The Kokomo Morning Times from Kokomo, Indiana • Page 1

Good KOKOMO MORNING TIMES VOL. 3 NO. 354 Monday July 10, 1967 Newsstand 453-0110 Congo gets US. planes Rebellion crushed, government claims KINSHASA, The Congo UPI The Congolese government claimed Sunday it has crushed a rebellion led by white mercenaries. It said loyal government troops regained control of Kisangani, Bukavu and Kindu.

FIRE OF UNDETERMINED origin destroyed the Twelve Mile Farm Bureau Elevator Sunday morning. The main structure burned to the ground under the watchful eyes of five area fire-departments. Estimate of the loss was not determined yesterday. Twenty-five years ago fire destroyed an elevator at this same site. Homes nearby were not damaged, mainly because of the morning hour and the fact that the fire started in the uppermost portion of the building--burning its way down to the ground level.

(Morning Times Photo by Paul Golden) Sharpsville lad dies in cycle mishap SHARPSVILLE Gary D. Cullison, 16, died enroute to Tipton Memorial Hospital at 2:45 a.m. Sunday apparently of injuries received in a motorcycle mishap while going home from Kokomo. Details on the accident were sketchy. Cullison was believed to have been going south on U.S.

31 when he lost control of the cycle one-half mile south of the Tipton County Howard County line. Warner Funeral Home, which was called to the scene, reported he apparently struck a mail box after he was thrown from the cycle. Death was attributed to a skull fracture. The road death was the fourth in Tipton County this year and the 13th of the weekend in the state. Sheriff's officers are still investigating.

Services are scheduled for Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Methodist Church at Sharpsville with the Rev. Charles Clifton officiating. Burial will be in the Sharps- vine Cemetery. Friends may call at the church an hour before the funeral and at the Warner Funeral Home in Sharpsville after noon Monday.

Cullison was born April 27, 1951, at Connersville to William and lona (Tanksley) Cullison and was a member of the Sharpsville Methodist Church. He was a junior in Sharpsville-Prairie High School. Surviving with his parents are three brothers, Danny, Bruce andTimmy.allathome; the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cullison, RR 1, Sharpsville, and several uncles, aunts and cousins.

At least 12 other persons were killed in Indiana during the weekend in highway traffic. The toll for the year was 696 compared with 768 a year ago. Two multiple car collisions took the lives of four persons Sunday. Edward Linguist, 72, Carolyn Carlson, 72, both of Knox were killed at the intersection of Highway 35 and State Road 10 late Sunday when Lindquist's car crashed into an oncoming car. Four persons in the other vehicle.were hospitalized.

Even as Kinshasa radio was broadcasting the government victory statement, the United States announced it was sending three U. S. Air Force transport planes to provide long range logistic support to the government forces. A small contingent of troops accompanied planes to guard them. There were few details from the three cities, reportedly the scene of heavy fighting and bloodshed sparked by a mutiny Fire destroys elevator at Twelve Mile TWELVE MILE An early morning fire completely destroyed tho Farm Bureau Cooperative Elevator at Twelve Mile yesterday as crews from seven area fire departments attempted to control the blaze.

Discovered at 7 p.m. when an automatic alarm was set off by the heat of the Elevator fire, the blaze originated in machinery located approximately 75 feet high within the structure, according to Twelve Mile Volunteer Firemen who were first at the scene. The local fire crew was hampered in fighting the lofty blaze when flames engulfed anO burned ropes connected to an elevator which ascended to the top of the building. Fire units from Logansport, Peru, Mexico, Denver, Fulton, and Lucerne were summoned to the scene, but the blaze quickly spread over the entire structure, fed by thousands of bushels of stored grain. among white mercenaries and former Katangese gendarmes five days ago.

Diplomatic reports reaching Washington said refugees from Bukavu claim that revenge- seeking Congolese troops went on a rampage and killed GO persons, including at least five Europeans, in recapturing the city. Similar reports from Lubuni- bashi formerly Elizabethville said Congolese, upon hearing of the mercenary-led uprising, rounded up whites from tho streets, threw them in a truck, took them out of town and killed them. One report said 15 were killed, another report said seven. The victims were said to be Belgians and Greeks. President Joseph proclaimed a state of emergency throughout the nation when fighting began, further strengthened his hand Lite Saturday by suspending constitutional freedoms until further notice.

INSIDE Area 2 8 Classified 23-27 Comics 18 Editorial '4-5 Frank Edwards 5 Hospitals 2 Obituaries 28 Society 6-7 Sports 12-17 Theatre 19 OUTSIDE Variable cloudiness, warm and very humid today with only a chance of occasional showers. Lightning and thunder very possible if it cools. Highs in 90s. Biggest 'poker game 1 in history starts EDITOR'S NOTE Historic and vital negotiations between the United Auto Workers and the automobile manufacturers start today and the Times' City Editor, Jim Helm, is there for the beginning. Below, Helm backgrounds the talks as the two sides fence for position, and will report from Detroit during the early days of the bargaining.

BY JIM HELM Times City Editor DETROIT What has been termed the biggest "poker game" in history begins here at 10 a.m. this morning on the fifth floor of the General Motors headquarters. And about half of Kokomo will be watching from the sidelines with a much more than normal interest. For it's their money and future the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the Big Three Auto Company are playing with. General Motors negotiators, all 27 of them, will be the first to sit at the bargaining table with the UAW.

Ford will join in tomorrow morning, Chrysler Wednesday and American Motors Thursday. Indications, sometimes nothing more than rumors, point toward a long and bitter strike against one of the Big Three. If it is either Chrysler or General Motors, Kokomo will be in the midst of it. But, since last Friday, a note of optimism has crept into the picture. A splinter movement designed to woo skilled workers from the UAW appears to have failed.

And, the International Society of Skilled Trades (ISST) has been forced to go to the courts after a sufficient number of the 120,000 skilled workers refused to sign referendum petitions. Prior to Friday's court injunction, it appeared that UAW president Walter Reuther would have to take a hard line with the Big Three to keep these members in the union. Now what happens? With the ISST-UAW feud shelved for the time being, will there be an easing of tensions and apprehension which has surrounded the buildup to talks with an atmosphere of gloom and apprehension? Today's opening round will give some indications. And, should a strike develop, which company will be the target? Ford looks like the logical one whenever discus- sion here centers on a walkout. But, then again, it is common knowledge that Reuther wanted to "break GM so bad he can almost taste it." Chrysler Corporation seems to be the last choice.

ever, it was three years ago, too. Probably no one at this early stage knows which company will be the target. Reuther personally chooses this and his choice will probably be made early next month. He'll outline and make his union's demands within the next few days, then the company will study, reject and make counter proposals. This is when Reuther decides where to apply the pressure.

He has promised 1.4 million UAW members considerably more. He himself calls it "the longest and most ambitious demands in UAW history." How hard he intends to push or how hard the Big 3 intends to resist is anybody's guess. And the same is true when a compromise is discussed. The two sides have just two months to hammer out a new agreement. For on Sept.

6, all contracts, except that with American Motors, will expire..