The Daily News-Journal from Murfreesboro, Tennessee • 1

STATE- I NASHVILLE 372JD COUNTED SIKC3 10CD Vol CXVm No. 4 Murf reesbwor TenneaseerTuesday Afternoon, March 5, 1968 By Carrier Per Week 40c Single Copy 10c Shell Seven Provincial Capitols BM mm BWo Goldwafer Says He Vonrt Support; Hold Hospital for 11 bars Constitutional Convention Bill By James A. Lewis NASHVILLE (UPI) A showdown was expected on attempts to rewrite a con- troversial bill calling for constitutional convention in 1971. The Senate paved the way for'' consideration of the measure by backing down romarj arlierposf tion by refusing to permit the House to take a second look at the bill which is pasesd overwhelmingly. The House also scheduled votes today on a bill legalizing abortion under certain circumstances and another proposal to F105 Thunderehief jets Monday for the first time hit the Ha Dong shipyard, six miles southwest of the North Vietna- mese capial of Hanoi.

In ground fighting Monday, U.S. and South Vietnamese troops reported killing at least 307 Communists. The fresh guerrilla attacks came in the second. day of the third wave of assaults against urban centers and key allied military posts. Cam Ranh Bay's peninsula base reported the guerrilla mortars hit runways and taxiways and ignited a small fire in a fuel dump.

U.S." spokesmen said casualties and (Continued on Page 5) II VI By Eugene V. Risher SAIGON (UPf) Viet Cong guerrillas invaded South Vietnam's southernmost city today and shelled seven other provincial capitals and at least five U. S. military bases in the jthird Communist nationwide offensive in a month. Allied spokesmen said the 400 guerrillas who stormed" into Quan Long, 150 miles southwest of Saigon in the Mekong Delta rice smashed into a suburban civilian hospital and held it for 11 hours in the face of government troops and American artillery and helicopter gunships.

The Allies reported at least lib of the Communists killed ui the street fighting along with "light" government troops losses and two Americans suffering wounds. In other attacks the guerrillas hurled, more than 15 mortar rounds) into the U.S. airbase at Cam Ranh Bayp formerly judged so secure that it was the only stop on President Johnson's two visits to South Vietnam. Delta A Target The Communists, who struck bigger blows in their Jan. 31 and Feb.

18 drives against the nation's population centers, concentrated their attacks Mon day night and today in the-Delta where the Viet Cong have their largest reserves. Five provincial capitals came under mortar and rocket attack. Quan Long was hit hardest. The guerrillas waited until their portable artillery had bit the city and two nearby U.S. airfields.

Then they stormed in. Their attack on the hospital was the second such strike in two days. Monday the Viet Cong broke into af Roman Catholic hospital near Kontum, spraying at least one ward with submachine gun fire. In the air war, U.S. Air Force If rr -r- -If xiiHiiatiMM sMMMHMtsAMtsMMisiMNKHiUBiMsM AID VOTER PROGRAM A meeting to old.

voters In the forthcoming city ond county elections attracted 100 per-, sons here lat night, under the auiplces of the league of Women Voters jocal EOE stoff. Shown seated aret Mrs. Billy Stanleyvreglstratat the election commission) Mrs, Richard La Roche, of LWV; standing arei Councilman Robert W. Scales, Rev, P. Y.

Marchbdnks and Councilman John R. Rueker. Douglas Spa Photo Bragg Decries Wprfcoqcf, Pf( Pensio Bucks oposal call for study of the issue. Both houses met in lengthy sessions Monday night. The Senate passed the mea sure calling lor a stucty oi tne abortion issue 24-4 Monday night and sent the proposal to the House.

Rep. C. Allen High, D-Nash-ville, who spearheaded attempts to get reconsideration of the bill, says he is confident he has the 67 votes necessary for this purpose. After a measure is passed it takes two-thirds vote to reconsider the measure. aid he hopes to referto the bill to committee for' further Study.

The board measure calls for a- constitutional -convention in 1971 to consider articles dealing with taxation, the jtfliciary, the militia, local government and" gubernatorial succession. High and others have charged that widespread discrimination among taxpayers would be permitted under the legislation. High contends that the propos-al ealls for classification of property for tax purposes. It also calls for authority of 'local governments, to vary the ration of assessment among different types of taxpayers. iThe combination, of these two segments of the two proposals, High maintains, would permit juggling of taxes.

The Senate backed down Monday night at the request of Lt. Gov. Frank. Gorrell and Sens. Thomas Harris, D-Chattanooga.

"This bill should always stand the light of scrutiny," Gorrell lsijtheJHousijje sires Jo scrutinize this bill, certainly should have the right and opportunity to do so. "This Senate should extend the courtesy to the House since we are dealing with a measure of vital publie concern," he said. -Sen. Stanly Snodgrass, D-Nashville, bad moved last Thursday that the bill be re turned to the House but this mo- tion was tabled, Pn a motion by Harris Monday night, the Sen ate by voice vote lifted the Snodgrass motion from the table' and then voted unanimously in favor of it. -Sen.

Ralph Farmer, D-Mem-phis, chairman of the Constitutional Revision Committee, who had opposed Snodgrassproposal last week, -rose-to second it Monday night. Farmer said that 10,000 At MTSU By I975i Cope Gov. Rockefeller Unjted Press International Former Sen. Barry Cold-water said today he would not support New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller as the Republican nominee for president.

5 Goldwater, the 1964- GOP presidential candidate, said lie' could not speak for fellow Republican conservatives, but he himself would not be able to back Rockefeller because of Rockefeller's refusal to support his own presidential bid. "Rockefeller thought so little 7of my position in 1964, it would naturally come about that I would think little of his Goldwater said in a telephone "fatervjewwith from his Phoenix, home. "We'd be too far apart He couldn't support me; I can't support him for the same 'reasons." Opposition Predicted Goldwater predicted Rockefeller would find substantial opposition within the party if he changed his position from one of Joeing available for a draft to one of actively seeking the nomination. "Hell find out what Romney found out, that many Republicans resented what they did in 1964," Goldwater said. Michigan Gov.

George- Rom-ney, who bowed out of the-1968 GOP presidential race last week on grounds he was making no headway in the New Hampshire primary contest against former Vice President Richard Nixon, joined Rockefeller on the sidelines-in 1964. Goldwater, who is planning to -run for the Senate this year against Carl Hayden, gave no indication whether he would campaign against Rockefeller's nomination. In Democratic developments, meantime, administration leaders decided late Monday not to enter President Johnson's name against Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy in the Massachusetts 'presidential primary. The administration's decision left McCarthy with a first ballot commitment of the state's 72-vote delegation to the Democratic convention.

In Omaha, a melee broke out as 'former Alabama Gov. George Wallace appeared at a rally to form a third party in -Nebraskafor his presidential candidacy. He was showered with missiles by about 50 persons in front row seats, but police squiarting chemical immobilizer quieted the crowd of 5,300 at the civic auditorium. Wallace Cheered Wallace brought cheers from the crowd when he shouted that "militant activists, anarchists, Communists and revolutionists" were responsible for the breakdown of law andrder. A poll taken at Roper Researcn Associates, and (Continued on Page 5) Death Victor Shipley-Mrs.

Alice Tittle CharlesTemlinson (See Obituaries Page 5) I f) hi COAAMUNITY CALENDAR AT 1 ft ff similar district. And there are variances too in the Chancery-eourtSi In the first division, which also handled .458 cases in law and equity from Sullivan county, the judge handled 2,167 cases, while in division nine, mere were 130 cases filed. In between the highest and the lowest cases by division, the 6th had 3rd, 10th, 12th, 889; 5m, 13ttir 2nd, 865; 7th, 834; 11th, 4th, 563; 14th, 548; 15th, 443; 8th, 342; and 16th, 199 cases. There will "be a difference in the number of cases every year-but the study is aimed at showing what the usual number of cases total and what the trend is, so the legislature can see what it is changing, in hopes the nvpr.thp.vpars rhanpps in the state's judicial system can be improved. Thore was one point, however, that Hep.

Bragg indicated he was not backing, He was recently informed that a bill would be introduced asking Historian Says Rioting Part U.S. Tradition By MIKE FEINSILBER WASHINGTON (UPI) Wheth- er America likes It or not, violence and rioting are part of its tradition, President Johnson's Advisory Commission on Civil Disorder was told. "There has been a good deal more violence and disorder in the American tradition than even historians have been willing to recognize," a study of rioting in America concluded. The study, prepared by historian Richard Wade of the University of Chicago, was used by the commission in preparing its report on last summer's riot. A copy of his conclusions, hitherto confidential, was made available to United Press International by congressional sources.

1 "From the stamp act riots of the pre-revolutionary age, to the-' assaults "on immigrants and Catholics in the decades before the Civil War, to the grim (Continued on Page 5) nomic aspects were pointed out. Currently Rutherford county with 1,133 students ranks second only to Davidson's 1,500 in registered students. Sixty per cent of the student body lives within 50 miles of Murfreesboro, Dr. Cope stated. At the present time there are seven major building projects totaling more than $4,590,000 jn progress on the campus.

Middle Tennessee Sunny and warmer this afternoon. Fair and cool Partly cloudy and mild Wednesday. High today mostly in the 60s. Low tonight in the 30s and high Wednesday generally in the 50s. Winds this afternoon 15 to 22 miles an hour from the southwest and gusty.

Thursday outlook Fair and mild. v. of th Murfreesboro and 'J' if Prof. Perrucci Attending Scientific Meet IrTlr an be fert the bill should be returnThd John H. Rucker describe 100 Attend Conference For Voters About 1 00 persons attended a program sponsored by the League of Wo- "i men Voters and the Economic Opportun-ity Commission and aimed at informing the public of the importance of local government.

It was held at the Na-tiohal BankofMurfrees- boro last night. Mrs. Percy h. Smith, coordinator for the local OEO office and Mrs. Carlyle Jennings Voter's Service chairman for LWV introduced the program.

Rev. Y. Marchbanks spoke on "You and Your Vote" andout-lined the importance of voting, the need to vote and the responsibility of each citizen to vote To often we our Vote does not count out every vote counts. Only the vote not voted does not count. It is our responsibility to vote andhelp maintain our system of government.

It is not perfect but is one of the best in operation now and we should make sure it continues, Marchbanks said. Councilmen Robert W. Scales adopting a bill with unprecedented ban on dis. crimination in housing. Guarding against any assault by amendment; floor managers of the compromise; legislation planned to resist any major changes in the two-part bill, Including an antiriot provision put Are Arrested Car Charge But the college police had been notified and they chased them onto Tennessee boulevard where of- ficer, Blnford and Avent stopped.

-Tin. blotter as: Lester D. Hale. 31. vv" signal Elmer C.

King, 29, Tracy City; Donnie, Smith. 23. Rutley and Joann Myers, 31 at hattanooga. i. In addition to the college security guard city officers Howse, Baskin, Tribble and Garrett all converged on the: area to help nab the four.

ed because of statements. made how local government works and about the bill during the past the duty of each citizen to main-(Continued on Page 5) (Continued on Page 5) the 'state to pay all the retirement pay for all judges. "1 took a look at that and "found that state employees and teachers and similar workers pay .3 per cent of their retirement pay up to $6,600 and 5 over that amount The state pays 3.14 for class A employees; 3.52 for teachers and for class employees who pay 11.73 the state pays 8.17. But for thejudges andattorneys general now, there Is'Jquite a difference. The pay 3 for county judges to attor neys general, 6 and Tennessee judges, 8.

At the same time the state pays 26.7 of the Tennessee judges retirement pay or one-fourth of his pay per year is paid by the state for retirement; the state pays 30.8 for attorneys general 25.9 for county judges. "The bill wul ask the pensions of. these three cate- gories be made 100 state-sup- ported, am not supporting such a measure, unless they want to treat all state employees alike," Rep. Bragg said, sions among women, was done with a grant from the Manpower Administration, U.S. Department of Labor.

Attending the conference will be eight American sociologists among 30 from all nations." Mrs. Perrucci found that women and men engineering and science "graduates are initially employed in positions similar (Continued on Page 5). S4 Redmond Wounded In Tank Battle John Redmond, S4C. son of Mrs. Irene Lerance and the late W.

Redmond, is listed as critical in a military hospital In Tokyo, Japan. S4C Redmond was wounded in action Vietnam when the tank he was in was hit during action against Viet Cong. He was on a convoy miss.ion at the time of the action. 1 Redmond was critically Injured, receiving a head wound, bums and paralysis of his right side. He Is married to the former Martha Holland of Chapel Hill, -Temkr-ana trained at Ft.

art and Ft. Betning, Ga. Mrs. Lorance has two other sons in the service 64C Her-' bert Redmond and PFC Larry Redmond, 1 Jll By Douglas Sparks (Third in a series) There can be no doubt that the measure introduced by Rep. John Bragg, seeking a study by the judicial council of the state's judiciary system, is long overdue.

it preliminary survey reveals that there are judicial districts where one judge is doing as much work as two; two are doing as much as three and across the districts there is a variance in the number of cases handled by the various judges. It is accepted that it will be impossible to "even up the num-. ber of cases for all courts," but there are some Judges handling 500 more cases per year than a Children Nded Help Several Head Start children jieed shoes and clothing. Anyone having clothing for children for the 5-6 age group are urged to bring them to the building at -the rear of Holloway high school or contact Mrs. Annie Martin at 896-3950.

Any help wilt be appreciated. forward by Sens. Frank J. Lausche, D-Ohio, and J. Strom Thurmond, After three failures, the Senate for only the eighth time in history Monday voted 65 to 32 to invoke cloture, thus limiting debate and clearing the way for voting on the rights measure.

Under the cloture rule, each senator gets one hour to speak on the- compromise and the more than 80 amendments that have been filed. But despite the victory over the-filibuster by exactly the measure still faced an uphill fight both in the Senate and in a chamber flat approved open. hniioincr lacriKlattrm in 19fiS. Another Chance The Southern block In the Senate, in deep opposition to open housing, will have another -opportunity to debate without limit and another cloture-vote could become necessary to pass the bill and send It to the (Continued on Page S) The growth and value of Middle Tennessee State University was emphasized by Dr. Quill E.

Cope in an address before the Mur--freesbpro kiwanis Club. Dr. Cope suggested that the enrollment at the University for 1975 would reach 10,000. These projections allow for expansion of junior colleges1 in the area and are based on a growth from 1,200 students' in 1952 to more than this year. 1 Dr.

Cope said that in 1966-67 there were 8,353 different people enrolled at the Univer-. sity. There are 1,185 married students at the University, the pre, dominant number of which (864 are men. The benefit to Rutherford county in cultural and eco CHAMBER OFFICE The office I Civil Rights Advocates Work For Housing Bill By Steven Gerstel WASHINGTON (UPI) Civil rights advocates, winners of historic victory in breaking a filibuster, worked today to fend off unwanted amendments and move the Senate closer to Four Persons By Police On Four persons are in the coun- I-. i 1 i I Vm Lafayette, Ind.

Prof. Carolyn C. Perrucci of the Purdue University Sociology Department will outlme aspects of scientific careers of women at a conference March 5-12 in Tereran, Iran. Mrs. Perrucci will speak at the 10th International Seminar on Family Research, outlining her research on- why so comparatively few women" p'artiei-pate in the U.S.

labor force as scientists and -engineers. The research, drawn from a major study of the social factors related to the pursuit of profes I i MRS. PERRUCCI iy jail woof miicr ueuig uiqtr ed by city police and charged with attempting to commit a fel-only and material witness to the me long chain 01 anciaems Rutherford' County Chamber, of Commer'ce Hat established a Community Calendar for he-purpose -f swdullnfi-any events' an dcflvif let that will eommunitv in. Degan on tne mijsu campus iasx- tight when a student saw three men trying to put a switch In his car to, steal tt." He went back and picked up three more students and by the time be got back to hie car the three men had gotten into their I auto and left the scene. est.

Groups and anliatlont are urged to utilize the calendar to avoid conflicts and to aid In promoting your activity. Mrs. Avanda chamber secretary. Is shown writing In an event for the March calendar while chamber president Grady Haynes looks Photo by. Jerry Underwood..