Rapid City Journal from Rapid City, South Dakota • 1

WEATHER: Fair and hot through Saturday; scattered thundershowers Sat a afternoon. High today 100; low tonight 62; high Saturday 96. he Rapid City AILY OURNAL Final Edition Price 7c "The "Newspaper of Western South Dakota' DUMBER 24438 -82nd YEAH RAPID CITY. S. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 2.

1960 ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRES AT YANK POST IN Battles Kill Deed Girl's Schoolmates Imiilkofed Congress Goes Home With Little Achieved HOPEFUL TO THE 15 Killed As Shell Lands Amid Tents GRAFENWOEIIR, Germany (AP) Fifteen American soldiers were killed and 28 injured today when an artillery shell exploded among them during a training exercise here, the Army announced. It was the worst training accident for ground troops ever registered by the American force stationed in Germany. An Army announcement said the shell landed outside the "artillery impact area" and exploded in a tent camp in this training area. The announcement described all casualties as members of a 3rd Armored Division Cavalry unit. An investigation is under way.

Names of the dead and injured were withheld. Grafenwoehr, situated in northern Bavaria about 30 miles from the Czechoslovak frontier, is the biggest training area for the quarter of a million American soldiers in Germany. Pension Promoter Pneumonia At 93 Sugar, Wage Bills Hanging As End Comes WASHINGTON (AP)-The 86th Congress has adjourned after a post-convention session that crackled with politics and produced disappointments for both the Democrats and President Eisenhower. The House quit Thursday night at 6:52 p.m., the Senate at 11:51 p.m. after spending more than three hours trying to round up a quorum of 51 members to complete its business.

The final flurry of Senate debate whirled around a. proposal to provide more money for a was sentenced to 30 days in jail for contempt because he refused to answer questions asked by a congressional investigating committee. President Franklin D. i 4 J'f Western ills lire i mm Dr. Francis Townsend business transactions to finance $200 monthly pensions for each person who retired at 60.

At various times he changed the total amount sought and the means of producing it. His political encounters fre quently were stormy. In 1937 he ir. Townsend Practiced, Roosevelt granted him what Townsend afterward called "an unsolicited pardon." The old crusader's monumental disdain for the present Social Se curity system was typified by his comment: an inadequate and unfair patchwork which pays the most to those who need it the least." The wiry little doctor lived for many years in Long Beach, and Los Angeles, but he was sel dom home. When he wasn duel ing with Congress he was touring lownsena Clubs, in later years directing his principal effort to ward organizing the feminine vote.

When he was home he loved to garden. A meticulous dresser, he insisted upon cufflinks and starched collars even in summer weather. Townsend, born in a log cabin near rairbury, 111,, began practicing medicine in the Black Hills town of Belle Fourche, S. D. He moved his practice to Long Beach, in 1919 and retired to devote full time to pen-sioneering before his organization had grown to 10,000 clubs in 1956.

Belle doctor and faced him with a seri ous health problem. They made their home in Long Beach from 1919 until 1938, when they moved to Los Angeles. His fame continued in the area in later years. Townsend clubs sprang up in many Hills communities, and the doctor was greeted with resounding ovations on his appearances at the Black Hills Round-Up at Belle Fourche In the summer of 1935, at Hill City in other summers as he and his wife visited their children, and in Rapid City on a speaking engagement in July of 1956. Townsend's son, Robert C.

Town- Send, was engaged in development of mining property in the Hill City area for a number of years in association with his mother's daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. James Shevling. Robert is presently in Washington as the movement's corporate treasurer. I Resignations Void Election In Iran TEHRAN, Iran (0 The Mel- liyoun party of former Premier Manuchehr Eghbal has announced the resignation of Its 104 deputies recently elected to the 200-seat National Assembly.

The action automatically In validates the election which opposition leaders charged had been rigged in favor of Melliyoun candidates. Pioneer Dies Of LOS ANGELES (AP) Dr. Francis E. Townsend, pioneer pension promoter for senior citi zens, is dead at 94. Tireless leader of old-age clubs which once claimed 30 million members, he died Thursday niglu in St.

Vincent Hospital. Doctors said death was due to pneumonia and complications of old age. Only last month the sprightly physician left his organization's Washington, D.L., headquarters for another tour of Townsend Clubs, still campaigning for a fed eral program which he said would provide dignified and adequate security for the elderly. This was the battle ne waged unceasingly for nearly three decades. And to the end he believed that, sooner or later, Congress would heed his plea.

Over the years his plan took various forms, out Dasicauy its principles remained unchanged Most recently he advocated a 1 to 2 per cent tax on gross personal incomes. Of his program in general, he said lately: "Its the same one we've had in Congress for the past 20 years without being able to get it out of the Ways and Means Committee." When the pension group was or ganized in 1933. Dr. Townsend ad vocated a 2 per cent tax on all Big Balloon Drifts North from S.F. SIOUX FALLS Wl A 16-story balloon designed to make it easier to interpret data from the U.

weather eye satellite, Tiros, was launched here today. For three hours the 159-foot balloon rose, nearly vertically to a height of around 118,000. feet. The tear-dropped plastic research balloon then began to move northward. It was due to land its cargo of 250 pounds of photographic and infra-red equipment, housed in an all-magnesium gondola, this eve ning.

Originally launched to head west the balloon instead was drifting north this afternoon in the vicinity of Arlington and was expected to come down in the vicinity of Wa tertown. The project "was one of a series being conducted by the University of Michigan Engineering Depart ment. Specific object of today flight was to improve Interpretation of photographic and infra-red date received from Tiros. Raven industries of Sioux Falls built the balloon and is currently working on more than 20 projects involving space-soaring balloons. A team of engineers from Mas sachusetts Institute of Technology will arrive Sept.

12 to launch another balloon to be built by Raven. This balloon, to be used in gamma ray experimental work, will carry a load of more than 1,000 pounds and is expected to be in the air longer than 24 hours. Japan Nabs Leader Of Anti-Ike Rioting TOKYO (AP) The secretary general of Zengakuren, the ex tremist student organization which spearheaded June demonstrations against President Eisenhower's visit, has been caught aft er eluding police for 78 days. Satoru Kitakoji, 24, was arrested after he walked out of a cen tral committee meeting of the student federation here Thursday Not Tourists frequent than ever, are jamming Black Hills and Badlands facil ities, especially on long holiday weekends. onio 270 Congolese LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo (API A flareup of bloody fight ing between Congolese soldiers and partisans in Kasai province has claimed at least 270 lives in the town of Bakwanga, the United Nations reported today.

U.N. officials reported scores of corpses strewn on the streets of Bakwanga, capital of the seces sionist so-called Mineral State in Kasai. Many were mutilated by blows from knives and machetes. The U.N. spokesman said one U.N.

plane transported two wounded Congolese soldiers from the scene. The U.N. task force commander. Gen. Carl von Horn, gave a categorical order that all such transport be stopped.

The U.N. spokesman said Con golese soldiers and their opponents, supporters of Kasai leader Albert Kalonji, "have access to supplies of arms and ammuni tion," A garrison of 125 Tunisian United Nations soldiers barricaded the local club where 110 surviving Belgian residents hovered in panic. According to United Nations almost constant firing went on in Bakwanga. "There was shooting for hours on end, a United Nations official said. "Both sides were heavily armed.

They even bad mortars." Earlier today, a U.N. spokesman announced United Nations Moroccan troops fired on a group of attacking armed civilians south of Thysville Thursday and killed one person. This was the first time U.N. soldiers have opened fire, and the first casualty attributed to them. Few details concerning the ac tion are available, the spokesman said.

The attack occurred at Moe- berck, south -of the garrison town of Thysville. where Congolese sol diers mutinied shortly after inde pendence was declared here June 30. The spokesman said the Moroc cans deployed in that area were trying to disarm the civilians They fired in the air first but finally, were forced to shoot at the attackers. On the political front, the Con golese government charged that the opposition Puna party had threatened to assassinate Presi dent Joseph Kasavubu and Pre mier Patrice Lumumba. A government spokesman said Jean Bolikango, 60, leader of the Puna party and one of Lumumba's principal political rivals, was arrested Thursday night near Lisala in his native Equator prov ince.

Bolikango, who is leader of the Bangala river people" tribe, was brought by plane to Leopoldville and held. The government spokesman did not say how many members of his party were arrested with him. Lumumba charged two weeks ago that Bolikango was trying to start a secessionist movement in (Page 2 Column 7) Crossing Crash Kills State Man At Dell Rapids DELL RAPIDS UP) George L. Stratton, 33, Brookings, was killed Thursday night when his car ran into a Milwaukee Railroad freight train at the edge of Dell Rapids Stratton was driving north, alone in the car, on Highway 77 and apparently did not see the signal lights, which Highway Patrolman Bill Zeitner said were in opera tlon. The train was being switched in the yards here and Stratton's auto hit one of the freight cars.

The train was reported moving about 15 miles, an hour. The accident happened at 9:15 p.m. Stratton was in the Investment business and formerly operated a shoe store in Brookings. Surviving are the widow, four children, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Gust Stratton, of rural Brookings. The death brought South Dako ta 1960 traffic toll to 136, as com pared with 140 on this date a year ago. nard says 361 fewer cars stopped for information this year and thinks there are more people than ever in each car. Camping The Forest Ser vice, private operators and cad- lands area estimate eight to 10 per cent more campers this year not all are tourists. Custer State Park office Tourist business is perhaps slightly down from last year.

Campers are the "heaviest'; ever. Private operators, a few of whom were contacted, said for the first time in August tourist business approached that of 1959 They expected this year's fig ures to show an increase irom mid August on because the com parison would be with 1959 statistics deflated by the Yellow stone area earthquake. Campers Campers, unquestionably more SIOUX FALLS (AP) u. b. District Atty.

Clinton Richards said today three young Pine Ridge girls will Le charged with homicide in connection with the death of an 8-year-old girl companion. Richards said Lydia Ghost Bear, 12; Barbara Ghost Bear, 9, and Myrtle Red Wolf, 8, would appear late today before a U. S. commissioner at Rapid City. (In Rapid City, U.S.

Commissioner George W. Lendecker said he had Issued warrants for the arrest of the three girls, charging them with voluntary manslaughter. He said a hearing would be held about 2:30 p.m. today.) Richards said investigation disclosed there was no truth to the girls' story told Thursday that Carol Whiting, 8, met death at the hands of three men who the rls said had chased them. An autopsy performed at Rapid City showed Carol died of drowning.

Richards said that because of the ages of the three girls actively involved in Carol's death tney will be placed in detention homes for further investigation of the case. "The investigation has cleared tin that there were no outside oarties involved." Richards said. He added there was evidence that Carol's death was not accidental. The four girls left the Pine Ridge boarding school Wednesday morning. The Ghost Bear girls and the Red Wolf girl returned about 7 p.m.

The girls said Carol, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert wniung of Kyle, had been caught by three men. The girls said they ventured back later and found Carol's body in White Clay Creek. They pulled the body partly from the water, they said, and vent for help.

Police found the body as Indi- cated by the girls in an area heavilv covered by underbrush alone the winding creek. The trio was taken in custody Thursday night, Richards said. cJlieWeather By The Associated Press FIRE INDEX Low 4-55; moderate 56-76; high 77-90; extreme M-100. TODAY'S INDEX 92 SOUTH DAKOTA: Mostly fair today and tonight. Fair east, partly cloudy west Saturday.

Scattered afternoon thundershowers likely Elack Hills Saturday afternoon. Little temperature change. Southerly winds 15-25 mph east today. High today 95-100. Low tonight lower 70s east to mid-60s west.

MONTANA (east of Divide): Mnetiv rlmidv with scattered show ers or thundershowers today and tonight. Diminishing cloudiness Saturday with a few Isolated afternoon thundershowers. Slightly cooler west today. High both days 75-85 west, 85-95 east. Low tonight 45-60.

WYOMING: Partly cloudy through Saturday; widely scattered showers and a few thunderstorms, mostly west today, spreading to east Saturday; cooler east Saturday. Lows tonight 35-45 mountains, 5ns snuthwest. 55-65 elsewhere. Hiehs Saturday 70s west of the Divide, 75-85 east. 24-HOUR READINGS TO 7 A.M.

TODAY hi lo pep Eapid City 93 64 Airport 95 63 Philip 99 67 Custer 87 49 Lead 88 59 Deadwood 86 52 Spearfish 88 56 Hot Springs 98 59 Fort Meade 96 67 Chadron 98 68 Vnlpntin 98 73 TacnPi- 90 64 .04 Pierre 101 74 Aberdeen 90 70 Watertown 93 71 Huron 98 74 Sioux Falls 91 74 Pickstown 96 75 Lemmon 89 67 Mobridge 75 72 Sioux City 91 71 Anchorage 53 46 Bismarck 82 66 Chicaco 95 75 .76 Jienvcr so Hlelena 82 Kansas City 93 Los Angeles 79 Miami 85 Minneapolis-St. Paul 92 so 03 53 74 62 79 73 .25 Echo I Messages Pierce Iron Curtain NEW YORK (AP)-Peoples of Eastern Europe have heard broad casts in their native languages hich were bounced off the Echo I satellite, Radio Free Europe reports. The one-minute programs ex rressed hope for the eventual treedom of the nations. Firefighters along the Wyoming- South Dakota border nearly due west of Rapid City were keeping an anxious eye on the fire index today. The fire which broke out Thurs day afternoon was contained within an area of about 150 acres in a relatively short time.

But Ken Scholz and Don Ken nedy, Forest 'Service officials at Custer, said the no-theast end of Blaze Spurs New Appeal To Campers "Be careful with fire" was the special plea issued today by Ken Scholz, Forest Service fire control officer for the Black Hills region As he made the plea, more than 300 men were working on a blaze on the South Dakota-Wyoming border due west from Rapid City. Scholz and Forest Service officials say that historically all the big fires in the Black Hills occur at this time of the year August and September. Within the past two weeks flames razed nearly 18,000 acres of timber and grass south of Hot Springs. Sept. 8 will be the first anni versary of the dramatic Deadwood' Nemo fires that threatened entire communities with destruction.

The biggest Black Hills fire, the McVey Burn, destroyed more than 21,000 acres in the fall of 1939. The Big Elk Burn, which was stopped by Highway 14-79 between Tilford and Piedmont, was on Aug. 23. 1949. Although many fires are caused by lightning it's getting too late in the year for nature-caused conflagrations, officials said.

Noting that many families will be in heavily wooded areas as well as grassy spots over the long Labor Day weekend, Forest Serv ice officials issued a special plea for care. Scholz said the entire Black Hills is tinder-dry and flames can make headway fast once they start. Khrushchev Arrives In Finnish Capital HELSINKI. Finland (AP)-So- viet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrived in Helsinki today to take part in the celebration of the 60th birthday of Finnish President Urho Kekkonen. A green express train with a bright yellow, red-striped engine drew into the station exacuy on time and Khrushchev jauntily jumped off to greet his host.

On the platform to welcome him were President Kekkonen and other officials, including Pre mier Veino Sukselainen. The Finnish welcome was warm, but not demonstrative. watchdog subcommittee to check on whether radio and TV stations give fair treatment in political broadcasts. The proposal died with adjournment. Also left in the legislative limbo was a measure that would have given Eisenhower a free hand in cutting or eliminating a special sugar quota assigned to the Dominican Republic, with which the United States has broken diplomatic relations.

It was a Senate-House dispute over the sugar bill which had blocked adjournment a day earlier. Each side held firm and the bill died. Facing each other in the Senate chamber through much of the four-week session were the Democratic presidential nominee, John F. Kennedy, and the Republican standard-bearer, Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the Senate's presiding officer.

Leaders in both political camps were less than enthusiastic when the windup came. Kennedy said the Republican aim in the short session was to embarrass the Democrats and conceal me empty negative record" of the GOP. He accused the Republican leadership of trying to block action on several issues he favored. House Republican Leader Charles A. Halleck of Indiana de scribed the August session as an exercise in futility.

He said, "If it was designed to put the Democratic presidential campaign ticket into orbit, it fizzled out on the launching platform." Although both sides suffered dis appointments the Democratic- controlled session took care of several legislative chores. Measures passed included foreign aid appropriations and money needed for some of the government rou tine operations, a bill aimed at helping certain old persons with their medical expenses, the Antarctic treaty and a measure di rected at eliminating practices such as payola in the broadcast ing industry. Dollarwise, the 1960 session of the 86th voted more than 82 billion dollars in appropriations a record for any peacetime year. The figure includes such permanent appropriations as interest on iha national AaM V. 1(1 Over the two-year span of the 86th, probably the three major actions were to admit Hawaii as the 5f)th state, nass a far-reach ing labor law and approve a civil riehts bill the second important action in this field in three years.

If the Democrats were smart ing from wounds of the summer session, the record of the 86th as a whole gave limited comfort to Eisenhower. Numerous recom-' mendations of the President went down the drain as the heavily (Page 2, Column 7) ing apparently stemmed from ap-" proval given Lawrence and Butta by the Farmers Home Administration for concessions on interest rates for FHA loans. "This did not require any action by the drought committee," Shaefer said. Gov. Herseth applauded, in his conference, what he said was ex tension of disaster help to Butte and Lawrence but said the same aid should have been given at the same time for Fall River and Custer counties.

He said Republican members of Congress had acted in "elec tion year haste and had not coordinated with the state secretary of agriculture. Inside Today Ann Landers 4 Boyle 4 Comics 16 Crossword Fuizle 16 Dr. Molner 4 Editorials 13 Markets 17 Radio TV 9 Society 6-7 Sports 11-15 Wilson 4 the fire was still "hot" and posed a flareup threat. There is a bulldozer and burn ring entirely around the fire perimeter: eight or nine "cats" are widening the line and 15 or 20 tankers are on duty supplying water. slurry drops were made by a tanker plane Thursday afternoon to help contain blazes and the converted World War II bomber was standing by for ac tion at bpearfish Friday morning, Only one slurry drop was made by press time Friday at 2 p.m.

to quell a not spot. Winds gave some trouble during the day. The fire started on the South Dakota side of the line and spread into Wyoming along the Beaver Creek watershed near Four Cor ners. The fire area is about 15 air miles northeast of Newcastle. Although the fire was contained in a few hours, force of some 200 men kept vigil overnight, pushing back flames.

A relief shift of 175 men went on duty at 6 a.m.'' One hundred fifty Sioux from Pine Ridge also joined the line trlday and were expected to continue through the day. So far as is known there are no injuries and no damage to private property. Officials said watershed in the rugged country was the greatest damage. Former Convict Held In Illinois Kidnap-Slaying BENTON, HI. (AP) An ex-convict, once imprisoned for murder, was arrested today by FBI agents in connection with the kidnap-slaying of a waitress and ordered held in jail on $50,000 bond.

Joseph Harry Milani, 33, of near Herrin, 111., was charged in a federal complaint with assault with attempt to murder John Bryant, 20, fiance of the slain girl, Mary my Ellen Roberts, 17. After his arraignment before U.S. Commissioner Everett Lew is at 2:30 a.m., Milani was ordered confined to the Jackson County jail at nearby Murphysboro. Milani, a husky construction worker, has served eight years in prison on a murder conviction and five years for auto theft. He was released from prison last April 5 on the auto theft conviction.

Miss Roberts' body was found last Sunday in a well at an abandoned farm house near Herrin. She had been shot through the head. Authorities had questioned and released Milani twice. A blond gunman kidnaped Miss Roberts from a lover's lane near Carbondale, 111., on the night of Aug. 25 after seriously wounding Bryant.

The FBI said Bryant, a Car bondale barber, had identified Milani as his assailant. or 34,788 more than In the first eight months of 1959. August, however, was down from 324,376 in 1959 to 313,556 in 1960. Black Hills Passion Play With the last performances due Thursday night and Sunday eve ning, the Black Hills Passion Play is nine per cent lower in I960 attendance. Badlands National Monument Travel started dropping on Aug.

17 and was oil 11,603 for the month this year compared with the same period in 1959. For the year to date. Badlands travel is still 1.82 per cent above 1959 with 697,521 visitors in the first eight months of 1960. Black Hills and Badlands Association Manager Paul Besselievre reports a 10 per cent decline in tourist travel this year. Rapid City tourist information booth Mrs.

Forrest May. lomssieqaei The late Dr. Francis E. Town- send was Just a very busy country doctor when he lived in the northern Black Hills. There was little about him to suggest his later fame except perhaps a quiet air of determination.

He arrived in Belle Fourche, coming from Omaha, in 1906. Belle Fourche at the time was little more than a prairie cow town and the doctor's practice was spread wide over portions of Wyoming, Montana and South Dakota. His arrival was quiet and almost unheralded. He assumed the practice cf the late Dr. L.

J. Townsend, longtime Belle physician, who was going abroad to take a post-graduate course. Despite bearing the same sur name the Townsends were apparently not closely related. The elder man refused to admit a relation ship and Dr. Francis Townsend admitted they might be 42nd cousins.

In 1906 a small hospital, the first in the town, was established over a drug store, and a nurse, Mrs. Minnie Bogue of Omaha, was en ticed to take charge of the facility. Described as a woman with a pleasing personality and an ef ficient manner, she took care of patients many times when both the Doctors Townsend were out in the prairie on business. Mrs. Bogue and Dr.

Francis Townsend were married on Oct. 30, 1906. She died in Los Angeles in 1951. About 1910 when the Orman Dam was being built north of Belle Fourche and the rosy sun of irrigation was rising, Dr. Townsend filed on a homestead a mile north of Nisland on the Belle Fourche River.

The farm, now under irri gation, is still known as the Dr. Townsend homestead. The family lived in Nisland during the farming period. As was the experience or inex perience of so many of the early-day irrigator-farmers, the doctor didn't make money but lost it. In later years he used to admit that "that was cattle country and it never should have been used for anything else.

I guess I lost all my money there. And the ranch broke everyone that lived on it." The Townsends left the northern Black Hills in 1919 for California after hard work, exposure and other factors had hospitalized the Who Fired Last Shot POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) A man known locally as the gunner who fired the last shot in World War II will be buried here Tuesday. Earl Harry Minshew, 47, a painter, was killed Wednesday when he fell from a scaffold at the Atomic Energy Commission's national reactor testing station north of Pocatello, Minshew was a member of a twin gun crew on the USS Con cord. The gun which fired the final salvo on Aug 12. 1945.

is nrixprvprt in ha Philndplnhla na val yard. State Asks Drought Mi For Five Area Counties Hills Full Of People, Bui They're idan Lake is overcrowded and Death Cl2lfflS uURi1r Grizzly Bear camp ground HURON fl) The state drought committee Thursday recommend ed disaster designations for five West River counties so they may get emergency feed to meet drought conditions. The committee also clarified a point about two of the counties, Lawrence and Butte, that had come up In Gov. Ralph Herseth news conference this week. Carl Shaefer, committee chairman, said there had been a misimder-standing.

The committee drought rec ommendations, in addition to Lawrence and Butte, were for Fall River, Custer and Ziebach. The committee said requests for the disaster assistance had been received from each of the counties and that need had been confirmed in visits by committee members. The emergency request will go to Gov. Herseth and then to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which has final word.

"There appears to be a misunderstanding in previous reports that the drought committee had recommended and received ap proval on Butte and Lawrence lcounties." Shaefer said, I Shaefer said the misunderstand By ED NICIEJEWSKI Journal Staff Writer All those campers filling the Black Hills and Badlands through the summer months are not tourists says the U.b. Forest service office in Custer. An increase in camping, economics, state of world af fairs and boats catch the brunt of criticism for a drop off this year in Black Hills tourism. There's little doubt among most operators that tourist business has fallen off in 1960. How much is anybody's guess, but there are plenty of guessers.

Some reliable indicators are: Mount Rushmore So far in 1960 the national shrine of democ- 'racy has hosted 823,441 persons Mount Rushmore fills up early each afternoon. Grizzly Bear is the only ground considered mod ern in the Black Hills. Pactola campgrounds are running at 98 per cent of capacity. There is a "tremendous" amount of Black Hills people who get away from it all on weekends by camping, the ser vice reports. Even the most re mote spots are getting heavy usage.

Frank Sylvester, superinten dent at the Badlands, said camp ing (including tents and trailers) (Page 2, Column 7) i.