Blytheville Courier News (Newspaper) - May 26, 1965, Blytheville, Arkansas BLYTHEVILLE COURIER NEWS VOL 61 BLYTHEVILLE ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY MAY 26 1965 20 PAGES FIVE CENTS Outlaw Billboards And Junkyards Along Main Highways LBJ Says By FRANCES WASHINGTON AP ident Johnson asked Congress today to ban billboards and un- sightly junkyards along busy highways And he sought funds for highway beautification In a letter to officials of the Senate and House Johnson put forth these sweeping and con- proposals one day after the close ot a White House conference on natural beauty The most controversial of the presidential ions was his plan to control out- door advertising In he told Con- gress such controls would re- quire that no advertising signs be erected in areas within feet of the pavement and visible to the passing motorists ing signs would have to be re- moved by July 1 1970 Johnson said that if Congress agrees no states could receive federal highway aid after Jan 1 1968 unless they control bill- boards along interstate and primary roads the most ily traveled highways Bill- hoards still would be permitted however along routes zoned or used primarily for commercial or industrial purposes controls over In proposing junkyards Johnson I recommend that as a con- dition of receiving federal aid be effectively screened or re- moved by July 1 1970 The President said some states might lack adequate lice powers to control outdoor advertising and junkyards Where this is the he said the federal government would be authorized to pay its states must exercise control I share of the cost of purchase or along the entire interstate and j condemnation primary systems No new In submitting a package of yards could be established four bills Johnson was doing in feet of the pavement and visible to the motorist Ex- isting junkyards would have to just what the delegates to the natural beauty conference wanted am Restricting Plans Stall Legislature By JOHN R STARR Associated Press Writer LITTLE ROCK AP Hie Arkansas Legislature entered the third day of its special sion today with only one major item of business disposed of in either house The odds improved Tuesday that the session will stretch far Into next week and maybe ther The Rouse rejected a redistricting plan which appeared sure of passage and approved one that apparently had so little support that a licate was not introduced in the gemte opening day Monday This means the legislature cannot possibly settle the Meting question until Friday and possibly not then unless the Senate te ready to go along with the plan the House seems to pre- ftr TOs plan was advanced by Sebastian County Rep Bernice Kizer and St Francis County Clarke Kinney It has been around a long time The authors showed it around during the regular session but it was for- gotten in the fanfare over a plan drawn up by Monroe County Rep Doris and Sen Dorathy Allen of Brinkley The bills were introduced simultaneously in both Houses Monday and the skids appeared greased for their proposal The two women legislators have spent a lot of time in recent months meeting with legislators around the state to get assurances of support The assurances evaporated quickly Tuesday The House first destroyed the population balance in the McCastlain by amending it and then proved the 8 Mrs McCastlain was struck She even failed in an at- tempt to amend the ney to move her county from the proposed 1st District into the 2nd District where she wants it She said she still expects those who promised to vote for her considered in the Senate this means it will also be passed probably today Mrs Allen tried vainly to get her considered in the enate Tuesday but the Senate refused to bring it to a vote because printed copies had not been on the desk for 24 hours House passage of the UF Names Budget Group tee Crowe has been named chairman of Blytheville United budget committee UF Chairman Toler Buchanan today Members of his committee ere Mrs W J Corner and Tomlinson This group will review get requests of the various United Fund cies and sub- recommendations to t h e Kind's beard of Kinney does not mean It will become law Besides the Allen the Senate has a redistricting by Sen Thomas Penn and the House got ne wones Tuesday by ier County Rep George Davis Rep Talbot Feild Jr of stead County and Rep Marion Crak of Little River County and by Feild alone The administration ly decided Tuesday to give a choice between in- creasing the diesel fuel tax three cents a gallon as mended by the Legislative Council and increasing it two cents a gallon The disel tax increase is part Dr Davis Is BHS Speaker HHS Plans Told Dr Granville Davis dean of continuing education at western at Memphis will de- liver the commencement ad- dress to members of the ville High School graduating class Friday Commencement exercises will be held at 8 p.m in the ville High School gymnasium T E Patterson executive of the Arkansas Teachers Association will be the speaker at Harrison High School com- which begins at tomorrow night in the school gymnasium School Board Chairman W H Wyatt will present diplomas to seniors at both exercises Also on the BHS program are Rev Glenn Bounds Benny derson the high school choir Principal D B Meador and Rev Eugene Maddox On the Harrison program will be the Harrison choir Principal L D Jeffers and other school officials Winners of Harrison senior awards Norma Jean Home School spirit Dr G M Brown arship Odell Tyler Citizenship Danforth Foundation Robert Harris Jr Winnie Virgil Turner Award Max B Reid English Award George Hubbard Jr mathematics award Valedictorian Carolyn Juanita Home nie Virgil Turner Award lette Askew Clarence Johnson Award Salutatorian Marjorie Dandridge Courier News Award Ila Thompson Charlevoix Chapter DAR Award James Clay Blytheville Dis- Teachers Scholarship Postmaster Robbed of a highway user tax package designed to raise million in new revenue for highway construction Gov Orval E Faubus Monday that he wanted the diesel tax increased only one cent which would keep it even with the gasoline tax also scheduled for a one cent per gallon increase Mrs Peterson Dies in Dallas Mrs J T Peterson Sr a former resident of Blytheville died last night in Dallas Mrs Peterson who had lived here until three years ago was 63 She is survived by two sons James T Peterson Jr ville and Bob Peterson dena Calif One daughter Mrs Herbert Swearengen of Dallas Five sisters Mrs Alan ard Blytheville Mrs John Space Stroll Official By HAROLD R WILLIAMS HOUSTON Tex AP Strolling through space at miles per hour about 100 miles above the earth could be hard work for any astronaut The man who is scheduled to take such a walk June 3 is ready for it Edward H White II officially got the assignment Tuesday from Dr Robert R Gilruth Manned Spacecraft Center director The Air Force ma jor will climb out of his 4 spacecraft over Guaymas Mexico during the second orbit and cavort through space for about 10 to 12 minutes before he climbs back into the cabin over the Florida coast The daring feat will be one of two firsts for the United States the longest mission four days and the first astronaut to leave his cramped spaceship to venture into space Soviet cosmonaut Alexei npv was the first human to leave his spaceship He before European sion cameras March 18 No television cameras will watch White His flight partner command pilot James A Divitt 35 will take pictures well Los Angeles Mrs J L Robertson West Memphis Mrs J Estelle Hawkins Huntsville Ala and Mrs James ton Brownsville Tenn Two brothers Tom Solomon Memphis J D Solomon Los Angeles And seven grandchildren Services will be held here Youths Face Burglary Case Charges are expected to be filed this week against four young men accused of izing the Danver Shoe factory on West Main last Friday night The youths ranging in age from allegedly broke into the factory and opened several vending machines from which they took about Police also found several crates of shoes which had been moved to the roof of the building by the burglars The four who were arrested by police yesterday are being held dows The entire exercise will take about 22 minutes White is in superb physical condition He could run the mile fight a boxing match swim 20 miles and do about anything hat would re- quire physical said Dr Charles Berry physician in charge of astronauts health A friend asked White why he wanted to leave the spacecraft to go into space White answered that's what I get paid for The San Antonio Tex native who is six feet tall and weighs 171 pounds has practiced ing and re-entering the craft 110 times in pressure chambers and during weightless UNIQUE ENTRANT Karen Ellis School senior probably is the first cellist ever entered in a Miss Contest She'll compete for the title on June 8 Karen daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Ellis plays cello with the BHS concert band Courier News Photo Planes Hit Barracks Transport By PETER ARNETT SAIGON South Viet Nam AP One American was and a third was missing today following a Viet Cong ambush 60 miles northwest of Saigon In the air war U.S warplanes battered military installations and transport facilities in North Viet Nam on a basis The Americans were bushed Tuesday as they were traveling in a jeep from Special Forces camp at Ben Soi to Tay Ninh Twenty hit a radar site at Hon Matt land and a petroleum storage area at Vinh 130 miles south of Hanoi a U.S spokesman said Pilots reported they damaged four buildings at the radar site and destroyed four buildings at Vinh Four U.S Navy and two Crusaders from the carrier Midway damaged or destroyed 16 buildings at the Phu Van supply depot 150 miles south of with the Viet Cong and a re- company accompanied by two American advisers was sent into the area In the firefight that followed An undisclosed number of FlOSs hit two North Vietnamese river boats three barracks and eight bridges near Vinh ing to initial reports A U.S spokesman said all planes returned safely despite 11 Cong heavy antiaircraft fire over killed South Vietnamese losses were four killed and four wounded The American who was killed an enlisted man was the American combat death in South Viet Nam since December This is one more than the American battle dead in the American war Probably Before Nightfall Senate Set To Pass Voung Rights Bv JOHN CHADWICK I President Johnson's No 1 North Carolina and Virginia J Tn niber T WASHINGTON AP The priority measure the legislation Senate was poised today for passage of a to make sure no American is denied his con- right to vote QUIET CITY IS CALM Blytheville evidently h a d a very quiet earthquake or a mild sonic ment Monday night Blytheville's Police ment desk log recorded eral calls inquiring about a loud noise The Courier News received two calls Both numbers are be- Inw par for a loud quake or sonic boom As a rule the flying in a airplane at police department receives 40 to Air Base Ohio Force 150 calls and the newspaper gets 115 or 20 the following morning Mexican Art Show Opens NEW YORK AP Mrs Guadalupe Borja de Diaz wife of the president of Mexico opened a major exhibition of treasures of Mexican art day night at the World's Fair President Gustavo Diaz daz shortly after his election last year ordered Mexico's dis- play at the fair changed AH industrial exhibits were re- moved and emphasis was placed on native art liam E Gardner wards Band Award Bobbie Ann Hopgood Oscar Fendler Public Speaking Award Watson American gion Award Connie Marie Farmer and Tommy LM Washington best athletes HOT SPRINGS Ark AP Bonnerdale postmaster Otis Ketchum was pistol whipped Tuesday night by two men who escaped with more than some blank money orders and number of western straw halt Mid BDC Endorses Center Library Blytheville Development Coun cil last night voted to head a drive for a civic center which would be constructed ad- jacent to Park The move by the group which is an of most of the city's civic clubs may be the first step in getting the discussed projects started Included in the proposed ject would be a municipal with meeting rooms for various civic organizations and a new library Under the present plan the center would be constructed on property east of park and which would include the area bounded by and Walnut and Fifth Street and Park All of the proposed site U in the Urban Renewal of financing the center vet Ml meeting though one delegate mentioned that Urban Renewal might play a big part in project off the ground Last night's meeting was also the first of the council under it's recently adopted constitution The council has been in tion for about two years During the meeting a committee was ed to select members of a board of directors The nominating committee which went into session im- mediately returned the names of twenty four persons to sit on the All the nominations were The officers of the newly formed board will be elected June 22 at which time e com- to study financing of the proposed civic center ii certain of overwhelming proval When that approval comes probably before fall is is expected to be along the lines of the vote day by the Senate to limit ther debate With a long Memorial Day weekend approaching and Con- gress eager to get out of town gas stove and a leaders called the Senate m Mississippi County Union three hours early today sjon g t Paul Kirkindall said figuring the headstart would today take care of whatever fight and people just moved in Vinh Navy planes made raids ing the night Twelve planes from the rier Midway bombed a barracks area at Quan Lan 150 miles south of Hanoi Pilots reported barracks buildings and supply and storage structures were SO per cent destroyed Ten planes from the Coral Sea dropped flares to minate targets in three separate sorties Pilots of two Al raiders reported they hit two trucks on Route 7 and another on Route 116 about 125 miles south of Hanoi Despite antiaircraft fire afl planes returned safely to the carriers spokesmen said U.S authorities in Saigon said investigations were still going on to identify four planes that attacked a South Vietnamese army post just south of the der with North Viet Nam day U S military spokesmen and the Vietnamese commander at Da Nang had said the planes were Communist MIGs But American military authorities in Saigon said they were U.S jets that had gotten off course A man and wife and their Vietnamese were five small children need beds n jhe raid In other areas federal could be appointed and literacy tests suspended by See SENATE on Page 17 Family of Seven Needs Stove Bed talk Southern opponents may have left and an old couch They have no way to keep milk We think we On the political front a dispute developed over the pointment of two new ministers to Premier Phan Huv way to Keep we imuK we sources chief of The cloture vote three over have their other living problems p Sm refused to the required two-thirds pretty but we do need the stove of much took the starch out of op- refrigerator and beds badly I refrigerator and beds of the civil rights Kirkindall said ure The Mission truck will pick Sen Sam J Ervin Jr j up an donated items The a former judge who has phone number of PO the and has been trying and failing to tack on ments told The way things are I don't think I could even get a denunciation of the Crucifixion in the Nguyen Trung Trinh to take over Economic Ministry See PLANE on Page 17 Portly Cloudy The measure is designed marily to sweep obstacles from the path of Negro voters in the Deep South Negro leaders eral organizations and labor chieftains are united in echoing the administration's call for proval Senate passage will send the to the House where a similar measure has been proved by the House Judiciary AREA FORECAST Partly cloudy to cloudy through day with showers and a few thundershowers affecting 40 per cent of the area this afternoon and tonight and 60 per cent of the area Thursday Not much change in temperatures with highs this afternoon lows tonight near 70 highs Thursday in 80s Outlook for Friday mild with showers and ers likely Committee Johnson went before a joint Airing ike M be session of Congress March 15 during the Selma Ala to urge swift action to prevent Negroes from being denied the right to register and vote The reached the ate floor April 22 and debate on it was generally languorous The provides for sion of literacy and similar er qualification tests and the appointment of federal in Alabama Georgia Mississippi end South Cental eerf eerie V S Weather Bureau Agricultural Service Reiser Ark Showers and thundershowers scattered over the northwest half of Arkansas yesterday and last night while the southeast to 80 degrees in northwest and west sections The outlook for the next eral days indicates some cooling is likely the end of this week and over the weekend larly over north and west tions of Arkansas half of the state remained Shower activity should become tually dry A line of thunderstorms was moving into the northwest cor- ner of the state this morning with the possibility of hail and damaging winds in a few ties in the northwest corner Rainfall amounts since morning were less than except for at Ozone southeast of Fayetteville Temperatures around the degree mark were recorded yesterday in the eastern tbe fUte dawn a little more widespread and east sections of the state should get some rainfall by late day or early Friday High Overnight Mnn Precipitation put M houn T to 7 Ju 1 to thli -11.77 A Bib JM 1
