Bennington Banner (Newspaper) - November 13, 1963, Bennington, Vermont Snow Flurries Cloudy with scattered showers or snow flurries high in lower 40s Low in mid- 30s tonight Thursday colder with some snow Yesterday's high 44 low 32 Today at 7 34 Total precipitation during night 02 Sunset p.m sunrise Polaris the North Star visible every clear night is years from earth Bennington Vermont Wednesday November 13 1963 anner Weekly founded in 1841 daily 1903 No 7 Cents George Shea Mentioned For Democratic Chairman MONTPELIER crats are considering a flurry of candidates as they pre- pare to choose a new state chairman Nov 24 The present chairman Jon M Spencer is not seeking tion He wants to run for tional committeeman and de- vote full time to Gov Hoff's re- election campaign Top prospects to succeed Spencer are George Shea of Shaftsbury a furniture facturer In North Bennington and Readsboro John Beckworth a Middlebury auto dealer and T Wesley Grady of Underbill erly Hoff's secretary of civil and military affairs Shea and Grady both said day they are active candidates Beckworth couldn't b e reached immediately for comment Former Congressman William H Meyer of West Rupert stated flatly he isn't Interested in be- coming state chairman and I wouldn't serve if nominated The talk in recent weeks has centered on Meyer to a great extent because of sharp cism he leveled against the party leaders Former Mayor James Malloy of St Albans also has been mentioned for the Job but party sources say he's probably more Interested in running for- tenant governor this year U.S Demands Immediate Release of Yale Professor Iraq Revolt Attempt Is Battled Down OFF FOR PARLIAME Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home waves a greeting as he leaves No 10 Downing Street in London yesterday en route to the House of Commons for the opening of the new session of Parliament Sir Alec whose address opened the ment declared he intends to fight the next within the next 12 the issue of whether Britain should remain an AP BEIRUT Lebanon AP Iraq's Ba'Ath Socialist party government apparently battled down a bloody attempt at today believed led by an ousted minister After a morning of combat including jet plane attacks on Baghdad's presidential palace and the Al Rashid military camp the capital was reported quiet at midday Premier Ahmad Hassan El Bakr and Defense Minister Mahdi Saleh Ammash appealed over Baghdad Radio for unity warned against Viet Nam Army Shows Some Morale Improvement After Recent Coup WASHINGTON AP The more responsive to the needs full impact of South Viet Nam's of the country's 14 million military coup on the pie Diem and his coup on the munist war there is expected to show itself by Easter U.S said today Defense authorities Tuesday reported a moderate favorable trend in the morale and of South Vietnamese troops in the two weeks since the overthrow of the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem But they said there is no sis for judgment yet on whether the ousting of the Diem ment has altered the complexion of the war to suppress nist guerrillas This they said is something that will take time to show Critics had contended South Viet Nam could not defeat Com- until the Diem ment was replaced by leaders Viet Nam Aid Is Resumed SAIGON Viet Nam AP The United States has agreed to resume full economic aid to Viet Nam's new revolutionary a U.S Embassy official said today Economic aid has been ered off in the last weeks of the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem in an attempt to force a more liberal policy Military aid which made up the bulk of U.S assistance to Viet Nam was con- The embassy official said the commodity import program which had been suspended ready has been reactivated and new licenses are being issued This program runs to nearly million yearly No Church Baccalaureate Board brother Ngo Diem Nhu were ousted and killed early this month There have been suggestions that the United States had a Girl With Cancer Deluged With Good Wishes CLEVELAND AP tine Simko 14 whose right leg was amputated Monday be- cause of a malignant tumor which threatened her life is being deluged with mail ers and gifts Metropolitan General al listed her in fair condition Tuesday night Hundreds of ephone inquiries continue to flow into the hospital board A hospital spokesman said Christine daughter of Mrs Lily Simko may be able to re- visitors on a limited ba- sis In a few days hand in the overthrow but de- fense officials replied with a terse when asked er they had any advance ledge that the coup was coming A top-ranking group of U.S officials will go to Honolulu next week for a one-day meeting with U.S Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and Gen Paul D Harkins U.S commander in South Viet Nam in an effort to assess the impact so far on the war against the Reds Leading t h e Washington group to the Nov 20 conference will be Secretary of Defense Robert S McNamara Secretary of state Dean Rusk tial aide McGeorge Bundy and Gen Maxwell D Taylor man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Operations of the South army fell off about 30 per cent during the three or four days of the rebellion which was centered in Saigon said Since then however the army has resumed its offensive killing and ised all problems will be solved The leader of the attempted coup appeared to be All Saleh El until Tuesday the deputy premier information minister and reputed strongman He suddenly was dropped from the leadership of the Iraqi Ba'Ath party com- mand in a reshuffle announced just before the coup attempt A mysterious radio calling it- self at times the radio of the Iraqi revolution and at times the voice of the Arab nation said El Saadi had left Baghdad for Madrid Cairo radio said he and eral of his supporters had arrived in the Spanish tal by Iraqi military plane After a military revolt in Iraq last Feb 8 Premier Abdel Karim Kassem was executed and a coalition of Ba'ath ists and supporters of President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic took er In April after a military re- volt in Syria brought the Ba'ath to power there Iraq Syria and the agreed to merge in a new United Arab Republic But ments in Iraq lost out to the Ba'ath in a power struggle last May and unity plans were shelved The regimes in Iraq and Syria have drawn steadily COMING of Operation Big Lift all troopers of the 2nd Armored Division board plane at Rhein-Main airbase at Frankfurt Germany Tuesday in stage of return to base in Texas The airlift to Europe bagan last Oct 22 and lasted only 63 hours and 20 minutes The redeployment will take 10 days The troops were rushed over in a demonstration of U.S ability to ferry larpe quantities of men to overseas trouble spots quickly AP Photo Some Lift Troops Home Choose Wives Over Steaks BERGSTROM AIR FORCE BASE Tex ing the way home on the big lift from Germany were typical chose a kiss from the wife or girlfriend instead of a steak The first jet transport re- turning men of the 2nd Armored Division from maneuvers in Germany arrived Tuesday from near Frankfurt It started a series of 87 nights due here about hours apart un- till Nov 21 Other planes will land at Gray Air Force Base near leen and Connally Air Force Base near Waco until 222 closer together ever since and flights have returned the have been making plans for full union of their neighboring tries without Nasser's A dispatch from Beirut which made no mention of any trouble in Iraq said that Baghdad Radio early today had announced the election of a new al command for the Ba'ath ty in Iraq troops flown to Europe Oct 23 Exercise Big Lift was de- signed to prove the United States ability to move combat forces overseas quickly and in large numbers A seven-day maneuver with the 3rd Armored Division ended Tuesday While the 73 men and officers on the first plane waited for U S custom agents to baggage they took a straw vote Do you want to go first to the mess hall where we have some big thick steaks waiting to feed you or would you rather skip that to see your wives and a welcoming officer asked There were just two hearted votes for the steaks The returnees were ed by bus to Ft Hood 70 miles north where they were ed with loved ones It was a very successful exceeded all ex- said Brig Gen Keith Ware assistant 2nd Ar- mored Division commander Jet Noise May Force Students Underground FORT WORTH Tex Suburban Lake Worth may build an underground junior high school in order to avoid the noise of jet bombers The school board Monday night decided to submit a 000 bond issue to the voters Nov 26 to build the an schoolhouse which would contain 21 air-conditioned rooms and a cafeteria School board members said the students lose up to 10 per cent of instructional time because of the noise from the jets landing and taking off at Carswell Air Force Base about miles away Kohler Zorin Confer MOSCOW AP U.S Foy Kohler today de- manded the immediate release of Prof Frederick C hoorn Yale University professor held by the Russians on spy charges The ambassador spent 15 utes with Valerian Zorin deputy foreign minister He also de- manded the right to see hoorn and to have the charges against him given in detail In a brief statement the em- bassy said the ambassador a strong protest at the completely unwarranted arrest and detention of Prof Barghoorn and the unjustifiedly long od of time between his arrest and notification of the can Embassy by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Foreign Ministry an- the arrest of the ing professor Tuesday said it took place several days ago but gave no other information The ambassador demanded immediate access to Prof and requested his release the ment continued Barghoorn professor of ical science at Yale has ten a number of books critical of the Soviet system and was here on a tourist visa preparing to write a further book He was last seen by an em- bassy official on Oct 31 when he came for drinks to the ment of Walter Stoessel ister counsellor in the embassy At that time he said he ex- to leave the Soviet Union the following day Earlier the embassy Issued a statement saying Stoessel had protested the arrest to Mikhail chief of the ican section of the Foreign Of- fice and asked for all details Stoessel repeated the request made Tuesday by Consul as Fain to see Barghoorn im- mediately The answer of the Foreign Ministry representative was See SPY Page 16 Col 6 CORE Director Asks Employers To Seek Out Qualified Negroes Four Schools Go Central School Urged for Sunderland Say MONTPELIER AP The Montpelier School Board has rejected a suggestion by three Protestant ministers that the high school's baccalaureate vice be held in the churches in- stead of the school auditorium The board voted unanimously last night to continue the ent practice on the grounds that attendance isn't compulsory and the service is not part of the The Revs Jasper A Steele Albert W Anderson and lace C Short had made the gestion The clergymen said such services should be church affairs because the Supreme Court has ruling School Director Horace Teachout said the baccalaureate service is a class function There are a great many bers who could not attend if it were held in a church And Board Chairman Timothy J Dwyer said he consulted with local Roman Catholic priests who told him Catholic students would not be allowed to attend If the service were held in a Protestant church By NANCY H OTIS SUNDERLAND This town is spending as much to educate its children in four substandard schoolhouses as chester Arlington or ton but it doesn't come near reaping the same educational benefits Robert B Vail super- intendent of schools told the derland School Association last night Improvement of the local system which now houses two capacity grades in each of the town's schoolhouses just can't he said The is becoming more and more serious Not only are the four schools overcrowded in terms of space per child Grade 1 now has 21 pupils instead of the usual Vail made two tions one immediate and one long range He urged tion as soon as possible of a central school to include garten through Grade 6 with ial provision being made for dren in Grades 7 and 8 to attend Manchester or Arlington schools As a long range project he said Sunderland should begin working on a study for an area senior high school Senior high pupils from the town now attend Arlington High School or Burr and Burton Seminary Formation of a study committee was voted at Town Meeting last March Vail told the 25 parents at- tending the meeting that he un- the critical situation had just crept up on but he warned that they must keep the fire going if the community is board whose hands are tied Vail who has just returned from a seminar for dents in Chicago compared program with trends he noted in the Midwest team teaching departmentalization even for the first and second graders and extension of the subsidized educational tem down to in culturally ed areas Mrs William T Day president of the Sunderland School urged the group to head a move to follow up the recommendations There's no point in having a study she said if people in town don't realize educational needs BURLINGTON AP James Farmer national director of the Congress of Racial Equality said last night that an employer should hire a Negro job applicant in preference to a white man if their tions are the same It is the responsibility of the employers to see that their word force is Farmer said It is their responsibility to go out and seek Negroes when they're looking for help and it is their to give job training to a member of a Speaking at the University of Vermont's 1963 Vermont ence Farmer told several red UVM students that his posal doesn't ever mean white workers should be fired to make room for Negroes or that un- Gov Hoff Considers More Funds for Retarded but there are no library to become aware of the ties other than what can be of the vided for each grade He sald he The most startling the teachers who do a fine out- cy is in Grades 7 and 8 he standing job under clr said where one teacher Is doing or the school what seven or eight teachers are doing in the larger schools Vail spoke of one community in the district similar land in that it has no high school which has had a 50 per cent out rate between the end of Grade G and the end of Grade 12 He said he would consider this very shocking if he were a stranger visiting the area for the first time Albert R Lawrence the only member of the school board ent then reported that three of eight Sunderland freshmen had ready left school and there is a possibility of a fourth dropout Lawrence also spoke of ing costs which he said were heavier for the four separate schools than thoy would be for on central building President Holds News Conference At 11 Thursday NEW YORK AP Both live and delayed television and dio broadcasts are planned for President Kennedy's news con- ference at 11 EST day National Broadcasting Co plans live television coverage Live radio coverage is planned by NBC American Ing Co Columbia Broadcasting System and Mutual ing System CBS will televise the news conference at p.m and ABC at 2 p.m IMG promoter Sol Estes goes to a Semite Investigations Subcommittee hearing room in Washington Tuesday called him for testimony big money deals which collapsed In bankruptcy MONTPELIER AP Gov Hoff was considering day a state Education Board proposal that million be to finance the Ing for more of Vermont's retarded children The appropriation would be double the amount already s e t aside for the special education division The board unanimously ed the doubled appropriation at its day long meeting day following a presentation by Miss Jean Garvin head of the division Miss Garvin says that pre- sent funds allow for the training of only 500 retarded youngsters She said about more children could be helped if the appropriation were doubled The board also asked Hoff to form an interdepartmental com- to develop a program to fight mental retardation Miss Garvin said that with a ite plan the slate could share in a million federal allocation to finance the work The board rejected a proposal that increased appropriations be made to school districts which would build better libraries with the majority contending such a policy would cut into construction aid funds John G Kristenson of ford w h o made the proposal said his incentive plan would help the 17 high schools In mont which don't have any rary facilities Kristensen also called for a student's of rights under which children could gain legal satisfaction in the courts if they aren't getting the best tion possible This matter did not come to a vote Kristensen said there are certain minimum rights dren have which should be We recognize children's rights to a point We don't low them to be beaten for example On the Inside Elizabeth Dwyer tries to penetrate the paper Page 4 Undereducated parents duce most dropouts the al Education Association finds 5 County Agent John Page finds Vermont leads In dairying but lags In all other Page G Connecticut man restores old West River RR station for use ns n ski cabin Page 9 qualified Negroes be hired But he contended that a con- scious effort should be made to to hire qualified Negroes be- cause they have been ated against throughout can history We do it for h e said because they have been out of the mainstream of ican life for a period of years The case for Negroes is similar he added Farmer recently outlined plans aimed at forcing utility com- panies in some parts of the country to hire Negroes The plans include a mass turnout of lights and harassing tactics against telephone companies While not detailing the plans last night the Negro leader told the students that all Americans have an opportunity to take an active part In the current civil rights struggle Most of all let us choose lie said Turning to politics the year old Farmer said that un- less Negroes have a clear cut choice in candidates they may not bother to vote at all in next year's presidential election He declared President dy Is backing off from a strong civil rights stand while Gov Nelson A Rockefeller o f New York is beginning to talk about state's rights And I think we all k n o w where that other fellow he said in obvious reference to Sen Barry Goldwater Farmer said if a realignment isn't made In the Republican and Democratic parties n third party will arise The third party won't b e simply rascist he said It will cut across the Negro labor farm and liberal vote Farmer interspersed his talk with recollections of the lie has been the victim of or has witnessed in the deep South In the last three years He blasted the federal See CORE Page 1C Col -1
