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"man doing: academic work at Marshall University snot and killed a slit dent in a Huntington tavern early todav. wounded two oth and. then turned the gun, on nunsen, uuucting a critical head wound, police said. Detective Set. Sam Watkins of trie Huntington notice said there was no Known reason tor tnei snooting ny Edward Martin, 29, of 1411 Maui Ave Nltro.

Killed in the sudden barragej of bistol fire was Great Sayre.l 19, of Parkersburg, a.sophomore student at i.gh School and: rervejl as president or the senior ciass ms. Wounded were Steve 'Good man, 22, a former president of the MU' student body who graduated last year and now is a resident of Arlington, I and Roger Pancake, a), MU junior from Point Pleasant. side, in Huntington, is in seri See MARSHALL; Pg, 2, Col. 2 I CHARLEY WEST SAYS: With a city election and a visit by Lady Bfrd, I'd say we're where Ihe action is' today. ceufui fight against the House leadership to get a tough alrln minine bill, east one of the two: fotea af almt the water) 0barNton Pailo Pail CITY PRIMARY 'TROUBLE REE' Voter Turnout Below aVntine in Charleston's 19S7 election went into the finalj tension amoite' candidates ris ing steadily with each passing nour.

With only a moiteratelv bght vote cast during the first five hours, workers for all major, candidates intensified their forts to set voters ta the noils. To most poJittcai these tacts stood out: 1. Unless there is a.larger out hours; the prediction a ,60 peri cent primary vote their predictions to 40 per cent. eleeodii' has been imarked by a minimum of irregularities. There was almost no evidence of vote buying.

Out side pou worKers 'were standing 'the required feet from precinct centers. 4.: Appearance or police at 19 the. usual crowd of curious from of voters during the lastjthe, LIQUOR, fLOWERS, ETC. wilh the chief of the water re hast Tuesday, had drawn the sources wratn ot many negro, leaoers. Rockefeller contended Meredith wnuld not sa' the state will be more attractive whether he' now' will' support to industry by showing a spirit pawon.

He said ha had spoken oi cooper turn in sucn mawra to no emissaries from Howell in as poumon comrDi, (inn ne iw reaching his decision to with Me vyatek. awaw. Thp number' of nrihtert xliry; with "states" indicate some1 primary election trades were Being atiempteo. this, ooserv ers explained, was to put certain candidates in a preferred position lor the April IT gener al election. Slated' candidates were appar flnttors football tickets and Liwi nvi.liiciun nf niHL which Uiev riven." other as mobile, cars from Diinbar Asso "Sen Dndd improperly ac as'campaign ciatesy a Connecticut con cut: his financial af siehiiis, in: opening the hear lairs uy uic mg, cautioned against "junip bipartlsaii Senate Ethics Com fog any conclusions bafore all mittee, said, virtually all of the witnesses have testified, 'all $170,000 raised at four testi documentary evidence of inuirmi auans wsui.

tereo, ana helore Sen. Uodd has uiicai aeou. presented Ms ''The br(Md' men of the charges against Sen. Dodd is that he converted to 'that rfii.lrtkm.of facts' with resoect "1 to harf. been conn's said.

agreed oh. "This," he added, "the com The 162 page document; mittee will have to inquire into liUed amounts' and purposes of committee and itKhrfed certain funds collected for Sen. ii mini nf imnuiteatHl' state. Dodd and In trace such funds meats about senator's through intermediate banit ac fund raising The rest counts to the point where the Was talten UP Wltn exlHOltS. lunger unuer uie The stipulaUoh, dated March control of Sen.

Dodd or his rep 11 hut not' previously disclosed, resentatives. is expected to shorten the hear Specifically. Stennis. ings materially since it. will not committee will undertake to de Itennnie wnetner and he em WATER ACT DILUTED phasiied that "whether is the key Governor Scores Natural Resource Control Victories By BOB MELLACK Dally Mail Ponlical Editor Del.

John D. Rockefeller IV, Kanawha, one of Ihc House nutmhers who negotiated with the Senate, called it "a stronger and tighter bUl" the version passed earlier by tne House, ritl. Thomas Goodwin. Rnnu nf House's most ardent coiwrvationist, said one of the compromises agreed to by Rockefeller and other con ferees gunea me RAflriwin. whn led the SUC contributed to 'Sen.

Dodd, or to any person or com niittiw actihe on his behalf, in connection with' various fund aisiiut events from 1961 through ises and with tne isw NEW YORK (AP) Jamesl 58th LegislEture, and chief of these were changes in the laws H. Meredith suddenly withdrew feM reS0UrCeS minine' 3ir pS and water poiJution. Ariam Powell, savina in promised money ana campaign tne re is a iiumuuu closing hoiK? Saturday Meredith his with. measure. The other was Del draws! from the special eH.

a surprise, post a Goodwin disagreed with Rock midnight statement. He told an afoiiai nn nrnviiimi nT Mil a.m. imDroraDtu sidewalk that leaves the option with the news conference that RepiM water polluter to Stop poUUt cans proveu unauie ur uiiwiuiiih hu or Install anti ooUuUon to keep their commitments. Jequipment, This, acwrding to "Political expediency was the (Goodwin, wu the heart of the order of the day" said Mere ceoted oavment from the U.S. Senate for travel expenses for iwi through 1965." liodd improperly ac ented the loan of automobiles! from a' Connecticut corporation from about July 1964.

through about Marco law. Some Harlem sources said I civil rights leaders had appealed to Meredith to withdraw in uie interests oi itegro uoiiy.i By accepting the GOP nomina tion, he would be the white man's candidate, thev areued. On the island of Bimini in the Bahamas where Powell has been living in a comfortable exile dur he consress ona maneuvers, refused In say whether he was surprised at Merediin'! withdrawal. "Wail till the press he told a reporter, referring to an afternoon session with Negro1 comedian Dick Gregory, who flew In Bimini lo hack Powell. Powell did volunteer mat oe thought Meredith was "a little letched." roweii sum urc uinu clvD' rights figure, to jourhey 'to Bimini to endorse Powell since Meredith was projected into Ihe race, would say what 1 he said inree morons ago.

Red Ch Sojdiers Fire Upon Workers, Peasants KONG ui Several thousand people were killed or wounded in rural areas of Kwangtung Province when Communist troops opened fire on workers and peasants who refused to go back to work, a Hong Kong newspaper reported today. The Chinese language New Life Evening Post said travelers arriviim from Kwantituns. across the border from Hong Rons, reported bloody clashes between army troops and workers and farmers in Fatsnan, an, wuig The most severe clashes, the naiwr said occurred in Fatshan and Nang Hai where workers and farmers retusea to go to "the production Une." rw arrival said "bodies were scattered along the D'atshan highway. 'The casualties could The paper said troops inrp and manv oeoole in Can ton expect the number to the rebellious workers and peasants." The paper said it was impossible to get a complete story on the fighting but the scanty, reports brought, out by visitors from Red; China Indicated the clashes were It was the second recent re Iport' of serious disturbances in fatsnan: i Another Honc.Konc newspa per that more 100,000 persons opposed to Mao! TcoJuno have been 'arrested m'. Kwangtung Chi ently, 'more: prevalent among! nese language Kung Sb'eung Democrats than Republicans.

former e.p Donnally Street, play ground where one commission See CITY VOTE, Pg. 2, Col. 1 Dodd Admits Personal Use Of Some Campaign Funds 'WASHINGTON ur Sen.lbe necessary to take rnomas J. uoad acimowiedgeo on issues not in dispute. ichnoo Tturpitii tp iuat no wine Among otner tnwgs, tne sup.

from testimomal dinners for ulation: showed that Dodd ipaign for election, were not political or for personal pur poses, funds were used in agreed he.had accepted the bah accordance with the purpose of mallv News audted traveler; from Canton who said thev had jseen mfonnatKm on wall sters. Tfci nrn Tintiiiristlsl 'Chinese Kong Times said that imore than 300,000 anti Maoists were in Kwangtung and that army authorities reportedly had ordered 200,000 ot tnem ar rpqtpd The newspaper said public and private gauierings.ot more man ioniy.with trom tne army. tionalist Chinese Central News' Agency said intelligence sources had. obtained a message to supporters of Mao that indicated renewed trouoie Tihrt The message reportedly accused Mao's opponents of trying to incite Tibetan troops against Communist party members. It also was quoted, as saying "handful of neoolc' in authority had repeatedly urged the mass es to atiacK military orgaiuia i tions in Tibet and seize their weapons.

House Sidetracks Flower Fund Ban A. move to keen anv Dart ofl the state budget from going into a political "flower drew no objections in the Housej of Delegates today, but wis side tracked as. not germane to tne budget bill. The House's hill calling for the of was passed 80 2 after much dialogue, aoout tne tiower iuim, siiDDOsedlv collected from many state employes. at the rate of 2 per cent ot ttieir saiawes.

And Del. Georee Woo. Ka nawha asairist the bill after he told tne House he con sidered it "a direct slap at me' because the bill would cut off I all funds to the State Department of Personnel, and said he Iwould feel the sting for a long 'time. Woo did not elaborate on hisl remarks, but the state State! Blue Book shows a Rosalie Woo as. records supervisor of that department.

Woo's wife's tirst name is rtosaiie. Wfclta thA Hmisp Hwlnrint funds for' the Department of Ihp ficnatA has recommended .559,608 for its operations and it will be up to the Senate and House budget conferees, and ultimately the See HOUSE, Pg. 2, Cel. 3 Meredith Blames GOP After Pulling Out As Powell Rival bill, and lie wanted the ODtion riith whnw entrv tntn the race 'Powell's Powell said. "What's important is that this has brought to gather Negro leaders." Sources said Meredith was told that he could made an even more dramatic gesture by giv ing up ino support ot tne wnue oeonle.

This, it was said, would make him an even bigger hero in tne negro community. One factor that renortedlv in directly influenced his decision to quit, it was understood, was a statement by the Kev. narnn Luther King Jr. Kinc said in Hartford. Conn.

last mgnt mat Mereaitn cam Tiaiiin asalnst Powell In Har lem is ill timed. King said that it would be much better for the house to seat Powell again because of what he termed "unique factors" which would cause Harlem Negroes lo vote 'for. him an Hai and Sun Ta. inese State Courts Bound Under Speedy Trial WASHINGTON Wl Tha Si Ipreme Court ruled today the riaht Id a sneedv trial, euar i anteed by the Sixth Amendment to the.U. s.

cnnstiluuon, is binding, on the states. chief justice Ear warren announced this for the court as it ruled. North Carolina may not indefinitely postpone prosecu cutioh of a Duke University zoology professor on a trespass indictment. "This court has never decided Ithat issue before," the chief hustice said from the bench. neat to a sDccay iriai is as basic as anv xieht con tained in the Sixth Amend he.

added. With, the decision the court took another historic s'teb to ward' Bill of Rights guarantees in all state I a Se.ven of the. nine" justices fully subscribed xo) the The two otiiers agreed result in the case itself. The court acted on an anneal by Peter chal lenged approval Dy wortn taro lina courts of a procedure that permitted ins retrial at any nme on a suspended trespass indictment. Warren called this an "extraordinary criminal procedure" and said the North Carolina Supreme Court's position "has been explicitly rejected by every ether 'state court which has considered the mooter's indictment was returned by a grand jury in Orange Countv after he and others staged a sit in at a Chapel Hill cafe that they claimed practiced racial discrimination.

KlBpfer, who is white, was tried in County Superior Conrtin March 1964, but the jurors were unable to agree on a verdict and a mistrial was declared. A I year later the prosecutor ob luinca court permission to susoend the indictment but leav ing him free to reinstate it at any time for trial. The other actions today, the Supreme Court: Said it will review the power of police to stop a suspicious looking person on the street and frisk nun tor weapons other criminal evidence. The question was brought to the court in a challenge to New York state's 1964 "stop and frisk" law. Without comment court announced it will hear the Refused to hear a case that challenged the right of police to search automobiles for contra band without warrants.

Mrs. ph Francolmo, a See COURTS, Pg. 2, Col. 7 BULLETINS KENOVA Hi Two cldcrty persons were taken to a Huo linglon hospital today, reportedly for irealmeiil of smoke inhalation, after fire broke oat in tbe Lena Meredith Nursing Home. Eight others escaped the flames, as did five employes of the home, firemen said.

Those in the hospital were identified as Mrs. Bertha Thacker, 57. and Robert Vinson, 84. WASHINGTON Mi President Johnson recommended today that Congress commit the country to increase by a maximum of 11.5 billion, U. S.

aid la Latin America nations that promise to help themselves; The Increased aid would be distributed over the next five yean. WASHINGTON I.H The war ia Vietnam got a SII.I billhu shot in the arm today from the House Appropriations Camnittee. which said there is "no reasonable likeBbaod" that the fighting will be aver by June end of the fiscal year. FINAL EDITION TtiE Weather SCATTERED showers tonight (Mr; in mid SOg) and tomorrow: (high near 70.) VOLUME HQ. 61 CHARUSTON, WEST VIRGINIA MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 1967 TEN CENTS FIVE PERISH IN VIRGINIA FIRE 1 1 RhJH NORFOLK, Five persons died early Sunday.

"In a tire that gutted' (his one story' house in trie Broadmoor section of The victims were Bobby Ray Waddoll, 36; his daughter Audrey, his son Randy, 10; 3 WOUNDED Marshall U. Killing Laid To Nitro Man By CHUCK MCGHEE Of The Daily Mail Staff Robert and' George Steven fl. Mrs. Waddoll was rescued by a passing truck driver. The Waddells rented the house.

AP Wirephoto. Troop Slaughter Thousands MJAM1AN BItX HA AST King Cobra Snake Proof Blood Saves Bitten Venezuelan Boy, 5 MIAMI, Fta If a snakebitten Indian child the jungles of Venezuela feels better today, he can thank Bill Haast of Miami and the U. S. and Venenielan air forces. Military planes of both nations took Haast on 'a l.aOOrmile round trip to fake'antivenom.

seriim to a small mission hospital where 5 i Piha dying. 'i. The.ser&m.wai in plasma made from Haast's own blood, the Sfr year old Haast; who operates a tourist, attraction. (Miarni was on his help a. snakebite yiebsii: A ik 'flew him to Bai quessiinilo Friday and a Venezuelan helicopter took him over mountain jungles to back, country' mission.

Federicq got the plasma ana we even coaxed a smile out of him before' we left," Haast said on his return. Haast decided long ago that as a' snake handler, he was bound lo be the target of many poisonous: serpents some of whom wouldn't miss. In 1948 he began a program of injecting venom into, lus Veins, starting with minute amounts, to build up immunity. If appears was successful. In last 18.

months, Haast said, be has been bitten by poisOnous snakes four times without ill effects. transfusions of 'HaasCs. fortified blood have, been used numerous times to help snakebite sufferers, some of. them as far away as Federico. YANKS SCORCH EARTH Commies Elude U.S.

Trap Again NORTHERN PLAIN OF REEDS, Vietnam Ul The 211th Di vision's Wolfhounds trudged through the vast swamplands 30 jmiles west of Saigon, destroying homes, food, gardens; livestock and even pe everything thai could be of use to the Com munisls. But for the time in a large American trap to snare major Viet Cong forces threatening Saigon failed to catch any sizeable number of the. enemy: COVERS BIG AREA The oncratioii was launched! last but was not announced until today for security reasons. It covered more Reeds, an area ot swamp andj marsh king dominated by tnel Viet Cone and a maior route for Communist units moving between the Mekong Delta and Cambodia into Communist 'war pones and D. Scores of civilians who had slipped back into the area after an earlier operation to evacuate them were taken to government controlled areas.

Hundreds of fires dotted the countryside asi infantrymen destroyed ihonies, farm wagons and even piles of rice straw. The Viet Cong force at 5,000 said. by intelligence to be in the area ws3 reported lust over the border in Cambodian sanctuary. iney apparently moved just before the operation began, military sources said. Sb far in the mnltibatlalion operation, American Gls have kjlted only five Viet Cong and seized another 32 persons as suspects.

U. S. casualties, one killed and 17 wounded, were largely the result of booby traps and mines. The 25th Division also was involved in Operation Junction City north ol the of reeds in war zone where the Pentagon said 10,000 soldiers of the 9th Viet Cong division were lo Sce YANKS. Pg.

2, Col. ON INSIDE PAGES PAGES 2 SECTIONS FIRST Gcnera! News, Sports, Editorial Area News, Comics, Women's, Classified Bridge 13 Classified 22 Comics a) Crossword 13 Editorials Financial 19 Horoscope 13 My Answer (3 Obituaries 22 Sports Sr. Forum jfl Theaters ijj TV g' Warming Up 10 Women's Waatber 3 1.

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