Daily Republic, The (Newspaper) - January 14, 1966, Mitchell, South Dakota WEATHER FORECAST Cloudy THE DAILY REPUBLIC it An Independent Newspaper Sell It Fast With DOUBLE SERVICE WANT ADS Volume 14 January 1966 Single Copy lOc Number 74 Solons Warming Up Action Heavy By GLENN ESTERLY PIERRE Ml Burgeoning ac tion in the statehouse Thursday indicated that al most onethird of the way through this are warm ing up to the tasks at They should be in form after going through some lively floor committee committee hearings and investigating They also trooped to the hop pers with 32 bills in the house and nine in the One of the bills filed In the house would abolish the Legis Research Council The Republican Carl Burgess and Louis Frei Viet Cong Slow Activity Peace Efforts Continue By THOMAS REEDY South Viet Nam AP Viet Cong activity con on a reduced scale Mishaps dogged American but the South Vietnam ese reported some Government militiamen killed 40 Communists in beating off an an outpost near the provincial capital of Quang 330 miles northeast of Sai scene of repeated Commu nist Casualties among the 100 de fenders were reported Two planes a gine flare ship and an Air Force collided in the air on an opera tion in support of Korean ground troops 15 miles north west of Qui Nhon on the central All seven men on board were The crashed into the bigger plane from under neath after pulling out of a a spokesman Other mishaps plagued the Marines in the Da Nang resulting in and Viet On the diplomatic Sai gon awaited with rising interest the arrival Saturday of Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Ambassador Averell It was assumed they Negro Weaver Is First Named lo US Cabinet Post By RAGSDALE WASHINGTON AP ert Weaver appears likely to have an easier task winning Senate approval as the first Ne gro member of the Cabinet thin he did in 1961 as housing admin President Johnson announced Thursday he would nominate Weaver as Secretary of Housing and Urban Weav has been acting head of the department since its formal creation in As administrator of the Housing and Home Finance he has directed the agencies now under the new Cabinet depart Johnson said he would name Robert chairman of the political science department at Massachusetts Institute of as undersecretary of the new Wood headed a task force that advised Johnson on its organization and I am very proud of this Johnson The nominations were sched uled to go to the Senate The new department the in the Cabinet has under its wing the Federal Housing the Public Housing the Urban Renewal Administration and the Community Facilities Johnson said no decision has been made on a reported pro posal by Woods task force to move the community action part of the administrations antipoverty program from the Office of Economic Opportunity to the new including some generally ex pressed approval of Weavers And two Negro leaders promptly applauded Johnsons Congratulations and deep thanks for your wired Boy Wilk executive director of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored Whitney Young executive director of the National Urban said of the appoint ment It will become a mode to inspire and motivate the Ne gro youth in todays Early Senate approval of the two nominees seemed Willis said the Senate Banking Com which he heads will hold confirmation hearings He described Wea er as an able He said I dont anticipate any would try to still misgivings in the South Vietnamese govern ment about President Johnsons peace In the Da Nang 380 miles northeast pf two Marine jets called in by a forward air controller sank four sampans manned by govern ment militiamen in the Thin Yen 20 miles southwest of Da after being told they were carrying Viet Four civilians on the river bank were killed and 16 civil ians and five militiamen were The Marines accepted Continued on Page 2 VIET NAM North Viet Nam Is Rebuilding During Lull By FRED HOFFMAN WASHINGTON AP The North Vietnamese are using the bombing lull to rebuild railroad lines and bridges over which war gear has flowed from Red it was learned Aerial reconnaissance indi cates that the Reds are giving priority in reconstruction to rail links reaching northwest and northeast from Hanoi into Com munist These rail lines and bridges were pounded heavily by fighter bombers for about three or four months before the strikes were halted three weeks The northwest line had been pretty well knocked out and the northeast leg nearly sources the Reds are working hard to repair those lines and bridges while they are free of Another area where commu being rebuilt lies above the demarcation bor der separating Communist North Viet Nam from South Viet There was no clear tion as to this sector should be getting priority attention in repair But it was suggested the Com may be trying to get this route back in shape to re duce reliance certain roads passing through Laotian territo ry being worked over by Despite official it is known that American recon naissance planes range over North Viet Nam during htis lull period at both high and low al Among other the photo reconnaissance has detected the rebuilding of storage the patching up of roads and an increase in vehicular traffic on both of Rapid and John had in last week they would submit the after claiming the LRC has become a super Verbal dueling took place in both the house and Two GOP senators took potshots at each other over a to create a state commission of mental health and mental The measure was sponsored by Robert and came from the sen ate health and welfare commit tee with a do pass recom It would create a commission to oversee mental health plans and facilities in the and designates who would serve on the It would assume the duties of the mental health section of the State Health De The received first after Fawn D moved to amend the measure to have the governor appoint the Frank moved a substitute motion to send the back to committee because some mental health groups werent represented on the After both motions were de and the was pass Bartron made some com ments on the floor about Hen derson a fish and parks committee meeting Thursday Henderson then said he had been in another com meeting and said he had ex that to all committee Continued on Page 2 SOLONS President in Better Aide Reports WASHINGTON AP dent Johnson seems in the best of spirits these days like a man who has climbed Ever est and is satisfied with the One longtime Johnson aide said today he thought the dent was in a better mood this week than ever And there was other evidence to support the conclusion that the chief executive was feeling just fine Johnson said so himself For the first time since his 8 the President is back in full public In the past two he made a major address in living color to Con gress and the submitted with smiles and warmth to a couple of cere monies and held his first solo news conference since even when voicing complaints and criticism to the White House has tended to soften them by cloaking them in His aides said this was a good And he has been trying out humor in Why is Johnson in a good mood There can be many guesses but no sure For one he has behind him the State of US Officials Keep Careful Eye For Evidence of Peace Moves By JOHN Af Special Correspondent WASHINGTON AP officials are keeping a careful watch on Communist military operations in Viet Nam for any evidence of a possibly deliber ate scaling down of President Johnson said Thurs day it is a fact that the num ber of incidents initiated by the Viet Cong forces in recent days had decreased but he was una ble to say whether the decrease was prompted by his space Johnson had promised in his State of the Union message Wednesday night that we will respond if others reduce their use of The decrease in Viet Cong activity which he mentioned Thursday began more than a week before the President spoke and administration officials were by no means certain that it had any political significance at Should it prove to have such meaning it evidently would be interpreted here to indicate a Viet Cong reaction to Johnsons earlier suspension of the bomb ing of North Viet Nam The President also said Thurs day in a news conference that he will continue to send special peace envoys to the capitals of other nations and that he will go on seeking peace as long as I am Administration officials re following the Presidents comment about a decline in Viet Cong that there were 970 Viet Cong incidents in the week of 2 to In the pre vious week there were in Initiated by the Viet There was thus a drop of 160 incidents in the first week of Continued on Page 2 OFFICIALS SD Cement Plant Officials Deny Penne Charges PIERRE tfl Three Rapid City persons connected with the State Cement Plant have con ducted business with the state owned State ler John Penne said in a report to the house investigation com The report named cement plant commissioner Claude Julius sec of the Cement Plant and Harold Mon1 chief electrician at the cement Anderson Sieler said the allegation was false and Mont gomery said he hadnt been in in any Louis chair man of the investigation com said he hoped the com which also includes Jack R and Howard Wau would seek an tion by the legislature or through Frank Far Penne said the Anderson In the infiltration sage with its ambitious call for congressional action in And the due is virtually The bigger presidential worry Viet Nam is a ques rhere has been no indication tion mark to the He says as yet that the Communists are taking advantage of the lull to regroup or intensify their an ils too early to tell whether his attempts at peacemaking will succeed or Perhaps his mood mirrors his Boe SD Poll Results on Tax Not Surprising PIERRE UPi Nils Boe said today he wasnt surprised by results of the South Dakota Poll that showed the majori ty of city residents favoring re peal of the property tax on certain items and farmers op He said the sentiment was evident in 1965 and again this Its not anything I feel is startling to Boe said when asked to comment during his press conference upon the polls The conducted by three South Dakota listed 82 per cent of the farmers but only 37 per cent of city residents in favor of retaining the person al property tax on household goods and which Boe wants the poll tabulations were 58 per cent against abo lishing the 40 per cent for abolishing it and two per cent without any Boe said city residents pay to each in property taxes while farmers pay generally he quickly add Continued on Page 2 BOE Sentiment Against Property Tax Exemption Growing By LES Republic News Service Director PIERRE Governor Nils Boes proposal to eliminate lo cal taxes on household goods and appliances and to revert million in state funds back to the counties each year in lieu of that tax revenue is still the topic of a great deal of Naturally you are not finding many Democrats who are will ing to go along with the mea sure and one can sense that publicans who are not necessar who are not necessar ily sold on the There are an increasing num ber of Republicans who will tell you that they dont think the measure stands a chance with a socalled county option provi sion in Some even question the right of the legislature to re move a tax and then to commit future legislatures to revert million dollars each Some lawmakers tell you that many of their constituents have told them that they prefer things as they One Democrat I dont think its because they wouldnt like the tax but 1 think most people are smart enough to realize that if you take one tax off you may have to add another to raise the nec essary funds for operation of lo cal Some of them worry more about the alterna tive they might fact than paying taxes on their household goods and Some of these views came out into the light during a warm session of the senate assessment and taxation committee on One a said That thing doesnt stand a It was in the 1965 session that Elvern minority leader in the asked Attorney General Frank Farrar to give an opinion on the constitutionality of including special appropriation measures in the general appropriation Farrar ruled that it Continued on Page 2 surance through the Rapid City Insurance Asso shared in commissions totaling during the three year period ending in The commissions were on in surance Penne Anderson said he was a partner in the Anderson Insurance Agency but not for over a When he was nam ed to the Cement Plant Com mission in Anderson he notified the association he would not participate in any in surance written on the plant or its To the best of my know Anderson Ive never gotten a penny from any body nor did I try to institute any business through the Rapid City Insurance He said Pennes repi was a very unjust accusation and that it appeared to be an at tempt by someone to try to implicate me for the sake of The Penne report said Sieler and Montgomery have been members of the Industrial Electric Supply at Rapid City and that the firm sold in electrical supplies and ma terials to the cement plant in 1959 and and from 1961 through December Ive never had a penny in the said He said he had one share of stock as a non participating director to help set up the firm as a cor but disposed of the share shortly Sieler is an Montgomery said he has been connected with the firm but doesnt do any purchasing for the cement He said only special equipment that cannot be purchased elsewhere is bought from the firm for the cement Andrew State Cement Plant Commission said that since Montgomery did no purchasing for the plant he saw nothing wrong with his association with the electrical The report was handed the committee during a late after noon session It was the second meeting Thursday on the The meeting in cluded additional discussion of what Price and a consulting termed excessive Bogue and Commissioner Chandler and plant manager in charge of Rapid said Price Waterhouse qualified each statement when saying the inventories of iron fuel oil and storeroom parts were Jones asked Penne how much the Price Waterhouse report Continued on Page 2 Two Children Die In Farm Fire in Iowa Iowa children burned to death Thurs day night when fire swept their farm home near Hawkeye in northeastern Killed as the blaze roared through a farm house were Randy and his Russell Ungerer suff ed mi nor burns saving his three daughters but was unable to reach two boys sleeping on the second lingerers was taken to a hospi tal suffering from shock and smoke Cause of the blaze was not immediately High Court Rules for Change In County Board PIERRE W The state su court today unanimous ly affirmed a lower court rul ing that Minnehaha Countys Board of Commissioner is un constitutionally the high court mod ified the original ruling by say ing that it lies with the ture to enact corrective mea and that the court would defer action to give the legis lature an opportunity to The supreme court retained and said it would entertain an application by in parties for further and appropriate relief if corrective legislation has not been enact ed by March Until that said the rul to assure continuity of county government the present board of county commissioners could continue to Commissioners whose terms expire in can be nominated and elected un der existing rules unless legis lation changing the laws be comes effective prior to The ruling caps a court bat tle which started this summer Properly Tax Action Seen Soon PIERRE ft The senate as and taxation commit tee this morning moved to pass Nils Boes recommended eliminating the property tax on household goods and fur out of committee with out a This means the final show down on the measure will come early next Committee Lloyd said the action means the senate will have to decide whether it should put the measure on the It would take a two vote of the senate to do otherwise the would be Schrag said he would submit the committee report to the secretary of the senate after todays The report would then be read at Satur days session and go on the cal endar as a committee action Monday there must be a mo tion to put it on the calendar for final action or the would be If it is placed on the calendar for final action it would come up for a vote Tues the Senate could suspend the rules and make the final vote on the matter if it The eliminates the pro Continued on Page 2 TAXATION Oilman Okay After Surgery AP Paul a school teach er from Wessington was reported in good con dition today following removal of his Mayo Clinic surgeons removed kidneys Thursday and also performed surgery on a du in Minnehaha Circuit Mead a Sioux brought the original ac contending the Minnehaha County board was not ap portioned according to the su courts one one vote Bailey contended t h a t the present apportionment in Min County favored the rural The two Sioux Falls districts have about a 000 population and the three rural districts The high court affirmed the circuit c o u r ts ruling that a section of the South Dakota code restricting cities to two Continued on Page 2 COURT 2 Men Slain in Foiled Effort to Kidnap Firestone By BOB THOMAS BEVERLY Calif AP Pistols two men crashed into the home of Leon ard Firestone Thursday night in an apparent attempt to kid nap the wealthy police killed both with shotgun Cal was killed in stantly as he attempted to rush into the living room of the pala tial George fell wounded on the and died three hours later in the prison ward of General Hospi They held three but never got a chance to fire a Police said the men may have planned to ask million in The deaths ended three weeks of police undercover dur ing which the proposed kidnap Fire Marshals Seek Cause of Pierre Tragedy PIERRE fft A second de state fire marshal has taken the task of trying to de termine cause of a blaze that snuffed out eight lives here early Harry deputy fire was called in to assist Deputy State Fire Marshal Joe and local Brown said that the fire start ed in the kitchen of the Wallace Quenzer home but exactly where or the cause hadnt been While the probe rites were conducted Thursday several blocks away from the Quenzer for little Kathy daughter of and Harold Services were at the Peter and Paul Roman Catholic The fire brought a tragic end to the Burtts girls sixth birth day being celebrat ed at the Quenzer home during an overnight Funeral services for and six of her eight ranging from ages 3 will be at 2 The are but the rites will be at the First Methodist Church because there is more The three survivors of the the and daughters and tem moved to an ing was tipped by an undis was warned to leave the This has been a very dis tressing and upsetting thing to have gone said the president of the Firestone Tire and Rubber of at the home of a friend in San Francis co Thursday He compli the police for a thor masterful John chief of Beverly Hills told this sequence of events First hint of the kidnap came three weeks ago in connection with a burglary that took place in the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles Ten days the tipster disclosed that the intended victim was the handsome son of rubber em pire founder Harvey Fire I was very much disturbed and said the in I just made up my mind that I would try to work with the police as best I Hankins advised him to leave Continued on Page 2 CRIME LBJ NY Transit Strike Agreement Is Inflationary By JERRY BUCK NEW YORK AP The wage package that got New Yorks transit system back on the track is described by dent Johnson as but Mayor John Lindsay says settlement of the strike was in the public Johnson the settle ment as exceeding the tary national wageprice guide lines recommended by govern ment economic advisers to pre vent an inflationary I do not believe that any set that violates the guide posts to this extent is in the na tional he said at a news conference Thursday in The government guideline on wages and prices is per Federal government sources said the cost of the transit set estimated at between and million over two was to per cent a Mayor man who had been in the middle during the bus and subway strike that ended Thursday saw things I suppose people will argue and debate as to whether the settlement was too high or too Lindsay said even before Johnson The agreement was best for the the Transit the city and the He said it obviously serves the public in response to Johnsons denunciation of the contract Lindsay issued this Continued on Page 2 JOHNSON Weather Forecast SOUTH DAKOTA u d y through Scattered snow most sections tonight and possibly mixed with rain extreme Low tonight 1020 2032 High Sat EXTENDED FORECAST Extended forecast for South Dakota 1519 Tempera tures will average six to 14 de grees above Warming trend early next Normal highs 19 to 25 east and in mid 30s Normal lows zero to ten Light rain or snow early in PRECIPITATION Month 66 65 Avg Avg Rec Yr 25 97 62 06 42 May 42 June 15 July 15 01 01 27 20 20 MITCHELL WEATHER Average precipitation for portion of year to date Total precipitation for tion of year to date High Thursday 42 Overnight low 11 7 temperature 12 Precipitation none Sunset today Sunrise tomorrow Rapid City Philip Pierre Aberdeen Watertown Huron Sioux Falls Pickstown Valentine Lemmon Mobridge Sioux City TEMPERATURES H L Pep 50 27 48 19 49 12 22 4 32 5 37 19 33 13 47 17 48 20 38 12 35 11 38 19 Tr MISSOURI RESERVOIR DISCHARGES Reservoir elev a t i o n feet above sea The lake has dropped of a foot during the past 24 Average discharge rate cubic feet per er elevation Mid night pool and 7 tailwater temperature 36 Big Bend pool elevation Tailwater elevation
