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DAKOTA: Warmer SO. DAKOTA: Warmest IOWA: Fair is SUNDAY Vol. CI No. 81 Copyriqht 1967 Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company MINNEAPOLIS, SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 1967 PRICE 25c New Probe Finds Dirty Meat Firms Data Is Cited to Back Stronger J- 4 ft VMlUUUl I 5 A ohnson Ly Inspection Law By NICK KOTZ Minneapolis Tribune Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, D. C.

The Agriculture Department (USDA) has just completed a new meat industry investigation, which again has shown New York Times Service WASHINGTON, D.C. President Johnson gave authorization Tuesday for air attacks against sensitive and previously restricted targets in North Vietnam, in formed sources disclosed Saturday. The sources said the President evidently responded to congressional pressure after learning that the Senate Preparedness subcommittee planned hearings on bombing restrictions and as Rep. Gerald R. Ford of Michigan, House GOP leader, v.

called for lifting these restrictions. 4 The President a reliably reported to have given approval for the new target list Tuesday night to Adm. Ulysses S. Sharp, who has overall responsibility for air and sea activity against unsanitary conditions in many packing plants, including some in Minnesota. Legislation calling for stronger meat inspection laws picked up steam several weeks ago following publication in The Minneapolis Tribune of segments of a 1962 investigation that revealed abuses in meat packing plants not under federal inspection.

Opponents of strengthened inspection attacked the study as being dated, and said that conditions have improved substantially since then. V5 Twins Top Chicago 3 Hun Homer Allison Helps hunt Heat Leadinn While Sox, to 2 TWIN'S HALF-GAME FROM FIRST Associated Press I -4 RESCUE WORKERS HOISTED LEONARD BOYCE, 15, FROM WELL NEAR LENORE, W. VA. He wan takvn to a hospital uhirc he nan reported in fair condition North Vietnam. On Wednesday morning.

Sharp began his testimony before the subcommittee, several of whose members have demanded an increase in the air war. During his testimony in secret session, Sharp was reported to have Youth Rescued From Well After 24-Hour Ordeal CONSEQUENTLY, the House Agriculture Committee asked USDA to conduct Kosygin Tells China it Risks Loss of Trade disclosed the President's authorization of air strikes Vikings Defeat Eagles, 34 to 0 Details in Spoils Peach Wozniak Back, Hints 70 Try for Governor LENORE, W.Va. P) Bruised, scratched and mud covered, Leonard against a package of targets" previously off-limits. The tirst strikes carried out under these orders, government officials said, were raids Friday against the Paul Doumer Bridge, which stretches from the northeast edge of Hanoi's city limits across the Red River. a new investigation 10 determine current conditions in intrastate plants exempt from federal inspection.

USDA inspectors have reported back on their new findings. USDA officials say the new reports from about 30 states convince them that unsanitary conditions and other abuses are substantially as they were five years ago. Rev. Neal Smith, D-Iowa, is hands around the youth's lees but had to let go when more sand and rock were dislodged. Young Boyce said his right leg was causing him pain.

Rescue workers said they heard him sobbing several times. "Not many men could have stood up to this ordeal like he has," said Wil-lard Howell on whose property the well is located. MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin, in a stern personal message to Chinese Premier Chou En-lai Saturday, demanded release of a Soviet merchant ship, the target of attacks by Chinese mobs for two days.

Boyce was pulled from a cave-in well Saturday after i trapped for almost 24 hours. The 15-year old youth had a Officials said the list includes a number of transpor- By FRANK WRIGHT Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer Itation and industrial installa hinted that a move to make tions in the Hanoi and Haiphong areas and along the Kosygin indicated that if the ship is not released, the Former State Rep. Donald Wozniak announced Saturday that he will resign from the vital rail link trom Hanoi to Boyce Soviet Union might sever trade relations with China. the Chinese border. U.S.

Foreign IT WAS NOT disclosed Service andi him one of its top officers in the near future might be in the works. He said U.S. Rep. John Blatnik may resign as DFL national committeeman and expressed an interest in re Kosygin denounced the acts of rude violence" along the old well and Boyce was pulled out feet first. The well is located in an isolated mountain area about 70 miles southeast of Huntington.

Throughout his ordeal, the boy pleaded with workers to free him. "Tell them to please get me out. I can't stand much mors," he said. He was given water and hot chocolate through a rubber tube during the chilly night. He received sedatives.

Jimmy Wolford of Williamson, a former Navy corpsman, climbed down a rope to administer the shot. THE YOUN GSTER'S trouble started when he climbed down into the narrow well lined with rocks. He went in to inspect it prior to cleaning. He apparently dislodged a rock and part of the wall collapsed. Boyce was buried up to his shoulders about halfway down the well.

Shortly before noon a worker said he had his whether the President's authorization would permit return to Min-nesota in against the ship Svirsk and said the captain and some crew members had been hopes ot be- leading a congressional fight to correct these abuses by expanding federal inspection to include many intrastate plants now exempt from inspection. As matters now stand, 25 per cent of meat processing and 15 per cent of slaughtering are exempt from federal inspection because the plants do not sell meat across a state line. ONLY 25 states have laws strikes against the port facilities of Haiphong. bluish complexion and was very stiff, rescue workers said. But he was conscious when placed on a stretcher and taken to a hospital in Williamson, about 15 miles from here near the West Virginia-Kentucky border.

"I KNEW I was a goner," Boyce said at the hospital where he was treated for coming the lb placing him. Blatnik has held In the past, the White House has limited targets in the Hanoi-Haiphong areas for OHIO OHIO Charleston Ashland (Uv. VIRGINIA Williamson Woyland VIRGINIA Miles 1970 DFL candidate for governor. Wozniak, a 16 year veteran of the political reasons, largely to "seized and taken to an unknown Kosygin demanded immediate measures to insure the safety of the captain and crew and release of the ship from the Manchurian port of Dairen. Kosygin interrupted his va Wozniak frost-bitten feet and was fed minimize civilian casualties and to avoid giving propaganda openings to the Commu intravenously.

"Several times House of Representatives before leaving the state two I thought I was a goner. nists. "I asked God for forgive cation to send his extraordin U.S. civilian officials have years ago to start his diplomatic career, also said he intends to take an active role ness for all I've done," he also spoken of the risk to ary demand to Chou after the Peking government ig said before he was bathed in rebuilding the Democratic and placed in bed. When nored a formal Soviet pro Targets Continued on Page 8A the post since 1963.

THE OFFICE usually is filled at the party's state convention. Vacancies in the interim are filled by the party's 400-member State Central Committee, which is tentatively scheduled to meet next at Willmar Oct. 14 and 15. Blatnik, who said Thursday that he would support Wozniak if he sought the governorship, could not be reached for comment yesterday afternoon. Wozniak, who called a press conference at the St.

Paul Hilton Hotel to discuss his future, said he will leave the Foreign Service at the end of August and resume the practice of law in St. Paul. HE HAS purchased a home Farmer-Labor party and test note Friday over the LENORE, W. VA. Youth trapped in ivell arrest of Capt.

Victor Korz hov and assaults on the freighter by Red Guard mobs IN SOUTH VIETNAM requiring inspection of this processing and slaughtering. Many of these 25 states acknowledge they have inadequate personnel for thorough meat inspection. The July-August investigation included the following descriptions of conditions in some of 11 Minnesota plants visited: "A shocking lack of sanitation in all areas. Equipment is not being cleaned properly, and hooks for holding carcasses are very dirty. "Sausage is made in a back room, and the equipment was deplorable.

It was very dirty THE TEXT of the note was released by the Russian news agency Tass. asked what he sought forgiveness for, he said, "I cussed once in a while, never smoked or chewed." A CROWD of about 200 persons watched as the rescue operations were carried on. They cheered and applauded when the youth's mud-caked body was raised. Tom Farley, of nearby Delabration, was the man who pulled Boyce out Rockefeller, Chafee, Scranfon Give Their Backing fo Romney Candidates Agree to Resume Drive Kosygin's message was the first personal communication in months of deteriorating re lations between the two giant Communist nations. It con tained no threat of a diplo at 303 Woodlawn St.

whose strength is centered Paul, for which he said he matic break. the ricelands south of Romney's summer home at this island resort in the in and rnstv. There were no Tass said the telegram Straits of Mackinac. paid $75,000. His real estate agent, who attended the press conference, referred to the four-bedroom house as "governor-elect's mansion." called Chinese detention of the ship, which docked July The three were invited to 22 to pick up a cargo of salt, the island for a weekend that could be the start of Rom a "violation or elementary New York Times Service SAIGON, South Vietnam-Eight of the 10 civilian presidential candidates agreed Saturday to end their boycott of the campaign if they can agree with the government on travel and security arrangements.

It was understood that the tour through the provinces, which was aborted last Sun Wozniak said he had told norms of international law. ney's final push for the Vice-President Hubert Hum through a 30-inch opening about 14 feet down the side of the well after a trench had been dug to the well. Boyce was trapped by falling rock about 5:15 p.m. Friday. A feverish rescue operation immediately began, but small cave-ins hampered workers.

FINALLY, earth-moving machines dug a deep trench MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. Three of the Republican party's leading moderates said Saturday they "share deeply" a desire to help Gov. George Romney of Michigan win the 1968 GOP presidential nomination. The statement was made by Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, with the assent of Rhode Island Gov.

John Chafee and former Pennsylvania Gov. William Scranton. "This shows that the Chi wash bowls or other cleaning facilities. The room was in a general dirty condition. Containers for holding sausage meat were very dirty.

"The slaughtering room was of cement block construction and had no screens on doors to keep flies out. Meat Continued on Page 8A phrey and the members of Saigon, said there had been frequent incidents in the last 10 days in several provinces. "In Go Cong," he said, "the province chief called in two of my supporters, who are lower government officials. 'You have he told them, 'and you're being paid by the. government.

You'd better be very careful. "'Think of Kennedy. He Romney and the others be nese side is intentionally bringing matters to a further gan the conference by insist Minnesota's DFL delegation in Congress of his intentions and assessed their reactions as "good." aggravation of Soviet- cm ing that they were here for nese relations and is making relaxation and not to discuss politics. doubtful the fulfillment of ex day, probably would resume ALL OF THE DFL's elect- isting trade relations between HE ADDED, however, "I the Soviet Union and the Chi nese People's Republic." don't think you can get the Although each man has ex Tuesday at Bien Hoa, tne site of a big Allied air base 15 miles north of Saigon. The shortened tour is likely to consist of 11 stops instead Wozniak Continued on Page 8A was a president and he had all those people protecting IN TODAY'S TRIBUNE four of us together without The threat is presumably pressed support for Romney in the past, this was the first him.

Think what could hap of some consequence to now and then saying some thing of a political nature." time they have done so joint China, although it is not as pen to you. You're ANOTHER civilian nomi Earlier yesterday Romney important as it would have -lmanac-i been a few years earlier when "ALREADY THE three of nee, Truong Dinh Dzu, said left his guests and flew to Detroit to attend the funeral Russian Chinese commerce us share deeply a sense of he had collected "a lot of evidence" of government re of a National Guard sergeant dedication to help Gov. Rom fatally wounded in the De Ship Continued on Page 8A nev." Rockefeller told a news of 22 as originally planned. Although they insisted in a communique that the government had been responsible for the so-called "Dong Ha incident," the candidates dropped their demand for an apology and refrained from accusing the ruling junta of sabotaging the election. THEIR feud with the government began when no one pression.

He promised to disclose it in detail at a news troit riots two weeks ago. He conference on the porch of He Has Place to Preserve Knowledge returned about noon. conference Monday. THE MEETING was the first of what had been planned as a summer-long series of sessions Komney Sunday, Aug. 13, 1967 225th dov, 140 to go this vear Sunrise, 6:12 a.m.: sunset, 8:23 p.m.

had hoped to hold on Mackinac Island while taking long, hard look" at his presi dential prospects. A welfare worker, complaining about high-pressure salesmen who sell low-in Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, when asked about these charges, challenged Huong to bring forth "facts" to corroborate his statements. He Politics Continued on Page 8A Warm Weather Will Continue Fair skies and continued warm weather are forecast Romney has a particular affection for this remote Around and About the News: CAUGHT IN CROSSFIRE on his Vietnam policies, President Johnson is likely to be forced into some decisive action soon. Clark Mollenhoff, Minneapolis Tribune staff correspondent, analyzes the situation on Page 5A. RICOCHET OF SNIPERS' BULLETS has been felt in Congress, where pressure has increased for a bill to regulate sales of firearms.

The situation is analyzed on Page 1C by staff correspondents Jack Wilson and Richard P. Kleeman. Among the Features: EVERYONE'S BUILDING A THEATER, so why not us, thought a group of Twin Cities students. They did, and Mike Steele, staff writer, reports on the results, on Page 1 Entertainment. THEY EAT LIKE BIRDS at a special smorgasbord set up in a sylvan hideaway in the heart of the city.

Lora Lee Watson, staff writer, reports on the denizens of the sanctuary for small wildlife, on Page 1 Home and Recreation. Among the Old Friends: Ann Landers 1W Bridge 3H Theaters 2-5E Dock Talk 1 OH Books 6, 7E Gardening EditorialOpinion Pages 2C-4C Minnesota Polls 2B, 3C Parade of Homes Section TV for the week 9 Entertainment turned up to meet them at the airport at Dong Ha. (KY Denies Rigging Vietnam Election Page 2A.) Tran Van Huong, the leading civilian nominee, renewed his charges of government harassment of his workers. In an interview at his Saigon apartment, the portly, soft-spoken, 64-year-old- come ramines mercnanaise they can't afford, told about a family that bought a freezer it didn't need. The next day the family was the victim of an encyclopedia salesman.

The head of the house drew the line when it came to buying a bookcase, however. "I don't think we need the case," he said. "We've got an empty freezer to keep the books in." Golfer Ben-Hogan is 55 to-day. Moviemaker Alfred Hitchcock is 68. island, where he spent seven days in retreat before announcing for the gubernatorial race that launched his political career in 1961.

At the news conference, all four men said there had been no discussion about Romney's possible entry into the New Hampshire primary next year. But the matter came up when Chafee was asked what his reaction would be if Gov. Romney Continued on Page 8 A for the Twin Cities today, according to the Weather Bureau. A high of 88 is predicted, with a low tonight of 62. Monday's high should be 90.

politician said that bands of "hooligans" were roaming through the Mekong Delta, beating up his supporters. Government policemen, he added, have waited outside Precipitation probabilities are near zero today and 5 per Associated Press I cent tonight. Winds will be houses until his workers left, then gone inside and threatened the occupants. The former premier, ROMNEY, RIGHT, AND GUEST, ROCKEFELLER Wared joke during golf game on Mackinac Island from the south at 10 to 16 miles an hour. si i.