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12 Pages ROSEBURG, OREGON TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1961
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TELEPHONE EMPLOYEES ACTIVITY ASSOCIATION members, who've formed a team
to assist in the YMCA membership drive, ore shown presenting Wayne Schulz, 'Y'
secretory, with o reminder card recording the new telephone number assigned to the
Stewart Park building. Pictured left to right are Cliff Thomas, Paul Stewart, Bud Elliott,
Bob Willhite (TEAA president), Jack Mason and Jerry Scovil.
City Financial Assistance Due
For Storm Sewers, Catch Basins
By BILL SPARKS
News-Review Staff Writer
The Roseburg City Council Mon
day night voted to return to its
former policy o participating fi
nancially in the construction of
street intersections and storm
sewers and catch basins.
This had been a council policy
for several years, but was changed
at last year's budget committee
hearings because of the austerity
program being followed while the
city wound its way out o debt.
Amount Studied
The public works committee will
meet prior to tiie next council
meeting and then recommend just
how much the city will participate
in the cost of construction in these
fields.
City Engineer Ken Meng esti
mated that the full cost of the
major projects which will be ready
for construction this summer
would run about $18,000.
Funds Available
City JIanager John Warburlon
Council Approves
Bus Fare Increase
l'he Roseburg City Council Mon
day night authorized the City Bus
Co. to make a 10-cent increase in
its adult passenger fare. This
authorization came following a pub
lic hearing, at which some 30 per
sons turned out to speak in javor
of the requested increase.
This means the rate will raise
from 25 to 35 cents for adult pas
sengers. The children's rate will
remain the same.
Support Hike
Bus company owner Lee Perkins
had previously received favorable
support in his requested rate in
crease from 111 persons who use
the bus lines, as they had turned
in written requests that the iu
crease be granted.
Kor many people who were on
hand for the public hearing, the
bus line provided their only eco
nomical form of travel, they slat
ed. First Increase
Perkins had staled the company
lost nearly S200 a month for the
last three months, and pointed out
the bus service would probably
have to be discontinued if the rate
increase was not allowed.
The buses operate under a city
franchise, and all rate increases
must be approved by the council.
This was the first increase ever
given the bus company.
Garbage, Liquor Control
Take Sutherlin Spotlight
Garbage disposal and possible:
violation of liquor control laws!
took the spotlight at a special mect-j
ing of the Sutherlin City Council
Monday night, reports correspond
ent Barbara Liesineer. I
Part of the meeting was devoted
to discussion of the garbage dis-
posal problem. I
A tentative plan under study
calls for collection of fees hy the;
city, with residents compelled to:
either patronize the collection serv-j
ice or themselves make adequate
disposal of refuse. j
Disconnection Possible !
Under this plan, violators would
The Weather I
AIRPORT RECORDS j
Considerable low clouds and fog
tonight and Wednesday, Not much
temperature change. ,
Highett temp, last 74 hourt 57
Leweit temp, lett 24 hours ... 3S
Highest temp, any Jan. I '5) - 45
Lowest temp, any Jan. ('57) .
Precip. last 24 hours .. .00
Precip. from Jan. 1 .. 32
Precip, from Sept. 1 . .. 11.62
Deficiency from Sept. t 3.41
Sunset tonight, 5:14 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow, 7:34 a.m.
said there will be enough funds
available for the city to carry out
such financial participation in next
year's budget. Warburton had re
ceived previous orders to draw up
a budget for 28.5 mills. He said
he could provide funds for these
projects and still stay within that
limit.
The main projects Meng refer
red to were in the West Slopes
area and the area around W. Ori
ole, Tanager, Kildeer and Susan.
Delay Necessitated
Westside councilman Fred Kelly
stated he felt street paving proj
ects in that part of the city were
delayed last year because the city
would not pay for the intersec
tions. It was the general feeling
that because taxpayers in this area
had helped pay for similar im
provements in other parts of the
city when funds were available be
fore, they deserved financial aid
on their projects now.
The council had earlier received
a request from Cecil Luellen, de
veloper of the West Slopes arei,
asking that plans and specifica
tions for streets in that area be
drawn up.
The council in turn authorized
the city engineering department to
draw up these plans.
According to information offer
ed by City Auditor Bob Hanberg,
the city is slill in position to erase
by July 1 the S200.000 debt it found
itself "in two years ago.
Out By Year's End
It was this debt which led to the
austerity program and the drop-
Walla Walla Lawyer
To Head Bonneville
PORTLAND (AP) Charles F.
Luce, 43, a Walla Walla, Wash.,
attorney, today was named ad
ministrator of the Bonneville
Power Administration, the De
partment of Interior here said.
A spokesman for the department
said the appointment of Luce was
made in Washington, D. C, by
Secretary of the Interior Stewart
I'dall. The appointment will be
effective Feb. 15.
Luce was a member of the BPA
legal staff for two years in the
1940s and in 1949 was, for a short
time, a special assistant to the
secretary of Interior on a river
development program.
The BPA post pays $17,500 a
year.
The present administrator is Dr.
Willia'm A. Pearl.
be disconnected from city water
lines.
Ed Funderburk, present holder
of the franchise, was told by the
council that purchase of a new
truck is now necessary in accord
ance with the contract.
Reports of alleged excessive row
diness and possible violation of the
liquor control laws at the Light
house Lounge were called to the
attention of the council. It heard
a tape recorded interview with a
I
teen ager, whom the police chief
said had allegedly been served
liquor on the premises. After con
sidering the report of Police Chief
Richard Crumal, the council voted
to recommend to the stale Liquor
Control Commission a 90-day su
spension of the dispenser's iiquor
license.
The contract for the year's sun
ply of fuel oil and gasoline was
awarded to Union Oil Company,
the low bidder.
Leo Johnson and C. A. Petherick
were appointed by the mayor to
fill vacancies on the Budget- Com
mittee.
The council accepted the newly
completed wing of the city hall
and authorized payment in full
for the structure. An open home
has been arranged fr.r Feb. 14.
when the public is invited to visit
the new win;, it was announced.
ping of city intersection and storm
sewer and catch basin participa
tion. Hanberg, in a brief second quar
ter financial report, said all ex
penditures and revenues other
than property taxes are in good
shape and should wind up the year
on schedule. He said the property
taxes have been slow coming in.
but added if they come in as anti
cipated the city will be complete
ly out of debt by the end of the
liscal year.
Ellis Is New
CD Director
NEW ORLEANS. "M. ''TAP)
Frank Burton Kllis, President
Kennedy's choice for civil defense
director, is regarded by intimates
as a top-flight organizer.
The President tabbed Ellis, 53,
a Mew Orleans attorney, for the
post Monday. He will succeed Leo
A. Hoegh, former Iowa governor
who held the $25.000-a-ycar job un
der the Eisenhower administra
tion. Ellis has long been active In
politics, but associates rale him
belter as a campaign director
and organizer than as a vote
getting politician.
Friends believe Kennedy had
Ellis' organizational talents in
mind when he picked him for the
civil defense post.
The President said he consid
ered it imperative that the civil
defense functions "be organized
and performed with maximum
effectiveness."
Kennedy said Ellis' first task
will be to review the ' structure
and functions of the Office of Civil
Defense Mobilization, which is
charged with civilian aspects of
defense as well as with planning
of industrial and economic mobili
zation for a war emergency.
Sen. Morse Returns
To Capital Tonight
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore., was
scheduled to return to the nation's
capital tonight after a two-day
speaking swing through Western
Oregon.
Monday Morse was told that
Republican Gov. Mark O. Hatfield
had announced he will run for a
second term.
Since there has been persistent
speculation that Hatfield would
seek the GOI nomination to op
pose Morse's planned bid for re
election next year. Morse laughed
and said, "I've been kidded be
fore." Then he added;- "All I can say
is'. I'm ready."
Morse called President Ken
nedy's cabinet a "great" one ex
cept Secrclary of the Navy John
Connally. He said this was Ken-
jedy's "one big mistake.
Speaking to Pacific University
I students, Morse said the best hope
fur a more stable peace is a dis
armament conference between the
United States and Russia under
United Nations auspices.
Red Scientist Sees
Polio Epidemic End
MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet
scientist who directed a two-year
polio vaccination program using
j a live virus technique developed
ny an American sain today he is
"convinced that polio epidemics
have been wiped out in the Soviet
L'nion."
Prof. Mikhail Chumaknv said
that in V.tW alone 77 million So
viet citizens were immunized with
I tie technique developed hy Dr.
j Albert Salnn of Cincinnati, Ohio,
j Tass, the Soviet news agency re
I ported. Medical opinion in the
I L'nited States is divided over the
merits of Sahin's technique and
that of Dr. Jonas Salk, who pio
; necrcd use of a dead virus.
Two Men Die
In Nuclear
Plane Crash
GOLDSBORO. N.C. (AP) A
multimillion-dollar jet bomber
carrying two unarmed nuclear
weapons crashed near here early
today. Two men were killed, lour
parachuted to safety, one man
survived the crash and one was
missing.
The Air Force said there was
no danger of nuclear explosion or
radiation.
Weapon Jettisoned
One of the unidentified nuclear
weapons was jettisoned before the
crash and was parachuted safely.
The second was found in the
wreckage of the huge eight-jet
B52G of tlie Strategic Air Com
mand which crashed about .15
miles north of Goldsboro.
The plane, stationed at nearby
Seymour Johnson Air Force Base,
was returning for an emergency
landing shortly after midnight aft
er being airborne several hours.
The pilot had radioed he was hav
ing luel problems.
Lt. Col. Thomas Coleman, a
public information officer, said
"it looks like it broke up in the
air and fell." Parts of the plane
were scattered over a Hi-mile
area.
Dramatic Appearance
The pilot, Waj. Walter F. Tul
loch. 45, of San Diego, Calif.,
made a dramatic appearance at
dawn. He had been considered
missing, but he walked from a
swampy woodland area to a farm
er's home to notify base authori
ties he had parachuted.
The bodies of two men were
found in the wreckage of the nose
section of the plane.
Marshal Suggs, a Negro tenant
farmer, said the plane flew di
rectly over his house. He' said the
plane "sounded like it was about
half running. I think it had al
ready f a 1 le n when I heard
an explosion that sounded like
dynamite. It was mighty loud. I
live 22 miles away and It shook
my house."
First Survivors.
-The first fcWr of the survivors
picked up were Lt. William R.
Wilson. 27. of Somerville. N. J.:
Capl. Richard W. Rardin. 33. of
San Antonio, jex.; i.t. A. u. .wai
tocks, 27, the third pilot, of Mays
ville, N. C: and Capll Paul E.
Brown, 37, of Beardstown, 111. ,the
navigator.
Others on the plane were JIa.
Eugene Shelton, 41. of San An
tonio. Tex., radar navigator; Jin.
Eugene Richards, 42, Toccoa, Ga.,
electronics weapons officer; and
T. Sgt. Francis R. Barnish, 35, of
Greenfield, Mass.
Castro Says Rebels
Hanged Militiamen
HAVANA (AP) Fidel Castro
charged today that counterrevo
lutionaries had kidnaped and
hanged two militiamen and a uni
formed school teacher the in
surgents accused of being a Com
munist. Vowing vengeance, the prime
minister declared the executions
were carried out early this month
in the hills of Las Villas Province
by a group calling itself the
"Atmv of National Liberation."
Sneaking at graduation exer
cises for 1.2O0 young men and
women of the militia who have
qualified as teachers, Castro re
ported that 20 "counterrevolution
ary criminals" had been captured
in the area where the alleged
hangings look place in south cen
tral Cuba.
As the new teachers shouted
"Parcdon!" (to the execution
wall), the prime minister pledged:
"Over all of them will befall a
persecution such as they could
never imagine. Nothing will save
them not even mercenaries they
are expecting or their imperialist
bosses."
Castro blamed "henchmen in
cassorks" a reference to the Ro
man Catholic clergy and "agents
of imperialism" for giving "ideo
logical arms" to the enemies of
the revolution.
He attacked specifically the
Spanish priests who make up a
majority of the Roman Catholic
clergy in Cuba.
Winston City Council
Installs New Members
Two new Winston City Council
members were sworn in Monday
night at Die regular meeting of
the bodv.
The two were Waldo (Jack)
Cooper, owner of Cooper's Groc
ery, and Norman Lee, owner of
the Winston Dairy Queen store.
Cooper replaces Milford Waters,
i and l.ee replaces Glenn Ryder.
I Two years remain in boih terms,
I reports correspondent I'hebe Ale-
! Gillie.
I The two replacements were te
lecled by the council.
In the only other major action
of the evening, the council passed
an ordinance which will allow
stronger punishment for vandals.
A wave of vandalism has been not
ed in Winston in recent weeks.
The new ordinance will allow a
jail sentence of 30 days and or
JjOO line.
High Road Costs
Laid To Trucks
SALEM (AP) The chairman
of the Oregon Highway Commis
sion told a Senate Highway Com
mittee hearing Monday that as
much as one-half of highway costs
might be due to heavy trucks.
Milo Mclver, the chairman, said
this was the opinion of the men
in the state Highway Department
who helped formulate the weight
mile tax theory.
"I say this because these ex
perts of the department . . . say
that the actual cost responsibility
today of heavy vehicles might be
as high as 40 or 50 per cent," he
said.
He said that in other words
these same experts say the "real
heavy vehicle should pay as high
as 40 or 50 per cent." Those over
6.000 pounds now pay on a for
mula based on 34.6 per cent.
Mclver said there are more
JFK, Aides Plan
Arms Proposals
WASHINGTON (API Presi
dent Kennedy meets with top dis
armament advisers today in a
first step toward drawing up "se
rious and precise proposals for
the inspection and control of
arms."
1 be White House gathering is
the third master strategy session
in as many days on foreign policy
problems.
Called to the executive mansion
were disarmament chief John J.
McCloy. Secretary of Slate Dean
Rusk. Secretary of Defense Rob
ert S. McNamara, Assistant Sec
retary of Defense-designate Paul
H. Nitze, presidential security ad
viser McGeorge Bundy and presi
dential science adviser Jerome
Wiesner.
Kennedy said during his cam
paign that "the most gaping hole
in American foreign policy today
is our lack of a concrete plan for
disarmament."
In his inaugural address Friday,
he snid both the Soviet Union and
the United States should "for the
first time formulate serious and
precise proposals for the inspec
tion and control of arms and
bring the absolute power to de
stroy other nations under the ab
solute control of all nations."
Rusk, McNamara and Bundy
were among the foreign affairs
and defense leaders who gathered
at the White House Monday in an
all-day review and planning meet
ing. Rusk, with Kennedy's an
proval, issued a statement saying
Kennedy and he plan to stress
normal diplomatic means rather
than summit parleys in dealing
with major international prob
lems. Officials said the policy applied
not onlv to dealings with the So
viets, whose Premier Khrushohev
has repeatedly pushed for summit
get-togethers, but also to the nu
morons other foreign statesmen
who have become increasingly im
bued with the idea of doing busi
ness on a personal basis. But high-
level meetings were not ruled out
when they would be deemed
fruitful.
CC Books Solons
At Saturday Meet
The Roseburg Chamber of Com
merce has scheduled a meeting
Saturday noon for anyone interest
ed, in which Douglas County's leg
islative delegation will star.
All three legislators, Sen. Al Fle
gel and Reps. Sidney J,cikcn and
W. O. (Bun) Kelsay are expected
for the session. The meeting, which
has been described as "an explor
atory session." was arranged by
the Stale Government Committee
of the Chamber, under the chair
manship of I.. J. Fullerton.
Background Bill
The purpose of the meeting will
be to generally background those
present with the bills in the hopper
and others proposed. General ar
eas to be covered are education
bills, labor-management issues, in
cluding workmen'! compensation
and unemployment insurance, the
governor's government reorganiza
tion plan and expenditures and tax
ation. Th.s will be the first of three
meetings at whirh the legislative
delegation will star.
The Saturday meeting will be pri
marily a qucstion-and-answer ses
sion. Paul K. Gcddes, former state
senator, will be moderator.
The meeting is scheduled at noon
in the Umpqua Hotel.
Church Burning Denied
By Baptist Minister
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) A
Baptist minister repudiated Mon
day his statement that he humeri
down his churches in Palo Alto
land Fontana.
Through his attorney, the Rev.
Leonard Rhoads said he was co
erced inlo signing the statement
under threat of tho gas chamber.
Rhoads, 45, is pastor of the First
Southern Baptist church al.Palo
Alto which was destroyed by fire
Mast Dec, 1.1 at a loss nf more than
SI'iQ.nOQ. A IS.Vi fire destroyed the
! Rhoads' Fonalana church.
la 'ge vehicles on highways today
than were anticipated in 19.il.
He said Oregon is building roads
and bridges heavier than "we
even thought of then."
Mclver spoke against a Senate
bill thai would lessen the weight-
mileage tax on trucks with a 1
gross weight of more than 44.000
pounds, lt would iron out a tax
curve that climbs abruptly up
ward as truck weights increase
past 44,000 pounds.
"The bill before you," Mclver
said, "would reduce highway rev
enue in Oregon by St million a
year with 88 per cent of the re
duction accruing to truck combin
ations over 70,000 pounds."
Action Hasty
Mclver said action now would
be hasty and should await the
outcome of the Illinois test road,
designed to determine just which
vehicles are responsible fur whut
per cent of highway costs.
He said the federal government
had put $27 million into this and
another test, and that Oregon had
contributed $150,000.
Mclver predicted that the Illi
nois tests would set maximum de
sirable weights and dimensions
for vehicles operated on federal
aid systems.
He said the trucking industry
now is talking about gross weight
up to 130,000 pounds for 105-foot-
long double bottom commnation
trucks. Roads for these trucks are
going to cost even greater
amounts of money, he said, adding
that the pleasure car driver al
ready has a road sufficient for his
use.
Flegel Takes Issue
Sen. Al Flegel, D-Roseburg, took
issue with Mclver's percentages.
He said it was difficult to deter
mine iust what percentage of
highway costs trucks are paying.
Flegel is in the moving Business.
"We get different figures, de
pending on whom we talk to."
Flouel said. He said he thought.
arealcr weights could be carried
without highway damage if the
length of the trucks was in
creased.
Goldberg May Ask
Unemployment Aid
WASHINGTON (AP) The Ken
nedy administration is reported
considering asking Congress to
authorize quick extra money for
the unemployed.
Secretary of Labor Arthur J.
Goldberg told reporters Monday
after seeing President Kennedy
that "there is a deep concern
about the unemployment compen
sation area and a strong feeling
the government must extend
hcln."
Goldberg didn't elaborate, hut
presumably what is being consid
ered is additional federal aid pay
ments to idled workers.
The AFL-CIO has recommend
ed an extensive emergency aid
plan which it estimates would
cost over $200 million a month.
Goldberg said unemployment is
mounting. Those idle among all
workers insured for state bene
fits rose hv 228.000 during the
week ended Jan. 7 lo a total of
3.289,600. The idle rate among
insured workers is 8 1 per cent.
Both the rate and the total are
record highs for that particular
week.
Overall unemployment was 4.5
million in mid-December with a
rale of 6.8 per cent. Labor De
partment officials said the mid
January total probably would top
5.5 million.
Klamath Falls Man
Killed In Crash
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
An icv highway was the cause
of Oregon's 31st traffic fatality of
the year, in a one-car crasn Mon
day in Eastern Oregon, state po
lice reported lodav.
The virtim was Harold T. Hal
aas, 46. Klamath Falls, who suf
fered chest injuries and died an
hour later in a Hermistnn hos
pital, stale police at Pendleton
said.
Police listed the cause of the
accident as ice on the highway
The ll.iluas car. driven by Mrs.
Ilalaas, went off Highway 30 some
18 miles west or J'cnclleton
slammed into a ditch and then
veered hack onto the road, police
said. Halaas was thrown out onto
the pavement. The car then
plunged into a roadside bank
Mrs. Halaas suffered severe fa
cial cuts and was hospitalized at
Hermiston today.
Oregon's highway dealh toll now
stands at .11 in the first 24 days of
the year, in the Associated Press
tabulation.
Another traffic death was re
corded at Florence, when Mrs.
Willard R. Booth, 71, Florence,
died Monday night of injuries suf
fered in a collision just south of
the coastal town Sunday.
Strike Staged In Japan
TOKYO (AP) - An estimated
35.000 of the 57.000 Japanese work
ers at U.S. military bases staged
a one-hour strike today, demand
ing a $8 3.1 Increase in their banc
monthly pay of $62.30,
SAN" JUAN", Puerto Rico (API
Warships and planes criss crossed
old piracy trails in the Caribbean
today searching for political hi
jackers who seized a cruise liner
with the professed aim of starting
the overthrow of Portugal's dic
talor. The leaner of the hijackers, a
swashbuckling Portuguese exile
named Henrique Malta Galvao,
radioed that his action in taking
over the liner Santa Maria Mon
day was the first step in a move
Kennedy Slates
Congress Talk
WASHINGTON (AP) Presi
dent Kennedy will deliver his first
state ot tlie Union message to a
joint session of Congress Monday.
House Speaker Sam Rayburn,
D-Tex., told newsmen the dale
was agreed on at a meeting of
Democratic congressional leaders
with the President this morning.
He said he assumed the hour for
Kennedy's appearance before t he
joint session will be the usual one
12:30 p.m. EST.
Senate Democratic Leader Mike
Mansfield of Montana told news
men there was no discussion at
today's meeting of the legislative
recommendations that Kennedy
will submit to Congress later.
He said that he expects sepa
rate messages embodying legisla
tive proposals will be sent to Con
gress within a week or two after
Kennedy delivers his State of tlie
Union message.
In reply to questions. Vice Pres.
ident Lyndon B. Johnson said
there was no decision at the meet
ing on which measures in the leg
islative program should have pri
ority. He unhealed there will he
no decision until after Kennedy
delivers his State of the Union
message.
Republicans applauded the Pres
ident's decision to outline his pro
gram within a week after taking
office.
Sens. Thomas H. Kuchel of Cali
fornia, the assistant Senate Re
publican leader, and Barry Gold
water, H-Ariz., said they hope Ken
nedy makes it clear how far he
intends to go in carrying nut the
spending pledges in the Democrat
ic nlatform. " - -
"The people have a right to
Know wnat tins rvew rronuer is
going to cost them," Goldwater
said.
Kuchel said he hopes "the ex
cessive platform promises in Los
Angeles will not be the basis for
the President's proposals."
Mansfield said he is confident
"every Democrat will go along a-s
far as he can in good conscience
in support of the President's pro
gram." Thirteen Arrested
For Claims Racket
PORTLAND (AP) Thirteen1
persons, including two attorneys,
were arrested Monday on federal
indictments stemming from a
long investigation of automobile
accident insurance claims.
Officials said other arrests are
pending.
The attorneys were Herbert D.
Black, 34, Portland, booked on a
charge of illegally receiving inter
cepted police radio calls on traffic
accidents, ami Philip Wcinstein,
48, Portland, iiooked on the same
charge along with one of con
spiracy to use the mails lo
defraud.
Among others indicted were an
automobile salesman, an auto
parts salesman, a fish dealer and
a warehouseman. All were booked
on one or both of the charges
brought against the attorneys.
Authorities said they wouid not
disclose delails of the charges
until all of the indicted persons
are arrested.
Newspapers said federal and
local police and insurance com
pany investigators worked 10
months on the case before the
arrests were made.
Mayor Urges Study Of Plan
To Tab Cavorting Canines
Parking tickets for pooches?
Maybe not exactly parking tick
ets, but Roseburg Mayor Pete
Serafin Monday night recommend
ed the city investigate possibilities
of setting up a system of ticket
ing dogs violating the leash law.
Owners Ticketed
Seeing as how hones won't pay
the freight for administering the
leash law. the tickets would be
given to the owners of the illegal
ly cavorting canines.
Seralin's recommendation came
as the City Council entered a
study of wavs "f stricter enforce
ment of the leash law. 'I lie mayor
said he felt owners of the paiad-i
ing puppies which violate the law i
should pay for the administration i
of it rather than the general tax
pavers. The council discussed (lie pooch
problem after receiving a petition
with some 150 signers asking for
stricter enforcement of the law.
The matter is scheduled for furth
er deliberation at tha next coun
cil meeting.
Dog Control Officer
Serai in pointed out that the city
ordinance allows for only a 50
cent charge to tha owner of a dog
found violating the leash law. This
ordinance was passed In 19(9, and
' the mayor said he eels it does
lo oust Portuguese Premier An
tonio de Oliveua Salazar.
All Is Normal
Galvao messaged the National
Broadcasting Co. that all is "as
normal as an ordinary cruise."
He said all the ship's more than
600 passengers including many
Americans are safe.
"Passengers and crew asked
that their hum lies be informed
they are well and I add well and
free," he added.
Two U.S. destroyers, two Brit
ish frigates and about a diucn
planes were zigzagging over the
Caribbean and adjacent waters of
the western Atlantic, off the old
Spanish Main.
Seek Interception
Their aim was to intcrcent and
halt the luxurious, 20,906-ton ves
sel without harm to the passen
gers or the 370 crewmen men
aced by the threat of scuttling in
tlie event of interference.
Galvao, 66, is a former army
captain and author who is a fugi
tive from a 16-year prison sen
tence for treason, imposed in
Portugal.
His message said the scizuro
was made "in the name ot the
international junta of liberals pre
sided over by Gen. Humbei lo Del
gado, president-elect of the new
Portuguese republic."
Now In Exile
Delgado, a candidate for the
presidency in Portugal's 19."8 elec
tion, was defeated by Rear Adm.
Americo Tomaz, Salazar's candi
date and the current president of
Portugal. Delgado said he was
robbed. He is now an exile in
Brazil.
Galvao Was quoted as saying ha
is willing lo put in at the first
port that would give assurance tho
ship will not be seized. This indi
cated he planned to sail on after
putting the passengers ashore, but
he did not specify his ultimate
destination.
He saluted the Brazilian people
and the Brazilian press fur "con
stant support to our cause"
perhaps meaning the vessel was
headed there.
No Word Received
But Rio de Janeiro authorities
said they had no word the Santa
Maria was headed to Brazil. They
indicated the ship as a civilian
craft probably would be detained
for an investigation and then re
leased lo Portugal.
The British admiralty said its
vessels have been ordered to-try-to
arrest the liner if it can bo
done peacefully outside territorial
waters "without loss of life or the
risk of scuttling."
Blood had already spilled on her
decks in the seizure of the ship by
about 70 men who had boarded as
passengers at Caribbean, ports..
The ship's third officer. Joan
Jose do Nascimetito Costa, was
slain and several crewmen were
wounded in the attack that wrest
ed control of the Santa Maria
from her skipper. . Capt. Mario
Simoes Mai.
Tho shipboard gunplay came in
waters where ships of Blackbeard
carried on his piracy under the
skull and crossboncs.
With hijackers in control of the
helm, the Santa Maria was re
ported early this morning lo have
passed through the St. Lucia
Channel, between Martinique and
St. Lucia, and sped southward to
ward a point 100 miles . east of
Trinidad.
Speed 20 Knots
But, with a speed of 20 knots.
she was long gone when the Brit
ish frigate Rothesay reached that
general area. The Rothesay, run
ning low on oil, radioed that she
was heading to Trinidad for re
fueling. the Santa Maria had 1.568 tons
of oil aboard, enough for 5.000
miles, and lood for 20 days when
the hijackers took over.
The U.S. destroyers were under
orders to "visit and search" the
Santa Maria after locating her
and, if an act of piracy has been
committed, to escort her to the
nearest United States port.
Official sources on St. Lucia,
where the Santa Maria landed
some of the wounded crewmen
Monday, said the battle for- the
ship was touched off by Capt.
Mai's rejection of a demand that
he sail from Curacao direct to
Miami.
not begin to cover Ilia cost of en
forcing tlie law.
The council will study the pos.
sibilities of hiring a full-time dog
control officer within the cily. As
it now stands, the parking meter
mechanic handles the job on a
part-time basis.
Serafin's suggestion was that all
dogs carry complete information
on the owner, so that when the
control officer picked one up ho
could return it to the owner
with the ticket.
Levity Fact Rant
By L. F. Reizenstein
Speaking of 5'i: Th Postal
Chief's recommendation for a
boost in the letter postage
rate to five cents might meet
with a national O. K. if ac
companied by a "good five
cent cigar" and the junking
of the scofflow's No. 1 ally,
constitutional amendment No,
5. A