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The Sidney herald., 1955-12-22

THE SIDNEY HERALD
Thursday. Dec. %, 1855
The Sidney herald., 1955-12-22
FIRE AT N
HARDWARE WEDNESDAY

The Sidney Fire department
was called at 8 o'clock Wednes-
day evening, to put out a fire in
the back room Of the Johnson
hardware store, caused by an
overload on a lighting circuit.
someone had plugged in a power
saw resulting in the overload
Inc department reports that dam
age was confined to the circuit.
winch was burned out.
The Sidney herald., 1955-12-22
Police Chief
Warns Of
Driving Hazards

While you're buying gifts for
the rest of the family in prepar-
alton for Christmas, don't forget
your automobile, Chief of Police
Earl G.. Mauge advised Sidney
motOrist yesterday.
Give it the best winter safety
job you can afford, because it's
the best insurance that YOU
and your family will be here to
celebrate Christmas" he said.
Chief MaUge urged particular
attention to vision and traction.
Vision depends on windshield
wiperS - live blades that don't
smear; defrosters, all lights and
rear view mirrors.
As for traction, he said. cars
lose traction dangerously on snow
and ice. He noted that tire chains
are recommended by the National
Safety Council for ice and snow
conditions, because council tests
have shown that at a speed of
~ miles an hour on hard packed
snow, reinforced tire chains will
stop a a in about SO feet, COM
pared with a stopping distance of
over go feet for regular tires.
On glare ice, the need for re-
inforced type of tire chains is
even greater, because average
skdding distances are reduced
from about 200 feet to n feet.
even when the surface Of the
ice is wet.
Even though you have chains,
remember they don't permit nor
nal, dry pavement speed" Chief
Mauge warned. "They help. but
its up to you to drive slowly
enough to keep your automobile
under control.
Don't let carelessness spoil
your family's Christmas"
The best New Years resolution
you can make, Chief Mauge said
yesterday, is to resolve to drive
50 carefully that you'll stay alive
until spring, at least.
With the years worst driving
weather still ahead, that isn't as
silly as it sounds" he added. eff
a sudden sleet storm coats the ]
streets with ice and finds YOU ]
unprepared, it could result in an ]
accident which would make all /
your other New Years resolutions 7
just a waste of time" 7
The first thing to do when I
driving becomes hazardous. is to
slow down, Chief Mauge said.
"On packed snow. a speed of :
% miles an hour is equal to so
miles an hour on dry pavement"
SAID. ION dry concrete. at 90
miles an hour, an automobile can (
stop IN p feet. But on hard pack
ed snow, it takes about so feet
with conventional tires. So feet
winterized tires, and 38 feet
with reinforced tire chains.
On glare ice, the tire stopping
distances are from ITO to $50
-eet, depending on temperature. a,
Tire chains reduce this to about
feet, even if the surface of n n
he ice is wet" q
4uGSG 11guEeS, chief Maugel ~
explained, are contained in re- =
oorts Of tests conducted annually U
~ the Committee on Winter g
Driving Hazards of the National p
safety Council. Even if your car
equipped with chains, the Chief h,
aid, you're not safe unless YOU hi
an see. This means good wiper
'lades and defroster. M
"A clear windshield depends G.
Lpon live rubber wiper blades M
efficient power in the wiper mo- @
or, and a defrOster in good work a.
ag order" Chief Mauge said. G.
The driver also should carry g.
omething to scrape ice and
now off the windshield and car er
7indoWS." @
The Sidney herald., 1955-12-22
Floyd Pettibone
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while en- route to the hospital.
Greyhound officials dispatched
another bus to the crash scene to
take the basketball team the rest
of the way into town.
Pettibone was identified from
personal papers that included his
drivers license. Authorities said
the papers also indicated he is
a bartender.
The body was taken to Smiths
Funeral Home.
Highway Patrolman Lynn Arm
strong and Tony Van Risswick in
vestigated the crash.
Petitioners death brought the
1855 Montana traffic fatality toll
to 228 compared with 214 a year
ago Sunday.
The Sidney herald., 1955-12-22

FOR SALE - Pickup attachment for
J0hn Deere chopper. Sidney I'M
plement Co. 48-2tc
The Sidney herald., 1955-12-22

FOR SALE White ducks 81. {.
Geese $3.50 alive. Phone 900FI4 Rob
BEL. 48-1tc
The Sidney herald., 1955-12-22

Sidney stores will be closed
all day Monday, Dec. 26.
Evening star., 1955-05-05
Dairy Price Move Dims
Chance to Kill Farm Bill

rigid price supports as do the
basic farm crops. Some also
charged that the Laird amend
ment was mainly a device to
confuse the fundamental issue
and prevent some members from
voting for the overall bill.
The bill encountered serious
and unexpected trouble late yes
terday when the House voted
tentatively l86-to-l50 for Re-
publican sponsored amendment
to remove peanuts from the list
of basic crops on which rigid
price supports would apply,
Several Democratic leaders
said that If this tentative vote
was upheld on a roll call today
it probably would result in de-
feat of the bill itself.
In further move to win sup
port for the bill, its hackers Of
fered an amendment today to
abandon a controversial two
price plan Tor wheat. This was
adopted on voice vote. 1t struck
out a provision under which the
Government would support the
price of wheat in the domestic
market but allow farmers to sell
their surplus wheat abroad for
whatever price they could get.
This provision had drawn op-
position from the State Depart
ment, the textile industry and
various other groups in this
country.
Evening star., 1955-05-05
Military Monpower Cuts
Approved by House Unit

advancing chronological develop
ment."
Stresses Combat Readiness
It called for something posi-
tive, both in the forms of needed
legislation and better adminiStra-
tion," to build up reserve strength
stressing combat readiness"
1t held out little hope for big
defense appropriation cuts in the
immediate future, noting that
the present structure of our
armed forces will be maintained
"for an indefinite period"
Here's how the proposed new
funds would be shared by the
services:
Army: $7.329,S18,0 900, a budget
cut of $244, 1862, 900 and about
$3.50 million less than was pro-
vided this year.
Navy: $9,071. 1884, 900. a budget
cut of $108. $4,000 and about
$640 million less than this year.
Air Force: $14,401 .904 900, a
budget cut of 1891, TIA, 900 but an
increase of $3,473, 100000 over
this year.
Secretary of Defense: $12.4
million, cut of $350,000 from
the budget and from this year.
Interservice activities: $672,-
See DEFENSE, Page A-1O
Evening star., 1955-05-05
Chinese Outside of China
CountHeoviIyinC Co|dWor

mist in Thailand is soon out of
business.
Despite the bright spot in
Thailand. the overall outlook
for the overseas Chinese raises
anxiety among Western diplo-
mats as the East-West duel con-
tinues in this area.
Secretary of State Dulles
stated at last February's Bang
kok conference of Manila Pact
powers that one reason for sup
porting Nationalist China is to
give the overseas Chinese a gov
ernment to which they could be
loyal.
The existence of a Nationalist
government. however, may not
be enough. The overseas Chi
nese are too basic as business
men to let emotions interfere
much.
1t is true that the overseas
Chinese talk fondly of their an
cestral villages. They teach their
children the Chinese language
and Chinese culture in schools
that they themselves finance.
1t is true, too, that they con-
slider economic communism re-
pugnant to their ideas of free
wheeling business tactics.
The Chinese. however, are
likely to follow the trend to-
ward Red China if Peiping con-
tinues to grow in stature and
the overseas Chinese find it ad-
vantageous businesswise to be
See ROPER, Page Ale
Evening star., 1955-05-05

An attempt to put milk and
other dairy products under man
datory high price supports
raised further doubt today that
the House would finally approve
bill aimed at the Eisenhower
administrators farm program.
Democratic leaders and some
Republicans from farm States
indicated that rather than risz
outright defeat of the bill, they
would move late today to recon-
NIT it to the House Agriculture
Committee. Such action would
probably end further House
consideration this year. but
would leave the way open for
bringing up the measure again
next year, closer to the elections.
The bill would restore rigid
price supports at 80 per cent
of parity of five basic farm crops
and would repeal the flexible
supports provision enacted by
Congress last year with admin
istration backing. Most advo-
Gates of the bill, however, oppose
an amendment offered today by
Representative Laird, Repub-
lican, of Wisconsin to apply the
80 per cent Of parity support to
milk and dairy products in addi-
tion to the basic farm crops,
wheat. cotton, corn, rice and
peanuts.
They contend that the dairy
does not need the same
Evening star., 1955-05-05
By JAMES E. ROPER
Star STAFF Correspondent

JAKARTA, Indonesia. - Com
munist China is gaining strength
in phantom empire-an empire
of overseas Chinese" in South
east Asia.
These overseas Chinese num-
ber between 10 and IL million
persons They have influence be-
yond their numbers.
The reasons are that they have
vigor; they have business skill:
they possess great wealth.
AS a result, they have been
catapulted into the cold war,
with Communist China and Ma
tionalist China competing for
their favor.
The Communists are winning.
Here in Indonesia. the contest six
months ago was three-way race.
One-third of the Chinese favored
the Nationalist. One-third was
neutral.
Since then, the Chinese here
have shifted into the Communist
column as Red China has gained
prestige and power in the Far
East.
A similar leftist trend can be
diScerned among the Chinese in
Burma and Malaga.
An exception is found in Thai
land. Government measures
there have forced many Chinese
to be assimilated into Thai life.
and most of the others shun
communism. This is the wise
thing to do because a Commu-
Evening star., 1955-05-05
A Sneak Preview
Of Days to Come:
Mercury Hits 81

A new high for the year was
reached by the thermometer to-
day in what the Weather Bu-
reau sized up as one-day heat
wave.
At / pm, the mercury had
climbed to 81 degrees, besting the
years previous high mark of
80 on April 10.
The bureau expected a top
reading Of near 90 degrees this
afternoon. But it saw no threat
to the all-time high for May
S, scorching 94 set in 1928.
Cooler weather was expected
tomorrow. perhaps dipping back
into the upper 70s.
Unusually high temperatures
hit the northeastern States yes
terday. In Elmira. N. Y, it was
80 degrees and in Concord, N. H.,
86 degrees.
Evening star., 1955-05-05
Six Women in Trenches
Awed by Atom BIost

Kans.. another of those in the
trench. said, THE biggest thrill
I've ever had. 1t was an awfully
sharp shock to my ears. But
wasn't really frightened"
Blast Shakes Earth
When the blast came. the
earth shook as If rocked by a
giants tread. There was tinge
of warmth from the atomic heat,
but only a tinge.
And in startingly quick sec
onds came the roaring boom Of
the burst and the blast hurting
dirt and stones and sand and
dust and bringing landslides of
dirt spilling into the trench.
Everywhere there was dust,
with the taste and smell of the
bomb.
In those seconds, a steel tower
had vaporiZed. What might
have been an A-bomb detonated
in war had reached out with
blast and fire and radiation to
scorch and rip at typical homes
only mile ahead. at the food
and furnishings and mannequins
who were the make-b believe peo-
pie in those homes.
What happened in this flash
of simulated war to the homes
was hidden in vast field of
choking desert dust.
No one was the slightest bit
hurt in the booming shock and
pelting dirt and small stones.
But crashing down went two
mannequins, a man and woman.
seated and standing in the open
by the trench. A flying stone
tore a hole in the male manne-
Quin's head. .......
Evening star., 1955-05-05
Orphans of Crash
To Get $l17,5OO

BALTIMORE. May S P).-A
settlement of $117,500 in high
way accident which took tile
lives of Brooklyn IN. " cou-
pie was approved in Orphans
Court today for the benefit of
their three children. Defendants
were M. l. O'Boyle g. Sons, Inc,
of Hyattsville.
Killed in the accident near
Glen Burnie. Md, a little more
than a year ago were MIR. and
Mrs Benjamin Mackof. who
were returning from a Florida
vacation with the children.
Their car was hit by a fuel
oil truck on Route 301 Just north
of nearby Glen Burnie.
The O'Boyle firm was in
charge of the operation of the
fuel oil truck.
The driver was Lycester Cavey.
jr.. and the owners of the truck
were Charles and John Ritter.
Evening star., 1955-05-05

indicate" that the 10 children
contracted the disease before
getting their shots.
West Virginia reported it first
case of polio among the LOG, $40
children given their first shots
in that State. and in New Or
leans a child died of polio eight
days after receiving the vac
cine.
These were in addition to 80
post-inoculation cases which the
Public Health Service said yes
terday had been reported to it.
Cutter Vaccine Withdrawn
The Health Service said 20
of the 33 cases involved use of
the vaccine manufactured by
Cutter Laboratories of Berke-
ley, Calf. Supplies of that COM
pany's vaccine have been with
drawn for further testing. The
four other cases involved sup
plies furnished by Eli Lilly &
Co. of Indianapolis. on which
there is no restriction.
In discussing the vaccine quail
ity problem at his news confer
ence yesterday. President Eisen-
hover told reporters:
Nov. first of all, it has been
assumed. I think, too often, that
the entire problem is one of
distribution; and this is not
true.
II have talked in one or two
instances directly to scientists
themselves.
1.-The question of safety-we
must be absolutely sure that we
are doing something that is safe
and good.
"One of the questions that
comes up is the methods of
See VACCINE, Page Al
Evening star., 1955-05-05
Dulles Points
To Red Shifts
Encouraged
By New Signs

Secretary of State Dulles told
Congress today there are small
but significant signs that, the
Communists are adopting a more
tolerable attitude toward foreign
affairs.
But he hastened to sound a
warning that it would be a great
mistake to relax the mutual ef-
forts, as he testified in hear
ings before the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee on Presi-
dent EisenhoWer's request for
a $3.5 billion foreign aid pro-
gram for next year.
The Secretary suggested it is
the strength flowing from Amer
ican aid during the past decade
that may be causing the Commu-
nists "to give up some of the
courses they once selected"
Air Of Expectancy
There is, I believe, an air of
expectancy in the world 0day."
said Mr.. Dulles. "A series of
small but perhaps significant
signs suggest that the time may
be nearing when those who have
been seeking the conquest of
freedom will in fact put their
foreign relations on a more toll
cradle basis. Developments in
relation to Austria may be in
dicative of a change of mood
which may extend to other areas.
II do not want to imply that
I think we have achieved our
goals. There are still bad spots
as well as good spots. Also, l do
not doubt that the international
Communists believe that any
new policies which they now
adopt are part of the classic
design which Lenin said means
that we might have to 60 in
zig zags. sometimes retracing our
steps; sometimes giving up the
course once selected and trying
various others"
Mr.. Dulles testified that the
achievement of sovereignty by
West Germany today and her
entry into NATO marks the
death knell of the policy Mos
cow has followed in Europe
since the end of the war" He
said the Russians are forced to
admit they have failed, that they
must look for new policies and
are trying to put "the best face
they can" on those new policies.
II think what they are doing
in Austria will create new hope
among the captive peoples that
they, too, may be liberated" the
Secretary added.
Other Points Listed
Other points developed by Mr..
Dulles under questioning were:
Although there is an unspent
balance of $8.7 billion in foreign
aid funds, it is nearly all obli-
gated and is mainly for military
equipment which requires two
or three years for delivery.
The United States probably
will have to continue helping its
allies for a considerable period
of time, just as 1t will have to
maintain its own military forces
at the present level for a long
time to come.
Evening star., 1955-05-05
BY the Associated Press

The House Appropriations
Committee today approved the
administrators planned mill
tary manpower cuts and voted
$31 ABB 100000 in new defense
funds.
It promised additional funds
in a hurry lin the vent of dras-
tically worsened world condi-
tions."
The recommended new money,
coupled with unobligated funds
from previous appropriations.
would give the Defense Depart
ment $43,081. 100000 to spend
during the bookkeeping year
starting July l if the House and
Senate go along.
Emphasizes Defense
That budget, the committee
said in a formal report written
by Representative Mahon. DEM
ocrat. of Texas, emphasizes "con-
tinental air defense and our in
creasing potential for massive
retaliation in the event of en-
emy attack"
Subject to House action next
week, the bill approved by the
50-man committee provides
STA 500, 900 less new money than
President Eisenhower requested.
but much Of the cut was more
technical than real.
The committees approval of
the Presidents plan to cut Army
strength more than $4,000 during
the coming year is certain to
touch off a House battle. Repre-
sentative Flood, Democrat, of
Pennsylvania, a committee mem
ber. said he would ask the House
to boost the funds by $3.50 mil
lion to prevent any military per-
sonnel cuts.
The committee said it was
concerned about the situation"
but added:
"A large standing army and
the stockpiling of large quantities
of weapons, especially weapons
subject to rapid obSolescence, has
been determined as less eco
nomical in this age of rapidly
Evening star., 1955-05-05
BY ALTON L. BLAKESLEE
Associated Press Science REPORTER

IN TRENCH AT SURVIVAL
CITY, New. May 5.-The sight
and feel and smell of an A-bomb
came flashing. laundering and
rocking at six women braying
wars newest weapon IN a trench
only two miles from the blast
center today.
They were awed, excited and,
yes, a few a bit frightened.
"Oh, that burst!" My heart
was pounding!" Gee. what a
beautiful thing!"
These were typical reactions
of typical American women who
took the blow of an A-bomb at
the closest range American
women have ever experienced.
Demonstrate Survival
They did it to demonstrate to
other women that civilians can
survive an atomic blast, If they
take proper precautions.
Helmeted and goggled, they
knelt in this dusty trench gorged
with excitement, tinged with a
bit of quite normal fear.
Mrs. Lydia burst. of Silver
Spring, Md. one of the six wom-
en-, said:
Il was a little frightened when
they started counting off the Sec
onds. At the last moment. it was
excitement mixed with fright.
The rocking of the trench was
the most impressive thing to me-"
Mrs. burst is assistant to Har-
old I. Goodwin, test director for
the Federal Civil Defense Ad-
ministration.
Mrs. Robert Ives of Topeka.
Evening star., 1955-05-05
Major A-B|ast Finally Set off
In Open Civil Defense Test
Survival CITY
Is Obscured
From View

SURVIVAL CITY, New. May 8
R.-Atomic fury at least one
and half times as powerful al
the blast which leveled Hiro-
shima struck at this tiny test
town on the desert today.
1t knocked out the 250-watt
radio station located less than .
mile from the heart of the great
nuclear explosion and probably
caused extensive damage to the
four homes along Doomsday
drive. only 4.700 feet from the
500-foot blast tower. The tower
was completely vaporized.
The huge device packed a fire.
ball lasting Is seconds and q
power of from 80 to IS kilotons.
The bombs which hit Hiroshima
and Nagasaki contained 20 kilo-
tons of power, the equal of 10000
tons of TINT.
The full extent of the damage,
in this public test of civil defenses
will be determined in a tour Of
battered Survival City tomor-
row.
Postponed Repeatedly
Today's televised detonation--
which had been postponed re-
peatedly because of weather
conditions since the original shot
date of April 26-was the 18th
of the 1855 series and the 45th
in the Continental United
States. 1t was the largest of the
three open shots here; the
others were in 1852 and 1853.
The test organization an
nounced that the final shot of
this series--also from a 500-foot
tower on Yucca Flat-might be
detonated before dawn tomor-
row. A weather evaluation
meeting was set for today.
The great white flash from
the explosion was seen through
out the Southwest and 500 miles
northwest at klamath Falls,
Greg. 1t also lighted the sky
across the Mexican border from
San Diego. Calf, and was
sighted in Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Salt Lake City, Utah,
and Phoenix. Ariz.
Although it Illuminated Las
Vegas, rs miles away, brighter
than the sun for an instant, no
conclusion was felt there. How
ever, the burst Jared Henderson,
near Las Vegas.
Dust Covers Test City
The scattered little test city
here--it might be suburb in
any part of the United States
lay completely enveloped in dust,
some of it radioactive, a few min
utes after the detonation. An
hour later Atomville still was
completely obscured from the
view of observers on News Mob, 8
miles back.
The shock wave, a jolting wal
lop unequalled by any previous
public test, hit observers in
trenches at only 1900 and $500
See BLAST, Page AS
Evening star., 1955-05-05
Efforts to Release
FLYERS Intensified

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y, May
5 (Pl.-United Nations Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold said
today efforts to release Is Amer
ican flyers imprisoned in Red
China have been intensified.
He told news conference his
recent trip to Europe had a bear
ing on the problem. but declined
to predict further developments
could be expected soon. Asked
whether there was anything new
on the question. he said:
THE contacts with the Pei
ping regime) not only have con-
tinued but they have been re-
Gently intensified"
Evening star., 1955-05-05
Health Service to Seek
More Sofety in Serum
Tests of SoIk Vaccine to Stress QuoIity
AS Polio Strikes lnoculuted Children

The United States Public
Health Service has launched a
study of the making and testing
of Salk polio vaccine to learn If
additional safeguards can be
developed.
The review of quality controls
over the vaccine is an outgrowth
of the withdrawal of one firm S
serum after 90 children inocu-
lated with it developed paralytic
polio.
Announcement of the study
followed President Eisenhower's
emphasis in his news conference
yesterday on quality control as
more important than quantity
control.
In the wake of the switch in
emphasis to quality control, a
Health Service doctor said in
vestigation of polio cases which
developed among 10 Idaho chill
dren after their inoculations
points strongly to vaccine as
the cause"
But ne said further laboratory
tests were necessary before he
could say that definitely.
vaccinated Children Are Victims
DR.. Carl Ecklund, chief of the
virology section of the USPHS
laboratory at Hamilton. Mont,
said investigations showed:
/. Polio has occurred only in
vaccinated children.
2. The disease was found in
the arms in which the vaccine
was given while the disease nor
mally centers in the legs. The
legs of only one victim were af-
fected.
The archaeological evidence
would point strongly to vaccine
as the cause" DR.. Ecklund said.
He said there was nothing to
Evening star., 1955-05-05
MOTHERS DAY
PROCLAMATION

President Eisenhower to-
day proclaimed next Sunday
as Mothers Day.
His proclamation called
upon all Americans Ito give
public and private expression
to the esteem in which our
country holds its mothers,
through the display of the
flag at their homes and other
suitable places, through
prayers at their places of
worship, and through appro-
pirate manifestations of re-
spect and devotion"