Cincinnati Teamsters
Vote to Quit Hoffa
CINCINNATI UPV—Members of
the Independent Milk and Dairy
Drivers Union have voted 1,684
to 12 to quit the Teamsters Union
and join the AiFL-CIO.
The secret balloting yesterday
was supervised by the National
Labor Relations Board.
The voting followed a rebellion
led by James T. Luken against
the Teamsters led by James R.
Hoffa.
When the Cincinnati teamster
revolt started Aug. 16, members
of Luken’s union voted 1,798 to
2 to leave the international. This
was a stand-up vote and Team
ster officials charged Luken rail
roaded it through and the results
would have been different if they
had had a chance to explain their
position.
Luken and the heads of three
other locals who joined him said
they revolted against the policies
of Hoffa and his aides.
QUICK ON THE DRAW . . .
CINCINNATI UH — Simultan
eous visits by two suitors to a
girl friend last night resulted in
the wounding of one and the ar
rest of the other.
Police said they were holding
William Howard Owens for the
shooting.
Police said Owens told them he
was visiting his girl friend when
Henry Martin arrived. Martin
pulled a pistol, Owens said, so
he also drew a pistol and fired.
Martin was wounded in the left
side and left elbow.
Martin is 60 years old. Owens
is 88.
TURBO-PROP AIRLINER
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
SAN DIEGO, Calif. UP) — A
twin-engine, turbo-prop airliner
bound for Los Angeles was.struck
by lightning after it left Phoenix,
Arte., Tuesday night. There were
no injuries.
The plane made a scheduled
stop at El Centro, Calif., then flew
to San Diego where its 12 pas
sengers were transferred to an
other plane.
Bonanza Airlines officials said
the plane was not seriously dam
aged.
The Federal Aviation Agency
said the lightning struck the radar
dome in the nose of the plane.
Fire Fighters Gain Control
Of Brush Fire in California
SIERRA MADRE, Calif. UP) —
Fire fighters succeeded today in
gaining 80 per cent control of a
brush fire that burned over $2
million worth of watershed above
this Los Angeles suburb.
A U.S. Forest Service official
said 1,260 acres of brush were
blackened by the blaze.
Residents who evacuated their
hillside homes—many in the $25,
000 to $50,000 bracket—returned
yesterday.
Nation's Traffic Deaths
Show Two Per Cent Drop
CHICAGO UF> — The nation’s
traffic deaths in the first nine
months this year—27,110—were
two per cent lower than for the
same period in 1960, the National
Safety Council said today.
The mileage death rate for the
nine-month period was a record
low, the Council said.
U.S. Abandons Idea on
Evacuating City Dwellers
Ahead of Oncoming Bombs
WASHINGTON m — The fed
eral government has abandoned,
for all practical purposes, the idea
of evacuating city dwellers ahead
of any oncoming nuclear bombs
and missiles.
The Pentagon will not dis
courage local and state Civil De
fense authorities from making
evacuation plans if they choose,
said a spokesman for the Office
of Civil Defense.
But he added, “evacuation cer
tainly takes second place to fall
out shelters in Washington’s
planning.”
The fact now recognized, but
never clearly acknowledged pre
viously, is that fleeing inAo open
countryside—even if there was
ample warning time — would not
protect 'populations from the
major nuclear hazard, radioactive
fallout.
One member of Congress, Rep.
Robert Kastenmeier, (D-Wis.), has
demanded the removal of the
blue “Civil Defense Route” signs
that mark the highways of his
state and others.
The signs are dangerous and
misleading, Kastenmeier said in a
letter to OCD Director Stewart
Pittman, 'because they breed false
hopes of escape by flight and
“deceive people as to the real
danger they would face in nu
clear war.”
Grant Nelson, mining man of
Deering, has closed down camp
for the winter and plans to re
main here for the winter with
his family.
SINGING' TIKES . . . -
DECATUR, Ala. IR — After
interstate Highway 65 was open
ed through north Alabama last
year, the highway was dotted with
cars pulled up an the shoulder,
drivers peering under the hoods.
Service stations along die route
were busy with motorists seek
ing a mechanical checkup.
But that noise drivers feared
was motor trouble was merely
their tires singing. The singing is
caused toy tiny ridges in the con
crete to help make the highway
skid-resistant.
Now the department has placed
signs along the route advising
travelers the cause of the noise.
Jackie Previews Jewelry Show
NEW YORK <R — Jacqueline
Kennedy paid a 10-hour visit to
New York City yesterday during
which she attended a jewelry pre
view benefit for the Newport,
R.I., Preservation Society. She
flew back to Washington on the
family's private plane.
NERVOUS WOMAN . . .
MINNEAPOLIS <R — “la tt
safe to hang my clothes out to
dry?” asked the nervous woman
on the telephone in a call to the i
Weather Bureau.
She wasn’t worried about rain
fall—Monday was a clear day—
tout about radioactive fallout as
a result of Soviet nuclear blasts.
The weather man assured her
it was okay and that if the air
ever reached a dangerous level
she’d know about it in plenty of
time.
On the desk of Irwin H. Kra
mer, hotel president: “To make
dreams come true, stay wide
awake!”
tchev Says
Bomb Exceeded
50-Megatons
MOSCOW —Premier Khrush
chev declared Tuesday the giant
bomb exploded Monday exceeded
the 50-megaton calculation of the
•dentists but "we won’t get
angry with them for this.”
The statement was made in a
brief speech at the closing session
of the Communist Party Congress
in the Kremlin. It was the first
announcement in Russia that the
bomb had been exploded, and
even then it was made first only
to a restricted session of the Con
gress.
Khrushchev’s statement was re
ported to the correspondents by
unofficial sources.
Ihe first account of Khrush
chev’s speech distributed toy Tass,
the Soviet News Agency, made no
mention of any remarks about the
super-bomb, suggesting that the
Soviet people as a whole are not
to toe told, at least for the present.
“The scientists made a slight
mistake in the evaluation of the
bomb,” Khrushchev said. “It
proved somewhat bigger than 50
megatons, but we won’t get angry
with them for this.”
The announcement brought a
storm of applause, ot cheering and
some laughter from the Congress.
Khrushchev quickly calmed the
delegates with a warning that to
achieve the program “we will
need work, work and only work.”
The statement was made to the
full membership of 4,500, with no
Western foreign correspondents
present.
COURTESY CARDS . . .
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. M
Mayor Kenneth Oka handed out a
batch of keys to the city and
police courtesy cards—and gave
the lowdown on tooth.
Welcoming the Air Traffic Con
trol Assn, to its convention Mon
day the mayor said: “All the time
I've been mayor, I’ve never found
a door the key would open—not
even the men’s wash room.
“And the police courtesy cards
—they just mean that while here
you should be courteous to our.
police.” x
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