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Riot-Study Commission Says Nation Threatened by Split day Friday night. night High 27. Friday (Details, 43, low By Telephone cloudy and continued to cold partly Fri- Montgomery Of colonisomery: Fair Fair, windy and The Advertiser Direct From Advertiser-Journal Newsroom The Weather NEWS FLASHES Map, Page 2.) Dial 265-8246 141st Year-No. 53 Montgomery, Ala. Friday Morning, March 1, 1968 28 Pages 10c Educator Says Teachers May Strike for Raise tary and secondary schools.

In its first year, he said, 90.5 per cent of the SETF funds went into the Minimum Fund Program for elementary and secondary schools. Nine per cent went institutions of higher learning and .5 per cent to "other educational services," Bettenfield said. But in the 1966-67 school year, expenditures in the MFP were down to 62.4 per cent of the total; 16.8 per cent went to The school boards association also recommended that no propriations be made for capital outlay or private schools. It said it will recommend no changes in the basic principles of the MFP until due consideration is given to the report of a current Education Study Commission. Discussing possible sources of revenue to finance their demands, the educators pointed to ad valorem tax reforms and removal of numerous exemptions to the state sales tax.

Eddins said he could think of no tax source the state does not already have, but he suggested that state will nave to broaden the base for its school taxes or raise the rate of taxation. Bettenfield's group recommended that the legislature consider removing the sales tax exemptions which, it has been estimated, would produce $111 million a year. The group reminded the committee that the sales tax is the principal source of SETF finances and that every exemption to the sales tax over the past several years has reduced the income of the fund while it should have been increasing. Teachers' Actions IS Affect Five States Food, Medical Costs Lead Cost of Living Increase WASHINGTON (AP) Higher food and medical prices led a rise of threetenths of one per cent in living costs last month and sharp wholesale hikes indicated more budget problems are ahead for American consumerice increases are becoming more pervasive throughout the economy," said Arnold Chase, assistant commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. At the same time, some 45 million wage earners lost 60 cents a week in purchasing power because of the higher living costs and shorter working hours and their paychecks were worth no more than a year ago despite higher pay.

The rise in living costs, the fourth straight monthly increase of three-tenths of one per cent, pushed the consumer price index to 118.6 in January. higher education per cent to "other educational services." The number of these services rose from five in 1935- 36 to 69 in the 1966-67 period. This meant it took $11.86 to buy the family goods and services that cost $10 in the 1957-59 base period. The index was 3.4 4 per cent above a year ago, running at the highest annual rate in some 10 years. The wholesale price index rose four -tenths of one per cent in January and preliminary figures indicated another six-tenths rise this month.

Grocery prices, usually stable in January, went up eight tenths of one per cent and rapidly rising fees of doctors and dentists were up seven-tenths of one per cent. Housing costs were up three-tenths of one per cent, transportation seven tenths and recreation four-tenths. Chase said the three-tenths rise in over-all living costs probably understated the case. "If it were not for the rounding of some of the figures, 3 Red Trawlers Destroyed Trying to Land Cong Aid allied naval units battled SAIGON (AP) Fast moving three Communist trawlers that tried to land munitions on South Vietnam's coast under cover of early morning darkness Friday, the U.S. Navy reported.

It said three vessels were destroyed. The Navy called it "the enemy's boldest sea infiltration attempt to date." In other predawn action, the Viet Cong shelled Tan Son Nhut air base on Saigon's northwest outskirts for the seventh time in two weeks. The U.S. Command said 10 or 12 rockets hit the sprawling complex in a short barrage that caused "extremely Governor Gets Liquid Nourishment Gov. Lurleen B.

Wallace had her first nourishment by mouth Thursday since her operation a week ago. The daily at St. Margaret's Hospital, said the governor has taking small amounts of liquid nourishment for the first time since a small malignant tumor was removed from her pelvic wall last Thursday. The bulletin also said the 41- year-old governor had developed a "superficial infection" in a portion of the incision made to remove the tumor and a 10-inch section of intestine. An aide to the governor said the infection is not serious and that Mrs.

Wallace has "no further evidence of serious complications." The report said a tube was also removed the the Governor's stomach which made her rest more comfortably. Story on Page 6 A legislative subcommittee heard a leading state educator predict Thursday that Alaba na teachers may strike unless some way is found to increase their salaries. Bill Eddins of Mountain Brook, who heads the Alabama Association of School Administrators, told a subcommittee of the Legislative Council that Alabama needs "a and positive irogram for preventing avoiding a crisis." He said larger enrollments, Freighter Burns Off Cuba MIAMI, Fla. (AP). All but two crewmen aboard the 328- foot freighter Azar were evacuated to Cuban soil Thursday after the Liberian-registered ship burned one mile off Cuba, the captain of a rescue vessel reported.

Capt. Ole-Chr. Bjornstad of the Norwegian-flag cruise liner Sunward, which entered Cuban territorial waters to help the stricken freighter, said the Azar's captain and his radio operator were the only crewmen still aboard when the Sunward arrived at the burning vessel. The Azar's captain had sent the other members of the crew to the Cuban mainland in a lifeboat, Bjornstad reported to his Miami agent. There was no report immediately of injuries.

The Sunward, seven miles from the Azar when the Liberian ship sent a call for help, obtained authorization to go into the Cuban waters after the U.S. Coast Guard recalled one of its planes, ordering it not to enter Cuba's 12-mile limit. Bjornstad reported the Azar was ablaze when a lifeboat from his own ship approached. our boat there. It looks like The Azar, "was ablaze when it will be a total loss," Sunward's agent in Miami said.

No attempt was made to remove the Azar's crewmen from Cuba, the agent said. "They were on Cuban soil and we left them there," he said. In Miami, a Coast Guard spokesman said the Miami Air Search and Rescue Service dispatched a plane after receiving the distress report from another ship. The plane was sent to the Old Bahama Channel, a sea highway north of Camaguey Province in eastern Cuba. Two Alabama GIs Killed in Vietnam The names of 57 servicemen, including two Alabamians, killed in action in the Vietnam war were recorded Thursday on a Defense Department casualty list.

The Alabamians are Pfc. Thomas L. Senn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D.

Senn of Rt. 1, Lanett; and Cpl. James L. Holland, husband of Mrs. James L.

Holland, of Rt. 1, Both men were members the Marine Corps. The latest deaths raised to 480 the number of Alabama servicemen killed in the Vietnam War. rising costs of living and the need for higher quality educa. tion in Alabama are the cifef reasons the state needs tc increase school financing.

The subcommittee, headed by Rep. Pete Turnham of Lee, 15 charged with studying ways to finance education. The subject was selected by the council as one of its major interests in the next legislative session. Earlier in the day, the subcommittee heard a request from a three-man delegation from the Alabama Association of School Boards. They asked that more of the Special Educational Trust Fund revenues be devoted to the Minimum Fund Program and teacher welfare provisions, with less to "other educational services." 'Bettenfield of the Jefferson County's School Board said that in establishing the Minimum Fund Program the legislature intended to provide primarily for the public elemen- Walkouts Threatened By Unions David F.

Cargo appointed end their strike. The Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, ignored a order and threw up picket to enforce its demand for collective bargaining. The rival Pittsburgh TeachEducation Association did not support the strike. School officials initially announced they would keep all of system's 116 schools open. But Dr.

Sidney P. Marland schools superintendent, soon closed some junior senior high schools because "misbehavior by students property damage by students." Teachers in San Francisco (See TEACHERS, Page 2 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Increasingly vocal teachers' unions waged, settled or threatened strikes in five states Thursday. The militant teacher groups recalling the wave of strikes which swept a score of school systems around the country last fall and kept almost a million pupils at home pushed their disputes in: PITTSBURGH Some 1,000 of the city's 3,000 public schoolteachers walked out Thursday, forcing school authorities TO close some schools because of unruly pupils. Maintenance workers sympathetic with the teachers kept some classroom temperatures at a chilly 50 degrees. SAN FRANCISCO The 500-member Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, summoned its members to decide whether to strike over 90 union demands for improvement in classroom and teaching conditions.

If the teachers approve a strike, it could take effect Friday morning. FLORIDA A third of the state's 60,000 teachers continued their nine-day strike as Repubiican Gov. Claude R. Kirk Jr. said he would allow tax and spending legislation they oppose to become law.

A teachers spokesman said he hoped the strike would end Friday no matter Kirk does. OKLAHOMA The state's 27,000 public schoolteachers scheduled a one-day "professional holiday" for next week to enforce their demands for an improved school program. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The city's 2,900 teachers returned to classrooms after al week-long walkout to more state money for schools. But they threatened to out again if they were unhappy with the program produced by the special task force Republican Gov.

David F. Cargo appointed Advertiser Today Page Amusements 27 Classified Comics .16 Crossword Editorial Markets Obituaries 16,17 Society 9-10 Sports TV Logs .28 Weather Map Education Study Groups Organized Advertiser Photo SEVEN STARS IN CONFERENCE Lt. Gen. Carpenter, Right, and Gen. Taylor Gen.

Taylor Says Historians Must Judge Vietnam Tactics Gen. Maxwell Taylor took noncontroversial subject and kept it within bounds Thursday night with a lecture to the combined college at. Maxwell AFB on the "Post-Vietnam Role of the Military in Foreign Policy." On two occasions the retired four-star general had opportunities to enlighten his audience on Vietnam war tactics, but he relegated the answer to future historians. Taylor, who led combat troops in two wars and later became chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, was opening a lecture series on Asia at Maxwell. Currently a special consultant to President Johnson, he is a former U.S.

ambassador to South Vietnam. Taylor said the outcome of Vietnam "will be affected as much by home attitude as by the conduct. of troops" in the war. He said the military has an important role in "securing the home front" by selling citizens on the necessity of the military role. But he cautioned his military audience to show sincere respect" for civilian leaders.

The voice of the military, he said, will be a strong voice in the "councils of government" after the war. Taylor did not give an opinion on how the war itself is being arun or whether America can eventually win. As to the tactics being used, some of which he admittedlia helped historians will institute, have to pass judgment. "We don't want to destroy North Vietnam," he said and quoted President Johnson on the U.S. goal there: "Independence of Vietnam and freedom of attack." Taylor said that if Hanoi were bombed and Ho Chi Minh killed, it would solve no problems.

There would still be 240,000 of the enemy in South Vietnam to worry about, he said. He appeared to reach a conclusion that Ho Chi Minh is the only member of the "war for liberation" who can be approached and that it is America's advantage to keep him alive for future bargaining. Taylor positive on two points that there should be no bombing pause and that there should have been controls on the press early in the conflict. He defined as 'myths'' reports that the military voice is not being listened to by civilian leaders in their conduct of the war. Taylor was introduced to a filled auditorium at Maxwell by the commander, Lt.

Gen. John W. Carpenter III. er the bank must keep abreast of provements." developments in agriculture. Beard said that when a bank More care must be given to renders a service to agriculture, loans, especially intermediate- "it helps to benefit the economy the term loans for farm im- of the entire community.

Agriculture is basic, and each dollar invested means several more dollars in related agri- and business." of The commissioner estimated and it would take about $1.5 billion in new capital to "put Alabama farming where it should be." Beard said he strongly believes his department must keep pace with the developments of agriculture and growth of the state in general, but that a shortage of funds on the state level is a strong handicap. Beard said the State Department of Agriculture and Industries probably is the "least understood of all state agencies. It also has lagged behind other state agencies in receiving funds. The lack of funds has kept the department from having sufficient personnel to TV render the services it should," RICHARD BEARD he added. Beard Tells State Bankers to Farmers Need Financing Agriculture Commissioner Richard (Dick) Beard told bankers Thursday that Alabama is pushing for a billion-dollar year in agriculture sales but that "adequate financing must be present." Beard said that farmers "will need more and more financing to achieve the changes they need and want on their farms." The commissioner, himself farmer, spoke to officers of First National Bank of Montgomery and correspondent banks.

He said Montgomery could become to the Southern cattle industry what Chicago and Kansas City are to the Midwest. "Additional financing will be needed to further expand our cattle business," he said. Gross farm income for Alabama in 1967 was approximately $738 million. "This is only $262 million from our goal," Beard said. "The agricultural lending is becoming more complicated and complex," he said.

"Someone at it could easily have been four he said. In addition to the jump in grocery prices, farm products climbed eight-tenths one per cent at the wholesale level in January and an even sharper increase of 2 per cent is indicated in February. This could be reflected later in retail food prices. "Food prices are starting to move up and are not exercising restraining influence on the rest of the consumer price index that they did last year," Chase said. The only major category of consumer prices to decline was clothing, down nineof one per cent.

Even this was a smaller decline than usual in January. Wholesale prices went up on a broad range of industrial commodities, including machinery, lumber and wood, some paper and rubber products, and metals. "The strike in the copper industry and the possibility of a steel strike by mid-summer continued to be the dominating influences among metals," the bureau said. A drop of about half an hour in the average work week reduced weekly earnings of workers by 50 cents a week to $103.40 despite a three-cent hike in hourly wages to $2.75 the bureau said. After taxes, the average paycheck of a worker three dependents was $92.11, a 39-cent drop from weekly earnings in December.

Purchasing power in terms of 1957-59 dollars was $77.66, down 60 cents from the weekly average the previous month, and representing "no increase over the year in real purchasing power," Chase said. More than 615,000 workers with labor contracts pegged to the consumer price index, mostly in the trucking and aerospace industries, will get wage hikes of one to four cents an hour because of rising living costs. By DON F. WASSON Advertiser Staff Writer An Educational Study Commission held a closed door meeting Thursday, to organize into "task which will undertake a 14-month study of Alabama's educational problems. After approving the general work schedule set up by the three major task forces, coinmission chairman, Dr.

Harry Philpott asked newsmen to leave the meeting while the group discussed appointments to the three study groups. Some two hours later the meeting was reopened and Philpott gave newsmen the list of task force members. For Task Force concerned with the role and scope of educaion in Alabama, Vernon L. St. John, president of the (See Education, Page 2) Vandals Loot Deserted Homes Here light" casualties and negligible damage.

The Navy said the 100-foot enemy trawlers were detected by coastal surveillance ships at several points off the coast from Chu Lai in the northern part of the country to the Ca Mau Peninsula on the southern tip. "Running dark" and flying no flags, the trawlers began crossing inside the 12-mile coastal limit shortly after midnight and were challenged by allied coastal vessels, Navy spokesmen said. None of the trawlers answered the challenges, the Navy said, but one reversed course and headed for the open sea. Three others chose to make a run for the beach. The account said one of the munitions-laden craft was forced into a cove 10 miles north of Nha Trang on the central coast and was trapped by U.S.

Navy Swift boats and South Vietnamese navy vessels. It opened fire on the patrol boats and, during the duel that followed, suddenly blew up, the Navy said. The second trawler was forced onto a beach 40 miles southeast of Chu Lai on the north-central coast during a running gun battle with U.S. Navy and Coast Guard the Navy report said. Ground troops were flown quickly to the beach and when capture looked imminent, the trawler was destroyed by its own crew.

Navy Swift boats and Coast Guard cutters attacked the third trawler off the Ca Mau Peninsula 155 miles southwest Saigon. Before it could reach the mouth of the Cua So De River, two explosions ripped the vessel apart and it sank, the Navy said. Two U.S. Navy men were reported to have received minor wounds during the action. At least eight other munitions (See VIETNAM, Page 2) Vandalism of deserted houses along Montgomery's interstate highway projects has become a major problem, division engineer Randolph Rowe said this week.

State owned property on Ludi Street on the south side Montgomery where I-85 and I-65 will interchange, has been vandalized, according to Rowe. Demolition will cost the state from $200 to $500 for each house. Rowe said the state is ready to prosecute any vandals caught. Bathroom and kitchen fixtures, pipes, wiring, and other items that can be sold have been removed from the houses, he said. Police have stepped up patrols in construction areas but destruction and theft continue.

John Shipley Tilley, Lawyer, Author, Dies A long-time Montgomery lawyer and author is dead at 88. John Shipley Tilley, who lived in the city for more than half a century, died in a local hospital Wednesday night after a long illness. A graduate of the University of Georgia Harvard Law School, Tilley ands the author of three books on unusual aspects of Civil War history and another volume on Alabama laws. He also served on the state tax commission and was a founding member of the Unity Club. Born in Conyers, Tilley lived at 3146 Thomas Ave.

He is survived by his wife, Mary B. Tilley, and nieces and nephews in Ozark. JOHN S. TILLEY Details, obituaries, Page 17 RICHARD BEARD.