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The Weather Florida Forecast Partly Cloudy Through Tomorrow. Showers Likely in Tallahassee Area. High Today in the 80s. (National Weather Map on Page 2-A.) TAMPA nn Polk Highlands Hardee DeSoto Edition Florida's Prestige Neivspaper TAMPA, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1967 RID8E PEACE VALLEY 73RD YEAR No. 122 FOUR SECTIONS -44 PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS 7 Day, Home Delivery 50 Cent, TRIBUNE A At Least for Another Week Little Hope of Area Drough Relief Seen and East Hillsborough counties, he pointed out.

Wells, both domestic and those used for irrigation, are running dry in Hardee County, Carlton said, and in east coast areas bulldozers are being used to push water from drying-out canals into basins so irrigation pumps can pick it up. Groves in the Dade City area and northward situated ida Citrus Mutual's grower division said citrus groves in the south and central part of the state are being especially hard-hit by the drought. He said field reports indicate possibly the worst area is in DeSoto County where there are inpreasing reports of young citrus trees dying from lack of water. The situation is little better in parts of Mantee, Saraosta, ranchers in southwest Florida have already applied for federal aid to dig wells to provide water for their livestock. Johnson said many farmers without irrigation facilities are approaching a distress situation, especially citrus growers, ranchers and farmers growing shallow root crops such as string beans, corn, okra, squash and watermelons.

Dale Carlton, chief of Flor after today, but warned, "don't count on it." The statewide picture is a little better, said Johnson, noting that scattered areas have fared better than the Tampa Bay area during he past month. The warmest and driest spring in years struck hard at the Everglades area of south Florida, however, and some on water-retaining clay soils are faring much better than those on sandy soils. Cattle from Hardee County southward are finding little to eat in the parched pastures and county agents in that area report that if relief does not come soon, ranchers are going to have to start supplemental feeding. Johnson said low ground (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) Chairman Resigns in Huff- ID.

Aide Gets Post opment NORTH LAOS 0V gulf Jgpk v- T0NKIN Remilitarized yiETNAy( AfJr south! By TOM MILLSAPS Tribune Staff Writer LAKELAND The parched Tampa Bay area was given little hope for relief from the current drought for at least another week when weatherman Warren 0. Johnson forecast the future yesterday. Johnson, as chief meteorologist for the Federal-State Frost Warning Service here, said "things could improve" Marines Take Big Losses SAIGON (UPD American Marines in dogged drives on a ridgeline fortress yesterday took their worst losses since a battle last summer in the same general area, near the border between the two Viet-nams. But to the north, American warplanes bagged three more MIGs. North Vietnamese regulars entrenched on Hill 881 and along a broken long line of ridges Just south of the demilitarized tone (DMZ) which separates North from South Vietnam, absorbed a pounding from Air Force jets but emerged from their bunkers to fire mortars at more than 3,000 Leathernecks at the base of the ridge.

The battered Marines counted 49 of their own dead and 156 wounded. Communist dead in the en-Tampan Describes Downing of MIG Page 1-B gagement which started Sunday were put at 186. In another battle further south, American infantrymen of the 4th killed 49 Communist troops in "Operation Francis Marion," about 225 miles north northeast of Saigon. Resuming their attacks on North Vietnam's airfields forbidden targets until last week U.S. Air Force F105 Thun-derchiefs from Thailand pounded the MIG jet interceptor base at Hoa Lac, 24 miles west of Hanoi, for the third time in eight days.

MIGs went aloft to try to stop the invaders. One of them crashed into a hillside while trying to escape an attacker and two more were shot down by Navy planes from aircraft carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin. These three, plus another MIG17 shot down Sunday, brought to at least 48 the number of Communist jets destroyed in aerial combat. The MIGs have knocked down 13 American warplanes in dogfights, military spokesmen announced Monday, Twisted Wreckage of Albert Lea, Minnesota Homes aftermath of tornadoes which killed 16 persons (UPI) Kirk Asks OEO To Hold Up Letter Mr Governor Attacked In Letter By GEORGE HANNA Tribune-Gannett Service TALLAHASSEE Gov. Claude Kirk announced the appointment yesterday of his press secretary, John Smolko, as executive director of the Florida Development Commission and lost commission Chairman William Beaufort in the process.

Beaufort, 53-year-old Jacksonville businessman, resigned from his $l-a-year job with a letter containing a slap at Kirk. "In your zeal to promote your own program, you have circumvented the chairman and the commissioners on the appointment of a new execu-t i director," Beaufort wrote. The nine member commission ordinarily hires its executive director, and Kirk said at a news conference that the commissioners had approved the appointment. Asked whether Beaufort was in accord with the appointment of Smolko, Kirk replied, "I gather he was not." Smolko, 38, former Fort Lauderdale newsman who has something of a running battle with the capital press corps since Kirk took office, joined the Kirk organization last summer. He received $12,000 a year as press secretary.

In the new job, in which he succeeds Jay Seipel, he'll receive $15,000 a year. Beaufort's letter of resignation, released in Jacksonville shortly before Kirk's news conference, also said: 'As a result of your personal efforts, the called meeting of April 28 to approve or disapprove a director of your choice for the Development (Continued on Page 7, Col. 1) Presley wore a tuxedo. The bride, whose maid of honor was her sister, Michelle, wore a white chiffon gown embroidered with tiny pearls and a full chiffon veil. Bodice and sleeves of her long train dress were of lace.

She wore a three-karat diamond wedding-engagement ring combination. The marriage was the first for both. Presley and his bride-to-be met in 1959 in Germany, while he was serving with the U.S. Army. Miss Beaulicu, daughter of Lt.

Col. and Mrs, Jo-soph Beaulicu, was attending high school at Frankfurt. Both Presley and Miss Beaulicu are from Memphis. At that time Presley said "I like her very but both said their relationship then was not serious. They dated for four months befora Presley camt home to be Bevel DENIES DEATH: A veteran is fighting in Wau-chula to prove he was not killed in an accident.

1-B JOBS STUDIED: Lakeland has hired a firm to study city jobs and wages. 1-B BUDGET APPROVED: Bartow has approved a new budget, cut more than $60,000 from last years. Tribune-Gannett Service TALLAHASSEE Gov. Claude Kirk said yesterday he had asked the Office of Eco nomic Opportunity to hold in abeyance his letter of veto on some $2.5 million in federal funds for Head Start programs in Tampa and Miami; Kirk announced Saturday he blocked the funds be- Kirk cause the programs weren't properly organized to meet the needs of the maximum number of children. The funds included $975,000 for Miami and $1.5 million for Tampa.

In Washington, Hillsborough Hep. Sam Gibbons said after calling the governor, "He told me 1 think we're going to be able to work this thing out He said he wasn't aiming at Tampa. He was really quite conciliatory Kirk repeated at a news conference yesterday his dissatisfaction with a program which he said would cost $1 million to service 1,000 children in Miami. He said there are 44,000 children who can qualify. The governor said he had asked the OEO to hold his let- ter in abeyance and "we're (Continued on Page 7, Col.

2) Astrology 12-A Editorials 4-B Morning After 1-C Business 4-C Financial 4-7-C Sports 1-4-C; Classified 7-14-C Fishing 4-C Theaters 8-B. Comics Goren 12-A TV, Radio -7-D; Crossword 8-D Graham 8-B Wishing Well 8-B Deaths 13-A Landers 7-B Women 6-7-B Pulitzer Group Snubs Salisbury Blizzard Isolates Towns By-United Press International A May Day blizzard, spawned by the same vicious weather pattern which sent tornadoes crashing through Minncosta, isolated towns behind drifts up to 10 feet high in the northern plains yesterday. The toll of tornadoes and savage winds which raked Minnesota Sunday night stood at 16. An estimated 100 persons were injured. National Guardsmen were on duty yesterday helping the homeless and bereft.

The northern blizzard stacked snow up to 22 inches deep across Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas and Nebraska. Winds' mounted to 77 miles an hour and the temperature slid to a record low of 21 at Goodland, Kan. The cold front which sired the snows and twisters stretched from Minnesota to Texas, where tornadoes chewed up farmland in northeast portion of the state and hailstones the size of lemons pummclcd the community of Georgetown. On this first day of May the snow was so intense In Wyoming that the state highway department closed down all traffic in and out of Sheridan, Buffalo, Gillette, Newcastle and Casper. A longtime Sheridan resident called the blast "the worst spring storm we've bad in 10 or 12 years Burgess, measured 22 Inches of snow and there was 18 inches at Rabbit Ears Pass.

The winds were 50 miles per hour and visibility was zero around Chadron In northwest Nebraska. All schools In the area were closed and the Burlington Road train be tween Omaha and Billings, pulled up at Alliance, Neb unable to proceed fur ther. v. Elvis Presley Weds Long-Time Friend Congress Re-Votes Rail Ban WASHINGTON (UPD Congress approved legislation yesterday to block a threatened nationwide railroad strike again this time until June 19 and give President Johnson time to propose a permanent solution to the contract dispute. The House voted, 301 to 56, and the Senate, 72 to 2, to order 137,000 members of six rail shopcraft unions to stay on their jobs for 47 days past their strike deadline of 12:01 a.m.

Wednesday. It was the second time Congress has acted to block the (Continued on Page 10, Col. 5) 2-B However, Salisbury's failure to give the sources of casualty figures be cited from Hanoi reportedly led the Pulitzer Prize advisory board to overrule the jury, In turn, the trustees of Columbia Univer-s i upheld the advisory board. Salisbury, who won a Pulitzer Prize in the same category in 1955, said, "I guess my o'nly comment is that I put the opinion of the editors of the Times above any jurors. If the Times thinks my stuff is good, I put that above the Pulitzers or anything else." The dispute, over the international reporting' award held up announcement of the Pulitzer prizes for nearly 90 minutes.

The award for news photography went to Jack R. Thor-nell of the Associated Press for his picture of the shooting of James H. Meredith during a civil rights march through Mississippi. Edward Albee's play, "A Delicate Balance," won the drama award, the first in that category since 1965. The fiction prize was won (Continued on Page 10, Col.

2) (, I NEW YORK (A R. John Hughes of the Christian Science Monitor won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting yesterday for his coverage of the attempted Communist coup in Indonesia and the purges that ensued. But the selection was a controversial one. The original selection by the panel on international reporting was reportedly Harrison Salisbury of the New York Times, for his dispatches from North Vietnam by a vote of 4-1. Salisbury 'editors over Jury' f.

LAS VEGAS, Nev. W) Elvis Presley, the Memphis boy who popularized rock 'n roll music and became a millionaire in the process, ended a reign as one of show business' most eligible bachelors yesterday by marrying his longtime girl friend. Presley, 32, and Prlscilla Beaulicu, 21, took their vows before 14 friends In a hotel suite, then entertained 100 guests at a champagne breakfast. They said they'll honeymoon for a month, probably somewhere in the United States. Presley, who started as a guitar-twanging, hip-wiggling song shoutcr whose style was widely Imitated, has concentrated in recent years on motion pictures.

Nevada Supreme Court Justice David Zenoff performed the rites In the suite of Milton Prell, owner of the Aladdin Hotel. 1 Elvis Prepares To Place Ring on Bride in Ceremony Nevada, Supreme Court Justice David Zenoff presides (AP) 0 0 i i i i i 'K mmi HI'lLl i till U.MlMniMil-' 9 0 JLLL 4.