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4 ESSA AM HOME EDITION "It will be bad for any society when sentimentalists are encouraged to suggest all the measures that shall be taken for the betterment of the race." Woodrow Wilson AN INDEPENDENT FREEDOM NEWSPAPER HZ22 ODESSA, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1965 TrjS2' VOL. XL. NO. 76 26 PAGES 2 SECTIONS (NEA) Newspaper Enterprise Assn. UPI Telephoto (AP) Member Associated Press 'UPT) United Prew International TTT i 4 i i Si) I Are TwaU Killed In Viet Battle Hiisedl i ward off future strikes to a shambles.

Nearly 40 American and Vietnamese planes obliterated a North Vietnamese air- TANGIER, Morocco (UPI) base Tuesday. A Spanish airliner flying tourists to a vacation in Morocco encountered heavy fog while Today's raid apparently was making a landing epproach to not in retaliation for Tuesday's terrorist bombing of the U. S. Embassy in day and crashed into the sea, SAIGON (UPI) Communist Viet Cong guerrillas today shot down three U.S. helicopters flying Vietnamese soldiers into a major battle only 30 miles from the big American airbase at Da Nanj.

Two U.S. Marines were killed and 16 other Americans injured. U.S. and South Vietnamese planes struck again in North Viet Nam, hitting the Hanoi regime's air defenses for the second consecutive day. The raids were carried out despite increasingly tough statements by Communist China.

An Amencan military spokes rockets and machlie guns. The spokesman was unable to list casualties for them. All three helicopters crashed within a period of 50 minutes. Sixteen others taking part in the mission were hit. Typj of Mission The airlift was described as a search-and-destroy operation involving Vietnamese infantry, paratroopers and M113 armored vehicles.

The Da Nang base, 365 miles northeast of Saigon, is the jumping off point for American See TWO, Page 2-A killing 50 persons, one of them man at Da Nang said the two an American. r1 Marines were aboard an H34 Two women and a man sur vived the crash off the North troop carrier brought down by ground fire 35 miles southeast of the base. King in his efforts with the civil rights movement. The large check was presented in the funeral home where the body of slain civil rights worker Mrs. Viola Liuzzo awaited services.

(UPI Telephoto) TEAMSTERS GIVE James Hoffa (LJ, president of the Teamsters Union, presents a $25,000 check to Rev. Martin Luther King Tuesday. The check was a gift from the Teamsters Union and was designated to aid The other two 'copters were African coast They were plucked from the water by a fishing boat and rushed to El Kourtoubi Hospital in Tangier U.S. Army HUlB's armed with Peking Radio reported today where they were treated for it had shot down a U.S. drone minor injuries and shock.

fo Incidents During Parade reconnaissance plane over the In Saigon- Iberian Airlines said the Communist mainland and said American aboard was named Virginia Colman. Her hometown was not immediately available. it was "watching with close attention the military provocations of the U.S. imperialists." (HmmbcDSsy It said Tuesday U. S.

jets strafed two Chinese fishing tLam The plane was carrying 30 Senator Says Cigarette Laws Will Be Passed WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen. B. Everett Jordan, whose home boats and hinted at possible re prisal. The toll in the helicopter as Danes, 11 Swedes, three Britons, two Germans, an American, a Dutchman and a crew of five Spaniards. iuilt sault today was one of the Will ie Fishing vessels picked up 46 CiinrDsri' Wsiirimis heaviest American casualty tolls in a single action.

Death bodies and continued the search for four missing persons of the two Marines and a U.S. Before Johnsons statement WASHINGTON (AP) Presi who were preumed dead. Navy pilot announced today by dent Johnson may forward to was released, White House The plane was a twin-engine convair of the Iberian Airlines the Pentagon brought the ton of American combat dead state of North Carolina is the! nation's leading tobacco pro-i MONTGOMERY, Ala (AP) Tuesday as black-robed state Capitol in Montgomery that fWSome evidence of a change for walked behind black-draped when Mills Cowling, head of the ducer, conceded locay mai in cities wnere the wooden caskets bearing the department in charge of state gress probably will require th tett jn the 'racial climate! names of persons killed in the property, ordered a halt. Congress today his request for authority and funds to build a press secretary George and was flying from Malaga in in Viet Nam to 316. Reedy said when asked about new American "embassy in southern Spam to Tangier.

Mo The three downed helicopters the possibility of retaliatory air some kind of health warning on voter rights march began an civil rights struggle. i There they remained during a crashed within a 50-minute pe There is no reason to doubt roccan authorities said it reported into the Tangier tower but then failed to answer a strikes: "I wouldn't speculate cigarette packages. (voter rights march began and: There were no incidents. Only prayer and some talk. The 1...

and where services were: a few white spectators watched I marchers' parade permit ex- that Congress will do what the riod while flymg Vietnamese troops into the guerrilla strong on the future right now." President wants swiftly com query. Rescue operations were iheld for a civil rights workerjin Selma and Montgomery. pired at 6 p.m. and they left ted to a senatecommiuee slain by night riders. Ten empty caskets werejwithout the caskets.

A city truck ply with his request. The embassy, a five-story building that sits on a corner hold for a search operation aimed at reducing the Red launched Johnson announced his inten Mocruig i.u rcg.a.auu..,- Slate troopers and sheriffs 'placed on the sidewalk at the carried them away, threat to Da Nang, some 350 flush with the street, has been a odn urKcu itjcv-uuu nmsemen vim not in evidence bottom of the steos leadme to in s'ma tvn rivil riohrs miles northeast of Saigon. to require that a health warn tion in a statement issued late Tuesday afternoon, about 18 hours after terrorists' explo leaders called off mass meet Maj. Gen. Joseph Moore, commander of U.S.

Air Forces favorite target of antigovern-ment insurgents since American warplanes began a series of ings and demonstrations for the The Convanr tell into the Atlantic three miles off the North African coast near the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. British, Spanish, Moroccan and U.S. planes and ships joined the search for possible survivors although officials said "there is little hope of finding sives heavily damaged the em rest of the week. They urged the in South Viet Nam, said today's ho ecu in the Smith Vipt Nam air strixe was aireciea against capital bombing raids against North Viet Nam Feb. 7.

The 14th at Communist airbases on the The terrorist outrage aimed ing be included in cigarette advertising. "If such should be the North Carolina Democrat; said, "then one of our major industries would, in effect, be; required. pay to tell the! public. to use its prod-j ucts." The Senate Commerce Com-5 Rep. Snelson Seeks School Bill Passage nipnTho Spnafei sav tn them, vou know tack was staged Tuesday.

North Vietnamese mainland and radar installations on at the American Embassy in Saigon shows us once again time be spent in preparing for the opening of the Dallas County voter registrar's office Monday. An Associated Press newsman in Selma said there appeared to be much less tension and the city of 29,000 was like' many another Southern community en- any others The explosion at the embassy coastal islands in the South The American planes came what the struggle in Viet Nam punched a gaping hole in the China Sea. from the U.S. Navy base at is about," the statement said. building, shattered every win Military sources said the con Rota on the Spanish coast.

"This wanton act of ruthless- The crash occurred about mittee is considering two bills'tajes up two House-passed billsjhow to take my hubcaps, but tinuing raids are reducmg North Viet Nam's ability to dow and left an enormous crater in the street. ness has brought death and seri to require a health warning onW including one to establish you-don't know how to 8:55 a.m. (1:55 a. m. CST), about an hour after the plane The embassy was to have cigarette packages, one 01 eight state schools for the men-! Williamson declared.

The House them, introduced by Sen. Mau- rotai-Hw in ut Tpvsc Uirlprt with Berrv and the voune- was in his office at ous injury to innocent Vietnamese citizens in the street as. well as to American and Vietnamese personnel on duty." riall. Sheriff James G. r-irv Mflllhoropr also I 1M 1A been replaced eventuall" because of its closeness to the nnniH rwmirA thfs wartimes in! 1.

minh hivo kwn that ls0 worrzea in nis onice street and lack of a fire escape It is not known if the presi left Malaga. A U.S. Navy spokesman at Rota said the weather was bad at the time of the accident and was getting worse, hampering a search for possible survivors. dential statement is the extent Rep. Clemente J.

ZaWocki, D- all cigarette advertising. heb1 which wouVsel up hubcaps and the immaturity IP0 Smitherman was The committee, which was in smaller "satellite" schools for helped me out," the San l0W rwr tnHav pvnprt! to con- tho t-otarvloH in oicrht lnralirips tnnin lawmaker observed WTV-I Trie Civil rights workers who led a congressional of the American response to the investigation South Viet Nam attack. Informed sources discounted in 1963, said: We as members of Congress mourning tne death of Viola Grejliuzzo of Detroit went fronlSlma to a tiny church near Towndesboro not far from the place where she was shot to elude its public hearings on the west of the 98th meridian which ly. He noted that President two bills with sessions Thurs-jruns north-south near Wichita1 Johnson recently advocated a day and Friday. Falls, Brownwood and Edin- lower voting age.

Jordan said he did not think, burg. i The water bill, by Sen. that the nackace warnings Rpd. Hudson Mover of Ama-i George Parkhouse of Dallas, had THE WEATHER noted that the facilities were bad from the security point of view. The new quarters will be any immediate attack on Hanoi, the capital of North Viet Nam.

Officials said the statement indicated no special retaliatory action was being planned. were "desirable or pushed the bill through the! the endorsement of the gover- approved by the Congress, I am death. Then they completed the 50-mile drive to Montgomery and walked the last short dis sure. Before it was issued, Johnson Zablocki, chairman of the conferred for 2V2 hours with sary. as a result 01 Sen.

H.J. (Doc) Blanch-jnor. it authorizes tne water ae-emotionaJ wave that has sweptlard of Lubbock is Senate board to sell the this country, it appears certain sponsor. bonds and use the money for that some kind of action in this! Also on the Senate calendar water conservation. tance to the Capitol steps FORECAST FROM THE V.

8. WEATHER BUREAU AT THE ATS TERMINAL: Partly clnvdjr thla aft-mono thTOach Thursday; little wanner through Thunaay. Hick today 10, low toiickt big tomorrow 71. Vesterday kick S3, overnight low 41. TEMPERATURES Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert S.

There wasn't any trouble, and Disarmament Meeting Asked UNITED NATIONS (UPI) The Soviet Union called today for the immediate convening of the VJN. Disarmament Commission to discuss world disarmament. Soviet Ambassador Nikolai T. Fedorenko told UJ4. Secretary General Thant the Soviets want the commission to convene during the first half of April.

All 114 U.N. countries are members of the commission. Fedorenko told a news conference after seeing Thant that the commission should meet because the 17-nation Geneva disarmament conference has failed to come up with satisfactory solutions for the problems of general and complete disarmament and lessening of international tension. House Foreign Affairs Committee's Far East subcommittee said, "In order to further dem again the racial atmosphere McNamara and McGeorge field will be taki. jwas a bill passed in the Housej Tonight the House State Af- seemed improved.

Police Chief onstrate our intentions it would "I tnmK it is tne apringiaice Kep. cunfairs Committee hears anouier Bundy, special assistant to the President for national security not be out of order to bomb in ty of the Congress to take me uayton to require licensing 01 bill backed by the governor initiative in order to prevent water well drillers with a self- dustrial complexes in or near affairs. The four meet every office, one by Rep. Bill Satter- great deal of ccMusion ana regulating body week, and their luncheon ses white of Ennis. to set up a full- sion had been scheduled ad chaos.

are a situation 1 me House Tuesday approved time lobbyist in Washington to vance of Monday night's in which tobacco has become a a plan to allow voting at the! represent the state of Texas. City Ma. Mm. Abileae S3 Alpine 47 44 AmarUo a 3 Chicago 34 SS Denver El Pais 73 44 Fort Worth SO 48 Galveston New York 4 Oklahoma City S( S3 San Antonio 57 53 St. Louis a popular whipping boy.

It hasjage of 19 in Texas, while the reached the point where it is; Senate passed a $200 million Hanoi." He also said he does not favor the bombing of nonmilitary targets. Johnson, in his stateme-t, extended sympathy to the families of those killed in the attack. Twenty persons, two Americrji, Marvin Stanley and Police Commissioner L.B. Suilivan kept firm control while state troopers remained out of sight inside the Capitol. Several hours -earlier Gov.

George C. Wallace met with 15 civil rights leaders for an hour and 20 minutes. "We are hopeful," said the; Rev. Joseph E. Lowery of Birm- See SOUTH'S, Page 2-A 1 Late today Johnson is expect ed to confer with Maxwell D.

Taylor, the American ambassador to Saigon who has been in Washington for consultation since last Sunday. essential for Congress to stepjbond sale authorization for dam in and blow the whistle. and water reservoir construc- "It would be extremely un-jtion. wise to permit a situation Both proposals involve consti-develop in which a number ofjtutional amendments to be ap-the states would act in thislproved by the voters in Novem- are known dead. About 175 were UT System Gets Arlington State AUSTIN (UPI) The House today gave final approval 138-4 Sun Mti today at 7:0 a.m..

rises" Thnraiay nt ajn. Precipitation last 4 hours, traea. wounded. By Southern Congressman field as well as one or more administrative or regulatory agencies of the federal government," Jordan said. Chairman Paul Rand Dixon of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) made it clear in to a bill, transferring Arlington State College from Texas ber 1966, if they pass both houses.

Rep. V.E. (Red) Berry of San Antonio fathered the voting age bill, but he credited the bill's only vocal opponent, Rep. Billy Williamson of Georgetown, with helping it pass. Williamson denounced the plan at length.

"The 19-year-old of 1965 is just as immature as the 19-year-old was 95 years ago" (when the present age Alabama 0mchJerhtdOtgy University to tne university or Texas system. The House attached two amendments to the measure last week, so it must go back testimony before tne senate committee earlier this week that his agency intends to require health warnings on cigarette packages and in advertising unless congress specifically pre-empts the field. was set), be insisted. www to the Senate before Gov. John Connally can sign it.

The amendments are not considered controversial. There was no debate today when the House finally passed the bill. The measure is the culmination of a long and sometimes bitter squabble between Arling Inside Today's Odessa American ton and Arlington ac justifiably they have been denied their, rights, and "misinformed and misguided do-gooders" such as clergymen and other professionals, had been used by a fourth group. "Who or what can weld this diverse group, together, into a formidable force that can and has 'overcome'? The. answer is this: The Communnst party," Dickinson said.

Dickinson's remarks were termed by Charles Blackwell, program director of march leader Martin Luther King's Southern Christian, Leadership Conference. Said Blackwell, "I regard the comments from the representative as being the kind of garbage that men of his general geographical area are too. often identified with." site members of either race." "Free love among this group is not only condoned, it is encouraged," he said. "It is a fact and their way of life. Only by the ultimate sex act with one of another color can they demonstrate they have no prejudice." "This is no religious group of sympathizers trying to help the Negro out of a sense of right and morality," he said.

"This is a bunch of godless riff-raff out for kicks and self-gratification that have left every campsite between Selma and Montgomery littered with whisky bottles, beer cans and used contraceptives. Dickinson said the beatnik group, plus' Alabama Negroes who believe in some cases gaged in an all-night session of debauchery within the church itself," he said. "The leadership of the church had to get help to have these 'freedom marchers' put out of their church and even had to have the telephone disconnected because of the long distance calls." "Urinating in the street was not uncommon during demonstrations and more than one of these 'freedom marchers' was arrested for indecent exposure in a public place." Dickson described one faction of the demonstrators as "human flotsam adventurers, beatniks, prostitutes and similar rabble." He said they were recruited-at $10 a day, free room and board "and all of the sex they want frm the oppo- WASHINGTON (UPI) An Alabama congressman said Tuesday "drunkenness and sex orgies were the order of the day" during civil rights demonstrations in Selma, and on the "march to Montgomery." He said the entire situation was a Communist plot. Rep. William L.

Dickinson, in a speech prepared for House delivery, said "there were many, not just a few, instances of sexual intercourse in public between Negro, and white." "News reporters saw this, law enforcement officials saw this, and Mr. Speaker, photographs were taken of this, 1 am told," Dickinson said, "Negro and white freedom marchers invaded a Negro church in Montgomery and en cused the board of regents of trying to suppress Arlington's efforts to get graduate EARTHQUAKE Chileans Go To Work With A Vengeance To Clean Up Debris From Earthquake (Page 4-A) VIET NASI Jungle Heat Is Often More Dangerous Than Red Guerrillas In i Nam (Page 13-A) programs. Earlier this after a delegation of Arlington supporters sought support from the University of Texas regents for the school's expansion efforts, the board withdrew Arlington request for approval by the Texas Commission on Higher Education cf nine new HOW TO KEEP WELL 8-A OIL NEWS 5-B SOCIETY -7-A SPORTS 2-4-B TV LOG 5-B YOUR STARS 3-A AMUSEMENTS 15-A COMICS 1A. DEAR ABBY S-A EDITORIALS 12-A GOREN ON BRIDGE 13-A HORSE SENSE TEST 15-A graduate programs..

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