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June 27, 1974 ST. LOUIS POST- DISPATCH FALL OF A TITAN: One of the largest and oldest of the oldest living things on earth, stood 240 feet tall and is Giant Sequoias in the Sierra National Forest in California estimated to have been about 2000 years old. (AP Wirebeing inspected by park rangers who discovered recently photo) that it fell sometime last winter. The tree, one of the Ex-Senator Gruening Dies, Vietnam Opponent WASHINGTON, June 27 (AP) Former Senator Ernest Gruening of Alaska, a leading opponent of United States involvement in Vietnam and one of two Senators to vote against the Tonkin Gulf resolution, died last night of cancer. He was 87 years old.

Mr. Gruening opposed the 1964 resolution which approved in advance "all necessary steps, including the use of armed force" that President Lyndon B. Johnson might take in Vietnam. The only other congressional opponent of the resolution, which was used as a functional declaration of war in Southeast by Johnson, was former Senator Wayne L. Morse of Oregon.

Mr. Gruening remained one of the leading Senate doves on Vietnam until he was defeated in the Democratic primary in 1968 by Senator Mike Gravel. He had been a journalist and was an early advocate of statehood for Alaska. He was territorial governor of Alaska from 1939 to 1953. Mr.

Gruening began his first newspaper job in 1912 after graduating from Harvard Medi- Frank C. Mateker Funeral Funeral services for Frank C. Mateker, a retired St. Louis police captain, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at St.

Hedwig Catholic Church, 3202 Pulaski Street. Burial will be in Resurrection Cemetery. Mr. Mateker died yesterday, apparently of a heart ailment, when visiting a relative in Camdenton, Mo. He was 70 years old.

Mr. Mateker retired from the department in 1968 after 38 years as a policeman. He joined the department in 1930, walked beats in the Central and Lynch Street Districts and later became a detective sergeant. As a captain he commanded the Page Boulevard and Penrose Street Districts and subsequently the Tactical Deployment Division. He was commander of the Planning and Research Division when he retired.

He became widely known in 1966 for suggesting the establishment of the St. Louis Detoxification Center for alcoholics, daughter, which became a model for other nia, such centers in the country. Emil Frank C. Mateker In 1966 photo Surviving are his wife; a Mrs. Laverne TummiSt.

Louis, and a brother, Mateker, Camdenton. Mrs. Harold J. Gibbons Dies Mrs. Ann Culter Gibbons, wife of Harold J.

Gibbons, vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, died at Barnes Hospital yesterday of cancer. She was 55 years old. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Gibbons is survived by her mother, Mrs. William M.

Culter of Louisville, a sister, Mrs. Lois Cusick of Annapolis, two sons, Patrick T. of Philadelphia and Lawrence J. of Washington; a daughter, Elizabeth Vasquez of Washington; and four grandchildren. Shortly before her hospitalization, Mrs.

Gibbons received a bachelor of science degree in art history from St. Louis University. Burial will be private. Mrs. Peggy Pangman Dies Funeral services for Mrs.

Peggy Pangman, a kidnap victim in 1938, will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, 7148 Forsyth Boulevard, University City. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Pangman died at St. Luke's Hospital yesterday after a long illness.

She was 58 years old and lived in University City. She was the widow of C. Sewell Pangman, an advertising agency executive here. He died in 1964. In 1938, when she was Miss Peggy Cross, she and her escort, Daniel Coz Fahey, were kidnaped as they sat in a parked automobile on Warson Road in St.

Louis County. They were bound and gagged and driven to Minneapolis, where they were released unharmed. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Arthur A. Blumeyer III, St.

Louis; five sisters, Mrs. S. Raymond Kinsella and Mrs. Fletcher Hatch, both of St. Louis, Mrs.

Lee Langan, Chevy Chase, Mrs. Richard Burg, Pacific Palisades, and Mrs. Richard Clarahan, New Shrewsbury, N.J., and two brothers, Oliver J. Cross, Golden, nd Mark S. Cross, Gallup, N.M.

Venezuela To Boost Oil Profits CARACAS, Venezuela, June 27 (UPI), intends to boost oil prices and oil income pronged unilateral move to -0MQ I Apr Jo se saxe, fight inflation and cut into oil company profits, Fernando per cent. Baez, deputy mines minister, said today. Baez did not give figures but said that Venezuela would not follow the moderate Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries decision taken at the June 15-17 Quito meeting to increase royalty payments by 2 Venezuela, a founding mem- Tax Revision Effort Dropped WASHINGTON, June 27 (ALP) Senate liberals have promised to fight another day for tax revision after giving up on their efforts to attach such measures to the debt-limit increase bill. But their chances of finding another vehicle for the fight in the 1974 session appeared to be dubious. And their hopes of enacting an income tax cut, which they also tried unsuccessfully to attach to the debt ceiling mea- sure, appeared to be slim, especially if the economy moves upward in the second half of the year as the Nixon Administration predicts.

The liberals abandoned their fight on the debt limit bill yesterday after falling far short in another attempt to impose cloture and out off a filibuster against their riders to the bill. The Senate then passed the bill 58 to 37 and sent it to Presi- Ruby Keeler, Don Ameche On The Road In 'Nanette' ALBANY, N.Y., June 27 (UPI) Ruby Keeler, the famed dancer of the 1930s, and Don Ameche, who many people think invented the telephone, are back on the stage. Ameche and Miss Keeler are starring in the Roaring Twenties musical "No No Nanette," in a 14-week tour. "Nanette" opened Tuesday night in Albany to a capacity crowd. Miss Keeler still projects the same winsome quality that first made her a star 45 years ago.

And when she went into her tap dance routine to "I Want To Be Happy" in the first act, she stopped the show. "She's still my kind of girl," said a gray-haired matron, who had driven 50 miles in the rain to see the show. "She looks like she could join my bridge club and be one of the Miss Keeler, 64 years old, hit stardom in Florenz Ziegfeld's 1929 revue "Show girl." She went to Hollywood in the early days of sound and appeared in such movies as "42nd "Footlight Parade," "Golddiggers of 1933," and "Dames." She came out of retirement dent Richard M. Nixon, who is expected to sign it promptly in Moscow. Democratic Senators Thomas F.

Eagleton of Missouri and Ad1ai E. Stevenson III of Illinois and Charles H. Percy I- linois, voted to increase the debt ceiling; Senator Stuart Symington Missouri, voted against it. The measure boosts the temporary 475.7-billion-dollar debt limit to 495 billions through next March 31. Unless it is signed by Sunday, the ceiling will drop to the permanent 400-billion figures, which would cause serious financial difficulties.

The federal debt now is close to 475 billions. Senator Russell B. Long Louisiana, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee told the liberals the House is working on two tax reform bills on which they could renew their battle when these reach the Senate. But one of these, a bill boosting levies on oil companies, is before the House Rules Committee, where its fate is uncertain. The other, a broad tax-revision measure, still us under consideration in the Ways and Means Committee.

Its chances of passing the House seem to depend on whether it is ready before the Judiciary Committee acts on the impeachment issue. Senators Hubert H. Humphrey Minnesota, and Edward M. Kennedy Massachusetts, said they stood ready to resume the tax-revision battle later in the session when an appropriate vehicle arrives from the House. But other liberals said privately they believed the debtlimit bill may have offered the best and perhaps the last chance for such riders.

to star in the Broadway revival of "Nanette," and now is in her second year on tour. After this tour, she said, she would go home to Laguna Beach, Calif. "I want to sit back and watch my grandchildren," she said. "I'm not going to do anything else." Ameche, her leading man, is as trim at 66 as he was in his Hollywood prime in the late 1930's. He is graying, but still handsome, with the rich voice so familar to audiences who heard and watched him star in radio, television, theater and movies.

Ameche is perhaps best remembered for his title role in "Alexander Graham his favorite, considering the years in which comedians used the line: "Call me up on the Ameche." He recalled the golden years of radio when he played middleman in the battle of wits between W.C. Fields and Edgar Bergen's dummy, Charlie McCarthy. "My greatest love is radio," he said. "Because that's what I did best." Strawbs Fuse Folk, Rock In Ambassador Concert By MERRILL BROWN The Strawbs, a British band that has been making records for seven years, brought a rather unusual fusion of British folk music and hard rock to the Ambassador Theater last night. The group's leader, singerguitarist Dave Cousins, said the show was the last on a fourmonth tour; unfortunately, their performance, too, seemed a bit run down.

Keyboard man John Hawken displayed a sensitive touch, playing lush organ parts and all too brief classical piano lines. Cousins's work on the 12-string guitar gave an added texture to the music and was well complemented by Dave Lambert's electric guitar playing. The parts fit neatly togeth- er, creating, at times, beautiful British folk-rock. But in their brief, hour long set, the group's vocals tended to sag, and the instrumental breaks seemed too long. Songs from their latest album, "Hero and Heroine," notably the title song, highlighted a show that only hinted at a diversified, classy talent.

An intriguing performance by a band from central Illinois, Pegasus, opened the show. Their instrumentally, well-timed rock, was covered by occasionally rich four -part harmonies. But the six-member band, playing for the first time in this area, seemed to have trouble hearing themselves, and their singing at times sounded harsh and flat. cal School. His journalistic positions included managing editor of the Boston Traveler and managing editor of the liberal magazine, The Nation.

He never practiced medicine. He entered government service in 1934. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him to a number of posts dealing with other countries and made him the first director of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions. After he was appointed governor of Alaska he began working for Alaska statehood.

"A Duke Ellington Left No Will NEW YORK, June 27 (UPI) -Jazz great Duke Ellington left an estate of about $200,000 when he died last month, but court papers disclosed yesterday that he did not leave a will. Ellington's son, Mercer K. Ellington, has filed a motion asking for authority to administer the assets. The papers said that Elling. tons' estate did not yet include copyrights to his musical compositions or royalties from them, because it was too early to estimate their value.

Ellington died May 24. Yalta Or Not, Nixon To Visit MOSCOW, June 27 (U.PI) When President Richard M. Nixon travels to the Black Sea resort of Oreanda, he will actually be in Yalta, whether he likes it or not. American sources said last week that Mr. Nixon did not want to go to Yalta because of its political connotations as the site of the 1945 Big Three conference.

Mr. Nixon wanted to avoid Yalta because many persons in the United States, including himself, accused President Franklin D. Roosevelt of having sold out American interests in agreements at that meeting. Instead, Mr. Nixon will go Saturday to Oreanda, the White House announced.

What was not said was that Oreanda is actually a part of Yalta and adjacent to the Livaliya Palace where the 1945 conference was held. It is a series of terraced gardens containing rare plants, trees, a swimming pool and luxurious white stone villas. Mr. Nixon did not want to give his political enemies in the United States an opportunity to say he had come to Yalta for a new "sellout" of American interests, the sources said. $118,000 Grant For County Study The St.

Louis County Department of Planning has been awarded a $118,100 grant by the National Science Foundation for a research project on school facilities. The goal of the project will be to help school administrators more accurately determine school building needs. Department director John R. Baggs said the research team planned to analyze factors that lead to expansion of school facilities, such as population growth and the need for different kinds of schools in particular areas, and relate these to funds available. Four persons will be hired by the department to work on the project.

It will be directed by Charles Kindleberger of the department's government assistance division. democracy has no business having colonies," said Mr. Gruening. When Alaska became the forty-ninth state, he became one of the first two elected Senators. tore LOOK WHAT WILL BUY! Sears the CHILDREN'S Prices in Effect Now thru Saturday The power of the dollar does still exist.

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