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VOLUME XIIX THE CAMDEN NEWS NUMBER 291 tLPli- United Press Internati. SERVING THE SOUTH'S IDEAL INDUSTRIAL AREA CAMDEN, ARKANSAS, MONO AY, MARCH 31, 1969 Pi aw MICI lCk Golden Bear State Shaken By Rumors Ike's Detroit Policeman Killed In Gun Battle Doomsday Prophets Predict California io Visitors Vvith Militant Negro Croup In Church Be Hit By Super Earthquake In April By iulpii murros Science VS riter LOS ANGELES AP Against all sr evidence pr (i say is tin' month when a sjper earthquake wnll toppV half ot California Mito (hr Pacific. Scientists this talk -s ulotc and tha' 1 the i of a major ear hquake ox f'ts, no one t-an say when wall happen. Nonetheless, r.ervt are ting das by day Here are som n- dicat ing the spread of n.a’s newest of earthquake jitters I jus Angeles Civil Defense Coordinator William Frank he iutei received more than 1.200 pho calls and 500 letters early March requesting pamphlets on what to do case of an earthquake. A spokesman for city schools says children have brttime so disturbed by widespread rumors that many teachers have taken time out from studies to review disaster tional procedures for their classes members of the low ship oi the Ancient Mind ti years old.

showed up at sued a art saying. Tht City Hall March 11 flowing gravitational forces may have robes and clerical collars seek- touched off the disastrous Juiy ng a permit that would 1952. earthquake in Califo ail.i'A them to help restore the n.a's Kern County Thai mag- (t.y after an earthquake they mtude 7 7 quake ar.d its they expected soon. shocks cost 14 and million damage. But the report also pointed out that the sun and moon line up once every 27 days and there is no wav of predicting when or where this tidal force may trig- omrnon cliaracter- of dire that a great -mia will split sea.

This is HKEDEB Associated Press Writer ABILENE. Kan -AIM a 1) 'Eisenhower's home taw already bursting at seams visitors, expects oo to 100.ooo persons to fio in Wedn dav for his burial municioa A calypso tune called "Day after Day' which forecast imminent disaster has jumped -ee weeks from 20rh to 7th plate on radio station KHJ's i ampliation of retail record ses th lead Publishers report a bonanza ir. magazine articles and books dealing with fictional forecasts of a cataclysm One of them. Last Days of the Late State of California. has become a best-seller in An- book stores.

ger the strt earthquakes. Another Caltech release sued March 9. said Wild ist th part ot Calif ard slide into tl clear!) A Caltech report released Sunday said new studies indicate the possibility of a quake in Southern Cah forma has been at least temporarily reduced Several experts have assumed that a strain is building up to along a great crack that runs Toe nearly 8 non residents north and south through Cahfor- this one-time terminal on nia called San Andreas cattle trail are Fault, and that a major earth- accustomed to the televi- eieci ton commissioners a school and a hospital on Tuesday because ti law requires it but two pod it piaces have been preempted 1 u.se by the Army a a era. uled dictions of disastrous earthquakes -issued by self-proclaimed oracles and other not supported by scientific evidence and are frightening mam qiiuke is overdue. cameramen wlto them New studies indicate, howev- streets for interviews er, that the strain has been si 4 friends of Eisenhow nificantlv relieved earth- havt recited their recoilectio Dr The book picks December as needlessly the month of catastrophe, but That release quott for some April cs the Charles Rfcihter, develop 0 popular choice of rumors the Richter scale for Die only ApriJ date which earthquake mangnitudes.

(t conceivably might have some saying that in 1965 we acicntific basis is April 16. spunou- earthquake predi that the sun and morwi will for Jan 17. Feti 1 be lim'd up. exerting a gravita- Aprd 1. April 16, all psyi tue cult that claims to ne New Piooly Wiaaly Store To Open Tuesday new Piggly Wiggly st -re.

located in the liuO bloi'k of West Washington Street will open at 9 am Tuesday. A ribbon cutting ceremony will be held Tlie new will have 15.000 feet of interior epace 1 jvirktng will pnnid- ed afiout 150 cars. pull that will make the earth's crust bulge a foot or moie in their direction l-ast March 7 Dr Hew tt Dix, Caltech geophysicist, sornetime ir was a norm Another Dr Jame June or al year Caltei-h Brune March 17, May an- July But none came quakes near the fault in 1925, and 1952, Caltech sold William of the I S. geological Survey, told a Senate Appropriations sub- cummiUee March 25 tt is tabie that will be hit in this century by an qu.ike of the force oi the one which wrecked San Francisco in ofte in thea they sleep. almost But we don Henry Madde accountant who downtown gency housing ceremony.

said 1 a realtor and has turned irtfco an emer- for tiie a Midwestern DETROIT jc ige has ,1 men detained by ih 00 tout 1 tii black separal. Alriea patrolman dead. 1 i I shooting me iliae 22 tail eighl more of 1.15 arrested But Judge Cr j- Recorder's Owrt tl.Jt police had nitrate tests ot ti hands to deternun they had recently W.1- I i.e jUd. 11 had failed to advise t.rst ot their right to 1,1 yers, and he ordered lease. Cone Forced To Reassess Their Plans A Negro 1 but two of 1 police after a maers of the Retiubhc of ckett of Su.td.iy made rocket! i ititl Willia Ca- lialan, Wayne County prose u- fer con of court tor to keep one of the men in custody zapski partrver.

Richard radwHxl polK'e headquarters shortly before mid Saturday that they were ebout make a ctuvk on C. dozen 4 k-s with rifle: cj mines tiwr had seen outside a ch irch in a rtstri re at us, tiiey re at us We need help, was his next radio me? tor d.mti with his hand to get the bullet riddled vehicle out of the line of tire and gasp his call for help Lying in serious condition in De.nut General Hospital with wounds in the lower hack and Worobec was to provide details of the shooting Police said that as reinforce- four by gun fire and witl broken leg. David Brown 19. of Con in. C-ahf was charged with uault with intent to comr inuruer afttT a policeman he saw him fire a pistol fn the church.

ired the When about 50 polK'e rein arriving, they fcund Czapski dead with seve 1 wounds in the head and chest. Worobec had crawled into the nit car pushed the accelera- irk wood Hall. 24, csf 4 ments arrived, tlx'v were fired was with having i on from Uie church. They can chemical spray, smashed their way through Neither charge was fro.it and side entrances, guns recily to the fatal shootirg and rifles Czapski. They were met, they said, oy Negroes at the dni a i.e of Negroes kneeling inside they had fired on police tr tl.e church, in firing position wilrun the church.

Police tliey later confis- came in like nwd cattd 'even rifles, three Ivand-and started from guns and a large supply of am- wde and the front at the sa munition said Muta Ah, 27, of Five Negroes were injured. House Speaker McClerkin itude We of ht i )ple and want our doors to help are mas lictmg, a ve hd eartiKJuake ud within the next fO ears arwl most likely in the decade so U.S. Suffers Little Militarily From Bombing Halt in Vietnam By BOB HORTON There was some MBKlf) VNriter WASHfN(jTON APi Pen geious North lagiin oftI.S.TS say the to Mannes States ras sufgered little mill- the demilitarized zone taiily from the prohibition irig tlie two countries I aga nst bombing North Viet- Stale- H.uv nani, begun in limited fashion vanee to ern the south and North Vietnamese i .1 dan- in the DMZ The I mih- tnre.it tan lias nearly 1,100 below instances of enemy presence m- separat- side the zone, tie Unit- A i 111 ad- Tie 225 hotel and motel rooms in Abilene up quitch wuh offa ml guests military and newsmen. Most rooms in nearby Junction City and Sauna also are taken. far there has no trouble finding space privale Most not oniv refuse to payment of- len throw in a hearty breakfast people called in to say they a foreign langiKigi and be happy to helj guide foreign guests and act as translators, of these peopl Bv FSPFK Press Writer SAIGON AP Heavy and allied bktoking actions ari fotcmg tiie Viet Cong commarn to reassess plans for its ek-old spring ofh nsive, I miatarv analvsts todav.

Mechanically We Could Finish i his Week; Realistically WeCan Officers and mure tha March in stretching tfi said Viet Vietnamese had i 6.000 men du a a.i. Ap i tal ysts firsi two WtHlld an Cambod eah limit Search Stil! Continued For Actused Slayer PRAIRIE Classes VIEW. Tex resumed tod; AP P.atr AdcM, for er of a jJent 1 the predominant! and 1 Ne ne year ago today mutual naturi tt DMZ. The latest modem facilities include two big porve- Uun meal ntrr-aite coolers, a large dairy and a large produce cooler, two large walk- in food vtuftfei arwl wdi OOt 99 vital the Pcntlgoi have eight check-out countens made it to be i a reconnatssanct also fly with armed tne North maintain ovei bly ic anvtti Tins attitude wouiti seem to be admission that the air Campaign against the North, launched in Februarv 1965, was Tre store is the 34th store owned by Piggly Wiggly Red Hive; Onnpany with headquarter in Clarksville. Texas 'Hie firm was founded in 1958 with four Uores in Warn, Texas men I Vietnamese have ing flexibility and paying as high men and 1 the Put, Nor ih oper at 1 jnger to infiltrate nit ward At the same time, however, (iene Warren who Hanoi has not able, or has come years ago was manager not chosen, to build up a much of a Piggly Wiggly store in largir force in South Vietnam tfw He Hanoi dl rasl and loose with the DMZ but not to tfie extent that I forces have been placed serious S.

intelligence estimates 1 to i mm North Vietnamese gaine opei ate contmuousiy in the 12 are ro mile zone but few are combat i price types. Most are patrols in construction units to repair for ywar fortifications in North Vietnam's six-mile portion of tin DMZ Small armed units do slir filant cort.v something President Johnson informed Hanoi would WfKti fired up 41 pa trots are authorized to go after out the antiaircraft batteries tV With the bombing halt has come an intensified air against North Vietname un.t3 the supposedly nejiral cxKintry Hanoi lias used a pathway to South tT mg ce ev en sand lo'ik and tliev i nwt Mr. him as waji an to he 00 a- But piai while and otie suches Bol one offictT sari tl tamed Thief (Harten has about 100 men from nan 1.000 Viet p' (I tu it we st of aake a dash the Mjuth r.c'wi 20 and 50 on a rampage, rie setting fourth and damaging 3umm( fire ti the the Kansas Highway and purp fari to hu a ad Dnkmson (Vx.mty to help his seven-man Ttiey've parking tkkets burial. hiv.enl crowd -v the largest the town ever Sat ene into 1 tW( naMo le eek enee 1 OWIT the an Ufficia manager of the He moved here from Form. Texas where he managed a store there.

Statistica Include Camden, Ouachita County Killed during is Killed Jar 1 3 Accidents since Jan 1 101 since List dt alh 14 Weather ARKANSAS Cloudy and cool today with cliance of bowers south arwl west portions, spreading over tiie aikd etintinumg Tuesday A lew mainly MHith half today and ver of state tonight ami Tuesday, High today upper to nttd fids I a tonight 40s tu low Temperature Tne temptTaliire for the or pe iotl ending at 7 am. VI fid ay was High 4M Itiver 9 falling Total weekend rainfall w.is 81 of an uxti its troop today ls about what it was when the bombs were falhng around 100.000 Former President Johnson re- strie ted I bombing of North last March 31 to the nairow panhandle beneath the 20tii to Hanoi to enter peace negotiations Nov with talks immi nent, made the nrohibition complete. Jezvell Bettis Sr. In Arkadeiphia Jewell Sr R7 of diwl Sunday in a pi-al at Arkadelplua He was a native of 1 lark Counly, a re- farmer md a Pet 'i Methodist Church. He is survlvtsi ov sons, Marvin of WiMie Bettis of Maurvt and (OI Bettis Ir of Alpine four daughters 1 da Bettis Mrs Agee MeKelvev of Cam den, Mrs (Yurde I.aruMev of dvern, and Mrs Herman Partridge of Alpine one Nat BiMtii ot Little nod sifter Mrs Jodie Wil hams of LoiiHi.ina twelve and twenty eigfit grandchildren Funeral servie-1 will he held Tuesday at 10 it une al Chapel in kadeiptwa, with burial in hem Cemetery.

Ark (AP Mr- Jetta Stnk of was ran led Arkansas Mother the hv ChrimiuUce to raid Marine outposts. Four divisions, or around 40 000 men. which were withdrawn to North Vietnam la year remain scattered above the DMZ and a paten, lal threat Tie I riited States siiU tacks North Vietnnme.se tern lory on occasion There have been dozens of exchanges of between I Marines th- Local With To Meet The I ikm I group of I With People will Monday after noon. Marcti 31, at 4 Id in the St John Kp Church of Camden for a fund raivng drive Die drive will foe about an hour with all going to buy rniM need music and equipment The following April 3 at 7 o'clock I'p ith Pe group will meet at the First Baptist Church of Camden 1 ,1 ses.ion All mem- urg to attend Any fis mtere.st- in joining this nip is co ually invited to attend. A.

Myers Died Ir Nursinq Home Abraham I Mvcr. of den died early Sundav morning in a Camden nursing Innne. lie is survived by two thers. Sam Myers of Jasper, ami J.u Myers McRae I line, a I will he held Tuendas at at Salem P.tiHist Church. Bearden, with frtjrial in the church Proctors is at charge of ar- 1 will not Uy, the I ni! acknow But Air For full Ot ed States what is -V sources American a d.d.tcv pi esidenfia! Lincoln Ftsenhow er wa? trammed June 4.

cenerai fur the Reputili nomination rade school whi attend tl no i nation. Twenty v.oundi but Militi ano in rock ar th trv ierrori Ls feil harr Saigon rive rt up id In rs firf'd ilie a cl from i quarte I 1 actio Wi lomat iute nur David labfted i with Saturdav 20 the bai a butcher lust sISlti ad WI XI ha Dal and be a'rpowcr once again North a tnam has now di- to especially the jungle roads highways re ft'ired to as tin 1 Ho Chi Mini: navi place is swarm, transforming the communie it ions and televis the burial eeren across i ran. A source estimates age number of I over Laos at 3 wm oi ro.ono to or the aver missions month i 1 a eek Another hi. i id sliel had to Armv is in budding center natica if1 be "ir wie into a ra- a ti ar o'ini the 42 ed. th Vi uzen I ki 20 and S( mth orted ki wite ifht were 00 eadquar Uu By HARRY KlMi LITTLE AP Sen Morrell Gathright of Pme iiiuit.

president pro tempore of Arkansas Senate, and Louse Hayes Mc( km ot fexarkana agree t.at legislattws will stul be ..1 their tasks next which would tiie fourtn week of the extended session They also feel many lei'- islatows tavor recessing next week for two or three weeks rhere question tfiat it run aito next weei. r.gl.t sdid Sunday iuird to predict iwiw we be here canntK recess iwrtil we have tafcen some action on every pending budget bdl and revenue stabdizataon act," athright VSe also stuniid take final on all ot tne bills." The revenue stabilization act controls ot er revenues during the am winch begins July 1 major pieces trf tax legislation cigarettes and corporate ci- are still penditig in tiie Senate. has not acted thi- appropriation bdl and (fie Revenue Stabhzation Act is to be m- Kijt Neitfer wail wtirk today because of the of for President Eisenhower day is (iood Fntiay which Lrther shortens work ommand id ini ut 20 tar.s overnt ol P. nd John Stewail Died Saturday John 701 day af pital. StW( BiK'k i od Rd in Stewfl died rl.

42. Sviur- a local Id He was a of Wo War II Safety Df.vctor for Ir ternatuHial Company, and a Bap'ii Mr Stewart is survived by his wife drs Evelyn Kelley Stew art two sons, jaht. III iirnl S'ewart, of nn- den lu- niother, John Stewart Miv sippt Iwo bro- J. of II uncr, and Stewart McComh, oim sister. Mrs Anna Me Kinney of ilc VI at mm a moved is bivouackei there he adjacent Cm Armoryr.

Employes I nion Pa Railroad have been pa ing concrete curbing outside freight station where the fun wdl arrive Tuesday SSC Bond Will Perform Here 1 towns ortar infan I rtK-ke on includi: barrase demons a laut reals cou ld t-Clerk a i a Hv 4th I. 'ill ground night-long battle of Kant uni, in tin aas, 40 esti lerki we are touclu 5 imfxh.ii i SIX I tilled su no itd the Act. He says, nnetbmg happen says tne tempts 1 0 Hevenue Stab.li completely as a dratn A Spadai So St ate conort will perform at six area Tre band liigtiianus km tor Twenty five No na loose soldiers and ir'isl Vmerioans woimded least halt tfu 4d were credited to firepower, irk la helicopter guns' tfie ointroversial tanks and arm 1 lass icrkar outhwe ito t( is il emh is said SOtlH 1 arid ti nary ac sure not irr preU them, reversal of tax of in II adjourn next sev rie people ntme tax areas a ton tat kin the dra wi said an I El limerai field Monday at 2 at Proctor C'haftel with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Singing Club To Meet At Bluff City Ouachita Cbunty Niirt't Sinring (Infi will meet Tuesday night at 7 30 at Bluff (Uy. Ever) one is united ta aiund at I Attn lew mg to The alida Fpangl zet twnd will Dor and I Guidon aid Magnolia and wisvdle and CamdeiD 1 acc Oliver, band IV MT IMP I hi NEtiltO hi I HI MluN tn finally na es ine Ufi mk weeic ntially I efe tf il PS are time I ad- flave a roupie willInclude of i Nova Co Polk hv Pearl by BI- I ot program McBeth; by B.

by Itulier tl tr' of I i M. mi cfia'' by and hv Could Band include Ca Byrd, Candace Carrie and (lordon LITTLE HOCK (AP) The W.tsinngton ot Forte -t City today was to the state IU of EFa aitmi by Wuitfirop Tills the third attempt by ttie governor to a Negro to the board 'Hie Arkansas Senate rejeeied Hockefei- 1er two previous John Walker and Townsend, both Li By the Kev Mr Wa diiiigton, ignored a resolution liiurs day hv the Senate urging Rock- efeMer lo name Jtiwi Wealey from Snittfi, a North lattle Negro tontrai lor, to tlie Ihaigs of C.ati siderab cess Hous Some die 1 oth the fall we should possibly a MtOerkin said the early budget ea.sit*s! (lath te nure d.fficult arnl that means an see no a re until these i ve been take Firemen Answer Three Alarms During Weekend Sunday at 10 15 firen made a vun to the home ot Jt I at 740 (lakwood St re CTuet Mahan use sustained minor damage which resulted in electrical short circuit in a It 11 Mahan iui firemen Saturt at 1 20 a we.e called to Lear Street where a 1J tiae to i lianis heavily damaged fire. At 50 a firemen mail run to the intersection Road and GreenwtMid St where a light pole on Mahan said the cause ol the wav undetermined. Lester Dole Is Named Deleqate T0 Convention Lester IVWe. local has elected by tlie of Directors of the Diticc huh Catholic Men ot Li Back Diocese as a deiegatt the National Council of Catfi Convent cm at St.

Lo Ap.i> 24 to April 27. Hi 1 ippicited a member the of the National entinn and will rtpresetit 1 it ie Diot 111 the cessing ot resolu ions at the tional invention Mi Dole director on the civnn Council prepared 1 wiitut.on and Bv Diact san Omncil of Little is currently chairman institution Committee Marianne his wife wiil him tnd s-tav wiih fm in St B1 1 Maddox Is Named Editor At Texarkana ht says is sentiment hr cr fri ttitMr tt Campus security nffksw Ro- satd he appre tended a stwrtU slaving, Ini! the man es- Hicy wanted the unty of- te I when he would not. thev became an- said. tolti he beaten March 18 bv a group oi athletes, but refusisi to file 1 liarges. re had lieefi rumors" nl a dispute, said men la' rov Marion, no ew et tee had been produced that million to Hanover nod huiieate tins tvpe of vio ru ar Madison, Ind leave," place.

care iWl- jrtiv ide us with to back and look and wtiat wt liave uont or fiavon he said LOt iSVlLLE Ky AP Cialiam Brown, a ire and prominent race htrse owner, died Sunday a long illness Brown 87. gave mtliioftt to var- EX ARK AN A Tex M. idox 31. has I managing editw rtf the Ma al1 ex News voriger Si-plflmher has 1 1 cined tin ve editor ot Texarkana and I News. The announcement was Saturday bv M.k»k Stewari era! manager ot the Tex rw-vv sp.ipers Maddox has worked at New Texan, Ariti Texan and the oui 1 er Times beginning his in HMiC hix supervision, New Messe tg eus of awarvls FLORENCE.

Ala iAP I dward was dv.itly shot bv antrfher Sunrttv ixit w.ts not oojly injured lous institutions ineliwfcng S2 w.e* vmg UifWes ttl! his fwth- nearby hunier hi real thing.