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Daily World from Opelousas, Louisiana • Page 9

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DAILY WORLD Opelousas, Aug. 17, 1966 vim whopping Airlines Sf rfliers1 Gains Shred LBJ's Guidelines WASHINGTON (UPI) Airline machinists have won some $92 million in wage and benefit Increases which their union leaders CHICKEN PRODUCTION UP IN LOUISIANA FOR 1965 A total of 5,150,000 chickens will be raised during 1966 in Louisiana, 17 percent more than last year, according to the Louisiana Crop Reporting Service in Alexandria. This is 24 percent above the 1960-64 average and is the largest number to be raised since 1957. Estimates of chickens raised Include mostly pullets for table, egg and hatching egg flock replacements, but also Include farm flock replacements. Commercial broilers are not Included.

The number of hens and pullets of laying age on hand during June 1966 averaged 2,844,000 5 percent less than was on hand a year earlier. Egg production during the first half of the year (January-June) totaled 308 million eggs, about 1 percent less than were produced during the first half of 1965. said "effectively and thoroughly shreds" President Johnson's wage-price guidelines. The gains were estimated V( -W Tuesday at from 6 to 8 per cent In each year of a three-year contract. The antl-lnflatlonary guidelines call for increases around 3.2 per cent.

Aft The contract is subject to airlines grounded by the strike Trans World, United, East ern, Northwest and National. The details of the proposed contract, agreement on which was reached by negotiators early Monday, were sent to union members Tuesday. THE CONTRACT would give a 56-cent-an-hour increase over three years to about 19,000 top rated airline mechanics, raising their wage over the period from $3.52 to $4.08. Another 16,400 or so would receive hourly Increases over the three years of from $2.88 ratification by 35,400 members Rico Fanners Due Core for Dawn Uaricty WASHINGTON Louisiana farmers will receive approximately 75 to 80 cents per 100 pounds of rough rice more than they did before under a new price support classification for the Dawn variety, Rep, Edwin W. Edwards, has reported.

The new price support. In the Group 2 category, "will increase its support from 6.77 cents per pound of head rice to 8.32 cents per pounds of head rice In other words, the price support Increase per one hundred pounds is from $6,77 to $8.32," Edwards said. Dawn is an early maturing, blast and disease resistant, long grain rice- variety which may be expected to out yield the varieties of this type now being produced, Edwards said. Edwards said that the new classification for Dawn rice was made by the Department of Agriculture at his request He said the request was made in response to producer Interest in Louisiana and Is effective for the entire 1966 rice crop. Chris Andrews Commended for Summer Project The Official Board of the of the International Association of Machinists.

Leaders of key union lodges were cautiously optimistic It would be an. proved. 26. These include ramp service employes, cleaners, food service employes and stores clerks. The contract also Included a cost of living clause, effective the second year.

This was one of the biggest roadblocks in the negotiations, and was not included in the contract that was rejected July 31. The union did not put an overall figure on the new but sources estimated it would cost the airlines $92 million over three years. BEATLE John Lennon, left, who recently said his singing group is more popular than Jesus Christ, strums his guitar with fellow Beatle Paul McCartney during a practice session Tuesday night in dressing room in Philadelphia, The Beatles spent the night dodging the press, but UPI photographer Frank Johnson made this picture through the door. THREE YOUNG Beatles fans went Into orbit in Philadelphia's John F. Kennedy Stadium as they listened to the Beatles late Tuesday night More than 20,000 screaming fans attended the British group's show.

(Line a-cross picture is transmission flaw). Girl at left clutches souvenir programs. (UPI Facsimile) 1 1 Approval would mean the resumption of flights possibly this weekend for the five said Alexander was In serious condition In the prison hospital. The reason for the stabbing was not revealed. LOUISIANA NEWS BRIEFS Louisiana Bank Deposits Up Boy Scout Gets Operation After Rescue in Wilds GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo.

(UPI) A 13-year-old Boy Scout, stricken with apparent append! citls as he hiked near the crest of the Continental Divide, un. derwent an emergency opera, tlon early today at Valley View Hospital here. The boy, Steve McFadden of Oklahoma City, had the attack near Lake Savage at the headwaters of the Frying-pan River. A four-man rescue team had to carry the youth five miles on a makeshift Utter after a helicopter was unable to land In the rugged terrain. Officials said the boy and his father, Ernest McFadden, were part of a group of 30 scouts and their leaders that moved Into the area Sunday.

The father, a pathologist, dl agnosed the ailment and then sent for help. The closest the helicopter could come was a ranch five miles away from the lake. rolled In Medicare reduced the personal income total by the same amount, the Commerce Department said. Farm Income dropped to $20 A billion, the fourth decline in as many months. Personal Income Up in U.

but lot to Farmers WASHINGTON (UPI) Personal income for Americans lumped two and a half billion dollars last month, fueled by increased employment and a government pay raise. The Commerce Department said the July increase brought the personal income figure to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $579.7 billion. Personal income Includes salaries, wages, dividends, interest, rents and other forms of individual Income. Income from wages, salaries RayvUle Methodist Church has adopted a resolution com mending BATON ROUGE (UPI) State Banking Commissioner A. James reported Tuesday deposits In Louisiana's 172 banks and 136 branches at the end of June totaled $1.75 billion, up $310 million over the previous year.

James said liabilities totaled $1.95 billion and time deposits $678 million. Bogalusa Murder Suspects Bonded I FRANK LIN TON, La. (UPI) Two Bogalusa, white men i accused of shooting a Negro to death late last month were free today under $10,000 bond each, John W. Copling Jr. and Homer R.

(Klngfish) Seale were released from the Washington Parish Jail Tuesday after a hearing conducted by Judge Warren Cornish. They are charged with the murder of Clarence Trigg, 24, of Bogalusa, whose body was found on a Bogalusa street July 31. Copling and Seale were arrested Aug. 1. Baton Rouge attorney Ossie Brown represented the suspects at the hearing.

He also represents Ernest R. McElveen of Bogalusa, who is free under $25,000 bond while awaiting action on a murder charge against him. McElveen, a Bogalusa paper mill laboratory technician, is charged in the June 2, 1965, highway ambush slaying of Negro Deputy Sheriff Oneal Moore. Police Insist the Trigg killing was not racially inspired. iff.

i- Chris Andrews of Opelousas for i his work as youth leader at the Rayvllle Church this summer. He is the son of Mrs. Lucille Andrews of Opelousas. The resolution 6ald the board considered Andrews' work with the young people of the Rayvllle Methodist James Craig, board chairman, said the board expressed its appreciation to Andrews for his work. Capt.

DeVille and property was up $2,7 bil lion. But the first three dollar monthly payment for persons en- Cite Capt. Deville (For Air Service Uict Nam Seek Transfer Jailed TB Patient; 'Critical1 NEW ORLEANS (UPD Civil rights attorney Harris David hoped to get a federal court hearing today of his suit to transfer a Negro alleged to be "near death" from tuberculosis from Jail to a hospital. David, of the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee, filed the suit Tuesday. It seeks to have Harvest Toomer of Bogalusa, removed from the Washington Parish Jail at Frankllnton.

Dr. Hollis Stafford, Washington Parish coroner, said Tuesday he examined Toomer in jail "a couple of weeks ago" and "he wasn't in critical condition at that time." He said he understood Toomer's disease had been arrested. Sheriff Dorman Crowe said Toomer was jailed for probation violation in a nonsupport case. Gail Jenkins, secretary of the Bogalusa Civic and Voters League, said Toomer had been released from custody but he was Jailed again when he became Involved in a clash between Negroes and police at a Bogalusa bar Oct. 21.

Twenty-one Negroes were arrested. Dr. Glasgow Takes Over Wildlife NEW ORLEANS (UPI) Dr. Leslie Glasgow was sworn in Tuesday as director of the Louisiana Wild Life and Fisheries Commission. The Louisiana State University forestry and game management professor said he intends to be "pretty aggressive" about strengthening and improving the agency.

But he said the changes he has in mind will come gradually. Glasgow succeeded J. D. Hair who resigned in the wake of a scuffle with commission enforcement chief Coburn Hood. Hood was fired.

Glasgow is a graduate of Purdue and the University of Maine and earned his doctorate in game management at the University of Texas. He Joined the LSU faculty In 1948 and has won national recognition for his studies of the woodcock in Louisiana. Letter Carriers to Hear Chief NEW ORLEANS (UPI) Postmaster General Lawrence F. O'Brien will address the National Rural Letter Carriers Association convention today. A Post Office Department spokesman said O'Brien will have several new announcements regarding national and local postal service.

Assistant Postmaster General William M. McMillan spoke to the convention Tuesday. He said rural mail service is being expanded despite the shift of population to cities. About 2,000 delegates from throughout the nation are attending the convention. Seek to Hold Death Row Pair NEW ORLEANS (UPO While prosecutors here are working to find whether they still have enough evidence against death row record holders Edgar Labat and Clifton Poret, tba white DON'T "TWIST" THE FACTS! YOU ALWAYS Just Say tr8 3 it" EUNICE Capt Edsel son of Mr.

and Mrs. Joe jDeVille of Eunice, was recently upgraded to instructor-pilot of Jthe C-130 and decorated with a Jnumber of medals in recognition faf his service in Viet Nam. I Capt DeVille was cited for Jmore than 150 hours of combat time in Viet Nam where he was awarded the Air Medal for "Meritorious Achievement while performing duty as an Air Craft Commander of the C-130 Turboprop Transport" He was also awarded the R.V.N. Service Medal, the Air the Armed Forces Expedition Medal with over 100 'combat Sorties in Viet Nam. i DeVille was promoted to the rank of Capt since he has been In Okinawa.

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The U. S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Monday threw out the rape convictions a-galnst the two Negroes on the grounds that Negroes were systematically excluded from grand and petit Juries which handled their cases. The two men had been on death row at Angola State Penitentiary for 13 years, 4 months and 24 days when the appeals court handed down its ruling. They remain in the same cells pending Permanently pressed, heavy twill, Ivy style pants.

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Lee's Widow to Run ALEXANDRIA (UPO The widow of state Sen. George Ray Lee and Alexandria attorney Ray Bradford Jr. Tuesday qualified with the Rapides Parish Democratic Executive Committee for the seat left vacant by Lee's recent death. The Democratic qualifying period runs through Friday afternoon. The first primary will be held Sept.

24. Goodman Gets Attorney Post BATON ROUGE (UPO Robert U. Goodman, 37, of Shr eve-port was appointed assistant Louisiana attorney general for the Shreveport area Tuesday. Goodman succeeds the late Ferdinand Cashio, who held the post 10 years. Goodman graduated from Washington and Lee University and earned his law degree at Louisiana State University.

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ANGOLA (UPO Johnny L. Alexander, 24, serving a 25-year sentence for armed robbery in East Baton Rouge Parish, stabbed himself with a shard of glass Tuesday. Acting Warden J. D. Middlebrooks of the state penitentiary The Washington Senators Jiave not won an American "League, pennant since 1933..

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