Blytheville Courier News (Newspaper) - July 1, 1964, Blytheville, Arkansas BLYTHEVILLE COURIER VOL 17 ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY JULY 20 PAGES CENTS Speech In Viet Nam Has Lodge By JOHN M HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON AP ry Cabot Lodge declared today that the downward spiral in the war in South Viet Nam has been stopped He said we will win if the United States and the South Vietnamese persist in carrying out realistic political and tary policies In his first major speech since returning from Saigon Monday Transit Passes WASHINGTON AP After a five-year fight Congress has passed its first program of eral aid for commuter mass transit systems President Johnson had ly backed the measure Final congressional action came Tuesday when the Senate voted 47 to 36 to accept House changes in the which vides million in grants to cities and states over the next three years Sponsors said it should help it least a few cities to rebuild or halt the decline of transit systems that have suffered competition with the automobile Opponents called transit a local problem and contended it would cost billion for the federal ployed against Communist es in Southeast Asia There has been considerable talk from U.S officials in recent weeks about possibly carrying the war to North Viet Nam by air strikes out he did not mention HeUid say however that one kind of outside pressures cat come from neighboring lane sanctuary from Nam can be at- tacked and the Communist Viet Cong forces given assistance With impunity Lodge said when one is engaged in a tor struggle such a sanctuary must not go But he it should le with this after resigning as ambassador Lodge pictured the greatest threat to this confident outlook as an increase in hostile out- side pressures from the Com- munist side If those pressures grow too great he said in an address prepared for the National Press Club then we may be forced to take other actions to deal with the new threat Lodge did not spell out what used as a additional steps might be em- which Viet government meet all needs in the Held Under the ington up two-thirds of the net cost of any project The state would provide the remaining one-third The federal funds could be used to buy land right-of-way parking facilities buses rai cars signal equipment and The firs transit aid in but the House has DESTINATION NEW ORLEANS These three Chicago area high school students solved the problem of what to do during the summer months Bob Hess Rick Kacena and Chuck Cizek are taking a boat trip down the Mississippi River to New Orleans A damaged motor ed In lay over at Landing Courier News Photo Chicago Lads Challenge River House proper supervision of enter the field The present WC the borders for with support from the late President John T Kennedy received Senate approval in April 1963 and passed the House last Thursday 212 to 189 Mississippi Near Normal Again By PHIL PHILADELPHIA Miss AP little into tional days ago by the baffling disappearance of three civil rights most back to normal The search for the missing trio goes on There are no more anxious groups of residents crowding in this racially were last seen the night of June 21 after posting bond when jailed on a speeding charge Residents of Neshoba il means wolf in were at first resentful of the in- vasion by investigators and nearly 100 newsmen street corners Discussion of mysterious disappearance limited to quick and i occasional jokes A week ago today force of FBI agents state way patrolmen and other in- moved into delphia to comb the hills and swamps of Neshoba County for clues hi the disappearance of Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman two white New ers and James Chaney a gro from nearby Meridian sailors from the Navy's air field at Meridian joined the search by order of President Johnson the of a task force working on a gro voter registration campaign We're not accustomed to large numbers of strangers de- upon us at once ant upon us at once asking a lot of said a local businessman a Last week it was difficult to Traffic Trucks driven by Thomas Trantham Route 1 and Leroy Thurman 205 Coleridge col- at Walls and Myrtle day afternoon Police said Trantham was trawling south on Myrtle as was driving west on Walk when the red at the Both tell if a warning to stay off the streets after dark was ing or just friendly advice At Jackson civil rights ers announced they had dropped plans to send volunteer college students into parts of the state because of a pattern of terror and vigilantism in the whole southwest and in the area east of Jackson Robert Moes director of the Council of Federated summer project said paid staff workers more in civil rights work than the would be sent into southwest to assess the situation COFO is coordinating the civil rights drive by the National Association for the ment of Colored People the Congress of Racial Equality the Students Committee and the Commission on Race and gion of the National of Churches Air About It WINTHROP Wash This case of mistaken bai a air abort ft JWn waa ana Car at RON yesterday morning r to pick op hopped hart aut to qr steak problem by peaceful means declared the United must work for effective supervision South Viet borders with North Viet Cambodia and Laos to Communists from lating them in moving supplies and reinforcements into South Viet Nam and in making attacks on that country in Viet Nam and for achieving peace in Southeast Asia He did not say how the might be achieved There has been speculation that States might ask the United Nations to undertake the Lodge Ris prepared to a report on the conflict in Viet Nam He as ambassador for 10 months before his decision two weeks ago to come home and help Pennsylvania Gov liam W Scranton in his fight against Barry Goldwater for the Republican presidential nomination Lodge warned Americans against becoming discouraged about the struggle in Southeast Asia declaring that they should emulate the of the Communists in what he said will be a long struggle If we and the Vietnamese persist in carrying out realistic political and military policies we will the tile outside pressures stay as they were about last summer By above the in the morning to near Staff trip began June 22 each evening Three men have started much earlier It will end in about boat of shallow draft is powered by an an answer for the question weeks at New Orleans 1 motor They have a asked during the auxiliary motor for What shall we June 20 at about 8 Bob Hess 17 Rick Kacena launched the boat on Chuck Cizek 17 of at Burnham Harbor were sure thankful for Chicago are making a heart of Chicago They when the big motor mile boat trip down the the Chicago River went Hess said sippi Sag Canal and then were moving a b o u t 20 The three high school Illinois an hour when we hit that now beached at Barfield left the Illinois River wall or breakwater II after their fiberglass on June 26 They felt funny to have that hit a rock Sunday about about 100 miles a day jump in the boat with State Tax Take Increases LITTLE ROCK AP State Tax collections for June Feared Dead In Rig revenues for the fiscal year which ended Tuesday hit a record an increase month of the year totaled The three per cent sales million over last year Revenue Commissioner J Cheney issued the tax state's main revenue source produced for the year an increase of about CITY La shallow pocket of gas puffed into a giant blowtorch lection report and said he expects the steady revenue increase to continue at least another six Income taxes were up million and gasoline taxes were up million Income tax off the worst disaster in the history of offshore oil drilling leaving 20 men feared dead The million figure was almost double the million totaled and gasoline tax revenues were was fire in 1954 and almost L C Franks one of the limes as much as the revenues from survivors If hell is any lion collected 20 years ago in get financial support to I don't want to go there The pre-dawn and fire collapsed the C P a floating oil and sent it 180 feet the bottom of the Gulf of HOUSTON Tex AP Kindergarten classes will be bodies were recovered An intensive search found no trace of 18 men segregated in September has been ruled in 18 are probably still Houston School Board has shooting of Jack the Baker at the The decision puts 51 who died Sunday said Jack Bates of of the city's free public home in the Clear and Bates Drilling gartens eight years ahead of according to owner of the giant Jim two hulls with Scores Big in Illinois By CHARLES J WHALEN CHICAGO Barry Goldwater's smashing success with the Illinois delegation prompted his backers today to enew predictions of an early jallot victory for the an presidential nomination Goldwater was jubilant after winning 48 of the 58 Illinois gates to the Republican Convention while Gov William W Scranton failed to pick up a ingle vote This is the biggest boost for Goldwater's campaign since the California said Hayes Robertson a staunch Goldwater and former Cook y GOP chairman Robertson and other r supporters said the strong vote for the Arizona ator would have national impact and should result in an easy he said The three ara experience campers Their parents gav heir blessings on the trip Al have camped with their parents during the summers Two of the youths sit on th rear seat during the voyage while a third rest on an mattress The job o navigating and steering is ed into hour and a half wa ches Stores include 12 gallons o gasoline oil two and half days supply of food a lent and ing bags Since very few mari- inas are found below St Louis the extra gasoline is a sity Hess said Some the trip is dangerous It's not if certain precautions are Hess said We have had a lot of help since our accident he said Especially helpful were Mr and Mrs and Mrs R W Nichols of year plan f Parachute milks i that WH abandoned by Greek when M tin Stovall said Hood shot himself in the forehead with a 16 gauge shotgun while sitting in a chair in his front yard Two extra shells were lying on the ground near the chair He had bit a note to his broth er Ed Wilssn of Blytheville The note read Ed don't worry a- bout me Angels in heaven have Stovall said he a history of ill talked to me did not have health Services will be held at p.m today at Cobb Funeral Home chapel Rev Eugene dox and Rev S W Davis will officiate Burial will be to wood Cemetery Mexicans Call It Monokini EL PASO Tex can newsmen hive coined a word for the topless bikini An headline in a Juarez newspaper said the oUni had made a scandalous Invasion of Mexico of Arkansas vanua win M doted Friday and Saturday hi ince of Diy to Otto a derrick mounted between them The rig had moved to its new drilling spot 72 miles off the Louisiana coast southwest of this fishing town last Sunday Half of the 43 persons aboard were asleep when the drilling crew encountered a shallow pocket of gas under high sure at 680 feet Two others were in a service barge tied up alongside the rig Autopsy Opinion Handed Down The state attorney general's office ruled yesterday that con- sent of a relative is not needed by a county coroner to perform an autopsy on e body when surrounding the death make an autopsy sary The made by Jack L Lessenberry chief attorney general following a request for clarification by Dis- Prosecutor A Todd Harrison of Lessenbery Hid the autopsy dm fa a We plan to do some gar ing in the lower reaches of the river and give New Orleans a looking over when we get they said My mother will pick us up at New Orleans when we are ready to Hess said The three said they wouldn't miss this expedition for thing but don't think they will want to do it again NEW YORK New York Herald said today that Sen Everett M Dirksen of has told Sen Barry Goldwater he will put name in nomination for the presidency at the can National Convention victory for him The poll of delegates was en after Goldwater and ton made separate appearances before the group at sessions Tuesday Sen Everett M Dirksen who had been started the momentum for Goldwater by casting the first vote for him Before the meeting er's Illinois strength had been listed at 39 votes in surveys by The Associated Press The 10 delegates who did not support Goldwater in Tuesday's session declined to back any candidate Scranton although obviously disappointed contended his poor showing did not deal a fatal ilow to his candidacy He said his decision to address the delegation was intended to arouse the public and not to gain delegates at this time He said the overwhelming Goldwater support in the Illinois delegation did not surprise ma or shock me Goldwater although elated over the outcome would not claim the nomination was wrapped up A Few Showers AREA FORECAST Partly cloudy through Thursday with a few afternoon and evening thundershowers High this afternoon low tonight high Thursday Outlook for Friday partly cloudy and mild with chance of thundershowers IM tha tew also dies not require from the director of office of the State Medical Ex- to H autopsy V S Weather Bureau Service Reiser Ark Little change in the weather pattern was anticipated today as a stagnant pressure cell characterized the South A few thundershowers were expected to break out in the mid air but small coverage was expected A frontal system from the plains will approach Northwest Arkansas tomorrow resulting in increased shower activity but little change in the shower tern is expected elsewhere in the stale Heaviest showers yesterday were in north and east-central Arkansas with Fayetteville re- cording 42 and Harrison 74 of an inch white Eureka Springs had 1.79 and Mammoth Springs 1.07 for tin largest amounts Batesville and Stuttgart had 33 Inch showers while had air and Greer's Ferry M of an inch Maximum temperatures again varied with and were in the pleasant IDs In the south and east while climbing to the low Wi In the south and km wan In the upper 60s and low 70s The five-day outlook next Monday calls for tempera tures to average degrees below normal warm until a tle cooler by weekend Normal high normal low Precipitation will average around 50 inch in showers mainly the first of the period Showers the past few days li east-central Arkansas have leviated the moisture shortage and improved soybean and cot ton conditions but Northeast Arkansas remains essentially dry with soybeans approaching critical moisture limits Showers the next few days will Improve limited areas to Northeast Arkansas but bulk of the area will dry June rainfall at Reiser totaled only 80 of an inch an ly small amount for a critical growing month Mwn t A TMT JM t Wli
