The Jackson Sun from Jackson, Tennessee • 1

Best in News, Comics, Features 52 Pages Home Paper to 60,000 Readers and Crowing! Ulth Year, No. 214 Associated Press JACKSON, TENNESSEE, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER-6 1959 AP Wirephoto Price: FIFTEEN CENTS E3 A A Holiday Deaths Across Nation Already to 201 Traffic 161 Boating 6 Non-boating drownings 10 Miscellaneous 24 Total 201 on Leo A enurv Mironauzs BUS Talk about I Spate In By ROGER Big LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. (AP) America's seven-man team of astronauts is ready, without a qualm, for the big stab into the sky. They still have months of exhausting, bone-bruising tests to undergo. What concerns them at the moment is public fear that it will mean risking almost certain death sometime in 1961 when an 80-foot Atlas rocket blasts one of them into outer space to orbit the earth at 18,000 miles an hour.

If No. 1 makes it and lives to Glen Haun, Tennessee Highway the 8th Division, watches car rearing Jackson on V. S. Highway 45 below him. Stopwatch shows automobile driver is within speed zone limit.

(Sin phot by Bab Arnsld) Senate Passes Wev 'lyes in Sky' Protect Motorists 'HGStS Flight GREENE radiation, Shephard answered the question: "The Van Allen belt doesn't begin until 500 or 600 miles up. We're shooting for an orbit altitude of 100 to 120 miles. There may be cosmic rays up where we're going, but not lethal rays." As the human cargo flashes (Continued on Pae 3) De Gaulle Plans Visit to U.S. By RELMAN MORIN TURNBERRY, Scotland (AP) President Charles de Gaulle of France Saturday accepted President Eisenhower's invitation to visit the United States as soon as possible. Arrangements for new top level U.

talks were begun as Eisenhower resting in Scotland-kept in close touch with events in Communist-threatened Laos A spokesman' said Eisenhower was concerned about the situation. De Gaulle replied promptly to message from Eisenhower ask ing him to come to Washington. Eisenhower extended the invitation in two warmly worded communications to De Gaulle Friday when he was leaving Paris. De Gaulle replied: "I very much hope to be able to go and see you in Washington. It will in janv case be as soon as I can." He said his own feelings about fine exnaustive conferences France paralleled Eisenhower's.

He called their meetings "a wonderful event from all points of view. great date in the history of the relations between our two countries." De Gaulle said the talks had resulted in "a meeting of the minds" and he added: "The French peo- (Continued on Page 3) Enrollment Up At Humboldt HUMBOLDT, Tenn. First week enrollment figures for the City Schools of Humboldt show an increase of 56 over the same time last year. Superintendent W. E.

Wilson said. Total enrollment recorded this week was 2,281, compared with 2,225 for the first week of school in 1958. Enrollment by schools this week was as follows: Elementary School grades one through six 05, a drop of 27. Junior High School 364, an increase of 23. Senior High School 257, a drop of 10.

Stigall High School 55, an increase of 70. The last named school began operations several weeks ago, and will shortly close for the cotton-picking season. Superintendent Wilson said extensive improvements are being made at the Stigall school to take care of the increase in enrollment, and also to provide needed facilities. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) The U.N.

Security Council was summoned Saturday night to meet at 2 p.m. (EST) Monday on Laos plea for an emergency force to halt any Communist aggression. The council president for September, Egidio Ortona of Italy, announced he called the meeting and the U.N. secretariat was cabling the notice to the 11 council delegations Saturday night. In Washington, the State Department linked Moscow and Pei- ping to the fighting in Laos and called for international action unless the Reds cease their activities.

A policy statement accused the Soviet Union, Red China and Communist North Viet Nam of intervention in Laos. Ortona met correspondents aft er an hour's talk with Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, his second since Hammarskjold's re turn in late afternoon from a cur tailed South American tour. Ortena said Hammarskjold asked him to convene the meeting after getting answers from a Laotian special envoy to certain pro cedural questions that had stood in the way. He said his action also conformed to what he had learned in consultations with other council delegates. The meeting was called about 37 hours after Laos gave Ham marskjold a request that the U.N.

send an emergency force as soon as possible to stop aggression which it blamed on Communist North Viet Nam. There were these other developments on the situation in the seething little Southeast Asian country. 1. The United States came out in favor of U.N. consideration of Laos' plea for U.N.

help. A State Department spokesman in Washington did not say whether the United States is in favor of sending U.N. troops to Laos. 2. Communist North Viet Nam urged the U.N.

to turn down the appeal from Laos. Reports said North Viet Nam had sent Hammarskjold a memorandum opoos- ing any U.N. move. North Viet Nam blamed the United States for trouble in Laos. 3.

In Laos itself the government declared a nationwide state of emergency. The order extended such control throughout the nation's 12 provinces. Five provinces already had been under emergency status following an increase in (Continued on page 6) Three-Spot Raid Nets Half Pint A half-pint of whisky was found last night when a large force of sheriff's deputies, constables, and a state trooper raided three night clubs on Nashville Highway. Christine Rushing, owner of Rushing's Place, was charged with possessing less than a quart, Chief Deputy Fred Cunningham said. The officers visited El Ran-cho Club and Younger's Place without finding any illegal activity, Cunningham said.

The raiding party was led by Cunningham and State Trooper Lt Joe Wlliams. Deputies L. H. Crowe, Billy Lewis.Golden Pratt, John Douglas, Casey Jones, and Constables Marvin WTood, Joe Roland, and Louie Young were in the raiding party. School Series To Start Tuesday The JACKSON SUN's Tuesday edition will carry the first of a 15-part series on getting the best education for the child.

It is designed to help parents of children from the pre-school to college ages. In this new school series also will be matters of interest to the pupils themselves. The series is a condensation by the Associated Press of a book by two outstanding, educations, Dr. Benjamin Fine and his wife, Lillian Fine. Each reader is invited to begin the new school series Tuesday and to follow it each day in The SUN.

crete veneered on the front face with brown glazed bricks and on the remainder of the structure with smooth buff brick. Aluminum trim will be used on the entrance, canopy and columns. Plastered interior walls will be decorated with plastic wall covering and pastel paints and the ceiling will be finished in acoustic plaster. Terrazzo floors will be used in the entry and lobby and soft tile elsewhere in the building. A central heating and air conditioning system is inclined in the building plans.

Exact location of the bank has not been determined Russell said. Three options have been taken on (Continued on Pag 3) NO SPEEDING HERE Lt. Patrol helicopter pilot for Leaking Fumes Make Cottage A Gas Chamber TOWNSEND. Wis. (AP) A va cation for a mother and her five children ended in tragedy near this northeastern Wisconsin community as leaking fumes turned their one-room cottage into a vir tual gas chamber.

John Rovge. 44. a Milwaukee steamfitter looking forward to a Labor Day week end with his family, battered down the cottage door Friday night. He found his wife dying and the children already dead. Mrs.

Gloria Rovge. 32, died at a hospital in Laona Saturday. The children were Kathleen, Christopher. 7: Cynthia, Kenneth, 3, and Caroline, li. Oconto County Coroner Clarence McMahon said the children, when found in the isolated cottage, apparently had been dead at least 24 hours.

Authorities still had not pinpointed the source of the gas, but McMahon said the deaths apparently were due to coal gas or bottle gas. All windows of the cottage seven miles northwest of here were closed against the chill nisht air. Rovge drove late Friday to Townsend to spend the holiday week end. He was met with a report that "something is wrong" at the cabin. He and a friend (Continued on Page 3) Ed Terry Selected U.

F. Division Head (See Picture on Page 2) Ed Terry of Jackson has been selected to head the Business Division of the 1959 United Fund Drive. Terry is president of the First National Bank and has been active in U. F. work each year.

His appointment was by Ben Lang-ford of Jackson, 1959 U. F. general drive chairman. Terry named the following five as section leaders for his division: Bill Drake, Mack Harper Don Laycook, Jack Smythe and Ben Love. He said each section will have 30 workers.

A kick-off meeting for his division will be held Sept. 17 at 6:30 p. m. at the New Southern Hotel. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The nation's highway death toll slowed late Saturday night.

the rate dropping to about five an hour. That slackening, how. ever, was expected with the les sened late night traffic. The rate, though, was running considerably in excess of that during the first 28 hours of the three-day holiday last year when 99 were killed. The multiple death collision as in Missouri where six were killed and two injured and in Iowa where five died and six were hurt were more numerous.

The highway death rate figuratively rang alarm bells in the headquarters of the national safety council. "The toll is running alarmingly ahead of last Labor Day," the National Safety Council commented. "If a fire was taking that many lives, everybody would join to put It out. We urge all to join in hold-in? down the toll." During the 1958 Labor Day period that holiday always runs three days 420 motor vehicle fatalities were reported. The council has estimated that 450 Americans will die in traffic accidents during the current holiday that began at 6 p.m.

local time Friday and will end at midnight Monday. That's a 78-hour stretch. The most spectacular accident, the head-on collision, was a factor in the death count. Crashes of that type killed four Marines near Warrenton, and two women and a man near Point Pleasant, W. Va.

An accident that involved three automobiles near Hicksville in Defiance County, Ohio, fatally injured three men. Four persons were killed and seven reported injured in a two-car crash two miles east of Win-throp, Iowa. Three members of a Butte, family perished when their car collided with a truck near Boreman. Mont. The tally of dead was compiled In the face of widespread police efforts to keep traffic under control.

In Nebraska, for example, Gov. Ralph Brooks got up before daybreak Saturday and climbed into a car with a state trooper for a brief spell of highway patrol work. The safetv council predicted that virtually all of the nation's 71 million motor vehicles will be on streets or roads at some time during the last holiday of the summer. The Associated Press, for purposes of comparison, made a survey of deaths by -accident during the Aug. 21-24 weekend.

There were 307 deaths in traffic. 15 in boating accidents, 71 drownings that did not involve boats and 76 in the miscellaneous class for an over-all total of 469. During the recent two-day Independence Day holiday there were 276 traffic deaths, 60 boating deaths, 119 drownings and 65 deaths in other types of accidents for a total of 520. Tennessee recorded only two accidental deaths, both in traffic, during the first hours of the Labor Day weekend. Fair skies across the state brought motorists out in the usual large numbers but the State Highway Patrol reported traffic was about normal for a holiday.

The state's holiday motorists were behaving well, the patrol said. Just to make sure, the department had 500 men, 300 cars, 3 helicopters and an undisclosed number of radar units keeping watch. During a brief rain shower at Nashville Saturday after noon, several persons were injured in traffic accidents in that area but po fatalities were reported. Authorities consider the last day of the holiday the worst time for traffic violations and accidents as motorists will be rushing on their return trip. Four persons died in traffic accidents last Labor Day weekend and 15 in 1957.

Feeder Pig Sale Slated Oct. 14 BROWNSVILLE. Term. The Southwest Tennessee Pig Association decided in a Friday night meeting to hold its first feeder pig sale of the season here on Oct. H.Haywood County Farm Agent J.

D. Pettigrew, who serves as secretary of the association, said that 1.000 pigs are expected to be sold at that time. All of them will be vaccinated and given a veternarian's certificate, he said. Alex Clayborne of the State Department of Agriculture and Tom Langford, West Tennessee Livestock specialist with the State Extension Service, will sort and grade the pigs prior to the sale. Pettigrew also announced that four feeder pig sales will be held annually, instead of two as had been previously announced.

The association operates in eight counties, including Madison, Lauderdale. Tipton, Shelby, Fayette, Hardeman, Crockett and Haywood. John M. Jackson of Brownsville is president of the association. tell what Happened, at least four of the other astronauts will follow in successively longer journeys, blazing the way for eventual manned flights to the moon and such planets as Mars and Venus.

The pioneer venture, known as Project Mercury, has been widely heralded as the most dangerous voyage ever conceived in the history of man. The astronauts, in an exclusive interview, made it clear they do not buy that. Swigging soda pop in their new headquarters here, the lean, hard-muscled youne SDacemen said jthey have no feeling of a tension Duuaup notnmg to compare with the ordeal of Allied troops waiting for the cross-channel invasion of Normandy, for example, in World War II. "Those neonlA Hirfn't l-nm what to expect on D-Day. We do," said Navy Lt.

Malcolm S. Caroenter. Garden Grove, father ot lour cniiaren. "And they knew there was going to be slaughter. We don't admit said Air Forrp Cant Vircril iL Grissom, 33, Mitchell, Ind.

Nor would the astronauts in discussing Derilous ionrnpv nf the past, rate the hazards of space mgnt on the same level with the fancied dangers that confronted Christopher Columbus on his vnv- age of discovery to the New World in Navy Lt. Cmdr. Alan Rhx- pard 35, East Derry, N.H., put it this way: "Columbus engineers tnld him the world was flat. They said when he sailed tn 4hf pd hp was going to fall into a hntfnm- less abyss to sure death. Our scienusts tell us we won t.

Of the five astronauts at thp interview two were absent on other duties Marine Lt. CoL John H. Glenn 38, New Con- cora, unio, oldest of the team, sooke in a more serious vpin about the question of danger. "If we didn't, know what tn or. pect, we might be like the uoangis in Airica.

suspicious of everything and afraid of every leaf that stirs," Glenn said. "When vou eet educated, vnn'rp no longer afraid. In this (soace field, there are only a handful who understand, and thev are not fear ful." At this point in the interview a lanky, tousle haired figure in baggy coveralls joined the group and was introduced as Air Force Capt. Leroy G. Cooper, 32, Shawnee, youngest of the astro nauts but a veteran let pilot with 2,300 hours flying experience.

Cooper, returning from a spin an F102 jet fighter, agreed with the others that their chanops of surviving the first manned flights into space are much better, than generally believed. "Oh, we've got a few probfems. all right," he grinned. What about the danger of ex posure to lethal rays from the newly discovered Van Allen radiation belt above the earth? As the astronauts' expert on Weather Partly cloudy, warm and humid through today with widely scattered afternoon or evening thundershowers. Temperatures Penny Increase In Gasoline Tax WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Saturday night approved a penny a gallon increase in the federal gasoline tax as a temporary way of keeping the vast federal interstate highway pro gram going.

The vote was 70-11. It joined the House in voting to boost the present federal gasoline tax from 3 to 4 cents a gallon for 21 months and then sent the bill back to the other body for con sideration of numerous Senate amendments. Action came after a lengthy and unusual Saturday session slowed down by delaying tactics of Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore). The Senate action represented a partial victory for President Eisenhower and administration road officials who had urged a li cent a gallon boost in the federal gas oline tax.

They accepted the smaller increase with a frank warning that it will slow down and stretch out somewhat the vast program of federal aid on highway construc tion. The higher tax is expected to bring in an additional 333 million dollars for the highway trust fund in the nine months that begin Oct. 1, and 590 million in the year that follows it. The Senate went along with the House in earmarking part of the excise taxes on automobiles and parts, that now go into the Treas ury general funds, for the special highway fund after July 1, 1961. Administration officials vigor ously oppose this move and hope to win a congressional revision of it before it becomes effective.

The Huse originallv proposed the extra penny gasoline tax be come effective Sept. 1 but as that shifted this to Oct. 1. This and other changes made (Continued on Page 10) Milan VFW Post To Build Home MILAN. Tenn.

Final plans for a new $30,000 Veterans of For eign Wars post home will be worked out during a 7:30 p. m. meeting here Monday, Doyle Williamson, chairman of the post's building fund committee, said Saturday. Present plans call for the ground breaking ceremony to be held on Sunday, Oct. 4, Williamson said, but added that there is a good possibility that this date will be changed.

The new post home, of brick veneer construction, is to be built on the present VFW post home grounds, at 211 North Main St. Some of the materials for the new building, and some of the funds necessary for its completion, are already on hand, he said. The remaining money is to be raised through a fund campaign during coming weeks. Herb Davis, jast Tennessee VFW commander, will serve as head of the program committee and master of ceremonies a the ground breaking. Buck Fuqua is chairman of the building committee, and Carl Milligan is post commander.

All 1,350 Wrong Perhaps 60 million Frenchmen can't be wrong, but 1,350 Jack-sonians were last week. They entered the Dollarwords contest, but failed to get the exact answer. The correct solution is given on page 2. Study it carefully, then send in your solution to this week's Dollarwords when it appears tomorrow afternoon in the SUN. The prize this week is $350.

(See Picture Page) The Tennessee Highway Patrol has taken to the air in its efforts to ave lives on the ground. Plans have been completed for the effective use of the Patrol's helicopters to help control excessive speeds on West Tennessee highways. Within the first hour of its operation here, this method resulted in the arrest of six out- of-state motorists charged with exceeding speed limits. An explanation of the meth od was given to The SUN by THP 'Safety Consultant Bill Way. A series of white lines have been painted across the broad center line of all federal highways converging on Jackson.

These lines, painted for several miles in each direction, are exactly one-quarter of a mile apart. The Highway Patrol has had prepared a table showing the exact number of seconds required for a vehicle to move from one cross line to the next. This table is based on the fact that at any given speed it will take a car a certain number of seconds to cover a mile. At 60 miles an hour, for it requires one minute (60 seconds) for the car to cov er one mile. In that way, it will take the 60-mile-an-hour car exactly 15 seconds to move from one line to the next.

A THP helicopter pilot watch ing traffic on the highway finds it a simple matter to determine whether or not a car is moving within the speed limit. All the pilot has to do is start his stopwatch at the instant the car is over one white cross line, stopping the watch the in stant the car is over the next one and compare the elapsed time in seconds and fractions of a second with the table. Should the car be speeding, the pilot notifies a trooper on patrol on land and the driver is stopped. Lt. Glen Haun is THP helicopter pilot for this (8th) district.

The helicopter pilot can keep his eyes on the car being check ed at all times when the pilot starts the stopwatch, when he stops it and so on until the trooper on the ground has things under control. Because of the exactness of Every exhibit, display and contest wul center around the community, officials say, and prizes this year will amount to over $55,000. An attendance of over 200,000 persons is expected. The Tennessee State Fair at Nashville and the Chattanooga -Hamilton County Inter-State Fair open the same day Sept. 21.

Officials at Chattanooga have had to erect larger tents than usual to house all the exhibits, and they're hoping for a turnout of 125,000 if the weather is good. The big day at this fair comes on Sept. 25, which has been designated "Hamilton County School Day, North Georgia Day." Gov. Buford Ellington and Agriculture Commissioner W. F.

Moss are expected for this day's full program. Ellington, incidentally, plans to take in as many fairs as he can crowd into his schedule. The fair board at Nashville has spent about $400,000 sprucing up the fairgrounds for this year's event. Two livestock barns 400 feet long have been built and an indoor livestock judging ring, seating 500, has been added. Singing cowboy Gene Autry will be on hand to entertain State Fair visitors and $53,000 in prize money awaits a record number of exhi this method.

Trooper Way said, and because motorists are unaware of the hovering helicopter, this method may prove more effective even than radar in controlling highway speed. The Tennessee Highway Pa trol, Way said, is dedicated to making highways in the state safe for those who use them. Excessive speed is one of the factors entering into needless accidents, so the Patrol is using all methods at its disposal to try to maintain legal speeds for the protection of all. Nobody is immune from accident, the Safety Consultant said. "Every -motorist hotrftTre-gard the helicopter pilot as "eyes in the sky" watching over his safety.

Trials Are Slated In Criminal Court The September term of Madi-s County Circuit Court's criminal division will open Tuesday morning with the organization of the grand jury. Judge Andrew T. (Tip) Taylor will address members of the jury panel. Cases continued from the last session of criminal court are scheduled Tuesday and Wednesday and persons indicted by the grand jury will be arraigned on Friday. Five forgery charegs against Ada Williamson are scheduled to be heard Tuesday afternoon.

Also set for trial at that time are James Hunt, charged with burglary, and seven non-support cases. Wednesday's calendar State vs. Seth Venable, felonious assault; State vs. James Emerson Hurley and Travis Howard Coleman, unlawfully possessing legend drugs; State vs. Alton Amo Smith, unlawfully selling legend drugs; State vs.

Seth Venable, felon-ceny and obtaining money under false pretenses; and State vs. Carl Stanford Myers and Curtis Ray Tatum, larceny. The trial of Paul Helton on a charge of shooting into a dwelling house is set for Friday. Two charges of burglary against Aaron Lee Rogers will be heard Tuesday, Sept. 15, and the trial of Bobby Austin for involuntary mansluaghter is set for Wednesday, Sept.

16. bitors. If the weather's good it has rained during the last two years a turnout of 300,000 visitors is hoped for at the 54th annual State Fair. The granddaddy of the major fairs is the Mid-South fair, which opens its 103rd year at Memphis Sept. 25.

A top feature each year is the Southern Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest in which college teams from 14 states compete to pick out the best dairy cows. A major attraction at the Mem phis fair will be a bewildering flower show entitled Flowers Afloat." This exhibit includes 31 floats which are kept in circular motion in a giant water tank. An innovation this' year will make it easier on the feet of about 400,000 Memphis fair visitors. Small sight-seeing trains will be in operation to haul fairgoers on their rounds of the attractions. Premiums and purses "at the Mid-South Fair will exceed 000.

Four-H Clubs and Future Farmers and Future Homemakers of America will play prominent parts at all the fairs. Fair Time across Tennessee Highland. Branch Bank Construction Planned By GAX SCOTT NASHVILLE (AP) It's fair time once again across Tennessee. And for the next several weeks youngsters and oldsters alike will be tramping out to the fairgrounds to sample cotton candy and snow cones and try out the newest thrill-packed rides. When they tire of the midway attractions, they'll tour the ex -hibit halls, view the agricultural and industrial diplays and watch the judging.

Fairs have become an accustomed part of the state's life since the first county fair was held back in 1856 at Alexandria in DeKalb County. Now they are held in 75 of the state's 95 counties as preludes to the big regional fairs conducted annually in the four metropolitan centers. The county fairs are in full swing now. And according to reports, they are bigger and better than ever. The first of the big fairs, the Tennessee Valley Agricultural and Industrial Fair, opens a six-day run at Knoxville Sept.

14. The theme of this 40th fair is "Com munity SAT. A.M. SAT. P.M.

1 a.m. 70 1 p.m. 88 2 a.m. 71 2 p.m. 87 3 a.m.

70 3 p.m. 78 4 a.m. 71 4 p.m. 80 5 a.m. 70 5 p.m.

79 6 a.m. 70 6 a.m. 79 7 a.m. 72 7 p.m. 77 8 a.m.

80 8 p.m. 75 9 a.m. 83 9 p.m. 74 10 a.m. 86 10 p.m.

73 11 a.m. 88 11 p.m. 71 Noon 88 Midnite 71 Complete and modern banking facilities are planned for the new Highland Branch of National Bank of Commerce. Construction of the building is expected to begin within two weeks and is scheduled for completion by early spring. Simpson Russell, president of the bank, said application for establishing the branch bank has been filed with the comptroller of currency at Washington, D.

C. and approval is jxpected within two weeks. Construction will start as soon as this approval is received, the bank official stated. Designed by Jackson architect W. C.

Harris the building will have masonry walls of con Precipitation Precipitation last 24 hrs. .06 Precipitation this month .14 Precipitation this year 33.03 Sun rises 5:31 Sun sets 6:16.