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

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