Lima Star (Newspaper) - January 24, 1966, Lima, Ohio Lima Star The WEATHER Fair lew lere to 10 cloudy and not quite so First Year 110 16 Pages 1966 Clan Postage Ratn PaM at Price 10 Cents 117Feared Dead In Air Crash France AP An Air India jetliner with 117 persons reported aboard crashed into Mont Blanc today and the French po lice said no survivors could be The gendarmerie ters here at the foot of Western Europes highest mountain said a helicopter landed at the crash scene but no one was found The on a flight from India to New crashed at a point called La about feet below the peak on the Chamonix ft was preparing to land at The French police said it would be impossible to send a land party up the foot mountain at this The bodies were to be brought down by Air India said the Boeing 707 jet carried 106 passengers eight of them bound for New a crew of The airline said one of the passengers was the chairman of Indias Atomic Energy Commis Homi who was en route to Vienna for a meeting of the International Atomic Energy The airline said 20 of the pas sengers were to get off in Gene 54 were going to Paris and 24 to Air India said the planes cap tain was Joe the copilot on Pope Paul flight from Rome to Bombay last He was a veteran of 18 years on the Bombay New York Solons Not Happy With AW Big Budget WASHINGTON AP Con gress received President John sons budget today with reservations about the ef fect on domestic programs of any largescale expansion of the Viet Nam Budget Figures WASHINGTON AP Here are the major facts and figures in President Johnsons fiscal 1967 budget sent to Congress today Scope billion Changes over 1966 up of which billion relates to Viet Nam war up of which billion will come from proposed tax increases or the rest because of anticipated growth of the econo my down billion from estimate for current fiscal Programs Defense spend up billion from last year and billion from this year in crease from billion to billion foreign holds at billion reduced from billion to billion educa up slightly to billion and additional increase requested of from 5 to 6 per cent in excise levy on airplane pas Both Democrats and Republi cans predicted the Presidents defense budget will go virtually but that his promise to come back for more money and new taxes if the conflict gets hotter will ignite a drive to curtail spend ing at Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield Barring a flareup in the situa tion in Viet the overall budget total is likely to be cut Mansfield said Johnson will get anything he needs to fight the George Aiken of dean of Republican agreed and Events in Viet Nam will deter mine what Congress finally does about the Spessard D said he was pleased that the President has come faceto face with the financial aspects of the Viet Nam The billion supplemental request and the new defense budget begin to show the people the tremendous costs of this un declared These costs will go higher and people should begin to think about and understand Spessard Henry D As of it would seem obvious that the funds requested for the Viet Nam conflict are minimal and would have to be Jackson is a member of the Joint Committee on Atomic En ergy and the Senate Armed Services and Appropriation pan Strom said the budget appears to be designed for deception and the levels of spending which it pro poses in nondefense areas con fiscal If the Viet Nam conflict is said John chairman of the Senate Preparedness sub I dont think Con gress is vote for all of the domestic spending the Pres ident has Leverett R said he is going to look very closely at all domestic pro grams in an effort to prevent appropriations so great that revenues cant come close to matching AND AWAY WE that is exactly what comedian Jackit GlMson to in a press conference held in Miami announced ho will not do his American Scene Magazine show for one He wants to get away for a year to Guns Thunder Resumes By THOMAS REEDY South Viet Nam AP and South Viet forces set out with re vigor to search out the Communists in several major operations today after a lunar New Year truce that brought scant peace to Viet As the 3Viday Allied truce expired at 6 oclock Sunday Air Force planes went into action and struck a Cong main A for ward air controller estimated 190 Communists a spokesman The ground thrusts brought no immediate significant contact with the but the spokesman said several major search and destroy operations were shaping Twentyfive Supers abers made the big strike in two waves at and against a Communist en 35 miles southwest of Saigon in the Mekong The jets came under heavy ground but there were no the spokesman Marine artillerymen opened fire a minute after the Allied truce The Viet Cong ceasefire expired seven hours but the Com brushed with South Vietnamese forces in a number of minor skirmishes before The Viet Cong raised a new threat against their pris by demanding the release of three terrorists who were ar rested with 265 pounds of sives 7 in a plot to bomb a military billet in A Hanoi broadcast said the United States and South Viet Nam have to bear full responsibility if they tortured or executed these The Communists issued such warnings before their reported execution of three American prisoners last year in reprisal for executions by the South The Viet Cong statement implied that a similar fate might befall the 22 Ameri cans last reported held by