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Twins' Killebreiv Out For 10 Days With Arm Injury 3-B I 5-Day Forecast riaHoo Hetttmel Tis a Privilege to Live in Central Florida CYPRESS GARDENS, Temperatures through five-day period ending Saturday will average 2 to 3 degrees below normal over northern sections and about normal over southern areas. Normal highs range from 88 to 92 and lows mostly in 70s. Scattered showers were forecast, with most places getting 1 to 2 inches of rain. Vol.81 No. 82 28 Pages NEAR WINTER HAVEN Orlando, Florida, Tuesday, AugiM 3, 1963 SENTINEL TELEPHONE GArdfn 3-4411 Training Combat Power Hiked 'lit Case Call Necessary9 JV 10 Cls.

Reserve Forces Preparedness Speeded Railroad Says Spikes Pulled Ahead Of Train Several Units Start Step-Up In September WASHINGTON l.fl Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus R. Vance disclosed plans Monday to speed up training and increase combat power of certain Army reserve units in case "a call up of reserves should become necessary." "We propose to take special measures to raise the readiness of three reserve divisions, six independent brigades and selected combat and service support units," Vance told a House Armed Services subcommittee. THE PLANS are to begin work on these units in September when their authorized strength will be increased to 100 per cent as i. I I I 'I I I I I I I I 'I M6DICAKI5 Hold It First Go Out Wednesday Uncrated Neiv Tax Notices Ready MIAMI P) The Florida East Coast Railway, torn by violence in a 30-month strike, resumed passenger service Monday and almost immediately claimed an attempt was made to derail one of the trains. W.

L. Thornton of St. Augustine, president of the FEC, said spikes were pulled from 60 feet of rail near Stuart, 100 miles north of Miami, on the southbound track. The spikes were not at the scene, Thornton said. Without detection of the missing spikes, he said, the southbound Jacksonville-to-Miami passenger train would have been derailed.

THE SABOTAGE attempt apparently occurred shortly after the southbound passenger train left Jacksonville at 9:40 a.m., he said. A foreman said he noticed the spikes missing. "With over 300 acts of sabotage since the strike started, evidently a good many criminals are trying to wreck trains," said Ed Ball, FEC board chairman. "They don't seem to care whether they kill people or not." (Continued back page this section) Deputies Fist Fight In Greek Parliament ATHENS, Greece Fist fight-ing broke out between deputies Monday night as Parliament assembled to debate a confidence motion for Premier George Ath-anasiadis Novas' government. Police rushed in and broke up the punch-throwing after about five minutes.

Ex-Premier George Papandre-ou's followers sent enough deputies to make a quorum for the debate on the government King Constantine appointed July 15 after dropping Papandreou, BUT PAPANDREOU'S Center Union party deputies shouted and banged their desk tops and fighting broke out when a rightist deputy assailed the former premier. Stevenson Papers Go To Princeton N(w York Times Service NEW YORK The private papers of Adlai E. Stevenson will be deposited at Princeton University and will not be accessible until a biographer chosen by Stevenson's family has finished with them. This was disclosed Monday by Adlai E. Stevenson 3rd, the late United Nations ambassador's elder son.

He is an executor of his father's will. Cracker Jim Sez: Them there breezes early today are gonna be a little bit cooler than what they have been. There's gonna be some ot them dark clouds up there in the sky come afternoon, an I'm mity sartin shore there'll be a drizzler or a drencher fore the day is Hi 1 1 I '-J car Slamls Fast Luke Stevens has been picketing Florida East Coast Railroad in Melbourne from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily for 30 months.

Said he Monday as passenger service resumed, "It's been quite a while (Sentinel Photo by George Tomlinson) Negroes Seek 'Real Change' yrtrk ffimra Pispatrh to The Sentinel MIAMI BEACH Negro leaders from Southern communities already visited by the militant civil rights movement places like Birmingham and Selma, and Albany, Ga. are now asking the National Urban League for help in obtaining lasting change, the league's director said Monday. -Whitney M. Young the executive director of the agency that favors behind-the-scenes work rather than street demonstrations, said there was a "new awareness" that picket lines are not all-important. Young, interviewed at the league's annual convention here, said: "DURING THE last two or three weeks we've had delegations come to us from Selma, Mont-g Birmingham, Albany; Negroes asking us to start an Urban League.

"What they're saying is: 'We now know that while the demonstrations and everything else was necessary to mobilize public opinion, to raise morale, to bring about a coalition, to give us courage we know that a speech is not a program and that a rally doesn't put milk in the baby bottles, and that we need all this to be followed up by something that's not here today and gone SOME OF THE more militant civil rights activists, especially those who worked in the communities Young mentioned, have long classified the Urban League as the most moderate of the rights groups. Some of them have been highly critical of what they call the league's middle-class outlook. U.S. Chess Champ Fails In Bid To Compete In Cuha Jfrut flnrk Cimrfl Dispatch to The Sentinel NEW YORK The State Department has refused to allow Bobby Fischer, the 22-year-old United States chess champion, to play in an international tournament in Cuba later this month. "He does not fall within the department's established criteria," was the explanation for turning down Fischer's request that his passport be endorsed for travel to Cuba.

Ready For Long War, Says North Vict Nam TOKYO OR Communist North Viet Nam declared Monday it is prepared for a long war, even if it lasts 20 years or more, and rejected U. N. intervention in the Vietnamese war. A Hanoi broadcast heard here said the strong stand was in response to President Johnson's statement of July 28, in which he said he is adding 50,000 troops to U.S. forces in Viet Nam, and at the same time was asking the United Nations to start a new search for peace in the Southeast Asian war.

compared to the 70 per cent to 80 per cent now authorized. The units' weekly drills would be increased to six drills a month instead of four. Vance added, "Consideration is being given to advancing their field training instead of waiting until next summer." Vance did not identify the units, and a Pentagon spokesman said no final selection has been made. Vance told newsmen the idea is lo pick them from the proposed realignment of the reserves to be brought about by a merger of Army reserve units into the National Guard. THE MERGER has had a difficult time in Congress.

But the deputy secretary urged that the committee quickly approve the Related Stories On Pages 2-A, 3 A disputed proposal and said the Pentagon doesn't agree with suggestions the merger be put off because of the Viet Nam situation. He said: "The secretary and the chief of staff of the Army have reviewed again the desirability of going ahead with the proposed reorganization in the light of the recent decisions with respect to Viet Nam. They strongly recommended that the realignment plan designed, as it is, to increase usable forces and improve their readiness not only be implemented but be implemented as soon as possible." Vance indicated strongly to newsmen that he hopes Congress will approve the merger soon enough so there will be no delay in carrying out the plan to increase combat power. Grandpa, The New Boat Isn't Even "Our people are working around the clock to complete the tax roll in time for 1965 taxes," she said. The county commission Monday approved a special budget of $1,200 for overtime pay for IBM department employes during the month of August, Department head Em-mett Tanner said his workers are on duty seven days a week.

THE COMMISSION will sit as a tax equalization board Sept. 7 to hear appeals from taxpayers who are not satisfied with decisions rendered by Mrs. Bennett and her staff. Mrs. Bennett, discussing application of the Just Value Law at the Monday monthly meeting of the Downtown Orlando Council, said she, too, is waiting to see the results of the county's new Howze-a-Matic tax appraisal system.

She said she will not be on hand to hear preliminary comments and protest they will be answered by James Howze of Tampa, who set up the new system. BUT SHE WILL attend the Sept. 7 equalization board meeting, she added. A tax reduction on Downtown Orlando property will depend on the ability of the Orange County Commission and the school board to "keep expenditures down," Mrs. Bennett said.

Red Chinese City Prepares For War HONG KONG (N. Y. News) Travelers arriving here during the last two weeks report mounting tension and war preparations in the Red Chinese city of Canton, 350 miles from the North Vietnamese border. They report that the Reds are setting up antiaircraft gun emplacements on the roofs of tall buildings and that trenches are being dug around the city. Directives have been issued ordering all nonessential personnel in the area to be evacuated by early this month.

GIs Get Viet Offer Nrw York Times Service BONN, West Germany A spokesman for the United States Army in Europe acknowledged Monday the Army has started to transfer troops from West Germany to Viet Nam on a "volunteer" basis. By DON RIDER Sentinel Staff Owners of Orange County property within Ranges 27 and 28-E will find out this week what their new values will be for 1965 school and county taxes, Assessor Helen Bennett said Monday. Notices will go in the mail Wedn esday evening, informing owners of values and that they may question the valuations at the assessor's office between Aug. 9-13. A week from Wednesday owners of property in Ranges 30, 31, 32, 33, and 34-E will get their notices, Mrs.

Bennett said. TWO WEEKS from Wednesday, Range 29-E owners will learn their values. This range contains Downtown Orlando. Gas Price War Erupts In Qty A spotty price war dropped gasoline prices as low as 23 cents per gallon at some Orlando stations during the weekend. Filling station operators agreed Monday, however, the action seemed to be destined not to last.

Many of the leading oil company stations made no cut in prices, and were still waiting to hear from the home office before taking any action. Others reported only a mild increase in business although they cut prices eight to 10 cents on premium gasoline. Earl Barnes, Oak Ridge Phillips 66 Service, said, "These things pep up every once in a while and hang around a couple of days or so. We don't really pay too much attention to them." Cured Hiccups Return ATLANTA (UPI) Mrs. Lucy McDonald, who underwent an operation three weeks ago that was believed to have stopped a two-year seige of hiccups, is hiccuping again.

NOW IN OUR NEW BUILDING McNamara Ponfiac INC. COLONIAL DRIVE 4 ORANGE BLOSSOM TRAIL GO GO! SKYLINE BUFFET Webster Chief Faces Charges By JOE SANCHEZ Sentinel Staff WEBSTER-Police Chief Hart-well B. Knowles Monday was arrested and charged with "embezzlement on three counts," according to State Atty. Gordon G. Oldham Jr.

Police Chief Knowles, Webster's only law enforcement officer, is accused of "wrongfully converting bond money taken in arrests to his own use." THE THREE counts, according to Oldham, cite traffic violations in which bonds of $15 each were accepted from two persons, and a bond of $10 from a third person. Chief Knowles, according to the information filed in circuit court at Bushnell, allegedly did not turn the money over to the city, but kept it himself. He was placed under $2,500 bond, which he had not posted by 5 p.m. Monday, according to the Sumter County sheriff's office. CHARGES AGAINST Knowles, who became police chief of Webster about eight months ago, grew out of an investigation by Sumter County Chief Deputy Scott Bowman, Sumter County Prosecuting Atty.

Joe Minotti and the state attorney's office. Webster Mayor D. F. Gant had no comment Monday when asked if the city would take any action at this time to. dismiss the police chief or hire another police officer.

Candace To Call 50 In Bail Hearing MIAMI CP The defense has called more than 50 witnesses to a hearing opening Thursday in which Mrs. Candace Mossier and her nephew, Melvin Lane Powers, will seek release on bail pending their trial for first-degree murder. Blonde Mrs. Mossier, 46, and Powers, 23, are scheduled for trial Nov. 15 in the slaying of Texas financier Jacques Mossier, 69, the woman's husband.

Mossier was killed June 30, 1964, in what Jhe state contends was a plot by the defendants to prolong an illicit love affair. Apportion Test Vote Set WASHINGTON UP) The Senate agreed Monday to some test voting Wednesday on a hotly disputed constitutional amendment on legislative reapportionment, but opponents kept the door ajar for a possible filibuster before a final showdown. done with. Hit jest mite be a fitten afternoon to play checkers with Jed Prod. Today's Weather Partly cloudy with mainly afternoon showers affecting 50 to 75 per cent of area.

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