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The Republican., 1962-06-14
AURORA EGLON

Announcement was received here
OF the birth Of the third child and
second daughter on June 7, to Mr.
and Mrs. Jack FikC. UniOntoWn.
Pa The mother was Miss Kathleen
Kirk. daughter of Rev and Mrs.
Silas Kirk of Fdirmont Mr. and
Mrs Gilmour FikC. Eglon, are the
patcrna grandparents.
Relatives here were notified that
Mrs Arthur Donham, Mt Lake
Park formerly of near Aurora. un-
dcrWcnt major surgery in Johns
Hopkins hospital, Baltimore
Mrs Guy Feather EglOn, entered
Garrett County Memorial hospital,
Oakland. Sunday evening for OBJ
scrvation and tests
Mrs Carrie Painter. who had
spent the winter months in Graf
ton With her son and wife. came
Thursday TO her Aurora home
where she plans to spend the sum
mCr
Mrs. Noah Soldiers, of Florida.
is visiting in this area She was a
former resident of Eglon
Glenn Grove youngest son of
MIR and Mrs. Gilbert Grove, Au-
rora, went last week to Camp Cali
lee. Terra Alta. where he has en-
ploymcnt for the summer
Mr. and Mrs Gilmour Fikc. Egg
Ion, left Friday for Tacoma. Wash,
where their son Ted. is in service.
They we're accompanied to Indiana
by Mr and Mrs Fred Douglass,
Stcmplc Ridge The Fixes plan to
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be away about a month while the
Douglascs win return much earlier.
Mrs Josie Tects Soldiers and
son Richard. of Delaware came
Saturday to Eglon where they vis-
tied Mrs. Soldiers two brothers.
Roy Tccts and the Rev " l..
Tccts and her sister. Mrs Clara
Fikc They returned home Mon
day
Gordon High, OF ST Petersburg.
Fla. came Sunday by bus to the
nome OF ms brothcr-ln-IaW and
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Garden: Terry TaSkcr, Shallmar;
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Evening star., 1962-04-12

proposals were aimed at bridg.
ing the American-British de.
mand for adequate interna.
tional controls of a test bar
and the Soviet claim that 6
treaty could be enforced
through the use of existing ma
tional detection systems alone
Mr.. Zorin sought to channe,
the discomfort of the confer
ence toward the United States
and Britain and away from the
Soviet Union.
He aSSailed the joint state
ment sent by President Ken
nedy and Prime Minister Mac
milan to Moscow earlier in the
week. In that statement the
two Western leaders asked the
Kremlin to think again about
the control issue and said that
if the Russians did not accept
an enforceable test ban treaty
the American series of blasts
would take place later this
in the Christmas Island
area.
This statement has created
an alarming and threatening
climate. The two Western
powers have thrown challenge
to the world. ;" Mr.. Zorin
said. The statement repre-
sentS a blatant maneuver which
attempts to place responsibility
on the Soviet Union for what
the Americans and British are
doing - planning to resume
tests"
Evening star., 1962-04-12

of West Berlin by setting up
some form Of a free city under
international guarantees.
At the same time, the State
Department disclosed that the
United States. Britain and
France had sent on March "a
strong representations to Mos
COW against interference with
allied air traffic in the Berlin
corridors by Soviet aircraft.
During the same period Pres
ident Kennedy, Mr., Rusk and
British Foreign Secretary Lord
Home were making strong pub
lie statements about their con-
Germ with Soviet interference.
Mr.. White, who disclosed the
existence of the heretofore
secret communication, could
not say whether the Soviet
Union has replied to the note.
Evening star., 1962-04-12
u. S. and Russia to Renew
Berlin Talks Here Mondoy

uation does represent change
in their tactics"
In this improved atmos-
phere." he continued there's
more hope of negotiations be-
ing successful than there is in
a period Of danger and ten
sion."
State Department Press Off
Ger Lincoln White declined to
say what specific subjects
would be discussed in the re-
sumed negotiations.
The United States is known
to be pressing for talks on an
international access authority
to guarantee Western travel to
West Berlin.
Strong Note Sent
The Soviet Union is concen-
trating on changing the status
Evening star., 1962-04-12
By EDDY GILMORE
Associated Press Staff Writer

BADMINTON, England, April
PA stalwart British farmer
shot the fox that the Queens
first horseman was chasing
yesterday, then ordered the
noble hunter off his land.
The Duke Of Beaufort, Mas
ter of the Horse to Queen
Elizabeth II, had set out with
go baying hounds about him
and the joint master of the
famous Beaufort Hunt, Maj
Gerald Grundy, at his side.
AS they galloped across the
Dukes 17000-acre estate, the
canny fox took refuge on so
acres owned by Farmer Colin
Robertson.
The Duke and Maj. Grundy
galloped after the fox.
Bang" went a shotgun.
."I shot the fox" Farmer
Robertson told newsmen today,
Il had to. I had to put him
out of misery. The dogs would
have torn him to pieces in a
moment"
Then the farmer turned to
the Duke and the major.
Il told them to get off my
land" said Mr.. Robertson. The
Duke told me not to be silly,
but 1 got hold of the bride of
Of his horse and led him off.
He wasn't very pleased.
Mr.. Robertson said the major
shouted:
You'll swing for this"
1T was terribly unnerving for
The major" said a spokesman
for the British Field Sports
1T was all too awful" said
the majors wife. Too awful
for him to talk about"
His Grace rode back to his
Evening star., 1962-04-12
Benefit Concert

Lee Meredith. concert sopra-
no. will appear at the annual
spring benefit concert Of the
Woman's Auxiliary of the Board
Of Child Care of the Methodist
Church at 8:15 pm. tomorrow
in Clendenen Hall of American
University. Miss Meredith will
be accompanied by composer
Walter BRIGHT.
Evening star., 1962-04-12
British Farmer Orders
Noble Hunter to Scrom

stately home, Badminton House
to greet the Queen. She is his
guest for the next three days
attending the annual Badmin-
ton Horse Trials. a great gath
ering of the horsey set.
Evening star., 1962-04-12

Secretary Of State Rusk snc
Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F
Dobrynin will renew their talks
on Berlin here next Monday.
The meeting will be a con-
tinuation of the series begun
last September by Secretary
Rusk and Soviet Foreign Min
lister Gromyko in this country
later renewed in Moscow by
American Ambassador Lew
ellyn Thompson and continued
by Mr.. Rusk and Mr.. Gromyko
in Geneva last month, the
State Department said.
Shortly before the announce
ment. Gen. Lucius D. Clay told
Mr.. RuSk in an hour-long con-
ference that he believes the de-
cline in Soviet-made tensions
over Berlin will last for some
time" Gen. Clay said this i'm
proves the atmosphere for ne
gotiationS on a Berlin settle
ment.
Evening star., 1962-04-12
To End Tour

Gen. Clay returned from Ber-
lin yesterday to arrange for
the orderly termination of his
assignment as President Ken
nedy's personal representative
in West Berlin. He had a date
to confer with the President
this afternoon and will return
to Berlin Sunday for a final
stay, possibly of several weeks.
Gen. Clay said he would hes
itate to predict" the outcome
of any East-West negotiations
on Berlin in the light of the
sharp dropoff recently in Soviet
harrasSment of the Western
allies.
But he said the changed sit
Evening star., 1962-04-12
West Rejects
Soviet A-0ffer
Lacking Check

! GENEVA. April 10 (AP).-
The Soviet Union today pro-
posed an unpoliced moratorium
on nuclear weapons tests. The
United States and Britain i'm
mediately turned down the pro-
poSal.
The two Western powers
told the 17-nation general dis
armament conference they
could not trust the Soviet
Union to observe such mora
torium.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Min
lister Valerian A. Zorin charged
the American plan to resume
atmospheric nuclear tests in
mid-Pacific later this month
is increasing international
tension"
U. S. Decision ASSailed
The American decision to test
again came under heavy fire.
Canada and Mexico were among
those expressing regret.
The smaller countries asked
the big nuclear nations to seek
compromise on the nuclear
testing issue. They said any
new explosions now would dam
age the chances of this con-
ference ever attaining any
fruitful reSultS-a claim which
Mr.. Zorin also picked up.
The United States has said
Western security requires the
Pacific tests unless the Soviet
Union promptly accepts a test
ban treaty containing adequate
international enforcement ar
rangementS. This the Russians
have refused to do.
Wary of Promises
For more than three years
the United States, Britain and
the Soviet Union observed a
moratorium on testing. That
arrangement collapsed last au-
tumn when the Russians set off
a massive series OF explosions.
United States Ambassador
Arthur H. Dean and British
Minister of State Joseph God
ber recalled that it was the
Russians who first began test
ing again. Both Western dele
gates took the position that
having been fooled once by So
Wet promises their govern
ments were not prepared to be
fooled a second time.
Mr. Dean said that, with re-
-et, I'VE do not have any con-
lidence in a Soviet pledge" Mr..
iodber answered with an un-
qualified mo" when Mr.. zorin
asked him if the British would
accept a moratorium. /
All the smaller nations at
the conference showed varying
degrees Of diSpleaSure with the
big nuclear powers for failing
10 agree on test ban treaty.
This attitude was particularly
marked among the eight mid
die group nations - Brazil,
Burma, Ethiopia, India, Mexi-
CO, Nigeria. Sweden and the
United Arab Republic.
The eight complained that
compromise suggestions from
them had been ignored. Their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-28
INTERPRETIVE REPORT

the United States to achieve a
consensus favQring some &C
ton to brand the Castro re-
gime a hemisphere outlaw.
Since the middle of the week
the two-thirds majority of IA
necessary for action has been
more or less secure.
But the depth or the opposi-
ton is seen by United States
officials as more important
than a pure numerical major
ity. Slowly but perceptively Mr.
Rusk is being pushed to a cru
cial decision on whether the
action contemplated is more
important than the alienation
of Mexico and Brazil from the
inter-American system.
Cuba itself has played a small
role in the conference. On the
whole, Cuban President Osvaldo
Dorticos has been restrained
and inactive in the behind-the-
scenes maneuvers. His lone
sally, a scathing diatrib c
against the United States at
the conference table has had
next to no impact.
The most important-and po-
tentially the most dangerous
See CONFERENCE, Page Ala
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-28
u. S. Plane Lost
In Southwest Iron

TEHERAN. Iran, Jan. 27
(AP) "A United States mill
tary mission plane with five
Americans aboard is missing on
a flight from Teheran to Dizful,
Southwest Iran, civil aviation
authorities reported today.
They said the single engine
aircraft was manned by a Capt.
Ronat and Sergt. Carter. First
names and home addresses and
names of the three passengers
were not made public.
The United States military
mission in Teheran said a wide
spread search has so far proved
fruitless. They declined to give
other details.
Iranian authorities said the
plane lost contact with Dizful
base just before it was due to
land. An Iranian passenger
plane reported that while fly
ing between Andimeshk and
Balarud a single-engine plane
was sighted making a forced
landing. But no trace of the
plane or wreckage has been
sighted despite a search.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-28
Relied on Aid for Years
Old No. 1865 Drqe Ends Districts Era of Streecors
By CHARLES d. PIERCE
Star Staff Writer

Rail fans from all over the
country converged on Wash
ington yesterday to join local
trolley lovers in recording the
death of the National Capitals
streetcar system in a blaze of
photography.
The last streetcar to run in
Washington before the COM
plete conversion to buses takes
place was venerable No. 1885,,
a 1919 streetcar, which was TO
complete it's final rounds at (
am. today.
The closing of streetcar OPP
erations here attracted hun
dreds of bluffs because rail pub
locations had described it as
the end of the last conduit
underground power trolley
system in the world.
Thousands of excited and
happy children took advantage
See STREETCARS, Page ALL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-28
Snow or SIeet
Forecast Today

Some snow or sleet is forecast
for the Washington area today,
The Weather Bureau said a
slow-moving low-pressure area
over the East Gulf States was
sprea ding rain northward
through Tennessee and North
Carolina, with some sleet and
rain reported in extreme south
ern Virginia.
The wind patterns over Wash
ington have been mostly from
the west, but a shift to more
southwesterly winds meant pre-
cipitation was expected to
spread to the Washington area
today.
Since a flow of colder all
from the north was expected tt
continue, snow or sleet was
predicted as probable here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-28
Moon Pictures
Sill Expected
From Ranger
Nearly Successful
Rocket Passes
Halfway Point
By a Star Staff Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla,
Jan. 27.-Ranger 8, the space
craft that almost made it, was
more than half way to the
moon tonight.
There was no hope of the
craft hitting the moon, as had
been planned when it was
launched yesterday. But scien-
lists in charge of the Ranger
space program had high hopes
that pictures of the moon might
be obtained.
At Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
a scientific center in Pasadena,
Calf, a small group of experts
huddled late tonight to decide
what next for Rangers. From
this decision may flow some
significant additions to scien-
tific knowledge about the moon.
Pictures Hoped For
Most likely decision would be
to try to orient the Spacecraft
so it's television cameras could
take photos of the moon as it
swept by some 10000 or more
miles away.
It was entirely likely that
if some pictures were taken
they would turn out to be of
far better quality than those
made by the Russian Lunik III,
which photographed the hidden
side of the moon.
Ranger was launched, sup
posedly on a lunar collision
course. at $3.50 pm. yesterday.
It's big Atlas booster rocket
gave it just a bit more speed
than it should have had, and
within hours it was apparent
that the prim airy mission
Of Ranger 3 would not be
achieved.
Quake DetectOr
That mission was to land q
moon quake recorder in working
order, while taking television
pictures and making radiation
measurements and radar sound
ingS of the moon on the way in.
The TV camera, the spacecraft
itself, and everything aboard
except the quake detector would
have been destroyed in landing
on the moon.
Disappointment over missing
See RANGER, Page A-6
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-28
Bulky Horse
Is Sold by
Mrs. Kennedy
By JACK KELSO
Star staff Writer

= Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy has
sold the horse that threw her
in Virginia's fox hunting coun-
try.
Miss Pamela Turnure, press
secretary for Mrs. Kennedy,
said yesterday that the Presi-
dents wife no longer has Bit
of Irish, the bay hunter that
baked at a jump and heaved
her over a fence last November
The horse which also goes by
the name of Canamara Irish,
has been bought for Russell M
Arundel, a Virginia sportsman
by Webb Moore, Mr.. Arundel's
farm manager.
Mr.. Moore said he paid "in
the neighborhood of $1,000
for the eight-year-old animal
Paul R. Fout of The Plains
Va, who had kept the horse
for Mrs. Kennedy, said the sale
was conditional on approval by
Mr.. Arundel, who now is out
of the country.
Mr.. Fout said the well-publi-
cized spill Of Mrs. Kennedy
had nothing to do with the
sale of the horse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-28
New Try by Glenn
Slated This Week
Experts See
Thursday or
Friday Date
By WILLIAM HINES
Star Science Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla,
Jan. 27.-United States plans to
rocket AStronaut John H.
Glenn, jr., three times around
the earth today we're post
poned until at least Thursday
or Friday after low-hanging
clouds stopped the Mercury
count down 20 minutes before
blastoff.
Col. Glenn returned to his
quarters in Project Mercury's
Hangar S after spending 5
hours and 10 minutes atop a
loaded Atlas booster in the vain
attempt to make him Americas
first man to orbit the earth.
Other elements in what was
to have been this country's fin
est week in space we're:
Yesterdays partially success
full launching of Ranger 3, a
727-pound instrument package
that was streaking moonward
tonight. But it was apparent
that the Ranger would not hit
the moon as had been planned.
Exactly what course it even
tually would take could not be
determined Immediately.
Wednesdays Thor-Able-Star
launching of a 5-in-1 satellite
package. Faulty firing of the
second stage doomed the Com
posite I" satellite to a watery
grave.
Major Disappointment
The failure to put Col. Glenn
into orbit today was a major
disappointment to American
space leaders. With the latest
postponement-fifth in a heart
breaking series that began be-
fore ChriStmas-the manned
orbital phase of Mercury slipped
into February.
But there was no choice.
Tracking cameras scattered
along the Atlantic coast of
Florida for 100 miles needed at
= least three fifths of the sky free
of clouds. At launching time
this morning there was not a
hole in the sky big enough to
shoot a rocket through, let
See MERCURY, Page A-s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-28

desert them once the welfare
grant stops.
More in the conviction that
freeloading helped to destroy
a sense of values than in the
hope that cutoffs will recap
ture it, welfare officers have
stopped monthly grants in the
following situations:
l. A mother, 43, lives with
four children, aged 4 to 10.
Three youngsters were IA
See CASES, Page AS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-28

The prolific outpouring Of new
recordings is q boon to the
listening audience. It is also
tuntclizing for the buyer who
hos to make his choice. QuoIi-
ties Of recordings worry, so do
performers, orchestrus and solo.
lists. Amusing all information
needed for complete evuIuu.
tions is the task of experts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-28
Tubby Shifted
ToU. n. Post
Conflicts Seen
In Job Change
BY the Associated Press

The State Department dis
closed yesterday that Roger
Tubby, Assistant Secretary for
Public Affairs. is being ap-
pointed United States repre-
sentative to the United Nations
office in Geneva. He will have
the personal rank of ambas-
sador.
The announcement was made
by George w. Ball, Acting Sec
rotary in the absence of Secre-
tary RuSk, who is at the hemi-
sphere foreign ministers meet
ing in Uruguay.
There have been reports here
for the last week that Mr.
Tubby, 81, would be given q
new assignment. Among vari.
GUS reported reasons for the
change, it was said that Mr.
Rusk and Mr.. Tubby never hac
established a close working re.
lationship.
Officials said Mr.. Tubby's
successor has not been desig.
mated. Speculation centered or
Robert J. Manning, who re-
signed last December as Sun.
day editor of the New Yorl
Herald Tribune.
Background Noted
Mr.. Manning, AZ, is a native
of Binghamton, N. Y. Among
the jobs he has held are Statt
Department and White HOUSE
correspondent for United Pres
and its chief correspondent a
the United Nations. He alsC
was a senior editor of Time
magazine, chief of the Time
Life-Fortune London bureau
and worked at one time for thu
Associated Press.
AS chief of public affairs il
See TUBBY, Page A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-28
LaosF|ieslUp
MoreTroops
Red-PeriIed Area
In North BoIstered

VIENTIANE, Laos, Jan. 81
(AP) The Royal Army flew
Ireinforcements today to Nam
Tha, where it's troops and
Communist battalions battled
for control of a ridge dominat-
ing that provincial capital.
The dispatch of reinforce
ments to the imperiled strong
hold indicated Premier Prince
Boun Gum is determined to
hold Nam Tha, whose fall
would abandon a huge slice of
Northwest Laos to the Com
munist Pathet Lao guerrillas.
The government charges the
attackers are the Pathet Lao
guerrillas of Red Prince Sou
phanouvong, backed by two
battalions from Communist
North Wet Nam. A communique
asserted two Chinese Com
munist battalions also are OPP
Grating at nearby Ban That
Pao. United States military
sources said they had not yet
confirmed the identity of all
the attackers.
Princes Meeting
The renewed fighting showed
into the background the politi-
cal maneuvering designed to
remove this Asian kingdom
from the cold war arena and
embark it on a course of neu-
trality.
Flying home from the Gen.
eva conference on Laos, neu-
tralist Prince Souvanna Phou-
ma disclosed that a meeting of
the three princes set for Feb
ruary 2 in the Royal capital of
Luang Prabang, 100 miles
south OF the Nam Tha front,
had been postponed.
Prince Souvanna, expected
to be premier in a neutralized
unity government, told report
ers in frankfurt. Germany, he
still hoped to meet soon in
Vientiane with Boun Prince
See LAOS, Page At