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LINCOLN EVENING JOURNAL SPORTS FINAL and Nebraska State Journal MARKET CLOSES FOUNDED IN 1867 98TH YEAR-186 LINCOLN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1965 4 TEN CENTS Natural Gas Refund Due Health Services Act Signed TELEPHOTO President Johnson's signature is shown on the Community Health Services Act after a White House Rose Garden ceremony. Here he gathers up a handful of the pens he used, to distribute to those who attended. Reapportionment nent Proposal, Falling Apart, Advances By DEL SNODGRASS The legislative reapportionment bill which began falling apart at the seams Wednesday virtually disintegrated Thursday. After a full morning of frequently harsh debate over the measure, LB925, the lawmakers by a weak voice voteadvanced the bill off select. file.

Barring possible attempts to return the bill to select file for other amendments, LB925's next appearance will be on final reading. But most legislative observers felt it will be a miracle if the bill can garner the necessary 25 votes for final passage. If the bill fails on final reading and this seemed likely following Thursday's free-forall hassle on the -passage of a new redistricting Fbill could be impossible at this session. If this is the case and Legislature fails to. act, the attorney general's office is expected to proceed with an appeal to the U.S.

Supreme Court from the May lower court decision which struck down LB628. That was the Unicameral's earlier reapportionment act which failed to satisfy two members of a three-judge federal court. The most debate, and that prompting exchange of most of the heated comments Thursday, came over an amendment offered by Sen. William Wylie of Elgin. Wylie's plan, which was prepared by Sen.

Elvin Adamson of Valentine would have reduced the population disparity among districts to but would have crossed at least a dozen county lines. Adamson argued that if county lines are to be crossed, then there is no reason why there should be as much as a deviation as called for in LB925. What took the Omaha delegation by surprise was the fact Douglas County's boundary would' be split three ways. Douglas Count senators, who have defended crossing county lines in the past, reacted violently to the WylieAdamson plan, which the senators later rejected by.a vote. "Ridiculous and unacceptable" were the words used by Omaha Sen.

George Syas. "A warped plan," was Omaha Sen. Sam Klaver's description. COMIC Dictionary 01965 by Evar Esar Body The bag. everyone carries the voyage of more excess one carries, the the trip.

Power Commission U.N. Viet Action Doubtful Thant Could Be Go-Between By MAX HARRELSON United Nations, N.Y. (P) Despite talk about possible U.N. action on Vietnam, it is hard to find a U.N. diplomat who believes that the organization can play a decisive role.

Opinion Some feel Secretary Analysis General Thant might be useful as a Of Author go-between in arranging peace negotiations, but there is little support for the idea that the Security Council could intervene effectively. The secretary-general himself has said that Vietnam was a cold war conflict and that it was impractical to believe that the United Nations could overawe a nuclear power. In fact, the veto guarantees that the Council his cannot adopt any decision unless it has U.S. and Soviet approval. No one expects the Kremlin to act against the wishes of Red China and North Vietnam.

That is one reason no one has thought it worthwhile to request Security Council action. Some Skeptical During recent weeks President Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Ambassador Arthur Goldberg have stressed the possibility of a U.N. role. There has been no U.N. request for a Security Council meeting on the subject.

Some Asian and African delegates are skeptical of U.S. interest in involving the United Nations in Vietnam. They recall that a few months ago Johnson sent word through the late Adlai Stevenson that he was annoyed by a peace initiative Thant took. U.S. officials a ve been saying recently that Peking and Hanoi have rebuffed the secretary overtures.

Asian diplomat noted this and asked: Does the President now want to have the Security Council members take an initiative simply in order to say that the Council was cold-shouldered or that it failed to find a solution? Fear Being Used This diplo: at, speaking with the understanding he would not be identified, said some delegates are cautious because they fear they may be used in what U.S. officials refer to as a "peace offensive." Echo Schedule Echo Satellite II visible from Lincoln Thursday, 10:09 p.m., north of city, 54 degrees abovehorizon, moving northeast. UFO "star-like in appearance." Valentine Teenagers Saw 'UFO' Valentine Two Valentine teen-agers have photographed what they believe to be an unidentified flying object (UFO). Bill Ward and Judi Hatcher said they photographed the object through a four-inch refractor telescope on Monday. They added that they had seen other UFO's Monday and Tuesday nights.

Two of the UFO's were shown later to be the star Arcturus and a satellite, they said, but about three others have not been identified. Miss Hatcher described the photographed object as "starlike in appearance, except for the fact that it moved up and down and did other maneuvers in relation to some power lines." The movements covered about 12 degrees, she said. 'Frequently' She said the object "dimmed frequently and changed colors, varying from red to green to bluish-white." An out-of-focus telescope observation showed that the colors moved across the UFO from one side 10 the other, she said. colors were not all present at the same time in a shifting pattern as in stars," she said. A- second object later appeared in the northeast, moving back and forth in an area of about one degree, she said.

"In general, it was proceeding to the east, though slowly. "It was noted that four smaller, dimmer objects appeared to be following this main one, and as we watched, they seemed to close ranks with it." Disappeared During this time "all the major stars were in place," she added, "including Arcturus, but no star of less than second magnitude was visible in the vicinity of this object." Whenever one of the two larger UFO's blinked "excessively, the other would disappear," she said. "After a bout three hours, the original object blinked out and failed to reappear." Throughout the sky show there was little atmospheric disturbance, she said, and the sky was clear. Since last weekend, authorities have received a rash of UFO reports from central plains and western states residents. Lack of Data Darkens UFO 'A Nebraska state museum official said Thursday there was not enough information on the UFO photographs for him to make any judgment about their reliability.

Allan Griesemer, curator of educational services for the said Miss Hatcher had supplied "reams" of information," but little of it relevant. Missing were data on length of exposure and speed at which the object appeared to be moving. Because a telescope magnifies such a large area, it probably would not be possible to photograph a moving object within the atmosphere, he said. Load Changed Northampton, Mass. (A) Smith College is revising.

its curriculum to allow earlier and heavier concentration in major subjects. The present course load will be cut from 40 to 32 over four years, starting September, 1966. Have You Tried airmont' better milk? Be sure to buy this week. -Adv. Spells Price Rate Supreme Court Test 'Certain' To Appeal Federal Decision Summer, They Say, Is 'Here' Most of the state was to be blanketed by clouds Thursday.

Warm moist air, light winds and low pressure all add up to typical (finally) summer in Nebraska. A stationary front in eastern Nebraska should move slightly northward as a warm front, thus threatening rain in the central and eastern sections Thursday night with about area coverage. Little, temperature change is expected, except slightly cooler over western sections of the state Thursday and western and central sections Thursday night. Decreasing humidity and near normal temperatures will make for pleasant weather Friday and Extreme temperatures in the state Wednesday were 99 at Beatrice and Grand Island and 54 at Sidney. Lincoln's gap was 98 high and 68 low.

The nation's high was a blistering 110 degrees at Imperial, Calif. Elka, recorded the nation's low of 41. Rainfall reported by the Weather Bureau for the 24 hours ending at 7:30 Thursday: Grand Island North Platte .03 Hastings Sidney .10 Imperial .17 Valentine Fortas: No Red Link Washington (UPI) Abe Fortas, President Johnson's first appointment to the Supreme Court, knocked down a charge that he had been connected with Communists and Communist fronts over a considerable period -of time." Fortas told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he did not have any "close association" with an alleged Communist clique in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration where he worked early in the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The 55-year-old Washington lawyer, an old and close friend of Johnson's, testified at a committee hearing on his nomination to the Supreme Court.

Before Fortas took the stand, Mrs. Marjorie Shearon of suburban Chevy Chase, testified that he was once a member of National Committee of the Internathe tional Juridical Association, cited as a Communist-front by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. BE SURE TO READ '1 Vote' Rule Stands ENT- Senate failed to provide the necessary two-thirds majority support for Sen. Everett Dirksen's constitutional amendment on legislative reapportionment Page 2 ANTIQUE MEMORIESThere's a century-old antique at Hickman which TODAY "the brings good back old memories days" to of some of the town's olda timers Page 6 WHO GOES and county officials agree, informally, on use of office space when new city-county building is erected Page 6. Inside You'll Also Find Ann Landers 12 Legislature 6 Sport News 15-17 Births 12 Lincoln News 6 Stocks 22 Comics 28 Living Today 12,13 Television 21 Crosswords 28 Markets 22 Want Ads 23-27 Daily Record .22 Movies 20- Weather 22 Deaths 21 National News 2,3 What to Do.

21 Editorial 4 Nebraska News 6 Women's News 12,13 Legal Notices. 22 Radio ..21 World News ...2,3 Legis. Calendar Washington (UPI) The (FPC), in a milestone decision, of dollars in refunds and consumers. The decision spelled out a simplified two-price system of setting uniform rates for producers in more than 20 regions. The decision in the long and involved Permian Basin case represented a historic departure in federal regulation.

The case was fought by producers every step of the way in the five years it took the commission to decide it. It was viewed as almost a dead certainty that the decision will be appealed to the Supreme Court. Supreme Court. It was also certain to have strong impact on the stock market and widespread reverberations in the oil and gas industry. Start Sept.

1 The decision itself applied only to the Permian Basin producing area of West Texas and eastern New Mexico. But it was considered a precedent for uniform area pricing in other regions. The FPC said new lower rates should go into effect Sept. 1. and could not raised for at least years.

The highest rate allowable under the decision will be 16.5 cents per 1,000 cubic feet of gas (MCF). This rate will apply to newly discovered gas. Major producers in the Permian Basin sought a price less than 20 cents per MCF. That is the price many of them are now receiving for their gas under interim authority. To Consumers The difference between the present prices and the new lower prices would constitute the refund.

This is estimated at between $30 million and $35 million. FPC experts calculated that of the total refunds eventually two-third to three would go to individual consumers. The Permian Basin a geological term supplies about of all interstate natural gas used by the country's 36. million consumers. Revenues from sales of permian gas are in excess of $126 million annually.

However, experts declined to estimate how much the average household user may get in refund. Approximately of Permian gas is consumed in California by customers of El Paso Natural Gas Co. and Trans Western Pipeline Co. These companies also supply so me markets in Colorado and Kansas. The remainder Nebraskans and Military Service NU ROTC Units Training 1,000 Young Men to Become Officers Fourth of a Series By BILL TILLINGHAST Map on Page 21 Alliance Sen.

George Gerdes, who heretofore has been a close ally of Sen. Adamson's, commented: "'He (Adamson) must have had a nightmare." Adamson replied that the debate only pointed up the fact that senators do not oppose crossing county lines provided a plan does not cut up their counties. But though Omaha senators obviously regarded the Adamson plan as a curve ball and the proposal prompted several urban versus rural comments, Thursday's debate also featured several rural versus rural scraps. The senators rejected two proposals offered by Carpenter to split the county boundaries of Dodge and Boone Counties. But they left intact a Caramendment which penter, Harlan County in southwest Nebraska.

Sen. Ramey Whitney of Chappell attempted to keep the Harlan County boundary intact, but his motion was rejected and prompted. ansexchange betwe him and Sens. Lester Harsh of Bartley and Chester Paxton of Thedford. One amendment accepted prompted no conflict.

Lancaster County senators Thousands of Americans add to the nation's military strength daily on college campuses through training in the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC). When American military might clashes with an enemy, the college officers and volunteer women provide the additional leadership and manpower which, coupled with the regular Armed Forces, has always contributed to American victory. While the conflict in Vietnam progresses stage by stage, 1,000 young men at the University of Nebraska prepare themselves to take the reins of military leadership while they pursue their chosen civilian specialty. Professionals Teach At the Military Science and Naval Tactic, building on the NU campus professional officers and veteran enlisted personnel train these future officers in preparation for the Federal Power Commission opened the way for millions lower rates. for natural gas is consumed by customers of Northern Natural Gas Co.

in Illinois, Towa, Knasas, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. The commission adopted a dual-pricing system for new and old gas recommended in an examiner's initial decision in the case, issued last September. It reasoned that a higher price for newly discovered gas would spur exploration. UP. added their proposal for redistricting within Lancaster County to the bill.

A renewed plea that the senators quit fighting over reapportionment and appeal the earlier ruling on LB628 was made by Sen. Stanley Matzke of Milford. But Sen. Harold Stryker of Rising City took the opposite view. He insisted the Legislature should pass LB925, and send it into court for a decision on its compliance with the Supreme Court's one man-one vote edict.

LB925, as it now stands, would create a 49-member Legislature and cross seven county lines. Douglas County would have 12 senators, while Lancaster County together with the western ends of Cass and Otoe Counties would have six legislators. But the bill may well be amended later and stands every chance of being rejected on final reading. School Lands Rental Bill OKd The Legislature has passed LB316, the bill reducing the rental on state school lands from 6 to the reduction to be preceded by an appraisal of each tract at its true value. The state has a 1.6 million acres of school land now apContinued: Page Col.

6 day they are commissioned second lieutenants or ensigns, Be it Air Force, Army or Navy, the cadet officers are steeped in military history, exposed to the lessons drawn from past military encounters and study methods of strategy and logistics. The 160 advanced Army ROTC students in this fall's program commit themselves to two-year assignments upon commissioning as second lieutenants at graduation. The Army ROTC has both a and a four-year program. The first is designed for students who transfer from junior college or who simply didn't start in ROTC at the beginning of their college career. On entry into the program the two-year student undergoes six-weeks training at a summer camp before joining the regular advanced students in campus training that fall.

4 Weeks Students in the four-year program go to four weeks of Lincolnites May Gain The Federal Power Commission decision requiring some $30 to $35 million refunds by gas producers in the Permian Basin may affect Lincolnites, according to Duane Swanson, general solicitor from Western Power and Gas Co. The FPC ordered the Texas and New Mexico producers to refund to three pipeline companies including Northern Natural Gas Co. of Omaha. Swanson said all Western Power and Gas Co. customers in Lincoln receive gas derived from Northern Natural.

He said the amount of refund or reductions could not be determined until after the FPC order is received and is studied. Swanson noted that Western customers in Lincoln are currently receiving credit on the monthly bills from an FPC order last year. Swanson said the reduction began in November and will continue through September. Mrs. Hillerege, Mother of Sen.

Carpenter, Dies By The Associated Press Mrs. Martha Hillerege, mother of State Sen. Terry Carpenter, died Thursday at Scottsbluff. She was 92 and had been in failing health for some time. Mrs.

Hillerege was born in Ohio but lived later in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where Sen. Carpenter, her only surviving child, was born. She moved to Scottsbluff in 1917 and had made it her home since that time. A resolution of sympathy to survivors of Mrs. Hillerege was adopted in the State Legislature in Lincoln.

The Weather Official U.S. Weather Data training between their junior and senior years in school. Future Army officers in the advanced program are paid a $40 a month retainer by the Army: Like the Army, the Air Force also has a two-year and a four-year program for ROTC students. The two-year men go to a six-week summer camp before entering the, advanced program and the four-year men to a four-week between their junior and senior years. In addition to the $40 a month retainer pay now in progress, the Air Force will soon begin offering scholarships which will pay the cost of tuition and books- and increase the retainer to $50 per month.

About 750 students are enrolled in the Air Force ROTC program at the University of Nebraska this fall. Cadets in the Force ROTC program obligate themselves for four years acl Continued on Page 5 Nebraska: Partly cloudy Thursday night and Friday, showers and thunderstorms affecting about of eastern portion. Not quite so warm central Thursday afternoon. A little cooler northeast Friday. Lows Thursday near 60 north central to lower 70s southeast, Highs Friday in the 80s north central to 90s southeast.

Lincoln: Variable cloudiness Thursday Friday, chance thundershowers late Thursday afternoon and night. Slightly cooler. High Thursday upper 80s, low mid 60s. High Friday upper 80s. LINCOLN TEMPERATURES Wednesday 4.

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...83 2 p.m. .87 3 p.m. .88 4 p.m. ...88 DISCOMFORT INDEX-78 (Temperature-Humidity Index expressed in relationship to norm of 75, Lincoln at 3:00 p.m.) Human gage through life. and baggage shorter Weather Summary, Page 22 "Koylon Mattress Sale! Firm latex foam -Hardy's..