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News Day, Night From 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., ABC, AP and local news Is flashed over Station WHMA. The Star's final edition is presented each weekday at 4 p.m. The Star arrives Sunday morning long before breakfast time. Member ABC and NEA "Your Home Newspaper Since 1882" AP and UPI News VOL.

81, NO. 85 ANNISTON, ALABAMA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1962 5c DAILY; 20c SUNDAY, 50c a WEEK by CARRIER County Braces For Freeze Anniston and area residents can bid colder temperatures and possible snow flur- Indians Await Reaction To Rejection Of Terms dieu to shortsleeves. Chilling temperatures are predicted to continue, making it officially topcoat weather when outside the house, office or car. Further proof may be seen this afternoon if snow flurries occur as predicted by the weatherman. While putting on his topcoat, hat and gloves, the weatherman forecasts cloudy to partly cloudy and windy weather today with rics.

For tonight and Wednesday, he predicted even coldar temperatures with a hard freeze tonight. The high for today is expected to be 40 degrees, followed by a low tonight of 14 and a high tomorrow of only 31 degrees. The scene this afternoon or evening may turn into another window-crawder like that of last week, as children rush to see the fall-ling flakes. Concert Thrills Porothjr Coulter and Barry Mn-rH of the Metropolitan Opera Company entertained a Knox Music Club series audience last night. Read Dr.

Robert B. Can-trick's review of their Anniston High School perfoEmanc on Page 0k MEEteffl Star Red Troop Removal Slow ''Xm I Air Attack Claim Made By Chi-Reds NEW DELHI, India. (AP) Indians awaited today Red China's reaction to Prune Minister Nehru's rejection of Peking's terms for settling their Himalaya border conflict. In a broadcast today, the Chinese said they suspected India of 'deliberately sal) By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (AP) Soviet troops are being withdrawn from Cuba at a very slow rate, U.S.

officials said today. And although the United States is not pressing Russia on the issue it is expected to do so if the withdrawals are not speeded up fairly soon. Secretary of State Dean Rusk told a news conference Monday that the role of Soviet combat units in Cuba "is of great concern to us and something we will.follow very carefully." "Certainly we in this hemisphere could not accept as a normal situation any Soviet military presence in Cuba," he said. The number of Soviet officers and men stationed on the Caribbean island is estimated 9,000 to possibly 15,000 some organized, Rusk said, "into what appeared to be Soviet combat units." He described the scale of Soviet power in Cuba as "modest. but well armed." "Whether these (troops) were there for The protection of certain sites, missile sites or otherwise, or for some other purpose is something that is being, of course, watched very carefully." (See Reds, Page 2.

6) jotaging" Peking's one sided cease-tire and creating a tense situation on I he border." The broadcast charged that Indian military planes flew recon- i II I RUSK TALKS ABOUT TROOPS Soviet nithdramil nai.s.saiit nii.SMUii.-s ovei topic captive Tibet and over Chinese- held Len itoi on the eastern en. I Clav Heads 'Ulnc-Ribbon' Unit Rebel Town of the disputed border. 1-ong War Predicted Nehru told Indian soldiers in a broadcast Monday night the war might rx1 long and hard but India would emerge victorious by free-1 Kennedy Selects Group To Exam ineA id Program WASHINGTON iP) President Kennedy has' set up a bipar tisan committee to take a hard, new-look at the $4-billion-a-year Recaptured Bv British AN'DUKI AIRPORT. Brunei APi British troops recaptured most of the Brunei oilfield town of Seria today, then dosed in on the police station where d'e hard rebels were holding' nine Europeans as hostages. The nationality of the hostages was not known, but Brig.

G. Patterson, British commander of the Seria operation, said no women or children were among them. Armv nffir-pt-c c-jit a nnmUr foreign aid program and see if it filling the bill. To head the blue-ribbon group Kennedy named retired Oen Luciud D. Clay, who for eight critical months was the Presi dent's representative in West.Ber mg its territory of Chinese invaders.

He said India had welcomed the Chinese proclamation of a ceasefire Nov. 22 after 32 days of warfare. But the Chinese should withdraw completely from India, Nehru said, instead of making proposals that would leave them in the Ladnkh area of northwestern India New Attack Feared appeared these proposals might be a cover for further at 1 tacks." Nehru said. "Therelore, we have to be fully prepared" Nehru declared earlier in Par- lin. One obvious aim of the study was to shape a program which will gain congressional and public approval in 1963.

is directed to specific and attainable goals of economic and political stability in the free world." Last month, Fowler, Hamilton resinned as administrator nf The DR. DONALD SPRINGER in national off D. Springer In Top Job OfAcademy iiitti ine wnue Mouse saia Monday iforelgn aid agency the Agency the group-wiamed-the Committee for international Development, to Strengthen the Security of only one year in tne job: as. ifi wono- wm unaeriaKe am S()me offjdas had oritioized M. of Europeans, mostly British employes of the Shell Oil Company were liberated in Seria, and at BURIED MAILBOX Mike Bloom trudeed throueh knee-deen snow Monday to reach his snow-laden mailbox in rural Scotland Station in Geauga County, Ohio.

Up -to six inches of snow blanketed the area already covered with two feet since the storm began last Wednesday (AP lament "At present there is no I immediate review ot our f(ir shaking up tne organiza. jand economic assistance to mine whether the Jevel and dis-j Permanellt Grmip Asked Itnbution of these programs is, hen he stepped out, Hamilton contributing materially to the' rivsw th, Pstahishment of a least six rehels were killed and! fiii( ia am hiwj.iil.jlI meeting ground between us." Indian Finance Minister Moi- Dr. Donald A. Springer of An- rivmvn 11,1, illlllUUUIll, IK it In U.S. hands since 1956 arJ' DeSal the delense nlslon' me ev eeurity of the United States, and, permanent committee to examine more than a dozen captured.

No British casualties were reported. Counter Attack Noted It was the first major counterattack since the revolt broke out Saturday. The rebels say they want to create an independent country on the north coast of Borneo out of the Brunei Sultanate and the neighboring British colonies of North ICY OTiE-TWO HITS Freeze Chills North, Florida Threatened Mindszenty Offer Told On Release would have to be douhled and eiecien in me posi, was namen per cent of the national income president' of the American Acade-! devoted to defense, against the my of Optometry Monday night Chinese. in Miami Beach, i Kconomir Chaos Is Aim Dr. Springer, lifelong resident One of China's alms was to dis-' of Anniston.

had served as vice rupt India's economy, Desai told president of the organization dur- a public meeting. ing the past administration of the I Both New Delhi and Peking Academy. He has also served kept an eye-on Ceylon, where six secretary. nonaligned nations are meeting in Elected vice president of the effort to find a to the, academy v.as Dr. J.

Donald Kra'i conflict. The nations are Oie 0f Souderton, Pa. -Dr. Carel C. tlnited Arab Republic, "Ghana, Coch of Minneapolis was re-elect- the program's content and administration and recommend changes.

A White House source said formation of the cgjnmittoe followed along the lines of Hamilton's suggestion. To succeed Hamilton, Kennedy named Budget Director David E. Bell. Named with Clay to serve on the committee are former defense secretary Robert A. Lovett; AFL-CIQ.

President George Meany; Area Voting On City Plan Voters in a ISOO-aere area near Golden Springs will decide today whpfher or not they will become a part of Anniston. The election is being held at Rhodes Store, a central loca Borneo and Sarawak. There were no reports of dam-; age to the oil fields at Sena. Thc; Snow By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS closed schools and stranded motorists in thp Nm-th rebels had threatened to sabotage loday wnlle freezing air threatened Florida's multi-million dol- UNITED NATIONS, N.V. (UPI i fhem if thev were atlackeH crtHs tion near the affected area.

Ilnngary was reported today to Mayor Claude Dear and the Harvard economist Edward S. Rebels Hold Fields The icy one-two punch of wintry weather was the second hit many areas in the eastern half of the nation sin lat have -offered to let Josef Cardinal Indonesia, Cambodia, Burma and erl secretary treasurer. Kuala Belait, another oil field i t-. Ceylon. i i I 1 "UI huhts iv uic nan aim fu L.I: .1 i I.

1 I 1 nrneven in oe in reoei nanns. ij blusterv weather. The Anniston City Commission have personally campaigned in the area up for annexation. Radio Station WHMA will report the results of the election as soon as tabulations are finished UIU, Shell's administrative there. A flight over center heavy, blowing snow inconveni the area' 0j er persons, aided by snow plows and state police, joined in a convoy for a 2'2 hour, 15-mile trip from Angola to Buffalo, where the weather was clear.

Mindszenty leave the country if the United States will drop U.N. charges against its Communist government. The Roman Catholic primate of Hungary has been in asylum in the U.S. legation in Budapest since 1956. showed no damage, and smoke I McNamara Sets Talks Schools closed, travel slowed oi-iiuujs tiuseu, uavei siowecr i 11 r.

i curled peacefully Iiom one nidus- trial plant i Christmas shoppers delayed Duymg lours. Storm-related Mason; Eugene Black, retiring president of the World Bank; Robert A. Anderson, secretary of the treasury in the Eisenhower Administration; L. F. McCollum, president of Continental Oil; Herman Phleger, San Francisco Lawyer and former State Department legal adviser, and Clifford Harden," Chancellor of the University of Nebraska.

JFK Asks Service Kennedy, it was learned, personally asked each of the men to serve on the committee when he formed it last week. White House officials said the members, who will serve with The total killed in the four-day rebellion is believed to be more ile was freed from Communist deaths soared past the 50 mark. imprisonment by the liberation fighters that fall but faced new LONDON (UI'D-U. S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara said Telslar Replacement Slated Duifiwr Week weamer iorecasters neid no persecution when the freedom re hope of any immediate, general He's Due In Bogota Within the next two days, according to Dr.

Springer's schedule, the Anniston optometrist will leave for Bogota, Colombia, South America where he will conduct a lecture tour. Included among his planned lectures will he an address to the lnstitutin de Cirugia Ocular in Bogota. College Work Completed Upon graduating from Annislnn High School, Dr. Springer entered the University of Alabama. Later he entered the School ot Optometry al Ohm State University until the time he entered World W.jr II Alter receiving his discharge.

Dr. Springer re-entered Ohio State where he completed rv (See Springer, Page 3, Col. 4) The Weather relieOEven colder weather ii me. unnappy iorecast in many areas. And the winter season does CAPE CANAVERAL (IIPT i volt was crushed by Russian 3 Minister Peter Thorneycroft "PS' would" discuss the future of the According to reliable sources, skybol mlssiU, win Hungarian diplomats here were R.tam is Hependuig for its nu-sounding out the United States on deterrent, a deal.

They would give Mindsz-j McNamarn flew here III is nun n-enty sale conduct out of the coun-ljlu, fnr wh Thornevcioft than 40, including 26 rebels. The British assault on Seria began Monday when Gurkas and the Queen's Own Highlanders were airlifted to Anduki airport, on the eastern outskirts, anl to a swampy field west of the town. Four rebels were killed in the recapture of the Penaga police itation west of Seria. All was reported quiet in Brunei Town, the capital, except for (See Rebel, Page 10, Col. 4) America plans to install a not start officially until Dec.

22 Drifts Pile High out pay, will convene in January. Midwinter scenes were general along the southeast shores of the Great Lakes region, in sections British officials in ad-the NATO council conference in Paris of New York State, and other east and other vance of ministers Thursday. starting earth satellite. There are some tricks in Relay's bag that Telstar didn't get to. This time, the South American "ontinent will be brought into the network for instantaneous telephone service connecting it with the United and Western Europe.

And-sometime next year is expected to. join up, extending satellite communications halfway around the world for the first time Relay essentially will per try and tree the remaining political prisoners seized in the 195ti uprising, if the Unildd Stales will not press a vote on an item renewing the LT.N. condemnation of the revolt's supression. The sources said the Hungarians estimated that the Budapest government holds a tolal of 20 such prisoners. em areas.

Huge drifts piled high as snow squalls persisted, adding more snow atop the heavy amounts left by last week's storms. Cleanup operations were slowed and halted in some new raoio relay station lit space this week to replact its dead Telstar communical tions satellite. The new satellite is a T1 pound eight-sided package of assorted electronics named "Relay." It is scheduled to' be launched from Cape Canaveral Thursday evening. If all goes well, Relay will restore the spectacular communications, link torn down when Telstar died the transmission television pictures between North America and Europe via The United States has been reported Tonsidering curtailing scrapping the Skybolt air-to ground is i 1 program with which Britain has hoped Crews Find Last Bodies Bernstein's Aulo, Chauffeur Are Held WOODBINE. Ga.

(UPI) A runaway chauffeur of New York composer-c Leonard Bernstein was being held today on charges of car theft and desertion "from the Marine, Corps. Camden County Sherifff W. K. Smith said Pfc. Lucky Earl Be( k-with, 20, of Hancock, N.

was a prisoner pending a decision on prosecution procedure. places. FORECAST: Today, cloudy to Most of the Southland shivered force of jet partly cloudy, windy and turning invigorate its aging in the season's coldest weather I colder with possible snow flur Florida temperatures dropped CARMICIIAELS; Pa. (AP) search is all over for 37 form the same job as TeM bombers. d(d 'little to quiet Ihc reports with an airport statement on his arrival here" to 15 degrees below seasonal lev- ries, lomght and Wednesday, clear to partly cloudy and quite colti -with hard freeze tonight.

High today, 40: low tonight, 14, miners entombed in a shattering! es Boycott Hinted At Katanga Arts siar, launched last July 10 -(See TelsTar, Page. 2, Col. 2) Groves Are Protected and high tomorrow, 31. explosion last Thursday in a soft coal mine. Grim rescue crews, after almost a five-day search, found the last of tfye bodies Mon "We will he here a4l day and "Mr.

Thorneycroft and I will lia.v a full discussion of defense mat- UNITED NATIONS. N. V.TAFT U. Thant, U.N. secretary-gener McGe ich are of mutual concern al, apm'ared ready today to seek ters or day night.

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tn-1 -'Hiihrst trmprraturr 4:1 drgirrl farmers ana grove owners worked through the night as heavy frost and freezing temperatures- aver jLjection-of -the state, except the Keys. Smudge fires were started to protect tender vegetable crops. Workers sprayed fields with water, damp State -mine officials blamed the a trade boycott to end Katanga's to the United States and Britain, secession. "he said. C7 Rohert K.

A. -Gardiner, N. One of tho things we are going' un inchr. sunarf today. i a aiinrlae tomorrow, a.m.

Baratna- xplosion on methane gas and coal dust. All were killed instantly. The blast occurred at 1:15 p.m. i chief in "the Congo, worried Ka i in, rill rlilnf. TcLlucMalked Adlai Article ening the soil so it would hold I tittjpiwPresident Moise Tshombe i Monday that'Thant is Thursday in U.S.

Steel Corpora the heat better. to cai ry oit bis plan for 'Congo I tion's Robena No. 3 mine, one NEW YORK (AP)-The namcimation for The unseasonably cold weather rne unity and wnn can on u.N. mem- the world's largest mechanized last week's magazine; ly without foundation" by White House press secretary. threatened the multi-million dol or Mcueorge nunay, special pres- article Pi- ber states to bring a hail to what (See Crews, Page 3, Col.

5) idential assistant for national' se- Thp hmaHnoot prrp Piediiioul Is Given Housing Loan Okay lar Florida citrus and vegetable crops, now near their ptak of curitv affairs, has. been inleeteH JLyjJLS JT Bundy could not be reached ieiueni cleared the wav for -writprs harvest. It was below freezing in north azine article dealing with Adlai Charles Bartlett and StewartAT. Er-itevenson's position in the ern sections of with read Cuban crisis. to get the ation about Cuban immediately in Washington for comment on the CBS "report.

'Time arid 'Newsweek as Life had done challenged the Saturday Evening Post article which indicated that Stevenson 'favored a policy of appeasement in "'the1 The Columbia- Broadcasting The five-man Piedmont Housing Authority approved the plans on Oct. 2. They were forwarded Washino-f-ND, Piedmont may be placed in the position of deciding whether, or not to accept Federal bJ i housing funds 'with' integration' he called Tshombe's policy of "secession and civil war." Gardiner warned that the U.N'.' force in the Congo will use its weapons whenever and wherever it may be at- ticked," Gardiner" said secretary-general will, call on U.N. mem-1 "for pctinn of varipus to force Tshombe join forces with the Congo government in Leopoldville. Thant previously that crisis delibera System said Mriday; that Bundy supplied two Saturday Evening Post writers wth infor- tions; a Na ings of 26 iif Tallahassee and -Gainesville, Miami's low was a frosty 40.

-Key West, in. the extreme south, vas 55-4ar below normal. -r Ii ClosedL A wind driven snowstorm forced (ha closing of the New York State ThrWar freHi Lsrkm strings attache 8 after approval In the Atlant Siawtwi iaj -mr, 1 fifL.li -I -According to an As oc raift oil ice ot tne muiic Housinc Ad Exercise Held tional Security. Council meeting attended by U.N. A hi a seador That latter 'as Press dispatch, irom -Washington', today, "the Housing Administration has announced a ministration.

On NOV. 20, President John P. Kennedy signed an executive 3r- wannaneaf-Buffalo, io loan- t- hetphedatjttHdding discrimination, i. he would'" call for an eeonomie uor tuiu jrv uue. nouse nave denied that Be that approacB.

The three magazines said that contrary to the Post accounts Stevenson, favored- a 'strong U.S. stand. After tne Post arficle" appeared, published speculation arose that ive hundred paratroopevs of fhe sertion also was BARTLETT noun County city in financing the SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS Doycottj)Katanga's copper and cpbail exports, unless Tshornbe syivania line. More than 150 persons were forced to abandon autos arid construction of a low-rent hous Monday by and U. S.

Strike Commandarachuted onto frost-coveretf i Air Force segregation, in housing in whicirTederal funds are T. S. Km who is tM-culivt di- agrees to his "plan to bring the. ing IrucKj along the Thruway and bombing 'range here today, in a The pratis call' for '50 houses tti Newsweek magazines, one day after' Life said "the me' thing. -The ile report termed and complete reactiOH lest of the iiatipn's hruah- province under Leopoldville" w'tH 8" 50-50; split of the- rich royalties 'andtaxes.

Kv Mil' were stranded overnight, at a thruway rest area. About JS0 oth Kennedy was trying to ease" Ste-, (See Bundy, Page 3, Col. 3) he built, with 16 of them designed rector of the Piqdjiiont Uous ng especially elderly, persons. i tSee Piedmont, Page. I) firt warfare force..

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