Kennebec Journal from Augusta, Maine • 1

ESTABUSHED 1825 VOL NO 22 AUGUSTA MAINE THURSDAY MORNING JANUARY 25 1962 TWENTY-SIX PAGES PRICE EIGHT CENTS i The President Wednesday said: He'd fight to establish a new Cabinet-level department of urban affairs and sakfbe would name Robert Weaver Negro to head the agency Earlier in the day his pro- posal had been spiked by a House committee He Mends to" continue the "very valuable of requiring military men to clear their public statements and speeches in advance For details of these statements by the President and lor coverage of his news conference see pages ligand 12 Bureau Merchants qualms over group buying by employes of large firms or members of organizations were eased Wednesday by the new executive secretary of the Maine State Employes Assn NEW POLICY Peter Damborg outlined to the Augusta Merchants Assn the new policy addpted by MSEA regarding discounts to members and agreements for the discounts literally according to the executive secretary of the Augusta-Hallowell Chamber of Commerce "Damborg tossed the problem right backu into the up to the Individual businessmen whether or not MSEA will -participate In group buying' Michael Luosey said Damborg told the local merchants that his organization would continue to go into groiip buying agreements if approached by firms but that they would definitely not "solicit discounts'' Previously the 6000-member group had solicited for discounts on both statewide and local levels "That wai a bad approach on the part of this agency and acknowledged it But we've chsng-ed all that now" Damborg added In addition Damborg said MSEA has stiffened requirements for group buying agreements 'Just -In the last few days" he explained the group buying committee has turned down 10 agreements from firms that have approached Right now the -association has only two such agreements in effect MSEA's new policy according to Luosey "is very refreshing doing their utmost to cooperate with the merchants The only unresolved angle is whetbft or pot a discount house can give a discount to a group without giving it to the public" Damborg countered with a long list of private Industries and businesses which have discount agreements with chain stores and local merchants Appointed to the MSEA post Jan 1 Damborg was asked to speak to the local group because of com plaints that Arms were being hurt by 'discount arrangements with the state employes organization would be foolish to tun down some of these discount offers" he said "but we certainly aren't going to go out and hunt for them "By cancelling some of time agreem ents that were al-ready under 1 I- hope shown we are serious and are approaching this thing In- good Leslie Hubley president of the merchants' group agreed with Luosey that the problem bad been "tossed into the but added that the consensus of the assocl-ation was "satisfactory the whole group seems to be appreciative in the change of attitude tar Augusta Iron Works in produc- tiou a little over four months la this city announced Wednesday that it will double the size of its fabricating plant Howard Leckler president told an Augusta-Hallowell Chamber of 'Commerce committee work will be completed in six weeks on the enlargement of the Riverside shop DOUBLE A 130-foot-long extension of the present shop will double its approximate 10000 square-feet area and more than double its 500-tons-per-month capacity Footings for theexpanslon were installed-Jast-fall Leckler said when it became apparent that the new fa- -ciljty was growing much more rapidly than was anticipated Steel for framing the addition has been fabricated It will be erected and closed in as soon as metalA skiing and roofing mater- ials arrive a few days The rail siding was extended recently to allow direct access to its outgoing crane storage ana and the crane structure itself was extended to bring it within reach of the siding There's No Room For Red US Envoys istence idea but accepted other puts of the proposal as a basis for negotiating united action against Cuba The differences underscored the crux of conflict at the meeting Chances of any unanimous condemnation of the Castro regime appeared dim Brazil leader of a move to cope with Cuba without the diplomatic and economic sanctions favored ky the United-States helped to forming a compromise proposal with a group of the larger Latia-Amerlcan nations In addition to denouncing the Castro regime as a threat to the way of life the proposal would formally exclude Cuba from the Inter-American Defense from which In fact it has long been and promote a collective ban on arms trade between Cuba and any other member of 'the Organization of American States Cuba On Inside Pages The least the Organisation of American States could do would to toss Castro Into hemispheric Coventry the Kl says in an editorial The OAS and Castro P-g How will Csstro answer OAS action AP News Analyst William Ryu asks P-21 PUNTA DEL ESTE Uruguay Argentina'and moat powerful proposed Wednesday that the hemisphere coexist with Cuba tut condemn Prime Minister Fidel Csstro for embracing com-munism The United States which came to the inter-American foreign ministers conference hoping for a collective ban on trade and diplomatic tics to counter Castro's communism rejected the coex grin arms from the Soviet Noe The proopsaL brought Argentina and Brazil together in a compromise formula to rcplace their separate views on how to cope with Castro Argentina had appeared to seek outright expulsion of regime from OAS functions a tha best and even stronger than the sanctions favored by tho United States Brasil on tho other hand appeared wary of such stem penalties and said the new proposal envisages "a way to toco tho problems of incompatibility of tha Marxlst-Lenlnlst Cuban government end the inter-American system" Brazil's foreign minister San Thiago Dantaa asked in a speech that Cuba be gives a stated reasonable period of time to break links with tha Soviet bloc Secretary of State Dean Busk speaks Thursday He probably win lay down tho broad outlines of Washington policy as it -has developed since the confewnct opened Monday THERE is so much volume going through the plant currently it la necessary to use both raw steel and completed product yards for reception purposes Augusta Iron Works started operation ben last-September a little more than two months after the start of construction on the new facility At that time then were 10 employes and it was anticipated employment might reach S3 within a year There an now 64 employes on the payroll with the shop crew of 49 divided into two shifts Most of the steel workers and office personnel were hind locally Leckler and Murray Dickson manager of the Augusta Plant met Wednesday with a Chamber of Commerce committee to make preliminary plans for a public opening and plant tour in May KJ Phoi by Roach Steel roofing members move out of the Augusta Iron Works plant Proves THE PLAXT is filling orders for several large paper min school and other construction projects It is planned eventually to man-' ufacture snowplows in Augusta for distribution throughout New England but other business has been so much greater than expected the snow plow production has not yet been undertaken NEW MAINE law on commitment to mental hospitals has been in effect fife months now How does it work? And how is it working out? AP State House Correspondent Robert Crocker reports in the first of two articles TUPPER says outcome of Cold War could hinge on US foreign trade policy LEWISTON attorney to run for Congress GOVERNOR extremely concerned employment in state P-24 P-9 P-24 P-2 Council Board ConferTonight -f-i Increase OK'd (AP) A rote increase for tho Auguste Sewerage District was approved Wednesday by the Public Utilities Commission effective immediately Residential rates will rise about 28 per cent meter rates 22 per cent and the cost for catch basin service 80 per cent The district created two yean agoi- failed -to obtain the revenue needed partly because estimates were based im Water District records and it was found not all customers took both services Also the Sewerage District decided not to apply "readiness to servo" charges against property owners not using its service -The district made substantial mproveirfents in the system the decree Mid The PUC uid the rate increase -asked was conservative and that planned improvements Including primary treatment plant obviously will require future rate increases The district was commended for keeping its customers aware of Its construction programs and tho PUC said it received no objections to the rate increase Who' says Johnny doesn't read? Indisputable evidence that Johnny does read is presently being offered by Cony High-School's freshman class with the arrival of their January order of paper-back books from the Teen-Age Book Club The latter is a branch of a New York book firm which caters to Jecn-age tastes and challenges and entices young adults all over America to read With every four paper-back books a student ofdcrs he gets a free book a system similar to the adult's Book-of-tbe-Month Club 4 FIGURES announced by stu- dent secretaries at Cony show that in January 02 Cony fresh-' men ordered 204 books with 80 students having ordered nearly 600 books since October Can any adult group beat those figures? AIT of the books selected for -sale through the Teen-Age Book Club are first approved by well-known authors editors and ed- 1 ucatorsThey are then graded -by the National Council of Tesch-ers of English the American Assn and the Wilson Co Faculty advisers for the Teen-Age Booh Club at Cony are freshman English instructors Mias Georgians Hayes and Thomas Sturtevant who praise the dub-Miss Hayes says many' stu-dents who formerly rarely picked up a book to read are beginning to put in small orders perhaps a AS cent book a month and really look forward to receiving their1 bookl and -dividends 'They read them In an attempt to get a meeting of minds on a solution to the crowded conditions at Cony High School the City Council and the Board of Education will hold a joint meeting tonight Though Council Chairman Wallace Campbell said Wednesday night that no definite action will be taken at tonight's meet- ing both groups will confer Mostl7 cloudy wth MOW with Keith Crockett director flurries in north portion partly 2' SSl ShSSSL cloud' in i11 The council hopes that Crockett turning colder today Partly 111 to of i cloudy with snow flurries In the methods used Weather AUGUSTA Boston Chicago Denver San Francisco Seattle Washington Fairbanks 33 30 32 44 53 44 41 -22 I 23 17 0 41 34 28 -32 by other muni-1 south Fri- clpaiities to solve similar pre-north portion fair in blems so that the two groups and cold tonight (Continued On Page I CoL 4) day fair and colder Today's Chuckle A boy la restless noise with dirt on It (Cnprrlnht Oml raatarM OmvY KJ Photo by YeUlenk Sue Lmieux and Ruel Ellis scan new books "and there are still many boys and girls I would like to lure 'into the reading habit" fact I still hhve coming bark to for stories with plots involving young career women Both sexes like animal stories ALMANAC Jan 28 Sun Rises 7:05 am Sun Sets 4:38 pm Day's Length 9:33 Day's Increase 0:43 1 Feb 2 Feb 19 Benefit By Buying Big! LAST CHANCE DOUBLE GREEN he added "Is upperclassmen put in an occasional There in a book case in one of the freshman homerooms fill-ed with Teen-Age Books noma id tatters and thoroughly won "im tickled to death when any freshman oven goes near that book case" Sturtevant said and occasionally classic Edgar Allen Poe" is quite a favorite Secretaries of the Teen-Age Book Club an William Daniels Martha Dogon Martha Dili Ruel Ellis Jane Gidney Sue Lemleux and Ben Runyon of Al Kinds INSURANCI AGENCY 244 Water St Xagnsta BOTH teachers noted that ninth grade reading tastes vary But the boys they said seem to go in heavily for escapist stories lots of action Mood' death suspense war stories in particular The girls go more STAMPS CLEARANCE SALE JOB LOTS IMPORTED LOTS 'V'JfV SAMPLES' UP TO 50 OFF 'Open Thurs Frl Nights Oar ih INSURE WITH 88 Ymi ON 100's Economy Sizes Drugs Cosmetics SALE ENDS JAN 28 5 DRUG STORES BUY NOW and SAVE! Automatic Washers (139 Refrigerators' 199 ODD MATTUSUS SID I S3LN OFT FRANK POMERLEAU Inc' 41 8UMI SV AUOWTA JAIL FUR SPECIAL ONI OP A KIND Natural Gray (Agoata) MINK STOLE Ills 5295 PT JERRY FOOLER FURS Warners Am HOE TORE Angus to' MAS-3242 Est 1174 A 1- 4--J i S-- 1 1 -y -1 1 i 'r' 4 i 1 I I) 314 Water St.