Gastonia Gazette (Newspaper) - November 2, 1966, Gastonia, North Carolina COLDER Rain ending and much colder tonight with snow In mountains Hazardous driving warnings in Western Thursday clear and much colder More Weal her on Page IB THE GASTONIA GAZETTE THE PIEDMONT'S GROWING NEWSPAPER Today's Reminder Don't let that Junk your basement What you don't need may be just what your neighbor Ls looking for So want ad by calling UN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK fINAt EDITION GRAVE INCIDENT GASTONIA N C WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON NOVEMBER 2 1966 Singl Daily 15 Sunda 2 North Korean Troops Ambush 6 Americans President Only 30 Miles Away From SI ay ings By JOHN RODERICK SEOUL South Korea AP North Korean troops and killed six American soldiers and one South Korean below the armistice line be- fore dawn today while President and Mrs Johnson slept 30 miles away The incident was the gravest involving Americans since the Korean War ended in 1953 It occurred eight hours before Johnson left Korea for the ed States In Anchorage Alaska the traveling White House said Johnson has asked for a com- plete report on the incident Varied Reaction About Trip CAROLINA GIRL WINS AWARD These three pretty young gall took the win and show spots In the Miss Teenage America Turtle race Susie Ellis 17 left look the first place award Susie Is from Duncan Okla Linda Kirfs 16 Kansas City Mo took second place while Anita 16 ot Charlotte North Carolina took third The girls compete tonight In the talent portion of the pageant Miss Teenage America will be picked Saturday night AP By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS World reaction to President Johnson's trip and the Manila conference runs the gamut from optimism through doubt to Bridge one of two ning the River in the Landing In Alaska Johnson Returns Home Talks About Firm Stand By FRANK CORMIER ANCHORAGE Alaska AP President Johnson returned Tuesday night to American soil and promised that America will take a firm stand in you can put it in your pipe and smoke it Returning from a tion tour Johnson was greeted by several thousand residents df Alaska's largest city in a steady hut gentle midnight rain The President told welcomers at Air Force Base four miles from lown that ed States is taking a stand in Viet that stand is going to come true Although the dampened hour crowd was the smallest of his journey around the Pacific the President took his aulo microphone in hand to urge repeatedly that his ers move back a yard there and let the motorcade proceed Viet Nam was the theme of his impromptu in An- too He said the United Slates permit the to take over South Viet it they succeeded there might be in Dutch Harbor tomorrow Dutch Harbor is a community Aleutian islands The President said he did not believe in ignoring a fire until it gets to your front yard He emphasized again that his aim to get Communist North Viet Nam to he negotiating a- ble and the sooner they ize it the better they'll be Johnson landed in Alaska's biggest city shortly before mid- night following a nonstop flight from the South Kdrean capital of Seoul The presidential jet set down Look Women are playing a big role in the political campaigns in Gaston County For an insight into what they have done are doing and will do turn to page IB When voters go to the polls next Tuesday in New York they will be given a ballot concerning legalized lotteries in that state Experts say it has a good chance ot passing The story is on page With all the clamor about high food prices women are now asking food chains o cut out the gimmicks and lower their prices This story is on page Troops were ordered in from the field with full packs because their presence would make a belter photograph These words were by Pete Hamill who described the shabby charade in Manila on Page And here is where other features can be Deaths 2A Editorials Movies Sports TV Woman's News Activities In Our Area WEDNESDAY 7 p.m Sunday School Leadership School First Baptist Church p.m Orientation Meeting Chamber of Com- merce THURSDAY p.m Rotary Club Masonic Temple 4 p.m Public Committee Chamber of Commerce p.m nhn Chapter Delta Gamma Holiday 7 p.m Mills Wives Club Carolina 7 p.m Sunday School Leadership School First Baptist Church Ask Andy Astro Guide Bridge Classified Comics 2B 12B Crossword 2B at Air Force Base five miles out of the city at p.m AST EST Johnson will attend a fast this morning at his hotel then take off for a nonstop hop to Washington where his al at Dulles International port will be televised live The President is due at Dulles at 8 p.m EST Eight hours before Johnson left Seoul North Korean troops ambushed a patrol from U.S 2nd Infantry Division 800 yards south of demilitarized zone between North and South Korea killed six Americans and a South Korean soldier and wounded the American in the patrol The Communist troops escaped The North Korean attack was announced five hours after the President took off for Alaska It was the most serious of a series of attacks made by tiro North Koreans along armistice line since Johnson's trip to rea was announced Oct 6 Some observers in Seoul thought the Communists might be trying to put pressure on the South reans to resist any American for mare for Viet Nam Winding up his nation sweep around the rim of the Pacific the U.S chief made a parting pledge to maintain America's military strength in South Korea against Communist China and North Korea Hie President looked fresh and rested despite the strains of the trip He said an lient farewell at the close of his state visit to South Korea then climbed inlo his special plane Air Force One with Mrs Johnson Secretary of State Dean Rusk and House officials Before leaving son and President Park signed a fare which pro U.S forces present wreath bly ai mark girl Ro from Gen Charles H steel commander the U.S 8th Army in Korea and of the United Nations Command there The President met with steel Tuesday when he visited American and South Korean troops during his stay in South Korea There was one survivor an American from the U.S 2nd Infantry Division patrol Wounded by a grenade but re- ported in good condition he said the attackers wore North rean army uniforms The Communists escaped and there was no indication that any were wounded The United Nations Command announced that the patrol was jumped by the Com- about 800 yards south ot the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea The ambush occurred east oi This is evident from an Press survey of capitals not on the Johnson itinerary and from a cross-section of opinion at the United Nations There Frank Aiken foreign minister of Ireland told a re- I would say it appears to have been a very successful trip for the President As for the prospects for Im- provement in the Southeast Asia Aiken said the trip has provided a chance for the ministers to coordinate their views At the other end of opinion scale Tanzanian Ambassador J W As far as clearing the path to peace the trip has accomplished ing This African delegate The communique issued in Manila means very little What concerns us now is not what is going to happen after the fighting slops but how to stop the fighting Ambassador Jose Pinera of Chile I don't it had any direct contribution to peace I don't think President Johnson had lhat idea in mind It was an effort ot countries participating in Viet Nam to close ranks From that point it appears There has been no official British reaction to Manila but privately officials in London have hailed Johnson's efforts in Asian diplomacy mainly for encouragement lo Asians to join in selling up their defense system Firefighters in American sector of the front and close to Panmunjom the military Armistice sion meels in the demilitarized zone The Command said the occurred at President Johnson gave no cation that he was aware of it when he left Kimpo Airfield 15 mites away Tlie ambush was not announced until five hours after the President The Command an- Expended shell casings in the area from which the bush was launched were Com- Search patrols discovered the wounded man and the slain soldiers All of the dead and wounded were assigned to the 2nd try Division Their identities will be released after tion of next of kin It was lie most serious of a series of North Korean that began after Johnson's trip lo Korea was announced 6 The Command demanded an meeting of Military Armistice Commission to take up ambush and er serious violations of the ar- agreement No Americans were involved in previous incidents that be- gan along the armistice line on 15 Several South Korean soldiers were killed The recent increase in North Korean along stice line led some observers in Seoul to the Communists were trying to apply pressure on Uic South Koreans to resist American requests for more troops in Viet Nam South rea now has approximately 000 fighting alongside U.S forces there California Brush Brings Death To LOUD AND CLEAR GOP Has High Hopes In Governors Races By JACK BELL WASHINGTON AP Re- publicans are staking most of their hopes tor widening the base ot their challenge to President Johnson primarily on the outcome of governors races in next Tuesday's balloting It is in these contests for con- trol of that cratic strategists privately con- cede they are considerably more vulnerable than they be- lieve they are in the 435 House and 35 Senate contests to be decided at the same time From the current low point of 37 governors Republicans hone for a substantial gain that will them a chance to build slate organizations geared ward capturing 1968 electoral votes in an uphill contest against Johnson's expected re- election bid Although Democrats don't beliere it will turn out that way some GOP strategists envision their party's occupancy fie governor's office in such key stales as New York California Michigan Ohio Pennsylvania Wisconsin land and Massachusetts in To do this the GOP would have to hotel its seats in six of these states and add California Minnesota and Maryland are not giving up on any of these nine big states but they cannot be classed as overly op- about their chances in them In the smaller electoral vote states the Republicans are ning for Democratic governors in Arizona Arkansas ka Nevada Iowa New shire and Vermont have some hopes in Alabama and Family Gives Up Pictures Kennedy Autopsy Photos Are Banned From Public WASHINGTON AP The family of President John F Kennedy has turned over to the National Archives pictures en in connection with the sy performed after his nation pictures that doctors say add nothing to evidence ready on record The 65 pictures and X-rays which wore not examined by the Warren Commission during its were presented to the archives under conditions which virtually preclude public viewing of for many years A Justice Department man said Tuesday night lie de- had asked for the 14 X-rays 2n black-and-white and 26 color trans- 10 complete the collection of nation material for the cal record The two Navy who performed the autopsy the night after Kennedy was shot said in interviews Tuesday night the X-rays and pictures merely Fhe 10 Men By ROBERT NEUBERT SYLMAR Calif AP A blast of fjames sweeping up a out the i in a crew pending of next of kin Nine of the 15 survivors in crew were in critical con- dition at the Los Angeles County General Hospital's Burn Center Suppression leaders said fire was 90 per cent contained early today Of the other two fires one on Camp Pendleton Marine Corps reservation in San Diego County acres In Ventura a blaze burned from U.S Highway 101 i an oil tank farm imaging structures In the ann Mountains west of les crest fire two more lhan ISO ot flame coursing Canyon in Iho fire was touched led power line Hot desert as the ta over tains driving temperatures as high as 101 degrees a record for November 60 miles an hour No structures were damaged hut early in i wall of flames was halted at Olive View Hospital where most of WX patients were ated Also evacuated were 451 patients of a veterans tration hospital in the same area The men who died were backed up against a rocky cliff in process of culling a line around a hot spot One of fhe survivors said the flames made a flash run the Hill Karly in he day i MM was threatened but flumes failed lo installation or either of lie hvo hospitals The veterans ils patients back during the Bo- ning back up testimony they gave the commission And one of them said the photographs were in- tended for use in the of Lee Harvey Oswald named by commission as Kennedy's sassin These are nothing more than supportive evidence for information we presented to Warren said Cindr J Thornton who assisted Cmdr James J Humes in the autopsy All they would do be lo document what we discussed I am sure the photographs would corroborate our testimony They were photographs en for presentation in court at the Oswald I rial Oswald was still alive at lime of he lopsy Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Tex No 22 1963 Two days later Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby in a dor of the Dallas jail Humes said commission members had asked whether were needed in con- with the testimony We felt they were not he said Asked whether the disclosed anything not covered in testimony Humes said I would not have testified be- the commission way I did if 1 fell there was anything different about them Some recent criticism of Iho commission focused on the fact that the commission did not see autopsy pictures One commission member Allen W Dulles said be didn't recall the circumstances rounding the deci- sion not ID examine the lures The Justice Department spokesman said he did not know how be X-rays and came inlo the possession of ha Kennedy family The spokesman said the lures by Humes and Boswell are the only ones of the known to exist A letter daled Oct 23 and signed by Burke Marshall resenting the Kennedy family gave he government iff pictures Marshall for- mer head of Justice ment's civil rights division now lives in New York City and has handled matters or tho Kennedy family The Idler also tho government possession of the Kennedy was wearing when he was shot on viewing these are somewhat less stringent than for the tures Earlier Tuesday the ment took legal title to the great mass of evidence considered by commission The evidence including the rifle designated by he commission as the death weapon was ordered preserved in the archives conditions laid down by the Kennedy family there will be no nonofficial access o autopsy without the consent of family for the first five years This does not apply to official government investigating groups which may see the pictures at any time After the first five years cess is limited to recognized experts in pathology or related services again with the consent of the Kennedy family COULD YOUR CHILD GET BETTER GRADES IF Georgia The Democrats who now con- trol 36 statehouses have a smaller target to shoot at But they are talking about ousting Republicans in Idaho Kansas Oregon and Wyoming The Republicans have taken heart at public polls which their best ing be the nor's races They are more or less resigned to polls showing them in Senate and House contests although they havie been uble to extract solace even from these For example the Harris vey a copyright private poll published by Hie Washington Post estimated the Democrats total vole in races for 435 Housa seats including in tions of the South or virtually so at per cent That sounds more ing than it is to the Republican strategists They point out that this percentage of the vote is one point higher lhan it was when they captured 175 House seats in Any such outcome next Tuesday would mean a gain of 35 over he 140 GOP members elected m the party got 42.4 per cent of the total vole cast Jn the previous tion in the Republicans elected 177 members when they got 47.7 per cent of the vote Percentage figures are not comparable in Senate contests since different states are in- each two years But in 5960 when most of seats involved this year were at stake Republicans won 11 of 34 with 44.5 per cent of the total senatorial vote This in- cluded seven Southern states in which the GOP had no nees This year the Harris poll he Republicans would get 48 per cent of the total vote cast in contests involving 20 Democratic and 15 Republican seals ONLY HE Chances arc he could do lirllcr Indeed Tim trick In helping is to motivate them Into trying harder But that's something which baffles the best of parents and most skillful teachers And hat Just why every parent teacher should read How lo Help the by Leslie J Mason Sunday In The Gazette An version Is available tor In booklet form
