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Showers Flurries High of 50 Details on Page 2B 135TH YEAR Metro Edition 10 CENTS Without or with offence to friends or foes I sketch your world exactly as it ROCHESTER, N. FRIDAY MORNING, DEC. 22, 1967 i i ii i ir in in i hi hi ii ii ii ii epwi' i 11 ii 11 hi 11 11 iiii 11 11 11 eaves piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiin Your Sports I I At A Glance Australia, ffpHIIID 'M hen? Daryle Lamonica, Oakland quarterback who warmed the bench at Buffalo for four years, is named AFL Most Valuable Player (ID). The weather, predicted clear and cold, seems to favor the Los Angeles Rams in contest with Green Bay Packers tomorrow (ID). Ingemar Johansson of Sweden, ex-heavyweight champ, floors demontrator in scuffle in front of U.S.

Consulate General (ID). By MERRIMAX SMITH, UPI White House Reporter MELBOURNE, Australia President Johnson led the leaders of the Free World today in tribute to Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt, then sped out of the country on a secrecy-shrouded flight that may take him to Vietnam or Thailand for a pre-Christ-mas visit with American troops. The traveling White House remained silent on the flight plan for Air Force One, the silver Your News At A Glance Pn.m Jf 9 cunnnivr rrvTrn D4VAr.cn Rocrm. nil Prc spairh wreckage of Potosi, shopping center destroyed by tornado. Twisters Lash Israel says a major reorganizing attempt by Arab saboteurs has been smashed; sweep arrests 56 (6A).

Russians complicate U.S. dealings with Soviet defector. Turncoat remains in U.S. New Delhi Embassy (7A). King Constantine's retain to Athens uncertain as new discussions are slated in Rome (6A).

Earthquake in northern Chile kills 8-year-old boy, injures 36. Damage is widespread (9A). and blue presidential jetliner, as it roared down the runway of Tullamarine Airport at 2:45 p.m. (11:45 p.m. yesterday).

Leaders of 25 Free World nations joined Johnson in Melbourne in an outpouring of homage to the memory of Holt, the Australian prime minister he loved as a man and respected as a champion of the Vietnam War. Holt was eulogized as a great statesman and likened to John F. Kennedy in falling victim to tragedy in the prime of life. Air Force One carried a full load of fuel, and could make either Vietnam or Thailand without stopping. Both nations are roughly 5,000 miles from Melbourne about 8-10 hours' flying time depending on weather and tail winds.

A moving, simple memorial service in the splendor of St. Paul's Anglican Cathedral in Melbourne brought Johnson's trip half around the world to a mournful conclusion after two days of informal talks with America's Vietnam Allies that produced new pledges of support for his policies. Johnson was flying home aboard Air Force One but the traveling White House kept the flight plan a secret. There was increasing speculation the sleek jetliner would stop in either Vietnam or Thailand for a presidential visit with American fighting men on the 3 Die, Tornadoes at least one of them a killer slashed at towns in the midlands yesterday on the edge of an advancing front of cold, wind and snow. The worst of the twisters dropped from muggy skies on the southeastern Missouri lead mining town of Potosi.

It killed three persons and injured 35 as it cut a three-mile, half-million dollar path of destruction. More twisters struck at Fort Smith and Edgemont in Arkansas, at Percy, Chester and Jer-seyville in Illinois, and at Hermann, Viburnum, McBride and Population rate slows but still has outside chance of reaching 300 million by 1990 (5A). Johnson is the real "nay-sayer," say three GOP House freshmen in rejecting his charges (3A). A 77-year-old woman is found bound, gagged in basement where she was without food for week (3A). Four young scuba djyers die, victims of an underwater cave that's killed 10 others (3A), Nearlv evcrv business in Dlaza in addition to the stores, had Damage By United Press International Willow Springs in Missouri.

Eight persons were injured in the Arkansas tornadoes and three injuries, one of them serious, were reported at Percy. The tornadoes boiled up on the boundary line between freak spring-like weather which hung over much of the East on the last day of fall and a bitter storm front moving out of the snow-laden West. A bruising weeklong storm one of the worst in decades was easing in the Southwest. But 40,000 snowbound Navajo Indians were still in desperate need of supplies on their reser River, just off the Nha Be naval base and nine miles southeast of Saigon. The resulting hole extended five feet above the wat-erline and two feet below it.

The Navy spokesman said the ship's crew controlled flooding in the vessel and two Army tugs stood by. No casualties were reported. The 483-foot Seatrain Texas, owned by Seatrain Lines, of New York, is designed to carry loaded railroad cars or similar cargo containers that speed the handling of goods in port. It is under charter to the U.S. Military Sea Transportation Service.

Elsewhere, American B52 a Red Explosive Blasts Hole in U.S. Vessel A committee pushing Sen. Robert Kennedy for president plans to enter him in Pennsylvania primary (5A). Car dealers who set mileage recorders back on used autos face opposition from state (5A). Federal judge refuses to exempt New Jersey and Connecticut commuters from New York taxes (5A).

Mayor Lindsay orders review of contract procedures following indictment of assistant (5A). Tonkin Resolution Not First: Bundy WASHINGTON Asst. Secretary of State William P. Bundy has testified the administration prepared proposed congressional resolutions on the Vietnam War prior to the Communist PT boat attacks which prompted the Tonkin Gulf resolution. Bundy called that "a matter of normal contingency planning." The Senate Foreign Relations Committee released yesterday 7 wuwm- What a Card Kennedy Is! The Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON Political soothsayers may want to turn from private polls and tea leaves to the Christmas card mailed out this year by Sen.

Robert F. Kennedy, D-NY, and Mrs. Kennedy. Printed in loud psychedelic colors, the large card shows the 10 Kennedy children grouped till over a model A Ford. Young Joe on the roof is holding a placard reading "Santa in '67." The punchline is on the back, where the only picture is a cutout photograph of Kennedy smiling.

Printed in a cartoonist's balloon coming out of his mouth is the question: "Would you believe Santa in '68, too?" eve of the long Christmas weekend. Johnson, wearied from the grueling pace of his mission, listened intently as the Most Rev. P. N. W.

Strong, Anglican primate of Australia, eulogized Holt and compared his death to Please turn page about the sequence of events. The testimony Fulbright released included this exchange: Fulbright: "Did you have anything to do with the preparation of the resolution that was sent up here?" Bundy: "I did, sir." Fulbright: "Can you tell me W'hen that was prepared." Bundy: "We had contingent drafts which, however, did not very closely resemble the draft, for some time prior to that 1 8 Workers Trapped in Calif. Tunnel GORMAN, Calif. i PI) -Eighteen men were trapped deep beneath the snow-capped Teha-chapi Mountains yesterday when a tunnel on which they were working collapsed. The State Department of Water Resources in Sacramenta said the men working on the huge California water project might be freed by this morning, or they might remain entombed until Christmas.

Engineers and laborers using equipment ranging from primitive hand tools to the most sophisticated machinery chewed their way into tons of rock, dirt and mud in a furious assault from top and front to free the victims. A project official said the 18 men were uninjured and in "good" condition. They were reported in no immediate danger, was demolished. The center, library. (Associated Press) Heavy vation in Arizona.

An Air Force truck convoy bearing food, medical supplies and gasoline was trying to get to them. The temperature was 8 below zero and the 3-foot snows were drifted to the roofs of the Nava-jos' hogans on their reservation, which is large as the state of West Virginia. Temperatures began skidding elsewhere as a new wintry blast pushed eastward. It whipped up blizzard conditions in parts of the Dakotas and Minnesota and prompted cold wave warnings for much of the Middle West. Stratofortresses bombed two Communist concentrations near the Cambodian border.

One raid was in Tay Ninh Province, 68 miles northwest of Saigon, and the other was in Binh Long Province, about 20 miles farther north. A flight of B52s, once feared highly vulnerable to surface-to-air missiles, escaped three Soviet-built SAMs fired at them Wednesday night from a site north of the demilitarized zone, the U.S. Command reported. Lighter planes F105 Thun-derchiefs and F4 Phantoms reportedly swarmed over the secretly-created missile site Please turn page stationed near An Khe, and eligible for a seven-day Christmas leave in Hawaii. "It's like getting married all over again," said the elated Mary Lou, packing her bags with travel clothes, including a bathing suit for the beach at Waikiki, where hotel accommodations had been arranged.

Mary Lou was to have left Kennedy Airport yesterday morning. Then came the telephone call that left her in tears. wedding in June (AP) Transplant Death Laid To Lungs By DAVID J. PAINE Associated Press Writer CAPE TOWN, South Africa The death of Louis Wash-kansky was blamed yesterday on pneumonia, and the surgeon who made history's first heart transplant said he will not hesitate to undertake another such operation, already planned. Prof.

Christian N. Barnard reported he saw no evidence that the body of 53-year-old Wash-kansky had rejected the transplanted heart of a 25-year-old woman. "As soon as the occasion arises, we will do the next heart transplant," the surgeon said. Barnard appeared at a news conference a little over seven hours after Washkansky died in Groote Schuur Hospital. Doomed by his own diseased heart, Washkansky submitted to the transplant Dec.

3 and lived for 18 days. Post-mortem indicated death was due to infection of the lungs. Barnard said earlier he planned the second transplant early in 1968. Although he refused to confirm this yesterday, it is expected that Philip Blai-berg, 58, a retired Cape Town dentist, will be the patient. The possibility of rejection of the heart has not been entirely eliminated i Washkansky's case.

Tissues will be sent to London for electroanalysis and results may not be known for a month. Other microscopic examinations will be carried on in Cape Town. "Clinically, and in its postoperative treatment, a heart transplant is no more difficult than any other transplant," Please turn page It Was By ARTHUR EVERETT Associated Press Writer NEW YORK Mary Lou Cummings' lovely dream of a Christmas reunion in Hawaii with her soldier husband all but vanished yesterday in a sea of military red tape. She broke into tears when a midnight telephone call from the Red Cross to her in-laws' home in White Plains informed her that her husband's leave from combat duty in -Vietnam had been canceled. The call came on the eve of her departure for Honolulu, there to spend Christmas with Spec.

4 James Cummings, who left for the war June 19, just 16 days after their wedding. Her trip had been arranged by a Jewish War Veterans post. All Mrs. Cummings was able to learn was that her husband was physically safe. There was no explanation of why his carefully arranged leave was called off.

The sponsors of Mary Lou's second honeymoon were members of the Levy Tuchinsky Post 51 of Brooklyn. Post commander Irving Strassberg said he was in touch with the Pentagon and had been promised an exDlanation when it was re Work, Education, Training Center gets extension from Office of Economic Opportunity (IB). Public Safety Commissioner Tuohey approves increase in size of Rochester's taxicab fleet (IB). Police still seek slayer of man whose bullet-ridden body was found in Chili driveway (IB). City Manager Seymour Scher seems reluctant to make public consulting firm report on bridge (IB).

Nice Stocks end higher despite weakening near the close. The Dow Industrials rise 1.45. Kodak rises y2, Xerox 6. GM dips (1C). Businessmen agree with President Johnson on jobs for the nation's jobless (1C).

Banks free reserves dip. Is Federal Reserve tightening up on money? (1C). SAIGON (Friday) (AP) An explosive device apparently set by Viet Cong blasted a seven-foot hole before dawn today in the side of an American cargo ship headed up the Saigon shipping channel with supplies for the Allied war effort. The channel, vital to the movement of thousands of tons of war materiel from the United States, was reported clear. Communist guerillas have made a number of attempts to close the channel by sinking an Allied ship in it.

A U.S. Navy spokesman said the explosion ripped through the Seatrain Texas as it lay at anchor in the Nha Be Such a ceived from Saigon. Post 51, with more than 300 members, adopted Cummings' outfit, A Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Regiment, 1st Cavalry' Division. Over a two-year period the veterans have been sending monthly packages to members of the company "to show the boys we're behind them." With Christmas coming, post' members decided they wanted to do something different. They James Cummingj, left, Am tive session testimony Sept.

20, 1966. It dealt with the resolution proposed by President Johnson and overwhelmingly approved by Congress after the White House reported Communist torpedo boats attacked U.S. destroyers off Vietnam on Aug. 2 and Aug. 4, 1964.

The resolution declared congressional support of Johnson's determination to take "all necessary measures" to "prevent further agggression" and to aid South Vietnam "in defense of its freedom." The resolution has become a major issue in Senate Vietnam War debate. Critics of U.S. policy, among them Sen. J. W.

Ful-bright, have argued the buildup of the ground and air war in Vietnam was never con-t 1 a by the Congress which approved the resolution. Releasing the Bundy testimony, Fulbright, the committee chairman, said "recent press stories" have raised questions 2 $hopt)inq dafo to Christmas" All downtown stores open for Christmas shopping until 9 p.m. Monday through Saturdays. Some shopping plaza stores open until 9 p.m., some later. A former Liberian government information officer compares the duties of a town supervisor with those of a chief in his country.

Today's Starter (8B). The acceptability-of beard wearers in today's business world is discussed in Coffee Cup Reader (8B). hit upon a plan to pay the round-trip airline fare for a Honolulu reunion between one of their adopted soldiers and his wife. They asked the first sergeant of Company A to select "a deserving, married serviceman from New York State whose week's leave coincided with Christmas." Back came Company A's designation of its choice Cummings, 20, a combat veteran and wife arylou after Bridge Comics Crossword Deaths Editorials Financial Harris Health HELP Jumble Landers Red Smith 5D 5D 5D 10C 8A l-3C A iyl 8B i.7 5C ffofk wjgt 5D ID rUYI 5r7fe'i Sports 1-4, 6D Theaters 6, 7B TV, Radio 5C Want Ads 5-9C Woman's Page 4C Weather 2B "Please, dear! Anti-poverty or Your Town 4B not, you're talking with your 4 Sections muuth full!" A.