Playground Daily News (Newspaper) - February 1, 1968, Fort Walton Beach, Florida Mostly cloudy and mild gh today with highs 66 to Ti. High low a.m. RIVER READINGS Jim 48.0 3.5 Barnaul Quiff WAS YOUR PICTURE IN THE AVAILABLE 8x10 SIZE Daily 243-3127 Twenty One Years No. 254 24 Pages Fort Thursday February Single Copy 10c_________Subscription Per Year REQUESTS TAX INCREASE Appearing before a U.S. Chamber of Commerce meeting panel Sen. Robert F. Kennedy called for a tax increase and selective cuts in President Johnson's budget so that the can have money to attack problems at at the right is shown with Rep. Hale House Democratic Feud Over TV Ends In City Repairs Court By CHARLES SWEETLAND An assault and battery charge against Jack of the Chicken Box Drive In Fort Walton brought by Kenneth ot the Electra 104 took up more than an hour's time in Police Judge Fred court Wednesday testimony of only throe es was The witnesses were the Jack and his between and Harvey has existed for some time over the poor mance of a television set trales purchased from Harvey for Enters Plea Of Guilty CRESTVIEW Foy Marlon 26, of en- tered a plea of guilty in Court Wednesday to charges of burglary of the Valparaiso Hardware Store on Feb. 24. A presentence investigation was ordered by Judge William Frye In the same case Leon a witness for refused to testify and was found in contempt of court by Judge but was allowed to purge himself by February Is Heart Month A proclamation designating February as American Hear and pointing out that heart and blood vessel diseases are responsible for more deaths here than all other diseases anc causes was made bj Mayor French Jr. The mayor called upon loca citizens to help speed their Heart Association's research education and community hear programs through Heart Funi contributions and volunteer ser The Heart Fund Campaign will reach its higl point with the four day ending on Heart Feb. 25, when many volunteers will call on their neighbors to dis- tribute literature and to receive Heart Fund con- mun With 0 War 5.000 Dead This Week U. N. Members Sound Out U. S. On North Korean Proposal Harvey testified that he ted the Chicken Box to pick up a TV set he had loaned to He parked his he at the curb in stead of driving irto the ot of the Chicken Box ie feared that an structure at the entrance of parking lot might be struck by the upper part of hii Harvey said he entered the kitchen door and asked about the loaned He learned that the loaned set was at house and then noticed a sign that Maestrales had placed on another TV set in the front of the This it read TV is a Lem- It was bought for cash at Electra Harvey admitted that he had made repairs to this set after Maestrales had complained ot its He'd replaced the chassis and a Harvey claimed that trales had become very brandished a ten-inch butcher and had uttered tions on his mother's Harvey said that he had ed before the advance of the Maestrales and got to the parking Harvey es had grasped his coat and threatened to me vey brushed away the hand that grasped his coat and retreated to his truck and drove In Maestrales ed that Harvey had entered a door over which was a sign that reads employees He admitted holding the but said that he had it in his hand because at the time Harvey en- tered he had been cutting Maestrales went on to say that on his Harvey had one hand in his came around the and grasped his The Maestrales re- to page 2) UNITED NATIONS members of the Security Council are sounding out the United States on the possibility of a meeting with North Korea outside the United Nations to discuss the Pueblo it was reported Diplomatic sources said the were seeking to persuade the Pyongyang government to offer some gesture of conciliation in return for U.S. agreement to a They suggested this might be the release of the 83 crewmen of the U.S. Navy intelligence ship seized by North Korea last This would leave of the ship question of and truce disposition the entire terrorist infiltration of the south and the future of Korea to be discussed at a unofficial reaction from U.S. sources was that the United States already had met with North Korea at the Korean truce village of Panmunjom where demands for release of the Pueblo and its crew were spurned by the Pyongyang These developments followed rejection by the United States in private talks of suggestions for an invitation to North Korea to puts its case before the Security Council or to send a delegation here talks outside for the In both the United States held that at the very least must the be crew of the Pueblo released before it would agree to such a The five nations on the Pakistan and held a brief session privately Tuesday night and were ed solidly supporting their New Clashes U.S. Dead At 232 The The mo police stations in have paid with over Ion were attacked within 30 dead in then frenzied guerrilla utes of each other with 10 to nO strikes at Saigon and other Viet Cong away with jor centers throughout South small arms and machine Vietnam this the U.S There were several minor at- Command said tacks on U S installations in A soaring general casualty where at least 12 U.S. Sports Bulletin The basketball team led all the way Wednesday night to post an easy 95'85 win over arch rival Junior College at the High School Steve Baxley paved the way for the Raiders uith 30 points while teammates Johnny Ponds and Mike scored 20 and 19 It was the Raiders first 1 conference victory in the school's CARRIER ARRIVES HOME The rier USS Oriskany arrived at the da Naval Air Station Wednesday after its third tour of duty off 2 Charles Frier of Iowa gets a from his 7% old son Mike on arrival as wife Connie looks Little Mike was eight days old when Frier left on his latest tour of Hourly Wage Boost Affects 7.2 Million Workers News Digest ON THE VIETNAMESE SCENE The U.S. Command reported quiet returned to Saigon except for sporadic but Viet Cong troops apparently took control of the central section of Hue in the northern dent Johnson with key members of Congress on the crises in Asia and told them he may be required to propose special But the White House gave no ON THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE South Korea's foreign minister indicated his government's ure with the handling of the Pueblo crisis by the United said Israeli troops along the Suez Canal have made the task of releasing 15 stranded foreign ships ON CAPITOL 7.2 million of th nation's lowest paid workers will gain billion yearly in added pay as the federal minimum wage raises today to increase of 20 cents an Senate space committee blamed complacency and overconfidence for the Apollo space test accident which cost the lives of three ON THE NATIONAL Nixon is ex- to announce his candidacy today for the GOP presidential He scheduled a swing through New Wisconsin and re- moved fron unmarked graves on the Cummins Prison Farm in Arkansas will be sent to an FBI laboratory tor researches reported tooth decay can be prevented in animals by putting a harmless in their food and Human tests are WASHINGTON Some 7.3 million low-income workers will add billion to their pay Thursday as the second of a five-year increase in wage minimums go into Workers engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for interstate com- merce or employed in large en- will have their wages increased from an hour to an hour under the new Some 33 million mainly in trans- wholesale large retail in- surance and real but in reality only some 6 million will get an increase in The others already make more than the Another 8.5 million those employed in the service industries such as nursing smaller retail hotels and on larger be affected by an increase in their minimum wage from an hour to an Some 1.3 million of these will see actual increases in their The minimums for those ers will increase by 15 cents ery year until an hour is reached on Feb. 1, 1971. The first step in the biggest minimum wage increase in tory went into effect last Feb. 1 when the hourly rate was in- creased from to 1.40. It also brought some 8 million ad- workers under the law but at the lower minimum of an Workers in public hospitals and other state tions are covered by the wage standards passed last year but a federal judge in Baltimore sued a restraining order until the Supreme Court rules in a test The high court agreed last month to hear the Maryland and king also for 26 other states challenged the extension of eral minimum wage and hour standards to state The latest increases again brought some protests of higher costs and smaller work forces but many spokesmen for the in affected said they al ready were meeting the mini mum The Labor De RADM RADM POCA Speaker Rear Admiral Paul P. mrn Jr Chief of U. S. Strike MacDill vill be the graduation r in the two week a 1 Action Course conducted at he USAF Special Air Warfare Hurlburt Admiral a naval is a 1930 graduate of he U. S. Naval Academy and las served with distinction in rath the Atlantic and Pacific In 1942 he participated in ering operations for the mansk and in 1966 he ame Chief of US COM. Colonel Harry G. Commandant of the USAF cial Air Warfare Lt. Col Joseph B. Chief of will welcome the Ad- miral to the Thieves Steal Famed Painting From Museum tended to agree with he latter Angeles County and others said their employes In a spokesman already above the minimum Michael Reese Hospital they won't be Center Several hotels in no question hospital city said they would be will go up When labor because of a large rise there is only pne place of women employes but can get additional tighten up within the come from the Harry owner of manager of uxe Drive-in Laundry Restaurant in Cleaners in Kansas he will not increase prices said since laundry workers will cut down the number of now coming under the lour law raising said the government made by a penny a good move in raising Hie mini- Fred manager of because it mada Inns in enable him to hire a federal government of making a First of Labor Department we must cut our staff and then said the industries affected think an increase in the price criticised increases in rooms will follow wages from as far back 1956. In Los one said Secret nry of Labor W. chain said it will raise Wirtz will submit to approximately 5 per cent within the next two others said employes a report on Ihe effect of receiving the minimum year's which he will refute the Egyptian Official Entire Suez Canal CAIRO An 15 stranded but says spokesman insisted clearing operations in the that the entire Suez Canal end violate a cease-fire 30 surveyed before 15 that neither foreign ships can be nor Israeli forces would use He said firing by Israeli made the task with troops stationed Mohamed Hassan el the canal's east has told a news conference it is willing to negotiate re- trapped vessels would of the Suez Canal to all blocked in the 107-mile canal if Israeli vessels can til it can be determined if Egypt has refused to should be released through such an Said at the canal's northern 15 foreign ships wore or the Suez outlet in the in the canal during the He said the stranded 5-10 Middle East war when can ship Observer wanted other vessels sunk during leave through Port fighting blocked the Israeli and Egyptian guns said Egypt not changed fire Tuesday our military occupiers to Egyptian boats tried to or disagree with what we the northern half of the to do with our We Israel has agreed that the not refer the laws of this southern end can to our occupiers for cleared of sunken vessels to Thieves carried off a bulky Rembrandt self-portrait from the Eastman House Museum but officials they left behind three other worth the same The missing brandt's of a Young was removed from the museum's East Room sometime before am A security guard said he did not notice that the portrait was gone while making his regular rounds about Art critics said the brandt original was completed about 1627 and was the he always wanted to be was a portrait ot himself as a young Security police said the thieves may have gained entrance to the museum by forcing a window in the Dryden a wing connected to I the mam They did not discount the toll was announced as the third soldiers and day of the coordinated killed in tending nist campaign brought new clashes in outlying sections of Saigon and heavy action in er parts of the Command spokesman said enemy were killed in tion from 6 p.m Monday to midnight Another 1.862 persons were seized as Viet Cong U.S. casualties for the period were listed as 232 killed and 929 South Vietnamese government casualties were killed and 747 man Other allied casualties were put at three killed and 22 South Vietnamese authorities said 660 Viet Cong were killed in Saigon along in less than two days There was no immediate word on the number of civilian casualties in the tal or elsewhere across the but they were believed to have been Downtown Saigon was quiet early but skirmishing continued in suburban areas and bands of Viet some disguised in uni- roamed the The Communists captured part of the old imperial capital 400 miles and seized control of half of Kontum in the central Two other major cities along the coastline in the Nha Trang and Qui came under fresh mortar attacks and ground probes for the third straight President Nguyen Van Thieu declared martial law throughout the nation in the wake of the Wednesday attacks against the U.S. Embassy and military and civilian installations from Hue to the Mekong The U.S. Command reported shortly after midnight that the situation in was under but soon afterward 1he Marines were off a guerrilla onslaught at the U.S. Embassy and other installations The U.S. Command an- that 45 U.S. soldiers had been killed and wounded in the last 24 hours of fighting in the Saigon area but outside gon In the western 300 Viet Cong attacked the quarters of the South 25lh Infantry is felt that we now have the initiative and that we are no longer reacting to ed actions but are seeking out the the U.S. Command said at a.m. But small-arms fire still there were fires in the and parachute flares lighted the night where ng and ter gunships lashed at the Viet Cong blew up a power tion in the Cholon section and attacked two national police tions 2 Charged In Vandalism Of Two men were charged witS breaking into a Coke machine at the Phillips 66 Station next to the Palm Theater Tuesday Walter A. 29, and seph L. 20, both Eglin were arrested by Fort Walton Beach detective Jules Borio and turned over to Con- stable Ruben Hendrix for trial in Justice of the Peace Both men were charged with petty larceny and destroying private Bond was set at a total of cash or appearance on each posted bond FBI To Test Bones Taken From Graves CUMMINS PRISON Ark. Authorities said Wednesday that three skeletons ten from unmarked graves here would he sent to the FBI for tests that they hope will shed some light on whether the bones came from a graveyard or a secret burial ground for murdered inmates A spokesman for Gov. rop said no digging for more bodies would be dono until the pathological tests are building before Tuesday Harris director of the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of said three other worth in excess of were hung in the East Room within a few feet of the of a Young He identified the three as Frans of a the by and ot a Man in by Van closing completed at the FBI laboratory in HP estimated it would tako 10 days to throe weeks for the want to see if there is any evidence that these verc homicides or natural said Bob the governor's prison sonal opinion is that it's a city Prison officials have not dis- counted the possibility of it being a prison but Murton said they had not found any records of it. W. P. who retired ss state pardons and paroles tor late last termed as i- Johnson's claim about 20 inmates were during an escape on Labor Day in 1910. Prison one of records show escapees was and that 24 inmates were a state trooper at the said ho be- that two or three ers killed during the who led authorities to the is a The skeletons woro found wagon driver at the He Monday after Prison Supt. was first sent to prison in 19J7 Thomas O Murton ordered un on a conviction for the investigation of long-standing of his brother and has been in rumors among inmates that and out of the penitentiary since Grant Set For WASHINGTON A grant of for construction of a new academic complex was announced Wednesday by the ment of for the Junior College in Office of Education an- was made through the office of Sen. George Texan Gets 9 Months In Automobile Theft In Circuit Court a Texas man Walter was sentenced to nine months in the Okaloosa County jail for auto convicts in past years had been murdered and secretly buried at the One Reuben 59, says ho helped bury 10 or 12 inmates who were slain Maj. C head of the Criminal Investigation sion of the State declined comment on the investigation but reiterated that he thought the bones wore from an old He had support Wednesday from state Rep. Loid a member of the Prison Board from 1945 to 1949 and again from 1955 to 1965. He said he knew the prison pasture where the bones were uncovered day was a graveyard for un- claimed in Arkansas of any age knew those bodies were Sadler think it's for robbery and parole Scott said Johnson's life was not in danger from other in- mates because of his Life was so simple back in the days when education the three Rs consisted and Then they had to go and add that fourth R and make it and Et's da scary when you wonder a crime and a disgrace for thorn all four are taught by the same to dig those bodies My
