Ada Evening News, The (Newspaper) - November 8, 1965, Ada, Oklahoma it's good to hear that Motors has cuf the list price of Cadillacs by Of course of prices limit is one fo a customer THE ADA EVENING NEWS YEAR NO 206 10 PAGES ADA OKLAHOMA MONDAY NOVEMBER 5 CENTS WEEKDAY 10 CENTS SUNDAY U.S Pilots Destroy Missile Site One Plane Lost SAIGON South Vietnam AP U.S pilots said they smashed another missile site in North Vietnam today But one of the rockets at another site knocked down an American Air Force plane and four other planes were believed lost in the same area during search and rescue operations Five American fliers were rescued and six were listed as missing a U.S spokesman said The attack on the missile site 60 east of Hanoi was the sixth in two days Pilots said they heavily damaged four siles and four launchers The spokesman also disclosed that U.S Marine planes dentally bombed a friendly South Vietnamese village day killing one woman and in- juring 10 other persons The bombing was due to a mistake in target data the spokesman said In the sharpest new ground action 500 Viet Cong overran a hamlet 135 miles east of Saigon COPY Kenny Rhoads deputy court clerk has two sets of twins of her own So perhaps the pecan tree in the Rhoads back yard was simply following precedent j when it produced these twin pecans That's what we raise at our Mrs Rhoads Staff Photo I United Nations Begins Debate On Red China Seating Is Not Likely NATIONS AP The General Assembly began debate today on the annual proposal to admit Communist China The debate was expected to end with the Chinese Reds still on the outside despite the biggest vote in their favor so far ardson of Baltimore Md Speakers listed for the first round of debate include Huot Outnumbered Sambath of Cambodia and Halim Budo of Albania both company of air porters of Peking and on the opposite side Liu Chieh of and another company and inflicted heavy losses on the 75 defenders There were no reports of Communist ties A government force supported by U.S air strikes later re- gained control of the hamlet Intelligence reports from Me indicated more than half ot the 500 Communist troops who engaged U.S 1st Cavalry troops in a bitter weekend battle were either killed or wounded The Americans also took heavy es in the savage fighting 8 miles west of the Special Forces camp at Me A U.S spokesman said 71 Viet Cong were known dead and an additional 200 were believed to have been killed or wounded About cavalrymen searched today for remnants of the enemy unit but no contact was reported It was believed the Communist troops had ken up into smaller groups and dispersed into the jungle near the Cambodian border The spokesman said one of 11 Communists captured in the fight claimed he was an officer in a North Vietnamese unit The story of the five lost related by an official Friday when a group of raided a missile site about 20 miles north of the North city of Thanh Hoa The lead plane was hit fay a missile apparently from the in- tended target and the plane plunged down near the missile site There was a low overcast and no parachute was sighted On Saturday a U.S Air Force flying rescue cover in the same area was shot down by conventional A parachute was seen and a ground signal was received but the pilot has not been rescued A few hours later an Air Force helicopter taking part in the same search and rescue op- was hit and knocked down The four men aboard the helicopter parachuted and one the flight mechanic was picked up He suffered minor burns The other three men aboard the helicopter are listed as missing Later in the afternoon a ond was hit by con- No para- chute was observed and there was no radio contact from the gorund Sunday a Navy helicopter ing part in the rescue operation was forced down by ground fire The pilot managed to take the damaged chopper down on top of a mountain and all four men were picked up later by other rescue helicopters Attacks by 45 U.S Air Force planes Sunday destroyed two surface-to-air missile sites de- fending a key railroad bridge and a missile support facility a U.S spokesman said The bridge and support facility were also wiped out One of the raids was only 22 miles from Hanoi the closest attack to the capital so far the spokesman said Navy A4 Skyhawk pilots re- ported heavily damaging three other missile sites north of Thanh Hoa about 180 miles north of the border be- tween North and South nam U.S forces now have reported destroying five missile tions in North Vietnam and damaging seven others since July 27 U.S have given little information on the number of missile launchers detected in North Vietnam reporting only that five permanent sites have been observed ringing Hanoi and a number of mobile unit have been observed at various points Six U.S planes have been downed by missiles since June In the ground war U.S 1st Cavalry troops outnumbered 2 to 1 scattered a big enemy force the savage fighting west of the Me Special Forces camp in the central highlands U.S officers expressed belief the enemy was regular force of the North Vietnamese army American officials reported last week that five regiments of that army were in Vietnam most of them in the central highlands U.S officials said about five companies of Communist troops were involved in the against two companies of air cavalrymen The American troops had gone to Me last week to help lift a seige of the camp manned by about a dozen U.S advisers and 300 nard tribesmen 210 miles north of Saigon In that battle nearly 400 my dead were counted but since then U.S military have revised the figure to about 750 The weekend encounter near Me was fought at close quarters almost said Capt Jolm ardson of Baltimore Md com- mander of the one of the two U.S companies Aggressive Cavalrymen Battle Cong PLEIKU South Vietnam AP They're so damned you couldn't stop them from trying to get at the China and Arthur J Goldberg of the United States Diplomats agree that the Chinese Communists will fail to get the two-thirds majority needed to seat them They also agree that they will get the largest vote they have received since the issue first arose in 1950 The vote in 1963 was 41 in favor 57 opposed and 12 abstentions Goldberg gave British television viewers an argument against bringing in Communist China in a recorded BBC interview day night He said that it does not qualify for membership because it is not and it repudiates the charter of the United Nations The recent declarations of Red he declared make this session a stronger case for the exclusion of Red China perhaps than ever before The assembly is debating an item titled Restoration of the Lawful Rights of the People's Republic of China in the United Nations It was submitted by 11 Communist and nonaligned countries Albania Cuba Romania Algeria Burundi bodia the Congo Brazzaville Ghana Guinea Mali and Syria The 11 sponsors are still working on a resolution Diplomatic sources said they had agreed it should invite the Chinese Com- to take China's place in all organs but they were still discussing whether it should call for the removal of the Chinese Nationalists came under blistering fire over the weekend near Me and To Students will put more students in college next year with federal help Johnson returning to the campus of Southwest Texas i State College where he received moderate to heavy degree in 1930 a brief fling as a school dropout They fought back and inflicted offered this assessment of the heavy losses on the enemy broad new to be it means that a high school SAN MARCOS Tex AP -1 versity in the U.S and not be President Johnson flew to his away because his family old college here today to sign poor education he said Asserting that education is casualties regulars Richardson and anywhere in this country citizenship and greater produc men counted 56 enemy bodies to any college or uni tnp the ones their comrades couldn't carry away The battle began at Saturday near the key outpost at Plai Me that the Communists fought so hard to get but couldn't Richardson was trapped aloft in an observation helicopter when his men were hit after they tracked the Communists and caught up with them He Lewis Watson his son supervised the defense while I Gregg and another passenger no longer a luxury but a Johnson said in a speech prepared for the outdoor signing In alone the next school year young men and women will be enrolled in col- lege who but for the provisions of this would never have gone past high school We will reap the rewards of their wiser for decades to Watson Injured In Plane Crash Turns Out For Four Rallies By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Burning crosses and memori- al services highlighted Ku Klux Klan rallies held over the end in four states Klansmen spectators and some hecklers turned out in Rising Sun Chesapeake Va Lebanon Ohio and Tex The rally at Rising Sun the first in Maryland in more than 40 years drew a crowd day night that newsmen mated at about However Vernon acting head of the state klavern said there were at least cars counted before the counter got tired and quit The Maryland rally featured memorial services for Daniel Burros a New York Klan leader who killed himself when his Jewish background was dis- closed and Matt Murphy Jr a Klan attorney from ham Ala who was killed in an auto accident Last Friday Georgia Grand side the robed men at one point and sang the civil rights song We Shall Overcome When McPhail attempted to read a speech at the Capitol students began an impromptu pep rally The Ohio rally Saturday nicht came after authorities in boro Ind prohibited a ing in their state with a court order James R Venable of Stone Mountain Ga imperial wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan denounced newsmen at the Ohio rally as a menace to the Gospel The newsmen come out here and then tell lies about us Virginia KKK leader Marshall Kornegay formerly of Raleigh spoke to rallies of about 350 Friday night and night in a peanut field near Chesapeake Kornegay who was substituting for Robert Shelton of Tuscaloosa Ala im- hovering overhead His men ambushed an enemy supply unit close to the edge of a big clearing They killed five and pursued the others into some trees ers began firing from high ground to the east One U S platoon moved to take the high ground Suddenly the whole line around them opened Richardson said They were trees They were in bushes a lot had bushes tied to them Most had automatic weapons They gave hardly any muzzle flash and no smoke They were j impossible to spot i The Americans were forced into a ditch just below the rise Then the enemy tried to circle behind and cut off the platoon heading for the high ground but the platoon turned and slashed through its attackers They got to within 10 feet of Bonnie Chamberlin lously walked away from a plane crash Sunday near Dallas The crash happened at about a m son Gregg and Miss berlin an SMU student from Amarillo Tex had landed at a small strip between Denton and Dallas They thought they had landed at a strip where Ada High School Sets Open House For Wednesday A special open house is set for Wednesday at Ada High School part of the activites planned during American cation Week my men Richardson said It j dents was almost hand to fighting Parents of high school are especially urged to hand attend The affair is slated from to 4 p.m Teachers will be high The platoon took the ground and opened up with withering fire into the enemy That's what saved ardson said j machine-gun fire and kept going from man to man caring for available to counsel with ents Members of the homas will serve as guides The event will open with a brief assembly Refreshments will be served in the cafeteria Mrs W I Decker Mrs Doyle McCoy Dragon Calvin Craig said a wizard of the United congressional investigation the Klan in Washington has produced new interest and a million dollars a day worth of for the KKK The Texas march called a success by Exalted Cyclops Royce McPhail of Crockett was marked by taunts and jeers from spectators as the robed Klansmen walked five blocks to the steps of the state Capitol Sunday Five men identified as members of the American Nazi party walked with the Klan group A group of students including several Negroes marched be- the wounded until he died A young lieutenant Shipman through the spine dragged hostesses self behind a log and directed and will Mrs be Klans of America said the Klan has got to get into the political arena by endorsing dates Elsewhere on the racial scene a Negro father of six was town about 20 miles east of Jackson Sheriff T H Shivers said Con- shot to death Sunday in hatchie Miss a small his men by radio until the Com- were driven off Other medics died at their posts or watched men die be- cause evacuation helicopters could not reach them in Sime While Richardson's men fought to break out of the trap a second company of men hurrying to relieve them ran into an ambush in a field filled with boo stakes capable of skewering a man The troops came under heavy fire and took more casualties than the first unit Not until early Sunday were all their stable Luther E Steverson shot wounded evacuated by Joseph Robert McNair 30 when j ter to hospitals the Negro came at him with a knife A Mississippi Freedom Democratic party official has demanded the Justice ment investigate the killing Sgt Ind Gemini 7 Launch May Be Dec 2 CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP The launching of the Gemini 7 astronauts may be advanced to as early as Dec 2 if tions continue to run smoothly sources at the space center say The date for the start of the flight by astronauts Frank and James A Lovell Jr is Dec 8 It is the scheduled first leg of the ambitious double Gemini shot The sources reported outs of the Titan 2 rocket and have progressed so any date between Paul E Kay of Kokomo I Dec 2 and Dec 8 might become We were in waist-high our target with the possible some sky divers were gating for jumping Another plane following them landed also and in- formed Lewis he had ly landed at the wrong strip One of the men from this plane joined the passengers in Watson's Stinson to show them where the proper field was located The field was short and the plane nicked some trees off the end of the runway on takeoff and crashed beyond The plane was utterly de- in the crash The gas tanks split open but somehow they did not ignite and Lewis who was the pilot and all the passengers walked away Watson and Miss lin suffered deep lacerations but no broken bones They are patients at St Paul's pital in Dallas Gregg 17 was bruised but was not even hospitalized Mr and Mrs Watson and Gregg had flown to Dallas on Saturday to attend the opera Mrs Watson was ing church with her in-law when her hsuband and son were involved in the crash Gemini 7 It was a that grass and they were firing from trees exception of Dec 5 which is a Brave Crook A thief with an apparent urge to live dangerously stole a shotgun from a car parked in front of the Cafe early day morning The car was an Ada lice Department patrol car Officers Leon Luttrell and Dennis Smith re- ported they stopped at the cafe on West Main about Sunday When they finished eating and came out about a half hour later the shotgun was missing Also taken were their flashlights and the clipboard Police were busy day checking serial bers on weapons and searching for the missing gun and the thief Among other things the lation provides for federally scholarships called educational opportunity grants ranging from to a year To thousands of young men and said Johnson this act means the path of knowledge is open to all with the determination to walk it At the same time Johnson said he will go back to Congress in January for money to finance a National Teacher Corps in the but later de- nied funds This corps would bring special help to children in impoverished areas I intend immediately to ask again for the money to take the Teacher Corps off the drawing boards into the he said Johnson's speech combined praise of the new with some sentimental recollections of his college days here and about government's role in education On the last point he Too many people for too many years argued that education and health and human were not the government's con- j cern Even as they spoke our schools fell behind our sick went unattended and our poor fell deeper into despair Now at least we are acting The roots of change and reform are spreading throughout the nation Johnson said he wanted to emphasize that the federal government intends to be a partner not a in tion and has neither the wish nor the power to dictate Under the corps program teams of teachers and recent graduates would try to improve educational opportunities for children in poverty areas The corps would start with about 000 members They would be paid with federal funds and serve in an area only at the re- quest of local school officials u NEWS driving along county road north of in Murray County felt lift at the light of road bordered by tall poplars ruing into plenty of Oklahoma and paused long enough to record the moment on film Just 11 a reminder to our roads are especially beautiful at time of year Try them some Staff Photo City Managers Describe Need For New Measures By LARRY PHIPPS Associated Press Writer There are times when Leonard The college scholarships are expected to average ning from to with a 000 ceiling allowed for a student in the upper half of his class in the preceding year The program also provides low-interest loans for students funds to improve college ies grants to aid small and newly developing colleges in- creased grants for building col- Briley feels more like the pressed father of a demanding family needing new clothes than as city manager of Okmulgee Those are the times he tries to stretch a budget to fit the needs and wants of the more than residents of his own Complicating matters his family also is his boss lege classrooms and grants for j Briley and other city officials audio-visual equipment and Oklahoma have been er teaching aids the continuing book pinch To explore this problem and teaching This was the second education measure Johnson brought to Texas for signing Last April 11 he signed a tary and secondary school at the school near his ranch where his formal tion began the solutions being sought by state cities The Press conducted among city leaders Associated a survey to learn how they are handling the den of municipal financing For the second straight day Johnson and his wife did i The questionnaire which drew not go to services in one of from more than 20 neighboring churches Instead cities ranging in size from less they invited Ray Akin lay than population to the ister of the First Christian Church of Johnson City to con- duct a private worship service at the ranch Aides said Johnson is taking life pretty easy while making steady progress in his recovery from his Oct 8 gall ney stone surgery metropolitan areas of Tulsa and Oklahoma City showed much similarity in needs Virtually every reply cited the need to bring salaries into line with those paid by private enterprise in order to prevent pirating of es by higher paying industries Not only but under- manned fire and police ments were a common lem All those responding to the poll declared the basic income of cities that derived from its water and sewage service and garbage collection is in- adequate to meet modern needs And the needs increase as ies learn that in order to grow they must attract industry In the university city of man George Garner assistant to the city manager says I hate to see but where cities are unable to provide for themselves help must be sought from the al government Oklahoma City taking tage of new taxing powers granted by the 1965 Oklahoma Legislature led the way in ing a Nov 9 election on a Dosed municipal sales I Norman several other cities in central Oklahoma were quick to follow suit and they too will learn Tuesday if the cal sales tax measure will be fattening their treasuries Muskogee City Manager od Wason said a eens too voiced the We get requests for additional services without additional revenue with which to provide those vices for the residents of his city In Ada with a population of City Manager idson said increased charges for water sewer and garbage may be needed so the city can nance services at a decent level and provide better pay and re- for city employes An auto license tax is being considered in McAlester an eastern Oklahoma city of persons in order to meet the physical and financial needs of the community City Manager Carroll Fry said that in addition to bringing city wages into line with those paid in private industry needs to develop an expanded economic base to bring the city out of the area of critical un- employment and to raise the in- come level of In Ardmore City Manager lerald D Wilkins said we are watching for results in ma City and other cities voting on the sales tax proposal be- ore making plans to submit the to his town's committee is working on a plan to raise additional revenue He Continued on Past Two
