Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 1

4 I Nice Sleeping Cool and fair tonight with low in 50s Sunny Thursday high in 70s Vol No 139 JOURKJAEW'COURIER LAAYETTE WEST LAAYETTE IND WEDNESDAY EVENING JUNE 10 1964 64 Pages 7 Cents SENATE VOTES CLOTURE 71 29 Ristine Bontrager Selected Rights Ballot Expected Soon Alcoa Strike Averted Here A threatened walkout of 1 600 union employes at Lafay Aluminum Company of America plant was averted at least temporarily when Tippe canoe County Circuit Court Judge Warren Thompson is sued an injunction to halt the strike Tuesday night The strike by members of Local 115 Aluminum Workers International Union was called in support of a strike by mem bers of the same union at plant at Massena NY The walkout would have taken effect at 11 pm Tuesday Judge Thompson beat the deadline by several hours His' temporary injunction order stated that the strike ap peared to be an unlawful act which would result in stantial and irreparable injury and damage to the plaintiff HEARING SET He set a hearing on whether to issue a permanent injunction for 10:30 am next Monday The injunction petition filed for Alcoa by Attorney rederick Hoffman of Lafayette charged that the threatened strike would be in defiance of a no strike clause in a contract between the aluminum firm and New Yorker Killed At Monticello MONTICELLO A New York man whom police believe may have fallen asleep at the wheel was killed at 2:50 am Wednes day when his car slammed into a tree on US 24 at the west edge of town Pronounced dead on arrival at White County Hospital was Lloyd Wilder 69 of North ville daughter and her two small children were reported in condition at the hospital later Wednesday suffering from cuts and bruises Monticello police said Wilder died as a result of severe head injuries They said his car was equipped with seat belts but they were not in use at the time of the wreck Also injured were Bobby Sauve 2 Brenda Lee Sauve 8 months and their mother Sharon Sauve 18 of Northville Investigators said car which was eastbound veered across the highway ran over a curb and hit the tree union which will expire June 1 1965 Alcoa in the petition claimed that the strike would injure its customers which include the United States government and would injure the defense of the United States The plant employs about 2150 persons at 1 the present time Barclay works manager requested union employes on the 11 pm to 7 am and the 7 am to 3 pm shifts to report for work as usual after the temporary injunction was granted Plant officials said Wednes day that spot check of the two shifts showed some absenteeism however Members of Local 115 cast a 53 per cent vote in favor of the sympathy strike in late May but union rules require a two thirds majority Unon employes at Massena have been on strike more than two weeks following a breakdown of discussions over reclassification of about 60 hourly rated jobs Alcoa obtained similar tem porary restraining orders banning sympathy strikes at Yankeetown and plants in Pennsylvania Ohio Illinois and Iowa Any strike at Warrick Works at Yankeetown was barred by an injunction issued by Judge pro tern William Weyerbacher in Warrick Cir cuit Court at Boonville He set a hearing next Monday Alcoa has about 250 workers at Yankeetown Yank Pilot Dies Aboard Rescue Ship PRESTWICK Scotland (UPI) An American fighter pilot died aboard a rescue ship Wednesday after bailing out of his stricken 100 Super Saberjet and battling winds and huge waves for 13 hours in a tiny rubber dinghy A US Air orce spokesman reported the death of Capt James Davis 32 of Wash ington DC several hours after he was picked up by the weather ship Juliet 420 miles west of Ireland The spokesman said Davis died of exposure His 100 Super Sabrejet de veloped trouble late Tuesday on a flight to Orland Norway from Myrtle Beach Re ports said Davis was one of 18 pilots engaged in the non stop flight for an exercise called TIPPECANOE VOTES CAST orty three voting machines were used at the Republican State Convention during selection of its candidates Tuesday One of the machines was shared by the Tippecanoe and Pulaski County delegations Here John Bradshaw Tippecanoe delegate enters the booth to cast his vote during the second ballot (Staff Photo) EwiS hi litK KwIEifllW Hughes Bray Rip Procedure Interest High In Hot Conclave INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Lt Gov Richard Ristine won the Republican nomination for gov ernor and State Sen Russell Bontrager of Elkhart captured the nod for the US Sen ate in a steaming state conven tion Tuesday The two leaders of the often criticised 1963 legislature each triumphed on the third ballot in a convention slowed by tedious system of counting votes sep arately for each contested race Ristine from Crawfordsville led from the start with a stead ily growing vote and won when Secretary of State Charles Hendricks and ourth District Chairman Robert Gates let their delegates go after the sec ond ballot BBgSgWSiOagiW WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate voted Wednes day in a history shattering move to choke off the 75 day old Southern filibuster against the civil rights bill Each time to debate the bill and all amendments will now be limited to one hour This ap pears to assure Senate passage of the far reaching bill possibly before the end of next week The House passed the bill on eb 10 by a vote of 290 130 The Senate has been battling over it since March 9 with Southern opponents mounting a record breaking filibuster against it The public galleries were packed as the crucial vote on cloture was taken Tight se curity was maintained around the Capitol as additional per sons pressed for a chance to get in ALL NIGHT SESSION The vote followed an all night session of the Senate at which Sen Robert Byrd Va a foe of the bill made a mara thon speech attacking the civil rights bill and urging his col LBJ Tells Cold War Program leagues not to shut off the de bate The vote to apply the Sen debate limiting cloture rule was 71 to 29 This was four more votes than the re quired two thirds majority Byrd began his speech at 7:38 pm and continued until 9:52 am When he finally quit the Senate took an eight minute re cess then went back into ses sion It had agreed Tuesday to meet at 10 am Wednesday Since the adoption of the clo ture rule in 1917 all previous attempts to use it to cut off a filibuster against a civil rights bill had failed Leaders of both parties be came convinced in the face of the all out position of the Dixie forces to the present bill that debate limitation had to be ob tained if the bill was to pass Just before the vote Repub lican Leader Everett Dirk sen of Illinois introduced the several 2000 lee Montana lood Death Toll Up See CONVENTION Page 12 US Moves To Avert Greek Turkish War of state See LBJ Page 12 WHERE TO LOOK has were 44 Republi 23 Dem 1250 55 45 2 7 BRIDGE WIPED OUT Survivors waited for rescue Tuesday at the edge of Highway 89 three miles south of Choteau Mont where flood water of the Teton River ripped WORCESTER Mass (AP) President Johnson said today many of the most urgent problems will persist beyond the cold war and outlined a far flung program for attacking them He said he intends to dedicate 1965 to the search for new tech niques to make knowl edge serve welfare To commemorate the United 20th birthday 1965 has been designated as Internation al Cooperation Year He took note of that in a speech prepared for commence ment exercises at Holy Cross College this be the year of sci ence let it be the turning point in the struggle not of man against man but of man against nature In the midst bf tension let us begin to chart a course toward the possibilities of con quest which bypass the politics of the cold he said our part we intend to call upon all the resources of this nation public and to work with other nations to find new methods of improving the life of Johnson spoke of poverty of disease and of diminishing nat ural resources in enumerating menances to welfare He said there is no simple so lution of these problems In the past he added there would have been no solution at all but to day constantly unfolding conquests of science give man the power over his world and nature which bring the pros pects of success within the pur view of Among other scientific ad vances that he mentioned was a breakthrough in the past sev eral months in the use of large scale atomic reactors for com mercial power He said the de velopment of the large scale re actor offers the dramatic pros pect of transforming sea water into water suitable for human consumption and industrial use During International Coopera tion Year Johnson said this GREAT ALLS Mont (AP) lood waters chased at least 2000 persons from their homes here Tuesday night after leav ing 30 or more dead and hun dreds homeless upstream Gov Tim Babcock damage from the flood Mon worst at $10 million President Johnson declared sev en northwestern counties a dis aster area In the northwest hit first by the three day flood waters re ceded and rescue teams started mopping tip The Sun River crested 11 feet over its flood stage of 12 feet at midnight in this city of 70000 A spokesman for the Air orce and National res cue operations estimated 2000 to Turkish our is Scranton Rep William Miller of New York retiring GOP national chairman Gov James A Rhodes of Ohio and Sen Thruston Morton of Kentucky (AP Wirephoto) from homes here and in the flooded areas to the west and north Tom Sullivan manager of a Red Cross shelter said he had made records of about 1300 persons evacuated from homes west of Great alls and from an exclusive residential area sur rounding a country club and golf course The shelter is in West Side Junior High School where more than 200 residents slept Tuesday night The 14th Street bridge in Great alls held fast despite a heavy pounding by water trees parts of farm buildings and other debris A natural gas pipeline under the Sixth Street bridge burst I Today's Chuckle Among the unman ageable surpluses are wheat corn and calories substitute bill worked out with Atty Gen Robert Kennedy Overnight the substitute had been revised further to include the jury trial amendment adopted 51 48 in the Senate Tues day The adoption of the amend ment sponsored by Sen Thrus ton Morton Ky was cred ited with winning some crucial Republican votes for cloture Off the flbor maneuvering con tinued right up to the hour of the vote EYED BY Sen Barry Goldwater mentioned the names of these eastern GOP leaders as possible vice presidential choices if he receives the Republican presi dential nomination rom left: Pennsylvania Gov William out this concrete bridge isolating families who were rescued by helicopter (AP Wirephoto) see Council President Arsene Assouan of the Ivory Coast to day Kyprianou whose plane landed in Boston because of weather conditions over New York said Cyprus was relatively calm but view of state ments and information we have we anticipate trouble from Makarious called for council action after repeated invasion alarms had been sounded in both Nicosia and Athens BULLETIN Voting for cloture Democrats and 27 cans Opposed were ocrats and 6 Republicans One of the Republicans voting no was Sen Barry Goldwater of Arizona the leading contender for his presidential nomination velopment conference telling the delegates of 122 nations the measure of agreement was in sufficient to warrant a review of their accomplishments President Makarios of Cyprus leader of the Greek Cypriots called Tuesday night for an ur gent meeting of the UN Secur ity Council meeting nounce threats of the government to invade In a note to heads and government he charged that Turkey now amassed a great number of naval and air forces ready for immediate invasion of CHARGES VIOLATION He accused the Turks of re peatedly violating air space over Cyprus and dropping arms to Turkish Cypriots oreign Minister Spyros Ky prianou dispatched by Makarios to arrange for the council meet ing told newsmen he planned to GENEVA US Under secretary of State George Ball set out Thursday on an emergency mission to warn Greece and Turkey of the John son concern about the Cyprus crisis Informed sources said Ball carried word that the United States i ready to take sharp measures their nature un specified to prevent the con flict from degenerating into a Greek Turkish war or otherwise disrupting the eastern flank of the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization Before boarding a plane here Ball told newsmen is utterly impossible for war to break out between the two North Atlantic treaty partners because of the serious consequences this would have for the whole free Ball who has spent two days at the closing phase of the UN trade and development confer ence canceled a scheduled trip to London to undertake his mis sion in Athens and Ankara Ball changed his plans on di rect orders from President Johnson He said he is meeting Greek Premier George Papandreou in Athens tonight and will leave for Ankara later in the night for talks with Turkish leaders He is due back in Washington late Thursday to report to Johnson He said his trip was not in tended as a mediation effort because problem can only be solved by the parties direct ly NEED REALISM solution will require a great deal of realism and gen erosity on all he added Earlier he scrapped a planned major speech to the de THIS EDITION: 4 Sections 56 Pages and an 8 Page Advertis ing Tabloid Amusements Classified Comics Crossword Contract Bridge Deaths Editorials Columns rankfort 23 Markets 49 Radio 12 Sports X4S 48 West Lafayette Purdue 10 Tage 215 19 BRAY IRATE angered Congressman William Bray of Martins ville charged before the third ballot that Ristine workers had circulated a false report just as the second ballot was starting that Bray was dropping out Bray said his campaign man ager Dan Cravens of ranklin Was refused a chance to an nounce on the public address system that the silver haired congressman was not quitting Bray blamed Thomas A Gall meyer of ort Wayne perma nent convention chairman and State Chairman Robert Stew art of Columbus asserting they were" supporters victory with 1212 votes on the third ballot also brought an angry outburst from a suporter of State Treasurer Robert Hughes who stormed up to the platform to protest the operation of a voting booth where he was a watcher The final count for governor showed Hughes second with 599 votes followed by Bray with 236 ormer State Sen Rich ard Ellis of Kokomo had 77 Gates 29 and Hendricks 15 (S Day orecost on Pofle 12) LAAYETTE and vicinity: air and cool tonight sunny and pleasant Thursday Low to night in 50s high tomorrow in 70s Indiana: air and cool to night Low in low 50s Sunny and pleasant Thursday high in 70s north and central 80s south riday outlook Partly cloudy and a little warmer with a chance of showers or thun dershowers by night Conditions as recorded at Pur due Airport: Temperature at 8 am Tuesday 78 at 8 am Wednesday 68 rom 8 am Wednesday high temperature 94 low 63 04 precipitation Sun sets tonight at 8:17 rises tomorrow at 5:16 to 3000 persons were avacuatedlwith a shudder that was felt UJ UHlUUAClO Air orce teams said they rescued at least 200 persons from rural areas The Air orce was using Malmstrom Air orce Base at Great alls for a head quarters for 11 helicopters and other craft Pilots made 38 flights Tues day and were prepared to take additional supplies to flood vic tims evacuated to other areas OTHERS HOMELESS At least 400 were homeless in the northwest counties of Cas cade Chouteau lathead Gla cier Pondera Teton and Toole those designated for federal dis aster relief Hardest hit was the Blackfeet Indian Reservation Highway 2 was opened to Elast Glacier the eastern gateway to Glacier National Park and US 89 was opened for the first time since Monday allowing rescue operations to reach Babb near the Canadian border A road was opened south of Browning to the Two Medicine Creek but washed out bridges and roads still had the Birch Creek area isolated It was the Swift Reservoir dam on Birth Creek that broke Monday send ing a 30 foot wall of water downstream This water surged into the Marias River Other flooding creeks pushed the Teton River over its banks Both rivers flow into the Missouri River near Loma population 200 which was evacuated Tuesday night Drinking water contaminated in numerous smaller communi ties was safe in Great alls i.