Beckley Post Herald and Raleigh Register (Newspaper) - April 15, 1967, Beckley, West Virginia BECKLEY Southern Greatest SHOPPING CENTER Volume 89 Good Morning The News FORMER VICE PRESIDENT Richard Nixon arrived In Saigon Friday for an other close look at the Vietnam war and im mediately called for a mora torium on policy criticism by Democratic party leaders that gives aid and comfort to the He told news men upon his arrival from Bangkok that he was not suggesting gagging critics of President Johnsons Viet nam but that he be the major factor that is prolonging the is NIXON this apparent division at The United States will lose 44 per cent more aircraft to enemy attack in the year ending June 30 than it did in the previous the Pentagon estimated Vice President Hubert Hum praised segregationist Lester Mad dox Friday and criticized Martin Luther King He said King made a mistake in Unking the civil rights and war I think he is in Humph rey said in answer to a question from a panel of students at the University of Georgia in I think it will hurt the civil rights he In Humphrey and his wife ate breakfast with Maddox and At a news conference afterward on the mansion the vice president I am happy to be in the presence of a good THE SENATE PASSED Friday a proved measure declaring June 18 as National Coal The was sponsored by Robert The Senate voted 5326 Friday to allow most Americans to de duct from their income tax bills part of the cost of sending their children to The Senate approved a proposal to allow those earn ing less than a year to deduct up to in college costs for each Those earn ing over would reduce the tax credit by 1 per cent and those earning as much as 500 would be ineligible for any The tax credit would be limited to money spent on fees and Room and board costs would be in production rose in March following two consecutive months of the Federal Reserve Board reported CHRYSLER FRIDAY called back more than new cars to check on pos sible defects in brakes and automatic pilot Chrysler said the owners of 332 Plymouth Dodge or Monaco and Chrysler passenger cars were asked to return their cars to their dealers for in and correction where The company notified thw national safety under terms of the traffic safety act and public notice of the call Cuban exile with a bagful of bombs was arrested Friday as he prepared to board a rented apparently bound on a raid over Authorities identified him as Barbaro Balan He was taken be fore the Commissioner at and charged with violating the neutrality Justice Department said Friday it has begun a fullscale investigation of alleged wrongdoing by Adam Clayton A FRATERNITY MEMBER was covered with ketchup and then sprinkled with feathers and handcuffed to a Friday morning on a traffic island on the West Vir ginia University Police said Rich of Lewisburg was handcuffed to the post for nearly two The prank appar ently was a reprisal action taken by members ol Phi Kappa Sigma pledge class against their police Richardson was un 200 Negro college joined by a few chanted Mack power on a march to Nashville City Hall on Friday to protest police handling of last week ends Steel joined Steel Friday in raising prices of steel sections and sheet These items account for a very small percent age of the steel BECKLEY AP and UPI Report Saturday April Jets Off Target Newt Service Combined WEEKEND Edition 2 10 Cents Friendly Troops Killed By UPI And AP SAIGON Two Air Force jcl fighters on a night mission mistakenly hit South Vietnam ese army positions on the central coast early killing 41 soldiers and wounding 50 officials WESTMORELAND Cant See Any Riot Police Set The two were on a mission under radar control but instead of hitting their proper targets the bombs accidentally fell on the friendly the spokesmen The accident occurred at Saigon about 280 miles northeast of on the central Military spokesmen said investigation was under way to War Foes Rally For Giant Marches Today NEW YORK AP Thousands upon thousands of peace demonstrators were on the move coast to coast on the eve of a mammoth protest against the Vietnam massing of humanity intended through its sheer dimensions to influence the course of American Wind Rage In Midlands As many as were ex in San Francisco and New where police riot experts were on the alert to handle potentially sive A 5050 chance of rain heartened authorities in New under the auspices of the Mobiliza tion Committee to End the War in were on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts from throughout the by plane and Twenty from includ ing seven ended a 20 day trek and prepared to spend the night in New Yorks Central With Americans dying in Viet John vice president of the San Francisco Recreation Commis angrily denounced the spring mobilization to end the war in Vietnam as mass sabo tage of our armed black national ists took to Harlem street seeking to whip up sup port for Saturdays New York Negro including Martin Luther King were in the forefront of the demonstrations on both The Communist party planned a free propaganda distribution of its the and assigned representatives to the protest Said a New York spokesman Therell be a number of us under the banner of our It was this including Viet Cong flag wavers and known agita which aroused the appre hension of By United Press International A violent storm network that with the heaviest snowfall in a flash flood ever at Baton drove tornadoes through the corn belt to the outskirts of Chicago An rainfall at Baton Rouge spilled flood waters through the Louisiana capital and forced at least 300 persons from their Tornado funnels swirled over Chicagos northwest Hail the size golf balls and violent wind gusts shattered windows in the Another twister unroofed a silo and uprooted trees 25 miles southwest of 12foot waves swamped a 72foot tow boat on the Mississippi River at Nau leaving one of four crewmen Winds up to 60 miles an hour forced water under the plastic sheets protecting dikes holding the flooding Mississippi River out of East A call went out for volunteers to bolster the levees with sand Heavy rains spilled runoff into Mississippi River causing revision upward of predicted flood crests in the main Bartons Top Aide Tax Evasion Is Charged To Trent CHARLESTON AP For mer prominent state official Curtis Trent has been in on charges of evading payment of in federal in come taxes in a peri it was disclosed A federal grund jury at Blue field returned the sealed indictment at Bluefield last It was made pub lic here after being served on who has practiced law in Charleston since leaving state government in The attorneys office here said arraignment of Trent had been set for May was the right hand man of Bar ren at the statehouse for eight first when Barren was at torney general and then through Barrens term as The three counts of the indict ment cover the years 1961 and The indictment charges that in those years Trent had total tax able income of but ported only on his tax re and that he owed total taxes of for the period Continued On Page 2 determine the cause of The Vietnamese troops were located in the area where American Air Cavalrymen are conducting Operation William West moreland said he believes though there are many trends favorable to the it is impossible to say how long the Vietnam war will I cant see any end in the commander in Viet nam said in an A husky who has seen the American commit ment grow from about advisers to more than fighting men since he took over in June Westmoreland con siders victory will be a very fragile thing unless the politi cal war matches the military He expressed belief the latest pacification drive is off to a good One sure he is the increase hi Commu nist attacks on Vietnamese pa cification teams pursuing this other war hi village areas contested by the Viet The enemy fears that the is effectively work ing now right at the core of the problem in he The Communists want people without government leadership and Another accident involving a Marine jet occurred late Friday at Da Nang spokesmen but there were no The jet accidentally fired 19 rockets while it was being armed for a strike Fifteen of the rockets hit The other four rockets went over the embankment and hit an earth mover and a textile causing some To the 400 planeloads o crack Army infantry troops arrived to reinforce Marines facing four Communist divisions in an area said to be crawling with Viet The movement of the entire 196th Light Infantry Brigade of about men from its previous War Zone C sector near the Cambodian border marked the first time that Army troops were being sta hi force hi the northern frontier area the preserve of Marines and mese It was completed Friday in the wake of a wave of harassing attacks by Viet Cong troops in the area of the northern provincial capital of Quang Tri and guerrilla strikes that blew up key bridges along the land supply route even as the fresh Army troops were being airlifted Viet Cong guerrilla bands struck again Friday just south of Quang hitting the base station of Tan Thanh in a lightning raid that cost them six dead before they faded away in the predawn In the Mekong Delta south west of South mese troops ringed an estimat ed three Viet Cong battalions Friday and tore into them from all killing a reported 20 spokesmen College Girls Take To The Rooftop Where the girls are on days is this dormitory roof top at Winthrop Col lege in Rock Look around a bit and you cain find one girl in stand ing Fock Gains Trio Unloading Trash 2 Post Dies ln In Hungary Coed Seeks OneYear Marriage Pact PHILADELPHIA AP Will someone please marry me lor a year I am Thus began an advertisement In the Daily the University of undergraduate This is the only way for jun ior women to got out of Penns it and wan signed Liz with the telephone 594 5351 Attractive Miss who is 19 and has reddish says the telephone calls have been pouring in since the ad ran in Thursdays She explained that she feels its Just about impossible to be a serious student at Penn and live in a womens She describes htr dorm as screaming She wants to get married for one long enough to see her through her junior The following as a she is free under university rules to move into an apartment by her The major qualification Of the man she is seeking is that he have an from that she wants someone who is someone I can talk Miss of New Ro is majoring in in She plans to take seven courses next se two over the normal five course Her present average is IN Miss Freedman emphasized that she is looking for a ic Goal Gained By Johnson PUNTA DEL Uruguay AP President Johnson car ried home Friday most of the things he shopped for at the summit pledges for a Latin American common market and a better life for the Only President Otto na of Ecuador balked at signing the final Declaration of the Presidents of appar ently could whip up no support for his demands for greater Some is other Latin American representatives at the interAmerican summit confer ence glowered at before signing the declaration calling for economic growth in farms and more ex port earnings and expanded I return to my country in good Johnson said in a shortly before leaving by plane for I am con that the leaders of Latin America are serious and deter mined to develop their When the Latin American common market is supposedly by this will alter the whole economy of the hemisphere and will have con sequences in every sector of social and political organiza Johnson Tories Gain In Britain LONDON AP The hungry Tory party vaulted into local power hi Englands strategic including vast and served notice on Prime Minister Harold Wilsons La bor government Friday night that a search for skeletons in the closet is This search is to turn out whatever the Con servatives find to put muscle in their drive toward a return to national even though Wilson has another fouryear mandate an emergency should arise in Hungary AP Jenoe a reformist specializing in was named premier of Hungary on Friday in a government fle that also saw President 1st van Dobi Fock replaces Gyula the 2 Communist behind party leader Janos Kal lai was named president of the new 349member Parliament elected last At Dobi presumably re signed because of ill The new president is Pal a farming expert who has been minister of agriculture since Western diplomats hi Vienna Siaw Kallais transfer as a de since East European parliaments have little author They said Kallai was less liberal than is expected to try to carry out a reform to combine the best of a free market econo my with those of Communist This reform becomes operative next 1 and is said to exceed similar ventures else where in Eastern Fock moved up from deputy A veteran he has held a variety of govern ment and party HUNTINGTON AP Three men unloading trash from a truck trailer at a burning dump died hi a fire Friday after blaz ing scraps blew into the trailer and ignited the They were trapped hi the steel sided trailer when the heavy canvas top caught fire and feU on Firemen identified the victims as Gary of Chesa Ohio George of near and Lar ry of all employes of the Traffic Toll 112 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS State police reported Friday Killed on West Virginia roads this Killed to this date last year division Gibsons glass container plant The two were not The trips in the combina hauling trash from the Ow plant in West Hun ington to the nearby company The fatal fire happened short ly before 2 Paul of an 01 employe who was the truck was nearby when a brisk wind be gan blowing burning debris into the clambered into the cab and tried to drive the rig away from the fire But the rear of the trailer caught on er parked truck and stopped the was not The deaths raised the number of fire fatalities in Huntington this year to Willing To Romney Declares Chicago Walkout Ends 000 Is Stolen lir A n T v T msx A M WASHINGTON AP Federal officials struggling to unravel assorted labor snarls gained a respite Friday a Chicago truck was called off at least But they still were striving to resolve a postponed nationwide rail walkout and head a strike against helicopter engine produc Parties to the Chicago dispute accepted an invitation from Secretary of Labor Willard Writz to resume operations at midnight Fri day night ponding a Washington session with him on Goes To Work PHILADELPHIA A auto frag got Its first riday an aban The giant piece machinery it out as 50 or so metal balls the size of The fragmentizing four stories high and 500 feet will bo used to rid the city of abandoned City officials also hope It will mean that fewer cars will be burned in thus helping curb air pol The machinery is designed to eat up be tween 500 and 600 curs hi eight CLARKSBURG AP A masked gunman armed with a toy pistol robbed the non Credit Union in nearby Stonewood Friday and escaped with an estimated police The Weather BECKLEY VICINITY Vari able cloudiness and warm to high Fair 4iud mild to low in the Most ly sunny and continued warm Probability of 30 per cent UPI George Romney Friday said if the Republicans want him as their candidate for president in 1968 he will It was the Michigan gover nors most forthright statement about the Ive made no bones about what Im taking a look at what Im going to And if the people want me to the people in the Republican party want me to dont think theres much question Ill he Romney this does not mean he U now a national candidate for the GOP Im Romneys remarks were la response to questions at a news conference about speaking en he might have In two New England states this The New Hampshire primary is March Science Teacher Ousted For Teaching Evolution VIRGINIA Variable cloudiness and mild today with a chance of a few high 74 to 80 east and north and to 82 Fair and mild tonight and Details On Page 16 AP Gary Scott taught his last classes at Jacksboro High School Friday after being fired for teaching Scotts dismissal by the Campbell School Board Thursday night came one day after the slate House of Repre voted 5827 to the states antievolution The measure is now before the state Senate in Soon after the law was enact ed in it resulted in the fa mous Monkey Trial of John Scopes at 80 miles west of a young biology teacher at Dayton at the was convicted of teaching evolu tion and fined but he es caped the fine on a He now lives hi in was graduated from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville last December and immediately was hired as a science teacher He taught classes in general and physical who resides In Knox with his wife the former Jane of Eng denied teaching that man descended from an Inferior Continued On Page S 5
