The Bermuda Recorder

              hi jsermuda reeordei j fe j published bi-weekly price 6d wednesdays 1 saturdays "^~ eal al volume xxxvi hamilton bermuda wednesday february 10 1960 no 56 government's view police withdraw offer to pay photographer for damages fifk^lmk k»ntru'*kft >■ mm\'mm\?a*a.mm js 3 j fic^^m ■' mmmmmm^k^k^k\^sa t '* b fl ' ■ ' j?5l 5 ** tfo ■ of wrangle over police chiefs action the government's offer made last week to pay mr ed kelly 74 without prejudice to replace a lens to his camera damaged when the chief of police pulled him off a wall has been withdrawn mr kelly revealed this afternoon mr kelly said he had been informed that the issue was considered this morning at the regular meeting of the execu tive council and the council decided that he should make his claim for damages to lloyds of london the firm which insured his equipment for 290 the colonial 8ecretary the hon j w bykes caiie m press conference on monday to give the government's sideh of the wrangle over the treatment accorded by senior polic«h officers to two press photographers at the airport last week tofl cover lightbonrne'a departure to london to serve his murderfl sentence the commis 1 police mr b g photograph being henderson acted m good faith q m ■ l her jw f sykes said no instructions had rt.fr^^^^^l l thought mr kelly he * r p ni 1 onto ihe tarmac where < h " photographers there was ■ no use hanging be ■ lensman said he was on cause lighthourne was aboaro ■ i f the wall so as to get a better the he wasn t - ■ i was to frustrating ■ i mr svkes said instructions their efforts and them ■ i were earlier given that no one the opportunity to take pic ■ i to be on the tar tures ■ i when mr henderson he replied it was his ■ ■ pulled mr kelly back he was understanding that a police ■ ■ merely trying to restrain him man said he thought light ■ ■ f.om committing an offence bourne was aboard which ■ ■ he denied that the police was a very foolish thing to j ■ thief's aetions amounted to say mr sykes stated washington ■ an assault on the photographer asked what action would be twent four republican sena ■ mr sykes who had earlier taken against an officer who yesterday in eo i reused the press of making deliberately gave _ out sue tmj o^joined j?terf m £ ■ a mounain out of a molehill leading «*™*^ ?£ j package dvil rights bill which ■ m.n that what was far more said if a police officer exceeded p s to nae as a vehicle i the police are not giving the the matter he did not know measure introduced to a press the freedom which they if there would be an inquiry n jght was sponsored primarily i were entitled to with regard to mr sykes hy gen everett jj dirksen ■ be went on to relate thc own suggestion that a monm r m t j e m i nor it y leader it a plans which were made to get tain was being njsde out of a con tains major parts of the a 1 ight bourne on the plane by mole hill issue between mr administration programme a ihe prison authorities the henderson and mr kelly a f b iied 0 f passage last a latter ealled on the police for reporter asked the colonial year w the vot ; ng re f er ee i assistance in case there was secretary if he had viewed the p j an propo8 ed by attorney i any trouble matter in the broader light of genera i william p rogers i there was no question he the chief of police using un a said that the police were due restraint and possibly sen dirksen indicated to i heavy-handed with the press committing an assault against reporters that he expects the a no instructions had been given __ well-known and respected package proposal to serve pri i that photographs were not to itu.en marily as a vehicle for agree a be taken there was no author mr sykes replied he could ment on a generally acceptable a iiy for such instructions but no t say that an assault had bill rather than as an all-or i there was a dear instruction committed the commis nothing proposal on which re i tl.-mt no one was to go onto the i 0 ner was acting in good publican members would in i termac faith trying to restrain a per sist ■ if the photographers want who wa8 ab out to commit minorit leader coll . ■ ed to go onto the roof of tht an offence fimed repor t 8 that he is ready ■ building to uke pictures they j if he would agree that "™ h bm t i wire perfectly entitled to do au apology would go a long *™ ~^ * * ** bul ■ •»• m way to help smooth over re amendment % 0 a house-passed ■ when it was pointed out to lations between police and awaiting action on ■ m r sykes that a police officer pjbhc mr sykes > japped ™ * r _ he de . inspector j w star e regret very much this which pending ■ buck had told the photo incident and thc damage to en _ j j j j ■ irraphers that no pictures were mr kelly's camera how km^^m/m^^^m ito be taken the colonial secrc about professional pride m btarv replied he had no au a reporter has itho'ritv to do been hurt we aresorr asked what was the objec tbat uh,^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_w^_w^_^_^_^a^m the photographer added he had referred the matter to the local representatives of lloyds messrs harnett and richard eon front street who said their obligations to mr kelly would be fulfilled and reports of the incident sent to london for any further action it was probable he pointed out that lloyds would take legal steps against the bermuda police to recover the money the camera was insured for 180 the lens 100 and the magnifying hood 10 abreast of the times — messrs f l a richardson and g j trott build ing contractors from st george's who have the job of laying about 50,000 cubic teet of concrete hardstandings for jet airliners at the civil air terminal decided to do it the modern way here mr richardson is shown operating what is believed to be the first baby hough payloader to be used in bermuda by a local firm for load ing concrete mixers the hand shovel is now a thing of the past for the firm's la bourers the payloader does all the spade work usually done by six workmen richardson says a large concrete job is no problem for his firm now the payloader was imported from the u.s.a late last year its bucket has a capacity of approxi mately ten cubic feet senators pave way for civil rights ffssors are charles l black jr a member of the legal committtee of the national association for the advance ment of colored people louis h pollak also a member of thc naacp committee and thomas i emerson john w lewis appointed new esso manager magistrate unmoved by pleas of khrushchev to on visit guinea unmarried fathers 1st africa trip division of e^^^^dard oil.^^^^^^^^s rogers proposal would 8 a has been named division a l result m registration of only manager ae«wdin to a c ™* cha 1 la relatively insignificant santos eastern region man to save t a i number ol negroes because ager for the company mr mmm of its formal pro lewis succeeds the late her fl m lings would be difficult in bert h outerbridge a a few election dis mr lewis was born in ber fl ah time also warned muda in 1926 where he was i procedure would toss educated he joined the ber i fe to explosive poli muda division of esso stand fl ntroversies j aud would ju-d oil s a in 1941 and has fl nthyu filled various positions in ti phases tlvfl company's duringl his year partfl wasl pl^^^assigned to the company's ja-b maica division in vfr . i«e 6 he xvlb tion i^b lt'wll '"^ mma7i\*±m m^joht^v lew flin the criticism detailed market the pleas of two unmarried fathers who appeared before the wor p r grey on sepa flmouday flfrom moscow feb &— soviet prime minister nikita s khrushchev will visit the new african state of guinea the atrial news agency taaa an • minced tonight ment the announcement was the lust official confirmation of widespread reports that the soviet leader would visit afri a this year tass said the tlate of the visit would be arranged later one 17 year old michael an thony ebbin who pleaded guilty to a charge of carrying an offensive weapon in a pub lic place the hub hotel begg ed the magistrate to give him a chance 1 have responsibilities the youth declared tricts atfl that the the courts tical ifl probably^m bftt^h resistance to negr^^^h because it would apply to i lectin according to tass the invi tation was extended by guinea president sekou toure last year when he was in the soviet luion following a trip to the united states mr khruschev never before has been in africa what kind of responsibili ties asked mr grey the yale group i tern of president continued on a son was the an w"r which brought him no assistant merc > turned to ber mr grey told the youth that march 1957 he type of offence for which company career he had been convicted has h numerous got to cease too many per couriles in the united states sons were brought before the the dominican republic and court for possessing offensive two years ago attended the ad weapons hjj he already has three major trips scheduled abroad before i id-summer he will go to in.^ia burma and indonesia this month to pari in march rud to paris again in may for the east-west summit meet ing he must be back in mos cow by june to receive presi dent eisenhower who will be paying a return visit for the trip mr khrushchev made to the united states last septem ber former m.c.p once more president of leopards club v a n c e d management pro gramme held at the central university of caracas vene zuela mr lewis married mir8 eli zabeth stephens of paget ber muda in july 1946 and has 4 children ebbin had a knife with a three inch blade in the hub hotel at about 1 a.m on jan uary 21 he allegedly flashed the weapon after some one who stepped on his toe he said he merely had it for self-defence against some g i's who were in the hub aside from the threat of southern filibuster which civil rights legislation always gen erates in the senate there are other seeds of controversy iu the republican package the most apparent is in the attor ney general's proposal that the federal courts be em powered to name referees to insure that the voting rights of negroes are protected mr r l pearman former m.c.p for smith's parish was elected president of the leo pards club international at its annual general meeting on fri day night mr pearman served the club as president for a number of years until 1959 when mr sheldon darrell was elected to the office guinea is a west african territory formerly administer ed by france it was given independence after rejecting the french constitution in a referendum instituted bv pre sident charles de gaulle on couple fined 200 each britain plans satellite using british rockets money voted to hospital reserve fund the second young father appearing before mr grey was winslow van court dur rant a dock worker from pond hill who was sent to priso.1 for four months he pleaded guilty — with an explanation — to stealing two pairs of shoes from a cargo ship dock ed in hamilton the following was released from the office of the collec tor of customs yesterday london feb 8 britain intends to life a satellite into space on rockets of its own design avistion minister dun announced today in the house of commons sept 28 1958 mr rogers proposed this ap proach as an alternative to a proposal advanced by the civil rights commission that fed eral registrars be named with the specific assignment of in suring that negroes were registered to vote in federal lections one of the attorney general's principal criticism's of the registrar plan was that it would not apply to state elections on the 6th february 1960 the colonial treasurer imposed penalties of 200 each on car mine guida of warwiek and luigi copello of hamilton for trafficking in uncustomed goods seven gold rings contrary to the provisions of the revenue act 1899 other changes saw leopor moss replacing mr mr leopards giving banquet in honour of dr galloway john g bassett as secretary and mr milton britto succeed ing mr doc anderson as trea surer the vice-presidency re mained unchanged in the hands of mr archie minors the assistant secretary is mr oliver caisey the house of assemhly agreed without hesitation on monday to vote 200,000 to the hospital building reserv fund after mr gilbert a cooper chairman of the fin ance committee stated that the balance in the treasury at the l.eginning of the year was 591,789 the plan is to use a blue streak intermediate-range i issile which has not been tested yet but is said to have a range of 2,500 miles and a tlack knight missile which was tested last year in austra lia and travels 500 miles to put a space capsule weighing about 200 pounds the explanation the man un ashamedly gave the court was my girl just had a kid in sentencing durrant mr grey told him his offence had been aggravated by his sum moning his friends to help him when he was arrested with the shoes concealed under his cjothing personal and social the leopards club are spon soring a banquet tomorrow night at 7 o'clock in houour of rev b a galloway former pastor of st paul a.m.e church hamilton who will return to his home in the united states on friday after fulfilling a number of preach ing engagements during the past two weeks however there arc many senators mcluding some he publicans who have reserva tions about the workability of mr rogers court referee plan ihese doubts have recently been reinforced by circulation lure of a critique of the pro posal prepared by three yale law professors the three pro members who will serve on the management committee to gether with the officers are messrs eric dowling ross manders s o lightbourne herbert w simons leon rob iiison laurie pearman syl van musson rudolph richard son and earl bascome mr cooper said the revenu during january exceeded expenditure by 126.916 making the balance 719„705 it was anticipated lie went on 1hat requests for revotes will come forward amounting to 163,000 which would reduce the balance to 556.705 this apparently ends reports that the united states would provide the rocketry some time thia year to put a british space capsule into orbit the air ministry said tonight that no definite plan for such a firing had been made mr and mrs samuel joell of marble villa warwick entertained about 40 of their friends last wednesday night when they observed their 34th wedding anniversary mrs the customs officers who caught the docker were forced to release him because of his foul language and the hostility of the friends who congregated round him continued on page 6 g diet delightfully with diet delight . ->