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82 Two Sections Twenty-Four Pages Alexandria-Pineville, Tuesday, June 13, 1967 AP, UP Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Los Angeles Times, Washington Post Departmental Index ft ML First Negro Named To Supreme Court Mistreatment of Arab Refugees Is Charged By Bert Okuley (United Press International) The Soviet Union charged this afternoon that Israel was still committing "aggression" in the Middle East. Stymied in the Security Council, it demanded a special session of the veto-free 122-member United Nations General Assembly. Another emergency session of the 15-nation Security Council was called this afternoon because of the charges and other Soviet-Arab allegations that Israeli troops were mistreating Arab refugees. "5 pi-' j- ap wirephotn) Thurgood Marshall ii.niii iuiii wumwwm i i i He said that he consulted with the American Bar Association and received an opinion from the ABA that the appointment was "highly acceptable." Clark announced his retirement after his son, Ramsey Clark, was named Attorney General.

The elder Clark ended his active service on the high tribunal after the Court adjourned its term Monday. Marshall has been a trail-blazer among Negroes throughout his career. His appointment as solicitor general in August, 1965, was unprecedented for a member of his race. Prior to that, the late President John F. Kennedy had appointed him in 1962 as a judge of the U.S.

Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia. The new justice is the great grandson of a slave who was brought to the United States from the Congo. His father was a steward at a fashionable Chesapeake Bay country club. Before taking the government posts, Marshall won widespread legal reputation in battling civil rights causes in the courts. In 1935, he compelled the admission of a Negro law student at the University of Maryland a school where he himself had been denied entry.

In 1936, he joined the legal staff of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and two years (Turn to Page A-2, Column 1) Johnson Waiting for Things To Clear Up in the Mideast feitilTiHfcAAi ir- 'wMiwwwWMIwWwwlWw (AP Wirephoto) The Senate Ethics Committee has accused Dodd of making personal use of funds collected as campaign Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (left), arrives outside Senate chamber today with his attorney, John Sonnett, for the debate on a resolution to censure Dodd. Stennis Pushes for Censure By Alvin Spivak WASHINGTON (UPI) President Johnson said today the best course in the Middle East at present is "to let things clear up and let the people of the area and the world realize what has happened." After that "we will be examining the viewpoints of all concerned," the President told his first news conference since the Israeli-Arab war exploded. Johnson again pledged U.

S. policy to supporting the territorial integrity of all nations in the Middle East but said "how this will be effectuated will be determined by events in the days ahead." "I think the people of the world should know that uppermost in my mind. our people's mind, is trying to help people get along with their neighbors and each other," he said of the still critical situation. Johnson made these other points: The use of the hotline between the Kremlin and the White House saved time in the transmission of messages during the crisis, but except for rresiaent Johnson told an impromptu White House news conference the United States remained committed to support territorial integrity of all nations in the Middle East. "How this will be effectuated will be determined by events in the days ahead," Johnson declared.

"It will depend a good deal on the nations themselves, on what they have to say, what their views are, what their proposals are." Paratroop Action The Kremlin charged that Israeli "aggressor" paratroops had seized considerable territory inside Syria in the past two days despite the U.N. cease-fire Jordan claimed the Israelis were harming Palestinian ref ugees and Moscow radio broadcast reports that "ref ugees are fleeing from the Israelis. Russia has been trying fo days in the Security Council to torce tne Israelis to give up captured Arab territory, but all attempts have failed and Israe' is on record as refusing to (Turn to Page A-2, Column 4) Body Reported Found at Cotile A body believed to be that of James Lemoine was found today at Cotile Lake, possibly ending a search that began May 28 when the 25-year-old Pineville man was hurled from his speeding pleasure boat. An employe at the lake told The Town Talk that someone had definitely spotted a body floating on the water. Lemoine, thus far, has been the new recreation area's only drowning victim.

Lemoine, visiting the lake with his wife, the former Lucille Wunderlick of Port Lavaca, and some friends, had brought some passengers to shore and decided to take one last spin around the lake when the accident occurred. Deputies said the steering cable on the boat apparently broke, causing Lemoine to lose control. Lemoine, who lived at 104 Wells Lane, Pineville, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. C.

P. Lemoine of 2305 Cherry Pineville. He had no children. WASHINGTON (UPI) Pres ident Johnson set precedent today by nominating Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall to be the first Negro justice of the Supreme Court. Johnson personally announced his selection of the long-time civil rights leader at a news conference with the 58-year-old Marshall at his side.

The appointment of Marshall to succeed Justice Tom C. Clark on the highest court of the land is subject to Senate confirmation. Johnson said he received "very little pressure of any kind" in connection with the Supreme Court appointment. this he did not see "a great deal of difference between this and ordinary communications." He declined to commit himself on whether the Arabs and Israelis should conduct face-to-face peace negotiations without outside participants. He would not predict whether a recent lull in ground fighting in Vietnam might signify an improvement in Soviet relations.

"The fighting goes up and down, depending on a good many factors," he commented. Of the recent outbreaks of racial violence in the streets, he said: "We want to keep these incidents to a minimum. But we have to rely principally on the good judgment of the people themselves. We are trying to do everything we can in cooperation with the cities and counties and states and private organizations. minimize the tensions that exist." In discussing what lies ahead in the Middle East, Johnson summarized: "It will depend a good deal on the nations themselves, on what they have to say, what their views are, what their proposals are." 582nd lost over North Vietnam.

The two crew members of the Air Force Phantom jet bailed out into the sea and were rescued by a helicopter. They were identified as Maj. Dan Fulgham, 39, of Edwards, and Capt. William Harding. All told, American pilots flew in 100 missions over the North, spokesmen said.

Air Force jets hit boxcars stranded by earlier raids along rail lines north of Hanoi. In the ground war, U.S. and Vietnamese forces killed 69 Communists in a series of scattered battles in the northern provinces, officials said. Forty Americans were reported injured. While fighter-bombers hit troop concentrations and supply dumps in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Vietnam, the B52s made five separate raids Monday to blast mountainside fortresses just south of the DMZ near the U.

S. Marine camp at Khe Sanh. Despite American Marine and South Vietnamese sweeps last month to smash the Communist war machine in the DMZ and a (Turn to Page A-2, Column 4) of Sen. Dodd Dodd has said that even counting the proceeds of the testimonial affairs for him as political funds, 'he maximum amount of personal expenses the way he figures it was $7,746. However, Bennett said, "The record of the use of $450,000 of political funds was based on Sen.

Dodd's own admissions" in a stipulation entered into with the ethics committee at the time of its public hearings last March. From this record, said Ben nett, the committee members allocated all payments as being either for personal or political purposes. He said it did not count those not clearly one or the other, amounting to $45,233. "In making this allocation," Bennett said, "we developed a series of criteria which was based upon our own experiences as office-seekers, office-holders, and senators." He said, for example, that the cost of all air transportation for Dodd and members of his staff between Washington and New York City or Connecticut was (Turn to Page A-2, Column 1) His statement came as the Senate put aside its legislative affairs to start debate on a resolution to censure Dodd for a course of conduct the panel said was "contrary to accepted morals, derogates from the public trust expected of a senator, and tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." The bipartisan committee found, after a 14-month investigation, that Dodd had used political funds for his personal benefit and had double-billed for travel expenses. Bennett, in remarks prepared to follow the opening statement of committee Chairman John Stennis, dealt chiefly with Dodd's use of political funds.

The committee found that of $450,273 in campaign and testimonial funds he received, Dodd authorized payment of at least $116,083 for personal expenses. "In the allocation of expenses between political and personal purposes," Bennett said, "our estimates were on the conservative side and wherever there was a doubt, we gave the benefit to Sen. Dodd." US. Navy Planes Smash Key N. Viet Power Plant Lee St.

Paving Work Complete Final acceptance has been recommended for the widening and overlay project on Lee Street extension. W. M. Byles, district engineer with the State Highway Department, has notified officials in Baton Rouge that the job has been completed in accordance with plans and specifications. Final inspection was made on the project in May, but officials delayed acceptance until a house along the route was moved and a release obtained.

Also along on the inspection trip were W. J. Rountree, assistant district engineer; Billy C. Daniels, project engineer; John Inabinet and Nelson Evans, both with the Bureau of Public Roads, and John Tally, the contractor. The 1.345 mile project along the business route of U.S.

Hwy. 71 consisted of grading, drainage structures, widening and asphaltic concrete overlay work. W. H. (Bill) Lambdin, Alexandria commissioner of streets and parks, could not be reached for comment on the project this morning.

T. C. Brister Brister Seeking Legislative Post T. C. Brister of Pineville today announced his candidacy for state representative from Rapides and Grant parishes.

Brister, who has previously served two terms in the House, from 1940-44 and 1948-52, is seeking one of the four posts in the new House district. "In view of the fact that I am a former resident of Grant parish, I feel I can represent the fine people, of Grant as well as the fine people in Rapides," he said. "The office of representative is becoming more and more important and time demanding," he said. "If you see fit to select me as one of your four representatives, I will give that office full time. I will not engage in any other employment during my term of office.

I will be at your service seven days a week for the next four years. Having previous experience in the legis lature. I will have the know-how to get things done for our district." Brister is a Baptist, a Mason, a Shriner. a Legionnaire and a member of the V.F.W. He and his wife, who live at 1410 Oakland have three married daughters.

Brister sold his snortine eoods and hardware business in Pine ville last Nov. 1. The Alexandria Daily Town Talk was named the official journal for the coming year by an 11-7 vote. Jurors rejected all bids on the water well at Esler Field and on drainage work on the coliseum. The well project will be postponed until after the bond election in Waterworks District No.

3, but bids on the drainage will be taken again at the July meeting. Bids on coliseum seating were accepted as follows: end zone bleachers, Interstate School Supply, 2,000 portable chairs, H. J. Rockhold, and fixed seating, Gravier and Harper, $70,126. Jurors also accepted the ndations of the coliseum committee in designating the citizens' coliseum board as the governing body of the coliseum, providing rules already established by the jury were followed.

The jury approved suggestions to allow a study of coliseum rules and to plan a board of control for the coliseum, to be submitted to the Legislature in 1968. The jury also asked for a 24-hour patrol at Cotile Lake and Sheriff John Honeycutt promised all the help possible in protecting the area. WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. John Stennis accused Sen. Thomas J.

Dodd today of collecting money "under all the banners and trappings of campaign contributions" and then spending it indiscriminately for his own purposes. Dodd listened tensely as Stennis, the Mississippi Democrat who heads the Senate Ethics Committee, opened the debate on its recommendation that Dodd be censured. Stennis said his panel was not condemning testimonial dinners, and was not accusing Dodd of violating the law or evading income taxes. But he said Dodd's use of testimonial funds was "wrong on its face" and therefore tended to bring dishonor upon the Senate itself. Stennis said testimonial receipts were improperly used time and again by the Connecticut senator, who stands accused of using more than for his own purposes.

Stennis began what amounted to the prosecution case by saying that sadness pervaded the Senate because of its task in the Dodd case. Then he turned to the heart of the Ethics Committee case, Dodd's personal use of political money. "This was money collected under all the banners and trappings of campaign contributions past or future." Stennis said. Also today, Sen. Wallace F.

Bennett. R-Utah, vice chairman of the Ethics Committee, said it "literally bent over backwards" to be fair to Dodd. year contract, but were far apart on the wage scale. The contract expired at 12:01 today. The contractors offered a three-stage raise from the current $2.90 an hour to $3.50 for painting, paper hanging and tapers or sheetrock work.

It would have started at $3.25 an hour, jumped to $3.37 hourly next June 13, and to $3.50 on Jan. 1, 1969. The painters said they would settle for $3.45 an hour the first year and $3.75 the second. For steel work, stage work, spray painting and sand blasting, the offer was $4 an hour through the life of the two-year pact. Painters wanted $4.45 beginning today, and $4.75 starting June 13, 1968.

The present rate for this category also is $2.90 an hour. Painters held a special meeting Monday night to consider the contractors' proposal, but voted overwhelming rejection, according to Willie Poteet, financial secretary for the local. Poteet said the contractors also asked for a 60-day delay in putting their wage proposal in (Turn to Page A-2, Column 1 Jury Creates Development Board Rapides Bank Low Bidder On Esler Field Bond Issue By Eugene V. Risher SAIGON Navy jets smashed a key North Vietnamese power station with an explosion that made it look "as if the plant were filled with TNT," pilots said today. The plant at Thanh Hoa was the third to be hU in three days in what officials called the systematic destruction of North Vietnam's power producing capacity.

Military spokesmen said it took only a few minutes of bombing to smash what it had taken the Communists a year to rebuild after a previous attack. "It looked like the whole plant just blew up from the inside out," said Lt. James E. Killian of Boston, who was with one of the first attacking waves. "It was as if the plant were filled with TNT the whole place exploded." While the carrier pilots concentrated on the power plant, other aircraft including B52 bombers pounded Communist troop and supply buildups along South Vietnam's northern border.

American warships added their big guns to the bombardment from positions in the South China Sea. Spokesmen said one U.S. aircraft was shot down, the Alexandria Painters Strike As Pay Increase Talks Fail BikSi BterH- 'iCfu'a fjl 1' i' pf-ft- I By Frances Phillips (Town Talk Staff Writer) The Rapides Police Jury today accepted the Rapides Bank and Trust Company's bid on $2.4 million in improvement bonds for the Esler-Field parish-city airport. The interest rate was 3.98768 percent, with total interest of $835,420. Other bids were by the Guaranty Bank and Trust Co.

of Alexandria, 4.197637 percent or a total of and the First National Bank of Memphis, 4.2186 percent and a total of $883,800. The jury also named five members to a parish development board to obtain FHA grants for smaller towns in the parish. The jury created the board primarily to get approval for a sewage treatment facility at Boyce, but other towns of less than 5,500 population will also be able to sc -ure benefits. Fielding James, Ward 7, was named chairman and other members are Brian Duke, Ward Pervis Linzay, Ward Wilbur Dyer, Ward 3, and Joe Brown, Ward 8. Duke pointed out that the new board will not conflict with the proposed Economic Development District plans.

By Cecil Williams (Town Talk Asst. Managing Editor) Painters in Alexandria struck for higher wages and a two-year contract today after rejecting a last-minute compromise offer by contractors. The walkout will have deeper consequences than the stilling of paint brushes, halting construction work on a number of projects. In rejecting the offer by the Central Louisiana Chapter of the Painting and Decorating Contractors America, the painters' union voted to set up picket lines today at the new Catholic High school on the Leesville highway, the Lincoln Road Junior High school, Gus Kaplan's store in the MacArthur Village Shopping Center. Pine-crest State School, Charity Hospital in Pineville, Louisiana State University at Alexandria, and the Rapides Savings and Loan Assn.

Building craft unions which have men on the job at these sites pledged to honor the picket lines of the union, Local 985 of the Painters, Decorators and Paper Hangers of America. Both sides agreed on the two- Inside Today's Town Talk Roy Mejia wins indefinite delay in his murder trial Page A-7 Growing Negro aggressiveness may mean long, hot summer in South Page A-9 Soviet's two space probes have separate missions Page A-8 Crews prepare Mariner 5 for Wednesday launch Page B-2 Both major parties flay community action program Page B-12 Private schools for children of the 'poor' Page A-6 Skeletal remains of Arab army litter the Sinai Desert Page B-2 (Town Talk Stnff Photo) Pickets from Painters Union Local 98S went on duty at several Alexandria construction projects today including Gus Kaplan's store (left) in MacArthur Village and the new Catholic High school (right) on the Leesville highway..