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Volume Tuesday Morning, January 19, 1965 INS--Kerional New Service Price Seven Cents Good Morning News Brief THE UNITED day expressed shakeup that generals in Premier Tran a Huong's hitherto all civilian cabi. net in Saigon, South Viet Nam. Included were Air Force mander yen Cao Ky, Maj. Ge n. Tra Van Minh, Maj.

STATES Monapproval put four CAO KY Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu and Brig. Gen. Linh Quang Vien. American officials have expressed a belief that governmental stability is essential for successful prosecution the war against the Viet Cong.

Lewis Spears, 24, of St. Albans, charged with the $6,627 holdup of Huntington Federal Savings and Loan Association Jan. 8, waived preliminary hearing Monday before U. S. Commissioner Walter Parker in Huntington.

Soviet bloc's biggest leaders assembled in Warsaw for a summit meeting Monday which Western diplomats say could bring dramatic new moves for disengagement in Europe. A STRIKE OF ABOUT 150 nonprofessional employes at. Fairmont General Hospital was sheduled to end Tuesday, 10 days after the workers walked off the job. State Police: at Charleston reported Monday that 20 persons have been killed on West Virginia highways to date this year as compared with 21 to the same date last year. A special rate to West Virginia schools and col-1 leges using only electricity was suspended.

Monday by the Public Service Commission at meeting in Charleston, The rate had been protested by United Fuel Gas Co. and Manufacturers Light and Heat Co. FREE BIRTH CONTROL supplies will be provided by a St. Louis contraceptive manufacturer for city, and state health welfare departments in the United States by the Emko Co. of St.

Louis, the president of the company said Monday. The board of directors of Ashland Oil and Refining Co. voted Monday to increase the regular quarterly dividend on common stock from 35 cents a share to 40 cents a share. A freight train of at Rushville near Lancaster, the New York Central derailed, Ohio, Monday and damage was estimated at $1 million. There were no injuries.

FORMER DETECTIVE CHIEF Herman Frazier of Huntington has agreed to cept a job as police shift commander, but says his attorney will go to court to get his former job back. Frazier was saspended after being indicted on jury tampering charges in Tennessee and has since been quitted. Mrs. George Au-! neau, 37, gave birth Monday to quadruplets at a Clinic in Vannes, Tascon judge Monday sentenced 52-year-old Alonzo Wooten to spend one year in prison for breaking into prison at Safford, and stealing bedsheets from the prison camp there. THREE HUNDRED OF Hollywood's elite sat in silent tribute at funeral services Monday for Jeanette MacDonald and heard her soaring, soprano fill the church with recorded strains of "Ave Maria" and "Ah.

Sweet Mystery of Life." sun smiled, the weatherman called off threats of snow and celebrities swung Monday into celebrating with formal festivity the presidential inauguration of Lyndon Baines Johnson, still two days away in Washington. United Nations General Assembly was urged Monday by its president, Alex Quaison-Sackey of Ghana, to adopt a course of action that would avoid a United States-Soviet confrontation voting rights assembly back on a normal operating basis by next Monday. C. 0. Railway Reducing Rates The Chesapeake Ohio way Co.

announced yesterday that one-way passenger fares on its coaches and Pullman will be reduced by one third, effective yesterday. The lower fares will apply for! travelers on Mondays, and Wednesdays, which will be known as "Red Circle Day Fares," according to Howard Skidmore, vice president of the company. Roads Still Dangerous Cold Relief Not Sighted Dr. King Is Attacked By Fanatic: Alabama Action Is Disrupted SELMA, Ala. (AP) A segregationist struck Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr. in the head with his fist marring an otherwise peaceful and successful challenge Monday of Selma's historic segregation barriers. King was hit while and other Negroes registered rooms at the Hotel Albert. short time earlier. King had led several hundred Negroes on a quiet march to the courthouse where the Negroes lined up register as voters.

Other Negroes pulled the assailant off the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize-winner. Selma's public; safety director, Wilson Baker, rushed across the lobby, jerked the man off his feet, and sent him to jail on charges of assault. and disturbing the peace. The man was booked as Jimmy. lingham, a Robinson, member 26, of of Birmthe National States Rights party.

He was wearing the khaki of the party. Even as King was attacked, other Negroes following leadership ate quietly in two previously segregated downtown Selma restaurants and a cafeteria. One group, accompanied by a white minister and his wife, were served lunch at Selma Del, across the street from the hotel where King registered for al room, while 12 other Negroes ate at Tim's Cafe, adjoining the hotel. Down the street, still another group of Negroes walked through a line and had lunch at Perrin's Cafeteria. Perrin's Selma Del were among five Selma eating places charged by the Justice Department last year with violating the civil rights law by refusing to serve Negroes.

The seregation pattern in the city of 29,000 population where a Civil War arsenal once stood, began to fall apart Sunday night when the Selma Restaurant Association voted to serve Negroes. They were aware that King and his followers had promised a massive test of public accommodations throughout the city Monday. The Albert Hotel, remodeled. is one of central known landmarks. It was built more than a century ago.

Robinson, who earlier received King's permission to attend a Negro rally Monday night, walked up to the Negro minister in the hotel lobby and asked him to step aside. Then, without warning, hel struck King on the right temple him in the groin. another Negroes grabbed the assailant and Baker. who was watching from a way nearby, shoved his way through the crowd and lifted the man off his feet. DR.

MARTIN LUTHER KING State Allocated Federal Funds WASHINGTON (AP) West Virginia will receive $686.435 in federal funds this year toi finance part time jobs for college students from low families. Sen. Jennings Randolph, D- W.Va., said Monday the money has been allocated under an anti-poverty program by the Department of Health, Educa tion and Welfare. Randolph said colleges and universities may obtain funds to finance campus jobs for students. The aid also may be used for off-campus jobs such as tutors, recreation leaders and workers.

Sol Estes Arrested Appeal Denied By Top Court SABILENE, Tex. bankrupt (AP) former Billie West Texas financier night after the Supreme moter, was arrested "Monday refused to act on an appeal from a 15-year prison sentence. U.S. Dist. Judge R.

Ewing Thomason only a few minutes! earlier had revoked Estes' 000 appeal bond and issued a warrant for his arrest. The Supreme Court refused earlier to act Estes' requesi on for mahearing on his conviction Estes was booked into the Taylor County Abilene jail at 7 p.m. He was in the custody of a U.S. deputy, marshal and' two deputy sheriffs. The warrant for Estes' arrest.

was issued simultaneously with the revocation of his federal bond following refusal Monday: of the Supreme Court to heari his appeal. Estes received the sentence federal court in El Paso, March 23, 1963. The federal charge from manipulation of worthless! fertilizer tank mortgages amounting to about $24 Estes was convicted on five of 14 counts in an indictment resulted from his complicated mortgage deals with and financed companies. In conviction appeal, Estes complained of "widespread unfavorable publicity." He said he was denied a fair trial by an impartial jury as a result of the "adverse publicity." Johnson Points To U. S.

Might WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson told Congress Monday about powerful weap-! ons which can be added to what he said was the strongest peacetime military strength in the nation's history. These include Polaris missiles with warheads twice the size of present ones and with eight times the killing wallop. He wrote this into his message on "The State Our a forecast of programs to be spelled out in even greater detail in the military budget scheduied for later this month. That budget, he said, will propose a spending program in the coming fiscal year of $49 billion $2.3 billion less than the fiscal! 1964 year and $300 million less than is estimated for the cur-! rent year. The United States, the Presi-: dent wrote, has' "built a strength of arms greater than ever assembled by any other nation and greater nOW than! any combination of indisputable margin: He superiority outlined for the our foundation this power: "In strategic sys-1 tems, the United States currently has more than 850 land-based! intercontinental ballistic missiles.

(The present program calls for an eventual total of 000, toward which the building is going on.) More than 300 nu-! I clear missiles are in Polaris! submarines; more than 900 strategic bombers are on half of them ready for takeoff all times. He will ask Congress for more than $300 million to continue and improve the capabilities of the B52 heavy bombers but! he also announced officially the intended elimination two squadrons of B52Bs. This apparently means a total of about 30 aircraft. The series are the oldest of the B52 design. They are located Biggs Air Force Base, March AFB, Call.

Winston's Last Hours Arrive LONDON (AP) Lord Moran was called to Sir Winston Churchill's bedside in the small the hours Tuesday amid signs that statesman's final hours had come. light went out in Sir WinListon's room soon afterward. friend Moran, who 82, physician and has been at Churchill's side through his battles, entered the house toughest 2:10 a.m. Forty minutes later he was still there. and a police officer! said he would remain in the house for some time.

Churchill, 90, was struck down a cerebral thrombosis third on Friday. If death had come. any announcement would be delayed for some time. Wreck Claims State Woman BLUEFIELD (AP) Mrs. James Harris, 46, of Bluefield; died Monday from injuries received when the car in she was riding smashed into a pickup truck on snow slick U.S.

52 north of here. She was a passenger in a car driven by her husband, who was unhurt. 'Pursuit Of Excellence' Smith Promises 'High Standard' anand streets kept treacherous county Monday, today. and no relief Three more settled in the area Monday, inches, adding miseries to those who must travel in it. This was added to a accumulation of seven inches, Many vehicles bumped each other throughout the day Monday but State and city police said no accidents required their services.

Today's forecast calls for continued cold weather with a high temperature in the low 20's and partly cloudy skies. showers were have continued through the night Monchanging to flurries, cording to the United States Weather Bureau at the Raleigh County Memorial Airport. No appreciable snow was preI dicted for today but an overnight temperature was to have seen the mercury plunging near the six-degree mark. Monday's high temperature was 20 degrees at 1 p.m., the low at 8 p.m. with 13 degrees.

wAll primary but roads were secondary used possibly were impassable. Foreman Ed Hatcher of the office of the State Road Commission termed county highways "hazardous." Hatcher said chains or snowtreads were necessary for safe travel. Equipment in use late Monday by the SRC included three snow plows, two graders and six cinder crews. Flights were unable to land all day at the airport but normal operations are expected today. A spokesman said a 9:24 a.m.

flight from Roanoke, to Cincinnati, Ohio, and a 2:08 p.m. flight from Cincinnati to Washington, D. could not touch down. He the poor visibility and low ceiling cancelled the flights. Beckley's streets were "pretty slick." This was the opinion of a spokesman at the City Street Dept.

garage. He and city workmen were on the job with a salt spreader and two saw dust trucks, while other crews were being prepared for early morning use. Wrecking compaines and service stations enjoyed a field day, as the demand for snow tires, anti-freeze and tow service increased. Buses in and out of the city were said to be on schedule with no cancellations. Bitterly cold arctic air gripped the entire Atlantic coast Monday and dealt a heavy blow to Florida's multimillion-dollar winter vegetable crop.

The cold blast, borne far south by a shifting high-altitude jet stream, sent temperatures plunging record lows for the date in several Florida cities, including the winter play. grounds of Miami and Tampa. Hardest Florida were the sugar cane" and vegetable crops grown claimed on former swampland from the Everglades south of Lake Okeechobee. The state's citrus crop escaped damimportant. age.

(Continued On Page Seven) Pleads Innocent In Ga. Slaying SUMMERVILLE, Ga. (AP)- One of two West Virginia youths charged with murdering textile mill supervisor pleaded innocent Monday as his trial got under way in this rural northwest Georgia community. Woodrow Whis man, 18, entered the plea before Circuit: Court Judge Robert Coker through his attorney, Albert A. of Savannah.

Whisman and Roy Dale Chatterton, 20, both of Huntington, W.Va.. are charged with murder in the bludgeon slaying of Billy A. Copeland, whose body was found in an abandoned farm house Dec. 23. Chatterton faces trial later.

Authorities at Savannah, where the youths were arrested, said they related a tale violence file that took them through states. They admitted in a statement that they (beat Copeland, 47, who had given them a ride as they were, hitchhiking. Whisman, slender youth in a grey red sweather, was! joined in the crowded courtroom his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Whisman of Huntington.

the The same Whisman table, and family only sat few at a feet from Mrs. Copeland, widow of the slain man. The elder Whisman, a house painter, told the Associated Press he believed his son was taking narcotics at the time he went on a hitchhiking spree of violence with Chatterton. believe my boy was on dope," he said. "He left home for school and he never came back." Governor Delivers Inaugural Address Public Officials Battle Snowstorm Governor Smith's First Action Presents Code Of (AP) In his first executive action following Mooday's inauguration, Gov.

Hulett Smith issued a six-point code of conduct for state ployes. follows The executive order closely la code provisions outlined in of ethics bill proposed the House last week. Smith said the code would prevail until legislation could be: passed establishing the "general standards of conduct for all officers and Under conflict of Smith's order says no official or employe "shall place himself in a position where for some gained or to be gained for himself. he finds it diffi-; cult, if not impossible, to devote; to the "general public; interest." Smith said no state official or employe is to: -Use his official position to; secure unwarranted privileges for exemptions for himself or others. -Give the impression that "any person can improperly influence him or unduly enjoy his favor" because of kinship, rank for party standing.

-Raise any suspicion of being: "engaged in any act that is in violation of his public trust." -Accept outside that would "impair his independence of judgment" or require him to "disclose confiden-ily tial information" gained through his office. By JOIN MCKINNEY The state's 27th governor, Hulett Carlson Smith of Beckley, promised to give West Virginia An administration designed for "the pursuit of after the outdoor ceremonies of the inauguration at the capitol in snowstorm that prevaled Monday. Governor Smith pledged himself to "demand the highest standards of ethics. integrity and honesty from dedicated and qualified public servants and never tolerate incompetence or mediocrity." The snow let up temporarily as the new governor took the speakers stand to deliver an 11- minute inaugural to the public, but by the address, finished speaking. some 1,500 persons from an original crowd of about 2.500 remained with snow covering their garments.

The ceremony took place on a temporary platform near the top of the north steps of the capitol building. Members of the news medias turned out in mass to report on this important event. Seven other state officials were sworn in. before Smith. When this and formal programwas completed, outgoing Democratic Governor William Wallace Barron presented Smith in this manner: "Ladies and gentlemen.

the governor-elect of West Virginia, the honorable Hulett Carlson Smith." Dr. J. W. Witherspoon of the Beckley Presbyterian Church, where Smith is an elder. delivered the inaugural prayer.

Smith then stepped to the front of the temporary platform, raised his right hand and placed his left hand on the Bible. At 12:18 p.m., President Judge Chauncey Browning of the State Supreme Court administered the oath of office to the 27th governor. Governor Smith started, "My fellow West Virginians." Then he proceeded with his inaugural address by saying, step forward today to accept this opportunity to serve West Virginia and all its people with confidence, and with determination knowing that today. we begin an era of 'A New Spirit' in West Virginia. "Though humbled by the honor you have given me.

I am at the same time eager to meet the challenges which face West Virginia. "Indebted to all my friends. I have a keen awareness that more than my efforts alone brought me to this day. "I am grateful to my teachers. whose counsel guided me.

"Thankful for my parents, whose example, sacrifices, training in a Christian home inspired me, and will strengthen me in the times ahead. "And for my wife and children. patience, encouragement and love sustain mc. "My fellow citizens. we meet today to set the goals of a new administration.

on the proud achievements of the past and to plan anew for the future. "It is time to reaffirm those qualities which unite us, and to purge those clements which divide us. a "We must set standards for uplour government's conduct, and of search for 'A New Spirit' to task us all, as true sons and it daughters of this proud state. the; have pledged that I would re- give this state 'An administraItion of excellence. (Continued On Page 12) Smith said such standards: would "insure the protection of the rights and reputations of individuals dedicated to governem-ment service as well as to the public." He added that the "over.

whelming majority of our pub. lic servants are honorable men and women" and that the state has a right to "expect this high degree of ethical, professional and moral conduct" from state employes. UN Withdrawal Move Explained lis part of the struggle, JAKARTA. Indonesia (AP) Indonesians were told Monday their government's withdrawal; from the United Nations is part of "a struggle against necolim." Necolim is a word devised by! President Sukarno's regime for: neocolonialism, colonialism and! imperialism -all represented as' evils personified by neighboring; Malaysia. The selection of Malaysia: Dec.

30 for a seat on the U.N.i Security Council prompted the Indonesian walkout. The government news agency: Antara quoted Foreign Minister Subadrio as telling a mass ral-: Sunday in Surabaja that the surrender of U.N. membership lis part of the struggle, Smith recently appointed special task force to draw recommendations for code conduct legislation. But the force needed recently announced more time to study 'matter before delivering a port. Helping Hand Not Available PRINCETON (RNS) They must have thought he was hibernating.

Motorists passing along U. S. 60 here Monday were alarmed at the sight of a man. lying face down in the snow. Four persons, includ.

ing lice a driver, notified pobus but admitted they didn't stop to ofier help. Princeton police rushed to the scene and discovered 45- Crab Orchard, Raleigh Counold Thedford Rice of (y, still in the snow. He was clothed lightly and wearing 2 thin overcoat in 15 15-degree temperatures. Rice told officers be fell while walking the route and was unable to get up. He had been there about an hour.

After warming up at police headquarters with sever. al cups of coffee, Rice was taken to jail and booked for drunkenness. CLOUDY BECKLEY VICINITY: Variable cloudiness and cold with high af 28 today. Mostly cloudy toright and tomorrow. Low tonight in the mid teens.

Little temperature change Wednesday. WEST VIRGINIA: Mostly sunny with highest temperature 26 to 32 Tuesday. Wednesday, mostly cloudy, windy and rather cold with snow flurries or snow likely in the north portion. (Details on Page 12) Bank of Raleigh SIGNATURE LOINS Member F.D.I.C. 1.

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