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Carroll Daily Times Herald Vol. 196 Retain Poetafe Guaranteed Carroll, Iowa, 51401, Wednesday, August Pages Delivered by Carrier Boy Each Single Evening for 40 Cenla Per Week Copy Most of It Held in Lady Bird's Name, Accounting Shows- Johnson Family's Wealth Set at $3.4 Million WASHINGTON (AP) An accounting firm hired at the direction of President Johnson reported today that the Johnson family fortune totals $3,484,098. The lirm of Haskms Sell. said the President and Mrs. Johnson and their two daughters, Lynda Bird and Luci Baines, had total assets of $3,682,770 as of July 31.

On the same date, the family had liabilities of $198,672, which reduced their net worth to $3,484,098. The accounting firm said President Johnson's assets amounted to $477,417 and his liabilities were $99,336. The detailed statistical table made it evident that most of the Johnton wealth it hold in the namo of tho First Lady. Johnson's assets were said to total $1,775,434 with liabilitios of This gave Mrs. Johnson a net worth of $2,126,298 compared with $378,081 for the chief executive.

Lynda Bird Johnson's assets tare put at $490,141. Those of her sister Luci Baines were given as $489,578. The table listed no liabilities for either of the daughters. During recent months, published estimates of tho siie of tho Johnson fortune have ranged from about $4 million to $14 million. It seemed apparent that much of this broad spread could be accounted for by using different methods of estimating the Johnson wealth.

If wealth is figured on the book value of securities held, it can conceivable be many times lower than if figures on the partner for Haskins Sells in basis of the current market value of the same securities. Robert Van Arsdale, resident partner for Haskins Sells inj Washington, declined to answer any questions about the five- page financial statement. He referred all questions to Everett Shifflet, a partner in the firm's New York headquarters. "I'm not familiar with what's in the report," Van Arsdale said. He said the document was Syncom 3 Put into Preliminary Orbit By HOWARD BENEDICT CAPE KENNEDY, Fla.

(AP) The Syncom 3 communications satellite, intended to relay television pictures of the October Olympic Games in Japan quickly to North America and 'We Love You, Beatles'- Flying from London on the North Pole route, the Beatles traveled to keep a date with American fans. Richie Six, above, typical of the awaiting legions, arrived hours ahead of time at San Francisco airport to greet them. House Vote Set on Reapportionment WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate keeps talking, but the House votes today on what has become a key issue in the fading session of Congress apportionment of state legislatures. A Senate filibuster is holding back action on a proposal by Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois that would permit states to delay court-ordered reapportionment.

But a bill much tougher on the Sen. Keating Challenged by Rep. Fino NEW YORK (AP) Rep. Paul A. Fino, Bronx County Republican chairman, has challenged Sen.

Kenneth B. Keating of Rochester for the GOP nomination to the U.S. Senate. Fino says Keating, who formally announced for a second term Tuesday, "cannot and should, not" ask for renomina- tion as long as he continues to withhold endorsement of presidential nominee Barry Goldwater. Until Fino declared his candidacy in a statement in Washington, Keating had been expected to win unanimous nomination at Keating See Page federal courts is up for a vote in the House.

Offered by Rep. William M. Tuck, it would remove jurisdiction over state-rsappor- tionment cases from tho lower federal courts and prevent the U.S. Supremo Court from reviewing such cases decided in state supremo courts. Both the Senate and House moves are aimed at undoing a Supreme Court ruling that both houses of a state legislature must be based on population.

There is strong opposition in the House to the Supreme Court ruling, but the very toughness of the Tuck bill is causing some misgivings among those who would like to see the ruling overturned. They feel there is more question of the constitutionality of the Tuck bill than there is of the Dirksen proposal and thus more likelihood that it might be vetoed by President Johnson. Honor Sister for 41 Years Of Service St. Anthony Hospital, which will observe its 60th anniversary next year, was only 18 when Sr. M.

Benvenuta, a young nun from the order of Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration at La Crosse, was assigned as head cook for the hospital. At 8 o'clock Thursday morning she will leave Carroll, having served 41 years as head cook, "mother" to scores of professional nursing school students, and friend to many associates at the hospital. She was born at Luxemburg, Dubuque County, but has many relatives living in Carroll County, among them members of tho Rudy Meyers, William Arts, Joseph Franks and J. J. families.

Three of her uncles were Carroll County pioneers. Europe, rocketed into a preliminary orbit today en route to a planned stationary post high above the Pacific Ocean. Officials were cheered by the early success of the mission. But the "Olympic Star" satellite must execute a number of complex maneuvers in the next 12 days to shift its orbit and reach its goal as the world's first truly synchronous stationary satellite. While Syncom 3 is a research vehicle and television is not its main job, successful interconti nental transmission of Olympic pictures would be the most dramatic performance so far by communications satellites.

U.S., Japanese, Canadian and European interests plan to spend nearly $1 million to demonstrate Olympic television capability with Syncom 3. Practically none of the transmission will be live, primarily because of time differences, and ironically, Canadian and European viewers probably will see more of the film relayed by Syncom 3 than will those in the United States. The three-stage augmented Delta rocket reled away from Cape Kennedy at 7:15 a.m. (EST) to propel the drum-shaped satellite into Syncom 3 See Pago Own Idea to Kill Oswald, Ruby Quoted NEW YORK (AP) Jack Ruby, in purported secret testimony given to the Warren Commission, said it was strictly his own idea to kill Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President Kennedy. In a copyrighted story Tuesday by Journal-American columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, Ruby is quoted as having told Warren June 7: The St.

Anthony Hospital School of Nursing Alumnae Assn. honored Sr. Benventua Tuesday evening with a coffee at 7:30 in the hospital cafeteria. Several hundred associates, alumnae, friends visited during the evening, recalling the history of the hospital and the days when the hospital had a professional school of nursing. They remembered that in the first days of the hospital, Sr Benvenuta and two or three others prepared the meals.

The nurses dished up food for their individual patients and took (the trays to the rooms; after patient had eaten, the Sr. Benvenuta See Page Horry Laurinofs Buy Mockrill Home Mr. and Mrs. Harry Laurinat have moved from a residence on Grant Road to 1314 North Court Street which they purchased from Mr. and Mrs.

Robert J. Mackrill Jr. Mr. Laurinat is custodian at the Carroll Medical Center. The Mackrills and sons Bobby and Russell recently moved to California.

Student Struck, Killed by a Train WINTHROP (AP)- Lawrence John Ryan, 22, of Waterloo, a student studying for the priesthood at Loras College in Dubuque, was struck and killed by an Illinois Central train Wednesday. Investigators said Ryan, son of Carl Ryan of Waterloo, was hit while he was on the tracks near a crossing in Winthrop. late News Off The AP Wire Wire Picture Old-Fashioned Old fashioned service or, you might say, "Just in case." Corrine Eden, an employee of the Burlington Municipal Waterworks, operates an old-fashioned pitcher pump on the front stoop of waterworks office building. "I was ward this never Wilkins Urges Vigorous Rights Law Enforcement NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) Turkish Cypriots waited with skepticism today for President Makarios to fulfill his promise to allow food, fuel and medicine to enter blockaded Turkish Cypriot areas. A Turkish Cypriot spokesman welcomed the pledge as "an encouraging first step." But he accused Makarios, a Greek Cypriot, of breaking agreements before and said, "Therefore, we will have to wait and see." expected to clear it for President Johnson later today or Thursday.

MEASURE PASSES- WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate passed today a $1,165,000.000 compromise bill continuing major federal housing programs for an additional year. The voice vote sent the measure to the House, which is ORDERS EXPULSIONS- LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo (AP) Premier Moise Tshombe's government announced today all citizens of two neighboring nations who are in the Congo will be expelled on the ground their governments are aiding a Communist-backed rebellion among his people. The nations are the Congo Republic (Brazzaville) on the north and the kingdom of Burundi on the east. A communique said the Brazzaville government is harboring Congolese responsible for massacres, pillage and destruction while Burundi is ing material and moral support to the revels. MEETS CHALLENGE- SAIGON, Viet Nam (AP) About 200 students challenged Maj.

Gen. Nguyen Khanh's right to assume the presidency and accused the United States of intervening in South Vietnamese domestic affairs at a noisy rally in the Student Union headquarters today. Khanh had broadcast a veiled threat that the youths stood a chance of being drafted into the army if they demonstrated against his government. Referring to the scheduled meeting, he said the students could control their own destinies, "which are being decided within a few hours." Fumes Rout Residents in Tampa Area TAMPA, Fla. (AP) Hundreds of persons were routed from their homes by noxious fumes Tuesday night after a 55- gallon drum of underwater weed killer exploded at a chem ical plant.

More than 100 were treated at hospital emergency rooms for eye and nose irritations, cramps and nausea. The fumes, from a chemical called acrolein, billowed from open doors and windows into the heavily populated, mostly Negro neighborhood. Mass traffic jams caused by curious onlookers hampered firemen and police trying to reach the area in gas masks. "First you choke, then you get abdominal cramps and nausea," said Vernon Barchard, photographer for the Tampa Tribune. "I vomited 15 minutes." Police Cpt.

L. J. Buchanan and fireman Lionel Hernandez: were hospitalized for observation. Herbert Friedman, president of Southern Mill Creek Chemical where the explosion occurred, said the chemical fumes were not poisonous. Friedman said he was in the plant office when he heard an explosion about 8 p.m.

He said the chemical apparently built up pressure inside the container, blowing off the top and spewing snowflake-size powder over a store room. Firemen, wearing gas masks and rubber suits, entered the four-story building to cap the drum. Many were overcome when fumes seeped through loose masks. Police, using sound trucks, or- dred evacuation of a 16-square block area around the plant. Firemen, using hoses, brought the fumes under eontrol shortly before midnight.

WASHINGTON (AP) Civil rights leader Roy Wilkins urged Democratic platform writers today to pledge vigorous enforcement of the new civil rights law and give the country a contrast with what he called the "squeamish circumlocution" of the Republican plank. Wilkins, chairman of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, The Weather IOWA FORECAST Partly cloudy to cloudy Wednesday night, scattered showers or thunderstorms west and north, warmer, lows in the 60s. Thursday partly cloudy to cloudy and cooler with scattered showers and thunderstorms, highs in the 80s. Further west and central, scattered showers and thunderstorms ending east, cooler Friday. FIVE-DAY IOWA FORECAST Temperatures will average 2 to 5 degrees below normal Thursday through next Monday.

Normal highs are 80 to 85 and normal lows 58 to 64 degrees. It will turn cooler Thursday night or Friday. Rainfall will average .50 to one inch in showers and thunderstorms, mostly Thursday. CARROLL-NORTHWEST Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms beginning Wednesday night and continuing Thursday, windy. Warmer Wednesday night, lows in the 60s.

Cooler Thursday, highs 75-82. The Weather in Carroll (Dally Temperature Courtesy of Iowa Public Service Company) Yesterday's high 83 Yesterday's low 56 At 7 a.m. today 64 At 10 a today 75 Weather A Year A trace of rain fell in the 24-hour period prior to 7 a a year ago today. Temperatures ranged from a high of 73 to a low of 57 declared that "the riots which have shaken several urban communities cannot be condoned." He said they must be understood against a background of deprivation and frustration. Wilkins' testimony was prepared for the Democratic platform committee as it concentrated on the civil rights issue, considered the most difficult to treat in a plank acceptable to all wings of the party.

A trial balloon floated by some Southern moderates for a compromise statement that might avoid a floor fight appeared to have been shot down when Pierre Pelham, a committee member from Alabama, said Tuesday he could accept nothing less than a call for repeal of the Civil Rights Act. The Republican platform language that aroused Wilkins' scorn includes a call for "full implementation and faithful execution" of new and old civil rights laws, improvements as needed and any necessary action to ensure the right to vote. But Wilkins said the slogan, "leave civil rights matters to the states has become the hallmark" of Sen. Barry Goldwater, the Republican presidential candidate. Goldwater has said he accepts the Republican platform and, as president, would enforce the laws.

malicious to- person. No one else requested me to do anything. I never spoke to anyone about attempting to do anything. No subversive organization gave me any idea. No underworld persons made any effort to contact me.

It all happened that Sunday morning." The Dallas Times Herald also published an article Tuesday that it said quoted the testimony. Some of the quotes were the same as those in tho Journal-American. The report of the commission, headed by U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren, is expected to be published in mid-September. In a Washington dispatch today, the New York Times reported commission officials have expressed distress concerning the Journal-American article which, on superficial examination, appeared to contain verbatim secret testimony.

The officials were not identified by the Times. Ruby shot and killed Oswald in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters last Nov. 24, two days after Kennedy was assassinated. It became known less than a month later that the FBI, and state and city police had concluded that Oswald acted alone and that Ruby had no connection with the plan to assassinate Kennedy. Miss Kilgallen said she obtained the actual transcript of Warren's interview with Ruby "from sources close to the Warren Commission in Washington." The article was the first of three scheduled articles.

Ruby did not testify during his murder trial and his attorney, Melvin Belli, tried to prove him insane at the time the murder was committed. prepared in the New York office. White House press secretary George Reedy declined to say why Johnson ordered the financial study and its release. However, in the campaign, Adlai son, the Democratic nominee, made public a rundown on his financial position. A like statement was issued later by his opponent, Republican Dwight D.

Eisenhower. Financial figures for Sen. Barry Goldwater, the 1964 Republican presidential nominee, were given out Aug. 13 by the Valley National Bank of Phoenix, which administers the Goldwater trust accounts. The holding of Goldwater and his wife were shown as totaling $1.7 million as of June 30, largely in stocks.

Haskins Sells released, along with its report on the Johnson family's holdings, a letter from the firm to the President, dated Tuesday. In this letter, the firm noted that Johnson had instructed it on July 7 to audit the accounting records of the family from Jan. 1, 1954, through July 31, 1964. It said the audit "conformed with generally accepted auditing standards." Thle letter stated that tho amounts listed for the family's holdings in the Texas Broadcasting the principal asset of the family, and in ranch properties and other real estata Johnson See Pago i Harold Bojes Sell Home to Dick Becks Mr. and Mrs.

Harold Boje and sons Brian and Scott have moved from 1611 Salinger Avenue to the home they own at 1737 Salinger, formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Ed Goetzinger and family. The Goetzingers are now living at 327 South Walnut Street. The Bojes have sold the property at 1611 Salinger to Mr.

and Mrs. Dick Beck of Storm Lake, who are moving here Wednesday. Mr. Beck has been promoted as district manager for Woodman Accident and Life of Lincoln, Neb. They have five children, Gregory, Susan, Brian, Alison and Nancy, the first three of whom will be pupils at Carroll Public School.

Mr. Beck is a son of Mrs. H. C. Beck of Carroll.

IOWA TRAFFIC DEATHS By The Associated Press Aug. 19, 1964 492 Aug. 19, 1963 403 1965 Line Is Unveiled by Chrysler NEW YORK (AP) Chrysler Corp. unveiled the most diversified line in its history today as it became the first auto maker to show its 1965 models to tha press. Lynn A.

Townsend, Chrysler president, told newsmen at the opening of a four-day preview that Chrysler spent more than $300 million in developing its 130 models in nine series. This compared with $125 million spent in engineering and styling the 1964 line. Townsend said much of Chrysler's emphasis had been focused on the "great central price range between compacts in the Valiant and Dodge price class on the one hand and so called medium-price cars like the Dodge Custom 880 and Chrysler on the other." The Chrysler president said: "At Chrysler, we are going to avoid at all costs the mistake of becoming known as a company that builds cars for the very young or only for the middle-aged and successful. We build cars for everybody." The 45 year old Townsend, who took over as Chrysler president in July 1961 and directed its comeback in the auto market, said Chrysler's share of the auto market rose to 13.9 per cent in the first six months of this year, its highest point in four years. Span Collapses, 5 Cars of Freight Train in River FORT DODGE (AP) Five cars of a 44-car Illinois Central freight train fell into the Des Moines River Wednesday as a railroad bridge collapsed.

No one was injured. Engineer James Arnold of Fort Dodge said he felt the train lurch and the brakes set automatically after his locomotive had crossed the bridge. Part of the train was left on each side of The broken span. Several of the cars which fell were loaded with lumber. One flat car was carrying a big tractor.

Railroad spokesmen said they did not know immediately what caused the bridge to break, There was no immediate decision on whether to replace the span. Estimates of its ago ranged from 60 to 74 years. The train was en route from Council Bluffs to Fort Dodge. Passengers on another train arriving from Chicago later Wednesday were taken by chartered bus to destinations between here and Sioux City. Plans were to have the bus turn from Sioux City with other passengers to board the Chicago train here Wednesday evening.

Mail was being transported by truck. Railroad officials were ning to route other rail traffic around Fort Dodge..