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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1962 THE PADUCAH SUN- DEMOCRAT SIX- A Developments In Cuba Crisis Listed Oct. 24 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Here are the major developments in the Cuban crisis: State Department officials reported that Argentina, Honduras and Costa Rica have offered help to U.S. naval forces in the guarrantining of arms shipments to Cuba proclaimed by President Kennedy Tuesday night effective today. Two hours after effective time of the blockade, Defense the Department it had, no reports of "any ship interceptions. The Soviet Foreign Ministry sent back to the U.S.

Embassy in Moscow a copy of Kennedy's quarantine proclamation. Observers in Moscow said the action amounted to a Soviet rejection of the U.S. blockade. Later, however the Soviets asked for the copy back. of students demonstrated at the Moscow U.S.

Embassy, but police dispersed them after several bottles of ink were thrown at the building. Canadian officials searched a Cubana Airlines plane at Goose Bay, Labrador, but cleared it to continue to Cuba with two East German missile experts and five Czech technicians. The plane was delayed several hours. Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, called an emergency meeting Washington of the Civil Defense Committee of the 'Governors Conference.

McNamara Secretary of told a Defense news Roberterence that about 25 Soviet ships are moving toward Cuba, approaching ports of island. He said it would be a "fair pressumption" that some are carrying offensive weapons. Early today the Navy radioed a warning merchant ships that passages near Cuba may become hazardous to the blockade. Congressional leaders, scheduled to confer with the President Alonzo Barnett President Of Group In Forest Hills Alonzo Barnett was, president of Forest Hills Community Club at an organizational meeting held Tuesday evening in the community house. Other officers elected were Mrs.

Gene Booth, vice president; Carl Burnett, treasurer; Mrs. Phyllis Cissell, secretary and Mrs. Frank Miller, trustee. Planned activities, especially for the youth of the area, will be held weekly at the club house. The following Halloween parties are scheduled: Adult costume party, Saturday at 7 p.m.

Intermediate group, Monday, Oct. 29 from 6 to 9 p.m. Pictures Of Girl's Body Ruled Out BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) Nat U. Hill ruled today colored slides of 11-year-old Avril Terry's dismembered body cannot be shown to the jury trying Emmett O.

Hashfield. Judge Hill sustained a defense objection to the showing of the slides by the state. Other slides previously shown to the jury dealt with the area where the girl's body was found. The defense objected violently Tuesday to introduction of the slides as evidence. One of the slides showed the seven parts of the little girl's body pieced together in relative positions after they were taken from the Ohio River.

Defense attorney Ferdinand Samper called it "the most sad*stic picture I've ever seen." Samper said introduction of the picture would be grounds for a mistrial. The other one was similar, showing the upper parts of body. Sgt. Wayne Stalcup, a state police veteran, choked and fought back tears as he indentified the slide showing the parts of the body. The jury was hurried out of the courtroom.

He testified also that the bent position of the girl's fingers and fingernails indicated then had clawed her attacker. introduced pictures state previously showing scratches on various parts of Hashfield's body shortly after he was arrested. Hashfield, 55-year-old Boonville trinketmaker, is accused of killing the little girl in August, 1960. Her body was found the day after her disappearance, at the edge of the Ohio River in Spencer County. late today; expressed belief a full-, scale military action may be needed wipe out the Cuban missile threat.

The Defense Department acted to bolster the nation's military extending. Navy and Marine enlistments' and tours of manpower, duty, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel called the President's blockade the act of a pirate and declared that anyone who tries to carry out inspection of Cuba "had better come ready for U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stev- Col. Riley Commander Of ROTC Col.

William Wayne Riley, Murray State College senior, has been named commander of the Murray State College ROTC Brigade, Col. Lance E. Booth, professor of military science at the, college, announced. Riley, son of Mrs. Daisy Roberts of Mayfield, was awarded the Gold Medal last year as the outstanding student in military science.

The selection was made on the basis of character, leadership, military proficiency and scholastic standing. Upon graduation in January he will receive a Bachelor of Science degree. enson' urged the U.N, Security Council to act on Cuba now and halt what he called "piecemeal aggression" by the Soviet Union. In turn, the Soviet Union's Valerian A. Zorin assailed the blockade as bringing the world to the brink of thermonuclear war.

Cuba's U.N. representative, Mario Garcia-Inchaustegui, rejected a U.S. proposal that U.N. observers be sent to Cuba to investigate U.S. charges.

Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower told a Republican rally at Gettysburg, that the nation should support the President in the crisis but added: "We do not have to support him when he speaks or acts as head of a political party; and indeed we do not." Latin-American republics of the Organization of American States overwhelmingly approved the U.S. arms blockade, demanded withdrawal of offensive weapons from Cuba and endorsed use of force if needed. Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, Italian Premier Amintore Fanfani and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer threw their full support behind the United States. France's President Charles de Gaulle reported to have sent Kennedy" a message, expressing support and predicting the Soviet Union would not go to war.

Wall Street jitters brought a wave of what was termed as "scare selling" giving the stock market. its worst beating in more than four months. Plans Completed Expanded Art Fiesta Will Be Held Here Saturday By HENRY GOODMAN Sun-Democrat Staff Writer Plans have been completed for the Paducah Art Fiesta to begin Saturday. The annual street show is sponsored by the merchants of Paducah and is conducted under the auspices of the art department of the Woman's Club. The Art Fiesta this year has been greatly expanded over the 1961 presentation.

There will be 79 full window entries against the 50 of last year. The 1962 program has also been enlarged to include McCracken County schools. Student artists participating in the program are instructed to report to their assigned window promptly at 9 a.m. Saturday and begin work immediately. Block supervisors will be on the scene to oversee the entire project from start to finish.

Teen-age group, Wednesday, Oct. 31, -from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Refreshments will be served and prizes for the best costumes will be awarded at each party. The next scheduled meeting for Forest Hills Community Club will be held November 13. When all windows are finished, show judges will award ribbons in each division in the show.

One purple ribbon will go to the best painting in the entire show. A blue, red, and white ribbon will. be awarded to each grade from six to 12. Each grade, in effect, constitutes a complete division in the show. Paintings cannot, exceed seven feet from the bottom of the window.

A masking tape divider should be placed across the window to enforce this rule. The entire window area within the picture must be painted; all blank spaces in the completed picture count against the artist in the judging. Students will leave a small number in the lower right corner of the window to designate his grade in school. No other identifying mark is permitted to appear on the painting. Artists should come to Paducah Saturday morning dressed in old clothes, and bringing a supply for the day's work.

Supplies should include paints, brushes, some small containers, and other supplies given to them at school to use in the painting. Schools sending classes of artlists to the Fiesta will be: Paducah Tilghman, Lincoln High, Academy, Jetton Jr. High, Brazelton Jr. High, Franklin Jr. High, St.

Thomas More, 1 Southside, Northside, Farley, Hendron, Lone Oak, For. restdale, West Paducah, Woodland, Freemont, Lone Oak High, Reidland High and Heath High. Store windows to be painted In Saturday's show are: Drivers, Perry's, John Green Dollar Store, Walgreens. Watkins, Weille's; Austin's Drug Store, Baynham Shoe Store, Bright's, J. C.

Penney, Rosenfield's, Michael Hardware, Rhodes Furniture, Wallersteins, Hank Hardware, John Green, Little Big Dollar Store, Blackhawk Bakery; Cardinal Beverage, Top Value Redemption Store, Cardinal Lanes and Coffee Shop, Paducah Laundry, Moyers Barber Shop, Holiday Inn, Home Federal Loan Association, Rogers Jewelry Store, Kresge Paducah Cut Rate Drugs, Jean's, Grant's, West Kentucky Mattress (at old Sears location); Pittsburgh Paints, Owen Cleaners, (two), Woolworth's, Bradshaw Gatlin and and Weil, Cohrs, Bazzar and Art, Bob McKeown Office Equipment, Wilsons Cardinal Book Rexall, Store, Sears Lowe Brothers Paint Store, Ben Franklin, Fashion Bar, Kroger, Nagel and Mey. ers and Steppe Beauty Shop. Window sponsors include: General Tire of West Kentucky, The Paducah Bank, WPAD, WDXR, WKYB, Paducah Sun-Democrat Citizens Bank, Peoples Bank, Pepsi-Cola, Coca-Cola, Royal Crown Cola, Cole Lumber Cabana Lanes, Peaks Drive-In Restaurant and Boswell's Restaurant. Block supervisors hive been assigned and the list includes: Cardinal Point and Holiday InnMrs. Cissell.

Pat McCulloch and Mrs. Phyliss Sears and Woolworth's Mrs. Lela Scopes and Mrs. Mary Howell. Broadway between 4th and 5th, Rhodes Burford, Gatlin and Chors, Howard D.

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443-2467 Seelye Makes Appeal For Tap, Ballet Teacher Recreation Director Art Seelye is looking for persons capable of teaching tap and ballet. Requests for such instruction are increasing, Seelye said, and "we're without enough instructors to meet the requests." The instruction would be on a part-time basis after school persons are asked to call the recreation center, 442-3861. Bulgaria On Alert SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) Communist Bulgaria announced today a general battle readiness, alert for its armed forces. The alert was imposed in compliance with orders Tuesday from the Communist Warsaw Pact command to increase preparedness of armed forces of all member nations. The Bulgarian I nouncement gave no details on the measures.

Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, East Germany and Poland are also members of the Warsaw Pact, but have not yet announced their alert. G. L. Moorman Wins High Rifle Award Gilbert L. Moorman a member of the varsity rifle team at Culver Military Academy, has won the Expert Rifleman medal, second highest award in American qualification shooting.

He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert L. Moorman, former residents of Paducah. Mr.

Moorman was manager of the S. S. Kresge store here. They now live in Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. Deta From U.S.

WEATHER BUREAU FORECAST Thursday Morning Figured Show Law Temperatures Expected WEATHER FORECAST Scattered snow flurries are indicated for the Great Lakes area tonight. Continued cool weather is forecast for the Plateau region and from the Ohio and Mississippi valleys to the Atlantic coast. It will be warmer in the southern Rockies and the Pacific northwest. -(AP Wirephoto Map) Forecast Will Saturday Bunchman and Mrs. Virginia Smith.

Overall Supervisor and Owen Clean-Mrs. Martha Ann Metzger and 'Mrs. Rubye Lackey. WESTERN and SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY: Mostly cloudy and not as cold tonight, with a low of 38 to 42. Thursday decreasing and colder with high in the upper 60s.

TENNESSEE Clear to partly cloudy through Thursday. Quite cool tonight. A little warmer Thursday. Lows tonight 32 to 38 scattered frost. Murray College High Student Is Beta Candidate Norre Winter of Murray College: High School has been nominated by the First District Beta Club Assembly for the vice presidency of the state Beta Club organization.

The election will be at the state Beta convention in Louisville in December. There are 27 chapters of the Beta Club in the First District representing several Western Kentucky counties. The Louisville convention is the only annual meeting at which members of the Beta Club from all of Kentucky get together to elect state officers. Ballard Children's Council, Lions Of Kevil Will Meet A joint meeting of the Ballard County Council for Retarded Children and the Kevil Lions Club, sponsors of the organization, will be held on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Kevil School auditorium.

Gordon Huff, executive director of the Kentucky Association for Retarded Children, will be present and will show a film. All parents, teachers and relatives of retarded children are urged to attend this information meeting. Kennedy Tells Cabinet To Keep Out Of Politics Oct. 24 WASHINGTON (AP)-President Kennedy has told his Cabinet to lay off political campaigning during the Cuban crisis, the White House announced today. Press secretary Pierre Salinger said Kennedy felt that in the current times it would be better i if members of his Cabinet, who first of all are needed in Washington, would not participate in the congressional campaigns.

Several Cabinet members have spoken in behalf of candidates. Officials Fail To Find Postal Loot In Home WEYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) Federal, officials almost conceded literally failure taking apart $18,000 ranch home in an search for most of $1.5 million stolen Aug. 14 in the Plymouth, mail robbery. Thomas R.

Richards, 37 a World War II Navy veteran who Sturgis Man Killed In Mine Blast STURGIS, Ky. (AP)-One man was killed Tuesday in an explosion at a coal 'mine near here. Another 100 hurried to the surface and escaped injury. Hours after the early morning blast, rescuers found the bod; of Richard Farmer, 34, Sturgis. He was a safety inspector who checked the mine before work crews entered.

The other men were in a separate section when the blast ripped through an unused portion of the mine about 700 feet underground. The mine is at DeKoven, about four miles west of Sturgis. A fire caused by the explosion continued to burn through the day. Cause of the blast was not determined immediately. Hundreds of police, miners and state and federal inspectors combed the mine before Farmer's body was found.

He is survived by his widow. Reds Refuse To Accept Proclamation Oct. 24 MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Foreign Ministry today sent back to the U.S. Embassy a copy of President Kennedy's proclamation of an arms quarantine against Cuba, the Soviet news agency Tass reported. The embassy had delivered the document to the Foreign Ministry this morning.

The Tass account did not give any reason for the return of the document but it said: "The Soviet government pointed out in its statement of Oct. 23 that these aggressive measures constitute a crude violation of inI ternational law, the United Nations charter and a threat to universal peace." Massac Memorial Hospital Notes broken back in the fall Tuesday. PRICE BLAST! ON RCA VICTOR COLOR T.V. NOW ONLY $588 000 w.O.T.' $72500 Formerly This is a beautiful 1963, full console, in genuine mahogany. When selecting your Color TV set don't forget RCA VICTOR'S 8 YEARS The DRUMMOND RCA of unmatched experience Special Series 213-G-22-M in Color Television! 260 sq.

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Cassie Speckman, Metropolis; Mrs. Annie Gamble, Metropolis; Nancy Bradford, Joppa; Mrs. Robert Stoner and infant, Metropolis. Otis McCormick, 38, Dies; Rites Held bought the home in December 1958, was missing. There was no warrant for Richards' arrest on any.

charge. Massachusetts State Police canceled a pickup order for him without explanation. Instead of the expected dollars, "more or as the search warrant described it, the all-day search yielded $330-thirty. three $10 bills hidden fastened to the cellar ceiling against the plumbing. The bills could not be identified as stolen.

Other finds included a 12-gauge shotgun and a .45 caliber automatic pistol, stamped "U.S. property." Workmen with pneumatic drills tore up a 20x10-foot concrete patio in the back yard. A power shovel cleared the loose concrete and dug six feet into the fill: With crowbars, electric drills and saws, 30 federal men-postal inspectors and U.S. marshallsripped up floor boards, cut holes in walls, tore away shingles and sidings. Federal officials declined to discuss responsibility for repairs to the house.

Richards, an electrician, was at work Tuesday morning on a construction job at Somerset, outside Fall River, when postal inspectors left a message telling him to come home. Richards left the job about 9:30 a.m. but did not return home. Weather Normal In Cuba Area WASHINGTON (AP) The weather in the. Florida-Bahama area, where part of the Cuban arms quarantine enforcement fleet presumably was operating, was neither good nor bad today.

Seas were normal for this season, with about three-foot waves. predictions of possible Proclamation thunderstorms, seriously ham- but per ship operation. Mrs. LeNeave, 73, Dies; Rites Held MARION, Oct. 24 Mrs.

Alma LeNeave, 73, died at 9:15 p.m. Monday at Crittenden County Hospital. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m., today at Hunt Funeral Home with the Rev. Victor Hunt officiating. Survivors include two brothers, Frank Hunt, Marion, and Jodie Hunt, Lincoln Park, two stepsons, Porter LeNeave, Miami, and Dock: LeNeave, Marion, and three stepdaughters, Mrs.

Fannie Coleman, Marion Rt. 5, and Mrs. Alma Travis and Mrs. Iva Christian, both of Evansville. Burial was in Sugar Grove Cemetery.

Worker Survives Six-Story Fall RICHMOND, Ky. (AP)-Edward Ginter, 26, was listed in 'satisfactory condition after falling six floors from a dormitory under construction at Eastern Kentucky State College. Ginter, a Clay City construction worker, suffered a PRINCETON, Oct. 24-Otis McCormick, 38, of Crider, died Monday night at his home after a lengthy illness. Funeral services were held at 2 p.

m. today at Morgan Funeral Home with the Rev. Henry Rowland and the. Rev. James Duncan officiating.

Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Frances McCormick; son, Otis Earl McCormick; two daughters, Mrs. Vivian Morse, Princeton, and Miss Louise McCormick; two brothers, Jesse and James McCormick, both of Evansville, and five sisters, Mrs. Minerva Bryant, Winfall, Mrs. Bessie Broshears, Mrs.

Christine Young and Mrs. Etta Weaver, all of Princeton, and Mrs. Dorothy Wade, Bell Glade, Fla. Burial was in Princeton Memorial Gardens. READ THE WANT ADS DAILY THERE'S A MAN IN THIS TOWN YOU SHOULD KNOW Russell W.

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