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Wigd Bvmoj Ward HM tramped IB Policeman checks grandparents of kidnaped youth as they: enter Goldman home; father Aaron Goldman stands at door; friends, neighbors talk to police. Aft Wire photos. THE MD IANAPOLIS IN THE BULLPEN Generally fair and warmer tonight; partly cloudy and little temperature change tomorrow; low tonight near 32. Details on Page 25. NEWS piflON The Great Hoosier Daily Since 7869 "Whtn fh Spirit of ih Lord Thn Is Cor.

3-17 97th YEAR 638-2411 44 PAGES TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1966 7e Morton Coimty tc ElMrtiir 40e Pr Wtek Carrlir Mlvwtd Ransom Price DD Mm REASON TO REDUCE NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (UPI) Weight Watchers a group therapy reducing club, is looking for a new meeting place. City building inspectors ruled yesterday that the floors of the old theater where the club had been meeting are not strong enough to support 75 or 80 overweight persons. Doubled To $50000 By CHARLES TAYLOR SURFSIDE, Fla. (UPI) The ransom price for young Danny Goldman was presumed to have doubled to $50,000 today after an all-night vigil failed to produce any contact with the youth's kidnaper.

The husky gunman who abducted the 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Goldman before dawn yesterday warned that if $25,000 ransom money was not in his hands by 6 a.m. today, the price would double. Gfl in GSM Midwest Loses Job 5 "We have had no contact Corps Pact 111 whatsoever with the kidnaper," an FBI spokesman said.

"We have no choice but to assume the ransom price -has doubled." At 8:05 a.m., four police The Office of Economic Opportunity announced today it is terminating the contract of State Firms Blame Accidents, Costs An average 23.8 per cent boost in auto insurance rates is needed to offset increased accident claims and a "continued inflationary spiral in costs," a spokesman for a large part of the industry in Indiana said today. John D. Hughes, general counsel for the Hoosier-land Rating Bureau, outlined the position of companies it represents at an informal hearing ordered by State Insurance Commissioner Joseph G. Wood. illUl Midwest Education Foundation Inc.

to run the Job Corps one of them carrying a tan attache case hurried out 4 I Training Center at Camp At terbury. The decision was announced by Wray Smith, director of the urban centers for the OEO, and was strongly protested by Hoosierland, two Other rat directors of Midwest. of the Goldman home and sped off in an unmarked car, followed by two marked police cruisers. Police and the FBI refused to comment on the incident Police, meanwhile, carefully checked out every report of a stolen car in this resort area-figuring the kidnaper may be seeking transportation after abandoning Danny's car, which he used to flee the Goldmans' Canal-front $50,000 home early yesterday. Dallas Sells, Midwest board chairman and state AFL-CIO mmfj UPlTKtpheM president, said, "We completely disagree with this decision." Smith said adverse publicity 1 i ill il ii M-yl 1966, in which 1,620 might die, Smock said: "The culprit responsible for these appalling figures is the public and not the insurance industry." Wood, who initiated the hearings which are not required by law, indicated earlier that some increase will ing bureaus and many independent companies are expected to seek increases within the next few weeks.

Hughes, noting that Hoosierland companies (writing up to a third of the policies in Indiana) have been losing money on auto insurance annually, about the center was not factor in the decision. Daniel Goldman ransom also told Wood We want Smith said the new contractor would be an establshed institutional organization but did not identify it. Smith praised the work of Midwest, a nonprofit corporation set up solely to operate the center, in getting it estab to emphasize that insurance be forthcoming if the indus- try proves its case. lished. "I think they've done an ex' The parents of the "aver-! age" senior at Miami Beach High School, whose 18th birthday was today, kept a futile all-night vigil with 13 policemen and FBI agents, waiting, for some word from the bespectacled middle-age naper.

Daniel was wearing green pants and a light tan wind-breaker when he was abducted. The youth was an electronics bug and even had his own little, fix-it shop, "Goldman's Electronics." cellent job," Smith said. "The question is: Can we have i more effective job in the fu ture?" goes up. from bonds In which the kidnaper had left them. He tied knives against their wrists so they would cut themselves if they wriggled to get free.

Goldman described the kidnaper to police as being in his 50s, 5 feet 8, weighing 180 to 200 pounds and wearing a baseball cap and silver-rimmed, sun glasses. The father said that before the man took his son that he demanded $20,000 in cash which the Goldmans told him they did not have in the house. With the kidnapping, the demand went to $25,000, and still higher, today. TIM NEWS Photo, Nick Longwortli. He noted Midwest consists of a board of private citizens who must give their own time to administering the center and Hamilton Theater to show foreign "art" films.

'Art' Movies For East side Bring Wave Of Protests that "it is not a well-estab lished institutional organiza tion." "A nice polite boy, said one neighbor. Surfside Mayor Louis Stall-man paid a brief visit to the Goldmans home last night. Others whose comments supported an increase included: Elton TeKolste, executive director of the Indiana Hospital Association, who said there has been a general increase in hospital and medical costs over the last five years, all of which "reflect increased care and treatment of patients." Scott Miles of Evansville, director of the Indiana Independent Garage Owners, who said there has been an increase in the cost of average repair bills over the last five years. Spokesmen also referred to a record number of auto accidents in 1965. A panel of legislators who are in the insurance business sat with Wood to hear explanations from the industry why they believe rates should be increased.

The hearing was held in the State Office companies: "Didn't drive the cars, didn't have the accidents, didn't increase hospital and medical costs, didn't increase the cost of windshields, fenders or bumpers or other parts, had nothing to do with garage labor rates, didn't design the vehicles or roads." WHEN BILLS GO UP, WHAT ELSE? He added: "In the end, what the insurance companies do is pay the bills and when the bills do go up, the rates must go up." Deputy State Insurance Commissioner Richard Smock said the department already has made some studies in anticipation of a requested rate boost and, while not disclosing details, said: "The over-all picture developed so far is not a pretty one." Citing past accident records and projecting new ones for The Midwest contract will expire in about 90 days. By MIKE ALEXANDER Plans to bring "art" movie Marines Kill 150 films to an Eastside theater ty prosecutor's office has been contacted about it. Humphrey expressed surprise when told of the opposition. "No one has complained to me," he said. "People complained how bad have stirred protests from neighborhood churches, resi N.

Viet Troops dents, and a school Parent- Teacher Association president. the show was before. And now "They're just sweating it out," he said. At about 5 p.m. yesterday, 12 hours after the kidnaping, police found Danny's white 1962 model car, which the abductor used for his getaway, abandoned on a Miami Beach street It was 5:20 a.m.

yesterday when the elder Goldman's screams awakened the neighbors in the exclusive section. "We heard him screaming, 'Please help me, get the help said Emil Meizles, who lives across the street. Meizles sent his 18-year-bld son over and the boy helped the Goldmans get loose the survival of the govern' The Hamilton Theater, 2116 E. 10th, will begin showing we're spending $15,000 to re ment but for the survival of foreign art films in two or model it and give it a better appearance, and they complain Viet Nam." all the more. The Marines ran into the North Vietnamese troops in "We will show high-class foreign movies, which appeal Operation Indiana, a new in'x- -1 campaign in Quang Ngai pro vince 330 miles northwest of Saigon, which has been under Viet Cong threat or control for years.

1 about the new plans for the Hamilton Theater about a week ago. "We were planning to remodel our home and build a she added, "but we don't know now." "This sort of thing is not what we need in the community," said the Rev. Robert Clayton, pastor of the East 10th Street Methodist Church. He said he spoke to his congregation of 300 Sunday about it "to make them aware." Said the Rev. Delmar Krueg-er, pastor of St.

Peter Lutheran Church: "No doubt the theater will show good films from time to time, but this type of theater makes a general appeal towards the sexual aspect rather than towards art. Titles and advertisements prove this." The Rev. William E. Roddy, First Free Methodist Church, said he will present the matter to the church board at its next meeting, commenting that such a theater is "not too wholesome of a business." "A petition would be one way to fight this," suggested Mrs. Ronald Doak, 1232 Windsor, president of School 33's PTA.

Although no move is under foot to circulate a petition yet, she said the Marion Coun Intelligence reports identi Mrs, Johnson fied the. Reds as elements of North Viet Nam's 1st Battalion which has fought the Marines twice before this month. "They Sick, Cancels Trip By THOMAS REEDY SAIGON (AP) U.S. forces pounded Communist territory by land, air and sea today, but only the Marines reported major contact with the enemy. The Marines fought a three-hour battle with North Viet-namese regulars yesterday on the central coast near Quang Ngai City, killing an estimated 150 Reds, a Marine spokesman said.

i Communists offered' stiff resistance to the first Marine helicopters, inflicting moderate casualties, but U.S. planes and artillery quelled the resistance. Meanwhile, rising Buddhist political agitation in" Saigon brought a warning from Premier Nguyen Cao Ky that he will take "very strong measures" if necessary to halt the demonstrations. Speaking to foreign newsmen while 1,000 students demonstrated in another part of the city against his military regime and the United States, Ky promised to act "not for End To Rift Urged First Secretary Leonid Brezhnev opened the Soviet Communist party's 23rd congress with an appeal to Red China for new efforts to end their split. Page 7.

Kennedy Off And Running The election may be 6Vi years off, but Democratic strategists believe Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, is in the 1972 presidential race. Page 6. must be looking for a big vie three weeks following a remodeling program, manager Neville F.

Humphrey said today. He said the films will be of the same" type previously shown at the Cinema Art Theater, 213 E. 16th, which was destroyed by a $400,000 fire Feb. 21. "Sexy girlie show Is what they will show, and young boys and girls will be affected by the sensual advertisements out in front," complained a mother of three boys, Frank Meid, 1026 N.

Beville. Mrs. Meld said the only shows she would let her three sons, ages 6 to 15, see were Walt Disney movies. She added that she feared such a theater would bring the wrong type of people to the neighborhood. Mrs.

Jesse Grubbs, 1029 Jefferson, the mother of two boys, 12 and 16, said the heard WASHINGTON (AP Mrs. tory in this area," a Marine to the high-brow person. A lot of college students come to see our films, which are sometimes dubbed in German, French or Italian languages," Humphrey said. "It will be an adult theater through the week, but I plan to have children's matinees during the weekend. And no offensive or suggestive posters or advertisements will be around.

"I'm a businessman trying to get along in the community. If anyone has any complaints about this theater, I wish he would come to see me about it. I'm here from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. every Humphrey said the Albert Dezel Productions Inc.

of Detroit bought the theater Sunday from Peter J. Fortune. The Detroit firm also owns the Cinema Art Theater. officer said. Lyndon B.

Johnson is ill with viral laryngitis and will delay A daring charge against an for two days with her sched Brezhnev enemy bunker by Marine Pfc. uled trip to Texas, the White House announced today. She Alvin S. LaPointe of Sudbury, relieved one Marine company pinned 'down by a had been scheduled to fly to Austin tonight, starting a 20MM cannon. The 19-year- week-long Texas visit.

old Marine crawled to within five feet of the bunker, jumped Editorials 10 Garden 44 Obituaries 8 Picture Page 12 Sports 26-29 TV and Radio 15 Want Ads 33-43 Women's Features Doctors expect that two days of rest and medication Pages Amusements 20-21 Bridge 23 Business News 30-32 Dr. Molner 23 Comics 22-23 Crossword Puzzle 44 Dear Abby 19 in and landed atop the gun will put Mrs. Johnson back in He killed one of the Red gunners with his bayonet and got shape by Friday to tour the Big Bend National Park. the other with a grenade. 3 ,1 Ml.

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