Daily Times-News, The (Newspaper) - February 26, 1966, Burlington, North Carolina Weather Partly cloudy and cold night and Sunday Roundup on page TIME s Today's Circulation Beaching More Than Alamance County Homes With Readers VOL 88 -Nd 213 FIVE CENTS ASSOCIATED PRESS AND STOCK SERVICE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN BURLINGTON N C SATURDAY FEBRUARY 26 1966 ASSOCIATED PRESS DAILIES AP AND KINO FEATURE SERVICE TRIBUNE SEWS 26 PAGES 3 SECTIONS Quick Action Is Taken Better Way Ordered In Next-Of-Kin Contact WASHINGTON U -S Rep Horace R Kornegay has been notified by military ties that the armed forces are in the process of changing their procedures regarding no- of next of- kin of service casualties Congressman Kornegay was informed that Deputy tary of Defense Cyrus R Vance yesterday issued a di- rective to all branches of the military services instructing each service to set up dures whereby persons in the military services will in the future inform in person the next of kin of service casualties Deputy Secretary Vance's directive requires that each branch of service report to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara by March 4 on how the new system will be operated The procedural changes are a result of complaints of the present notification practices which permit delivery of death and casualty notices by com- delivery services such as taxi drivers Rep Kornegay tive from North Carolina's Sixth Congressional District had written Secretary Namara on Feb 9 about the Defense Department's current notification policies after learning of an incident in Graham The parents of a 19 old Army enlistee there had been notified of the death of their son who was killed in action in Viet Nam by tele- gram delivered to their rural home at night by a taxi er Congressman Kornegay in his letter to McNamara gested that there must be a better way to inform of the most stunning and tragic views they can ever He asked the Defense Department to find a better way one which en- tails the compassion the manness and the ing which the recipient of this woeful news deserves The Democratic man who recently served as co sponsor of a to give educational and housing fits to veterans of Viet Nam and other cold war tary service took the floor of the House of Representatives to air his criticism of what he called cold and sonal notification procedures for the next of kin of wounded or killed servicemen Under the new system to be put into effect members of the military services will call upon the parents or wives of those who are wounded or killed while in service and will notify them of the Congressman Kornegay said I am extremely pleased that the Department of Defense is changing its policies in this very sensitive area I think that the procedure suggested by Deputy Secretary Vance will help to reduce to some extent the severe emotional stress that accompanies the receipt of news that a son or a husband has been wounded or killed in the service My criticism of the tice which has been followed since before World War II was offered in a constructive vein and I am glad that the department has acted as ual with dispatch and within the dictates of sound ment ROGER INGRAM Appointed Mightiest U.S Rocket olio Aloft Hur By HOWARD BENEDICT CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP The mightiest rocket ever built fay the United States a the first stage fuel tanks The postponement ment was made by NASA at Ten minutes urn IB thundered skyward as newsmen were about day in an attempt to hurl the first unmanned Apollo ship over a course blazing re Ingrain o Heads Demo Vote Drive I The launching was the first of a long series of Apollo shots aimed at landing American on the moon in this dec- ade If there are no major the historic adventure be achieved on the 12th launching early in 1968 to leave the Cape Kennedy press site the control center an- that a further look at data showed that the trouble had been corrected Earlier at the count was halted just four before liftoff when an tronic trouble sensing device the low pressure and ordered a stop The countdown was recycled Reds Increase Offensive by first Stage sive Duster of eight en- OTf 1 i The huge Saturn IB 22 55 minutes and held there iries tall and weighing 650 Ion liftoff blazed away from RALEIGH Stale Kennedy at ic chairman J on the tremendous 1.6 Jr today pounds ot thrust the appointment of j Roger Ingram from Alamance ia County to serve as chairman A tail of flame the length of ja football field fanned out be- the rocket as it climbed tilting over on a while technicians adjusted a pressure regulator in ground support equipment The launching for the Saturn was the IB which first may be the most powerful rocket ever launched However Soviet secrecy on the size of their rockets prevents comparison Saturn IB is forerunner of the Saturn 5 which will be the booster The rocket was to propel the unmanned three seat Apollo ship 310 miles into space and then drive it back through the atmosphere at more than 18.000 miles an hour to de- jolting forces and searing heat The control center reported about three minutes after launching that the scond stage engine had ignited as planned at an altitude of about 40 On the downward plunge a spacecraft motor was to ignite twice in the first flight test of a propulsion unit that will steer Apollo astronauts to the moon and bring them home Nearly 40 minutes after launching the in section of the craft was to parachute to a landing in the south Atlantic Ocean 5.300 miles ermine how well it survives See U S On Page the Democratic Party's Registration Drive Ingram's appointment will be followed By THOMAS A SAIGON South Nam in Jiii v i v and western also chairmen in each The rocket was launched Marines fou Local Concern National Issue or Hie shot at one time was determined Cong attack postponed t o d a y because of near Clui Lai today and problems associated with duelled enemy A Neighbor Started It All By DON BOLDEN Times News Associate Editor Action taken by Defense Secretary Cyrus Vance in Washington day may be a good example of how an interest and con- cern in a local community can develop quickly into a national issue It was on Feb 2 that the Department of Defense in- formed Mr and Mrs Donald Strickland of Route 2 ham that their son Army Pfc Hiram Strickland had been killed while serving in Viet Nam A neighbor of the lands who did not give his name called Times News Editor A Howard White on the night of Feb 3 after the picture and obituary had been printed that day Do you know how the ily was he asked The neighbor then told that Ghana Leaders Free Prisoners By KENNETH L WHITING ACCRA Ghana AP Relatives cheered as Ghana's new military leaders released 450 political prisoners from Kwame Nkrumah's jails Thousands crowded around the massive Ussher Fort and other jails Friday to greet those Nkrumah Among them were Albert head of the Bank of Ghana R S gashie and Mensah The A number of special police coming out kisses tears Many of the detainees latter two were educated in the were feeble and ill after years j United States in prison Even as special police loyal to were reported killed during the Nkrumah put up a last-ditch 1 battle at Broadcast House stand at Accra's radio station Lt Gen Ankrah chief of the new National Liberation Council appointed z group of experts to get Ghana's economy moving again The group included officials whose carefully laid economic plans the new regime said had been distorted or ignored by Undercover Men Seek Violations RALEIGH AP er agents of the North Carolina Motor Vehicles Department are running cars through inspection stations to check on possible of the new program R B Parker administrator of the new auto inspection gram said Friday a two-day probe at Charlotte uncovered one Parker said warning letters were being sent to 14 other tions in Charlotte because un- work had substantiated evidence the stations were not complying with regulations He said an A E Oil Co service station was being dered to show cause at a ing March 14 why its inspection license should not be revoked or suspended Parker said the in- spector Richard D McDonald had failed to comply with in- regulations He added Our investigation indicated the See UNDERCOVER On Page which informants said erupted during a visit there by Col E K Kotoka Kotoka is believed to have led the revolt that over- threw Nkrumah Thursday while the ousted leader was on a visit to Peking Otherwise the country was calm but army and police pressed their hunt for officials of Convention party which was outlawed after the coup The Ghanaian Times ly a special organ of the Con- vention People's party quickly fell into line with the coup j are the Hitlers and Mussolinis of yesterday who used the name of the people to ry to build huge empires for themselves and their the newspaper said in an rial The army raided the Kwame Ideological Institute 40 miles outside Accra Friday and arrested the The students had fled In Washington the State De- said the new military government had approached the American ambassador in Accra on the question of recognition Press officer Robert J Closkey said it is too early to speak about recognition and it is too early to say whether the military coup can be regarded as successfully concluded A dispatch from Peking by Soviet news agency Tass said Nkrumah declared I am returning to Ghana soon He ordered any of the armed forces engaged in the uprising to re- turn to their barracks But a dispatch from Cairo said It was considered likely the fallen See GHANA On Page the telegram announcing the young death had been delivered to the parents by a taxi driver A check was made the lowing morning with Manager George Looney of the lington Western Union office Western Union it was learned had followed such notification policy of war and service casualties since before World War II It was an agreement with the Department of De- fense that the message would be delivered by a bonafide messenger and a taxi driver with insurance qualified An editorial appeared in Daily Times News that day There was no criticism of Western Union or taxi drivers in performing the delivery This was an agreement that each had been following for a long time The editorial suggested however that there should be a better way The was given of the lain Corps at an Army base as Fort Bragg being sible for a region and that a chaplain notify the kin Rep Horace R Kornegay of the Sixth District w a s quick to recognize the need for changing the method He wrote Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and then went onto the floor of the House of Representatives on Feb 9 to read his letter to McNamara as well as t h e Daily editorial and to make comments of his own Response to his comments and suggestions was ate News sources ly picked up the man's position At the same time members of the House and Senate began showing their concern too and added to his support A story yesterday told that the Department of Defense had the matter under gation and that a full report was expected by May 1 Later yesterday however it was learned that Deputy Secretary Vance had not waited for the investigation and study He had moved immediately to have all branches of the armed forces to adopt a new policy centered around ing service personnel notify next of kin and that they were to report back to tary of Defense Robert Namara by March 4 Three weeks from the day the policy of notifying was made public the Department of Defense had taken definite action Editor White in checking with Washington on the policy Why has this method been allowed to con- for so He was No one ever called it to our attention before A neighbor of the land s became concerned however And things happened district as well as i county chairmen whose is to add new voters to the i registration books i Broughton said are that Roger Ingram this position of His energies can bcj used vitally by the Democratic Party in making sure that who are unregistered and voters throughout North Carolina register and ex- their right to vole I is of course a privilege as well as a civic responsibility We are confident thai many people throughout he state who arc E of degree murder in registered will register recommended mercy look two or three occasions lor cratic because the deliberations i 1 J J J mortar fire as the together with four to step up their four rifles and 50 hand grenades Marine Today's attack by about 100 lies were light Red troops on a Marine One Viet Cong who said he unit marked the second time in a stretcher bearer was cap- two days that the Viet struck at U.S emplacements j An armored troop carrier A force of HH Leathernecks trol from the mechanized 5th hurled back a Viet Cong attack Friday at Phu Bai killing three Communists spokesmen said Marino losses were ied light Infantry Division prised a Viet Cong platoon at- tempting to mine a bridge near Cu Chi Friday and killed 15 of the enemy a U.S spokesman i Con basi The jury Party has provided good in North Carolina casualties were hat convicted The Viet CORK were also in northern part of the Mekong a Friday liO miles i said miles northwest of Saigon The was Loi an artillery U.S 1st Infantry Division area 15 miles north of continued to make only gon U.S spokesmen said contact in Operational Reds fired Hi mortar rounds Mastiff in the Boi Loi Woods 35 light God that decision be right and if a so many years Through Mr we for forgiveness gram's efforts we will be in A said We to help continue that for the defendant Hype of good government j Mr Ingram has been active in church civic and political i circles for a number od years land during the primaries he was Alamance County's ager for Gov Dan K Moore in his successful bid for the would have had mandatory not been southwest of Saigon A defense mended force suffered heavy casualties i For the fourth straight day Before leaving I he air attacks over North Viet r shook the hand of liis Nam hampered by poor Ihc jury weather An Air Force and 17 minutes belore ut out ol homhin the verdict shortly after William 1 orth s An automatic life l lenee was imposed i The body ol Mrs Hilda jets al There was no doubt in J orth was jn and mind thai we had on a mountainside near ho Mr Ingram served body's rived at the only verdict Va Aug could Charles was located at Cl I during World Warr II attaining the rank of lieutenant in theisa i Army and is presently a Another juror William H her of the Haw River said each question and trial of Vinh Other Air Force included the Vinh Loc and highway complex Originally told and lies his wife had left the earner Salem Ihc night of Aug 1 mountain pass operation had dis- covered a claymore mine ry Viet Cong hospitals ing antibiotics and thousands of pounds of rice The division took light ties when they attempted to dis- pose of a booby-trapped rice cache Elements of the 1st Brigade Airborne Division bushed a small Viet Cong patrol See MARINES On Page can Post He is active leach fact presented at the the Haw River carefully and to Milwaukee to visit 37 of Vinh reviewed in lives He later changed his See INGRAM On PSL Test Schedule Is Given WASHINGTON AP One million students are expected to take the tive Service college tion tests this spring The ex- ams will help draft boards de- termine whether the students may stay in school or be attorney James sav that she dentally in a fall at I he er filed notice of appeal as soom as the verdict was announced l wm He has 120 days to perfect an lnd JlL building body ed Selective Service announced appeal and Solicitor Thomas Moore will have 30 days after that to reply The missile neer who pleaded innocent but not testify at the trial has been in the County Jail since his arrest on Labor Day He may be transferred to Cen tral Prison in Raleigh while thi appeal to the State Court is written Forth remained calm whet the jury's verdict was an and Judge G e o r g Fountain handed down the auto matic life sentence in Superior Court The death penal Friday that the test would be given on May 14 May 21 and June 3 at locations throughout the continental ed States Hawaii Alaska to Rico and the Canal Zone Draft deferment tests were last used during the Korean war College students and high school students graduating this year will be eligible but they must apply to take the test by April 23 The test is optional Science Research Associates of Chicago will administer the exams which will be similar to general aptitude tests About 50 per cent will relate to verbal and linguistic skills and the er 50 per cent to quantitative reasoning The three-hour test will cover four reading verbal relations tic reasoning and data inter- A Selective Service man said the test has been so constructed that no special ad- vantage will be given to any type of major course students are pursuing In announcing a return to the Korean war procedure Lt Gen See DRAFT On Page on the mountainside instead of the ground war the Viet attack on the U.S Marine position began with a barrage ofj and rifles i The main attack came at dawn when Viet Cong fighters notifying authorities cut their way through One of he star witnesses the miter triple apron of wire the state was Mrs Nancy As they clawed through son of Fort Fla single inner wire strand the who told of an affair she was halted by having with Forth She testified Jed small arms fire and artillery that he had proposed support from the embattled HOW BOUT Cold Air Vs Hot STATESVILLE N C M Mrs Marie lake's new car has all the luxury features that are supposed to make life more pleasant But one of them doesn't wrong with the air conditioner and it won't stop running Whether the switch reads on or it con- to pump clean cool air It's been that way all winter despite several trips to the garage One more trip she said and she'll either change rages or park the car un- til spring Meanwhile she keeps the heater running full blast to her several weeks before wife's death and suggested October wedding date his i Marines The latest body count said Amusements Bridge Business Page Classified Doctor Editorials Obituaries Sports Stocks Weather Viet Cong bodies Women's News QUICK FELLA SHUT THE LID The two macaques monkeys seem a bit ex- cited by the presence of the giant tiger Sabu However they are in no danger The hands belong to Murray Zaret director of a pet festival and animal husbandry exposition in New York yesterday where it was announced that the Steeplechase Park on Coney Island would become a permanent animal exposition
