The Daily Chowanian
Volume 1 — Number 45
Murfreesboro, North Carolina, Thursday February 18, 1960
Associated Press
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Injured in Practice
SQUAW VALLEY, Calif. AP—
“Sure, I know these things hap
pen—but you always ask, ‘Why
did it happen to me’,” said Larry
Palmer, injured goalie of the U.
S. Olympic hockey team.
The handsome West Pointer
from Wakefield, Mass., twisted
a knee when he dropped to the
ice and blocked a shot during a
Tuesday proctice session.
Dr. William Atmore, team phy
sician, said Wednesday that
Palmer’s injury may be a lig
ament strain, and not a darnage
cartilage as was feared at first.
Atmore said he thought Palmer
had a chance to play in the O-
lympics.
Olympic Coach Jack Riley
said he hopes Palmer can return
to action before the end of the
10-day Olympic competition.
“We’re left with only one goal
ie without Larry,” Riley said,
“and if anything happened to
Jack McCartan, we’d be fin
ished.” McCartan is from St.
Paul, Minn.
^tarSpreading Production of Nuclear
Arms Makes DIsarmoment a Must
Network Will Not
Broadcast Politics
NEW YORK AP — The Colum
bia Broadcasting System says its
radio and TV networks will not
broadcast paid political pro
grams that are scheduled sim
ultaneously over any other net
work.
The CBS editorial board, in an
nouncing the new ruling Wednes
day night, said its decision
should not affect simultaneous
broadcasts of addresses by the
President or chief executive of a
city or state. It also does not af
fect paid political spot commer
cials.
The board said its new policy
will give the public a choice of
what to hear or see during the
political contests coming up this
year.
Four Firemen Injured in a Blaze
That Totaly Destroyed a Factory
CLIFTON, N. J. AP — A Big
factory that came within seconds
rf being a tomb for scores of
firemen was a smoking ruin to
day.
Only blackened elevator
shafts protruded above the first
floor of what had been a four-
story factory Wednesday.
A deputy fire chief who had
stepped outside the Velveray
Corp. building probably saved
the lives of about 45 firerrien who
were inside the plant.
“Everybody out,” yelled Dep
uty Fire Chief Romolo Zangran-
do, 65, when he saw flame burst
through a window and a crack
appear in a wall.
The men scurried to safety
down a protected stairwell just
before the upper sto(ries col
lapsed. Zangrando was injured
by falling masonry and was tak
en to Passiac General Hospi
tal in fair condition with back
and hip injuries.
Another fireman, William S.
Jackson, 52, lost his leg. Two
other firefighters were hospital
ized.
Deputy Fire Chief Marius
Celentano said the two-million-
dollar blaze had started from a
short circuit in a fabric-treat-
ment machine.
Six hundred employees of Vel
veray and several others using
the block-long building left the
factory safely.
Citizenship Lost
For Serving
In Foreign Army
HAVANA AP — The U. S. Em
bassy said today it has formally
notified Herman Marks of Mil
waukee, Wis., that he has lost his
American citizenship because of
his service in the Cuban army.
The notice went out by mail.
Marks, who joined Fidel Cas
tro’s forces during the revolution,
rose to the rank of captain and
became Havana’s chief execution
er, directing firing squads against
persons convicted as war crim
inals early last year. He now is
assigned to a military unit in
Havana.
Weather
NORTH CAROLINA; Cloudy
today with rain and scattered
thunderstorms beginning west
portion this morning and east
portion this afternoon. Chance of
some snow mixed with rain in
the mountains this afternoon.
High temperatues upper 40s
mountains ranging to lower 60s
on coast. Tonight windy with
snow flurries mountains rain
portion. Lows mid 20s moun-
ending elsewhere. Colder west
tains ranging to lower 40s coast.
Friday partly cloudy windy and
colder.
Communists Fired
On Quemoy Island
TAIPEI, Formosa AP — The
Chinese Communists fired 105
shells at the Quemoy Islands
Wednesday over a 10-hour period
The Nationalist Defense Ministry
announcement made no mention
of casualties, damage or return
fire. Today the Red guns were
silent, in accordance with the Com
munist practice of not firing on
the Nationalist-held offshore is
lands on even-numbered days of
the month.
WASHINGTON AP —Secretary
of State Christian A. Herter said
today the spreading production
of nuclear weapons makes a,
safeguard disarmament pro
gram urgent because soon al
most any country in the world
may get the power “to trigger
off a nuclear war.”
In a speech prepared for a
National Press Club luncheon,
Herter said “we are not so con
cerned with regard to the free
nations which might be the next
to produce nuclear weapons, but
we are concerned lest the spread
become wholly unmanageable.”
He added:
“The more nations that have
the power to trigger off a nu
clear war, the greater the chance
that some nation might use this
power in haste or blind folly.”
Herter said the United States
is approaching the talks in earn
est hope of reaching some ac
cords with the Soviet bloc which
will begin to bring the dangers
of nuclear war under control.
“We approach these new nego
tiations,” he also said, “with
some hope that the Soviet lead
ers may be coming to realize
that the arms race offers unac
ceptable risks. This realization
could induce them to attach a
high priority to progress in arms
control, as being in their own
national interest.”
Five Allied nations will meet
with the Soviet bloc countries at
Geneva March 15 to begin a new
round of general disarmament
negotiations. For some weeks
Western negotiators have been
meeting here to shope proposals
for the conference.
Herter made no specific ref
erence to the fact that less than
1 week ago France made its bid
for membership in the great
power nuclear monopoly by ex
ploding a nuclear device. But
this event has brought renewed
worry over the world about the
expanding possession of nuclear
weapons.
Possibility of
Tornadoes in S. C.
COLUMBIA AP — The Colum
bia Weather Bureau warned today
there is a possibility of isolated
tornadoes in the northeast coastal
irea of the state from Chester
field, Dar’ington and Marlboro
counties eastward.
The Weather Bureau said thun
derstorm activity is forecast to pass
over faitern South Carolina, ac
companied by some hail and iso
lated damaging winds between
noon and 6 o!m.
Junior College
Tournament to
Begin Tonight
WILMINGTON AP — Four
games today kickoff the North
Carolina-Virginia Junior College
Conference basketball tourna
ment here.
Wilmington, th e defending
champion, captured the regular
season title with a 14-2 record.
First round games have Camp
bell 11-5 playing Presbyterian
6-10 in the 2 p. m. opener. Fred
erick 11-5 meets Oak Ridge 6-
10 at 4 p.m. and Louisburg 10-6
faces Chowan 10-6 at 7 p.m. fol
lowed by Wilmington against Ed
wards Military of Salemburg.
Winners of the first round play
in Friday night’s semifinals with
the championship game set Sat
urday at 9 p.m., following a
third-place consolation match.
Men Return From
Trip Which Lasted
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Ad for Lost Son |
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CANTON, N. C. AP — “I want
you to put an ad in the paper
about my boy,” the telephone cal
ler said. “He ran away from home
from him since.”
last week and we haven’t heard
“How old is he?” asked the
reporter.
“He’s 42,” came the reply.
Highway Jffiency
RALEIGH AP — Highway Di
rector W. F. Babcock says no
sacrifice of highway efficiency
would result from the scaling
down of an improvement project
on U. S. 70 around Salisbury.
The change was announced
Wednesday after Salisbury criti-
zens protested that too much right-
of-way would have been required
for the project as originally de
signed.
Khrushchev’s Arrival in Indonesia
Described as a Rousing Occasion
By JOHN RODERICK
JAKARTA, Indonesia AP —
Neutralist Indoesia today gave
Nikita Khrushchev the most en
thusiastic welcome of his current
Asian tour, and he beamed with
appreciation.
An estimated 200,000 Indones
ians greeted Khrushchev in the
airport area and 300,000 more
lined the motorcade route into
the city as the Soviet Premier
began his 12-day visit looking
brighter than at any time since
he left Moscaw.
Khrushchev, who got only luke
warm receptions from the public
in New Delhi, Calcutta and Ran
goon, was in high spirits.
He looked healthy and rested,
in contrast to the tired, subduced
appearance he exhibited during
most of his stay in India and
Burma.
Indonesia’s powerful Commu
nist party and the Communist-
run trade union federation,
SOBSI, joined the government in
bringing out the crowd.
Khrushchev declared full sup
port for the “independent and ac
tive” policy of the sprawling young
island republic and said the Soviet
Union and Indonesia joinly stand
for peace, for elimination of colon
ialism and for “prohibition of nu
clear weapons menacing the life
of humanity.”
Indonesia’s President Sukarno
met Khrushchev as he alighted
from the big turboprop plane
which brought him from Burma.
Khrushchev hinted in his ar
rival speech that he may offer
the Indonesian government fur-
their economic aid during his
visit.
He will find the Indonesians in
a receptive mood for Soviet offers
of aid but determined to cling to
ther economic aid during his visit,
international arena.
Sukarno is anxious to get Soviet
credits in addition to the 118
million dollars worth already
extended.
Cuban Trade Pact
Has Been Ratified
By ROBERT BERRELLEZ
HAVANA AP — The Cuban
Cabinet today ratified the big,
sugar-heavy trade pact sigied
last Saturday by Prime Minis
ter Fidel Castro and Soviet ^irst
Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mi-
oyan.
The deal m^kes the Soviet Un
ion Cuba’s biggest customer next
to the United States.
In the wake of the agreement,
U. S. Secretary of State Chris
tian A. Herter announced in
Washington that consideration is
being given to cancellation of the
system under which the United
■^tates pays premium prices for
Cuban sugar.
There was no comment from
the late night Cabinet meeting
on Herter’s remarks. But Cas
tro is exppected to blast the A-
merican secretary tonight when
he makes another of his periodic
television appearances.
Under the trade paot, the So
viet Union will buy five million
tons of sugar at world-market
prices over the next five years.
It will pay 20 per cent of the cost
in dollars, the rest in Soviet pro
ducts.
Moscow also will bolster Cu
ba’s shaky hnances with a credit
equivalent to 100 million dollars.
It will be repaid over a 12-year
period at 2V4 per cent interest.
Commerce Ministerl Rau Ce-
pero Bonilla says Cuba will re
pay the credit with its own pro
ducts
Stimulated Space
Two Weeks
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. AP —
Two veterans of simulated space
travel return to eart'i today after
a two weeks make believe rocket
ride.
Technical Sergeants William W.
Henderson, 30, Alice, Tex., and
Hobart M. Craft, 36, Wedowee,
Ala., are scheduled to emerge at
noon from a “shakedown” cruise
in an 8 by 12 foot simulated space
ship cabin.
'The two-man trip began 3;20
p.m., Feb. 4, at Brooks Air Force
1 Base here and is the longest exper-
, iment of its kind.
' Just a year ago Airman Donald
Farrell of New York City spent
seven days in a one-man space
cabin. He crawled out of the cram
ped quarters four pounds lighter
but unaffected otherwise.
The sergeants have more room
than Farrell did. They can stand
and move a few steps each way.
The pressure inside the ellipti
cal steel tank has been maintained
at a simulated altitude of 18,000
feet. At one end of the tank is an
instrument jammed control board
with two padded roll around
chairs. While one man slept \he
other remained on duty at the
control board.
Outside the space cabin a crew
of scientists and technicians kept
a constant watch on the experi
ment through a closed circuit tele
vision system and portholes equip
ped with one-way glass.
Medina Gives Talk
CHAPEL HILL, N. C. AP—Re
tired Judge Harold R. Medina of
New York gives the main address
today at ceremonies honoring the
late Judge John J. Parker of
Charlotte.
The University of North Caro
lina will receive a portrait of
Judge Parker. It was painted by
Albert K. Murry, New York artist.
Parker served on the U. S. 4th
Circuit Court of Appeals from 1925
until he died in 1957.
Seawell Asks
Patrolem to be
Firm but Friendly
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. AP —
Atty. Gen. Malcolm Seawell has
reminded North Carolina H i g h-
wav Patrolmen to be frim but
friendly with out-of-state drivers.
Seawell spoke Wednesday night
at a banquet honoring Patrol
troop B’s Trooper of the Year,
R. L. Apple of Louisburg.
Seawell said the state’s laws
governing speed limits need to be
brought up-to-date. He proposed
revisions to clarify overlapping
authority for setting speed limits.
Highway Tally
RALEIGH AP — The Motor Ve
hicles Department’s report of high
way deaths and injuries for the
24 hours ending at 10 a.m. today:
Killed 0
Injured rural 1
Killed this year 117
Killed to date last year 156
Injured to Dec. 1, 1959 22,426
Injured to Dec. 1, 1958 19,441