Beckley Post Herald and Raleigh Register (Newspaper) - January 29, 1967, Beckley, West Virginia News In Brief Of Todays World jiant Shadow Cast Over Apollo Flights M Wire Dispatches MOSCOW A Soviet spokes man said telephone reports from Peking Saturday reported thousands of frenzied backed by soldiers armed with have besieged the Russian embassy for 48 for NEW YORK About church leaders from across the country are expected to con verge on on Monday to express their con cern about the Vietnam planners said Italy Demon tossed handbills at Soviet President Ni kolai limousine Sat night while pro and anti Communists in the crowd ex changed About a dozen persons were detained and a score suffered minor injuries in the scuffle outside Naples Uni latest in a series of in which have broken out during official visit to Bands of maraud ing Negro youths prowled snow locked Chicagos west side for the second day loot ing and pillaging in defiance of heavy police Police said the looting was almost as widespread as the night More than many wearing sand wich through the streets of Jakarta Saturday in a demonstration demanding that Indonesian president Sukarno be The students demanded that Sukarno be tried for high treason and complicity in the 1965 Communist coup MM MADRID Angry students and riot police fought a pitched battle They hurled stones at each other and po lice besieged the schools ol philosophy and law at Madrid University with water The riot apparently erupted when students learned the dean of the law school had resigned to protest the police invasion of his building when students and faculty members supported widespread workers demonstrations for higher wa MOSCOW Yugoslav Presi dent Tito and Kremlin leaders began talks Saturday on their differences over the Soviet call for a world Communist confer ence on Bahamas Adam Clayton Powell said Saturday he would make a partial of the court he owes and warned congress men determining his right to be the rogram Top project officials would not redict how long the delay night They said only that le maiden manned voyage of eath Of Astronauts By United Press International A wave of shock and sorrow t the death of Americas first polio astronauts Saturday cir led the globe their spaceships ad Astronauts Virgil White and Roger were mourned around le world by pre miers and citizens tragedy and disaster were the words they sed to describe the flash fire hat took the lives of the three men Friday as they lay silver in their space capsule a launching pad test at testing for a 21 IB ground was hard to seated to be for a WASHINGTON Presiden Johnson sought by executive order Saturday to head off a strike by six shop craft union against all the major American He set up a three man emergency board to begi hearings 1 on a disput according to the Na tional Mediation woul substantially threaten interrup tion of interstate commerce it leads to a Project Stalled Perhaps Several Months MANNED SPACE calas that killed three astro auts inside a flaming Apollo cast a giant shadow stalling the billion for perhaps several the spaceship had been postponed Air Force Virgil Edward White II and Navy Roger Chaffee were sched uled for a flight of up to two weeks starting But death came suddenly on a Cape launch pad Fri day night when a flash fire swept through the I am not prepared to discuss our plans for the flight events to said Samuel Apollo program at a Cape Kennedy news No doubt it will be several months before a spaceship can be readied for the Apollo 1 mis An investigating board must first complete its and spaceships must be rede if Officials then must start over with Wave Of Sorrow thought the first tragedy would be on the ground asked James administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Some React Bitterly Some Americans reacted with bitterness against the space They said the United States should or at least its race to the The programs not worth a The hould irony goal that was these the die only 200 feet from Although lat some everyone realized day who space pilots would have man s William said Matthews in painter It seems to me we should stop at this point and reexamine the whole agreed journalist Betsy also of But others considered ac even fatal In anything experimental like this youre bound to have Pittsburgh policeman Arthur Paris The number of fatalities is when you compare it to something like the carnage on the nations And in at the Houston Space Center and at the Cape Kennedy space port there was no thought of turning Push Forward The United States will push ever forward in space and the memory of the contributions of these men will be an inspiration to all future Vice President Hubert Humphrey Flags fluttered at half staff at Cape Kennedy and tours of the center skirted the launch normally open to visitors except during countdowns and actual The Florida Senate stood in a See Reaction Page 2 of vehicle tests and astronaut Uppermost in all minds Satur lay was How did it happen and low can such a grim accident be avoided The National Aeronautics and Space Administration named a sevenman investigating board o probe the Clinton chairman of the Senate Space said a Senate in would follow the NASA Anderson described the Son ate investigation as a full re view of the fatal Phillips said the exact cause of the blaze had not been deter he noted the Thompson Directs Board Of Inquiry CAPE KENNEDY UPI Floyd director of the Langloy Research Center of Saturday directed a sevenman board of inquiry investigating the fatal fire of Apollo Other members include Max director of en development for the Manned Spacecraft Center George director of Apollo reliability and quality Apollo 3 astronaut Frank Borman John tor of spacecraft operations for the Kennedy Space Center George chief Apollo project engineer for North American Aviation and Barton of the Langley Research spaceship was filled with pure used on all Ameri can has flash fire potential when Should NASA decide to dis card the fatal described officially as heavily dam it has other any redesign would take even to work out and NASA could choose to scrub the Apollo 1 mission com and move directly onto Apollo a more complex ren Planning before the accident called for three manned Apollo missions in earth followed by a fourth with the capability of landing men on the It was known that NASA had been hoping for a lunar landing sometime in more than a year ahead of the nations goal of placing men on the moon by officials said all along any 1968 try depended on a success The tragedy placed such an optimistic schedule in Sister Resident UPI Survivors of Virgil L Gus one of the three astronauts killed Friday night at Cape includes Wilma his only She is the wife of M transferred here lasl August from Baltimore by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway signal ING egister Is a serious service to guard your right to and to be helpful to Ring Register at 2532M1 at any time lay or night except from 10 to 11 or write The Register when you ccd Information or know of situations that need looking Q Is there a cancer clinic In where anyone could get a physical examination and what it would I had a malignant tumor in A The Raleigh County Cancer Association sponsors a tumor clinic each You can contact the office Herman in the Raleigh County Bank Q Can an army boy have his dress uniform tailored A as long as it meets Army Q Can a person take piano lessons in band at Junior High or Woodrow Wilson High School A according to band director Alan Q I would like to know how Charles Hodel Is and where he Is A With the first week in February Charles time publisher of the Raleigh Register will have been a patient in Raleigh General Hospital for two as the result of a severe A somewhat detailed report on his condition was given in November 27 Bug He is comfortable and is gaining a bit of He is unable to care for himself in any cannot docs not Recovery of any real and meaningful sort seems to be out of the Q What is done with the prescription paper which the Doctor writes the prescription on after the pharmacist has filled the prescription At According to a local tlho proscriptions art kept on Fire Departments Aid Turned Down Grant Refused A long awaited reply from the Economic De velopment Association has filled the minds of the ardent supporters of the Fire Depart ment with Rohert president of the said Saturday that the department was notified that their request for a grant has been MOSCOW The Soviet gov Saturday told the west era powers that dangerous nep Nazi activity has erupted agai in West Germany and demande that it should The warning the official Tass agency sale was contained in messages delivered to the Brit French and West German embassies in Weather Satellite Sends Back Photos Vo Delay Seen On Liquor By FANNY SEILER CHARLESTON UPI Education will share commit ee discussions with the contro private clob liquor this week when the 58th legisla tures goes into its third full week of the 60day The liquor is expected to je referred under normal Sen ate rules to the Judiciary Com when the legislature con venes Monday The upper chamber officially re the Friday after it was passed 6825 by the The is not expected to be reported to the Senate floor be fore the end of the Majority leader William More who also is a member of the Senate Judiciary Commit said he knew of no request for a public hearing which would delay the being re ported out of the Senate Edu cation Committee is to hold its first meeting Monday to begin discussing several controversial These include bills which would revamp the administra tive structure of colleges and universities in West Virginia and redelegate limited authority to the State Board of Discussion on these bills are BECKLEY 5 Sections COMBINED SUNDAY EDITION 60 Pages 187 WEST SUNDAY JANUARY SINGLE COPY 15c According to Lambert OMal assistant secretary with such a project is not cov ered by the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 which authorizes a and loan assistance only to those projects which tend to improve the opportunities for the establishment of industrial or se assist in the creation of additional long term em ployment opportunities or which primarily benefit the long term unemployed or members of low income According to The Economic Development Associ ation has received hundreds of requests for financial assist ance for needed and desired public works Since the amount of money needed for these projects is far n excess of the funds available lor this he we must limit our assistance to hose projects which will further he purpose of the Public Works and Economic Development A spokesman WASHINGTON UPI new weather flashed its first pic tures back to earth 865 mile high view of storm systems over the North Atlan was launched Thurs day from California into a near polar The 29pound satellite is the fourth in the Tiros weather watch system to provide daily global and local Two cameras will take more than 100 pictures a day and immediately send them to ground stations around the for the group The instant weather photo graphs have been especially valuable in improving local briefing air pilots and warning shipping of dangerous not expected until toward the end of the according to chairman McKown D The bills include proposals to provide a separate board of gov for Marshall University and the eight state West Virginia University would retain its present Board of Gov All the institutions of higher education would be placed under a Board of Re The Board of which would be headed by a would coordinate and allocate functions at all the McKown said the first item which will be taken up will be a measure proposing that West said that nothing had been de as however he felt that other requests would be made in an attempt to obtain the needed The Boards of cers and all other persons in in the involved com will meet 14 to decide which action to ac cording to The meeting will be held at at the Dry Hill Prosperity Community The National Space and Aeronautics Administration said tests of will continue for 10 more days before the satellite is declared officially Weather Partly Cloudy BECKLEY AND VICINITY Partly cloudy today with a high of Fair tonight and Mon day with a low tonight near Warmer AIRPORT CONDITIONS High Saturday 30 at Low 20 at 8 Highest rela tive humidity 92 per cent at 5 lowest 47 per cent at 3 inches of precipitation in the 24hour period ending at 10 Max wind from the West at 29 with gusts of 42 mph at Temperature at 10 Barometric pressure 29 90 and Wind at 10 from the West at 15 Sun rise at Sunset at RIVER CONDITIONS Greenbrier Two feet above nor mal and Lake One foot above normal and cloudy with 12 gates open New Gauge at Hinton Virginia become a permanent member of the Compact for The Education Committee also is expected to get into another sticky situation This is a by Senate Ma Leader John Carrigan oi Marshall County which would put the Secondary Schools Ac Commission out of busi ness and make the county boards of education responsible for regulating functions now un der the control of the McKown said a formal public hearing has been requested by Gordon executive sec of the and the Coaches among The SSAC became the center of a controversy a few year ago when it told the High School band that it couh not participate in functions a the New York Worlds McKown said personally feels the SSAC has done a goui job of regulating parti when compared wit high school sports events year Although the organization firs started by regulating only ath it has since expanded ii control to bands and other extr curricular McKown said the problem See Legislature Page 2 Meeting In a top Chaun of Communist echelon meeting between The session was reported as John Am the 132nd round of to Poland left and ican talks to reduce Ambassador Wang Kuo sions in east ten Follow Attack Against Con g Massive Offensive Launched By United Press International SAIGON UPI strategic bombers Giant followed up scorched earth attacks on the Communist War Zone C strong hold with massive new strikes Sunday against a guerrilla headquarters along the central coast of South In intensified ground officials said troops killed 234 guerrillas in a 24hour series of clashes up and down the coast from the northern provin ces to the Saigon In raids the dropped World War II type incendiary bombs from an altitude of about feet to scorch an 18square mile jungled area northeast of Saigon that is believed to contain the headquarters for all Viet Cong operations in South Striking again before dawn the dropped tons of high explosives on suspected guerrilla troop Death Of A President fond Grenade Kills Two Children AP hand grenade found by young ters at play near the Camp ell Military reservation d Saturday and killed a teen ge soldier and two children of military Dont touch the creamed the mother of one of victims as the grenade was anded to the He walked out of the ouse trailer carrying the mis Full Big Dispute Caused By Book B il dirt T concentrations in Khanh Hoa province on the coast about 200 miles northeast of In other action reported strafed and bombed gun em storage facilities and road and rail lines in North Vietnam A military spokesman said the American weapon the Communists fear most made 10 passes across a four swath of jungle in Saturdays firebomb attack on War Zone C 60 miles from The incendiary bombs burst ile but it state police and killed him and two who were behind The dead included Belinda whose father is in and Michael Quin and Donald f ury Deliberating Bobby Bakers Fate WASHINGTON UPI A federal jury deliberated into the side and evening Saturday on whether ormer Senate aide Robert Bobby Baker was guilty of income tax larceny and rand in building a private busi ness The jury started deliberation at 2 about two hours after it got the The panel took a dinner break at EST and arranged to return at 8 By RELMAN MORIN AP Special Correspondent NEW YORK March Pierre then White House press telephoned Evan chief editor in a New York publishing and advised him that plans were being formulated for an authorized history of the as of President John This was the first step in a long and that led to a monumental one of the greatest in the annals of It began even before William Manchester completed the The Death of a It impelled Critics and commentators to join the fray in written defenses of the chief John Kennedy and Robert F on Manchester the one and the publishers on the And it may flare anew when the full text of the book appears This is the story behind the great It is constructed from inter Facing The BLUEFIELD UPI Four teenagers face the music here following their arrest for burglarizing a local high The loot was worth of trumpets and clarinets and a box of janitors views with the principals and an examination of a mass of writ ten Some of the key figures opened their files air disclosed records of letters ex memoranda they die immediately after confer dales and summaries c long telephone The one between Salinger an Thomas begins the Evan chief editor i the publishing house of Harpe edited John Kennedy Profiles in Courage an worked with Robert Kennedy on The Enemy From the it he ad misgivings about the rejected book on the assassina He told Salinger he would pt be interested in commer the after a second call from Robert Ken edys and because of his revious Thomas ent to Washington to talk bout the In the office of the then attor ey Thomas was intro to Kennedy him that this is not joing to be an ordinary com He and Man hester already had drawn up he memorandum of under key document that was to explode some two years It contained 11 third of which read the The completed manuscript shall be reviewed by John Kennedy and Robert dy and the text shall not be pub ished unless and until approved by Back in New Thomas dictated a file memorandum of Jie Manchester is a former re porter on the Baltimore He the Marines in was wounded on and was discharged as a sergeant in He had taken his degrees n literature at the Universities of Massachusetts and He had written a biography of Tohn Portrait of a and was working on a book about the the German industrial and the War when tie was approached with respect to the book about the tragedy in This was in some 10 weeks after the Kennedy intimates say the family was being deluged with requests from writers for cooperation on books about Kennedys death that they were The family decided to have a authorized and accurate ver Maos Forces Gain Control Of Key City HONG KONG UPI loyal to Chinese Communist party Chairman Mao were reported Saturday to have won control of the major southern city of but Peking Radio indicated Maos grip on the northern province of Shanshi was The Hong Kong English language newspaper New Life Evening Post said Red army troops backed by Maos fanati cal Red Guard followers had seized the Canton city govern and Uic Kwangtung provincial finance It quoted travelers from the Canton It was Mayor Tseng and several ranking Communist provincial officials had fled the with many of Cantons million residents following thorn in an exodus to the Hold Mass Rally Peking Radio reported in a lasl week following gun battle between Salinger recommended Man Elkins Gets Award ELKINS AP The six judges in the National Clean Paint Up and Fix Up competi tion have voted Elkins a distin achievement it was announced The award will be presented at the National Cleanest Town Conference in The award to Elkins was for a monthlong cleanup campaign last The who had liked Portrait of a Principals on both sides in the fight that was to develop agree that Manchester did a super thorough job of gathering details and as will be the Kennedy aides ques his judgment in some of the material he put in early ver sions of his On Manchester delivered his manus cript to About a month Robert Kennedy telephoned two of his former assistants in the Justice See Full Story Of Dispute Pago 2 Sunday broadcast that Maos supporters held a mass rally in capital of the key northern industrial province ol Shanshi had been reported taken over by Maoists a bloody tens of thousands of Maoists and anti Mao The broadcast said Rei Chinas army is always ready to suppress the and all It said army comman ders urged elements ii Shanshi to unite to seize all The inference was that Mao s grip on which has i population of 18 was nol as absolute as claimed in u Peking Radio report Tuesday Shanshi has coal and other major industries See China Page 2 Prisoners Riot UPI officials that a said Saturday nigh full scale riot lui at about feet into of magnesium and down to scar the jungle Lose Jet In the air the United tales lost an Phantom jet hot down by ground fire during n 85mission raid against on spokesmen The two man Air Force crew parachuted nto tihe South China where icy were picked up in 20 minutes by a Marine Military spokesmen said Sat firebomb raid scorched he northeastern section of War one just a few miles from he Cambodian It was the second time in the Vietnam war that planes ad used the firebombing that terrorized German during World War On set fire to an area f similar size in War Zone J2 miles northeast of Saturdays raid was a spec acular now move in the American campaign to root out War Page 2 ifs Almost A Miracle Says Addison KOPPERSTON UPI lobert Lee a fugi ive for more than half his went to bed early really free for the first time in nearly 31 a fugitive from a Virginia convict camp in Vir chain gang arrived icrc about 7 aboard a us from where had been excused from a ive year sentence by Godwin Friday after In this Wyoming County coal mining Addison was mown as Elbert Roy a 53yearold family man whose work in the mines had laid him up with a miners lung In Addison was known as a fugitive from jus ice until his but soon ic will be known legally as Clark told newsmen early Saturday that Addison had asked his attorney in Richmond to take the steps to change his mine to a settling in fluence in onco violent was a protective influence Hes mighty she told reporters who called her She said he went to bed shortly after he Clark was so excited I cant she said Friday night when advised her husband was Its almost a miracle to said the woman who had married Addison soon after he erupted at the Maryland Hous fled and then helped guide their of Correction in At least lives m building a of sue one guard was reported
