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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-10-19
To Jackson

Mrs. Will Wilson and Mrs.
John Howard Beall spent yes
terday in Jackson.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-10-19
Visits Mother

Mr.. and Mrs. Trent Wander
griff of Maryville, Tennessee ar
rived today to visit her mother,
Mrs. Kate Pepper.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-10-19

TO Memphis
Mrs. Necie Povall spent last
weekend in Memphis as guest
Of her son. Henry Hooker, Mrs.
Hooker, Karen and Hank, to
celebrate Hanks birthday.
Guests From South Carolina
MI. and Mrs John A. Scruggs.
the former May Pepper, of
Union, South Carolina are guests
CT Mrs. Kate Pepper this week.
Evening star., 1961-11-07
Nevada Governor
And Gamblers Hit
Reports of Probe

LAS VEGAS, New, Nov. Z
(AP). - Nevadans from the
States Governor to it's gam
blers Joined in lashing reports
from Washington of a new
Federal inquiry into possible
hoodlum activities in Las Vegas
United States Senator Can
non, Democrat of Nevada, and
Democratic Gov. Grant Sawyer
both telephoned Attorney Gen
eral Robert Kennedy and later
said none of the reports was
true.
Senator Cannon said he was
told there was no new investi-
cation in the works. He labeled
the reports as "very much ex-
aggerated and out of proper
ton with the facts"
Mr.. Sawyer wrote off the re-
ports as complete distortion,
exaggeration and cheap sem
Sationalism."
One gambler called the re-
ported investigation an at
tempt by the Kennedy admin
istration Ito make us a patsy
for previous bungling includ-
ing Cuba and Berlin"
Evening star., 1961-11-07
Fire on Constellation
Kills 4 and Injuries 9

side the vessel in some Of its
5000 compartments.
Jet fuel spilled over the decks
and was touched off by weld
ing equipment.
The 25-story tall Constella-
ton has a full crew limit of
about 400 and provides 4
acres Of space for 100 planes.
1t is Loaf feet long-about five
city blocks-and 252 feet wide
She is the latest of six car
riers in the giant Forrestal
class. The others, already in
service, are the Forrestal, the
Saratoga, the Ranger, the In
dependence and the recently
completed 6O,0OO-ton Kitty
Hawk.
Final completion of the Con-
stellation is scheduled for De-
cember. A still larger carrier,
the atomic-powered Enterprise,
has been launched and is un-
dergoing sea trials, but has not
yet been commissioned.
Evening star., 1961-11-07
Hurricane Toll
At 31o as Belize
Cleans Up Debris

BELIZE, British Honduras
Nov. Z (AP).-The death toll
from Hurricane Hattie rose to
319 today as the British colo
nial capital slowly fought its
way back. Officials expected
more bodies would be found as
clearing operations progressed
Cleanup crews piled debris in
streets to be burned. The local
radio station, knocked out by
the storm, returned to the air.
Gov. Sir Colin Thornley, set
up temporary offices and
broadcast an appeal to resi-
dents to cooperate with British
armed forces sent in to restore
order. The city's courthouse
was among the buildings de-
stroyed when the hurricane
smashed or damaged an eSti-
mated rs per cent of the build
ings here October 81.
Evening star., 1961-11-07
Storm Jenny:
Bit Weaker J
By the Associated Press

Tropical storm Jenny, de-
NOTED by weathermen from the
hurricane class, thrashed wa
ters with peak winds of 70 miles
an hour today. 1t posed no
threat to the United States
mainland.
Gale force winds menaced
shipping in the area of the
storm, centered at IL am.
(EST) about 745 miles east
southeast Of Bermuda. The
SIS Venore, a New Orleans
bound ore carrier, was report
ed in the path of the storm
after breaking her drive shaft.
Forecasters said aircraft re-
connaiSSance found that Jenny
had weakened a little. Previous
top winds were above the min
imum for hurricanes-74 miles
an hour.
In the Gulf of Mexico, tropi-
cal storm Inga remained sta
tionary during the night as
cold air began to drift into the
center Of the disturbance.
The New Orleans weather
bureau. at II am. (EST, PIN
pointed the center of this storm
about 120 miles west-northwest
OF Carmen, Mexico. ,t-.
nga continued to pack winds
OF 70 miles an hour near the
center.
A few squalls with 30-4O
m.ph. winds along the Mexican
coast near Campeche are eK-
pected today and tonight.
Evening star., 1961-11-07

an estimated 100000, and
sprayed a hose about the prop
erty, which was saved. The
actress, her face besmirched
with SCOT, her blouse soaked,
emerged unhurt with her
fiancee, director Richard Quine,
who ripped his trousers.
Joe E. Brown lamented to
newsmen: Everything went
juts as quick as that we
were almost burned out 20
years ago when we lived in
another canyon home. But we
got off lucky that time"
Il can't talk to you right
now" said Marion Brando,
reached by phone as he scurried
about his Japanese-style house
atop Mulholland drive. I'm
kinda busy. The fire isn't in the
immediate area, but it could
be coming this way. I've got to
TO up on the roof and water
IL down" His home was left
intact.
Actors James Garner and
Steve Cochran also used hoses
to save their homes.
Flees With Paintings
Art collector James Vige-
veno fled from his suite in the
Bel-Air Hotel with an auto
load of 40 paintings, including
works of Modigliani, Utrillo
and PicasSo.
Mr.. Vigeveno declined to say
what the paintings were worth.
But a friend estimated their
value at about a half-million
dollars.
The Bel-Air Hotel also evac-
uated 100 guests - including
producer Otto Preminger. play
wright Gore Vidal and Broad
way musical producer Morton
Da Costa.
CA few miles away, in
sparsely settled Topanga Can
yon and unpopulated Santa
Ynez Canyon, a brush fire de-
stroyed nine homes and
scorched about 1000 acres.
At dusk. the sun turned
blood red through the pail of
smoke shrouding the hills. Later
in the night the blaze was visi-
Bile for miles, a neon-like
orange glowing under a purple
sky.
Wind-whipped flames roared
through steep canyons, explod-
ing at times into a dreaded
fire storm" which occurs
when flames get so hot they
generate their own winds, up
to 100 miles an hour or more,
and devour everything in their
path.
Evening star., 1961-11-07
Kennedy Message
Sent to Russians

President Kennedy sent the
following terse message today
to Soviet President Brezhnev: [:
ION the occasion of this ma
tional holiday of the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics, the
people of the United States join
me in sending to the peoples of
the Soviet Union our best
wishes for a prosperous future
in a secure and peaceful world. -
Evening star., 1961-11-07
Eisenhower Votes
After Completing
Physical Checkup

GETTYSBURG, Pa, Nov. 7
(AP).-Former President Ell
senhower, looking hale and
hearty after a physical checkup
in Washington, voted in Penn
sylvania's municipal election
here today.
Gen. Eisenhower went direct
lly to his polling place after
returning by car from Wash
ington where he underwent a
routine medical examination at
the Walter Reed Army Medical
Center.
The former President checked
into the hospital about 1880
last night after attending an
informal dinner in Washington
with present and former Off
GERS in Supreme Headquarters
Allied Powers in Europe. He
was the first SHAPE COM
mander.
Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther,
another former SHAPE COM
mander, was POSTMASTER for
the affair. He now heads the
American Red Cross.
Gen. Gruenther said others
asked to the cocktails and din
ner affair were Gen. Lauris
NorStad, the present command
er in Europe; Admiral Lord
Mountbatten of Great Britain,
and Gen. Adolf Ernst Heusinger
of Germany. chairman of a
NATO military standing group.
Both Gen. Eisenhower and
his wife underwent complete
physical checkups at Walter
Reed last month.
Evening star., 1961-11-07
Continued From First Pag

county and 20 adjoining cities
sent men and equipment.
The main fire is in rugged,
mountainous terrain extending
westward to the sea and divid-
ting San Fernando Valley from
Los Angeles and its western
suburbs. The sprawling blaze
is roughly 10 miles northwest
of downtown Los Angeles and
3 miles northwest of Beverly
Hills. Brentwood, Bel-Air and
the Hollywood Hills are subur-
ban communities.
!, There were no reports OF
death or serious injury. Gov.
Edmund G. Brown declared Los
angeles County a disaster area,
" The City Fire Department
said it counted more than 200
homes destroyed-many valued
at more than 100000 each.
A public information officer for
the department said the total
"easily could go as high as 300.
But, he said, it is impossible
to give a precise damage figure
4until the fire is out.
The spokesman said the total
value of ruined or damaged real
estate alone could exceed SIS
million-not including priceless
Fart works, lavish furnishings,
sfurs, jewelry and hillside water
shed, a vital defense against
ispringtime floods.
1900 Men Fight Fire
More than 1900 men fought
the fire, which started yester-
Evening star., 1961-11-07
Royburn Stronger,
His Doctor Reports

BONHAM, Tex. Nov. 7, CAP).
Sam Rayburn's doctor said
yesterday the House Speaker,
ill with cancer, was stronger
and spent a restful day. His
condition remains serious.
DR.. Joe Riser said Mr.. Ray
burn was visited by his sisters
and by Miss Ala Clary, his
Washington secretary for 42
years.
Mr.. Rayburn, 70, is a patient
in DR.. RiSser's small hospital.
Evening star., 1961-11-07
1000 Persons Flee
Damaging Flames

day morning and raced across
Bel-Air and surrounding SUBJ
urbS. studded with palatial
estates. $200-a-day hotels and
exclusive golf courses. Another
1000 reserves were assembled
The blaze swept down dry,
sunburnt slopes, overran luxu-
rious homes and quickly con-
sumed 5000 acres.
1t represents the worst prop
erty destruction for a single
California community since the
1906 San Francisco fire, said
the National Fire Underwriters
The worst previous fire in
Southern California burned
about 10000 acres and de-
stroyed 81 homes in nearby
Malibu in 1856.
Homes damaged or tempo
irarily threatened yesterday in
cluded those of Cary Grant
Red Skelton, Kim Novak, Mau-
reen O'Hara, Fred MacMurray
Alfred Hitchcock, Ginger Rog-
ers, Marion Brando, Robert
Stack, Steve Cochran, Bobby
DARN and wife Sandra Dee,
Greer Carson, Jascha Heifetz
Peggy Lee, Meredith Wilson
Maxene and Laverne Andrews
and Cliff Robertson.
Nixon Climbs on Roof
Former Vice President Nixon
was working on his forthcoming
book, six Crises" in his rented
Brentwood home when he and
research assistant Al Moscow
noticed flames a few hundred
yards away. Mr.. Nixon, hose in
hand. clambered up the roof
and watered the shingles. Fire
men ordered him, Mr.. Moscow
and a house man to leave. They
took his Manuscript.
They returned later to re-
cover personal effects and res
cue the Nixon family's cocker
spaniel Checkers.
Among the personal effects.
Recordings of Mr.. Nixon's talk.
with Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev. Mrs. Nixon also
returned briefly after the i'm
mediate danger had passed
She was away when the fire
started.
The house, leased from pro.
ducer Walter Lang, was saved
The Nixon family spent the
night at downtown hotel.
Flames licked the garage near
the entrance of Red Skeletons
five acre, half million dollar
estate. But firemen pumped
water from the comedians
swimming pool and saved the
home. Mr.. Skelton and wife
Georgia were en- route home
from Boston. His 13-year-olc
daughter Valentino and the
household staff were evacuated
The 100000 home of Zss
zsa Gabor, loaded with paint.
ings, jewelry and furs, was s
smoking ruin. Miss Gabor hac
obtained the mansion in 6
property settlement when sht
divorced millionaire Hotelmar
Conrad Hilton.
Lancaster Loses Home
All that was left of Bur
Lancaster's hillside home were
two smoking chimneys, a water.
soaked baseball diamond, {
Scorched exercise-bicycle anC
barbells.
Kim Novak rushed home from
a movie studio, climbed tn,
roof of her Bel-Air home, worth
Evening star., 1961-11-07
By the Associated Press

Flames flashed through q
machinery room Of the hard
luck USS Constellation, taking
the lives of four men and in
juring nine others as the sleek
new aircraft carrier cruised on
its trial run.
The Navy said the ship-hit
by a major shipyard blaze
that killed so men and injured
$50 last December-suffered
only minor damage in yester-
days fire that broke out when
fuel oil apparently was acci-
dentally sprayed onto a hot
steam line.
The Constellation, newest
and largest Of the Navy's car
riers, was due to arrive in New
York tonight after its cruise
on the Atlantic Ocean off the
Southeastern United States
coast.
The dead were identified as
Bennie Crews, machiniSi
mate first class, Neptune
Beach, Fla; Louis F. Lynch
fireman, Passaic. N. j.; ALFRED
Steinbuch, Brooklyn, N. Y, {
civilian employe at the New
York Naval Shipyard, and Eu
gene Miller, a civilian not fur
ther identified.
Survived Earlier Fire
All the injured were Nav
enlisted men, none in critica
condition.
Mr.. Steinbuch survived tn
December l9 fire in the Brook
lyn Navy Yard which delayed
completion of the 77,000-tol
carrier seven months ant
tackled an estimated SAT million
onto the original $275 millior
cost.
Yesterdays fire was unde,
control within 10 minutes ant
out in 20 minutes, Capt. Thoma
j. Walker, 46, of Edgartown
Mass, commanding officer, saiC
in a statement released b!
the Pentagon.
The Navy said the fire brokt
out at 1885 pm. and added:
THE apparent cause of thu
fire was the failure of a fue
oil service pump release valvt
which permitted a flange tt
separate. spraying fuel oil OF
IA LOO degree Fahrenheit
steam line"
Crew Is Praised
Twenty-Five men were in the
compartment when the fire
started. Capt. Walker said:
THE performance of my
crew was magnificent. Every.
one performed admirably ir
carrying out their duties anc
kept casualties down. The
damage was very minor"
He said the machinery room
was usable, but not in use after
the fire was extinguished. He
informed the Chief of NavaI
Operations that the Consteha
ton is ready for sea" and
there is no need to change its
schedule of operations.
The ship, commissioned Oc-
tober 81. left Norfolk Satur-
day on the trial cruise and was
to have docked in New York
last night. However, before the
fire broke out, the schedule was
changed to permit another day
of trials and docking tonight
The Brooklyn shipyard fire
of last December resulted in
q heavy loss of life when many
workmen were trapped deep in
Evening star., 1961-11-07
u. N. Test Ban
Seen Doomed

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y,
Nov. z (AP).-The twin ac-
tions of the United Nations
General Assembly in appealing
for an immediate moratorium
on nuclear bomb testing and
the main U. N. Political Com
mittee in calling for new East
West negotiations on a treaty
to ban such tests under a sys-
tenn of controls appeared
doomed today.
The Assembly, by a vote of
II to 20, yesterday adopted a
proposal by India and five
nonaligned nations urging VOL
untary moratorium on nuclear
weapon tests. 1t was rejected
by all the nuclear power-the
United States, Britain, France
and the Soviet Union.
The Political Committee ap-
proved a United tes-British
resolution calling for new East
West negotiations on a test ban
treaty providing effective inter-
national controls. The Rus
SLAMS blasted that proposal and
said there never will be such
negotiations except as part of
negotiations for a general dis
armament treaty.
China Question Up
Today the United States
worked behind the scenes. seek
ing support for a move to head
off a General Assembly vote on
Red China's bid for a U. N
seat.
With the Assembly session at
the halfway mark. the world
body must act soon on the con-
troversial Chinese seating issue
placed on its agenda this year
for the first time since the
Communists took over the
mainland in 1949.
Doubtful it had the votes to
put across its usual proposal to
shelve debate on China for an
other year, the United States
voted this fall for a full airing
of the seating question. Now
United States diplomats are
sounding out delegates, seeking
support for another type of
poStponement proposal - crea-
ton of a special committee to
study the China question and
report back to the Assembly
next year.
African Support Seen
The United States has made
it plain it still opposes any
move to oust the Nationalist
Chinese and seat the Reds in
their place. 1t has served no.
tice it will fight the Soviet pro-
posal that the Assembly recog-
nize the Peiping government as
the lawful holder of the Chi
nese seat.
Western diplomats expressed
confidence the United States
has the voting support to dump
the Chinese question into the
lap of a committee, even though
the Communists and many
Asian and African delegates
will fight it as another attempt
to shelve the issue.
They pointed out that Ma
tionalist China's consent to let
Communist Mongolia into the
u. N. without a veto had as
sured her support from
Frances former African colo-
nies because it lifted the
threat of a Soviet reprisal veto
against Mauritania, also a for
mer French colony. Both ma
tionS were admitted to the
world body IL days ago after
three weeks of bargaining.
Western observers also feel
that, with the widening breach
between Peiping and Moscow,
evidenced at the recent Soviet
Communist Party Congress,
the Russians actually have lit
tie if any desire to see Red
China admitted to the U. N.
The Russians are said to fear
that Red China might try to
move in as chief spokesman for
the Communist bloc, a position
that has always been held by
the. Soviet Union.
Evening star., 1961-11-07
Howto Make Wine Experto of Y our Husband
In Thirteen Weeks: II
He Talks Sweet, Drinks Dry

HI HOPE I said the right thing" said
l. Madame x I'VE had hamburgerS
last night, and I pllfnked down the
Beaujolais right beside the patter. What's
the occasion, he said. just feel like
glass of wine, said. He drank two, and
said he liked my hair that way. OK?"
Just the way to do it. No fuss, no bother.
inexpensive red regionalS are just right
to perk up everyday meals. Wines are
generally known by the places from
which they come, the regionalS being
blends from various vineyards Some
times such wines come from a single
district in the region, or even township,
but they're all called regionalS.
HE said it was nice and dry" said Mad
anne x. But it didn't taste like his
favorite Martini. What does dry mean?"
Absence of sweetness. A dry wine can
still taste fruity or flowery and not be
sweet If he liked whiSkey sours or Man
hattanS, chances are he'd like the white
wines what are quite flowery, or even
sweet, like Sauternes from the Bordeaux
district, Vouvray from the Loire, or
Rhine wines from AlSace or Germany.
They taste best with all kinds of fish and
sea food, fowl and delicateSsen. Only the
Sauternes is very sweet, to serve with
rich foods, like fish or sea food with a
cream sauce, or even chicken or veal
Evening star., 1961-11-07
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Evening star., 1961-11-07
Lancaster Loses Home

All that was left OF Burt
Lancaster's hillside home we're
two smoking chimneys, a water
soaked baseball diamond, a
scorched exercise-bicycle and
barbells.
Kim Novak rushed home from
a movie studio, climbed the
roof of her Bel-Air home, worth
Evening star., 1961-11-07

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Evening star., 1961-11-07
1900 Men Fight Fire

More than 1900 men fought
the fire, which started yeSter-
Evening star., 1961-09-25
Congressional Leaders
Loud Kennedy Speech

action the Russians will take
to the proposals.
Senator Humphrey. Demo-
crat of Minnesota, said in a
S t a e m ent that the United
States is proposing "a compre-
hensive program for general
and complete disarmament.
which provides a way for
balanced reduction in all kinds
of ornaments by all nations :"
"The United States disarma-
ment program has the great
advantage of being completely
flexible" he said. THE United
States is now prepared to ne
gotiate for the control and re-
duction of a single category of
weapons or we are prepared to
negotiate several aspects of the
elements of the arms race as
a package"
Representative Mccormack
of Massachusetts, acting Speak
er, said Mr.. Kennedy's speech
recognized that "the road to
peace is through a disarma-
ment agreement" and also "the
practical situation, that this
has got to be accomplished step
by step, level by level"
Evening star., 1961-09-25
LEADERS DOUBTFUL
OF QUORUM CALL
HOUSE RECESS

House leaders, doubtful
about the possibility of
mastering a quorum, called
a recess this afternoon
after the House had been
in session less than an
hour and a half.
Representative Gross,
Republican of Iowa, de-
manded a quorum call
after the House had acted
on two bills and had eulo-
gized the late Representa-
tive Brown. Democrat of
Georgia. Acting Speaker
Mccormack Immediately
announced an indefinite
recess but told members to
be on hand for a resump-
tion of the session later
today.
Democratic leaders in
dicated the recess was
necessary mainly to wait
for the Senate to complete
its work. When the House
met, only about so mem
bers were present.
Evening star., 1961-09-25

the ground-floor window. He
slipped and fell into the net.
A second clim bed up and
grabbed at the woman's foot.
Her shoe came off in his hand.
The Communist police showed
up at the window and grabbed
her by the arms. Up climbed
the two West Berliners again.
One caught her by the leg. He
pulled, the Peoples police
tugged. Finally the West Ber-
liner just dropped, still hanging
on to the woman's leg. They
landed together in the net.
A West Berlin newspaper
quoted her as saying:
Il always hoped to die in
that apartment, I lived there
so long. Yesterday they told
me I couldn't even do that. So
I went"
Evening star., 1961-09-25
ARMS
Continued From First Page

Continued From First Page
they reported disagreement on
the forum in which the ne
gotiationS would be conducted.
The Soviet Union was hold
ing out for a modified version
of the troika, calling for five
nations to represent each of
three groups of nations
the West, the Communist
countries and the uncommitted
world.
The United States suggested
four alternatives ranging from
the 10 nation negotiating
group similar to that which
met in 1860 to a Donation or
even 99-nation forum.
The two powers have now
left to the General Assembly
the problem of finding a suit
able composition for the nego-
tiating group.
While American officials re-
peated that items in the first
stage of the new plan were
not in any way linked, one of
the principles on which the
program was based stated that
disarmament shall take place
in a manner that will not af-
feet adversely the security of
any state, whether or not a
party tor an international
agreement or treaty"
Evening star., 1961-09-25

into her flat and said she
would have to move. She
argued, and other tenants
backed her up. The police went
away-not very far, apparent
ly-and someone managed to
notify West Berliners.
At 1870 a West Berlin fire
truck drove up and the firemen
spread their net. First, the
woman threw out a shopping
bag containing a few personal
belongings, and-a witness said
her cat. Then the old woman
herself climbed out and stood
on a ledge below the window.
A small crowd of West Ber-
liners gathered.
There were cries of: Come
on and jump"
But she couldn't make up
her mind. A young West Ber-
liner climbed onto the ledge of