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March 1882 Vol. 84, No. 271 LOCK HAVEN, MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1966 12 Pages Ten Cents 78-Hour Viet Ceasefire Starts Thursday Noon Allies Join U.S.; Reds to Be Still 4 Days SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) The commander of U.S forces in Viet Nam, Gen. Wi liam C. Westmoreland, toda ordered all American troops cease firing for 78 hours star ing at noon Thursday in observ ance of the Vietnamese luna New Year holiday, Tet.

Westmoreland's order secom ed the decision of the Sout Vietnamese government to ha fighting during the national ce ebration. Similar instructions went to South Korean, Austra lian and New Zealand troop fighting alongside the Vietnam ese and Americans. The truce more than double the 30-hour cease-fire observe by Allied forces during th Christmas holiday. But it fal 18 hours short of the Tet true proclaimed by the Viet Cong They have promised not to a tack from 11 p.m. Wednesday 11 p.m.

Sunday, a total of four days. Westmoreland ordered cease-fire from noon Thursda to 6 p.m. Sunday. It was as sumed the Allies agreed on di ferent hours to avoid giving th impression they were simpl reacting to the Communist pro posal. Westmoreland's order said "All U.S.

forces in the republi will not fire at or on the enem except in self defense." There was no sign in the Sa gon sector of any letup i fighting before the holiday, a though elsewhere in the countr military activities continued a a slow pace. In a lightning stroke, a Vie "Cong company attacked a gov ernment infantry and armo school at Thu Due 10 miles north of Saigon at 1 a.m. Whil one part of the guerrilla fore fired two mortar shells as a version, another hit part of th compound with automatic weap ons. The guerrillas pierced th barbed wire of the officers' can didate school and raked the bil lets, killing five wives and thre children of Vietnamese office candidates in their beds. other children were wounded.

Twenty-six civilians were killed and four were woundec when a busload of civilians- hit a Viet Cong mine on the roac from Moc Hoa to Cai Lay, nea Kien Tuong, 35 miles south oi the capital. Northwest of Saigon, a Vie Cong attack on a U.S. troop con voy backfired. Supported planes roaring in over the tree tops, the Americans turned the bitter fight 20 miles northwes of Saigon into a drubbing for the guerrillas. When the fighting quieted down after hours, a U.S spokesman reported 10 Vie Cong bodies counted and many more possible Communist deat against very light American casualties.

Five guerrillas were captured, including one who was taken with a flying tackle by Sgt. Dwight 0. Baldwin oi Oakland, Calif. For the first time, the U.S, Air Force's eight-engine B52s from Guam joined the Vietnamese army in an operation, unloading their 500- and bombs on a central coastal area 10 miles northwest of Quang Ngai City. Vietnamese officials estimated that two to three Communist regiments were in the area 330 miles northeast of Saigon.

Elsewhere U.S. Air Force and Navy jets strafed and bombed Viet Cong camps close to Saigon. Korean marines wound up their longest operation of the war, called Jefferson. In 16 days of scouring some of the toughest terrain in the country, they opened up main Highway No. 1 from Tuy Hoa south to the beaches of Phu Yen Province.

The Koreans and Vietnamese government units reported killing 391 Viet Cong and capturing 14. The U.S. Air Force lost a B57 bomber on a night mission, but the two crewmen bailed out into the South China Sea and were picked up by helicopters. The See VIET (Continued on Page 4) GOP 'Sfafe of Union' Tonight WASHINGTON (AP) Congress gets another "State of the Union" message tonight this time from the Republicans. Senate GOP Leader Everett M.

Dirksen and House GOP Leader Gerald R. Ford will deliver their party's answer to President Johnson's message of last week. Radio and television networks will carry the taped Dirksen-Ford reply which has British May Get Bid to Market French Demand Meets Opposition LUXEMBOURG (AP) Foreign ministers of the Common Market nations prepared to meet today amid expectation that France would offer to admit Britain to the European Economic Community in exchange for retention of the requirement that all major decisions by the group be unanimous. France is ending a six-month boycott of Common Market negotiations with the other members West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The French proposal was likely to meet stiff opposition.

The other five countries say they are determined not to modify the Rome Treaty, the Common Market's constitution, for a vague French promise to admit Britain. The five believe that France, which blackballed Britain three years ago, will press hard to keep its veto before turning the vague promise into a concrete invitation for Britain to join. Under the eightyear-old Rome Treaty, the unanimity rule was to give way to a quail "ied majority vote starting last Jan. 1. France was expected to ask for at least a postponement of the shift until the veto question is decided.

Observers say that Britain shares France's fear that the oss of each nation's veto could permit the Common Market to expand into a superstate with lower to interfere with a na- ion's sovereignty. French Foreign Minister 3ouve de Murville was expected argue that no member nation could do without a veto over uture decisions on commercial policy toward non-members, as well as in such fields as transport and tariffs. He was also expected to put orward President Charles de aulle's claim that the Common Market's nine-man Executive Commission has abused its ights by proposing greater power for itself. At France's request, the Ex- icutive Commission was barred rom the session and the meet- ng is being held here instead of Brussels, headquarters of the been billed as "a high-level realistic look at the state of the union." The two leaders are to call for close scrutiny, and perhaps cutbacks, in domestic spending. A tip-off to the Republican position was given by Ford in the curren issue of the Republican congres sional committee's weekl; newsletter.

"If we are going to halt infla tion and prevent tax increases and give our men in Viet Nam what they need to win, and sti3 meet even legitimate domesti needs," Ford said, "Congress i going to have to cut deeply the administration's Great Society budget." Here's the outlook for tto week on Capitol Hill: The Senate and House wil mark time as far as major flooi action is concerned. But com mittees may take up some con troversial measures. The Senate's legislative dock et includes consideration today of a bill to preserve the natu ral beauty of five Western riv ers, followed by a bill to author ize a inter-American cultural and trade center (In erama) in Miami. The river biJ has not passed the House. The cultural center measure clear ed the House last year but ran into Senate opposition.

There is no business for thi House floor this week. No timetable has been set fo: delivery of a series of presiden tial messages spelling-out-details of proposed legislation out lined in the State of the Union message. Some messages maj be sent to Congress this week One of the first messages i expected to request an estimat ed $12 billion or more for emer gency financing of the Vietnam ese conflict. Mrs. Gandhi Fights fo Be Indian PM; Nanda Backs out NEW DELHI (AP) India'i political big guns came to hear today on the only candidate standing in the way of Mrs Indira Gandhi's campaign to jecome the nation's next prime minister.

Mrs. Gandhi, 48, daughter of the late Prime Minister Nehru already has piced up formida- suport that made two lead ing contenders decide to drop out of the race. But Morarji Desai, a right- wing leader in the governing ongress party, stuck it oul and said he would fight Mrs Gandhi until the final decision is made Wednesday. On that day the Congress party's members in Parliament will elect a new majority leader. Acting Prime Minister G.

L. Nanda, sworn in after Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri died last Tuesday, backed out of the race. So did Defense Minis- Y. B. Chavan.

Both prom- Common Market. ised Mrs. Gandhi their support. 5 Fliers Survive Blast over Spain ALMERIA, Spain (AP) Two J.S. Air Force jet planes with a otal of 11 crewmen aboard rashed along the Mediterrane- coast today after a collision i the air while refueling.

U.S. Air Force officials said ve men had been rescued. The headquarters of the 16th J.S. Air Force near Madrid aid the planes were a B52 jomber from a base in the Unit- States and a KC135 jet tank- based at Moron Airport, near evilla, Spain. One of the two plnaes crashed land, the other into the Med- erranean.

Children on their way to chool near Almria said they eard a loud explosion in the ky high overhead, then saw smoke clouds above them. Later four parachutes were seen descending off the coast. U.S. Air Force sources said the B52 carried seven men and the big tanker a crew of four. Rescue planes reported they spotted a big dye marker about a third of a mile off the coast.

Pilots said it appeared too large to have come from one man's survival pack. The 16th Air Force headquarters would not say whether the B52 was carrying nuclear bombs on the flight. Squadrons of B52s fly into the Spanish area almost daily from the United States, refuel at high altitude from jet tankers, and return to their home bases without landing in Europe. CONSTRUCTION STARTS ON BELLEFONTE INTERCHANGE OF KEYSTONE SHORTWAY The Bellefonte interchange of the Keystone Shortway will be where the Shortway crosses the Jacksonville road a short distance east of Bellefonte. Construction has already started on bridge piers and approaches at the point where the Shortway will cross the road a short distance south of Curtin Gap.

The road will then go east through the valley before turning south again near Lamar. The first Clinton County segment of the Shortway will be placed under contract beiore the year is over. (Express Photo) Nigerian Army Chief Holds Power; 2 Ministers Kidnaped LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) Nigeria's Army commander emerged as the dominant figure in Africa's most populous nation today following an unsuccessful coup attempt by mutinous elements in the armed forces. Maj. Gen.

Aguiyi Irons! declared himself temporary head of the federal government and chief of all armed forces mday night ancTsuspended key provisions of the Nigerian constitution. He also suspended the nation's top civilian officials, including Prime Minister Sir Abubaker Tafawa Balewa, President Azikwe Nnamdi, the heads of Nigeria's four regions and the federal and regional parliaments. Balewa was kidnaped during the coup attempt with his finance minister, Chief Festus Okotie Ebon. The rebels are believed holding them hostage. Ironsi's troops were reported searching for them.

Troops loyal to Irons! guarded government buildings and other key points in Lagos and manned five roadblocks between the airport and the capital. Remnants of the rebel force appeared to be on the run. One report said Kaduna, the chief northern city, was the only main center in rebel hands. Ironsi said military governors would take over in the four regions and would be responsible to his military regime for keeping order. The federation of Nigeria fs composed of the four regions plus the federal territory of Lagos.

The federal government handles such matters as foreign affairs, trade, communications railways and defense. He announced he was forming an interim government after conferring with other chiefs ol the armed forces, police and members of Parliament. Nigeria is the fifth African nation to come under military rule in the past two months. Civilian government has been suspended in the Congo, Dahomey, the Central African Republic and Upper Volta. The revolt began Saturday with an Iffinouiiceiaent by the SIR ABUBAKAR Tafewa Balewa, right, Nigerian prime minister, was reported under house arrest in Lagos following a swift Army coup that overthrew his government.

He is shown here with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson hi Lagos a few days earlier during the British Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference at which the Nigerian leader presided. (AP Wirephoto via cable from London) Altoona Student Dies Penn State Class UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. AP)-Philip J. Kaiser of Al- oona, 25-year-old graduate stu- ent in meteorology at Pennsyl- ania State University, col- apsed of a heart ailment in lass today and died a few min- tes later. Kaiser, a graduate of Millers- ille State College in 1962, en- oiled at Penn State last Sep- ember after service in the 1 Inside Today's Express Comics 9 Junior Editor 5 It Seems Like Yesterday 5 Star Gazsr 3 Classified 8 Sports 10 Editorial 6 Crossword 9 Family Lawyer 14 Television 9 Younger Set 7 How's Your IQ? 6 rebels over Lagos radio that the military had seized power "to bring an end to gangsterism and disorder, corruption and despotism.

Several hours later, Lagos radio came back on the air with an announcement that an unnamed general had seized the nation briefly. A woman announcer came on every 10 minutes and Repeated: "The army, faithful to the government, has the situation well in hand." Cong Nab U.S. Civilian Stopped on Road, Marched into Woods SAIGON, Viet Nam (AP) The Viet Cong kidnaped an American civilian official today outside the village of Trung Lap, about 25 miles north of Saigon, and marched him into the jungle, his hands in the air. The missing man is Douglas Ramsey, 28, Boulder City, Nev. He is the assistant province representative of the U.S.

mission for the area. His driver, a South Vietnamese, came back and told Amer- cari authorities they were traveling northeast from Cu Chi when they came under Viet Cong gunfire. The driver said he stopped. He added that Ramsey got out and raised his hands in a surrender gesture. Several Viet Hong guerrillas marched him away.

The driver was wounded slightly in the first ambush fire was able to navigate on foot. Trung Lap is in the middle of the sector where U.S. forces conducted their biggest search and destroy operation of the Viet namese Crimp has just been terminated. Prisoners of Cong Can Receive Packages NEW YORK (AP) families of Viet Cong prisoners may get mail and packages to them through a postal address in Algeria, says an of- 'icial of the National Committee or a Sane Nuclear Policy Sanford Gottlieb, SANE's po- itical action director who ar- Sunday from Paris, said he held a week of talks there with Hanoi representatives. Earlier, Gottlieb said, he met Algiers with representatives of the National Liberation Front Viet Cong), which he said au- Jiorized SANE to disclose the 'new channel of communica- between American prisoners and their folks at home.

SHORTWAY ROUTE THROUGH EASTERN CENTRE COUNTY The Keystone Shortway, after crossing Curtin Gap, will intersect the Bellefonte-Jacksonville road a short distance east of Bellefonte. An interchange to serve the Centre County seat is under construction there. The map shows the route of the Shortway east past Jacksonville before it turns south again near Lamar. Shortway Work Begins Here Soon OLEARFIELD The first Clinton County segment of the Keystone Shortway to be placed under contract probably will be Section 47, from Mackeyville to Long Run, a distance of 4.5 miles, the Clearfield district of the State Department of Highways said today. All Clinton County Shortway segments will be under contract before this year is over, office said.

The order of the contracts: 47, mentioned above, probably this spring. 48, east from ong Run to the Loganton interchange at Rosecrans, 4.25 miles, shortly thereafter. 45 (with which Section- 46 has been combined), rom a mile west of the Centre- Clinton County line through the iamar interchange to Mackeyville, 7.75 miles, by late summer. 72, from the interchange east over Carroll Mountain to the Union County line, 8.7 miles, this fall. The department announced Saturday that on Jan.

7 a con- ract had been awarded for the Centre County Sections 40 and 42 in coimibination. (There is no Section 41.) The successful bid was $12,270,273 for the construc- of 6.11 miles from Yarnell jhrough Holt's Hollow and across Bald Eagle Valley. The contract went to the Greene Construction Des Woines, Iowa, and Winston Brothers, Minneapolis, who bid as one firm. They ointly have just finished their job in Curwensville have completed nearly a third of Section 24 of the Shortway, a 5-mile segment in Clearfield County. Their newest contract is the largest highway construction contract in the history of Pennsylvania.

They have 420 working days for Sections 40 and 42 After the Shortway crosses the present highway near Yarnell, it will go through a deep cut through a mountain top to enter Holt's Hollow. A huge system of benches will be constructed to prevent landslides Beyond the cut the east anc west lanes will fan out on opposite sides of the valley. Near Milesburg the lanes will come closer together. The Milesburg interchange will be constructed with two traffic quadrants on the north side of relocated Route 220 so that no interchange lanes will cross a grade level or on expensive structures over the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks. The Shorbway itself will pass over the railroad, the new anc the old Route 220 and Bald Eagle Creek on a very large structure to the south side oJ the valley where it will meet the section presently being bull by H.

R. Imlbt of State College, in Curtin Gap. Gives Blood for Viet SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. (AP)A student "bleed-in" has been scheduled Friday at Shippensburg State College to help th Red Cross Blood Bank for troop in Viet Nam. 'orf Allegany Struck by Auto in City $1,750 Damage in Four Accidents Here on Weekend One person was injured in me of four accidents which occurred over 'the weekend.

Damage totaled $1,750. A pedestrian was injured Saturday at 6:25 p.m. on W. Water about 100 feet west of W. Main St.

Police said Bert r. Lynch, 18, of Mill Port Allegany, stepped in front of a driven by Mrs. Shirley A. 'homas, Sunset Pines. Lynch was treated for mul- iple bruises of the arms and egs, underwent X-ray tests, and was discharged at Lock laven Hospital.

A chain-type collision involv- ng three cars resulted in $850 damage at 7:05 last night on Beliefonte just west of Third Ave. Police said that the driver of one of the cars, David Russell Bump, 18, of 715 W. Third stated that he was travel- ng east on Bellefonte that he looked away from the road for a moment and that when he looked back, two cars ahead of him were stopped. The rear of a vehicle driven yy Betty Grenoble of Howard El.D. 2 was struck and her car, in turn, was forced ahead, striking a car driven by Melvin Fiedler, 48, of Mill Hall R.D.

1. An accident at W. Main and N. Third St. Saturday at 5:05 p.m.

involved cars driven by Thomas Gregory Andrus, 17, of 416 W. Water and Wayne A. Lonkosky, 39, of 208 Church St. Damage was $350. The 200 block of High St.

in was the scene of an accident at 8:50 Saturday night in which a car driven by Dale W. Earner, 26, Lamar, struck a car parked along High state police said. Owner of the parked car is E. N. Ferguson, 67, of 222 High St.

Damage was $550. Child of Former Flemington People Killed by Car, Enola Ten-year-old William E. LeFevre, son of former residents of Flemington, was killed Saturday when he was struck by a car near his home ait Enola. He was one of the seven children of Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph P. LeFevre who lived alt the home of the latter's mother, Mrs. Leah McGregor until moving to Enola some years ago. The child, who had been playing at 'the home of a neighbor, was on his way home for supper when he was 'hit alter crossing street near his home. His body was found at a mailbox ait the curb.

The driver of the oaf was Robert E. Shaffer, Dumcannon R.D., 2, age 17, who said the boy suddenly came out of a driveway and he was not able to stop in time to avoid hitting him. The child was dead on arrival by ambulance ait ithe Holy Spirit Hospital, and Dr. Edward A. Haegele, Cumberland County coroner, reported that he probably had been killed instantly.

Funeral services will be held at Enola tomorrow. His mother is the former June McGregor of Flemington, whose father was the late Clarence McGregor. City Water up for Tenth Day For the tenth straight day, the city water storage has gained, the city water bureau said today. There was a gain of 1,000,000 gallons since Friday morning making the total on hand 33,100,000. The average daily consumption for Friday, Saturday and Sunday was 1,150,000 gallons, the bureau said.

That was down somewhat for earlier in the week. However, daily consumption on weekends is usually lower compared with Monday through Friday..