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Evening star., 1962-04-11

A progress report on Gne
project to build a commercial
airliner capable Of flying three
times the speed Of sound has
been given the Society Of Auto
motive Engineers by Fedora
Aviation Administrator N. E
Halaby.
I'VE expect" he said, ito de-
eide by next summer whether
and if so, how, the Government
should assist United States in
duStry in developing a civil
supersonic transport"
Congress will be asked for
S25 million to complete the ex-
ploratory research program
Launched months ago with an
initial $11 million appro-
priation.
Airport neighbors will be glad
Ito hear that, even at this early
stage, I'VE are determined to
find an engine that will oper-
ate at sound levels acceptable"
by those living near airports.
The program to build the
Mach 8 airplane is about ready
to announce the first contracts
under the $11 million starter
and all of the money is expect
ed to be under contract by the
end Of May.
Are you chronically bored?
Life seem drab?
There are a half dozen clubs
in the Washington Baltimore
area who can guarantee a
cure-jumping out Of airplanes.
The Sky-Diving Clubs will
compete at Groom Field, near
Upper Marlboro, Sunday with
at least 40 jumpers taking part.
- -
Using an aircraft operations
check list devised by the Air
craft Owners and Pilots AsS0-
citation, 500 North Carolina
pilots are pursuing an aggres-
sive flight safety program.
The check list has been re-
produced and distributed to all
members of the North Carolina
Aero Club and to all airport
operators as an aid in the state
wide safety program.
Washington will have at least
two entrants in the Nations
two top flying events for wom-
en-.
Laura Zerener, of the Federal
Communications Commission,
and model Ellen Bateman will
| fly. in the All Women's Inter-
national Air Race, which fits
out of Houston for Nassau May
90.
They will be sponsored by
Free State Aviation, at Mont
gomery County Air Park.
4 =
Clare Mortified, Of General
Precision's Kearfoot division, is
the new president Of the Wom-
ems Aviation Club, succeeding
Mrs. Betty AinswOrth, of the
Civil AerOnautics Board, who
will serve on the executive COM
mittee.
Other new officers: Mrs. May
Belle Metcalf, of National Air
lines, vice president; Catherine
Crissman, of Trans World Air
lines, secretary. and Eloise
Evening star., 1962-04-22
8 SPEEDWAY INTERNATIoNA

Sports. "The 9TH Annual Darlington
Southern 5oo." 1856.
Evening star., 1962-04-22
q THE HATHAWAYS.


Comedy Featuring the Marquis chimps.
tRepeat)
80 q R0BT. TAYL0RS DETECTIVES.
Crime. Hour "The Walls Have Eyes"
The death of the nations top counter
feiter triggers feverish race between
gangsters and law enforcers to find miss
ing currency plates. John Larkin, Ellen
McRae and William Bryant are featured
8 SPEEDWAY INTERNATIONAL.
Sports. "The 9TH Annual Darlington
Southern 5oo." 1856.
q THE FLINTSToNES.
Animated cartoons. Take Me Out of
the Ball Game" Fred is discovered by
big league scout while umpiring for
6edrocks Little League.
q ROUTE IS.
Adventure. l Hour. "The Mud Nest"
The story Of Buz's search for a woman
whose background gives every indication
that she is his mother Betty Field and
Lon CLANCY are featured tRepeat.)
90 9 CAPITAL MOVIE.
Hours. Together Again." 1914.
Irene Dunne
% TT SUNSET STRIP.
Mystery Hour. "The Disappearance.
Stu tefrem zimbaIist. jr.) tries to crack
the well-laid plans of an abductor of a
distinguished American (John LiteD.
John Dehner is featured.
Evening star., 1962-04-22
q THE FLINTST0NES.

Animated cartoons. Take Me Out of
the Ball Game" Fred is discovered by
big league scout while umpirins for
5edrocks Little League.
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter., 1962-07-06
SHOWER GIVEN FOR
MISS Carroll ,GILLIGAN

Miss Barbara Sue Midget
honored Miss Carol Gilligan
bride elect at her home on Fri
day afternoon with a kitchen
shower.
Guests enjoyed games and con-
tests.
Those present were the hon.
oree; Misses Patty Neal, Carolyn
Marshall, Linda B. Gibbs, Aneta
Fisher, Judie Waites, Dean Cuth-
rell.
The Harris -Gilligan wedding
was performed Sunday at the
Gulrock Methodist Church by the
Rev. J. A. Williams, a former
pastor.
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter., 1962-07-06
Z)Uuss + +
By TOM JACKSON

1t was late, well after Loo
am, and the rain slanted in grey
sheets toward the southwest in
front of two dim headlights. The
car slowed and turned in at a
small service station which was
closed for the night. Under the
one street lamp at the corner of
the station yard was a familiar
red telephone booth which
shuddered from time to time in
the wind. The driver dashed
from the car toward the booth.
His shirt wet to his back before
he could get inside.
He picked up the receiver and
listened to the flat dial tone and
at first thought the line was
dead since the buzz was so faint.
The earpiece cracked and a slow
female voice drawled, "Manteo.
Number Please"
"Well," he answered, "I'm not
sure just what number / want.
don't know if my party has a
number listed or not" Before he
could explain further she drawl-
ed again, "who do va wanna talk
to?" The stranger paused, a
little startled at the operators
unsual manner, then answered,
"Uh, a Mister Sevare. / under
stand he's working here in
Manteo this summer with a
drama group, but l don't know
where he's living" "Oh," the
operator answered "you must
mean one of the Lost Colony
cast. Les see now. Some of 'em
are staying over at the Drink
waters and Goldie's keeping a
few and there's some at the
Pennystone's but they's not a
phone there. Let me try Goldie's
first, l believe he's there" The
bell at the other end of the line
tangled a few times and while
they were waiting for an answer
the operator commented, Fright
bad weather we're havin'," and
he answered, "Uh, yes. Yes it
is" This went on awhile until
somebody answered at "Gold-
les" and mumbled sleeply,
"Yeah, he lives here but he's not
in yet" The opeartor said.
"Good night" to the sleepy voice
and returned to the man in the
phone booth. "Wait just a min
ute, l bet l know where he is"
Somewhere across town an
other phone tangled and almost
Immediately a laughing voice
picked it up and shouted above
the music and party sounds,
''Drinkwater residence. Who?
Sevare? Yeah, he's here. Just
minute. Steve. Hey Steve, phone
for you" And the man in the
both, hearing finally a familiar
voice, started talking, "Steve.
How you doing? Boy, we had a
devil of time getting here. Got
lost and got in late and didn't
know where you lived. If it had
MT been for tn operator | don't
reckon I'd ever have found you.
She seems to know where every
body in town is tonight and
what they're doing. You got a
place for me to stay? Good. :"
and on they talked.
This is a scene we remember
from a first visit to Manteo.
There are many others similar
that people from Manteo and
Kill Devil Hills and Hatteras
and dozens of other places will
remember this week when they
lift their receivers and realize
the manual telephone operators
are gone from Manteo.
There are other memories, too,
which will flicker for a moment
before someone turns back to
the work at hand; memories of a
doctor hunted phone by phone
across town by the operator,
memories of help called to the
fire, or of operators working
steadily during the storm as
high tidal waters worked toward
The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter., 1962-07-06

the very door of the exchange
office.
Only last week the manaul ex-
change which so many know and
will remember was still in oper-
alton in the little white frame
house in Manteo. This week it is
gone forever and telephone SER
vice is channeled through a new
brick and steel automatic ex-
change building which houses
miles of impersonal wire and
hundreds of impersonal tubes
and probably thousands of very
impersonal circuit breakers. Now
only an impersonal dial tone "a
little louder, it seems, than be-
fore) and a page of telephone
numbers in a new telephone
book and bridges the commune
alton gap for Manteo.
Most of the II operators who
handled the manual system are
doing other things. Only one will
remain in the Manteo office,
where she will be office man.
ager. Three, perhaps, will go to
Elizabeth City to continue
working for the Norfolk and
Carolina Telephone & Telegraph
Company. The others probably
will devote more time to being
housewives (all are married but
one) or take another job.
The new automatic exchange
is little faster, perhaps, and it
can certainly handle more calls
than the old manual system. 1t
provides, also, room for expan-
sion, and probably nobody will
complain about free service from
the beach to Manteo. Still, many
of us will pause for a moment of
regret that the personal flavor
of manual exchange no longer
exists in Manteo; and that by
the end of this year will no long
er exist in North Carolina any
where. Although we recognize
need for progress in any area
we feel a bit sad that almost
always (and particularly in this
case) a little of the personal
ity" of a town must die for the
cause.
1t will not be long before an
other bit of Dare personality"
must die for the cause of pro-
gress. One can already count the
months before ferry service a
cross Oregon Inlet will be dis
continued and the new bridge
will open. It'll bring about faster
travel, cheaper maintenance for
the state, greater convenience
for business men in the area and
a number of other advantages.
Still, in this case too, a bit of
Dare personality" will die. No
bridge, not even one across the
riptides of Oregon Inlet, can
provide the excitement and ro-
nance of the numbering old Her
bert Bonner or the Governor
Cherry or the others that shuttle
back and forth daily carrying
cars and old men in shorts and
sunburned women and runny
nosed kids who throw bread
crumbs to trail of sea gulls.
Of the many people who have
seen a lot of changes in Dare
County and who have seen lot
of it's personality" die, two
of the most interesting are Miss
Belle Midgette and Miss Ozella
Payne. They were the two orig
inal manual operators in Manteo
when telephone service began
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-20
Intruder Shot
Hill.
Wounded Critically
In Attempt to Flee

A man breaking into the
Capitol Hill home of a Govern
ment secretary last night was
captured by a policeman waiting
inside, then shot and critically
wounded as ne tried to escape
Police said the officer had
been stationed in the house for
the woman's protection after an
assault on her three weeks ago
and several obscene phone calls
since then.
Pvt. Robert Tuell said he
caught the intruder breaking
in at 8:45 pm, covered him
with his revolver and ordered
him to sit in a chair while the
woman called headquarters.
But the man jumped from
the chair and ran out of the
house, Pvt. Tuell reported.
After chasing him about a
block and a half to an alley
behind the 600 block of A
street Sc, Pvt. Tuell said he
yelled a warning and then fired
five times.
Other police, responding to
the young woman's call,
swarmed over the area and
found the man in a passage
way along $40 East Capitol
street.
He had been wounded in the
lower back and right leg.
Police took him to Casualty
Hospital for treatment and
then transferred him to Dis
trict General.
The man, listed as Columbus
Cannady, jr.. 81, of the 500
block of independence avenue
Sc, was charged with house
breaking in last nights incl
dent and with housebreakina
and assault for the October 20
episode.
The victim, who also lives in
the 500 block of independence
avenue, told police last month
that a Negro had entered hel
home, placed a knife at her
throat and attempted a sexual
attack. Then he ran off.
Recently, she reported, she
had been receiving obscene
phone calls. The fifth precinEt
Estaked out policemen at heI
home beginning Sunday.
More calls came last night
and Pvt. Tuell was ready with
drawn gun when the creaking
of a door announced the in
Itruder's arrival. i
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-20
Munition BuiIdupSpurs
oridoMiIitory

MIAMI, Nov. 20 (AP).-Mil-
itary activity was stepped up
in South Florida today.
A steady stream of big Army
trucks bearing explosives"
signs sped to, the Miami area.
under an "all points" order
from the Florida Highway Pa
troll to clear their passage.
At the MacDlll Air Force
Base near Tampa, battle-ready
paratroopers of the 82d Air
borne Division. under tight Sc
curity wraps, were poised for a
practice drop in the Army-Air
Force maneuver Operation
Sun Shade l."
Other elements of the 82d
and the 101st Alrborne Divi-
sions were repeatedly at Eglin,
Tyndall and Mccoy Air Bases
in Florida, making final pre-
arations for the same ma
neuver.
Operation Sun Shade l."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-20
STAR TO PICK
ALL-STAR PLAYERS

THE FIRST Of The Stor's olI-stor
scholastic football selections op-
peers todoy, The All McryIond
teom will oppeor tomorrow, the
All : Interhish League choices
Thursday, the All-Prep selections
on Friday, and the All-MetropoIiton
squod in The Sunday Stor. The
All-Suburbon Virginia squod is in
trodueed on Puge A-z3.
CONTRARY TO THE LEGENDS,
President Kennedy hos earned a
greet decl Of money by himself,
especially with his Pulitzer Prize
Winning "ProfiIes Of courose,"
Fletcher Knebel reports in the third
instollment Of o series on the
Presidents personal finonees. on
Pose All.
RUSSIAN SPY JOHN VAssALL
fears he hos been discovered BY
SeOtlond YOrd in tOdoy's chapter
Of How | spied for Russio." on
Pose AS.
Have The Stor Delivered
Daily and Sunday
DioI Lincoln $1,000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-20

/ A bomber squadron consisting
of is planes normally has $50
men. II the IL-28s were organ
lied into three squadrons this
would have required an addi-
tional 1850 men.
All three Of these types of
weapons were known to be
heavily guarded by the Soviet
equivalent Of air police. A few
mere thousand Soviet personnel
would have been required for
this Job. according to estimates
here.
The United States regards
any Soviet military presence
in the Caribbean as q. threat
to the peace, under the terms
of the Rio Treaty.
President Kennedy is expect
ed to demand the withdrawal
of the Soviet military forces
and seek the backing of the
Organization of American
States for whatever action is
necessary to GUST the troops If
they are not voluntarily with
drawn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-20

medium -range missiles which
the Soviet Union shipped out
of the country recently. No
firm figure on the number Of
Russian personnel leaving Cuba
has been obtained, however.
Thus the estimate that up to
10000 Soviet military person.
mel remain could be conserva-
tive.
The normal complement for
each Of the "a surface-to-air
missile sites the United States
has spotted ringing Cuba is
about 100 men per battery.
Thus a total of 2,4O0 men,
roughly. could be expected to
man the "a sites. not counting
supporting personnel.
Each squadron Of is medi-
um-range ballistic missiles re-
quires 900 to 1000 persons, it
is estimated.
If the AZ Soviet missiles now
removed had been organized
into three squadrons, another
5000 men plus supporting units
would have been required.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-20
U.S.. Estimates Soviet Troop
Strength in Cuba at 10000
BY EARL H. vOSS
star staff Writer

Up to 10000 Soviet troops
may still be in Cuba, according
to American intelligence esti-
mates based mainly on the
normal compliments needed to
man military equipment shipped
to the island.
Existence Of 25-mile range
rockets capable of firing nuclear
warheads in Cuba has also been
confirmed. American officials
reported today.
The Soviet military units
equipped with nuclear rockets
or even conventional warheads
for the missiles, could be a POI
tent threat to the United States
Guantanamo Naval Base.
The 25-mile so-called FROG
firing range over ground) mis-
siles are considered mainly q
defensive weapon by United
States authorities, however.
Latest intelligence missions
show no movements yet to re-
move more than 80 Soviet
IL-28 bombers that Cuban
Premier Fidel Castro said would
be removed by Russia.
Assembly of the bombers,
which had continued through
most of last week, was reported
this morning to have stopped,
however.
About $4,000 Soviet troops
would have been the normal
complement for the weapons
known to have been sent to
Cuba at the height of the So
Wet build-up in mid October.
Between 5000 and 1000 men
could have left with the AZ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-20
.PRO-CASTRO CUBANS LINKED
TO PLOT TO BOMB SPAN
.gst

BROWNSVILLE, Tex. tAPls-=A United States I'M
migration Service official said today Mexican authorities
stopped plot to dynamite the international bridge be-
tween this south Texas city and Matamoros. Mexico.
Dudley Underwood of Brownsville said authorities
arrested 10 last night in Maamoros Mexican army
officials said they being held in the Matamoros
garrison. No disclosed.
Authorities told Ray Kasper news director Of radio
station KBOR here that the had SO sticks Of dyna
mite, along With plans to bomb both the gateway
bridge and the old bridge across the Rio Grande.
Mr. Kasper said two Of those arrested are known to
be pro-CaStro Cubans living in Mexico.
He quoted Mexican army authorities as saying the
plans also called for destruction Of the Mexican Palace
Maamoros the military GARRISON the telephone company
office and the municipal building
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-20
Adenuuer Party
Orders Forming
OF New Cabinet

BONN, Germany, Nov. 20
(AP). - Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer was empowered to-
night to form a new West Ger
man government by his Chris
tian Democratic Party after II
declared the present coalition
dissolved.
This was the latest develop
ment in the sensational
"Spiegel" crisis.
All is Christian Democratic
ministers - including Defense
Minister Franz Josef Strauss
said they are willing to resign
to enable the 86-year-old Ad-
enauer to form a new govern
ment.
The Chancellor was empow-
cred to try to do this with the
same party, the Free Demo
Gratis, which has been the
junior member of the year-olc
coalition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-20
Nehru Asks
Kennedy for
Troop Planes
Urgently Requests
Transport Croft
In Personal Letter


midas Prime Minister Nehru
has sent an urgent personal.
plea to President Kennedy
for helicopters and transport
planes.
The request was made in a
letter delivered to the Presi-
dent yesterday by midas Am
bassador B. K. Nehru, a cousin
of the Prime Minister. Indian
defenses were crumbling at
the time as Red Chinese bat
talions advanced toward the
populeus plains of Assam:
The Ambassador said he gave
the President a report on the
military situation and midas
urgent defense needs in the
border war.
India also sent requests to
the State Department for more
arms and equipment to supple
ment the SIS million worth al
ready delivered. Engaged along
a l,500-mile frontier with Red
China, India has a major prob
lem In supply and equipment
for It's troops.
Lincoln White, State Depart
ment press officer, said the
United States views seriously
the large-seale Chinese attacks
United States officials here
are concerned that Pakistan
may agree to a non-aggression
pact with Red China. This
would open the way for Chi
nese troops to go through the
Chumbri Valley 40 miles to
Darjeeling and snap the narrow
Indian corridor to Assam.
Pakistan officials say current
negotiations with Red China
are merely to insure that
there is no border trouble be-
tween the two nations such az
now exists between China anc
India"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-20
NEHRU APPOINTS
A NEW GENERAL

NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 20
(AP) Prime Minister Nehru
today named a new army chief
of staff and told Parliament
the battered Indian Army Il
ready for q desperate stand
against Chinese Communist
warriors rushing toward the
rich Plains Of Assam.
Mr.. Nehru also declared the
Chinese ~have sent many sug-
gestionsf (for talks) but we are
not going to accept any one of
them. We shall continue the
war until we win"
Gen. Jcyanto Nath Chaud-
huri. 81, commander of the In
dian troops that seized Portu-
guese Goa last December in
lightning conquest, was named
to succeed Gen. P. N. Thapar.
Mr.. Nehru said Gen. Thapar
was relieved for health reasons
and is going on Q long leave.
Like Gen. Thapar, the new
commander is a graduate OF
Britain's famed Sandhurst Mill
tary School and a veteran OF
World War II.
Mr.. Nehru said the Chinese
are advancing from captured
Bomdila. only 80 road miles
from the plains, along a road
which leaves the jungle-clad
mountains and runs through 9
strip of jungle on the plains
before emerging onto rich rice
fields and tea estates,
Defensive positions have
been prepared in front Of them
See PLEA, Page AT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-20
cubu Claims
Bomb Attack
On Freiehter

KEY WEST. Fla, Nov. 20
(AP) Havana Radio charged
today q Yankee plane" flew
over a Cuban merchant ship on
the high seas southwest of Ber-
.muda yesterday afternoon and
IL bombs, some Of
which exploded SO feet above
the vessel.
The radio said the ship, the
Rio Damuji, reported by radio
that the bombing was preceded
by 70 hours of pirate checks"
by United States planes and
vessels.
In Washington, a spokesman
for the Pentagon denied that
any United States plane was
involved In the alleged incident,
The Rio Damuji, carrying 55,-
600 sacks of potatoes to Cuba
was unchanged the radio said,
and none Of its 80 crew mem
befs was injured. It is expected
to reach Havana some time this
week end. The port from which
it set out was not given.
1.-THE dramatic news was
made known by the receipt of
several radiograms from Fran
cisco Cobas, captain of the
Cuban boat which covered
itself with glory" the broad
cast said.
There was no mention Of re-
turn fire froa.s the merchant
man. listed in Lloyd'S shipping
registry as a 2,S9l-ton craft
with Havana as its home port.
1.-THE first dispatch received
said the aggression occurred at
$40 pm. (EST) and said that
a plane passed over the boat,
letting bombs fall which made
a great noise as they ex-
ploded," the radio report said.
1.-THE plane passed four times
without making any previous
signal and let II bombs f-n.
some Of which exploded AGpout
| 5 feet over the hatchway with
out causing damage to the boat
nor to the morale of its crew."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-20

the second war games since the
Cuban crisis erupted, is the
first Of five weekly exercises
designed to sharpen skills at
flying troops quickly to trouble
spots, and dropping para
troopers into combat zones.
The drop is scheduled to take
place tomorrow. in the areas of
Fort Bragg, N. c., and Fort
Campbell. KY. home bases OF
the two paratroop divisions.
The big trucks carrying Eek
plosives" signs poured into the
Opa-Locka Air Base near
Miami. Extra sentries were on
duty as the stream of vehicles
poured into the area where
ammunition was stored by the
Navy when it used the base.
The base has been used only
for light plane traffic until the
Cuban crisis, when the Army
took it over and installed a
huge mobile field hospital with
ambulances, and poured equip
ment in by rail and truck. Hun
dreds of unoccupied tents are
visible from nearby roads.
The Florida Highway Patrol
issued the "all points" bulletin
to clear the way for the trucks,
apparently carrying ammuni-
ton.
The highway patrol said the
Army provost marshal at Opa-
Locka had requested the bull
letin, so the trucks could get
to Opa-Locka as quickly as
possible"
An Army spokesman al
Homestead Air Force Base
headquarters for Operation
Sun Shade l." said the am
munition buildup was not con-
nected with the operation, but
said he could give no further
details.