The Times and Democrat from Orangeburg, South Carolina • 1

THE WEATHER DRIVING CONDITIONS HAZARDOUS ICE, SNOW AND Weather Report, Page 3 TODAY'S THOUOHT, The pleasantest thing in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art in life is to have as many of them as possible Christian Bovee, American writer. AT SOUTH CAROLINA'S CROSSROADS Uh aGRICUL TURAl AND INDUSTRIAL PROSPERITY UMANGEbURG, S.G. 29115 SATURDAY FFRRUARY 24. 1968 10 CENTS DAILY. 15 CENTS SUNDAY VOL.

111-NO. 55 Let GOP Have A mmsmm A. Cites 'Confession' That Administration Not Capable Of Dealing With Urban Violence rcr lit House Republican Leader Gerald R. Ford, also addressing the luncheon, said next fall's House elections could be particularly important. He noted that the presidential election would be settled there if neither major party candidate were to win an electoral majority.

The Michigan Republican called for election of a GOP president, either by a majority of the Electoral College or, if necessary, by assuring Republican control of at least 26 of the fifty state House delegations. WASHINGTON (AP) Senate Republican Leader Everettt M. Dirksen charged Friday that administration predictions of more city riots are "a confession that they are not equal to the violence we have had and are not equal to the enforcement of the law." Speaking at a luncheon of the Republican National Committee, the Dlinois Republican drew applause when he said of the Johnson administration's efforts to deal with urban violence: they can't do it, move over and Pierce, vice chairman of the convention arrangements committee, had been scheduled tore-port on convention planning. Dirksen, who announced his candidacy for re-election last week, cautioned Republicans against counting on Democratic mistakes to win reelection. "There has to be a little effort," he said.

S(l(ptf(l(o of Selective Service. Col. RECEIVES PRESIDENTIAL CERTI in the future," Judge Martin noted. "It appears from the evidence however, that at no time since the alleged closing of the eating faculty has the bowling alley it self been in operation," he said. "All of the equipment for the eating facility is still in place and could as readily be put back into operation as the bowling alley Itself," Judge Martin presented Dr.

Truluck with a thanks from Governor Robert for the service Dr. Truluck since he joined the board, 1949. Also at the presentation Albert B. Crow (right), director for the state Selective system. FICATE Dr.

George M. Truluck (left) received a certificate of appreciation Friday from Col. Donald H. Collins, state director of Selective Service, upon his retirement as chairman of the Orangeburg Selective Service Board. The certificate of appreciation was signed by President Lyndon B.

Johnson and General Lewis B. Hershey, nation No Further Trouble Expected Governor Promises Continuing Assessment Of Orangeburg Situation al director by an organization known as the Task Force for Community Asked about possible restitution" to the families of the three Negroes killed at Or-" angeburg, McNair replied: "There are no such plans that I know of." A Negro newsman said there was some talk in the Negro community about a suit being brought against the state. "The courts are there for anyone who wants to enter McNair replied. "Of course they would have to prove it." On that point, he said if investigations indicate any of the of lins also letter of E. McNair has rendered March 1, was Major chief field Service let else have a chance." The luncheon ended the day's activities.

Further sessions were put over until Saturday because of the unexpected death in his hotel room of Robert L. Pierce of Menominee, his state's national committeeman. The cause of death was not immediately disclosed. QQ QD Order Issued main in effect until the defendants convince the court the bowling alley is not covered by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The alley has been closed since the shootings.

Neither the Floyds nor their lawyer were immediately available for comment on whether it will be reopened or whether they will pursue legal efforts to operate it on a segregated basis. At a hearing in Charleston Feb. 16, Harry Floyd told Judge Martin he had permanently closed the snack bar. His lawyer argued that bowling alleys are specifically exempted from coverage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and that closing the snack bar exempted it from the cover ageapplying to eating establishments. Government lawyers would not concede bowling alleys were specifically exempt, but admitted that non-spectator recreational facilities were In a "grey" legal area.

They claimed that, in any event, the alley was covered by the act because of the snack bar and that closing the eating facility did not bring it out from under the non-discrimination requirements. Judge Martin agreed. He cited another federal case which held: "The voluntary abandonment of a practice does not relieve the court of adjudicating its legality, particularly when the practice is deeply rooted and long standing. For if the case were dismissed as moot, appel- Wreck Lives burg Regional Hospital after being severely burned in a house fire. One other person was in critical condition at the local hospital, the result of having been caught in a lumber yard machine at Holly Hill.

He is Curtis Riley of a Bowman address. A hospital spokesman said Ri ley was admitted at 7:40 a. m. Friday. He was reported trapped in the machine during the night.

Investigating officer Highway Patrolman T. G. Hammett reported the Denmark fatality occurred at 2 p.m. when a car in which the deceased was a passenger overturned after leaving the road. At 7:45 p.m., Highway Patrolmen G.

W. Clemmons and J. O. Blume were called to a wreck on Interstate 26 near the Highway 301 intersection where a car had overturned several times. Orangeburg Fire Department personnel rushed three from that scene to the hospital.

Bernard Powers, 24, of Charleston, was admitted and his condition was described as good. James Williams, 19, and Allen White, 23, also of Charleston, were treated and released. The hospital reported that two other men were treated shortly after 8 p.m. Elijah Pierce son and Lenner Small. At 8:30 a.m., the hospital treated and released Earl Bal-lew of Dantzler Orangeburg, as result of an automobile accident Hue Citadel Rippod Down DO 0 Restraining COLUMBIA (AP) Owners of an all-white bowling alley at Orangeburg, which triggered racial violence that cost three lives, was enjoined by a federal judge Friday from continuing to operate it on a segregated basis.

U.S. District Judge J. Robert Martin Jr. Issued the temporary restraining order following a suit brought by U. S.

Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark against the operators of All Star Triangle Bowl, Inc. The order was handed down one day before Negro students at South Carolina State College begin returning to the Orangeburg campus following a two-week closedown ordered by Gov. Robert McNair.

Dormitories reopen Saturday and classes resume Monday. Negro students from State College and Claflin College began rioting Feb. 6 after a night march on the bowling alley. Several students and police officers had been injured before state highway patrolmen shot three students to death and wounded more than 30 in a confrontation at the edge of the State College campus Feb. 8.

The government brought its anti-discrimination suit two days later. The defendants are Mr. and Mrs. Harry K. Floyd, owners and operators of the bowling alley, and Mr.

and Mrs. E. C. Floyd, operators of the snack bar on the premises. Judge Martin said his temporary restraining order will re Fire And Jake Two Tragedy marred Friday in the Orangeburg area as death claimed two people in separate incidents.

Willie James Branch, 21, of Route 1, Bamberg, was killed in an automobile accident at Denmark. Gertrude Holman of Goff Avenue, Orangeburg, died shortly after 10 p.m. in the Orange- I ABOUND THE1 1 l3.TovircLJ "DOCTOR No. 13" of the Or-angeburg Fire Department Capt. Will Stroman assisted the stork again Friday.

Capt. Stroman said he and Engineer A. J. Tucker were called at 11:45 a.m. to 126 Treadwell St.

and assisted in the delivery of a baby boy. It was Stork Case No. 7 for "Doc" Stroman and his second such case In the last two months. Mrs. Thelma James and son were reported doing well Friday night SNOW AND freezing rain are predicted 'round town today.

Hazardous driving warnings are out A high temperature in the 30s Is expected today, following a low in the upper 20s early this morning. High Friday was 41 and the low, 30. The Edlsto River is at 156.0 feet above sea level. ants could be free to return to their old ways." Judge Martin found that a substantial amount of the food served at the snack bar moved in interstate commerce, and thus comes under the civil rights act. "It is asserted by affidavit and by testimony that the eating facility is permanently and unconditionally closed and that food service will not be resumed GOVERNOR MCNAIR GOP Convention To Limit Newsmen WASHINGTON (AP) Re.

publican National Convention planners have decided tentatively to limit the number of honorary officials, newsmen and cameramen on the convention floor to reduce confusion. The decision was made Thursday by the arrangements committee for the convention opening Aug. 5 in Miami Beach, Fla. It still is subject to ratification by the full national committee. Sources said party officials will be authorized to negotiate with the radio and television networks and with press spokesmen to decide how many if any reporters and cameramen will be permitted into the delegates' area on the convention floor.

Woman Leaps From Bridge CHARLESTON (AP) Mrs. Helen Austin Martin, 47, of Charleston, leaped to her death Friday from the Silas Pearman Bridge spanning the Cooper River. County police said the worn-an's body was recovered within 35 minutes by Coast Guardsmen. Oops, Copper Boycott Error NEW YORK (AP) A spokesman for the International Longshoremen's Association said Friday an order to its members to boycott copper imports was the result of a clerk's mistake and should not have been issued. Earlier Story, Page 7 Brown Jailed MIAMI, Fla.

(AP) Black Power Leader H. Rap Brown was booked into Dade County Jail here Friday night because weather sidetracked Brown's flight from Richmond, to New Orleans in custody of federal marshals, officers said. Earlier Story, Page 10 ficers at Orangeburg were guilty of a crime, including ywdll dmt with to cording to law," Pressed on whether he felt the highway patrolmen might possibly have opened fire without sufficient provocation, McNair declared: "I have said before our people at Orangeburg conducted themselves quite well. They moved in hurriedly under circumstances which were not good. "I have said I felt they had done a fine Job and I commended the National Guard and all law enforcement officers." But in sketching details of the JCS plan, sources said Thursday night lt is only one of a number of options being considered to reinforce U.S.

based forces depleted by the war's needs for troops. The sources said the JCS proposalwhich also calls for putting on alert another 130,000 or so reservists for possible later callup may differ from proposals by the Army and the other services for solving the problem. THE SAIGON government says still incomplete figures showed Vietnamese civilians had suffered 20,378 casualties with more than 5,000 killed since the outset of the Viet Cong offensive Jan. 30. Accountings were still awaited from Hue and Rhan Thiet, another scene of heavy fighting.

National police were reported continuing a roundup of anti-government personalities considered likely to be wooed by the Viet Cong for service if and when the Communists could set up a coalition to succeed President Nguyen Van Thieu's administration. To War Record situation in Vietnam, which could lead to a higher U.S. troop commitment. This, in turn, could bring bigger draft calls, a Guard-Reserve muster or both. The Pentagon put out a call 'or the drafting of 48,000 men in IprfL the highest total in the past 18 months.

At the same time, the Defense )epartment raised the previous-7 announced March draft quota from 39,000 to 41,000, all to serve In the Army. The April call is only slightly below the Vietnam record of 49,200 drafted In October 1966. COLUMBIA (AP)-Gov. Robert McNair said Friday only a handful of National 'Guardsman will be on duty at Orangeburg Monday when classes resume at South Carolina State College because "we anticipate no further trouble." He said only one platoon of 40 to 50 Guardsmen will be maintained and only a nominal force of state highway patrolmen. State troopers fired the shots which killed three Negro students and wounded more than 30 others Feb.

8 following several days of racial violence. The 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew will remain in effect, McNair said, "So we can remain in control of general conditions." McNair told a news conference the "lesson" to be learned from the Orangeburg violence Is that "it can happen here it can happen anywhere, any time. "We need to constantly assess the situation and stay in communication," he added.

McNair emphasized again that the state is cooperating fully with the Justice Department in its investigation of the shootings and of the rioting that preceded it by Negro students of South Carolina State College and Claflin College. He said he will also get a full report from the State Law Enforcement Division and the National Guard. McNair has said Initial reports indicate Negro students fired some shots first before state troopers fired shotguns during an encounter on the fringe of State College campus. The governor snapped back at a reporter who asked if the state did not plan some "impartial" investigation of its own. "That's your word, the governor replied.

"Use it in your story but don't you say I used it." He evidently felt the newsman was trying to imply the reports he had received thus far from state officers were not impartial. McNair also lashed out at stories by some out-of-state news men which he said sought to put South Carolina in a bad light by distorting his remarks about "outsiders" having touched off the rioting. "One gentleman who wrote a story which disturbed me made no mention of the fact that at the time he wrote it he had 12 stitches in his head from an outsider," McNair declared. Jim Hoagland of the Washington Post was struck on the head the day following the shootings when be sought to interview students. A Negro from out-of-state was charged with inflicting the wound which required 12 stitch es.

Cleveland Sellers, a South Carolina native but not a student, is being held at the state penitentiary on charges of Instigating the violence. Sellers is South. Carolina field coordinator for the Student Non-Violence Cord-Inating Committee (SNICK) and has been living in Orangeburg since last fall. McNair concedes there were racial problems in Orangeburg but contends outside agitators Inflamed students to violence Instead of seeking redress of grievances through the courts. The governor said he endorses the formation of biracial community relations committees throughout South Carolina as was recommended Thursda) VC Flag Over SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese troops stormed the last Red stronghold inside Hue's walled Citadel Saturday morning and ripped down a Viet Cong flag that had flown over the old imperial palace since Jan.

31, the U.S. Command reported. One South Vietnamese official claimed government troops and U.S. Marines had seized the main enemy position in the fortress. But Associated Press correspondent George McArthur reported Communist troops still clung to large areas In and near the Citadel and that heavy fighting was continuing.

Lt. Col. Pham Van Khoa, the province chief, said the allies had won control of the fortified palace grounds, which served as the Communist command post, and also the l'i -mile south wall of the Citadel. While government troops and U.S. Marines appeared to be making their move to mop up an estimated 350 enemy die-hards at Hue, Viet Cong gunners lobbed mortars and rockets into Saigon's Tan Son Nhut air-base, killing four Americans.

At Khe Sanh on the northern frontier, dug-in allied troops absorbed a Red barrage, the second heaviest bombardment of the Marine combat base blocking enemy infiltration routes into South Vietnam's northern provinces. Eight Marines were killed Friday and 38 wounded. Five hundred Communist infantrymen charged a section of Khe Sanh's barbed wire perim-ter held by Vietnamese rangers. The UJS. Command had no details but there was no indication of an enemy penetration.

After a two-day lull in sporadic attacks. Tan Son Nhut, on the western edge of Saigon, was hit by 18 rounds of mortars and big 122mm rockets. Buildings were damaged and fires were started but no aircraft were hit in the brief predawn barrage. Runways among the world's busiest, were reported undamaged. Initial casualty reports at Tan Son Nhut listed four U.S.

servicemen killed, 31 wounded and 11 South Vietnamese civilians killed by missiles that hit a cluster of houses outside the base. In the fighting at Hue, South Vietnam's old imperial capital far to the north, a South Viet, namese spokesman said government soldiers and marines "mounted several other attacks Saturday morning" inside the Citadel, where the enemy has hung on since the lunar new year "Communist offensive Jan. 30-31. Guard And Reserve Call-Up Considered WASHINGTON (AP) About 50,000 National Guardsmen and Marine reserves would be called up under a plan tentatively proposed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to bridge a Vietnam war-caused home forces manpower gap. Draft Call Close WASHINGTON (AP) The Defense Department Friday boosted draft calls close to the Vietnam war record.

And it ordered inductions into the Marine Corps for the first time in two years. These actions came as the Joint Chiefs of Staff proposed tentatively the call-up of about 50,000 National Guardsmen and Reservists to rebuild forces in the United States drained by the Vietnam war. Meanwhile, Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, JCS chairman, undertook an on-the-spot survey of the.