Joplin News Herald (Newspaper) - March 30, 1965, Joplin, Missouri Generally fair tonight and Wednesday warming Low tonight 2834 high day Additional weather Page 17 JOPLIN NEWS HERALD Final Edition MARCH 1965 FOURTEEN CENTS Present Hotel Front Pictured here is a view of the Connor hotel 6s it looks the front entrance facing Main To the right of the photograph is the building which formerly housed the Joplin Piano which would be torn down to make room for a driveway into the parking lot of the hotel and an entrance to the hotel motor Joplin News Herald staff photograph Connor Hotel Revamp Project Under Study House Group Okays Searching Klan Probe WASHINGTON AP House Committee on UnAmerican Activities voted unanimously today to conduct a searching investigation into the activities of the Ku Klux Chairman Edwin said the com preliminary study indicated that shocking crimes are carried out by highly secret action groups within the These Willis are known as knockoff squads or holy Willis also announced that the committee had instructed him to go on with his preliminary in into activities of the Black the Ameri can Nazi party and the Minute The committee said its decision to throw the full light of a congressional in of the Klan was based on three fac tors By HARRY HOFFMAN i A renovation of the Connor hotel in Joplin is being j considered by the hotel owners and a group of Joplin business it was learned today by Joplin News The Joplin Chamber of Com merce has called a meeting lor Friday noon at the Connor to dis cuss proposed fi and other details rela tive to putting the plan into mo The entire lower front of the hotel would be remodeled with new entrances into the main the Rendezvous cocktail and on the Fourth street new entrances to the hotel and the coffee shop Wrought iron designs would be in front of the windows on the ground with can over the sidewalk at the Main and side The marble facing on the front of the hotel would be cleaned to reveal its beauty of years gone Sandblasting would be proposed for cleaning the ex of the struc A for the group of businessmen said tentative plans call for demolition of the former Joplin Piano Company building at 312 Main adjacent to the hotel building on the to make room for a driveway into the hotel motor and to the hotel parking The main lobby of the hotel would be completely remodeled with red new furni new entrances to the coffee shop and other About three floors of rooms in the annex section the rear half of the hotel building would be Hanoi Air Strike Likely After Blast By MALCOLM BROWNE South Viet Nam Terrorists set off an estimated 250 pounds of sives in a parked car alongside the Embassy killing at least 17 persons and wound ing at least Windows and brickwork of the building were shat Two girl secre tary and a Army officer wore among the and 45 or more Americans were The oilier casualties were Viet and for many of them strolling on the street when the massive went off at Speculation quickly arose that the United Slates would thrust a mighty retaliatory strike at Communist North Viet possibly even hitting the After our recent raids what else can we do for an en an American woman in Vietnamese soldiers and gov officials were accost ing Americans and saying Now you have no you have to bomb Seven of the injured Ameri including a woman secre were in serious A total of some with les ser hurts such as eye injuries from flying were flown to Clark Air Base in the Philip pines for specialist The Vietnamese dead includ ed one of two terrorists who participated in the The who carried a was shot by a policeman just before the bomb went off and was in serious BMt 4 MA Among foreign ers injured by the blast were a French businessman and sever al Japanese residents of The mighty blast punched a gaping hole in the concrete It shattered every window in the building and dug an enormous crater in the tarred The Joplin Chamber of Com merce and a group of Joplin businessmen have been discuss ing improvements to the hotel for some time to increase the number of conventions obtained by the The lack of ade quate hotel facilities have been the main objection in the some officials and since a hotel is a prime requirement for many the Chamber of Commerce has offered to as sist in any way The priorities committee of Joplins Pace 73 community de has dis cussed several times proposals for convention centers in the including one adjacent to the hotel on the hotels parking It is known that a group of Joplin businessmen had proposed to purchase the hostelry from the hotel but ne had slowed down in recent vice president of the hotel with offices in had met here with some city officials and businessmen concerning sale of the hotel and construction of a multilevel convention center and parking structure at Third and Main One of the by the city for consideration of such a proposal would be the hotels pledge to remodel and renovate the Scally indicated at that that the hotel own ers would rather sell the prop Continued on Page 2A staffs preliminary study clearly indicated the Klan ac are such that investiga tion is called by federal indicating that Klan mem bers have been involved in a number ot receni murders and other unconstitutional acts of violence and President Johnsons appeal last Friday in which he indi support for congressional investigation of the klans as an aid to enactment of remedial Willis had called the commit tee into closed session as he as soon as possible after Johnson suggest ed an Actually the committee al ready had taken tentative steps to look into the Klans with the committee staff under taking a preliminary inquiry at the urging of Charles Willis said that he would re port these preliminary findings to the committee members and they could decide whether to launch a formal investigation in the light of my findings and in the light of the Presidents statement A majority of the committee members are said to favor an investigation When the commit tee first decided to go ahead with the preliminary study the action was described as unani there is said to have been a certain amount of tug ging and hauling within the committee on whether it had any business in investigating the KKK and some other right wing the Ameri can Nazi party and the Minute Some of the members appar ently questioned whether the committees jurisdiction ex tends beyond subversion and Alabama Parley Staged Searchers Recover Bodies From Mud Sea AP Civil rights leaders emerged today from a con ference with George Wallace and said they were hopeful the governor would help resolve Alabamas bit ter racial AP George Wallace meets today with an integrated group of civil rights leaders to discuss the racial situation in The group of business lawyers and college professors from throughout the state scheduled a midmorning conference with the Martin Luther King who leads the drive for Negro rights in was in De troit to attend the funeral of Viola Gregg a white woman who was killed by as bullets on a dark Ala bama highway while shuttling civil rights workers from Mont gomery to Negro leaders planned three memorial services in Alabama for mother of five One of the services will be held at the site of the one at Selma and the other in While the governors office gave no indication of what Wal lace would have to say to the By JOSEPH BENHAM EL Chile AP Thirtysix bodies have been re covered from the mud of El and police doubt that many more of the hundreds bur ied here will be The death toll from the quake that shook Chile Sunday appeared to be about The Embassy in Santiago and the government said they knew ot no Americans killed or injured in the More earth tremors were felt but no new casualties or damage were Most of the dead were at El 80 miles north of Santi where the quake burst a 230foothigb dam of rock and mud and unleashed two million tons of rubble on the mining village Only a handful of the 400 inhabitants It was like a gigantic more than 100 feet made of mud and said Carlos one of the sur OTHERS KILLED Elsewhere in 25 other persons were reported killed in the quake Hundreds were in Southerner Proposes Vote Substitute By JOHN CHADWICK WASHINGTON AP Sam Ervin said today he will offer a substitute for Presi a North Carolina Dem called the administration measure both cockeyed and un Still being the tute as tentatively outlined by Ervin would provide for the ap pointment of federal registrars in areas where the President certifies to a finding of racial discrimination in violation of the 15th Ervin emphasized in an the presidential cer would be subject to judicial States or coun ties would have a chance to con test the finding in court before the appointment of Ervin said he will try to win acceptance of the substitute by the Senate Judiciary Commit tion measure continue today in both the Senate and the South Carolinas attorney gener Daniel was among witnesses to be heard by a House Judiciary In both the Senate and House the coverage formula in Johnsons has come un der fire not only from Southern opponents but from civil rights leaders in and out of It would bring in some areas like Alaska where no racial dis crimination is alleged and leave out other areas like Texas where widespread discrimina tion has been The would apply to states or counties that used literacy tests or similar voter qualifica tion devices and where less than half the population was registered or voted last No Under this South Vir jured and thousands Damage was intimated in the millions of The was mountainous since May 1960 when persons Salvadore the Marx ist senator who lost the presi election last said he would demand an investiga tion of safety procedures em ployed by the French copper mining company that main tht More a dozen towns and cities in central Chile felt the residents fled into the Buildings buckled and fires erupted The epicenter was near the railway and highway junction of 50 miles north of Santiago Nearly every building there was destroyed and seven persons were reported Four deaths and extensive damage were reported in Val paraiso Chiles largest port and second city A curfew was im posed to prevent There was one death in President Eduardo Frei held a Cabinet session to map a re lief Ambassador Ralph Dungan went to the presidential palace in Santiago with a per sonal oi help from Presi dent a spokesman for the j of which he is a member If 34 counties in North civil rights group said that it would present a petition to the stating Negro griev governor he fails he he will carry the fight to the Senate Hearings on the administra Inside Todays News City and State OPERATIONS RESUME in attempt to remove automobile from mine cavein near Webb Page Opinion MY HEART goes out to everyone who was not really created ABIGAIL VAN Page Inside Features Want Ads Pages 4B6B Comics Pages 6B Goren on Bridge Page 4A Hospital Notes Page 6A Page IB Una and one county each in Arizona and Idaho would be Literacy or similar tests would be prohibited in these areas and the federal govern ment could assign registrars to enroll Government Forces Recapture Thakhek Laos AP Laotian government forces to day recaptured this sleepy Mek ong River town after it was held for two days by rebellious Lao tian army Bulletin JEFFERSON CITY Rep Pat DBoone majority floor leader of the Missouri collapsed and died in a legislative office shortly after 1 Proposed Hotel Front Shown here is an artists sketch of the proposed improve ments to the front of the Connor hotel at Fourth and Main which will be discussed at a meeting Friday noon between representatives of the hotel chain and Joplin trances on Main street and Fourth street and changes to The by Artist Robert Higgs of be made in the front of the structure up to the balcony above is one of four prepared for the It shows the new en the second floor Midnight Tour by Johnson By FRANCES LEWINE WASHINGTON AP Presi dent Johnson left a glittering White House party Monday night to pay a midnight visit to the Lincoln Memorial with his guest of President Mau rice of Upper An aide held a flashlight to light their way up the steps At the Johnson stood holding the arms of and African leaders wife as they gazed in silence at the huge illuminated seated figure of After a moment he said in French as he looked at the stat ue of the man he has long ad had expressed a desire to stop at the Lincoln Memorial during his state Johnsons decision to accom pany him came as a The visit came as the climax to a state dinner honoring during which Johnson received reports of the bombing at the Embassy in As he was about to deliver his Johnson was handed a note from While some of his remarks were being trans lated into Johnson passed the message to Secre tary of State Dean Rusk left the state dining room and during the party held two telephone conversations with Deputy Ambassador Alexis Johnson in Johnson joined his 120 guests to watch a drumbeat ing program by American In dian dancers in the East Room before going into a huddle with Rusk behind closed doors in the Green The guests sipped champagne and danced to music of the Air Force Strolling Strings while the President and Rusk Johnson joined the twirling with his 21yearold The 20minute excursion by motorcade to the Lincoln Memorial ended with Johnson dropping off the at Blair the presidential guest house across the street from the White
