Cumberland News, The (Newspaper) - February 11, 1966, Cumberland, Maryland Todays Weather r Bruce leads Mat Tourney I VOL 107 Muck X UT CUMBERLAND MARYLAND FRIDAY FEBRUARY 41 1966 UPI AT 18 CENTS Cold War Gl n South Viet Keeps Briefings Calls And Field Trip Are Included By FRED S HOFFMAN SAIGON South Viet Nam AP Vice President Hubert H Humphrey is packing in briefings protocol calls and a field trip Friday on his mission to Help South Viet Nam consoli date battlefield victories with economic and social progress The White House announced thaton departing from Saigon Sunday Humphrey will go on to Thailand Laos Pakistan India Australia New Zealand and possibly other points to fill in their governments on the Viet picture Plans for improvement of the lot of the Vietnamese people shadowed by demands of the war effort and Viet Cong control of about 60 per cent of the coun have found hard going under every administra tion for a decade These date back to the settle ments promoted by the late President Ngo Dinh Diem Here at the request of dent Johnson to advance the nonmilitary programs outlined by Johnson and Saigon govern ment authorities at the Honolulu summit Conference Humphrey to look over things for Premier Nguyen Cao Ky Chief of State Nguyen Van Hum flew in from spur a South Vietnamese social and economic revolution which he said will provide a dynamic and lasting answer to the false promise of communism As you work to carry out that plan of action he told South VietNams people you Senate Shelves Repeal Of WASHINGTON AP The Senate refused Thursday again to shutoff debate against calling up a union shop and the measure was placed in cold storage Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana an Smoke On A Murky Subject Puffing Miss Ruth Adams an editor attends Interna tional Conference on China at the University of Chicago Shes managing editor of of Atomic Scientists Seven economists agreed China has made impressive economic progress since 1949 year of the Communist takeover AP Phot of WE he was putting the aside after the Senate rejected his move to invoke cloture by a vote of 50 to 49 This was 16 votes short of the twothirds needed to put the ing rule into effect Mansfield said the will remain on the Senate calendar but with the words RIP rest in peace beside it The outcome was a setback for the AFLCIO and forthe Johnson administration which endorsed the labor federations campaign to win passage of the The which passed the House 221 to 203 last year would repeal Section of the law This section permits the states to outlaw un ion shop contracts under which all employes must join a union or pay union dues Nineteen states have passed what supporters call work laws under Section and the National Right to Work Committee announced the Sen ate vote has set the stage for numerous new state drives for similar laws Reed Larson executive vice Kennan Fears Declaration As Obstacle s Former Ambassador Joins Fulbright In His Concern WASHINGTON AP Sen J W Fulbright DArk and former diplomat George F Kennan joined Thursday in ex pressing fear that this weeks joint Vietnamese de House Group Approves LBJ Tax Program WASHINGTON AP dent Johnsons tax program won approval of the House Ways and Means Corn raised an negotiated will continue to have the full support and assistance of the United States This is the pledge which by dent Johnson at Honolulu Saigons Tan Air port a target of two terrorist strikes in recent months was heavily guarded for the landing Howitzers and tanks were lined up on the airstrip opposite Vietnamese honor guard Secretary of Agriculture Or ville L Freeman arrived on a separate plane to study ways of modernizing Viet Nams farm methods Other top American officials including Health Ed and Welfare Secretary John W Gardner also are to take a hand in the uplift drive No Flood Threat PITTSBURGH UPI Al though there has been much without Thursday and major headed change for a House vote in about two weeks If it goes through Congress in tact Americans will soon be feeling its effects in the with holding from their although the income tax itself is not changed their telephone bills and the price biles Corporations abit tighter for cash as they have to pay not more currently Most of the revenue gain the administration foresees from the headwaters of this the bureau reported area flood rivers threat melting of snow the days on Pittsburgh poses no weather Thursday Todays Chuckle Todays big shot may be fired tomorrow TM WHR Gen Fea Corp the measure in the next two years comes from speedups in collecting taxes but there are1 actual increases in tax rates on automobiles and tions services The change that would be most widely noticed probably would be the shift to a more realistic system of income tax withholding It was estimated this would affect some 13 million ers who have more tax than necessary withheld and have to wait for refunds and almost 4 million others who now have to Talked Slaying WASHINGTON UPI undercover agent told congres investigators Thursday a woman member of the Ohio Ku Klux Klan once discussed an against Pres ident Johnson Vice President Hubert and civil rights leader Martin Luther King The House Committee on Un American Activities also was told by a Columbus Ohio police official that Klansmen had plotted to blow up civil rights meetings a Black Muslim mosque and portions of a sewer system in central Ohio in hopes of starting a race riot The undercover agent Bobby Stephens said that the woman Klan member Mrs Eloise president of the committee said in a statement By the end of this year we will have active groups opera ting in New York Vermont Delaware West Virginia Ten Louisiana Missouri Montana Idaho and Illinois The filibuster against calling up the repealer was led by Senate Republican Leader Ev erett M Dirksen of Illinois who termed it an invasion of states rights and an attempt to impose compulsory unionism on work may have added obstacle to a peace These expressions of concern came at a Senate Foreign Rela tions Committee hearing after Kennan had recommended that the United States avoid ing the war but stand firm mili in an effort to force peace negotiations Fulbright the committee chairman and a critic of admin policy in Viet Nam told Kennan It seems to me we have fur ther committed ourselves to a point where any sort of a ated settlement short of out could be called a betrayal of a commitment Kennan a former dor to Moscow and Yugoslavia said Rocket Slated For Launch The French Diamant rocket is shown without its third stage on its launching pad at the base deep in the Sahara desert in Africa rocket is scheduled to put into orbit today the satellite D 1A which weighs 42 pounds AP Missiles ers make extra not enough their pay Treasury would get more mon ey faster for a couple of years payments because is withheld from On balance the Tarsis Says He Leads Soviet Liberal Group By GRANVILLE J WATTS LONDON AP Russian writer Valery Thursday Tarsis said he is the accepted leader of a new liberal under ground movement In the Soviet Union against re I am the de facto editor of all underground political docu ments that have been published ia the Soviet Union recently On Inside Pages Ann Landers 6 Bridge 6 Comics i 15 Crossword 15 15 Deaths 11 Editorial Page 11 Markets Racing Secrets of Charm 6 Sports 1214 State News 3 News 8 16 17 Womens News arsis told a London news con Tarsis 60 was asked if he was connected with a demon in December by Rus ian youth against the ion of two other writers An drei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel who went on trial Thursday n Moscow accused of writing antiSoviet books The Russian replied Mos cows like and respect me Then he vigorous y defended the two writers say ng they belong to the same camp that I belong to He said there 200 Witte of Cincinnati discussed the assassination plot following a Klan initiation ceremony at Oregonia Ohio Stephens said the plot also included Mrs Wittes husband and a Klan leader But Mrs Witte a bleached blonde who appeared to be in her middle 40s told reporters during a recess that Stephens charge was so ridiculous it doesnt deserve an answer Stephens who worked for the Columbus Police Department indicated the plot never got beyond the discussion stage He said discussed it with Daniel Wagner of Colum bus who later joined the Klan Court Upholds Deny ing Seat To Legislator The Senate action fore shadowed last Tuesday when Mansfield lost a cloture motion by a 5148 tally 15 less than two thirds i Show Business Loses Two Top Personalities YORK UPI business lost two of its most fascinating Thurs day Sophie Tucker the last of the red hot mamas and Billy Rose the and It gives me a very very un easy feeling to read the joint declaration to which we have subscribed It does seem to me that if we want to develop the utmost prospect of a peaceful solution we should have maintained the independence of our position Fulbright and Kennan voiced doubts that the South Vietnam North during US Skyhawk SAIGON South Viet Nam AP The missile system that President Outlines Food Plan Viet the Nam expanded bombing showman They were old friends though generation come from apart Both had humble origins Sophie was born 78 years ago in Europe of Russian emigres en route to the United States Rose was born 66 years ago to immi grants in New Yorks Bronx Both rose from rags ese leaders who joined in the Honolulu declaration share the dedication of President Johnson and other American officials to the economic social and hu mane aspirations set forth in the declaration The two men indicated they fear the Saigon leaders are more interested in a hardline drive for complete crushing of the Viet Cong guerrillas Fulbright quoted a newspaper report that UN diplomats in New York see the declaration as a barrier to a negotiated settlement because of its mili tary aspects This bothers me very much the senator added to riches Sophie had a antly decorated Park Avenue apartment filled with photos of herself and showbiz friends She had her diamonds a huge collection of longhaired furs and a dazzling wardrobe of glittering gowns Rose lived in baronial Contends Power Struggle Divides Demos dor in an built for a East Side mansion daughter of George F Baker the Sphinx of Wall Street Sophie and Billy were noted young Russians contributing underground journals to ATLANTA Ga fed eral court in a deci sion upheld Thursday the Geor gia House of Representatives in denying a seat to Jul ian Bond a Negro civil rights worker for his statements op posing US foreign policy and the military draft opinion ruled that a statement endorsed by Bond is at the na tional policy of this Bonds attorney Howard Moore said the decision will be appealed to the US Supreme for their philanthropies She was connected with a half dozen charities and had made innumerable gratis appearances and appeals to raise funds for them Rose gave with a grand gesture million worth of sculpture to Israel for an exhibition park in Jerusalem WASHINGTON AP last ard M Nixon said Thursday the dropped 10 Democratic party is being divid ed by a struggle for future pow er between Vice President Hu bert H Humphrey and Sen Robert F Kennedy of New York The natural beneficiary of such a war in an elec tion will be the Republican par ty because it is creating some very deep divisions among the Democrats the former vice president said Nixon who lost the 1960 elec tion to the late President John F Kennedy was in Washington for one of six Lincoln Day speeches moratorium has felled another American plane US spokes men disclosed victim was a Navy A4 Skyhawk The pilot was rescued at sea Aground American troops and Viet Cong units skirmished briskly in two sectors about 250 miles apart as Vice President Hubert H Humphrey arrived in Saigon to help promote econom ic and social progress for the Vietnamese people An exploding mortar shell killed a US Army and killed or wounded sev eral other Americans in one of these engagements but US casualties in both officially were described as light Viet Cong losses were undetermined A pair of missiles wrecked the Skyhawk during a raid Wednesday on installations of Hon Mat Island in the Gulf of Tonkin between the cities of Vinh and Than Hoa The pilot bailed out and was picked up by a helicopter from the frigate Eng land This was the American plane to be downed by rockets from the ground since Communist government started setting up the sites with Soviet WASHINGTON AP dent Johnson outlined Thursday a fiveyear American freedom program promising expanded foreign food assist ance based on the condition that hungry areas help themselves In a message to Congress the President said the key to victo ry in the world struggle against hunger must be selfhelp He said the time is not faroff when air the combined produc tion on all of the acres of all the agriculturally productive na tions will not meet the needs of the developing present plans are changed American food aid would be supplemented by technical as sistance in the form of teams of farm experts sent to help teach farmers in countries to increase produc tion Fertilizers pesticides tools and production ma More Costly Than LBJ Backed Permanent System Of Veterans Benefits Approved 7 WASHINGTON AP A cold war GI more costly than the administration wanted was sent to President Johnson on Thursday with the unani mous endorsement of Congress It would set up a permanent system of education and benefits for veterans who served more than six months in uniform and would be of imme diate benefit to an estimated million veterans discharged since the Korea GI benefits pro gram expired on Jan 311955 The House in passing the Monday 381 to 0 reduced some what the education benefits called for in a version the Sen ate had passed last July Senate Goes Along The Senate went along with these changes but did add some new language before sending the back to the House 99 to 0 The House promptly accepted the Senate change and sent the to the White House by vote The administration had pro posed limiting the benefits to veterans with active duty in combat areas but Johnson is expected to sign the more costly measure The cost is estimated at about 335 million the first year and about million annually for five years when the outlays would level off The administra tion figured its proposal would have cost million yearly The would provide for ed payments ranging from to monthly depending on the number of dependents terials also would be supplied as part of the program Payments would be made di to veterans who could choose their own schools Unlike the GI of World War IF this one does not cover tuition costs Veterans with six months or more of active duty since Jan 311955 could collect one month of education payment for each month in service with a maxi mum of 36 months Not Retroactive No payments would be made retroactively for veterans who I have attended school since 1955 Anyone wishing to return fori graduate study could however receive payments Young men who volunteer for six months of active duty who then go into the reserves would not be covered i Veterans would have to go to school at least half time to get any benefits with the payments Continued on Page 2 Soviet Authors Plead Innocent year before They had the United Improvements in dling distribution and trans systems might be re quired in some countries The House Agriculture Com will begin hearings Mon day on legislation to implement the program Administration officials said the program for fiscal 1967 probably would involve about An reached unsigned Western pamphlet newspaper Court Bond Democrat from offices Thursday purporting to a group of youthful Soviet intellectuals of the calling for help from the West for Russian culture The editors of a literary and political journal in England called the document from an organization called SMOG The initials are p the Russian words audacity thought image intensity Atlanta said at a news confer court was either un willing or unable to protect the democratic process and the rights ofthe citizens of my dis to select the man they wished to Represent It Just Wasnt My Day PETERBOROUGH England UPI Mrs David Picker ing later put it it just wasnt my day It began when husband couldnt start car Wednesday to her for help it because a baby So family turned couldnt push was expecting the and She she she sal in the drivers seat and her husband got behind the car and began to shove Bonds loyalty challenged Pickering suddenly last month on the first day of I realized the car was in gear the legislative session on the and his wife couldnt drive basis of his endorsing ment by the Student Nonviolent The engine roared into life Coordinating Committee the car shot forward which he is the publicity back and forth am tor narrowly missing two men and But luck was running out The car careened across a arden knocked over an electricity junction box and crashed into a house trailer amming the door and trapping wo It nearly hit Harry Osborne 38 who was making adjustments under the trailer When the car hit the junction it came into contact with a States suspended bombing Christmas Eve Five Killed In Dominican Street Riots SANTO DOMINGO UPI ive persons were reported including two policemen nd at least 13 Dominicans wounded Thursday in a renewal f street disor ers in downtown Santo Domin o The violence brought to 12 he number of persons slain in rioting in the past 48 hours and billion technical production worth of food assistance and and MOSCOW UPI So viet authors pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges they attempted to smear the Soviet Union but admitted they wrote bitterly anticommunist works that they smuggled to the West The trial of D Sinyavsky Daniel opened materials but gave no breakdown between food and other costs This total would be about million more than is being spent in fiscal 1966 on the Peace program which does not made it the power live cable which It wasnt unti power was turned off tha Mrs Pickering be re leased It just wasnt my day the hapless housewife said later just did nff have any idea how to stop the car once it started include the assistance and terials writers Andrei and Yuli M in the Russian Federations supreme court before a packed house of Soviet newsmen and a glittering array of literary establish ments who attended by invitation only No foreigners were allowed inside the jammed courtroom Friends of the accused mamilled outside temperatures in authors freezing with the call for general strike partially para business and government activity in the capital At least 50 persons have been wounded n the disturbances Mossier Trial Witness Tells About Threat The Red policemen Cross said the were killed two but police confirmed only one officers other dead a civilian youth in a shooting the northern sector of the city and an unidentified woman in the same general area Another Dominican was killed when a grenade tossed at a Brazilian jeep off and landed in the midst of of Dominicans injuring 13 oi them By BEN FUNK MIAMI Fla AP Melvin Lane Powers was quoted by a witness Thursday as saying that Jacques Mossier was keeping his wife Candace nervous and upset and I ought to kill the bid sob Gene Owens who worked for Powers at his mobile home business at Webster Tex said Powers told him that he had made Mrs Mossier pregnant and she wanted the baby Once at a mobile home con at Houston Tex Owens said Powers called Mossier in lis hotel room and he heard him say I want to talk to Candace You old sob let to her or Ill come figh now 4 After court Mossier said that because of an recessed Mrs some years ago she vas unable to become pregnant s outlined by Owens ny Another former employe ied that Powers told him he Mrs Mossier so much he would kill for her Joseph 29 ers also told him that Mrs Mos s husband was bad and he wanted to out of the picture At the time worked for Powers asa salesman Earlier a we man witness had testified that Mrs Mossier and her are charged husband were too passionate toward each other tar relatives Other witnesses have testified about threats by Powers on life of Mossier and luir have said they were kill the financier
