Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 12

FANFANI LULL HO Viet Vigil Warning lAttacked Continued from Page 1 cism last weekend this time involving his wife Biancarosa Fanfani 47 plump mother of seven and an 12 CORPUS OIRISTI CALLER Thurs Dec 30 19651 AROVND-T1IE-WORLO GLANCE AT NEWS ON VIET NAM WAR By IV AnaeiaM Pmu TOKYO Ho Chi Minh slams budding Western hopes for negotiations with a broadcast declaration that leaders want war and not The North Vietnamese president again made plain he wants American armed forces out of South Viet Nam admirer of La Pira arranged i meeting at her home between la Pira and correspondent Gianna Breda of the right-wing weekly Borghese It was reported she hoped the critical magazine would be impressed by La Pira's sincerity Magazine Report The magazine reported that La Pira had ridiculed both Sec rotary of State Dean Rusk and Moro voiced admiration for Benito Mussolini and French President Charles de Gaulle and said communism was no danger La Pira said all those remarks were made jokingly When he announced his resignation Fanfani dissociated himself from the reported remarks calling them "unjust and unfounded considerations and judgments by a friend" He described his wife's rote as an "imprudent initiative" Mrs Fanfani declined all comment COMPANIES SAY POWDER AVAILABLE 111 II) The Alton 111 Telegraph reported Wednesday that two munitions firms have said they are producing comparable powder to the ball powder manufactured at the strikebound Olin Mathicson plant in East Alton The Defense Department has said that the East Alton plant manufactures the only powder available for rifle machine gun and 20mm ammunition for Viet Nam An unidentified Hercules Powder Co ballistics expert at Wilmington Dei was quoted as saying: "We are making something that Ls just as good as ball The newspaper quoted a spokesman for Du Pont also at Wilmington as saying: "There are at least three firms that could come up with an acceptable powder" He did not name the third company Confronted with these statements the newspaper said a Pentagon spokesman commented are other facilities which could be brought into Rut the Telegraph said the Army spokesman told it that the Olin Mathieson ban powder is only effective powder in tracer CMttaued from Page 1 and will never succeed in the Vietnamese people to accept the conditions of capitulation dictated by the US 1m Ho aLso accused the United States of a long catalogue of crimes in South Viet Nam including the use of gas The Unit ed States has said it has used only tear gas and that sparing iy- South Vietnamese people as a Ho continued as one man under the clear-sighted leadership of the South Viet Nam National Front for Liberation are fighting heroically and are determined to fight as long as the US ag gressors still trample upon the soil of their The front is the political arm of the Viet Cong guerrillas In South Viet Nam Extended Thanks At the outset Ho said to the Pope: have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your message and wish to extend my thanks for the interest you show in the problem of peace in Viet Nam "The Vietnamese people eagerly want peace to reconstruct their country but genuine peace is inseparable from genuine national independence aggression by the American imperialists against Viet Nam is the deep origin and direct cause of the present war in Viet Not Split The message appeared to blow up reports that the North Vietnamese leadership was split over the question of opening ceaso-fire negotiations The Far Eastern Economic Review of Hong Kong reported Ho Premier Pham Van Don' and Defense Minister Vo Nguy en Giap favored negotiations to give them a breathing space to consolidate their military and political gains in South Viet Nam SAIGON Suspension Viet Nam enters its sixth brigade of about 4000 fresh of committed US armed action persists south of the VATICAN CITY Pope with Arthur Goldberg US Nations who makes a surprise Catholic pontiff is told that his efforts to bring about the MANILA Vice President suggests in Tokyo that Japan conference on Viet Nam then inauguration Thursday of Marcos WARSAW Averill visit to Poland the Communist International Control Commission In Viet Nam A US embassy ambassador at large the views of the US government MOSCOW Ambassador President Nikolai Podgomy announcement that Alexander Soviet troubleshooter is going embassy spokesman says Kohler the nature of a courtesy TOKYO Red China assails announcement of Shelepin'i Hanoi trip trying to undermine its "fighting Vietnamese people by helping of peaceful negotiations" UNITED NATIONS UN Is kept informed of all US Viet ADVERTISEMENT MARCOS Continued from Page 1 was Vice President Fernando Lopez who has the unusual distinction of returning to a post he was first elected to in 1949 under President Elpidio Quirtao There was a touch of the late US President John Kennedy at the inauguration In addition to well-turned phrases reminiscent of Kennedy which Marcos often uses he was the special host to a handful of wartime guerrilla comrades who flew from the United States These included Gen Russell Volckmann of Chicago 111 who said: no surprise to me I always thought he would be president one day' As a relative youngster Marcos fought the Japanese with such determination that he emerged from the war as the mast decorated soldier in the Philippines At side was his wife Imelda a beauty queen of 10 years ago who retains her striking looks and already has en livened Philippine life as a political hostess The inauguration finally end ed a solid vear of political campaigning and fighting that was the most bitter In Philippine history Charges and countercharges of voting irregularities have cropped up but wide vote-margin was actually uncontested and the change-of-power came peacefully This is a rarity in a fact which was noted by Humphrey on his arrival when he said "a presidential inauguration in a free society represents the highest political achievement within the reach of the orderly and peaceM transfer of power taom one group of men to AUSTIN IB The slate president of the American Association of University Professors said Wednesday the warning received by a state-employed research specialist not to participate In a Christmas peace vigil near the LBJ Ranch violated academic freedom Dr Edmund Pincoffs president of the Texas conference of the AAUP made public a letter to Dr Horace Cromer chairman of the State Board of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Cromer confirmed this week that state mental health officials had told Dr Morton Richer that he would lose his research position at the Texas Psychiat ric Institute in Houston if he took part in the demonstration Pincoffs a University of Texas associate professor said that Rleber entitled to academic freedom" entails as a minimum the freedom accorded other in the expression of their Pincoffs wrote in his letter to Cromer Pincoffs questioned whether as a citizen" Richer could be denied the right to participate in the vigil" Richer had planned to Join a group of Texans Sunday who stood near the LBJ Ranch to demonstrate their opposition to continuing the war In Viet Nam Richer was ordered not to attend the vigil by Dr John Kinross Wright acting director of the institute The decision was approved by Cromer and by Dr Shervert Frazier state com- mLssioner of mental health and 8 mental retardation visit the world was expecting it-s unbecoming of a major change inthe professional man and a state situation because the North lmploye t0 a stand against htaSf Alibis? winning and the United States1" 1 was thought In some quarters to be Urine of the fight AgCIlt for FBI Instead of a movement toward I of the US bombing of North day but air transports land a infantrymen that boost the roll forces to 175000 Air and ground 17th Parallel border Paul VI has an hour's talk ambassador to the United flight to Rome The Roman President Johnson appreciates Christmas truce Hubert II Humphrey try to work up a peace jets to the Philippines for the President-elect Ferdinand Harriinan makes an unexpected member of the three-nation that has a watchdog role statement says the the Polish government with on the Vietnamese Foy Kohler meets with In the wake of a Tass Shelepin a top-ranking to Hanoi shortly A US requested the meeting Russia after the and says the Kremlin is with the imperialism to realize the plot Secretary-General Thant Nam moves New Resolutions For the Rtisincssman Resolve: 1 To provide more convenience for every customer 2 To give a neat modern appearance to the store 3 To open the door for every customer 4 To protect the customer a--gainst Doing injured by a awing door if winds are strong 5 To save some of the money being lost on air conditioning and heating 6 To bring the store up from the horse and buggy days to the space days 7 To make certain that all of the above resolutions are kept I resolve to install a Horton Automatic Sliding Door A Wise Mai Horton Glass Co 121 Gibson Lane TU 4-5349 No down payment 3 years to pay PEACE CMtiiDcd fram Page forts reported Wednesday In Warsaw and Vatican City South Viet government was reported ready to join the Viet Cong in proclaiming a cease-fire Jan 20-23 for celebra tion of the Lunar New Year which ordinarily brings a break in military activity The United States held some doubts but was expected to concur US headquarters announced 21 Americans were kilted in combat Christmas week compared to 10 in the week of Dec 12-18 The roll of the dead passed the 1550 mark Amer! can wounded in action last week totaled 95 Cemmanist Toll Government forces which do by far the most of the fighting lost 227 killed 499 wounded and 104 missing or captured The Communist toll was listed as 937 killed and 137 captured with no estimate of the wounded Kaleidoscopic developments of the day included sustained action in South Viet Nam by both ground and air forces At Fleiku 240 miles north of Saigon a Vietnamese firing squad executed two Montagnard tribesmen condemned to death for leading an abortive uprising in the highlands 10 days ago Two other leaders of the priml tive mountaineers trained by US Special Forces teams and armed for warfare against the Viet Cong were to be shot in neighboring Phu bon Province A terrorist grenade wounded four US servicemen at a Sai gon billet The lull In the bombing of the North a pause that began Christmas Eve entered its sixth day at 5:45 pm The moratorium last spring has been variously appraised as five days and six days No bombers were over North Viet Nam May 13-17 In addition hours of Inactivity between the break May 12 and the resumption of bombing? May 18 seemed to add another day Haul Charges Without publicly acknowledging restraint of the bombers Radio Hanoi charged that US reconnaissance planes continued "spying and provocative activities" over North Vietnam' ese territory Tuesday for the fourth straight day An Amerl can spokesman has denied that reconnaissance planes were flying over North Viet Nam A strike by Guam-based B52 bombers Tuesday night ended speculation that those eight-engine craft of the Strategic Air Command had joined the moratorium They hit two suspected Viet Cong concentrations in Quant Tri Province 400 miles north of Saigon US and Vietnamese pilots flew 411 sorties against Viet Cong river shipping encampments supply areas and gun emplacements in South Viet Nam They reported they destroyed 468 buildings knocked out one automatic weapons site and sank nine sampans C47 In Action A single C47 converted from transport to combat duty mured 20000 shots into a Viet Cong encampment 140 miles southwest of Saigon in Kien Gian Province' Intelligence agents had reported a marshal-ng of guerrillas at the camp Viet Cong bands blew up three bridges In the area of Quang N'gai 3 miles northeast of Saigon and overran a district headquarters at Minh Long 15 miles southwest of Quang Ngai Warplanes flew 34 sorties against the guerrillas and some of Minh Long's outposts were reported holding out The government lost an outpost in Vinh Long Province 80 miles southwest of Saigon Guerrillas swept over It and severely mauled the militia squad that was Its garrison Can tinned tram Page 1 considered the visit to Hanoi to be of possibly great importance It was particularly noted in here Out trip would come at a time somewhat similar in character to a visit to Hanoi last year by Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin Similar Timing It was particularly noted in embassies here that Shelepin'i visit would take pLce at time somewhat similar to that during which Hanoi was visitcc last year by Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin Midland Man Killed MIDLAND A Jobe of Midland was killed Wednesday night when struck by a car on US 80 about six miles west of Midland Dupont Teflon Griddle STRIKE Continued from Page said that in theory troops in Viet Nam would run out of ammunition without a settlement The Badger plant has been in mothballs since 1957 The Pen tagon announcement said its reactivation was under study before the strike against Olin Mathieson The Badger plant employes about 950 men when in opera' tion The contract operator Ls Olin Mathieson which has been maintaining it with a skeleton maintenance force Hopeful Note Simkin's word lhat progress Ls 1 icing made was the first hope ful note about the strike at the East Alton plant sole function' ng producer of gunpowder for rifle machlnegun and 22 millimeter shells for Viet Nam lories said one source close to the negotiations between the company and the AFL-C10 International Assoda tion of Machinists The talks were moved here Monday from Illinois "We know it's a very serious said the union vice president Eugene Glover why we are staying 3999 la Union The machinists union represents 3800 of the 4200 workers at the plant Simkin called In representatives of two smaller striking unions to join the talks in an apparent effort to wrap up a final settlement in one package These two are the AFL-CIO International Brotherhood of electrical Workers and the Western Employes Trades Council Johnson is reported ready to break the strike with an 80-day Taft-Hartley Act court injunction if necessary Worids't Talk Wirtz said he did not want to talk about Taft-Hartley action unless it became clear the parties in the dispute would not live up to their responsibilities to the nation The Review quoted a senior member of the International Control Commission as saying that Truong Chinh chairman of the National Assembly insisted on relentless fight with the South Vietnamese and Amcri can a position favored by Red China Established In 1954 The International Control Commission Ls made up of In dia Canada and Poland It was established by the Geneva con ference of 1954 to supervise terms of the agreement setting demarcation line between North and South Vfet Nam In connection with upcoming visit to Hanoi sources in Moscow said the Soviet Union would try to undercut Chinese influence North Viet Nam recently has been praising Soviet military aid at a time when Peking has been assailing the Russians for not doing more for the Vietnamese Communists Moscow Cautions Peking wants a bitter end fight in Viet Nam Moscow has seemed to be inclined to a negotiated settlement but because of criticism has been cautious in advocating one observers said The Soviet Union recently stepped up military aid to North Viet Nam Moscow sources said Ho might argue with Shelepin or more Soviet aid to drive the United States out of Viet Nam Either by providing assistance for peace or more war the Soviet Union could strengthen its influence in Hanoi No Stick No Scwr IW Arab Arms Deliveries Worry Israel WASHINGTON Israe expressed concern Wednesda to the United States over what called increased arms deliveries to Arab states The Israeli concern was con' veyed through Ambassador Av-raham Hannan who called on Secretary of State Dean Rusk After 45-mtauto conference the Israeli diplomat told report' ers he asked for the appoint meat to review the recent acceleration in pace and scope of the rearmament of Arab countries which gives us considerable Harman declined to elaborate or to name the Arab countries Involved but he Indicated that virtually an neighbors of his country received more modern sophisticated armament In November the United States Joined with Britain in offering to aeU Saudi Arabia $200 million worth of supersonic airplanes antiaircraft missiles and radar equipment According to this package offer UJ5 industry would furnish the mlmiles while Britain wouli Mil the planes and radar and communications equipment ONLY LJ No stick ever with this Mirror Aluminum coated with famous DuPont Teflon Foods cook better and taste better con be prepared with little or no grease Quality in every feature Jumbo 11" only $169 Cosh Gr Carry Limit I CORPUS CHRISTI STORES OPEN DAILY til SAT 4 PM KINGSVILLE DAILY 9 'tH 4 MON THURS 4 til 9 PM SATISFACTION GUARANTEED WE TAKE TRADES IN KINGSVILLE 1100 14th et the LY2-2S08 IN CORPUS CHRISTI 10929 Hiwey 9 et Anneville WI5-421 1 IN CORPUS CHRISTI 5933 Se Leiington Blvd WYI-1120 "3" Wilcox Furniture Stores peace however the Viet CongM Efltl Cill'CCr heavily raided an American out- post at Plclku Johnson ordered A flCt 41 1 CUTS the bombing of North Viet Nam to begin and the war has been MINNEAPOLIS Minn IT) steadily expanding ever since Samuel Hardy a veteran Again Ex pert lag gangbuster with 41 years service Now as Shelepin prepares to for the Federal Bureau of Invisit Hanoi much of the world vestigallon will retire Thurs-again Is expecting major de- day velopments In this case fur- Hardy 65 ranks next to Ed-ther expansion and Intensifies-1 gar Hoover national FBI direction of the war by both sides tor in seniority among more If that Is to he avoided many than 6000 agents Most of his believe negotiation must coon FBI service has been in the Min-be started neapolis-SL Paul offices He left Many diplomats believe that a law practice In Casper Wyo the Soviet Union would like the to join the FBI war to end so it can halt the During the 1930s he worked deterioration of its relations with the elite eight man kidnap with China and rebuild its in- squad which solved several dar-fluence in Southeast Asia Thus tag kidnapings including the there was speculation Wednes- abduction of Charles A Lindberg day that the Shelepin mission Jr 20 month old son of the might be designed to bring So- famous flier viet pressures to bear on North Two cases in this area were Viet Nam for a move toward the kidnapings of William Hamm peace Jr and Edward Bremer mera- Greater Assistance Ibers of wealthy brewery fatnil- They were inclined to adopt lies this view even though they con- Among gunmen Hardy and the ceded that Shelepin might be squad helped put behind bars ireparing to offer North Viet were Baby Face Nelson Doc 4am greater assistance against Barker Alvin Karp is and Roger an anticipated expansion of the Touhy The FBI men fought gun US effort battles with the John Dillingor A major problem for the gang at Little Bohemia Wis United States In seeking peace Hardy has conducted FBI po-negotiations is to convince Ha-lice schools for law enforcement not of the sincerity of President officers in several north central Johnson's desire to move thestates Vietnamese question feom the taUMIcia to he conterenc Mjncral Rights To forestall charges that the If Flnlnva current effort is a propaganda 11 LLas device the administration has PPninrl imposed a highly effective si- KKOvcr rujcci HOUSTON Houston City Council refused Wednesday i to approve a $149 million Trin-The administration has sought Ly pjver Reservoir budget for what cj! l966 after learning that former called the confusion of si- janij owners in the area will re-lence and has made no an- Ljn mineral rights nouncements about the bombing Houston and the Trinity River pause or its diplomatic effort Authority have signed a contract It has In the meantime con-lfor construction of a $50 million veyed to Hanoi through a jium-lresprvoir near Livingston her of channels its insls-1 Mayor Louie Welch and sev-tence that it is genuinely seek- Jeral counciimen criticized the tag grounds for peace negotia- policy of allowing former erty owners to retain mineral One difficulty for the adminis-Ughis Councilman Bill Elliott trattan derives from a speech suggested a review and change by President Johnson on Dec 9 0f policy in which he pledged to exhaust jm Hunt acting project man-every prospect for peace before I ager for the river authority said other hard steps were taken was planned to permit oil drill-" tag only if carried out without antics causing water pollution This tad to speculation welch said he could not see After the ball Is over grab the bull by ihe horns finish celebrating with BAND BREAKFAST Continued from Page 1 this morning before US Com' missloner James Marita The other three members of the quintet were released several hours later Police reported they found a small snuff box filled with manicured marijuana some amphetamine capsules and a vial of oyote in the cars Peyote Is a hallucinatory drug manufactured from the cooked roots of a certain type of cactus One of the two cars was Impounded A set of drums and some baggage in the car also was impounded N-BLAST Canthmed from Page for the explosive was too small to allow that But the 1164 blast carved otr a spherical cavity some SS feet In radius big enough for a decoupling test So now the A EC said wants to see if the underground cavity can be cleared of nibble and used again the event that a decision is made to re quest permission for another Department of Defense at the site Bids fram experienced drilling contractors are to be opened at Las Vegas Nev on Jan 25 at the MEX-CATERIA For your first meal in 1966 enjoy your favorite Mexican dishes for which ihe Mex-caieria is famous or the chef's specialty Huevos Rancheros or a favorite American meal of eggs bacon and hoi biscuits Either way Wednesday that the diplomatic how a effort might be a move to satis- handtad without fy administration critics at The proposed bvdgct includes home and abroad before expand- $ol million for land purchases easements and condemnation Very high authorities howev- proceedings and $81 million for er gave specific assurance in dam highway and utility relo- TERMITES This is the farewell week for the French chef at tli White House and probably just as well Now have lots of time to write another hook about the Maybe you think the world needs another of those books but what do you know about preparing a stale dinner? No doubt Monsieur Verdon will find another job where Ills genius is more fully anprrciatd talking but yon lielp hut feel that if had a little more talont for cooking up chill ron came black-eyed peas and rornhread or if he'd liad a good recipe for barbecue sauce he might continue to dispense Gallic charm from the White House kitchen for years to come We doubt if Rene understands about plain old Texas tasfes Probably he couldn't even appreciate the flavorful gustatory delights of Knolle All-lersey Milk The guy's gotta go! Qk Hwtaij! cation expenditures Chile Reports Quake SANTIAGO Chile W-A sharp earthquake jarred the town of Osomo 580 miles south of Santiago Wednesday There were no reports of damage or in-juries The Interior Ministry said the tremor lasted about 15 Coll for Hto BUGMOBILES? $10000 WARRANTY DYSART PEST CONTROL CO 4301 I Part Ut 3-0115 Me faicUn Sente will be open all night New Year's Eve! Deputy Premier May Get Post JERUSALEM Israeli Sector IB sources said Wednesday Deputy Prime Min fetor Abba Eban will succeed Mrs Golds Meir is Israel's foreign minister Mn Meir announced her retirement Tuesday at a meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee of the Knesset (Parliament) the Jewish Telegraph Agency reported She thanked the committee for Its cooperation during the years he was in office Eban was formerly ambuss dor to the United States and Chief of the Israeli delegation to thn United Nations private that there was no connection between Johnson's Dec statement and the diplomatic effort that became visible Wednesday The same authorities gave a Arm pledge that no decision tor expand or Intensify the war In Viet Nam had been made Political observers believed however that if the new peace offensive failed to produce a fruitful response from the North Vietnamese Johnson might find limself under increasingly heavy pressure from "hard-line" advocates of heavier bombing naval blockade of North Viet Nam and other military Vi Price Sole SWEATERS Annllqued fr Beoded ROSINWASSERS 1114 a Ateaede at li Man Hnaa TU1-4M1 South Staples and Weber Phone UL2-1212 for foods-to-go Servin' All Snath Taiai Sat imi lacal Suemebile am Mm TeHew Satan.