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Different Stories Reveal 'Truth Stranger Than Fiction' Winner of the most ttuck-up driver award coes to Leo Beaa Ur. a paperhancer. lie u Clued to hie aeat In Omaha when a five-ration can of quirk-: dry paale upset. To (el loose he ' had to slide out of hi punts. .What's In a name? la South r-lainlirld. N.J., a 6-yeas-oU boy .fell during- an Easier ecr hunt, brraklnc his wrist. Car ried to a nearby hospital, his name was entered on the ad mission rosters "Jack atabbit." Ob,.rv.r, La Grande- Or... Thur,., Dc. 'Zliggf '0 EOC Student Reports Theft Of Hubcaps From Automobile r...itniA in iho eitv iail and la i-n. Frood of her new dlshwaahtr, , Mrs. Hal Kant, of Oea Moines, Iowa, turned the dial to the ap propriate notch, tine stopped the machine hastily when she heard the cries of her cat Inside, and saved It clean .but unhurt. British and proper. Miss June Kandy, 17, was ridiiur her bi cycle down the main street in Whltstable. England, when a paaalnf motor scooter brushed against her. carrying Miss nandy.'a dress down the road. Commander of British forces In the Middle East, Air Marshall William MacDonald lined up runners In a cross-country meet in Cyprus. "On your mark; get set . . ." he called and shut himself in the foot with his gun. Entering her kitchen to find out why her dog waa barking, Mrs. Florence Hill, of Denver. Colo., switched on the lights to dis cover a mouse. As she opened her mouth to scream the mouse Jumped, ran down her throat. An f.jArn CrBtitin student . reported Wednesday morning the theft of lour nuo caps Irom hit 19M mcdel car uhile the vehicle was parked in the Hunt Hall real- parking lot. Ronald G. Munkrei told, city police that the hubcaps are valu ed at $10 each and said tliey were stolen between 9 pm. Tuesday and 2:30 a.m. Wednesday- He said that there were Jockins cables on the hubcaps a"d 'njt the cables had been cut. Charles Robert Coleman. J' farm laborer, was arrested by oolicc on charnc of vagrancy at 3:25 p.m. Tuesday. He was lodK- Outer Space Message' NKW YORK U'l'li - tSany New Yorkers making telephone calls were startled by stranite voices on their lines Tuesday: "Space ship one. space ship one, come in. space ship one. -"This is flotilla leader I am bow over Washins.cn. Do you read me space ship one? "I read you, flotilla leader. We ore now approaching New ork First wave now in control ol Sheridan Square... "This is soace ship X 15 call ing from outer space. We are in trouble. Can you read me? The police operator on the switchboard at the Charles St Station couldn't answer the calls fast enough. Residents of New York's Greenwich Village hasten ed to warn authorities an inva sion of spacemen was imminent. Police checked with the tele phone company and embarrassed telephone officials soon reported it was all a mistake caused by the boredom of two installations experts plus an electrical phe nomenon. The phone company spokesman said the testers were on a closed circuit and should have been able to safely brighten the tedium of their job but for an electrical "inductive cross" that caused their conversation to be heard on lines in several exchanges. Hardships Enough. To By MERRIMAN SMITH UP I SUK Writer ATI1KNS. Greece iUPD . Students of psychosomatic medi cine shoul'l have a fine time ex amining the record of President Eisenhower on his current 1 trip, paiticulatly the better part .of a week he snt in India. i , liy all odds and his previous medical record, the hardships to which Kiseihower exposed him self sluuld have put him in bed with a batl cold or at least a sevcie cough, yet the adulation of hundreds of thousands cheer ing him in the streets seemed to act as a miraculous preventative. Eisenhower's entourage has been sulfering from all sorts 'of tiavel ailments colds, dysentery, even a mild heart attack suffered by one of the young communica tions experts in the Eisenhower party. Suly nine year- old Eisenhower. however, has chugged right along, blowing his nose occasionally aft er a dusty ride bur otherwise showing few ill effects. He shows his fatigue principally in the mornings, but this is rather typical ol him. , Until about noo: "lie. is a trifle puffy around the eyes und sleepy locking. Of President's Trip Floor Hardy Fellow U.S. Missile General Lifts Ban Imposed Against Press By midday he brightens con siderably. His speech delivery in India was (airly vigorous, except for the pddress to PaMiament. where he was occasionally faltering be cause he was forced to speak without his usual leclern and ha J to stand in front of an audience shuttling sheets of his text. Most of the people traveling with the President feel that it was a shame that stories of his visit to Kabul, Afghanistan were blanketed on the same day by accounts of his tumultuous ar rival in India. - Even in the (ace of the huge Indian reception, the way Eisen hower was welcomed by the peo ple o! Kabul still stands out in minds of bis staff as the darndest thing they ever saw. After Eisenhower had con ferred with King Mohammed Za hir in his castle at Kabul, the two leaders drove to a nearby athletic field for a public greeting an route to the landing pad for a helicopter to bear Ike back to his plane some 40 miles away. At this athletic field, the crowd went simply mad with people lit erally trying to hurl themselves gleefully into the rear of Ike's open tourii.tf car. Secret Service agents were ex hausted after baiting down the human tennis balls that came hurtling at them from stone walls and other projections beside the line o( procession. Merc amuting was the number of people who. compleSely imcer vious of icy cold weather, forded a stream at ths base cf King Mohammad Zulu's castle in an eflort to get a closer look at Ike This might nut have attracted too much attention, had it not been for the (act that people rushed across the stream at places where the water was two and three feet deep, wearing their Sunday best clothes. This afternoon the President leaves foreign soil for the present and settles down for a brief rest cruising o.i the Mediterranean aboard the U.S.S. Des Moines. Members of his party have made up a priority list of things to do once aboard the American naval vessel. The lists vary with the individ ual, but the number one item on all agenda is sleep. Then send out laundry. Then drink milk. SENTENCE RAPIST NEW' YORK UPI Thomas Uevine. 30, a Negro convicted of WASHINGTON l'PH Mai Gen. Donald N. Yates has lilted a ban he imposed on press cover age of military misrilc firings at the Cape Canaveral, Fla , Test Center. He said the ban resulted Irom a misunderstanding, t Yates, commander of the test center, said Tuesday in a tele gram to Lyle C. Wilson, vice pres ident of United Press Internation al, that he would "continue to co operate with the press to insure the most objective reporting" of missile activities. Wilson, L'Pl Washington bureau chief, had telegraphed Yates ask ing him to lift the ban, imposed Monday. Wilson said the order barring newsmen from the test center during military rocket shots amounted to an attempt to censor news originating in Washington. In issuing his ban. Yates said a LI'l story from Washington last Saturday violated an agreement with the press concerning advance publication of the date (or launch ing a Thor-Able rocket in a non military shot for the Federal raping a white Belgian war bride, was sentenced Wednesday to 60 to 100 years in prison. Queens County judge Edward Thompson desccibed Devine as "a wild ani mal." -Thompson sentenced James Jones, 20, also convicted of the December, 1958, rape, to 25 to SO years. Space Agency, The I'I'I dispatch said the Na tional Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration planned to launch a payload toward an orbit around the sun this week. Yales said he had given the date to repo'ters at Cape Canaveral on a confiden tial basis. Wilson, in his telegram, advised Yales that the UPI story "was obtained in Washington (rom in dependent sources in part but largely from our library in which we accumulate information some times bit by bit for future devel opment into major news stories." Yates sent the following tele gram to Wilson in reply: "Thank you for your telegram. 1 am happy to receive your as surance that in consideration of the source of UPI 'a information, UPI did net violate the existing agreement. May. 1 assure you my intentions are to continue to co operate with the press to insure the most objective reporting to ihe public of our missile activities. I sincerely appreciate the coopera tion I have received in the past from all the news media in this respect. I regret the current mis understanding and plan to immed iately reinitiate press coverage of cur military firings, trusting that the procedures we have followed in the past will continue to prove satisfactory." ed to appear in municipal court Wednesday aiiern.un. Intoxicsti jn Ernest Smith Carman, 49, Vn im was arrested by police on a 'charge of intoxication. He was taken into custody at the Sumer Hotel at 11:03 P m. luesuay. Hail tunc Kot at S20. Cfcrman wnt ia appear in municipal court Wed nesday attcrnoon. lie gave his oc cupation as a construction work er. Robert Bryon Garrett, lit, stud ent, also was arrested (or making an illegal "U" turn at Depot and Jefferson Streets. Bail was $5. Washingston's Ghost In Deep Freeze NEW YORK i UPI i - The city of New York is putting the freeze on George Washington's ghost. The furnace in historic Jumel Mansion, Washington's headquar-ters-in-retreat in 1776 aid now a city museum, broke down a month ago and the temperature in its 20 antique-filled rooms has dropped to below freezing on sev era occasions. Washington's trouble spirit, which is said to pace there on wintry nights with' a spyglass in its pale hands, had better bundle up in an cytoplasmic greatcoat. It's going to bs cold inside for at least another week until heat is restored. The city spends $00,000 a year to maintain the upper Manhat tan tourist attraction, and City fathers have made all haste to replace the 195-year-old mansion's corroded furnace boiler. But offi cial haste can sometimes be a snail's pace because of the neces sity of advertising for bids, let ting contracts and other red tape. In the meantime, Henry Harri son de Frise. the curator, and a staff of five are carrying on playing host to an average of nearly 200 visitors a day. The city has provided no temporary heating arrangements, and the score of fireplaces used in Wash ington's day can't be utilized for fear of burning down one of the nation's most admired histo'ical shrines. QUOTES IN THE NEWS United Press International WASHINGTON State Dr-iart-mcnt spokesman Lincoln White, announcing that Communist Czechoslovakia has not answered an American protest against an exhibit at Prague calling Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur a "mass mur derer": "One can only assume that this is in furtherance of the spirit of Camp David." CHICAGO Danald Hanson, a Kaycee, Wyo., rancher, backing a proposal tentatively accepted by the 41st convention of Ihe Atner, can Farm Bureau Federation calling for repeal of the (ede al individual income tax: "It wouldn't impoverish Ihe government one bit.'' WASHINGTON. 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