Athens Messenger, The (Newspaper) - July 7, 1966, Athens, Ohio EDITORIAL VIEW William F Buckley Jr probes President Johnson's reasons for beginning the bombing of Hanoi oil tions THE WEATHER Mostly fair tonight and Friday Low tonight near 60 High Friday mid 80s 159 Hocking Valley ATHENS OHIO THURSDAY JULY 7 1966 Ohio River Valley TEN CENTS Wilson Sets Moscow Visit Peacemaker Role Is Sought INFORMATION Pepple uty director Ohio Department of Development ex- procedures whereby community ment corporations can finance industrial ment issuing industrial revenue bonds and discussed related topics during an in- formation meeting Wednesday afternoon at The Ohio University Inn Approximately 20 bankers governmental officials and representatives of Chambers of Commerce and community ment corporations attended Story on Page Left to right are R B Perkins Logan member of the Ohio Development Finance Commission C Leon Sounders assistant cashier Ohio Valley Banking Co Gallipolis Carl Thomas director of industrial development research Belpre Chamber of Commerce Pepple and Carl Dahlberg director Southeastern Ohio Regional Council Department of Development Messenger By LA WHENCE LONDON Prime Minister Harold Wilson cast himself in the role of Viet Nam peacemaker today by arranging a surprise visit to Moscow prior to a conference with President Johnson in Washington later this month Wilson's chances of success were not rated high The Soviet Union has ready rej e c t e d Britain's peace formula ing the 1954 Geneva ence but the prime ter may be able to open a new line of communication on Viet Nam between the lin and the White House Prospects Contradictory While Wilson ran against heavy odds in his pursuit of peace a flurry of ments by high U S officials left contradictory sions on the prospects for peace talks On the pessimistic side Secretary of State Dean Rusk told newsmen in Kyoto Japan that we have seen no evidence that the other side wants peace Replying to ics of the U S air strikes on oil depots near Hanoi and Haiphong he comment e d that he could not see how such attacks will interfere with a peace that the other side doesn't want On the optimistic side Vice President Hubert H told the annual U S Governors Conference in Los Angeles that there are ering bits of evidence that are not solid or concrete that Hanoi spokesmen are wandering around wondering if there is some way out In Washington tary of State George W Ball said diplomatic reports a growing war ness in North Viet Nam but added a political settlement may be quite a long time Commons Debate Scheduled Wilson's announcement that he will fly to Moscow on July 16 for a three day visit came on the eve of a Viet Nam debate in the House of Commons He is under sharp attack from leftist ics in his Labor party who denounce his qualified port of the U S role in Viet Nam and urge him to make an independent peace effort Wilson will visit ton July 29 for a day of talks with Johnson Some diplomats considered the brevity of the visit a reflection of Johnson's annoyance with Wilson for re- fusing to endorse the U S air attacks on the oil depots at Hanoi and Haiphong Members of the British government felt W i 1 s o n's stand toward the bombings may improve his chances of making some impression on Soviet Union are co-chairmen of the Geneva confere nee As such the diplomatic to revive the talks that ended the fighting in Indo- china 12 years ago rests with them Mrs Gandhi Sets Talks India's prime minister In- dira Gandhi said in New hi she also would discuss Viet Nam with Soviet leaders on the four-day visit to the viet Union she begins day India is chairman of the International Control Com- mission for Indochina ed by the Geneva conference Its other members are da and Poland Diplomatic circles in Paris continued to buzz with mors that North Viet Nam's will to fight had weakened The talk persisted despite the refusal of Foreign try sources to confirm a re- port in the Paris magaz i n a Enterprise that North President Ho Chi Minn had told the Soviets and Chinese he might not be able to carry on the war beyond Talks In Hanoi French diplomat Jean teny arrived in Hanoi last Saturday for talks with high governmental officials but no official statement has been issued by North Viet Nam or France on these dis- Ho meanwhile was quoted in the Soviet magazine New Times as saying there would be no peace talks with the United States unless can troops are withdrawn from Viet Nam He also pre- growing opposition in the United States to the war The magazine said Ho was interviewed June 27 at his residence in Hanoi Navy Jets Strike Petroleum Storage Area Near Hanoi ALL QUIET ON CAPITOL HILL Twas The Midsummer Recess SAIGON South Viet Nam Navy planes today bombed the oil storage depot in the Haiphong dock area two miles northeast of the heart of the city for the ond time the U.S military command announced The Haiphong depot through which 95 per cent of North Viet Nam's petroleum supplies move was first bombed on June 29 along with another major depot three miles from the heart of Hanoi The attacks set off a worldwide debate A U.S spokesman said A4 from the aircraft carrier Hancock struck the fuel installation at 1 p.m and that pilots reported all bombs on target The spokesman said one Skyhawk was shot down by antiaircraft fire but the pilot was rescued Pilots reported smoke from the depot rose feet and a fireball erupted from a explosion the man said He said pilots saw no ships at the piers near the oil de- pot but that there were three ships in the outer harbor The ships apparently were not at- tacked Earlier the U.S command announced American planes flew a record 113 missions against North Viet Nam and eluded four missiles but two of the raiders were shot down apparently by tional ground fire The three pilots were listed as missing The U.S command again reported no significant ground action by American forces Before the June 29 raid the Haiphong oil storage com- plex had a capacity of barrels of oil stored in 38 storage tanks 16 warehouses and an open storage area In the raid last week 46 Navy planes dropped 19 tons of bombs and five-inch Zuni rockets on the depot and re- connaissance pilots the next day reported tremendous devastation Oil depots also were among the American raiders targets Wednesday They attacked one storage area 36 miles north of Hanoi By KELLY SMITH WASHINGTON Twas the midsummer recess on Capitol Hill Not a thing ivas stirring not even a From office to office each corridor and hall Senate and House staffs were having a ball A no came the refrain The con- home kissing ba- bies With the boss gone there's more time for brunch More time for flirting for knitting and lunch Two hours at the beauty shop nobody's countin A walk on the lawn leisurely lunch by the fountain No buzzers fpr roll calls fewer phones jingling Get on the elevator without even ringing Kennedy's rafting Morse went to Wisconsin Someone's in the White House and it isn't Johnson Fulbright's out of pocket and Teddy went north mire had five parades to brate his Fourth Tourists still flock to the Capitol with questions With children sun tan oil and gestions In big empty chamb e r s amid great dins e n are hammering and cleaning out bins Lest Congress return day and wail in dismay some staffs put in work before they play One office has installed a new red nig Owner Joe Karth will have reason to be smug Another office proved it- self deftly adroit by fixing a typewriter for of De- troit Voters ignore the recess and write stacks of mail forts to ignore it are of no avail It comes by the bushel fills all the desks There are de- mands to be answered many requests So between brunches and lunches and beauty shop there's a continuous huddle by the old mail drop Then it's time for coffee milk and tea But one is can she It's Goldie Pence of the Stennis compound My big she said was not out of town Governors Avoid Endorsement Of Viet Policies By JACK BELL LOS ANGELES UP Republican governors circled cautiously today around a blanket endorsement on what President Johnson has done in Viet what he may do in the indications they are itching to make this an issue in the No- elections There was a great deal of political on both sides as the annual Conference ed a vote on a watered-down version of an endorsement of Johnson's global policies There was an attendant erness on the part of all con- cerned to reassure the ing men in Viet Nam they Hardship Discharges Involved New Policy Announced By Defense Department WASHINGTON ff The Pentagon authorized day the hardship discharge of U S servicemen who are the sole surviving sons in their families The announcement said the new policy effective im- mediately will apply to the armed forces except during the period of war or national emergency declared by the Congress The Viet Nam war does not fall into this classification The new policy was laid down in a memorandum July 1 from Assistant Plans Facility At Gallipolis GALLIPOLIS Plans were announced today for tion of a new plant to facture small motors in polis J Harold Karr president of Manufacturing Co of Springfield Ohio said Minnesota Town OK ARGYLE Minn Medical authorities said today they thought everything will be all right in this western Minnesota village which was accidentally ed with a poisonous chemical Precautions continued ever Personnel from the Grand Forks N D Air Force base set up an emergency hospital ir the dty auditorium at by Warren In case it is ed the plant is part of the firm's expansion plans which were unveiled in Springfield Myers said a square foot building is to be con- on Route 35 west of Gallipolis near the Evans warehouse Construction is to begin soon Estimated construction costs and the number of sons the plant is to employ were not released Products from the lis plant Karr said are to in- clude small electrical motors and motor components and will be used to supply plants at Springfield and hi Tenn motor facilities have been located in Memphis since 1963 Karr said the Gallipolis plant is the first step in de- centralization of motor duction i Defense Thomas D Morris to the secretaries of the Army Navy and Air Force Morris is in charge of manpower His brief memo To preclude possible in- equities concerning sole viving sons military nel who become qualified sole surviving sons quent to their enlistment or induction will be afforded the opportunity to apply for a hardship discharge with favorable consideration re- therefrom Such hardship e s are open to men whose er and or brothers or ters have been killed in line of military duty died of wounds accidents or disease or have been totally disabled physically or mentally as a result of hazards incident to their service in the armed forces since September 1940 Two Ohioans Are Among 1st Finishers CLEARWATER Fla Forty-three planes piloted by lady fliers in the Powder Puff Derby have landed at water another 39 were expected before sundown night Two entrants from Ohio pilot Jean Bonar of Mansfield and co-pilot Patricia Colli of Belleville were the first to touch down Wednesday in the race that started in Seattle Wash Under a complicated and handicap system none of the standings may be figured until the last plane is on the ground NEWS BRIEFS Byrd Slips Into Coma BERRYVILLE Retired Sen Harry F Byrd Sr who built the dominant Democratic party organization in Virginia that bears his name has slipped into a deep coma from which doctors do not expect him to emerge The seriousness of the former tor's condition was underlined Wednesday when for the first time the family disclosed he was suffering from a malignant brain tumor South Webster Boy Is Indicted PORTSMOUTH ff Billy J Eldreidge 19 South Webster faces trial for first degree murder in the June 24 sex slaying of a neighbor boy The grand jury Wednesday indicted Eldridge in the killing of Charles Miller son of a local minister Eldridge also was indicted on a charge of sodomy Johnson Talks With McNamara SAN ANTONIO Tex ff President Johnson has reviewed current military operations in Viet Nam with Secretary of Defense Robert S McNamara an overnight guest at the President's ranch Johnson McNamara got together in advance of talks the secretary will have Friday in Honolulu with Adm U S Grant Sharpe commander of all American forces in the Pacific and Southeast Asia Krabach Makes Prediction Per Ohio Family May Be Needed Yearly The Messenger CIC RULING tool for industrial progress DOD official tells area 2 i TWO RESEARCHERS contend hospitals face in- creasing problem of wrong medications tered to patients Page 4 CELEBRATED MURDER CASE which ed many books movies occurred 60 years 15 P TRAIN CROSSES picket line in gan but without 11 Abby 17 Obituaries 5 Classified 21 22 Patterns 19 20 Editorial 8 Television 5 Heloise 16 17 ATHENS 2 3 24 CHAUNCEY 9 GLOUSTER 9 POINT PLEASANT 12 POMEROY COLUMBUS m ery family in Ohio would have to shell out about more a year in state taxes to meet the demands of the state's professional spending Finance Director Richard Krabach says Krabach made that mate Wednesday and said meeting those demands would have a total price tag of billion in new revenue or an average of about a year per family Each family now pays an average of a year in state taxes he said Welfare demands alone call for increases of million a year above present Ohio spending of million he said But Krabach did not say Tax Revenue Up In Ohio Million COLUMBUS m The state's 88 paid ly million in sales tax revenue in the fiscal year just ended an increase of million over that col- in the previous fiscal year State Treasurer John D Herbert reported today The treasurer said that enues from both sales and use taxes amounted to million for the fiscal year for an increase of mil lion over that collected in the pre- vious period The highway use tax axle mile tax revenues of near million also show an in- crease of million over the previous fiscal year whether tin's would include federal subsidies which now total per cent of the million He mentioned several nate means of raising the ad- money They were a per cent increase in the state sales tax a per cent income tax without tions a per cent income tax using federal income tax exemptions a 6 per cent roll tax of a state income tax higher than California's have solid support at home Although most Republicans were prepared to join in a flag supporting compromise resolution worked out in a bi- partisan conference several of them said privately they are leaving the door open to assail the President for any further steps he may take to step up the war W Averell Harriman tha President's roving dor and Walt W Rostow presidential assistant for tional security affairs ed the governors Wednesday night on the Viet Nam tion Most of their listeners said they heard little new Democratic Gov Edmund G Brown of California said the closed session briefing sustained Vice President bert H Humphrey's report to the conference Wednesday that there were flickering bits of evidence though not solid or the North Vietnamese might be about ready to seek a negotiated peace The GOP members forced the watering down of original Democratic language of a posed conference resolution which would have committed approving governors to lute support of our global commitments and the policy presently being followed to honor them As it finally came out this phrase read resolute support of our global commitments Rhodes Seeks Ohio As Site For 68 Meet LOS Gov James A Rhodes was prepared today to launch a campaign which would bring the 1968 National Governors Conference to Cincinnati Rhodes disclosed his plan Wednesday night after ing that governors of a dozen other midwest states agreed to a joint effort to obtain more federal defense con- tracts for the midwest He and Phil Dempsey of the Convention reau planned to talk with members of the current con- site selection com- The 1967 conference ready has been set for the Virgin Islands in 1967 Rhodes held a news ence Wednesday after he and other midwest governors agreed at a luncheon to make united appeals to Washington not only for mora defense contracts but also for tional funds to finance state welfare and other programs He noted that California alone gets more defense contracts than all midwest states com- We're discriminated against in the Rhodes said Rhodes also announced that Gov Roger Branigin of ana will be chairman of an economic and tourist ment tour down the Ohio er beginning Aug 1 Rhodes and the governors of two other Ohio River states Kentucky and Illinois worked out preliminary plans foi the tour at the Midwest Governors Conference in last month Two other Ohio River states which are not members of midwest conference West ginia and Pennsylvania will be invited to participate in the tour Rhodes said Vi
