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SWEETWATER. TEXAS. TUESDAY. JANUARY 19. 1954
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PANMUNJOM, Jan. 19 —UP—
The Communists demanded Tues-
day that the Indians stop their
planned turnback of 22,000 Korean
war prisoners, but an Indian
spokesman said the anti-Red Chin-
ese and North Koreans still will
be released starting at 9 a.m. (6
p.m. est) Wednesday.
Despite a blunt Communist
warning that the release will vio-
late the armistice agreement, the
Indian spokesman said firmly,
"Uiere is no change in our plans.
The turnover of the prisoners in
Shirt-Sleeve
Temperatures
Cover Texas
By UNITED PRESS
A damp cloud cover continued
to hover over much of Texas Tues-
day as temperatures edged upward
to virtually shirt-sleeve warmth.
The U, S. Weather Bureau said
all of the state was cloudy Tues-
day morning, with low clouds and
fog confined lo Central and East
Texas and the San Angelo - Mid-
land area southward.
The fog was scheduled to lift,
however, and only a few scattered
showers in South Central and East
Texas were in the books for the
next 36-hour span.
Cloudy to partly cloudy skies will
be the rule over the entire state
with a hesitant Pacific frontal sys-
tem promising slightly cooler read-
ings in the Panhandle and extreme
northern portions of North Central
Texas by Wednesday.
Overnight lows ranged from 30
degrees at Dalhart to 68 at
Brownsville, while Monday's max-
imums ranged between the low 50s
in East Texas to 77 degrees at
Laredo.
Only measurable precipitation
were .01 readings at Lufkin. San
Antonio and Del Rio.
Other overnight low marks in-
cluded 37 degrees at Salt Flat. 38
at. Wink and Lubbock. 41 at Mid-
land, 42, at Amarillo and EI Paso,
45 at Marfa, 48 at San Angelo,
49 at Abilene, 50 at Del Rio and
Wichita Falls, 53 at Waco, Austin
and Fort Worth, 54 at Dallas,
Houston, Port Arthur and Beau-
mont, 55 at Tyler, 57 at Lufkin,
60 at Laredo, 62 at San Antonio
and 67 at Corpus Christ!.
* Decision To Review
Natural Gas Case
Hailed By Industry
BARTLESVILLE. Okla., Jan. It)
—UP—A Phillips Petroleum Co.
official, pleased at the U.S. Su-
preme Court's decision to review
^ the Phillips natural gas case, said
* Tuesday that "only an unregulated
producing industry" can come
close to supplying the public's de-
mand for its product.
Board Chairman K. S. Adams said
the unregulated gas industry had
made great progress in "bringing
to more and more consumers this
choice fuel, natural gas, at reas-
onable prices."
The high court Monday reversed
its previous stand and decided to
y review the case, in which a cir-
cuit court ruled thai the Federal
Power Commission can regulate
prices charged ior natural gas in
interstate shipment by independent
producers.
The Supreme Court did not say
why it had changed its mind — a
rare occurrence in that high judi-
cial body. It merely indicated that
it will hear arguments by attor-
neys for both sides and hand down
an official opinion in the case,
which affects a large segment of
the gds industry.
Some of the gas - producing
states, including Oklahoma, had
warned that unless the high court
took the case under review the
production of natural gas would
fall off considerably. Some com-
panies, including Phillips, were
considered likely to stop selling gas
for inter-state shipment rather
than allow their rates to be reg-
ulated by the FPC.
A Adams said Phillips hopes the
jr Court will rule against FPC regu-
lations and allow "a competitive
industry. . . to progress in the fu-
ture as it has in the past for the
best interests of producers, con-
sumers and the general public."
The Sweetwater
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the south (anti-Communist) camp
will take place as scheduled."
North Korean Premier Kim il
Sung and Chinese "volunteer"
commander Gen. Peng Teh-IIuai
said the Indian plan to return ail
prisoners to their captors would
violate the Korean armistice agree-
ment.
Letter to Thimayya
The Red demand was phrased in
a letter to Indian Lt. Gen. K. S.
Thimayya. chairman of the Neu-
tral Nations Repatriation Commis-
sion, in answer to a letter he sent
to the UN and Communist com-
mands in which he stated the pris-
oners should be held in their cus-
tody indefinitely.
Heavily - armed American sol-
diers received late minute brief-
ings on handling the prisoner re-
turn — dubbed "operation recov-
ery" and which begins at 9 a.m.
Wednesday (6 o'clock Tuesday
night est) — at the time Commu-
nist rejection was delivered.
Kim and Peng, who signed the
armistice agreement, labeled the
Allied plan an "armed abduction
of the Korean and Chinese prison-
ers of war."
Demands Withdrawal
"We demand that the chairman
of the Neutral Nations Repatria-
tion Commission withdraw this
proposal," the Communist letter
said.
An Indian command spokesman
said the Communists gave their
negative reply at 5:30 p.m. (2:30
a.m. est) to the Neutral Nations
Repatriation Commission.
Indian had advised both the Al-
lied and Communist commands
last week that it planned to re-
turn the men to their captors Jan.
20, three days before their author-
ized release date as civilians under
the Korean armistice.
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Tired Ot Things,
Says Texas Ranger
Who Fought Parr
ALICE. Tex.. Jan. 19 —UP—
Ranger Capt. A. Y. Allee, who
engaged in a bloody fist light Mon-
day with George Parr s i<l Tues-
day he told him tie was "tired of
the things that have been going on
in Duval county."
Parr, known as the "Duke of
Duval," received a twisted and
bloody ear in the fracas and his
nephew. Duval County Sheriff Ar-
cher Parr, got his face slapped.
Three Rangers and a Department
of Public Safety radio technician
were involved in the fight.
"I told him I was tired of the
things that have been going on in
Duval county," Alice said. "He
said they'd stop."
Allee said "just the usual bunch"
of Rangers are stationed in San
Diego, Tex., county seat of Duval
county, to take care of "routine
business."
"Sometimes there are three,
sometimes lour, sometimes two,"
he said. San Diego has a popula-
tion of 4,397.
Allee declined lo comment on
whether any new charges are like-
ly to be filed against Parr as a
result of the fight or whether a
further investigation of Parr's ac-
tivities is underway.
The fight occurred Monday when
Parr was late for a court appear-
ance.
Kidnapped Realtor
Is Rescued By Police
LEADERS DISAGREE
TAKE NO CHANCE — The muddy dirt road 22,000 anti-Communist prisoners will travel to freedom
bristles with tanks, machine guns and barbed wire as American authorities take no chance on Com-
munist-inspired rioting or premature breaks for freedom. Prisoners will leave neutral compounds late
Tuesday (US time), nearly three days before their freedom becomes official on Friday. (NEA Tele-
photo )
Defense Budget Cut
To Be Recommended
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 —UP—
President Eisenhower will rec-
ommend a $4 billion slash in de-
fense spending in the budget mes-
sage he sends to Congress Thurs-
day, informed sources revealed
Tuesday.
They said Mr. Eisenhower will
proposed that overall military
spending in the fiscal year begin-
ning next July be held lo about
$37.5 billion.
These sources also disclosed
that the budget will recommend
slightly more funds for the Air
Force, key to the administration's
"new look" military strategy.
This means that the biggest
spending whack will fall oil the
Army which is being gradually re-
duced in an effort to emphasize
air and atomic power. The Navy,
to a lesser extent also will be
cut in for less money.
The budget message, according
to these informed sources, esti-
Local VFW Post
Is Ranked High
!n Membership
Sweetwater Post 2479. of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, is the
first Vt''W post in Texas, with a
membership of 450 members or
more to reach its 1954 membership
quota, Commander VV. B. (Buck)
Wetsel announced Tuesday.
The present membership of the
Sweetwater post is 481, one mem-
ber over the quota of 480, set by
the State Headquarters in Austin,
Wetsel said.
There are many posts who have
reached their quota, but those
posts all have membership far less
than the Sweetwater post, Wetsel
stated.
"I wish lo thank every member
of the post here in the line job turn-
ed in during our membership
drive," Wetsel said. "It is a defi-
nite pleasure and an honor to be
the first post in Texas, whose mem-
bership numbers 450 or more, to
reach the 1954 quota."
mates defense spending for the
current fiscal year at $41.5 billion
making for a recommended spend-
ing cut of about $4 billion. Actual
spending last year, fiscal 1953, to-
taled $43.6 billion.
In his State of the Union mes-
sage Jan. 7, Mr. Eisenhower said
his budget message would outline
a cut in federal spending more
than $5 billion below this year's
level or to about $66.5 billion.
In view of the planned defense
cut revealed Tuesday, it is clear
that the military will absorb the
lion's share of the total cutback
for fiscal 1955. This could hardly
be otherwise since defense spend-
ing is the biggest single item in
the budget.
Fiim Makers, Local
Censors Differ
On Court Ruling
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 19—UP—The
movie industry hailed Tuesday the
Supreme Court's decision to nar-
row the grounds on which censors
may ban films.
The court struck down New-
York's ban on "La Ronde" (The
Roundi, a French-language picture
adjudged "Immoral": and a ban
by Ohio of "M", which state cen-
sors decided was likely lo promote
crime.
See Little Effect
But while the movie industry ap-
plauded the Supreme Court decis-
ion, state arid local censorship
boards indicated they thought, it
would have little effect on their
function.
Movie producer Samuel B. Gold-
wyn, who recently stirred up a film
colony controversy by proposing
that the Breen censorship office of
the Motion Picture Producers As-
sociation modernize its code, called
the Supreme Court action a "step
forward in the freedom of the
screen."
He said the decision points up
See CENSORS Page 8
PRISONER IS KILLED
Army Camp
Blasted For
Commanding General
Stockade Slaying
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo..
Jan. 19 —UP—Brig. Gen. George
V. Keyset-, branded as a martinet
who had praised two military po-
licemen lor killing an escaping
stockade prisoner at Camp Carson,
said Monday night that the guards
will be given a routine court mar-
tial on murder charges.
I'fe. Richard W. Gillins, 23-year-
old Korean veteran with three bat-
tle stars, was felled by shot gun
blasts after he had climbed one
fence and was running toward an-
other. The Academy, S. D., soldier
died before he could be given med-
ical attention, because a shotgun
pellet had ruptured his spleen.
Gillins was being held in the
Camp Carson stoekage for court
martial on charges that he fell
asleep while guarding two Army
prisoners. Camp Carson officials
said the guards who killed him,
Pfc. Leon James and Pfc. Floyd
Wilburn of the 19th MP Company,
first shouted for him to halt and
did not fire until it was apparent
that Gillins would not stop.
Paper Claims Keyser Unfit
The Rocky Mountain News, Den-
ver Seripps-Howard Daily, charged
editorially over the weekend that
Keyser, Camp Carson commander,
had praised the guards for killing
Gillins, and that he was not "equip-
ped" for leadership in tile "mod-
ern American citizens army."
The newspaper said Keyser, who
retires this week after 38 years'
service, was wise to get out of the
Army.
At a press conference Monday
night. Keyser maintained that he
personally considered the shooting
"a regrettable incident" and said
the two MPs will be court mar-
tialed on murder charges.
(It is standard Army procedure
to legally absolve guards of guilt
if they killed unavoidable in the
line of duty, or to punish them if.
in violation of orders, they shot to
kill instead of to disable.)
A Message Sent
Keyser said when the Camp Car-
son provost marshal informed him
Youthful Speeder
Who Caused Cop
To Die Surrenders
HOUSTON. Jan. 19 —UP—A 16-
year-old youth admitted Tuesday
he was the driver of a speeding
automobile which Motorcycle Offi-
cer S. A. Budter) Kent was chas-
ing when the officer was thrown
from his vehicle and fatally injur-
ed.
Homicide Lt. W. C. Doss said he
received an anonymous tip from
a woman telephone caller who said
the youth talked like he "knew a
lot" about the officer's death.
Kent died a week ago at St. Jo-
seph's hospital from injuries suf-
fered a week earlier when his
motorcycle went out of control and
threw him about 50 feet as he sped
down Navigation Boulevard chas-
ing the motorist.
The youth said Tuesday he didn't
know the officer had been hurt
until lie read about it in newspa-
pers and was afraid to turn him-
self in.
one of the guards was badly shak-
en by the incident, he had the fol-
lowing message relayed to them:
"Guarding prisoners is a serious
business and we are not playing
at soldiering when guarding pris-
oners. The general compliments
you both for attempting to do your
duty."
Had Jones and Wilburn failed to
stop Gillins from escaping, Keyser
said, they both would have been
subject to court martial and pos-
sibly sentenced to a year at hard
labor and dishonorable discharge.
Keyser said an investigation
showed that Jones and Wilburn
twice shouted at Gillins to halt, and
that they were under orders not to
kill, but rather to disable escapees.
(Gillins was at such a distance
from the guards when they fired
that shot guns might well have
done no more than wound him, ex-
cept lor the pellet which punctured
the spleen, a vital organ.)
Methodist Church
Names Rev. Taylor
Associate Pastor
The Rev. Darrell Taylor of Wi-
chita Falls has been named assoc-
iate pastor of the First Methodist
Church, Rev. Pete Peterson, pas-
tor of the church, announced yes-
terday.
A graduate of Asbury College at
Wilmore, Kentucky. Taylor has
been in evangelistic work for one
and one-half years and sponsored
a TV program at Wichita Falls en-
titled "Music With a Message."
Taylor is a native of California,
and for some time he was employ-
ed by the Sharon Recording Com-
pany where he recorded an album
of sacred music records.
His family consists of his wife,
Apita: and three sons; Stephen,
Dan and Mark.
At First Church he will be in
charge of Youth activities and
assist with the choir.
Health Proposals
Touch Off Debates
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 —UP—
President Eisenhower's health pro-
posals touched off brisk discussio)
in Congress Tuesday over how far
the government should go to help
Americans get and pay for better
medical care.
Sen. Herbert H. Lehman (D-
N.Y.i said the President's plan for
underwriting private health insur-
ance programs is "wholly inade-
quate" because it helps only when
illness has struck a crushing blow.
"For many families," he said,
"the need is not so much for pro-
tection against the cost of catas-
trophic illness as for ordinary and
routine medical care at a cost
which tiiey reasonably can afford."
But Rep. John B. Bennett (R-
Mich.) disagreed.
"The biggest need for govern-
ment assistance is for the extra-
ordinary expenses," he said.
REV. DARRELL TAYLOR
Lions Hold Zone
Meeting Here
Four area clubs were represent-
ed in a meeting of Zone 2-E of the
Lions Culb, held in Sweetwater
Monday night, at the Rose Room of
the Blue Bonnet Hotel.
Sixteen members from the four
clubs were present. B. B. Newber-
ry, zone chairman from Hamlin
presided over the meeting. Clubs
represented were Roby, Rotan,
Hamlin and Sweetwater.
A film, showing a day's activity
at the Lions Club Crippled Child-
ren's Home at Kerrville was seen,
followed by a discussion of the va-
rious activities undertaken by
Lions Clubs, and a discussion of
clubs' finances.
Present from the Sweetwater club
were Charles Bledsoe, president of
the Sweetwater club, Morris Har-
ris, Tom Widman, Tom Marsh, E.
B. Ellis and Euel Lawrence.
California
Town Fears
Landslides
SIERRA MADRE, Calif., Jan. 19
—UP— Police reported Tuesday
the entire 8,000 population of this
hillside city was evacuating as
hip-deep mud and silt from fire-
denuded mountain slopes threat-
ened to swamp the community.
Sierra Madre police said the
evacuation was on a voluntary
basis and was assisted by Red
Cross detachments, police and
units of the National Guard.
"In some spots on the northern
perimeter of the city the mud is
hip-deep," a desk sergeant said.
The mud started to move in on
the city late Monday night from
the slopes of the Sierra Madre
mountains where a recent forest
fire burned off brush and timber.
The area has been pelted by a
rain storm for three days.
"There is nothing to stop it." the
sergeant said. "The mud and muck
is rolling in off the bare moun-
tains fast."
He said the black silt was mov-
ing southward on a mile and a
half wide line.
"It's clear down to Arcadia,"
four miles to the south, he said.
Sierra Madre is 15 miles north-
west of Los Angeles.
Police said some refugees fled
to a Roman Catholic monastery on
high ground just north of the city.
"When the government finances or
-linary costs and care it get s into
deep water on costs and social-
ism."
In submitting his health program
'o Congress Monday, Mr. Eisen-
hower proposed a $25 million gov-
ernment re-insurance service to
promote more and better health
orotection for Americans by guar-
anteeing benefits under privatf
medical insurance plans.
The administration is putting, the
finishing touches on a bill spelling
out details of the proposal. Several
House Republicans said, however
that it is clearlv designed to heir-
->ut with "catastrophic" rat.ber than
routine medical expenses.
The powerful American Medical
Association still has not decided
the official position it will take on
the proposal. But Dr. Edward J.
McCormick, AMA president, was
critical Monday night.
He said in Los Angeles that pri-
vate companies can handle the
problem "if they are let alone,"
that there is no need for govern-
ment action, and that the $25 mil-
lion fund proposed by the President
might grow to billions and run pri-
vate insurance firms out of busi-
ness.
In New York, however, the presi-
dent of Associated Hospital Service.
New York's Blue Cross plan, said
the program "appears entirely
feasible" and indeed has "great
merit."
March Ot Dimes Fund
Reaches $1,619.76
The Nolan County March of
Dimes campaign has received do-
nations totalling $1,619.76 as of
Tuesday noon, according to cam-
paign chairman Audrey Ballew.
With donations beginning to in-
crease in number as the various
committees have their functions
underway, high hopes are held of
reaching the quota of $8,000 by the
end of the month, when the cam-
paign closes.
A partial list of contributors to
March of Dimes, as received by
noon Tuesday:
Sweetwater Clinic $100.00
Charity Patients
Discussion Subject
Of Hospital Board
Wade Forester was named chair-
man of the Board of Directors of
the Sweetwater Hospital at the
regular board meeting Monday
night, at which the chief item of
business was a discussion of care
of charity patients.
At a recent meeting of the City
Commission, the city voted to
withdraw its support of charity pa-
tients. and turned that operation
over to the County Commissioners'
Court.
Article 4438 of the Revised Civil
Statutes of the State of Texas pro-
vides that the Commissioners
Court of the County shall provide
for sending indignent patients to
a public hospital.
The board recommended that the
matter be taken up with the Coun-
ty, in order that an arrangement
can be made for the care of char-
ty patients.
In addition to the naming of For-
ester as chairman, Clayton Wil-
liams was named co-chairman and
commissioner of accounts. Rigdon
Edwards was named alternate
commissioner.
Doctors on the hospital staff
were approved, and a fund of $500
was set up as a refund account for
refunds of overpayment by patients
on release from the hospital. All
refunds will be paid by check, the
board recommended.
Aviation Cadet
Killed In Crash
CORPUS CHRIST!. Tex., Jan. 19
ipi-Aviation Cadet Lester Whittle,
21, of Edna, Kan. was killed Mon-
day in the collision of two F-6-F
naval training planes while on a
routine training flight.
The pilot of the other plane, Av-
iation Cadet William Berner Jr..
21, of Wallington, N. J., bailed out
safely after the crash 45 miles
southwest of here. The pilots were
members of the advanced unit No.
100 at Kingsville NAS.
THE WEATHER
SWEETWATER — Temperature,
high Monday, 71 degrees, low Tues-
day morning. 48 degrees. Baro-
metric pressure, 29.92 falling. Hum-
idity. 30 per cent, steady. Instru-
ment reading, increasing cloudi-
ness, not much change in tempera-
ture, slightly cooler.
WEST TEXAS—Cloudy, scatter-
ed showers Tuesday night and
Wednesday Pecos Valley eastward
late Tuesday, turning colder Pan-
handle Wednesday.
Hung Jury Declared
In DWI Court Case
A hung jury was declared in the
case of DYVI filed on Herbert Green
in district court. The case was the
first to be tried in this session of
court and was started Monday
morning, Judge A. S. Mauzey pre-
siding.
Arguments for both sides were
presented and the case was closed
at 11:45 a. m. Monday morning.
The jury deliberated until 6:30
Monday evening but was declared
a hung jury after it failed to reach
a verdict.
No motion for a new trial had
been filed Tuesday morning.
Sweetwater Sash & Door
j P. L. Ullom
(Mr. and Mrs, Grady Respess
E. L. Frost Estate
I Bernice C. Chapman
Dwight McBride
L. L. Zeigler
! Whitaker Bakery
| Etz Studio
| E. J. Woodward
I E. M. Perkins Jr
J. O. Kirk
| B. M. Neblett
J. H. Birmingham
Ocie Hunt
Callaway Sheet Metal Co. .
Paul P. Zanowiak
Wayne H. McNeil
Maurice Reich
Leonard S. Teston
Juanita Hodges
Fred Wimberly Hardware
H. D. Norris
John Tubb
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Marine Killed As Auto
Struck By Freight Train
EARLE, Ark., Jan. 19—UP —
Marine Sgt. Cecil Thomas Green.
23, of Fort Worth, was killed Tues-
day, when his automobile was
struck by a Missouri Pacific
freight train at a grade crossing
five miles east of here.
Green's wife and five-year-old
daughter. Mary Lynne, live at
Cleburne. Tex.
Sari Francisco
Real tor Captive
For 64 Hours
SAN F RA.NOTSCO. .Tan, 19 —UP
; ' wo altbv 36-vear-olH San Fran-
c!?co r(J„itnr kidnaned and held
• nr S. ,00 000 ransom for 64 +error-
■er hours, was rescued unharm-
ed bv police early Tuesday after
a grim manhunt carried on under
H■ voluntary press blackout.
^ Trie kidnapers, described as
"two tough professionals," sur-
rendered without a fight when
fheir elaborate plot fell to pieces
and were taken to jail in heavy
shackles.
1 he case, one of the best-kept
newspaper crime secrets in his-
tory, exploded with dramatic sud-
denness shortly before 6 a.m. est
Tuesday. There had been an ab-
solute secrecy blanket — despite
| the fact all local ne" s and radio
i media had been ":n on the story"
I rom the beginning.
Police said the 100 per cent co-
operation of the press "probably
saved the kidnaped man's life."
V-ctim Found n R^s'dence
The victim, Leonard Moskovitz,
who operates a flourishing real es-
tate business with h's identical
twin brother, Alfred, was found in
j i rented downtown residence
where he had been kept drugged,
; shackled and blindfolded.
His abductors, Harold Jackson,
157, and Joseph Lear. 43, of the
Sacramento area, had tormented
him with threats of emasculation
to send portions of his body home
; it his family did not pay.
The kidnapers at first demanded
I an even half-million dollars, but
I later scaled down their demand to
: $300,000 when the victim's dis-
j ti aught family pleaded they could
! not raise such a sum.
Moskovitz' 61-year-old father,
Maurice, is a well-to-do, but not
, wealthy, retired real estate man.
i He is a member o< 'fr* board of
directors of the J ofhten Gate
Bridge and one-time foreman of
the San Francisco county grand
jury.
Second Largest Demand
The ransom demand was the
second largest in history, topped
only by the recent Greenlease case
in Kansas City in which S600.000
was paid to kidnapers Carl Austin
Hall and Bonnie Brown Heady.
In the present case the kidnap-
ers were grabbed before a penny
of ransom was paid. The family
had arranged to gather the cash
at the Bank of America at 10 a.m.
Tuesday.
During the tension - filled three
days. Moskovitz' twin brother and
father negotiated with the kidnap-
ers in a series of guarded tele-
phone calls and ads in the per-
sonals column of a local newspa-
per.
It was the telephone calls made
by the kidnapers that eventually
gave police Tuesday's break in the
case.
Talked Too Long
Lear made the mistake of talk-
ing too long to Albert from a side-
walk public telephone booth. The
call was traced and a squad of
some 25 heavily-armed officers led
by Homicide Inspector A1 Nelder
surrounded the booth while the
kidnaper was still chattering away
with final details for the big pay-
off.
He gave up sheepishly and led
the raiding squad to a home at 167
Arbor Street — roughly three miles
across the city.
Nelder, who had removed his
shoes for silence, kicked the door
in with his stocking feet. The raid-
ing officers caught Jackson com-
pletely by surprise and held him
under a dozen gun muzzles while
they freed a disheveled but re-
lieved Moskovitz from the bed.
The kidnap victim told police he
had spent most of the time shack-
led. gagged, blindfolded and with
ear plugs in his ears The kidnap-
rs t ed tw sauc- rs nside his
knees with adhesive tape so he
See REALTOR Page 8
Woman Has Triplets,
Year After Twins
RAHWAY, N. J., Jan, 19 -lift- Ni-
cholas Buroff went shopping for a
bigger house Tuesday to accomo-
date his mushrooming family.
His wife. Clara, 35. gave birth to
triplets Monday less than a year
after having twins.
"We had to turn the dining room
into a bedroom when the twins
came along," Buroff said. "But 1
don't know what we can convert
now."
FINAL WARNING — The Yugoslav Communist Partv's central
committee deprived Vite-Pres. Milovan Djilas. left, of all party
posts and gave him a "final" warning to get back to the party line
from which, it charged, he has strayed. Pres. Marshal Tito, right,
rebuked his associate of 17 years and told 100-man committee Mr.
Djilas has "gone too far." Ruckus began when Djilas criticized
party officials and their wives in a magazine article. (NEA Tele-
photo)
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