Northwest Arkansas Times (Newspaper) - November 11, 1966, Fayetteville, Arkansas 129 Prau and Public Interest Is The First Concern Of This Newspaper ARKANSAS FRIDAY NOVEMBER IT 1966 AP King and NEA LOCAt Increasing cloudiness today possible thundershowers early Saturday 29.95 ing winds SW shifting N on sunrise Saturday sunset High Low Expected today 55 Yesterday 52 30 CENTS In Wake Of GOP Election Gains Great Society Future Studied WASHINGTON AP dent Johnson's announcement he will lay fewer Great ty proposals before a new Con- gress with swollen Republican ranks pointed today toward a resurvey of the nation's tic course I think it will be more cult for any new legislation we might Johnson told a news conference at his Texas ranch Thursday in assessing the GOP gains of 47 House bers and three senators in day's balloting Asked if he would be sending Congress many new or would trate on refinement and sion of programs he has been highly successful in wrangling from the Congress the President said he would have some new proposals but fewer them than in 1966 He added that his principal job will be to find ways of programs already American GI's Open Largest Action Of War CHAPLAIN SLAIN Army Chaplain Michael a Roman Catholic priest was killed in Viet Nam Thursday as he gave last rites to wounded men System Going Up In Russia WASHINGTON AP of Defense Robert S Namara says the Soviet Union 5s deploying an tem and the United States is considering whether to set up one The cost of such a system de- signed to fend off long-range listic missiles would be mous ranging perhaps as high as billion McNamara made his ment believed to be his first public comment on the Soviet defense system to newsmen Thursday at President son's Texas ranch He said he and the President had discussed the missile system and will have further talks about them The defense chief stressed there is no question of our capability to penetrate Soviet defenses with missiles and craft at this time He said the Soviet Union started laying out an tic missile ABM defense some time ago and we must sume for planning purposes that it will be effective when it is fully activated The United States has such a system known as Nike X in the works but has withheld a decision to begin erecting the necessary interceptor missile sites radar and associated com- mand and control equipment The huge cost ranging from billion to as much as lion depending on ifs depth and sophistication has been a tor in the delaying of any deci- sion to establish an system SAIGON South Viet Nam AP U.S commanders sent another brigade of men to the Tay Ninh front today as the reported enemy toil in just over a week of fighting rose to 900 dead An estimated or more Americans have been ted to the operation to root out the enemy from the Viet Cong stronghold 60 miles northwest of Saigon near he Cambodian der An American military spokesman reported the tion named Attleboro fa the largest U.S action of the Viet Nam war U.S ground forces reported killing 20 Viet Cong to new Fighting and finding 15 more bodies of enemy killed in earlier fighting to bring the Communist toll to 900 U.S casualties for the operation were still reported light over-all although some units were hit hard in the early fighting bombers supported tte ground forces with attacks on Viet Cong base camps today for the second straight day The bombers dropped their bombs 23 miles northeast of Tay Ninh City In the Mekong Delta the Viet Cong launched a mortar rocket and small arms attack on a de- pendents camp of Vietnamese regional forces and killed or wounded 46 South Vietnamese most of them wives or children of militiamen stationed in the provincial capital of Chuong Thien 102 miles southwest of Saigon On the political front Premier Nguyen Oao Ky announced that two more cabinet ministers were leaving his government This brought to four the bers of ministers who have re- signed in weeks of between civilian cabinet ters from South Viet Nam and the natives of North Viet Nam who dominate Ky's military junta The resignations raised no immediate threat to Ky's Ky and the other of the junta hold the er and the civilians in the net have a mostly advisory role Bad weather again curtailed he air war against North Viel Yam Thursday U S pilots flew 13 bombing missions about hall the usual number on a good day Bleak Outlook Mostly cloudy and cold is the weather outlook for Saturday when Arkansas and Southern Methodist battle here for a sible trip to the Cotton Bowl The U.S Weather Bureau's football calls for in the mid 40s and winds northerly 10 to 15 miles per hour Top Marine Lauds Troops In Viet Nam WASHINGTON AP Marine Commandant Gen Wai lace M Greene Jr took the casion of Veterans Day to ex- file nation's special pride in the men who in Viet Nam and those who there Never in past wars have we asked sa much of our young servicemen as we are askin today in Viet Greene said In remarks prepared for delivery in Arlington Cemetery at America's yearly ceremony in honor of her de- enders And he added Never have they responded with so much professionalism and under- standing Never have they been quicker to grasp the ON PAGE EIGHT Among politicians there was general agreement that the was recognizing the realities of a situation in which he Republicans can combine with conservative Southern democrats to balk almost any legislation they oppose Beyond that the revived were serving notice hat it is time for a second look at the operation of r c n I supplements demonstration es and other problems which call for future expenditure ol of dollars Senate Democratic leader Hike Mansfield took notice when he said the ng session of Congress should be one for tightening up and re- viewing the measures passed in the last two years It should be a time to stop leok and he told news men Senate Republican Leader Everett M Dirksen said there will be an accent fiscal sol vency and a surveillance o spending A good hard look will be en at the poverty program an any other program where there may be waste or he said Not all Republicans o are advocates of the kind of domestic Dirksen might like Newly elected Sens Charle H Percy of Illinois and Mark 0 Hatfield of Oregon Sen Robert P Griffin who won an elective term in Michigan and re-elect ed Sens J Caleb Boggs of Dela ware John Sherman Cooper o Kentucky and Clifford P Case of New Jersey kept alive the liberal minority within the GOP Senate ranks In the House there to be a generous sprinkling o moderate Republicans among the newly elected who resist any efforts by the party's old guard to try to cancel the social advances made under the Democrats Johnson said he expects IK change in our course of action on security matters He saic he had good cooperation from the Republicans on legislation affecting fte Viet Nam war and CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT TALKING Everett Dirksen who can't be upstaged in any company steals the show from a turkey he presented Thursday to President Johnson on behalf of the National key Federation AP Wirephoto Willy Brandt May Challenge Kiesinger by Ken Good FLOAT BUILDING REPLACES HOMEWORK ON CAMPUS the weatherman says it may rain out Saturday's Homecoming parade but that doesn't stop Judy Cole left and Martha Schaap from completing the Alpha Chi Omega float Population Swells On Eve Of UA Homecoming Traffic is growing even worse than usual motels are sold out right down to standing room and tickets to Saturday's football game command a price usually reserved for the better grade of used automobiles In short it's Homecoming at the University of Arkansas By tonight the town and campus will be nearing a rapid boil and not later than morrow the community will be gripped by frenzy equalled only Countdown Runs Smoothly Gremlins Stay Clear Of Pad As Launch Wears CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP The countdown for the finale in America's Gemini project a major bridge to the moon swept smoothly today toward the start of a four-day ture that may determine man's physical limitations in space Georgia Election Now In Hands Of Federal Judges ATLANTA Ga AP undecided gubernatorial election went today to three eral judges who were asked to bar the Legislature from choosing a chief executive The federal panel hearing was spawned from two suits growing out of the election Tuesday where neither Republican ard H Callaway nor Democrat Lester G Maddox received a majority of votes Write-in votes for former Gov Ellis G Arnall kept both major candidates below the 50 per cent mark which under the Georgia constitution forces the General Assembly to choose between the top two With all the state's pre- reporting the vote was Maddox or 47 per cent Callaway or 46.8 per cent and Arnall or 6 per cent The American Civil Liberties Union filed the first suit It wanted the court to allow no election by the Legislature until it is fully reapportioned which under an existing court order must be done by next May 1 Lights burned green at ni 12 launch pad consoles and around as technicians their skills honed sharp by nine straight successful manned launches methodically checked out every system The Titan that will thrust a veteran astronaut and rookie into the sky was loaded with more than 000 pounds of fuel in fast time of three hours and 21 minutes The pilots Navy Capt James A Loveil Jr and Air Force Maj EdwinE Aldrin Jr slept late after getting to bed at 2 They were adjusting to the swing shift work cycle their de- manding flight plan requires The sun sparkled through cloudless blue skies at dawn Forecasters said launch pad weather would be nearly perfect at p.m EST when the launching was uled to start with the liftoff of an A gen a target satellite Lovell and Aldrin were to ride into space at p.m atop a Titan 2 to start the second pursuit of the Agena Troubles with an automatic pilot system in the Titan 2 forced the original Wednesday launch date to slip 48 hours The problems were cleared up Thursday and the National Aeronautics and Space tration flashed the go-ahead for the mission to start today While sweeping 58 times around the globe in their tiny space chariot command pilot Lovell veteran of last year's day Gemini 7 flight and Aldrin making his first space trip are to exploit lessons learned on nine previous two-man Gemini CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT by that of a Red Guard politica purity meeting Formal activities for the annual Homecoming opened a 1 p.m today with a meeting o the University's Board of Trust event that always to fall on football weekends Saturday's activities will be highlighted by the Arkansas SMU football game at p.m at Razorback Stadium where a capacity crowd of is ex peeled At half-time Barbara Jean Dykes of Jacksonville will be crowned Homecoming Queen She succeeds Jackie Jameson o Smackover House will judged from 3 p.m to 5 p.m to day and the winners will be an- Saturday at the foot ball game The Alumni Association's Board of Directors and ifs En and Trust Fund Boart will meet at p.m Friday a the Student Union At the same time at Fayetteville Country Club Sen J W Fulbright will address the Ozark Economic As sociation made up primarily o University faculty members in the College of Business Admin It was Fulbright who all the points in the victory over SMU in the first Homecoming game in 1922 CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT Michigan Town Faces Chlorine Gas Threat HOMER Mich AP A New York Central freight haul ing three tank cars which th trainmaster said were f i 11 e e with deadly chlorine gas hur tied the track in this southern Michigan town today anc crashed against gasoline stor age tanks The derailment touched off a fire among the storage tanks State police said there was spillage from the tank cars bu they were in the middle of the fire There were no immediate re- ports of injuries Police ordered of the town's residents from nearby homes and a school BONN Germany hristian Democrats launched a today to counter the Vazi taint oh Kurt Georg their choice to eed Ludwig Erhard as West chancellor A threat of socialist Mayor Willy Brandt of West Berlin to lid for the job added urgency to he task of the party which has ruled West Germany throughout ts 17-year history Government spokesman von Hase told a news conference that people who know what Kiesinger has done or relations and for the free world would not x influenced by bombast about lis record A document made public today said Kiesinger was denounced as opposing anti- Jewish propaganda when he helped run the Foreign radio section In Adolf Reich Kiesinger has been criticized because of his service to the Nazi regime The name of the man who de- Kiesinger was left out in the version of the document supporters ed Thursday The document Is the record of a denunciation made in Reich security headquarters on Nov 7 1944 six months before many surrendered A man Kiesinger called it largely accurate Kiesinger 62 dent governor of the tant state of berg for the past eight years won the dominant party's nod Thursday the ballot by Christian Democrats in the Money Problem Halls Merger Of Central Ozark WASHINGTON AP problems brought to an end this week plans to merge two local service airlines -i Ozark of St Louis and Central of Fort Worth The was asked by for withdraw the merger agreement filed Sept 20 under which Ozark was to have the surviving company The posal would have created a major regional carrier When the September ment was reached Ozark told the CAB it believed financing a debenture project had been concluded all bank had been paid and the consent of debenture holders would not be required Ozark also informed Central that arrangements for 000 in senior financing were in satisfactory condition although they had not been executed for- mally and that consent of ing institutions was not required at that time It has been since determined the federal agency was told that Ozark can not go ahead with the equipment program contemplated in carrying out the proposed merger Justice Jim Blames Faubus Liberals For Defeat By JOHN R STARR Associated Press Writer LITTLE ROCK AP Jim Johnson attributed his defeat today to a Faubus backlash and made it clear that he in- tends to try to maintain the leadership in the Democratic Partly that he gained by ning the primary election I have no intention of re- the party to people who scuttled the defeated candidate for governor told The Associated Press in an sive interview the first he has granted since the election day Johnson shewed the strain of seven months of campaigning but he was relaxed in apparent good spirits displaying no terness about his defeat We he and his wife ginia did everything that two could he said There was not a thing on earth that I could have done tfl win that I didn't do The Faubus backlash son said resulted from his re- quest for support froth GOT Orval Faubus and an crats I had convinced the voters that I would clean up the he said After this there was a fear that I might not do it The fear developed even though he reminded listeners in every speech that party unity notwithstanding there were some rascals at the capitol and he intended to throw them out Johnson does not say that he blames Faubus for his defeat but he teft an impression that he felt that way Orval Faubus knew where of he talked wben he pounded the table and said Jim Johnson would never be governor of Ar- Johnson said He said that was predicting his defeat on the day before the So where does the cratic Party go now that it is the minority party for the first time in 94 I intend to assume for the leadership of the party which was thrust on me os the Democratic he said I feel I have an ob- ligation to do We're not going to turn he party over to those defectors in the ultra- liberal would not identify the liberals nor those whom he bettered rattled the party Johnson probably will face a fight for party leadership eral groups are expected to bid for control with possible Udders being Joe Purceil the attorney Joe Basore the party's slate campaign ager Faubus who did not re- linquish party reigns entirely when he decided not to seek a seventh term and a faction from the Young Democrats Johnson who has bounced back from defeat before ob- did not consider self dead politically He made it clear that he will again seek office in the future probably two years frem now said he will spend the last of his campaign money to run a thank you ment in daily newspapers day and in weekly newspapers next week The ads he said will show him and his family and will carry the caption We almost had a governor in the family This he said was what he had said to bolster his spirits when it became obvious that lie was beaten Just two days after the tion Johnson was able to joke about his defeat which must have been a tremendous pointment He had groomed himself for this race for 10 years He put an incredible amount of energy Into it ting television tapes at 2 and 3 so that he would not lose time for stumping Johnson said lie has not had time to think about his diate future I assume I'll practice he said He plans to continue to live at Con- way rather than returning to Crossett his home before he was elected to the state Court in 1958 Other factors which Johnson believes contributed to his de- For the first lime in the tory of this state they got the colored out Three years of intensive with unlimited is the reason Rockefeller is governor today Johnson whose hand bears huge calluses from ing said he was handicapped because he had to work so hard while Rockefeller only had to worry about whether he the words right that someone else wrote for him Johnson said Arkansas could reap one benefit from election of Rockefeller A healthy separation of powers may he said The legislature may the responsibility that the con- envisioned for it out being so dependent on executive
