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JANESVILLE DAILY GAZETTE yOL. 121 NO. 293 121ST YEAR JANESVILLE. WISCONSIN. THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1968 38 PAGES 3 SECTIONS TEN CENTS Fulbright Abandons Aid Bill WASHINGTON (AP) -Sen.

J.W. Fulbright has driven in a new wedge to widen the foreign policy differences between and the administration. Fitting to months of words of criticism, the Arkansas Democrat cast a vote of no confidence in a key administration foreign policy program. After the Senate voted 55 to 37 to cut $100 million fro the military assistance program, it passed the bill by am 82-7 margin with Fulbright, chairman of the HOW THEY VOTED WASHINGTON (AP) Wisconsin Democratic Sens. William Proxmire and Gaylord Nelson voted with the majority Thursday as the Senate approved 55-37 an amendment by Sen.

Frank Church, D-Idaho, cutting $100 million from the $892 million foreign aid military authorization bill. Foreign Relations Committee, among the nay votes. He's Floor Manager As committee chairman, Ful- was what senators call "floor manager" for the administration's foreign aid program. The floor manager is supposed to be both advocate and defender of his bill. But Tuesday Fulbright voted "with misgivings" for the economic assistance part of the program.

After his "no" vote on military aid Wednesday he declared in a statement: "When economic assistance fails, the result is a breakdown or delay in some aspect of. development. When military assistance goes wrong, the consequences are much more spectacular." And, like other opponents of the measure, Fulbright cited suspicions that American military aid to Pakistan "actually caused the war" last year between India and Pakistan. "If we had not provided the arms, Pakistan would not have been able to seek a military solution" of its Kashmir dispute with India, said Fulbright. Wanted Bigger Cut Most of the debate over the program centered on efforts to cut it from as much as $250 million down to $100 million, which the Senate finally accepted.

Sen. John 0. Pastore, complained that "this idea that if we chop out $250 million they might spend the money more wisely is a sad commentary on what makes America click." Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen acknowledged that he had led the successful efforts last week to slash $250 million from the economic program but said he was not going to "jeopardize" national security by voting to reduce military Items. The military aid authorization joins the economic assistance authorizatiMi measure in a Senate-House Conference.

There they will be considered along with a foreign aid authorization for fiscal 1967 and 1968 which was passed by the House July 14. Funds for the programs must be provided under appnqiria- tions measures. Courthouse Project Below Estimate Cost of completing the iotenor of the fourth floor of the Rock County Courthouse will be $50,000 to $60,000 under original estimates, it was reported by Coynty Clerk Walter Lindemann following the opening of bids yesterday. Low bids for construction totaled $169,485. Additional items such as carpeting, office furnishings, drapes, plus architect's fees, are expected to bring the total to between $225,000 and $235,000, well below the estimated $285,000.

Final details are to be worked out between the public property committee and contractors before the August meeting of the county board. Supervisors have indicated i that the fourth floor space will be used for a board meeting room equipped with desks and for office suites. The bids are as follows: General bid, Severson-Schlintz, Janesville, other bids, Jim Cullen, Janesville, $83,950 and Kennedy Construction Beloit, $88,643. Roofing and Insulating Rockford, $975. Special carpentry and bid, A.

J. Pietsch Milwaukee, other bid. Robert Brand OshkoA, 745. Metal bookstack Milwaukee Equipment Milwaukee, $963. Acoustical ceiling treatment- low bid, DeGelleke Brookfield, other bid, Sullivan Madison, $4,856.

Painting J. Strelcheck Decorating, Janesville, $2,390. Heating, ventilating and air conditioning low bid, Osbom Plumbing and Heating, Beloit, other bids, D. L. Bradley Janesville, $44,990, J.

M. Brennan, Milwaukee, $52,276, Cen- co Piping Janesville, $56,900, R. T. Morrill, Beloit, $45,420, Witte-Barker South Beloit, $43,450, Zimmerman Mechanical Contractors, Beloit, $48,888. Electric light and power and telephone conduit system low bid, Pieper Electric, Milwaukee, other bids, Allan Electric Janesville, $18,620, and Westphal Company, Janesville, $23,990.

P.A. system Television, Beloit, submitted a bid of $4,276.36 for an audio system as an alternate. Did not bid on base bid; Wilson Electric Rockford, 111., proposal alternate bid, $9,384. RELIEF FROM HEAT Youths get relief from heat by diving off top of truck trapped in flooded viaduct on Chicago's South Side today. The four-foot water level resulted from rains that totaled more than five inches in parts of Chicago.

Envious spectators view swimmers from background. (AP Wirephot'o) Just a Routine Check Ike Is Hospitalized WASHINGTON (AP) Former President Dwight D. El- senhower is in Walter Reed Army Hospital for what the hospital calls "routine follow- up studies regarding his arthritis and heart conditions." Eisenhower, 75, entered the hospital Monday. Officials there said there was no indication today just how long his stay would be. The hospital information office, emphasizing what it described as the routine nature of the five-star general's visit, said there would be no regular bulletins on his condition or the doctors' findings.

Eisenhower suffered a heart! attack in 1955 while he was president, and a second attack last year while he was in Augusta, Ga. He underwent surgery for ileitis in 1956, had a minor stroke in 1957, and spent three weeks in Walter Reed last May for an arthritic condition. Brig. Gen. Robert L.

Schulz, an Eisenhower aide who first confirmed Wednesday night that the general was in the hospital, pointed out that he has visited Walter Reed at intervals over the years for checkups. Sometimes the hospital stays have been announced, sometimes not. Schulz said Eisenhower was driven to the hospital in a private an from his office at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pa. Tlie Eisenhowers have a home on the outskirts of Gettysburg. -Word that Eisenhower was again in the hospital came to light after an anonymous telephone caller told Washington radio station WWDC she had seen him there.

A check was made with the hospital's information office and a spokesman said Eisenhower "has been here since Monday afternoon for a checkup." He declined to give any further information. Senators Against More Talks in Airline Strike WASHINGTON (AP) Tlie Senate Labor Committee rejected today the proposal that it send airlines strike negotiators back to the bargaining table, and moved on toward action of its own. The bargaining suggestion followed closely the administration advice offered by Secretary of Ubor W. Willard Wirtz, was proposed at a closed-door committee session by Sen Qaibome Pell, Means Nothing Sen. Lister Hill, said the vote against it was 10 to 5.

"It doesn't do anything," HiU said. With that plan rejected, the committee set another session later today to consider setrike- stopping legislation proposed by Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore. Morse said the committee had clearly rejected the ad- Expect British Prime Minister To Ask U.S. Support for Pound FULL BATTLE GEAR As he arrives at staging area at Dong Ha, South Viet Nam, United States Marine carries full battle gear plus folding chair he scrounged somewhere.

Marine spent a comfortable night in the chair before climbing iiboad helicopter and flying into battle. (AP Wirephoto) LONDON (AP) Prime Minister Harold Wilson flew to Washington today, and high political authorities said he would seek ironclad American support for the wobbling pound sterling during the next six to nine months. Wilson was reported confident such a breathing space would provide the time his Labor government needs for its crash program of deflation to pull Britain out of the red. Money Crisis Foremost The economic crisis, its implications on Britain's role in the world and the Viet Nam war will dominate Wilson's conference with President Johnson Friday. Wilson will give the President a detailed account of his recent Moscow talks with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin.

The prime minister has claimed privately that these discussions produced a new understanding of the motivations, strains and stresses within the divided Communist world. This suggests he feels he can throw new light on the Moscow-Peking-Hanoi relationship. A variety of other issues, ranging from the Rhodesian problem to Red Chinese intentions, also will be examined. There is no question, informants said, of Wilson's asking for an American loan beyond the existing standby credit system in which other friendly nations participate. Instead Wilson's aim is to convince the President, if he needs convincing, that Britain's battle for the pound also is partly a battle for the dollar.

The prime minister said as much Wednesday when he told the House of Commons that sterling in recent weeks has taken a beating which basically had been directed at the dollar. Wilson did not identify those he said were attacking the dollar, but he and some of his advisers are known to suspect that President Charles de Gaulle of France wants both the pound and dollar to shed some of their value and status as reserve currencies financing two-thirds of world trade. Group Pullout Expected The British leader also thinks urgent action is needed to promote international liquidity the easier flow of the world's mam currencies and credit facilities. He fears that otherwise there will be danger of a breakdown in world trade leading to a major depression. ITie U.

S. government, according to information here, seems resigned that Britain will probably pull about 25,000 troops out of West Germany and perhaps an equal number from the Far East within a year or so. This withdrawal program, designed to save about $300 million a year in foreign exchange, is something Wilson feels is not negotiable. The Labor government's austerity program won reluctant support Wednesday from Britain's big labor unions and from the House of Commons. Airline Strike Grounds Geese SEATTLE (AP) rare Tule geese, grounded by the airline strike, are being cared for in the Woodland Park Zoo here.

Howard Cantrell, U. S. game management agent who flew the geese here from Fairbanks, Alaska, said Tule geese are fast becoming extinct. Cantrell is taking the four adult geese anr 10 goslings to the national wildlife exhibit at Patuxent, Md. Direct connections from Seattle to the East have been severed by the airline tieup.

Chrysler, Ford Earnings Down NEW YORK(AP)- Chrysler Corp. became the third of the Big Three automakers to report lower earnings for the second quarter of the year. The nation's third largest automobile producer reported net income of $54.4 million or $1.20 a Aare, compared with $61.8 million or $1.47 a share in the June quarter of 1965. Net income for the six months ended June 30 fell to $116.9 mil' lion or $2.58 a share from $118.4 million or $2.91 a share in the first half of last year. Ford Motor Co.

Wednesday reported a net income of $427 million or $3.86 a share in this year's January to June period. That compared with $438.1 million or $3.95 a share during last year's first six months. The firm said its "decline in profits was due primarily to increased costs of labor, materi als and costs associated with facility expansion programs and higher product and marketing costs." General Motors Corp. gave almost identical reasons for its profit drop Tuesday. American Motors whose fiscal year ends Sept.

30, will report quarterly figures next Monday. But Ford did say its worldwide sales of cars and trucks hit new highs for the first half of this year. For the first six months of 1966, Ford reported sales of $6,513 billion, up nine per cent from last year's first six months sales of $5,998 billion. Ford sold 2,534,038 units in the half year just ended, compared with 2,458,903 in the first half of 1965. Housing Committee Billion for Home Credit WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Housing subcommittee has approved a proposal to make $3 billion available to the nation's housing industry to ease tight credit conditions.

The subcommittee also approved a two-year trial plan for rebuilding urban slums and blighted areas under President Johnson's demonstration cities program. The measures now go to the full Senate Banking Committee. Sen. John J. Sparkman, D- subcommittee chairman, said the extra $3 billion for the housing industry would become available through the Federal National Mortgage Association, which purchases and sells insured mortgages of the Federal Housing Administration, Veterans Administration and other federal housing agencies.

The trouble with America's foreign relations is that so many of them are broke. ministration program, and declared he means to get a vote on his own plan either there or on the Senate floor. Pell's resolution would have had the Senate declare that the public interest requires settlement and talks must proceed with all deliberate speed through free collective bargaining. It wuold have ordered close Senate scrutiny of the talks. Morse said he will go to the Senate itself if the committee does not accept his bill for a six-months back-to-work order.

48-Honr Recess The committee session began just after the starting time for the resumption of bargaining between airline and machinists union negotiators at the Labor Department. The talks had been in recess for 48 hours since Congress moved in on the dispute. The time for renewal of negotiations was fixed Wednesday night but face-to-face talks were delayed for more than an hour while Secretary of Labor W. Williard Wirtz met privately first with the union vice president, Joseph W. Ramsey, and then with WiUiam J.

Curtin, chief airline negotiator. "I think they ought to be sent back to the woodshed," Wirtz said Wednesday in urging the Senate Labor Committee to hold off a few days on any legislation to order 35,000 strikers back to work on five major airlines. No Emergency Wirtz said no national emergency exists at the moment despite multimillion-dollar economic losses, although such a threat could arise if the strike goes on much longer. Wirtz also defended President Johnson against insistent ries from some members of committee on why the negotiators weren't called to the White House. Such a move was not warranted, Wirtz said.

Sen. Wayne Morse, rejected Wirtz's plea for a delay on committee action and ed the committee vote on bill to order the strike halted for 180 days while talks continue. "There is no question about the fact that there is a national emergency," said Morse, who headed a presidential cy board that earlier recommended a compromise settlement. The five strike-bound airlines United, Eastern, National, Northwest and Trans World normally carry more than 60 per cent of the nation's air traffic. SUGGESTS ANOTHER TRY Pipe-smolcing Secretary of Labor W.

Willard Wirtz with newsmen outside Senate Labor Committee hearing room in Washington yesterday. During meeting on what steps Congress should take to terminate strike against five major airlines, Wirtz urged collective bar- ganing be resumed without intervention by either Congress or the White House. Negotiators accepted Wirtz' proposal and were to resume bargaining today in the Labor Department. (AP Wirephoto) 825 Combat Sorties Yesterday New Mark SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) U.S. and Vietnamese pilots struck Communist positions in South Viet Nam Wednesday with new fury, flying a record total of 826 combat sortie3 military spokesman reported.

American fliers also hammered at North Viet Nam despite bad weather limiting most of their 103 missions Wednesday to the southern panhandle. The heavy air blows in the South accompanied a rise in small-scale Communist attacks as the Viet stepped up hit- and-run attacks in the wake of their defeats in larger battles with U.S. troops. Fight Near Saigon The most significant of these assaults took place 18 miles from Saigon where guerrillas overran a village a few hours before dawn and drove off the 40 militiamen defenders. While no major fighting has been reported since Sunday, a U.S.

spokesman said American combat dead more than doubled last week, presumably as a result of U.S. Marine losses as the Leathernecks launched Operation Hastings against a North Vietnamese division near the northern border July 15. The spokesman said 136 Americans were killed, 578 wounded and 14 missing compared with 65 killed, 368 wounded and no missing in the previous seven days. Total allied dead for the week of July 10-16 climbed to 334, compared with 279 the previous week. Ckmimunist dead rose to 1,272, an increase of 72, the spokesman said.

The casualties brought the unofficial total of U.S. combat dead to 2,728 since Jan. 1 and to 4,440 for the war. B52s Make Strikes U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine fliers flew 542 single- plane strikes in tho record day in the South Wednesday.

Vietnamese fliers added 284 more. The Strategic Air Command's B52s made three raids today. Two were aimed at the Communist-held Zone north of Saigon, the other at the hills just below the 17th Parallel demilitarized zone where the Marines are continuing the hunt for North Viet Nam's 324B Division. A Navy A4 Skyhawk from the carrier Oriskany and its pilot was reported missing over North Viet Nam on a strike against a missile site near Vinfa. It was the 311th plane reported lost over the North.

Although limited by typhoon weather, the U.S. fliers blasted 11 fuel dumps, including a big complex near Vinh and another at the nearby former army camp of Badon, a spokesman said. He said the pilots did not encounter any antiaircraft missiles or Communist MIGs. The fliers on the Badon raid said the Reds were using craters from previous bombings to hide their oil drums. The pilots said they started five new fires.

Much More Inside NEW LUTHERAN church is planned for Janesville by Missouri Synod. Page 2 DETACHMENT OF Rome and Sullivan areas from the Palmyra School District is appealed. Page 10 Comics 2A Editorial 6 Every Day 6A Movies 17 Obituaries 2 Radio, TV 2A Society 9 Sports 14, 15, 16 Weather 2 Cars for Rights Group Officials Stolen, Says 'Dealer' ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) A federal jury considered evidence today against Harold Helton Andrews, who testified he stole four new cars in 1965 and that three of them went to persons he believed were connected with Dr. Martin Luther King Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

An offldal of the SCLC denied the organization knowlingly bought any stolen cars. U.S. Dist. Judge Sidney 0. Smith planned to charge the jury in the case of Andrews, then begin the trial of a second man indicted on federal charges la connection with interstate transportation and disposal of a stolen vehicle.

The second defendant, Morris Finley, an Atlanta printer who has done work for the SCLC, was identified in testimony Wednesday as one of the persons Andrews said were recipients of stolen cars. Andrews, a former Atlanta man who now lists his address as Moultrie, testified that he obtained cars from rental agencies in Virginia, New Jersey, Florida and Atlanta under his own name. He said he equipped the cars with stolen lie ie plates and prepared phony billi of sale and registrar: tions before turning the vehicles over to Finley and a man known as Charles Mize. The bulk of testimony in Andrews' case came from a Columbia, S.C., FBI agent, who said Andrews volunteered information on the stolen cars and linked the name of one of the SCLC's top officials to the transactions. Andrews, the only witness in his defense, said the agent's teistimony was true "in every detail" and that he had expected the information he had volunteered would lead to indictments of other persons.

lAndrewa' statement to the FBI, admitted as evidence in the court, said he had prepared fake registrations and bils of sale on three cars in the names of Finley, Hosea Williams, top King lieutenant, and Lester Hankerson, an SCLC aide. According to an FBI agent, Andrews' statement said he was approached by Mize about new cars and was told he "could sell all he could get through the SCLC." In Oiicago, the Rev. Andrew Young, executive director of the SCLC, said no one in the organization "would be so stupid as to be involved in the purchase of cari in wUch any question of legality existed." Young said 50 to 60 cars were urchased for SCLC staff mem- srs at fleet rates. "We later learned that two of the cars, purchased from Mr. Andrews, who we thought was a reputable used car dealer, were stolen," Young said.

"Andrews' charge that we knew they were stolen is ridiculous." Andrews said one of the fake registrations was made out to Hosea Williams, an aide to King. He testified he had met with Williams once after police had picked up one of the stolen cars. He said Williams was angry and told him he was taking another stolen car to replace the one recovered by offlcers. Williams was not available for comment on Andrews' statement. The defendant said he had stolen the cars with the intention of gaining evidence for the FBI to seek indictments against SCLC officials.

But he said two attorneys from the Department of Justice had refused to seek indictments against anyone except him and Finley. Both men are charged in connection with a rental car brought to Atlanta from Arlington, in July 1965. FBI Agent Johnny M. Dyer of Columbia, S.C., said Andrews came to him Oct. 18 with information on the stolen cars and signed statements concerning details, names and dates.

The FBI agent quoted Andrews as saying Finley wanted him to get new cars and "could sell all he could get through SCLC." Dyer testified Andrews reported he had orders to look for a new Lincoln for King and that the SCLC was willing to pay about $1,500 for it. Andrews said he had beea paid a total of $1,800 for three of the cars and that he turned the fourth car over to the FBI ia Columbia..