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EOH LAUDI MB! RIME IE ws Partly cloudy through tomorrow with a few showers. High today near 80, low tonight 6S-70. Weather data on Page 12A. HOME FINAL Chicago Tribune Press Service Member Of The Associated Press, UPI Full NEA Service 1967 Gore Newspapers Company Vol. 58, No.

66 FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, MONDAY, DEC. 11, 1967 Five Sections 60 Pages WW In 10 Panhandle Towns To TK ft. if -V J5-v, ft -j, iiv 200 mm -II Many Homes Leveled i (AP Wirephotos) GOV. CLAUDE KIRK TOURS TORNADO-RAVAGED AREA OF FT. WALTON BEACH PANAMA CITY.

UP) tornadoes shattered the morning quiet in 10 Florida wearing Seminole jacket and cowboy hat, he consoles victims, promises help Panhandle cities, leveling hun dreds of homes and buildings and killing two persons. One twister hit an Alabama border county. A new tornado watch was is rjKoi. -safest sued today for the area. More than 200 were reported injured in Florida, most in the I 1 4.

Identity Tentative A Good Lead' In Murders Capehart housing area at near by Tyndall Air Force Base and at Ft. Walton Beach 60 miles west. Several were in critical condition and a watchman at a wrecked shopping center was THE SMILE OF SUCCESS Louis Washkansky, 55, smiles from his Cape Town, South Africa, hospital bed during recovery. He has received his last cobalt treatment following the heart transplant. Dr.

Christian Barnard, who performed the reported missing. Damage estimates ran to more than $7 million and Gov. successful operation, comments on Page 10A. (UPI Ttlephoto) Claude Kirk asked federal help for what he termed a disaster By IRENE STUBER (Staff Writer) lieved to have been roommates at a Miami Beach motel "We have several ideas of what the motive for these mur area. HOLLYWOOD Police said Helmeted National Guards- today the murders of two secretaries whose bodies were found in a secluded section of Whisky ders was," Det.

Lt. Fred men toting rifles patrolled the cities and highways to prevent looting, turn back sightseers and help in the massive Rohloff of the Hollywood police Creek canal Friday night were said. "There is no indication Court Strikes Down Red Job Ban Law that these were gangland kill cleanup. KIRK VISITS AREA ings. not gangland slaymgs and they were working on "a good lead." Police refused to positively Identify the duo who were be- "We are, working on a good Kirk toured the Bayou Wood lead.

are several areas under Investigation," the detec section of Ft. Walton Beach ust hours after the first twister tive said. spun off from a violent thunder WASinNGTON. (UPI) The storm and smashed 50 homes at HAD BEEN SHOT The older of the two women Supreme Court today struck 3 a.m. Marshall did not participate while Justices Byron R.

White and John M. Harlan dissented. In previous decisions, the The law was designed basically to require "Communist action" organizations to register with the government. It also The governor wore boots, a down another section of the 1950 antisubversive law designed to GVs Burn North Viet Positions whose head was bashed in apparently by an ax has been FAMILY TRIES TO SALVAGE SOME THINGS from demolished Ft. Walton Beach home declared it unlawful for a mem court has virtually eliminated bar Communists from defense industries.

tentatively identified by her es all of the basic provisions of the tranged husband, as Mrs. Terry Chief Justice Earl Warren law which is administered by Rae Kent Frank, 23. The hus band, Billy Frank, of Hollywood the Subversive Activities Con trol Board. spoke for the court majority in a 6-2 ruling. Justice Thurgoodl identified the body yesterday 1: ber of such organizations to hold jobs in any defense plants.

The court twice heard arguments on the constitutionality of the job section. SEEN 'IRONIC In today's ruling, Warren said the section "is an unconstitu and the young woman's par ents, Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Kent of a Cincinnati suburb, SAIGON. (UPI) U.

S. Cavalrymen stormed into the village of Truong Lam today were due here later today to 1 make positive identification. and burned the thatched huts Bay Schools Told To Raise Millage The younger victim who had tional abridgement of the right of association protected by the that had sheltered North Viet if been shot was tentatively iden rirst Amendment." namese troops in the six-day tified as Mrs. Frank's room "The government seeks to de battle of the Bong Son plain. They found 51.

North Vietna mate named Ann. She is believed to be 18 or 19 years old 4 in fend the statute on the ground that it was passed pursuant to but Fraiu could not give police mese bodies to run the Communist toll in the battle to 387 TALLAHASSEE. (UPI) a last name. Congress war power," Warren commented. That argument finds support in a number State School Supt.

Floyd Christian admitting he was "stick The grisly discovery of the Texas hat and a bright-colored Seminole jacket as he walked through the smashed neighborhood greeting residents, "How you doing, cowboy?" "You need any help, you just holler," he told one man. "Got a place to stay tonight?" he asked others. As the storm bounced over a lake and tore a five-mile long swath it left 220 homes wrecked. Five hours later another funnel ripped into the third row of duplex homes at Capehart, a housing area for Air Force families, flattening 30 of them and damaging 24 others, leaving one dead, nine seriously hurt and about 400 persons homeless. That tornado touched down five more times before fizzling out.

UTILITIES CUT OFF Damage was estimated in the Ft. Walton Beach area at more than $5 million by Okaloosa County Sheriff Ray Wilson and at $1.5 million to housing on Tyndall Air Force Base by the public information officer, Hank Harsham. Water, gas, electricity- and telephone service was cut off in the ravaged northwest section of Ft. Walton Beach. Tornadoes also hit at small towns between Panama City and Pensacola, 150 miles west.

mutilated bodies of the two of decisions of this court. women clad in bathing suits and ing my neck out" ordered the Bay County School Board today to raise its millage and reopen "However, the phrase 'war jewelry was made late Friday night by boaters who saw the feet of one of the victims power' cannot be invoked as a talisnianic incantation to sup its schools tomorrow. Christian acted under a statu port any exercise of congres floating on the surface of a dead. The cavalrymen using armor broke through a North Vietnamese trap yesterday and rescued South Vietnamese troops pinned down in the area 300 miles north of Saigon. Today, they attacked the stronghold village of Truong Lam behind a wall of tear gas, rockets, ma-chineguns and artillery.

The Americans met resistance from only three snipers when they entered the village. sional power which can be tory provision allowing him to reject a county school board creek that once was a hideout to meet its contractual agreement with the teachers and said he believed the teachers could recover the wages in court if necessary. He said he would announce the exact millage to be levied later today. Bay Supt. Tom Todd said he was "confident" the schools would reopen tomorrow, although no representative of the County Education Assn.

attended the meeting. Christain emphasized his action was taken under a provision of law separate from the! provision ruled upon recently by the Florida Supreme Court. (Continued on Page 12A, Col. 1) brought within its ambit." for rum runners. budget on grounds of inade It would indeed be ironic," quacy.

But the teachers turned down DIVERS ASSIST The other body was found by he added, "if, in the, name of national defense, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties the freedom of association which makes police who probed the area from a launch. Four police the plea and said they will not consider going back to work until all budget cuts are restored. They found hastily dug graves ivy. the defense of the nation worth divers worked six hours in the silt filled, murky water but while." Bay schools have been closed holding the bodies of the 51 North Vietnamese soldiers. Today's American casualties were unable to find any clues.

Hollywood Police Chief W. W. TO DECIDE White said the majority's mo for three days after nearly all the teachers walked off their jobs when the School Board cut salaries. were not announced. Previously Malphurs said he believed the 28 Americans and 16 South Viet girls were murdered in Dade CLEANUP WORK ALREADY UNDER WAY at tornado-wrecked restaurant, bar tives are worthy, seeking "the County and their bodies trans namese were killed in the fighting and 140 Americans One twister smashed into the Alabama coastline, damaging widest bounds for the exercise ported to the creek by boat.

He said it was "almost impos nomes at Mitun and raking a boatyard in Bon Secour, wounded. GRAVES DISCOVERED of individual liberty consistent with the security of the country." But, he added: "In' so doing it arrogates to itself an independent judgment of the re sible" to carry the bodies through the surrounding swamp where the uninsured loss was estimated at $20,000. Violent Earthquake With lighters and matches the Christian said the county has i "moral and legal obligation" Tax, School Data Confab Is Delayed Wherever they hit, the black troops set fire to the dozens of land on foot. Both girls' heads were brutally beaten with a heavy in quirements of national security. These are matters about which thatched huts in the village, funnels flipped and twisted house trailers, but rescue work When they moved out, the two- SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS judges should be wary." strument that police believe mav have been an ax.

The Kills 62 In India ers were able to pry and cut the story Buddhist temple was the residents free. only building still standing. younger eirl was also shot. in another case, the court (Continued on Page 12A, CoL 5) Three-year-old Joan Coker, U. S.

military authorities pre Police theorize the older one of six children dug out of woman witnessed the murder (Continued on Page 1ZA, Col. 3) TALLAHASSEE. (AP) -A 252- and was killed to silence her. viously had put the Communist losses at 305 dead when the men of the U. S.

1st Air Cavalry division roared to the rescue of Both had fractured skulls and were stabbed in the abdomen. Police theorize the abdominal PIXies by WoW itiiH the South Vietnamese in a hell page report encompassing scores of recommendations for education in Florida and more state funding of it was presented today to the Commission on Quality Education, for-leather type dash past ene slashes were an apparent effort my stroncpoints. to keep the bodies from surfac- (Continued on Page 12A, Col. 4) which then recessed because it New graves found inside and outside the village of Truong Lam and scattered fighting couldn't get a quorum. The report contains recom Mrs.

JFK In Political Limelight 4A He Wins Right Not To Have Lawyer IB Fire In Fraternity House Kills 3 8C elsewhere in the Bong Son area brought the toll to 387, the report said. mendations for a sales tax in RJOICULDUZl School Fund Bill Amendment Out In other fighting yesterday, U. S. Army 1st Infantry Division artillerymen 55 miles north available state transport, buses and ambulances with doctors and nurses was sent from Bombay. The quake struck as most people slept.

Bombay newspapers received reports that the toll as 100 dead, but these were unconfirmed. The report from the state government, said most of the casualties occurred near Koynanagar, a town of 10,000 built for workers at the giant Koyna hydroelectric dam and plant. This knocked out electric service to several thousand square miles, including Bombay and its population of 4.5 million. In the metropolis hundreds of thousands poured into the streets and spent the rest of the night in the open. In the last big quake, in the area eight years ago, 110 persons were killed.

(California Jolted 11C) BOMBAY. UP) A violent earthquake hit mountainous southwest India today, leveled a town at the epicenter, and left 62 dead, more than 500 injured and more than 5,000 homeless, Maharashtra State officials said. The town was Koynanager, 130 miles southeast of Bombay in the Ghats Mountains. The United News of India said 80 per cent of the houses and buildings in the town were destroyed. The town sits atop a mountain and is the site of a major hydroelectric dam serving Bombay.

The dam was reported undamaged, but power was shut down, blacking out Bombay. Home Minister Y. B. Chavan went to the scene. All crease, creation of an education "superboard," removal of all constitutional tax prohibitions and upgraded state support of schools.

It is the product of all the WASHINGTON. (UPI) The of Saigon killed 124 neroin- Senate today rejected, 38 to 35, Amusements 12, 13C Movie Time Clock 13C Classified 4-13E Obituaries 8B Comics 14, 15E Sports i-5D Crossword Puzzle 14E Television 2E Editorials 8, 9A Stocks, Financial 6. 7D Horoscope 14E Weather Report 12A Locals News 1, 2B Women's Pages 1-5C charged Communists who tried A A a move to give states full con to storm their gun post, ine trol over a federally funded program to foster innovative edu lengthy hearings and studies of the commission and its support staffs to date and is supposed to be thrashed out into nearly final fighting was so close that a U. (Continued on Page 12A, Col. 6) cational approaches.

The amendment to the 4.z JVeiw Phones: 52J427I; Classified, S2S-16S1 .4 -a. billion school aid bill was spon fttt67 by Unit.d Nat.rt Sywfoo I- form today and tomorrow. But Dr. Hugh Adams, commission vice chairman and ex sored by Sen. Strom Thurmond, BOAT STORAGE Power or VIC TANNY-HEALTH CLUB Special Accelerated Program 20 Visits $20 Call Ft.

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