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JOURNAL Tuesday, Jan. 5, 1965 News Views from around the world Cold Welcomed in Flood Areas SAN FRANCISCO (P) Cold weather that has descended on northern blessing, although it isn't up after the Christmas victims. Despite continuing rain and snow in the flood-stricken area, new floods are not expected. Flood forecaster Ivan Anderson of Eureka says residents can thank the cold weather. "As long as the cold air conditions continue, we're all right," Anderson said Monday.

He is assigned by the Weather Bureau to watch the water levels of the Eel, Mad, Redwood, Klamath and Smith rivers. "At the present time we're not expecting any new danger," Anderson said. "Only an unforeseen recurrence of warm rain, hour after hour after hour, would trigger new floods in the area." The Christmas week floods that did an estimated $500 million worth of damage in northern California alone, were largely blamed on warm rains that melted mountain snow packs into already swollen rivers. Anderson said, "Most areas are now under a half inch of daily rain." This is routine for the season and contrasts with December, said, when one location on thee Eel River had 29 inches of rain in five days. Anderson said that the snow blanket, which totals four to five feet i in the coastal range, will hold rain like a sponge.

Face Trial BERKELEY, Calif. (P) The first groups of protesting University of California studentstemporarily placated in their controversy over student political freedom trial today on charges stemming from a sit-in staged to gain more oncampus freedom. Campus leaders said Monday they were "cautiously optimistic" about settlement of the battle which has spanned four restless months, resulted in arrests of 784 demonstrators and now is highlighted by the naming of a new chancellor for the Berkeley campus. Most of those arrested Dec. 3 in a Free Speech Movement sit-in at Sproul Hall were due in Berkeley Municipal Court today to enter pleas on charges of resisting arrest, refusing to disperse and disturbing the peace.

Of those charged, 590 were Berkeley campus students, 50 teaching assistants and 130 nonstudents. The remaining were juveniles, not charged as adults. The court was to process the defendants in groups of 50. It is expected to take two or three days for the pleas to be entered. Ford's Plan WASHINGTON (-Rep.

Gerald R. Ford of Michigan hung an "under new management" sign up on the White House Republican leadership today and said the emphasis now is on initiative, not reaction. Ford said in an interview he wants the minority party to press its own solutions to national problems. This is the of alternatives" long advocated by the group of younger Republicans who pushed Ford to the leadership in two steps the chairmanship of the Republican Conference two years ago and the top minority post Monday. "We're going to do some housekeeping first," Ford said.

"We've got some good people working for us and well paid. We should be getting more benefit from them. "Then, we hope to move forward by better use of task forces and by stimulating minority members of committees." Reject Proposal WASHINGTON (AP). The Soviet Union's proposal that a 14-nation conference be held on Laos was dismissed Monday by State Department press officer Robert J. McCloskey as not likely to contribute to peace or security.

Besides, McCloskey said, the United States does not believe the conference would halt what he called North Viet Nam's interference in Laos. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko suggested the conference in a letter to the North Viet Nam government Dec. 30 and made public Monday by Tass, the Soviet news agency. The Ithaca Journal Ithaca Published Journal-News daily except Sunday 123-125 by State Ithaca, N.Y.; second-class postage paid at Ithaca.

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Rockefeller to Propose Statewide Sales Tax California is proving to be a making the task of cleaning week floods any easier for Record Toll CHICAGO (AP) The nation's traffic deaths during the Christmas and New Year weekends totaled 1,052, including a record toll last weekend. The 474 fatalities during the New Year weekend compared to the previous high of 375 for a similar holiday in 1959-60 topped the record of three 409 set in a four-day weekend in 1955-56. There were 578 persons killed in traffic accidents during the three-day Christmas period, the second-largest total for that type of holiday. Arrested Again In NEW YORK (AP) Jack Roland (Murph the Surf, Murphy, 27, one of three men accused of stealing the Star of India' Sapphire and other jewels worth $410,000 from the Museum of Natural History last October, and into more trouble Monday. walked out of a our courtroomPolice arrested Murphy on charges of participating in a $250 armed robbery and assault at the Algonquin Hotel last July 10.

His two companions, Allen Dale Kuhn, 26, and Rogert Frederick Clark, 29, also were seized but later released after questioning. Murphy and Kuhn have been free in $50,000 bail each in the museum case. Clark, the alleged lookout, has out in bail of lookout, has been out on bail of $45,500. The gems in the museum burglary have not been recovered. Push Probe WATERTOWN, N.Y.

(AP) The element of illegal traffic in narcotics has been injected into the investigation of the New Year's Eve slaying of a Sacketts Harbor man, his wife and his brother. The three, all with police records, were Peter Egan, 28, his wife, Barbara, 24, and the brother, Gerald, 19. They were found shot to death at a rest area off Route 81, about two miles north of here. A State Police official said Monday night that the investigation into the gangland-style slayings was "starting to develop on the possible implications" that narcotics traffic in connection with syndicated crime was involved. Lt.

Supervisor Henry Resling of the State Bureau of Criminal Investigation would not elaborate, however, the possible links do between narcotics traffic and the slayings. He did say that numerous trips by the trio to the Buffalo area were among factors under investigation. Each of the Egans was shot twice in the back of the head. The brothers were found inside Gerald's station wagon. Mrs.

Egan was sprawled beside the vehicle. Works for Bank LONDON (AP) Prince William, ninth in line of succession to the British throne, has gone to work for a bank. The 23-year-old prince began Monday as a trainee. The bank didn't say how much it is paying him. Resigns Post WASHINGTON (AP) Paul B.

Fay a friend of the late President John F. Kennedy since they were both PT-boat commanders in World War II, has resigned as undersecretary of the Navy. The announcement by the service Monday confirmed a long standing rumor. The Navy said Fay intends to return to the construction firm in San Francisco owned by his family. Singer Missing NEW YORK (AP) Singer Billy Eckstine failed to show up Monday night for two performances at the Royal Box supper club in the Hotel Americana for the start of a engagement.

Milton Deutch, the singer's manager, said Eckstine had not been seen by associates since 6 p.m. Sunday when he finished a rehearsal. Deutch went to a police station to file a missing-person report, but no report was filed. Eckstine's wife, the former Carolle Drake, said her husband is a teetotaler. "I'm on pins and needles.

Billy has never done anything like this before," she said. A U.S. PILOT and his photo-navigator check map as engine Vigilante heavy reconnaissance jet aboard the in the South China Sea. They are preparing for a countryside. U.S.

Keeps Communist In Laos, Viet Nam By JOHN T. WHEELER ABOARD USS RANGER (AP) A startled woman caught in a backyard bath looked up as the sleek Navy jet swept low over the Laotian countryside, photographing Communist installations along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The photograph and tens of State Democrats Seek Compromise Leader By ROBERT T. GRAY ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-Democrats struggled today to compromise a bitter leadership squabble and spare themselves the embarassment of failure to organize the Senate when the Legislature convenes Wednesday.

Party leaders looked to a Senate caucus tonight to produce a majority leader who could step in Wednesday and bring order out of the indecision of the past few weeks. As it is, the Democrats, taking control of the Legislature for the first time in 30 years, will have to rely largely on Republicans to help them launch their new regime. Leadership fights have prevented the Democrats from filling the hundreds of legislative jobs open to them. Holdover Republican appointees will be at their desks Wednesday to assist the Democrats until the new majority members name their own aides. Gov.

Rockefeller's seventh annual message Wednesday will mark the formal opening of the 188th legislative session. He will address a joint meeting of the Senate and Assembly in the Assembly chamber. The Senate has been the scene of the major Democratic dispute. Sen. Julian B.

Erway of Albany was named majority leader by a vote of Democratic senators who will serve in the new Legislature. But oppostion to him, on the ground he was too conservative, sprang up immediately among New York City liberals. Erway lost substantial support when he became the target of charges that, among other things, he had opposed civil rights legislation. The ment, Sen. Seymour Thaler of leader of the anti Erway moveQueens, contended last night that the Albany senator could not achieve election Wednesday.

At the peak of his strength, Erway had 29 of the 33 Democratic votes. He will need 30 votes to achieve election as majority leader if all 58 senators are present Wednesday. The specific vote will be on the election of a Senate president pro tem, in which all senators participate. The winner automatically becomes majority lader. Erway, who has the backing of Democratic State Chairman William H.

McKeon and several other party leaders, has stood fast, maintaining the original vote was binding. A new vote is expected at tonight's caucus, however. In the Assembly, Stanley Steingut of Brooklyn was designated as speaker at a Democratic meeting. His formal election Wednesday appeared cer- tain, although there has been continuing opposition to him from some Democrats. Steingut will need a majority of 76 votes to achieve election.

Democrats will control the Senate, 33-25, and the Assembly, 88-62. Steingut, who had little public comment following his designation as speaker, made public Monday a broad legislative program. Among other points, he proposed to increase state aid to education beyond the $97 million boost advocated by Republican Gov. Rockefeller. Steingut recommended that the present figure of $500 a pupil, on which state aid is based, be increased to the actual average, expenditure, which is $666.

Rockefeller recommended a boost to $600. Poet Eliot Dead at 76 By COLIN FROST LONDON (AP) Private funeral services are planned for T. S. Eliot, one of the 20th century's greatest poets. Eliot, 76, a native of the United States and a British subject since 1927, died at his home in London Monday night.

The cause of death was not announced. A voice of the "Lost Generation" between the world wars, Eliot revolutionized poetry and also was a noted critic and successful playwright. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948. The same year he was awarded the Order of Merit, one of Britain's highest honors. Last year he received the U.S.

Medal of Freedom, highest civil honor the president can bestow. Eliot's best-known poem was "The Waste Land," published in 1922. Other major poems included "'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1917), "The Hollow Men" (1925), "Ash Wednesday" (1930) and "The Cocktail Party," in 1950. "The Waste Land" depicted an age of uncertainty, despair, squalor and decay through which a wanderer struggled i in the hope of finding an abiding faith but met only disillusionment.

Eliot later was converted to Anglo-Catholicism and came to believe there was a way out of the waste land. In "Murder in the Cathedral" and "The Cocktail Party" he developed the thesis that Western man must choose between a pagan society and a way of life guided by Christian principles. World's largest lake is the Caspian Sea. ITHACA COLLEGE Drama and Speech Dept. presents Peter Ustinov's THACA Political Satire COLLEGE ROMANOFF and JULIET THEATRE ITHACA COLLEGE THEATRE JANUARY 13-16 at 8:15 P.M.

Phone AR 3-9306 All Seats $1.25 -Associated Press Wirephoto they stand beside their twinattack carrier USS Ranger mission over the Laotian Under Study Bases thousands of others taken by Navy reconnaissance jets in Laos and Communist-controlled portions of South Viet Nam are part of a massive intelligence program that could be a prelude to expanding the Vietnamese war. If such expansion Communist supply bases and comes, key routes in Laos are likely to be the first targets for aerial bombardment. A major source of information in the joint Navy-Air. Force program is the RA5C heavy reconnaissance jet. A detachment of the Sanford, squadron operates an intensive flying schedule from the attack carrier Ranger in the South China Sea off Viet Nam.

The Vigilantes' photo gear is capable of detailed snooping from just above the tree tops to above 40,000 feet. Cmdr. Paul F. Werner, 40, skipper of the special reconnaissance detachment, and his crews are accompanied by jetfighter escorts when they fly over the remote mountains and jungle, some of the most rugged country in Southeast Asia. The twin Vigilantes, capable of twice the speed of sound, cross the coast over South Viet Nam, turn into Laos through the Laotian panhandle Viet between Nam, then Thailand head and north South northwest to their target areas.

"For us it's a strange side of the war," Werner said. "So far none of us have been shot at, but we may look up tomorrow and see the MIGs coming in on us. "It's hard to believe there is a war on the Plaine des Jarres, or in Viet Nam for that matter. The Plaine and the countryside in Laos and Viet Nam look so peaceful from the air." Since the, loss of several U.S. aircraft in the Plaine des Jarres region, the reconnaissance jets fly above the effective range of ground fire from small weapons.

Gerhard Mercator, Flemish geographer, first applied the term "atlas" to a collection of maps. ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) Gov. Rockefeller has decided, at least tentatively, to propose a statewide retail sales tax of 4 or 5 per cent, highly placed sources reported today. Depending upon how much of the revenue would be left to local governments, some of whom already impose such a levy, the tax could yield more than $500 million to help balance his new budget.

The mechanics have not been worked out, but it is assumed that sales taxes now imposed by local governments would be dropped automatically or that, at any rate, the system would not impose the full state tax on top of the local taxes. Any proposal the Republican governor might make would be subject to approval of the Legislature, now under Democratic control for the first time. Democratic leaders have taken no position on the question. If they come out strongly against the idea in the next weeks, the sources said, Rockefeller might try another approach. The governor has acknowledged that he has been considering a sales tax to meet demands for greater state spending, and his office maintains publicly that no final decision has been made.

Sources close to the governor report, however, that Rockefeller has concluded there is no acceptable alternative to a sales tax to raise the large chunk of new revenue he needs. In late fall, fiscal aides in the administration said Rockefeller faced a $400-million gap between potential revenues and minimum spending levels in his new budget. Since then, he has proposed major increases in state aid for public schools and in per capita aid and other forms of spending. As a result, the gap is said now to approach $600 million, and the budget is expected to exceed $3.2 billion. An administration official, who asked not to be identified by name, said the governor obviously would not recommend such spending increases without having a "broad base" tax in mind.

The only other available big revenue-producer is the state income tax, which now yields about $1.3 billion a year. To extract $500 million from this tax, Rockefeller would have to recommend a 40 per cent increase--and he regards this as politically impossible. other alternative would be to prepare a "package" of various tax increases -such as a cigarette-tax boost, higher Daily Orange Founder Dies BUFFALO (AP) Irving R. Templeton, attorney, former journalist and founder of the student newspaper, the Daily Orange, in his undergraduate days at Syracuse University, died Monday in Buffalo General Hospital. He was 83.

Templeton, a native of Buffalo, suffered a stroke shortly before Christmas, was hospitalized and then released to spend the holidays at his home. He returned to the hospital last week after a relapse. Templeton, a 1904 graduate of Syracuse, founded the Daily Orange in his senior year, was the newspaper's first editor and aided in establishing the Orange Publishing Co. which published it. "ONE OF THE BEST' -Life Magazine Why did Emily call Charlie the most immoral man she'd ever met METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER presents MARTIN RANSOHOFFS PRODUCTION GARNER ANDREWS DOUGLAS THE AMERICANIZATION OF EmIL STARTS WEDNESDAY FIRST RUN IN ITHACA TIP FROM -ITHACA in the the McCALL'S MAGAZINE: sink dishes and Ends Tonight: "The Disorderly Orderly" GO SEE levies on motor vehicle registrations and perhaps a small increase in the income tax.

But this would not produce new revenue in a massive sum. Therefore, the said, Rockefeller decided sources, recommend a statewide sales tax of at least 4 per cent and possibly 5 per cent. The exact figure has not been decided. The tax would apply to all retail sales, except food and drugs and probably clothing. Rockefeller's fiscal experts have estimated that a 4 per cent levy would produce close to $1 billion and a 5 per cent tax would produce more than $1.2 billion.

The state would not keep all of the money, however, because New York City and five Upstate counties now levy sales taxes. The state could not expect to take away this revenue, which is expected to total about $565 million this year, from them. dad LAST TIMES TONIGHT "GODZILLA VS. THING" AND MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES" STARTING TOMORROW AT 7:00 AND 9:00 P.M. MOTHER GOOSE WAS NEVER LIKE THIS! A Beachcomber and a frustrated French Schoolmarm marooned on a Pacific Island! CAry Leslie GRANT CATON For Reasons too Funny to explain the Name of the Picture "FATHER GOOSe" Co-Starring TrevOR HOWarD Screenplay by PETER STONE and FRANK TARLOFF Based on a story by S.

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