Beckley Post Herald and Raleigh Register (Newspaper) - April 22, 1967, Beckley, West Virginia BECKLEY Southern SHOPPING CENTER Volume 95 Hale BECKLEY AP DPI Report Beck Saturday April Combined WEEKEND Edition 2 Cents Hundreds Injured Tornadoes Claim 34 Lives Sent Back By Surveyor 3 One of the first photos taken by Surveyor 3 and televised back to Earth after its soft landing on the Moon shows an antenna boom light line and part of the spacecrafts helium pres tanks and Moon Shovel Works Surveyor Ready To Examine Soil UPI Surveyor after surviving a landing on the moon and brutally cold temper was pronounced ready to sample the lunar soil late Friday with its little power A dry run staged shortly after midnight Thursday proved to satisfaction Surveyor was its muscle and dig a trench on the in the interests of gaining information for a landing of Apollo astronauts within a few The full experiment in soil sampling was scheduled to take about five Photographs would be taken intermittently during the soil sampling for a permanent record and intensive study by scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of The success of the dry run spurred the enthusiasm of project The digging device was exercised for about two The arm was extended to its full length of 50 retracted slightly and then moved up and down and to the right and Surveyor 5 was its line to be equipped with the clawlike soil to a toy in a penny It also like its forerun ners a television camera which has been operating with top Through Thursday the space crafts roving eye had taken a total of photos and transmitted them to Many of them were of excellent scientists although initial telemetry was Vote Canvass Shows Only Minor Revisions Some totals were but no major changes resulted when City Council canvassed the bal lots Friday night from Tues days primary Incumbent City Councilman Avrel Al Ellison and Andrew who opposed him for the Democratic nomination from Ward requested re Council will meet again at Monday as a board of canvass to count only those votes affecting Ellison and Dur Unofficial results show Ellison the winner with 236 votes to Durgans Changes resulting from the canvass were John W Smith candidate for mayoralty from to Curley Allen candidate for mayor alty from 374 to 377 Truman Sayre can for mayoralty nomina from 500 to Larrick candidate for nomi from 958 to 963 Ross Irle candidate for council from to Roland Hinckley from 546 to 549 Cecil Miller from 659 to John McCulloch nomi nation for council from Ward from 185 to 188 Sandy Cumper council from Ward from 81 to 82 Robert Wooten council from Ward from 90 to 94 Paul Loflin council from Ward from 108 to 169 Arnold Mann council from Ward from 120 to 116 Crews council from Ward from 196 to In the race for executive com these changes oc curred Ward Sparacino Continued On Page 11 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS An explosive barrage of tornadoes and high winds roared through northern Illinois and Chicagos sub urban area Friday after noon leaving 34 persons dead and more than 300 in Seventeen were Killed in Bel many of them high school students leaving Fifteen died when a tornado smashed into Oak a sub urb on Chicagos South A 5yearold girl was killed in Stone a western when she was blown off her feet into the path of an and a man in Chicago was elec by a high voltage wire knocked down by high A police captain said nine per sons died at Belvidere High School as students boarded buses in a field near the Buses were scattered like leaves and Police at a commu of about lowered their estimate of 20 As the tornado neared the new Belvidere High students rushed to the schools library where they huddled against the The force of the wind ex the librarys windows injuring police One school bus driver said stu dents in his bus saw the tornado approaching and rolled down the The bus jumped off the ground but did not tip he One eye witness at Belvidere described the funnel cloud as a angry black Belvidere is 65 miles northwest of Oak apparently hardest hit of Chicagos was declared a disaster area by Cook County sheriffs All citizens are to keep out of the Oak Lawn area until further said a spokesman for the sheriffs He said all vehicles are being routed around the First reports said the twister devastated a mile area of Oak Lawn and spokes men at two nearby hospitals said they were overwhelmed with More than 100 injured were taken to Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen where a spokesman said the hospital was filled to capac Extra doctors and nurses were recruited to care for the Tornadoes raked scores of communities in northern Illi Missouri and Injuries were reported by the Kent sheriffs office as twist ers hit the Grand Rapids sub urbs of Grandville and Wyo ming in western lower Several children were burned when lightning struck their school bus on Illinois 23 near Police said 23 students were hospitalized and the bus was badly In northwest of more than 30 homes Continued On Page 11 Hardway Installed Strike Halts Rubber Flow BLUEFIELD Wen dell Hardway was inaugurat ed Friday as president of Blue field State a post he has held since last Installing Hardway in the aft ceremony was Lacy of newly elected president of the State Board of A board meeting which ended ear lier in the day was held at the college so members could attend the Hardway Dorothy Miner Killed RNS Harold of Dorothy was injured fatally at about 1 Friday in an accident at the Valley Mining mine at Mar The body is at Armstrong Fu neral Home in Ar rangements are Carson Back Monday NEW YORK AP Bubbling with new per haps due to a reported a week pay Johnny Carson said Friday hes returning Mon day to the Tonight Ohio AP More than United Rubber under the leadership of their new international presi Peter struck rubber plants in 36 cities across the country The union hit plants of Fire stone Tire Rubber Goodrich and Uniroyal after contracts ran out at A mutual aid pact agreed to by five major rubber companies earlier this month went into ef fect a spokesman for one company Bommarito in a statement called the pact a throwback to the labor baron days of the 1930s and said it has strengthened our determination to achieve fair and equitable He charged that the compa nies have failed to put on the bargaining tables adequate pro covering working condi tions and economic Republicans Invite Help In Organizing Platform The Bockley Republican Executive Commit tee will have an open meeting Tuesday to give city Republi cans and other interested resi dents an opportunity to help formulate the platform for the May 211 The meeting will begin at at Republican head quarters on Main According to a anyone who wishes to attend may do so to express proposals for the A new city chairman will be elected by the At a preliminary meeting Fri the committee appointed James local at campaign Sam finance and Margaret Field ab sentee ballot Plans for ward and city wide rallies were but definite plans are pending con of dates and meeting Prisoner Escapes CHARLESTON AP An In mate of the Medium Security Prison at Huttonsville es caped Thursday while assigned to an outside work the public institutions commission ers office reported The office identified the es capee as Shirley Marvin McDon serving 1 to 10 years from Calhoun County for break ing and Reds Spurn Offer War Rages Near Neutralized Site Traffic Toll 121 By TUB ASSOCIATED PRESS State Police reported Friday Killed on Went Virginia roads this Killed to name date last year SAIGON UPI Ma rines supported by air mortars and artillery battled Communist forces in a daylong fight Friday in the threatened northern Quant Tin The battle was reported still raging Saturday Military spokesmen said both sides pumped in reinforcements and interim reports said 46 Communists were Ameri can casualties were not report The heavy fighting south of the Demilitarized Zone came as bombed trouble spots in the northern provinces in five separate Other attacked two railroad yards 38 miles and 46 miles northeast of Air Force Thun and pilots reported several sightings of MIG fighter planes but no The ground fighting in north ern Quang Tin about 365 miles northeast of broke out just after dawn Friday when a reinforced Marine platoon ran into an estimated Communist One Marine helicopter flying in to evacuate wounded was hit by ground It was damaged and one crewman injured but the chopper man aged to fly out of the jungled highland under its own The heavy raids by the eight engined came a few hours before Communist North Vietnam bluntly rejected an American proposal to widen the Demilitarized Zone DMZ on the border by 10 miles on either side as a first step toward peace French Call Mart Talks For Britain LONDON AP French dip have spread word that President Charles de Gaulle has called for a full new assessment of how British membership would affect Europes Common This development was report ed Friday night as Prime Minis ter Harold Wilson arranged an extraordinary Cabinet session for April 2930 to settle the tac form and timing of a for mal British application to the customs Key ministers who will be at tending the crucial meeting at Chequers Wilsons country retreat near London said pri vately a British decision to ap ply for membership is just about 100 per cent But they allowed for the possibility of one protest resignation that of Board of Trade Presi dent Douglas who opposes British Paper Crews Out duction was halted at the West Virginia Pulp and Paper plant here Friday by what both company and union officials termed a wildcat Several hundred workers set up a picket line about 9 Thursday and prevented the on try of production employes for the 11 to 7 Pick eting continued A company spokesman said production was halted about 5 Some union employes are The Weather BECKLEY VICINITY Mostly cloudy with showers or thunder showers ending lute high Mostly cloudy and turning cooler tonight with a chance of low tonight in the Partly cloudy and cool Probability of tation today nearly 100 per cent anil 40 per cent WEST VIRGINIA Cloudy and mild with scattered thunder showers highest in the Mostly cloudy and cooler tonight with u of show ers near the lowest In the Sunday partly sun highest In the Details On Page 9 The Hanoi Foreign Ministry denounced the overture as a trick aimed at camouflaging war The rebuff left little doubt among military commanders here that the North Vietnamese intended to go ahead with the war by any means they Hanoi broadcast its rejection just a day after American planes bombed the big North Vietnamese port city of Hai phong for the first knocking out its power military spokesmen dis closed Friday that two planes were shot down over North Vietnam during earlier raids Wednesday of them by a Communist MIG jet in an air duel south of Army In Control KING CONSTANTINE Good Morning The News VICE PRESIDENT HUBERT Humphrey told a group of editors Friday the Amert can committee in Vietnam Is one of the real ing forces in the Whats transpiring in Viet nam Is not just a military Humphrey told the American Society of Newspaper Whats happening Is not destruction but construction of a new An the version of the controversial crashed and exploded seconds after takeoff at the Aircraft field at killing two civil ian test A tight security guard was thrown up at the A new agent that destroys a malaria parasite that Is posing a serious health problem among American military forces in Vietnam was reported by a team of medical researchers HUMPHREY Kings Opponents Seized In Greece ATHENS UPI Con stantine of his enemies jailed by an Army takeover and his nation under martial Friday night swore in attorney general as The premier promised a return to normalcy within 24 but added that any opposition to the new govern ment would be Athens Radio broadcast the news of the swearingin a UPI correspondent flew into Athens airport on a chartered jet from Rome Friday Greek soldiers with machine guns immediately ringed the a career official making his debut in was preferred as premier by both the king and the army Kolias admitted in his broad cast to the nation that we deviated from the constitution were to be 28 would Have led to Army chief of staff Gregorios who is believed to have engineered the dramatic midnight was sworn in as deputy premier and defense The coup detat is for the nations benefit and the new government is on the side of the Kolias Athens radio said airports would be open to regularly scheduled flights Saturday and the state of emergency PREMIER CHOU star apparent ly soared higher in Red China Peking wall posters said he will head a new group of six members in a presidium of the Commu nist Already 3 in the party hier Chou recently has been taking an increasingly important role in party Chairman Mao struggle with his enemies side the Hulett Smith predicted Friday that by 1970 export coal would increase by 10 million tons yearly as a result of the recent widening of the at Hampton A 90day rabies quarantine for Ritchie County has been issued by State Agriculture Commissioner Gus Auto Union Prepares Tough Pact Demands ANNA 14 YEAR OLD New York left New Yorks Mt Sinai Clinical Research Center Friday using a kidney taken from the cadaver of a 52yearold a native of the Dominican was afflicted with chronic be fore the kidney transplant operation was suc performed last Hie woman from whom the kidney was taken died of Injuries sustained in an automobile collision two weeks ago resulted in the death early Friday of Lewis of a staff engineer for television station The Johnson administration has advised drug manufacturers of its willingness to lift its Red Chinese embargo enough to permit a ment of drugs to that DETROIT AP The United Auto Worker union added up a broad set of new contract de mands Friday which an auto motive industry spokesman estimated would run into astro Some among approximately 000 delegates to the UAW goal setting convention predicted in preadoption speeches that a strike would be necessary to win a major portion of what now are 1967 demands of the million member The avoided men dollars and cents per hour and the indus try spokesman said an immedi ate calculation of total cost was The goals include a substan tial wage a guaran teed annual parity pay for Canadian auto higher pensions and earlier re among other No specific figures were UAW president Walter Reuther said in opening the con vention a substantial wage in crease will be given the high est priority and the greatest of FORMER VICE PRESIDENT Richard Nixon said Friday if the United States had not gone to the aid of the Saigon govern Hanoi would now occupy South Viet and conquest by aggression would have a green light in The American Stock Exchange said Friday it was ing the possibility that trading In some stocks had been Ralph ex change said in a statement the in indicated certain act ing in were taking sizable positions in a small number of Other mem bers of the public were then urged to chase the stocks on the strength of merger favorable earnings forecasts or technical As public interest was aroused and prices the original group was in a position to sell out at sub stantial Adami Clayton Powell has decided to delay seeking reentry to tha House pending further action on his legal fight to regain his it was learned Fri Rode In Litigants Plane Robertson Will Shun Claims Case Gaullist Cut In Duel PARIS AP Hottempered Gaullist Deputy Rene fought a sword duel with Socialist leader Gaston Friday be cause of an insult shouted during story par When the swordplay was over had added injury to insult inflicting two small wounds on sword arm in four minutes of Smith Hails Mine Law MORGANTOWN AP West Virginia needed a strong law because we were turning our our 1 into our 1 Hulett Smith de clared Friday Speaking to a meeting of the West Vir ginia Coal Mining Smith called on coul industry leaders to help improve the states Referring to unrestrained Smith said it is futile and academic to ask why it took us so long to wake up to what was going on about DST Starts On April 30 CHARLESTON UPI West in conforming with will go on Day light Saving Time April 30 ut 2 Clocks will be moved ahead one hour and nut turned back to Standard Time until West Virginia has Its own luw making the fust time but the federal law lust year supersedes the state CHARLESTON AP Donald Robertson Fri day took himself out of the pic ture in handling of a claim against the state by a Bal timore contractor in whose plane Robertson flew to Florida for an Easter Robertson notified State Sen ate President Howard Carson and House Speaker Laban White he was turning all pend ing claims over to a Court of Claims that is to be set up under a 1967 legislative The effective July cre ates a court to take over the handling of claims against the state from the attor ney generals The West Virginia State Bar Board of Governors meets here Saturday and is scheduled to recommend nine from whom Carson and White will se lect three two Democrats and one Republican for appoint ment to the new Robertson is turning over to the court a total of million in They include a 000 claim by Langenfeld er and Baltimore con firm which alleges it is due this additional amount from the state on construction of an interstate highway tunnel In While Robertson and his fami ly were in Fort for an Easter it was disclosed that they flew there aboard a plane owned by Langenfelder On his return Robertson said he had been unable to con firm airline reservations to Flor ida and hitchhiked a ride on the Langenfelder He said it was making the trip anyway and there was no connection tween the free transportation and the pending Launch Pad Crews Ability Is Attacked CAPE AP Congressmen probing tha Apollo 1 firo were told Friday that technicians on the launch pad lacked the training and equipment to cope with the Seven of a House toured the Kennedy space cen ter for a firsthand look at space hardware and interview of wit nesses to the 27 Apollo 1 fire that killed throe Prior to the the Ollu said In an In he is not that im pressed with the national goal of landing on the moon by 1970 if it meant
