Walla Walla Union-Bulletin (Newspaper) - January 15, 1966, Walla Walla, Washington Government Reported Toppled Map locates Nigeria black area whose was reported toppled Saturday by the army Shaded are six other African nations which are now ruled by military leaders AP Nigerian Army Revolts Radio News Confusing LONDON AP Rebellion Nigerian Army troops Prime Minister Sir Balewa Saturday an announced they had taken con trol of the country A broadcas Saturday night however the Army chief remained loya to the government and had re- gained control of the Nigerian capital Lagos 1 A Radio Lagos heard in Cotonou Dahomey said Gen tin Army commander still hai control of part of the Army am was taking necessary meas ures to put down the mutiny The broadcast said that in addition to the prune minister the Army rebels also had seizei the finance minister Chief Fes tus Eboh It said the whereabouts of both were un Spokane Sites To Be Closed TACOMA AP The Army says two Nike Hercules air de- fense missile sites in the kane area will be closed h March 31 leaving three sites in operation in Washington The announcement by the Army Air Defense Command a McChord Air Force Base the closures were in line with Secretary of Defense Rober McNamara's decision that mis sile sites defending Strategic Air Command bases are not needed The ones remaining cities in the Puget Sound area It's See It Page 7 DRUGS Plaza Shopping Center Walla Walla OPEN TODAY 10 PM JANUARY CLEARANCE CONTINUES See Our Ad On Pg 25 JACQUELINE'S FINAL and FINAL REDUCTIONS have been made for the FINAL WEEK Of Our Great HALF YEARLY SHOE SALE Come Buy Save SHOE SHOP 16 East Mam Street See Page 22 known Previous broadcasts said they had been under house arrest Two political leaders were reported assassinated Earlier Radio Lagos carried a broadcast by an unidentified but apparently high-ranking Army officer saying the Army had taken power to bring an end to gangsterism and der The later broadcast said a mutinous not named had taken brief control of the radio station but that Gen Ir- U.S Views Revolt as A Setback WASHINGTON AP U.S sources viewed Nigeria's upheaval Saturday as a setback to stable democratic progress in one of the most important new nations of Africa although they saw no anti-American in the coup What changes if any may have to be made in the can aid program the largest to any African country re- mained clouded amid mentary reports of an army ouster of Prune Minister bakar Tafawa Balewa State Department press cer Ben Thirkield declined com ment except to say that so far as we are aware there is no danger to Americans living in the big West African country About U.S citizens are reported in Nigeria some 900 US government officials and their families 650 Peace Corps volunteers the remainder and persons in private enterprise The Americans are in the cap- ital Lagos and scattered about country Some were said to be in the midwestern region in the western re- gion in the east and in the north U.S sources accept the rian struggle as primarily a affair without any anti-American over- tones Forecast Mostly cloudy today and ton A little daytime sunshine High today 40 low ton 27 Low yest 33 high at 4 p.m yesterday at Airport 45 Free def since Sept 1 is inches onsi now has control of the The situation outside the tal was not known Refugees fleeing to Dahomey from cent Nigeria reported bloody incidents near the frontier The distance between Cotonou and Lagos is about 60 miles A broadcast monitored in the Ivory Coast identified the nous unit as the Regiment It was not immediately known whether this was the only Army unit in rebellion Troops loyal to the ment were said to be in control of public buildings in the tal Normal channels of cation down with Lagos were shut But reports reaching London said the premier of the ern Region of Nigeria Surdar Bello and his wife had been assassinated Chief Samuel I Akintola premier of the Western Region also was killed the reports said Walla Walla Our Year No 235 Walla Walla Washington Sunday January 16 1966 4 Pages Kidnap Plot Figure Had Told Police BEVERLY HILLS Calif AP A kidnap plan that wound through thickets of con- fear betrayal and death was the master plot of a man who told police of the scheme and who died as it was being carried out The kidnap philanthropist Leonard K Firestone The George H Scalla 28 and William C Bailey 44 were cut down by police guns Thursday night as they crossed the Firestone hold In Fear of Life Beverly Hills Police Capt John E Hankins said that Scalla who had gone to police in fear for his life had minded the plot and had ed BaHey Scalla and another person planned the Hankins said but partner got arrested and was sent to jail Then he went out looking for another and tied in with Bailey He later became afraid of Bailey and believed that if he didn't go through with it Bailey would kill him He said he knew Bailey would kill him after the kidnaping to shut him up It was at that time that he went to Los Angeles police and told them of the kidnaping which the officers already knew about He went on the job with the idea that in case there was shooting he would drop to the ground and project Hankins explained Told by Police Firestone 58 was told of the kidnap plot by police and left his house in the movie of Beverly Hills He stayed with friends in the San Francisco area Firestone a son of the late Harvey S Firestone is dent of the Firestone Tire Rubber Co of California branch of the company in ron Ohio founded by his father Bailey fattier of four lived with his family in an expensive mansion in suburban Woodland Hills His attorney Albert ber told newsmen Bailey had been in trouble with the police in his youth but had been a successful land oper and construction estimator since 1950 Man in Kidnaping Plot Had IQ of Genius BEVERLY HILLS Calif AP William C Bailey was in trouble with police as a nile served prison terms as a young man and then appeared to be well on the road to ing a responsible citizen George H Scalla was a model pupil in high school played ball darned good grades and aspired to a military career LB J Spends Quiet Day WASHINGTON AP dent Johnson put hi a quiet day Saturday holding staff ences working on some coming messages to Congress and reading some overseas reaction to his State of the Un- ion Message Joseph Laitin assistant press secretary Johnson and George Bundy special assistant national security affairs re- viewed a number of cables re- from leaders of foreign governments Johnson was very pleased and satisfied with the said Laitin who declined to say who sent them Then four years ago he was ar- rested for drunkenness later for burglary Just when the paths of Bailey 45 and Scalla 28 first crossed is uncertain They died er shot to death by police as they entered industrialist ard K Firestone's home Thursday night in a kidnap plot It's said pretty dark-haired widow Angela It just isn't possible that he could have done such a foolish thing Mrs Bailey 34 a mother of four described her husband as a man of many moods sive and with a very violent ture Officials said Bailey ently never finished high school but had an IQ that marked him as a genius He got into trouble for auto theft in Austin Tex as a youngster was sentenced to three years in prison in Lubbock Tex on a similar charge a year later gained parole and then wound up with a tence later for robbery in San Antonio Released before serving his full term he drifted north to Vancouver B.C where he was arrested for robbery and served Please See Page 5 Col 8 Rusk in Saigon Assures Premier Vietnamese soldiers man anti-aircraft and machine guns on a truck outside offices of Pre- meir Nguyen Cao Ky in Saigon after ants said 30 truckloads of South Vietnamese troops and four armored troop carriers broke through a police checkpoint on the edge of Saigon and refused to stop Some U.S officials thought the move may have been a prelude to a power play by Vietnamese generals timed to the visit of U.S Secretary of State Dean Rusk County May Get Boost In Gasoline Tax Funds New county road cost factors to be used in the distribution ol million of annual gasoline tax funds among Washington's 39 counties are proposed in a report completed by the High way Research Section of Wash ington State University's Col- lege of Engineering Walla la is one of 17 counties for which an increase is proposed The report was prepared by WSU under terms of a contract with the Joint Committee on Highways and the Washington Highway Commission G A Riedesel head of the Highway Research Section who launched a four-month wide survey of county highways last August said the new cost factors are based on road con- struction and maintenance cost estimates submitted by county engineers The report proposes the ond cost factor adjustment since 1961 state law requires that the factors be examined every four years and adjusted if essary Lower for 20 Based on existing figures for vehicle registration and county road mileage the proposed cost Factors would increase the gas tax funds received in 17 ties and reduce them in 20 counties Allocations for two Turner Might Oppose Ullman SALEM AP Donald E Turner Morrow County rancher is expected to seek the Oregon congressional seat now held by Elep Al Ullman Baker crat the Oregon Statesman said Saturday Turner is treasurer of the Re- publican State Central ee but has never sought tive office outside the party structure counties Franklin and nia would remain the same Fund increases are proposed for Asotin Chelan Cowlitz ry Island King Kitsap Lewis Mason Okanogan San Juan Snohomish Spokane Wahkiakum Walla Walla am Whitman counties Washington's 39 counties an- receive 31 per cent of the gas tax In 1964 this totaled approximately million Each county is a percentage of the total based upon its road fund re- as measured by a statutory formula which weighs such items as overhead costs size and utilization of the road system costs of construction and Please See Page 5 Col 7 4 Survive Plane Crash In Greece ATHENS Greece AP our survivors were found day at the wreckage of a U S Air Force plane that crashed on a Greek mountain with 10 men aboard The other six were ailed The survivors were flown to hospital at the U S Wheelus Air Base in Libya The transport plane crashed two days ago on a flight Turkey to Italy Nine Americans and an Italian air brce officer were aboard The wreckage was sighted Friday night in the mountainous area of east of Athens The transport crashed on Mt mos Thursday night while on a light from Cigli air base cey to Naples Plane Hits Sea 51 May Have Died BOGOTA Colombia AP A commercial airliner with 61 persons aboard crashed day night into waters off the coast of Colom bia Unofficial sources said 51 persons were dead or missing The propeller plane broke in two and its rear section sank in leavy seas about five minutes after taking off from the bean port of Cartagena for a flight to Barranquilla A Cartagena hospital said six bodies were recovered Eight were treated for mi- nor injuries the hospital added Frogmen from the Cartagena IE al base vainly tried to cue an estimated 40 passengers in the rear section of he plane About 50 Colombian navy 20 fishing vessels and a J S amphibious plane joined the search but rescue efforts were suspended early Saturday due to the rough seas and the danger from sharks The airliner carried a crew of five Most of the sengers were Colombian said It was not immediately known what caused the crash U.S Policy Spelled Out To Officials SAIGON South Viet Nam AP Secretary of State Dean Rusk spelled out U.S policy in the current Viet Nam peace campaign to top South ese government leaders day night and sought to assure them that President Johnson's efforts to end the war will not undermine Premier Nguyen Cao Ky's military regime As conferences went on ing the day and again at dinner rumors flew in Saigon of a sible power move by some generals who are said to feel that Ky is ready to sell out to the Viet Cong in any peace agreement Ky has been premier since June 21 Convoy Didn't Stop Tension heightened at p.m with a report that an armed South Vietnamese troop convoy had barged through a police checkpoint without ing orders to stop and was headed for Saigon The incident was said to have occurred 10 miles south of Saigon Sudden troop movements into Saigon in the past have been forerunners to government sets A South Vietnamese ant said however troops of the 4th Vietnamese Marine ion had entered the city to in- crease The source did not explain the need for in- creasing the guard in the tol The transfer of the marines was termed a normal operation After the dinner meeting of Vietnamese and American Rusk told newsmen that if On The Inside Arts Books Music Page 31 Blue Mtn Aera Pages Classified Ads Pages Editorial 4 Financial Business Page 16 Radio TV Logs Page 31 Sports Theaters Page 32 Vital Statistics Page 5 Women's Features Pgs Comics 6 Youth activities Page 30 Solution Found for Planning Stalemate By JIM B SCHICK Walla Walla city and county moved toward settlement of a disagreement in the planning department Friday night and many individuals at a called meeting agreed that the situation was one of standing rather than insolvable problems The meeting of the County Commission and City Council was called by the building and construction committee of the Chamber of Commerce Vernon McFall chairman of the com- and chairman of the city planning commission presided Also attending the were the three members of the Walla Walla County Port Com- mission W D Ray Henry be and Ben Flathers three Chamber directors and officers Baker Ferguson Dr Byron Friedman and Richard White Chamber manager The county and city agreed that a joint planning ment was essential and more efficient They agreed to create a commission or committee of to be appointed by the city one by the county and the third by the two members to oversee the functions of county and city planning under the jurisdiction of the Regional Planning Commission The new three-man sion will interview applicants for and hire and direct the ner and the funding will be pre- vided on a basis as in the past The only item remaining to be solved is the location of the planning office The county re- stated that it did not want the office in either the City Hall or the Courthouse and that it should be in some town location easily accessible to the public The three-man commission and the Chamber of Commerce building and construction com- will make an ate study of locations The County Commission ex- to name the county's on the commission Monday Mayor H R Holm said a special meeting of the City Council could be called to make the city's appointment in order to expedite settlement of the planning issue Every effort was made by Chamber representatives to keep the meeting on a level that would solve the planning tion and at the same time ignore some of the differences that have occurred between the city and the county since the county left the joint ning Department Some of the heat generated by the conflicts in recent weeks was evident at times and the evening saw tempers flare over various aspects of the By the end of the nearly three-hour meeting however the area of agreement had been reached and it was felt that a cooperative planning program would go on from there County Commissioners said they felt they should have an equal say in the planning de- and to accomplish this the office should be away from either City Hall or the house Ray speaking as chairman of the Port Commission said in a prepared We want to make it crystal clear that the Port Commission is not taking sides in any ner in the controversy between the city and county regarding planning We do feel however that since the Port is the duly elected commission held responsible for industrial development in the county we have a vital interest in sound planning and zoning We also believe that a single agency can best serve our needs from an operation well as an economic standpoint We have found that ed industrial prospects are ing more and more emphasis on the quality and responsibility of the planning agencies The authority for forming and funding planning sions is clearly provided for by statute so the Port does not feel it should use its funds for this purpose at this time The Port Commission man declared that industry wants the protection of sound and intelligent planning He said that in answering the questions of potential industrial clients the past few weeks it has been difficult not to reveal this weakness in Walla Walla County If we can't resolve this small controversy now what is going to happen to all the things that Walla Walla County presently has going for he said Representatives of the city and county said there is no dis- agreement on the need for a joint planning department and we should best be about ing it a coup was in the making the word was very well disguised at the dinner table in Ky's dence Friendly Affair Another U.S source described the dinner as very friendly with no tensions Rusk arrived in Saigon day morning with roving W Averell Harriman from Bangkok Thailand They met briefly with Lt Gen en Van Thieu then conferred with Ky at his heavily guarded Saigon office At the dinner at Ky's dence beside Rusk and man were Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and Gen William Westmoreland on the can side and Ky Thieu and Lt Gens Nguyen Huu Co and Lt Gen Dang Van Quang OPEN TODAY 10 to 2 P.M SEE OUR SPECIALS ON PAGE 5 CRESCENT 4 DRUG STORE Main Gr 4th J A NOW PRICE All Remaining SALE SHOES SEE PAGE 26 HART'S SMART FOOTWEAR SHOE SALE 44 E Mam St SAVE NOW AT TALLMAN'S Southern Inland Empire Cosmetic Headquarters YEAR-END SAVINGS ON Famous Brand Name COSMETIC FRAGRANCE LINES Stock Up Now While These Low Prices Prevail Many Items In Limited TALLMAN'S 4 W Mam St JA See Page 23
