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PAGE TWO ALEXANDRIA DAILY TOWN TALK, ALEXANDRIA-PI NEVILLE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1964 r-1 lu MiimjvuM.j. Senate Liberals Divided Over Anti-Filibuster Push Copter Pilots On Weather Wage a War in Flood Zone MtJ LA ers, is delaying any decision on possible action until his return from a Mexican vacation. Sen. Paul Douglas D-I1L, was reported have cautioned fellow liberals against raising an issue that might open old wounds and cost them support in opposing any fresh move to block court orders for the reapportionment of both houses of state legislatures on a population basis. Sen.

Richard B. Russell, an opponent of rule changes, said he hopes there can be "an era of good feeling" in the Senate. He said a fight over the filibuster rule would start the session on a sour note. Previously the liberals have tried to get a change in the rules by a majority vote at the opening of a new Congress. But they have failed to get a favorable ruling from the presiding officer that this was possible.

Subsequently the Senate has voted down such proposals. Once the Senate readopts its old rules, a two-thirds vote is required to change them. (AP Wirephoto) to Los Angeles. The pilot pancaked the plane into the muddy field when, according to one report, both engines quit. United Air Lines plane sits in a plowed beet field near Newhall, after making a miraculous safe landing with 47 persona aboard during a flight from San Francisco 47 Aboard Are Safe Dr.

King Says American Churches Not Taking Strong Rights Stand Plane Lands Successfully In Muddy California Field Aeronautics Board is handling it now. They'll go through it with a fine tooth comb," the Ike, Mamie Note Family Birthday PALM DESERT, Calif. (UPI) Former President and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower plan to help their grand-daughter, Susan, celebrate her 14th birthday tonight.

The celebration for Susan, eldest of the four children of Col. John Eisenhower, was scheduled for the dining room of the Eldorado Country Club, The John Eisenhowers plan to return to their Valley Forge, home by plane New Year's Day. which ripped the area with snow, rain, hail and wind. But the long wait continued as swirling snow thwarted efforts by the helicopter crews to reach some 500 persons marooned by floods in mountainous areas near the California-Oregon border. "Everything is loaded in helicopters and ready to go," said one civil defense official, "but the weather forecast is for five more days of snow storms." The 500 stranded persons live in or near the four Siskiyou County communities of Somes Bar, Fork of Salmon, Sawyers Bar and Cecilville, along the Klamath and Salmon rivers.

Joe Thornton, a Klamath National Forest pilot, flew over three of the towns and reported "most of the area appears isolated." "No one is known to be injured or dead and there apparently are no immediate emergencies," he said. "But there is a need for food and some medical supplies." Of primary concern was the community of Cecilville, the only town in the area from which no word has been received In 10 days. "No one knows what the picture is there," said Sheriff's Deputy Gene Hinman. Meanwhile, federal, state and local officials mapped plans for extensive recovery from the 12 days of storms and floods which claimed at least 41 lives and caused damage estimated at $700 million in the five-state area of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Nevada. Unmanned Post Service Tested WASHINGTON (AP) The nation's first self-service post office is proving successful and the experiment may soon be spread across the nation, Postmaster General John A.

Gro-nouski says. It provides 24-hour service at postal window prices. The pilot project sits on a concrete island in a parking lot in suburban Wheaton, Md. It's part of a shopping center described as the second largest east of the Mississippi. Bearing a "U.S.

Post Office" sign, the unmanned, plywood unit includes vending machines that dispense stamps, envelopes and post cards. It has machines to make change for coins and bills. There's a scale for weighing letters and parcels up to 50 pounds, along with parcel post instructions and a zone map for fixing parcel postage. The unit was installed Oct. 17 as a supplement to not a sub-titute for regular post offices.

Gronouski said business has been heavy. He estimated it will produce $71,000 in annual revenue, a figure he described as "much better than we ex pected." WE RENT Most Everything Miller's Hardware Rental. HIXSON BROTHERS Funeral Directors Ambulance Service Dial HI 2-3363 Jackson and Foisy SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) A small army of daredevil heli copter pilots waged war against the elements today in flood-battered northern California and like war itself, the battle was one of "hurry up and wait." The hurry up came as re- enforcements and supplies were moved into key communities in Siskiyou and Humboldt counties during brief breaks in a storm Computer In HuntforJobs WASHINGTON (UPI) -The Defense Department is setting up a computer system to help find new jobs for most of the 73,405 civilian employes dis placed by the closing of mili tary bases. And it expects to hire only five to seven additional employes to establish headquar ters for the computer system The headquarters is to be lo cated at the defense electronics supply center in Dayton, Ohio, which already is operating a pilot service for several Midwestern states. All Displaced Workers Under a Pentagon directive dated Dec.

17 and being distributed today, the "centralized referral system" will offer its services to all federal employes displaced by Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara's order closing 95 bases and facilities. More than half of those dis placed are expected to use the service. Their names and qual ifications will be placed in a computer memory bank at Dayton and will be brought out for consideration whenever a suitable job is available. It all will be done with the aid of machines and punch cards.

The federally supported state employment services are considering setting up a similar computer system to match jobs and people on a national Fcaie. Automatic Defense officials said that even if the number of applicants should mount into the hundreds of thousand or millions the headquarters operation still would be largely automatic. At present, it does not appear that the Dayton center will require any additional computers for the tasks. Man and Woman Found in Woods JACKSON, Miss. (UPI) A search party found a man and woman unharmed Wednesday after they were lost for a day and a night in the Pearl River lowlands south of here.

Officers said Clarence M. Gunter, 23, and Mrs. Janice Lewis, 25, a divorcee and the mother of five, were in good condition after spending about 24 hours in the marshy woods. A search was launched for the couple when they failed to return from a squirrel hunting trip Tuesday. Mrs.

Lewis' babysitter became alarmed and notified police. BREAKING LAW CHICAGO (UPI)-The Cook County grand jury had indicted 11 persons for allegedly breaking each other's arms and legs to collect insurance. The operation was said to have netted the group $4,560 from insurance companies, and suits totaling $300,000 are pending in circuit court. Second Language Will Be Required in Calif. Schools OUTSTANDING SERVICE Morris Shapiro of Alexandria this week received a plaque for "outstanding service to humanity" from the Imperial Council of the Shrine.

The plaque was mailed to him from Chichago with a letter from the council complimenting him on his work. He was only recipient of a plaque from the Imperial council who was not Grand Master in his state organization. persons at a National Methodist Student Movement Conference, Dr. King said the Negro must not take a "get even" attitude if he expects to make progress. "We can't move ahead with the thought of paying back those who oppressed us," he said.

The doctrine of black supremacy, he said, was as dangerous as the doctrine of white supremacy. "Nonviolence is the most potent weapon available to an oppressed people," he said. If minority groups yield to the temptation of using violence, he said, the future "will be a meaningless reign of oppression." Dr. King said the role of the church is to "stand up for eternal truths of the Gospel and serve as a moral guardian. The church must be a voice, not an echo on racial justice." Meetings Friday Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., Charity Hospital, A.T.U.

Funerals Ferdinand Vandeveld Funeral services for Ferdinand Vandeveld were held at 10 a.m. Wednesday in St. Francis Xavier Cathedral with Rev. William Up-degraff officiating. Burial was in Greenwood Memorial Park under direction of John Kramer Son Funeral Home.

Pallbearers were W. A. Tiller, U. R. Ducote, Murrell Sewell, Alphonse Petrus Alphonse Petrus and Ferdinand Vandeveld.

Mrs. Jewel McGregor Funeral services for Mrs. Jewel McGregor of Pineville will be held at 2 p.m. today in the chapel of First National Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Tioga community cemetery.

Mrs. McGregor died Wednesday in a Pineville nursing home. CAGEY PRIBLEM BSILDON, England (UPI) -The town council has threatened to tear down two cages in which Bill Foyle keeps his pet lions because they are "unauthorized buildings." Foyle said, "I will let them, and they can take their chances with the lions. WASHINGTON (AP) Senate liberals appeared divided today over whether to push at the opening of the new Congress for a change in the rules to make it easier to halt filibusters. Although Sen.

Clinton P. Anderson, has reported the matter under discussion, Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff, said he doubts that any all-out effort will be made. He said passage of the civil rights bill in the 88th Congress had cooled the controversy.

"Of course, I would vote for a change in the rules to make it easier to get legislation passed," Ribicoff said, "but I think most of the steam has gone out of the movement." Americans for Democratic Action has written Sen. Mike Mansfield of Montana, the Democratic leader, urging him to support a proposal which would permit a majority of senators to limit debate after 15 days of discussion of any measure. Mansfield has indicated he expects some move to be made at Monday's opening-day session. Long Would Oppose Sen. Russell B.

Long, a candidate for election as assistant leader, said in a separate interview he probably would vote to oppose any change in the present rule. It requires approval of two-thirds of those voting in order to limit debate. "But the situation is entirely different now that the civil rights bill has been passed," he said. "This proposed rule change would no longer be aimed exclusively at the South." Aides said Sen. Jacob K.

Jav its, a strong advocate of making it easier to end filibust partment of education believe that this is the first state the nation to order such extensive language instruction in the elementary grades. However, the officials are less concerned about being first than they are about finding enough teachers. 3,000 Extra Teachers According to the estimates, California will need between 2,000 and 3,000 additional foreign language teachers to handle the nearly one million youngsters who will be in grades 6-8 next year. Also, the number of teachers must increase by about 20 per cent annually to cover personnel turnover and enrollment growth. Because of this shortage the state has relaxed its licensing requirements for the potential language instructor.

Normally, applicants for a license to teach in the elementary grades must have five years of college, a BA, a major or minor in an academic subject five years of college and a solid background in liberal arts. But the potential language teacher needs only the BA and the abili to pass a foreign language com petency test prepared by the modern language association. Competency Tests The state is administering the competency tests for five languages: French, Spanish, German, Russian and Italian. But that does not mean that these languages will be widely taught in the schools. The Spanish language is mov ing into California elementary grades like a vigorous conquistador.

According to educa tion department surveys, 98 per cent of the schools have al ready decided to teach Spanish when the language program De- comes mandatory next year. State officials would be hap pier if there were more variety in the program, and some say that eventually it will come. But for the moment they can do nothing because the law that created the program permits each local school district to choose the language, or lan guages, to be taught. Purchasing Price Of Sugar Upped NEW YORK (UPI) The American Sugar Co. was charging 20 cents more per 100 pounds for its sugar today in its southeast and Gulf marketing areas.

The price increase, announced at the close of business Wednesday, upped the purchase price for a 100-pound bag of sugar in the southeast to $9.60 and the Gulf area $9.55. A company spokesman said the hike was caused by price advances for raw sugar and domestic sugar futures. HIGH AND LOW NEW YORK (UPI)-The lowest temperature reported to the U.S. Weather Bureau this morning, excluding Alaska and Hawaii, was 29 below at Havre, Mont. The high Wednesday was 85 at Laredo and Kingsville, Tex.

SAUGUS, Calif. (UPI) decision was expected today on the best way to remove a twin-engined United Air Lines plane from a muddy beet field, where it made a successful emergen cy landing with 47 persons aboard when both engines quit "Normally, on something like this, we try to truck it out, said a United Air Lines spokes man. I assume we ll remove the wings and truck it to the maintenance depot in San Fran cisco. It salvageable." Capt. William M.

Wade of Los Angeles was credited with making a brilliant and daring belly landing in the huge Con' vair airliner Wednesday despite poor visibility. His co-pilot was J. J. Campbell of Los Angeles. No Fire There was no fire and only two persons, Mr.

and Mrs. Douglas McKay of Toledo, Ohio, had to have treatment at Santa Clarita Hospital here. Both suffered minor injuries. "I felt that the plowed field was the safest place to bring the aircraft down," Wade said as passengers and authorities hailed his achievement. The plane, flight 593, originated at San Francisco and was bound for Los Angeles International Airport.

It previously had stopped at Stockton, Modesto and Fresno. Airline spokesmen said the first official report was that the plane "made an emergency landing due to loss of pressure in both engines." The field in which it landed is owned by the Newhall Land and Farming Co. The site is about one-fourth mile west of here and about 50 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles. Puzzling Question "The thing we can't figure out," said the airline spokesman, "is why two engines quit at one time. This never happened before." The spokesman, who hurried to the site as soon as word of the incident was received, pictured it thusly: "This was a helluva miracle.

Picture the Los Angeles Coliseum with mountains around and muddy, soft dirt. We had our miracle for the year." The amount of damage to the plane has not been estimated and the cause has not been determined officially. "The Civil Alexandria Daily Town Talk Published each evening, except Sunday by McCormick Cr Inc. Main at Washington Alexandria, Louisiana. Second class postage paid at Alexandria, Louisiana.

$1.50 per month. spokesman said. Damage was limited primar ily to the undercarriage, the propellers and a hole about one foot in diameter in the plane's nose. Asian Reds Ambush Unit (Continued from Page 1) cans as bait," one U.S. adviser said.

"They know we have to go in to get them. They were identified as WO Stephen E. Morgan, San Jose, WO Roy G. Azbill, Hay-ward, Sgt. Franklin D.

Porter, Columbiana, Ohio, and Pfc. Theodore A. Winowitch, Pittsburgh, Pa. 245 Americans Dead If the four were killed, their deaths would raise to 245 the number of Americans killed in combat in Viet Nam since De cember 1961. The Communists also cap tured two Americans and wounded nine others before with drawing into the jungle when 49 U.S.

helicopters landed a battal ion of Vietnamese marines to reinforce the hard-pressed government forces at Binh Nghia. Military sources estimated government casualties at nearly 300 dead, wounded and missing. A partial count showed at least 32 Viet Cong dead. Two of the villagers also were killed. Their Catholic families buried them Wednesday.

The villagers are refugees from North Viet Nam and militantly anti-Communist. In another action, government troops surprised an infiltrating Viet Cong unit at Ban Thai, 15 miles west of Saigon, and killed about 42 guerrillas. Four government troops were killed and four wounded. On the political front, talks continued in Saigon between Vietnamese civilian and mili tary leaders and U.S. Embassy officials, but the deadlock over the fate of the government persisted.

The discussions apparently centered on plans for calling a national convention to make a new start toward a stable civilian government. All sides issued hopeful statements. Rumors of another impending coup still circulated, but the civilian government was doing business as usual. Chief of State Phan Khac Suu held a New Year's diplomatic reception. Premier Tran Van Huong attended a public ceremony for new military recruits.

LINCOLN. Neb. (UPD-fto bel Prize winner Martin Luther King Jr. said Wednesday American churches still are not taking a strong enough stand on civil rights. He said "11 a.m.

Sunday morning is our most segregated hour." The Negro integration leader said churches have been more of a "taillight instead of a headlight." He said Sunday school is "the most segregated school in America." Dr. King, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, urged Protestant, Jewish and Catholic leaders to push for racial equality through nonviolent methods. "Open, aggressive nonviolent" action is needed, Dr. King said. Addressing an estimated 5,000 Mrs.

Bella Buller Succumbs at 84 (Special to The Town Talk) BUNKIE, La. Mrs. Bella Goudeau Buller, 84, died in an Alexandria hospital Wednesday at 8:15 a.m. She was a resident of Mansura. Funeral services were held at 11:30 a.m.

today in St. Anthony Catholic church in Bunkie. Buri al was in Pythian cemetery under direction of First National Funeral Home of Bunkie. Mrs. Buller is survived by a son, Rufus Goudeau of Bunkie; a daughter, Mrs.

Claude Nor- mand of Mansura; two sisters, Mrs. Odile Watts of Bunkie, and Mrs. Adel Gauthier of Alexan dria; a brother, James Axtle of Alexandria; nine grandchil dren and 11 great grandchildren. Mrs. Williams, 62 Mrs.

Emaline Williams, 62, of Dry Prong died at 4 a. m. Wednesday in Charity Hospital. Funeral services will be in the Dry Prong Baptist Church; the time and date are pending. Burial will be in the Dry Prong cemetery.

Remains are here at Hixson Bros. Funeral Home. Survivors are one son, Bennie Williams of Pineville; two daughters, Mrs. Virginia Church of Frankfurt, Germany, and Mrs. Willie Lee Owens of Jena; four brothers, Pevey, Bradley and Albert Arnold, all of Dry Prong, and Jervey Arnold of Tullos; and five grandchildren.

Mrs. Griff is, 80 (Special to The Town Talk) CHENEYVILLE, La. Mrs. Dwight Griffis, 80, a resident of Cheneyville, died Tuesday at 10:25 p. m.

in a Cheneyville hospital. She was a native of Evergreen. Funeral services were held at 10 a. m. today in the chapel of First National Funeral Home of Bunkie.

Burial was in the Pythian cemetery in Bunkie. Mrs. Griffis is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Alma Bush-nell of Monroe, and Mrs. Margery W.

Earnest of Cheneyville; four brothers, W. E. Woods of Cheneyville. R. S.

Woods of Bunkie, T. E. Woods of Miccske, and E. B. Woods of Amshurst Junction, Wis.

A.Boudreaux,81 (Special to The Town Talk) BUNKIE, La. Armogen Boudreaux, 81, died at 3 p.m. Wednesday in a Morganza nursing home. He was a resident of Palmetto, and a native of Leon-ville. He is survived by his wife, Mrs.

Elise L. Boudreaux; two daughters, Mrs. Celonia Nassif of Palmetto, and Mrs. Louise Beard of New Iberia; a son, Pacific Boudreaux of New Orleans; 14 grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m.

today in the United Pentecostal church, Palmetto. Burial will be in church cemetery under direction of First National Funeral Home of Bunkie. By Robert Fairbanks SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI) If you speak a foreign lan guage, have been to college, and have a yen to work with the immature minds of emer gent barbarians, your only choice isn't the U. S.

Peace Corps. Come to California, where the public schools need thousands of teachers for a radically new program designed to give a 1 1 youngsters the ability to speak in foreign tongues. Starting next September, for eign language instruction becomes mandatory for all students in the 6th, 7th and 8th grades. The law makes only a few exceptions, like that for the mentally retarded. Officials in the California de- Shastri Strikes At India's Reds NEW DELHI, India (AP) -Striking with unprecedented speed, Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri has decimated India's pro Chinese Communist party with mass arrests.

More than 500 Reds were jailed in nationwide raids Wednesday that the government said headed off nationwide sabotage and a violent revolution by men whose loyalty is to neighboring Communist China. The Communists charge Shastri with a fascist-like attempt to destroy his strongest political opposition at a time when his stock as India's leader is dropping and his economic programs are going awry. There seems little doubt Shas tri wanted to hit the Reds be fore they could hit him and they had been planning an all-out campaign against him in the elections in Kerala State Feb. 15. Also, it is known, Shastri had been looking for a way to demonstrate forceful leadership.

New Tranquilizer Held Long-Acting MONTREAL (AP) Development of a long-lasting tranquilizer drug that helps mental patients for up to two weeks on a single injection compared with one or two days for older drugs was reported Wednesday. Two researchers of the Squibb Institute for Medical Research at Brunswick, N.J., told about the drug in a report to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The association's 131st meeting ends today. Researchers J.C. Burke and A.

G. Ebert said the drug, which is not yet available to doctors generally, had yielded "most gratifying results in most cases in a number of clinical trials in humans." The drug is a new multiple-dose form of an older tranquilizer called fluphenazine tc which scientists added a chemical designed to cause the drug to be released slowly but steadily in the body. WE WILL BE NEW YEAR'S DAY AND SATURDAY, JANUARY 2ND To Restock And Mark Down Merchandise For Our Big First Monday Sale. Watch Saturday's Paper Tony's Appliance Discount Center 601 Jackson Phone HI 2-0200 NOTICE All 1965 liquor, beer dealers and taxicab licenses are due January 1st and become delinquent January 10, 1965. All other occupational licenses come due January 1, 1965 and delinquent March 1, 1965.

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