Western Kansas Press (Newspaper) - January 7, 1966, Great Bend, Kansas WESTERN KANSAS PRESS THE GREAT DUY STATE AREA NEWS SPORTS FINAL MARKETS VOL. 4, No. 99 GREAT JANUARY Copy Price Sc ISSUE 8 PAGES Strike Talks Stall NEW YORK Face face negotiations stalled day in the sixth and most hectic day of the day strike as pressures to intervene mounted on President He was reported awaiting a request from Mayor John V. A rainy day in Manhattan dragged on without a sign of joint bargaining at the cana while outside the worst traffic jam in the city's history clogged the Lindsay remained at city hall instead of joining talks as he did Although traffic taxed ial parking and police personnel to the utmost authorities feared that pay might attract even drivers to the Traffic Commissioner Henry A. plan for staggering Manhattan arrivals and tures has had no apparent effect so The his countenance grown j reported negotiations this morning a marathon 17 hours at the bargaining But the pace slowed to a few caucuses and several separate meetings with mediators later in the Lindsay went on radio and television Thursday morning to warn New Yorkers against optimism for an early ment of the contract dispute between the Transit Workers Union and the city's Transit It was unhappy news for millions who were enduring the added hardship of getting to work in j i will have to sweat out be very tough about it and brave about Lindsay j said with an indirect dig at the preceding administration of Mayor Robert F. we have ed a few decades of swered LBJ Sends Wiriz To Help Settle Transit Strike WASHINGTON ident at the request of Mayor John V. sent Labor Secretary W. Wirtz to York City Thursday night to aid in solving the transit strike The White House announced that Lindsay at about p.m. EST had telephoned Johnson to say he thought it would be a good idea to have Wirtz go to New Presidential Press Secretary D. Movers said Lindsay had asked that Wirtz come Thursday night informal conversations with him and possibly with the panel of simple purpose is to explore the transit situation with the Moyers This was the first personal conversation between Johnson and Lindsay since the strike began six days and Lindsay's first request for federal The administration had let it be known that Johnson was willing to intervene if the new mayor re- but only if he Johnson also assured the mayor of his interest in doing everything ne to be of Moyers Moves Against Klan Leaders Has New Owners Sell To Subsidiary Of The Kansas City Star Ownership of The Great Bend Daily Tribune passed today to a new corporation with controlling interest held by The Kansas City Star of Kansas Mo The owners of The Daily Will L. Russell T. Townsley and Helen T. said a new corporation to be known as The Great Bend Publishing will take over as owner and publisher of The Daily Tribune and its morning The Western Kansas at the close of ness on January 31. All of the present owners will hold stock in the new corporation and will serve on the board of di- Ben H. Emerson also becomes a stockholder and president of the new corporation and will con- as general a position he has held at The Daily Tribune for the past 15 Serving as members of the board of in addition to Will L. Russell T. Mrs. Helen Townsley Coogan and Emerson are five executives of The Frank S. general John W. executive Paul assistant to the William W. associate and W. W. advertising The Daily established in 1876. will ob- serve its 90th anniversary in as one of the est daily newspapers in and is the oldest business firm in Barton Judge C. P. Townsley moved to Great Bend from in 1874 and after two years of law practice founded The After his death in 1907. his the late Will became publisher and converted the weekly paper into a daily in 1908. When he died in 1935 his the late Alice was publisher until her death in 1942. The present owners have operated The Daily Tribune since that Richard B. president and editor of The THE WEATHER Fair to Star said of the ongoing association partly cloudy and warmer to UJ tit a JERRY AND JEANENE WELLS OF GREAT BEND stand beside a display of handsome pictures on now on display at Cooper's The who will leave for Topeka the end of this will be gone a year while Jerry gets his law degree at Jerry is now employed by Universal and Inspection from UPI and local THE MARKET Blue chips again paced a higher and tive stock market Thursday but lacked strong enough ship to carry off a SPORTS latest in- formation on the world of sports plus interesting items about your favorite sports personalities see page Report j G. B. Wife Creates For Clever Inferior Decors Terrorists Hit Saigon With Two Attacks Cong in the air w terrorists struck twice in Communist North Saigon Thursday night with bomb attacks on the main military gate at Tan Son Nhut airport and the national police headquarters in suburban Via Dinh One was killed and 10 persons including five U S. in the explosion at the airport A huge tree took the brunt of the averting casualties among the thousands of Americans milling around the gate in search of transportation into the No Americans were involved in the blast at Gia Dinh where one national policeman and seven civilians were The U.S. self imposed truce r Viet N of the Townsley family will symbolize continuance of the fine newspaper tradition established by nearly 90 years of Tribune ownership by the He also changes in personnel are planned and di- rection of newspaper policies will continue to be in Great Bend under Emerson's The Kansas City Star is one of the largest and most respected newspapers in the It was established in 1880 by William Rockhill Before his death Mr. Nelson arranged for The Star's ship to be held exclusively by its These stockholders now number 400. The Star's morning and evening editions have a combined circulation of ly copies per day and the firm has a staff of more than 1600 full time The purchase of The Daily Tribune is The Star's first purchase of a newspaper in a diversification program begun last Fowler commented that association of the two properties will benefit both the two newspapers and the areas they Through the combined resources of talent and the expansion of news coverage and other newspaper services can be better Other Townsley interests in newspaper and casting Radio Russell Daily News and Texas are not involved in this St. Paul Hotel Fire Fatal To Nine Persons Highs in the upper 30s. Lows 15 to 20. Light northerly By JAMES BARR FUGATE GREAT BEND What is a Mrs. Jerry of 3423 Sixteenth who makes them both for gifts and for has an unexpected answer for these handsome picture pieces on idea of a is quite it isn't a new innovation at as most people think when they first see Centuries ago in May Ask For Federal Troops To Control Explosive Situation By JAMES FELDER i United Press International j Ala. Tuskegee Mayor Charles M. Keever said Thursday he was I considering asking for federal troops to assist in controlling an explosive situation in this town where a young Negro civil rights worker was shot to death i Keever met throughout the day with federal and state law enforcement officers and for clients on a During march on the city hall the students made stops at the service station where Younge was at a private white and at the Confederate war memorial monument on the town They sang songs at each Despite claims by authorities to the Gwendolyn student leader who led when the poorer classes had an important such as a a mortgage or a will to they pasted it on a piece of flat board and hung it on the wall as the most treasured i t e m. And it was guarded and ad- mired as such by entire she was a kind of Pop Mrs. Wells the idea spread over the rest of Europe and flourished until better facilities for stor i n g 1 valuable papers were available i to the More people in the interior decorating business re- vived the popularity of these j particularly the antique i But as always with j there are never enough to go so clever featuring pictures of famous i were used on boards instead of legal and vate Mrs. Wells to her likes to use good re- productions of the old masters for the she makes because they are extremely at- tractive and lend themselves easily to most A fashion graduate of K. U. and Fashion Coordinator for Communists Play Active Roll In Demonstrations American Communists played an active role in many of last year's student protests against U.S. Vietnamese FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said primitive He singled out the Nov. 27 on in which persons for peace in Viet an Easter protest here in which more than the Oct. 15-16 days of the ington summer action approached the two week with no signs of But neither were they any signs that the Hanoi regime was prepared to sit down at the conference table to talk The Soviets already have provided the North Vietnamese Communists with surface-to-air missiles and other modern officials noted with concern Thursday that the Viet Cong guerrillas are using a strong and deadly mortar against American and Vietnamese forces within South Viet The 120-mm mortar is more deadly than any U.S. Each shell weighs about 35 pounds and the mortar itself weighs about The closest equivalent in the U.S. arsenal is the 4.2 inch A U.S. military spokesmen said Thursday that about third of the 70 mortar rounds into the Khe Sanh American s forces camp on Tuesday and Wednesday iTe of the 120-mm The np is about 400 miles north 01 U.S. Quest For Peace 25-28. The party and other sive organizations ported and in the emergence of groups last year which focused tion on Viet Nam he Navy Man Is Transported By Helicopter of Tuskegee the the march on city said she predominantly Negro school that the Samuel L. Younge The mayor said meetings were also planned with civil TOKYO Averell last and the Harriman carried the U.S. among on Nov. quest for peace in Viet Nam to the Far East He said pressure of world was building up against Harriman's arrival in Tokyo coincided with the departure from Moscow of ranking Kremlin troubleshooter der Shelepin for Hanoi accompanied by rocket and arms There has been no positive response Peking or Hanoi to President Johnson's peace which has included a halt in bombing raids against North Viet Nam since the Christmas truce two weeks Peking dismissed the peace efforts Thursday as a a carefully planned conspiracy in a hi the official Peking ST. Minn. fire flashed through the ancient Carleton Hotel in downtown St. Paul At least nine persons died and 17 were Guests struggled through halls and ed in panic onto fire escapes in cold to flee the ease the is a very Firemen pulled the bodies of he six men and three women from meetings Macon County Sheriff J. H. who described Segrest rights leaders in an attempt to as a quiet old disputed dangerous these are not WASHINGTON House investigators v Thursday to seek contempt of ice Congress citations against Im- Wizard Robert M. Shelton and six other Ku Klux Klan Each man would face a maximum penalty of one year in jail and fine Another Storm Heads Toward Oregon Coast Ore. Another driving rainstorm relled across the Pacific toward Oregon Thursday while ate temperatures in northern California began melting fresh snow packs in the The Weather Bureau said the latest in the 11-day series of storms would probably hit the Oregon coast late Friday In northern California there were some fears that melting snows would send surging to flood stages a team of mountain climbers braved Mt the 72-room. four-story Hours after the pre-dawn fire broke they still searched the ashes and debris for other but Fire Chief said he believed all the dead had been Six of 17 ersons taken to St Hospital were reported in critical Four others were released after Authorities were uncertain how many persons were in the hotel when the fire apparently in a men's Hotel employes said 54 many of them elderly permanent were The first alarm was turned in at 4 32 when the temperature stood at 2-above zero and a 15 mile an hour wind was Fire officials said the flames spread so rapidly that many guests had only a small chance to we got three womer were running down the hall with their clothes on fire like District Fire Chief William Donnerbauer State Of The Union A subcommittee approved the move on grounds persons from their that the Klan officials refused washed out roads and slides on 14.162.foot Mt wi r. Shasta in an effort to find three DCl rOf men who haven't been seen since Dec. 29. rain and which swirled over northern California and Oregon have if been blamed for five deaths this The storms forced about 1.500 crushed we'll have to go elsewhere for Asked if this meant he would ask for federal Keever a pretty good Demand Death Penalty Earlier in the day about 150 Negro students from the institute marched on city hall and demanded the death penalty for Marvin the 69-year-old white service station attendant charged with first degree murder in the pistol slaying of The Negro youth reportedly was shot following an argument over use of the rest room in the station where Segrest The station maintained separate rest rooms False Reports On TWU Leader NEW YORK J. leader of the striking transit was reported City Hospital Commissioner Dr. Alonzo Yerby visited the ailing union chief to check on reports that he had taken a turn for the reports were untrue and said is infinitely better than ELLSWORTH stores in Topeka before I Navy man became part of a she was Jeanene was j military training mission here first struck by the early Thursday possibilities of in j win 19, of Sioux considered the shooting of Eastern High fashion shops and S. was transported Younge a racial boutiques she But from the Ellsworth hospital to Claims Personal Fend cause they had such fancy i the city airport via local price she decided to go He was then airlifted home and make her which to Ft. Kansas by a she did with a great deal of helicopter from that Knudtson was injured early Tuesday morning when his to sideswiped a pickup truck equipped with a He of reportedly fell asleep while traveling southwest on the state i Sadler said Younge on Page 2) ly had been harassing Segrest ANNIVERSARY DATE successful for a period of is definitely not a civil rights The boy apparently kept agitating the old man until this happened LONDON Earl of was crowned King Harold England in Westminster Abbey 900 years ago AND AWAY VYE to produce subpoenaed records dozens of for the congressional j Rescue Team Organized tion of the hooded Civil defense officials at action was expected to be Grants mobilized a quickly approved by the parent 150-man rescue team along the terms of House Committee on swollen Rogue About 20 speech to American which in families moved out of their turn would seek a House i homes WASHINGTON Press Secretary D. Moyers insisted Thursday that when he was admitted to no day or time has been Bellevue Hospital Tuesday but as yet for President Johnson's State of the Union message to he is still a very sick Yerby added that Quill was resting comfortably in a sitting He told newsmen this when position in his new room on the asked about reports that hospital's fifth where he White House was thinking is by three a 12 30 p.m. EST iThe 60-yar-old president of the a joint session of was rushed to Bellevue Congress on the from civil prison after suffering opening day of new an apparent heart Pawnee Rock Man Injured LARNED Maurice A. 68. of Pawnee Rock was hospitalized with injuries when his west bound car struck the rear of a Lamed Co-op The accident cured 1.3 miles east of here on I highway 56 around p.m. 1 Thursday His 61 el car was damaged beyond its j j Mr. Miller was being treated i for facial lacerations and glass silvers which were in his eye at the Lamed hospitaL Thomas A. 22. of Lamed was the operator of the westbound truck when he ran 1 out of He had stopped to switch tanks and ran the tery down trying to start the The truck was parked partially on the highway for about twenty ing to reports he had not set out Mr. i c h was not in the truck when it struck by the Miller Charges are The Highway Patrol and the nee County Sheriff investigated the Both drivers were About damage was in- to the rear of the l Troubleshooter Heads For Viet i MOSCOW Soviet mission headed by the lin's top diplomatic troubl j and including experts on rocket 1 warfare left Moscow Thursday i for Communist North Viet Nam by a secret Inclusion of the rocket experts in the mission bolstered speculation Shelepin was taking offers of more military and economic aid to the Hanoi regime to counter any new S. escalation of the Viet Nam
