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THE WEATHER QUICK TAKE Warmer; Rain or Drizzle THE MUNCIE STAR Governments change so Details on Page A-2 South Viet Nam, the capital be called Saigon gone- "Where the Spirit of the Lord Is, There Is -II Cor. 3:17 VOL. 88-NO. 340 SECTION MUNCIE, INDIANA, SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 1965 PHONE 282-5921 TWENTY CENTS NAMES VA of Income Tax Can RAINY SURF BOARD RIDE- -Peter Ostrom, 21, cruises along the main street in Mission Beach, Saturday on his surf board as the rain came down. Keith Noel, 15, waits for his turn on the NO CONTROL Reds' Rights Role Slight WASHINGTON (AP)-Atty.

Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach says the Communist party has no control over civil rights organizations or their leaders. While the party has attempted to inject itself into the American civil rights, movement, he feels, it has been "remarkably unsuccessful in actually influencing any decisions, and certainly has not captured any of the leadership." Katzenbach expressed himself in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press-his first formal interview since becoming Attorney General in February. A partial transcript of the interview follows: Q. WHAT FORM do you expect the legislation to control the Ku Klux Klan to take, and when do you expect to submit it to the President? A.

I think we will have legislation for the President to consider within two weeks. It is difficult to state now exactly what that legislation will be. In general, this is likely to give federal jurisdiction over the sorts of activities that the Klan has been carrying on, so that we can both investigate and prosecute with fairly severe penalties. I think it is more likely that the legislation will take that form than legislation which treated the Klan similar to the Communist party, which has not been a smashing success over the 15 or 16 years as far as registration is concerned. But I wouldn't preclude that.

Turn to Page A-2 Inside The Star Ann Landers Antiques Classified Ads to D-9 Editorials Gallup Poll Gardens, Homes Markets and C-9 Nancy Millard Obituaries Photography Puzzle Sports C-1 to C-4 Teen Corner Television Theaters LBJ Part Taxpayer Must Prove Hardship WASHINGTON (AP) Uncle Sam left the door ajar Saturday night for those who face hardship in paying their income tax in full on April 15 but the burden of proof rests on the taxpayer. Further, he must convince the Internal Revenue Service that the hardship results from underwithholding from his paycheck. The IRS, in a special announcement: Warned all taxpayers that their returns must be submitted by the April 15 deadline to avoid severe penalties under the law. Urged taxpayers to pay the full amount due at that time if it is at all pose sible. RECOMMENDED payment of as much as possible if full payment "would result in undue hardship, as distinguished from mere inconvenience." Said those who do not pay in full will receive a bill for the unpaid balance.

Instructed those receiving such balance-due bills to "promptly write or visit the nearest Internal Revenue Service office to arrange payment" over what IRS describes as "a reasonable period of time." It added that full payment should be made "as quickly as possible." NOTED THAT INTEREST at 6 per cent will be charged on unpaid balances. Many taxpayers face problems in paying their 1964 income tax because insufficient money had been withheld from their wages or salaries. This is because when the two-stage tax reduction bill was passed last year, the new withholding scale was put into effect at once on the basis of the full reduction which does not become effective until the tax bills for 1965. This was done primarily to inject more spendable income into the economy in 1964. There was considerable publicity about this and many persons arranged to have employers increase sums withheld.

And the IRS sent a notice to all employers pointing out the consequences of underwithholding and asked them to suggest that employes request adjustments in withholding. New Castle Man Held in Slaying NEW CASTLE, Ind. (AP) A young New Castle mother's body was brought to Henry County Hospital here Saturday by her husband, who later was held in connection with her shooting death. Mrs. Christa Crabtree, 23, was dead on arrival at the hospital, Deputy Sheriff William West said.

The deputy said she had been shot in the chest and apparently had been beaten by a pair of iron knuckles found in the Crabtree car. HER HUSBAND, Charles D. Crabtree, 29, was held without charge for investigation in the death, but authorities said he was too hysterical to an immediate statement. The couple's 6-year-old son, make, Myron, accompanied his father to the hospital. West said the shooting reportedly occurred in the Crabtree car on a county road north of here.

A .22 caliber revolver was also found in the auto. Crabtree, an employe of Delco-Remy Division of General Motors in Anderson, met his German-born wife while serving with the U.S. Army in Germany about seven years ago, State Trooper Martin M. Werling, reported. Statements on Key By FLOYD CREECH The brutal murder of Ethel Key, 29- year-old Marion housewife and mother of four children, occurred on a lonely stretch of I-69 near Daleville about midnight just two weeks ago.

For investigators, newsmen and interested observers, the solving of the crime, arrests of two admitted conspirators and their indictment on a first-degree murder charge have made the two weeks seem very short. FOR LOYED C. KEY, 30-year-old Marion factory worker and husband of the murdered woman, and Mrs. Phyllis Jean Hazelbaker, also 30 and an Alexandria divorcee and mother of three, who have admitted plotting and carrying out the murder, the two weeks may have seemed an eternity. Stories pieced together by investigators from statements by the pair and from other sources indicate the plot to get rid of Mrs.

Key first entered the thoughts of her husband several months ago. His story and that of Mrs. Hazelbaker AP Wirephoto board. More than an inch of rain fell in a few minutes at the tail end of a three-day storm that has flooded streets and stalled cars in the Southern California area. LB.J, Pearson Soft-Pedal Discussion of Viet Nam THURMONT, Md.

(AP) President Johnson met briefly with Canada's Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson in apparent amity Saturday but gave no sign he shares Pearson's view that a pause in air strikes against North Viet Nam might mark a first step toward At Johnson's invitation, Pearson visited the President for a couple of hours at Camp David presidential. retreat in the nearby Catoctin Mountains. MEETING NEWSMEN before they parted neither man volunteered anything about their joint discussion of Pearson's suggestion, put forward Friday night, for a temporary moratorium on American air strikes north of the 17th parallel. However, Pearson did concede, in response to' direct question, that "We talked about Viet Nam and a view that I expressed last night." Asked if he was satisifed with the Canadian position as expressed by Pearson, Johnson replied: "It is not for me to pass judgment on what other countries do." THE PRESIDENT, obviously unhappy that the question of Pearson's plan for an air strike respite had come up, said: "His visit has nothing whatever to do with Viet Nam or anything else you could blow up or make big or dramatic." With that, Johnson terminated the 10- minute session with newsmen on a flagstone patio outside Camp David's Aspen Lodge a patio affording a dramatic view of the haze-shrouded valley at the foot of the mountain.

THE WHITE HOUSE had announced plans for Pearson's short stay at Camp David only a few hours before the prime minister put forth his air strike proposal in a Philadelphia speech Friday night. There was some reason to suspect Johnson had not known at the time what Pearson planned to say. Johnson said he and Pearson "had general discussion--a friendly one." Pearson said, "It's been a very pleasant couple of hours." Star Photo OOPS--A temper tantrum was blamed for this one-car wreck on 17th Street just off Hoyt Avenue Saturday night. The wife of William Padgett, 24, 227 E. Sixth said he rolled the car over after a family quarrel.

Mrs. Padgett and their two children were pulled from the car and taken to Ball Memorial Hospital, but were released when it was found none of the three was injured. Padgett was charged with driving with no valid operator's license. ADVISERS Be Put Off Report Asked June 1 on Hospitals to Keep WASHINGTON (UPI) President Johnson Saturday appointed a special advisory committee to study Veterans Administration plans to close 14 hospitals and old soldiers' homes to determine whether the decision was justified. He instructed the committee to report to him by June 1 "on the merits of continuing these facilities in full operation or closing them." In a statement issued by the White House, the President said recent congressional testimony over the controversial shutdown plan had "raised some doubts in my mind" about the wisdom of closing some of the facilities.

"It may be that some of these hospitals are not in fact outmoded and that they can continue to serve veterans as efficiently as our standards require," Johnson said. "It may be that the need for some of them as well as the need for some of the other facilities affected by the original is greater than our experts understood," he said. THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS are E. Barrett Prettyman, retired former chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, who will be chairman; Senate Democratic Whip Russell B.

Long, Rep. Teague, chairman of the House, Veterans Affairs Committee; Rep. Ross Adair, N-Reactor Put in Orbit VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, first nuclear power plant designed for future space missions was launched on an Atl rocket Saturday and achieved a planned polar orbit around the earth. The big space vehicle zoomed from its pad at this Central California coastal base at 4:25 p.m. EST and telemetry data indicated about two and a half hours later it was in orbit.

PRELIMINARY DATA showed the socalled SNAP 10A was orbiting the earth every 112 minutes. Its apogee or high point was an altitude 715 nautical miles and its perigee or low point was 705 nautical miles. Called SNAP 10A for Systems. for Nuclear Power Auxiliary--the vehicle carried an atomic power system capable of supplying 500 watts of electrical energy for an Air Force ion rocket engine. The engine will propel future space vehicles to planets such as Jupiter at 000 miles an hour, it is hoped.

OFFICIALS said that at the planned orbital height of 700 miles it would remain in the sky 3,500 years and the nuclear materials would decay to safe levels before it re-entered the atmosphere. The reactor is a miniaturized version of the giant power plants which run Polaris submarines and land-based power plants and weighs 970 pounds. The government has spent $111.8 million since the SNAP 10A project. The new propulsion system consisted of a 250-pound reactor providing electricity to run a two-pound engine that expels a beam of ionized atoms to produce thrust. Plans call for the reactor to be started by radio command from the ground and attain full power of 500 watts some 24 hours after launch.

Electricity generated by the reactor was to be stored in a 400-pound bank of batteries and released in spurts as the ion engine is turned off and on. The ion engine was designed to operate three to six months. Murder Constantly Changing appear to agree down to the moment of the actual shooting. Key, who has told at least four different stories, has said twice that Mrs. Hazelbaker pulled the trigger.

At one point, he said he did the killing. MRS. HAZELBAKER'S story has remained constant, that she assisted Key by following in another car to the point of the murder. She admits she got rid of the gun and Key's billfold and threw Mrs. Key's purse onto the roadside five miles north of the murder site to add credence to Key's story that he was robbed by two men who shot his wife.

Key and Mrs. Hazelbaker first met about four years ago shortly after she and her husband, Jack, were divorced. She was living in Alexandria with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stephens, and her three children.

Key, who was living in Muncie and commuting to Marion to work, used the name of a brother, Joe Key, and said he was unmarried. KEY'S WIFE and girl friend met dra- ranking Republican on the House committee; John S. Gleason former veterans administrator; Gen. Alfred Gruenther, former president of the American Red Cross; Dr. Paul Dudley White of Boston, a noted heart specialist, and J.

William Harwick, secretary of the Board of Governors of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Teague's committee approved in principle earlier this week a move to block the hospital closing plan indefinitely, with a final vote scheduled for Tuesday. But the action was off at the same time Johnson announced a news conference he had ordered the Veterans tion to reconsider its decision. Johnson said then he had ordered Veterans Administrator William J. Driver to visit each of the affected hospitals personally as part of a further study of the planned economy move.

THE SHUTDOWN ORDER was defended by Driver in House hearings as means of improving medical care for veterans by eliminating obsolescent facilities and building new, more efficient ones that would attract better staffs. The administration had estimated the savings at $23 million a year. But many legislators, including Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, had protested angrily that medical services for veterans would be impaired. One of the hospitals slated for closing is at Miles City in Mansfield's, home state. Johnson did not say Saturday which facilities, he thought might be spared.

said, "The facts are in dispute on some hospitals" and that "much of the testimony is contradictory." There is, he added, "considerable reason to believe that further examination and study are necessary before a final decision is implemented." The closing plan is scheduled to begin on Jan. 1. Johnson aid he would act promptly as soon receives the advisory commit: tee's recommendation. Fair Literacy Test Urged WASHINGTON liberals began to drive Saturday to broaden the scope of President Johnson's proposed Negro voting rights bill. But a Republican associate objected to any flat ban on state literacy tests on grounds it might render the legislation unconstitutional.

Sen. Hugh Scott, agreed with the liberal bloc that the bill should be toughened. He said in a statement, how. ever, that if literacy tests are outlawed, the measure would be subject to constitutional attack i in the courts. THE LIBERAL DRIVE to expand the bill's reach came when eight Senate Democratike wrote Mansfield, Senate that Democratic the administration-backed measure doesn't go far enough.

They offered their views as the Senate Judiciary Committee planned to close hearings on the bill Monday. Hearings by a House judiciary subcommittee have concluded and the group will meet Tuesday to begin drafting the precise guage of the measure. Final action, expected later in the week, would send the measure to the full committee for approval about mid-April. No floor action is anticipated, however, until May at the earliest. STAFF LAWYERS for Senate leaders of both parties and Justice Department attorneys agreed tentatively Friday night on changes to meet some of the constitutional arguments and to broaden its scope in some respects.

One change, it was reported, would apply the law to areas where the last federal census showed that 20 per cent of all non-whites-not merely Negroesin any political subdivision were not registered in the last election. The pro, vision, it was explained, would more nearly pin-point pockets of discrimination without bringing to bear federal action against an entire state. matically at a time when Mrs. Hazelbaker came to Muncie looking for him, thinking he was sick. She called at the Key home and met Mrs.

Key. After a discussion, during which the two women compared notes, Mrs. Key called her husband home. He became angry and denied ever having seen Mrs. Hazelbaker.

He later told Mrs. Hazelbaker she had queered his chances of getting a divorce so they could be married. In the fall of 1964, after an off-and-on courtship, Key told Mrs. Hazelbaker his wife was seriously ill and needed an operation from which she would probably not recover. He said they would be married when his wife died.

After the operation, performed in December, he told Mrs. Hazelbaker the doctor had given her five weeks to live. When the five weeks passed, he said his wife was going to be all right. MRS. HAZELBAKER says it was at this time he first suggested the idea of killing Mrs.

Key. She says Key discussed Turn to Page A-4 Turn to Page A-2 We're Sorry Your Paper Was Late Because of mechanical difficulties with the presses, this edition of The Muncie Star may get to your door later than usual. We regret this inconvenience to our readers. An inoperative electrical circuit in the press motors was responsible for the delay. The plates from which this newspaper was printed were carried out of town by truck, and the printed papers returned to Muncie for distribution.

Carrier boys did not receive their bundles of papers until long after the regular hour. LOYED KEY Gives Authorities a Variety of Statements on Slaying. PHYLLIS HAZELBAKER Claims Key Pulled Trigger That Ended His Wife's Life..