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DECATUR SUNDAY Vol. 28 No. 48 DECATUR, ILLINOIS, SUNDAY NOVEMBER 30, 1958. Four Sections and Comics 66 Paget 15 Contt i MS Former Decatur Writer Takes Close Look at Russian Airlines Fair, Cold DECATUR AND VICINITY: Fair and cold Sunday. Monday increasing cloudiness and not so High Sunday in mid 20s, low Sunday night near 15, high Soviet Gaining on West in Aviation Accuracy Next Test for Atlas ICBM Missile Washington, Nov.

29 (AP) Missile experts today turned Six-Month Deadline Set By Khrushchev By the Associated Press The Berlin crisis precipitated by Accord Near On Caterpillar Decatur Strike By Gabe Kaimowitz Of the Herald and Review Staff Agreement on a Decatur Cater Monday in lower 30s. LOCAL WEATHER Sat. Fri. Sat. Fri 7 a.m.

18 20 24 16 26 16 Precip. .31 Noon 30 7 p. m. 10 Highest 33 Lowest 10 Sun. Mon Sun Rises 6.57 6:57 Sets 4:33 4:33 TEMPERATURES mA I Tfv- I High Low Albany 30 25 Anchorage 25 .18 Atlanta 47 26 Boston 39 33 Chicago 23 9 Cincinnati 34 14 Denver 57 25 Detroit 22 9 Indianapolis 30 10 Kansas City 40 24 Los Angeles 77 52 Memphis 48 22 Miami 85 75 Milwaukee 20 3 St.

Paul 0 -5 New Orleans 52 34 New York 34 31 Phoenix 71 52 Pittsburgh 27 18 San Francisco 65 44 Seattle 54 31 Tampa 69' 61 Washington 44 31 Winnipeg -16 -26 INDEX Radio-TV Section 4 pillar Tractor Co. and Local 751, United Auto Workers, contract was expected by this morning as a joint bargaining session continued into the early hours today. It looks like we re going to stay here until we get the whole pack age worked out," a federal concil iator said. Earlier vesterday, a settlement was predicted by midnight but did not materialize. A joint agreement over th weekend ending a strike in the eighth week would not necessarily result in resumption of production here this week.

The 1,800 striking UAW work ers must ratity any agreement reached at the bargaining table. With both sides concentrating on ironing out specific issues last night, they were closer to agree ment than at any tune prior to talks' which began Fridav. accord ing to a federal conciliator. While rejecting another union proposal which made major con cessions in demands, company of ficials last night ottered a counter proposal with economic terms sim ilar to those the recent settle ment of a strike at the Peoria Cat erpillar plants, according to Fed eral Conciliator Ralph O. Harper.

Breaking the package down, both sides had agreed to pension, insurance, and supplementary un employment benefit terms by 11 m. last night. Ed Kelly, Decatur Local '751 president, rejoined talks here last night and was present when the joint bargaining session resumed at p.m. after both sides caucused separately throughout most of the day. Kelly was in Chicago earlier for a United Auto Worker Caterpillar Council meeting.

Harper reported that Kelly' Chicago trip had -nothing to do ith local negotiations although the Peoria settlement was conclud ed there. Manv "high-ranking UAW offi cials remained, in Chicago for In ternational Harvester talks which resume tomorrow. About 12,000 workers in Peoria todav will decide whether to ratify the general union-companv agree ment made in Chicago Wednesday covering only the Peona plants. Skilled trades personnel will vote on the contract separately since one article of the new contract spe cifically applies to that group, ac cording to a Peona spokesman. Similar differentiation may be oade in Decatur.

The 1800 work ers here would have to ratify any joint agreement before returning to ork. Should the work contract be rat ified in Peoria today, production there would resume Mondav at least on a limited basis, according to a company spokesman. UAW workers at Cararpillar plants in Peoria, Decatur, and York, walked out Oct. 11. As of last night, no settlement had been reached at the York, plant where 600 workers are out.

their attention to developing pin point accuracy tor intercontinental missiles. The successful firing of an Atlas missile over a 6,325 mile range Friday night proved the full range of the ICBM is attainable. It brought the United States abreast of Russia in the missile field. The Soviet announced some time ago it was firing missiles over intercontinental distances. At Cape Canaveral, a spokesman said the Atlas program nowl will be stepped up to better than one firing a month.

Flight testing will continue at the Cape even after the first Atlas operational bases are activated in 1959 and 1960. The Atlas apparently dropped its nose cone in the South Atlantic target area some 30 minutes after launching at Cape Canaveral, Fla. TT, lie .1 lit nine idiiye is aDOut me distance from Florida to Russia heartland. Moscow Radio reported without comment that the United States successfully test fired the Atlas intercontinental missile. The U.S.

announcement was read at dicta tion speed for the benefit of newspapers in distant parts of the So viet Union. Up to this point both the Soviet and American tests seem to have been essentially for purposes oT range and not pinpoint accuracy. That is something which die United States weaponeers will concentrate on, now that the range has been established. Spokesmen declined to say where the nose cone of the Atlas landed afteT its soaring flight upward into the thin air of inner space. However, the distance of 6,325 miles and the fact that the official announcement said the missile was fired along the Atlantic missile range suggested that the impact area must have been 800 miles or so southeast of Ascension Island, in the direction of St.

Helena Island. This would be about 1,200 miles off the west coast of Africa. Official Word Delayed The Defense Department and the Air Force waited more than 12 hours to be sure of its facts before reporting the accomplishment, ev en though the missile took onlv about 30. minutes to cover the distance. The Air Force had been delib erately keeping the Atlas on a leash since the first successful short range test last uec.

limiting flights to no more than about miles while making careful, progressive checks of initial trials. The full range test was understood to have been planned for some time next month or early January. However, preparations by the Air rorce and the Convair Division of General Dynamics which makes the Atlas, went so smoothly that it was decided to move the date ahead by everal weeks. Brig. Robert L.

Greer, assistant Air Force chief for guided missiles, told a newsman that on the basis of initial information "everything worked." He said the test was a significant event, showing that the full range of the weap on now is attainable. This, the By Wayne W. Parrish Editor and Publisher, Of American Aviation Magazine Written for The Associated Press The Soviet Union is taking gigantic strides in civil aviation. If the pace of the last two years con tinues, it will become the biggest aviation nation in the world within five years at the outside. Three years ago it was easy to assess Soviet civil aviation as being 20 years behind the West.

At that time I flew 4,000 miles on Russian airplanes in the Soviet Union and its satellites. It is a vastly different story today. The Soviet Union has moved into the jet age in a big way. I have just completed 10,000 miles of flying on the Russian airline, Aeroflot, to such faraway points as Irkutsk in Siberia and to Tashkent and other points in Central Asia. Three-fourths of this flying was in trie U-passenger twin-engined TU-104A jet.

In terms of actual jets in oper ation, the aoviets are far ahead of the West. But an over-all assess ment would he that the West is still a considerable distance ahead passengers carried, passenger handling, operational and communication techniques and ground facilities. However, Soviet Union has moved up on the West with quite astonishing speed. At least three new rvpes of transport planes will go into service in 1959, possibly four. And the new series of airplanes will give the West to think They are more efficient.

They look better. They are nothing like the TU-104A jet, a converted bomb-, er, which the West has seen in Eu rope and the United States. Seeking Export Market Within the next few years it seems clear that the Soviet Union intends to compete strongly for the export market. Its airplanes may not be up to the high standards of the West, but the price differential may well appeal to many countries that can afford the costly prod ucts of the United States, France and-England. The main thing that impresses the visitor to Russia today is that Ivan is on the move.

Every trunk route airplane seat is filled. Airport terminals are crowded. Traffic is no longer confined to the elite, the government officials, the collective farm chairmen, the factory director, and the like. Just ordinary people were board ing jets Moscow to flv the one- stop, route to Irkutsk in Siberia and doing it as though they had been flying the route for 20 years. It is six hours flying as against five days by tram.

Not only have the Russians ac cepted airline flying as routine, but they are beginning to expect serv ice. Ihree years ago there was no such thing as a meal served- in flight, much less a hot meal. To dav three stewardesses serve hot meals of pretty good quality and variety on the jet flights and passengers are beginning to complain about the lack of food service on the smaller twin-engined planes on short routes. What is of great importance to the West is the Soviet policy be hind the big upsurge aviation. It is a policy to take "the Russian traveler off the railroad and put him into the air.

1 do this airline fares have been lowered to the level of railroad coach rates. All facilities being owned by the state, the air line has ho major worries about profits and dividends, although Aeroflot officials insist the airline makes money. Roads, Trains Inadequate is virtually no intercity transportation by automobile and the highway system is abominable. Now that Russians have a great deal more freedom to move about their own country, the railroads are completely inadequate to handle the traffic. In addition, the Soviet Union covers a pretty big area of the world.

Using air as the primary transportation medium' for a Russian squeeze to force Western Allies out of the divided city appeared headed for a Big Four con ference Saturday. There were further indications that such a meeting at the foreign minister level mieht deal with the broader aspect of reunification of all Germany. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush-. chev signaled the top level negotiations when he said Russia wants a neaceful solution to the Berlin problem and would "like to dis-- cuss things around a round table. Speaking at an Albanian Em bassy in Moscow, Khrushchev specifically approached the French ambassador on the question of a settlement hut informants said he also told the partying dip lomats: "If at the end of six months there is no start with negotiations, then we shall have to put into effect the measures we have out lined." (The Soviet Premier presumably referred to previous Russian pro- posals to turn its occupation zone in East Berlin over to the Com- muni st East German regime by.

Christmas.) In Washington, the; State Department press office said it had no comment on Khrushchev's dis- phjvof in an East-West meeting. Officials said informally that demands for conferences have become a standard tactic of the Soviet Premier. Russia Must Dictate They added that Khrushchev does not appear to consider such conferences as occasions for negotiat ing, compromising and resolving differences, but rather as meetings for which Russia must dictate the terms and prescribe the results. Meantime, the British Foreign Office said the four Western pow ers will meet soon, probably in fionn. Representatives from the United States, Britain, France and West Germany would attend such a meeting.

The British Foreign Office said the date and level of the meeting is undecided but did not rule out a foreign ministers' session. Developing pressure, spurred by the latest Khrushchev announce ment, foreshadowed a meeting Sunday between President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles. Vice President Nixon added his comments on the Berlin situation Saturday as he arrived in Wash ington from a four-day visit to England. Nixon predicted the Berlin crisis will strengthen, rather than weaken, the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO) Nixon and his wife, Pat, were greeted by Dulles on their arrival Etter a 19-hour flight across the Atlantic in an Air Force plane. Dulles told Nixon: You really did a very distinguished job." Nixon said the NAIO allies would resist the action of the Com munist leaders and also press them for reunification of Cjermany, which he described as the basic issue.

"Berlin is onlv a symptom of the basic problem," Nixon said. If the Soviets show any will ingness to negotiate seriously to ward unifying Communist and West Cjermany into a single na tion, officials said, the exchange could lead to a foreign ministers meeting or a summit conference with Russia. But the officials added, Premier Nikita Khrushchev's proposal to' make West Berlin into a free city" free of the protection of Western forces presently there offers no basis whatever for East-West negotiation. Dulles arranged to fly to Eisen hower's vacation headquarters at Augusta, Sunday rooming. They last met face-to-face about 10 days ago, but they keep in touch by telephone.

Movies and Amusements Section 4 No Room for Dog In Crowded Home, Boy Runs Away Torrance, Nov. 29 (AP) Arthur Williams, came home earlv today and found two vagrants in his bed a boy and a dog. The boy wouldn't talk. Williams called the sheriff's office for help. After several minutes of sympathetic grilling, deputies learned that Billy Karlee, 9, had run awav from home because his rriother wouldn't let him keep the nondescript brown -mutt he called "Boy." They took' Billy home where his mother, Mrs.

Beulab McFar-rin, said neither her btldget nor the small apartment wbich houses her and her three sons could be stretched to accommodate the dog. That settled it. The deputies started to call the pound. "You can't do that!" protested Billy. "He really belongs to another kid in the neighborhood." The deputies left and plans were made for the pooch to spend the night in the family car.

But the animal's reprieve may be brief. "I was afraid they'd kill Boy if they took him to the pound," Billv sobbed. "I don't know who he belongs to but I'll find him find someone. TITO PLANS TOUR Belgrade, Nov. 29 (AP) President Tito said tonight he is planning a tour of some Middle East and Asian countries in the near future.

Speaking with reporters at a Yugoslav national holiday recep tion, Tito said the tour will last about IVi months and will take him to the United' Arab Republic, Indonesia, India and probably some other countries. He said he will travel by boat and plane. 1 These three planes, which will play a big part in the future of Russian civil aviation, are being tested and are scheduled to be placed in service next year. The TU-114 (top), is to carry passengers seemed to be the only solution. Thus the aviation potential in Russia is enormous.

In the United States 88 per cent of intercity pas senger travel is by automobile. The United States has become a na tion on wheels and air transporta tion is far down in second place. The Soviets are trying to accomplish in a few years what the West performed in 20 and it is obvious the rapid growth is causing many stresses and strains, there have been two' fatal crashes of the TU 104A only one of which the Rus sians were forced to admit because of the deaths of prominent for eigners. There "is no doubt these two accidents have given airline of ficials much concern, because at least one of the crashes is quite a mystery. Airports are only partially ade quate although construction and extension of runwavs is evident everywhere.

Terminal facilities are strained, and communications are slow. But the Russians aren't used to frills and what they fail to ac complish by precision they accom plish by a mass approach. I was permitted to see only one of the new airplanes scheduled to go into service in 1959. It was the Ilyushin 18, the Moskva, a 95-passenger job with four turboprop engines. It will cruise at about 400 miles per hour at 27,000 to 30,000 feet.

The interior is bright, the furnishings vastly better than earlier types. It has the appearance of a topflight airplane. The Moskva can be used on the North Atlantic, with reduced passenger load, and is ideally designed for services within Russia and to European capitals. Better Planes Promised The big showcase to come, how-! ever, is the TU-1 14, already behind its timetable. It was due in service this year.

When I was in Moscow I was assured I could see the airplane if it returned from its test Kip 180 passengers and has a dining The Russians say it will fly 500 miles an hour. The Dyushin 18 (middle) is a 95-passenger plane with four turboprop engines. It will cruise at Wayne W. Parrish, who probably has flown in more countries than anybody else in the aviation is a former Decatur Herald reporter and the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Roy Parrish, 1336 N. Union St. He is editor and publisher of American Aviation Magazine and several other aviation publi- cations. His wife, Frances Knight, is director of the passport office of the U. S.

State Department. In a second article, to appear next Sunday, he goes into the competitive aspects of aviation between Russia and other nations. runs, hut it- was still undergoing trial runs somewhere. No Westerner has yet had a look at the TU-1 14 but great claims aire made for its performance. It is to carry 180 passengers and has 48-seat dining room in a lower deck.

It is supposed to fly at about 500 miles an hour, but Western en gineers are skeptical of such a speed claim for a turboprop airplane. Another model, perhaps more promising, -is the AN-10, the Ukraina, a turboprop type designed for 84 to 125 passengers with a cruising speed of 325 miles an It is also scheduled for debut in 1959. In the turbojet field, the TU-104B; an enlarged 'model of the jet now flying, with 30 more seats for a total of 100, is due to fly in 1959. A current mystery is the TU-1 10, a very fast turbojet trans port announced some time ago which was to match the best U.S. and British long-range transports.

Inquiries about the TU-1 10 mere ly brought the response that it is being tested. The West has concentrated on long-range high-speed turbojets carrying many passengers, such as the Boeing 707, the Douglas DU-8, the Convair 880 and the Comet 4. But the Soviet Union has concen about 400 miles an hour. The AN-10 Ukraina (bottom) is a turboprop-type with a cruising speed of 325 miles an hour. It is designed for 84 -to 125 passengers.

(AP Photo) trated on turboorops with less speed but many seats and more ef ficient operating characteristics for mediunwange Thus the Russians have left the nliicVi infprrnntinental market to the West, while it will have a complete line of medium-range high- density equipment available, not only for internal Soviet routes, hut for satellites and any other nations that can't afford anything else. The next two years will tell much. But one thing is sure the Snviet Union is going to be a far bipper contender in civil aviation than anyone in the West thought possible five years ago. lo nation has moved so far in so short a RED CITIZENS WARNED ABOUT SPYING TOURISTS Moscow. Nov.

29 (AP) Workers in Leningrad have been told to watch foi spies who may show up as foreign tourists. The newspaper Leningrad rrav- da said today the city always has given a warm: welcome to tourists but that imperialists were not above using tourists for spying and subversion. The article signed off with this: Be vigilant, comrades." general said, "means we can reach the targets, if we have to later on." ANNOUNCEMENT To Herald and Review Subscribers Starting today, Nov 30, the price of theDecatur Herald or the Decatur Review, with the Sunday Herald and Review is 45c a week. The price of the daily Decatur Review, or the daily Decatur Herald is 30c per week. The price of both the Herald and The Review, with the Sunday Herald and Review is 75c a week.

Your carrier will make his first collections at the new rates next week-end. Your carrier will get a fair share of the 5c a week increase. Greer not expand on that comment. However, it was obvious the spectacular demonstration had two major meanings: For prestige purposes, it meant that the United States has now drawn abreast in ICBM technology with Russia. More practically, it meant that tU TCRM weanon of the United States now had the proved power to reach anywhere in Russia from launching sites within the United Slates.

If American rockets can fire over those distances, presumably Russian weapons could do the same..