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iailu if a tU 76th Year Phone 793-3221 REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1965 $1.50 Per Month Sixteen Pages 10 Cents Johnson, Erhard in By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI White House Reporter WASHINGTON (UPI) Johnson and West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard today held their final conference in two days of talks which featured Johnson's invitation for European Allies to join in the U.S. space effort. The space invitation and West Germany's future role in the European nuclear defense system were the main topics of discussion between the President and the chancellor. Erhard arrived at the White House for the final talk, accompanied by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, with whom he had met earlier. Also participating in the conference were Defense Secretary Robrt S.

McNamara, German Defense Minister Kai- uw von Hassel and Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroeder. The President said that early next year he would send a top- level U.S. delegation, headed by space agency Chief James E. Webb, to consult with Erhard and other European leaders about an "ambitious plan to permit us to do together what we cannot do so well alone." Johnson specifically cited two "very demanding and complex" projects high on the space agenda probes to the sun and to the planet Jupiter. He did not say just what form the participation would take, or whether it would include the current Gemini Program, or the forthcoming Apollo Moon Project.

The President's dramatic offer overshadowed somewhat the principal topic of his talks with Germany's plans for a greater share in Europe's nuclear defenses. The principal aim of the Erhard mission was understood to be his hope of selling the United States on a refurbished plan for some sort of Multi Lateral Nuclear Force (MLF) for NATO, affording West Germany a larger role in control of nuclear weaponry. SHOWPLACE OF LIGHTS The Frank Harwood home at 960 South Wabash was selected last night for Sweepstakes honors in the Redlands Jaycees' Christmas Decoration Contest. Hundreds of lights strung along roof of house and along driveway make the Harwoods' home a virtual beacon that can be seen for a great distance. Various cutout figures adorn the driveway at right.

A Nativity scene is located on raised front lawn in background at left. Story and additional photos on page four. (Facts photo by C. J. Kenison) Conservatives for halting more action in Rhodesia LONDON (UPI) The opposition Conservative party declared today that British action against rebellious Rhodesia has gone far enough.

Conservative leader Edward Heath said the party will not support moves beyond those already taken. "The limit of economic measures to be taken by this country and by a number of other major powers has now been reached," eath told a packed House of Commons. "Following the imposition of the oil embargo, we on this side of the House believe that we have reached a position where both the House and the country must immediately take stock of the situation," Heath said. Any further step would be the use of that is abhorrent to the opposition and many people, Heath said. Until now the Conservative leadership has supported government action against Rhodesia despite dissension from ultra right wingers.

Today's statement was seen as a clear warning to Prime Minister Harold Wilson that the opposition will fight any new attempt to topple the regime of Christmas spirits DENVER (UPI) meal of pie, popcorn and beer gave burglars the Christmas spirit. Denver police said the burglars forced open a rear window of a bar and restaurant, ate and drank their fill, then stole several bottles of liquor. Ian Smith which seized independence from Britain Nov. 11. The Conservatives want the government to solve the Rhodesian crisis by conciliation and even with Smith.

Wilson has said he will not deal with the rebellious premier. Heath's statement came as the House met to hear Wilson's report on his Washington trip, his speech to the United Nations and his meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson. A vote is expected on the Rhodesian situation tonight or Wednesday. The house was asked to declare that it "categorically rejects the use of a blockade or force in any other from" to solve the crisis results from the African colony's unilateral declaration of independence in November. Canada, France and Italy Monday joined the United States in supporting the oil embargo against Rhodesia.

Wilson told Parliament the United States and Canada also offered assistance in airlifting oil supplies to Zambia, Rhodesia's northern neighbor. Titan 3C super in far-reaching orbit 17 lives lost in series of disastrous fires Weather Redlands Today Highest 59, Lowest 38 One Year Ago Highest 68, Lowest 45 Tomorrow's Sunrise and Sunset 6:52 a.m.— 4:44 p.m. No smog, allowable burning. Fruit frost warning service reports temperatures in agricultural districts tonight will be slightly above 32 degrees at coldest spots. San Bernardino Valley: Variable cloudiness but partly sunny Wednesday.

Not quite so cool tonight but slightly cooler Wednesday. Lows tonight 35-40. U.S. Weather Bureau Noon Forecast The noon weather agricultural forecast as prepared by the U.S. Weather Bureau: There will be considerable cloudiness in Southern California through Wednesday, but the cloudiness will be decreasing Wednesday night leaving mostly sunny weather for Thursday.

Temperatures were expected to be cooler in the coastal sections this afternoon but otherwise little temperature change was expected through Thursday High temperatures this afternoon were near 50 in the mountains and upper deserts, and in the 60s in most other parts of Southern California. Temperatures and precipitation for the 24-hour period ending at 4 a.m. High Low Precip By United Press International In Yonkers, N.Y., just north of New York City, dozens of youngsters were practicing, with varying degrees of skill and enthusiasm, on musical instruments. In Lowell, people were going to sleep in a row of wooden tenements. In the Long Island suburb of Elmont, N.Y., a 2-year-old infant was strapped into his bed with a baby harness.

In a shopping center of Wheat Ridge, a suburb of er, the stores were jammed with Christmas shoppers. To all these people in all these places, the horror of fire came Monday. And the toll was least 17 lives including 13 children. Twelve Die Scores of frightened children made their way through the smoke and escaped from the Jewish community center in Yonkers. But nine children ranging in age from 8 to 10 perished, trapped on the fourth floor.

The fire also killed three adult music teachers, one of them a mother who rescued her daughter, then rushed back into the building to save other children. The fire came on the third night of Chanukah, the Jewish "Festival of Light." The music classes had recently been moved to the center in Yonkers from the Bronx. Not all of the victims were Jewish. In Lowell, the temperature was below freezing when CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) An Air Force Titan 3C super rocket shot into a far-reaching orbit today with four piggyback satellites space talkers and a sun one of the toughest unmanned missions tried by the United States. The triple-barreled space machine, most powerful yet flown by U.

S. rocketmen, rumbled aloft precisely at 9 a.m. EST in a thunderous finale to America's most spectacular year in space. Perched in its nose were two experimental communications satellites, a "do it yourself" amateur radio moonlet that says "hi" and a scientific satellite designed to tell man more about the sun and its dangers. They were climbing toward a hard-to-reach, almost stationary orbit high over the equator to put them within range of earth control stations for several days at a time.

The Titan's versatile third stage began its six-hour string of orbital acrotatics by first racing into a near-perfect 104- mile high orbit. An hour later, at a point over the Solomon Islands in the Pacific, it fired its two pound thrust engines a second time to zip into a great egg- shaped path reaching 20,930 miles above earth highest point ever reached by a Titan. The Titan's third stage then went into a five hour coasting climb before firing a third time to go into a high circular orbit over the earth's mid-section. The four satellites were set to spring into space on their own after the final maneuvering. The Soviet Union also launched a satellite.

The official news agency Tass said the 101st Cosmos satellite was shot into an elliptical orbit ranging from 161 to 341 miles high. The 127-foot Titan 3C, making its third of 12 test flights, is a kingsize version of the Titan 2 that orbited five pairs of Gemini astronauts this year. It gets its extra push from two huge solid boosters strapped to the sides of a three- stage liquid fueled rocket. The awesome solid-fueled rockets, each generating x.2 million pounds of fiery thrust at lift-off, performed with perfection today. They hurled the Titan and its four satellites to the edge of space in less than two minutes leaving a like column of smoke in their wake.

"The trajectory looks very good," said a project officer as' the rocket streaked high over the Atlantic Ocean enroute to its preliminary "aiming orbit." Its spent solid rockets ripped away as planned and fell into the sea. The super Titan, set to start lifting trailer-sized Manned Orbiting Laboratories (MOL) in 1968, was programmed to kick its four hitchhiking payloads into slightly different orbits 20,930 miles above the equator. To do it, the Titan's "switch engine" third stage not only had to zip into three different orbits, but it had to twist the direction of its orbital path to send he satellites on a course parallel to the equator. The ham operators' satellite, dubbed Oscar 4, was expected to link amateur radio stations nearly half way around the world. The 42-pound craft, programmed to broadcast the code letters "H-I" for identification, was set to receive radio signals at 144 megacycles and beam them back to earth at 431 megacycles.

The two experimental communications satellites, called Les 3 and Les 4, were built for the Air Force by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to test parts and techniques for possible use in future military radio satellites. The Titan's 427-pound sun- watching satellite, an like craft equipped with four power-supplying solar paddles, carries 15 different eyes and sensors to measure the radiation streaming from the sun. flames ripped through two wooden tenements. More than 50 persons were driven into the street. Firemen found the bodies of a 23-year-old mother, Mrs.

Augusta Douglas, and her three children, Andre, 6, Derrick, 4, and Quintin, 2. A neighbor said the building was a sheet of flames by time firemen arrived. John Harupa, had to leave his son, John, 15, in charge of the household in Jelmont, N. Y. while he went to pick up his wife from work.

While Harupa was gone, a fire started in a closet and raced through the house. Young John rescued a 6- year-old brother, David, and his sister, returning home from school, rescued another child, Daniel, 1. But John was unable to unstrap the harness which held his infant brother, Christopher, in his bed and the tot was killed. The other children were injured. Boston 26 16 Chicago 35 34 .01 Cincinnati 31 29 .16 Denver 53 24 Des Moines 40 23 Fairbanks -8 -22 .01 Fort Worth 66 36 Helena 51 17 Honolulu 74 69 Kansas City 52 30 Las Vegas 52 33 Los Angeles 73 50 Minneapolis 28 22 New York 32 25 Oklahoma City 63 30 Omaha 47 28 Palm Springs 37 Sacramento 44 30 Salt Lake City 27 16 T.

San Francisco 51 38 Seattle 50 41 .01 Washington 36 29 .01 Quote of Day NEW YORK Epton, leader of the Progressive Labor Movement, convicted of criminal anarchy after a jury heard a tape recording of a speech in Harlem before the July, 1964 riot in which he said: "And in that process of smashing this state, we're going to have to kill a lot of these cops, a lot of these judges, and we'll have to go up against their army." Gemini 7 crew tells of 14-day happenings CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) -j Frank Borman and James Lovell, the Gemini 7 astronauts who proved that man can spend- 14 days in space, today tackled their last day of debriefings before flying back to Houston for a reunion with their families. The marathon pilots began a day-long session recalling for scientists every detail of the experiments they performed during their record space voyage and rendezvous with Gemini 6. Officials said Borman and Lovell may also get more medical examinations from doctors keeping close watch on the astronauts' physical condi tion after two weeks of exposure to the rigors of space. The length of time it takes for space voyagers to readapt to life on earth is a key factor in man's long range future in space. Astronauts' heart and pulse rates usually drop during prolonged spaceflight but in the past have returned to normal after two or three days back on earth.

The astronauts will spend Christmas with their families but the post-flight paperwork is expected to resume after the holiday. Attacking U. S. planes bomb Uong Bi power plant This evening fall ends Spring in only 3 months Bv United Press International temperature went as low as 25 Winter begins and fall Monday at Wanakena, officially today. The three-month season of winter was scheduled to arrive at 8:41 p.m., EST, tonight and for most Americans indications were it wouldn't make too much difference.

N.Y., and was 8 below today at Old Town, Maine. Chilly weather covered the Southeast and frost spread during the night into sections of Florida, perilling citrus crops. Snow fell today in a broad area from the Great Lakes eastward Wintry weather was already to the mid-Atlantic states, prevalent across the Showers spread through Wash- Upper New York State and ington and Oregon. northern New England had bitter cold and heavy snows for the second day in a row. At Highmarket, N.Y., the snow was 32 inches deep.

The Heavy fog settled over the Central Valley of California this morning, cutting visibility to nearly zero in many areas and slowing traffic to a crawl. Along the eastern slopes of the Montana Rockies, a warm Chinook wind kept temperatures above freezing. The winds at Livingston, were reported in gusts up to 50 miles an hour. The warm temperatures and strong winds loosened tons ol snow on a hillside 60 miles southwest of Denver, Monday. The snow slide buried and killed Lee T.

Unruh, 16, Arvada, Colo. A companion escaped with a sprained ankle. It was the first fatal skiing accident in Colorado this season. SAIGON (UPI) planes attacking Communist North Viet Nam's industrial heart today bombed the vital Uong Bi power plant 14 miles from Haiphong for the second time. The raids over the north were costly five planes shot down and five crewmen feared killed.

A U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane was shot down over Uong Bi Monday with the loss of two crewmen while photographing the huge thermal plant which supplies much of the power for the Hanoi-Haiphong area. A C130 transport was lost in South Viet Nam today for a two-day total of seven planes and seven fliers. Today's aircraft losses were the worst since April the Communists shot down seven U.S. planes The lost planes were believed downed by conventional antiaircraft guns.

In ground action American infantrymen accidentally ambushed a Viet Cong kidnap squad on a jungle trail and rescued three of those who had been seized Monday two Americans and a Vietnamese. The fourth, a Dutchman, was killed by a burst of Communist machinegun fire. The Uong Bi plant supplies much of the electrical power used by Haiphong and the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi some 55 miles to the west. The coal-burning plant was attacked and heavily damaged last Friday in a major escalation of the war. All of the planes were believed to have been hit by conventional anti-aircraft fire, although Soviet-supplied surface-to-air (SAM) missiles also were hurled at the attackers During one of the raids, Communist MIG fighters also appeared in the skies but their pilots raced away toward Communist China when the American planes closed in on them.

However, it was while returning from the chase that two of the U.S. planes were brought down. The U.S. spokesman gave this breakdown of the losses: F105 Thunderchief shot down by 57 millimeter antiaircraft fire after completing its bombing run 35 miles south of Vinh. The pilot bailed out and contacted a rescue helicopter by radio.

The mercy craft flew inland and picked up the flier. F100F Pathfinder escorting a flight of F105 Thunderchiefs which blasted a SAM rocket site about 35 miles northeast of Hanoi with hun dreds of 2.75-inch rockets. Its two crewmen were feared lost Thunderchiefs blasting a bridge 40 miles northeast of the Red capital after chasing the Russian-built MIGS toward Red China. One pilot was 'Beat Army sign revealed space feared killed hut the other ditched in the South China Sea and was rescued. F4C Phantom escorting the Thunderchiefs, which were being attacked with the SAM missiles.

The F4C took a direct hit from a 57 millimeter antiaircraft shell and its two man crew was killed. two-man Navy RA5C brought down in the Uong Bi strike. In South Viet Nam, a U.S. Air Force C130 cargo plane crashed and burned while on a re-supply mission near the Tuy Hoa airport Monday. The cause of the crash and fate of the crewmen aboard was not known.

A rescue helicopter was driven off by Communist ground fire. U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division troopers who have been sweeping the Qui Nhon area since early in the weekend reported today the known toll of Viet Cong dead had risen to 83. SPACE CENTER. Houston (UPI) small, white lettered! sign suddenly showed up in the righthand window of the Gemini 6 capsule at the most climactic moment in the history of space travel.

The sign read: "Beat Army." The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released Monday a spectacular picture that established Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford as the Navy football team's first orbital cheering section. The photograph was taken from Gemini 7 while the two capsules were in a history- making rendezvous 185 miles above earth last Wednesday. Stafford and Schirra are graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and they were getting in a poke at astronaut Frank Borman, graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Borman, of course, was outnumbered. His copilot, James Lovell, also is a Navy man. Borman could take it in good humor, though. Army, despite an underdog role, fought the Midshipmen to a 7-7 tie this year. Jury terms LA.

welfare wasteful LOS ANGELES (UPI) The 1965 county grand jury, issuing its final report, today described the administration of welfare programs as "costly and wasteful." "In our opinion this costly, wasteful, tragically inefficient operation must be corrected in the interest of the taxpayers and the recipients of the welfare programs," the 23-man panel said. It urged Gov. Edmund G. Brown and state welfare director John Wedemeyer to stream line the program. Before the panel, headed by foreman Peter F.

Schabarum of Covina, was discharged to clear the way for the 1966 jury, it also criticized public officials for "petty political considera tions" on the smog problem. The jurors said that $38.5 million of the county Bureau of Public Assistance's budget of 3400,966,530 went for administrative expenses. McNamara lists budget deferrals WASHINGTON (UPI) Secretary Robert S. McNamara today made public a list of $460 million in military construction projects being postponed to save funds for the Viet Nam buildup. An additional S160 million in military housing construction also is being postponed to bring the total deferral of projects to S620 million.

However. McNamara did not list the 8,500 family housing units involved because they previously were identified. More than 500 projects are being postponed in 42 states and the District of Columbia. McNamara said the S868 million in high priority military construction in 36 states, the District of Columbia, and 16 overseas locations would be continued. The Army was hit hardest in the cutback.

A total of S203.3 million in Army construction projects were discontinued in addition to the family housing units. The Air Force lost S132.1 million and the Navy S128.J million in projects. McNamara said "all projects that are essential immediately for combat support or are urgently required for safety, health or other compelling reasons will proceed as scheduled." The cuts will knock military construction spending almost in half. Included among the deferred items was a military housing program which would have provided 8,500 dwelling units, new barracks, building additions and modernization projects. From 85 to 90 per cent of the deferred construction is in the United States.

None affects weapons. McNamara's cuts were in construction projects for which funds have already been appropriated in the 1966 fiscal budget, running until July 1. The defense chief told a news conference Monday his move was "symptomatic of our approach" to the fiscal 1967 budget, which will be submitted to Congress shortly after the first of the year. Sources have estimated that the Defense Department's spending requests would be close to $60 billion next year. This would be a peacetime high.

McNamara announced the construction cuts as part of an over-all drive to eliminate every possible expense to aid the war effort. Toward the same end he plans to try again to get Congress to approve his plan to merge the Army Reserve with the National Guard. Here is the list of the other projects in Southern California to be postponed, with Army, Navy and Air Force projects listed separately. Army projects: Fort Irwin Tactical equip, shop and fac, commissary store, community center, POL facility, $96,000 25 PT rifle range, $110,000. Navy projects: Camp Pendleton Battalion admin, battalion recreation $215,000.

Del Barracks w-mess, BOQ w-mess, $1,748,000. China Lake Liquid oxygen shop, $47,000. El lab restore damaged fac, $1 ,441 ,000. Imperial Beach Electrical power systems, $300,000. Long air system, barracks, Waves' barracks, S227.000: comm'd officers' ess, $187,000.

North of barracks. $726 ,000. Pt. mess, $893,000. Fleet A i sub Warfare School, San Diego Barracks, $1,212,000.

San BOQ, water fire protection. electrical (Continued on page 2) Russians launch 101st in Cosmos series MOSCOW (UPI) Soviet Union today launched the 101st satellite in its mysterious Cosmos series, the official news agency Tass announced. Tass said the satellite was placed in an elliptical orbit ranging from 161 to 341 miles above the earth and that monitors were processing information received from it. The Cosmos carries instruments designed to continue Russia's exploration of outer space, Tass said. The first satellite in the Cosmos series was launched in 1962, and the 100th only last Frday..