Europe Takes Another
Battering from Winter
LONDON Uft — Southern and
eastern Europe took another bat
tering today from snow, ice and
cold winds. At least 430 were dead
as a result of Europe’s worst win
ter in decades.
New snowfalls in Italy isolated
villages in the Apennines.
Along the Italian Riviera there
were calm seas and clear skies. But
snow fell on the Isle of Capri for
the first time in a decade.
Central and northern Greece got
more snow. The Greek Air Force
dropped food and other supplies to
scores of marooned mountain vil
lages.
New snowfalls also hit the north
ern provinces of Yugoslavia. The
death toll there was 44 so far.
Britain containued to thaw out
, slowly from the dep snows that
covered it for five weeks. Light
snow fell over scattered areas.
Counties around London were
shrouded in fog.
Pack ice drifted out of the
Thames to menace shipping along
the south coast.
THE WEATHER
Continued foggy and cloudy.
Lowest temp, expected tonight 27,
the high tomorrow 29.
In the past 24 hours: highest
temp. 35, lowest 25. Sunrise at
8:51 ajn., sunset at 3:40 p.m.
A year ago today: highest temp.
-1, lowest -17. Extremes on this
date since 1907: highest 40 in 1945,
lowest -40 in 1938.
Robert Frost, Dean
Of American Poets, Dies
BOSTON — Robert Frost, dean
of American poets, died early
Tuesday at the age of 88.
He was pronounced dead at
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. After
two operations, a heart attack and
three separate blood clots ip his
lungs since Dec. 3.
The four-time Pulitzer prize win
ner had been making what doctors
called a remarkable recovery until
his general condition began de
teriorating in the past 48 hours.
Cause of death was listed as
“probably a pulmonary embolism”
—a blood clot in the lungs.
Frost entered the hospital Dec.
3 and underwent an operation
seven days later for removal of a
urinary obstruction.
Subsequently he had a heart
attack and blood clots settled in
his lungs. In an attempt to ease
the blood clots, doctors operated
on both legs to tie the veins ear
lier this month.
Fame came late to the one-time
mill worker, New Hampshire farm
er and teacher. He lived in com
parative obscurity until he was
nearly 40.
Two years ago — at the age of
86 — he was invited by President
Kennedy to read a poem at his
inauguration.
With a January wind tousling his
thatch of white hair and a strong
sun blinding him, Frost discarded
the script he could not read and
recited from memory a poem he
WSCS Plans Potluck
Supper Friday Evening
The Women’s Society of the
Community Methodist Church has
announced a potluck supper pre
ceding their monthly meeting on
Friday at 6:30 p.m.
At this supper the members of
the four circles of the church will
be bringing hot dishes, salads and
desserts featuring mainly recipes
of Southeast Asia, called “The
Rim” as their mission study all
through the month of January has
been on this part of the world. The
Northerner Circle, of which Lena
Hoogendorn is chairman, is plan
ning the decorations and Lillie
Tungwenuk heads the committee.
Following their meeting, Rev.
Bob Leight will show a film “Dead
Mean on Furlough” at 8 p.m. to
which the public is invited.
Special guests of WSCS for the
supper will be girls of the High
School and Junior High Church
School.
had written 20 years earlier, “The
Gift Outright.”
Earlier, President Dwight Ei
senhower had appointed Frost
consultant in poetry to the Library
of Congress.
On his 88th birthday last March
President Kennedy presented Frost
a medal voted by Congress.
Fellow poet Carl Sandburg
praised Frost as “not merely a
great poet, but also a beloved per
son,” and said his work will be
“around for a long time.”
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France Kills
British Bid to Join
Common Market
BRUSSELS, Belgium —
France Tuesday killed Britain’s
bid for membership in the Com
mon Market despite the Kennedy
administration’s last-minute efforts
to stave off the decision.
The six members of the market
gave Britain the word of the
French decision. Edward Heath,
the Deputy British Foreign Minis
ter who had been barred from ear
lier sessions considering the Brit
ish application, was called in to
hear the news.
The decision ended a day of
wrangling in which various nations
tried to postpone or soften a show
down. The French, in the view of
some diplomats, scored not only
on the membership issue but on
the start of a long process of les
sening American and British in
fluence on the continent. The
French insisted that the way might
be open to British membership in
the future but none of the conferees
seemed to take this seriously.
A community rule requires
unanimity on basic decision. This
is a veto power which France used
as a weapon against the British.
Bitterly disappointed, Belgian
Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak
said the spirit of European unity
had suffered a severe setback.
The veto by President Charles
De Gaulle’s government drew
grim reactions in London and
Washington, the capitals of his
most powerful allies in the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization.
A restrained British view was j
expressed by Laborite Emanuel
Shinwell in the House of Com
mons: “We are getting a little
tired of Gen. De Gaulle.”
The outcome was viewed in
Washington as a serious blow to
the European unity movement, but
U.S. officials said it could not be
permitted to wreck the drive for
unification.
“We have to pick up the pieces
and move on,” one high U.S. of
ficial said.
It was the philosopher Hegel
who observed: “We learn from his
tory that we do not learn from
history.”
Construction Starts
On Nerve Center To
Launch Men To the Moon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. W — »
Construction has started on an in
dustrial complex which will be the
Cape Canaveral nerve center of
America’s program to launch men
to the moon.
Ground breaking ceremonies
were held yesterday for the opera
tions and checkout building, the
first of 40, where pre-flight test
ing will be done on the Gemini
two-man spacecraft and the three
man Apollo moonship.
Scheduled for completion with
in a year, it will be eight stories
tall, cost $8,691,624, have 350,00(1
i square feet of floor space and ac
commodate 1,800 employes of the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
Roswell Gilpairic May Resign
As the Pentagon's No. 2 Man
WASHINGTON UP — Deputy
Secretary of Defense Roswell L
Gilpatric, 56, the Pentagon’s No. 2
| man, may resign this summer to
; resume his New York law practice,
! informed sources indicate.
The Defense Department de
clined comment Monday on reports
to this effect but a spokesman
noted that when Gilpatric accepted,
the government position “it was
understood that he would not be
able to serve for a full four-year
period.”
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