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12 7HU American Press Crash blamed felled stop sign Cotton surplus reduction seen COMFORTABLE STROLLER Fred While, 103-year-old Lake Charles stroller, was photographed Wednesday afiernoon as he walked down Broad Street on his weekly buying trip lo the cliy. White, who celebrated his Fish dinner at YMCA postponed The fish dinner which had been scheduled for Friday at the Franklin Street YMCA has been postponed until June 24, 'according to' Mrs. Willie Mae Gardiner, sponsor and program assistant, at the center. The dinner will be served 2-4 p.m. 103rd birthday 18, resides ai Green Arces Rest Home and was wearing his first pair of strolling shorts.

(American Press Photo by Walter Fargue). Changes adopted in Criminal Code BATON ROUGE (AP) A Senate committee has adopted some changes in the proposed Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure and has others under BUSINESS MARKETS Market fakes DOW JONES fair decline; trade si Aisocloled slock Averogej 40 Induit. Roili Ulll. Slocks Prev day 473.6 176.S 148.9 323.5 Week ogo 464.9 172.7 147.9 317.9 Month ana 463.1 172.3 150:5 318.0 Year ago 474.0 1568 170.1 323.1 NEW YORK (APl-The stock market was down to a fairly sharp loss late this afternoon. Trading was fairly slack.

Here was the picture near the close: Volume for the day was estimated at 6.2 million shares compared with 8.53 million Wednesday. The market was a bit lower from the start and widened its decline as the session continued. Once more the market seemed to be reverting to "typical Thursdays" when evening- up operations have usually resulted in lower markets. Benguet, the Philippine gold- mining issue, looked like the most-active stock but was unchanged most of the time. Down about 3 were Motorola, Becton Dickinson and Xerox.

Texas Instruments sank more than 2. Losses of a point or more were shown by United Aircrait, Sears, Roebuck, American Cy anamid, Du Pont, Standard Oil (New Jersey), American Tobacco and Copper Range. IBM was up 3 and Johnson Johnson 2. J. Ray McDermott advanced 2 or more.

Gains of a point or so were made by SCM, Kerr-McGee Oil, Northwest Airlines, Metro-. Goldwyn-Mayer. and Merck. Kennecott also dropped about 2. Boeing was a'2-point gainer.

Prices were mostly higher in heavy trading on the American Stock Exchange SOYBEAN CHICAGO I APi Soybeans No. 1 yellow 3.29. Soybeans closed Wednesday 2 1 to (Hi higher, July 28. Higb Low clow clou July 3.2S»/* 3.22 5 i 3 J8 3.22'.i Aug 3.2B1 3.26% 321 i 2.98y« 3.01'.i 2.98'i Nov. .2.87 2.84 2 2.84 Jfln.

2.87H 2.90=U 2.87*4 .2.94 2.91 2.93','j 2.9114 2.93V* of A 6. Etfvwrds end Sons, 107 Weber Bulldl-g. THURSDAY FOURTH HOUR AVERAGES: Industrials off 7.07 Rails 231.98 off .03 Utilities 134.27off .57 FOURTH HOUR STOCKS: Allied Chemicals 40 Allied Stores 81-'i American Bakeries 17 American T4T Anaconda 89 Aqua Chem No Sale Armour Co COM Ashland Oil 26U Boeing Aircraft Cities Service -15U Continental Oil 63U Dow Chemicals Dynaleclron Eastern Airlines Firestone Ford General Dynamics General Motors 81H General Telephone Gordon Jewelry 17 W. R. Grace 44'i Gulf Oil 5Pi Gulf Stales 26 Hercules Powder 38'i Kennecotl Conner 112'i Libbv Lockheed Mack Trucks 42 Montgomery Ward 34Vz National Airlines Olln Mathleson SWt Pan American C.

Penney PensI Colo Pittsburgh P-G Polaroid 48 SSVi Sears Roebuck 56 Socony Mobil 88U Sp'rry Rond 24 Sid. of Calif Std. of Ind Std. of H.J Teias Co 70 United Airlines 70 United Gas 59 U.S. 44 Zenith LIVESTOCK Area Sales Results Micelle's Commission Yard Wednesday, 15, CATTLE RECEIPTS: Moderate.

715 head sold; 4 horses. MARKET CONDITIONS: Trading Action: Active. Demand: Good. Prices: Fully steady. HOG RECEIPTS: Small.

38 head iold. HOG MARKET CONDITIONS: Trading Action: Active. Demand: Good. Fully Steady. CALVES SLAUGHTER: Good to Choice 27 Standard 22-25.

Utility 20-22. Good lo choice (250 Ibs. up) 25-3050. Common Medium (MO Ibs. up) 20-25.

Good light (250 Ibs. down) 2531.50- STEERS HEIFERS SLAUGHTER: Good to choice 24-2650 Standard 21-24. Utility 5TOCKER STEERS: Good 2225.50 I Common Medium 17-22. I STOCKER HEIFERS: Good Common i Mfdlum 16-20 Sold In grows, $18 lo 23 50 I ptr hundred. COWS i SLAUGHTER: Cormnei c.lal 16-11.

Utility 14-16 Cutter 12-14. Conner 10 12. SheMi 6 10 STOCKERS. Oood, 18-20. Common medium, H-U COW AND CALF PER PAIR Good, 16.5-180 Medium, 150-165.

Common, 125150. Inferior, 100-135. BULLS Commercial, Utility, 18-20. Cutter, H-16. HOOS Choice barrows Glib (160 to 22-24; choice barrow: (140 to 175 Ibs.) 20-21; Bulcher pigs (75 io Ibi.) 16-20.

Medium barrows Gilts. 1921. Sows (400 Ibs. down) Heavier sowi (old) 17-20. Good feeder None.

Common Medium, None. Woods hogs. study, it was announced today. Sen. Adrian Duplantier, New Orleans, a sponsor of the House- passed bill, read to the Senate a statement, outlining some changes approved.

The changes included removal of contempt of court provisions that singled out members of the press, and strengthening the hand of policemen on the beat, Duplantier said the amendments would allow police officers to make arrests for misdemeanors without a warrant upon probable cause and not committed in their presence. Duplantier said the committee adopted technical amendments to "make it abundantly clear" that a police officer may use reasonable force to make an arrest, insure detention of a prisoner and to overcome resistance by the person arrested. The articles on contempt will be amended to delete: The provisions relating to news media. The provisions concerning procurement of false testimony. The provision giving the defendant the right to initiate contempt proceedings.

Another amendment would permit, but not require, the setting of the bail when the arrest warrant is issued. An amendment which was suggested by several district attorneys, Duplantier said, would require that habeas corpus proceedings after conviction to be conducted in the parish where the conviction was obtained instead of the parish where the person is jailed. Gal recreation facilities study planned Work got underway today on compiling a comprehensive inventory of recreation facilities in Calcasieu Parish as part of overall state planning under federal recreation programs. Federal funds are available to help acquire recreation facilities of all types, subject to a master plan to be established by each state. Meeting with parish and city representatives a Gaynor Burleigh, research statistician for the State Parks and Reci reation Commission.

The group's first, task is to locate all present facilities in the parish, ranging from 1 a y- grounds and football stadia to fishing ponds and boat launching ramps. The data will be compiled and analyzed over the next two years as part of the state's master plan for recreational development. Once there were two stop signs at College and Ernest Streets. One was knocked down. Then there was one.

Tins morning another was knocked down. Now there are none unless the city has re-installed the signs. It. happened at 8:55 a.m. when two motorists were involved in a the second sip was felled.

According to City Police Patrolman T. W. Smith, a car driven by Mrs. Ruth T. Gayle, 46, of 1110 Bayou Oaks Lane was heading North on Ernest Street while another car, driven by Boyce E.

Patterson, 33, of 508 W. LaGrange Apt. 10 was going east on College Street. Patterson told Smith that there was no stop sign and he didn't stop. The collision resulted.

Smith's investigation disclosed that one stop siyn had previously been knocked down. After the collisions one of the cars knocked down the other sign. Damage to both cars was listed as $450. No charges were filed against Patterson since there was no sign at the intersection on his side of the street. Southern to administer tests here The Southern University Testing Center will offer high school seniors in the Lake Charles area who plan to enter Southern this fall an opportunity to take their college guidance tests July 16 at a.m.

at the Second Ward Elementary School. Wilbert Fontenot, principal of the school, said Southern University requires these tests of all entering freshmen. He said the university officials pointed out to him that the results of these tests are used to help first-time freshmen begin a more successful college career. Youngsters needing additional information concerning the testing program should contact Dr. H.

D. Lawless, director of freshmen studies at Southern. Crusade has large crowd on Wednesday One of the largest crowds to attend the Lake Charles Crusade came Wednesday to the canvas cathedral on the lakeshore to hear Dr, E. J. Daniels, evangelist from Florida.

More spiritual commitments were made Wednesday than in jany single proceeding service. Tonight features an "Every Member Roll Check Service." Dr. H. Van Eaton, pastor of the First Baptist Church, said: "We are setting a goal to have every member of our church present at the service tonight, and the presence of every member will be registered." Dr. Daniels will speak on Time is Short." The youth of the Lake Charles area are to be honored guests at the service Friday night when Dr.

Daniels will dramatize the story of Samson and Delilah and speak on "What's in a Kiss?" or "In Love With and Married to the Wrong Sweetheart." As a marriage counselor for many years, and the author of four books on family living, Dr. Daniels deals frankly with the moral, social, and sex sins facing modern youth. He says: "Doctors and counselors who have heard this message across the country beg me to bring this message wherever I go. It is not just for young people, but parents should come along with their youth," he said. The program Friday night will begin with a 30 minute youth film entitled "Teenage Romance," the story of a young couple who decides to elope, and the outcome.

The music for the service will also be youth- centered. Tonight's "Teen Talks" will be for girls only on the subject, "Some Little Known Facts About a Well-Known-Subject." Local groups increase Church of Christ 1 giving DE KALB; in. Local churches gave $10,604,000 in 1965 to support the United Church of Christ's national and international work, says a church official. The donations were higher than the $10,544,500 given in 1964, said the Rev. Dr.

Ruben J. Bierbaum of Evansville, lad. WASHINGTON (AP)-The International Cotton Advisory Committee said today a modest beginning is being "made this season toward reducing the world's big cotton surplus largely because of U.S. production controls. It is possible, the committee said, that consumption during the 1966-67 season will reverse, itself and exceed production.

World stocks have reached a record of more than 80 million bales. Consumption from this supply during the current 196566 season is expected to total about million bales. The committee is an intergovernmental orga rotation of 40 cotton producing and consuming countries. It is assigned the task of keeping member countries advised of cotton developments throughout the world. The.

U.S. government has launched a program which calls for cutbacks of about a third in the country's cotton acreage. The world cotton reserve and surplus is expected by the committee to be close to 30 million bales by Aug. 1, the highest since 1945. The bulk of these stocks will be held by the United States, where they are expected to reach 16.5 million bales.

The. committee also predicted an increase in world trade in cotton during the coming sea- SON. It based this forecast on th fact that stocks in many consuming countries have been greatly reduced in anticipation of lower prices. The U.S. price will be reduced under the new program which increases payments to growers to offset price reductions.

The report said lower prices should encourage increased use of cotton by textile manufacturers in this country as well as in some foreign countries. Bill on pipeline safety killed BATON ROUGE AP) The Senate killed in a 32-3 vote today a bill to set up pipeline, safety regulations, and declined Sen. G. R. Lee's effort to erase an unfavorable committee report.

Sen. A. C. demons. Jennings, won his request for the Senate to indefinitely postpone any further action in this session on the measure by Lee, of Alexandria.

Lee took issue with the way the Senate Judiciary C.Commit- tee rejected his bill. He said the committee voted 5-1 against the measure in a vote on whether it should be reported favorably. Lt. Gov. C.

C. Aycock ruled he only had the committee report to go by, and it read the report was unfavorable. Lee then offered a motion to send the bill on its legislative way despite the adverse committee report. When Sen. Clemons called for an indefinite postponement of the measure, Lee told the Clemons was out of order because he had recused himself in matters where he had a financial interest.

"This bill directly affects him," Lee said. This led to an icy exchange at the microphone between Lee and Clemons. To get the record straight, Clemons said, the trucking company he owns does not actively take part in hauling pipeline equipment. Clemons said Lee had a fair hearing for his bill in the committee a day earlier, and "I think my motion is good." Lee said he believed Clemons hauled drill stems for oil companies, and this had an indirect connection with pipelines. That may be right, Clemons said, "but let me get you straight right now I won't deal in personalities." He added his action was based on what is good for the state.

House reconsder refiremenf maffer BATON ROUGE (AP) The Louisiana House voted unani-j mously today to permit, a bill dealing with retirement benefits for House Clerk Clegg Cole to be reintroduced. The bill by Rep. Lantz Wornack, Franklin, a floor leader of Gov. John McKeithen, triggered heated comment from members of the Louisiana Retirement System that the annual retirement payments to Cole would drain the system. Womack offered a resolution today asking that the House Retirement Committee conduct an investigation 'of.

the retirement status of Cole. Cole earlier asked that his retirement bill be withdrawn in the wake of reaction from the press and state retirement system officials. asked that the com- Two file for School Board posts Two more candidates have filed for election in the Aug. 13 primary with the Calcasieu Parish Democratic Executive Committee. Filing with James Boyer, secretary, were John R.

Denison and H. Leo Key, both as candidates for the Calcasieu Parish School Board. Denison filed for the Ward 8 post while Key is a candidate for one of (he two Ward 4 positions which are to be contested. Denison is presently serving out an unexpired term on the board. Charges are dismissed in shooting A 26-year-old man charged with aggravated battery in connection with the pistol shooting of another man was free today after his case was dismissed in District Court because the shooting was termed "self defense." Asst.

Dist. Atty. Charles Richard the charges against Joe Nathan Stagg, of Orrin were dropped after he had talked with two "surprise" witnesses in the case. Victim of the shooting, which stemmed from an argument last Thanksgiving night, was Abraham Sirnien, gS, of 502 LaBato St. Richard said that "there was no question but that this was a questioa of self defense." mittee determine Cole's status prior to July 1 and report back to the House.

Under the resolution, the committee would have subpoena power of all retirement records in an effort to pinpoint the clerk's contributions and benefits. Rep. Lloyd Himel, St. James, moved for the House to permit of the Cole retirement bill which would provide an estimated annual retirement income of $10,000. Council tables ordinance on fire equipment The City Council' voted Wednesday to table final action for two weeks on an ordinance accepting the $57,000 bid for snorkel fire fighting apparatus on a motion by Councilman Billy Primm.

Primm said he felt additional information on the equipment should be obtained. Fire Chief Richard Sarvaunt and Mayor James E. Sudduth said the information was obtained, and only one company had entered a bid on the equipment. Dock board pledges bond issue support The Lake Charles Dock Board will stand. by the bond issue and every other bond issue the port has had, Joe Barbour.

president said Wednesday at a meeting discussing proposals and federal grants for port expansion work. Barbour made his remark after a letter from the Lake Charles Association of Commerce was read congratulating the dock board on its federal grants and urged the dock board to proceed with its plans to construct a railroad to the industrial canal, bulk grain facU- ities and other construction. The letter was signed by Wilmer Guillory, president, aad Morgan Musser, member of the Association of Commerce was in attendance at the meeting. "I'm just here to listen," Musser said when asked if he had any comments to make. Barbour expressed hope that the dock board could advertise for some work on the rail crossings before the end of June.

the railway to the canal is staked out he said. "Most of the right-of-way has been bought and we will go full steam when we get litigation straightened put," he said. The commissioners approved a resulution to ratify the agreements with the U.S. Government on grant offers through the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Economic Development Administration.

Barbour said the estimated cost of the bulk loading facility was $7,001,920 over all. The government participation will be on a matching funds basis and Elmer Shutts, port engineer, said the right-of-way may be considered as the port's matching fund portion. McNeese is given grant for $25,000 McNeese State College has received approval for a $25,000 grant under the Higher Education Facilities Act, Title VI, for acquisition of laboratories and special equipment for improving undergraduate instructions. Announcement of the approval by the Office of Education of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare was made recently by U.S. Sen.

Allen J. Ellender and Russell B. Long and U.S. Rep. Edwin W.

Edwards. Prison terms given men on felony counts Penitentiary sentences were given two men in 14th Judicial District Court Wednesday when they pleaded guilty to felony charges before Judge Clement Moss. Wayne Monk, 1.9, no permanent address, pleaded guilty to forgery and theft and received a two-year sentence. Leroy Soileau, 29, also received a two-year term when he pleaded guilty to charges of attempted simple burglary of the Port Liquor Store. Joseph B.

Carrier, age unavailable, received a one-year suspended prison sentence and was placed on two years proba-' tion when he pleaded guilty to issuing worthless checks. A six months suspended jail term was given Charles Edward Boggs, 31, of 3209 Deaton St. after he pleaded guilty to theft by shoplifting. REV, H. B.

MORGAN Evangelist Revival is underway at LC church The Rev. H. B. Morgan, evangelist from Silsbee, ia presently conducting a revival at the First Pentecostal Church, 2401 Sixth St. Services are being held at 7:30 p.m.

each night and will run for an indefinite period, according to the Rev. J. W. Evans, pastor of the church. The public is invited to attend the services, Rev.

Mr. Evans said. LC Masonic lodge to honor past master! Lake Charles. Lodge No. 165 Free and Accepted Masons will honor ell past masters at its regular meeting at the Masonic Temple today at 7:30 p.m.

Lake Charles Lodge was instituted in 1860 and E. R. Kaufman, senior -past master still living, served as Master of the Lodge in 1913. Other masters still living are Mark D. Wentz, A.

J. McKay, M. L. Christensen, J. Lawrence Cox, W.

W. Barnes, Kenneth Levingston, Austin W. Lewis, Everett R. Scott, Gossett Smith and Andrew Swice. Also, K.

Khoury, J. Earl Coleman, Max Packman, H. A. Poole, Max Schindler, A. Laughlin William E.

Nagem, M. J. Nelson, Earle L. Miller, T. 0.

Phillips, R. J. Heinen and Tommy L. Rimes. And Emile J.

George, James A. Smith, Jerry I. Harless, Billy B. Zeigler, Ed Khoury, O. Miller, R.

H. Pittman. and A. D. Rutherford.

Larry Chrpnister is the cur- rent worshipful master. Jury acquits driver in fatal crash A five-man jury in 14th Judicial District Court here deliberated five and one half hours Wednesday before returning a not guilty verdict in a negligent homicide case. The jury found Harvey Perkins, 23, of DeQuincy free of criminal negligence in the Oct. 23, 1965 death of Gracie Suchanek, .35, of Singer. Perkins was the driver of a car which crashed into a tree off Louisiana 388, five miles south of the woman who was passenger.

The trial before Judge Cecil Cutrer began Monday afternoa and the jury received the case at 3:50 p.m. Wednesday. Heroic Marine stand against VC described CHU LAI, Viet Nam (AP)-A Marine sergeant who was wounded three times in the Korean War got his fourth Purple Heart a rocky hilltop in Viet Nam. "It was the longest night of my life," said S. Sgt.

Jimmie Howard, 36, of San Diego, Calif. Howard suffered a back wound while leading 17 other Marines in a last-man stand. They fought heroically against an attacking 'force of 250 Viet Cong in the early morning darkness. Howard's small band of Leathernecks held out for five hours until Marine reinforcements arrived in helicopters and drove off the attackers. from a hospital bed in Chu Lai where he was in satisfactory condition, Howard told how his small force nearly ran out of ammunition and resorted to knives, bayonets aad rocks, to beat back the enemy.

"We wanted them to think we still had grenades," Howard said, "when the reinforcements got to us, we had just eight rounds of ammunition left." By that time, Howard, said, he had only seven men left who were able to pull a trigger and five of these were among the wounded. U.S. military headquarters said that all but two of Howard's reconaissance' team were casualties. Howard said the Viet Cong'at- tacked just before 1 a.m. "They' lobbed' 60-miilimeter mortar at us and then opened up with ma'chinegun and small- arms fire," he said- "From then on it was KaUfrbar-the-door." "We played gopher when they charged up the bill.

We got down on the deck (groujwj). They had us surrounded and were coming up the hill." radioed for air support. Marine jets hit the Viet Cong positions with napalm, and helicopters strafed them with rockets and machinegun fire. About 6 a.m., helicopters brought in Marine reinforcements and after a brisk fight drove off the Viet Cong. The reinforcements were pinned down by maehinegun and sniper fire when they landed 100 yards.from the base of 'the hill.

An air strike was called on the machinegun position, but it failed to silence the enemy fire. A squad of Marines swept around the maehinegunners' right flank, and the Viet Cong fled. Another hero the was Navy medical corpsman Billy Holmes of Madison, Temi. Holmes spotted a wounded Marine being dragged awfy by a Viet Cong soldier, mtticktd the Viet Cong and pulled tht wounded Marine to safety..