presidential running mate before he chose Muskie. The Oklahoman was s elected to the Senate in 1964. O'Hara, 43, was one of the founders of UDH and managed the Humphrey campaign ! in Michigan, which the vice president carried by 222,000 votes. Elected to the House in 1958, he is chairman of the Democratic Study Group, the organization of House liberals. Sanford, 51, was chairman of Citizens for Humphrey- Muskie and was also considered for the vice presidency. Governor of North Carolina from 1961 to 1965, he now practices law in Raleigh. O'Brien, who accepted the chairmanship at- Humphrey's behest, was under strong pressure from many party leaders including the vice president to stay on. But he said all along he agreed to take the job for the campaign only. A native of Springfield, Mass., the 51-year-old O'Brien directed the organization for both of John F. Kennedy's senatorial campaigns, his 1960 presidential success and President Johnson's 1964 campaign. He served both Kennedv and Johnson as chief House liaison man with Congress. He was postmaster general for 2½ years under Johnson before he resigned last April to aid Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's presidential camnaign. After Kennedv's assassination in June, he joined the Humphrey organization. * Girl Slain Continued From Page 1 side of the same duplex building where Beverly Samans, 23, as stabbed to death five years ago during a wave of 13 killings in eastern Massachusetts blamed on the Boston Strangler. However, the Samans slaying is unsolved and police have never accepted the theory that the self-proclaimed Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo, knew anything about i it. Miss Britton was described by acquaintances as a vivacious girl and a gifted student. Associate Prof. Karl LambergKarlovsky, who had both Miss Britton and Humphries in his second year anthropology course and who headed an expedition to Iran last summer on which both accompanied him, described Jane as "an extraordinarily capable student and a talented girl." Humphries' home is in Toronand he spent the holidays with his family, returning Cambridge last weekend. A Harvard student living in a nearby apartment said he saw two men, about ,20 years old, run to a car on Mt. Auburn St., around the corner: from University Rd. where Miss Britton lived. Ravi Rikhye, 22, of India, a student in the International Relations Program, said he saw the 1 men from a window at about the time Miss Britton retired. to her apartment. He he could not tell whether they had come around the corner from University Road. He said the engine of the car, was men idling get and in he it. He saw said one he did not see whether both got in or whether anyone. had been waiting in the vehicle. Rikhye said 'the car remained parked briefly after the man entered it, then made a U. to follow a pickup truck that had come slowly down the road. the car were waiting that "It seemed to me those, in pickup truck," he said. "I guess I have to say that they were both extremely excited," he said. * Loan Rates Continued From Page. 1 income tax surcharge. A satisfactory cooling of the economy materialize and rates returned to 6.5 per cent on Dec. 2. Of the eight banks serving the Holyoke community, three are classified as commercial banks, while the remainder deal primarily with individual loans: real estate, personal, and mortgage. Whitney C. Stiles, vice-president of the First Bank and Trust Company of Hampden County, said the firm is considering the possibility of raising their prime rate but that no decision has yet been made by the board of directors. Stiles said the increase is "bound to affect loan rates all the way down the line," and that adjustments by smaller banks will be necessary if the situation created yesterday continues. The rate increase is theoretically designed to slow down the demand for money in an effort to curb inflation and must enforced nationally if the curbling effort is to be effective. Lewis E. Gilman, president of the Holyoke National Bank, said the bank's decision to follow the | lead of other major banks was to/made the country." be credit no as noted the national of one non-commercial action banks expect less is areas banks demand which loans as the depositors only rates interest the his next if to available curb saybeing the. been bank something
