Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - January 24, 1967, Oakland, California YEAR NO 24 Kerr Necessary Gov Ronald Reagan said today that the firing of University of California President Clark Kerr was probably ill-timed but indicated he thinks it was necessary and inevitable I agree with the speaker Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh that the coincidental timing with the taking of office of a new administration is not exactly the moment when such a I thing should have been brought Reagan said Headed for Bay Area A third storm is on its way to Northern California and Weather Bureau forecasters say it may hit on Friday or Saturday At first predicted for day the storm has slowed its approach to the coast and residents of the saturated Bay Area may have a three-day breathing spell before the next blow It will be partly cloudy through Thursday with a few showers tonight the erman said Chance of rain is 30 per cent tonight 10 per cent tomorrow and day night Damage from the weekend's was compounded by the brief But savage one broke last night with gales that toppled trees and power poles throughout the area and with Between midnight and noon Metropolitan Oakland Inter- national Airport recorded 1.10 inches of rain and San cisco's airport 1.35 inches A high tide in the Joaquin Delta area this afternoon following the downpour brought the ers above the levee patrol stage The Flood Center at Sacramento said that although the rivers were higher than the level of Delfo islands they would still be contained by the levees Among the deaths blamed on the storm was the electrocution o f Solomon Hamer 39 who stepped out of his Stockton home at to investigate a ling of downed wires One struck him and he was en- gulfed in flame Winds along the coast were clocked at 40 to 45 miles an hour Inland there were gusts up to 50 particularly high in the Antioch area where the Pacific Gas Electric Co re- ported more wires and poles down than any other region Phone service to Fort Miley Veteran s Hospital in San Continued Page 3 Col 7 THE WEATHER STORY BAY cloudy through tomorrow High both days in the Low tonight 40 to 45 winds 15 to 25 night of rain 10 par rant tonight and 20 par cant tomorrow When the vote started I didn't know how it would turn out A little earlier however the governor said he had been before the meeting by some members of the Board of Regents who told him a majority of the board wanted Kerr to resign I said I would not initiate such a proceeding at my first he added Kerr was dismissed by the university's board of regents by a last Friday with Reagan voting with the ity I believe the people of the state had lost confidence in the Reagan said Sometimes people involved in that kind of controversy have outlived their usefulness rightly or wrongly I voted cordingly Regarding K e r r s denial that he had sought a vote of confidence from the board Reagan pointed ment by regents chairman Theodore Meyer that the for- mer president had asked for a clarification of his status The governor said he would continue to push for budget economies and for his plan to impose tuition at the uni- versity and in the state col- leges He denied rumors that he planned to oust State Colleges Chancellor Glenn Dumke whom he said has cooperated with the new administration even though he is fighting the budget and tuition plans In answer to of the firing Reagan de- nied it was politically ed You have to accept that if someone sees a chance to make a little political mileage he will do so even if he knows the facts are not exactly as the governor said Of former Gov Edmund G Brown's accusations of i c a 1 interference Reagan pointed out that Brown sonally intervened two years ago when the regents voted to terminate Kerr's tenure That I call political in- he said Reagan discounted pre- dictions of some that the ing would jeopardize the lions of dollars receives in research grants and also make it difficult to find a suitable replacement for Kerr He added however that the role and responsibility of the president's office must be made clear before the final selection of a new president According to Meyer Kerr was asked twice Friday if he was willing to resign before Continued Page 9 Col 1 WHERE TO FIND IT Astrology 25 Aunt Elsio 25 Crossword Financial 45 29 Landors 27 27 Porry Phillips 17 39 TV and 21 World of small world MESSAGE Tribune A RESPONSIBLE METROPOLITAN NEWSPAPER TUESDAY JANUARY 24 1967 DAILY A MONTH LBJ Asks Sacrifice For Biggest Budget NICARAGUAN TELLS HER STORY Adela Vargas Espinoza was with RAINS CAME 500 Killed By Floods In Rio JANEIRO AP About 150 recovered following disastrous floods around Rio De Janeiro and one police estimate said as many as 500 may have died With hundreds reported missing rescue workers combed through mud and de- bris No exact casualty ures were available however because no central tabulation was being kept Torrential rains Sunday night fed the raging waters and set off landslides which swept one crowded bus off a highway into the swollen Paraiba River 33 miles of Rio and buried another un- der mud and rocks Fifty ies were recovered A construction camp in the same area was engulfed by a tributary of the Paraiba At least 300 persons were re- ported living in the area be- fore the floods hit Luiz Eduardo Braga who escaped through a rear of a bus before it was buried in a landslide I tried to convince the others to get out of the bus after I left It was fruitless After I ran away from the bus the mud came down and covered it A few miles away Ataide de Oliveira lost his entire family as a hillside collapsed spewing mud and rocks over his house I went out through the roof with my small girl in my he said My wife and my brothers-in-law were with me Soon they disappeared dragged by the stream com- ing down the hill When I saw all that water falling I threw my girl over a landbank and managed to seize a branch When I came back she was gone The Itaguai region about 30 miles west of Rio de Janeiro was among the hardest hit An estimated 800 were less and 200 were reported missing The highway which runs parallel to the Paraiba River was able for more than 90 miles Police said a number of sons in private cars may have been swept to their deaths Witnesses reported at least a dozen cars in tho swollen wa- ters At least 10 persons died in Rio de Janeiro as a result of the rains including three who drowned when a bus with 10 passengers fell into a canal Another four persons were known to have died in Sao Nuns Halt Revolt in Nicaragua MANAGUA Nicaragua Two frail American nuns marched out into a street and halted a civil war raging around a luxury hotel where 44 other U.S citizens were being held as rebel hostages diplomats said They said Sisters Mary Ar- thur of Los Angeles and Jeanne Teresa Deiman of St Paul Minn probably saved the lives of the Americans trapped in the downtown hotel during yesterday's day long civil war in Managua The Roman Catholic sisters first persuaded their rebel captors to let them leave the Grande Hotel which was being attacked by tank and small arms fire from government troops Then waving a white flag the nuns paraded out into the street The sight of the two sisters coming forward under the white banner halted much of the shooting I feared many would be Sister Mary told newsmen The firing was very intense At least 15 persons all Nicaraguans were reported killed and more than 70 wounded in the fighting that spread throughout the capital after National Guardsmen fired on supporters of op- position political leader Fernando Aguero Rochas Nike Costs Hinge Upon Russ Talks WASHINGTON A P President Johnson asked Con- gress today for standby ey for a possible start of Nike X production in case agreement isn't reached on a antimissile ban In his message companying a billion de- fense department budget billion above this year's partly by mounting Vietnam war costs the dent confirmed that he has de- against deploying an antimissile system pending ban talks with the Soviets But if these discussions prove Johnson said today our deployment decision will be reconsidered To provide for actions that may be required at that time approximately million has been included for the duction of Nike X for such purposes as defense of our offensive weapon systems The Administration said late last year the Soviets are deploying a limited sile system around Moscow designed to knock out approaching missiles This is the first time the Administration has sought Nike X production funds Last year Secretary of Defense Robert S McNamara refused to spend more than lion in unrequested money appropriated by Congress to finance Nike X preproduction activities Cost estimates for a completed U S antimissile system range to billion The President unveiled a spending proposal including billion to support east Asia operations in fiscal 1968 and said he will send Congress a billion re- quest to supplement the rent budget The supplemental would mean about billion in expenditures by next June 30 Additional billions are vided to strengthen nuclear and conventional forces with such items as new warhead Poseidon missiles for Polaris submarines im- proved land-based man III missiles equipped with decoy devices designed to fool enemy defenses and the start of a third atomic powered aircraft carrier The budget provides for a uniformed strength of 3.46 million men and women up Continued Page 5 Col 6 THE BUDGET DOLLAR Bureau of IN IT COMES AND OUT IT GOES President's budget for fiscal Wages May Suffer Cuts WASHINGTON Johnson's new budget means less pay for the average American Congress goes along Johnson announced in his State of the Union sage that he wanted a 6 per cent surcharge on sonal and corporate in- come taxes to help pay for the Vietnam war That means more ing from workers paychecks starting July 1 if Johnson has his way In his budget message the President said he not only wants corporations to pay more but also faster Noting that Congress last year proved an accelerated rate tax schedule Johnson asked the new Congress to im- pose an even faster payment rate The surtax plan is designed to pump another billion a year into the treasury over a two-year period For a family of four making this year it would mean a tax increase of about In other words that ily would owe on April 15 1968 compared with this April The 1968 tax assuming standard deductions for that average family will be That is because the hike would be in effect a full 12 months that year Johnson also proposed an average 20 per cent boost in Social Security benefits For most people this also will mean higher taxes Under the President's Continued Page 5 Col 3 Battles Rage Across China Seize Province By RAYMOND LAWRENCE Foreign Analyst Violent fighting was re- ported in Communist China today from one end to the er In the rich and important northern province of Shansi Radio Peking said forces of Chairman Mao Tse-tung had seized control after a battle with tens of thousands of workers and rebels The report was not con- firmed by other sources The official radio is controlled by Mao An extraordinary admission came from the official news agency also controlled by Mao which said that the commanders have pledged to help the nist party boss seize party state financial and other er from the persons in authority who are taking the capitalist road This is the first time the re- gime admitted it had lost such broad power In appealing for unity among the forces Radio Peking warned the army to make all tions to destroy these en- emies Mao has issued orders to crush all his opponents but his forces were reported by the UPI to be meeting stiff tance in fighting stretching from Canton in the south to North Manchuria and lia The full force of the 2 5 army has not been thrown into the fierce power struggle yet but Japanese correspondents i n Peking quoted wall posters as saying that the army went into action over the weekend to crush an uprising in the Peking suburb of according to the AP report Clashes also were reported in Tientsin and in Paoting Nothing was said in the news outlets about Kiangsi the southeast ince where the regime's foes reportedly have formed an army of workers and ants Bu the fact that the official news agency reported a series of seizures by forces was highly significant because it indicated that at one time Continued Page 18 Col 1 Jobs Not By ED SALZMAN Tribune Capital Bureau ald Reagan today presented the legislature with his la for reforming the state's cial welfare in- stead of handouts lined administration and apprehension of Chiselers and Cheats In a special welfare sage to lawmakers Reagan The truly deserving must not be because of welfare and cheats And the taxpayer who bears the load must be able to know with reasonable assurance that his money is not going to support the lazy and the indo- lent Reagan said he would en- force current laws more stringently to halt the misuse welfare funds He asked the legislature to an administration ure to s t r e n g t h e n the in- of frauds in each county Reagan said there is ing recognition that welfare programs tend to perpetuate poverty rather than prevent it The and many of our handicapped need want and should have jobs not he told the legislature Reagan said his Republican administration has taken a major step in this direction with the recruitment of H C Chad McClellan of Los An- geles to find jobs for those on relief To aid McClellan he posed the establishment of a Governor's Job Training and Placement Council headed by Lt Gov Robert H Finch The council would contain six public members and four legislators Its main job would be to generate hiring of fare recipients upon the com- of grams Without legislative action Continued Page 3 Col 2 Billion Spending Program WASHINGTON A P President Johnson called on the nation today for a ure of sacrifice higher taxes higher postal rates higher paycheck deductions to help finance history's gest budget Alorg with a billion spending blueprint for fiscal 1368 the year starting next July 1 the President sent a hands-off warning to Congress members who are grumbling loudly at rising deficits The spending loomed much larger and the deficit er in two less familiar budget yardsticks mentioned by son The cash budget adds up to billion the tional income accounts show billion with a deficit of only billion Both include Social Security and other trust fund payments along with the regular budget appropriations on which Congress acts Deep budget cuts could cause a recession instead of the expected seventh c e s s i v e year of record prosperity Johnson's annual budget message said He told Capitol Hill The economy the budget and the aims of our society would be jeopardized by either a larger tax increase or by large slashes in military or civilian programs I have reviewed these grams carefully Waste and nonessentials have been cut out The budget bears what Johnson called the deep im- print of Vietnam knowledging that the war is beginning to pinch Johnson asked billion for nam alone in this year's ex- billion Defense Department budget and billion in the billion De- fense Department budget for fiscal 1968 The President requested million for start-up d u c t i o n of the Nike X antiballistic missile ABM defense for such purposes as defense of our offensive on pending arms limitation talks with the soviet union The deployment of ABM de- would cost up Continued Page 4 Col 1 Twister Hits School Kills One I flu 1 tornado sent a high school roof crashing onto students in today killing a senior and injuring an undetermined number of other students the Missouri Highway Patrol baid The tornado also damaged houses and other structures in this northwestern Missouri community Fire broke out in an ment store The Missouri Highway trol said most of the injured were removed from the high school debris and a search of debris was begun The tornado struck the southern part of the town of 800 population first damaging several houses and the school there The patrol said it lifted then and hit the northeast section of town damaging other structures SEASONAL H I Oak Downtown 53 40 53 47 93 Downtown 54 47 71 IF 411.03 Coming Your Way ACTION LINE
