saw the twisted and splintered car on the river bank below, its steel plates split open, 'L spilling death into the" rain, Authorities said . Miceli was being "detained," the usual procedure in any Italian railway accident. He was being questioned about reports he was, driving the train at "excessive speed"-ove- r this roller coaster route in the center' of the toe of Italy'i boot. j, Pare 4) st four-pow- er Ailing Father Out of Danger . ; . Anglo-A- merican JFK Readies Frondizi Parley Christmas Eve i East, asked to see the President, PALM BEACH, Fla. (UPI) President Kennedy, heartened by presumably to discuss the jJan., 22 news that his father is out of meeting of hemisphere foreign danger following a stroke, turned aaiuraay to preparations tor a Christmas Eve meeting here with President Arturo Frondizi of Ar gentina. Frondizi, enroute to Buenos Aires after a journey to the Far Doctor Finds Bod Workers in Grave at Elisabefhville Airport Olivet disappeared Dec. 13 Congo. tanga President Moise Tshombe U.N. his to to after head honor (UPI) visiting agreement bring shortly to evacuan the of into bodies back the the Congo. quarters arrange Katanga urday discovered three murdered International Red But there was increasing belief tion of European residents trap Cross , workers in shallow graves here. Tshombe would renege. ped in the Katanga capital by doca Dr. j. H. Smeets, a Belgian near the Elisabethville Airport, fighting between U.N. troops and ambuHosTshombe's gendarmes and sol tor from Queen Elisabeth smouldering Red Cross lance i nearby. t . pital in. Elisabethville, said he diers. ' U.N. officials couia tnrow no The find was reported from found the three Red Cross vicI Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, as dis tims near a police camp which light on Olivet's disappearance patches from Elisabethville told adjoins the airport road on the but officials said he might have . . . been killed by "Katangese mer-- ! of t rape, pillage and murder and edge of town. cenaries." Katangese sources Baluba He tribesmen the discovered said he first lay rampaging' waste Elisabethmost of to a of Swiss, said earlier Olivet had been ab body ing Georges Olivet, ville's Belair residential district. in one grave. Nearby were the ducted by U.N. soldiers and taken On the political side the United bodies of two others, Mme. Ni to Leopold ville. They also said Natons and the Central Congo- cole Groonen and Styts Smadding, he might have been shot by Eth lese government were reported a Dutchman, dumped into a com iopian U.N. "'troops in the airport area.'"""bringing heavy .pressura en Ka mon crave. LEOPOLD VILLE, ters of Col. A. V. Solovyev, Ber-EaBerlin District of Karlshorst to protest against East German interference with official American border. traffic across the East-WeWatson, in his general's uniform, was accompanied by two civilian aides 'and an interpreter. His official car was halted by the striped lin's Soviet commandant, in the steel pole recently installed by the at the Friedrich Communists i Strasse crossing point. The East German guards kept the bar down when Watson's civilian aides refused to show identity cards on the ground that Western Allied officials may enter East Berlin freely without East German controls under agreements with the Soviets. '.'!" Watson turned back. . (See COMMIES Page 4) ; " - Notice! to Herald Readers s , The diesel train , Roaring through southern Italy's La Sila mountains in a treezmg rauistorm nurtied into a 100-fogorge Saturday, killing most df the Christmas travelers ' rear car . . Watson was driving to headquar- Talks Valuable' UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI) Prime MinCentral Congolese government LONDON (UPI) ister Harold Macmillan returned Premier Cyrille Adoula has ofsatisfied from Bermuda Saturfered 1,000 troops to the United and day began promptly mapping Nations for its Congo operations West and "I Acting Secretary Gerieral plans for a meeting with Aden-aueGerman Chancellor Konrad Thant has accepted the offer, t it next1 January. early was announced Saturday. Macmillan termed his two-da-y A U.N. spokesman would not talks with President Kennedy in say whether the Central Govern- Bermuda f "valuable, full and ment troops Would be used in KaBut he also made it clear tanga to try to force President frank." he not come did home, with any Moise Tshombe to end his secesto the outsolutions immediate sionist movement.1 But presumof the dayJ problems standing ably they could be used anywhere was Macmillan in the Congo. expected to conAdenauer with before mid-- J Adoula Friday gave Tshombe a fer; to continue the series of five-da- y ultimatum to bring his anuary Western recent bilateral summits, province back .into the Central to a united weld allied designed government or face the use of for front negopolicy projected force. Adoula did not elaborate at " with tiations Russia. the time but apparently he alEarlier this month, he met with ready had offered his troops to French President Charles de Thant. who .in turn met with Gaulle, The U.N. spokesman said newly Adenauer in Paris. independent Sierr'e Leone also had Diplomatic sources close to the offered troops to the U.N. forces Prime Minister said Macmillan in the Congo. 'was. well satisfied with the presiHe told newsmen: dential meeting in Bermuda. In an airport statement he re"The acting secretary general has accepted an offer of Sierre ferred to the "sense of partnerLeone of an infantry battalion, as ship,, talking it over very fully well as an offer of Premier Adoula and frankly together." The (See 100 CONGO Pasre 1) ' understanding on I more "provocative" because Watson had notified' the Russians in . advance of his trip. Mac. Says Bermuda !.!,- j CATANZARO, , . 1000 Congo; Troop s to Bolster UN -" ;:'.: " " ; i . eTimeiem IQ)0T Oi DO Their ..names were Balthasar, J Melchior.S and Gaspar, and they United Press International wise men. And all along the were A star stood up in the East, when they , stopped to rest way," and three kings of Orient gaththe camels, they made answer to ered their riches and set out on with one sentenced crowds a long journey westward. Their gaping "A' is born." king' train of camels plodded slowly And of toe 'of under they came even, unto Jerugreat bags 'weight and . treasures gold vessels bars, salem," heralding that Word which jeweled pieces; frankincense ' and had visited them of a newborn king.i "For we have seen His myrrh. By DOC QUIGG . n n fS) ' fiable in the photo.' The three star-lik- e lights at far illuminate BYU1 married students housing ..the; right project. Several upper campus buildings are visible. So are the power plant and the airport lights. Mr. Monson took the photo ' looking slightly to the southwest from a point just above Oak Lane east of the city. ; lens-ey- . , ; staff photographer, as he looked over the city from the east foothills, where he had gone for ; e a view of the valley. It was a eon, chief Herald The A Belgian doctor Sat r ministers in Uruguay. The visit- ing president will have lunch to day with Kennedy and a small group of advisers. While the Kennedy family was cheered by news that former ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, 73, had shown considerable im provement in the past 24 hours, Christmas plans were somewhat subdued by the illness of the President's father. Family atten tion this week has been focused on St. Mary's hospital where the elder Kennedy is a patient Con sequently, Christmas plans have (See JFK READIES Pare,!) I Keep Christmas Holidays Safe! Utah County TOTAL ACCIDENT . " 1 - - FATALITIES 1SC0 1 1961 52 ..; ; ... 63 Estimated financial loss, , 1SC1 $7,194,000 "A Special Season A Special Reason to PREVENT ACCIDENTS" , |
