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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-24
Ranger Project
Is linked Again
By the Associated Press

The threat of loose gold dust
floating inside sensitive cleo.
tronic parts has forced another
poStponement in the trouble
beSet Ranger moon rocket pro
gram.
The National Aeronautics anC
Space Administration said yes.
terday that because the loose
flakes were found inside the
glass casing of some tiny d.
odes-devices which function al
miniature vacuum tubes-the
planned launching of Ranger-t
within the next month or two
has been postponed until early
next year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-24
By the Associated Press

Representative Stratton, Dem
ocrat Of New York, disputes q
colleagues statement that the
Navy has officially rejected
proposals to end racial dis
elimination in communities
near military bases.
The challenged statement
was inserted into the Congress
sional Record Monday by Rep
resentative Hebert, Democrat
of Louisiana, who paraphrased
sections of a Navy report on
controversial recommendations
of the Gesell committee.
This committee, headed by
Gerhard Gesell, Washington
lawyer. was named by President
Kennedy to study the problem
Of racial discrimination and
the armed forces.
Mr.. Stratton said that the
Navy comments described by
Mr.. Hebert were simply some
preliminary remarks made by
the Navy when it first received
the GeSell report.
In a later directive, Mr.
Stratton said yesterday. Secre-
tary of Defense Mcnamara had
written the services that he
agreed with the proposal of the
Gesell committee that the Pen
tagon, as a last resort, declare
bars and other facilities off
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-24
JAIL FOR NTEGRATIONIsTS
PIaquemines Preparing Dungeons

topped by three strands Of cleo
trified wire will form the prison
square, with the fortress as one
side.
Could the jail be considered
inhumane?
"All prisons are Of concrete
and STEEL" Mr.. Perez replied
frostily. This one won't even
have any doors on it,"
How much electricity will be
In the charged wires?
I'VE can regulate it to any
thing the doctor orders"
Actually, there haven't been
any demonstrators In Plaque
mines Parish yet.
Mr.. Perez considers his prison
a form Of insurance against
demonstrations in the parish
which has q population O.
$4,000, $500 of them Negroes
The parish leased the site TO
five years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-24

MARRAKECH, Morocco,
Oct. "a (AP).-King Hassan
II offered today to meet
Algerian President Ahmed Ben
Bella anywhere and without
prior conditions" to stop blood
shed between the two North
African nations.
At the same time, the youth
full monarch appealed to Mr..
Ben Bella to quit what he
called an undermining of the
Moroccan regime.
King Hassan told a news
conference he is making no
prior conditions on a meeting
with the Algerian chief Of
state to iron out all difficulties
between the two nations.
New Fighting Reported
Shortly before the King ad-
dressed newsmen, his head
quarters said new fighting had
broken out around the Saharan
oasis of HaSsi Beida.
Moroccan planes sped into
action to ward off what was
described as q major Algerian
attack. The Moroccans said the
Algerians struck in the night
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-24

that was what they called the
barley meal coffee and deny
drafted Sauerkraut they had to
eat.
Fog PeriIs Timetable
Big Lifts schedule appeared
threatened for a time during
the night by a forecast of fog
for the Rhein-Main Air Base
near Frankfurt, the chief ar
rival point for the big Jet
transports. But the fog did
not develop and the day
dawned cloudy but clear.
Fog for a time did close
some Of the French airports at
which part of the force was
landing. and four planes were
diverted. Two CHS and a
Globemaster went to Chateau
roux, in Central France. An
other C-18 was diverted to
Prestwick, Scotland.
With five planes that were
diverted yesterday, this made
only nine diversions in more
than $50 flights. Officers said
this was a low figure for an
operation Of this size at this
time Of year.
Long truck conveys moved
along highways in Eastern
France and Western Germany,
taking the arriving troops to
depots to draw heavy equip
ment stockpiled there since the
Berlin crisis.
Next Wednesday, the I'd
Armored will go into action
along the Main River, meeting
an attack from aggressors of
the Sd Armored Division. The
maneuver is to last a week.
After it is over, the I'd Armored
will be airlifted back to Texas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-24
American Student Ends
Red JoiIinq as Wreck

BERLIN, Oct. "a (AP). -
Robert Mann. an American
student, said today he wa;
physically we'll treated while
jailed for 81 months in Com
munist East Germany. But
he said, the experience had left
him a nervous wreck.
Mr.. Mann, 20, from Sepul-
veda, Calf, told :. news con-
ference he was jailed on q
charge Of Turing away" East
German citizens.
When he appeared before re-
porters in the United States
Mission in West Berlin, he was
very pale and obviously nerv-
GUS. He spoke haltingly and
his English was stumbling, as
if spoken by a German. He
frequently turned to a United
States official to ask for the
translation of a German word
into English.
Mr.. Mann was released by
the Red regime yesterday. He
said he stayed last night in a
private home in West Berlin.
I'm glad to be back. but one
of the most important things
for me now is the process OF
making a transition" he said
81 am nervous and I still have
difficulty speaking English"
NJ. Mann was sentenced to
81 months Imprisonment after
a secret trial in East Berlin
July IA, 1862, on charges OF
trying to help an East Ger
man escape to the West. In
formed sources said he was
accused of trying to supply
false identity papers to a young
East Berliner. The fate of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-24
Ex-Dictutor Faces
Arrest for Speech

BOGoTA. Colombia, Oct. "a
Gap 1.-The Colombian cover
nment has ordered the arrest fo
20 days of former dictator Gus
tavo Rojas Pinilla for making a
speech Sunday.
Police searched the ex-dic-
tatorS home in Bogota, but he
was believed to be at his ranch
go miles west of the capital.
After Mr.. Rojas Pinilla's over
throw in 1857, the Senate con-
victed him of abusing his au-
thority while president and re-
voked his civil and political
rights. The revocation included
a ban on speaking in public.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-24

them across the river" he said
A fat water moccasin lolled
by the waters edge at the
landing.
On land, the party came
under attack by what seemed
an incredible swarm of mos
quitoes.
Mr.. Perez failed about with
a straw whisk, somewhat like
a horses tail, and puffed his
cigar contentedly.
The jail Is a relatively mod
ern section of the fort-a mas
sive concrete structure that
used to be an emplacement for
cannon.
Beneath each position is q
is by 80 foot compartment,
with q smaller room to one
side.
Electrified Wire
A 9-foot fence Of hog wire
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-24
Churchill Death
Held SeIf-InfIicted

LONDON, Oct. "a (AP).-A
coroner ruled today that Sir
Winston Churchill's daughter
Diana-whose nude body was
found in her home last Sun
day-took her own life with an
overdose of sleeping pills.
Mrs. Churchill, ex-wife of
Commonwealth Secretary Dun
can SandyS, was 54. She
was the Churchills' oldest child.
Ironically. for the past 1e
months her main interest In
life had been working for ar
organization called the Samari-
tans, which seeks to diSSuade
people with a suicidal urge
from killing themselves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-24
Navy Flyer Missing,
Two Injured in Crash
BY the Associated Press

One airman is missing and
two were injured in the crash
yesterday of an anti-submarine
plane of the 7th Fleet in the
Western Pacific, the Navy said
today.
Missing is 1t. q. g. John L.
Washickanin of Wilkes Barre,
Pa.
The pilot, 1t. q. g. Truman
H. Henry, jr., of Pine Bluff,
Ark, and another crewman,
Electronics Technician Arnold
Skoglund of New Britain, Conn,
were injured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-24

completion Of the biggest air.
lift in United States history.
But military spokesman
thought today the bulk Of the
transatlantic ferry job by big
four-engine transports would
be completed tonight, some So
hours after the first C-135 jet
took off from Bergstrom Air
Force Base near Austin, Tex.
Last Plane Leaves
The last Of the 234 planes
left Bergstrom Just before mid
night and headed for Germany
at 900 miles an hour.
"Smoothest thing I've ever
SEEM" said Brig. Gen. r. H.
Stafford. I'm sure that in a
tighter situation we can even
beat this time"
Big Lifts clockwork opera
ton and assurances by top
American officers did not quiet
the fears of West German Of
ficials and newspapers that the
lift presaged a reduction of
American troops in Europe.
The worrying Germans be-
lieve the United States will
argue that it has demonstrated
Its ability to ferry large num-
bers Of troops over quickly to
meet threats Of trouble and the
100000 United States troops in
Europe therefore can be re-
duced.
Bonn Gives Notice
A high United States official
in Washington already has said
that Secretary of State Rusk
will announce on q visit to
West Germany this week end
that the United States does not
expect to cut its forces in Eu-
rope. But a spokesman fol-
Chancellor Ludwig Erhard's
government gave notice Mr.
Erhard will question Mr.. Rusk
about the situation when the
J Secretary arrives in Bonn to-
!; morrow.
A cartoon today In Bildzei,-
tung, West Germany's most
popular newspaper, showed @
German asking Uncle Sam: "All
right, but what will you do II
it's foggy when the real thing
starts?"
An accompanying editorial
said American troops in Eu-
rope vii be strongly reduced in
1865 and called Big Lift no
"ersatz" for United States gar
risons. "Ersatz" is a word that
brings unpleasant wartime
memories to older Germans
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-24

German has n been disclosed
The court counted the six
months Mr.. Mann spent in
jail awaiting trial against his
sentence. His term ended yes
terday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-24
Catholic Daughters
To Mark Anniversary

The Goth anniversary Of the
Catholic Daughters Of America
will be celebrated by some 1900
m m b ers of the New York
State ch apter at a Solemn
Pontifical Mass at II am. Sat-
urday at the National Shrine OF
the Immaculate Conception.
Following the mass, the
Right Rev. Monsignor Thomas
j. Grady, director of the shrine,
will speak at a luncheon at
the Sheraton-Park Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-24

vested myself of shoes, socks
and began beating at my trou.
ser legs.
Each one Of those bites will
make a Sore," he said.
Have Cattle Pens
At the bayou. boarding a 80
foot cruiser, Mr.. Perez pointed
out two moored boats equipped
with cattle pens.
I'VE can pack q hundred
demonstrators in one Of those
pens, If necessary, and haul
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-24
BY BILL order
Associated Press staff Writer

BURAS, La, Oct. 24-The
dungeon powder magazines Of
old Fort st. Phillip are being
turned into an isolated and I'M
comfortable jail.
It's not for common GRIM
inals or murderers. 1t will be
reserved exclusively for racial
demonstrators.
The one-time fortress. now
privately owned, nestles In the
snake and mosquito-infested
tidal swamps deep in Plaque
mines Parish County in
South Louisiana.
Leander H. Perez, 70, political
boss of the parish for more
than 80 years, has a passion
ate dislike for racial demon
strators, white or Negro.
The prison has become his
AdNOAAOC PAOJCCG'
Built in 1746
Built by the Spanish in 1746.
the old fort lies on the east
bank of the Mississippi at the
first big bend coming up
stream, some so miles south Of
New Orleans.
You reach 1t by boat. hell
copter or across miles Of salt
marsh. Water moccasins anc
rattlers abound. Mosquitoes
big and fierce, often become SC
thick they kill cattle by clog
ging their nostrils.
Mr.. Perez was pleased II
take me on a personally con-
Quoted tour of his project. We
met on the west bank levee
across the river from the fort
The boss of Plaquemines L
a chunky millionaire, vigorous
despite his 70 years, with thick
white hair and genially DOM
ineering manner.
Generally Armed
His eyes glitter behind rim
less spectacles. A big cigar, fA
ted into q stubby amber holder
almost always juts from his
face. A neat little .32-calibeI
revolver generally rides his hip
under his coat.
The day got off to a zestful
start when I stepped in a BED
of fire ants Immediately after
being wrenched off balance BY
an unexpected bout of playful
Indian wrestling that devel-
oped from a handshake with
Mr.. Perez, seated in a car.
The dance of the fire ants
is awkward but agile.
Mr.. Perez gave advice In q
pleased rumble as I rapidly d.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-24

For plain oId-foshiOned discomfort
ond isolation, it's hard TO beat the
place Leonder Perez is setting up 10
joil roeiol demonstrators who might
invote his domain. Associated Press
newsmon Bill crider visited the scene
mosquitoes, fire onts, snakes,
swompIond and oil.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-24
AirIift Like CIockwork,
Well Aheud of Schedule

FRANKFURT. Germany. Oct. - AP)-Exercse Big
Lift moved swiftly and efficiently ahead today with d
cations pointing completion ahead Of schedule Of the transfer
of than 5000 American troops from Texas almost
the Iron Curtain.
me ARMY and Air Force had set 72-hour deadlne for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-24
Electrified Wirt

A 9-foot fence of hog wire
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-24
LOST

CAT, male, yellow tiger, with white face,
vest and feet; vic. Rosemary Hills. JU,
Smyrna times., 1963-01-31

A statewide effort to wipe
out polio In Delaware will be
launched by the Delaware State
Board of Health, the National
F Foundation, Delaware Chapter
and the Medical Society of Del
aware, on February II it was
announced by DR.. Floyd |. Hud-
son, Executive Secretary.
DR.. Hudson urged all per-
sons from the ages of three
months through forty years to
turn out at immunization stat
ions on February IL to receive
their first dose of the new
Sabin oral polio vaccine.
''While there has been a dra-
matte decline in the number of
cases of paralytic polio, cdr.
Hudson said, ''The disease is
not yet defeated. In the United
Al + = +
States, there were more than
$500 cases of polio In 1861. More
than 800 of these suffered either
death or some sort of paraly-
sis from the disease.
'The Sabin vaccine appears
to be the final answer to the
fight against this dreaded dis
ease. The vaccine is easy to
administer no injection; 1t
provides rapid action : in about
one week, and it helps break
the chain of transmission by
stimulating intestinal resis :
tance to future infection.
''Recent approval of the Type
iii vaccine" he added. "means
that the sibility of wiping
out polio as a threat to our
children or to their parents is
closer than ever before. We
have the tools. Now it's up to
the community to use them".
Polio is caused by any one of
the three types of virus. The
government last year licensed
an oral vaccine against Types
| and ii and recently granted
a license for distribution of
oral vaccine against Type Ill.
All three of the oral vaccines
we're developed by DR.. Albert
B. Sabin of the University of
Cincinnati School of Medicine.
DR.. Hukson said that the State
Board of Health has purchased
doses of each of the three types
of Sabin vaccine. He added that
the vaccine will be distributed
free of charge, but a rs cent
donation will be accepted for
each dose to help defray costs
of supplies and vaccine.
The vaccine will be admins
tered at immunization centers
In strategic locations through
out the State. 1t can be given
to infants by dropper, spoon
or cup. Older children and
adults can drink a mixture of
vaccine and distilled water or
eat a cube of sugar on which
the vaccine has been dropped.
DR.. Hudson added that the
oral vaccine will be administer
ed free of charge to children
in public, private and parochial
schools throughout the State on
Friday, February IS. Parents
are urged to allow their child
rem to take the Sabin oral
vaccine to increase their pro-
lection even though they may
have had the earlier Salk shots.
The vaccines have been dis
tributed in other countries to
more than 100, 900, 900 persons.
Millions of doses of Type and
II vaccine have already been
distributed in this country in
programs similar to the one
planned for Delaware.
SABIN IMMUNIZATION GEN.
TIERS.
Dates : 1868, February II,
March 81. May Il; Hours to
e p.m.:
Wilmington--Public Building
10th & King; Christina Com
munity Center, 9TH & Church;
Kingwood Community Center,
23rd & Bowers; Eastlake Rem
tai Office, 2403 Thatcher; VIII
mtngton Health Unit, 800 West;
Smyrna times., 1963-01-31
Town Dump
Must Close

Edward Palenski, Kent Coun-
ty Division Engineer for the
State Highway Department, has
fixed February 18th at the date
for closing the Smyrna dump, in
compliance with the action of the
members of the State Highway
Department.
MIR. Palenski said a sign will
be placed at the dump ANNOUNCE
ing that the dump will be closed
to all users on that date so that
the persons now using the dump
will have an opportunity to make
other arrangements.
The Highway Department
ordered the dump closed over
four months ago and gave Smyr-
ma 90 days to accomplish the
fact. In December the Depart
ment granted a 30-day ex-
tension, now 1t will be closed
officially on February l3.
Smyrna times., 1963-01-31

truck driver.
The tunnel is near the mid
point of the turnpike.
The ICC said Ault's truck,
carrying 45,348-pound cargo
of beer, from Milwaukee to
Brooklyn, crossed into the OPP
posing lane of traffic and col
lided with the oncoming Melvin
car.
ICC Investigators found that
Ault had driven 770 miles in
rs IA hours after leaving Mil
waukee, the last SIS miles In
10 IA hours.
"The (investigation) report
emphasizes that Ault could not
have travelled the distance he
did In the time elapsed and
also have spent the required
eight hours off duty" the COM
mission said.
The commission report said
the truck was leased from the
Hertz Corp. by Better Brands
of Illinois, Inc, a beer-distri-
buting firm.
Smyrna times., 1963-01-31
Federal Aid
FOrHundred
Asked by =
Gov. Carvel

Gov. Ebert N. Carvel has
acted to have Appoquinimink
Hundred declared a depressed
area and eligible for federal
help.
In a letter to William Bait
Jr., area redevelopment admin
istrator, Carvel ''wholehear-
tedly" urged that Appoquin-
imink be included with Kent
and Sussex Counties, already
declared eligible for aid under
the accelerated public works
program.
"Although New Castle Coun-
ty as a whole has a high level
of income, Appoquinimink Hun
dred has a lower per capita in
come than Kent or Sussex, !"
Carvel added.
He noted that Appoquinimink
and Blackbird Hundreds are ad-
jacent to Kent County and the
general economy in these TWO
hundreds follows the pattern
of Kent and Sussex.
Carvel's letter was writer
as New Castle Levy Court
President Harry B. Roberts,
Jr. was preparing to meet with
the governor on the matter.
Roberts appeared pleasantly
surprised that Carvel had acted
so quickly in backing up the
court presidents request for
help in Appoquinimink.
He said he had telephoned
the governors office to ar
CONTINUED on Page Twol
Smyrna times., 1963-01-31
M.Y.F. Plans
RallySunday
at Odessa

Area teenagers of Sub-Dts-
trict S Methodist Youth F ellow-
ship will rally Sunday evening,
February 8 at 1880 pm. at
St. Paul's Methodist Church,
Odessa. Membership of Sub
District S MYF are youth of
Asbury Methodist Church,
Smyrna; Bethesda Methodist
Church, Middletown; Ewell's
St. Paul Methodist Church,
Clayton; Friendship Methodist
Church, Smyrna; Emmanuel
Methodist Church, Townsend;
Kenton Methodist Church, Ken
ton; and St. Paul's Methodist
Church. Odessa. The group will
be addressed by the Reverend
Walter H. Stone, Secretary of
the Board of Education, Pen
insula Conference of the Meth
odist Chruch. Rev. Stones top
ic will be, ''The MYF Local and
Beyond Local Level".
The youth will hold an elect
ion for 1868 officers of Sub
District S MYF at the rally.
Nominations submitted by the
nominating committee and local
MYF groups are as follows:
President-Alice Atkinson, Bet
sic Atkinson, Robert Richard
son; Vice president Robert
Bowers, William Lex Heinold,
Burrill Mccoy; Secretary
Joyce Henderson, Diane Insolo,
Jane Urian, Harriet Webster;
Treasurer Michael Bowers,
Billy Carly, Paul Smith. Fol-
lowing the election refresh
ments will be served by the St.
Paul's MYF, host group.
The local MYF groups will
meet at Asbury Methodist
Church at GAS pm. promptly
on Sunday for boarding trans
portation to the youth rally at
Odessa. Local counsellors for
Junior and Senior groups are
Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Byard,
Como Trailer Park, Smyrna.
Smyrna times., 1963-01-31
FOrmerChief
OF Police
Seeks Local
Mayor Post

John w. Jacobs announced
yesterday that he had filed for
the office of Mayor of the Town
of Smyrna.
Residents of the community
will elect a mayor and TWO
coumcilmen on February rs. The
terms of Mayor Robert Rid
dagh and Councilman Guy Ed
mondson and Glenn Busker ex-
pire at that time.
Jacobs retired from the
Smyrna Police Force June |,
1862, after 80 years of service
He had held the post of Chief
since 1898.
Deadline for filing petitions of
nomination is s pm. February
Is, at the Town Office.
Smyrna times., 1963-01-31
Fire to Van
Does $1,000
Damage

Twenty volunteers of the Git
liens Hose Company we're in
service about one half hour on
Friday morning when fire broke
out in a moving van, truck
load of new furniture as 1t was
proceeding north on Route l3.
The driver noticed smoke as
he drove through the intersec-
tion of Route Is and Main Street,
Smyrna as passerby in truck
notified him.
The truck was owned by Tall
ant Transfer Company, Hick-
ory, N. c. and furniture was
being delivered in Delaware and
New Jersey. He had completed
delivery of part of the load at
a Dover furniture store and fur
niture covers had been piled In
the truck.
1t is believed that cigarette,
or a spark from one, set fire
to the covers, which in turn
set fire to the remaining cargo.
Four chairs and a small dav-
EXPORT we're destroyed, and the
rest of the cargo was damaged
by smoke. The damage to truck
and contents was estimated at
$1,000.
The alarm to the local fire
company was turned in from the
Bodley Service Station.
Smyrna times., 1963-01-31
Fire DESTROYS
Pine Tree
Residence

A three-story frame house
near Townsend was totally de-
stroyed by fire early yester-
day morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Habyard
Johnson who live on Ginn's
Corner and Pine Tree road
were awakened at | pm. by
Bob Arlington of Townsend who
spotted the flames on the roof.
Townsend volunteers we're on
the scene from lilo to 5:26 am.
and we're assisted by Odessa,
Middletown and Smyrna.
Forty-nine firemen and seven
pieces of equipment we're in
service.
The lost was estimated at
$4,000 partially covered by
insurance.
When the Smyrna firemen
returned to the fire house they
had to clean all of the equip
ment before housing it, so they
worked until early morning to
leave it in good condition. The
men we're directed by Fire
Chief Reynolds Bradley.