The Amarillo Globe-Times from Amarillo, Texas • Page 18

AMarUtoGlobe-TiBet Tuesday, June 25, ittt Chicago Pastor Backs filackstone Rangers WASHINGTON (AP) A Chi- cage minister lias told a Senate subcommittee lie will continue lo a slroct pang if whose me in hers have been ac- cuied of extorting money from neighborhood merchants ami of did not conduct formal prayer with the Rangers, his meetings with gang members were "profoundly prayerful." This brought a retort from subcommittee Chairman McClellan, forcing children to drup out of asked: "Preacher, can't you do school. Thc Hcv. John It. Fry, pastor the First Presbyterian Church who is to return In the witness stand today, said Mon day he will repudiate that gang --jho Blackslone Hangers--only if the charges arc proven, a jws- Mbility he said lie doubts. Kry also denied charges by former Hanger warlord (icorjje Hose al a hearing last week of the Senate permanent investigations subcommitlcc that he ad vised the gang on criminal activities, of passing on murder orders tram a jailed gang leader and of allowing the church to he used as an arsenal for gang weapons and fur marijuana parties.

Fry testified he acted primarily as legal adviser to the gang and had no direct knowledge of their finances, meetings or other activities. He said his church paid from its youth education fund $25,000 in ihe last two yaars for bail lxnrls and legal fees for arrested members of the gang. And he said that although be John who better than that?" McClellan conducted much of the intensive questioning during the hearing, often raising his voice and waving his arms to make Fry also denied committee charges a $97,000 grant from Ihe Office of Economic Opportunity was used to perpetuate and strengthen the gang structure and was primarily a bribe lo buy racial peace. Me defended use of gang leaders at instructors in the program as a means of motivating members to learn. After Hie session, he told newsmen there "has been a wholesale reduction in the level of violence" in the community since the OKO program was Initiated.

Fry also told the committee weapons seized from the church'; walk-in vault during a police raid in November ISflfl were police property. He said they hail been stored there under an agreement between the Hangers, Chicago police and Ibe U.S. Treasury Department In an attempt to disarm gangs. Hospital Officials To Study Expenses The Amarillo Hospital District Board ot Managers will be asked tonighl lo approve bids totaling $11,021 for silverware, chinn, glassware and water pitchers. The six-month supply of water pitchers totals Other bids are for an annual supply including $3,276 for silverware and $5,753 for china and glassware.

F. S. Walters administrator, said the monthly los in breakage and disappearance is considerable. The board will meet at 5:30 p.m. in the board room at Northwest Texas Hospital for a dinner session.

Other bids to be considered Include a new item a year's supply of patient kits which is recommended by the Product, Evaluation, Pharmacy and Capital Improvements Committee. The low bid is $22,705. The kits include a wash basin, hoily lotion, a water carafe, a water tumbler, a soap disli and other supplies. A complete kit would lie issued each patient on admittance and will be charged against his account. Hospital officials will also discuss Ihe ambulance problem, which was outlined recently in a meeting between the City Commission and the hospital board.

City Manager John Stiff said a that i that Metropolitan Ambulance Service has financial problems and nutj cease operation. Commissioners id hospital board members agreed that Amarillo is facing an ambulance crisis, but did no! decide who should solve it. Tonight's agenda also will in elude a report from the executive board ot the Northwest Texas Hospital medical ami dental staff. 1'hysicians say more than million in capital improvements and new services are needex at the tospital. The largest Hem included in the list to be submitted to the board is a $495,000 oulpatien addition.

The executive hoan suggested that half of the cosl be from Hill-Burton funds and the other from district ta.i funds. Tentative plans for making Northwest Texas Hospital the cancer center for the region he presented by Dr. Capres Hat chett, head ot the radiology department. Drug May Help Avert Heart Attacks WASHINGTON (AP) A physician today urged extensive Ics'ting of a drug which his studies find is effective in preventing heart attacks. Ir.

1-miis R. Krasno, director of clinical research for United Air Lines in San Francisco, said Ihe frequency of heart attacks was 3.7 limes higher among men not lakint' the drug than 0111 yon Advised To Use Carpets In New School Fieni Gjr Canyon Burenj CANYON'- West Texas State University professors acting as advisers to the Canyon School among those receiving it daily. In testimony prepared for a subcommiltcc of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Krasno said the 314-year study has involved 1.400 men aged 40 lo 60. Only 44 had had heart attacks before entering the study. Half of the 1,400, including 22 with prior attacks, received the drug, the rest were given dutn my pills.

The drug is Atromid-S, whose generic name is clofibrate Krasno used itie trade name in ris testimony. 11 nets lo lower the amount of cholesterol in the blrxxl stream. 'We may have in hand a practical and definitive answer to the ever-menacing problem of alhcrosclerotic heart disease," he said. The Watch on the Bridge Protecting a bridge, South Vietnamese wldlers man a recollless rife in Saigon's Cholon district, where Viet Cong infiltrators are waging a terror Dalhart Youth Dies in Wreck Of Gas Tanker DUMAS A Dalhart youth, driving a gasoline Uaktr, tried to past toother trttck oa U.S. IT near here and then lo iwcrve back to avoid oncoming traffic.

Officers said truck med into the other, went out of control, overturned and burst into flames. Jerry Jack Johnson, pinned beneath the burning wreckage, was killed. The other trucker, Sylvanus K. Drerup, 32, of Pumas, was not injured. Johnioa, a itudent at Texas I a tt year, was working for a gaMUac diatrlbution firm In Dalhart.

wai living in Dalhart with an aunt, Mrs. "harles Harniff. Survivors include hii Mr, -and Mrs. Robert Earl lohnton, and a brother, Scotty, if the Virgin Islands; and two listen, Mils Jan Johnson of Jalharl and Mrs. A Williamson of Lubbock.

Funeral arrangements arc lending with Walker Funera lome in Dalhart. Senate Passes Bills Related To Health, Money Agencies WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate has passed two bills providing $3.3 billion for a vast array of health care and related irograms. The funds were contained in separate bills that cleared the Senale Monday by voice vole and without debate. Some J2 billion is earmarked tor the Health Manpower Acl, which would provide funds for training of doctors, dentists, veterinarians, pharmacists, podiatrists, optometrists, nurses training people for such allied fields us medical library science. The bill, which extends many of the programs for three years under an existing Inw, also provides funds for construction of health facilities.

The second bill provides $1.3 billion for voealional rehabilitation grants to (he stales. In olhcr congressional action: --Thc Senale Hanking Committee approved legislation which would direct the Federal Kcsorve to back up the home mortgage market in periods of light money. 'Hie legislation, opposed by the 'administration, was added In a bill extending for two years the authority of the federal regulatory agencies lo fix interest ceilings mi savings deposits in hanks and savings and loan associations. The committee also added an amendment lo the bill to permit Iheir interest rales. --The House Government Op era I ions Committee suggested an executive branch task force to be scl up to sludy insurance requirements for federal contractors and subcontractors.

The committee said (here currently is a Jack of uniformity! which could results in the public suffering uncompensated personal injury and properly loss. It suggested the task force be set up soon enough to make a report in depth within 15 months. --The Senate Appropriations Committee was assured by the of the National Aeronau- lics and Space Administration the Apollo program for landing a man on the moon by the end of next year will be carried forward despite cut tacks in NASA funds. James K. Webb said, he reduction in funds will cause stretchouts and slowdowns in other space programs.

--The House passed and sen to the Senate a bill intended to slow the disposition of lands ac quired by the national wildlife refuge, system measure would require the Interior Department to obtain consent of ihe Bird Conservation Commission before selling such land. --President Johnson signed a bill authorizing an additional SO.5 million and another year for completion of study of an Atlantic-Pacific waterway to replace the a a a Canal. The new date for completion of the study is Dec. 1, 1970. FAA To Complete Probe of Crash An inveiligatioo into ihe Sun plane crash at Amarilh Dragway was to be completed today by two Federal Aviation Administration officials but an air safety invettifatw has sail he will continue tic probe fron Fort Worth.

Frank Roti, investigator with the National Transportation Safely Board, Bureau of Avia tioo Safety, uid the two FAA officials from Lubbock will file their reports but he will con tinue the investigation before filing a report with the Natiooa Transportation Safety Board in Washington, D.C. The three-man team terviewed witnesses, law en forcement officers, track ot ficials and other persons Mou day. Orphan Soldier Thai Maah, 13, youngest In amed fortes, checks identity of cyclist in Saigon. Rangers adopted him after parents were slain. Silver Certificates No Longer Redeemed WASHINGTON' (AP) The; Passage of the redemption nation entered a new era inldoadline eliminated the two paper money today with noncjprice silver system in effect of its currency hacked by eith-jsince last year.

er gold or silver. Although it redeemed the eer- Rcdemplions of silver certifi-ilificates at the $1.29 price, the cates for silver ended Monday Treasury sold silver--and stil! but the bills turned out betweenjdoe.s--to private industry from as money. They will undoubt-iits stockpile at the higher mar- 1929 and 1963 can still be used'ket price. edly be more valuable, however, as collectors' items. The only paper money now This led to a speculative market in silver certificates while they could be redeemed at $1.29 Miss Julia Archuleta 21 is the Federal Reserve K13 Brinkman, was killed when and it's backed by Ihe strength the plane crashed into a a the nation's economy-- not the plane crashed into a car! parked on the north edge of dragstrip during races Sun-! day.

The plane was piloted by! Manton Leon Brown of Friona. circulated by the government'im ounce as the silver sold at note the higher price which has risen above $2 an wince. Money dealers paid premiums--frequently going to be- North Korean Intruders Slain On Anniversary of 1950 Attack SE iP A1) Niflesiporlcd four North Korean in- The North Korean news agen cracked, grenades exploded and men died on the eastern front today while Soulh Korean cilics observed the 18th anniversary of the Korean War with ceremonies and parades. The South Korean army re- traders were killed in Iwo brief fire fights 31-i miles south of the demilitarized zone. No South Korean casualties were reporl- Chin'se Itodics Found on Shores HONG KONG More bound, decomposed Chinese Bodies floated onto the shores of Macao ami Hong KOHR today raising lo 11, Ihe total that have Chung lice Park called for unitv turned up in the two colonies ed.

Army spokesmen said the infiltrators wore South Korean army fatigues without insignia. Two Russian light machine guns and a camera with film were found among the bodies. The army said this raised to 20 ttie number of North Korean infiltrators killed in five clashes in nine days. In a war anniversary speech in Seoul, Soldier-President since Friday. One of the bodies today was that of a young girl 13 to 15 years old.

All but two of Ihe 16 bodies were bound around the waist lo continue economic programs while defending Ihe nation from Communist threats. He accused the Communists of turning Ihe entire land into military camps and scheming to launch a guerrilla war against Soulh Korea as cy did nol explain how the boat and weapons were recovered from the sea bottom. The United States and South Korea have denied that any ol their navy vessels were sunk by North Korean patrol boats lasl weekend. St. Mark's Relics Given to Cathedral CAIRO (AP) Relics ot St.

Mark returned to the land of bis martyrdom Monday. They were greeted by tens of thousands ly precious metals. The final break for silver yond $1.50 for every to came three monlhs after the obtain the certificates. John Tyler Named Partner in KVII-TV John S. Tyler.

general manager of KVII-TV, has been named a partner in ownership of the station along with Rstelle Marsh and her three sons, Stanley HI, Tom F. and Michael, all of Amarillo. The inclusion erf Tyler in the partnership, which originally consisted of only the Marsh Family, was announced today by the Federal Communications Commission in Washington. The family purchased the station last October. ast link with gold was cut dur- ng the international gold crisis vhich followed devaluation of he British pound.

Until mid-March, the government was required to back 25 cents in gold. Eliminating this gold covei made more than $10 billion ofitel! how many are held by col nation's gold available to lectors or as souvenirs, defend the dollar overseas. Thousands waited until I lasl day to redeem their silver certificates with the New York Terms Assessed On Guilty Pleas Pleas of guilty were accepted Monday from three men charged in aeparate offenses in the Potter County Court at Law. Jerry Keaton, 47, who gave no permanent address, was given two years in jail for the theft of a pipe-cutting platform from the Civic Center con structlon site. Leroy Mims, 31, of 300 Jefferson, was sentenced to 60 ivery $1 in paper money with Just how many silver certificates arc still in circulation won't be known for another week when all the figures are tallied.

As of lasl Wednesday, however, the Treasury estimated $252.2 million still outstanding, Officials said it's impossible to assay office handli.ig about separate orders and hold- ng its pay-out window open two lours after the regular 3 p.m. closing time. About 400 persons lined up outside the San Francisco assay office for the opening of Business. All redemptions were made at $1.29 an ounce, the figure in effect last year when the treasury stopped selling its silver lo private industry at that price. Will Meet Tonight Potter County delegates will discluss the recent Republican stale convention at a meeting of the Young Adult.

Republican Club al 8 p.m. today. The meeting will be held al the Republican headquarters, 9th. and Polk. KARACHI Pakistan has banned exportation of antiques.

days for nonsupport of minor jubilant bgyplian Christians he- children. While the results of this study "are impressive indeed," he noted it was loo early lo make Board have recommended definite claims without the board consider such features confirmation through additional as carpels and movable walls large-scale independent Ihe city's junior high school. The board is studying new ideas in school construction thai conld be applied lo plans for the $1.3 million which was approved by voters last month. Board educators from WTSU discussed at 3 special meeting Monday new innovations that might be in the school. Dr.

Konnclli l.aycork, dean of the WTSU School of Teacher Education, told the board flcx- 1 I I I I I I 1 iMJllln IMJItd and neck. They are believe, lo he vi et Couq is doing in South have been victims of the violent Vietnam slrife sweeping China's southern or'eigi, Minister Choi Kvu- (province of kwanRlung as a i a a Nor Korea'in- TM 8 a jlends lo "take over the whole of revolution purge Korea by force." Hong Kons police cstimaledj Government agencies across ll lS, bC i C0l lll '5' held ceremonies to remember the Sunday 18 years when North Korean Com- atlacked along the 38th 'parallel, reaching Ihc South Ko- water us long as a month. Hoiiin Crrrmoiiy TOKYO (AP) rean capital in three days. fore Cootie Pope Kyrollos VI took them lo an undisclosed spot until a restitution, ceremony Wednesday. The relics are a gift of Pope Paul VI lo a new $2.3 million cathedral dedicated lo the saint who brought Christianity to Africa.

The relics in a velvet- wrapped box will be laid in a marble in a 1 there Wednesday. As the Egyptian jet carrying the relics touched the runway. the crowd burst on to the tarmac trying lo touch the aircraft. Thousands kndt and manv kissed Ihc ground. Shouting "God has given us back our beloved St.

Mark." the Troops and military bands icrowd mobbed Kryollos after be a paraded Seoul's main the box of relics from "i i i i int Ljunm iuiu i a i un i'ic a i i I iu I island groups and three Oiher, spc demanding U.S. Which have been kept in Venice tacks incurred a second one 4.6 times more frequently if they and worc not receiving ihe drug. in and i a al(a( ks Mrcd (c) ho fa tal twice as often in men not receiving the drug, he added. in the central wiIlhd a om Soulh uKor for centuries. It waj not known i a In Pacific.

The Bonins include Iwo Jima where, in one of the bloodiest I In North Vietnam, the of the saint's bones were battles of World War more ncws a to i Korea as.iinst (he United Stales St. Mark according to legend'Departmenl. For driving while his license was suspended, Jose a flamos. 55, of 714 Grant, was given a 30-day jail term and was ordered to pay court costs. Young Boys Found In Stolen Car An Amarillo policeman stopped a stolen car late Monday which wai being driven along Amirilln Boulevard by a 12- year-old boy accompanied by his 10-year-old brother.

When asked why the car was stolen, one of Ihe boys replied "to look for our mother." The mother told officers after the boys left home Saturday morning stie had moved and that the boys did not know where she was moving to. Police were contacted Sunday night by the mother, who reported the boys missing. The brothers were turned over to the Potter County Welfare Railroad Slowdown Disrupting Britain LONDON (AP) A spread-emergency within a few days, ing slowdown by railroad em-i This would allow the govera- ployes choked Britain's trans-lment to step in to keep essential system today. Prime Minis-iservices going but first would be ter Harold Wilson was reported used mainly as a lever to suur near to declaring a state of.the Iwo sides into talks Some 30,000 locomotive cngi-jmeans meticulously following a ncers joined 227,000 other rail-jbook of 279 rules which every road men already "working to'railroad man carries, rule" in their demand for morej An engineer finding the pay The effect was chaos forjesl fault on his engine will re- rush hour traffic between to take it out. When a lon and the suburbs and disruption elsewhere in the country.

The employes demand an immediate pay increase ot went to Alexandria in 63 A.D. emergency. The "work to rule," tactic nal is al caution he will drive so slowly that the timetable is thrown off. The unions' ban on overtime cent for all members of is even more disruptive One heir two rival unions-the refusing overtime lional Unfon of Railwaymen andlcan close a whole section the Associated Society of Loco-! As a result of the slowdown, motive Engineers and i of London had no com- The state-owncd British or subway trains after 10 ways Board refused any in- p. Tuesday night and none creases i the unions cooper- before a today ate in manpower economies.

Political sources said Wilson's Cabinet, anxiously recalling the mu ult! OJg slKlaas tvm cr-pphng effect of other trans-jalong the port strikes on the cconomyjcharing Cross, Waterloo Lou- was resdy to declare a state 01 don Bridge and Cunnon Street. Hardest hit were the busy southern commuter lines run- the big stations the lov ui nit, a I i i i i vt lid i i I I 1 I i ni i a i i i i a III IAJ ij. Only three per cent of men G.SOO Americans and 1900o' 1 lc llar(l I lcac ln a andjand was rtra'ged to dcalh in the ported side effects from tKe-Japancso died. drug, and tbc.se were mild Only Chi nnxleratc digestive troubles, lie land of the streets there. Two years later said.

inliabitanls- I 1 I 3 i a Chi Jima, a i is- Thc So 1 1 Korean ceremonies'(no Venetian seamen are sup- Bonins, has civilian, vcrc a (ic TMre "nm past gov- nosed to have stolen all of the i- 200 nativei policy of quiet except the heart from in ibihtv proMdcd by movable Another 1,000 men. 30 (o 40.residents, most ot them scr a ncc A spokesman said the'Alexandria church and taken it partitions is desirable because'years old. were added lo thc' sc endcd from Westerners ho vvcrc designed to warn 1 1 0 Venice of possible future needs tonstudy tost October. Uke in changes. 1.400 older mfn.

they are also lan or is change. our nauy 0 Meadily built up since a North lo Ihinfc about all lypes The National Heart Institute jKorean commando team invad- grooms and hrge-scale Seoul Jan. 21 in an attempt; Dr. Robert Splawn, professor ground personnel of the airline, of education, added. "AH The drug, in pill form, is tak- can plan for is change.

You'cn four times daily, need removable partitions would be great asse'. in I hi planning." In discussing the practice of installing carpel on classroom floors. Dr. I.aycock said, "The genera! i a IlllUgrt i i think pulling in carpeting is frill, bul I think it would create' a better learning atmosphere." i Amarilio architect Russell I 1830s. Some 6.000 former islanders of Japanese descent are expccl- be renewed as the 15-yesr-old armistice gets shakier.

Tension along the DM2 i a teadily built up Heart Transplant Prospect Dies CAPE TOWN, South Africa Negroes in Denver Plan Protest March Mouse Damaged In Vandalism About damage, including broken windows and extensive damage to windows, screens and walls, was done to a house at tOl by during the part few days for better relationship be.i wh ch a un calm The vandalism was discovered tween 1lec n1 Negro.maintained after pleas were (AP) oL ra rc dht TM in -a, shot. Monday by the owner. muml by Mayor Tom Currigan 1 I 1 nj a ui Scoggins of 3413 Patterson. 1T1C march and demonstration and Gov. John ixve said she wa after the shooting! Meanwhile, a conflict devel house Friday and Jflurday morning of a young.opcd over the mass march and young boys around Al A(, Anmttlo College Board Megert of the firm of ShivcriTM Regents will meet at Megert said studies a Icd5 an attempt to I i i I NAMED shown that carpel is cheaper ear requested ex- Fred Hobason of over a period of years dllwn to Uw of Woodland has asbestos flooring.

board's estimated budgci. (president of Other WTSU ri .1 I Requested funds for Club. but the event also will be Border clashes since thenltient, died in Grooie 'Schuur tflc noils tt 5a on hvo. where .1 small''! a taken Ihe lives of at least Hospital Sunday, it was learned of U.S. airmen and''' Americans snd 30 South Ko-itoday.

'Coast Guardsmen a a Twenty-two olher Ameri- 1 I.iebenberg had been in the Cation slnlion an cmorgcn- cans have been wounded. since mid-April. He pot cy airfield. I North Korea released what illstetdily worse in the past few tsaid was a photograph of Ihe.weeks. Hospital sources slid imperialist spy ship' were begun it 'which It claims North Korean 'least twice to perfirm a trans- 2 i patrol boats sank last weekend.

'plant but the prospective donors Senate Oks Bill On Flag Defacing Negro college student, Nathan'dcmonslration Jones, who remained in crili- Safety Manager Howard calcpndiUon in Denver General said he may refuse to SSUC a City ara(tc the throat and rfomach. the afternoon march i r' OUld a disturbance in the He said traffic engineers and v- rtw ll been a Thc boat looked like a small.Idied before the preparations double-hulled glass fiber'could be completed. ivessel Another photograph a Barnard already had per- 'he assisting the board are Dr. Fred," 0 Prognms have swelled pro-i The club meets at p.m. depicting what open heart surgery' on Stoker and Dr.

J. n. Russell. il? dftl1 xpcnfdlUlrcs lo ahout Monday al the Bowl. Korea claimed were weaponsJLiebenberg.

jSJ.uo.OOO lar above lhe wireless apparatus and equip-i buripel of $2,364,000,, Canada shipped 7,802810 tons menl "carried bv There are SI 300 I i Get WckResultsU college spokesman said. 'of cement in 1967. 'aboard the sunken ship. lEOvcriimonls In the U.S. WASHINGTON (UPl)-The Predominantly Negro Parkhill the police patrol divisioni urged Senate Monday ipproved legis- so center and exchanged.the permit be denied because Ittion which would impose aiS un re with policeman, Pa: marchtrs might rlisrupt bus 11.000 fine or a year in prison, Irolman Robert A.

Moravek. (schedules, Uxi or in cf both, on conviction for Police say Moravek suffered a'dlviduals returning home or publicly mutilating, defacing bullet wound in to on evening shifts defiling or burning the Ameri- back of his head before firing at 1 The leaders of the planoed said they will The measure lo the Officers rcjccaed rumors theiproceed with a march past po- 1 lo.v Pistol lice headquarters in spite of of- ation of differences. ic wound and medical diagno- hour Iraffic..