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THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER 123rd YEAR NO. 35 FINAL EDITION TUESDAY MOKMNC, MAY 14, 1963 PHICE 10 CENTS HOME DELIVERED 42c A WEEK One Man Dies; Soace Fligh Prospects Good Damage Heavy; OJgGutaougs, GLOBUS o.io men Kaimaii Clouds Visible; Start Countdown Request Leash Law For Dogs Council Unit Considers Plea 1 1 ft 13" "jslr 3 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. up The final countdown for Astronaut Gordon Cooper's 22-orbit attempt started early Tuesday and officials said it was correct to assume that things were looking good for a lift-off on schedule. Doubtful weather had raised the possibility of delay, and It was still possible that mmmMMMmmmm the mission could be temporarily scrubbed if clouds Pacific Area O.K. obscured the launching area after daybreak.

ABOARD USS KEAR- The countdown began at SARGE IN PACIFIC UP) the stroke of midnight Navy weathermen said SSff I Xn, Vr "we are recom- Cooper would be climbing mending a 'go situation into his Faith-7 space cap- for the launching of astro- sule about 5 a. m. (EST) for naut Gordon Cooper Tues- the scheduled lift-off at day 8 m- The weather in the plan-All day Monday the senti- ned impact area about 100 ment was the same: clouds tv, may make the flight lm- mlles southeast Midway possible but we're still go- Island should be satisfac-ing ahead with plans for a tory for recovery of Major takeoff between 8 a. m. and cooper's Faith 7 spacecraft 10:30 a.

m. (EST) Tuesday. 34 hours after iauncnlng Walter C. Williams, direc- sald Comdr wlmam tor of operations, said the first half of the two-day er, Navy meteorol- split countdown was com- ogist aboard this prime pleted Monday morning, recovery vessel. The second half was to be- gin at midnight (EST), Tues- Enouirw (Bob Free) Ptwro Near-Drowning Victim Cleans Up Debris Edward Stigler sorts property piled by water Swept From Cellar A Northside man died and another almost drowned ln the basement of his home in the wakelof Monday's torrential downpours.

Greater Cincinnati property damage was heavy as lightning struck again and again amid the thunderstorms. Within 12 hours the area was doused with 3.13 inches Another sewer at the top of rain almost equal to the of Martha Street was average of 3.8 Inches for the blocked by sheet metal and entire month of May. old tlres washed down from an auto scrap yard on Rob- 1645 west Fork Rd was Jeast basements pronounced dead at Dea- were nooded on Martha coness Hospital after he col- street. lapsed at his home when West Fork residents West Fork Creek went Into were alarmed when water flash flood. swept over lawns in front Mrs.

Naderman said her of their homes and West husband had undergone frk tCreelc Trose benlnd their homes. However, the surgery for a heart condl- creel receded tion March 27. Mr. Stigler and two other He leaves his wife and area residents, Mrs. George parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Ed- Jones, 1707 Martha, and ward Naderman 524 "rsVGeor Wheeler. 1705 Martha, said they had com- Greenwell Rd Delhi. plained t0 tne 'clty about EDWARD J. STIGLER, the sewers, to no avail.

48, 1716 Martha North- Heaviest lightning dam-side nearly drowned when age reported was to a barn trapped ln more than four on the Elmer Pergens farm, feet of water ln his base- 1167 Hebron, Ky. ment. Within minutes the barn Water damace wai ex- a enveloped in flames, peytrto'lnrtho 5SS-3L were cloeeed A sewer at Lightning shattered chirn- West Fork Road was nev bricks at tne home ot EmedTy brashes swWepSt Ih" down from Airy forest. S7. haust fan at the James A.

rfl 1 Moore residence, 5642 An- Un lo Lorn Wr JV1 THE ELECTRICAL storm caused power failure ln sev- ww IVl "al areas of Campbell UCLVS iViOITl Countv vr st Luke Hospitalf Thomas, reported loss of J. f1 power for 30 minutes. Ill A smaU cave-ln was re- ported on Licking Pike, a mile south of Newport. TECUMSEH, Okla. UP) Basement flooding and Mrs.

Hattie Cooper looked backing up of sewer lines over a stack of telegrams were reported ln Ft Thom- and letters Monday and as. said: "It's so wonderful to District Five police said know you have so many water ran more than three friends and to realize feet high on several blocks they're thinking about you." on West Fork and Martha Mrs. Cooper's only son, Roads In Northside. Gordon, is scheduled to Mack firemen made three ride an Atlas missile into lightning runs at about 6:10 orbit Tuesday morning, but p. m.

and flooding was re-she maintained an appear- ported at Galbraith Rd. ance of complete calm de- and Chesswood Dr. i spite frequent telephone Groesbeck, on Pippin Road calls from newsmen and between Springdale and friends. struble and on sec- "I just haven't let myself tlons of Blue Roclc Road get too worked up about it," Heavy rains washed out she said, "because I know eignt feet of sidewalk and there's nothing I can do part of tne street at the in- myself. I'm leaving it up tersection of Gilbert Ave.

to the Good Lord." and Elsinore PI. Mrs. Cooper Is spending the week at the home of Related Story On Page 18 llerJmor' Mrs- orena mammmmmmmmmmm Herd, in this small town 40 miles southeast of Okla- mo htfllf homa City. She plans to stay Lllllo UdUV at the home during the en- tire time Major Cooper is in jrj yyOrffV Weathermen at Cape Ca- TflL ivi naveral, became con- jS'. cerned Monday when re' clouds moved over the Ima "ived i 1 launch area.

Mrs. Cooper JllaBtarfi ''ons joined them ln hoping the jSj" xjjsince 8 a. flight start on schedule. in re3Pnse to "Sure I'd be disappointed II i her want ad. If it's called off," she.

said, and sold the "because I know Gordon baby bugey, bathinette. would be disappointed. He's bassinette, play pen. ready to go." sterilizer and car bed she Major Cooper called her j- c- Friday to assure her he is vfrs. on he feeling fine.

He told her day! Nothing gets results not to worry, she said. lma Ad and "Naturally I'll worry sne can brinS money in about my boy," she said. to you, too, when you "It wouldn't be right if I call Enquirer Classifed didn't. to place a low cost But as I've repeated again want-ad. and again, God has a pattern for every one of us.

421-6300 Whatever happens Is a part of that pattern." MMMmiMiemmimiiummmi Northside Man Describes Horror Of Basement Flood day. Along about this time another weather size-up ln wiU be made tneir flnal decisions rely on personal judgments. The prospects there were not reassuring. As far as Tney weigh the evidence the eye could see, whitecaps a hand, the weather here danced along the horizon at launch time and the and the wind seemed to grow weather half way around strongei steadily. the world as it will be when The Air Force major, calm Malr Cooper comes down and confident, was all ready ne completes the 22 for his spectacular ride orbits, through space.

A landing area has been All around the world, set aside for each of the 19,000 men were stationed, 22 orbits, although there anxiously waiting to fish are certain preferred land-Major Cooper from the wa- ing spots they'll aim for. ter, thereby ending what Eighty miles south of Mid-would be by far the most way Island, where Major lengthy space flight ever cooper will come down if tried by an American. the flight goes the full 22 Ironically, this was a orbits, is of course the beautiful day at the Cape, most preferred of all. Tllt UdJwitZ Chrls Kraft- the fllSt aland with an exhilarating hig wm eez be determined by this ques- Adding to the irony: tion: goes peri- The weather experts odically, he said, "We will have been keeping their make go, no go decisions." eye on three-fourths of the Earth's atmosphere, and T1s test supposedly the generally it is pretty good. ast of this Mercury series, Only in sunny Florida, is primarily designed to where they would like to P'ck UP additional medical have it close to perfect, was data.

essential if man is to there an adverse forecast. et to the Moon in this dec- All other reports at a ade, or any other decade. Indicated clear sailing if weather permits. Un Ka'e 5 Possibly the most difficult Tiff fnr tVia nnn.tMontict trt when the waters went down. The Stiglers live in a neat white one-and-a-half-story frame.

Their losses include several sacks of cement, power tools, a new furnace motor, a sewing machine and other household articles. P. S. The dog escaped on his own power. Next thing I knew I was lying in the backyard about 10 feet from the cellar entrance.

A neighbor said she though I had been drowned and washed out of the basement. I managed to get up. I staggered Into the house, removed my soggy clothes, put on a pair of shorts and returned to the basement BY GILBERT SANDS Of The Enquirer Staff Fldo, Spot, Rags and their canine cousins got a going over at City Hall Monday. They dig up and mess up lawns not their own and what's worse they frighten and nip at school kids, witnesses complained at a City Council Finance Committee hearing. Public school PTAs, other civic groups and individuals want something done about the nuisance such as enactment of a leash law, or a law that would permit Impounding of dogs running loose and fining their owners.

The committee took the matter under advisement, after acknowledging there is a problem that must get remedial attention. Dr. Mitchell Zavon, assistant city health commissioner, said some dogs not only are a nuisance but a "healtn threat." He claimed they compound the rat problems by upsetting garbage pails. He said they destroy "untold thousands" of dollars worth of shrubbery. Dr.

Zavon urged enactment of a leash law, with an automatic fine for persons who permit dogs to run loose. Mrs. Clarence Betz, chairman of the Legislative Committee of the Cincinnati Elementary Council PTAs, said her group was concerned especially with dogs running in packs, biting and frightening school children and damaging books and other property. "I LOVE DOGS but I love children more," said James Patia, principal of Madi-sonville School. "I have seen children terrified by dogs to a point where they could not move," he stated.

"For too long dogs have been permitted to attack people, destroy property and keep citizens awake barking at night," Eugene P. Brubach, chairman of the Madisonville Co-ordinating Council, said. Mrs. 'Annie Heilbron of the League of Animal Welfare opposed a general leash law, permitting all dogs at large to be picked up whether or not they are causing a nuisance. She proposed some modified regulation under which a dog involved in a nuisance against which there had been a legitimate complaint would be picked up and impounded.

"A good dog is a protection and companion and dearly loved by its masters," Mrs. Heilbron said. "It would be unfair to punish responsible dog owners because of the careless and thoughtless ones." A LEASH LAW or enforcement of other regulations requiring Impounding of dogs on the loose would raise the problem of having some place to confine them. Oris E. Hamilton, safety director, has urged submission to the voters ln November of a $225,000 bond issue for a new city dog pound.

But City Manager C. A. Harrell and William H. Mers, president of the Hamilton County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, thought it unnecessary to have both city and county dog pounds. If It gets to the point where the city needs facilities to enforce regulations, it would be much better for It to contract with the county for impounding dogs at the county pound, Mr.

Harrell said. No New Parley WASH INGTON (UPI) President Kennedy will not hold a news conference this week, the White House said Monday. comprehend Is that, with all the equipment at their Astronaut Gordon Cooper he's ready to go O.ME TO TIIIXK OF ii jiiliaHIMHWHji 4 ''III 'IY iYllSSlle Proves Success VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. UPi A huge Titan II intercontinental missile blasted out of an armored hole ln the ground Monday and thundered over the Pacific missile range in a research and development shot. It was the third test here of the second generation of the liquid-fueled Titan, most powerful of this country's long-range missiles.

The Air Force called it a success. Target area was undisclosed. In the first test at this base the missile exploded after launch. The second was a success. i (This is the story of Edward J.

Stigler, 48, 1716 Martha Northside who almost drowned in his basement Monday night.) I had just come home from work. It was raining very hard. I saw the water coming over the hillside next to my home. I thought that it would be coming into my basement, so I rushed downstairs to close the windows. I tried to nail shut a window near the coal bin where the water was pouring in.

While I was doing this, the water came in waves through other windows. Before I knew it, the water was rising on the floor. I felt helpless and didn't know what to do. It seemed Just a few seconds, but it probably was longer, until the water was above my hips. My wife was upstairs yelling at me to be careful.

I realized our dog was somewhere ln the basement and guessed that It must have drowned. But I had myself to think about as the water reached near the top of the furnace and I began to swim through the yellow, dirty mess toward the cellar door leading to the outside steps. There was no light ln the basement and It was getting darker outside. I don't know how I managed it. but I broke open the basement door and pushed myself against the outside cellar doors that were closed.

My head hit them with such force- that it threw them open. I saw stars and thought, 1 hope I don't pass West Germans Prefer Kennedy BONN, Germany upi President Kennedy is the world statesman most West Germans would like to have visit them, a public opinion poll said Monday. Seventy per cent of nearly 2000 Germans gave the U. S. President top billing.

They had been asked by the Institute of Applied Social Science to choose between Mr. Kennedy, Soviet Premier 1 i a Khrushchev, French President Charles de Gaulle, British Prime Minister Harold MacMillnn and Prime Minister Jaw-aharlal Nf hru, of India. GREATER CINCINNATI MAN'S BEST FRIEND: Council Finance Committee hears flock of complainants against loose dogs scaring, nipping, stealing and harming property. Matter taken under advisement. Page 1.

GE SETTLEMENT: Twenty-five GE union machinists accept eight-month contract, ending imminent threat of strike. Page 17. CHEERFUL NOTE: Claims for unemployment compensation again reach new low for year in week ended May 4. Page 34. THE NATION ASTRONAUT READY; Cloudy weather threatens to delay Major Gordon Cooper's bid for 22 orbits around the Earth.

However, countdown starts at midnight. Page 1. V. S. PREPARED: Army officers and Federal officials set up headquarters in Birmingham, as 3000 Federal troops are held ready at two nearby bases.

Page 2. HEARING WAIVED: James R. Hoffa, Teamsters Union president, indicted Thursday in Nashville, on charges of tampering with a jury, waives hearing ln U. S. District Court.

Page 9. IT'S A HABIT: Personality sketch of Alabama's Gov. George C. Wallace pictures his defiance of Federal authority as almost a part of his day-to-day life. Page 2.

WORLD-WIDE Amusements 14-15 Women's Bridge 16 Word Game 16 Business, Markets 34-37 rj-aryn tm 1 1 iwi I mmm Classified 21-29 lUElxJ OiXTi 1 1 iHfl Comics 16-17 partly cloudy and mild. Court News 10 Low in morning 60. High Crossword 16 for day 71 Tues(Iay nlSnt chance of showers. Low 60. Deaths 20-21 Editorials 6 FIVE-DAY FORECAST: Temperatures will aver- Bob Greene Series 18 age three to six degrees People In The News 3 aD0Ve normal.

Normal Society News 13 high 71-76; normal low 49- Sports 31-33, 38 52. Rainfall will averag Star Gazer 16 ahout' ne-'orth inch occurring Tuesday night and rv-nailo 8 near end of week. Wlnchell 18 DETAILS. MA ON PAOt 17 Five-Star News, Features Page 20 Tiliphont 721-2700 Classified 421-6300 CIRCULATION SERVICE 721-2700 IStWMiZFWl CRISIS COOLS: New Interior minister Is sworn ln in Argentina and promises to hold elections in July. Country's crisis seems near end.

Page 37. EVEREST CHALLENGED: Former Cinclnnatlan Barry C. Bishop and teammates move higher up Mt. Everest ln a twin assault on the world's highest peak. Page 37.

BREAK IN Venezuela is reported to have recalled Its envoy from Haiti as a probable prelude to breaking relations with the island country. Page 37. BUSINESS "Can You Fix This Like Daddy's?" May Is Good Car Keeping Month a reminder that It's time for the summer car check-up, to prepare for all those Sunday afternoon drives. SQUELCHED: Hilton Hotels executive denies reports that Hotel Netherland Hilton Is up for lease. Page 34.

UNCERTAIN: Stock market produces no definite trend in fairly active trading. Page 36. i.