Titusville Herald (Newspaper) - March 12, 1964, Titusville, Pennsylvania Sort of Marchy Western Pennsylvania Snow north and rain mixed with snow south portion ending this morning Mowed by partial clearing in the afternoon Little change ia temperature High 33 to 40 Partly cloudy and a little cooler tonight Low 22 to 28 Fair and warmer Friday on Five TEN CENTS m in the Birthplace of the Oil Fir Ml Daily Paper in the Oil Established 1865 TITUSVILLE PA THURSDAY MORNING MARCH 12 1964 Ohio To Crest at 66 Ft Thousands Flee Homes Along River Flood Damage Likely To Run Into Millions CINCINNATI Ohio AP Thousands of tired refugees waited Wednesday as the Ohio River crept toward a crest of highest in re cent history for its middle course The Red Cross estimated more than 100000 persons in five states have so far been af by the flood It said some 12000 persons are receiving care at 53 shelters on river and some of its tribu taries Damage was expected to run into the millions of dollars As first reports of the dropping began to come East Liverpool the Weather Bureau revised its crest forecast at Cincinnati The latest forecast said t he Ohio will reach 66 feet which is 14 feet above flood Thursday remain stationary until Friday morning and then begin to drop A spokes man said there may be a few scattered showers in the Ohio Valley on Wednesday night but nothing significant as far as the river is concerned Gov Matthew E Welsh of In diana asked President Johnson to declare 15 southern counties as disaster areas and Gov Ed ward T Breathitt said he would seek the same designation for 30 Kentucky counties Red Cross figures indicated Ohio and West Virginia were the hardest h it The national headquarters said 000 families in 21 Ohio counties had been affected by the muddy waters arid the same was true of 1350 West Virginia families in 14 counties In Pennsylvania the flood af 2575 families in 15 coun ties while Kentucky and Indi the highest levels stil are to 3250 families respec The flood was blamed for at least nine deaths seven in Ohio and one each in Indiana and Kentucky Water ran deeply and swiftly in the streets of many river towns and police in Manchester Ohio sought to stop a new type of hot who zoom through flooded streets in motorboats at speeds high enough to break plate glass win dows with the wake Singer Presley Kicked in Head HOLLYWOOD AP Elvis Presley was kicked in the head during a movie fight scene Wednesday and six stitches were taken in a gash over an eye aides reported Presley was winning a fight with an extra as per the script but when the extra went down his heel caught Presley m the head The singer was treated at a hospital in nearby Thousand Oaks After Orgy in Indianapolis Four of the 40 college men and coeds arrested in a socalled Roman orgy hotel party appear before a municipal court judge in Indianapolis The cases were continued until March 23 The students involved were to try to explain their part in a whooping and hollering fraternity party in which boys pranced after squealing coeds in a hotel Ruby Defense Ends Testimony THE DRAKE Johnson Charges Fly Lampooned By Cypriote British Jeered In Nicosia As Tension Rises By HAL MCCLURE NICOSIA Cyprus AP Thousands of demonstrators Greek jeered Cypriot British Streams Going Down c In Western Pennsylvania PITTSBURGH AP Rivers and streams in Western Penn sylvania began dropping Wednesday after reaching their highest levels in a decade in some places The Ohio River crested at feet in Pittsburgh before dawn the highest level it had reached since 1954 when it climbed to 324 feet Vernon T Houghton chief riv er forecaster for the US Weath er Bureau in Pittsburgh said the Ohio was falling at the rate of of a foot an hour He said the river would drop to flood Saturday The Allegheny River which flows through northwestern Pennsylvania and joins the Mo River at Pittsburgh Saylor Balks At Pay Raise WASHINGTON AP Rep John Saylor REa on day expressed again his tion to an pay increase for federal employes judges cabinet officials and members of Congress The House began debate on the measure Wednesday Saylor said the contains many inequities and is fiscally unsound I cannot in good conscience support a pay raise for everyone on the federal payroll at the same time that economy in gov and reduction in spend ing are being demanded Say lor said We cannot reduce taxes and increase spending and still bal ance the federal budget to form the Ohio was falling steadily after exceeding flood levels by one to four feet along its entire course The no serious trouble Although no loss of life was di attributed to the flooding in the Pittsburgh area the swirl ing rivers chased about 1700 persons from their homes Tues day and early Wednesday House Votes To Consider Pay Raises WASHINGTON AP The House voted 251147 Wednesday to consider a to raise the pay of senators representatives US judges and government of and employes This is how representa tives voted Democrats for 11 Barrett Byrne Clark Dent Flood Hol land Moorhead Morgan Nix Rooney Toll Democrats against I Rhodes Republicans for 4 Corbett Fulton Kunkel Milliken Republicans against 9 Cur tin Dague Johnson McDade Saylor Schneebeli Schweiker Weaver Recorded against but not ac tually Goodling R LBJ To Attend Mass WASHINGTON AP dent Johnson will attend a Requiem Mass Thursday for King Paul of Greece The Mass Prosecution Expert Contends He Was Sane By ARTHUR EVERETT DALLAS AP The defense rested abruptly Wednesday at Jack Rubys murder trial The state then sought to demolish his claim that he was insane when he Harvey Os wald accused assassin of dent Kennedy Ruby himself did riot take the witness stand In quick succession the state called its psychiatric experts into the courtroom of Judge Joe B Brown for the first time in the trial They called Ruby sane in direct contradiction to defense testimony that he was insane when he shot down Oswald Nov 24 Thus the big issue in the case finally was joined 3 months after a chain of tragedy that began when Kennedy was mor tally wounded just 70 yards from the courthouse and ended when Ruby killed the accused assassin Oswald two days later One of the states experts Dr Robert Stubblefield 44 a psy at Southwestern Medi cal School in Dallas was asked to judge Rubys condition on the day he shot Oswald He was truce forces in Nicosia day and lampooned President Johnson as a Turkish partisan As tension in the Cyprus crisis mounted Britain said it was fed up with the situation and Turkey officially demand ed direct action from the Unit ed States Britain and other NATO allies to halt bloodshed on the eastern Mediterranean island Fleet movements includ ing the reported appearance of two Soviet destroyers in the Mediterranean formed a background for the tions and intense diplomatic byplay Port authorities in said two Russian destroyers crossed the Turkish straits from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean early day Their destination and pur pose was not known Moscow has generally the Greek Cypriot side in the Cy prus dispute One hour after the Russian vessels negotiated the narrow Bosporus nine units of the US 6th Fleet including the aircraft carrier Enterprise sailed through the Dardanelles into the Mediterranean The fleet had been in Istanbul on a friendship visit after the recent NATO maneuvers Embezzling To Kill Self LANCASTER Pa bert U Moore 57 accused em of 5297169 remained in critical condition Wednesday from gunshot wounds Sought since last July he shot himself twice in the head Tues day night as State Police and FBI agents approached his au in an isolated area near here Taken into custody with him was Mrs Beatrice Diffenderfer 40 a divorcee who said she mar ried Moore last November in Mexico They disappeared from nearby Lititz shortly before the shortage was detected at the Courtesy Finance Service Inc Iii Downing Of Bomber Crew Survives Crash In E Germany MOSCOW AP An East German nurse said Wednesday the crew of an Amer ican reconnaissance bomber shot down Tuesday survived and one officer was injured slightly The United States asked the Russians to hand over the men and the wreckage of the plane as soon as possible The Soviet Union admitted one of its fighters shot the plane down and claimed it was on a military reconnaissance mis sion but refused to tell Ameri can diplomats the fate of the crew A protest note handed to US Charge dAffaires Walter G Stoessel charged that American planes flying along the East West border carry nuclear weapons It said the Soviet air force had orders to shoot down any NATO plane that penetrates the air space of the Soviet Union or its allies That warning was a reitera White Reports of LBJ Feud With Bob Kennedy Lodge Says He Plans To Stay in Saigon tion of standing operating pro In Washington State Depart ment officials said the Soviet note was received and was be ing studied They pointed out that the spy charge against the plane had been rejected when the note was presented to the U S charge d1 affaires in Mos cow The plane crashed near Gar in East Germany not far from the air corridor West ern planes fly to Berlin and about 30 miles from the West German border A nurse at the hospital in Gar reached by telephone the three American By MALCOLM W BROWNE SAIGON South Viet Nam Cabot Lodge said Wednesday he proposes to re main US ambassador to South Viet Nam despite his upset victory in New Hampshires Republican presidential pri mary a great honor and a great compliment I do not plan to go to the United States Lodge told newsmen after receiving word of the outcome while he was on a field trip with Defense Sec Robert S McNamara in Hue 490 miles north of Saigon I do not plan to leave Saigon he said on returning to there Mrs Diffenderfer said they had been to New York Florida asked to assume that all state testimony in the case was true that Ruby cursed Oswald as the Presidents killer shot him i cursed him afterward and hoped s for his death finally de the Midwest Canada and Cali fornia as well as Mexico since then and came back to this area clared he had been planning the shooting for two days If I assume these facts Dr Stubblefield replied he would know the difference between right and wrong and he would know the nature and quality of his act In short in Dr opinion Ruby would have been legally sane Another witness Dr John T will be said at the Greek Ortho Holbrook 40 a Dallas dox Cathedral of St Sophia Sonny Listen Arrested in Denver On Traffic and Charges DENVER A policeman said Wednesday that Sonny Lis ton became very unruly after he was arrested and thats why he called for help and took the former heavyweight fight champion w police ters in handcuffs Listen who lost his title to Cassius Clay last month wasnt talking about dropping a deci sion to the police A man an swering the telephone at Lis tons home said the fighter wasnt there Patrolman James Snider said rough stuff He called the story a lot of baloney Listen also denied that anyone was in the car with him when he was stopped Snider said he didnt know his prisoner was the former cham pion until they reached the po lice station I knew I was going to put the party under arrest when I stopped him the officer said rso I didnt ask him for identification I told him to get out of the car and then I found he had a pistol in his coat pocket It Had six shells in it any Listons new Cadillac was hit Listen was charged with speeding careless and reckless driving driving without an op license and carrying a concealed weapon He was released on bond which he paid from a large roll ting speeds of between 76 and SO miles per hour on Av enue Parkway Tuesday night before he flagged him down A woman was in the car with Listen but she was not ar rested Listen in a television inter view denied that he started any of bills Snider who stands and weighs 185 pounds said Lis ton was cooperative when he asked him to get into the police trist who examined Ruby the day after death put it even more bluntly without any assumption whatsoever He tes I felt he did know the differ ence between right and wrong and did know the nature and consequences of his act at that because she was home She was quoted as saying she time Tuesdays that Ruby was insane apparent y brought considerable comfort defense testimony car Then on the way downtown to defense attorneys he became very unruly Snider said He cursed and brought up things like race He pounded his fists on a sort of desk we have in these radar cars Meanwhile more problems cropped up for Listen Listons former manager George Katz of Philadelphia filed a suit in New York tract when charging The suit Katz breach of con became known was given permis sion to attach up to of any assets may have there The suit contends Jack Listons adviser and his two brothers induced the former champion to get rid of Katz as manager and substitute Jack Thf were named as addi tional defendants in the 97 Million Refunds Sent WASHINGTON AP About 97 million income tax refunds were sent out in the first two months of 1064 the Internal Revenue Service said day There were 91 million re funds mailed to taxpayers in the first 60 days of 3963 The value of the 3964 refunds was billion compared to Sll billion for the comparable 1963 period The IRS said faster process ing of refunds this year was due to its new electronic com puter system had no idea Moore was wanted or that police were looking for her Moore had in his pocket when arrested There was no in dication if this was all that re mained of the money he is ac of taking Lineman Electrocuted PAINESVILLE Ohio city light distribution department linesman was elec Wednesday on Rich mond Street just north of the city limits The victim Calvin Meeks 51 of Painesville Twp was part of a crew that repaired a light pole damaged Tuesday by a car Meeks was on the ground mov ing a boom on the repair truck when it apparently touched a power line carrying 2400 volts according to City Manager Dale Helsel 61 Its James officers was admitted Tuesday night but left soon after He wasnt hurt much He joined his other comrades she said US representatives from the military mission in were en route to the crash scene Asked whether she could say who took the pilot away the nurse replied No definitely not What were the officers inju ries the nurse was asked Light she replied this city I do not intend to I am bound by Foreign Serv ice regulations not to com ment Referring to backers who pro moted the campaign that won him ail 14 New Hamp shire delegate seats at the Re publican National Convention he added I expect there may be something from the States Comment in the States in cluded a declaration by Gov Nelson A Rockefeller of New York who ran third behind Lodge and Sen Barry Gold water that Lodge should re turn Rockefeller declared Lodge cant leave his name in the May 1 5 Oregon primary and stay on as ambassador Rocky and Barry Now Eye California Bid for Support In Thai Slates June 2 Primary SACRAMENTO Calif The windup of New Hamp shires presidential primary beckoned the Republican candi dates to California on day for a campaign thats cer tain to be as different as the climate of the two states Neither Gov Nelson A Rock nor Sen Barry Goldwa ter is wasting any time in hus tling out to California to begin their bids for support in the June 2 primary The New York governor after running second to Goldwater and third to Henry Cabot Lodge She said she didnt recognize f set right off the rank of the injured can officer Venezuela Elects New President CARACAS Venezuela AP Raul Leoni took office day as the first democratically elected president of Venezuela a succeed another so elected declared this na ion of 78 million will never lave another dictator About 2000 military cadets special troops guarded the Congress Building against any attempt by Castroite terrorists to disrupt he inaugural proceedings held in the Senate US Interior Secretary Stew art L Udall and other delegates Tom 50 nations looked on as Betancourt 56 gave up the presidency to his political ally and embraced him Both seemed close to tears But Betancourt becoming a private to launch a j swing Goldwater the only Western er in the race arrives in the state Friday for his first inten sive tour of his big Arizona neighbor Both candidates along with Harold E Stassen plan to ap pear before state convention delegates of the California Re publican Assembly in Fresno on Friday hoping to gain their endorsement A committee of the volunteer party organization has recom mended however that it take no sides The candidates will be bat tling for 86 delegates to the Re publican National Convention Its the final preferential pri mary before the GOP conven Barber Killed Over Haircut PHILADELPHIA AP An gelo 52 a barber was stabbed fatally Wednesday by a man who complained about a haircut given him two weeks ago police said A man identified as Joseph Margel 35 was captured a short time later Says Jobless Statistics Not Accurate tion in 13 San Francisco on Livestock Expo Dales Announced HARRISBURG Eighth Annual AP The Pennsylvania Livestock Exposition will be citizen again after five turbulent held at the State Farm Show years smiled broadly i Building Nov 913 the state The day was a holiday by agriculture d e p art ment an presidential decree as the first Wednesday democratic changeover in Vene history and the ceremony ture Secretary Leland H Bull named Harold R of broadcast by television Stale College as show manager HOLLYWOOD Fla US Steel executive said Wednesday that unemployment figures ought to be analyzed in stead of swallowed whole in economic planning Before we hang our econo mic goals on a percentage of unemployment statistics we should find out what we are talk ing about said US Steel Corp Vice President B E Estes Jr of Pittsburgh The statistics include many who actually are not seeking work Estes told the National Asso of Manufacturers te on Industrial Relations that the real job should be to nate hardship unemployment the lack of a job for the chief breadwinner in every family Despite the slogans that is what reasonable people really mean when they talk about full employment Salinger Denies They No Longer Are Speaking Plays Down Wisconsin i By FRANK CORMIER WASHINGTON AP The White House after discounting reports of a feud between dent Johnson Gen Robert F Kennedy took p Uni Wednesday to play down the ap parent value of any pro Kennedy drive in the Wisconsin primary Feud talk coincided with an organized effort to have New lampshire Democrats write in name for vice ent in Tuesdays primary The general who formally the move made a trong showing although ha poll as many otes as Johnson Pierre Salinger White House secretary was asked bout the reported rift and he said All I tnow about it is what 1 read in the newspapers Salinger disputed one pub report in the New York Herald Tribune that Johnson an Kennedy no longer are speak ing because of personal and po friction I think the President sees the attorney general on various matters from time to time Sal inger said Shortly after Salinger met witli newsmen Johnson had an unannounced conference with Democratic Gov John W Reyn olds of Wisconsin A to boost Kennedy for vice dent filed incorporation in Wisconsin on Tuesday When the session was over White House officials let newsmen know about it and suggested they in the governor Reynolds said any drive in April 7 pri mary would be a little asinine since presidential nom traditionally select their own running mates The governor said a campaign would serve no use ful purpose because he said state law does not provide for candidates He said such votes wouldnt even be counted The governor will be a favorite son candidate in the primary He said he assured Johnson that his slate pledged to the dent will win over the an candidacy of Gov George C Wallace of Alabama Stewardess Weds Rich Horseman Estes predicted that by i a year ago Wednesday night married a pretty air force Unemploy ment compensa tion programs have taken away some of the stimulus for idled workers to accept immediately available but tess attractive job opportunities in the interest of a less hurried search for some thing more to their liking he said House Republicans Lead Fight Against Federal Pay Increases Or George LONDON pay i aise est royal highness slept and got conflicting By JOHN BECKLER WASHINGTON members asked themselves for new a pay raise ly in his cradle lined with satin and lace Wednesday white his mothers subjects worried about his weight a little over bet he would be named James or George Although the preference of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip naturally is a factor the babys name is influenced by high reasons of state It usually takes a month or so to decide suitable set of names on a answers and some embarrass ing reminders about past es of economy in government A final vote on a to raise salaries of 17 million federal i employes including senators and representatives was put off until Thursday after a spirit ed debate most of it dealing with the proposed congressional increase The vice president Supreme j Court justices Cabinet officials and their immediate aides also would get raises under the bili It makes the big gest increases at the top end of the pay scale in an attempt to make federal managerial jobs more attractive Majority Leader Carl Albert DOkla put the House leader ship firmly behind the but conceded it is a delicate matter to ask the members to pass on the worth of ourselves They would get 532500 a year under the The responsibility for raising their own pay is given to them byMe Constitution Albert point ed out and they should face up to it Republicans took the iead in opposing the with heavy emphasis on the recent vote cut ting taxes which was nied by solemn vows to hold down federal spending It be difficult member who votes for this to keep a straight face when he talks about economy said Rep John F Baldwin Jr Much of dealt with the possibility of passing the without a record vote as many sponsors would prefer line stewardess The stewardess Frances Miriam Crenshaw called Mimi by her friends quit her job four days ago and left a secondfloor walkup apartment in Miami to Jarry Widener heir to a estate Every effort was made to keep the wedding a secret Miss Crenshaw a girl described as extremely pretty with the natural look would not tell her fellow stewardesses whom she was go ing to marry The vows were said in a pri vate ceremony at a Baptist church in the newly created town of Palm Beach Gardens The couple plans to go to Paris for a honeymoon later this month No announcement was made and reporters were avoided Boy 10 Drowns COUDERSPORT Pa Ferdie B Chase 10 of nearby Austin drowned Wednesday in Austin Creek youngster slipped on an jcy foot bridge and fell into the water while on his to school
