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77th Year Phone 793-3221 REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY, 18, 1967 $1.50 Per Month Twenty Pages 10 Cents B52s drop firebombs to destroy Red hideouts IN AGREEMENT Assembly Speaker Jesse M. Unruh (right) and Senate Leader Hugh M. Burns agree with Gov. Reagan that it is possible to cut some of the "fat" from state spending. The joint news conference is the first of the 1967 legislature for the two legislative leaders.

Consolidation of bases to be announced WASHINGTON (UPI) Defense Department has ordered a cost-cutting consolidation and reorganization of military bases from coast to coast, it was learned today. There was no immediate confirmation from the Pentagon. But members of Congress were being informed of the action, said to involve 33 separate moves affecting naval districts and army units. Defense sources said the Pentagon was bound by agreement with congressional committees not to release full details on the action until Thursday, despite piecemeal release of information at the Resticted on comments on weather TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. city was deluged by snow and frosted by sub-zero temperatures, and the lead on the storm story in the Traverse City Record Eagle Tuesday read: "This is a family newspaper and we are thus restricted as to what we can write about the weather today." Weather Redlands today: High 74, low 38 (To 1:30 p.m.) Year ago today: High 63, low 57 Tuesday: High 73, low 41 Son: Rises 6:54, sets 5:05 Smog: No smog Thursday.

Within smog and fire rules, burning OK. Frost: Lows tonight 30-39. San Bernardino Valley: Clear tonight and Thursday night, sun ny tomorrow. Southern California: Generally sunny weather Thursday. There will be extensive fog tonight and Thursday morning, mostly along the coast.

Slightly warmer interior regions Thursday. National Weather 124 hours ending 4 a.m.) High Low Precip. Boston 43 29 Chicago 16 -6 Cincimiati 38 6 Denver 32 10 T. Des Moines 3 -12 Fairbanks -18 Fort Worth 53 28 Helena 32 21 Honolulu 82 71 Kansas City 19 5 Las Vegas 53 29 Los Angeles 76 49 Minneapolis -9 -31 New York 44 26 Oklahoma City 36 12 Omaha 4 -10 Palm Springs 73 38 Sacramento 55 38 Salt Lake City 34 21 San Francisco 62 50 Seattle 42 33 Washington 54 29 Highest, lowest 48 states Thermal, 77; Hibbing -45 (UPI Telephoto) Unruh, Burns agree with Reagan See possibility in cut of 'fat' from spending SACRAMENTO (UPI) Assembly Speaker Jesse M. Unruh and Senate Leader Hugh M.

Burns today agreed with Gov. Ronald Reagan that it was possible to cut some of the "fat" from state spending. But the two legislative leaders told a joint news conference that a 10 per cent across-the- board cutback wasn't the way to do it. Unruh, D-Inglewood, said he would be surprised if any budget couldn't be cut but added that a flat percentage trim in all spending would penalize those state departments that have economized in the past. 'In the long run," he said, "that would be specious reasoning." Burns, D-Fresno, said it did not make "a lot of sense" to trim all department budgets by 10 per cent.

"Maybe one budget can be cut by 5 per cent and another by 15," he said. Unruh announced that he would introduce a joint Senate- Assembly resolution pumping new life into the joint Committee on Higher Education, now probing the University of Cali-! fornia and the state colleges. He said it would include a $300,000 appropriation. The Assembly leader renewed his plea for Reagan to wait until the joint committee submits a report to the 1969 legislature before pressing for tuition at the university and the state colleges. But Reagan told a news conference Tuesday he planned to propose the tuition charge at a meeting of the university's board of regents in Berkeley Thursday.

However, Unruh said a final decision on whether he would firmly oppose tuition during the 1967 legislative session would depend on how the tuition money was used. "If he simply wants to raise money from the wealthy and Radio Peking soys Red leaders solid behind Moo HONG KONG 1 Radio said today Chinese military leaders are solidly behind Mao Tse-tung in Red China's raging power struggle. But other reports told of a major rift in the Communist army and increasing by Mao's enemies in southern China. The Mao-controlled Peking radio said today military garrisons throughout the country pledged support to the 73- year-old Communist party leader. It said the units, some as far as Tibet, promised to "seize all power" held by anti-Mao forces.

The broadcast followed disclosure by radio Peking Tuesday that rebellious, young military cadets supporting Mao were confined to quarters by senior officers who refused to join Mao in the political upheaval. In another broadcast later today, Peking Radio said the two deputy mayors of Shanghai were arrested by forces loyal to Mao on Jan. 10. The radio said they were dragged through the streets of China's largest city and humiliated in front of a group of citizens. Other signs that Mao faced stiff opposition were seen in a Hong Kong newspaper report that Defense Minister Lin Piao, Mao's heir apparent, was away trying to win support of the army in Manchuria.

Another newspaper said here that President Liu Shao-chi had fled Peking for the provinces to reorganize his opposition to Mao. Sources here were unable to make confirmation. SAIGON (UPI) U.S. B52 bombers using World War II magnesium firebombs turned 18 square miles of Vietnamese jungle into a flaming hell today to destroy Communist hiding places. In North Vietnam U.S.

planes carried out a massive airstrike Tuesday against the Hanoi Haiphong missile defenses. The firebomb tactics, used only rarely in the Vietnam war, laid waste an area of the Iron Triangle where the biggest land operation of the war is pushing steadily forward to destroy the Viet Cong units which have terrorized Saigon from the jungles 30 miles to the north. American troops have killed more than 500 Viet Cong in the great sweep that has seen thousands of villagers relocated in government camps to the south. The troops today captured a vast two-story underground complex that was believed to be a principal military headquarters for the Saigon area. An American spokesman said no villages were believed to be in the area hit by the tons of magnesium bombs which fell like shooting stars into a section previously-defoliated by chemical warfare.

Viet Cong troops who fled into the area were believed dead in the searing heat of the flares. The bombs are dropped from an altitude of approximately 20,000 feet. At 8,000 feet they explode like a deadly Fourth of July rocket spraying smaller cannisters onto the jungle canopy that masks much of the troop movement The skies cleared again over North Vietnam after weeks of monsoon rains and the Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps flew 103 missions between 300 and 500 strikes against targets in the North. Russian built surface to air (SAM) missile sites were an especial target. Hanoi reported Tuesday that four U.S.

planes were shot down in the raids. A U.S. military spokesman said today only one plane was lost with its two-man crew, a RF4C reconnaisance model of the Phantom jet. Two had been lost the day before. One of the major targets was the Thai Nguyen Railroad yard 35 miles north of Hanoi.

Wave after wave of U.S. Air Force F105 Thunderchiefs hammered it for eight hours, cutting rail lines, destroying anti-aircraft i positions and touching off 10 large secondary explosions that sent brown and black smoke billowing thousands of feet into the air. The planes attacking from bases in Thailand and South Vietnam and from 7th Fleet carriers at sea bracketed the Hanoi-Haiphong area. They hit the Thai Nguyen rail yard and damaged five SAM sites in a 28- mile radius around Haiphong. Air Force Capt.

George A. Wood 30 of Newport News who led one of the first three strikes against the rail yard, reported it was surrounded by a forest of 37-, 57-, 85-and 100-millimeter aircraft guns. They flew through the heavy flak, dropped their bombs on target and were followed by another flight led by Capt. William R. Wyatt, 39, and Maj.

Walter E. Cranson II, 39, both of Las Vegas, who said their bombs triggered 10 secondary explosions and many smaller ones. Military sources said the strikes at Hanoi's air defenses could be a prelude to an even more intense bombing of the Communist military machine around Hanoi and Haiphong. Today the flak thrown up was so intense Maj. John D.

Underwood, 37, Herrin, 111., said, "I could walk right down to the ground on it." Military sources indicated that the raids 32 miles northeast of Saigon designed to wipe out concentrations of Communist troops who fled into War Zone when U.S. and Vietnamese forces launched the war's biggest campaign in the Iron Triangle last week. Lt. Cmdr. Lou Herzog who watched the attack from a hovering helicopter said the firebombs split into smaller magnesium bomblets at about 8,000 feet and then hit the jungle setting off a thick blanket of fire and smoke "that looked like forest fires I've seen in California." Pilots from the Black Knights of Attack Squadron 23 aboard the carrier Coral Sea hit a pair of SAM installations near Hanoi in one of the most heavily defended areas of North Vietnam, and reported "good hits." middle class to furnish scholarships to those in a lower economic level, that's a differ ent story," Unruh said.

Burns also took a somewhat conciliatory view. He was asked if hie'felt a tuition might have the effect of preventing student outbursts over such subjects as free and filthy speech. "I don't think the imposition of tuition will go very far toward the disposition of that problem," he replied. "It's caused by nonstudents and certain members of the faculty." Both lawmakers agreed with Reagan that a tax boost will be necessary this year to eliminate a possible $473 million deficit for fiscal 1967-68. Burns said he had no idea what taxes might be raised to get the money.

Unruh said it was absolutely necessary for the legislature to act to shift some of the tax burden from the property taxpayer. "I personally would prefer to see a total overhaul of our tax system," he said. 'Goose' Tatum dies following sudden attack EL PASO, Tex. (Goose) Tatum, 45, the world- renowned clown prince of basketball, collapsed at his home today and died a few minutes later at a hospital. A spokesman at Providence Hospital said the long-armed Negro entertainer-athlete, a charter member of the Harlem Globetrotters, was admitted at 11 a.m., CST, and died 17 minutes later.

An autopsy was ordered to determine the exact cause of death. The hospital said it was "some sort of attack." Johnson plans huge budget for next year WASHINGTON (UPI) Johnson plans to propose the biggest defense budget since World War II next week, a whopping $73 billion "plus" for the next fiscal year. This was disclosed by the President late Tuesday during an impromptu news conference during which he also indicated he plans to ask for a $9.4 billion defense supplement for the current fiscal year ending June 30. On the domestic front, Johnson reiterated, the administration still intends to cut spending $3 billion during the rest of fiscal 1967 by its announced deferral of a variety of federal programs which included some public works and highway construction projects. A $73 billion defense budget, if adopted by Congress, would be the third largest in U.S.

history, exceeded only by 1945's $79.9 billion when the nation was fighting a global war. It would be nearly $15 billion more than the $58.3 billion Johnson originally asked for the current fiscal year and over $5 billion more than total fiscal 1967 defense spending including the $9.4 billion supplemental Congress will be asked for. Johnson emphasized that the deferral of the domestic programs did not mean they were being abandoned. Budget officials said they could be resumed in from three to six months. If the economy should show signs of lagging, Johnson explained, the projects could be launched at any time it was thought the spending was needed to give it a boost.

He reaffirmed that $1.1 billion in new highway construction would be included among the deferrals, and disclosed that the administration was considering increasing this to $1.5 billion. The original announcement of a suspension in highway construction drew sharp criticism from state and local officials. Some 58 of the projects to be delayed are so-called pork barrel public works projects such as post offices, small watershed dams, health research facilities and the like. Baker gave only $7,000 of $700,000 election funds WASHINGTON (UPI) witness testified today that i Bobby Baker was credited with! a contribution of only $1,000 to the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee in 1962, when savings and loan officials said they gave him $100,000 for election Sidney K. Lindom, treasurer of the campaign group at the time, said Baker was never an official for the fund-raising committee.

The government has charged that Baker solicited $100,000 from West Coast savings and loan interests by persuading them that the money would go to senators' 1962 campaigns but that Baker kept most of it for his private business ventures. The former Senate Democratic secretary is on trial before a federal jury on a variety of charges. Lindom was one of the last prosecution witnesses to be called as the government neared completion of its case. Lindom said that in the two years he served as campaign treasurer for Democratic senators, the committee never received more than $20,000 or $30,000 in cash. Under defense cross examination, Lindom coifteded that contributions could be made to individual senators or other committees on their behalf without the Senate Campaign Committee being aware of it.

On another subject, Lindom told how he retained Baker as an adviser in 1964 for the Harvey Aluminum Co. and arranged to pay a $1,000 monthly fee to Wayne L. Bromley. Bromley has testified for the government that he was used by Baker to receive payments from business interests and then turned the money over to Baker. Lindom is Washington counsel for the aluminum firm.

He said that he wanted to use Baker's services in a complicated foreign bauxite deal but did not want to do so because of adverse publicity Baker had received before resigning his Senate post. The witness said Baker told him: "I have a solution to the problem. If you retain Bromley, I can do the work." Under this arrangement, Lindom said, 10 checks totalling $10,000 were made out in Bromley's name but were given personally to Baker. Temperatures driven to new record lows By United Press International The worst cold wave of the winter drove temperatures to record-breaking lows in parts of a 12-state area from the Rockies to Michigan today. At Hibbing, it was 45 below zero at 8 a.m.

EST. That was the nation's low. Records were broken throughout Minnesota and in North Dakota. It was 40 below at Bismarck. Twenty below temperatures chilled millions of midwester- ners.

The deep freeze reached as far south as southern Illinois. It was colder in the middle of America than in Alaska. The temperature dropped to 31 below at La Crosse, when it was 15 at Anchorage. New England could expect a rash of cold by dawn Thursday, the Weather Bureau said, with sections of northern Maine reaching the 20-below mark. An 80-year-old record fell today when the resort town of Detroit Lakes, reported a 42 below.

The metropolitan area of Minneapolis-St. Paul reeled under a record-breaking 31 below. Northern Minnesota had no relief in sight today. The best the weather bureau could offer were highs of 15 below. Michigan's Upper Peninsula was locked in bitter cold.

Sault Ste. Marie got more snow, adding to the cover left by a blizzard that lashed across the northern tier of states the past two days. Records fell throughout Iowa. It was 41 below at Meadeville. Teeth-chattering temperatures were recorded as far south as Atlanta.

Florida, with its 69 degree reading at Miami, and California's southern coastal areas had mild temperatures. The number of deaths related to the two-day storm climbed to at least a dozen today with Minnesota reporting 5, Wiscon sin 4 and one each in Montana, Iowa and South Dakota. I Ross of cancer at of of 57 CHICAGO (UPI) Ross, one of boxing's most famed champions, died today of throat cancer. Ross, 57, expired in the Lake Shore Drive apartment of a longtime friend, Ira Kolitz. His wife, Catherine, was present.

His death was the end of a long fight against cancer, a fight in which he was frequently hospitalized in the Veterans' Research Hospital in Chicago. He was an out-patient at his death. Justice Harlan refuses stay for i's arrest Shots exchanged between Israeli, ian troops WASHINGTON (UPI) Su preme Court Justice John M. Harlan today refused to block a Nov. 28 order which subjects Rep.

Adam Clayton Powell to arrest if he goes to New York City. The Harlem Democrat had asked "a stay of all proceedings on the order of commitment" until a state appeals court could hear his appeal. The arrest order was issued by State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Markewich. It was based cn Powell's failure to appear in court on May 1, 1964, and Nov. 24, 1965, in connection with proceedings stemming from a 1963 defamation suit.

There is a $168,000 defamation of character judgment against Powell in New York involving statements he made about a Harlem woman, Mrs. Esther James. His involvement in the case figured heavily in the House vote on the opening day of Congress which denied him his seat pending a five-week committee investigation of his activities. TEL AVIV, Israel Israeli and Jordanian troops exchanged fire today near the Jordanian city of Aqaba, wounding three Israelis, Israeli military officials said. The city is at the tip of the Gulf of Aquaba leading from the Red Sea.

An Israeli spokesman said the Jordanians opened fire on an Israeli patrol and that the Israeli troops returned the fire. Israel submitted an immediate complaint to the Israeli- Jordanian Mixed Armistice Commission. Israel's chief quarrel in recent weeks has been with Syria because of a series of border incidents and terror raids allegedly carried out by Syrians but this was the second Israeli-Jordanian clash reported in two days. Israel plans to meet shortly with Syrian representatives to seek a cease-fire along their 48- mile border, but Israel warned it would not discuss the sovereignty of disputed demilitarized zones it claims as its own. Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol said the zones were in Israeli territory.

No date or place has been set for the first meeting of the Israeli-Syrian Mixed Armistice Commission (MAC) since 1957. Meeting informally Tuesday, both sides agreed the formal talks should deal only with arrangements for farming in the demilitarized zones, sites of almost daily armed clashes since Jan. 1. Murder trial set for Apr. 10 PHOENIX, Ariz.

(UPI) Robert Benjamin Smith, 18. pleaded innocent by reason of insanity today to charges that he methodically shot four women and a 3-year-old girl to death in a Mesa beauty shop last Nov. 12. Smith appeared before Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Jack D. B.

Hays. Trial was set for April 10. Original 'Gibson Girl' Evelyn Nesbit Thaw dies at 81 SANTA MONICA, Calif. Nesbit Thaw, the original "Gibson girl" who figured in a sensational murder case 60 years ago, died in a convalescent home here Tuesday. She was 81.

Mrs. Thaw, once called the "most beautiful girl in the world," had her life portrayed in the movie, "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing." She was the toast of two continents at the turn of the century when her affections led to a spectacular love triangle slaying in New York on the roof garden of the old Madison Square Garden. Her husband, millionaire ry Thaw, shot and killed her former lover, wealthy playboy architect Stanford White. Thaw later claimed he shot White because his wife, only 20 at the time, had confessed to intimacies with White prior to her marriage. After the shooting, Mrs.

Thaw, the original model for the famous drawings by artist Charles Dana Gibson, suffered through two years of trials. Thaw was acquitted, but was sentenced to a mental hospital. He died in another santarium in 1947. Mrs. Thaw, born near Pittsburgh, went to New York as a young girl and became a highly paid model and stage dancer.

After the murder trial, she toured Europe with a dancing troupe, where a son, Russell Thaw, was born. She claimed her husband was the father, but he denied it and was granted a divorce in 1916. Mrs. Thaw married again in 1918 to her dancing partner, Virgil Montani. They were divorced in 1933.

During the 1930s, Mrs. Thaw became a burlesque dancer and twice attempted suicide as her career faded. She moved to Hollywood in 1955 and taught sculpting, working in a tiny, modest studio, a stone's throw from a freeway in the business section of downtown Los Angeles. The only signs of her glittering past hung in the of her by Gibson when she was 16 and the toast of Broadway in "Flora Dora" and "The Wild Rose." Only in the late 1950s, after selling her life story to 20th Century Fox studio for the movie starring Joan Collins, did she move to more expensive quarters. Often she reminisced about how Stanford White entertained her in an upstairs secret room in a club.

He would have her ride in a beautiful reci swing she said, and higher, until White pulled a string and my feet would crash through a huge paper parasol..