Gazette-Mail (Newspaper) - June 12, 1966, Charleston, West Virginia CITY Charleston West Virginia iX GAZETTE THE OUTLOOK and somewhat wanner to weather MORE TROOPS McNamara Reports Military Success But Integration Forcing Increase By Lewis Galick of Defense ert S McNamara saii Saturday that military successes in Viet Nam exceeded our expectations in the first quarter of this year but said more U.S troops will be sent there to counter continuing infiltration from the Communist North McNamara said more GTs are already ticketed for ence to Viet Nam by reading South Viet Nam duty which would boost the total mere to about Some expect the buildup to reach by the end of the year Secretary of State Dean Rusk McNamara in anticipating farther to Viet Nam as it shifts from a military ward a civilian regime However after cutting the of the military in half earlier this spring the internal turmoil's impact on the Cong effort has now been virtually overcome and I don't that controversy military Namara said The administration's defense and foreign affairs chiefs spoke at a wide-ranging news ence immediately after a special from a report on military tions during Since intelligence material from cap- tured documents prisoner inter- rogation and other sources lags behind the event it was not known until recently how ful the campaign has been he said He listed Communist fighters a ratio for the U S dead South Vietnamese and 250 allied diers slain This doesn't mean we stop our military he said stating that North Viet Nam has been sending soldiers south a month and he expects mis ration rate would continue If it does I would expect we would increase our be said ED FONDREN 106 HOISTED TO SHOULDERS OF MARCHES Miss Man Registered to Vote for First Meredith's Army Spurs Registration Set 3 Civil Bury JOT on Page SA By Ray Reed New York Service lue Marchers Jailed Peril Vote White House briefing for and Republican leaders President Johnson presided at the two-hour session which also featured a report by Rusk on his European trip Senate Republican leader Everett M Dirksen of Illinois had complained that the was not engaging in enough bipartisan consultation on Viet Nam After Saturday's mid-day gathering he left the White House voicing satisfaction with the meeting SENATE Democratic leader Mike Mansfield of Montana and other administration supporters recited statistics designed to show how much the Johnson regime has kept in touch with Congress aad the Republican Yanks Upset North Viet Timetable New fork Times Service HUE Viet Nam A special police squad from Saigon has arrested between 50 and 100 sons and expects to pick up more on charges of antigovernment activity in this Buddhist canter Miss sources said Saturday ine Diem's regime and nine in 1966 James Meredith marchers sparked new political interest Saturday among the Negroes of Panola County Recruiting 200 to 300 local Negroes they marched to the ty courthouse where they more than 50 Panola County Negroes to register to vote That was a small triumph for the marchers because Negro registration had been lagging here After a spurt of interest last year applicants to register bad dwindled tins year to only s few each month The hero of the day was a retired farmer named El Fondren He night while Buddhists in Saigon threatened a boycott of ber voting It was a step toward mg dissidence reflected in a march of about Saturday with banners carrying on a fading elsewhere against Premier Nguyen Cao Ky's military government and the United States for big that government The crowd was orderly Steel American President's colonialist policy in Viet said one of be banners THICH the tants chief didn't march He was in a hospital in the fourth day of a hunger strike he de- clares he will continue until President Johnson drops can support of Ky Aides said and juices A secret helmeted riot police of a contingent flown in from Saigon Friday stood by but did not in- The demonstration marked the third anniversary of the fire cide of Monk Quang Due Due was the first of 16 Vietnamese Buddhists to burn himself to death as a gesture of ac tion with governmental ship There were seven in all hi 1963 against President Ngo Dinh condemn the opposition The President self told reporters this was the such bipartisan perky since he entered the White House Rusk hit back too at vard Prof John K Galbraith a Kennedy administration to Irdia who had termed the secretary of state terribly misinformed in be- lieving there is wide support for administration foreign policy I don't know of any subject on which the American people have been more fully informed than Viet Rusk said Sometimes Prof Galbraith's wit conceals his basic be added Rusk said France's 14 Allies in- warplanes took up slack in ground contact in the Plateau battle Saturday Fresh American troops moved in to reinforce the five-day drive against ed but stubborn North ese regulars clinging to ridges Helicopters flew in supplies and flew out the wounded If the attested to branch their offensive fraat their IB that ana rf their timetable at least has sees set Paratroopers of the U.S Airborne Screaming Eagles Division who have borne the DROWNING VICTIM CAR RIED ITOH EEkt RIVER Boy 16 Was ng New Park MANDS VS Viet Supply Shortage Vows Correction radio station be- SCHOOLS TO GET FILMSTRIPS ed shakily into the registrar's office leaning on a cane He emerged 10 minutes later and I was hoisted to the shoulders of two young Negroes and into the cheering throng Asked how it felt to II K's all Fondren re- A new era fo the study of rent events opens in Southern West Virginia schools this fall when the Sunday The Charleston Gazette and Charleston Daily Mail begin dis- of educational strips prepared by the ated Press and The New York Tunes Contracts have been signed for both services which will provide monthly filmstrips to be operating from a pagoda appealed to die or so 1st Division troops garrisoning Hue not to operate with the riot police The government radio jammed parts of the broadcast b Saigon the Unified Church announced it boycott the uled national elections in tember if the current military leaders remain in power A communique issued by the Buddhist hierarchy demanded once more that Premier Ky and Lt Gen Nguyen Van Thieu Please Turn to Page Col 4 ance without backbiting against President Charles de Gaulle who is divorcing France from Nato's integrated military system McNamara and Rusk stoutly denied any intent to cut back the UJS force in West Europe Rusk portrayed the Soviet threat as there and on Viet Nam he challenged Russian leaders who make rude remarks against U.S actions in Viet Nam a try some peacemaking instead He noted Russia is of the Geneva convention supposed to guarantee peace neutrality and independence for Indo-China McNamara quickly swung the focus of the joint news confer brunt of the fight reported 385 of the enemy have been killed This was well over half of the two North Vietnamese battalions known to have dug m on the jungle terrain 30 miles northwest of Kontum City U.S from Guam pounded a zone 10 miles farther north where at least two other battalions were ed on the move U.S bombers which have flown more than 200 sorties in the battle struck at enemy positions in some cases only 50 yards from American lines Among those emerging from the battle zone was Capt liam C Carpenter Jr the for- mer West Point football star who called in air strikes and artillery on the position of his own company when it was over- run by North Vietnamese day The air offensive over both Please Turn to Page Col PVT ADAM R WEBER JR Gets Year in Prison GI Sentenced For Refusal Of Rifle plied seemingly surprised that it had been painless ing is all right The marchers left Batesville at 11 as the sun began to bake the asphalt of U.S 51 and headed south toward Jackson the state capital They passed thei mark before noon The march began Sunday at Memphis as a personal pilgrimage of Meredith the Negro who desegregated the University of Mississippi in 1962 Blasted with shotgun pellets Monday near Hernando he was returned to a Memphis hospital He expects to rejoin the March now being conducted by civil rights activists late this week CHARLESTONS Papers to Donate New Service goals bring new problems De The ening social revolution cember South ing the 196647 school year Each covers an important sub- ject as the straggles within Asia the education boom in the U S America's global commitment and the social revolution in Sooth America Filmstrips are designed for use in classes hi history and civics in senior high schools Each program is about 15 utes long first time this year Distribution of the filmstrips will be handled through the of- fice of county superintendents of schools In all the ton newspapers will provide 13 filmstrips each month and these will be used by several schools in each county uies rang faced More than schools and wearing World Wor II Nazi colleges are using New York helmet roaring the South Tunes filmstrips The led Press service begins for the strips had already been schedul- ed hi Kanawha County schools and would be sent to additional counties whose superintendents request them In showing a New York Times filmstrip teachers read material for each picture WE PLAN for the widest sible use of the said Dallas Higbee executive editor of the Sunday Large high schools may need a filmstrip several days while smaller schools may be able to show it to several classes in one day County superintendents will be asked to arrange schedule for their schools in order that one filmstrip be seen by as many classes as sible Higbee indicated film By Welles New York Service WASHINGTON The supply Nam is so Junior Is Victim rom an accompanying manual The Associated Press series has narrative material on a phono- graph record Water and The drive to improve man's environment The Population In- creasing hunger and other America's Global The changing patterns in military and economic aid Aprils The eight programs in The Decade in prospects in moon and beyond CHU Viet Nam U S Army court martial sentenced an American serviceman to a year in prison for refusing to accept a rifle for use against the Communists in Viet Nam He was Pvt Adam R er Jr 24 of New Orleans La a former student for the priesthood and demonstrator for civil rights and peace who said he considered the war in Viet Nam futile and less The court martial also reduced in Viet ad a Marine y wrote his congressman mat some of the guys are writing to Sears for a tent as the troops an't get them An American civilian ed to the Army in Viet Nam re- cently wrote his shoe store at wme hi Saugus Calif to send him work boots because he was unable to draw Army combat boots in the field These and many other in- stances of temporary ages have been confirmed by Defense Department in Washington but with the caveat that such Incidents are bound to occur in a gle war miles away Moreover they add they are being overcome Lt Gen L J Lincoln Army deputy chief of staff for tics for instance recently wrote Rep Ed Reinicke that in May alone the Pentagon had rushed pairs of a new type combat boot to Viet Nam many of them by air Marine Corps officials who concede widespread shortages in Viet Nam of clothing combat year old Charleston High School Junior drowned Saturday white swimming in the EHc River near Coonskin Park John William Washington son of Mrs Margaret Walls of Irvin St was swimming near the park golf course when he went under He was pulled from the water about 20 minutes er Patrolman Bob Scuba diver for the ton Police Department in the search was dead on arrival abort m at Charleston pitaL Other survivors include ers Rufus Davis of Cincinnati Ohio Tommy Washington ry Walls Alexander Davis all of Charleston Winston Walls of Cleveland Ohio sisters Mrs Mary Francis Robinson Miss Betty Ann Walls Miss Edith Mae Washington all of ton The body is at Preston neral Home SPOTLIGHT boots insect repellent and other items attributed the problem to the buildup of he corps at home and abroad since August from to now We knew the shortages were coming and would hit us in April May and this said one Marine cer We were right We're ing But from now on it should better NONETHELESS while con- ceding that shortages will con- at least until and prospects in the race for the a from his pay of j e j T e coun rank to recruit and ordered supply insist The Associated Press has remaining subjects to be chosen as new developments un- fold The three The People's A story of the electoral college Mrs Gandhi's A an guides that giant land The Rhodesian Background on that African country school year Citizen The Individual's growing fat public affairs Octo- ber The Within Old and sew conflicts of tion aat people November The Education New ded lie be allowed to remain in the Army and volunteered to serve as a combat medic He could have been sentenced to five years in prison and en a dishonorable discharge the maximum under the charge Tsn te Page CoL 1 CU i total I that these cannot be ed to any general supply down but rather to momentary dislocations They have pointed to the id buildup of U S troops in Viet Nam since last summer from to a current total estimated at to the vast distances from the continents U S across the Pacific to east Asia to the clogged run down ports the nonskilled am Please Tsn to Page Col 1 Frown Pal Advice on getting ahead in this world offered new college by L T Anderson in hit In Reverse col- umn this week as he points out that success more on a worried frown than on a winning 3B Page Always on Sunday ISA Building News Business News 12B Classified Ads Columnists 2B 3B Community News Current Affairs IB Editorials 2B Education News Home Family Magazine Obituaries Page Opposite 38 Sports Your Bridgework IB r
