The Camden News from Camden, Arkansas • Page 1

Ir IJ r. o. box filas, jl THE CAMDEN NEWS olume xlvii number 122 (AIM Associated Press Serving The South's Ideal Industrial Area CAMDEN, ARKANSAS, TUESDAY, SEPT. 1966 Press Iitematioaal TRICE 10c David Pryor Sees United Front By Democratic Ranks By MAI IUCE MOORE Palmer Vws Bure.iu CAM DEN rnl David Pryor of Oam den sa.d he believes Party Arkansas us appn K-hing .1 era which the a-x-ent will be youthful loade iind persons of all political philosophies will be on to join the ranks. Tlx 31-year-old state repre senta1 ve, who won an impres sive primary tn I race, will dehv- er keynote address Thurs day wtun Democrats in Rock for their two-day convention.

Unity will be theme- and political eyti state will focused on sure he wrll set the tone foi wti.it mwr. predict will be a ruin bunrt.ous session. Btr lYyor said he has no, quafei Kit a Demacratic Victor Nov 8 general "I think there win be a great dual 1 4 party tie de in jii interview for the Dwno- crat it, Arkansas always have had their political differences and haw been able to mend tnr hvuxs "1 feH tins year will be no eroe; aithougn it has a very dramatK canipo gn wrot, we experienced in July and August he continued I would the cnance the I Jwnocrat- in Novembrr are very Pryor, who faces na Lynn of Garland of ei i. in the genera took note of the fact th his opponent is centering mu- of his at this or. tiw nation.il administration the first to say that 1 cm nly don't with Lyn do Joitfison tin he Hit all bis beliefs, Pry or commented Hut that is.

one thing about the Detnorra Ik Party We art1 big enough tc our differences and have dv irgent Then Pryor offered this pre di tion think this is going to be trend in njr state Den Hieratic Party I think we going to an indumnent an encouragement fir people of political phikxsnphtas to join ou" ranks. And I feel we can have aiipres.sed and tie.ani within Uie ra.iks In Arkansas. 1 believe it Will a ptirty fmni 1 feel it is going to be a party dial will buiki for the fu turv and will encourage young punple to participate ami ex prxiss theuviflves It wnll a party tliat ls going to aroentu youthful k-itdership and pHlthmv of real to jnmrig Pryor, sierved as state from Ouachita County for six ytars, pimtixl to ttu- v.tst change the of the 1967 State Ijetfi-Silatune said the average of the House might be an Kind 37 or 38 ytvirs old," he1 Continued Tlus siiows a defni treixl ttwi young people are tnoving to the front in Arkan are seeking jwsitions Of and are being granted pisitions Rut, tlie nominee also empiiasnsed. is not to say Om senior rmimbers of the par ty are not to be heard Certainly, as people, we have learned a lot from and we will continue to le irn Hut I ferl we are going to young people moving forward tfw Businessmen's Coffee Thursday Camden Jaycee will have their annual Coffee Thursday, September 15 it the Camden Community beginning at 9 a Clif- Steelman. diairman gave a report on Monday it a regular meeting of the laycees Steelman said invitations have Ix'en mailed to local nesHinen Persons attending the coffee will be given a resume of Jaycee activities in talks given by varknis members Steelman asid pur pise of the project is to acquaint businessmen with what the Camden Jayoees are doing Free and donuts will erved All Jaycees are urged to attend David Pryor, democratic candid for Congress of the Fourth District, who ik also a mem- of the Camden Jaycees has heen nominated to compete in Ten Noung Men of America contest spins bv the National Jaycees Harold Pennington vi is pe ik up Jaycee'' speaker for Monday Man was Skeetcr Clark Final Rites For Don Maddox Funeral services for Don Maddox, 14 son of Dr and Mrs John Middox were held Monday morning at the Firs! Hapust Church Dr Sam Maddox Don' ii St Mo brought the message, assisted by Roy Parr er Youth Director of the church Music was furnished by the A Capella Choir of Camden High School directed bv Bobby Tutt.

Mr arnl Mrs David Tate Jr and Mrs Jack Newton Members of the Camden Min- istrial Alliance, along with the deacons of the church, and other outstanding Savmen from over the state served as honorary pallbearers Burial was in Holly Mississippi on Monday afternoon with Proctor Funeral Home in charge of arrange ment Gemini 11 Pair More Atlanta Set New Record Racial Riots During Night By HOWARD BENEDICT A Aerospac Writer CAPE KENNEDY, Fla The fast-flying fiemini 11 astronauts, holders' of two new records, whirled into their second day in orbit today, preparing for a lengthy space walk by Richard F. Gordon Jr. Condon and command pilot Charles (Pete) Conrad Jr were awakened at 1:55 am Conrad told gnwnd control they were and bushy -tailed" and ready to go to work. ATLANTA, Oa AP) Despite civil rights leaders' pleas to end violence, defiant Negro youths hurled rorics and fire bombs Monday night before scaltxi off the area. The outbreak wa in the same tense, predominantly Negro sec tion where racial rioting erupted Saturday and Sunday nights, resulting in numerous arrests and extensive property damage.

Police 50 NegroStudenfs Enter Grenada Schools Today A flight surgeon reported they slept four of eight in the my vel er in his first night away from Leadership Conference home and much tie same as previous Gemini fhers. The outburst came after a meeting at a church where lead ers from the Southern Christian and the By JAMES BONNEY GRENADA. Miss (AP) by 50 Mississippi highway patrolmen in not gear, Negro pupils entered newly deseg negated schools here for the second day today without ap- difficulty More titan 100 white adults clustered in the Johnson Vetoes Bill To Increase Insurance Aid WASHINGTON i AP i tcmi Jiifuison has vetoed a $90- million emfiloye insw.uKx? with his call restraint in federal spending for presidency' and within weeks The last bill he re- ji'i'tiHi w.MJld have granted cost living increases tn star route, or contract, mail carriers. CAMDEN CHICKEN EX PER I ON TELEVISION TOKYO (Special) Arkansas Poultry Princess Paula Brink (left) and Arkansas Poultry Queen Katherine Ann Henderson (right), who are visiting Japan in conjunction with the Department of Poultry Trade Exhibit" being held at the Trade Center. Tokyo, appeared on the NHK television networks popular program Whats My Secret" on September 5.

no Johnson Monday after Ways ami Mc.m- its first day of hearings on a key portion of the lYeottdent's anti- I rifiati on 7 per cent investment tax credit aiu tne ciucciai ton al low- ance The came as Republican committee members prepared to challenge administration budgtft-cutting claims. by Thomas Curtis Mo the GOP members planned to quest kin Budget Director Chicles when resume today said Nlom the ad ministration i mg a alKiut $15 Secretary enf ore rut of of Johnson said reaction to his tax credit and program hid good, and that tinnk it will Fowler iasisted at Monday's hearing th.it the main purpose tive is to curb infla tion, to the $2 billion in revenue wtiK'ii suspension the tax would bring. He tiie door open for pos- ihU1 hikes' later however, by We cannot offer for future programs. Tlie only prudent omrse is to nvantam a fk'xible. step by-step approach 1' s.iid tin' administration would make a slwv in sending Con gres-s is furttier along on appreciations for the fiscal year which beg.m July 1 Eight major bills are pending About $1 1 billion of Uie cuts niade so f.ir, testified.

from delays and of building ami ottier capital investment His were Uiken to ndicate thai the $1 75-bilhon poverty pmgrarr and $5 74)111100 school aid grams were so far being spired from cuts. On the is Mrs. chicken Chicken girls in NHK ann gram table, in foreground. winning recipe, Standing between the Hajime Hasegwa, the the for pro- LBJ Takes Mid Course On Viet Nam Elections The husky, Gordon, 36, planned to step into tne silent emptiness of space about 9 30 am to sped 115 minutes drift mg more titan once around tie world as a human satellite. Conrad was to hold the tiny ship steady as man and ma chine, connected by a 30-foot lifeline, raced through the skies at 17.5UO miles an hour.

Maneuvering in the eerie world where only four other men have ventured. planned to dart about with a hand-held gas gun and try his as a spate mechanic by tightening and loosening bolts i metal plate. also go oviy to the Agena, which is docked with the Gemini, md unstow a lOo-foot cord attached to the aatelUte. He to fasten the loose end to the nose of (iemmi 11. Wednesday.

Conrad plans to undock and back a way from the Agea until the line becomes taut to if tins is an effective, fuel-saving means of formation flying. The pilots and mission controllers for as muth suc- aM the astronauts had Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee vied for a followig Police quickly restored order Firemen were called and rushed to the twice when home made fire bombs set buildings afire The blazes were soon extinguished Police moved rapidly, dear mg sidewalks and even porches. A cold, drizzly ram helped By midnight, area was quiet, Police questioned in connection with the fatal shoot ig Saturday night of a Negro teen-ager. Herbert Vorner, con sidered tlie spark that started 12 Black Panthers Arrested At Harlem Junior High School NEW YORK (AP) demonstration outs junior high school as year opened has resulted on the arrest of 12 young members of the Black Panthers, a militant Nogro nationalist group area jeering. The Whites, I it students and newsmen Monday and threatened others, turned on newsmen again today.

A wirvkiw of one man's car was smashed on the street wit- side the s-choyl by angry whites Other cars were roc ked and kicked. A white man. mistaken for a reporter, was beaten to the ground as he talked with. Constable Grady Carroll. The man, identified as Henry Aaronson.

a lawyer for tin? NAACP Legal Defense Fund, a HaHean was led away school better got the hell mit of here right white toughs yelled at AP photograjilier Jack Tbornell We going II was the only such inciden, here In the city M.mday as more than anAee press. a mflhon pupiLs trooped back to classrooms. the rioting. At the meeting. Hosea Wil- Pickets in the group ca-riea Pams, political action director rxwding.

Be Strong of the SCI; dowr Young the Panthers of black and, Black KKi of the militant youths immunity Must Control the walked out of the Tabernacle: Neighborhood Schools Baptist Oiurch wlwn Williams They demanded that certain They later returned. supervisory personnel He stressed the need for inde transferred and that Negro pendent thinking and hit hard be included in the cur the for education arwl rtculum. After a 45-minute demonstra 1 tion outaide the old cramped The patroltm-n. part o( a A force of highway patrolmen carrying tear gas canisters, riot gunc-, and gas masks, moved in at this point and scattered the whites. The men and women reformed in small knots on strt'et corners about a block from the two schools The patrolmen earner had been stationed about one block from the schools, where the Negro children encountered club- wielding white adults after class nomic betterment.

West 740th of 175 sent mto tense demned and wlute on west i4utn Mreet, men in general, blaming them moved in and seized 12. for tlie Saturday shootig. persons for allegedly attempting Willie Ricks, SNCC field sec to prevent children from attend retary. said. going to mg the srtiool They were to have every cracker in Atlanta today, on his knees.

willing toj Injured Newsman Is Former P. B. Scribe 0. F. Lewis Died Monday 0 Lewis, aged 72 of Rt 1 CarnHf-n died in a lacol hospital Monday afternoon He is survived by his wife Mrs two sons Kllis of Camden, James A vvis of Japan orn- daughter Mrs Mahle Coleman of Camden.

nine grandchildren, two great grand children three sisters Mrs of North Little Rock, arwl Mrs Grace Isbell and Mrs Ava Heath of Hazen, Ark Funeral arrangements are in complete at this time and will be by Camden Funeral Service The body w'lll lie in state at the Camden Funeral Chapel un til time the Treasury' Henry Fowler and Secretary of Commerce Conrxw presented the President's to the1 committee tn the opening hearing Johnson his veto of tlie insurance bill at a hastily news conference in his office saying. a time when we are making every effort to reduce low-priority federal other areas. bill be members of Congress share my tliat our anti- inflationary efforts must include restraint on spending," he added measure 1 have vetoed today is totally inomsistent with paign a 23 6 cent refund Rep. Gathings In Refunds To Backers WASHINGTON i AP) E. Gathings, D-Ark Monday night that he will send 212 of his Arkansas supporters who contributed hi', cam- ASH iAPi Presi dent Jofirtson is taking a cau tHHisly optimistic middle ground tion of some senators to the South Viet Nam elections and the doubts of a leading Senate critic of administration foremn policy.

are glad elections were Md and we an' glad the people the President told a news conference Monday night. think it is a good sign We hope that they will go or. and take additional But Johnson refused to be drawn into further discussion of balloting which picked a constituent assembly to draft a constitution for the war-torn country. He cut off one questioner by saying tl lose correspt widen ts out there in Viet Nam can give you all the information I want to lie misunderstood or misquoted His remarks were more guarded than those of Sen Monday after the twice-delayed( pay the flight finally got off launch Minutes after Williams fin pad at Cape Kennedy isbed speaking, bottles, rocks In the most flawless first-day arKj firecrackers began to fly. perforance yet for a U.S group of Negroes attempted Jim news man injured during a racial disturbance here Sunday, served is a reporter for the Pine Bluff Arkansas Commercial between 1962 and 1964.

ATLANTA. Ga. (AP) mission, Conrad! to overturn r. station wagon the television and (rordon darted off the pad a television crew inside, atop a Tita 2 rocket at 9:42 Clarke, a member of 'he a m. and sped unerringly after SCLC, the group away the Agena, which blasted off at from the ear.

8:05 a.m Earlier in the day, Mayor Before they completed one cir-j iVan Allen Jr. met twnce with cuit of the globe ttiey had cap of Negro leaders, and tured the target, dux-kmg with it Martin Luther King Jr in record tune. toured the riot area. a big Conrad ex claimed "Very nice and thrill They had beaten the previous mamed in jail in lieu of $10,000 Ciemiru rendezvous time bv two! bond He is charged wi.h heip- nd nearly three hours instigate the first orders to protett the Negroes. About 100 Negro pupils desegregated tlie schools Monday under fedtral court ortler.

Tiie 175 burly officers, in full riot dress, took over Monday night. They dispersed I kis tih? crowd early today. A white man who argued w'as slugged unconscious and carted off in an ambulance. The crowd dispersed reluctantly, with cries of lover!" and thought you were a good Several hundred whites. Stokely chairman Carmichael, national of the SNCC, re shouting defiance of both sitJte Grttmier, 32, reporteoiy and federal authority, held a struck in the head by a brick furious session Monday night in I Sunday during an interview.

He the City Hall auditorium to suffered a fractured skull and mand that the patrol bo underwent a three-hour brain drawn. operation Sunday. you get that state highway patrol out of here there won be irbits hen. history tirst multi Qf violence last week. pie-docking mission, the pilots took turns unlinking and re-joining with the Agena Each man docked twice, un 1er conditions of light and dark ness to evaluate any SALT LAKE CITY, tah AP) tion on the Miami Herald Earl Glade.

70 early Utah joined WSB TV in Atlanta A spokesman at Emory Uni-; kl a nigger left in Grenada, cried versitv Hospital said Monday i (inp man that Giltmier rs expected to ful- Mayor J. Quinn avoided Iv recover from the operation i replvmg to an angrv query' as to He the Commercial in inc, which official called for patrol August to accept a pisi- and aid But he said the move was necessary, otherwise troops or marshals would liave been enees They rvported none. Monday after ness. wife is the Kay Wil. on of Stuttgart, former Ark.

Weather ARKANSAS--Clear tn partly Cloudy nnd not much change in thrmigti Wedrws Iiow tonight 54 northwest to 64 south High Wednesday in 80s. Temperature The temperature for the 24- hour period ending at 7 a Tuesday was High 83, Low 64 River 5 9 feet falling. Primaries at a Glance By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MINNESOTA Gov Karl Rol- vaag favored to win ha Hot box reversal of IVmoeratic-Farmer Libor party of him for renomi- nation. MASSACHUSETTS Boston Mayor John Collins; and former Gov. Endicott Peahody in tight race for Democratic Senate nomination; Edward J.

McCormack given edge over Kenneth P. for Democratic iKMiiintrtion as governor. our common Johnson said if similar benefits were to all Amen can workers by their employers would be fueling the fires of infiaf'on $3 billion He said average federal salary and insurance benefits had risen by 75 per cent in tlie pa.st lo irs more than half again as much as tlie 47 ctmt increase in average factory worker pay. bill goes far beyond my recommendatkms and far beyond anything tlie American taxpayer six mid he asked to pay for at this Johnson said He had recommended a $12 million insurance benefit increase. Tlie veto was tlie sixth of his Lions To Hear United Fund Plea Cannier Lions Club will hear a United Fund program Wednesday noon in Hotel Camden A film of the various 11 agencies will be shown and the drive explained by Fund officials headed by Edwin Horton, chairman, and Harold Camp bell, Fund president.

Thomas H. Kuchel. R-Calif Gathings. who has no Repub- in a Senate speech Astronaut Cuts Space Walk Short lican opposition, won renomina tion for a 15th two-year term in tlie House by sweeping to victory in Arkansas' primary election in July. Gathings said that after paying all outstanding obligations, find that the Gathings for Congress' account h.ts an unexpected balance of $3,4127.28 He wrote his contibutors, is a real pleasure to attach a remittance for your pro rata portion which is 23 6 per cent of your Former Locust Bayou Minister Dies LOCUST BAYOU (Special) Friends cl Bro Othel Crow.son were saddened by his death when they learned he had died at his home Friday night.

Crowson was minister for the Locus? Bayou Church of Christ until he was forced to resign because of ill health He and his wife Eva were living at Boles Home in Qumlon, Texas. that the Viet Cong well have suffered their Dien Bien Phu at the The battle of Dien Bien Phu led to the ouster of the French from Viet Nam in 1954 Kuchel, the assistant Republican leader, called the1 election an extraordinary demonstration by a poor and humble peo pie of their courageous devotion to self Senate Republican Ijeader Everett Dirksen of Illinois said tlie 80 per cent voter turnout was a tonic to who believe our faith in the Viet CAPE KENNEDY. Fla (AP) Astronaut Ricliard Gordon Jr cut short his space walk and got Ixick inside Gemini 11 today he got so hot and he late radio station executive and for- List vear He is the differ mer mayor of Sail spw-ul affairs i year ill- w.fe is the former patrol may not go into a law enforcement situation off the highways unless local auUvr- ities invite them or tlie governor orders them in. Some 30 highway patrol were in this north Mississippi town of some 8.000 residents Monday but were not called Waves of Bombers Pound N. Viet Nam in early to aid the city and By ROBERT TUCKMAN During the forays, Air Force countv officers, most of whom SAIGON, South Viet Nam pilots hit at a missile site 30 merely watched the beatings.

(AP) Waves of American miles northwest of Dong Hoi. One 12-year-old Negro, Ricli- bombers pounded North Viet Pilots reported hitting two ard Sigh, hobbled nearly block Nam Monday in tlie biggest missiles. One, they said, went with a broken leg through a aerial assault of the war, the off into the air and exploded gantlet of men. Many women S. command announced to- with a large orange fireball were present, cursing nd day.

The other was seen zigzagging shrieking, but the men did all It was the second day in a row erratically across the ground. the beatings, that S. planes mounted record One the same site, pilots Sigh and three others, all 16- raids, and pilots daime reported destroying two other year-olds were hospitalized ing damage on four surfaoe-to mists Saturday The crowd also attacked Tlie astronauts reported Gor air missile sites and blowing up-1 Air force plots also claimed newsmen and photographers, don successfully attached a 100 two Soviet-made missiles. damaging a missile 31 miles Two cameramen from Menv- foot tether from the Agena tar- American airmen flew 1701 northeast of Thanh Hoa. In the phis.

Tenn 105 milt's to the Gordon had been outside (leinim II about 35 minutes. I just broilglit Dick back command pilot Charles Conrad Jr told the Tananarive tracking station off the east coast of Africa. and ther desire for self- get satellite to Gemini 11s nose missions in all This was one meantime, carrier-based Navy were beaten in the street determination has been fully but plans for Gordon to become mission below the record set on' aiknts attacked two other areas near the school. A newsman the firsJt Sunday but a U.S. military.

25 miles north of the port city from Jackson was attacked by District Legion Meet At Prescott Bob Bussey is publicity di rector for the drive Hardy and Hartley Ad ams are in charge of the pro gram. NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (APi Russell A Quisenberrv, Sen Ernest Gruening, Alas- were apparently eliminated ka, a critic of Johnson's Viet Nam policies, said. don't have any great faith in those elections considering that Mr. Ky the premier) said only neutralists and non-Communists could vote.

pretty much like holding an election in the South and saying only mild he told a newsman. difficult to ludge an election in a country' where never an honest Post No 51 of The Americani, t0 l-eglon. Department of 1 mUiury sai be host to Uth rai aotion ai Post Hot. Presenti. Vietnamcse hendquaPters Arkansas, September 18.

at 2:30 tw0 p.m. spokesman said the number of In other developments, the about 20 whites, sorties (individual strikes! ex U.S. military command issued Some 150 Negroes desegre- ceeded by one. orders to limit the number ot gated the two all-white The heavy assault involved American servicemen in down- schools, one elementary, the between 400 and 500 individual town Saigon. Under the new or- other a high school.

They stand strikes. Ground but none of large scale. air blows against the Commander Dewey Waddle North Monday cost the Amen- urges representation from each can raiders one' der only a third of the men in side by side, any unit may rcceive passes Others wwe chased back by allowing them to be out of their white men, who were directed billets after working hours, and by walkie-talkie radio messages then- must be off the srees by from pickup trucks cruising the 11 p.m. area. Of those who got to the The Viet Cong claimed today schools, most stayed inslide until then- had nearly they got a police escort.

600 South Vietnamese govern Desegregation gal 2 plane, a U.S. ment troops an ambush near About two hours after tlie Omening said, however, the Post, and stresses the import- spokesman said An Air Force Phy My last Thursday. Hanoi's seige began. Sheriff Suggs In- 73. former publisher of the Val- results lie very good if ance of each Post Commander F105 Thundarchief was shot Viet Nam news agency reported gram, two highway patrolmen ley Times, died Sunday of a tile government is responsive to and Adjutant to be present at down 45 miles northwast of Viivh the Viet Gong statement in a heart attack.

tlie desires of the i this meeting. and tlie pilot is missing. broadcast monitored in Tokyo. See POLICE PROTECTION on i.