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, 1961-03-23
BILL Nc. 1851
THIRD LEGISLATURE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
OF UNITED STATES
Regular Session
1860

Act to Authorize the Governor to Effect an Exchange of
Land Between the Government Of the Virgin Islands and
the Virgin Islands Hotel Inc, Charlotte Amalie,
Saint Thomas, and for other Purposes. 4
The Nome nugget., 1961-06-12
Kennedy Uses
 Crutches to
 Get Around

WASHINGTON lR Using crutches and specially contrived elevator platform to get down from his plane - because of his back - President Kennedy re- turned today from Florida.
 His return ended a four day stay at Palm Beach, Fla, where Kennedy had gone for rest and treatment of a back injury suffered on his recent trip to Canada.
 At the Florida home of Charles Wrightsman, an old friend, the President swan in a heated pool under doctors orders, the White House has reported.
 A missile-maintenance platform known to airmen as a cherry picker" had been used to get Kennedy aboard his plane in Florida.
 The especially designed eleva- tor was of rectangular blue painted platform attached to a yellow 12foot fork lift, common ly used around warehouses and to load cargo.
 Secret Service men and aides sWarmed about the President as he made his way on crutches about 80 feet from the plane to a waiting helicopter.
 Photographers at the White House were unable to get pictures of the President on crutches. Newsmen were kept inside and had to watch his arrival through windows.
 Assistant press secretary An drew Hatcher said Kennedy was feeling fine after his brief Florida vacation. He said the decision to use the crane was made because it is safer and to ease the strain of walking up the plane steps on crutches.
The Nome nugget., 1961-06-12
4-Man US. Team
 Heads for Havana On Tractor Deal

WASHINGTON LR - A four man American team leaves for Havana tonight in hopes of clos ing a deal with Prime Minister Castro to swap 500 tractors for 1,200 Cuban invasion prisoners.
 The U. s. technical team repre- senting the Tractors-for-Freedom Committee cabled Castro Sunday night that it would arrive in Havana at 8 a. m. Tuesday after an overnight stop in Miami.
 The path to Havana seemed cleared of any official obstacles. Representatives of both the U. s. and Cuban governments said the team could get the necessary travel permits in Washington this morning.
 But it remained to be seen whether Castro would agree to the terms the committee is offer ing. T'he pro-Communist Cuban has been talking publicly about deals the Americans say they will not accept
 A spokesman said the U. s team of four non-g government farm machinery experts hopes tc complete arrangements in Ha. vana in about a day, returning to the United States Wednesday
 In it's cable to Castro, the groul said it had power to negotiat' only on details of the committe' version of a swap and is in n position to discuss any other mat ters.
The Nome nugget., 1961-06-12
U. $. Government May Go To Court to Break
 Up General Electric CO.

NEW YORK LR Genera Electric Go. said today the gov ernment has raised the possibility it might go to court to break ur GE, the worlds largest electrica goods manufacturer.
 The company said it's repre- sentatives were told of the pos sibility last week by Asst. Atty Gen. Lee Leevinger in discus sions on a proposed consent de- cree to end a price-fixing con- spiracy case.
 The talk of a divestiture pro- ceedings followed GEE rejection of the government-drafted decree as foolhardy and impossible of full fillment, a spokesman said.
 The spokesman made his dis closure in commenting on stories in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal on the possible government move.
 The spokesman added that Leevinger did not make clear which properties the government might seek to split off from the parent firm.
 The decree is an alternative to civil suit in which the govern ment would ask relief from the collusive and monopolistic prac- tices of which GE and 28 other electrical equipment manufac- turers were convicted earlier this year.
 The companies and 45 persons were fined nearly $2 million for conspiring to fix prices, rig bids and allocate markets.
The Nome nugget., 1961-06-12
One Dozen Paddlers Head North for Juneau

TACOMA R One dozen paddlers and five canoes were somewhere on Puget Sound to- day, slowly cruising northward toward Juneau in the interests of science and recreation.
 Juneau is 1,200 nautical miles from Tacoma, where the adventure began Saturday.
 Dr. A. L. Schultz, a physician, is heading the party of eight boys and three other adult counselors. They are due in Juneau by July 16, because that's the day recep- tion is planned for them in the Alaska capital city.
 The group plans to stay within IS minutes of shore all the way. They carry radios to obtain ire quent weather reports.
The Nome nugget., 1961-06-12
Ambassador to Mexico Says US Knew of CaStrO'S Red Leanings in 1859

WASHINGTON R - Robert C. Hill, who was Ambassador to Mexico at the time, told Senate investigators today some intelli- gence reports from the State De- partment in 1859 and 1860 "seem- ed slanted toward Fidel Castro" ;"
 Hill said William A. Wieland, then director of the State De- partment's office of Mexican and Caribbean Affairs, "persistently rebuffed" suggestions that the revolutionary's regime in Cuba was under Communist domina- ton.
 U. s. policy, Hill testified, seemed to be one of patience and forbearance, on the theory that Castro eventually would see the light"
 q believed Castro was definitely under the influence of Com munists, and I don't believe Com munists ever see the light" said Hill. He testified to the Senate Internal Security subcommittee.
The Nome nugget., 1961-06-12
Dutch Airliner Crashes Near Cairo, 20 Persons Are Reported Killed

CAIRO, Egypt R - A Dutch propjet Electra crashed in sand dunes and caught fire in an at tempt to land at Cairo today.
 Airline sources said 20 per sons were killed. The Electra's cargo included gold ingots, iewelry and Swiss watches bound for Asia.
 Information here was that the four-engine, Lockheed-built craft carried 36 persons and that all the survivors were injured, 10 seriously. The Royal Dutch Air lines said no Americans were in volved. The Electra was bound from Amsterdam to Kuala Lum- pur, Malaya.
 Three of the seven-member crew perished.
 The plane crashed in a desert area nearly two miles from the end of the runway.
 Experts of the airline were ex- pected from the Netherlands tc investigate the crash, the third mishap to a KIM plane within two weeks.
 On May 30 a KIM DC-8 car ried 62 persons - AS passengers and IA crew members - to death in the Atlantic off Lisbon. Sun day an engine on a DC-7 caught fire and went out of control or a flight from Hartford, Conn. to Europe. The plane, chartered by 73 employees of the Electri Boat Co.,, of Connecticut for European tour, was buffeted abou 40 minutes before the engine fel off. The plane landed safely ol three engines at PrestWick, Scot land.
The Nome nugget., 1961-06-12
COP Chairman Says JFK Made A Tragic Mistake

WASHINGTON LR - Repub- lican National Chairman William E. Miller says President Kennedy "rescinded and revoked the Eli senhower plan to have the Cuban freedom fighters protected by American air power"
 That, Miller said Sunday, was a tragic mistake" by Kennedy.
 ''Then, the second mistake he made - and the most tragic of all - was to announce to the world that he had rescinded this order, that the A m eri c a n s wouldn't do a single thing to help the Cuban freedom fighters" Miller said.
 Miller'S comments were in a television-radio program record ed for Pennsylvania stations. The states two senators, Republican Hugh Scott and Democrat Joseph Clark, also appeared.
 There has been no word from official sources that former Presi- dent Eisenhower favored air sup port for the forces which invaded Cuba in April.
 Scott said that when Kennedy failed to support the Cubans with American Naval forces, American supplies and American air cover, that's when the in vasion failed"
 The Republican comments fol- lowed a statement by Clark that ''the whole Cuban mess is the result of a plan conceived by MT. Eisenhower" Clark said former Vice President Nixon knew of the plan ''in full" although "the knowledge was denied by him in the campaign"
 Scott said Kennedy made up his mind to support the Cuban in- vasion ''Without any help from Eisenhower or Nixon"
 "You can drag Nixon all the way back to California and you'll never change my mind that he had a thing in the world to do with it." Scott said.
 Clark said the invasion plan "called for the violation of our treaties, the violation of our agree ment with the Organization of American States and going in with American troops in cuba"
The Nome nugget., 1961-06-12
Russian Flag Flies In Boston HarbOr

BOSTON R - A Russian flag flew today in Boston harbor - the first one seen in years.
 A Soviet trawler came into port yesterday to land it's captain, Artsev V. Grigorievich, B, for treatment of gastritis.
 A seaman, Nicolai I. Kulakov also was landed. He injured his back when the traWler dropped anchor in the lower harbor.
 Both were taken to the U. s. Public Health Hospital. A doctor said three days treatment is needed.
 The vessel has a crew of 23. Through an interpreter, Capt. Grigorievich said the traWler, identified only as CPT 148, sail ed from it's home port, Kalinin- grad last April 23 to fish for herring off the Canadian coast near Grand Banks.
 A number of Russian trawlers have been reported off the New England Coast in recent months. Some Boston fishermen a few months ago reported one near the Texas radar station 100 miles east of Cape Cod. Another was sighted only 20 miles off Chat ham, not far from the summer home of President Kennedy at Hyannis Port.
The Nome nugget., 1961-06-12
US. and Canada
 Negotiate Exchange Of Military Planes

WASHINGTON R - The Unit ed States and Canada are nego- tiating exchange of milit ary planes.
 That was confirmed Sunday by the Defense and State Depart ments after the Canadian press said the two countries would sign an agreement within AS hours. The Canadian press said the planes were worth S320 million.
 According to Canadian press, the agreement includes these pro- visions: Canada acquires 66 Amer ican-made F-101 Voodoo jet fight CTS; the United States places orders for Canada to produce 200 F-104G Starfighter jets to be shipped to North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies, and Canada takes over operation of the Pine Tree Radar Line, running across Canada just above the border be- tween the two countries.
 The financial arrangements are complicated In all exchanges the U. s. share of the deal is $240 million, while Canada puts up $80 million, mostly by manning the radar line.
The Nome nugget., 1961-06-12
Two AWOL
 Soldiers Admit To Seven Murders

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah R - Two calm teen-agers, swapping quips about the electric chair, offhandedly spun a tale Sunday of murder in half a dozen states.
 "It didn't seem to bother them one way or the other,' said Colo rado sheriff w. H. Terill. "I mean, no more than what you'd think about going out and shooting a rabbit"
 The two, George York and James Latham, said there had been two women in Florida, a man in Louisiana, man in Ten nessee, two men in Illinois, one in Kansas, and a girl in Colorado.
 They reckoned it eight people, six states, eight notches carved in the handle of one of their pistols.
 Except that the man in Louis jana they only learned this last week - survived.
 Terrill was one of the law of- ficers who talked Sunday with York, Is, of Jacksonville, Fla, and Latham, his 19year Army chum from Mauriceville, Tex. To all, the AWOL youths talked free ly and willingly signed statements.
 "They talked as if they might
 The two are held, under $10,000 bond apiece, on federal vehicle theft charges.
 "They talked as if they might have robbed a peanut machine, J said one law officer who ques- toned them. 'There wasn't any remorse. They even laughed al some of their victims"
 Sheriff Terrill agreed.
 "They joked about the death penalty" he said. "One said to the other he'd have to go first to the hot seat. The other said, no, we'll both go together"
 York and Latham were arrest ed Saturday, at roadblock west of Salt Lake City, in a bright red car which had belonged to one of the victims.
The Nome nugget., 1961-06-12
MOtOrbOat Goes Over Niagara Falls.
 Four People Die

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. R - Four persons died Sunday night when small motorboat carrying them on an outing capsized in the rapids above Nigara Falls and plunged over the edge.
 Two women and a man were swept over the brink of the cataract and dashed into the mass of rocks and churning water 162 feet below.
 The other man was sucked through the intake of a power plant.
 Killed were George Stewart, a druggist from RidgeWay, Ont; his wife, Jean; and Stanley Tess man and his wife, Gladys, of Buff falo, N. Y.
 Crowds of sightseers at the famous tourist attraction watched in helpless horror as the tragedy began to unfold two miles up the Niagara River.
 The boat, apparently hit by en- zine trouble, drifted through gate of the Ontario Hydrocontrol Dam which stretches more than halfway across the river from the Canadian side.
 In all the history of the falls, only one person is know to have survived an accidental plunge over the brink - boy who fell over last year.
The Nome nugget., 1961-06-12
THE WEATHER

Partly cloudy with little Change in temperature. Low tonight 35- 40, high tomorrow 55-60. In the last A hours: High of 59, low of 39. Sunrise at 1:23 a. m., sunset at 10:40 D. m. Temperatures a year ago today: High of AS, low 30. Extremes on this date since 1907: High of 78 in 1889, low of 29 in 1883.
The Nome nugget., 1961-06-12
LOT OF WALKING

SAN DIEGO, Calf. R - Inez Sutton proved something that all waitresses know: The job involves miles of walking.
 Inez, employed at a central dis trict restaurant, put a pedometer on her leg Friday. After eight hours, the instrument showed she had walked IFS miles.
Evening star., 1961-01-20

been declared missing in the
confusion which followed the
flaming crash.
When the plane finally
halted, passengers leapeo
through exit doors and smashed
windows and fled in all direc-
tions in the subfreezing tenn
perature.
Many were picked up by
passing motorists and driven
back to the airport or taken to
hospitals.
Mrs. Josephine Nickleski, 43
of Queens, became a victim OF
the crash while driving along
a highway near the airport
Her car was hurled about 10C
feet off the road when clipped
by the jet, and then caught
fire. She was reported in satis-
factory condition at a hospital
The DC-8B is the same type
plane involved in the airline
collision last month over Staten
Island, killing 134 persons in
historys' worst commercial
aviation disaster.
Carlos Victor Aramayo, South
American mining magnate anc
publisher, and his wife, Rene
were among those hospitalizeo
for checkups following the
crash. They gave their address
as Paris, France.
Evening star., 1961-01-20
AIgiers Ambush
Kills a Nurses

ALGIERS. Jan. 20 (AP).-
Seven persons, including a
French Army chaplain and
four nurses. were killed last
night in a rebel ambush near
AlgierS.
They were returning from a
tour of flooded areas near the
Crib Dam, about so miles from
the city.
Machinegun bullets smashed
into the. chaplain's car and a
truck following in which the
nurses and two Moslem soldiers
were riding. Three of the
nurses were Moslems.
The guerrillas then sur
rounded the vehicles, which
had come to halt, and fired
point-blank at the victims.
French Army units found
the seven corpSes and burned
vehicles at dawn today. A
knife was sticking out of the
priests throat.
Evening star., 1961-01-20

were severely handicapped by
the heavy snowfall that didn't
taper off until about noon
today.
The one person aboard who
might have the answer to the
cause is William B. Poe, So, of
Miami, Fla, check pilot aboard
the plane. His condition at a
hospital in Queens was de-
scribed as still critical" today
however.
Mr.. Poe, a veteran pilot OF
25 years with Eastern Ali
Lines, was on loan to the
Mexican airline. He was as
signed last year to teach craws
to fly the lines S. million
DC-8B jet. The crewmer
trained in Miami.
"The flight to Mexico City
from New York last night Wa:
to have been the end Of the
training program" his wife
said.
New Law to Be introduced
Noting that the plane took
off in a binding snowstorm
with winds UP to Is miles pei
hour, Representative Steven B
Derounian, Republican of New
York, said in a statement from
Washington:
Next week I will introduce
some legislation to make II
mandatory that no takeoff ol
landings of planes will be al
lowed unless visibility is 2.5
miles and the minimum ceiling
is $500 feet"
Visibility at the time Of the
crash was a quarter-mile, anc
the ceiling about 300 feet.
Mr.. Derounian is a member
of the House Subcommittee or
Transportation and Aeronau'
tics.
Both Idlewild and La Guar.
dia airportS were closed aftel
the crash.
Confusion Reigns
Police tentatively identified
the four bodies found in tht
wreckage as those of Capt
Ricardo Gonzales. the pilot
First Officer Antonio Rui;
Bravo; Second Officer Javiel
Alvarez Bacha, and Gloria San,
chez Herrejon. the purser.
Earlier, many persons hat
Evening star., 1961-01-20

is believed to be scratched or
the container.
"An intensive search for the
missing source (of radioactive
materiaD is continuing within
the laboratory" the announce
ment said.
But it also asked anyone who
should find it to notify the
laboratory or the Atomic En-
ergy Commission.
When not in use, the Navy
said, all such radioactive ma
terial is stored in locked con-
tainers.
"As long as the container is
not broken, there are no radia-
tion hazards to persons who
mar may come in contact with
the source" the Navy said. "If
the container is ruptured, how
ever, the material would be
dangerous if inhaled or injected
into the body of a person, be-
cause it is extremely poison
ous."
Evening star., 1961-01-20
Lab Warns
PIutonium
Is Missing
BY the Associated Press

A small quantity of radioac-
tive plutonium, which could be
dangerous if inhaled or swal-
lowed. has been reported miss
ing from the Naval Research
Laboratory here.
The laboratory said an in
ventory yesterday disclosed the
absence of the plutonium,
which was sealed in an alumni
mum container about one-half
inch in diameter and one
quarter inch high. About three
fourths of a gram of plutoniurn
is involved. There is no radia-
ton danger unless the con-
tainer is opened, the an
nouncement said.
The laboratory uses the
plutonium, obtained from the
Atomic Energy Commission, fol
study of it's magnetic proper
ties. The Navy said the small
amount of the substance in
volved makes it difficult to
locate even with sensitive de-
lection instruments.
1t added that the material
is not labeled but the numeral 8
Evening star., 1961-01-20
AirIiner Crash Kills 4;
rs of 1O6 in Jet Hurt

NEW YORK, Jan. 20 (AP) =
A Jet airliner with 100 persons
aboard crashed last night Sec
onds after taking off in a
wind-whipped snowstorm. -Four
persons were killed and at least
26 were injured, several criti-
cally.
Nineteen Of the injured were
admitted to hospitals. The
others were released after
treatment.
The huge ships speed sent
it slamming across a high
way, clipping an auto and skid
ding in flames into a marsh.
The dead tentatively were
identified as four of the
eight crew members - three
men and the woman purser
Sixty-one of the 98 passenger.
aboard the four engine lincl
are residents of the United
States.
The airlinen a DC-8B o.
Aeronaves de Mexico, wen
down at 8:25 pm. 1t was bounc
nonstop for Mexico City from
Idlewild Airport here.
Hits Wire Fence, Burns
One survivor, G. Terry Sc
christ of Pennington. Conn.
said the plane got about SO
feet in the air, then SKINNED
down. Other survivors weren't
certain if the plane ever got off
the ground.
Airport observers said the
$5-million craft had to gel
aloft to clear a concrete fence
at the end of the runway. The
plane did hit a wire fence just
beyond the concrete barrier
Sections of the wire fence were
enmeshed in the wreckage.
When it ended up in the
marsh, the front section of the
plane became enveloped ir
flames.
d. C. Man Tells of Escape
Nicholas G. Derachat, presi.
dent of the Pan American De.
Felopment Corp, Washington
D. c., had a seat just behind
the pilots cabin.
Mr.. Derachat, whose District
address is listed as 2713 Thirty.
fourth place NV. said, "Tht
plane got off the ground, anc
we were about 5 Or 6 feet of.
the runway when it cam'
down. The back of the plan,
hit fence. Then the plan,
crossed into a field on tn,
iOther side of Rockaway boule
ward. The whole front disap'
peared."
Mr.. Derachat said there wer
three stewardesses toward tn
front of the plane. and the
all started to yell Ther
was no chance to get out Q
the resr section, but I final
managed to get out of tn
plane. I walked half a mil
from the scene, and I wa
picked up by a motorist an
brought back to the terminal.
The Mexican line listed on
pther passenger as being ,fror
washington. His name did no
appear in any of the casualt,
reports, The name was givel
as Jose Sotelo, and the addres
as ALA Davis place NV.
"WeW Never Get Off"
Anthony Marone, As, one Q
the survivors, said the engine
seemed to sputter and miss a
the jet iroared down the run
way.
Il turned to my wife an
told her, Wen never get OF
the ground" the Mount Holly
N. j., horse trainer recalled. H
and his wife escaped throug
a door. -
Both the Civil Aeronautic
Board and the Federal Avia
ton Agency began immediat
on-the-scene investigations, bl
Evening star., 1961-01-20
Form Exodus Goes On

DES MONIES, Iowa-Only
one in nine United States farm
youths is expected to make his
livelihood from farming when
he grows up.
Evening star., 1961-01-20
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Evening star., 1961-03-28
Movies and Children
Is Discussion Topic

"Are Today's Movies Fit for
Our Children to See?" will be
the topic Of panel discussion
sponsored by the Takoma
Home and School Association
at 8 o'clock tonight at the
school auditorium, Piney
Branch road and Dahlis street
NV.
Members of the panel include
Jerry Strong, WMAL radio-TV
personality; Marjorie Holmes,
Star columnist, Charles Grimes,
general manager Of the Warner
Brothers Theaters In the Dis
trict, and George Sadlti. man.
ager OF the Takoma Theater.
Model ator of the discussion,
to which the public is invited,
will be the Rev. william
Scurlock.
Evening star., 1961-03-28

William L., Slayton, President
Kennedy's choice for head Of
the Urban Renewal Admins
tration, is the thinking-man's
type Of commissioner.
No flamboyant politico, Bill
slayton instead for most Of his
adult life has been workin g
quietly but effectively in the
planning and housing fields.
This Studious approach,
rather than the purely political
one, paradoxically was both his
strength and weakness when it
came time to choose someone
to run the Nations multi-mil-
lion-dollar urban renewal pro-
gram.
Democratic leaders like Gov.
Lawrence Of Pennsylvania and
Senator Douglas Of Illinois
backed Mr.. Slayton on the
ground urban renewal was too
crucial and too complicated .
program to entruSt to Just q
stewardship by one who had
served the party,
Others See Plum
But there were other Demo-
cratic powers who saw the $20.-
900 . year job Of urban re-
newal commissioner as . legiti-
mate political plum to be given
to one Of the full-time workers
in the party orchard. Thomas
D'Alesandro, form er Demo-
cratic Mayor Of Baltimore, was
in this category and under con-
sideration until he was ap-
pointed to the Renegotiation
Board.
So now the cities-aSsuming
Mr.. Slayton is confirmed by the
Senate-win be dealing with an
urban renewal commissioner
who is certainly q professional
In the housing field. The key
question is how successful he
will be within the Kennedy ad-
ministration and on Capitol Hill