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DC7 Carrying 84 Blows Up, Plunges Into Atlantic NEW YORK (AP) An East- era Air Lines propeller-driven airliner exploded and plunged like a fiery comet into the Atlantic Ocean Monday night, minutes after takeoff from Kennedy Airport. All 84 persons aboard vanished in the icy waters of the dark sea. A mass of orange flames formed a funeral pyre as the four-engine DC7B disappeared, leaving only an oil slick as an immediate mark of disaster off Long Island's south shore. The plane blew up at about 3,500 feet. No survivors were found.

And it was three houri after the crash before surface rescue ships picked up the first bits of wreckage some cushions and plastic bags from the ill-fated aircraft. The site of the crash was about eight miles off Jones Beach, the famed summer playground about 35 miles from Manhattan. A Coast Guard lookout on the beach, Seaman Dale Bishop, 19, was an eyewitness. "I heard a thud--no, it was more like a firecracker and then I saw the plane burning," he said. "It was awfully foggy but I could see something burning for about two minutes.

"The flames were orange but I was not sure it was a plane- yet it must have been. The flames flared up for a while and then died down." Despite the seaman's emphasis on the fog, George Van Eips of the Federal Aeronautics Administration at Kennedy Airport said: "The weather was no factor in the crash." The plane was EAL's Flight 663 which originated in Boston. After a stop at Kennedy, it took off at 6:20 p.m. EST for Richmond, Raleigh, N.C., Charlotte, N.C., Greenville, S.C., Spartanburg, S.C., and Atlanta, Ga. It went down at 6:31 p.m., its passing marked by the sudden extinction of a blip on the air traffic radar screen at Kennedy Airport.

Aboard were 78 passengers, 1 non-paying rider, and 5 crew members a pilot, co-pilot, second officer and two stewardesses. INSIDE TODAY JUBL1SHER lot doiig well at 1 all--Pige 4. ADVOCATE of the LAND-O-HILLS and PEOPLE BECRLEY POST-HERMD QUICK QUOTES OOD WILL is the mightiest practical force in the universe--Charles Fletcher Volume 66--No. 34 AisoeUte4 BeporU Beckley, W. Tuesday Morning, February 9,1965 Price Seven Cents Good Morning News Brief HREE HUNDRED persons rated near the United Nations Monday to demand that the United States withdraw from the Viet Nam conflict.

Marshall Space Flight Center Hunts ville, officials Monday missile scientist access to Capitol Roundup Reds Face Strike For Strike Gov. Smith Signs Levy Legislation CHARLESTON (AP) An act of the Legislature which will peg West Virginia's retail sales tax at a straight 3 per cent starting July 1 was signed into law Monday by Gov. Hulett Smith. classified formation m- has U. N.

missing Jan. 27. The center information office identified the man as Dale Burrows, 47, a reliability project engineer for the National Aeronautics an Space Administration. Coal washers in Virginia are polluting the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River in Eastern Kentucky, the Kentucky Water Pollution Control Commission said Monday. THE STATE Supreme Court refused Monday to hear the appeal of a former Bluefield policeman who was discharged last December after being accused of assaulting a prisoner.

Franklin D. Linkous the petition asking that tie Bluefield Police Civil Service Commission be compelled to rein- The governor also signed a corresponding rate adjustment in the use tax, a sales levy on out-of-state purchases. In addition, he signed an act to outlaw manufacture and sale of electronic devices to cheat on telephone charges. Their use already was a crime. Monday's floor sessions in the legislature were brief.

Neither house had any bills at voting stage. The Senate moved up for a vote Tuesday a House-passec bill to provide full reciprocity between West Virginia and three adjoining states--Maryland, Vir ginia and Kentucky--which have personal income tax laws sim; lar to this state's. Moved up for House voting Tuesday, but still open for (Continued On Page Seven) Scars Would Be Patched West Virginians Like Parks Plan Soviet Warns U. S. After New Assault state him.

Smith approved Gov. plans Hnktt for Kanawha County Neighborhood Youth Corps program Monday. The U. S. Department of Labor provide $280,000 of the cost of the $322,000 project.

Appalachian Power Co. announced plans Monday to cut its rates nearly $249,000 a dential customers year. Resi- would save about $174,000 a year. The company said savings to commercial customers would amount to annually. CHARLESTON (AP)--President Johnson's plan to place two West Virginia scenic spots in the federal forestry system and to repair ''ugly scars" in the landscape left by strip mining won approval of state officials Monday, The President, in message to Congress Monday, urged including the eastern West Virginia scenic spots of Spruce Knob and Seneca Rocks into the federal parks system.

West Virginia officials have tried but failed for several years to raise money to buy the land for the state parks system. proposal "offers tremendous possibilities" for the eastern areas. Spruce Knob in Pendleton County is the highest point in the It is nestled in the BULLETIN TOKYO (AP) Communist China said Tuesday U. S. and South Vietnamese air strikes against North Viet Nam call for retaliation and that Communist Chinese "are waiting for you in battle array." TOKYO (AP) The Soviet Union and Red China Tuesday denounced U.

S. air attacks on North 7 iet Nam in a flurry of angry statements that stopped short of threatening direct retaliation. Both promised help to the Hanoi regime. Competing between themselves for friends and influence in Southeast Asia, the Russians and Chinese staged a rare show of togetherness in condemnin the two retaliatory strikes by U.S. and Vietnamese planes against North Viet Nam instal- ations.

The Soviet government called on the United States to stop the attacks, saying such raids would force Russia and its allies 'to take further measures to safeguard the security and to strengthen the defense capability" of North Viet A Peking government statement said "aggression by the Gen. Khanh Jubilant Sky raiders, Jets Blast Reds Again DA NANG, South Viet Nam (AP) More than a score of South Vietnamese Skyraiders, with U.S. Air Force jets flying along, pounded targets Monday in Communist North Viet Nam, in the second strike in retaliation for Red blows against U.S. Army installations Sunday. The Vietnamese air commander re- ported heavy damage and many! casualties at the targets, described as three military camps.

The South Vietnamese encountered heavy enemy ground fire near the border and several planes were hit. All got back but one crashed. U.S. Vietnamese forces STEELWORKERS vote for a president Tuesday in an election that presents a rare challenge to a major onion president. A leadership split in the United Steelworkers Union pits USW Secretary-Treasurer I.

W. Abel against David J. McDonald, union president since 1952. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announced Monday that its heavy repair shop at Keyser will be closed May 7. A spokesman for the railroad said the closing will result in 69 of the 188 Keyser employes losing their jobs.

The Malaysian government lifted a dusk-to- dawn curfew Monday along the western coast of the Malayan Peninsula. Warden M. Lane said Johnson's THE SENATE RULES Committee voted Monday to submit written questions to former White House aide Walter Jenkins rather than compel him to testify at this time in the Bobby Baker investigation. Jenkins, President Johnson's former top assistant, has been under psychiatric care since be resigned last October after disclosure he twice bad been arrested on morals charges. preliminary hearing for a Lewis County father and son charged witi murder has been delayed until Wednesday.

Robert C. Jone; and his son Robert K. Jones both of Weston. are charged with the fatal beating of 41-year oM Raymond DeBarr si near hy tavern Saturday night The State Road Commission was to open bids today on the Wheeling Island viaduct projec for Interstate 70. FR.

JOHN HALPIN (A 1953 Photo) lev. Halpin Dies; torial In Ireland A pastor of St. Francis de ales Catholic Church for 21 ears, Fr. John Halpin dice 'londay in his native Irelanc after a heart attack suffered lunday. He had arrived a week ago County Lemerick.

where he was born in 1896. He was on eave of absence from St. John's Catholic Church in Wellsburg where he had been pastor since caving Beckley in 1954. Father Halpin came to the United States in 1921 shortly after his ordination and was immediately assigned to fee Wheel- ng diocese. He was then given ihe pastorate of St.

Clare's parish in Doddridge County. He came to Beckley in March 1933, succeeding the late Rev. John P. Holzmer. While pastor here, the new church, built sprawling Monongahela National Forest.

Nearby Seneca Rocks borders the 1,503 arce Seneca State For est and was described by Lane was West Virginia's "most seen ic Lane said the President's plan to provide more money to re habilitate mountain regions stripped by mining operations is included in the Appalachian De- 1 velopment Bill now pending in the House of Representatives. "We have more than 100,000 acres to be reclaimed," Lane said, "and it will cost a bundle of money." He added it was unlikely the job could be accomplished without federal help. There will be 5200,000 in state money by July to pay for land reclamation, Lane said. If the Appalachian bill clears Congress, the state's money would bring some $600,000 in federal matching funds. Land reclamation from strip mining has been a key measure under the Appalachian program in an effort to restore greenery guard against water pollution through acid mine drainage and siltation of reservoirs.

Much of the forest region surrounding Seneca Rocks and Spruce Knob now is owned by the U.S. Forest Service, which supervises timber and wildlife conservation. Lane said it is likely tha Johnson's proposal, if it dears Congress, would mean the pres ent land owned by the federa government would be turned over to the Forestry Service United States" against North Viet Nam means "aggression against China" and called on other "peace-loving" countries to support the Hanoi regime. The statement broadcast by Radio Peking said "China and Viet Nam are closely related like the lips and teeth" and declared "the 650 million Communist Chinese people will definite- not stand idly by and are well repared." In an earlier statement, the Chinese declared "The U.S. im- erialists must understand the lay you extend the aggressive war will be the day you hasten into the grave." Soviet Premier Alexei N.

Kosygin declared at a Soviet Imbassy reception in Hanoi, North Viet Nam, the situation is 'fraught with serious complica- ions, for which the United States of America will bear full responsibility." The Soviet leader, who watched the skies for possible Communist air raiders. Th Viet Cong promised to step their guerrilla war "on all bal tie fronts" and said the grounc attacks Sunday on the U.S Army at Pleiku were only a beginning. Lt. Gen. Nguyen Khanh, commander of Vietnamese armed 'SKYRAIDERS' BOMB NORTH VIET NAM The rest would have to be bought Cooper, Conrad To Pilot Gemini forces, was jubilant about the raid by Vietnamese planes and the Sunday attacks on the Gulf of Tonkin coast by carrier-based U.S.

Navy planes. "Personally, yesterday was the happiest day and most important day of my life," he told newsmen in Saigon. Khanh said the Vietnamese raids on three villages across the border knocked out 70 per cent of the targets hit. He said 24 propeller-driven Skyraiders flew the mission and that one was crippled by Communist flak and crashed in South Viet Nam. The pilot parachuted safely.

Skyraiders are single-engine planes developed in World War II for the U.S. Navy as dive bombers. They since have been modernized to carry heavy bomb loads. A Communist Chinese WASHINGTON (AP) -Vietnamese and American warplanes smashed at Communist troop bases and anti-aircraft installa- ions in North Viet Nam Monday amid signs the United States will answer strike for strike any new Red assaults in the south. The Soviet Union demanded the United States stop aerial attacks on the Communist north.

American and South Vietnamese military authorities went to work to tighten security in an effort to prevent the kind of Communist attack that triggered the retaliatory raids. Navy reconnaissance planes flew over Dong Hoi, on tbe North Viet Nam coast, to assess the results of Sunday's raid pledged Soviet aid to North Viet am in a speech a few hours 3efore Sunday's air strike, said the Soviet Union. Red China and North Viet Nam do not want war, but it is their duty to "strengthen the might and defensive capacity" of Communist nations. Check That Bank! CACAK, Yugoslavia (AP) The director of the National Bank in this Serbian city reported to police his life savings of $1,266 had been stolen. The banker, Raddojko Rendulic, kept the money at home in a cupboard.

HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) The agency selected an exper- enced space traveler and an tvy League Navy lieutenant Monday to fly the ongest manned space mission yet scheduled. Air Force Maj. L. Gordon hooper, 37, and Lt.

Cmdr. Charles Conrad 34, were picked to make the seven-day Gemini flight this year. Named as backup crewmen were civilians Neil A. Armstrong, 34, Wapakoneta. Ohio, and Elliot M.

See 37, Dallas. They are the first nonmilitary astronauts to be assigned a space mission. Russian comonaut Lt. Col. Valery F.

Bykovky holds the record with 81 orbits which lasted five days. Cooper, of Shawnee, has logged most of this country's time in space. The 34 hours and 20 minutes he flew in 22 orbits in May 1963, is almost twice as much as the three other U.S. Mercury astronauts combined. The seven-day mission is the third manned flight in the projected Gemini program.

radio broadcast claimed three U.S. planes were shot down in the attack and three others were downed later in the afternoon, bringing to 10 the number of American jets the Communists have counted as brought down. there by 49 American jets. They used bombs and rockets against Communist barracks and staging areas in reprisal for a Communist attack that killed eight Americans and wounded 108 in South Viet Nam Saturday. Defense officials said eight Navy jets that participated in the Sunday raid were damaged by ground fire.

No injuries were reported. Search operations were continuing in an effort to find Lt. Edward A. Dickson of Wyoming. pilot of the Navy jet Skyhawk shot down Sunday.

He bailed out at sea. More than a score of propeller-driven South Vietnamese planes rained bombs on thres border installations earlier in the day, in a followup to the Sunday assault. They hit targets passed up Sunday because of cloud cover. On both missions Monday, U.S. jets went along to fire on Communist anti-aircraft guns.

The Pentagon said flak suppression was their job. There was no word from Washington on the weapons they Radio Hanoi claimed four American jets were shot down Sunday. In Washington the Defense Department said no U.S. planes were missing after the Monday mission. One U.S.

Navy jet was shot down Sunday and the pilot. Lt. Edward A. Dickson of Wyoming, ejected and parachuted into the sea. He has not been found.

President Wants Nature Restored THE "IMPLIED consent" hfl for dealing with drunken driT ing arrests was shelved Mood a fey the Seiate Jndkiary Com mittee, which proposed that tbe natter be made the subject of study between legislative ses sioos. The bfli this sesion pro vided that the act of driving a car wouM imply consent to undergo tests for alcoholic content! Mood in case of an arrest on a drunken driving charge. The maharaja of Sikkim Monday expressed concern at what he said was a recent increase in the number of Communist Chinese incursions into Sikkim. A Rome civil cowrt declared void Monday the 195? Mexican nrcxy marriage of Carlo Ponti Sophia Loren, ruling at the tte. of stone and valued at $235,000, was erected.

Dedicated in November 1951, the first Mass was celebrated on Easter Sunday, March 25, 1951. WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson called Monday for a national effort for a beautiful America. He sent to Congress a special message outlining a many- pronged program to preserve and to restore and enhance the beauty of the country. He said action is needed to prevent a growing population from swallowing up areas of natural beauty, and to wipe out ugly scars created by surface mining and other causes. Congressional reaction was A sports enthusiast and ardent along the line, generally, thai (Continued On Page Seven) I the principles advocated are sound but cost and other factors must be examined.

The program ranged from tighter federal controls to curb air and water pollution to screening from view auto junkyards along highways. It requested more parks and recreational facilities, hiking trails, historical sites, and beautification of cites. An administration spokesman said the omnibus conservation program would cost several hundred million dollars a year. He added, however, that suffi- (Coatmaed On Page Seven) House Ends Ban On Nasser Food WASHINGTON (AP) Democrats overwhelmed Republican resistance Monday to President Johnson's plea that the House lift its ban against any further shipments of surplus food to the United Arab Republic. The effort to shut off any more shipments stemmed from resentment over policies of UAR President Abdel Gamal Nasser, damage to U.S.

information libraries in his country, and Nasser's saying, in effect, the United States could go to heU with its aid. A 241-165 vote rejected a GOP motion that Houe conferees to a Senate-House conference on the legislation be instructed to insist sn the strict ban voted by the House Jan. 26 by a 204-177 margin. First Dependents--91-Leave Today SAIGON, Viet Nam (AP) -Reluctantly but calmly following President Johnson's orders, 3,819 U. S.

government dependents in South Viet Nam packed Monday to leave. The first of them a group of 91 Itave Tuesday on commercial airliners. Forty head for the United States from Saigon and 51 from line for Hong Kong. Johnson ordered the withdrawal of wives and children of diplomatic, military and aid mission personnel after U. S.

Navy planes launched strikes on Communist North Viet Nam Sunday. The school for American children in Saigon closed Monday. used or the results they got. "No aircraft were damaged and all returned to the carrier Hancock," the Pentagon said after the photo reconnaissance mission. In Moscow, the Soviet government issued a statement declaring it "fully subscribes to the demand" of North Viet Nam that the raids be ended.

The Soviet statement said the raids will force that nation and its allies "to take further measures to safeguard the security and to strengthen the defense capability of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nnm." That means Communist North Viet Nam. U.S. and South Vietnamese authorities launched separate inquiries designed to tighten security and guard against any new Communist assaults on installation in the south. Congressional leaders indicated President Johnson and the National Security Council had (Continued On Page Seven) Police Held In Holdup BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP)-- Three Buenos Aires Province police sergeants have been arrested on charges of robbing a haberdashery cashier of $2,500. State Negro, White Methodists To Unite Saved Ey Judge POOLE, England (AP) A kindly judge has saved Peter Ascher's $112,000 inheritance for now by sending him to jail for only 15 months.

Ascher, 21, a house painter who has a record of stolen check convictions, had been bequeathed the money by his foster parents on condition he not be jailed for two years or more before age 48. Diplomats Pay Call SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -Two Russian diplomats, the first accredited to Chile in 18 years, paid a courtesy caU Monday on Foreign Minister Gabriel Valdes. They arrived last week. Union Chiefs Visit Texas Ports Next NEW YORK (AP) Leadersj of the International Longshore-j men's Association headed for ways thisI" year Vo dateTJi. Traffic Toll 44 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Police at Charleston re- ay Killed on West Virginia high- Texas Monday to speed up contract negotiations in the last major areas holding up settlement of the nation's dock strike.

The TLA. announced that its executive board will meet in Houston at 3 p.m. Tuesday to "close out the difficulties in the Texas area." Killed to same date last year: 47, CHARLESTON (AP) The head of West Virginia's Methodist Church announced Monday that the state's white and Negro conference will merge, effective June Bishop Fred G. HoDoway made the announcement in a speech before a meeting of the from action taken at the 19641 General Conference and Jurisdictional Conference. At present the state's all-Negro churches are members of the segregated Central Jurisdiction.

The West Virginia Confer- right to be part of us as we have a right to be part of us. I can see no significance to be attached to the fact that now a white bishop win appoint Negro pastors and that Negroes will attend our annual conference." ence of the Methodist Church is! Howevev, Holloway said he all-white. could see significance in the fact Shakeup In Bluefield 'Y Hinted As March Nears Autopsy Ordered NEW CUMBERLAND, W.Va. (AP)--An autopsy was scheduled Tuesday on the decomposed body of a woman found in the Ohio River near here Monday. The body carried no identification.

The woman was believed to field's segregated the target of a BLUEFIELD (AP)--A special meeting has been called for Tuesday by directors of Blue- YM-YWCA, civil rights march planned Saturday. Student civil rights leaders have vowed the "march on Bluefield" will take place if the YM-YWCA does not admit Negroes by then. YMCA directors are believed planning to choose two new facility, has expired. The other vacancy was caused by the recent death of trustee John Magann. The Bluefield Daily Telegraph has reported that the present six members are split evenly for and against integration.

In other developments: --City Manager Randolph Whittle Jr, said he would issue a parade permit for the planned two-block march under "certain members of the seven-person conditions and stipulations" to Board of Trustees, the group A 1- 1 i i TT wi.ix« tvi tv.v,o* states Mclhodist church lead-j "What is involved." Bishopithat "we shall now regard in her 40s. Hancock County thai legally owns the combined ers, including ministers and laymen. He said the transfer stemmed Holloway said, "is the dark skin to be our brothers; fer of fellow Christians into our I that we have waved good-bye to midst who have just as myth of color. Coroner John Herron said the body had been in the river about two months. center and sets its policy.

The term of trustee John Shott, foe of integration at the be made public later. --State officials, the Telegraph said, plan to place 30 or more state troopers in Bluefield the day of march. VICINITY: Mostly cloudy with rain beginning this afternoon and continuing through Wednesday, High today 59 and low tonicht in the mid-40's. Wednesday not much change in temperature. WEST VIRGINIA: Mostly cloudy with occasional rain today and Wednesday.

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