Florence Morning News (Newspaper) - September 7, 1966, Florence, South Carolina 43RD YEAR NO 250 The Only Daily Paper Published in Eastern South Carolina FLORENCE S C WEDNESDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 7 1966 DAILY SUNDAY Florentines Found Safe After Night on Pikes Peak COLORADO SPRINGS Colo son of a Democratic candidate for the U.S Senate and two other University of South Carolina students ed missing on Pikes Peak were found safe Tuesday All three were found in the Bottomless Pit area on the north slope of the peak and were reported in good tion They had found their to a highway after spending a snowy hungry night on the slopes of Pikes Peak The three had had nothing to eat since lunch Monday One of the youths Bradley Morrah III of Greenville said he slipped on a rocky slope and tumbled about 20 feet but wasn't even bruised His were Tommy Martin IB L Gee Jr 20 both of Florence They were dressed in shirts pants cut off above the knee and without socks Mar- tin had a thin sweater and Gee had a raincoat The boys said they drove to the summit of the peak Monday towing a trailer Morrah said they decided to explore and fool around on some cliffs they realized it they had wandered away and lost sight of the summit and the road After darkness closed in on them it began snowing The boys gathered armloads of dead wood and built a fire They had no shelter they said but they managed to keep the fire going through the night The fire kept us a little Martin said but it was cold mighty cold The three said they planned to stay in the Colorado Springs area for a few days before heading home Back in Columbia father Democratic nee for the U.S Senate and a South Carolina state senator said he and his wife were about to fly to Colorado to join in the search for the missing youths when he received telephoned word they had been located I'm so said rah after learning his son was safe I don't know whether to kick him or kiss him Morrah who faces lican Sen Strom Thurmond in the November general election said everyone involved in the search was most gracious and darned accommodating It's times like these when you find out how many friends you've got Morrah and his wife called off plans to fly to Colorado Men in jeeps and on back had searched for the ing youths Morrah said he under- stood that a fourth youth Hap Hazzard about 20 of Georgetown drove to Colorado with the other three but did not make the trip to Pike's Peak The four youths left South rolina Friday for a visit to Pike's Peak and Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming The youths expect to return later this month for the ing of the fall term at the uni- versity of South Carolina Young Morrah will be a man He's just gotten in some summer courses and wanted to rest up before hitting the books said his father Florentines Supposed to Be Anywhere Except Pikes Peak By TOM ENGLISH JR Assistant City Editor Surprise and disbelief were expressed Tuesday morning by the families of two ence boys who were reported Colorado's Pikes Peak Mr and Mrs Major L Gee and Mr and Mrs James H Martin at just could not believe reports about jor McGee Jr and Tommy Martin Both families said they were under the impression the boys were going elsewhere for pleasure trips before ing to school Martin 18 is a student at High and young Gee 20 is a student at the New S C Plates j Sell Like Hot i Florence area motorists set a record Index yesterday in the purchase on new plates Ask Andy 12 for the automobiles See Page 2 Classified 9 I What is Sports Editor Jim has become expert on the sub- ject See column on Page 7 It's that time again to pit your skill against the crazy bounce of the ball See football contest on Page 8 Comics Deaths Markets Sports TV Log Women 11 12 WEATHER Mostly fair through Thursday with warm days cool Highs low tonight 62 Details on i Page 3 Artificial Heart Step Up Helped HOUSTON Tex AP Methodist Hospital officials re- Tuesday that stepping up heart pump saved da del Valle Vasquez from a fatal attack six days after she underwent surgery to replace faulty heart valves The Mexico City beautician made medical history Tuesday by becoming the first person to be discharged from a hospital after undergoing artificial heart pump surgery The plastic pump helped keep Mrs Vasquez 37 alive for 10 days after the operation Aug 1 The device then was removed and the Methodist tal stay was completed without complications Doctors revealed for the first time that the pump quickly cor- a heart failure condition that developed six days after the operation in which two heart valves were replaced with tic valves Signs of the heart failure be- gan to disappear the doctors said 10 to 15 minutes after the work load of the plastic pump was doubled I was completely confident the operation would go well perhaps over Mrs Vasquez a petite brunette smilingly told newsmen as she was released from the hospital I received all the care and attention possible from the est worker to the highest sor All have helped me An interpreter said Mrs quez meant Dr Michael E De- when she referred to the highest professor Bakey well known heart geon headed the teams which performed the operation and developed the plastic pump Mrs Vasquez said she did not look at the artificial shaped device during the 10 days it was attached I didn't want to know thing about she said Mrs Vasquez left for Mexico City in a private plane made available to her by Romulo Farril Sr publisher of dades a Mexico City per Mrs Vasquez is the fifth son to receive the artificial pump All other patients died of lung complications The left ventricular bypass pump used by Mrs Vasquez was different from the devices used at Methodist during two similar operations in April and May doctors said The pump was smaller in size and only one of two tubes dling the blood flow was im- planted in the chest One tube led to the left atrium above the heart but the other linked the pump with the auxiliary artery of the right arm University of South It can't McGee said they're in North Carolina McGee said Tuesday after- noon his son told him Friday they were going to North Tommy told me he was ing to Mrs Martin said Are you sure this is true But missing they were along with Morrah III son of the U S Senate candidate from Greenville on the slopes of the Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs Hap Hazzard about 20 of Georgetown also went along on the trip but elected not to climb Pikes Peak He reported them missing day night after they failed to return from their mountain climbing expedition It took some convincing for McGee's father it Lawrence W Copeland U S civil service examiner of Florence was requested by Cong John L McMillan's of- fice to call officials in that area to confirm the reports I talked to Ranger Copeland said and sure enough the boys were missing Copeland reported back to McGee and the dis- belief ended That's when we really started McG e e said I kept wishing I hadn't let him Mrs Martin said Young Martin and young Gee both called home to give their parents the sure word after they were rescued When news came that the boys were found safe Mr and Mrs McGee and Mrs Martin breathed sighs of relief Mrs Martin's husband however didn't get that relief until about two hours after they were found at around p.m He had boarded a plane in Florence at p.m and was on his way to Colorado to join the search party when he received the news We called Mrs Martin said and they paged him at the airport Luckily we caught him in time Mar- tin returned home from At- lanta Tuesday night State Senator Morrah was quoted as saying he didn't know whether to kiss him young Morrah or kick him TOMMY MARTIN Left for Florida MAJOR MCGEE JR In North Gemini 11 Team OK Physically CAPE KENNEDY AP The Gemini 11 astronauts turning into a of early birds who arise before the milkman were flashed a final medical go-ahead Tuesday to rocket into space Friday for a three-day spacewalk ture Gemini 11 command pilot Charles Conard Jr and Richard F Gordon Jr were pronounced physically and mentally ready for the flight by a team of medical specialists headed by Dr G Fred Kelly astronaut physician after an extensive four-hour physical examination Weathermen kept watch on the progress of tropical storm Greta some 900 miles southeast of Cape Kennedy but said they had no reason at present to think the storm would interfere with Friday's launch plans South African Leader Killed White Assassin Stabs Verwoerd CAPE TOWN South Africa AP Government leaders Tuesday night promised a searching gation into the background of the white assassin who plunged a knife into Prime Minister Hendrik F heart Verwoerd 64 died instantly of stab wounds in the heart and neck inflicted Tuesday afternoon in the ber of Parliament where for years he had espoused apartheid racial separation and sworn to South Africa free of Communist infiltration The was identified as Dmitri about 45 a native of Lourenco Marques in the guese territory of Mozambique He was held under close guard HENDRIK VERWOERD Stabbed to Death In the midst of their grie over Verwoerd's death none ol the government leaders discuss publicly the question of lis successor But preliminary talks were under way No one qualified y to take Verwoerd's place but t was evident that his successor mil be in the Verwoerd ion The Nationalist party that Verwoerd headed has almost a -1 majority in Parliament Finance Minister Theophilus Donges who became acting prime minister with the fatal troke of the assassin's knife ledged that police would leave no stone unturned to get o the bottom of this dastardly leed The investigation will be leaded by Maj Gen H J Van Den Berg chief of South security police and Brig 1 Joubert head of the Criminal Department They lew from Johannesburg to Cape Town Tuesday In a radio broadcast to the U.S Jets Hit Missile Site lation Donges praised achievements and de- A Cedar of Lebanon has n the man whose masterly land has safely steered our ship f state for the past eight years SAIGON South Viet Nam AP Navy bombers ered a North Vietnamese missile site near inn Tuesday in the continuing leavy aerial assault on the Communist North a U.S spokes man announced Wednesday Navy and Air Force planes also pounded fuel installations and rail facilities and reported widespread damage a man said The land war erupted just eight miles from Saigon day when a battalion of South Vietnamese Marines fought two sharp clashes with the Viet Cong on a sweep through land Communist hideouts and killed 50 enemy soldiers a spokesman said Both American and South Vietnamese troops recently have intensified their efforts to maintain pressure on units operating near the capital to prevent disruption of Sunday's national elections Navy A4 from the carrier Intrepid hit the missile site eight miles southwest of USCF Expansion Plans Revealed Tentative plans were ed Tuesday for a ing expansion program which would accommodate an ment of students at the University of South Carolina at Florence The proposed units include a science building library gymnasium and student union building The presentation was made at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Greater ence Chamber of Commerce by members of the university committee John Kassab chairman of the building committee pre- sented preliminary architect's drawings for each of the four buildings and a campus showing them located around a campus mall south of Stokes Hall S Cormell man of the University tee said the additions were planned to meet both existing needs for the present two- year institution and to vide the campus base for a four-year institution in the ture He estimated that in a five-year period student enrollment will tax these posed new additions to the limit He said plans call for the construction between and 2 million through federal aid to higher education programs plus matching local funds A sum of in the county supply will be the first of an annual propriation sought from the Florence County Council to be used as matching funds for a federal grant Cormell said Future annual requests may reach as high as to thousand An initial federal planning grant financed completely by federal funds will be applied for in the immediate future Cormell said tentative archi- drawings are sary to qualify for a planning grant It was these tentative drawings Kassab laid before the chamber board of ors Tuesday He emphasized they were only tentative and changes are anticipated be- fore an application for con- struction aid is made University officials in lumbia are working with the Florence group in obtaining both planning and tion aid from federal higher education sources The proposed science and library buildings are of two- story construction In to four laboratories the science building provides for nine additional classrooms The gymnasium contains square feet University committee bers who have been ing plans for almost a year have expressed optimism that the expanded campus may be completed in time for the school year Dr David Thomas USCF resident director told the chamber board that a 30 per cent increase in student en- is expected this year Freshman orientation sions will be held Saturday All classes will begin Sept 19 Vinh and pilots reported heavy damage to vans and tion equipment in the area Forty miles northwest of Vinh Navy attacked a military area and noted secondary explosions and fires an indication that fuel or ammunition dumps had been hit A fuel storage area 25 miles northwest of Vinh also was at- tacked Negroes Stage Riot In Atlanta ATLANTA Ga AP Tear gas scattered an angry crowd of about 500 Negroes Tuesday er the shooting of a Negro man by police triggered a street roar and a flurry of rock ing Black power some of the crowd chanted shortly before rocks and bottles began to fly and policemen fired tear gas Mayor Ivan Allen Jr who nad tried to quell the noisy crowd from the top of a police car was in the street when the violence broke out Police had fired their guns into the air eral times and sent the crowd scurrying only to surge back into the street again when the firing stopped Twelve persons including four policemen were injured Arrests mounted to 53 A policeman was cut on the face and had a possible jaw fracture A police detective and at least seven other persons were treated for tear gas Windows were smashed in two patrol cars parked on a street Negroes bombarded a white motorist's nr with rocks An- other car was turned over on its side its windows shattered Rights Is Slowed In Senate WASHINGTON AP The lenate set out slowly Tuesday jn what promises to be another ong drawn-out battle over civil rights legislation The opening session lasted less than three hours and was forced into an overnight recess by lack of a Southern members blocked the initial attempt by Sen ip A Hart to bring up the that passed the House Aug 11 Sen Sam J Ervin Jr opposed Hart's opening move He told the Senate that the measure contains the liest vaguest most and dangerous provisions ever fo be seriously considered by the Senate Proponents of the went nto tiie fight without the aid of lenate Republican Leader irett M Dirksen of Illinois who break the filibusters gainst the 1964 and 1965 civil bills Dirksen opposes the present because of its open provision which would an discrimination in the sale or ental of apartments and new omes Dirksen contends this section s unconstitutional and says he vill not support any move to cloture under which of the Senate can shut ff a filibuster Hart the bill's floor manager ailed the measure a ile answer to the urgent needs f this nation He asked for unanimous con- ent to call it up Ervin d Hart then announced he lanned to move to bring the ill before the Senate Such a motion is debatable and rn opponents may argue gainst it at length MEDITATIONS IM A FACE BUT HE Ht TO
