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1 METROPOLITAN Weather Fair and cloudy today, mostly cloudy tomorrow. Rain probability 10 per cent today. High today-65 Low 'tonight 47 138th YEAR VOL. 138, NO. 18 SYRACUSE.

N. MONDAY. OCTOBER 3. 1966 SEVEN CENTS Koufax Hero tor LA League Cro wn PHILADELPHIA: (AP) The Los Angeles Dodgers clinched their second consecutive National League pennant Sunday, beating Philadelphia 6-3 as Sandy Koufax, pitching for the first time this season with only two days rest scattered seven hits. Manager Walter Alston reluctantly called upon his brilliant left-hander to save the day after the Dodgers blew the first game of a doubleheader 4-3 on two throwing errors in the eighth inning.

With the second-place San Francisco Giants winning 7-3 in 11 innings over the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Dodgers had to.win the second game or send the regular season into an extra day for the second time in baseball history. (Continued on Page 21, Col 6) Morning News Digest VIET NAM U.S. air cavalrymen charge a mixed force of 300 "Viet Cong and North Vietnamese regu-. lars who shot down three American helicopters, lock them in- a savage battle and killed 110.. Pagel The Soviet Union acknowledges it is sending soldiers to North Viet Nam train crews for Hussian-made SAMs, and that some have fire of U.S.

planes. Page 2 NATIONAL DC9 with 18 persons aboard crashes into ravine, minutes away from safety at Portland, and all perish. Pagel I 5 6 7 8 91T1112151415 16171819202122 25242526272825 ITALY INVADED ETHIOPIA, IGNORING HSR OBLIGATIONS UNDER. COVENANTOF LEAGUE OF NATIOMS, Tropical Storm Inez brushes the Florida Keys and the Bahamas with gales as killer storm regains i a Pagel WASHINGTON Senate and House leaders say the week ahead will be one of the busiest of the 1966 session as Congress steps up its drive for final adjournment. Pagel Atty.

Gen. Katzenbach, in final news conference before taking No. 2 spot in the State Department, says recent setbacks for civil rights in congress and at the polls are only short-term reverses. Page 2 Today's Birthday Movie director, producer and writer Leo McCarey is 68. Inside Today SECTION i World News Science for You Lyons Den Political Arena Morning's Mail Library Corner Evans and Novak Henry J.

Taylor John Chamberlain Thomas A. Lane Drew Pearson Death Record Strength for the Day Puzle Quiz ..4 ..4 ..5 .6 .6 4 0 mt ..7 ..7 ..7 ,.9 ...11 Syracuse News SECTION II Women's World 14-15-20 Dear Abby 14 Marriages 14 Dr. Van Dellcn 15 Gordon Muck 20 Radio and Television 16 Silver and Gold 16 Prize Puzzle 17 Comics lt-ll Crossword Puzzle 18 Tell Me Why 18 Astrological Forecast ....18 Bridge ..19 Syracuse News 13-17-20 SECTION III Sports 21-22-23-24-26-30 BiUReddy 21 Theaters 30 mm mm Fair Then Cloudy Fair skies followed by increasing cloudiness has been predicted for today by the a bureau, with a chance of showers tonight or tomorrow. Mostly cloudy skies are expected tomorrow. The high temperature today will be 65 degrees, the low 47.

Rain probability will be 10 per "cent today and 20 per cent tonight, winds will be southwesterly, 10 and 20 miles an hour. The sun will -set at 6:43 p.m. today and will rise at 7:05 a.m. -tomorrow. All vehicular lamps must be lighted by 7:13 p.m.

today. Syracuse Area Headlines Barry- keeps a school use within the law. Page 8 County health a i board has been appointed. Page 11 Mayor sete the record straight on city's position regarding benefits for PBA and FFA. Page 13 A $300,000 daim for the death of a boy in Henninger High School pool has been filed.

Page 9 Plan to improve Northern Lights traffic circle announced during the weekend. Page 13 Thought for Tcday The function of government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of. private property of all its citizens. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1822-1945), 32nd president of the U.S. (19331945).

GAVE PREMATURE BIRTH TO. William Cwikielnik, 23, of gave premature birth Saturday to seven children. One was born dead and the other six died shortly after delivery. The children were born four months premature at St. Margaret's i a The Cwikiclniks have one child.

(AP Wircphotb). Delivers Big Blow for Dodgers Willie Davis, fleet Los Angeles Dodgers center fielder, is greeted at home plate after tieliverying tfiree- run homer in the third inning of the game of twin bill against the Philadelphia Phillies yesterday. Greeting him are Ron Fairly (6) and batboy. Phillies catcher is Bob Uecken (AP More Than 1300 Killed nn i Hurricane Uuirn 1 oward Plea NEW YORK (AP) A threatened strike against the General Electric Co. was called off Sunday night after President Johnson asked the company and the union involved to continue operations for two weeks.

The shake by. the International Union of Electrical Workers was set to begin at 12:01 a.m. but a little more than six hours earlier, the President's request was disclosed from -the White House. Acceptance by GE and the IUE of the two-week waiting period was. anncuncea at 8 p.m.

The talks will now move to Washington on Monday. William E. Simkin, head of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, which had entered the strike last Thursday, said an initial bargaining session in Washington had been set up for 2 p.m. The final green light for a strike by the IUE had been given Sunday morning by the GE-IUE Conference Board. Paul Jennings, president of the IUE, told newsmen outside Signs Put Away by Local 320 By LEROY NATANSON Members of Local 320 of the International Union of Electrical Workers last night stored away their picket signs for at least two weeks pending further negotiations between General Electric Co.

and the international union on a new contract. The strike "was called off at the request of President John- the Lexington Hotel, "thelson. The union had been pre- 11 4 i MIAMI (UPI) --Caribbean killer storm Inez ended a three- day attack on Cuba's agricultural economy Sunday and built back to hurricane fury on a destructive trek toward south Florida and the western Bahamas. Inez, which killed at least 1,300 persons and caused over $100 million damage on three Caribbean islands, quickly built winds to 75 miles per hour as it screamed across the Florida Straits raising seas of 8 to 12 feet in the Gulf Stream. Only one death was reported in Cuba, but the storm did heavy damage to vital sugar and coffee crops.

W. at gale warnings' from Marathon -in? the Florida Keys north to jStiiart on the mainland and warned that winds of up to 100 mph would pound the thinly-populated Bimini chain in the Bahamas around midnight. "The storm should pass about 40 to 60 miles east of Miami about 4 a.m. Monday morning," said forecaster Arnold Sugg at the National Hurricane Center, "But we won't get much more than gales between 40- to 60 miles an hour from here north to Palm Beach." which seemed to be in most danger were Force tracking'. in 'the Bahamas, but they were well 'battened down.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at Cape Kennedy reported that its tracking points on Grand Bahama, Eleuthera, and Carter Cay were "tied down tight." All dependents were reported either safely encased in hurricane- proof quarters or evacuated. At 6 EDT, the center of Inez was located near latitude 24.5 north, longitude 79.6 west A reconnaissance planes reported center was somewhat diffused, an talks had been under way, that acceptance of the postponement had been conditioned upon an assurance from Simkin that the union would be guaranteed "contract continuity" during the two-week period. The IUE, negotiating along with 10 other unions, had rejected the latest company contract offer Sunday and given a strike go-ahead. pared to set up picket lines at 12:01 a.m. today'at the various GE sites in the Syracuse area, John Stanley, business agent of Local 320, last night confirmed that the local would go along 'with request of the President and therefore there ibe no local strike.

Stanley had been in New York for negotiations and made his statement ihe stepped vraa Buumwimi. uuiuocu, an photograph Johnson asked'Secretary of. from his plane. showed Inez had "good circula- Defense Robert McNamara, has approximately tion Hurricane-wise residents in Marathon Key, about midway down the Florida island chain, began boarding up windows and store fronts Sunday. However people in the Miami area adopted a wait-and-see attitude.

Inez' six-day rampage across the Caribbean proved to be one of the most deadly dn recent history. Secretary of Commerce John T. Connor and Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz to join the negotiations which CaUifano said 7,000 members at 17 plant sites in Syracuse and the trea, but most of them are employed at Electronics Park, where ielevi or about 95 miles southeast of Miami. 18 Perish as Jet Airliner Plunges Into Mountain Gully PORTLAND, Ore.

(AP) -missing DC9 twin jet plane with 18 persons aboard crashed and burned in a mountain ravine Saturday night. There were no survivors. The wreckage was found Sunday afternoon. It was described as "pretty much in a ball" and timber around the wreckage was burned. A helicopter landed nearby end confirmed that all were dead.

The plane, west Coast Airlines' flight No. 956 from San Francisco to Seattle with scheduled stops in Eugene, and Portland, vanished from a controller's radar screen just after 8 p.m. Saturday. It was flying at 14,000 feet through a rainstorm and had just received permission to descend to 9,000 feet. It was 10 minutes from Portland Airport.

Search pilots flying over the scene spotted the wreckage at about 1:45 p.m. Sunday. It was between and 5 miles northeast of Squaw Mountain in ravine at the headwaters of Cheency Creek. There was no indication of what went wrong. The pilot had made the routine report that he was 10 minutes from Portland Airport; But he did not acknowledge clearance given him immediately after that to begin his A team of CAB investigators arrived from Washington two hours before the wreckage was found.

CAB Chairman Charles S. Murphy, in -the Northwest to address a meeting in Seattle, immediately flew over the crush scene with a 'group of investigators. Aboard the ill-fated flight were 13 passengers and five crew members. One was a 17- month-oid boy. Two were sisten flying to thft bedside of their fll mother.

Four were Wwt Coast Airlines and one was 1 the wife of an employe. One was a college girl hurrying home for her brother's birthday. Never before in its 20 years of flying had West Coast Airlines had a passenger fatality. It also the first crash of a DC9 a $3 million Douglas jet designed for swift short-Hop flights. It has a capacity of 75 passengers.

fiouth-l Haitian President Francois Duvalier said the death toll in his nation, which was belted by Inez with 160 m.p.h. winds, would reach over 1,000. He said "at least 1,000" persons were killed in the little town of Jacmel on Haiti's southwest coast. Duvalier told his consul general in Miami, Eugene Maximillien, that 100 were aLmJ mt-M. A Wmmtr, -TM -fmrnm --TT -TM- TM- worJd be moved from New York sion sets and other consumer to Washington on Monday.

About 120,800 workers, 80,000 of them members of IUE, are involved. Johnson asked the two-week delay because of General Elec- (Continued on Page 2, Col. 1) products are manufactured, and at the Court Street and Farrel Koad plants, where there are facilities manufacture of heavy military electronics equipment Negotiations on the basic con- (Continued on Page 9, Col. 7) Chase Continues The pilot was a veteran, Capt. Donald Alldredge, 50, who had been with West Coast since 1947.

His copilot, Charles Warren, 42, joined the company the same year and was director of its flight operations. A third pilot, along as an observer, had flown for West Coast for nine years. He was Peter M. Labusky, 38. All were from Seattle.

Adjournment Hungry Congress to Begin Its Busiest Week WASHINGTON (AP) Sen-passed in June by the Senate. ate and House leaders said Sunday the week ahead will be one of the busiest of the 1966 session as Congress steps up its drive for final adjournment. The Senate plans to pass Monday a comprehensive health planning bill containing increased grants to the states for a variety of health pro- hen it will resume debate on the antipoverty bill with passage slated Tuesday or Wednesday. Next it will turn to the billion grade and high school aid bill. Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana told newsmen that if he can clear all three of these measures by Saturday he will be hopeful Con- grees can quit without a post- election session.

House leaders have scheduled action Monday on bills to bt considered under a procedure which limits debate and requires a rote for sage. Most Important of Is tht packaging and labeling act, Later in the week, the House plans to act on: version of the grade and high school aid legislation, 2. a appropriations measure for the State, Commerce and Justice departments, 3. a bill to create a House special committee on standards and conduct similar to one already established in the Senate and half a dozen other items. Mansfield said he plans to meet with House Speaker John W.

McCormack, about midweek to take a reading on adjournment prospects. In an Interview taped, for broadcast Sunday on the CBS television-radio program "Face the Nation," Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois, said that if the Ksstoh goes much beyond Oct 15 "you would ao ihorten the time that ail House and one- third of the havt.to campaign that you would hive to think KriouiJy in terms of a recess, 1 Dirkien said he betievet there had been thought thtt if a cent were necentry, Congress would be called back on Nov. 18. killed in the capital city of Port au Prince.

He called Inez the worst storm hit his often- battered nation since the 1920's. The Dominican Republic, also hit by Inez, reported 200 killed. The French island of Guadeloupe, where Inez entered the Caribbean, reported another 40 dead. Havana Radio admitted heavy damage to Cuba's vital sugar crop and said island's coffee crop was apparently wiped out. Yanks Rout Reds SAIGON, South Viet Nam U.S.

air cavalrymen charged into a mixed force of 300 Viet Cong guerrillas and North Vietnamese regulars who shot down three of their helicopters on the central coast Sunday and locked them in savage battle, the U.S. Command reported. The cavalrymen killed 110 of them and pursued the fleeing enemy into the night, he said. "They've really got them on the run." The spokesman reported that casualties among the troops of the U.S. 1st Cavalry, Airmobile, Division operating 30 miles Amazing Recovery Steve Rowe, 9, of Carroll ton, whose arm was nearly severed Sept.

29 in fall, is shown with Dr. W. E. Winslow, who sewed the arm back on. Steve fell through a plate glass window at his home.

In the eight minutes before he arrived at Trinity Ostepathic Hospital, his body was nearly drained of blood. The youth's left arm was hanging by a small patch of skin. Dr. Winslow said the had no pulse and no respiration. He pumped his chest to start his heart beating.

(UPI photo). north of Qui Nhon were very light. They took" seven Communist prisoners and seized two 60mm mortars. The action on the central coast a front that has been quiet for the past month or so -came as high-flying B52 bombers from Guam hammered at bases of the North Vietnamese 324B Division inside the demilitarized zone dividing North and South Viet Nam. It was the third straight day of air raids in and close to the zone where U.S.

Marines are trying to plug up enemy infiltration routes from the North. Late reports of the fighting there told of an action between a Marine company of about 235 men and a well-entrenched North Vietnamese unit near the notorious "Rockpile" and just below the B52 target areas. Dispatches from Marine head- Quarters said the Leathernecks after coming under heavy enemy fire and called in artillery and air strikes. Results of the latter were not immediately known. Marine casualties were described as moderate, meaning they apparently took harsh punishment.

Exact casualty figures are not given for allied forces. Air attacks continued over North Viet Nam with strikes against focal points in the Reds' infiltration and supply systems. One U.S. plane was lost. Ground action elsewhere in South Viet Nam was scattered.

Another incident of accidental attack on friendly forces was reported. The cavalrymen's battle developed this way, according the U.S. Command: The Communist force operating about 260 miles southeast of the demilitarized zone shot down thrw division helicopters. The crafts were recovered later by cavalry ground troops but there was no immediate word in Saigon to (Continued on Page 2, Col..

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