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Miss Your Paper? CtlllX. 3.212lbtf*»t«p. daily Iloblis Daily News HOBBS, NEW MEXICO, 88240, MONDAY. APRIL 10, 1967 Inside the Capital Sui Weather LEA COUNTY: Occasional cloudiness through aesday with a few thunder- bowers in the area late today; mner Tuesday. Low 50, high NEWSSTAND 10 CENTS AFTRA Strike May Be Over SANTA FE.

Gov. Dave Cargo says he will ask the legislature next year to cen- tralize all state custodial services, now divided into five separate mop and bucket brigades, but the move is bound to spark stiff opposition from controlling The 10-man janitorial staff at the State Supreme Court building keeps the structure in excellent condition and is nonpolitical. Some employes have been on the payroll 30 years. Some other custodial crews are highly political, a situation Cargo says he would like to correct. Agencies controlling the cleanup crews are reluctant to give up their authority to a central department.

The Legislative Finance Committee unsuccessfully sponsored bills in the 1963. 1965 and 1967 Legislatures to place the janitor forces in a Property Division in the State; Finance Department with the exception of the Supreme Court, new capitol and Land Office custodians. Gov. Cargo said: "I have tried to persuade the legislature and I didn't have any luck. It doesn't mate sense to have the custodians separated.

This thing has gotten to the point where there are Luck, Cargo and Burroughs Democrats among janitors and it's 1 truck too bad. I'm not aware of any Republicans among them. We Trucking Dispute Expected To Have Little Effect Here Although local and area trucking operations are not expected to be effected at this time by a national trucking tie-up and! dispute, it will effect some incoming and outgoing truck ship-! nients by long-distance trucking companies. ICX (Illinois-California Ex-; press Inc.) 122 South Grimes in Hobbs reported this morning that no trucks are expected by that company in or out of 'Hobbs during the current tie-up. The company has no long-dis- tahce drivers operating out of Hobbs so no immediate effect; of local personnel is expected.

I Freight 80" West Taylor, also reported nc trucks of that company are expected in or out of Hobbs durin; the current tie-up. That compan: has two long distance driver, TruckersVow To Continue With Tie-Up CHICAGO (AP) Hundreds of the nation's trucking firms, operating out of this office embroiled in a labor dispute i with the Teamsters be "effected by non-opera vowed not to let a single cross-! tion of that company's trucks, country truck on the-road today. I spokesman here said. Some predicted dire effects onj However, Apex Freight Line- the economy. i 1001 South Selman and Lan Some union men agreed the 203 West Cain, re tie-up would hurt this morning that thei economy.

i trucks were still operating al- Nobody involved knew justj tn ey didn't hazard a don't pay these employes de- jwhen the effects would show up.i^uess.as to whether they would cent wages. They are used JMany said it might take a week be effected if the politically now and then." or more more "widespread and continues National talks with the Team- forc of time, sters ended at 4 a.m. Sunday in! Supermarkets here, supplied! Washington. Later in the throu tnck services do not Trucking Employers, a immediate food short- federation accounting for 65 per ages as a result of Nashville Riots ITcntative i Apparently Over Agreement Is Reached NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)--A light rain and sunlight brought! an apparent end early today to Nashville's second straight night! of racial violence in the city's Negro college section.

Gunshots, fires and looting." erupted overnight, continuing into the early hours this morn-! DM A A ing and left one student seri If USvCUl Iwll ously wounded. But the dawn coupled with so many arrests! that police officials said theyj were uncertain early today of! the number apparently! brought the strife to an end. Police charged two Negroes i i inciting' a riot. They were 1 identified as George Washing-j ton Ware, 26, of Atlanta and Er-j nest Stephens, 25, of sta and were held under bond each early today. Ware told police he was Finishing Up In Speck Case PEOR1A, 111.

is putting on its rp, Ihe NEW YORK (AP) -A tentative settlement to end the 13-day strike of radio and television per- i formers was reached jearly today, but pickets jcontinued to march out- jside the network sky- i scrapers. Terms of the agreement wers still secret and yet to be voted the Jon by the striking members of the American Federation of Tel- 0 evision and Radio Artists. But the machinery was being speeded up in an effort to clear the way for the possible telecast o's the annua Academy Awards tonight in Hollywood 'by the American Broadcasting I Co. ABC said the show was "fully drifter The governor said his bill for the legislature next January "will incorporate all of the janitors" in the State Finance Department. The state spends a thumping $624.000 a year for 187 custodians under five jurisdictions.

Five building superintendents paid $602 to $900 a month. Separate crews range in size from 10 to 69 for six state buildings under the Capitol Custodian Commission. the truck cent of the U.S. long-distance transportation problem. called on its 1.500! Spokesmen for Cashway andj 'firms to lock out their explain that their drivers.

The federation later! andise comes from wholesale; termed the order 100 per centi warehouses in Lubbock and is! effective sni PP ed their ow trucks! The uc-up came ic drivers strikes, which begin, jl(ragh prolonged tleup a i shortages caused i sup-; The commission's chief cus- several days ago as -negotiations- todian. Rudy Laumbach. says headed toward an impasse. The olhor truck serviced centralization "would be the Mediation and Concilia- pjjers economical thin-," But the lee- tion Sen-ice said it would meet HONORED ENTRY Ida Battiste of Carlsbad was presented with a corsage by Jeanne Redmond, president of the Hobbs Women's Bowling Association during the tournament Sunday. Mrs.

Battiste was honored as the oldest entry In the tournament. She is 85-years-old. The second weekend' of the month-long tournament was completed Sunday, Results of the first two weekends of action is on page 6 of today's News-Sun. --Staff photo by Jim Rawls. 315 Communists Killed in Viet Carmichael here Saturday.

Ste-i phens said he was a worker foH houses" of i the Student Nonviolent Coordi-; gj Inating Committee, headed bv iCarmichael. The 25-year-old The charges stemmed from 'S ed with the knife and! riots which eruDterl Saturday. angulation mu rder Of the! nTght a hours afte ei Side town-kf ready to go oa ihouso- Tniv 14 iu p.m. 'once tne go-ahead michael spoke at a symposium, lrt Uienalis given bv 4FTlU" at predominantly white Vander-i TM prosecution was expected! 51 11 1S AJ? IttA ibilt The violence i call a woman hotel employe The Umon announced this was triggered when police eject- in its attempt to reconstruct for morning that section meetings ed a at the owners request islature recently approved I today with the trucking employ- more decentralization by as- in an effort to get talks signing a separate 24-man jani- ling again. On Page 5.i Safeway obtains its disc from El Paso and with nationwide system of trucks and warehouses also sees; problem in this: SAIGON The U.

S. command today reported a sharp increase in ground actions throughout Vietnam with 315 Communists killed in the preceding 24 hours, UlggCiCU pUllUC ejtUL- 1 --u lUi Negro from a Negro tavern tne seven men and five women ic owners request. Police uror hearing Speck's trial a said Carmichael was not seen reci account of the defend- the area of the rioting. One Negro college ant's Jlight. She was expected to student 'testify that Speck registered was shot in the neck Sunday night and hospitalized as Negro rioters fired at police, stoned passing cars and roamed the streets between the campuses ofj u(iin predominantly Negro 'Fisk and! fami under a false name in a hotel.

The stale may close its case by Wednesday. "After that, the defense calls its witnesses in- tnembers of Speck's of its national board would be held in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles to discuss the tentative agreement. The New York meeting was originally scheduled for 5 p.m. But a short time later AFTRA announced the New York ing was being moved up to p.m. apparently a move to expedite a decision on the Oscar Truckers' wages range fromj immediate $3-25 to $5 an hour.

They area providing Ue up docs asking 7 per cent wage not SQ a an effcct which would raise the range to, felt from somc non coni anv from $3.47 to $5.35 an hour. Ihe, supp ij ers carriers offered a 5 per centj A 5po esman or lne oilfield increase. i trucking industry here said that Unofficial reports held wiu nol be a ff ecte by the ALBUQUERQUE employers and union were; up the present time the Youns Democrats' 1S67 stateless than 10 cents an hour apart; companies engaged in local oil convention here over the week-ion wages but much farther' ij hauling are not involved end attended by 10 dele-lapart on fringe benefits. a nd few. if any, of the large oil- gates representing Lea County's' Harvey L.

Werner, president; fj jd truck drivers in this 110 YD Club members. of Werner Transportation to unions. They were: Mona Smith of land the Minnesota Trucking Meanwhile, Hcbbs succeeded by Virgil i Employers Representative, said this morning reported Beatles of Roswell as statela nationwide shutdown couldj that 6 0 00 Mexico truckers dli lodav lt accused him Saigon cent of the busi-i expect to be idled by the Teams- Liu Attacks Stepped Up I I By Maoists The first wave of three B52Jat bombers to be based in Thai-) land arrived there today from! Guam after dropping 180.000 pounds of bombs on a suspected Communist camp only 31 miles from Saigon. Nine more B52s will move to Utapao Air Base, in Thailand, later this month, cut-j ting their round-trip time for! raids on South Vietnam from 12 hours to less than three. The ground action included Tennessee State universities a Las week's spotlight was program mile apart.

Corazpn Amurao, 23, the nurse; The Midwest and WMt ern In two nights of violence. Philippines who spent sections were expe cted to meet about the same time, a man said. One union source said it wai possible that action taken at tha board meetings would lead ta iu removal of pickets so the Acad- Itol in their possession. Police! ro to their deaths in other iemv Award telecast coul go i arrested six men and a women sections townhouse. least 50 persons were arrested.

nearl seven hours on the wit- Most charges ranged from dis-j nes stand She told how her orderly conduct to roommates were herded possession and transportation a bedroom by an intruder, explosives. Four white men ar-jbound with strips of cloth and rested had a shotgun and a one by one, led from the house where officers said I told of hiding under a bed for (Continued On Page 5) I four hours to hide from the kill- ier as he picked his victims. During cross-examination, the defense tried to break down her' description of the armed intruder. The diminutive nurse was TOKYO (AP) Mao Tse-j lung's forces, reportedly bol-i a 6-5 endorsement in'sharp barrage of recoilless rifle; Judge Studies Motions In Highway Case tion and three stab wounds. Other prosecution SANTA FE (AP)--A judge isjtestified that Final approval by the striken might take two days, a spokesman said.

Negotiators for AFTRA and the networks, who had bargained in shirtsleeves through night, shook hands and steadfast in her identification of ugne( as they araiounced agreement at 6 a.m. Observers said a break in talks came at 3 a.m. when the parties met jointly with federal Speck, whom she had pointed to, saying, "This is the man!" A medical examiner testified that five girls died of strangula- were killed by CniT Communist party's; shells on the U.S. 25th Infantrv'i 4 A A A VShP murder lic body, stepped uplDivision headquarters at di! st dy nrm aF8kin 5 OI attacks on President about 25 miles northwest ofi missal Of Santa Fe a witnesses was near before and ediator Ralph C. Patterson.

talked for an hour and 20 minutes then separated with a network spokesman, announc- igrand Santa Fe indictments pci A i Jr. of Hobbs. president of Ihe nesses in the rs Union dispute with inter: Lea County YD's; Mrs. Pevoy. au i area.

Gordon state freight lines. Larry Hamilton. Carmie Shoe-ij i a of Teamsters Joint Council; The lockout by major truck- issued; the! of The predawn 11111 jur "eight serious crimes" killed three American an Inv of charged he was a "traitor." i soldiers and wounded 20. was! Hlghway Ce artment The new attacks against Liu.i the second in two days. The hel-i st Court Judge Robert as a counter-j icopter-borne U.S.

1st cavalry, IReidy of Albuquerque said it indicated Mao; Airmobile, Division headquar-l wou be some time before he paring a criminal! ters at An Khe was hit Sunday. I reports on the motions. PSC Rate Hearing Opens Here Today Lovington. A Houston trucker forecast; today to those of an emergency Mona Smith made a last j( a Burden on the consum-jor essential nature, ute decision to run for state; i pll biic." A Florida Spokesmen for since melcJ fli sa i the stoppage might go on ajFreight Lines, of iinnn-: 1 be ore it was felt. Express, Garrett Freight Lines.

1 In manv areas, the tie-up Lines and the Watson- ing: "The union people will call us when they want us." Both sides joined the mediators again at 5:30 a.m. and within 30 minutes the settlement 'was announced. Said Patterson: "Following almost 24 hours of bargaining, the parties reached tentative agreement A hearing got underway to ratification by the the the New'national board of AFTRA." Salazar of Santa Fe was unop posed, but was defeated. Named cominitteenian was Richard Manzanarcs of Belen. Storm Wat kins of Carlsbad is the nevr district vice chairman, which includes Hobbs.

Conventioners also backed the administration's Vietnam police policy by a resolution, and shouted down a resolution from! 110 5 the floor asking for bombing to! cease in North Vietnam. Other resolutions passed in-; eluded of the "War on: Poverty." voting laws be to allow IS-year-old? to vote: i.M"j!.cl a study of Postmaster O'Brien's proposal that the postofficc department be replaced by a non-profit govern, and bills yesterday afternoon ment corporation after the fash-iwas reported stolen from the ion of the Trnnesscr Valleys home of Lco Thompson, 701 Authority; and asked a lottery, East Baja. system to draft servicemen. Thompson told police he and "Also-attending the convention his family hart left the house rt i- i l.A.llllllln.t.cC (H HUT far from 100 per cent llson Transportation System, a A Florida trucker, for instance. sa id their shipments 9fjj he a rf Lfie rta A I i i i i i i Jicivi i i lu against the 68-year-old American pilots flew 96 mis-1 Jud Reid dismissed ate.

sions over North Vietnam Sun-kharge during the Friday-Satur-j morning nere by Corres nclenJlS Peking forj a de spite bad weather All-i da arraignments, saying the'Mexico a an ese newspaper Yomi- we "ather jets hit the Thai Neuv-lstatute of limitations time studying the request of.canned shows on a and the Yugoslav news! other Mexico, Electnc Service late last agency Tanjug reported that missile sites 30 The count involved a deedf 0 forced sunem.orv standins committee Polit-! frntn a i th, nn 10 elecmc consumeus in tms pic ket lines forced supervisory frotn the Red capitol. Public Sei-vice Com-j The strike pressed a diet of TV viewers last week when engi- AFTRA Florida trucker, for instance. sa id their shipments would rommiM guessed that it affected lessjdwindle through the day. Aomm.uee than half Ihe state's traffic. 0 union pickets were report- But in other areas, truckers'; ed the Albuquerque area, who are not federation mem-! Most firms completed runs sunpor ei bers joined in closing in transit when the cision was reached Sunday from Liu and i a i is correc t.

Robert K. Shon of Minneap- iCnntinuod On 5) $370 Reported Stolen Here Approximately S370 in coins combat union demands. nt could explain the ex- Heavy ground fighting the jury--Helen area ranch-; miles southwest of G. W. Burns, Belen lawyer: "jafter U.S.

9th Division soldiers'Mayo T. Boucher, former High-! a major force of Viet; wa Department administrative; Cong guerrillas in a running! engineer Robert DeLaRvie. andj two-day fight. Battlefield re-jHighway Department aide Luth-j ports fisted 166 Viet Cong deader Edwards. area.

from infantry, air and artillery Other several persons named indictments plosion of opon attacks against 4 It would be difficult to aiSQ mear a pounding. how soon the shutdown wouldi i choil En lai tne re The battle erupted SundayjState Rep. Fred Foster, D-jshould have ipuie'd mediator strife when a 9lh Division Highway Commissionj ers service Dy JNCW Mexicoj and 'has all the wav over toi force ran intt skirmishes of John Sudderth: com- Electric and the setting of those; At isslle the strike were the affect the state or impair ness, a New Mexico Motor Carriers spokesman said. Electric Sen-ice its in I personnel to take over technical Commis-'duties. The results at times a redu-: ere wavering sound, blurred for Southwestern Pub-; pictures and missed cues.

Service Co. for power sup-j writers, cameramen and even to New Mexico Electric motorcycle messengers at net- Co. The current hear-; WOr jj pivot points stayed away I ing is for the purpose of deter-j from their jobs in sympathy i mining what effect that South-j jt the striking un- includej we stem Public Sen-ice decision 0n wn ose pickets included such on rates to consu-j ce itjes as John Daly, Fran. by New Mexico! A 0n an Ed McMahon. in Mao's side.

man guerrilla battalion, missioner Dr. John Q. Thaxton; rates. The hearing Youths Jump Check ot Cafe The NC--V China News lan artillery a chief highway engineer of" a' rallv against i Bounding the Reds, who scat-jT. B.

White; highway construe- the second floor of the city hall corame rcial fees for ,010 ot a i i i a i Johnson, building and is expected to I ewscaste at in tion engineer (Continued On Pjutc 5 union demand for base pay of is being held on! r5 a wee j- an( a greater share about 100 newscasters at network(Continued On 5 tinue at least part of tomorrow. Mack Easley and Harold until 10:05 nels, and speaker of the house Jane! when they Moon Program Faces More Delay Bruce King. )AYS LEFT! front door was standing open. They thought nothing about it at tho time, sSincr everything ap- to be in order. Ihe report id.

However. Thompson found several more dimes to i i and said one of the speakersi tered ith unit the 9th reported that in "he had! Conti On Fase charged the number one party i person in authority taking Two teenagers here have be-icapitalist road (Liu) with eight; gun the life of a hobo a bitj rious crimes but had been; early. A waitress at the Honda brutally persecuted by the tiny; Inn. 440 South Turner, told handful of party persons in au-i police late last night that two thority taking tho capitalist! CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP)jview of components in Apollo lessnes.s, and some of it was sparks between two closely teenagers wearing shorts had road." America's communications and 'placed electrical sources, such eaten $6 in food and then left crimes were faced further systems.

The Apollo 1 board-of-reviewjas open ends of a broken or without paying. today to allow time to overcome! House and Senate Space Com; said in its final report released bruised wire. Police searched the area for 71,,, on Liu by official workmanship and managementimittee members said the that a bruised or broken fl its 3 000-pajje final report tho two youths described, but ao press started in the deficiencies revealed in a Aeronautics and Space wire most likely sparked the ie sa ne fj re WPIT unable to find them as1 0 0( Ma, although he ribbon board's final report on Administration and its that killed Air Force Lt. ii eve( to iave started in the that time. A more detailed dcs- )u )0en under firo in unofficial-the spacecraft fire that killed tors should take time to correct Cols.

Virgil I. Grissom and eft nand bv Or tft ptcptfe COAtplCt'c txY a to a coin collection. cription the ouths xvas iven n.nvs.papers and three U.S. astronauts. the" ills.

ward H. White II and Navy Lt.inea^rGri^omT^ouch^^whe^ his coin collection hadj later for months. The eight-man board which 1 "These deficiencies must be Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee in a the suspected wiring was local- i born stolon.

The family also Tne c'hin a spent seven weeks in an exhaus-jcatalogued and corrected and launch pad test Jan. 27. 'covered $48 in bills missing! POWER MOWER STOLEN i described tlu i oampai.cn againstilive investigation of the Apollo must not be said While "no single ignition, 5 0ar( headed a rlosof and J23 from! Thrft of a power lawn mower ns an 1 said it Clinton P. Anderson, D-source could be conclusivelyipi ovd I rooms of i rhiklrrn. $45 was reported U.

CO.nOn in design N.M.. rhairma)i of the Senate.identified," the report said Research Center Thompson tolrf polifif ho had poliro at p.m. ypstrrday i soldirrs. engineering, manufacture Aeronautical and Space Scienc-probable cause was euner it fo un 'd numeVous of i approximately $SOO in his E. Davis of 302 South Ave.

tionary cadres and Red quality control." jes Committee. arc or short circuit jn: ao ecraft wirin? which had faction, mostly in Mercury hoad'C. Davis told police the mower i hold nli- in SiMurday! The report recommended Rep. Olin Teasue. DC (direct current wirinc i)" 0 en designed and in- idinif'S.

niUi several $2: was mirchssfd from anl detvnnu-oil l.hi fov launch-'major overhaul of Apollo space- whosr subcommitTee on NASA providing power to environmen- 3 I and Kennedy half'dollars. Ward about three years "wild attacks on Chairman crafi, including quick-escape oversight begins its own Apollo tal control system instrumenta- ar released a picture is continuing by for He described division. In color. it as'Mao and the Tse-tung." thought of Maojhatch, fewer combnstiWe investigation 'inside moonship, and a nil today, of said rion." carf- An electrical arc a band of shown jt a wrench On socket that.