Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 1

r-T. HUNTINGTON BEACH (AP) This place is bugged. For two weeks now millions of six-legged insects with brown and white stripes have darkened the the sun over this community, eating everything that doesn't eat them first and giving every body the flits. "Plague take those noisome circulionidae!" is the anguished cry on every lip. Or at least a few.

The curculionidae, members of the weevil clan, are also known as snout beetles, because of the, snorkel tube-like facial structure which is the little beastie's mouth. As farmers have long known, and Huntington Beach residents are learning, there is nothing Continued Page 3, Col. 1 ISSUE TEEN PAGES CHURCH NEWS Ylhiey'tre Elediy Bdiigged in I aw st I. 1 I if U'-V' VI tr' .3 PREP SPORTS 1 93rd YEAR, NO. 123 TAWIM.rPRUA.

SATURDAY, APRIL 23, AKIAN CALIFORNIA 1 1966 10 DAILY, $2.25 A MONTH LBJ Hopefu 'W Of Viet Unity hi V'- Doubts GOP To Use War As Issue Snow Kidding Even though it's hot, and wearing a thin suit won't relieve your thick blood, don't lose your cool. Take a chill from this picture of March 1 when snow fell in Oakland (flakes added for effect). Susan and David Brown, both 13, went out to delight in it near their home at 6632 Ascot Drive. Feel better? Ahhhhh 4j--4r -) I Brilliant Tapestry Of Flora I Beauty By NOEL LIEBERMAN There were lilies and lilacs Garden Club of Piedmont decid- 7 '-M CARRIED ITT MEN "TO DEATH Six crewmen and 92 servicemen from Ft. Ord were aboard doomed plane.

(AP) 75 Ft. Ord GIs, 6 Others Die As Airliner Hits Mountain and azaleas and roses. Rhododendrons, petunias, begonias and tulips, They were tjcanee and yellow gold. et, white, green, blue and Their fragrant aromas dell-ciously permeated every nook Pictures, Panes 3, 13, 14 and cranny, and they enticed and tantalized the olfactory nerves. It was as verdant as nature's finest tapestry.

It might have been Muir Woods, or the High Sierra or even Yosemit. But there were green-thumbed gentlemen and latiics unhorticulturally dressed. And they wore diamonds and Jewels and gowns and tuxedoes. Bright red carnations and en chanting bouquets. It was the massiva Oakland Exposition Building and it was alive with the sound of music.

And the gentlemen and their ladies were syncopating to the musical "Symphony of Flow-era" theme of the 34th annual California Spring Garden Show which previewed for the black-tie set Last night And they all saw some of their favorite things. Orhara iamuel, for example. The maestro of the Oakland Symphony Orchestra Is a confessed tyro when it comes to horticulture. Bat the Bonita ed to draw on his talent any way in keeping with the musi cal theme, and with his help harmoniously blended azaleas ana cinerarias ana rwo uvw trees with musical lratrumef.51 in a palio setting and walked off with the Breed Cup for dub competition. CAVE ENTRANCE "You know very well we deserved it" joshed one Bonita woman with humble giddiness as Samuel beamed.

The ladies and gentlemen en-tered the indoor exhibitions through a mossy cave studded with orchids from all over the world. And when they emerged through its portal they were hit by towering redwoods fashioned by hand, cascading waterfalls with a white effect provided by oxidized chicken wire and 'a kaleidoscopic array of flowers, trees, grass, brocks, bridges, and vegetation. It mde you want to ling. There was humor and Laughter and punning and adlibtmg. 1 1 came mostly from the "Gardening Is Relaxing" exhibit created by the Oakland Business Men's Garden Club.

TAKING IT EASY An Indolent horticulturist was stretched out In his garden, his hands behind his bead, his glasses on his chest, a straw hat pulled down over his eyes, timed Page Cat. 1 Reds Flee Trap Set By Marines SAIGON. South Viet Nam (AP) A regiment of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops slipped through an allied trap today and, though badly mauled, escaped into the jungles. The regiment, almost surrounded by U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese government troops six miles northwest of Quang Ngai, apparently found a hole in the perimeter and faded off to the west A U.

S. military spokesman said allied forces had gone in on tips from a Viet Cong defector to get at the 1st Vict Cong Regiment and the 21st North Vietnamese Regiment The two units were forced together after they were battered by U. S. Marines in Operations Utah and Texas March, What was left took, a new mauling but not as much as the allied officers had expected. The original figure of 257 Communists killed over a 24-hour fire fight was scaled down to 220.

A'lied casualties were described as light Most of the 220 dead Communists were victims of air and artillery attacks, spokesmen said. The operation named Hot Springs also resulted In more than 100 weapons captured from the Communists, including a score of caliber machine guns and 57 mm recollless rifles. Air attacks over North Vict Nam Friday cost the U. S. Air Fore two planes.

A Voodoo on a special photo reconnaissance was shot down by ground fire northeast of Hanoi and the pilot was listed as missing. An 105 Thunderchief fighter bomber was hit by automatic weapons fire about 40 miles northwest of 1 nni ru4 Ih TwJ ttil ftlfijl recorded as missing. The Air Force spotted five surface lo sir missiles in flight during Friday's attacks but evaded all of them. Opt James R. Mitchelll of Ogden, Utah, said one SAM blasted about 330 feet above his Thunderchief and two otheri went by without exploding.

Air Search Begins for 3 Bay Fliers A full-scale aerial search If tipected to begin today in southern Colorado for three miming Ray Area fliers. Aboard the Cena 210, which departed from Durango. at dusk Monday, bound for Pueblo and Dwtr, are the follow. lng: Robert Dukes, about 40, a ued aircraft dealer and veter an pilot; Wilson Tsang. one of the owners of the Mai Tal Bouse of Beauty and the Ricksha Lounge in San Francisco, alw) a pilot; and Lea Levin, 24.

a private pilot and, wilh his father, PhiiBp, operator of the Glacier beverage and lea dit-penter machine company. The latter firm ns the plane. "Bob's a good pilot, one of the best say Dukes" avottatej at the Metropolitan Oakland International Airport, where he baa brefl la ud aircraft for the past ll months, "He could get the plane down safely, If enyon cooSd, his fei-Inw-rloU Mid. "Ifa bTersUva that they find them aooa." is temporary morgue set up In Ardmore Civic Auditorium. There, 81 bodies were counted within a few hours after scores of rescuers began the grim task of moving victims from heavily timbered Wllside.

The death toll Included one survivor who died later in an Ardmore hospital. The official death count was confirmed by Col. George Donovan, battalion commander of the Ardmore National Guard The plane was an American Flyers airliner, preparing for a furl stop here while on a cross-country flight from Ft Ord. Vtxre the recruits had Just completed basic training, en route to Ft Benning, where they were to start airborne and other types of advanced training. The plane was piloted by Reed Pigman.

president of American Flyers. Pigmaa was identified as one of the dead. "We worked like slaves, but It Just didnt do any said Dr. James at Ardmore General Hpiul when the ISth survivor died. ll looked fcke an oil well Cesffmrd Page 2, Cel.

1 Another Scorcher In Eastbay The Eastbay heat wave beaded toward anothrr record high today aflr breaking the mark far an April 22 by seven de gre yesterday. The weatherman said temper. Starts wwld rear degrees today, with a tow of snriight He said the fair weather woold eor.Unw thrwigh to-morrww. slthoogh It might be tr4T then. The temperatwr In Oakland yurdy reached si degrw.

Th prrrins rord wsi set April 22, 1X5. at deees. TV? hish for an Afril 23 Is IS dfre, set in IMS. WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson, conceding some supply problems and political splits in South Viet Nam, pre dicts that in due course the people there will achieve unity and a constitutional government. Johnson also told a surprise news conference Friday that he does not expect Republican leaders to try to capitalize on the administration's Viet Nam policies as- a political issue in the November congressional elections.

He added that Democrats never had "a more comprehensive record or a better record to campaign on" and said his party will go into the election with a strong edge. The President said the admin istration Is not ytt approaching the time for decision on possible antwnjaUoo moves such as tax increase or wage-price con trols. Johnson, talking Informally from the rocking chair in his oval office, also replied to claim by Sen. Robert F- Kenne dy, that the administra lion's economy efforts have hit hardest at the poor. The chief executive said ap propriations for health, educa tion and anupoverty programs have been increased by 10 billion to S12 billion "since I succeeded President Kennedy." Johnson flew lo Baltimore by helicopter last night for a speech at a Methodist Church anniversary celebration.

He cited the same domestic spending increases and promised further social welfare efforts, but said we shall not be stampeded Into unwise programs." Some critics of the Viet Nam war paraded outside Johnson apparently did not are them and the President made an off-the-cuff reference to suggestions mat a new pause in bombings of North Viet Nam might promote peace, as addressing the Communists, he said: 'Don't ask us to stop every thing you're doing while you pound us. Don't ask us to stop everything you're doing while CohUddH Page 2, Cat 4 Plastic Heart Man Now Improving HOUSTON (LTD Marcell L. de Rudder, 15, the man with the plastic heart, actually im-! proved today, doctors reported' a imbuing vwkjiuuh swkur that said he "seems better In every respect" The tough coal miner whose natural heart is taking a rest to heal itself, and tnot of wbote life Is being sustained by an artificial heart, showed "slight improvement" today hi his vital signs patterns showing up on an electroencephalograph. Doctor said "his other vital signs arc beginning to stabilise. Tba left ventricular bypass (artificial heart) continue to work aatisfartorfly and performs about 71 per cent of the work of the left ventricle-.

Da Rudder remained unconscious. The hopeful note of the report was the first such sign to the usually im-commHal medical reports coming out of Methodist llotpiUU whert Da Rudder rt- Caatunwd Piga 2, OL I PRINCE FRIEDRICH Prussian Prince "9 WIESBADEN, Cermany AP) Interpol (International Police Commission) has been alerted in the search for Prince Frie- drich of Prussia, British natu ralized grandson of Germany's last kaiser, missing sinew Tues day. Chief commissioner Hermann Mumrn of the Wiesbaden slate police said today a search warrant also has been circulated throughout West Germany after a local search failed to turn up any trace of the prince. A police helicopter, a Rhine River patrol boat and scores of state police joined la a search that extended to the river and the large forest ringing the prince hotel, Schloss Remhart-shausen at Erbacb, near here. The prince believed to have taken an after-dinner stroll along the river front as he oft en did.

When be failed to show up Wednesday morning, hotel employes alerted police. Prince Friedncb has been liv ing in Kngland since 1939 and only occasionally visited In Germany. He slipped out of the Nazi men a few months before the war. During World War II, he lived on a small farm north of London where he was known as "Mr. George Mansfield' and worked the fields himself.

Hits Parked Auto, Driver, 31, Dies James P. Brown. 21, a San Franctc laborstory technician, was killed early today when he apparently fell asleep at the wheel of his cf and smashed into a parked suto less than three blocks frontalis hrene. Brown, of 4 27th Avenue, died shortly after arrival at Mission Emergency Hospital. Police stated that he was atone in his car at the time of the crash, vihk-h occurred on the 700 Work of 27th Avenue.

Escaped Car Theft Suspect Caught EL OCRRITO-An auto theft suspect escaped from the poUra department sntmiew room yes terday by forcing i window and eluded officers for 2Mi hours before his capture la the basement t4 a home near Cerrito VMa Park. Police said Boy VanJDeGoor- berg, 17, of S6I1 Central Ave wss flasthed from prk hrub-bery and Immi shortly after hi an A via Drive residenc. 114 wss turned ever to juvwiSa au thorise. One O'clock Jump ARDMORE, Okla. (AP) Recorded conversations and an undamaged plane instrument; undamaged pi were examined today as federal officials tried to learn what caused a chartered airliner to crash, lulling 11 of Its 98 occupants in the rugged Arbuckle mountain foothills near here.

A team of aviation experts from Washington arrived early this morning also to sift through the scattered wreckage of the plane that was transporting 9J Army personnel most of them recent recruit from Ft Ord. to Ft- Bcnning, Ca. Also aboard were si dvu an crew members, an killed. A flight recorder aboard the Ill-fated American Flyers airliner was undamaged when the huge plane smashed into the heavily timbered hillside after overshooting the converted World War tf airfield. The mritive equipment records actions of the plana while inflight Conversations between the pilot and the Fort Worth, Tex.

and Ardmore airports before the crash also are recorded on tape, but the conversation have bem kept secret The wreckage strewn over a twmile area also will be WHERE TO FIND AsHlay Chvrtht CUttifmd Ads Clcs Crwttwwrd vtti $p0t1 Tn Po TV and ldi .....11 to ii ii Vllsls Wthf 2f WwMiIWmkm ....11, TIMmATUIIS 0lU DrwMtws. .12 hw 12 t.f. Dww 7 AirMft 71 SS $7 IAY AIIA f' wHj m4 tanwrrvw. WmW wSHi liigH tBar tO II. Um totaht II 2.

NfH rwiKt wrMJs 10 Hi 20 Dnrnrr1 ki Ty fn WF Saves Soldier HANFORD (LTD Pvt. James Murphy, II, stationed at Ft was pulled from a line of soldiers boarding the chartered air liner that crashed In Oklahoma last Right killing II persons. Murphy called his mother. Mrs. Frsnkie Lee Adams of Hanford, early today to jtive her the news.

He said II of hit buddies were killed in the crash. lie said be was scheduled far the trip but was held over because of a mix-up in his records. pced tofElber another effort to determine what caused th crash. Bodies of the arJdjer-vklimi were beinf taken this rrwrmir. to Ft Sill near Lawton.

Seventeen survivors honpilalised. mot of them in critical condition. The Army public teformstion office at Ft Stll todsy released the list of 17 survivors of the crash. Among thera wss Fred Vawjurx. II, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Alilatw Vanqwe. Rl. 3. Bos 3MD, iote.

Calif. was reported In serious condition in Ardmore Hospital. The dead were taken to a 2 Countries Hit By Sharp Quakes Sharp earthquake rorked areas el New Zealand and the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan day. Welllrigton, the capital of New Zealand, was knto dark-nei for about 19 minutes after It tremor there cut power line. The tteMorin dty of Hrft alsa wsi blacked cut There wtfe of arty major damage reported to either country.

The USSR newt affsnry Ta nid a fjvqtu uent cnromWrfl hag been set Up to hefp tha pi pie bi Aserbaljan. If yov ratira af midnight, saf clock to 1 a.m. Early risers, those who get up about 5.30 a m. and have been enjoying the dawn's early Ugbt for the past few weeks, will be plunged Into darkness tomorrow, Tbankj to Daylight Saving Time, which goe into effect at 2 a.m., tba eveolrf will gain aa hour at the expense of the first morning glow. For the next six month, the alarm may go off at 5.30 a but the darknm outside lrta you know It's really only 4 30.

But, whether you get tip with the birds or sleep until noon, don't forget to set your clock ahead an hour before going to bed tonight. Otherwise you might not male It to church en time..