a A CONSTRUCTIVE NEWS PJV Forty-Ninth YearNo. 14,641 Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, Tuesday; July 17, 1962 Single Copy Ten Cents See Vote Today cv srn end pportionm attle Lines Drawn Pn Medicare Plan Vet Military By JACK BELL WASHINGTON (AP) Battle forces were closely drawn for a Senate vote today on whether to kill the administration's compromise health care plan for the elderly. Both sides cautiously predicted victory. The outcome could be crucial to the future of President Kennedy's legislative program. If Kennedy wins this test, his lieutenants will benefit by the psychology of that victory in their efforts to rally support for olher major segments of his program.
A Senate defeat, stacked on top of House rebuffs on other issues, Over Resignation for this session. A Senate victory would keep alive the administration's hopes of getting some kind of vote on the proposal in a House that has not shown itself disposed to act on the issue. Ribicoff Sought In the final hours of the battle, administration leaders brought Abraham A. Ribicoff, former secretary of welfare, back from his triumph in winning the Democratic senatorial nomination in Connecticut to help try to put the amendment across. Doctors from all sections of the country buttonholed senators to urge their opposition to the proposal.
Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel of Cali-See MEDICARE Page 9 White Boosts X-15 to 58 Mile Altitude EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) -Veteran X15 pilot Robert M. While flashed a record 58 miles into space today, becoming the first to qualify as an astronaut in a winged craft.
Shooting skyward on a giant tongue of flame, White surpassed the little rocket research plane's old mark by approximately 12 miles. "This is a fantastic view," he radioed exultantly as he floated weightless at peak altitude. "This is absolutely. At that point, atmospherics blotted out his words. His feat makes him the fifth American entitled to wear the wings of an astronaut, which go to those who vault 50 miles or more above the earth.
The others, who qualified with flights in the Mercury space capsule, are 'Alan B. Shepard Virgil I. Grissom, John H. Glenn Jr. and Malcolm Scott Carpenter.
White's height was given officially as 310,000 feet. This compares with 246,700 feet achieved earlier by both White and test pilot Joseph M. Walker in flights aimed at reaching the Xl5's designed altitude maximum of feet. White's target altitude was 282,000 feet, and he substantially exceeded it because his speed was 284 m.p.h. faster than planned.
Future flights are expected to reach still higher, 75 miles or more. Threatens in Peru promise plan which would finance hospital and nursing home care for the elderly through Social Security taxes faces a doubtful future in Congress. LIMA, Peru (AP) A imminent today following the fifty bv -f -it I NX'V I "'V Cabinet because President Manuel Prado refused to bow A Senate defeat would bury it Find Fifth Fatality to the armed forces' demands that he nullify the June 10 national elections. Premier Carlos Monreyra Paz Soldan and his ministers Heavy Red-Viet Battles Reported SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) Heavy clashes were MAN IT'S HOT He's no rooster, but Sandy the Peruvian Llama has something to crow about the heat as he dons hat and sun specs for a summer day at Palisades Amusement Park in Palisades, N.J. Sandy is part of Noah's Ark, ah animal exhibit at the Park.
reported today between Red guerrillas and strong forces of government troops airlifted into Communist-infested territory by 30 U.S. helicopters. Several of the helicopters reportedly were hit by Viet Cong ground fire, but there was no word of U.S. casualties. The operation was in an area about 40 miles northeast of Saigon.
The region is not far from the spot where about 500 guerrillas Nikita Boasts of Accurate Rockets Defying Interception ambushed a convoy of 19 vehicles and about 270 Vietnamese troops Saturday. The Reds killed 23 Viet namese and their American adviser, Capt. Don J. York, Ashe-ville, N.C., then got away. Searchers have found the body of another American serviceman from a U.S.
Army helicopter shot down by the Communists Sunday. This brought the toll to five Americans dead, and four missing in three air crashes in two days. Enlisted Man The body, that of an enlisted MOSCOW (AP) Premier Khrushchev says the Soviet Union has a global rocket that can "hit a fly in outer space" and cannot be destroyed by "any antirocket means." Khrushchev made the claim near the end of a 2V2-hour interview with 13 American editors during which he also stressed that West Berlin is the crux of the East-West dispute and rnor 'Failed To Meet Standards' MADISON (AP) Gov. a 1 0 Nelson today vetoed a second Republican plan for reapportioning Wisconsin's congres sional districts. He said it did not meet "acceptable standards of population equality." The proposal was offered to Nelson by the Republican controlled Legislature as an alternative to the congressional and legislative district plans he vetoed July 2.
But the Democratic chief executive said the second plan failed to meet his objections and that in some cases constituted "a simple case of gerrymandering." Nelson also discarded a bill to extend the filing deadline for nomination papers. The measure was presented to the governor for enactment in case he signed the congressional plan. The chief executive had been expected to veto the GOP's alternate plan because it made only minor changes in the first proposal passed by the republican lawmakers. In rejecting the measure. Nelson said that to approve it "would be to deny many thousands of people the equal vote and repre sentation to which they are entitled under our constitution." The governor again stated his preference for a Legislative Council committee reapportionment plan, but he did not repeat his request that the Legislature approve the committee plan and go home.
His harshest language was reserved for that part of the congressional plan that would hava shifted north the boundary dividing the 4th and 5th districts in Milwaukee. Nelson said the Legislative Council committee plan would link Waukesha County with almost all the adjacent Milwaukee suburbs. The GOP plan, however, would "omit all but one of the adjacent suburbs and substitute wards within the City of Milwaukee," Nelson said. 'Gerrymandering "This is a simple case of gerrymandering," the governor charged, "a practice which all responsible persons regardless of politcal affiliation should be loath to introduce in our state." The governor said he docs "not intend to endorse the efforts of any political party to gerrymander the state for partisan advantage." As with the first congressional plan, one of Nelson's chief objections to the second was the proposed population disparity be tween the 1st and 3rd districts. He repeated his argument that the disparity could be reduced by moving Green County from the 1st to the 3rd district.
Green County is considered heavily Republican and if the See VETO Page 9 Guest Soloist, Narrator Appear With City Band Kale Karris will play a baritone horn solo and Jeanne Frechette will present one of her increasingly popular narrations at tonight's Wisconsin Rapids city band concert in Robinson Park beginning at 8 p.m. B. T. Ziegler, band director, announced the following program: On the Square, march Panel-la White Pines, descriptive overture (Johnson); Seminola, Indian novelty (King); Bride of the Waves, baritone horn solo (Clark); Allouettc, from "March Along With Mitch," (Carroll Stranger on the Shore, popular (Bilk); Trafalgar. English march (Zehle); Spirit of Peace, march (Kiefer); Wedding of the Winds (Hall); Oasis (Kepner)? Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, narration with band (Brockton); 1 Mars at Midnight, swing tune (Hill), and Band of America, march (Lavalle).
Coup military coup was reported resignation of the Peruvian hour emergency meeting with Zarak told newsmen he expected military has charged Haya de la Torre got his big vote through fraud. Prado's resistance to the military stems in part from the support APRA gave him in the 1956 presidential race. In return, Prado legalized the party and allowed Haya de la Torre to return from exile. Itunners-l'p The second and third finishers in the presidential race were Fernando Bclaunde Terry of the Popular Action party, a leftist who received but did not solicit Com munist support, and Gen. Manuel Odria, former dictator who struck a moderate pose during the cam paign.
The military has raised no objection to either Belaunde or Odria, but there has been specu lation that the armed forces are prepared to nullify the elections, dissolve the new parliament and rule by decree until they decide to call new elections. There was no indication how Prado would ft into such a military government or whether he would cooperate with it. His six-year term expires officially on July 28. Peru needs U.S. Alliance for Progress funds.
Washington has already made it clear it would not look with favor on a military takeover in Peru. Set 'Ridiculous Day' Blastoff at 9 Wednesday According to the Wisconsin Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce retail council, all is "Go" for Ridiculous Day Wednesday, and the values are Space in the city's business district will be at a premium, however, if past Ridiculous Days are accurate barometers of the crowds attracted by the sales promotional event. The event will open officially at 9 a.m., with a bomb signaling the start of the bargain merchandising. Another bomb will mark the ascension of a host of balloons at II a.m., and still another blast will announce the start of the kiddies parade at 2 p.m. The parade will form at 2nd Ave.
S. near Grand Ave. Prizes for the best entrants total 15, and are worth $23. At 7 p.m. a parade of Model A curs will get underway, according to B.
T. Ziegler. of manager, and pavement dances will begin at that time. Old time music will be played for dancing on Jackson St. between 1st and 2nd and modern tunes will bo played for those dancing on 2nd Ave.
S. between W. Grand Ave. and Johnson St. Music is provided by a grant from the recording industries trust fund, obtained by the cooperation of liOcal 610 of the American Federation of Musicians.
COMPOSER HONORED MILWAUKEE: (AP) Richard Stroedc of Wisconsin Dells, whose "Overture" was selected for the top award in works for orchestra, heads the list of 13 winners named today Iq the 19f2 state comiKiscrs contest sponsored by the State Fair and th Federation of Musio Clubs. Ouang Nooi S. I KONTUM Qui NhonJ 1 Song 3 I Cog (N Mt THUOT SOUTH VIET SAIGON sr ti. so SC Mats could put the administration to rout. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana said today the outcome was a cliff-hanger.
'Very Close' After a breakfast meeting with President Kennedy and Democratic congressional leaders at the White House, he declared the vote could run either way and would be "very close, very close." Mansfield told newsmen Ken-Body's interest in passing the compromise measure is intense and both Kennedy and the Democratic leadership hoped senators would vote in the correct manner when the opposition's motion to kill the bill comes up this afternoon. Rear guard action probably could save the President's House-passed trade program and salvage some other measures of lesser importance. But rejection of the, health program would be certain to whet the opposition knives for any aid to education legislation, for any farm bill satisfactory to the administration and its tax revision measure. Midafternoon Vote A scheduled midafternoon vote on a motion to kill the health plan amendment to a House-passed bill to revise the public assistance program appeared likely to turn on the point of which side has the fewer absentees. Senate Republican Leader Everett M.
Dirksen of Illinois said he believes there is a majority for the motion to kill. Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, the assistant Democratic leader, predicted the administration would win by two votes "if we can get all of our members here." Whatever the result of today's voting, the administration's com- Reports Red Buzzing of U.S. Plane BERLIN (AP)-A usually well-informed source reported today that a radio message had been picked up, apparently from an American plane being buzzed by an unidentified Communist craft in an air corridor leading to isolated West Berlin. Spokesmen for the U.S.
mission end Air Force in Berlin said they could give out no information on the incident. The source said the message was identified as coming from the northernmost of the three corridors across Communist territory to Berlin. This corridor bandies traffic between Berlin and Hamburg. The source gave this account: The pilot, flying toward Berlin, aid he had just entered the corridor from West Germany when a fighter plane swooped over the nose of his plane. He reported he was about 40 miles from Berlin.
He asked the control tower if it could identify the plane, but it could not. The only fighters usually in the Hir over East Germany are Soviet und East German. The pilot reported that after the Initial swoop, the fighter took up a position about 130 yards off his left wing tip and stayed there for several minutes. He did not say that he had been signaled to land, Pilots making the run to Berlin often report sighting Soviet and East German MIGs in the cor ridors. The Communist air forces do a lot of flying In the Berlin area.
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Boned ondlni m.i Mil, 71) II. "fr U.S. Newsmen Charge Russ Edited Copy MOSCOW (AP)-The 13 Amort- can editors who interviewed So viet Premier Khrushchev last Fri day complained that the Russians made numerous changes in edit ing the official transcript of the proceedings. "Yes" even came out "no." At one point during the inter view, Khrushchev asked the Americans, all members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors: "Were you restricted in any way during your tour of the Soviet Union?" "Yes," they replied with one voice. "No," was the way the answer came in the transcript they re ceived Monday.
The Americans said they found the average Russian citizen woefully lacking in information of the West. They said they found virtually no one who had ever heard of the Telstar communications satellite, only a few who had heard of the Soviet nuclear test scries last fall and almost no one who knew that the United States dropped the first two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki while at war with Japan. Instead, the editors said, many Russians believe the United States was just testing them on two peaceful cities. quit Monday night during a four Prado. Ex-Finance Minister Alex the armed forces to take power in a day or two.
Word of the Cabinet resignation was received calmly in Lima. The rest of Peru also was reported quiet. Prado went from the Cabinet meeting to a party in his honor given by the diplomatic corps. The military chiefs have de manded nullification of the national elections in a move to block the possible election to the presidency of Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, candidate of the Popular Revolutionary Alliance APRA, Anti-Red Long haled by the military, Haya dc la Torre was high man in the presidential balloting on a leftist but avowedly anti-Communist ticket. He failed, however, to get the one-third of the total vote required for election.
Under the constitution, the new Congress, scheduled to convene July 28, is to choose a president from among the three leading men in the presidential race. The PROMOTE!) Wallace K. Sydaiimaa has been named senior industrial engineer for Consolidated Papers, it was announced today. In this position he will head the industrial engineering department. Sydan-maa has been plant manager at the company's Paperboard Pro-duets Division since lH5fi, and earlier served as the division's plant engineer and superintendent.
A graduate of Michigan College of Mining Technology with a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering, he joined Consolidated in 194 f. tence of the Wood County Teachers College as a block to estab lishment of a center. The committee agreed Monday night that stale statutes appar ently forbid financial participa tion in the center on the part of townships, but iermit contributions by cities and villages as well as counties. Elimination of area townships as contributors is not a significant factor, since they would provide less than 10 per cent of the estimated cost of constructing a center building, tlw mayor said.
Invite Neighbors Justcson invited representatives of the governing bodies of Biron, Port Edwards and Nekoosa to attend Wednesday night's meeting, and said other interested citizens will also be welcome. A review of the history of the center effort, plus latest developments, will be presented by a proponent and leader In the project. lujjiiMirfwr 11 An; I SITE OF PLANE CRASHES A South Vict Nam transport plane crashed on takeoff Monday at Kontum airport, killing 23 persons. Search crews are probing mountainous jungles near Kontum for a U.S. Army helicopter which crashed after being hit by guerrilla gunfire.
Other search crews are seeking a U.S. transport plane believed to have crashed in the Ban Me Thuot area. man, was found about a mile from the wreckage of the helicopter, which plunged into the jungle near the Laotian border 280 miles northeast of Saigon. He apparently had walked the mile despite mortal wounds. Charred bodies of two U.S.
Army officers, another enlisted man and a Vietnamese officer were found earlier at the crash site. Maj. Robert F. Corneil, commander of the 8th U.S. Helicopter Squadron, and a second Vietnamese officer survived.
The Pentagon announced in Washington the Americans aboard the helicopter were Lt. Col. Anthony J. Tencza, Fairfax, Corneil, of Daleville, Chief WO Joseph Goldberg, Sanford, N.C., Spec. 5 James E.
Lane, Spring Lake. N.C., and Spec. 5 Harold L. Guthrie, Burlington, N.C. Wandering Corneil.
found Sunday night wandering in the jungle about five miles from the wreckage, suffered only bruises. The Vietnamese survivor had been wounded by Communist bullets. It was Corneil's second injury as a result of Red gunfire, lie was shot in the heel May 23 while flying a helicopter over the Mekong River delta. Planes continued searching a 900-square mile area for a U.S. Air Force transport that disappeared Sunday en route from Saigon to Ban Me Thuot, 160 miles northeast of here.
Bad flying weather over the mountainous terrain hampered the search for the C123, which had four American crewmen. Escape U.S. himself aboard a New York- Soblen was brought before the three-judge panel from Brixton Prison on a writ of habeas corpus seeking his release from the custody of the British Home Office. The British government claims he is a deportable alien in the country illegality. If the court rules in the 62-year- old fugitive's favor, his lawyers plan to press his appeal to the Home Of lice for asylum as a political refugee.
He is suffering from leukemia incurable cancer of the blood and his doctors say he has only a few months to live, Israeli authorities refused to let must be settled by getting West ern troops out of the city. He set no new deadline for their exit. "I am not boasting," Khrushchev told the editors in his Kremlin conference room, "but we actually have a global rocket which cannot be destroyed by any anti-rocket means, and I know, if anyone docs, what antirocket means are, because we do have them." "The high-altitude explosion carried out by the United States will in no way interfere with the action of our global rocket," he declared. Dwells on Berlin Khrushchev spent 37 minutes emphasizing the importance of the Berlin issue, accusing the WTcst- Suspend Two Guards After Alcatraz Escape SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Two guards have been suspended as a result of last month's escape from Alcatraz by three still unaccounted for bank robbers. Warden Olin Blackwcll said the guards, whom he did not name, were suspended for 20 days each "for failing to keep an accurate inmate count." Injustice' Soblen stay in Israel and on July 1 put him aboard a chartered air liner bound for New York via Athens and London.
With him were an Israeli doctor and U.S. Marshal James McShane. Must Leave Britain The judges will decide whether to continue a writ of habeas cor pus Soblen's lawyers obtained in a lower court. The British government contends he landed in Brit ain without permission and has to leave when recovered from the suicide attempt. If Soblen is freed, he could leave for any foreign port.
The espionage charge against him is not extraditable under the extradition treaty between Britain and the United States. Presumably, however, only a Communist country would accept him since he docs not have a valid passport. He made the flight to Israel on a dead brother's Canadian passport. ern powers of clinging to West Berlin as a military bridgehead "As long as the occupation forces of the U.S., Britain and Franco remain in West Berlin, they will play the role of an irritant which will raise the tem perature in the relations between states," he declared. If the Western troops depart, Khrushchev said, the Soviet Un ion is willing to join the Allies in a pledge of noninterference with West Berlin life, a guarantee to be "sealed with the seal of the United Nations." He threatened anew to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany, a move the Russians claim would end Western rights in West Berlin.
"When shall do it?" he asked. "We shall not hurry, but neither shall we tarry. I will not set any time limit." Urges Peace Treaty Khrushchev repeated his demand that the Western powers agree to a peace treaty with all Germany and leave West Berlin a free, demilitarized city. "If this question were settled," he said, "we would remove the main obstacle which stands in the way of relaxation of tension and sets us at loggerheads with the U.S., Britain and France." The interview was released the same day the Soviet Union rejected a U.S.-British-Frcnch proposal that four power talks be called in Berlin to try to ease tension caused by shootings along the dividing wall. The premier said the Soviet Union found it necessary to renew nuclear testing last fall because the "U.S.
inflamed the atmosphere around West Berlin." He denied that the Soviet Union had broken the test moratorium, insisting the fall scries was in rc-See-NIKITA-Page 9 'Prophet' Alarmed By Rats' Actions DANIA, Fla. (AP)-Billy Bow- legs, a Seminole weather prophet, saw a rat build its nest atop an onk log. He foresees a bad hurri' can season ahead. The Indian, who says he is 100, explains rats usually nest inside logs. But "when they build them on top, watch out." He could be right.
In 1947, on the same basis, he forecast a bad season. A hurricane smacked Florida. Soblen's Wrist-Cutting Episode Merely 'To Call Council Session to Act On Financing of UW Center LONDON (AP) Dr. Robert Soblen told the British high court today he knifed bound airliner for the sole purpose of reaching British soil nd British justice. In an affidavit supporting his fight against removal to America to face a life sentence as a Soviet spy, Soblen said he had no intention of committing suicide.
"The wound I inflicted on my wrist was longitudinal," he said. The Wisconsin Rapids Common Council will meet in sjiecial session at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday to lake action on proixisod eslab-j lishment of a University of Wisconsin extension center in tho city. Mayor Nels M. Jusleson said he called the meeting Uon recommendation of his extension center committee, which Monday night adopted a resolution expressing the hoc that the Council will "positively stale, in language acceptable to the UW administration, that Wisconsin Rapids will guarantee that funds for an extension center here will be made available." Only Obstacle The UW Board of Regents has indicated that the only obstacle to Its favorable action on a center here is lack of a firm statement of financial support.
Last week the regents removed exis 'Had I inflicted a circular wound across my wrist, I would have bled to death. "Similarly, the cut in the abdomen ripped through the skin and belly muscles, but did not penetrate into the abdomen itself." Soblen said he jumped his and. fled to Israel last month "because I was convinced of my own Innocence of the counts against me, and because I felt that justice had not been done to me in the American courts." Establish Innocence "I further hoped that if I were able to enjoy my freedom a little longer, my Innocence might be established." Laugh as You Save on Ridiculous Day Sidewalk Shopping in Wisconsin Rapids Wednesday.