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4 I I 1 LARGEST DAILY NEWSPAPER OCy Sale 79041 The Weather Full Report a Fiji 2 Fog burning off then variable clou dine possible afternoon showers Weather Repots: Dial 942-2151 'V' ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE VOL 75 NO 31 491 MAIN ST BANGOR MAINE TUESDAY JULY 23 1963 TEL 942-4881 EIGHT CENTS Seeks OK By Congress President Urges ICC Probe In Rail Dispute of own if that were sooner Meanwhile the unions could not strike or the railroads lockout in support of their positions in the dispute Kennedy also anonunced for the first time in his message to Congress that he would appoint a presidential commission on automation Its purpose the President said will be to undertake the most comprehensive review of the effect of technological change yet made and make recommendations to blunt its impact on Technological change that has reduced railroad employment from 1400000 to 700000 in the postwar period underlies the present railroad labor controversy the President pointed out A strike probably will occur at midnight next Monday if Congress does not act At that time the agreement of the railroads not to change the disputed work rules over union objections and of the unions not to strike in response will lapse The carriers claim the disputed rules force them to retain Democrats Blamed Governors A vert Stand On Rights Liston Retains Heavyweight Title thousands of unneeded jobs at an annual cost of nearly $600000000 a year The unions say the rules are needed for safety and efficiency and to protect the job security of the nearly 200000 rail workers whom they represent There was no way of telling whether Congress would act in the week given it by the President before a strike can occur There is strong congressional opinion however that Congress probably will not act in the absence of a walkout The reaction of both sides tiiil have a bearing on congressional action Neither side had anything to say about the proposal immediately They were busy figuring out the complicated procedure In his message the President said the nation stood on the brink of a nation-wide rail strike that would quickly create economic chaos and The joint resolution that the President proposed to Congress would refer the crew size issues most controversial In the to the Interstate Com- merce Commission for decision The ruling would run for two years from the date it was made or until the parties through collective bargaining agreed on changes The resolution would Instruct both sides to begin bargaining immediately on other issues If they were not settled in 60 days they too would be referred to the commission for settlement by whatever procedure the commission wanted to adopt The theory behind dividing the issues into two groups is that the crew size issues are much the most controversial and that settlement of the remaining issues would be relatively easy if those were out of the way The resolution would instruct the Interstate Commerce Commission to apply to railway employes in the present dispute the same protective provisions of the Interstate Commerce Act that now apply to employes affected by rail consolidations or mergers approved by the commission The provisions require the commission to prescribe conditions so that employes of camera involved in a merger or consolidation will not be in a worse position with respect to their employment for a minimum of four years after such a transaction Heavyweight challenger Floyd Patterson goes to the canvas for the third and last time at 2 minutes 10 seconds of the first round as heavyweight champion Sonny Liston retained his title In Las Vegas Monday night Full details on Page 8 (AP Wirephoto) Mid-Week Initialling Seen East-West N-Pact Gets Final Touches By JOSEPH A LOFTUS (New York Thau Newi Servlet) MIAMI BEACH The Conference avoided a decision on civil rights Monday by abolishing its resolutions committee The Democrats with only one defection from their ranks cast 33 votes compared with 16 for the Republican attempt to force a civil rights rollcall of the states Gov William A Egan of Alaska was the one Democrat who voted against dropping the resolutions committee Gov Nelson A Rockefeller of New York leader of the Republican civil rights strategy cried He blamed the Democratic governors for a shortsighted He said it 20 Governors Ink Declaration Of Conscience MIAMI Gov Endicott Peabody of Massachusetts said Monday 20 governors have signed a of petition issued at the National Conference here Sunday The petition pledges the governors to their best efforts in the form of legislation and positive executive in anti-discriminatory practices "The New England declaration of conscience gives the governors of toe United States an appropriate means of demonstrating their sincere commitment to the guarantee of equal opportunity for all said Peabody By JOHN POMFRET (New York Timet Newe Service) WASHINGTON-President Kennedy asked Congress Monday to head off a national railroad strike by referring the rail work rules dispute to the Interstate Commerce Commission The President proposed that the commission be authorized to decide what work rules changes should be made These changes would remain in effect for two years or until the railroads and the five train-operating rail unions reached agreement on changes Quoddy Attack Rapped (NEWS Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON Rep Stanley Tupper R-Me said Monday that responsible Republican organizations in the House have disavowed any connection with a statement issued last week calling the Pas-samaquoddy-St John power proposal a dollar aimed at gaining political advantage for Sen Edmund Muskie D-Maine The charges were contained in a publication known as of the released under the apparent auspices of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee Tuper said neither he nor Rep Clifford Mclntire R-Maine were consulted before the statement was released to the press initial assault on the tidal power project represented only the opinion of one member of the staff of the GOP Congressional Committee insofar as I can determine Neither the Republican Congressional Committee nor the GOP Policy Committee of the House of Representatives has taken a position on this matter Someone merely sounded off without possession of all the facts I have been personally assured by the Congressional Committee that this will not happen Tupper declared In a statement The First District Congressman said he wrote to Chairman Robert Wilson R-Calif of the Campaign Udall Plans August Visit WASHINGTON (UPI) Interior Secretary Stewart Udall plans to visit Maine about Aug 1 to explain toe proposed Pas-samaquoddy tidal power project an Interior Department spokesman said Monday Originally Udall and toe Maine congressional delegation had planned tentatively to go there Friday to outline details of toe proposed billion dollar power project Present plana call for a news conference in Portland one public meeting in Washington County and another in Aroostook County Committee to assure him that Quoddy is a issue as far as the State of Maine is concerned and should not be a partisan issue do not ask the Republican leadership or Republican members to accept this proposal on its face but I do request them to keep an open mind until some of us have an opportunity to give our side of the argument going to be difficult enough to get this legislation adopted without roadblocks being thrown up at this stage of the Tupper said he wrote to Wilson Million Shot By HENRY SHAPIRO MOSCOW (UPI) American British and Soviet negotiators Monday put the final touches on a partial nuclear test ban treaty expected to be initialled by midweek and then explored other proposals for reducing the threat of war informed Westemil sources said Monday" Diplomatic sources said drafts of the treaty were sent over the weekend to Washington and London for approval The official communique Monday said only that progress was on the draft treaty and that exchange of views also continued on other matters of mutual Another meeting was scheduled for Tuesday Barring unforeseen developments diplomatic sources said seven on-site inspections annually and the maximum Soviet offer to three such spot checks a year Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko American negotiator Averell Harriman and Lord Hailsham held a formal three-hour meeting and then dismissed their aides and retired for private talks over -dinner in Spiridonovka Palace The private get-together lasted almost' an hour Informed sources said the three negotiators explored the question of the Soviet proposed non aggression pact between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Warsaw Pact powers Following formal session informed Western sources said the talks gone Agreement In Sight Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev himself said over the weekend that agreement was in unless the United States oi Britain changed their was that President Kennedy had not raised a voice against their action The Republicans planned a new attack but would not immediately reveal the tactics they would use do not consider the civil rights issue dead at this said Gov Mark Hatfield of Oregon The Republican governors in general and Rockefeller in particular achieved a political triumph of sorts by putting the Democrats as a group in the position of opposing a decision on civil rights The Republicans achieved this without saying what kind of civil rights resolution they would support resolution does not hedge on the boiling issue of desegregated public accommodations but the Republican caucus did not go on record on that point characterization of the vote as is rejected by the Democrats Gov Grant Sawyer of Nevada who moved the abolition said such action would make the conference and to all the governors a manner that has never been possible That is any governor could speak his mind at length What the Democrats objected to was an attempt to put the conference as such on record for a civil rights resolution There was the risk that the southern governors would filibuster or walk out Rockefeller by forcing the civil rights issue reasserted his leadership of the Republican liberal forces This complements his statement of July 21 repudiating the extreme right wing in the Republican party 12-minute meter to two cents (a cent for six minutes) It voted to change to all-day meters the two-hour meters in the Atler Hotel municipal lot on Harlow install all-day meters in the High Street lot change some meters in the city lot behind the Bangor House from two-hour to all-day install all-day meters at Stetson Square between State and York Streets business groups agreed to the installation of or changeover to all-day meters at the designated areas but strongly opposed increased on-street parking costs in the prime downtown area as harmful to business The administration argued it needed (Continued on Page 2 CoL 2) Spotlight On The News Man Dies In Calais Plunge A 47-year-old Mill-town man plunged 30 feet to his death at Calais Monday afternoon when the staging he was attempting to reach tipped hurling him to the pavement below According to fellow workers Paul Greenlaw fell from a Perkins staging when he tried to Jump from the roof top to a staging located a few feet below The brick building owned by Scott McNeill is located on the corner of Church and Main Streets He was taken to the hospital by ambulance and died a short time later County medical examiner Dr Hazen Mitchell of Calais stated that Greenlaw died of a fractured skull and other head Injuries The body was taken to the Scholl Funeral Home Man Quizzed In Slaying PORTLAND State Police Monday questioned Charles Jones 41 of Wytopitlock in connection with the April 12 slaying of Andrew Martens 68 Jones was arrested here last Thursday on traffic charges after a bullet-punctuated police Capt Edwards Marks head of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation said Jones was being questioned because he was a neighbor of Martens Marks said the man was Dutch Farmers Hit Duty Cut THE HAGUE Netherlands Poultry farmers in Holland a Common Market nation protested Monday against a proposed lowering of duties on imports of frozen chickens into the common market In a letter to the government the Board of Agricultural Producers a private organization said a lowering of the duties would seriously harm Dutch poultry trade MOON FLIGHT: Greatest adventure concentrate on Project Apollo Page 4 Senators May Join Harriman Parking Rate Hike Defeated Strike Could Idle 50000 In Maine AUGUSTA A trade ex-ecutive estimated Monday that a nationwide railroad strike should it occur could throw up to 50000 persons out of work within three or four weeks in manufacturing industries alone Morton Havey executive director of the Associated Industries of Maine stressed that the figure was only a based upon talks with industry leaders He said these discussions Indicated a strike would affect some areas of production almost right away and would bring on widespread major difficulties within three or four weeks Havey quoted' spokesmen for several paper mills which use the rails predominantly as saying they could hold out only a few days to a week before being forced into a major or complete shutdown Leaders in the shoe shipbuilding and cannery industries said they feel the pinch quite so soon but ail said that within three to four weeks they would be in real trouble A few industries such as woolen (Continued on Page 2 Col 4) they expected the historic East-West accord to be initialled by the Big Three nuclear powers by the middle of the week The agreement would ban all nuclear testing in the atmosphere outer space and under water It was understood that the question of a total including underground was discussed but put off for negotiations later Softer Line It was reliably reported that the Soviets were taking a somewhat softer line on the problem of on-site inspections the major stumbling block to an agreement on underground testing Informed observers said it appeared the Russians now might be prepared to accept i compromise between the Anglo-Ameri-ttta demand for a minimum of for the expected fight for ratification of the treaty Administration sources said the consultation would involve a brief delay in initialing the pact which the Britain and the Soviet Union have been negotiating since July 15 to ban nuclear tests in the air in space and under water Agreement on most aspects of the draft treaty were reached some days ago the sources said but what remained unclear was to what extent the Soviet Union wanted to make it conditional on its proposal for an East-West nonaggression pact (Continued on Page 2 Col 3) viable position The pendulum is swinging the other Austin said the refinancing should appreciably enhance position in negotiations with the Civil Aeronautics Board The CAB is considering whether to grant Northeast a permanent certificate to continue operating between New York and Miami the most profitable run Austin said 1963 stock holders meeting next month would see the board of directors expanded from nine to 14 with the five new members coming from Hughes The tool company ad owned 56 per cent of Northeast before Monday's decision to absorb the additional debts By HENRY RAYMONT (New York Timei Newt Service) President Kennedy is considering plans to send a major congressional delegation to Moscow to join Averell Harriman at the conclusion of negotiations for a test ban treaty Harriman Undersecretary of State and chief United States negotiator is expected here in midweek to report personally to the President Under the pending proposal he would take with him on his return to Moscow leaders of key Senate committees to participate in the final phase of the negotiations and to prepare them By ED McKEON The city proposal to raise parking costs on downtown Bangor streets from five to 10 cents an hour was defeated by the City Council Monday night The Council deleted the on-street 10-cent-an-hour meter provision from a series of parking proposals before them but the ordinance paragraph number for future use Also killed was an order designating the particular streets that would have the 10-cent-hour meters (five-cents for a half hour) which included Main Street and the streets around the downtown rotary Another paragraph changed would have hiked the costs of a Hughes Gains 80 Per Cent Control Of Hard-Hit NEA Fishery Aid Bill Passes In Senate (NEWS Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON Maine would be eligible for federal grants totaling $1200000 over a five-year period for research and development of its commercial fishing resources under a bill passed by the Senate Monday Only five states in the nation would receive more assistance under the allocation formula aimed at giving each state a share proportionate to its commercial fishery activity Sen Margaret Chase Smith R-Maine voted against a motion by Sen- Norris Cotton R-NH to send the bill back' to the Commerce Committee for more study Sen Edmund Muskie D-Maine was absent but announced against the motion Final passage was by voice vote The measure now goes to the House Maine is earmarked for grants up to $240000 a year on locally developed research projects approved by the Interior Department The grants are to cover three fourths of the cost of the research Alaska and California will get $500000 apiece each year Massachusetts $450000 Texas $324000 and Louisiana $267500 followed by Maine The legislation was endorsed at hearings this spring by the Maine Sardine Council and Sardine Packers Association and the State Department of Sea and Shore Fisheries In Arm For Maine Eclipse A Box Office Success BOSTON (AP) Hughes Tool Co Monday acquired 80 per cent control of the financially faltering Northeast Airlines In a sweeping refinancing program disclosed by Northeast President James Austin Hughes simultaneously wrote off or assumed $26 million of the burgeoning debts Austin said Hughes board of di- But like thousands of others Hebert expressed disappoint- ment that clouds obscured the view in many areas One of these was Bangor largest city in North America lying within the path of total eclipse Bangorians had to be content with such side effects as a minute of darkness in which birds went to roost and a sharp drop in temperature Luckier was the crowd of 5500 that assembled on the summit of 1530-foot Cadillac Mountain just outside Bar Harbor The clouds there broke away just in time for the spectacular minute of total darkness when the shadow covered the entire face of the sun Scientists of the National Aeronautics and Space Agency encamped at Pleasant Pond near Caratunk had the same good hick Only a few miles away other spectators were disap- pointed AUGUSTA eclipse of the sun did well at the box office in Maine even though it flopped in some areas as a celestial show By all indications the Department of Economic Development reported Monday the eclipse gave the anticipated $10 milllion lift to the summer tourist industry That figure is based a spokesman said only on an estimate that 100000 additional visitors crowded into Maine just to see the phenomenon He figured there must have been 150000 in the state anyway Richard A Hebert assistant director of recreational promo tion said the DED was with the commercial results of its $3500 expenditure in promotional literature I I.