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Today's Thought Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and of human dignity. Herbert Hoover Local Weather Variable cloudiness and warm today and tonight with a chance of showers. High today, upper 80s; low tonight, mid-60s. (Other data on Page 2.) THE LEADING NEWSPAPER OF SOUTH CAROLINA 93RD YEAR No. 222 METRO.

POPULATION 255.805 70 PAGES GREENVILLE, S. THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 10, 1967 StatO Ctyi He Daily, Mc Sunday Carrtw Hm DtNvaryi tfc Par mm PHONE ttl-lSIl Hits Defense Spending Senate Cwitioi Pressing Continued Bombing Is Urged Adm. Sharp Quoted "tV iff. fn ion To CmA Kits For' Act As Suggesting New Targets WASHINGTON (UPI) Adm. Ulysses S.

Grant Sharp, commander of U.S. forces in the- Pacific, was quoted Wednesday as saying the bombing of North Vietnam should be continued and that more valuable military targets could be struck. it Sharp was the first witness at 'May The Great Spirit Guide You Southern Demos And Republicans Spearhead Drive closed hearings of the Senate preparedness subcommittee on the effectiveness of the American air campaign. His views By JACK BELL Associated Press Writer were described to newsmen by Sen. John C.

Stennis, WASHINGTON (AP) Picking up where House counterparts left off, a Republican-Southern Democratic the subcommittee chairman. coalition in the Senate spearheaded a drive Wednesday lor quicK aciion on tougn new laws to curb city rioting, jttepuDiican leaaer Everett m. Dirksen Of Illinois predicted at a V--- Sis f- Sen. John J. Williams, wrote Atty.

Gen. Ram- Stennis had said he believed President Johnson had no choice but to expand the bombing to end the war sooner. Some other members also said Sharp's testimony reinforced their views that bombing restrictions should be eased. news conference that the Senate will sustain House action strip sey Clark suggesting that Hu- ping the attorney general of di oert treroid (Ran) Brown and rection ot the anticrime pro Stokely Carmichael be chareed wun advocating violence md gram and turning enforcement over to the states. Beyond that, Dirksen said he Mi 1 noting.

NEW RIOT PROBES expects to work with Southern uaiftuu ATI Tflree new Democratic allies specifically Sens. John L. McClellan of Ar investigations by city police and the FBI into Detroit riot deaths kansas and James O. Eastland of Mississippi to "tighten up" the House-passed measure. came to light Wednesday.

Murder charges already have Dirksen said the bill "will be oeen tuea in four other deaths. "MUST BE DONE" Sen. Henry Jackson, for One said: "We can extend the bombing effort without enlarging the war. It can be done. It must be done." Referring to those who have urged a halt in the bombing, Stennis said Sharp's testimony showed not only that the bombing should be continued bnt that there are "additional targets military tar-' gets of value to the enemy' that could be put on the target list." Siding with House Republican leader Gerald R.

Ford's de humdinger before we get including charges against two policemen. through with it." He avoided details, but said he thinks that One of the new investigations when the measure comes out of prompted Mai. Gen. Clarence the Senate Judiciary Committee I 2 bchmpke of the Micbiean Na 1 tional buard to say: WASHINGTON Rep. Otis G.

Pike, displays a metal rod at a press conference Wednesday where he displayed five small items of hardware he said were purchased by the Defense Construction Supply Center of Columbus, Ohio, for the military at prices ranging from 400 to 5000 per cent higher than the manufacturer's own catalog price. He also cited the items in a House floor speech against the military construction bill that was voted out last week. (AP Wirephoto) 'Precision Shafting' irst we are criticized for it will provide for "strict, sharp enforcement" of police powers in civil disturbances of the type that have rocked the country this summer. not shooting enough and then we The chief Scouter of the Blue Ridge Coun- growth and progress but appeared sad as he cil called on the Great Spirit in a final bene- prepared to retire at the end of the month, diction last night before closing the last See related pictures on Page 6, story on campfire ceremony of the season at Camp Page 13. (News-Piedmont photo by Bennie Old Indian.

He looked back upon 19 years of J. Granger) are criticized for shooting too mucn. Democratic leader Mike In another, Homicide InsDec Mansfield of Montana referred newsmen to Dirksen when tor Albert Schwaller said the FBI was looking into the death mand for widening the target list, Stennis questioned how the United States could commit more ground troops to South Vietnam without cutting off Communist supply lines from the North. Postal Committee Head Received $11,000 asked for reaction to the House measure. Mansfield said as soon of John Leroy, 19, a Negro who was shot at a National Guard the Judiciary Committee, as roadblock.

Y. House Member Admits 50-Cent Rods Cost Solon Says headed by Eastland, reports out Schwaller said a report had been turned over to the Wayne a bill he will schedule Senate SKEPTICAL OF RISKS Ford said at a separate news action on it. uounty prosecutor's office, but conference he favored extend McClellan, who has conducted there was no indication of ing and expanding the air war He said the Defense Depart Talcing Testimonial Fund WASHINGTON (UPI) Rep. Otis Pike stood in the whether charges would fce investigations of organized crime, is expected to come up with new enforcement provi ment is looking for such waste and "welcomes the help of Mr. made.

The FBI declined com even at the risk of bringing the Soviet Union or Communist China into the fighting, Ford said the threat of a ment- WASHINGTON (AP) The sions in that field as well as was designed to collect cam paign funds. 1 In the third investigation, the am delighted that con chairman of the House Post Of riot-curbing proposals fice Committee said Wednesday Dirksen said he has consulted Detroit News said witnesses told it they saw a policeman kill Wil "I wasn't even a candidate for office at the time," he said with Eastland, McClellan and gressman Pike has located some $2,000 worth of hundreds of millions of' dollars of waste liam N. Dalton, 19 a Negro Wednesday. wider war had become "a fairly threadbare argument" considering the lack of Communist response to steady increases in U. S.

forces in Vietnam. Sen. Roman L. Hruska, about combining the measure wtuie 20 other officers and Dodd later was censured by that I am confident I can find Guardsmen looked on. with the antiriot bill previously and bring out of our $73 billion the Senate not for banking the dinner receipts but on grounds The News quoted the wit passed by the House.

The latter dollar budget," McNamara he gave the impression they legislation would make it a fed nesses as saying the policemen told the youth, apparently said. eral crime to cross a state line were being raised for political stopped for curfew violation, to In his speech and at a later news conference, Pike offered campaign use. the statement. "It was a public affair, printed in the press, and about 300 friends attended. "It was meant as a personal-tribute and not as a political campaign dinner In my 8 years in congress tnis was the only, and only, dinner on our behalf.

Mrs. Dulski and I felt it was entirely in keeping with the accepted practices of American political civic life. "The invitations and publicity surrounding the dinner made it abundantly clear that it was intended solely as a personal testimonial to Mrs. Dulski and myself." The newspaper had quoted Dulski as saying that, unlike a series of testimonials for Sen. Thomas J.

Dodd, the to incite or participate in a riot. The Republican leader said he is confident the Senate will uphold House action revising Pres run, then brought him down with one blast from a shotgun when he did. other examples of purchases made by the Defense Construc Ford accused the administration Tuesday of placing "nearly half the identified top-priority targets in North Vietnam officially off limits to air attack," including power plants, oil depots, air defense control centers, rail and canal points and some military bases. Defense Secretary Robert S. "That one is still under inves tion Supply Center, a Pentagon agency set up to coordinate House chamber Wednesday and held up a narrow three-inch steel rod for which he said the government paid $25.55 each.

A manufacturer lists the item for 50 cents "apiece, Pike said. "In the manufacturer's catalogue this rod is described as 'precision Pike told his colleagues. "For once the American taxpayer got precisely what he paid for." The rod was one of several pieces of military hardware which Pike said the Armed Forces had paid between 400 to 5,000 per cent more for than the manufacturer's own catalogs said the price should be. Pike said he hoped members, while considering the need for a tax increase, would also reconsider the need for some defense spending. Defense Secretary Robert S.

McNamara replying to Pike's charges, said in a statement that "waste is bound to creep in when an organization expands as rapidly as this one has in the past." "I know this makes me vulnerable to all kinds of suspicion," the newspaper! quoted Dulski as saying. "The backlash from this one dinner could tip over the rate bill we've been working on, and without any tigation," Schwaller said. Duying Detween tne services ident Johnson's proposals for operation of the anticrime program through federal grants funneled by the attorney general into cities, 'states, and other and to achieve savings through ion in the noung rose Wednesday to 43 with the death of National Guard Sgt. Larry Post, 26, of Detroit. He was shot quantity buying.

reason." McNamara, who will testifv The immediate reaction from July 26, apparently by a sniper, authorities said. Pike displayed a small gear which he said listed at $3.43 each. "Through the miracle of quantity buying the Defense before the Stennis group, charged that Ford had ignored' the objectives of the bombing. Dulski's committee colleagues was low-key. Rep.

H. R. Gross, agencies. The House stripped this provi sion from the measure. It adopted an amendment by Rep.

Wil R-Iowa, said there had been no which he said were to reduce Construction Supply Center discussion of the Dulski dinner publicity for his dinner didn't liam T. Cahill, providing block grants to states to admin Communist infiltration without destroying North Vietnam. managed to get nine of them at the committee session. convey the impression that it for $194.30 apiece," he said. "I have barely read the ister the program.

thing," the Iowan said. "There "I think the Senate will go along with the Cahill amend CAVALRY IN BATTLE SAIGON (UPI) -U. S. Cav are a lot of these dinners." ine New York Democrat recalled that he cited five examples of "wasteful pro ment," Dirksen said. Rep.

Arnold Olsen, he would "stand before a tribunal of any sort" to defend his personal use of $11,000 raised at a 1965 testimonial dinner. "I've done nothing wrong," Rep. Thaddeus J. Dulski, told newsmen as he acknowledged having banked the dinner's proceeds. "My friends generously raised about $11,000 as a gift for me and my wife.

We gladly accepted the money to help defray the extra personal burdens a congressman must meet as related to elected public office for which reimbursement is not possible," Dulski said. He was responding to a Wall Street Journal article reporting that the dinner was attended by postal union leaders, lobbyists, and big-volume mailers with a financial stake in the postal legislation processed by Dulski's committee. At the time of the dinner, the 51-year-old Buffalo congressman was third-ranking Democrat on the committee. He has been chairman since January. As he spoke with newsmen outside his office, his committee was closeted in a nearby chamber, reviewing subcommittee drafts of new postal rate legislation.

Critics of the subcommittee proposal have charged that it is favorable to the big-volume mailers of third- class matter also known as bulk mail and, to some, as junk mail. The former tax accountant, first elected to congress 8 years ago, handed newsmen a statement giving his version of the affair. "My friends gave a personal testimonial dinner at Buffalo, N. for me, my wife, and our five children," Dulski said in alry-men airlifted into a remote He added that other House curement by this agency" two Communist valley stronghold Apt Sign 1 amendments, to accelerate ac Wednesday fought a furious weeks ago when the House considered and passed a $2.3 bil chairman of the postal rates subcommittee ackn wle that several testimonial dinners had been held in his honor but said the contributions were list daylong battle with North Viet tion against civil disturbances and organized crime, are likely lion Military Construction Au namese regular troops who Today's Chuckle i struck back with heaw fire to be strengthened. The effort to seize the leader thorization bill: He said he spoke and voted against the ed with the House under campaign contribution reporting re from a network of tunnels and bunkers and shot down at least ship in shaping riot-curbing leg measure because of "the quirements.

islation appeared to mark a three American helicopters. "So effective was my speech At least six Americans were "There were some mailers there, yes," Olsen said of the On a small service station out on the edge of a Western desert hangs this sign: "Don't ask us for information. If we knew anything we wouldn't be here." change in Republican political strategy. The GOP generally has been against openly combin killed and 22 wounded as the that I got one other Congressman to vote with me against dinners. North Vietnamese force, prim- ing with segregationist-tagged tnis Dill," Pike said.

Rep. James A. McClure, R-Idaho, said the Dulski story see CONTINUED, P. 10, Col. 1 Southern Democrats this "is the all too familiar story of congressional session.

Major Corporation Planned On the basis of Dirksen merging donated money into private accounts, which raises a public pronouncements, it question in the public mind re seemed likely that the Senate Southern Democrats willing to gardless of the honesty in voivea. I'm sure this was an Merger Proposed For News, And Communications Media go along with stiff riot controls would be welcomed with open honest mistake." arms. Officials of three postal unions including letter car Area Weather riers, motor vehicle employes, and maintenance employes, acknowledged having purchased "The three comDanies will fa A merger to form one of the largest communications companies in the Southeast has a radio station in Asheville, N. C. The merger is subject to the aoDroval of the stockholders of REP.

DULSKI operated as independent divisions within the new corners. tickets to the Dulski dinner. To Get Cooler Greenville area residents can tion. Their current directors That'll Teach The Engineer been recommended by the dir the three companies and the and officers will remain th ectors of three firms in North and South Carolina. same and will have the same Federal Communications Commission.

If aDDroved. it is an expect cooler weather tomorrow as a result of the northwestern cool front moving toward the responsibilities for ma a ticipated that the merger will Involved are: The Greenville News-Pied ment of their respective divi city irom the Mississippi River sions as at present. mont Company, which publishes be completed on Jan. 1, 1968. The three companies are now incorporated senaratelv.

al Baanng Cruunnch; It's One Way To Stop A Train "The creation of this valley. officii morning and afternoon Lews- papers here. fied communications corpo-ration will make for a stronger though linked by stock owner avt vvuuk tut iu- day and tonight Southeastern Broad 14 casting Corporation, which op ship through the News Piedmont Company which owns 75 oer cent of the stock of the erates radio and television sta corporate structure," Mr. Peace said, "and will enhance the economic foundation of all three companies." calls for continued warm temperatures and tions in Greenville. Knoxville.

Citizen-Times Company and 49 and Macon, Ga. 5 variable clou di One of the results of the mpr. The Asheville Citizen-Times mness with a chance of show ger, if approved, would be an per cent ot southeastern Broadcasting. Roger C. Peace of Greenville, chairman of the board of dir.

Publishing Company, which publishes morning and afternoon newspapers and operates ers or thunder-showers. There is ultimately wider distribution of stock in the resulting corporation. At the moment, stock In ectors of each of the three WARM a 50 per cent chancA of nreriD- (See MERGER, P. 10, Col. 1) SANDUSKY, CWo (UPI) The worst thing' a can do to Carl Shi-mansky, 74, Is make him wait at a railroad crossing for a slow-moving train to pass.

He hates It. Here he was, behind the wheel of his late-model car, waiting Impatiently while a creeping, 187-car freight train approached. The waiting became intolerable so Shimansky decided to take direct action. He parked his car on the tracks-right in front of the oncoming train. That will teach the engineer, Shi mansky thought.

For a change, a train will be held up by a car. There was one thing wrong with his calculations. The train didn't stop. Baaanngg Cruunnnch The locomotive plowed into the rear of Shimansky's car. Shimansky was not hurt, but a state highway patrolman slapped him with a ticket for his one-man protest Tuesday.

"I'll plead not guilty," Shimansky "These trains Just shouldn't be allowed to, hold back traffic like, they, do." You'll Find: itation today diminishing to 30 firms, said the policy of independent operation would be maintained. 'NO CHANGES' "We plan no changes in policies or personnel," Mr. Peace emphasized. "The mercer is per cent tonignt. The high today is expected to reach the UDDer 80s and dron to the mid-60s tonight.

HOUSTON, "Wow" is the only word needed to explain this picture of a young lady who was a contestant in a recent contest at the University Houston. The sign was one of many that was advertising the contest. (AP Wirephoto) Pause to Pray I At the start of this weekend, Dear Father, guide those who are starting out on trips and bring them safely home again. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.

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