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AND 84th Year Volume Number 341 31 Second and -class at postage additional paid mailing at A offices Albuquerque Friday Morning, July 31, 1964 8.W. daily 15c Albuquerque, and Sunday Sunday N.M. at 701 weekly Silver 72 Pages in Four Sections Price 7c Published Only Johnson Rejects Kennedy for No. 2 Spot 'Landmark' U.S. Conservation Bill Passed by House Plan Will Preserve Wilderness Areas In Natural State WASHINGTON (UPI)The House Thursday ended a three-year controversy and passed a "landmark" conservation bill that would preserve the nation's wilderness areas in their natural state.

Members overwhelmingly endorsed a compromise measure that would 1 immediately build a legal fence around 9 million acres 3 of wilderness and permit the eventual inclusion into the system of up to 61 million acres. The legislation must now be reconciled with a more al measure passed by the Senate. Plan Knocked Out Knocked out of the house bill on the floor Thursday was a provision that would have permitted development of a commercial ski area in one California wilderness tract San Gorgonio Mountain in the San Bernardino National Forest. The compromise worked out during three and often bitter controversone proved to be so effective that there was no opposition to it voiced. during Morris, the Udall, he debate.

Do described "a landmark piece of conservation legislation." The bill's sponsor, Rep. John P. Saylor, called the action "a memorable day in the history of the House of Representatives." Heard Both Sides The plan is a compromise worked out in the House Interior Committee after hearfrom the two major interest groups: Conservationinterested in retaining areas their unspoiled state, and miners, ranchers and timbermen who want to develop resources on the lands. The plan was first proposed in 1961 by the late President John F. Kennedy.

The federal government owns some 61 acres, mostly in the West, that possess "wilderness characteristics." The House would bar nine million of those acres from commercial development or exploitation of natural resources. The remaining land would be incorporated into the system eventually, but only with Continued on A-12 City Area Gets Light Showers Showers fell in the Albuquerque and Grants areas Thursday as rain clouds were concentrated mainly in western mountain sections of New Mexico. A heavy thundershower east of the Sandia Mountains, along NM-10, drifted over the mountains in late afternoon into the Northeast Heights, then moved westward. The Weather Bureau said hail fell in the Cedar Crest area east of the Sandias. Estimates of rainfall in the city ranged up to .20 inch, with .12 inch measured in the 1200 block of Field NE.

The official Sunport total from afternoon and evening showers was .02 inch. Grants had .32 inch during the afternoon. Twentyfour-hour totals to 5 p.m. Thursday included .43 inch of rain at Zuni. Temperatures showed a general warming trend in eastern New Mexico, with maximums up 8 to 7 degrees.

Tucumcari had the state high of 97. The Albuquerque maximum was 93 after early morning lows of 68 at the Sunport and 64 in the Valley. Lightning in Heights Halts Power Service A lightning strike in the Northeast Heights left a arge area without electricity early Thursday evening. Public Service Co. officials said service was disrupted for about 45 minutes after ightning hit a utility pole in the 2200 block of Wyoming NE.

Areas affected were beween Lomas and Constituson from Wyoming to Louisana, according to police. Heads for Historic First Ranger 7's Cameras Close In On Moon PASADENA, Calif. (P Ranger 7 coasted toward the Moon Thursday with its cameras properly aimed for what could be history's first close-up pictures of the mysterious surface American astronauts hope to explore a few years. U.S. space marksmanship has been so accurate thus far that jet propulsion laboratory scientists decided Thursday morning to cancel a final maneuver they thought might be needed to point the cameras straight at the moon before impact at 6:25 a.m.

(MST), p.m. today. (MST) Thursday the 806-pound spacecraft was only 51,512 miles from its target. Its speed has slowed down from the original rocket-boosted 24,000 miles an hour to 2157 mph. Cameras Normal All instruments aboard, including its six television cameras, were reported in normal condition by laboratory experts tracking and guiding Ranger 7 on its flight.

all If goes well those cameras will be turned on by ground signal and relay more than 4000 pictures, from an altitude of 1100 miles down to the surface, in the final 13 minutes 40 seconds. Laboratory officials said they would be he first closeup lunar pictures. Russia's Lunik III photographed the far, dark-side of the moon Oct. 7, 1959 from distances of 37,000 to 43,000 miles, but the pictures no clearer than those taken were, the visible side by earth telescopes. Optimistic Air Because of atmospheric conditions, earth telescopes cannot distinguish objects smaller than in diameter.

Ranger camquarter eras are expected to show objects as small as an automobile. An air of "optimistic anxiety," as one scientist put it, gripped the laboratory as Ranger neared its goal. "Everything is going he said, "but we do have a sad history." That history includes 12 previous failures in various types of moon probes, including the six earlier shots in the $200 million Ranger program. Best shot to date was Ranger 6, which hit the moon last February but failed to send back any pictures. Narrow Target Area ing have narrowed Laboratory, scientists trackthe target area to a 30 by 120- mile zone in the upper reaches of the Sea of Clouds, a flat plain southwest of the center of the visible side of the moon.

This plain was chosen as a target because it is one of the spots where U.S. astronauts may land in 1969. Good pictures would tell designers whether the upcoming Apollo moon craft will have to land on a smooth or a rugged surface. Albuquerque Weather ALBUQUERQUE AND VICINITY: After. noon and evening cloudiness with for thundershowers, otherwise fair through Saturday.

Little temperature change. High today $2. Lows tonight Valley, Sunport. NEW MEXICO: Mostly fair morning hours, partly cloudy afternoons and evenings through Saturday with widely tered thundershowers. Not much change in Highs today to 100.

Lows tonight 55 to 70. Additional Weather Page A-16 Journal Index Bridge D-16 Crossword Puzzle D-16 Classified D-5-13 Comics D-15 Daily Record D-5 Dear Abby Editorials A4 Financial D-14 Food Tips C-17-18 From Hollywood C-9 Movies C-8-9 Obituaries A-2 Our Slant A4 Racing Entries D-23 Religion Today Sports D-1-3 TV Leg A-19 TV Previews A-19 Weather Table A-16 Woman's World B-1-2 U.S. Officer Dies During Advance Against Reds Rangers Hit In Movement To Ben Cat SAIGON, Viet Nam (P)- Communist machine gun raked forward elements of a Vietnamese ranger battalion advancing caufested jungle Thursday, killing tiously through guerrilla a U. S. Army captain and nine rangers.

The battalion had moved about eight miles in eight hours during the night, headed toward embattled Ben Cat, 30 miles north of Saigon. Just before dawn Viet Cong automatic weapons opened up from a jungle region across open rice paddy fields. Took Defense The rangers dove into defensive positions and battled the entrenched Communist forces for several hours. An airborne battalion which moved up to strengthen Ben Cat Wednesday headed west to relieve the ambushed battalion but was held up by scattered Viet Cong fire. Nine Vietnamese were killed and 25 wounded in the ranger battalion.

Casualties in the Viet Cong force, estimated at 500 to 700 men, were not known. 164th U. S. Death The American's death was the fifth in South Viet Nam three days and the 164th in action since December, 1961. American sources estimated possibly a regiment of Viet Cong were operating around Ben Cat, which lies at the edge of notorious Zone-nor-question, mally rest area for tired Viet Cong delta battalions.

Reports reaching Saigon late Thursday said another Vietnamese battalion moving north to Ben Cat along route 13 was engaging Viet Cong. No details were available. One of Four Hit The ambushed battalion was one of four hit by Viet Cong forces in a series of engagements around Ben Cat, a district capital. U. S.

sources say 35 government troops have been killed, 48 wounded and 30 missing in three days. A long line of convoy vehicles had moved east out of Ben Suc early Thursday carrying the ranger battalion toward Ben Cat, 30 miles north of Saigon. But the guerrillas' attack came first. The Viet Cong streamed out of the jungle and hit the convoy before the government forces could form defense lines. The ambush was a disheartening reversal from an gagement at Ben Cat Wednesday, when Vietnamese reported killing or wounding as many as 300 Viet Cong.

A Communist attack had been launched on a rubber plantation. Then the Viet Cong overran an outpost and moved toward Ben Cat. The Vietnamese began an artillery bombardment and routed the Viet Cong as fighter bombers gave the guerrillas a severe pounding. Member of Pioneer Family Erna Fergusson, Noted Writer, Dies Erna Fergusson, member of a pioneer New Mexico family and one of the state's best known authors, died early Thursday at her home, 2704 Veranda NW. She was 76.

Memorial services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the University of New Mexico memorial chapel. W. A. Keleher, Albuquerque attorney and writer who was a long-time friend of Miss Fergusson, will deliver the eulogy.

Private cremation services were conducted Thursday afternoon at Fairview Park Crematory Chapel. Miss Fergusson was nationally recognized as an authority on the Southwest, and her lifetime in New Mexico resulted not only in many books Continued on A-6 Within 30 Days City to Decide On Solution In Bus Issue By DICK McALPIN City Manager Edmund will meet within 30 days taken to solve Albuquerque's Albuquerque Bus franchise, announced last its franchise effective Jan. 1964, because declining revenues. However, the company agreed to extend the date "for a reasonable period" to give the city time to search for another transit operator. "Leased" by City Then on Feb.

27, the city "leased" the company for a six-month period in order to give the company tax reliefs enjoyed by the city, This lease expires Aug. 31. Some time ago, city commissioners decided not no to abandon a public transit system, terming it needed public service." Engel said the city will not consider renewal of the sixmonth lease. A. P.

FitzGerald, president the bus company, said "all of this is news to me," when contacted at his home. "We did not contemplate renewal of the lease when we negotiated it," he said, "but we did indicate that we would consider its renewal if the city needed more time." Four Possible Solutions When commissioners meet to find the answer to the they will consider four possible answers advanced by Arthur E. Jones, administrative assistant to the city manager. These are: 1. That the city own and operate its own transit system.

2. That the city own the system, but lease it to private operator. 3. That city guarantee a fixed return to a private operator who would own or lease his own equipment. 4.

That the city maintain its present franchise system and continue to seek an operator to take it over. (Officials believe this to be unlikely). The second alternative, that of the city owning the transit system and leasing it to transit management firm, has some adherents among city officials. Refrains From Question City Atty. Frank Horan is refraining from answering the question, "'What will the city do about existing contracts between three unions and Albuquerque Bus The unions are the ters, Machinists and the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen.

One interpretation of state law is that municipalities may not enter into agreements with unions which grant union bargaining powers. However, a case is now pending before the State Supreme Court involving the City of Farmington and members of an electrical union. Farmington acquired a private utility company, but refused to recognize the company's union contracts. The union brought suit in district court for recognition and the court ruled in favor of the union. The city appealed the decision.

Former Adviser To 3 Presidents Found Dead in Pool HARRISON, N. Y. James M. Landis, 64, former adviser to the late President Kennedy, died Thursday. Landis was found dead in the pool in the back of his home in this Westchester County town.

Neighbors found the bod floating in the pool. He was pronounced dead after artifiIcial respiration failed. Landis, who also was an adviser to both President Franklin D. Roosevelt and former President Truman, was reported alone in the pool. Police said he was in the habit of swimming in the pool on return to his home in the afternoon from his Manhattan office.

Attorney General Tops List Taken From Contention President's Move Boosts Humphrey Into Favored Role Engel said the commission to decide what course will be public transit dilemma. holder of the city's transit November it would surrender Crumbling Halts Early Rescue Of Frenchmen CHAMPAGNOLE, France (UPI)-Rescue teams waged a desperate battle against time and a crumbling mountain Thursday in an attempt to save nine chalk miners trapped 260 feet underground since Monday. Indistinct noises heard deep within the mine raised 1 hopes two of five other men trapped by the cave-in might still be alive. Rescuers said the so un ds were heard during drill probes. They stressed the sounds did not appear to be replies to tapped messages by rescuers, but could be from men trying to signal searchers.

The exact nature of the sounds was not specified. Authorities abandoned hope of an early rescue and said it may be three days possibly four before the men are freed from their dank tomb underneath Mont Rivel. "The situation is very grave," said Champagnole Mayor Andre Socie. Work Proceeding The rescue work was proceding along two avenues. One team, using shovels and pick axes, tried to clear a channel near the base of the mountain.

In the other operation a giant drilling rig was used to bore from the top of the mountains. The horizontal rescue tunnel is so that each piece of rubble has to be removed by hand and every inch of the way has to be shored up against new cave-ins. Mayor Socie broke the news to the trapped men the rescue effort was proceeding slowly, dashing their hopes they might reach the surface sometime before midnight. 'Took it Well' "They took it pretty well and are in good spirits," Socie said. The giant drill was hauled up the mountain piece by piece.

Officials said the entire mountain appears to have been cracked and fissured en a like an egg shell and warned the drilling attempt could split it asunder. Food, hot drinks and cigarets were sent down to the miners through a tiny air shaft which reached the Tuesday night. An electric cable and a light bulb also were lowered. Taos Boy, 5, Killed by Car TAOS (UPI) A 5-year-old Taos boy was struck and killed Thursday when he ran STATE TRAFFIC DEATHS 1964 To Date 195; in 24 1963 To Date 198; All July 48 in front of a car on NM-3, miles north of Taos. three State Policeman Abe Rodriguez identified the victim as Nick Cordova.

He said the boy jumped in front of a car driven by an out of state motorist. The driver said he could not stop in time to avoid hitting the victim. A coroner's quest ruled the death was accidental. GRANTED ASYLUM PARIS A 75-year-old woman from East Berlin Thursday left a Polish airliner and was given asylum in France. Mrs Ella Geithner of East Germany told police she wanted to remain in France with a daughter, the wife of a Frenchman living in the Loire Valley.

WASHINGTON (P) President Johnson eliminated Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy and five others, by name, Thursday from the list of those he considers eligible for the Democratic vice presidential nomination. Others eliminated by name from the President's list of prospects are Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert S.

McNamara, Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador the United Nations and Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver. And, without naming them, Johnson also eliminated all the rest of the 10 member cabinet and all the eight or 10 officials in higher echelons who sit in regularly on cabinet meetings. 1 CLOSE IN: America's Ranger 7 spacecraft, racing toward the moon, is pictured in artist's conception of its attitude as it drops to the lunar surface. Scientists predict Ranger 7 cameras will take the first clo: pictures of the moon's surface before collision expected today.

(UPI Telephoto) Threat, Fence Cutting, Fire Heighten Tension On N. M. Land Grant From the Journal's Santa Fe SANTA FE-A barn has been has been cut and a threatening These incidents have occurred of a longstanding land grant rilla-Chama area. State police do not say the fire, the vandalism and the call are related to the land grant feud. Officer William Garcia at Chama says the situation is controlled and few reports of damage or threats have been received.

The Rio Arriba County Sheriff's Dept. is investigating the burning of the barn, owned by Chama Land Cattle 15 miles north of Tierra Amarilla, Saturday night. The barn was razed, and farm machinery inside was destroyed. The loss was set at $70,000. Oil Can at Scene A 5-gallon metal can was found 8 feet from the barn.

Fred Bartolucci, state fuel testing chemist, said the can had contained fuel oil. Investigators said the fire began in a corner of the barn. No arrests have been made in the barn burning or the fence cutting although suspects have been questioned on both incidents. State Police Sgt. Lester Raney of Alamogordo, an arson specialist, said the fire was set.

The fence was cut last week west of Chama on a ranch Continued on A-14 Electrocution Is Cause Of Clovis Man's Death MULESHOE, Tex. A Clovis, N.M., construction worker was electrocuted Thursday as he guided a load of steel beams on a winch which contacted a high tension line. Kenneth Willey, 20, of Clovis was dead on arrival at a Muleshoe hospital. Police said he was holding a load of steel beams and the winch hit a power line. Surprise Move The President made his surprise political move at the end of a busy day -a move which he certainly was aware would stir up immediate speculation that it was aimed at halting Kennedy and perhaps boosting Sen.

Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota. An AP poll of Democratic convention delegates which was released, by coincidence, at the time of Johnson's disclosure, showed Humphrey a 3-to-2 choice for the second place on the ticket to be named next month. An hour after Johnson divulged his action, Kennedy issued a statement from his Justice Dept. office, saying: "As I have always said, it is the President's responsibility to make known his choice for Vice President.

In Interest of All "It is in the interest of all of us who were associated with President Kennedy to continue the efforts to advance the programs and ideals to he devoted his life and which President Johnson is carrying forward." Humphrey's only reaction was to reiterate that the matter of choosing a vice presidential nominee is entirely up to Johnson. Associates of Johnson cautioned against interpreting the presidential announcement as an attempt to stop any surge toward Kennedy, who might have provided a sentimental problem at the national convention among delegates desiring to capi- Bureau burned, 500 yards of fence call has been received. in the wake of the renewal controversy in the Tierra Ama- lowa Congressman Puzzled by Measure WASHINGTON UP Rep. H. R.

Gross, R-lowa, was puzzled Thursday by a provision in a House bill that defines a wilderness as an area having "outstanding opportunities for. primitive and unconfined type of recreation." "This has nothing to do with topless bathing suits, does it?" he asked on the floor of the House. Gross was quickly assured by sponsors of the bill that wilderness area is free of man-made structures. Continued on A-14 Swimmer, 18, Drowns in Rio TAOS (UPI)-An 18 yearold San Cristobal hayfield worker drowned in the Rio Grande Thursday about 13 miles northwest of Taos. The victim was Raymundo Cordova.

He drowned in the river about 200 yards north of the John Dunn Bridge while swimming with two other youths. Taos County sheriff's officers, state policemen and Taos firemen recovered the body two hours after the victim disappeared. Frank Arellano and Earl Medina, both of San Cristobal, were swimming with Cordova. They said the victim was not a good swimmer. They said Cordova yelled that he could not make it to shore, then went under.

Arellano and Medina said the three worked in hayfields and swam in the Rio Grande every evening. A coroner's jury ruled death by accidental drowning. New West German Jet Speed of Sound MUNICH, Germany (P -West Germany's revolutionary vertical take-off plane passed the speed of sound in a test flight its developers reported. The two VJ-101 achieves its vertical raise by tilting its jets downward and then goes into forward flight by swinging them up to a horizontal position. It is being developed by the West German aviation firms of Boelkow, Heinkel and Messerschmitt.

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