Gastonia Gazette (Newspaper) - August 20, 1965, Gastonia, North Carolina Gef Your Tickets Now For The Miss Gastonia Pageant 16 Contestants Jeanne Swanner To Appear On August 28 COOLER Not so warm tonight atid with afternoon and evening scattered over state Not so humid tonight with low of 65 See Weather THE GASTONIA GAZETTE THE PIEDMONT'S GROWING NEWSPAPER COMICS What's your Li'l Abner Dick Tracy or cilla's Or maybe the newest riot Born Loser ever your taste you are sure to find it daily on The comio page PUBLISHED SEVEN DAYS A WEEK FINAL EDITION GASTONIA N C FRIDAY AFTERNOON AUGUST 20 1965 Newsstand Singla Copy lOe Dally Sunday 24 MOP-UP PENINSULA U S Marines Swoop Over Viet Stronghold BIGGEST EARS IN L Maxwell of Raleigh claims in have the biggest ein in ears plant that Is Maxwell planted the elephant ears twig this spring The twig was Just five Inches long Now the plant Is seven feel tall and has one leaf that measures four feet long and 32 inches wide AP Wirephoto Politicians Haggling Over Riot By ROBERT W COOKE LOS ANGELES AP ical sniping had replaced riot arson and looting today as ers hurried to assess damage and ferret out the cause of week-long violence in which 34 persons died Gov Edmund G Brown after announcing formation of an panel to probe causes of the massive riot made a quick trip to the fringe of the now peaceful but Watts area Thursday night Discussing the panel Brown The commission will be vided with subpoena power in order to make absolutely sure that all of us have access to the whole truth No group of fornians ever chosen for an cial responsibility can have un- a more difficult or assignment than the members of this commission Brown appointed John A Cone 63 former director of the Central Intelligence Agency to head the commission McCone who flew in from Washington said every can citizen feels deeply dis- tressed over what has happened and wonders why it should have happened in Los Angeles We will have to remedy this tion of course After the tour Brown returned to Sacramento Earlier Mayor Samuel W Yorty attacked Brown's plan for an inquiry committee saying the panel won't do any good He The governor just wants to see how much political hay he can make out of the situation Yorty had just emerged from a meeting with Police Chief liam H Parker and Dr Martin Luther King Jr He told a conference he disagreed with King's allegations of police as the cause of the riot Wreck Kills Klan Lawyer BIRMINGHAM Ala AP Ku Klan attorney Matt H Murphy Jr of Birmingham was killed today in a col- near Coroner Rufus Strickland of Tuscaloosa County said Murphy 51 gained national prominence last spring when he defended a klansman charged with murdering Mrs Viola zio a white Detroit civil rights worker The trial ot Collie Ins Jr of a ham suburb ended in a mistrial and has been rescheduled for next month in Ala Murphy also was attorney for two other indicted in Mn death By Competitors AN DERSON An- derson dairy owner says operating nationally were pinning me to the wall until he began to use the loss leader system of selling his milk Fred Pearman told a special referee at a hearing in son Thursday he developed his packaging plan to give ers a price they could live un- der and stay in business until the market develops greater stability The referee Earle Rice is collecting testimony to make a recommendation to Circuit Judge James B Pruitt who Gardner Seeking GOP RALEIGH AP James C Gardner of Rocky Mount ly announced candidate for the North Carolina Republican chairmanship says Tar Heel Republicans are looking to the 1966 elections as a year of un- paralleled opportunity We will retain the two con- gressional seats held by Charles R Jonas and James T hill and you can be assured we will vigorously contest all other congressional Gardner predicted Thursday The Republican tive Committee will meet in Winston-Salem Aug 28 to name a successor to Herman Saxon of Charlotte who resigned re- cently as state GOP chairman In announcing his candidacy Gardner said Fred Steele ham was drawing from the race for the chairmanship due to some jor political plans which he will announce in the near future Steele attended the news con- ference which Gardner an- he will seek the manship He lauded Gardner as the best man available for the post The only other announced is Walter Scott Charlotte businessman Gardner was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in the Fourth District last year against veteran Rep Harold D Cooley RIOT RUMORS DES Iowa AP Gov Harold Hughes lias called mii National Guard units cause of rumors that thing from civil demonstrations lo riots might occur today's opening of State VICL Cong had been in the combat zone and another 800 in the general area n among the several thousand Americans involved were light Marine officials said But a U.S military in Saigon said the o had suffered their heaviest losses of any single engagement of the war rules forbid disclosure of U.S will decide whether to AP in specific battles the State Dairy investigation into the Viet Cong who survived from enforcing a 1965 law Mrs R Forth wife of out to sea or Infiltrated bars retailers from selling missile and through positions in brand of milk for less than brands The only witness for the dairy commission Eric Morgan of Lexington said even when all producers are paid the same but retailers sell certain brands as loss leaders the demand for such brands increases Morgan said producers not supplying low price milk sell increasingly smaller amounts shifted from the mountains of Virginia where her body was found to her hometown Mrs Perth's body was found late Saturday at the bottom of a cliff on top of a mountain just outside Pulaski Va Her husband told police she had left Winston-Salem about p.m Friday for Illinois and Milwaukee said Marine Maj E W Snyder of Oceanside Calif Meanwhile Henry Cabot Lodge arrived in Saigon to start his second tour of duty as U.S ambassador He told newsmen the United States is both united and persistent in confirming its belief that the current aggression against Viet Nam must and will be warded off grade A milk and must Virginia officers fight which our military of their surplus at much Sheriff Henry Hall Vietnamese American Shearwood an allied alike are making Morgan is general manager of Coble for the State Police conferred with Forsyth this end gives us all the opportunity to help bring about a Several other dairymen Ernie Shore for revolution which will make supermarket owners testified minutes Then they a new and better life the necessity of the loss conducted a great the Vietnamese the system during testimony said was quoted by first served as Families for his wife to leave on a trip at p.m alone He said she was a good relaxed to South Viet Nam for nine months in He was succeeded in June 1964 by Gen Waiting Perth's body was found by a traveler on U.S D Taylor who resigned last month and left Viet MANNED SPACE CENTER Houston Tex AP The of astronauts L A preliminary report on a medical examination of July 30 Two terrorists on a motorbike threw a grenade and fired one Cooper Jr and Charles Conrad Jr played the waiting game today with the body showed she received a blow on the head but it was not severe enough today at a police station in Cholon Saigon's Chinese section Three police officers and a Space agency officials cause death were wounded The the Cooper family would escaped Viet Cong hit the town of in Florida for the expected 9 EST launch To in the central The Conrad family will be AP mortar fire their home in suburban has passed a night A U.S military Cove Tex as planned for farm after said no casualties original launch Now the measure reported Dak To is 17 Neither Mrs Cooper nor more conflict in the from Dak Sut where the Conrad made o formal of the four years of Cong the night before over- ment or personal authorized the town the district after the postponement of been estimated at and a nearby special space flight billion and camp Americans Have Light Casualties Bf RONALD I DEUTSCH SAIGON South Viet Nam Marines drew Viet Cong fire from tunnels and fortifications today as they swept back across the Van Tuong Peninsula after the biggest American battle of the Vietnamese war A U.S military spokesman said Communist guerrillas opened up on the Marines with sporadic small arms fire as the Americans continued mop-up operations on the peninsula 12 miles south of Chu Lai The area was the stronghold of the 1st Viet Cong regiment one of the the spokesman said The spokesman said 563 Viet Cong bodies had been counted The Marines estimated that more than 600 of the enemy were killed and more than wounded in the battle that be- gan with an amphibious and helicopter assault Wednesday The spokesman said 52 rillas were captured and 64 were held One Marine intelligence cer estimated that Viet For Demonstrations Negro School President Fires 13 White Teachers By RAYMOND HOLBROOK DALLAS Tex AP teen white summer instructors remained in their campus apartments today after defying an eviction order the ident of Bishop a pre- dominantly Negro In dismissing the 13 from the faculty Dr Millon K Curry Jr told them to vacate their ments by 6 p.m and to he off the campus by p.m day He said he fired them for stirring up The instructors appeared in front of the modernistic ry building as both deadlines rolled past Then ter Johnson the college ness manager said the tors would be allowed to remain in the apartments until day when their contracts would have expired The instructors are graduate students aged 22 to 30 from Northern and Eastern colleges who are teaching re- medial English and math courses to high school graduates ning to enter Bishop The dismissals came after the instructors staged a campus demonstration against what some of the teachers termed suppression of a school per by the administration in- of students and ex- bookstore charges It was simply a matter of who is running the Dr Cum a Negro said The in- were warned after an earlier demonstration They seem to have the idea that they came down here for a social revolution The protest came from the instructors and not the students Dr Curry said This was shown when 159 dents at the end of the course signed advance applications for admission to Bishop tlu tember Security Tightened At Cape By DOUGLAS BAILEY CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP Security at Cape Kennedy spectaeuiariy bleached by young Pennsylvania tourists who slipped dangerously close to the Titan 2 rocket is being tightened an hour after the young men were spotted by television cameras scanning the palmetto scrub from the Titan bunker security officers all over the space ter redoubled their checks Before the Gemini 5 launch was called off at p.m Thursday four more persons who swam the harbor channel to the cape were quickly stopped and hustled away They were released after questioning But the two tourists whose excursions along the dunes were televised nationally were questioned for four hours arid turned over to the FBI The two identified as Gary Ralph Young 22 and Theodore Lee Ballinger 17 both of State College Pa were arraigned before U.S Commissioner Tom Henderson at Titusville on charges of trespassing on property Henderson released them overnight pending a hearing today Security FBI and Air Force spokesmen said the pair was on a lark hoping to watch the launch close up But they were warned by signs a fence and a guard who told them they could not the Air Force spokesman said They slipped by the guard ter in the dark of night Bond Issue Essential GREENSBORO AP Gov Dan Moore believes approval of the million road bond issue in the Nov 2 election is if North Carolina is to keep pace with urgent highway needs Moore joined State Highway Commission Chairman Joseph Hunt Jr Thursday night in ging Tar Heel to support the bond issue and work for its passage They spoke at a meeting of the Greensboro Chamber of Com- merce It was Gov Moore's third talk during the day in Greensboro Earlier he spoke at the cation of the Greensboro Institute saying There are jobs waiting for qualified North Carolinians Moore lold the Chamber of Commerce the load bond issue is needed if North Carolina is to continue to share in the ing prosperity that our nation is experiencing Without a modem system of highways roads and the governor said industry and commerce will look where for new sites and Hunt warned against on the bond issue He said We do have enemies in this battle foremost among them is indifference Hunt added There are groups of who do not be- lieve in any form of a bond sue whether for roads or or sewage treatment plants or what you TOO CLOSE TO In the hark scat of a Federal Bureau of Investigation officer's car are Theodore Lee Ballenger 17 and Gary Ralph Young 22 both of State College Pa after they were arraigned on a charge of trespassing on federal property The two were arrested Thursday when they got by security road blocks and were dangerously close to the Gemini 5 space rocket AP photo 9 A M New Flight CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP Thwarted by last mimile equipment troubles and the ing black of a orm two American astronauts smiled their way out of disappointment and aimed for Saturday in their hid for space history They turned today to the pre- flight routine they had stepped through so hopefully only two days ago mission review meetings more flight rehearsal and bed tonight After postponement Thursday of their eight-day Gemini 5 space stint astronauts L Gordon Cooper Jr and Charles Conrad Jr got a short recess We gave them the afternoon off and I don't know what they're said astronaut coordinator Donald K Slayton The astronauts were fairly he said but they didn't get clanked up about it or anything like that Indeed after more than two hours of futile waiting in the cramped cabin both emerged smiling and sharing the kind jokes of technicians and space flight comrades During the long wait pilot Conrad with an eye on the storm asked for permission to turn on nonexistent shield wipers On the word of postponement command pilot Cooper said Aw gee you promised us a launch andi not a wet mock simulated It was to be man's longest voyage in space nearly 192 hours and covering 3.12 million miles But it seemed burdened with trouble from the beginning A difficulty in hydrogen age for a new electrical power system cropped up days ago then there were new difficulties on the night before launch when engineers tried to cram extra pounds of valuable zen fuel into the spherical tanks That caused a 3 hour and 18 minute hold in the countdown it was solved things rolled along smoothly until 10 minutes before the Titan 2 rocket was due to blast the capsule into orbit At p.m space officials announced they were holding again This time the trouble was in the A switch seemed at first glance to be operating poorly but on sub- sequent checks everything went all Still what caused that one transient failure Was the system really all right? Without it much of the coded data from the spacecraft would never be radioed to earth The switch would have to be checked out The hold continued A long black line of heads closed in on Cape dy Oddly they seemed lightest over that one small area launch pad 19 with its waiting rocket But by then lightning was striking with greater frequency Then came a new problem The straw that broke the el's said G Merritt Marina Husband Try Again DALLAS Tex AP ing to try kindness not the former Marina Oswald and her second husband were attempting to iron out their domestic troubles today Justice of the Peace Richburg dismissed Thursday a peace bond she had sworn out against her husband of three months Kenneth Jess Porter Mr and Mrs Porter arrived separately but left together from a hearing before burg Neither smiled as burg delivered a ture Marina 24 is the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald who President John F Kennedy She said it may take limo for Porter and her to solve their problems Both told Richburg they would try to make the marriage last and agreed to see a marriage counselor Richburg fit told the A burden lias been placed on ihc people of this city i since the assassination and this matter doesn't help it any I know it's not your fault but you're in a little different position than most people Fear will destroy family life kindness not threats Preston deputy director of the Kennedy Space Center ning traveling by some unknown route by ground or cable or otherwise surged into the power lines of the launch com- plex In a complicated system that depends on controlled it struck a vulnerable spot the memory of a craft computer Was the memory of the com- puter It would hours lo check even longer hours to repair Flight officials were fairly certain it was protected by a current barrier but they could not take the chance At p.m with the sky now black with a summer flight officials called off the flight Less than four hours later they announced that the flight would be rescheduled for 9 EST Saturday maybe It would depend on subsequent checks and rechecks and the integration of systems in the countdown It also would depend on some damage just then noted In underground cables caused by a chemical fire at a manhole er A cable containing 900 vidual communications and data links was burned by an industrial fire involving an tank It was quickly put under investigation Officials felt sure it could be spliced within 12 hours Coming Sept J Despite deadly publicity cigarette smokers across the nation and across the ocean are still puffing at record clips For the details turn to page 6 6 And here's where other features can be Guide Classified Comics Crossword Dear Abby Editorials Movies Sports TV Woman's News BB 2 THE GAZETTE WEEKENDER ft Features ft Television ft Travel ft Gardens ft Amusements ft Sports TV
