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tfxtsy- JN383 r.i-s'b sass r-Globe Timers'-i! Photographer Billy Forbes was taking a picture of a World War I veteran out at the VA Hospital this week. It was to go with a story on the 50th anniversary of the U.S entry in that conflict, and the old doughboy was decked out in full field uniform. Forbes, a Marine veteran of World War II, had taken WWI-yiutage rifle along for the picture-taking session and asked bis subject to stand at parade rest, moving the piece over to one side. The doughboy moved it back hi front of him. "Let's leave it over here at parade rest," Forbes said as shifted the rifle back to the side.

"Look, sonny," the old vet replied, "your war may have done lhat way, but in my war we did it this way," and he moved it back to the front position where it remained while the picture was taken. -DON BOYETT "That's one teen-age marriage that really lasted," Derby Spencer, 16, of Dallas said when he read an an- that his grandparents mil celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Bonner Smith, formerly of a and Wheeler, married when she was 18.

He was 19. ANNA C. THOMASON i During Saturday afternoon's a woman what appeared to be a small; black dog across the parking lot of an Amarillo shopping' center. As 'onlookers stared, she caught the Hack object, picked it up and placed.it on her head. The wind had lifted her wig.

WAYNE BILL1NGSLEY Two-year-old Frank Blankenship, son of Mr. and Mrs. K. Blankenship pi 1400 N. Lincoln, has the kind of green thumb we can envy.

Watching his mother digging in the yard, Frank asked her what she was doing. She replied that she was get; fing ready plant carrots and onions. A few minutes later she had her carrots, full- grown a i down. Young a had planted them--straight from the family refrigerator. "That the quickest action I've ever had with a garden," his mother laughed LARRY LAWRENCE.

The wife of a Randall County farmer was fuming Sunday. She said her husband went to Canyon and got licenses for two pickups, a truck and several pieces of rolling farm machinery. But he forgot to get one for her car. DON WILLIAMS. A young mother overheard an Amarillo man say he had taught his German shepherd to sit in a chair.

"And he'll stay for three hours without moving," the man said. "May I bring children over for training sessions?" the mother inquired. BONNIE MERRIMAN Because of homework and other chores around the house, some newspaper carriers are forced sometimes to collect on Sunday. While collecting at a minister's home, a 12-year-old girl was reminded by the lady ol the house that she should be collecting on the Lord's AMARILLO Final Edition GLOBE-TIMES 44th Year, 2Vo. 34 10 Cents 44 Pages 4 Sections Amarillo, Texas, April 6, 1967 Day.

The little girl replied: 'Well, Yanks Battle Korean Reds AP VVIrephofo Chopper's Last Battle These photos tell the tale of a helicopter's last At left, troopers of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division use muscle power to free other soldiers trapped when the chopper was downed by Cong ground fire. Al right, two wounded passengers receive medical aic while the rescue work continues in background. Ali 11, i I Returned i Unhurt I BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. 11-yearlold son of a financier was kidnaped rora his bedroom Monday nornmg but returned to his lome today, a after the family paid 000 ransom.

The boy, Kenneth Young, was eft bound and blindfolded in a parked in a garage in nearby Santa Monica about 3:30 a.m. He waited a half hour, accord- ng to the kidnapers' instruc- ions, then wiggled free and ran to an apartment house to telephone his parents. His father, Herbert J. Young, 35, said 5250,000 ransom was asked but did not disclose how much was paid. The FBI in tVashingion said it was 5250,000.

The father is president of the Gibraltar Savings and Loan Association. FBI headquarters in said the ransom money was all in 5100 Federal Heserve notes, began nationwide distribution of a list of the serial numbers. J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director, asked that anyone having infor- aboard the aircraft were killed or wounded. The inci- mation about any of the money dent occurred recently in the An Lao Valley near Bong Son in South Vietnam.

BRIDGE' HIT paper every Sunday. How come I can't collect for it on a Sunday?" She was a i without any further argument. MEINHARD EICHEL The new mother-to-be nudg' ed her husband early one morning last week and informed him that her time was at hand. Before he could the doctor or have timej to get properly excited, new father, was helping with, "the delivery in his own living! room. Assured by his wife that she was doing fine, the man then calmly called the doctor; and sat back to await the arrival of an ambulance for the trip to the hospital.

Meanwhile, back at the hospital, the doctor saw that the child was properly paced into life as he nervously walked up and down the cy room floor, wailing for the ambulance. JIM MARTIN THE WEATHER jm.m^*jrm SEOUL, South Korea (AP) of two other North U.N; and North Korean observ- reans who they claimed, were ers made a joM four-hour in-killed north of the armistice vestigation today of an armistice line, area Avhere U.S. soldiers and -North Koreans clashed Wednesday. in one. of the most serious gunfighte since the 1953 Korean, armistice.

The U.N; Command said the 'forth claimed four: of their men were killed and. two were wounded. But the North Korean Central News Agency said five'' North' Koreans tilled 'and 'a'sixth. wounded. Before the investigation, the U.N.

Command had reported North Koreans killed. There were no U.S. casualties. A U.N. statement said the North Korean observers were shown the bodies of two North Koreans killed on the south side of the armistice line and that these bodies were Mrned over to the Communists.

The Communists exhibited the line. The U.N. Command siid one of the bodies iad been moved? north" by the Communists during the night, but -the North Korean'observers claimed Use bodies south of the line, had been "dragged" fr6m the: north into the southern part of the demilitarized zone patrolled by U.S. and South Korean" troops. 'Sgt Robert W.

-Hawkins of Charleston, charge of a' guard post which the U.N. Command said the Communists attacked was a witness at the investigation. He said he opened fire when surprised by a group of advancing North Koreans who suddenly appeared about 45 feet away "with rifles ready to fire." Hawkins testified he and two of his men, who were about 250 feet downhill from the guard post, immediately came under automatic weapons fire from woods -on the North Korean side of 'the 'armistice line. North Central News Agency said the North Koreans were civil policemen tine duly" in the north portion- of the demilitarized zone 1.21' miles east of Panmunjom. The U.N command the North Koreans crossed the armistice line into the U.N.

portion of the demilitarized zone, and after the American guards spotted them there was an ex-; change of fire "including fire from -North- Korean concealed positions across the military demarcation line," which di- vides the demilitarized zone. An informed source said a 15- minute gunfight took- place after a U.S. patrol challenged the group of seven or eight iVorth Koreans and the Communists opened fire. The clash occurred about 165 feet south of the military de(See KOREA-- Page 2) CONN ALLY GUIDELINES IGNORED i 1 Senate Group Okays Teachers 9 Pay Raise compiled. From wire oispoichcs jj.

committee AUSTIN. Tex. (UPI) The Senate Education Committee ignored Gov. John Connally's recommendations Wednesday night and approved a teachers pay raise that would force the tax-minded legislature to find an additional $20 million in new revenue. The committee closed out a partisan 90-minute hearing with a unanimous vote lor the Texas State Teachers Association-sponsored measure, which would makes its report and recommendations next year.

He laid aside S50 million in his budget to cover the raise. But, the teacher lobby ignored his plea and presented witnesses before the committee which, said "two years -will be too late" and called the, present salary scheduled farce" anc a "substandard program which is a disgrace to the great state bill, and senators used a portion of ihe hearing to ask questions of witnesses about other legislation concerning education, very seldom questioning them about the pay hike. Witnesses told of faculty losses, teachers who moonlighted with other jobs and warne it will worse if something is not done, "Texas doos have a teacher shortage, and the children oi t'h4 .0. will nav a severe pe of J.f ff 11,. wn aity if miot rovide n)run It's Jail For Foe Of Draft NEW YORK (AP) --David.

J. 24, the first draft card 1 was sent to Reds Launch New Attacks SAIGON (UPI) --A force of i a troops crossed a bridge into South Vietnam today in a border penetration that coincided with a major Communist assault or. the coastal city of Quang Tra 15 miles to the south. "U.S; artillery guarding the jail today for still refusing to frontier opened, up on the bridge a new draft card. sat down on the court jroom floor when Federal Judge E.

Tyler sentenced Mm --the "Freedom Bridge" where war prisoners have been exchanged in the past anc which South Vietnamese leaders Miller's- wife, Catherine, sat on the floor nearby with their! infant daughter, Juanita Miller, once of Syracuse, N.Y., recently has lived in Washing-! ton. Miller declined the judge's offer to spend "a little time, with! his family" before starting the 1 sentence. Judge Tyler had found Miller' guilty on March 15,1966 of burning his draft card. He had sentenced him to three years in prison, but suspended it on con-j dition he get a new draft card within 15 days. The conviction was upheld by appeals court and the Supreme Court refused review it.

Asst U.S. Atty. Peter E. leming Jr. told the court that liller refused to get a new card) nd had no intention of doing so.

He burned it Oct. 15, 1965, at lanhattan Army induction sta-j Ion to protest the Vietnam war. Judge Tyler told i There must be rendered unto Caesar what Caesar iave." "I will never," said Miller. some Americans and freeing 250 Communist political prisoners. The Communists, striking in separate groups of up to 500 each, breeched minefields and barbed wire barricades to reach some of their six targets in the Quang Tri area.

U.S. Marines joined Vietnamese troopers in hand-to-hand fighting against the attackers. The Communists struck American installations--the mi itary advisory office compound housing U.S. advisers, the U.S International Develop ment (AID) compound and a small airfield. artillerymen, guarding the bqrder fired 15 to 20 rounds into the.

bridge area, mmediaiely communicate by telephone, collect, with the near- st FBI field office. The number of that office can )e found on a page near the front of most local telephone directories. The abduction, ransom payment and release of the boy all took -place within a radius of eight miles, Westwood Village, where the money was delivered, is four miles due west of Beverly Hilis. Santa Monica, where Kenneth was freed, is eight miles southwest of Beverly Hills and about five. miles southwest of Westwood Village.

The FBI said'the kidnapers picked up the ransom Wednesday, in Westwood a few miles ronr Bwerly Hills' and were at When he was greeted by the FBI "and his family at the apart. shattering. the across-the-bbrder merit, "Kenny 'was very calm assault, but it was not known not or ervin" 1.1. in-r immediately whether the bridge itself was destroyed, Freedom Bridge, or Victory As Kenneth was examined by a doctor and put to bed in the avish Young home in a fashionable neighborhood, his father calmiy described the abduction and the ransom payment. Police theorized'that Kenneth was kid- (Communists also struck with took Young a note she found threel (See VIETNAM-Page 2) waruing not to ceall SPECK IDENTIFICATION raises from $61 to 5100-per month at, a state cost "'of $170 million in the years.

Connally -in his budget recom-! called, for a -flat five per cent hike for Texas teachers a slop-gap measure this state will pay a severe pne luo ouitt H'jJi I'nj a i pJJC Senate chamber packed with a if wc cannot vjde in toiimiftre ann nnminctratnrc teachers and adminstrators was never in Thirteen of the 15 committee members were cosigners of' the bill Sen. A. M. AikiniJr. of Paris.

No appeared against the ducements that, will reu'eve this shortage," Sam Anderson of Big said. "We began school in Texas (See TEACHERS-- Page 2) (xtindy AMAR1UO AND VICfNITY: Partly cloudy through Friday. Cooler fonfpltl. Uttlc change In tempcralurcs Friday Northwesterly winds 15-25 miles per hour today, becoming northeasterly 8-12 miles per hour tonight. Hloh today and Friday, In the mid 70s.

Low tonlnht In the upper 40i. Outlook tor Saturday, partly cloudy and warmer. From the U.S. Weather Bureau Details on Page 2 Rwotnmended Heading suspect caught relaxing in drug store-'' DR. "ALVAREZ discusses significance of blood tests- Page 5.

FALSE MOUSTACHES new mod fad-- Page 0. MADDOX, WALLACE may hold trump cards in politics- Page 10. NICKLAUS SEEKS third in Masters' tourney-- Page 13. SURVEY CRITICAL of percentage of local fund drives remitted to national headquarters-- Page 18. NEWS OF the oiildoors-- Page 19.

STOCK MARKET quotations-- Page 21. PRECJNCT VOTE in Tuesday election listed on Page .10. TV, RADIO, schedules appear on Page 32. SOUND OFF! airs readers' 'vlcws-Pnge 35. CAPITAL' VETERANS recall outbreak of First World War-- Page 36.

LEUKEMIA DRUG may save hoy's life-Page 37. FOOD CHAIN dumps stamps, lowers prices-- Page 38. FIRST CALL with "I said, you've finally been drafted "ALFRED GLENN THANKS VOTERS' iad described Richard Speck from the start as the man who the courthouse under heavy ordered eight fellow nurses to guard as court convened today. their deaths while she watched Bike Mishap Takes Poster Winner's Life NAILA, Germany, (AP) from her hiding neath a bed. under' cross-examination, said told Police the killer was a man irst prize in a road safety paining competition of his school.

iis picture showed a young boy a pool of blood after crashing rom his bicycle. But before he learned of the award, Ulrich was killed oa March 25. His bicycle became entangled with a car in sion and he was dragged som 40 yards along the.road. He died a hospital. The city fathers of Naila, who are exhibiting the painting in wearing a ocal schools, said today thatJ a Tms place of a money prize, a bouquet of flowers will be ilaced on Ulrich's grave.

Nurse Insists She's Right PEORIA, 111. (UPI) --Corazon description first issued by in-r Young said. "He 'Hi, dad, I'm awfully He acted as if he expected it to end all the time. It was like he'd never as it is sometime: called, is a tiny span across the been Ben Hai River and connects North and South Vietnam. The attacks in the Quang Tri sector coincided with a 10-hour wave of terror attacks extending from the Saigon area to the Demilitarized Zone itself.

Some of the attacks 1 backfired and at least 55 guerrilla bodies were counted; others were believed "aped as he slept by someone killed by airstrikes. But the Communists, trying to disrupt another round of local elections next Sunday, left a number of men, women and children dead or maimed. The who knew that an outside stair- on the large white house ed to a glass door near the boy's bedroom. A maid discovered Kenneth's empty bed Monday morning and Amuaro insisted today that she Chicago police. place under- The tiny Filipino nurse, firm that if Chicago police had issued a different description of the police and describing how to turn over for the boy's return.

"As soon as we read that note, my wife and I agreed that the thing do was to call the police immediately," Young recalled. The family and authorities maintained the secret while scores of policemen and FBI agents went to work. Dressed in a blue polo shirt, black slacks and a tan windbreaker, dragging on a cigarette occasionally the slightly graying Young sat back in a Miss Amurao was returned to wicker chair in a room! She was whisked in through a rear door of the building. Getty said in his opening statements that Miss Amurao complexion not loag-haired spacious "I had half a dozen phone calls Monday but the party at the other end never spoke to me," he said. "Last night I did 35 the letter said and drove to with a crew cut and a clear the phone booth.

The call came at 6.p.m. and the man said, 'are Six-year-old Ulrich Rohde won killer last July, they werejand acne-scarred, as is Speck, you Herbert? 1 wrong. The defense contends thatl "He spoke in a slow, soft From the first time sheipolice showed Miss Amurao aj He sounded very intelli- talked to police, Miss Amurao said, she described the man who broke into the nurses' dormitory apartment Mast July 13 as long-haired with on his face. Defense attorney Gerald Getty hammered at the initial 1 description of the wanted man released by police as a person feet tall, with a and 1 black waistline description was supposedly given by Miss Amurao to a police officer on the morning of the slayings. book of more than 100 pictures that did not include Speck's and she pointed out a man and said he was similar.

Later the defense said, she was shown a Coast Guard picture of Speck and (old police this picture was "more similar." Between outbursts of sobbing (See SPECK-Page 2) Miss Amurao provided the FIRE DAMAGES SCHOOL idramatic high point of the trial BEAUMONT (AP) A spreading fire burned out much of the interior of the Assumption Catholic Grade School in Beau- Wednesday night. The church part of the one-story, quarter-block-lohg complex was nol damaged. Early estimates put the loss in cxuess of $100,000 dollars. CAR KILLS DALLAS TOT DALLAS (AP)--Peter Belin, Wednesday when she told how she was awakened on the night of July 13 by four knocks on her door and found a tall man standing on the threshold with a gun in his hand. She described the intruder Wednesday as blond, with long, slick-backed hair and a 'marked" And she strode from the witness stand to point dramatically at Speck, who matches such a description, and say "this is Speck's hair is long and killed by an automobile Wednesday night.

2, of Dallas, was struck and combed to Ihc back of his head and his faced is scarred with teen-age acne. This was not the She Got Wrong Pill, IVow She's a Mother TACOMA, Wash: (AP) A Puyallup, woman who gave birth dehydration to a pills girl after were accidentally substituted for birth control pills was awarded an $8,000 judgment Wednesday by a Superior Court jury. Her husband, Larry Coloff, was awarded one dollar. The couple's daughter was horn Oct. 11, 1365, The suit against a Pnyallup drug store claimed negligence through a mistake in refilling a prescription for birth control pills.

The suit contended that pills used Ip lower body liquid content had been substituted. gent. I then drove lo'the gas station and waited beside my car. About 45 minutes later a white Chevy Impala slowed down right in front of the sta- (Sec KIDNAPING--Page 2) Nccly'Lowndes Nedy Insurance, I KENNETH YOUNG.

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