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Established 1796 COUNTYUPAPER VOL. 176, NO. 260 PHONE 394-0770 Britain's P.M. Wins Election To Commons CANANDAIGUA, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1963 167th Year WEATHER OUTLOOK Occas. Jonal rain and cool todays bish around 50.

Overcast lonlgbt wltn possibly a few showers or some drizzle. Low, -IO-43. Mostly cloudy Salnnlay with intervals of partial clearing likely by afternoon evening and slowly rising temperature. Conservatives Take Loss In District PERTH, Scotland (AP -British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home won a seal in the" House of Connrjons loday by a whopping 9.328-votc margin which lie hoped would lake some sting out of a bad Conservative party defeat in another election. Defeat of the prirfie minister in the safe Conservative district of Kinross and West Perthshire would have been unprecedented disaster for the Conservatives and would have plunged Britain into a government crisis.

Instead Douglas-Home's big Victory was a psychological counter to his party's loss Thursday night, by another big margin, of the Commons scat for the district of Lulon. The Perthshire vote was: Douglas-Home, 14.147; Alastair Duncan Millar, Libercl. 4.819; Andrew Forrester, Labor- itc, 3.752; 'Arthur Donaldson. Scottish Nationalist, 1.SOI Ian Independent, 78; William Rushlon, Independent. 45; and Richard Wort.

Independent, 23. In a three-sided race In the 1939 general election. Hie Conservatives won the same district by a margin. No one had expected them to come anywhere near that figure this lime. The 60-year-old prime mlnls- trr was a member of (he House of Lords i he renounced his e-rldom to succeed Harold M-cmillan.

He prepared to return to London today for the clash with Harold Wilson's Ialxrilcs that vilj come with the opening of the new parliamentary session Tuesday. II was vital for Sir Alec's political future that he a House of Commons seat. Nothing in the British Constitution 50 states, but it is regarded as imperative in the second half of the 20lh century that a British prime minister answer for Ihc conduct of his government in the popularly elected Commons. Sir Alec told a news conference: "Lulon was the hist page of the chapter and Kinross-West Perth was the first page of the new." The prime minister predicted a victory for the Conservatives in the nexl general election, due to lc held wilhin Hie next year. Results of the Lulon race, announced just before midnight, were a shock for the Conservatives.

The Labor parly candidate. Will Howie, won the seal by a margin of 3.749 voles. He polled 21.108 voles to 17.S3!) the Conservative, Sir John Flelcb- er-Cookc: 5.001 for L'bcral Mai- yyn Benjamin and 4PO for Communist Anllmny Chatcr. In the 1950 general election. Ihc won the Lulon seat by 5,000 voles in a slraighl fight will) labor.

had expected run iftcliind this time, hut not so far behind. Prisoners I-'rccil Saigon's Tortures Revealed EDITOR'S NOTE For many months rumors have circulated in Saigon of concentration camps in which po- lillcal opponents of President N'go Dinh IHem's dictatorship were Most of the political prisoners have been released since Dicm's overthrow and in this dispatch Associated i'rcss staff writer Malcolm W. Browne reports Hie stories iold by some of Iliem. By MALCOLM Yf. BROIVN'E Associated Press Staff Writer SAIGON, Viet Nam (AP) stripped me, tied me over a bench, choked me with water and a towel, and beat me until I was 'the prcfly young typist said with an embarassed smile.

11 happened last Friday, she said, only a few hours before President Ngo Dinh Diem's government collapsed in a blaze of cannon fire and while his brother Ngo Dinh Mini's secret police terrorists were still in operation. The typist is Miss Hoang Thi Dong. 20. employed at the Bril- ish Embassy, and an ardent Buddhisl. She was one of the thousands of "political detainees" who felt (he fangs of the secret police.

Most of the prisoners arc free how. and arc telling for the first lime what things were like in Khu's concentration camps. Scores of students of both sexes say they were forced lo drink quarts of soapy water until their intcslincs were pouring blood. One young girl, found praving wilh (he jubilant crowd at Saigon's Xa Lei Buddhist pagoda, said electrodes from (he gener- alor of a field radio were al- Inched to her breasts. Many U.S.

military advisers ami foreign newsmen have seen variations of this Inrlure applied to Vicl Cong suspects in the field. An employe of the U.S. aid mission. Vu Hoang l.inh, was held in the I.e Van Quych camp. "There was a liny cell," he said.

"Forty-six prisoners were locked inside, and the cell was under the sun. Mirny became unconscious." At least one student, Nguyen Van Van. died of lorturc. His liver was nipturcil by Irunch- eons. Sludcnls held funeral services for him Friday.

Fingers were chopped off (Continued on Page 3, Col .1) $227 Mil lion In Arms Is Stockpiled By FRED S. HOFFMAN AP Military Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The United Stales has million invcsled in a artillery, trucks and other equipment stockpiled in Western Europe for Army divisions airlifted from this country. The cost of that two-division stockpile was learned today by The Associaled Press. The 2nd Armored Division, flown to West Germany nearly three weeks ago In Exercise Big Lift, has been using about S155 million of this gear in war games near the Iron Curtain. Alter the maneuvers, the 2nd Armored will return tire roughly the 4.000 vehicles--tanks, armored personnel a i trucks, jeeps and olher equipment to depots west of the Rhine River.

Then the outfil will be flown back tn Ils home base at Ft. Hood, Tex. Enough heavy gear for an armored division infantry division was stockpiled In Germany and France during the Berlin crisis two years ago. The staled purpose is to permit a swift reinforcement from the United Slates during a lime of tension nrecedinr: a possible armed clash wilh the Russians and their satellites. Information on the stockpile indicated lint the 41h Infantry Division at Ft.

Lewis, is ticketed for emergency service in Europe if needed. A rundown on the cosl of Ihc "pre-posilion" equipment for Iwo divisions and 1(1 supporting units showed: 2nd Armored Di- cost of equipment plus spares worth 510 for an over-all tola of SIS5.017.I68. 4lh I'ifanlvv liviwn--equip- ment cosl S91602.M5: snares for a total of S08.785,- 131. Voi-sntilc a i BUFFALO, Wyo. (AP) A rabbit owned by the .1.

F. Dillingham family was picked as Ihe outstanding buck rabbit! al the Johnson Counly Fair. Everybody was surprised Wednesday when Ihe rabbit-became a mother. France Making Atomic Bombs PARIS (AP)--France is (urn- Jug out atomic bombs on an assembly line basis and will continue nuclear tcsls to develop a hydrogen bomb regardless of protests at home and abroad, says Defense Minister Pierre Messmcr. He told the National Assembly Thursday the bombs had been i production lines since the middle of (he year for France's Mirage IV jet planes.

A Gaullist deputy said 15 lo 20 of the supersonic bombers would be operational by the end of 1964. War On Mnfiri PALERMO, Sicily (AP)--The Regional Assembly of this Kali- '-land birlhplace of the Mafia--has adopted a lo strike at the underworld soei- cty's influence on Sicily's economic life. The assembly voled Thurs- 'light to examine ownership of wholesale sales licenses and commercial and industrial PS- tocialions to see if the Mafia has a. hand In them, 'Watch Own Publishers Are Told WASHINGTON (AP)-A 500 Hollywood press junket has led lo a suggestion by Sen. J.

W. Fulbright that "Ihc journalism profession lake an honest look al its own practices." Fulhrishl told Ihc Senate Thursday that the junket came "at a lime when (he press is so quick lo allach grave conflict-of-interest implications lo the activities of olhcrs." The Arkansas Democrat conli ued: "Ils responsibilities lo the public in terms of honesty and integrity are not less than the responsibilities resting on those who serve lhal same public as elective and appointed officials." Fulbright referred in his speech to an account of Ihe iunkct published Thursday in New York Times. Accord- ng lo the story by reporter Murray Schumach, motion pic- urc producer Stanley Kramer jrought about 250 reporters to, Hollywood from 26 countries ind 53 cities in the United Slates. The finale of the four-' lay visit was a viewing Sunday' light of Kramer's new picture 'It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World." The story said that five newspapers paid the expenses for their representatives. Again referring lo Ihe Times accounl Fulbright said: "Transportation for all the others as well as their hotel rooms, food and liquor bills were all paid by Ihe movie maker.

"The financial 'hospitality' went so far that the movie maker even paid for the newsmen's cable and telephone charges run up sending stories--most of which (he producer characterized as 'favorable' back lo their newspapers." Fulbright is president of the Northwest Arkansas Times. He told a reporter later thai he docs nol play an active role in the ooeralion of the newspaper. Reached by telephone at Fay- eltcvillc, cdilor Ted R. Wyhe said no reprcscnlative of the newspaper was on the. junkcK The Times quoled Kramer as saying.

"During this junket we received an enormous amount of space in newspapers and (here is much more to come in the papers and on television. Thoss stories and interviews will Imild ur audience anticipation so lhal it hits a peak as our movie opens in major cities." WRAPS ARE OFF During a military parade in Red Square, (he Russians revealed Ilieir vaunted antimissile missile. Khrushchev once bouslcd it could "hit a fly in the sky." Governor Meeting Granite Staters NASHUA, K. II. (AP) Gov.

Nelson A. Rockefeller continued today bis all-cut campaign to "gel ouf and meet the people and discuss the issues" in the highly strategic New Hampshire primary. His i i i a efforts as a formal candidate were hampered by driving rain. But he kept a fast-moving pace. The New 'Governor Will Cotton WASHINGTON Barry Goldwatcr's lop New Hampshire backer suid loday he thinks the conservative lawmaker will win lhal slale's firsl in the nalion presidential primary despite 'the early campaign launched by Gev.

Nelson Sen. Norris Cotton 'of New Hampshire said he looks for "a fine aggressive" Rockefeller campaign. Rut Ihe Goldwater lieutenant added: "We don'l want an early campaign. We wanl a campaign thal steadily intensifies unlil the end' And I'm just optimistic to think that we can carry New Hampshire." Goldwaler. who lops polls in New Hampshire and across the nation on Ihc 10G4 Republican presidential nomination, stuck lo Ihe no-comment policy he has followed since Rockefeller declared himself a candidate Thursday.

The New York governor made his announcement in Albany, N.Y.. then flew lo New Hampshire for two days of campaigning. "1 know I am the underdog in Ihe polls," he said in Nashua, N.H., "hut if one comes inlo politics because of his belief in principles, then whclber you are ahead or behind in the polls dmn't mutlcr." In New York, former Gotf. Thomas K. Dcwey Rockefeller is Ihc logical man lo head Iho 1931 GOP lickcl.

Dcwey--who made two unsuccessful bids for Iho While House--said Rokefeller's leadership "and in a a 1 achievements in Nt make him the logical Republican candidate for president and 1 wish him every success." (inlilivnicr has not said whether he will seek the nomination. The Arizona senator, has promised an announcement by Jan. 27. And if he does become a candidate, Goldwater said in Concord, N.IL, 10 days ago, lie will enter Ihe March 10 New Hampshire primary and campaign actively in Ihe slate. Cotton, top name among Goldwater supporters in New Hampshire, said he always has believed Rockefeller would be a very formidable candidate" in the primary.

But he added "I feel that Sen. Goldwaler will carry New Hampshire." Collon said a defeat in lhal primary could knock Rockefeller out of contention for Ihc i a i He said "it wouldn't be fatal" if Goldwater entered and losl. York governor's schedule contained i i to three industrial plants lo meet workers and the opening in Concord of the first, official Rockefeller for president headquarters. The governor, 55, announced Thursday at the New York capital in Albany his official candidacy for Ihe Republican nomination for president. Sen.

He then plunged immediately into his campaign to win the New Hampshire presidential preference primary next March Id. Sen. Barry Goldwaler of Arizona was vacationing al an undisclosed hideaway but an aide in Washington said Rockefeller's announcement li a changed the conservalive Republican senator's plans. Goldwater has yet to announce if he will seek the GOP presidential nomination. He paid a brief visit--billed as non- polilical--to New Hampshire recently and said he would enter the slale's primary if ho decides lo seek Ihc nomination.

And there Is talk in Washington (hat a white-haired lady from Maine may enter the New Hampshire GOP presidential primary. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith said Thursday she is considering entering some primaries lo offer volcrs a "third i between Rockefeller and Goldwaler. That primary will be Ihc first of the election campaigns ami the winner will gain an important victory in the GOP competition for the right lo challenge Democratic President Kennedy. Rockefeller entered the campaign a decided underdog.

Gold- waler is rated the favorite for New Hampshire's GOP convention supnort. Rockefeller conceded al several noints Thursday that he was far behind but said he felt he could win with an intensive, personal campaign in which he would meet as many New Hnmnshire voters as possible and present his views to them. Good Srt OAKLAND, (AP)--Miss Alvina Olsen, who taught school in San Lorenzo, for 50 years, told thousands of students they should always vote on election day it they were to be good citizens. She always did so herself, stMl does, she said. M'ss Oisen narked her IflOlh birthday here Thursday wilh a quiet cclehation.

At a conference. Rockefeller renewed his criticisms of nnd charged Kennedy with failure in dealing with such kev issues as Ihc national economy ami international communism. Rockefeller said he considers himself more represenlalivc than Goldwater of the progressive spirit of New Hampshire. Public Offices Closed Monday All city schools, banks, post office, city and county offices will he closed Monday In of- scrvance of Veterans Day, a legal holiday. However, stores in Canandaigua will remain open for business during the day.

According lo Mrs. Eleanor Carmichael, postmaster, their will be no city or rural delivery Monday and there will Iw no window service. Ifow- tier, special delivery service will he maintained and the lobby of the post office will Ixf open from 7 a.m. (n 6 p.m. Collections will fake place in the business section at 0 a.m.

and mail will be dispatched on morning connections. Cily- wide collection will he made al p.m. and mall will he dispatched on evening connections, Soviet Grain Deal Seems Assured Now WASHINGTON (AP) The word in Washington and In Moscow is that the long-slallcd 5250-million wheat deal may go Adminisiration sources were hinting cautiously Thursday nighl that there has been progress on the chief stumbling block--shipping rates. And in the Russian capital, Soviet Premier Khrushchev told a group of visiting American businessmen at a party Thursday, "I got the news today that Ihe grain dealers in America have made a reasonable approach and perhaps we can reach agreement after all." The deal involves sale of about 4 million tons of surplus American wheat to the Soviet bloc. Negotiations have sputtered for three weeks because: 1.

President Kennedy has attached a condition that the grain move on American-owned ships if available. 2. The Russians refuse to pay higher rates to-American shippers when foreign vessels would transport the wheat cheaper. A secret meeting between Undersecretary of Stale George W. Ball and the Soviet wheat delegation Wednesday a have helped improve the situation, administration sources indicated.

But they stressed that no a has been reached yet. The informants said Ihe gap between American and foreign rales is gradually narrowing Ijccause world shipping rates arc going up. There is still a considerable difference between the two, though, the sources said. Khrushchev said Wednesday the deal may fall through IHJ- cause of the American shipping rates. lie did not specify Thursday what new word he had received, but said: "If we bargain on Ihc basis of equality without discrimination when we can agree." Knnwinji Observer LANSING, Mich, (AP)-Gov.

George TComncy reccnllv received this letter from an observer of Michigan politics: "Dear Gov. Romney, I liked your speech but I did not understand it. It was good anyway. How can you talk so much?" It was among the dozens of lelters Romney receives each week from school children. 35c A WEEK, HOME DELIVERED 7c A COPY Foreign Aid Cuts Rebuke White House 3 Days Qj It Farmers Grateful For Rain ALBANY, N.Y.

(APJ--Much- needed ruin splashed New York Stale today for Ihc third successive day. Fanners and hunters were among the grateful, after the record-breaking autumn drought. For residents tired of the drizzle, the Weather Bureau offered a prediction of fair skies Saturday over the lower Hudson Valley and Long Island and partial clearing elsewhere. A few showers wilt linger in the Mohawk Valley, the Western Catskills, the upper Hudson and the northeast, the bureau said. In New York City, Ihe coastal storm had dumped more than four inches of rain since Tuesday night more than any storm in the last eight years.

To the north of the city, EI- lenvillc, in Ulster County, and the Tannersvillc area of Greene County also measured more than four inches. Rosendale in Ulster, and Gardnersville, In Schoharic, had more Mian three. Other measurements reported by the Weather. Bureau as of 7 a.m. today included: Poughkeepsie 2.6; Syracuse 1.9; Binghamlon and Wosl- hampton Beach 1.8; Ncwburgh 1.7; Ulica.

Rochester and Albany 1.4; Glean 1.3; Buffalo ami Wafertown 1. Fred W. Oeftingcr, Superintendent of Forest Fire Control in the Conservation Deparlment; described the rain as "delightful." 'Of course it will be nothing In terms of our general rainfall deficiency but it will help quite a bit," he said. "It's pretty safe lo say there aren't any (forest (ires) going right now." Daniel M. Dalrymple, assist- anl commissioner of agriculture, said the repienishment of water In farmers' wells would "relieve a headache" for farmers who have been forced lo haul water for cattle.

He said winter wheat and seedings also would benefit. However, New York City Water Commissioner Armand D'Angelo asked residents not lo relax Ihe conservation measures imposed last month when depleted reservoirs ncarcd 30 per cent of capacity. Herbert li. Kling. director of the Conservation Department's division of milk control, reported that the rain had "softened Ihc ground so fanners lake care of plowing they normally do in late fall." On Island, where over three inches of rain fell in 24 hours, truck farmers immediately began receiving higher prices for potatoes and cauliflower.

1964's City Budget Struggle Underway It's that time of year when city officials arc burning the midnight oil while they allempt lo reach a compromise bclwecn the amount of money department heads would like to have in MM and the amount they will actually get. Alderman Waller N. Butcher and members of his finance committee are meeting wilh department heads and board and comniission members in closed sessions to hash out departmental budgets for Ihe coming year. Each year, the departments wilhin city government prepare requests for funds for projects and operation of their departments for the coming year. Members of the common council's finance committee then meet with employes and come up with the figures that are finally presenled lo the council in the form of a preliminary budget.

Butcher Ihe hone said today that it is of the finance com- millce lhal (he budgel and tax rale for 1964 "can be held in line" and that taxes "will not change much from (he 1963 Most city officials anlicipale some increase in the tax rate, due primarily to expected added costs of financing bonds which were floated to pay for the additions and improvements to the city sewage treatment plant. The new plant also will require a larger operating budget, Butcher indicated. Some other changes which have been suggested in recent months Include a possible request from the police department for added personnel -primarily to provide for improved enforcement of the parking meter res! downtown area. The preliminary budget probably will be presented to Ihe common council at the Nov. 28 meeting, Butcher said today.

This would give aldermen time to study the budget requests and projected incomes before adopting the 1964 budgel. Bulchcr said ho believes the council will bo able to adopt a final budget at the laM meeting in December, Yugoslavia, UAR Banned From Program WASHINGTON (AP) Turn- uig its back on the White House and on its own leaders, the Senate has voted to ban aid to Yugoslavia and the United Arab Republic. Despite administration wishes for a free hand, the Senate Jliursday nailed these prohibitions into the foreign aid authorization bill and approved another amendment- lo keep the lid on assistance to Indonesia. a ncasirre le aid--this lo nations whose fishing policies "violate freedom of Iho seas." Adminislrafion forces clearly were reeling as the Senate closed up shop after its first night session since taking up foreign aid a week ago Monday. Tlie slow and rock road to Passage of the $3.742,355,000 measure is siresTM with 47 addi- lonal amendments, aimed either at paring Iho authorization used 1C fumls Ilc A voice vote brought home Ihe amendment to deny Prcsi dent Kennedy any discrelion 'to provide military or economic sbvi- Communist Administration forces plan to fight later to reslore the President discretion to i most-favorcd-nation trade treatments for Yugoslavia and Poland, barred last year by Con- Bui Sen.

William Proxmiro, is ready wilh an amendment to cut off all aid to Yugoslavia except for some surplus food and for assistance to American schools, hospilals and libraries. And Sen. Frank J. Laiische, D-OIno, said he will offer an amendment to wipe out completely (he President's discre- lion to aid any Communist country under any circumstance. Under present law foreign aid cannot be given Yugoslavia Poland and older Communist countries unless the President determines the assistance is vital to the security of the United (he recipient is not con(rolled by the Kremlin and that aid will promote Ihe country's independence.

Thursday night's fight camo on the amendment by Sen Ernest Gruening. D-Alaska, to bar help lo any nalion which (he President determines is engaging in or preparing for aggressive action against the United States or any country receiving U.S. assistance. Identical to a provision in the House-passed bill, it was approved 65-13. Gruening and other sponsors made clear the amcndmenl was aimed al Ihe United Arab Republic, which has scnl Iroops i Yemen.

The amendment prohibiting a resumption of now suspended aid to Indonesia unless the President should determine it essential lo the United States' nalional interest was adopled wilh out a protest. Earlier the Senate voted 57-29 lo ban foreign aid to any nalion thai asserts fishing jurisdiction beyond limits recognized by Ihe United Slales. This move, sponsored by Sen. Thomas H. Kiichel, R.Calif., was aimed mainly at Ecuador, Chile and Peru, which have claimed jurisdiction 2DO miles seaward.

Kuchcl said some American vessels have been seized and their crews fined and jailed. Fidel Misses Fete HAVANA (AP) The Soviet Embassy celebrated Ihe 46th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution with a huge reception Thursday but Prime Minister Fidel Caslro was absent The government announced that Caslro had left Havana in the afternoon for a tour of several provinces. President Osvaldo Dorlicos and Castro's brother. Raul, the armed forces minister, also were reported out of town,.