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10 Opclousas, La Dec. 9, 1966 DAILY WORLD Oleagan Accepts AJer PJla title As National Political Force LOS ANGELES (UPI) Gov. elect Ronald Reagan, the West's differences that have plagued i I i -f" 1 new political champ, today accepted a new mantle as a national Tornado Strikes political scene from a huge power base In California. Brown was trying for a third term. BUT REAGAN'S own plans in 1968 still are very indefinite a month after he won election.

He still faces problems at home a budget estimated as high as $780 million in the red, a welfare spending deficit and hundreds of applicants for new state Jobs that will open up when he takes office. Asked if he planned to follow what almost is a tradition In California and be a favorite son candidate for the presidency in 1968, Reagan replied: It's an answer that can't be given. I believe in the open primary but I think we have to keep alive the possibility of a favorite son in view of the 3 Parish MRS. MARY LAWSON of Potosi, escaped injury Thursday when a tornado overturned and demolished her trailer house. Here, she views the wreckage from which she crawled after the house was moved some 100 feet from its foundation.

Mrs. Lawson's mother suffered 6llght Injuries. (Unlfax) i i i.v, ir Fran? Bedims Warm fake Office Oath By United Press International A cold front moved across the Midwest today and quickly chilled areas that had been experiencing some of the warmest Photo on Front Page. Three of the top-ranking officials of St. Landry Parish took their oaths of office today to begin new six-year terms.

District Judge Lessley P. Gardiner, District Judge Joseph A. Half of the Moon's Hidden Side photo. Surface covered Is about 580,000 square miles. Lunar Orbiter was about 900 miles above the moon when the photo was taken.

Distance across the top of the photo is about 670 miles. (Unifax from NASA) NASA'S LUNAR ORBIT ER made this remarkable photo of the southern half of the Moon's hidden side with its wide angle lens on Nov. 20. Viewed with the lunar hotizon at bottom north is at the top, anH the moon's equator runs, roughly, along the top of the EUNICE DEMI-TASSE By MERCEDES VIDRINE More About Casa-Bananas EUNICE My offer to send casa-banana seeds to my friend-readers brought some 13 requests thus some-inter Isabella Boudreaux, Mrs. Hilda G.

LeBlanc, both of Opelousas; Mrs. J. W. Richard of Sunset; Mrs. Wilbert Miller of ftiamou; Mrs.

Josephine Watley of Eunice; and Jonnle Lanoux of Melville. DIRECTIONS FOR growing LaHaye and District Attorney! J. Y. Fontenot were administer ed oaths this morning. Their terms officially begin Jan.

1. The two judges swore in each other and Judge Gardiner admin istered the oath to the district attorney. JUDGE GARDINER and- Dis trict Attorney Fontenot were first elected to office in 1948 and they were sworn In that year on Dec. 8. They are beginning their 19th year in office.

Judge Gardiner has been re elected without opposition since that time. District Attorney Fontenot had opposition twice, was re-elected to one six-year term without opposition. IN THE election this fall when Fontenot was re-elected, he set a record by polling the largest majority (4265 Votes) any candi date has received in St. Landry Parish. Judge LaHaye was first elected to the bench in April, 1964, to fill the unexpired term of the.

late Judge Nolan Moosa. He wasr re-elected without opposition this year. number 7 Huge waves are smashing our sides and water is pouring in. SOS we are sinking." There was no more. First ships at the scene found wreckage, bodies and some sur vivors clinging to the rocks off Fallonera.

The passengers included 66 naval recruits. Two crewmen among the sur vivors also said the whole gale winds up to 63 miles an hour was not wholly responsible for the disaster. fiumber 2 every right to request Johnson to "cut down spending on some of his poverty programs." Sen. Danny R. Moore of Homer, a staunch conservative, said he thinks Johnson will ask Congress for a tax increase.

'Even though the people repudl. ated his spending at the polls. he has shown he intends to steer his boat in the same waters." he said. HOWEVER, Moore said he opposes such an increase. Tm opposed to it because of the way some of our tax monies are being spent," he said.

"When the President asks in dustry, labor and the citizens to voluntarily help him curb Infla. number 5 us. We should avoid a bloodlet ting." THE ACTOR-turned-governor. elect also continued to hedge on whether he would be candidate for national office In 1968. Q.

Could you be a candidate for vice president in 1968? A. '1 can't get that specific this far ahead." Q. Could you be a candidate for the presidency? A. "I don't think that's But, pointedly, Reagan did not close the door to seeking national office or responding to a draft. A Reagan for president group already has been esta blished in Michigan but Reagan said the group had not sought his permission.

Officials tion, I think he should make the first step himself and curb give away programs," Moore con. tlnued. "I basically feel that the So. clallstic programs we're getting into in our country-will never work In a free enterprise sys. tem." Lt.

Gov. C. C. (Taddy) Ay. cock also said he expects John son to ask for a tax Increase.

"I just predict that he will," said Aycock, "I can't say he should." Aycock said the hike In taxes appears Inevitable to him be cause "I don't think we can keep on spending $2 billion a month in Viet Nam alone with. out a tax Increase. I just don't see how we can get around lt. We're playing fairy godfather to the world' Sen. B.

B. (Sixty) Rayburn, BOgaiusa, chairman of the pow. erful Senate Finance Committee, said he does not think John. son will ask for a tax increase. "It's doubtful in my mind that he will, at least not until after the next election," said Ray.

burn. 1 think his popularity is fast declining and think he will be very cautious about doing any, thing to decrease that at this time." RAYBURN said he opposed a tax Increase now because "the people are pretty well settled taxation and until the need Is more justifiable, I don't see the need in lt." Sen. Jamar W. Adcock, head of the Legislative Budget Com. mittee, said he definitely thinks Johnson should not ask for an increase in taxes.

"He should cut out some of the spending in some of those boondoggle programs," said Adcock. "That's the way to balance' the budg et." Dumber 6 Behind them was a list of solid accomplishment Including passage of a $13.6 million pay hike for school teachers and bills reapportioning the House and Senate. The pay raise given teachers, school bus drivers and other edu cation workers also guarantees $1.25 an hour minimum wages for school lunchroom employes and janitors. The reapportionment plans caused rural conservatives to lose three seats in the Senate and seven in the House. Conservative strength dropped to 33 per cent from 40 per cent.

Three federal judges In New rector of 701 funds, Washington, D. and W. B. Rodgers, Region 5 director, Ft. Worth, asked that the he continued in New Orleans Thursday to set up a direct working-relationship with the State of Louisiana to insure maximum state participation In all available federal matching funds, Fletcher said.

Rodgers and Fletcher termed the New Orleans conference, held at the Royal Orleans Hotel, "very promising for the future." political force. Reagan, who takes office as California governor Jan. 2, said In an Interview before flying to his first big political meeting since his election; "I wouldn't be honest if didn't say that with our population we are going to be a factor in determining the national policy of our party. This Is a responsibility I'm going to have to accept and if possible, I'll use It In such a way as to discourage splintering and encourage unity." Dah rr a rvtlle tsn 1 nAnrAnmAP gets his first taste of national politics as a governor-elect this weekend at the two-day Republican Governors' Associa tion meeting in Colorado Springs, Colo. AS GOVERNOR of the nation's most populous state, he will probably head one of the biggest delegations to the 1968 Republican National Convention and already Is hopeful he can exert Influence over the direction his party takes.

Reagan expressed a hope that the 1968 GOP convention would see no repetition of what he called the "spectacle" of the California delegation to the 1960 Democratic National Convention. Democratic Gov. Edmund G. Brown, then in his first term. went Into the convention as a favorite son.

But he released his delegation from its pledge before the convention even started and saw It crumble Into warring actions. Reagan defeated Brown by nearly a million votes in the November general election and plummeted onto the national Southern Consumers Education Foundation shows that Zippert received a $550 "salary" item last summer from the foundation or one of its subsidiary or related agencies. Zippert hat a Class HA draft classification on the basis of Information furnished his local board con-corning his occupation and activities with CORI, which have boon described as being "essential te tho national health, safety and interest." Ho has advised tho Advertiser that he studied history, pro-mod and philosophy at City Col-logo of Now York. At the Nov. 16 Acadiana Neuf board meeting in Lafayette Zippert joined with other pickets and carried a sign that read "Segregationist Acadiana Neuf Board Members Must Go." He has also contributed aa article entitled "Farmers Or.

ganize" to the "New Souti Student" magazine. lumber 3 of U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge's residence on the huge American aid programs underway in Viet Nam. He also was given a run-down on the Vietnamese political situation.

He met later for talks with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Tran Van Do. At a news conference in the airport's VIP lounge before beginning his round of consultations, Rusk said he was pleased with the progress of the war. "The VC (Viet Cong) and North Viet Nam are not going to be able to seize this country. We are in a much stronger position than we were two years ago," he said. Rusk was asked what he thought the chances were of combining scheduled Christmas and New Years truces into a more lasting peace.

"i have no indication that the other side Is Interested In moving this problem to the conference table. We have told them (the North Vietnamese) many times that If they tell us what they would stop doing, we could consider stopping the bombing," Rusk said. "We can't stop just half the war. They've got to stop their half of it," he said. lumber 4 sanction against oil, a vital import for Rhodesla.Sanctions cover trade going into or out of a country.

But Brown skirted the sensitive issue aware that an oil embargo could sabotage Britain's recuperating economy. He said Britain would not oppose a call for an oil embargo provided it was made In "acceptable terms" to the British delegation. He warned that "sanctions must not be allowed to escalate into an economic confrontation with third countries." An oil embargo could draw white-ruled South Africa into the current crisis it was Rhodesia's chief supplier of petroleum. South Africa has vowed to shun any such embargo a move which would force the United Nations to apply sanctions against it too. SOME AFRICAN delegations, hoping to bring down the South African government also, were openly hostile to Brown's proposals.

In often fiery caucusses after Brown's speech, some nations proposed to submit a new resolution calling for an oil boycott against Rhodesia and threatening force to overthrow the December weather on record. Temperatures dropped more than SO degrees within hours in parts of Illinois and Ohio. The East Coast continued to exper-l lence unseasonably mild tenv peratures. A cold front moved across the Nebraska panhandle from northeast Wyoming into Texas The 1 a.m. temperature at Utica, N.Y.

was ten degrees higher than at San Antonio, Tex. ARCTIC air gripped the north ern plains. Thunderstorms dumped heavy rains on the central gulf states. Wide-sweeping winds from the South sent temperatures sty-rocketing to all-time highs for the day in 11 states Thursday. The record readings Included 82 at Lake Charles, 66 at Detroit, 72 at Washington, 67, at Cleveland, 79 at Wilmington, N.C..

68 at Rochester, N.Y., 79 at Macon, and 75 at Elklns, W.Va. The warm air in the lower Middle West Thursday spawned tornadoes in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. AT least a dozen persons were injured in Missouri, A twister destroyed several small homes and knocked out power at Potosi. Another tornado un roofed a church and blacked out a radio station at Rolla. Scattered snow was falling today from the northern Great Lakes to the Rockies, following heavy snow In the Montana mountains Thursday.

Uunhr 1 white CORE field worker and former president of th tvdtnt body of City Col logo of Now York. Zipptrt hoi boon engaged in ergo nixing St. Landry and Acadia area sweet potato farmers in a cooperative. Ho hat alto taken the nega five (ido in a dobete on the Vietnam war hold at the Catholic Student Center on St. Mary Boulevard in La fayette.

Zippert was a field captain in the antipoverty "Sweet Potato Alert" program that led to formation of the "Grand Marie Vegetable Producers Cooperative, Inc." He hai also been one of the leading advocates of reorganization of the board of Acadiana Neuf, the official War On Poverty agency in six Southwest Louisiana parishes. "The Worker," official newspaper of the Communist Party of the United States, reported in its edition of March 2, 1965, that the American Youth Festival Committee opened shop at 104 Fifth Avenue and that CCNY Student Body President Zippert was among participants of the policy committee. One of the aims of the committee was to encourage participation in the IX World Youth Festival that was to be held in Algeria July 27-Aug. 7, 1965. The festival was called off be cause of political tension in the African country at the time.

"Tocsin," an authoratative anti-Communist weekly paper published in Oakland, California, revealed in April, 1965, that the members of the policy committee of the festival had been announced in the "Insurgent," which is the publication of the Communist-spawned W.E.B. Dubois Clubs for youth. Zippert was listed among the policy committee members. In its edition of April 29. 1965 "Tocsin" reported that Zippert took part in a "teach-in" at CCNY protesting American policy in Vietnam.

Joining with Zippert and others wag Herbert Apthcker. father of Berkeley, California's "free speech" strategist, Bettina Apthcker. Herbert Aptheker is the leading theoretician of the Communist Party In the United States and former editor of the Communist magazine, "Political Affairs." Lilt Member Policy committee members of the American Youth Festival included Noel A. Day, social planning consultant; Lee D'Lugin, former chairman Queens College Student SANC, Women Strike for Peace; David Elalla, former chairman of Michigan District Young Democrats: Jackie Goldberg, chairman Berkeley Campus Women Strike for Peace; Jamie Huberman, W. E.

B. Dubois Clubs of America; Sanford Leigh, SNCC field secretary; Hubert Randall, photographer; Ernest Russell, ex-chairman, East River CORE; Flora Santiago, Puerto Rican Youth Organization; Mark Scher, NY Students for a Democratic Society; Jeff Segal, chairman Illinois-Wisconsin Region of US-NSA, former Student Body President, Roosevelt Unlversi ty and John Zippert, Student Body President, City College of New York. Noel Day was honorary chairman of the I American Youth Festival, Sef al was chairman and Ernest Russell, administrative tec tary. According to tho South west Louisiana Rogistor, diocesan newspaper for th Catholic diocese of Lafa. yatto, Zippert appeared before a mooting of the Now man Club at the Catholic Student Confer earlier this year te debate the Vietnam ituo.

Presented ae member of "Students For Democratic Action," Zip-port took the negative, claimed tho U.S. had no right to be In Vietnam and that the National Libera-tion Front under Ho Chih Minn was the rightful load, or of a united Vietnam which want aolf-dotermin tion, tho Register ae count said. In its edition of Sept. 29, 1966 the Register reported that Zippert circulated a protest let ter at a meeting of the Acadi ana Neuf Board directed to the Office Of Economic Opportunity calling for reconstitution to provide more representation for the poor and minority groups. During an impromptu inter view with The Daily Advertiser at the regular board meet ing of Acadiana Neuf in October, Zippert said he was a CORE task force worker who helped organize the farmers' co-op at Sunset.

Queried about his training in agriculture Zip-pert said he spent several summers on. a chicken ranch in New Jersey. Part of bis responsibility as a field captain in the sweet potato project was to meet with field workers and train them in the advantages of cooperatives and to teach them how to conduct meetings and solicit member ships. Receives Chocks A loan of $68,000 was made from the Farmers Home Administration in Crowley to pur chase land, buildings, equipment and sweet potato crates in Sunset. Zippert's name appears in the St Lasdry clerk of court's office as one of the two witnesses to the Sunset sale.

A spokesman in the Crowley FHA office said that CORE reportedly advanced the co-op $5000 and was repaid Aug. 2, 1966, from proceeds of the FHA loan. 'On the same date Zippert received two checks in the amount of $1750 each from the co-op for "repair, labor, utilities and hauling." A list of names filed is the Lafayette clerk of court's office in connection with a suit by Elmo Anderson against the Orleans had given lawmakers until Jan. 1 to redistrict both Houses along population lines or face an at-large election. Because of this McKeithen called the special session.

The judges are expected to set a hearing soon to officially ex. amine the redisricting plans and announce their acceptance or rejection. REP. JAMES LEAKE of West Feliciana Parish, head of the gov nor's reapportionment commission which drew the plans, Indicated they would be accepted by the judges. McKeithen won surprisingly easy passage of a bill Thursday making Louisiana the first state In the nation able to negotiate its taxes with new industry.

The measure creates the 11- member Louisiana Council on New Industry Taxation which will meet with firms Interested in locating in Louisiana but which have other states in mind with lower taxes. The council would selectively cut Louisiana taxes to the level of the rival state's and then make its recommendations to the Louisiana Tax Com mission which has final authority to adjust taxes. New Orleans lost its fight in the legislature Thursday to levy an income tax on non-residents who earn their livings In its boundaries. New Orleans leaders, who bit terly fought the bill brought by surrounding parishes, have said they will go to court to establish the city's right to collect the in come tax needed to meet a fis cal emergency. RURAL FORCES won a key vic tory by convincing both Houses reshuffle the state Republi can and Democratic Central Committees in their favor.

The bill doing this left the House with 105 -man committees set up conforming exactly to the districts out in the new House reapportionment plan. But Leander Perez. Plaque mines "Parish political leader, succeeded in getting a Senate committee to add 12 members to serve parishes which did not have their own members in the House plan. Perez argued the federal udges who ordered reapportion ment said nothing about central committees and that each parish was entitled to its own spokes man on the committee. As the measure left the legis lature committees had 117 mem bers Instead of 105, preserving strong rural conservative voice in party policy making.

The Senate Monday will have to concur in House amendments the bill changing the state code of ethics law. It passed the House 100-0 Thursday. lumber 8 Keuper said the 34-year-old Coppolino "not only took wife of William E. Farber but the lire of William E. Farber." He said that through hypnosis being used by Coppolino to break her smok ing habit, Mrs.

Farber developed a "pull" toward the doctor which she couldn't resist. The two began seeing each other daily and even went to Florida together and engaged in Intimacies. Keuper said, wnue in Florida Coppolino conceived at esting notes uKe tne one from Cary Elesar, veteran Daily World cameraman, who wants to grow exotic vegetables at his home In Indian Hills subdivision, Opelousas. Cary and his wife, Dolores, are natives of New Orleans and one of their nine chil dren is at de la Salle Seminary, Lafayette, studying to be a Chris tian brother. In addition to gar dening, Cary likes to take his family on vacation trips to in teresting places with special ap peal to the children.

Then there was a note from Mrs, Oleus Stelly of Hessmer who wrote: "I was born in Grand Coteau and my mother would tell us she grew casa banana in her early days. I always wanted to see what they were like, so when I saw your offer I knew that was my chance." Mrs, John L. Ford of Leonville found my article interesting enough to make her want to try a few seeds Mrs. Joe Greco Jr. of Opelousas wrote that they already have a large garden and always like to try something new Mary Washington of Opelousas wrote that she had been looking for "bon-a-cor" seeds for Mayonce Dupre wrote that she once grew them, but had failed to keep seeds last crop Elie Doaget of Port Barre is anxious to make a casa-banana pie Other seed requests came from Mrs.

plan "to do away with William E. Farber." "HE DIDN'T WANT Farber in the same bed with his wife. He was jealous of Farber. That was the motive for the destruction of Farber," Keuper said. Defense Attorney F.

Lee Bailey, in his opening statement after Keuper had finished called the case a "cruel hoax" and said there was no murder at all. He characterized Mrs. Farber as a woman who "drips from venom on the Inside," because Coppolino cast her aside and married his present wife." THE blg-gun state witness, whose autopsy on the exhumed body of the colonel showed a fractured neck cartilage, is Dr. Milton Helphen, the redoubtable chief medical examiner of New York City, who has performed about 18,000 autopsies and supervised two or three times that number. Bailey has been protesting almost daily in open court that his own medical expert, Dr.

Richard Ford, can't get a look at that cartilage. Prosecutor Vincent P. Keuper replied that Dr. Helpern can't very well show it to him because he is In the hospital. This matter should be resolved over the weekend.

University Hospital in New York Issued word Thursday that Dr. Helpern should be able to leave the hospital by Sunday. He had suffered a very slight" congestive heart failure. His wife, at his bedside, "he definitely will testify" at the Coppolino trial. casa-banana: J.

E. Manuel, father of Kirk (who grew the casa-banana that I used to make the pie and from which I have taken the seeds) gave me these directions' for planting the seeds; Start the seeds in February or March by planting them In doors in a pan of dirt. Water the plants whenever the soil Is dry. About April 15, after the last frost, transfer the plants to your garden. Select a place near a fence or trellis in order that the vines can climb.

The casa-banana grows best in direct sunlight, so try to choose a place that is exposed to the sun all day. Once the plants have been transferred to the outside, they're "on their own" and should grow without additional watering. It was interesting to note that some of the letters came addressed to the Manuels. Since J. E.

is employed with the post office, he simply put them in my box. Even our son, Kyle received a letter requesting some seed, I hope all of tho folks who wrote for the seed will have bountiful crops and will let us hear from them long about this time next year "bonne chalice-avec bon-a-cor." lumber 9 the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963. In addition to banning nuclear weapons from outer space, the u-eaiy woma estaousn new international law on peaceful exploration of space by providing that: There shall be "freedom of exploration and use" of space for all nations. Claims of sovereignty are barred. The moon and other celestial bodies shall be used ex clusively for peaceful purposes.

"MILITARY BASES, instal lations and other fortifications" are forbidden on the moon and any uuier ceiesual body. Nuclear weapons testing and military maneuvers also are barred on celestial bodies. But military personnel can travel in space for peaceful purposes. To verify peaceful uses, there shall be open access to all stations on the moon subject only to "reasonable notice." Each nation shall have an "unconditional ohiipaHnn" tn help return astronauts of other countries who land on Its terrl- wrjr uy mistake, There shall be for avoiding harmful contamiua- uun space, A nation launrhlni- a vehicle shall be internationally Uab for any damages caused by it. For example, if it falls back to earth in another country.

Viet Nam. The pilots returning from the raids said damage assessments was difficult because bad weather blanketed much of the terrain. A total of 75 missions was flown. IN AERIAL BATTLES to date, U.S. officials have reported the loss of five American jets compared to 26 downed MIGs.

There was no major ground action reported in South Viet Nam. However, U.S. B52 bombers struck bunkers and suspected fortifications early today In war Zone in an effort to prevent an enemy buildup in the one-time Communist stronghold. Meanwhile, U.S. and Vietnamese soldiers and police took special security measures today In Saigon where Secretary of State Dean Rusk was visiting to confer with other officials on ttlG WW Rusk, who arrived at Tan Son Nhut Airbase outside Saigon to begin his two-day visit today, said he foresaw little possibility that both sides in the war would agree on Pope Paul VI's proposal for broadening the Christmas ceasefire period Into a longer truce.

Prospects Said Promising for Federal Funds Promoting Tourism The prospects of Louisiana receiving federal funds on a matching basis to promote tourism is "very promising," according to V.K.Fletcher Jr. Fletcher Is executive director of Resource Planning for the Lou isiana Tourist Development Commission. He conferred earlier this week in Ft. Worth, with federal officials In charge of Federal Housing and Urban Development. THE STATUS of Federal 701 funds available to Louisiana on a matching basis was discussed during the 4 -day conference in the new federal building in Ft.

Worth. DOG JUMPS, HITS TRIGGER THAT SHOOTS HIS MASTER SHREVEPORT (UPI) The next time Freddie L. Tate, 20, goes out in pursuit of game he will probably leave bis faithful bunting dog at home. Tate installed the animal in the back seat of his car Thursday as he 6et out for the day's hunt. The dog Jumped over the seat, landed on the trigger of a .22 caliber rifle and shot his master in the knee.

Tate's wound was not serious; he was treated and released. Warren T.7itzman, federal di Smith regime..