Daily World from Opelousas, Louisiana • Page 1

WEATHER OPELOUSAS VICINITY (UPI) Generally fair through tomorrow. Highest this afternoon 52 to 58. Lowest tonight 34 to 38. Highest Wednesday 60 to 66. Save Time, Steps, Gas And Money in Opelousas, Friendly And Convenient lt Covering America's Most Diversifed Area 26TH YEAR, NO.

17 Kntered Stcond CImi Miller Pout Opelovul, 1.. OPELOUSAS, TUESDAY, JAN. 19, 1965 United Pre InUra.tl-nil News TlehU FIVE CENTS tot 30f Succeeds ous take-off from Cape Kennedy. The capsule will be returned to Cape Kennedy to be inspected, studied and dismantled in preparation for the manned flight. The apparently flawless flight opened the door at last to long-delayed plans to launch Astronauts Virgil I.

(Gus) Grissom and John W.Young on Gemini's inaugural three-orbit manned flight. The spectacular flight also preserved, for the time being at least, hopes that the $1.3 billion Gemini program will be permitted to launch its 10 two-man flights by early 1967. The project, already 1 12 years behind schedule, faced the threat of cutbacks due to delays. Today's flight, witnessed by Grissom and Young and 10 feUow astronauts, apparently performed to perfection from the fiery liftoff at Cape Kennedy to the capsule's safe landing in the Atlantic about 40 to 50 miles from the alr-craft carrier USS Lake Champlain. An airplane spotted the black capsule afloat on the waves.

Helicopters and recovery ships rushed to pluck it from the ocean and return It to Cape Kennedy. About 20 minutes later, the capsule blazed back through the atmosphere and rode a giant red and white parachute to a landing in the Atlantic Ocean about 2,150 miles east-southeast of Cape Kennedy. The space capsule was plucked from the ocean and placed on the deck of the aircraft carrier U. S. S.

Lake Champlain about one hour and 40 minutes after its thunder CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) --A U. S. Gemini capsule carrying two "astro-robots" successfully leaped halfway across the Atlantic Ocean today and signaled a go-ahead for an attempt to hurl two astronauts into orbit around April or May. A powerful Titan-2 rocket blasted off at 9:03 ajn. EST and hurled the bell-shaped payload more than 100 miles into space.

No Legislative uov. ession: 5 SHREVEPORT (UPI) Gov. John J.McKeithen told the Louisiana School Boards Association Presidential Gala Opens Inaugural Events (LSBA) convention Mon it day night he would not call a I'ict Generals special legislative session to deal with threatened loss of federal school aid funds. Stars from three nations donated their talents for the two-hour extravaganza, which formally opened three-days of inaugural events. Story on back page.

(UPI "Facsimile) PRESIDENT AND MRS. JOHNSON and their older daughter, Lynda Bird, attend the 19G5 presidential Gala at the National Guard Armory Monday night in Washington, D. C. us. us.

The LSBA approved a resolu. Boycott Rites tion Monday as it opened its an nual meeting, calling on Mc SAIGON (UPI) Four gener. Keithen to convene the legisla als named to cabinet posts to ture to deal with the problem. day boycotted an official cere. The Department of Health, mony.

They explained they were too busy with military op. Education and Welfare has given Louisiana school officials until March 3 to sign agree. erations but one of them said he would not accept his cabi ments that federal money will net post unless certain "condl be used without discrimination tlons" were met. in state education proograras. Inaugural Festivities Fill Capital By LOWRY BOWMAN WASHINGTON (UPI) It was a party only a king could afford or a president command and the president in question was 34 minutes late.

1 DW CLASSIFIED SHATTERS TWO RECORDS IN '64 Two records were shattered by the Dally World classified advertising department during 1964. December was the biggest single month and 1964 the biggest year in the 25-year-history of the newspaper, said enaHar-groder, classified advertising manager. A total of 47,826 inches was tabulated for the year. This is equivalent to 666,764 agate lines, the method generally used for tabulating total volume of advertising in a newspaper (14 agate lines equal one column Inch). This compares with column Inches for 1963, December topped any previous month, with 4,700 column inches, or approximately one-tenth of last year's volume being run that one month.

The ceremony was the public McKeithen told the worried presentation of Prime Minister Tran Van Huong's reshuffled V-Shaped Roses Arrive for Statesman group he would discuss the matter with other Southern governors in Washington today. cabinet at Gla Long palace, the official 'residence of chief of The governors will gather in state Phan Khac Suu. the nation's capital for the in But even before the cereJ bag, which also contained a card on which the words "To a great man" were written. Miss Lynskey said she had traveled from Foxford, County Mayo, Ireland, to present the gift to Sir Winston. (UPI Facsimile) MISS BRIDGET LYNSKEY (right), an Irish nurse, brings ailing Sir Winston Churchill two roses in the shape of the stateman's famous sign, outside sir Winston's home in London.

The roses were enclosed in a plastic auguration of President John mony a crack developed in the son. new south Vietnamese cabinet, The governor said he was not reorganized Monday with Q. S. trying to shirk his responsibility messings. The great names o( show business formally opened tiie and would do everything pos AFFAIRS OF STATE SLOWED The air force commander, sible to do what is best for the Brig.

Gen. Nguyen Cao Ky said state "in keeping as much as BOARD MEETS WEDNESDAY we can with the traditions and ne met with suu this morning to explain the conditions under way of life in Louisiana that three-day inauguration festVvi. ties Monday night at a two-hour, Democratic party gala honoring Lyndon B. Johnson and about 11,000 of the party workers who helped give him his Nov. 3 victory.

which he would assume his we all hold so dear." post of minister of youth and He said the situation is "Just sport. The key new ministry another problem that we have Prayers Said for Fading Churchill would Involve dealing with to face up to." The climax comes Wednesday South Viet Nam's restless stu He said he does not expect when Johnson takes the oath of dents, who have been staging hope" to see the President. New Showdown Looms In Warden Selection By ROBERT A. SCHAEFER BATON ROUGE (UPI) A member of the State Institutions Board still intends to nominate. H.

h. antl government demonstra "What I sincerely and serL Britain prayed today for the greatest English. tions. LONDON (UPI) (See No. 4 back page) i i I office for a full four.year term of his own.

But Monday night's festivities were strictly for fun, frolic and the party. The crowd included 6,000 of the biggest man of the times. Prayers for the fading Sir Winston Churchill were offered LOUISIANA BRIEFS throughout the British Isles as the old statesman lay near death from a stroke. contributors to the party cof. fers.

er for Sir Winston's recovery. But special celebrations Hanchey for warden scheduled Wednesday to mark The Archbishop of Canterbury, The entertainers volunteered their services and the show Rate Cut for TeU Soviet Urged to Dr. Michael Ramsay, primate of the Church of England, it the state prison regardless 3f what Gov. McKeithen or his Citizens Advisory Committee say. Such a move could mean a called upon his countrymen to was free to Invited guests.

It was put together in Just (See No 1 back page) the 700th anniversary of Parlia. ment were cancelled in defer ence to the man who rallied his countrymen to victory after their darkest hour of near de. offer their prayers for the 90 Calls in State Ordered Take Lead to Solve Crisis year old Sir Winston "as he ap proaches death." feat in World War n. new showdown between mc Keithen and his sometimes balky board of Institutions. Affairs of state were slowed The boys at Harrow, Church, ill's old school, offered a spe.

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.(UPI) "by' the old warrior's fight for The board meets Wednesday Britain called on the Soviet cial prayer, for the most dlstin. life. and heading the list of busi Union today to lead the efforts to guished alumnus. Prime Minister Harold Wilson ness Is selection of a permanent warden for the big penitentiary solve the U. N.

financial crisis. postponed a planned three day British Minister of State Lord at Angola. official visit to West Germany Caradon told me General Assem A Citizens Advisory Commit. bly that the near-bankruptcy of because of Churchill's illness. Earlier, he put off a parliamen.

tary statement on his economic plans and a television broad tee a by McKeithen to help And a qualified man for the warden's Job has recom Communists Open Summit WARSAW (UPI) The Com. munlst leaders of the Soviet bloc in Europe today began their first summit meeting since former Russian Premier Nlklta S. Khrushchev was ousted from power last October. It started amid press attacks on West Germany and claims that the summit conference will strengthen peace. The Soviet delegation was Queen Elizabeth was kept up to the minute on developments.

Churchill's faithful physician and friend, Lord Moran, spent' most of the night with the for. mer prime minister. He told newsmen at 7:30 a.m. (2:38 ajn. EST) that It had (See No.

3 back page) the Lhited Nations and the refusal of Russia and other mem LORD MORAN, Sir Winston Churchill's personal physician, faces microphones after visiting the wartime leader early today. (UPI mended Wayne Allgood, 43. castboth planned for today. bers to pay their debts was year.old sociology professor at Parliament Itself convened 'certainly the gravest crisis" in Louisiana Tech. this afternoon after its Christ the 20 years of U.

N. history. But Jimmy Underwood, who mas recess with a special pray. The United States was report was appointed to the board from Denham Springs, made it clear ed hopeful that the Soviets would SON OF LAST RUSSIAN CZAR? quietly pay some of their U. N.

today he is opposed to Allgood and wants Hanchey to remain debts this week to avoid a show headed by Premier Alexei Ko. on the Job. down Monday, when the first as sygin, Communist party chief. sembly vote is scheduled. Last month Underwood, whe was appointed to the board by BATON ROUGE (UPI) The Louisiana Public Service Commission ordered a rate cut today in long distance telephone calls made within the state.

The cheaper tolls go into effect Feb. 1. The new rates will mean a saving of more than $670,000 a year to telephone users. According to the commission, the revised schedule provides for reduced rates for calls made between 8 p.m. and a.m.

Monday through Saturday and all day Sunday; and calls placed (See No. 5 back page) Attorney Seeks Pay for Rape Trial BATON ROUGE (UPI) Attorney Joel Dickenson, who fought for seven years to save Emile Weston Jr. from the electric chair, filed suit Monday to get some payment for his legal services. Dickenson was appointed by the 19th Judicial District Court to represent Weston, a Negro, accused of the 1956 aggravated rape of a white housewife. Dickenson built an appeal based on refusal of court authorities to give Weston a free transcript of his trial.

Federal courts ruled Weston should either receive a free trial transcript or he should be given a new trial. Weston had been tried and convicted of aggravated rape, which carries the death penalty. But the housewife declined to testify at the second trial. Weston was set free. McKeithen to Study Mental Colony BATON ROUGE (UPI) Gov.

McKeithen will meet with a legislative committee over new criticism of conditions at the State Colony for the Mentally Insane at Jackson. The legislative committee on state institutions planned to visit the hospital today before starting work on its recommendations -to the May Legislature. Seek to Postpone Insurance Hike BATON ROUGE (UPI) Legislative Investigators probing (See No. 6 back page) CIA Challenged on Identity of Spy Assembly President Alex tain Leonid Brezhnev, Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky and Forelen Minister Andrei McKeithen, said he would nomi Quaison-Sackey of Ghana, join nate Hanchey for warden. Han.

ing Secretary General Thant chey has been acting warden Gromyko. They were attending a ses. Monday in an appeal to the at the prison since last August membership to end the finarv- when Victor Walker resigned in sion of the political advisory committee of the Warsaw pact, cial deadlock, said it was his protest against cuts lathe pris on's budgets. intention to begin committee Communist equivalent of Hanchey was unable to take elections in the assembly on the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization (NATO). Monday.

(Sec No. 2 bacK page) 9r IT 4 I i in Western banks more than 50 years ago, "On the basis of what I know the CIA investigation of Gole-nieski's identity, I believe he is the Czarevich Alexei," Kimsey said, "1 do not know why the CIA has withheld the necessary proof of identity from a person who has done so much for this country and who only wishes to live under his own name and claim what is rightfully his." Kimsey said Allen Dulles, former CIA head, and John McCone, present agency chie should revorse their policy of silence concerning all inquiries regarding Goleniewski, who gave weeks of testimony to government security agencies during the past four years regarding involvement of Americans In the Communist spy apparatuses. or 1J NEW YORK (UPI) A former Central Intelligence A-gency official challenged the agency today to disclose evidence mat a defector Polish spy is actually the son of the last Russian czar. Herman Ktasey, former chief of analysis and research for the CIA and lately assistant chief of security for the Republan Natonal Committee, said the CIA has made exhaustive tests to establish the true identity of the mysterious Pole, CoL Michael Goleniewski. He said he was convinced the tests proved Goleniewski is Grand Duke Alexei, only son of Czar Nicholas IL Goleniewski said he plans to press his claims in American courts and may attempt to force CIA sources to surrender information in their possession if it is not made public voluntarily by the government agency.

Czarevich Alexei was reported by a white Russian commission to have died with his father, mother and four sisters In a July 18, 1918 massacre by the Bolsheviks on the basis of fragmentary bones found in a pit in Ekaterinburg; Russia, a few weeks later. But rumors have per- 1 9 JUMl4MibivftA "ftV 'T I BRIDEGROOM COLLAPSES AT ALTAR, DIES HOUR LATER ST. PAUL, Minn. (UPI) Authorities today sought to learn what caused a young bridegroom to collapse at the altar and die a few hours later. Ramsey County Coroner Thomas votel said tests to solve the mysterious death of Bruce Stanton, 22, may take about two days.

The bridegroom, a Wisconsin State University sophomore, and his bride, Sharon Cosgrove, 22, were standing before the altar in St. Michaels -on -the-Hill Roman Catholic church Saturday. Stanton suddenly keeled over and struck his head on the floor. He was taken to Rivervlew Memorial Hospital where he died Saturday night. Stanton's parents were unable to explain their son's death.

The elder Stanton said his son had suffered headaches but "nothing unusual." The bride was reported to be in shock. Relatives and friends who went to church for the wedding will gather again In another church Wednesday morning for Stanton's funeral mass. Stein Wednesday Is Deadline for Yamette Contest COL. GOLENIEWSKY Search for identity, (UPI Facsimile) sis ted that the entire imperial family survived and there has been no definitive proof to the contrary. Kimsey broke the veil of official secrecy concerning the background of Goleniewski, a high Polish secret service officer who defected to West in 1960, only 10 days after the defector declared himself the true Czarevich and heir to a $400 million fortune deposited by the czar GRAVE TRAGEDY THE HAGUE.

Holland, (UPD Two gravediggers were lowering a coffin into a grave in a local cemetery Monday when one suffered a heart attack. He died and his companion suffered a heart attack from the shock. Hebert, directors of the Yamettes, interviewing Kathy BoagnL From left, rear, are Mrs. Douglas Wallett, Yamette chaperone, Elizabeth Mayne, Betty Johnson and Charlene Fontenot, contestants, and Yambllee Association president Kenneth Deshotel. (Staff Photo) DEADLINE TO ENTER the Yamette contest to select the singing of the Louisiana Yambllee is 5 p.m.

Wednesday. Finals will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 25, at Opelousas High school auditorium. Four girls tried out Monday night for the spots.

Above (from left, at table) are Antonio Cutrera, Budge Cutrera and Donald.