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Nelson Rockefeller Richest Man
To Hold Public Office in U.S.
Editor"! Bote: Following if the
first of three article on the life
on Nelson Rockefeller, who recent
ly defeated Averell Harriman for
the governorship of New York.
By JACK V. FOX
TJPI Correspondent
New York - (CPD - Them as
, has, gits, the old saying goes.
I But for Nelson Rockefeller it
; hardly seems worthwhile.
Rockefeller, today the
'. brightest star in the Republi
, can Party, has a new job as
governor of New York with
rent free and a yearly salary
of $50,000 starting Jan. 1.
That is almost as much as
he now makes in a week.
And the governor's mansion
may not impress a man who
already has a 32-room apart
ment overlooking Central
Park, a home on the 3,000
acre ancestral estate near
Tarrytown, N. Y.; an 860-acre
Venezuelan farm where he
now is vacationing and a sum
mer "cottage" at Bar Harbor,
Me.
The words Rockefeller and
money are almost inseparable,
Nelson is by far the richest
man ever to hold high elective
office in America.
Fortune Inherited
His personal fortune is esti
mated at more than $100 mil
lion, the bulk inherited from
the estate of the fabulous John
D.
Carefully invested at 4 per
cent, that amount would re
turn $4 million a year or
about $80,000 a week. But
Nelson's share of gifts by the
Rockefeller clan- figures out
to about $20,000 a week so
he only has a net of $60,000.
If he paid straight income
tax on that, it would be sliced
way down to only $6,800
weekly.
Accepting the governorship
means he will have to resign
the two board chairmanships
which in the past few years
have occupied most of his
time.
One is head of Rockefeller
Center, Inc. The great cluster
of skyscrapers in midtown
Manhattan is now valued at
$125 million, but is not for
sale at any price.
Operations Varied
The other is chairman of
the International Basic Econ
omy Corp., a sort of personal
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Torrejon Air Force Base, Spain-Former Broadway produ
cer Richard Aldrich, about the late actor Tyrone Power, who
died Saturday:
"H was the first gentleman of the stage and screen. His
death is a great loss to a profession to which I used to belong."
Hollywood - Edward Small, producer of "Solomon and
Sheba," the movie Power was making at the time of his
death, on the agreement by actor Yul Brynner to replace
Power:
"It is a time like this when the true spirit of show busi
ness shines through."
St. Johns, Mich.-Patrolman Lyle French, on the death of
six persons when their speeding car blew a tire in a police
chase:
"I was doing 105 miles an hour and ihey were pulling
away from me."
New York-White House Press Secretary James C. Hag
erty, on information "leaks" and "background stories":
"You haven't heard me kick about it other than to say
that sometimes it does cause me some trouble and some embarrassment."
Fuchs Plans To Go
To East Germany
After Prison Term
Editor's note: Dr. Klaus Fuchs.
the German-born British scientist
who gave Russia the secret of the
atomic bomb in 1959. is serving a
14-year sentence for the crime.
He still gives no real reason for
acting as he did and expresses little
If any remorse. In an interview he
say he will go behind the Iron
Curtain after he is released. The
dispatch follows:
London - (CPD - Dr. Klaus
Fuchs. the atomic scientist
who turned valuable nuclear
secrets over to the Russians,
says he will go behind the
Iron Curtain when he is re
leased from prison.
The bespectacled, 48-year-old
scientist, serving a 14-year
term in Wakefield Prison for
espionage, said in an inter
view with London Daily Ex
press that he would go to
Communist East Germany
when he is released, probably
within a year.
His decision to leave the
West and go behind the Iron
Curtain was made despite an
evident mellowing in- his
views on Communism.
Fuchs would not answer di
rectly whether he would do
the same thing again if time
were set back.
Changed His Views
"That is a terribly difficult
question," he said. "No, I
dont hold exactly the same
views now."
But he did not elaborate.
The remainder of the inter
view went in part as follows:
Q.-Are you still, today, a
convinced Communist?
A-"I am still a convinced
Marxist. But I can't now ac
Point Four program. It runs
supermarkets in Italy, sells
instant coffee in Salvador,
makes automation devices in
New Jersey, builds housing
projects in Puerto Rico and
finances small auto loans in
Venezuela.
Last year it showed a pro
fit of $1,214,891. Rockefeller
owns most of the $16 million
worth of stock.
His main income still comes
from Standard Oil stock but
he has no role in running the
company more than the vot
ing power of a large stock
holder. Many people still
come to the Rockefellers mis
takenly with criticisms and
ideas about Standard Oil.
Nelson is also a member of
18 boards of .directors. He
owns 1,500 pieces of primitive
art and a large collection of
modern paintings.
Money a Tool
It took an hour's conversa
tion with his father, John D,
Jr., on the evening of Dec.
10, 1946, to get $8.5 million
to purchase land on New
York's East Side and donate
it as the site for the perman-
ent headquarters of the
United Nations.
One of his few setbacks
came last year when the
Brooklyn Dodgers moved to
Los Angeles despite his offer
to donate $3 million toward
building a new stadium for
the team. .
His father is estimated to
be worth more than $500 mil
lion. Each of his four brothers
and his one sister are believed
to be just about as wealthy
as Nelson.
Rockefeller says taxes now
are such that no one again
will ever amass such a for
tune as his grandfather did,
but he is not interested in
money as such, anyway.
"I personally think money
is a tool," he says. "If used
constructively it can be of
tremendous assistance in fa
cilitating the accomplishments
of a great many things. Money
can also be a sharp destructive
tool. It all depends on the
way you use it."
Nelson Is still a close man
with a buck.
During the recent campaign
he went into a Jewish delica
the News
cept everything they do and
say."
Q-Did the revolt in Hun
gary have any effect on your
outlook?
A.-"This was much more
complicated than it was made
to look. For the Russians to
do what they did was power
politics. It is a necessity for
them.
"But I can't accept the . . .
glossing over . . that what
they did was a counter-revolution.
It was put down, wasn't
it, with the bayonets of the
Red Army."
Q -Where would you like to
go when you are free?
A.-"I shall go to Germany,
to East Germy, to my father
(Emil Fuchs, 84-year-old the
ologian, who lives in Leipzig.
No Bitterness
Q.-Have you any bitterness
about your trial and sentence?
A.-"Bitterness? Oh, no! I
am not bitter at all. It had to
be done It had to be like
that It was bound to happen."
Fuchs was in England when
World War II broke out and
was sent to Canada. He re
turned in 1942.
He became engaged in
atomic research and joined
the staff at Hartwell Atomic
Research Station.
His trial in 1950 rocked the
West. He turned over atomic
secrets to Russia at a time
in the cold war when the
Western lead appeared unbeatable.
tessen and spotted a huge sa
lami hanging above the coun
ter. He pointed to it and said,
"How much?"
The proprietor said the
regular price was $5 but for
Rockefeller he would let it
go at wholesale for $3. The
sale was concluded and as
Rockefeller left the shop, a
woman said loudly to the
owner:
"To a Rockefeller you give
a discount, to me never."
Tomorrow: Nelson had a
25ent allowance as a boy
and the shoeshine concession.
Decapitated Body
Of Girl Found in
Forest Preserve
Chicago -(CPD- Discovery of
the nude, decapitated body of
Bonnie Leigh Scott, 15, in a
forest preserve, set police off
today investigating their
fourth teen-aged girl killing
in two years.
The body was identified
Sunday night by Dr. P. D.
Grimes, a dentist, who said it
tallied with Bonnie's dental
charts.
Bonnie was reported miss
ing from her suburban Addi
son, 111., home Sept. 22. She
last was seen in a surplus
store next door to the town's
police department.
Boy Scouts found her de
composed body Saturday, on
ly a few miles from the forest
preserve where the nude,
frozen bodies of Sisters Bar
bara Grimes, 15, and Patricia,
13, were found two years
ago.
Six months later, the dis
membered torso of Judith
Mae Andersen was recoverd
from oil drums floating in a
Chicago harbor.
Lt. James McMahon of the
Chicago Horn icide bureau
said there were three deep
slashes in Bonnie's body, ex
tending down the left side of
the chest. The longest slash
was 16 inches and police the
orized they may have been
inflicted with a butcher knife.
The severed head lay 18 feet
away.
Decomposition made it dif
ficult for police to pin down
the time of death, although
McMahon said it appeared to
have been a month ago.
Seaman's Body
Removed from Ship
Portland - (UPD - The coro
ner's office here removed the
body of a Portland seaman
who apparently hanged him
self while serving aboard the
SS Columbia Trader while the
ship was at sea.
The body was removed to
the coroner's office when the
Slip docked here late Friday
The victim was identified
as Albert Heller, 56.
Heller had been ill and con
fined to sick bay aboard ship.
An autopsy has been ordered.
Jurisdiction in the case
comes under the U. S. Coast
Guard since he died while on
the high seas.
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Four Persons Hurt
In Auto Mishaps
During Week End
Four persons were injured
in three of the four accidents
which " occurred last week
end, state police reported to
day. James Leonard Mitchell,
54, of route 1,'box 140, Rogue
River, was reported in fair
condition in Sacred Heart
hospital today suffering from
possible rib fractures, cuts
and bruises.
Mitchell was injured in a
one-car accident about 5:15
p.m., Sunday on Highway 62,
just south of Shady Cove,
state police said. His car fail
ed to make a left turn and
went off the highway and
through roadside brush for
129 feet.
Elsie Irene Harmsen, 62,
Roseburg, was reported in
fair condition in Ashland
General hospital suffering
from cuts and bruises as a re
sult of a one-car accident on
Highway 99, at Bear canyon.
A station wagon driven by
Elsie Harmsen was traveling
north on Highway 99 when it
started to slide on the pack
ed snow in Bear canyon. The
car went over a 60-foot bank
on the east side of the high
way and rolled half-way over,
state police said.
An accident occurred by
the Rose motel, just south of
Phoenix, on the South Pacific
highway, at about 7:15 p.m.
Saturday where a double fa
tality had occurred Friday,
state police said.
No injuries occurred. Max
well Henry Karp, 59, of Oak
land, Calif., was cited for
making an improper turn,
state police said.
The Karp car was attempt
ing to turn into the Rose mo
tel when it and a car driven
by Eldon Levi Elroy McGar
ity, 20, of 219 Gibon St., Tal
ent, collided.
Only slight damage occur
red to both vehicles, state po
lice said.
Driver Brian Richard
Schauble, 20, of Shady Cove
and his passenger Sandra
Jean Farlow, 16, of Little
Butte Star route, Eagle Point,
received minor injuries as a
result of a two-car accident
on Crater Lake highway near
the entrance to Camp White,
state police said.
A 1957 pickup truck driven
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Boat Wreck Survivor
Swims 8 Miles To
Break Into Prison
Los Angeels-PD-Don Coo
per, 27, broke into Terminal
Island Federal penitentiary
Sunday to end an ordeal in
which his sailboat sank and
he was forced to spend seven
hours in cold ocean waters.
Cooper, a scientist at Space
Technology laboratory, gave
the only two life preservers
in his floundering 21-foot boat
to two of his three compan
ions, then began swimming
through rough seas to shore
eight miles away.
He estimated he swam for
two hours in the wind-swept
Pacific in the darkness late
Saturday night before reach
ing a buoy, to which he clung.
"I could see boats rescuing
Russell Dawkins, John Bro
ward and Myron Oren and I
felt relieved," Cooper said.
"But, brother, was I cold."
Three Hours on Buoy
Cooper said he stayed at
the buoy for three hours in
40 - degree temperatures. He
removed his trousers and tied
them around the buoy light
hoping someone would notice
the light was out and come to
inspect.
"Some boats came near and
I reached down and grabbed
the clapper of the buoy's bell.
I rang it so hard that I actual
ly worked up a sweat, even
in that cold," he said.
"Finally it started to rain
and I began to swim toward
Terminal island again where
I thought the Coast Guard sta
tion was located."
He swam for about two
more hours before he splash
ed ashore after midnight to
fall exhausted on the beach.
He remained there for some
time trying to regain his
strength.
High Fence
Finally, he said, he noticed
a high fence which he thought
surrounded the Coast Guard
by Albert Leroy Doty, 65, of
Camp White, was north
bound on Crater Lake high
way when it made a left turn
in front of a pickup truck
driven by Schauble. The two
cars struck fenders and the
Schauble car went into a
four-foot deep irrigation ditch
on the west side of the high
way where it turned over on
its top.
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station. He climbed the fence
in the darkness and walked
to a small building and
knocked on the door.
"When nobody answered I
walked in. There was a tele
phone in there with a sign
beside it that read: In case of
emergency dial 222.'
"I figured that this wis
enough of an emergency so I
dialed that number. A voice
said, 'Stay where you are.
We're coming right down.
"Then I heard sirens and in
a couple of minutes a bunch
of uniformed men rushed in
on me with guns drawn.
"I stood there in wet skiv
vies, shivering from some
thing more than the cold,"
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Baghdad, Iraq - (UPD - The
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that Premier Abdul Kafn
Kassem has boosted the pay
of minor government officials
and promised additional in
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PRODUCER DIES
New York-DPD-Max Siegel,
57, television and theatrical
producer and formerly a the
atrical stage manager, died
Sunday of aeart attack.
Cooper said. "The captain of
the guards finally came and
he explained he and the
guards thought there'd been
a prison bi ?ak."
Cooper, .ho suffered only
hoarseness from his trying ex
perience, said his only serious
swimming effort before the
long swim was in a 100-meter
sprint competition while in
the Navy.
His companions were all in
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St. Johns, Mich.- (CPD -Six
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when a speeding car blew a
tire and plowed into a . tree
during a 110 mile an hour
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The only survivor was
James E. Rish, 17, Rodney,
Mich., a. hitchhiker on his
way to visit his father in Big
Rapids. Rish, in the back seat
of the car, suffered multiple
fractures of the lower hip and
spine and was in critical con
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Hospital here.
The driver of the car was
Robert R. Anderson, 28, of
Cincinnati. Passengers includ
ed his two brothers, Jack L.,
19, and Hugh R, 34, also of
Cincinnati.
Also in the car were Mrs.
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children, 3-year-old Susan
Marie and 18-month-old Tim
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Newberry, Mich. A funeral
wreath was found in the
wreckage.
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