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313 12 PAGES THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MONTGOMERY, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1958 UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL KNAL j5d D3 TD DTI ID OH (Q Sale of Parks By City Board Held Possible Leasing 'Out Officials Say, Study Continues By EUGENE KOVARIK Journal Staff Writer ft TllQOD i The proposed leasing of city parks was apparently ruled out today, but the scene was left f. if. -X I A -if Et take a hot bath and don bright new kimonos to greet their favor ite holiday. It's the end of "The IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE! David Collins, son of Mr. and Mrs.

L. R. Collins. 446 Burton came through in good shape for the Alabama Journal today. He was having his picture taken for 1959.

Look at the seat of his diapers! The young lady applying the touch was Miss Shari Lang, daughter of Lt. Col and Mrs. D. V. Booty of Maxwell AFB.

(Journal Staff Photo by Dick Boone.) Montgomerians Drop Cares ToJoininNew Year Toasts Tonight is the night Montgom-I And. for the weather old debts, get their hair fixed BATISTA BOYS FLEE CUBA Two young sons of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, Roberto at left and Carlos Manuel at right, arrived at Idlewild Airport, New York, yesterday from Havana. They were accompanied by their grandfather. The reason for the trip was not immediately known, but Cuban rebels claim the imminent overthrow of the Batista government. (AP Wirephoto).

it is supposed to rain tonight, Year of the Rooster" and the be- Government losses were not in-ginning of "The Year of the Wild dicated but one informant said the Integration Drive Faces Stiff Fight DITD: Invite Russia To Enter Into 'Unity' Talks Nikita Proposal Is Denounced As 'Violation' By JOHN SCALI WASHINGTON (AP) The Western Big Three called on the Soviet Union today to discuss the entire German problem, including Berlin's future, at a new four- power conference. They rejected firmly any such talks under menace or ultimatum. In similar notes, the United States, Britain and France: 1. Flatly rejected Premier Ni kita Khrushchev's proposal to turn west Berlin into a so-called free city. 2.

Denounced as a violation of international agreements Khrushchev's announced plan to turn over Soviet controls in East Berlin to tne East Germans. 3. Served notice the three Allies intend to keep their forces in West Berlin to protect the freedom and security of the more than two mil lion West Berliners. U. S.

READY In offering to talk over the Ger man deadlock, the United States said in a note that it is "ready at any time to enter into discussions with the Soviet government." The note emphasized that the proposed talks would not be on the Berlin problem alone, but should embrace "the wider framework of negotiations for a solution of the German problem as well as that of European security." (See BERLIN, Page 2-A) 'Rights' Brief Filed by State A representative of Atty. Gen. John Patterson filed a 74-paga brief in U. S. District Court here today presenting the arguments for Circuit Judge George C.

Wallace and five Alabama registrars. The brief was filed by E. L. Rinehart, recently appointed to Patterson's cabinet, at 9:30 a.m., just 30 minutes aherd of the 10 a.m. deadline set by District Judge Frank M.

Johnson Jr. HEARING JAN. 5 Judge Johnson has set a hearing on Jan. 5 for Wallace and the five registrars on their motion to set aside an earlier court order to appear before the Civil Rights Commission. Rinehart said the brief lists Patterson as attorney appearing; on behalf of all six respondents, and in addition lists former Gov.

Chauncey Sparks as attorney for Judge Wallace. Also named on the brief is Bir mingham attorney Joseph F. John ston, on behalf of the Alabama Stat Bar. OTHERS NAMED The brief lists Rinehart and Ralph Smith, legal adviser to Patterson, as counsel for the state, and J. Asa Rountree III and Drayton T.

Scott as counsel for the State Bar. Johnston, Rountree and Scott are ail members of the Birmingham law firm of Cabiniss and Johnston, credited by Rinehart with doing "a great deal of work" in preparing the brief. 10 IP eral suits at once to establish a general pattern of faulty admin istration under the placement law. Both Meadows and Robison ex pressed surprise at King's state ment yesterday. But Bruce Wyatt.

chairman of the Montgomery Citizens Council, said his organization has "known about it for some time and nas been preparing to meet it." Wyatt issued a prepared stare ment labeling the Negro olin as an attempt to "break down peace and order, and to create condi tions conducive to violence." Predicting that the attempt to integrate Montgomery schools will fail, Wyatt's statement said Ne groes should accept as tinal the recent Supreme Court decision up holding Alabama's placement law. NEGRO PLEA REJECTED The court, ruling on the general validity of the law, last (See INTEGRATION, Page 2-A) Atlas Broadcasts 1959 Greetings HINESVILLE, Ga. The nation's orbiting Atlas satellite is broadcasting New Year's greet ings to men of the armed services. Brig. Gen.

Erie H. F. Svensson, commander of Ft, Stewart, Ga recorded the message that was sent to the satellite by the Ft Stewart tracking station. The message was left with the satellite so any of the three other tracking stations could receive it. They can also erase it and trans mit a message of their own.

The 150-word voice of Teletype message was received back by Ft. Stewart trackers three times before the big Atlas moved out of range. Midnight will be greeted in, many ways by many people as it moves around the globe ushering in another year. Undaunted by year's broken resolutions, few will overlook an opportunity to turn away awhile from today's black headlines and hope 1959 will bring brighter ones. AULD LANG SYNE There'll be fireworks atop Pike's Peak, a bonfire in Bangor, Maine, musket fire in Cherryville, N.C., and somewhere in the land there may be a chorus or two of "Auld Lang Syne" and jerhaps even "Shew Me the Way to go Home." In Tokyo, the Japanese are planning the biggest New Year's celebration since the end of World with similar repercussions War II.

They will pay off their! (See NEW YEAR, Page 2-A) Loyalists Say Rebels Routed In Santa Clara Insurgents Driven Eastward in Cuba, Havana Reports By LARRY ALLEN HAVANA. Cuba (AP) Army forces today smashed a rebel attempt to capture Santa Clara in central Cuba and are driving the insurgents eastward, the govern ment said. Rebel broadcasts conceded that the fighting now had moved north and east of that city controlling highways from Havana to eastern Cuba. Fighters, bombers, artillery, tanks, armored cars and infantry were reported attacking rebels everywhere in Las Villas prov-! ince, of which Santa Clara is the capital. A rebel broadcast said forces in the town of Cruces just west of Santa Clara "are no longer able to resist in the face of attacks by tanks." CASUALTIES HEAVY "There are numerous dead and wounded," the broadcast added.

Government sources put rebel casualties in the furious street-bystreet fighting in Santa Clara at 3,000 killed or wounded. Government sources asserted aerial attacks alone had inflicted 2.000 casualties on the rebels. army was killing three rebels for every soldier lost. Prime Minister Gonzalo Guell told newsmen after a conference with President Fulgencio Batista that the rebels had been smashed at Santa Clara. "ALL GOING WELL" He said "all is going well and our troops are pushing toward Camaguey province," which lies between Las Villas and Oriente the rebel stronghold at the eastern end of the island.

The rebels appeared to be in a bad way. One rebel commander was heard radioing urgently for reinforcements. The government is known to outnumber the rebels in Las Villas. Warplanes gunned rebels hold in out in Trinidad, in southern Las Villas, and in other sectors of eastern and northeastern Las Villas. (See CUBA, Page 2-A) Patterson 'In' On Park Closing, Mayor Discloses A meeting with Jonn Patterson preceded the city move to close the public parks here.

Mayor W. A. Gayle 1 closed today. The mayor said the City Com mission met with the 'nconung governor Monday morning at the State Capitol, but he declined to give the details or the talks. Gayle merely said "we had a conference" and the subject of the park closing was the reason why the meeting was called.

MacDonald Galhon, the incom ing attorney general, alsi at tended the meeting, along with the city's legal staff. signs, ordered from Birmingham were to be placed by the City Traffic Department. They were to tell everyone the park is closed! Picnics, tennis, rides on the amusement devices, family gatherings in the pavilions these things were about ready to join Oak Park's swimming pool, closed since 1954. The scene at the city's 12 other parks, eight for whites and four for Negroes, was virtually the ssme. BARRICADES BEGUN Two workmen arrived early this morning at the Lake street side of Oak Park and hastily started con structing a crude barricade across a road leading into it.

Other entrances remained open, but 1 a few vehicles, mostly city-owned, passed through them. A police vehicle used in trans-(See PALL, Page 2-A) wide open for their possible sale. Mayor W. A. Gayle said that legally the public parks could not be leased out to an individual.

firm or association. He cited a case in Richmond where a public park was leased to a private group, and the U. S. Supreme Court held it as "unconstitutional." In that particular case, the city was or dered to integrate the parks, but the city leased a park to a pri vate group to avoid racemixing. COULD AUCTION However, the mayor reiterated the commission's previous stand that the parks could be placed on the "auction block.

The mayor said that they could be sold at a "fair evaluation" but declined to elaborate. Commissioner Frank W. Parks said the commission has not been contacted by any group in terested in buying the park sites, but it is generally known a Baptist group expressed a desire to purchase the Oak Park site to build a hospital. T. A.

Belser. superintendent of the City Parks and Recreation Department, said a meeting will be called with the City Commission in the near future to outline definite plans. A resolution ordering the closing of all white and Negro parks was passed unanimously by commissioners yesterday. It becomes effective tomorrow and will remain in effect "until further notice." NO HEARING SET The city officials carried out their avowed closing of public parks, getting the jump on a possible court order to integrate them. Eight Negroes filed suit in federal court Dec.

22 demanding use of the white parks. No hearing has been set. The meeting between the Parks end Recreation Board and the (See PARKS. Page 2-A Major Denies Leave Threat PARRIS ISLAND. SC.

(AP A Marine Corps major denied today that members of an Ohio re cruit platoon were told their home leave would be delayed unless they gave statements damaging to their former drill instructor. The instructor. Sgt. Ralph Grant. 26.

of Racine. is on trial at this Marine training base before a general court-martial. He is charged with taking a payoff from the Steel Valley recruit platoon, and with striking two of its members. Rebuttal testimony this morning was expected to end the three- day trial. Maj.

Donald V. McCloskey, executive officer of the 1st Training Battalion, told of interviewing the Ohio recruits at Camp LeJeune, N.C., after complaints on their alleged treatment at Parris Island had been received from the Ma rine Corps recruiting office at Cleveland, Ohio. The Cleveland office apparently R-as spurred into action by irate parents of the young Leather necks. Another rebuttal witness, Andrew L. Jackson, supervisor for Love Enterprises at Beaufort.

S.C., testified that his company (See MAJOR, Page 2-A) Mr. Ralph Allgood, March of Dimes Dear Mr. Allgood: The 1939 March of Dimes will start Friday, Jan. 2. You, as Montgomery County chairman, have done most of the ground work for the campaign.

Polio conscious Montgomery knows the March of Dimes. It remembers the help you gave to many of us in the several stages of polio and recupera-aon from the disease. It was in 1933 that Montgomery had its worst epidemic. Since then, Montgomery is comparatively free from the dread illness. The March of Dimes can claim a lion's share of the credit Montgomery will rally to the support of you and your fellow workers.

Kp roar Holidays happy dart. Twel home aafely Yl Trailwaya but. Ph. AM4-53M. tAdr.) Harry Cook Is Named Patterson Press Agent Boar." Other Eastern nations including Communist China are planning traditional festivities.

CHI REDS CELEBRATE The Red Chinese have reported big shipments of meats, cabbages, sugar, fish, chickens and fruits into Peiping. Tientsin, Shanghai and other cities for New Year's Day and the Chinese spring festi val which follows soon after. In Europe, there'll be the tradi tional celebrations, not basically different from American festivi- HARRY N. COOK END IS NEAR: i 1 3 erians are supposed to forget old troubles. They will look forward, with! hope, to the advent of the New Year 1959.

Midnight. 12 o'clock Central Time, will usher in another 12 months. Parties of almost every con ceivable nature have been arranged. Most of the shenanigans will be centered on the social side. Big parties and small get-togethers will bear the same impor tance for participants.

There will be some households where the celebrations will be curtailed. These will be the homes hit by recent sorrows. COMPLETE HOLIDAY The day that comes tomorrow will be as nearly a complete holi day as Montgomery has ever seen. Stores, private and public of fices, banks and establishments of every nature, except those dealing with personal comforts and convenience, will be closed Most of these will reopen Fri day. School children will be the happiest.

Their holiday last until next Monday Safe Cracking Trial Delayed For Week's Time The Recorder's Court hearing scheduled today for two men charged with burglarizing several safes here has been postponed for one week at the request of city detectives. Judge Eugene Loe the; cases of John D. Brooks and Frank E. Whalen so that detectives can gather additional evi dence on their cases. Brooks, of 1501 Madison and Whalen, now a resident of Birminhgam, are accused of cracking the safe at Belk-Hudson Department Store and takimg more than $1,000.

Whalen, who moved from Mont gomery about two weeks ago, is also charged with a safecracking at Montgomery Iron and Metal Works last month. Brooks is believed implicated in the $6,000 safe iob at Woolworth's in Normandale during the Christ mas season. Both suspects are being held in City Jail on bonds of $20,000 each, pending the hearing. Adams to Cover Sugar Bowl Game Journal Sports Editor Sam Adams left yesterday for New Orleans where he will give Jour nal readers first-hand coverage of Thursday's Sugar Bowl Football classic. The LSU Tigers, who won 10 straight games during the regular season, were selected as national football champs by both AP and UPI wire services.

LSU is scheduled to play the Clemson Tigers, who were 8-2 in the season, Thurs day. A capacity crowd of some 000 fans is expected to jam Sugar Bowl Stadium for the game. By DAN DOWE Journal Staff Writer State and local officials have predicted a rocky path for the Rev. Martin Luther King in his planned attempt to integrate Mont gomery's schools early in 1959. King disclosed yesterday that the Montgomery Improvement Assn.

will seek a volunary race- mixing program through talks with white leaders and chen pre senting a desegregation plan to the local school board. If the voluntary plan is rejected, King said, Negroes will go into 'court in an effort to show -hat i the Alabama school placement l3W is being used as a tool for Jis crimination. ROBISON OPTIMISTIC However, Vaughan dill Rohison. attorney for the Montgomery County School Board, said the law "provides the same facilities for Negroes as for whites. "I don't feel that we'll take in tegration in the public school sys tem lying down," Robison said, Dr.

A. R. Meadows, state sup erintendent of education, said the placement law gives local school boards authoriyt to assign indi vidual pupils to particular schools. Meadows said he thought cases arising from the MIA's in tegration attempt will be fought in the courts "on the individual case basis." MIA strategy, according to King, will probably involve filing sev FBI to Examine Bomb Evidence WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) A shoebox and its carefully assembled contents will be sent to the FBI laboratory in Washing ton today in an effort to solve Florida's latest bomb scare.

Fire Capt. Bim Powers found the box at a synagogue Tuesday night after an anonymous tele phone caller said a bomb had been placed there and "set to go off in exactly 11 minutes." Powers cut a wire leading from four railroad flares to a battery One of the flares was marked KKK. the usual symbol of the Ku Klux Klan. "There was care taken in the assembly of the thing," said E. McCann, a detective.

He said it appeared innocent on the surface and it wouldn't be known unti1 tests were completed whether it would have ignited. The call came to Harold Flagg, a Post-Times reporter, who said voice told him: "Listen carefully. I have just placed four sticks of TNT alongside the Jewish syna gogue on North Flagler street. It is set to go off in exactly 11 minutes. This is not a hoax." Flagg said the message was repeated, then the connection broken.

Police went to the synagogue. blocked off streets and alerted au thorities at Good Samaritan Hospital next door. A Pall of Desolation Harry N. Cook, former Ala bama newspaperman and news man for the Associated Press. will be press to elect John Patterson in the new administration.

Patterson announced Cook's ap pointment today to the $10,000 year post on the governor's staff. Cook will succeed Ed Brown as press secretary when the new ad ministration takes office Jan. 19. The 30-year-old Cook, a jour nalism graduate of the University of Alabama, has been an as sistant to Rep. George Huddleston Jr.

(D-Ala) for the past two years. As aide to the Birmingham con gressman. Cook worked in Wash ington during congressional ses sions and in Birmingham during adjournment. -His duties included press relations. Prior to 1956, Cook served five years as a reporter and feature writer for the Birmingham News.

Cook, a native of Birming ham, earlier worked short periods for the Tuscaloosa News and the Associated Press in New Orleans (See COOK, Page 2-A) Garments Reveal Sensitive Souls Women who cover up excessively are sensitive, self-conscious souls, psychologists say. Overly modest clothes almost alway indicate repressed emotions, they claim. But if your budget is overly-modest. Journal-Advertiser classified ads quickly broaden it! Selling things through sale ads for spot cash is easy. Renting spare rooms, simple.

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Cut tlra eest la half. Reeap with Wiltons, mat distrlbutora Deamaa. PUk and tucbsdla Tlrta, UdrJ Hangs Over Oak Park fe3 THE NEWS INSIDE COUPLE LIVING In Cottage Beneath Rose Bowl Will Have 100,000 Football Fans Over Heads. Page 8-A. HOW YOU, Too, Can Live To See New Year's Day.

Page 2-A. START OF Europe's Common Market Hold3 American Business Attention Page 3-A. HIGH LIVING Costs To Take Another Jump, Porter Says. Page 3-A. DAVID LAWRENCE Tells Of The Great Significance Of Strengthening The Economy Of Western Europe.

Page 4-A. JOURNAL FEATURES By MAYLONf NICHOLSON Journal Staff Writer Cak Park, Montgomery beauty and fun spot, was desolate and lonely today. A dull array of autumn leaves forgetting winter which came nine days ago, covered practically ev ery square foot of the park. Gone with official closing of the park scheduled for tomorrow was the clatter and chatter of the many children and few adults making up the list of visitors. The weather was pleasant enough, with no rain forecast un til later in the day.

The City Commission's order to close Oak Park and 12 others municipally operated parks apparently had its effect a day earlier than antici pated. CLOSES TOMORROW Tomorrow, Oak Park and the other parks were to be posted with seven-foot-high signs. The AS I SEE IT 4-A OBITUARIES 3 BRIDGE 3-A PATTERNS CLASSIFIED 10-11 RADIO TV 7 COMICS 8 SPORTS CROSSWORD 8 STATE NEWS 18 EDITORIAL 4 WEATHER I HOROSCOPE THE WOPRY CLINIC II JUMBLE It FAMILY PAGE 3 MOVIES 9 COUNTY RECORDS 12.