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210 MUNCIE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1965 PHONE 282-5921 TEN CENTS nn IfU THE ffD TO Cong Drive Blunted? Maybe Beaten Bank Aid Vl SIIbR M'Namara on Way to Viet Nam, Gives His Views at Paris Urged for No County Injuries Reported: Much of State Hit by Winds By BILL BRANTLEY A tornado struck the west edee of Cowan Fridav Asia Bloc PARIS (UPI) Defense Secretary Robert S. Mc- JOHNSON CITY, Tex Namara Friday said the monsoon offensive mounted (UPI) President Johnson by the Vietnamese Communists "has been blunted rr-A tW I think, defeated." 'announced Friday that he He said this was one of the main reasons for his Wl11 ask Congress for $200 about 10:15 p.m. causing extensive property damage. There were no injuries reported in the Cowan area, i Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms struck sev- planned visit to South Viet Nam, which will be his million to boost the new eral areas of Indiana Fridav nieht. causing heavv dam- sevenirt to the embattled Southeast Asian nation Asian Development Bank Sf age in some locations but no apparent injuries.

oiaic punte ham a irooper reported to DUiiaines since 196-. I again invited Soviet McNamara arrived a say in Allied bloc participation. London for a one-dav uratenv strategy said he would Saturday of the defense minis-1 -n. i damaged by a twister which struck at Fortville, north east of Indianapolis. i me io Americans ana ine request ine money eany nexi British officials also had what year for the bank, which he ters of tne North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Another twister caused minor damage to three homes and de described as 'substantial called one of the most hopeful the crucial problem of inter- stroyed several farm buildings near New Carlisle, west of South ituticdi Midline- rranic i Communist China.

The uneasv; is boycotting tne conference. Malaysja and HE DISCLOSED that he would Four cars parked at the west side of the apartments were virtually demolished one of them had been purchased new Friday afternoon. A heavy beam laid a deep crease in the hood and roof of the new car. Just to the west, on the far ArrftMDJVirn Kashmir and th RhnHesian ask lor the JJUO million Bend. That twister also forced postponement of a high school basketball game between Knox and New Carlisle.

appropriation on the eve of the retary of State George W. breakaway also were taken up. Mr'amarj ttnnnnl nff departure of a U.S. delegation thunderstorm A SEVERE th, lN struck the Indianapoli briefly in London on his flight 0N arrival from London-1 headed by Eugene R. Black, his here to confer with British McNamara told newsmen at Asian economic adviser, for the government leaders.

Orlv Airport that casualties 1 uk founding meeting in Manila. Dec. 2-4. Sixteen area and side of the second apartment unit, two others cars were flat a ij.c. nun lai saia ivic.Nama-uum nc -iy senators and congressmen arc tened.

Owens owned two foreign "wide- high. But he said the Commu- power lines were down in several places. A metal awning was reported ripped from a building on the north side of the city. The twister hit Cowan 8tr Fhotos by Mik Kelso APARTMENT CRUSHED An apartment at Cowan, owned by Ben Arnold and tenanted by the James Owens family, was crushed by the high winds and flying timbers Friday night. The twister hit about 10:15 p.m.

The Owens were not home when the storm hit. sports cars which were also flat ranging exchange of views on nists in mounting the offensive, all proWems" with British against American. Vietnamese1 of the $200 million for the Prim. Mimu.r vv.i. and Allied forces in Viet Nam Asian Bank, $100 million would: pain over tour Johnson said.

The remaining; $100 million would be held in; reserve subject to call by the mainly in the area south of Main Street traveling almost due east. Two large farm buildings were Foreign Secretary Michael were "looking to the future." Stewart and Defense Minister: "We are too and I am goin; Denis Heaiy. ho Viet Nam for that No details of the discussions McNamara said. bank. Rusk: Hanoi Feelers Never Persuasive were aiscioseo.

mil tnev were tu uiit demolished which were owned by Boyd lurner. N-Pact 'Price' Sought Three hundred yards to the understood to have included up tn( number of bombing mis- THE President noted that the Viet Nam, Britain's east-of-; now being flown over North bank had been "put together by strategy, as well as the: Viet Nam, officials said at Wash-1 Asians" and that Asians are delicate problem of giving West ington. I putting up most of the capital. northeast two apartment houses owned by Ben Arnold were ex tened in a large shed owned by Arnold. Arnold lost a large cattle feeding shed.

It was one of the standing timbers from this building which went through the roof of Owens' apartment. The 60 by 40 feet concrete block structure was completely leveled. The wooden barn to which it was attached escaped with relatively little damage. Arnold said he went to bed at 10 p.m. and moments later heard what he first thought was a fire siren.

He said the sound increased in intensity until he heard an explosion. Whole trees, limbs, garbage cans, dog houses and mailboxes WASHINGTON (UPI) Sec-(Secretary General Thant to tensively damaged. A beam, 12 by 12 inches and retary ot Mate Rusk go to the conference table, said Friday the United States I wiiHUUT waiting for a aues- SELECTIONS MADE LONDON (AP) British and, 20 feet long was driven through the roof and wall of one of the American officials agreed Fn-i t.on about the Stevenson report, 1. Puct rl4 i ay to try to learn tne soviet autumn because Hanoi felt it apartments occupied by the Jim Owens family. price tor a world pact to stopwas th threshold i the spread of nuclear weapons THEY WERE NOT at home at to victory" and only wanted Ball State Will Play Rice Bowl Game With Tenn.

State aouot mac mnoi was not prepared to discuss peace in Southeast Asia based upon the give the United States a face- British sources reported. A daylong global strategy the time the tornado struck. Owens was bowling and said saving chance to get out of Viet study by Prime Minister Harold, Nam when he got home that his moth agreements of 1954 and 1962 and looking toward the lift of er and children had planned to sleep in the bedroom hit the aggression against South Viet were felled in the area. A large tree limb narrowly missed a Wilson, U.S. Defense Secretary! Robert S.

McNamara and top! "OUR ATTITUDE was and Is aides produced the agreement. we are not interested in i Nam hardest. Only the front bedroom of the unit escaped damage. He noted that only Thursday, I Turn to Page The informants said the Brit- aoutn ish and Americans also took theivlet, m' KUSK tola a news North Viet Nam had denied conterence. view that collective jmdKing any proposals lor making offers a good way of: He had a PrePared statement; negotiations.

And in recent advancing toward a nuclear- on a luestlon raised by weeks, he added, Hanoi's stand sharing system within the 'rpun peace talks appeared to Magazine quoting the late U.N hardened with precondi have tions. FOR THE first time publicly. Rusk acknowledged Thant had Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson about the issue. Stevenson was quoted as saying that Washington turned down twice before and after the November presidential election a North Vietnamese offer through U.N.

informed Washington last fall that Hanoi had told him By RON LEM ASTERS Rail State University will meet Tennessee State in the Grantland Rice Bowl football game on Dec. 11 in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Selections were made Friday by the NCAA selection committee via a telephone meeting, then released from the NCAA national office in Kansas City, Mo. THE DEC. 11 game will mark the first appearance of a Ball State, team in a post-season football game.

It is the first football bowl appearance for an Indiana state-supported college team. Tennessee State and Ball State, along with Middle Tennessee Slate, were considered for the bowl and It is understood that the selection committee found the decision difficult. All three teams completed their seasons unbeaten. Murfreesboro, a town of 21,500, is located on U.S. 41 at the junction of U.S.

231 about 32 miles southeast of Nashville. Tennessee State, formerly Tennessee Is a Negro college located in Nashville. Enrollment is approximately 3,800. Middle Tennessee hosted the Rice Bowl last year, defeating Muskingum, 20-0. The Rice Bowl is the NCAA College Division Mideast Regional playoff game.

THE GAME, to be played on Middle Tennessee State's field, will pit Ball State's rushing game against Tennessee State's passing. Leading the Tennessee team's offense is sophomore quarterback Eldridge Dickey, who has thrown IS touchdown passes this season. Dickey, from Houston, hit on 110 of 194 passes for 1,645 in leading Tennessee State to a 9-0 season. Dickey's prime target has been end Johnny Robinson, who caught 30 passes for 611 yards and eight touchdowns. "I'M REALLY happy about the selection," Tennessee State Coach John Merritt said Friday.

"I didn't want to express it before now for fear we wouldn't be named. I don't know when I've been this happy!" Ball State officials were unable to comment on the Cardinals' selection until they had received the formal announcement, expected Saturday. Turn to Page 2 indirectly it "would be willing to have a contact with the United States and that the Atlantic alliance. This suggested there was qualified U.S. acceptance of Britain's latest approach to the problem.

WILSON favors giving West Germany a voice in nuclear planning and crisis management inside the North Atlantic Treaty Organization while deferring actual German handling of nuclear weapons. Thus a prime Soviet objection could be met to joining in a world non-dissemination treaty. As the talks progressed, the Soviet government paper Izvestia warned Britain against letting West Germany share control of nuclear secretary general had suggested Rangoon as a suitable site." Rusk said this information Zambia Asks British Aid Against Reds was considered "in the light of a great deal of information available at that time about the attitude of the authorities in Hanoi" and other Communist governments. HE DECLINED to identify numerous U.S. "contacts' open at the time.

But he did recall that Paul Martin, Canada's external affairs minister, had said in June the Canadian representative on the International Control Commission (ICC) policing the Geneva accords in Viet Nam had made several trips to Hanoi from LONDON (AP) Britain late Friday night was reported ready to send troops to Zambia in a show of armed strength near the border of rebellious, white minority-ruled Rhodesia. The report came soon after Zambian authorities blamed saboteurs for a blast early Friday that destroyed a pylon on the power line from the Rhode-sian border serving Zambia's LBJ to See Ayub Khan. Wilson and Erhard All in Mid-December JOHNSON CITY, Tex. (UPI) la group of high administration! Asked about the President's; rich copper-mining belt. Zambia BEAM TOSSED BY WIND A 2 -by-8 -Inch beam, tossed by the wind from a barn 300 feet away, ripped into the James Owens apartment in Cowan Friday night.

President Johnson will lofficials who flew down from'attitude toward demonstrations October to May, 1965. is the former Northern Rhodesia, now ruled by its African confer with Pakistan President Washington Friday afternoon. Mohammed Ayub Khan on Dec. He talked with budget direc planned in Washington Saturday against the Vict Nam war, Moyers said he felt they majority. 14-15, probably at thetor Charles Schultze, Director LONDON officials said the Brit- reflected freedom of discussion LBJ Ranch, the Texas White House said Friday.

Buford Ellington of the Office of Emergency Planning, Law- But Johnson heliev ncaring tne end ot tneir pa overwhelming majority oftience with 1 Rhodesian Ayub will be the third worldSn Knott, head of the General leader to talk with Johnson' Services Administration and Americans support his policies" other aides. next month preceding a ses sion with British Prime Minis to Zambia within a short time. The new budget was the main topic but Johnson also brought In Salisbury, Prime Minister Ian Smith said he suspected Viet Nam, Moyers added, and this backing has seemed to increase recently. THE White House spokesman said the protests were a up the stockpile of minerals ter Harold Wilson Dec. 17 and conferences with West German Chancellor Ludwie Erhard on that Communists blew up metals and other commodities pylon that disrupted electric with Ellington and Knott.

service from the Kariba Dam Dec. 19-21. IT WILL BE Johnson's first In Kitwe, Zambia, officials said an explosive charge placed un The Country Parson meeting with Ayub since he der another pylon failed to go on. AFTER the blast, President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia imme healthy sign of open discussion. But he said the President was more impressed by the demonstration of tens of thousands of U.S.

troops in Viet Nam who are "offering themselves in support of freedom." Moyers said communist misinterpretation of the. anti-war marches was always a danger and should cause the participants to seriously consider this consequence. But it should not diately renewed his pressure on 1J I became president and carries out a commitment made earlier this year. Indian Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, who also has been invited to visit the President at his convenience, may come in mid-January. But Press Secretary Bill D.

Moyers said no Johnson-Shastri 'Ml Britain to send troops into the troubled border zones. 3h VM prevent them from doing what CONNIE BUSHEY County Girl Wins National 4-11 Scholarship Connie Bushcy, R.R. 6, has been named a national winner in the 4-H bread program. She will receive a $500 scholarship awarded by Standard Brands, New York. This announcement was made at the National 4-H Club Congress now in progress in Chicago.

Miss Bushey has been an outstanding 4-H member in both local and state activities and has served as a 4-H leader. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bushey. meeting has been arranged as of now.

Under the meetings set up so their consciences tell them, he added. Ayub's visit will come after the Pakistani leader appears aim MliiilSIWi Inside Today's Star Churches 5 Classified Ads 12-13-14 Editorials 4 Markets 11 Obituaries Puzzle IS Sports 9-10 Theaters 1 TV 16 Women 7 before the U.N. General. Assem far, the President will discuss world problems with Ayub, Wilson and Erhard within a week's time. All sessions are expected to he at the Johnson ranch in central Texas, Moyers said.

bly. He was a guest at the LBJ Ranch in July, 1961, when Johnson was vice president, "I don't agree that a fellow should keep quiet simply because he doesn't know everything about a subject." BARN SHATTERED Concrete blocks from a 40-by-60-foot cattle feeding shed on the Boyd Turner farm at the west edge of Cowan were scattered over a wide area by the force of the tornadic winds Friday night. The 12-by-12-inch uprights in background were left standing. following Johnson's stop in Pakistan on a world tour earlier that year. THE President conferred with:.