Gastonia Gazette (Newspaper) - October 18, 1966, Gastonia, North Carolina SHOWERS Considerable cloudiness with over slate night awl Wednesday probably ending tomorrow Mild temperatures wilh low night in 50s THE GASTONIA GAZETTE THE PIEDMONT'S GROWING NEWSPAPER Today's Reminder Don't let that junk clutter up your basement What you need may be just what your neighbor is looking for So place a want ad by calling UN PUBLISHED SEVEN DAVS A WEEK FINAL EDITION GASTONIA N C TUESDAY AFTERNOON OCTOBER 18 1966 PRICE Single Copy Doily 12 PACK t Alert Off In Hawaii Toll From Earthquake Mounting To Hundred Mystery Shrouds Dr Spike's Death TEMPORARY AUTOGRAPH Mrs Marie Yamada a Honolulu waitress Is the proud owner of a rare presidential B Johnson's signature oil her Her only problem probably mountable is how to preserve it She got the autograph In grease pencil last night when she served the at a dinner hosted hy Hawaii Gov John A Burns AP And Little Bills Sail Through Congress WASHINGTON AP ing big and little bills right and left with a minimum of debate Congress was sailing today be- fore a fair wind for final ad- later this week Monday it sent to President Johnson bills setting up a year program to clean up public waters and providing million for military construction projects in the United Slates and over- seas Major bills up for action today would authorize continuation of the war on poverty and finance programs to aid elementary secondary and higher education and the poverty war The ty war authorization is on the Senate program but at the Moving Body 40 Feet Planned At Night WASHINGTON AP The body of President John F will he moved about 40 feet to a new grave sile some night within five weeks after darkness has settled on the hills of National Cemetery Army officials say the al will take place by Nov 22 third anniversary of the young president's assassination The date will not be made public in advance The time reburial after Hie tery has closed will insure vacy Kennedy's body and those of his two children who died in in- fancy Patrick Kennedy and baby girl will be moved lo a permanent grave site now nearing completion The prime consideration in relocating the late president's grave was to place it in a direct axis line with the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument across the Potomac in flic nation's Work on the grave sile began about a year ago in an area adjacent to three grass-covered graves which are surrounded by a low white picket fence Millions have visited dy's temporary grave where an eternal flame lias flickered day and night since his burial The flame will be included in the permanent grave site a marble and granite memorial wild a circular walkway 310 feet in QUITE A TREAT Carroll 21 a trick of Savannah In ready for Halloween SliB hns cnls for along with while It an nri student a waitress and dancer AP rent rate of speed it may get through the House before the end of the day It is a compromise of rate antipoverty authorization measures passed earlier There is no dispute over the spending ceiling billion the major rumble being over how many employes can be put on the payroll of the Office of Economic and the programs it administers The pending appropriation which the House lias before it includes only billion for the antipoverty program It also would provide billion for various forms of aid to tion It is the and final propriation of the session and once it clears bolh brandies he rush for adjournment could turn into a stampede Only three of the other M money measures have not been sent to the President but they are in shape for quick approval The House sent to the Senate Monday for expected prompt passage bills calling for a year health planning program cut-rate lunches for needy dren during the summer months and financial help for areas hit by natural disasters The latter includes a provision for grants up to to individual ers to help replace and crops lost or damaged by storms or floods Also sent to the Senate was a compromise which would regulate to some extent the beling and packaging of con- sumer goods Still in conference awaiting compromises are the demonstration cilies and Food lor Peace measures Three measures could loss some in the path of adjournment but aren't likely to One is the investment ax credit on which Senate and House conferees reached menl Monday The hill would suspend Jan 1 1968 7 per cent lax allowed businesses on equipment expenditures and two forms of quick depreciation which have encouraged con- of commercial and rental buildings Conferees agreed to an New Rule On City Taxes Due The City of Gastonia is going to a much less informal tude about the collection of ad valorem taxes It adopted a resolution this morning which provides bat the city forth foreclose on delinquent taxes on a yearly basis The oldest year for which the cily can now act is 1962 But in the future cily will order foreclosure on due and unpaid for the appropriate year during the months of July and August The resolution passed said in parl failure to pay ad valorem due he City of hy Hny person imposes an Inequitable share of tho lax burden upon those sons who do pay such Tho city tax c o 11 c c t o r is directed o ask ho clerk of court for execution to issue for duo and not paid for the year 1962 amendment granting anti- trust exemptions for steps ready taken in the merger of and American Professional Leagues A on this topic had been stalled in the House Judiciary Committee The amendment won't have go go there By BYRON ROSEN COLUMBUS Ohio AP The violent death of Dr Robert W Spike a nationally nent churchman educator and civil rights leader remained shrouded in mystery today An unexplained layover here Monday ended in the bludgeon slaying of the farmer executive director of the National Council of Church's Commission on Re- ligion and Race at a time Spike originally bad planned lo be back in Chicago leaching ity students Dr Spike 42 a ministry at the University of cago had said he would lake an early morning flight back after delivering Sunday's dedication speech or Chrislian Center a from the Ohio Slate University campus Coroner Hubert A Evans said Dr Spike died at about noon Monday The body clad only in a green raincoat was found by a about p.m in a girest room of be building he had helped dedicate Dr Spike's skull had been smashed by at least two blows Nome On Stickers Sheriff Using Voting Gimmick SELMA Ala AP A decision on of ballots in a voting re- count knocked Sheriff James G Clark out of in the Democratic primary last May In a curious wist Clark now is relying on that decision to help him on Nov 8 Clark is running as a write-in candidate against Democratic nominee Wilson Baker in next month's general election And he's using the dwn words to justify a campaign gimmick aimed at getting more voles Once again Dallas County ers must choose between a iff who became a national bol of segregationist resistance and a Selma police cial who challenged Clark's icy of mass arrests during the civil turmoil last year Thousands of liny gummed slickers labeled James G Jim Clark for Sheriff are being distributed throughout the county in the hope that voters who might not take the to write in the sheriff's will paste the stickers on the ballets That's where the decision banded down last May 24 by U.S Court Judge Daniel II Thomas comes into the ture Slate law governing write-in voles in a general election says voler can in oil a blank column the name of one who isn't on the ballot An general's advisory opinion issued in 1954 said The voter must personally write the candidate's name on the lot Clark says his lawyers told him that Judge Thomas decision prohibits throwing out a ballot on a technicality Look More of those red while and green objects seen zipping across night skies of Gaslon have teen reported and this time a newsman was a wilness For what he saw turn to page 8 Legal points are snarling of several school ects in Gastonia Al the same lime City Schools system claims il is nol receiving all the tax money due il from the county Bolh these are on page 2 Paul Harvey wriles about medical men's careless use of word Quack on page 4 today And other features can be found on Ask Andy B Astro Guide 9 Bridge 3 Classified Comics 8 Crossword 9 Deaths 2 Editorials 4 Movies n TV 11 Woman's News 5 Activities In Our City TUESDAY 7 County Heart Association Board of Directors Holiday Inn 7 Gastonia Lions Club Carolina Restaurant 7 Management Chamber of Com- merce 7 Chapter National Secretaries Association Holiday Inn 7 Elementary School PTA school auditorium School PTA school auditorium Matron Book Club Carolina WEDNESDAY it Life Underwriters Association Holiday Inn Affairs Chamber of Commerce 8 Michael's Catholic School tbn at the school the coroner said with a weapon thai may have been a claw hammer four es in one spot The minister lay beside the guestroom bed face up on he floor near his neatly placed shoes and socks His suit was in a nearby closet his thing hung on the bathroom doorknob Mystery continued to the case today including any for the crime Could it hare been Prosecutor C Howard Johnson said only was found in Dr Spike's belongings highly sual for a man of the victim's status on an trip Could it have been connected the minister's civil rights He received dozens of threats over Ibis commented Dr Jerald C Brauer dean of the Divinity School at Uni- versity of Chicago Could bis killer have been the same unknown person who tally shot Loren E Bellinger 40 Ohio Slale University rocket last Circum- stances were similar in some respects Bollinger was slain in a small room of his downtown office and police said they weren't discounting a possible Investigators besides seeking the death weapon trying to find anyone who might have photographed the dedication ceremony during which Dr Spike addressed several hundred persons in lire religious center's Officers enlisted university students to help in a search for clues around the building Praise lor Dr Spike who leaves a and two sons Paul 18 and John 15 came in LBJ's Order an official joint statement by Hie Protestant Episcopal Church the United terian Church in the U.S.A and the United Church of Christ His was a highly ble creative ministry He was a pioneer in church relevant to contemporary life and especially in putting the church inlo the forefront of the struggle for civil the statement said Dr Spike was a minister of the United Church of Christ and served for three years as director of the Commission on Religion and Race of the tional Council of Churches be- fore moving to the University of Chicago He served as a minister at Judson Memorial church in New York City and at the same lime as Protestant chaplain of Youth House a detention home for adolescents in York Dr Spike grew up in the Rochester suburb of Brockport ana ordained in the Brockport church in 1946 The last he was known to have been alive was p.m Sunday at the center in- said Dr Spike as chief executive of the Commission on Religion and Race suggested jnc use Of al for civil rights tions mure public works and new minimum wage legislation designed to help Negroes He set the highly Mississippi Delta try in under which dents were trained at Western College for Women Oxford Ohio to go lo Mississippi In help Negroes register la vole and develop remedial self-help grams DR SPIKE Court Action To End Strike WASHINGTON AP Court action lo end a walkout of eral Electric Co workers had been ordered by President son Hie While House announced today The President directed ty Ally Gen Ramsey Clark lo seek an injunction under Hie law which would send Die strikers hack to work for SO days The brief first announcement did nol specify whether lire tion would apply lo all or to a limited number at more strategic About employes of he company have struck local issues despite a contract ment averted a com- strike during weekend At one key plant ers wore out at GE's Evendale Ohio where jet engines are made for Phantom er planes used in Viet Nam Johnson his instructions from Honolulu where he is starting a Far Eastern our er receiving a report of a Firemen Trapped In Blaze cial board he named Monday to look into the strike situation A nationwide strike huge defense supplier was averted over weekend with AFL-CIO International Un- ion of Electrical Workers fied a national agreement out under White House mediation The 80.000 of GE's workers in 160 But more than bers of several unions struck in six slates Monday over local issues union leaders at some struck were urging bers lo return to work today strikes remained in effect at Warren Mich and Ashland Ohio and Ulica and Auburn are threatened at Louisville and Ky If the inquiry findings indicate to Johnson that the ion's safety is imperiled by the strikes the President may di- rect he general to seek an forcing the strikers back to work for an 80- day period Johnson On Island Hops Today HONOLULU Johnson island hops farther across tile Pacific today after insisting that the Manila ence will produce neither new strategy for the war in Viet Nam nor a spectacular peace formula Johnson still five days from Manila on his Asian trip was heading from Hawaii to New Zealand via Pago Pago in American Samoa The President and his wife got a rousing reception Monday in Honolulu Tens of many of them young jammed miles of streets in a friendly colorful greeting The state's delighted Democratic governor John A Burns gave an unrestrained crowd estimate of Johnson responded in typical fashion hopping out of his car at least a score of times to shake hands and when staying inside shouting through speakers mounted Inside Ibe trunk Aloha good to see you Even while reveling in the welcome however the dent made clear his attention was on Manila and the Viet Nam war In two formal speeches in Hawaii he went out of his way to discourage high hopes for his Oct meeting in the pines with leaders of six oilier countries fighting alongside the United Slates in Viet Nam At the Center on the University of Hawaii pus with several score antiwar placards hoisted above the crowd Johnson 1 want my fellow men to know that we are taking with us no magical wands and no instant solution Earlier arriving at International Airport Johnson discarded much of his prepared speech and read another which We do not expect to pull any rabbits out of any hats at nila Without getting specific son said Some have predicted hat this or that will happen in Manila He said hat some have forecast the sessions will produce a new strategy of war or come forth with some formula for peace Johnson will be the first American president to visit American Samoa a group of liny islands in the South Seas that have been U.S territory since Be President Remained In Hotel By DEAN JOHNSON LIMA Peru AP The death toll from a violent earthquake along Peru's central coast climbed toward 100 today but tidal waves generated by the earth shock diminished as they rolled across the Pacific Hawaii where President Johnson was spending the first night of his Asian tour was put on a tidal wave alert sirens sounding a warning every hour Only a minor wave reached shores and the alert was called off High seas along the Peruvian coast went down during the night Unofficial reports told of 63 dead in Peru from the quake at least injured and unknown numbers homeless but the count was far from complete Many persons spent the night in tlie streets The severe quake 7.6 on a scale with a maximum of 9 rocked and terrorized the al area lor about a minute and a half Monday afternoon Thousands ran screaming into the streets village plazas and other open areas as buildings shook and crumbled Women knelt in prayer while brick and wood cascaded them In Hawaii where President Johnson spent the first night of bis Asian lour at a hotel on Waikiki Beach Civil Defense officials said tidal waves caused by the quake were expected to hit he islands There was no of moving the President and he First Lady from their sixth-floor suite well out of any danger from the waters The U.S Coast Guard in Los Angeles warned that seismic sea waves might hit the nia coast Peruvian Adm A said all available information on the massive wave triggered by the quake had been to ian officials He the wave was building as it crossed the Pacific Unofficial reports listed 19 dead in Lima 32 in Calao the port seven miles In the west the Peruvian 27 in cho 3 in Piedra I in and 1 in Cerro Gordo Officials predicted the toll would go higher The epicenter was located at sea off said a seismologist The tremor struck just before the evening rush hour causing a giant fic jam in Lima and was felt north to Ecuador and south to Chile In 1940 an earthquake killed 200 persons in Peru and injured A quake which hit Peru and Ecuador in 1868 killed persons BARBS When the kids went back to school it gave parents a recess from their adult education course You Are Accident-Prone NEW AP Three aging buildings in an historic corner of downtown billowed wilh lame and choking fumes today in a blaze that may have brought to 12 men the greatest single loss of life in the department's 101 years of operation firefighters were found dead seven were injured and leu were believed missing in the basement of a three story brick building on Broadway just of Madison Square and a short distance from Building city's first scraper A search for Hie victims was begun by rescue teams wilh oxy- gen masks LEXINGTON Ky there people who are accident Sure there arc According lo an expert in the field you arc one of hem Dr Fine assistant professor of psychiatry at of Kentucky ex- plains thai everybody can be accident prone under certain pressures For Just before leaving for work a man finds out lhal he is overdrawn al the bank While driving his car his mind is centered on money ters not traffic He is an dent looking for a place lo pen We're made vulnerable at certain limes during our lives too such as times of transition change or Fine said For example when a leaves school and goes inlo outside world Tin's type of accident ness for most of us is a rary thing Fine said But there are some for whom it is more or less permanent There are people who hy their very character invite Fine old business and industry representatives day at a discussion sponsored by a local mental health group Generally he said these ple fall inlo one or more of these seeking ment This might be a person who has committed what ho or she felt was a great wrong and subconsciously wants la punish himself or tor il seeking self-injury to ward off Fine used an example of a headed for an examination he knows he will fail An auto accident will keep him from gelling there seeking care or pity Fine noted that a plain-looking secretary who has been injured in an accident receives flowers and from men who otherwise might not notice her who have very low self-esteem They say they're not much good and whammo drive over a cliff lo prove their Fine said fascinated hy escape from injury in a previous dent They seem lo think they're Indestructible
