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171 Telephone 424-0373 Ten Cents Final Break Tornadoes Lash Draft Calls Reduced foi June, July By JERRY T. BAll.CH idwest Towns; 5 Persons Killed Below 20th Parallel Bid to Bomb New Base In Vietnam Rejected By RICHARD 0 SAIGON (UPI) The U.S. Command requested permission from the Pentagon last week to attack a new North Vietnamese fighter base below the bombing une set oy rresiaent jonnson Diit received no reply, authoritative military sources said Wednesday. Behind them is an interpreter, A. Jose DeSeabra.

The Tunisian president is on a three-day visit in Washington. (AP Wirephoto) PRESIDENT IIABIlt Bourguiba of Tunisia engages in some close conversation yesterday with President Johnson as they meet in his White House office. Vital to Peace U.S. Urges North Vietnam To Accept 3-Point Program WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon's draft calls, which began shooting up in January and peaked at 48.0(H) in April, continued to slide down Wednes day with a request for 15.000 Army recruits in July. At the same time, the Defense Department said the Army finds it needs 9,500 fewer men in June than expected, so the draft call for that month is being reduced from 29.500 to 20,000.

It was ex plained that the Army overestimated the number of men who will be discharged during the month. The 15,000 July request is the lowest since the 11,400 of April itisi year, uran cans rose sharply Ht the start of this year because so many men called in the Vietnam buildup two years ago were completing their compulsory service. But now that that cycle Is complete, the Pentagon said lower draft calls can be expected during the second half of Reserves Called The changing draft picture comes at a time when 39.000 Reserves and National Guardsmen are being called up. Air Reservists, air Guardsmen and naval air Reservists totaling 14.787 were mobilized Jan. 26 shortly after the North Koreans seized the U.S.

intelligence ship Pueblo and its crew. Then a month ago about 24,500 Reservists and National Guardsmen were ordered to report in 30 days. About 20.000 of those joined the active force this week, forming some 87 units from 34 states. Another 3,600 individuals needed to fill out units are to show up June 15. The Army has been the only service to rely regularly on the draft.

The Marines draw on it occasionally. The Navy and Air Force have managed with voluntary enlistments. The cal'up this year have run this way: January, 34.000; February, March April, May 45.900; June 20.000; July. 15,000. The 48.000 April total was near the highest Vietnam callup of 49,200 in October 1966.

In explaining there is some margin of error in long-range calculations of draft calls, such as the June figure, the Pentagon said there are many factors. Losses Reduced It had been estimated that net losses from Army ranks for January -June would total 250,800, but a more recent look reduced that to 236,500. The Pentagon, in explaining the up-and-down cycle of the draft, put it this way: average time for training a new draftee or recruit is approximately five months. In order to maintain its trained strength at a stable level, the Army must, therefore, procure new personnel about one half year in advance of anticipated losses of trained personnel due to completion of tours of duty or other factors. "In effect, the replacement cycle for draftees, therefore, is about lVz years rather than two years.

We are now entering a period when anticipated losses of draftees six months later will be substantially less than in the current period." stroller have Hanoi's "prompt answers" to the proposals. One of the prime steps, he said, would be to restore the demilitarized zone to "its original and proper status." Sgt. Reckless Marines' War Hero Mare Dies Let Annus Timn-wtsMnafon Post Ntwj service CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. S. Sgt.

Reckless, hero-mascot horse of the 1st Marine Division in the Korean War, is dead here at the age of 19, the Marines announced Wednesday. Sgt. Reckless, one of few few women Marines ever to see combat, was a mare. She got her name and rate after making 51 trips under fire, supplying more than 500 rounds of ammunition to the 75 mm. recoilless rifles platoon of the 5th Marine Regiment in the battle to retake outpost Vegas.

Suffering from arthritis of the back in recent years, Sgt. Reckless stumbled into barbed wire while at pasture and died under sedation. She was retired officially Nov. 10, 1960. American fighting men did not take horses to Korea, but pressed ownerless Korean animals into service where available.

ine sources said wasmngton apparently refused to give the go-ahead for fear of upsetting the Vietnam talks currently under way in Paris. The airbase is at Bai Thuong. just south of the 20th Parallel, which the sources said was expanded by the Communists to accommodate MIG jet fighters since Johnson curtailed bombing of the North on March 31. Johnson restricted targets originally to below the 20th Parallel but the limit was unofficially moved south another 70 miles to the 19th Parallel to avoid possible errors. The sources said Gen.

William C. Westmoreland's command asked Washington last week for permission to bomb the new bast, an added threat to U.S. planes, but received no reply which in military circles means refusal. They said the base provides the Communists with new capacity to challenge American planes bombing the southern panhandle of North Vietnam The MIG limited range virtually precluded this from their regular bases near Hanoi and Haiphong, they said No Dogfights According to the sources, a MIG based at Bai Thuong shot down a U.S. Navy F4 Phantom jet on May 7 and Soviet-built jet fighters were sighted below the 19th Parallel last week but there were no dogfights A U.S.

Navy A4 Skyhawk was reported downed by unknown causes over North Vietnam Tuesday and the pilot reported missing. It was the 836th U.S. plane lost over the North during the war, military spokesmen said. American fighter bombers flew a total of 101 missions in the southern panhandle on Tuesday, concentrating on antiaircraft and early warning radar systems, it was reported. All were below the 19th Parallel.

Two surface-to-air missile (SAM) sites were among the targets hit On the ground, the Viet Cong fired at least 50 mortar shells into the Saigon area early Wednesday, killing nine civilians and wounding 27 others, police said. Communist rockets also hit the U.S. airbase at Bien Hoa. about 20 miles northeast of Saigon, but no casualties were reported. U.S.

military spokesmen an nounced that Viet Cong bomb squads partly destroyed a U.S. Green Beret camp atop Black Widow Mountain where the U.S. forces maintain a major communications network before they were beaten back. The Americans atop the mountain and the Communists surrounding it had engaged for months in a strange sort of peaceful co-existence with both using the same waterhole midway between the two sides. U.S.

spokesmen said the camp was hit Monday at midnight by the Communists who scaled a cliff to penetrate the defense Looms in Labor Rift By A. F. MAHAN DETROIT (AP) The long-threatened final break between the AFL-CIO and Walter Reuth-er's United Auto Workers is due at midnight Wednesday, deadline set by the federation for a dues payment the auto workers vow they will not make. As the deadline approached, Emil Mazey, secretary-treasurer of the UAW, affirmed his union's intention not to pay. The AFL-CIO pictures the situation as "a withdrawal" by the UAW, but a UAW spokesman said "we're being kicked out." Either way, it is labor's biggest schism since the AFL-CIO expelled the Teamsters Union 11 years ago on charges of corrup tion.

The Teamsters claim 1.8 million members; the UAW 1.6 million. The AFL-CIO is made up of 130 unions claiming 14 million mem bers. The UAW is the largest affiliate. The current split stems from a squabble between two men who brought together once rival organizations into the AFL-CIO; George Meany, chief of the old American Federation of Labor, and Walter P. Reuther, leader of the old Congress of Industrial Organizations.

Dues are a sec ondary issue. Charges Stagnation The 60-year-old Reuther charges the labor movement is "stagnating" under leadership of the 74-year-old Meany and de mands. among other things, an organizing crusade. The 29-member AFL-CIO Executive Council repeatedly has sided with Meany in disputes with Reuther. In declaring no payment would be made before the mid night deadline, Wednesday, Ma zey said, "I will abide by the decision of our convention." The UAW convention to which he referred was held last week in Atlantic City and some 3,000 delegates overwhelmingly directed that an estimated $1 mil lion annually paid to the AFL- CIO in per capita dues put in es crow until the federation met UAW condition for continued membership.

The AFL-CIO constitution pro- vides an affiliate three months in arears may be suspended. Meany, after a Monday executive council meeting, said suspension would be automatic for the auto workers unless they paid by midnight May 15. In ordering dues which nor mally would go to the federation put in escrow, the UAW conven tion provided the money would be paid the AFL-CIO if before next Dec. 15 it "schedules un conditionally a special convention" before which Reuther and jqeany would debate theur pn lo sophies. Otherwise, UAW delegates directed the funds go i nto the UAW treasury "to mobilize, assist and work with other organi zations, alone or in combination, toward the objectives of meeting the urgent problems which confront our society and the la bor movement.

compromise truth-in-lend- which would be enforced by the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission. Generally, sellers would be directed to state in advertising and purchase contracts how much the financing charges are in annual interest rates or in cost per hundred dollars involved in the transaction. At the same time, the seller must tell the buyer the total cost of financing over the life of the transaction. Mortgages Exempt One exemption would apply to home mortgages by banks and other institutions. Such first mortgages would be required to state only the true annual interest rate not the total dollar cost over the 20 to 35 year life of the mortgage.

But banks and finance companies would be required to state total credit costs on all other loans. So would a car dealer whose sale was financed by the manufacturer, such as the General Motors Acceptance Corporation. Financing arrangements for buying of television sets, freezers, furniture and other similar items would also have to be presented to the buyer in easily understandable terms. Revolving credit accounts used more and more by department stores would also be covered, but there would be exemptions for smaller purcha- ses through these accounts which permit consumers to continuously maintain an unpaid balance. Many stores routinely charge 1.5 per cent monthly interest to consumers with Times Wire Service Tornadoes roamed across the Midwest Wednesday, wrecking a train, smashing buildings and injuring their occupants.

Five per sons were reported killed and many were injured Wednesday when tornadoes ripped into downtown Charles City in northeast Iowa. The Highway Patrol said rour persons were killed at Charles City and a newsman said one died at Oelwein. Both cities reported considerable damage to build ings. Highway patrolmen at Charles City said the downtown section leveled. At least 13 persons were reported injured in four states.

Reports were incomplete because power and communications were cut off in some areas. Tornadoes hit sections of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Minnesota. In Iowa, the hardest hit area. Gov. Harold Hughes ordered National Guardsmen and state Highway Patrolmen into storm ravaged Oelwein and Charles City.

At Charles City, Iowa, a shopping center wtthportcd destroyed and a telephone exchange heavily damaged. Near Milford, 111., a tornado struck a moving Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad freight train, lifting box cars from the middle of the train and tumbling them along the right of way. The town of Natrona, 111. was reported completely leveled but the 50 residents apparently escaped injury. The storms developed in advance of a cold front that moved eastward from west Texas, where tornadoes were reported early Wednesday, to Iowa, where residents in the northeast corner of the state were hardest hit.

A tornado watch remained in effect Wednesday night for eastern Iowa, southwest Wisconsin northwest and central Illinois and central Indiana. Twisters hit Oelwin, Charles City, Maynard and a rural northeast Iowa area. "The place is full and they're still coming in." Sister Mary Maureen, administrator of Mercy Hospital in Oelwein, said, but she said it was impossible to determine the extent or number of injuries in the confusion. At least one woman from Oelwein was reoorted serious injured when she was trapped inside a building damaged by the tornado that left debris throughout the downtown area. Downed Dower lines and unroot ed trees made driving impossi ble.

The local school, churches and city hall were reoorted damaged. All power anvbeleohone lines were down in Charles City, mahd damage and injury estimates cloudv. However. emergency units from within a 30-mile area were called to th stricjen city. Extensive damaee was reoort ed in Mavnard.

a few mile north of Oelwein, but details were light. Six farms werf damaged near Airale, Iowa, by tornadoes, but no iniuries wer reported. "This was rugeed said Mrs Palmer Wall of Oelwein. as sh described the effects of the twister. "We had window blown out in our apartment ani the power is out." she said.

Shi said the tornado came "rea1 fast." Three persons were seriousli injured when one of fiv tornadoes skipped across cea tral and northern Illinois. Thre women were listed in fail condition in a hospital in Masof City, two were injures when their trailor home ig Easton, 111., was destroyed by tornado, and another hurt whe her Mason City home collapsed while she was in the basement Rip-snortin' violent weathel pounded northern sections Texas again Wednesday, strife ing first in western section and then galloping eastward. At least two tornadoes, hat and high winds accompanies the heavy thunderstorms witi deluge-like rain. It was the 12i straight day for the wild an woolly elements to pounc Texas. Before dusk, thunderstorm! stretched 30 to 40 miles north a line from Eastland to Hop Worth ot Gainesville and moved eastward.

Very heavy rain anc locally severe weather werr produced, the Weather Bureaii said, as the storms swep forward. Wind warning flags went ui on North Central Texas lake and reservoirs with winds gust ing up to 40 miles per hour or more expected. Other storm cells, their bu thunderheads towering into th sky, struck northeast of Abl lene, near Gainesville, am from Breckenridge to Decatur A tornado watch was in effec for a northern tier of counti in North Central Texas until p.m. i V. OLIVER perimeter and blew up several buildings, including the comma nications bunker.

Nineteen Americans were killed and 24 wounded In the three-hour battle, the spokes- men said. The Viet Cong left 25 dead behind. It was the second attack on Special Forces camp in two days. North Vietnamese troops overran the Green Beret camp at Kham Due Sunday. Nine U.S.

aircraft were lost in the evacuation of allied troops and civilians from the camp 350 miles north of Saigon. American spokesmen said 25 Americans were killed and 96 others wounded. There was no further word on South Vietna- mese casualties beyond, preliminary report that 21 were wounded. Labor Asked To Control Its Demands WASHINGTON (API Presi dent Johnson has urged labor union leaders to hold down de mands for wage increases, which have been running at the rate of nearly 6 per cent so far this year, sources said Wednes day. But AFL-CIO Pre sid en George Meany said even before meteing with Johnson Tuesday that organized labor can ac cept voluntary wage restraints Johnson's appeal lo Meany and other AFL-CIO leaders re portedly was viewed by the la- nor chiefs as a pro forma state ment to match the President's recent request of business lead ers for price restraints.

was kind of 'for the one source said of Johnsons wage plea to some two dozen members of the AFL-CIO Executive Council. Meany told newsmen before the meeting that the AFL-CIO would not oppose government wageprice controls if Johnson ordered them, but voluntary controls just don work. The Labor Department re ported that first quarter con tract settlements averaged 5.8 per cent a year in increased wages and benefits, compared with 1967's average of 5.6 per cent. But AFL-CIO officials argue that price increases, running at the rate of more than 4 per cent in the same period, will wipe out most of the wage gains. Presidential press secretary George Christian was queried about reports that Johnson may have asked the AFL-CIO Coun- cil members for some no-strike agreement during their session at the White House Tuesday.

Christian said, "I wouldnt have any comment. brought the three American missionaries into the central highlands prior to Tet offensive in late January and that they aided in setting up a staging area for North Vietnamese and Viet Cong casualties. Although they have not been, allowed to make any contact with relatives or friends, the three were reported in good health. Putting the week's reports from Vietnam together, Dr. King said two other missionar ies, Miss Betty Olsen, of Nyack, N.Y..

and Henry Blood, of Port land, captured by the Viet Cong last Jan. 31, are now known to have been united with the trio captured six years be' fore. One new source for informa tion was a Raday tribesman who escaped from the Viet Cong during the past week and made his way to Banmethuout. He told mission headquarters there that Miss Olsen, a nurse, and Blood were not in good physical condition. By WILLIAM L.

RYAN AI Special Correspondent PARIS (API The United States, citing possible areas of agreement, urged North Viet nam Wednesday to accept a three-point proposal "Vital to peace" in Vietnam. Hanoi res ponded by insisting the Amen cans immediately halt all bomb ing and acts of war before other matters "of common interest" could be discussed. Ambassador W. Averell Har- riman, the chief U.S. negotiator, and Xuan Thuy, chief envoy for North Vietnam, held a 210-min ute discussion at the French Foreign Ministry's conference ball and adjourned their preli minary Vietnam peace talks un til Saturday.

Each saide had its three-point proposal. Despite the differing proposals, the American side said it declined to be wholly pes simistic. "We did find a few things where we believe we have a common objective," an Ameri can spokesman said. The U.S. proposal involved restoration on the demilitarize atatus of the six-mile-wjde buff er zone oetween wortn ana South Vietnam and international action to insure the neutrality and territorial integrity of Laos and Cambodia, Vietnam's Indo- chinese neighbors.

North Vietnam's proposal spelTcd out three points, de manding the immediate cessa tion of all acts of war against the North by the United States, including propaganda and psy chological warfare, "without putting any condition" for this before Hanoi. Xuan Thuy's spokesman, Nguyen Thanh Le, was asked by reporters whether North Vietnam had placed any time limit on its demand for a total bomb ing halt. His reply, referring to past official Hanoi statements, ndicated that for the time his wife got the bird when it coming back. He said that the bird could meow like a cat and imitate the sounds of neighborhood children." Scout-O-Rama LE ALEXANDER, field adviser of Norwela Council, Boy Scouts of America, advises that he has appealed to Big Chief Rainmaker" to withhold rain Saturday so the more than 8,000 Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and Explorer Scouts can hold their big SCOUT-O-RAMA at hreve City Shopping Center. The an nual exhibit of scouting skills and crafts had to be canceled last Saturday because of the rain that swept the area for several davs.

The event opens at 12 noon, and ALEXANDER says this is the largest SCOUT-0 RAMA ever held. Recuperating Mrs. TWYLA TAYLOR, 1518 Townhouse Apartments, is in Room 330 in Doctors' Hospital recuperating from surgery. (More Stroller on Page 12-A) Truth'in-Lending Bill Approved by Conferees WASHINGTON (UPI) House and Senate negotia being, at any rate, there was no time limit. The talks up to now are strictly limited to issues directly involving the United States and North Vietnam while allies of both wait in the wings to see if the conferecne can be widened.

The demand of the National Liberation Front, the Viet Cong's political arm, for a coali tion government thus is not cur rently on the agenda, but Harri man was asked about published reports that the United States would not oppose inclusion of Communists in a future Saigon regime. "We have never been for a coalition government," Harriman replied. This, however, was re garded by some as not quite so sweeping as it sounded, since it did not specifically rule out a "role" for individual Commu nists. In Washington Secretary of State Dean Rusk said any suggestion that the United States is ready to impose a Communist role on South Vietnam is "mischievous and false." The Washington Post had reported earlier that a role for the Communists is being acknowledged high in the U.S. ADMINISTRATION.

Harriman spoke for 55 minutes and his adversary for an hour and a half, each delving deeply into his own side's view of the history of the Vietnam war, each accusing the other of being the aggressor, each charging the other with terror and barbarities. But Harriman said: "Let us now look to the future and seek a basis for peace. I am struck by some similarities in our respective positions. Let me identify for you some of the areas in vAich it seems reasonable to hope to find agreement. I hope there may be others, but I wish to speak of these now." He went on to list five such areas.

"First We both speak of an independent, democratic, peaceful and prosperous South Viet nam. You also speak of a neutral South Vietnam. We have no problem with this if that is South Vietnam's wish. "Second We both speak of peace on the basis of respect of the Geneva accords of 1954, to which we add the 1962 agreements on Laos. "Third We both speak of letting the international affairs of South Vietnam be settled by the South Vietnamese themselves, which we would clarify by adding 'without outside interference or coercion.

"Fourth We both speak of the reunification of Vietnam by peaceful means. In our view this must not only be peaceful but also through the free choice of the people of South Vietnam and of North Vietnam. "Fifth we both speak of the need for strict respect of the provisions of the 1954 Geneva accords." He then elaborated on what he called "some specific and urgent steps which are vital to peace and on which it should be possible to agree," and said the Americans would be glad to 2 Ark-La-Texans Die in Vietnam WASHINGTON Ark-La-Tex servicemen were listed yesterday by the Defense Department as recent casualties of the Vietnam war. Killed were L. Cpl.

Emmit C. Dansby, son of Mr. and Mrs. James N. Dansby, Route 4, Box 291, Texarkana, and Cpl.

David C. Wells, husband of Mrs. Bobbie J. Wells, 1004 W. Sabine Carthage, Tex.

tors Wednesday approved a mg bill designed to insure that American consumers know exactly how much more it costs them to buy on It's a little sad around the H. N. HEDWIN home at 3214 Exposition today their 17-year-old pet blue jay has died. Caring for Red Casualties HEDWIN explained that he and fell out of a nest the country in 1951. it has uvea in a cage in their house, flying outside periodically, "but always Missionaries Captured By Cong Reported Alive credit rather than cash.

Members of the conference committee unanimously ap proved the bill, which now will go back to the House and the Senate which passed different versions of the legislation. Under the bill, buyers of almost anything on time-homes, cars, appliances, even revolving department store charge accounts would have to be told in writing how much they were paying extra for interest, service charges, credit life insurance and other added-cost items. Another major provision of the bill would create for the first time a federal law regulating wage garnishment, which its sponsors said was one cause of unrest among Negroes victimized by "'easy credit" operations by slum stores. Minimum Exemption The measure would exempt from garnishment 75 per cent of a debtor's weekly take home pay whether it was $50 or $500. In any case, a minimum $48 of weekly take home pay would also be exempted.

A creditor could, through the courts, only have paid to him that part of a debtor's pay exceeding the $48 or 75 per cent exemption every week until he collected his dbt. The garnishment provision would apply in all states starting July 1, 1970, except Texas, Florida and Pennsylva nia where attaching wages was prohibited by state law. Under the bill, the credit disclosure provisions would become effective July 1, 1969. The Federal Reserve Board would administer the program Partly Cloudy, Mild Forecast Ark-La-Tex residents can expect partly cloudy weather today with scattered showers and thun-dershowers. Louisiana's forecast is partly cloudy to cloudy with widely scattered thunrdershowers.

Highs today will be 84-90. Arkansas' forecast is considerable cloudiness with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Highs today low 70s to low 80s. East Texas' forecast is partly cloudy with widely scattered afternoon and evening thunder-stroms. High today 80-88.

Tempterature extremes in the Ark-La-Tex yesterday saw Alexandria with 88 and 70, El Dorado with 85 and 70, Lufkin with 90 and 75 and Shreveport with 89 and 73. Today's Chuckle Once there was a young man who nicknamed his girlfriend "Appendix," because it cost so much to take her out. RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Three American missionaries captured by the Viet Cong and forced to care for North Viet namese casualties during the past six years are alive and well, officials of the Christian and Missionary Alliance said Wednesday. "This is the first time in the six years that our information from behind the Viet Cong lines is so positive and confirmed by rennrts frnm several sources." said the Rev.

Dr. Nathan Bai ley, president of the missionary church. The Rev. Dr. Louis L.

King. its foreign secretary, gave the new report to clergy and lay delegates here1 for the denomi nation annual general council. The three prisoners are Dr. Ardel Vietti, of Houston, the Rev. Arcnie Mitchell, of t-i-lensburs.

and Dan Ger- ber. of Canton, Ohio. Dr. Kins said a Viet Con2 sol dier captured several days ago told of berg with a unit that Times Radio KWKH 1130 on youf )ial i i revolving credit accounts..