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CLOUDY TREASURE A -Variable cloudiness tonignt and Thursday with little change in temperature. High Thursday about 00, and low tonight near 60. VOL. XLVH No, 70 "An Independent Daily Neuupaper Dedicated to Community NAMPA, IDAHO, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1965 PAGES Glrcvlerioft MMMI Ator TEN CENTO CHURCH BUYS BUILDING Free Press Will Build New Plant The Idaho Free Press will sell its present building and conlruct a completely new facility in (ha 300 block of 10th Avenue S. A.

J. Kalb, president publisher, said plans for the new construction received the go-ahead Tuesday night when N'ampa Church of the Brethren decided to buy the present newspaper building at 315 Vietnamese Inch Near Due Co Centaur Performs Flawlessly SAIGON (DPI) A Vietnamese government relief force, backed by armor and planes, reared (lie beleaguered U.S. Special Forces camp at Due Co tonight a a three-day drive through the central highlands. A UPI correspondent flew over the column at dusk to night and reported it was slightly more than a mile from the pei'imeter of the camp. He said the column was moving slowly toward the camp where 13 American viscrs and more than 1,000 Vietnamese have been under siege by the Communists.

A U. S. military spokesman at PJeiku reported the relief column was split into two sections and was carrying oul road clearing operations in conjunction with the push toward Due Co. A spokesman in Saigon said earlier that the column had been cut in two by the Viet newspaper 1th Ave. S.

The church council voted purchase the Free Press itructure, i adjoins church property, for convers- 'on to an educaiional building. KALB SAID the new newspaper building will house "the most modern newspaper production facilities available." He expects completion jefore April 1, 1966. Ordering of equipment already has begun, the publisher said, for conversion to off- a relatively process that Cong. Air slrikes were called in against the Communists and apparently succeeded in dispersing them since the reliei column was still on the move lale tonight. The development came as as an emergency airlift ferried a steady stream of American paratroopers to Pleiku 35 miles east of the camp on strategic highway 19.

The bodies of more than 250 Viet Cong rebels counted on the battlefield by U. S. military advisers with the government force. Government losses were said to be "moderate" in the prolonged fighting. Tiie relief column struck out along Highway 19 on Monday and shortly found itself with Viet Cong rebels both in the front and in the rear.

THE SPOKESMAN said the column was hit constantly with sniper fire and there wa some light contact with the Communists today. Tiie relief column is fight- Ing its way Ihrough Viet Cong roadblocks and traps in an attempt to reach the camp where 13 American adviser; and government forces have (Continued on page 2) Personnel Panel Told BOISE Gnv. Robert K. Smylie Wednesday appointed two men from Roisc and one from Pocateilo to serve staggered terms on Idaho's newly-created Personnel Commission. Smylie named Ulainc F.

Evans, Roisc, to a two-year term on the commission; Mel Morgan, Pocalello, to a four-year tcrni, and Marcel learned, Boise, to a six-year term. Evans is a lawyer and former Atla County prosecutor. Morgan is a Pocateilo businessman. Learned is a certified public accountant. Evans and Learned are Republicans and Morgan, assistant to for mor Congressman Grade Pfost when she ran unsuccessfully for the U.S.

Senate in 1962, is a Democrat Commission administer a a merit system for i a slain employes. At present there are iiboiit seven separate merit systems in state government and (lie law creating the Personnel Comrnls- ultimately will bring them under a single agency. Tiie number of Idaho slate employes varies, according lo seasonal work, from 4.800 to The eventually i set printing new publishing gives very high quality of reproduction. The Coeur d'- Alene Press is the only other daily newspaper in Idaho using the newer printing process. Kalb said the 60-by-140 single story building will be completely air conditioned.

It will house all departments of The Idaho Free Press. The publishing firm will retain its present newsprint ware house at the rear of 311 llth Ave. S. "WE AHE planning new facility in keeping with our policy of producing the best possible newspapers for the Nampa-Caldwell area and other communities we serve," the publisher stated. "We also are equipping our new plant to meet the repid- ly-growing needs of our progressive Adjoining the new Free Press building will be a paved parking lot for about 22 cars.

Don Johnson of Bake Young Realty handled sale of the present building to the Church of the Brethren and arranged purchase of 10th Avenue property for the new newspaper building. The church will take pos session of the Free Press property as soon as the newspaper facilities are ready for operation. Idaho Rancher Found Dead of Bullet Wound COEUR d'ALKNE UPI -George William Thompson 32, a rancher in the Hauscr Lake area along the Idaho; Washington border, was dead on arrival at a hospital Wednesday. Sheriff John Bender report ed Thompson was found in a weeded area on his ranch with a bullet wound in his chest. Gains Double Losses NEW YORK WTO The stock market made its most decisive move of the week today as an increase in buying inlerest put gains nearly 2-to- 1 ahead of losses.

Trading picked up slightly. HERE'S WHAT REMAINS of a 1960 English made car that collided with a Union Pacific freight train about 2:50 p.m. Tuesday on Middleton Road. Killed in the crash was Cynthia D. Prohaska, 17, Caldwell.

Seriously injured was Linda Prescott, 17, N'ampa, identified as the driver. Officers said the death boosted Canyon County's 1965 traffic toll to 14. (FREE PRESS PHOTO) Greeks Ban Demonstrations ATHENS (UPIV--Minister of Public Order Adm. John Tom- bas today announced a ban on anti-government demonstrations during the Greek poll tical crisis. "Those who cause trouble in the streets will be prcsecut- ed," he warned.

"We will allow no such demonstrations." POLICE broke up a small demonstration late Tuesday night and arrested 64 persons. Since the first week of the 27-day-long crisis, police have handled demonstrators with kid gloves, allowing them to march through the streets and shout anti-government slogans wilhout interfering. Except for two demonstrations during the first week which erupted into riots and left one person dead and hundreds injured, there has been no violence. 'FILTHY BEATNIKS' WASHINGTON WPH--Rep. William G.

Bray, describing participants in recent draft card burning demonstrations: "Generally filthy beatniks." Legislation to Dispose Of Junked Cars Urged WASHINGTON 1 IUPH Sen. Paul Douglas, called today for legislation to get rid of junked cars that clutter the American scene. His plan would be financed by a one per cent auto excise tax. Douglas called anew for adoption of his plan in testifying before the Senate Public Works Commiflee which is sponsoring President Johnson's program to beautify the nation's highways by controlling billboards and screening junkyards. DOUGLAS has proposed an amendment providing for a fax that would raise up to $25 million a year to pay for disposal of junked cars.

He endorsed the administration proposal to screen and relocate junkyards, but said it would only relieve the situation temporarily. In other developments: Reapportlonmcnt ate GOP Leader Everett Dlrksen said he would Introduce today his second version of a proposed constitution il unt aimed bypw ing the Supreme Court's "one man, one vote" doctrine representation in state legislatures. His first attempt to win the required two luirds approval of the Senate failed last week. Vote diaries L. Weltner.

today introduced a proposed constitutional amendment to lower the voting age to 18. Water The House Agricultural Committee today approved an expanded version of a Senate approved plan granting increased government aid for development of water supply systems in rural communities. Depressed Areas: President Johnson's proposal to pump $.3. billion into economically depressed areas over the next five years was called up for debate in the House. Republicans planned an attempt to send the measure a to committee, Democratic leaders claimed they had the voles to pass the Senate-ap thi by the end of Car-Train Crash Kills Canyon Girl A Caldwell girl was killed Tuesday afternoon in a car- train collision to boost Canyon County's traffic death toll to 14 for the year.

Killed instantly in the crash at 2:50 p.m. was Cynthia D. Prohaska, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lynn J.

Prohaska, 2409 S. Ohio Caldwell. She was a passenger in a 1960 English made car driven by Linda Prescott. 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Julian Prescolt, 1220 State Nampa. Prescott was in serious condition today at Samaritan Community Hospital with leg, ankle, pelvic and hand fractures plus a head gash and numerous arm and chest cuts. SHERIFF DALE Haile said collision took place at the Middleton Road crossing about one half mile north of Midway School. The car, heading toward U. S.

30, hit the rear steps' of the second engine that was pulling a 130 car ivestbound freight train. The train, powered by four diesel units, was traveling at 47 miles per hour, according a recording device on the Engineer Cart- vright, Glenns Ferry, told of- "icers he saw the csr as the jngine entered the crossing, le said it appeared to be zigzagging as if the driver were rying to stop. DEPUTY I Mnl Landers, driving toward Cald- vell on nearby U. S. 30, said le saw the train stopping and sped to the crossing to invest- gate.

He radioed for an am- )ulance. Miss Prescott was pinned behind the car's steering vhcel and Miss Proliaska's body was found about 50 feet the car, officers said. Dr. Henry Wcsche, Canyon Avalanche Kills 5 Skiers in Chile SANTIAGO, Chile 'DPI) -Five skiers were killed early today when an avalanche crushed the building in which they were living at the Por- tilio ski resort. Two of the dead, Milton Or- llottl and Ronald Fox, were tentatively I i i as Americans.

A third, Mike Fogel, was tentatively identified as a Canadian. other two iwtri County coroner, told Sheriff Haile the Prohaska girl was killed instantly. The car was demolished. Sheriff Haile said the train's engines came to a stop about 45 cars' distance beyond the crossing. MISS PROHASKA recently completed her junior year at Gem State Academy.

She was born Feb. 12, 1948 at N'ampa. Her father is a Caldwell contractor. Funeral services are pending at Peckham- Dakan Davis Chapel, Caldwell. i Prescott attended Caldwell High School in her freshman a sophomore years and transferred to Nampa High for her junior year Sheriff Jlaile said Miss Pro- baska's death was the second this year resulting from a car- train collision.

Willis Brown was killed Feb. 19 at the Star Road crossing east of Nampa. Terry Masou' Leaves Hospital HOLLYWOOD (UP!) Raymond Burr, star of the "Perry Mason'' television series, was of Lebanon Hospital, where tests revealed he had an amoebic infection. Burr was scheduled to undergo several weeks of treatment, a spokesman said. However, it was anticipated Burr would be able to meet all his professional commitments.

The actor was hospitalized last week shortly after he returned from an entertainment tour of U.S. military installations hi South Viet Nam. would also sign a nuclear nonproliferation treaty at once if (he West would scrap pians for a NATO nuclear force. Asked at a Geneva foreign press association luncheon if a Viet Nam settlement is considered by Moscow to be a condition for such agreements, Tsarapkin said: "We are not eager to bind the two together. Then we would have a permanent stalemate." Earlier a a i speeches to the 17-nation disarmament conference since its resumption 27 had indicated progress on arms control agreements is impossible Judge Tells Secret WASHINGTON (liFB-- Charles R.

Simpson, nominated by President Johnson for a judgeship on the U- S. Tax Court, telling how he has been able to absorb complicated legal documents although totally blind: "I just have someone read them to me. Tiie secret. I think, is to learn to retain the important things and forget about the unimportant ones." 6 CHILDREN DUOWN MEXICO CITY (IIPD The death of six children in a flash flood increased the toll of this week's hurricane-caused rains to 11 known dead today. Traffic Toll 1965 to This Date-- 157 ID64 to This Dale-- HI BEE KILL HIGH Jrving Robinson, owner of Robinson Honey reported today that it is apparent that insecticides have destroyed the bee population for the 1965 season in the Wilder area, lie said the entire population in the Wilder area, Including leaf cutter and alkali bees, has been destroyed through the apparent use of insecticides in corn fields.

Method of application of the suspected insecticide, lie said, was unknown but he urged all farmers to spray with caution until a cause could be determined. An investigation today was being conducted in the area by seed growers in an effort to determine the cause of the bees' destruction. Kills were reported also in (he Deer Flat area. The condition of the hives, he noted, makei impossible to bamsl a 1965 vop oJ honey. CRACIE PFOST DIES BALTIMORE, Md.

(UPS Mrs. Grade Pfost, 59. former five term congresswoman from Idaho, died today in Johns Hopkins Hospital where she had been hospitalized for some time. Hospital sources said the cause of death was Hodgkin's disease. In Boise, Gov.

Robert Smylie said "we are distressed to hear of Mrs. Pfost's untimely death. Her distinguished record of public service carried her to heights.of accomplishment that established a high-water mark for women." MRS. PFOST, born a log cabin in Boone County, served as congresswoman from Idaho's First District (Continued OB Page S) GRACIE PFOST Dies Todaj Bar Nuclear Inspections Russia Willing To Sign Treaty GENEVA HJPD --Russia said today it is prepared to sign new disarmament agreements with the West regardless of tiie war in Viet Nam. Soviet disarmament negotiator Semyon K.

Tsarapkin made it clear, however, that such agreements depend on the West meeting other Soviet conditions. Tsarapkin said i a would sign "immediately" a comprehensive nuclear test ban. if the United States would drop ils insistence on international on-site inspections to prevent cheating. HF, SAID the Soviet Union as long as American troops are in Viet Nam. A WESTERN official, com.

menting on Tsarapkin's statement today that this is not the case, said: "This is most in tercsling, if true. It could be helpful to the conference. "The limited treaty has no inspection," he said. "The So yiet Union is ready to agree immediately on a full ban on the same only country in the world contimi ing nuclear testing is the Un ited States. The United State is the only country insisting on inspection." HE SAID the Soviet Union has conducted only one un derground nuclear test, in 1963, and there none since.

have been Investigate Silo Blast SEARCY, Ark. (DPI) Yel low oxygen tanks strapped to their backs, a crack team military investigators loweret themselves into the smoky watery depths of a Titan II si lo today, seeking the cause of a mystery blast and fire that filled 53 men. Acting under orders President Johnson, Air Force Secretary Eugene Zuckeit to this central Arkansas to inspect the burned- out 1CBM silo and make direct reports to fouse. Zuckert the was White accom- Mc- plosion and resulting hauled out of the panicd by Sen. John I Clcllan, D-Avk.

The last of the victims from he Monday afternoon ex- fire 170- oot-dcep missile tube early Tuesday. While the investigation con- inues, the Air Force temporarily suspended modifica- ions on other Titan sites arounrf the nation. The order affected 33 of the 54 under- Around launching silos where ilumbing, air conditioning and other non-nuclear changes were being made. President Johnson instructed Zuckert to offer all possi )le aid lo the families of the 53 victims of tragedy and send a personal rcpresenta- live to talk lo next of kin. Two men who were work- ng in tlic silo's upper charo- jers at the time of the blast escaped with burns.

Both men vere hospitalized in good Dominion. The others were believed have suffocated. Clears Way For Lunar Landings CAPE KENNEDY mill --An rocket shot a lummy spacecraft toward a paper moon" today in-'a flaw- ess rehearsal for America's irst Project Surveyor moon- hot this fall. The brilliant success was a )ig boost to the hardluck Cen- aur that has cost more than half billion dollars to develop. The high-powered rocket lent the surveyor model speeding on a ourney toward an imaginary point 240,000 miles away in ipace.

THE ROCKET Itself performed with near perfection on itt 11-minute climb into space. It then kicked the dummy payload away from Centaur upper stage with the rocket performing an acroba- maneuver to shoot it away from model courw. The success, one of the most important in Centaur's rii story, deared the booster Eor the first launch of Surveyor lunar lander in November or December. The rocket had only two successes in five previous shots and blew up on its last launch in March. Today't test payload, i lifeless hunk of metal except for a radio tnd instruments to measure heat and stressei during launch, whizzed on an orbital wurse expected' to reach about 500,000 milei away from earth--longest orbit around the earth ever achieved.

THE OBJECT of today's launch to prove that the hydrogen fueled Centaur's upper is capable of giving Surveyors the hour kick needed to reach the moon. U. S. scientists designed tiie unmanned Surveyor to land gently on tha moon's surface to see if it is strong enough for later Apollo astronaut landings. Unlike actual Surveyor missions, today's target existed on paper only.

The Surveyor mock-up is supposed to pass at least 35,000 miles behind the actual moon early Saturday. The 112-foot Atlas-Centaur began its crucial flight on schedule at 10:31 a.m. EDT when the three-engine Atlas booster thundered aloft atop a yellow column of flame. Four minutes later, the silvery Atlas dropped away and Centaur's twin hydrogen engines took over about 95 miles above the Atlantic and began seven minute run away from earth. Collision Kills 4 KATviARRAVlLLE, Utah (DPI) --A headcm collision on U.

S. 01 a mile south of here We'd nesday took the lives of four lersons, the Utah Highway Patrol reported. The patrol said there were no survivors in the grinding crash. The victims were be ieved to from ttw nearby Cedar City. Traiis-Allaiilic Voyager Has Fair Weather FALMOUTH, Cleveland (UPI --Weather officials today issued a ''favorable" forecast for the final few days of Cleveland newsman Robert Manry's voyage across the At- antic Ocean.

There have been no sight- ngs of the 48-year-old sailor's boat Tinkerbelle iince Monday, but calcula- ions of wind and weather icrc placed his position about 200 miles west of the Scilly 'sks- ll is another 50 miles from lie Scillies to Falmouth on he Cornish coast. The view that Manry might enter the port of Falmouth in Cornwall by Sunday or Monday was shared by officials and veteran sailors in port town. The Royal Air 'orct gave a tentative estimate of Tuesday. Officials here held a meet- ng today to prepare for tht landing. Russell Kane, assistant publisher of the Cleveand Plain Dealer was to at Falmouth hall.

Manry began hit aoto Atlantic voyage -hi HOT boat front.