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"■ ................ , - ATerage Dail^ Net P^'ess Run The Weatbet ^ ' rofeeeot of O. •» Woitl^ For tbo Week Ended Dec. Id, I960 n . bvob|^ wtMid^ o n in w — - - ^ nigbt, ooMer. Lour Moo ' do 'I f 13,318 above. Tneodny'; bmoMst Bif* ' Bfenlwr of tto Audit ttaned bitter eoML IDghaiitarlfk Biummi of drenlntloa Mancheiier-^4 CUy of VUlage Chorm JL. 4 - (ClnedflM AdvortW ag on Fame id ) PRICE FIVE CENTS VOL. L X X X , NO. 61 (EIGHTEEN PAGES) MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1960 Blizzard Buries New East Kennedy Names Dean Rusk Secretary of State Bowles Oets Post, Drifts Clog Roads, Adlai Goes to UN Cities Immobilized Palm Beach, Fla., Dec. 12fgreate*t Americans,” and also (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) praised Bowles warmly. A gale-swept blizzard covered southern New England with — President-elect John F. Rusk said the present age is one Kennedy today picked Dean more than a foot of snow today knocking out air and » i l of rapid and revolutionary change, transportation, closing schools and businesses and leaving Busk, head of the Rockefeller but added that there need be no Foundation, to be his secre­ fear'of the changes. thousands of stalled automobiles in drift-filled highways. At least 20 persons died as a result of the winter’s first tary of state. The United States, he added, Kennedy also announced at a caimot be likened to a cork tossed snowstorm. news ccmference the appointment about otr the wave*. Tlie weatherman said the storm will taper off during th« of Adlai Stevenson as ambMsador In response to a question, Ken­ afternoon, with clear, near-zero weather to follow. to the United Nations. nedy said he met Rusk for the Biting winds and temperatures around 10 above zero added And he named Rep. Chester first time last week. - Bowles, D-Conn;, as undersecretary Rusk arrived at Kennedy’s ocean to the suffering of pedestrians wlio had to go out of doors. of state. front home last evening, but there Gale warnings w’ere displayed from Cape Hatteras to East* The three appointments were an­ port, Maine. nounced bv the President-elect on (Continued on Page Seventeen) Drifts 20 inches high covered part of Logan International the patio of his Atlantic shore home. Airport, with all service halted. The Boston & Maine and Rusk, a Democrat who served New Haven railroads canceled all trains by mid-moming. as an assistant secretary of state Jobless Totals The Hillsgrove, R. I., Weather Bureau called it the worst In the Truman administration, was early season storm since record keeping began 56 years ago. at his side, Stevenson and Bowles Most of Block Island, R. I., wa8<*> --------- were not present. Kennedy offered the U.N. Am­ Highest Sincej left without electric power as the ^ bassadorship to Stevenson, the 1952 wind reached 77 miles an .hour, and 1958 Democratic presidential ripping down lines and piling up to u r Die nominee, last week. But Stevenson Days of 1930sj huge drifts. asked for time to think it over— Providence, R. I., reported com­ apparently wanting to know firstr Washington, Dec. 12 (fl*) — U n-! merce was at a virtual halt. who would be secretary of state. employment topped four million in 1 Boston department stores were As Storm The announcement of Stevenson’s November— the highest idle figure j open generally with skeleton staffs appointment meant, therefore, that for the month since depression 1 --but there was little Christmas he was willing to serve under j days of the 30s. The number at j shopping being done. Rusk. The New York Weather Bureau Hits State work was also a record. 4 I said today’s blizzard snowfall is Rusk. 51. l.s a native of Georgia The government reported today and a Presbyterian. He ha.s been the second heaviest December By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS that job changes between October storm in Its records. head of the Rockefeller Foundation and November were mainly sea­ A wild snowstorm, the first of ■ for nine years. The biggest—25.6 inches—f611 sonal except for a further decline Dec. 26. 1947. The following the season, caused at least foiur Kenned.v, reading a prepared of 150,000 in factory emplo>’ment. deaths as it whipped across Con­ statement, said Rusk w’ould bring year there was a 16.6 inch fall necticut today and left the state to the new administration and his These are November flgpires: on Dec. 19. smothered under a traffic-snarling particular position a long record Employment — down by 300,000. i The present fall had hit 17 Inch­ blanket. es by noon and more was expected. of ability in the field of foreign The totals were 67,490,000 in A 13-year-old boy in Waterbury, The crippling snowstorm raged affairs. October as compared with 67,- an epileptic missing from his home The President-elect mentioned 182,000 in November. The Novem­ over most of the Elastern Sea­ since last night, was foun(i in a ilctald Photo by Ofinra board snarling ship, air and high­ specifically Rusk's former associa­ ber total is still a record for the snowbank near his home. Authori­ tion with the State Department. month, despite the declinejtii The Center didn’t look the same today. Traffic unpark it, however. Center Congregational Churcli way travel, closing schools and ties said the boy, John Shea, had On the new administration’s for­ Unemployment — up i(j(o,000. wasn’t whizzing around the rotary and it was easy loqked hazy through the falling snow. Winter’s first plants and paralyzing entire com­ frozen to death. eign policy, Kennedy said he hoped The totals were 3,579.000 in Octo­ to find a place to park your car. It ■wasn’t so easy to punch at Manchester was a knockout blowi munities. And in Redding Center, Stephen that it will become generally identi-, ber apd 4.031,000.. in Noyeiniss,..,,.^ Scheduled morning meetings of F. Fuchs, about 60, a nunwry fled with the concept of being'“ for The rate of unemployment de­ the U.N. Assembly and t^e Gen­ worker, collapeed and died of a freedom.” and not simply anti­ clined slightly from 6.4 per cent In eral Committee were canceled by heart attack while ehoveling snow. communist. October to 6.3 per cent in Novem­ General Alarm New York’s heavy snow, but some Fuchs was described es en itiner­ Rusk told the news conference ber, but the Labor Department State News Highest Court Bars other meetings went on. ant worker of uncertain address. he is accepting ” a compelling and said the change wa.s insignificant. In Chesapeake Bay the freighter, The storm played havoc with sober responsibility.” Fire Sweeps Edgar Hogshire, with 11 persons morning commuter travel. Cars He called Stevenson ‘‘one of our (Conrintird on Page Ten) Roundup aboard was grounded as the rag^ were abandoned by motorists. ing snowstorm struck Maryland Driving conditions were hazardous. Mystic Block Teachers’ Affidavits In full iorce. Three men were Visibility was poor. rescued and a fourth presumed Pratt & Whtlney Aircraft an­ drowned In a separate rescue oper­ nounced this afternoon that second Mystic, Dec. 12 (/P)—A general Traveler Home Washington, Dec. 12 (JF) — ’Thc^state's legitimate Inquiry into the ation in the bay during the stonn. shifts in all Its plants in the state Laos Rightists Move alarm fire roared along both sides had been canceled. As of 2 p.m . Supreme Court today struck down fitness pn<-l ■•'etency of its The Edgar Hogshire was driven of a block of Mystic’s East Main At Proper Time into 8 feet of water by 5-to-6 foot plfuis were to operate the third as too broad an Arkansas law re­ cachers,” he said. St. early this morning, leveling Stewart <a,. .v.ntcd that the seas running in the face of 30 knot shifts. 10 BtorM and business houses. quiring public school teachers to Most schools wCre ordered New Haven, Dec. 12 iJ P )— Arkansas law is so broad it re­ winds that swept the storm across To Cut Pro-Red Rule Firemen fought the flames as a make annual affidavits listing or­ quires a teacher to reveal the Maryland piled snow up to 18 closed, giving youngsters an un­ Harold W. Helfrich returned expected holiday. State offices wild snowstorm hit the state. ganizations to which they have be­ church to which he belongs, or to inches. The first alarm was turned in a few days ago from three which he has given financial sup­ were shut down for the day. Many longed or contributed in the last 'The blizzard delayed the open­ scheduled gatherings and meetings Rangoon, Burma, Dec. 12 m — ^Ihe aMemblymen and possibly at about 12:30 a.m. At 3 a.m. fire weeks in Antarctica. port, and requires him to disclose ing of the New York Stock Ex­ officials said they had apparently Today he had his problems with five years. his political party and every po­ were canceled. Rangoon’s biggest English lan­ even King Vathama himself if th- change and the American Stock curbed the blaze. However, they Connecticut weather. Justice Stewart delivered the 5-4 litical organization to which he Traffic tieups were comnaxm- guage paper, 'Hie Nation, today king comes out against the Vien­ Exchange in New York and closed place. All available highway crews tiane "regime. kept more than 50 hoses pumping Helfrich. regfional editor of the decision. Justice Harlan wrote a may have contributed. government offices in |Washington frontpaged reports of fighting water on the ruins and other near­ New Haven Register, started to dissent in which Justices Frank­ "It requires him to ILsI.

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