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m. 4f THE HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER OF THE SOUTHERN TIER llinhamton, IV. Sunday, November 12, 19(7 Volume 19 9 Sections 23 nts Mi 2 Teen Car Deaths Tie County Road Mark of 46 I I PRESS PHOTO BY PAUL KONECNY. EQUALING A BAD RECORD-Broome County Coroner Dr. Glenn W.

Tymeson of Lisle, center wearing fur cap, and Broome sheriff's men survey a battered Corvair in Route 26 north of Maine in which two teenagers died last bringing Broome's traffic death toll for 1967 to a record-equaling 46 with seven weeks to go. Old record was set 31 years ago. Little Hope Is Seen In LB 'Ship' Offer 3d Youth Survives, Hospitalized By BETSY BUECHNER and JERRY HANDTE Broome County tied a grim mark at about 6 o'clock last night when two teenage boys were killed, apparently instantly, when the car in which they were riding missed a curve in Route 26 a mile north of Maine and wrapped itself around a utility pole. Deaths of LEON COLLINS, 16, of Croft Street, Glen Aubrey, and KENNETH MORT-ENSON, 17, of Knapp Hill Road, Castle Creek, brought the highway death toll in the county this year to 46, equalling the all-time death toll for one year, set in 1936. Broome County sheriff's men said the two youths were pinned in a late model Corvair in which they apparently had been passengers.

A THIRD YOUTH, the driver of the car, was found near the car, alive, and was taken by sheriff's ambulance to Ideal Hospital, Endicott. He was identified as Dennis Hronis, 18, of Whitney Point. The youth suffered cuts of the right hand, a possible concussion and muscular strain. He was placed in the special care unit of the hospital. Sheriff's deputies, attempting tb question the youth at the scene, said that he appeared incoherent at times.

He did say that he was pulled from the car by passerby and that he and his companions had been coming from Endicott. Sheriff's men said the Corvair was northbound when it missed a curve near the home of Dr. Glenn G. Bartle, former president of Harpur College. They said the car went off onto the east shoulder of the road, traveled on the shoulder for 79 feet and then veered back into the highway, apparently balanced on two wheels, for another 100 feet before it (Continued on Page 3 A) PRESS PHOTO BY JOHN BOLAS.

WINNING AUDITORIUM DESIGN This design for a proposed Broome County veterans memorial auditorium, left, and performing arts theater yesterday won the $10,000 first prize in the county's $21,000 contest to find a design and architects for the project. Three young University of California architecture teachers joined forces to win the prize. Coast Trio's Design Wins Washington (UPI) President Johnson's call for a Vietnam peace conference "on a neutral ship in a neutral a dramatic way of reaffirming U. S. desires for a negotiated peace settlement.

But it is unlikely to lead to any negotiations in the near future. State Department officials 1 Red Force Declining In South By JERRY HANDTE A design by three young California architects that features a long overhead rectangular connection be-' tween auditorium and theater has won the $10,000 architectural competition for proposed Broome County veterans' memorial auditorium and performing arts theater. The winning design for the $4,200,000 auditorium was announced by county officials late yesterday afternoon at a public meeting at the Sheraton Inn. It was prepared by the new firm of Elbasani, Logan of Berkeley, made up of three architecture teachers at the University of California. In addition to winning the first prize, the yonng architects also won the right to be the county's architects for construction of the veterans memorial auditorium, a project that has been the dream of many ever since World War 2.

Aden Arabs Repulsed Aden (UPI) British troops with armored cars, mortars and rockets yesterday beat back an Arab attack in such furious fighting that the Arab commander waved a white flag and begged them to stop. The attacks by fighters of the National Liberation Front (NLF) was the first large scale onslaught against the 5,000 British troops remaining in this Red Sea colony in several weeks. It apparently was an attempt to put pressure on the British government to recognize the NLF as Aden's de facto government and open negotiations for independence. Old Buddies Visit Truman "That meeting ground could even be the sea," the President told the crew of the 90,000 ton Enterprise, the world's largest fighting ship. Then, borrowing the language of the sailor, he declared: "It is a hail across the seas to Hanoi.

"Now hear this: You force us (Continued on Page 4 A) Three Freed GIs Drop From Sight Phnom Penh, Cambodia Three American war prisoners, one of them seriously ill, dropped swiftly out of sight yesterday after their release by the Viet Cong to a representative of a U. S. committee opposed to the war in Vietnam. The three U.S. army sergeants were set free in a ceremony staged by the Viet Cong's.

National Liberation Front at its modest Phnom Penh headquarters. The men then were taken away in a station wagon driven by a man who appeared to be Vietnamese. That was the last newsmen saw of them. The Australian Embassy, which handles U. S.

affairs in Cambodia, said it had not been contacted about the release of the men. In Saigon, U. S. officials released a document contending the three prisoners had been brainwashed by the Commu- Continued on Page 4 A) pointed out that the President has stated on many occasions that the United States was prepared to meet any place and at any time to talk about peace. President Johnson climaxed his coast-to-coast Veterans Day salute to U.S.

servicemen yesterday with the dramatic shipboard challenge to Hanoi for a peace conference aboard a "neutral ship on a neutral sea." HE SAID such a conference could bury the Vietnam war "beneath the waves" so long as both sides "met halfway so long as one did not insist that the other walk on water and work a miracle alone." The President traveled 5,000 miles in two days paying tribute to the nation's 6,000,000 fighting men. He made his surprise proposal aboard the nuclear Carrier Enterprise, cruising off the California coast, before flying to the Yorktown Coast Guard Base to conclude his tour. Secretary of State Dean, Rusk has said repeatedly that he was prepared to begin such discussions immediately if only someone would produce a "real live North Vietnamese" to participate on behalf of the Communists. In American diplomatic quarters, the question of the site of a conference is considered only a minor problem in comparison with the seeming un-. willingness of the North Vietnamese to come to the conference table despite repeated American overtures.

En route back across the country, the President stopped off at McConnell Air Force Base at Wichita, and Langley Air Force Base, where he underscored his challenge from the Enterprise that the nation will fight with persistence while seeking peace meetings at every turn. Saigon fCPD American and Allied forces for the first time in months are killing Communists faster than they can be replaced, U. S. military officials said yesterday. Nearly 60,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong have been killed or have deserted because of Allied military might during the last six months, intelligence officials said.

And the Communists have only replaced about 20,000 of them. A few months ago, American intelligence reports indicated the Communist strength in South Vietnam was more than 285,000, but it has now been revised downward to 242,000. THE OFFICERS said that Allied battlefield victories not only had knocked gaping holes in Communist ranks but have encouraged many thousands more to defect to the government side. During the last six months, the officers said, Communists have been killed at a rate of 7,315 per month and have deserted at a rate of 2,083 per month. Military reverses have made it more difficult for the Viet Cong to get recruits, the officials said, and infiltration from North Vietnam is an expensive and hazardous process.

An estimated 12 to 13 out of every 100 soldiers who start down the Ho Chi Minh trail and other infiltration routes never make it to the battlefield for a number of reasons, (Continued on Page 4 A) Independence, Mo. (UPI) Former President Harry Truman and 25 of his old World War 1 buddies visited for 10 minutes at a special Veterans Day reunion for "Captain Harry and his boys" yesterday. The 83 -year -old Truman is still affectionately called "Captain Harry" by the men who served under him in World War 1. "He's a marvelous man," said Jack O. Sullivan, as he left the Trumans' big white frame house on Delaware Street.

"There's a bond of friendship between Captain Harry and his men that goes beyond words." The men, accompanied by their wives, presented Mrs. Truman with' yellow chrysanthemums when she greeted them at the front porch. The county, in its capital projects program for the next six years, has earmarked for acquisition of land for both an auditorium and a performing arts theater and for building an auditorium with a permanent seating capacity of 4,500 that can be doubled by temporary seats. The performing arts theater would be built during a later phase of the county's capital program. The winning design places the theater near the Chenango River and the auditorium near the eastern, State Street, end of the site, which runs from the west side of State Street west to the river along the (Continued on Page 3 A) Stamp Out Dirty Birds Georgetown, Guyana km Millie, Guyana's bilingual swearing macaw at Expo 67, became a center of controversy yesterday between the Roman Catholic Church in Guyana and the Ministry of Communications.

The-Catholic Standard, official organ of the Catholic community in Guyana, objected to the government putting a portrait of "Cussin' on a new issue of Christmas stamps. An editorial under the headline "Blasphemy At the GPO" (General Post Office) says that while Guyana cannot be deemed a Christian country it is a religious country, one in which Christmas, has great significance to Christians and non-Christians. "Millie," the editorial contended, "has nothing whatever to do with Christmas. Her sole claim to fame or infamy has been the allegation that she displayed an astonishing talent for cursing bilingually at Expo 67. To commemorate Christmas with Millie is the ultimate blasphemy." Communications Minister Eugene Correia said he did not "go along with this Puritanical attitude.

I am interested in publicizing Guyana as best we can and Millie has a definite role in this." ON THE AIR WINR RADIO 68 2:05 Monitor visits Boston's Brattle Book Store, the oldest book shop in the United States. 6:30 Meet the Press with Lt. Gen. James M. Gavin.

9:05 The Man Who Our Next President NBC News special. WINR TV 40 2 AFL Football Double-Header: Buffalo Bills at New York Jets; 4:40 Miami at San Diego (color) 7:30 Wonderful World of Color, "Polly anna," Third and final part starring Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Richard Egan and Karl Maiden (color) 8:30 The Mothers-in-Law, "I Thought He'd Never Leave," Eve Arden, Kaye Ballard, Larry Storch (color) 9 Bonanza, "The Sure Thing," Lome Greene, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, David Canary (color) 10 The High Chaparral, "A Hanging Offense" Leif Erickson, Cameron -Mitchell, Mark Slade (color) 11:30 The Sunday Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson and guest Tommy Leonctti, Lois Maxwell, Fred Smott; Monti Rock, 3d, and Paul Anderson (color) Late News Four persons were injured, one, believed seriously, in a car accident after 1 o'clock this morning in Airport Road, about 1 mile north of Choconut Center Fire Station. They were taken to Wil-s Memorial Hospital in Johnson City. Sheriff's deputies said two men and two women were involved. State Police were investigating accident.

Hut Sin? lu'cps Her Cool Sunday Press Index Girl, 7, Gets Fired-Up Over Frying an Egg Amusements 16-17 Bishop Sheen 7 Books in Review 14 Bridge Crossword 10 Deaths 7 Dr. Molner 10 Editorial Pages 8-9 A Financial Pages 4-5 Home Building 14 Inquiring Photographer 16 A Jumble 10 Pet Doctor 10 Records 10 Servicemen 18 Society 2-5 Sports 1-6 Stamps 10 Television 12-13 Weather Map .2 Women's Features 6-16 Gallatin, Barbara Douglas, 7, kept cool yesterday after her clothing caught fire while she was alone at her home here. With her pajamas ablaze, she started running a tub of water, called the fire department and then jumped in the filled tub to douse the blaze. "She's the bravest girl I've seen," said Captain O. Z.

Taylor of the Gallatin Fire Department, who answered the little girl's desperate alarm. Taylor said the girl's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Douglas, were visiting relatives nearby, leaving Barbara in the house alone. "She said she was trying to fry an egg when the grease caught fire," Taylor said.

The flames spread to her pajama sleeve. By the time firemen arrived, he said, there was no fire. The girl was rushed in critical condition in a police patrol car to Sumner Memorial Hospital here, and transferred to Mid-state Baptist Hospital in Nashville. Taylor said she suffered apparent third-degree burns over most of her body from the waist up. mum Associated Ptm wirephoto.

PRISONER PARLEY Tom Hayden, right, American antiwar campaigner, speaks at ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where Viet Cong "symbolically" turned over three captured U. S. sergeants. Left to right: Sgt. Daniel Pitzer, Sgt.

James Jackson, and Viet Cong Representative Nguyen Van Hieu. Third American, Sgt. Edward R. Johnson, was said to be too ill to appear..