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Complete weather on-Page A-2. The Southland's 11 Finest Morning Newspaper a PAGES LONG BEACH 12, CALIFORNIA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1964 VOL 26 NO. 158 U23EE3CT52E SSSBi Oi. ifc Ait EDITION lOe Phone HE 5-1 161 Classified No.

HE 2-5959 Harmonv i AceReporter Hunter at Rubys Trial ml iaiK LA. ACCUSATIONS HIT L. B. Blasts Progress Noted by FAA Head Guarded in Oklahoma" Bill Hunter, award-winning Independent, Press-Telegram police reporter, will depart for Dallas today to cover the murder trial of Jack Ruby, slayer of Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President Kennedy, Hunter, who wrote the special edition, Three Days in Dallas, for this newspaper, Is a native of Dallas' and vereti courts Wichita IT for five years. His on-the-spot reporting will, explain the- -unusual HUNTER procedures of Texas law, which is based upon frontier ideas of justice.

Hunter's eyewitness account of events in Dallas following the assassination won Official P-T lacramMto Berne By jim McCauley mi OKLAHOMA CITY UPl The nations top aviation official visited America's sonic-boom' testing 7 ground Thurs day and was placed under police guard after his life reportedly was threatened, Najeeb. Halaby, Federal SACRAMENTO -Long Beach, -blistered at. an earlier Senate tidelands hearing by assertions from a Los Angeles port official, retaliated Thursday by offering testimony that: 1. Los Angeles Harbor would have lost- $265,000 last fiscal year4f-Loe Angeles SACRAMENTO Progress was reported Thursday in the first tidelands truce parley between Long Beach and state representatives. Aviation Agency administrat firstTlafceTnrthe49624EHpotrWa-guafdefby-five--polie AiaadaM Pm Wlraetiele detectives after he arrived at a downtown hotel to address a civic club banquet.

A police spokesman said an anonymous caller telephoned police headquarters Thursday night.threatening Halaby. Frank J. Hortig, State Lands' Division executive officer, said two delegates each from the city and state worked in harmony to establish seven basic problem for negotiation in a compromise-planr- to Wider Viet War LWASHINtn-nN 1PI 5r- news competition sponsored by the California Publishers Association. His other awards include a third place in the Califomia-Nevada Associated Press Writing Contest last year; it FORMER U.S. SENATOR William F.

Knowland (center) prepares to sign docu- ments in Sacramento Thursday during formal filing for Sen. Barry Gold-waters entry into the California Republican presidential primary. Secretary of 5tate Frank Jordan (left) accepted documents-fromKnowland and San Francisco attorney Gardiner Johnson (right). hadn't allocated tidelands land rental receipts into port operations. 2.

Los Angeles keeps 100 percent of the revenue from tidelands granted to it, where-aa Lone Beach divides re-venue evenly with the state. 3. Los Angeles and Long Beach have the same port charges contradicting testimony last January' of. Gordon Los Angeles: Har-bor Commission member, who. claimed Lons Beach had retary of State Dean Rusk dumped cold water Thursday on the idea of invading Communist North Viet Nam now.

He said "no miracle is going to wipe out the Red guerrillas in South Viet Nam. No incidents were reported and police declined to give other details of the reported threat. 0 HALABY -made the speech as scheduled and held a 15-minute news conference Clay AdimtsF aith Hortig reported that "progress" occurred in the one truce parley in spitq of stormy tidelands proceeding elsewhere in the Capitol. THE SENATE Natural Re- California -Goldwater Slate Filed in-Black-Muslims Bob Hopes Son Eyed for Kidnap By JAMES BACON LOS ANGELES WV-Barry I Keenan's first choice for. a Rusk'Tejected also "Senate sourccs Committee, flouting Republican Leades Everett lhe advice of senate Presi-Dirksens description of Presi-jdcnt Pr6 Tempore Hugh M.

dent Johnson Viet Nam pol-; Burns, opened a hostile ear- By WILL GRIMSLEY without newsmen being aware of the purported threat Halaby said just before flying on to Los Angeles that he was not aware of the threat until after his speech at a an oldi YWCA dinner. cutthroat rates 4. $2.3 million of Los Angeles Harbor gross income last fiscal year came' from rental of back-area lands on state-granted "The port of Long Beach TrwotndnMvemadertyiriheoiherTiaTrdrwttlrless MIAMI BEACH, Fla. UPI lit seesthe light," he said. All I want is peace peace, "Put him in the dark and hell By MORRIE LANDSBERG SACRAMENTO CD Sen.

f0f myself and peace for the never crow. I have seen "Barry Goldwater, hailed tiu nswlv-crowned liit and Im tarry uoiuwawr, lWOrjd, the newly-crowned victim was kidnap icy is an S.tal?ni!,trati0n Both Bums and City Atty, putting together a compre-lLeonard expressfearffiara stuaton. jbitter tidelands hearing might undermine the harmonious THE ANTI GUERRILLA! truce talks, campaign in Southeast Asia" As it the talks broke the grass-toots choice of Cali-L fomia Republicans, formally bon8 chamP than one-fourth of total area, had only $467,000 in CLAYtyWbo stopped on, Cassius Clay, said Thurs- school chum, Bob Hopes son, Tony, before he settled on the Frank. Sinatra air FBI agent testified And another FBI man said! defendant Joseph Amsler told he said when asked if he would have changed his plans if he known. Stanley Draper, office had lartd -rentals, the Senate Natural Resources Committee was told.

Long Beach witness-was H. E. Ridings was, up early so city manager John R. would be free to testify before the was the central topic at Rusks 30-minute news conference. Some U.S.

officials, manager of the Oklahoma the states presidential primary Thursday. A list of 86 delegates to the Republican national convention pledged to the Arizona senator and Goldwaters required endorsement of the slate were filed with Secre-State Frank M. tary of City Chamber of Commerce, first said. the plainesclothes Long Harbor Board unhappy at failure to stamp Committee. (Continued Page A-10, Col.

3) (Continued Page A-4, Col. 6) (Continued Page A-8, Col. 4): Hortig said the truce talks day in revealing that, he had formidable Sonny Liston in become a member of the the seventh round of their 15-Black Muslims. round title fight here Tuesday My religion is Islam, the night, was relaxing at his 22-year-old Louisvjlle-fighter tnporary quarters when he told, the Associated Press in wa told that the leader of a telephone interview. I be-the black-supremacy sect, lieve Allah is God.

I think Elijah Muhammad," hadTold this is the true way to save a a meeting in Chicago Wednes-world, which is on fire with day that the new ring champi-hate." on was a disciple. Clay said he had made ani and.lI extended study of the religion SS obvious feeling. But him the original plan was td abduct young Sinatra the night of Nov. 22 in Los Angeles, but the assassination of President Kennedy so upset John Irwin, the. third defendant, that the plan was called off.

The government accuses the trio of kidnaping the 20-year-old son of the famed (Continued Page A-4, Col. 1) -jcre-slated -to-resume -at- 8:30 la.m. today, and forecast full-j scale bargaining will begin week. Next west's 'talks 'may be conducted in Southern California, he said. JVaiiie Change for LBSC Is Coming Up: CSCLB Delivery Room OK for Father Jordan.

Jordan signed up as a prospective delegate himself. THE GROUP numbers several supporters of former Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Many others are well- (Continued Page A-1T, CoL 1) deep, what is all the commotion over a period of months and is had become convinced it By ROBERT WILCOX EtecatiM EEtar AT ISSUE in the sessions are contract wording for de--SACRAMENTO MP Its! veloping n'ew ojl field off legal for an expectant father; the shoreline of Long Beach, the truth, and the light" jabout? 1 Nobody asks A rooster crows only when (Continued' Page A-5, Col. 3) changed fu.uK II i -A.

vr a Thursday to California State College at Long Beach. change, following a system-wide trend, was recommended by College Presi- The board also appointed the architectural firm of Gambler -HadBaker Backing Califomia. when his child isjopment and how much money born if the. mother, the doc-is to be allocated for tide- tor and the hospital agree, lands rush projects along the Em- That was the ruling Thurs-Long Beacji shoreline, mons and Jones, of Vfcst Los day of Atty. Stanley "some progress" report (Continued Par.c A-4.

Col. 5) dent Carl W- McIntosh, the colleges" Citizen AdvisorylAngeles. to design the faculty Academic building's at Verdcsllhe vnrilteirbyr Senate and the. Associatedcollege. Thtf board also Atty.

Gen. Jan Stev-j Students. led an academic plan- for theens, upsets a previous ruling! -fcoHegercaHing for an THE SWITCH js effectivesively liberal arts and science and included in "the Pubiii immediately, but ff i i a 1 study program. Health Department ban! against visitors in the nursery! or delivery room. i WASHINGTON (UPI) A Pan American Air-ways vjee president testified Thursday that Robert G.

(Bobby) Baker interceded with him on behalf of several big time gamblers who wanted' id run- CaribbeaiTaming tables by the airline. The Pirn Am official, John told file -Senate; Rules Committed that -Baker intro- Harry Harmon, state col-lege facilities planning chief, said construction -is expected documents, such as diplomas, will bear the old name until July-1. The action was taken by Increased in England MlM A-U) STEVENS warned that the to start within six months on the State College Board first buildings, rnusl remain a Trustees at its Los the college to open as ached-, tator. meetTngr -The purpose of-tha change Hw U. bflM.

Bfit PttfchaseafeiwUtMiL.UwQiild,;3;lrr ancejH'm6ft(ih67g5fftWW; casino operators who sought the concessions bn the Dutch nature of the system while preserving the identification Island Jpf CuracaotThewfc with-LhalocaLcommunityLa the' aunpuin S5HijbeJllegal and the Estates is pot expected to be who authorized -his' action PL TheBank of Enelandi icompleted-for JSut--three subject-to di months, he said. jciplinary action or criminal In another action, the board penalties, Stevens, moved to develop programs An official of SuttA Memo-of teacher-education -to Hospital in Sacramento with, the riew and tougherjnoted' that a recent poll of' state teacher-licensing re-the" California Hospital Asso- swie icic -licensing 1 not seriously. The U. S. y.1 ably qu.rement8.

lt mad, the tram-iaUQ. ndkat It ing of teachers the responsi-iof hospitals in the state were I bility of the entire faculty to permitting fathers', in the delivery room. each state college. TO JEERS and shouts from WASHINGTON WV-The Senate Thursday voted to authorize $17 trillion for missiles, aircraftrhips and research after.solidly an1 effort to knock out the Pentagon says' it wont spend tpX" develop a new bomber. Passage of the military hardware authorizationmeasure for the next fis- i ycantgrtlgrJulyrwamartmoug.

JctCoHlSlOraKHfxI-t ifift'-fiftlBMPlj jy go-ahead funds was 64 to 20. ROSWELL, M. (UPI) Two F84 Chairman Richard B. RusselL fighters collided in mid-air and then fgSteArmedScrvicq tee who guided ihe Tneasure to passage in quick time, said he hopes the House pilot was killed. The other was taken will go along with several Senate t0 niiJiUry hospital They were not changes in the bill without a formal conference.

Actual funds must be provided later in the annual defense appropriation bill -expected to total about $50 billion. The authorization measure, sets spending ceilings in various categories. Hold Police at Bay HACKETTSTOWN, NJ. Two teen-age youths who escaped from An-, nandale Reformatory in the day shot it a out with police for two hours Thursday; night before surrendering. Hie.

youths, Frank Dawson, 17, of and James Koedatich, 16, of Mount' Freedom, fired about 300 rounds of ammunition, but no one was injured. 1 Seek Proof on Drugs WASHINGTON (UPI) The Food arid Drug Administration (FDA) Thurs- da night said it would ask drug manu-' factultrs to prove that all drugs manu-. factured since 1938 not only are safe, but really do wbafthey claim. An FDA. spokesman said the-new regulation a -result of the Kefauver-Harris Drug Act will be proposed today.

It will cover more than 2,000 drugs placed on the market in the past 26 years. i 1 state College spokesman said. Long Beach is the fifth state -college to receive the new designation with the naihe of the system preceding the location of the college. The spokesman said the inclusion of the name of the state strengthens the system, adds prestige and is helpful in recruiting professors, particularly in the East. The names, of all 18 state colleges are expected eventually to be switched in line with the progrqpi, although the decision rests with the local colleger Changed previously have been the names, of the state colleges at Verdes, Hay-, ward, San Bemardmo and Los Angeles.

ness said. no contract was signed with the gamblers if-, ter the Baker case broke. GATES said Baker arranged meetings with him for Edward Levinson, owner of the Fremont Hotel in Las Vegas, Cliff Jones, former lieutenant governor of Nevada; and Jacob Kosloff. Jones knd Kosloff were identified as partners in four. or five casinos in the Caribbean.

Gates testified that. Baker attended two 6f his meetings with the casino operators but was absent from a third because of Senate business Pan American-Air way sf through a' subsidiary. Intercontinental Hotels owns or operates hotels in Curacao, Santo Domingo, and San Juan. All the hotels have gambling, casinos. In some cases Pan Am operates the hotels for other owners and rents out the opera tions.

In reply to a question by Sen. Carl Curtis, R-Neh! Gates testified that he had no knowledge that Baker would a silent partner in the proposed operation. 1 f-1- I i.t the opposition Labor Party, Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Msiidling told the House of Commons that interest rates abroad have gone up since the bank rate was set at ,4 percent 13--months ago, -and Britain is simply trying td get in line, But he added that' the British economy has beta growing at an annual rate of 6 I percent the past, year, and that was too I This ja an election year in Britain end the state of the economy is a major issue. James -Catlaghajj, Labor- spokesman on finance, told the House: It is bound to result in increased charges for housing loans and to put handicaps in the way of public author! Count Yourself in On 1 a Truly Great Cause The boy who carries this newspaper to your home each day is helping today to carry truth to the captive countries behind the Iron i 'Curtail). The effort needs your help, Your newspaper boy has inserted in Independent a Radio Free Europe, contribution The.

battle for freedom today is fought with words, and the words cost money. Radio Free Europe is a private, non-profit American organization that beams thousands of program-hours a week to Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Bulgaria. The purpose: to convince the people of the Iron Curtain countries which system of 'government is best. The Radio Free Europe channel is the hole in the Communist wall through which we can pour millions of words of undistorted news and information and I i-i 'MPPWtfrk EX-MARINE, again set to fight his own. personal Battle of PageA-18; PROFTT-takers send market averages dbwn.

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