The Daily Chowanian
Volume 1 — Number 33
Murfreesboro, North Carolina, January 27, 1960
Associated Press
U. S. Demonstrates Rocket Ability
With Two Successful Launchings
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. AP
—The United States has demon
strated the power and accuracy
of its bigsest military rocket, the
Atlas, with a pair of successful
launchings from opposite ends of
the country.
The launchines featured a heavy
American missile schedule which
also included the successful fir-
inss of a Redstone ballistic missile
at White Sands, N. M., and a Jav
elin test rocket from Wallop’s Is
land, Va.
An Atlas launched at Cape Can
averal Tuesday night carried an
experimental nose cone to a tar
get off the South Atlantic island
of Ascension, 5,000 miles away. A
few hours earlier, Stretegic Air
Command troops fired another At
las into the Pacific from Vanden-
berg Air Force Base, Calif.
The Air Force announced both
shots were completely successful.
They were the 16th and 17th
straight successes for the big mis
sile in a remarkable string ex
tending, back to last July.
The nose cone carried by the
Cape Canaveral Atlas was de
signed for heavier payloads, fast-
30 Army Rangers
Dumped Into Gulf
Of Mexico
Elgin Air Force Base, Fla. AP—
Hi avy surf and a broken cable
dumped 30 Army Rangers into
tbo Gulf of Mexico. Two officers
drowned and a third is missing.
The series of mishaps occurred
Tuesday night about 600 yards
from the white beaches of nearby
Santa Rosa Island about 11:30 p.m.
The Rangers had arrived at this
northwest Florida base from Ft.
Benning, Ga., Saturday for special
survival training.
Two landing craft brought *40
men taking part in the exercise
to within about 600 yards of shore.
At that point they transferred into
16 foot rubber rafts to make a
simulated beach assault.
'Ihe surf, c'lurned up by a stiff
breeze, capsized three of the rafts,
De Gaulle Pleads With Frenchmen
To Lay Down Arms And End Strike
Two N.C. Escapees
Captured In Virginia
SUFFOLK, Va. AP — Two
North Carolina prison escapees
were in custody here today. They
face new charges in connection
with a jewelry store robbery.
The pair fled the Nash County,
N.C., Prison Farm Monday. They
were recaptured Tuesday after
they disarmed two policemen and
boarded a bus here in an attempt
to elude a citywide dragnet.
Thi pair surprised Policeman
E G. Carpenter and State Trooper
Shirley Greene in a bus station,
overpowered them and took their
gu-:s.
The escr.pees, William D. Flet
cher, 23, of Indianapolis, Ind., and
Benjamin Garrett, 21, of Wilming
ton, N.C., fled the prison unit
, , throwing 23 Rangers into the wa- ,
er re-entry and greater accuracy i missing were near Nashville, N.C., after com-
than the blunt cone now used o i ojhers swam to mi'ndeerinf; a car and taking two
°Thf Redstonfwas launched by'^;-e^
U. S. troops who man the 250-
mile-range weapon in Europe. The |
shot was the first in a series in-j
volving an improved R:;dstone.
The Javelin sped more than 6001
miles into the sky in another test
rf a new' rocket engine which will
be used in space missions. The
engine, called the X248, constitu
ted the fourth stage of the Javelin.
It will also serve as an upper
stage of the Scout and Thor-Delta
vehicles which are expected to
have their first satellite and deep
space assignments this spring.
Reconstruction Of
Plane Slowed By
Missing Parts
WILMINGTON, N. C. AP—Re
construction of the DC6B Nation
al Airlines plane that crashed at
nearby Bolivia Jan. 6 has been
slowed as searchers scour the
f'r missing parts.
The Civil Aeronautics Board
has been conducting an investiga
tion into the cause of the crash,
which killed 34 persons.
Camp Lejeune has dispatched
Marine skin divers to probe coast
al areas for parts of the plane.
Meanwhile, investigators say
thev are not inclined to link the
airliner disaster with any other
aircraft. The search for parts
from the ill-fated aircraft has re
sulted in turning up of bits from
other aircraft.
Debris was found last weekend
7% miles northeast of Bolivia and
tentatively identified as the tail
cone and fin of a plane’s auxili
ary fuel tank. A CAB official said
it was old and probably of a mili
tary type.
The wreckage of an FlOO jet
fighter also was uncovered, but it
was believed to be a plane from
Cherry Point that crashed off
shore several months ago.
Scientific Instruments Found After
Being Dropped From Balloon Into Sea
By HARVEY HUDSON
PARIS AP — President Charles
de Gaulle's chief representative
in Algeria pleaded with insurgent
Frenchmen today to lay down
their arms and end a general strike
against the policy of self-de
termination for Algeria.
Delegate General Paul Delouv-
rier, the civilian administrator in
the North African territory, de
plored the four-day uprising in a
broadcast over army-controlled ra
dio Algiers.
Even as he spoke, the thou-
Truck and School
Bus Collide
ALTA VISTA, Kan. AP — A
school bus and a pickup truck
collided in a heavy fog near this
'ast central Kansas town Tues
day killing the truck driver.
Eleven students and bus
driver Gus Zerbo were injured.
Three of the children and Zerbe
required hospitalization.
AP — A scientific Gondola
ditched from the world’s largest
balloon was located in the east
ern Caribbean today.
The gondola, loaded with valu
able scientific instruments, was
jetiisoncd Tuesday night when
the giint balloon headed for the
trackless jungles of Venezuela.
It W!>s located by a search plan
today and the destroyer Hyman,
guided to the spot by the plane,
reported that recovery operations
would be started immediaitely.
The goiidola, carrying an 800-
poimd pack of supersensitive film
to record cosmic ray activity, had
been sought throughout the night
by ships of the project skyhook
fleet.
Weather
NORTH CAROLINA: Cloudy
west increasing cloudiness east
with rain developing west por
tion this morning advancing
eastward during the day. Cooler
with high in 50s. Rain tonight
and not as cool east portions and
little change in temperature
elsewhere; low the 40s except
ranging to upper 30s mountains.
Thursday, clearing west portion,
rain ending east portion in
morning, becoming partly
cloudy a n d a little change in
temperatures all sections in
afternoon.
Railroads Ask For
2 Per Cent Increase
In Freight Rates
RALEIGH AP — Railroads op
erating in North Carolina asked
the State Utilities Commission
today to approve selective freight
rate increases of 2 per cent.
The boosts would put rates on
goods moving within the state on
a par with interstate rates al
ready approved by the interstate
commerce commission.
A. L. Bay, a Southern Railway
official, testified at the hearing
that the rate hike would bring in
an estimated $61,900 annually for
the state’s four major railroads.
These are Southern, Atlantic
Coast Line, Norfolk Southern,
and Seaboard Air Line.
There were no protestants at
the rate hearing. The Commis
sion will give its decision in an
order to be issued later.
Bay explained that railroad of
ficers “carefully selected the
commodities on which they felt
rates could be increased without
jeopardizing the traffic to the
competition of other modes of
transportation.”
For example, he noted, “No in
crease is proposed in the rates on
sand, gravel, crushed stone, fer
tilizers, furniture, manufactured
tobacco and cigarettes, to name
a few, as these commodities are
highly susceptible to motor car
rier competition.”
Tranquilizers Show
A Profit of About A
Penny A Pill
WASHINGTON AP—The mak
ers of Miltown tranquilizer said
today their profit is a little more
than a penny a tablet.
Henry H. Hoyt, president of
Carter Products, Inc., said in
testimony for the Senate anti-
monopoly subcommittee that no
reduction would be warranted in
the present price of 10 cents a
tablet.
The subcommittee is investi
gating prices charged for various
drugs. It contends some of the
wonder drugs are priced so high
they cannot be bought by per
sons who need them. Current
hearings are devoted to tran
quilizer pills.
Miltown is a trade name for
meprobamate, a drug for the re
lief of tension and anxiety. Hoyt
said its discovery had helped lift
Explosion Kills One
In Chemical Plant
PANLSBORO, N. J. — An ex
plosion occurred today at the Dix
on Chemical Co. plant along the
Delaware River. First reports
said one person was dead and an
other injured.
Police said they understood a
tank containing chemicals was
afire .
The plant is located across the
river from the Philadelphia Inter
national Airport.
sands of armed insurgents were
strengthening their shoulder-high
barricades in the streets of Al
giers.
Delouvrier said no one in Al
giers wishes secession or a gov
ernment crisis.
“Certainly I understand the mo
tives of those who, with the cour
age of despair, have entrenched
themselves to bear witness for
French Algeria,” he said. “I know
that these motives are shared by
most people here. Metropolitan
France must know this.”
This was the first official ad^
mission that rioting Sunday in Al
giers, in which 26 persons died
and about 150 were injured, was
a reflection of widespread senti
ment and not the action of a rel
atively few French rightists.
Carter’s sales from an annual
level of about $550,000 in 1930
when he became president to 48
million dollars in the last fiscal
year.
“Substantial profits made in
the four years siHnce the intro
duction of meprobamate have to
be considered in relation to the
13 preceding years in which Car
ter struggled profitlessly to en
ter the prescription drug field,”
he said. “It is scarcely reason
able to criticize four years' pro
fits resulting from 17 years’ ef
fort.”
Red China Demands End of Forcable
Evacuation of Chinese By Indonesia
TOKYO — Red China an
nounced today a formal demand
upon Indonesia for “the immedi
ate ending of the forcible evac
uation of overseas Chinese and
other acts of persecution.”
The demand, presented to For
eign Minister Subandrio in
Jakarta by Chinese Ambassador
Huang Chen, in effect insisted
that Indonesia stop the removal
of Chinese businessmen from
rural areas.
The official Peiping Peoples
Daily said that this demand was
one of several “to ensure smooth
implementation” of the new Chi-
nese-Indonesian treaty on daul
nationality. The treaty permits
the three million Chinese in In
donesia to choose between Indo
nesian and Chinese citizenship.
Indonesia has banned Chinese
merchants from rural areas
where they virtually monopolize
trade and has been moving them
into camps.
Truck Driver Dies
Trying To Avoid
Collision With Car
CHARLOTTE AP — The co
driver of a tractor-trailer truck
leaped to h>s doath here today as
the truck jackknifed and rolled
down a bank to avoid a car which
had pulled into its path.
Police identified the victim as
Fred William Franklin of Draper.
He was pinned beneath the Vir-
Tin'a-Carolina Motor Lines truck.
The driver of the truck, Ernest
Gilbert Smith Jr. of Leaksville,
was not hurt.
The driver of the car did not
stop and police broadcast an a
lert for his car. described as a 1955
or 1956 green Oldsmobite. He was
described as a young white roan.
Smith told police that the
driver ignored a stop sign and
pulled into the truck’s path on
bus.v, fourlane Wilkinson Boule
vard. Smith jammed on brakes and
the truck jackknifed. He straight
ened it out, but by then was a-
bout to strike the car again so he
braked the truck again. It jack-
nifed and rolled down the bank.
Franklin, seeing that the truck
was out of control, apparently
tried to jump clear. But he was
trapped and crushed. It took 45
minutes to free his body.
Plane Crash Caused
By Faulty Engines
WASHINGTON AP — Federal
investigators said today that two
engines of the Capital airlines
plane which crashed near Hold-
croft, Va., Jan. 18 were disabled,
and the other two may have been
working in reverse. All 50 persons
aboard the plane were killed.
The investigators, declining to
be quoted by name, said the pro-
pellers of two engines weie
stopped.
The investigators said they were
checking into reports that the
props of the other engines were
on “ground fine pitch.” This
means the engines, in effect were
in reverse
If it turns out to be true, one
expert said, “I can’t think of a
more serious situation.”
Human Stampede
Proves Fatal To
Thirty-One
SEOUL, South Korea AP —
Thirty-one holiday-bound Koreans
were killed and 50 injured Tues
day night in what one survivor
called the “living hell” of a hu
man stampede at the Seoul rail
way station.
Eleven of the victims were chil
dren under 10.
Thev either suffocated or were
trampled to death when hundreds
of ticket buyers, dashing widly to
crowd into the last night train to
Mokpo, piled up at the bottom of
a steep stairway.
Officials said one person appar
ently slipped on the snow-covered
sta'rs, started a human avalanche.
Highway Tally
RALEIGH AP—The Motor Ve
hicles Department’s report of
highway deaths and injuries for
the 24 hours ending at 10 a.m.
today:
Killed 0
Injured rural 18
Killed this year 61
Killed to date last year 92
Injured to Nov. 1, 1959 20,129
Injured to Nov. 1, 1958 17,253