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Faga Port 1 The News becember 7, 1966 Camattatf fram In Anaato Timn. tt Lea An94s Timet Wtfiiingten Post fttwt Strvica nd mler wlrt and avpalamantary ntr aaanciaa. 'I i i I of the Day L. tf i 1 ir 1 1 afT" REUNION IN MOSCOW Craddock M. Gilmour Sr.

of Salt Lake OrT: greets his son, Craddock 25, after arrival at Moscow airport Utah. The son and another youth, Buel Wcrtham, 25, face trial on charges of illegally changing money during a tour of Soviet Union. J. Iff Wirephota THE WORLD i Copters Rescue U.S. Jet Crew, 2 Medics The War In Vietnam Three U.S.

helicopters teamed up to rescue the two crewmen of an American photo-reconnaissance jet downed by ground fire over North Vietnam as well as two paramedics who went to their aid. American officers said the first helicopter on the scene plucked one of the RF-4C Phantom crewmen from the ground and dropped a paramedic to help the second, who had trouble getting into the pickup device at the lowered end of a cable. The second crewman finally managed to make it aboard, but the helicopter developed engine trouble and had to leave. A second helicopter arrived, dropped another paramedic to help the first. But it, too, developed mechanical trouble and had to pull out.

A third helicopter finally rescued the two stranded paramedics in late afternoon and took them to an undisclosed base. O'Malley in a ceremony at Austin, Story an Past I METROPOLITAN A huge Pacific storm battered California with gale winds and torrential rains, washing out homes and bridges and breaking the Los Angeles aqueduct near Lone Pine. (See Page 1.) Gasoline price cutting spread here after three principal oil companies announced they were ending promotional games a major competitive marketing tool for the last nine months. (See Page 3, Part 1.) A noisy, unruly crowd of about 200 property owners invaded the Board of Supervisors' hearing room to demand immediate relief from property taxes. (See Page 1, Part 2.) The first public facility in Los Angeles County to offer artificial kidney treatment to persons dying of kidney failure will open at General Hospital in April, it was announced.

(See Page 1, Part 2.) After eight years of discussion and four years of negotiation, the City Council unanimously approved a land swap basically involving Veter-a Administration property in West Los Angeles and a city owned park in East Los Angeles. (See Page 1, Part 2.) Justin W. Dart, president and board chairman of Rexall Drug Chemical was elected a vice of the USC -Board of Trustees. Dart, a member of the USC board since 1961, joins Dr. See-ley G.

Mudd as one of two vice chairmen, either of whom will preside at meetings if Chairman Frank L. King is absent. Continuing technological advances in the aerospace industry not only keep the United States in the space race, but also raise the American living standard and provide sophisticated means of coping with problems throughout industry, Karl G. Harr president of Aerospace Industries Assn. of America told a Town Hall meeting.

Mayor Samuel W. Yorty extended "best wishes for a most joyous Han-ukkah" to the Los Angeles Jewish community. Pointing out that a candle is lighted each day of the eight-day holiday, Yorty said "the crescendo of light symbolizes the added strength which can come to those who fight for brotherhood, justice and truth." A citywide meeting to protest repression of Jewish religious freedom in Russia will be held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in the Beverly Hills High School auditorium. Civil rights leader Dr.

Martin Luther King will address the group by telephone hookup from his home in Atlanta. award for gallantry in Vietnam. UPI Telephoto pupils admitted taking up to worth of equipment from seven commercial planes awaiting maintenance at San Antonio's International Airport, police said. Investigators said the boys, two 16 and the third 15, took radio and radar systems, oxygen systems and entire instrument panels from six DC-63 and a DC-7 during the last 10 days. No explanation for the thefts was given.

Two steelworkers were killed and four other persons injured when the huge door of a blast furnace blew off at the South Chicago works of Republic Steel. The dead were identified as James Dobrzeniecki, Dol-ton, 111., and Chester J. Mengon, 3l Whiting, lnd. Six persons, including four children, burned to death when fire destroyed their six-room frame house in Florence, Ala. The victims were Frank Johnson, 64; Mrs.

Johnson, 65, and four of their grandchildren, Marietta Rowcll, 10, Patricia Ann Rowell, 4, Eyles Jane Rowell, 2, and Dennis Rowell, 9 months. Thirteen of the 15 nursing anesthetists at St. Louis' two city hospitals submitted their resignations in a dispute over wages. The nurses, whose starting salary is $592 a month, have asked for a 20 salary increase. City Personnel Director R.

Elliott Scearce said the resignations have not yet been formally accepted and that talks on the dispute are in progress. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said a guaranteed annual income is the "only answer to the problems of poverty." Adoption of such a program, which he has called for in the past, would be the logical climax to President Johnson's Great Society program, Dr. King said.

The civil rights leader was the keynote speaker at the annual fall conference in New York of the United Neighborhood Houses of New York. A Negro has been elected to the Dublin (Ga.) City Council for the first time in the history of the central Georgia city of 16,000, which includes about 5,000 Negroes. The successful candidate, the Rev. Bridges Edwards pastor of Peabody Heights Presbyterian Church, narrowly lost a council bid last year. Heavy snow fell in the Colorado Rockies and a cold front moving in from Canada dropped temperatures in Montana, northern Minnesota and the Dakotas.

Fifteen inches of new snow clogged Wolf Creek Pass in southern Colorado and 10 inches of new snow was reported in the high country west of Denver. L7s HONORS FOR A HERO President the Medal of Honor around the neck Sttry en Page Part I became operational five years ago. At least half the Starfighter accidents are known to have resulted from human error. Communist East Germany denied that it has confiscated packages sent by West Germans to relatives and friends in the Communist zone. The denial termed the Western reports "lies" and "hate propaganda." Earlier, the West Berlin post office reported numerous complaints that packages sent to East Berlin were confiscated and some had been sent to North Vietnam.

After a month of some of the most disastrous weather in Italy's history, the nation was told that another cold wave, more snow and new downpours of rain were moving in from the Atlantic. Snowdrifts isolated a dozen towns in the Alpine foothills and down the Apennines range, while violent seas lashed the northwest coast and snow fell on the mountains behind the Italian Riviera. The outskirts of Bologna were in-nundated and more than 100 families were evacuated from Rome's northern suburb of Prima Porta. Lt. Ivan Lavrenov, chief of political administration of the Soviet strategic rocket forces, was reported in an official announcement in Moscow to have "died suddenly" at 54 years of age.

The Soviets usually use the words "died suddenly" to mean accidental death. No other details were given. Two men accused of conspiring to blow up a railroad bridge in Zambia, and thus inflate the world price of copper, pleaded innocent in federal court in New York. The defendants, Ralph Duenbier, 36, and Aubrey Elliott, 32, remained free on bail. They are accused of plotting to pay two Florida men $25,000 to blow up the bridge southwest of Mazabuka, Zambia, to interrupt copper deliveries.

Zambia is a major source of the metal. Somalia's national news agency said Ethiopian troops have killed nine Somali prisoners in an area where the borders of Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya converge. The agency said the killings were part of recurring clashes between Ethiopians and Somalis over conflicting border claims. Two days ago the agency said an Ethiopian army expedition from Naghelli was killing anyone on sight in the disputed area. Leopold Lanz, 58, former Nazi concentration camp guard, was sentenced in Vienna to 10 years in prison for taking part in killings at the Treblinka camp near Warsaw in World War II.

It was the second time an Austrian court had handed down sentences for crimes dating back to the Nazi era. Lanz was convicted of participating in the torture deaths of 10 persons. BUSINESS The stock market chalked up an advance after declining for six sessions. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 5.84 to 797.43. President Johnson released $500 million to bolster the U.S.

housing market. December may prove the; pivotal month in the automobile fortunes of American Motors, the firm's executive vice president said. See Financial Section SPORTS Vic Bubas, Duke University basketball coach whose team meets UCI4A. and Lew Alcindor this week-1 not scared of the 7-1 Bruin ace ivho scored 56 points in his debut last Saturday. In fact, Bubas is flying his team West early to get ready for the big challenge.

Walt Hazzard, injured in an auto accident, will play, but Jim in Sunday night's game, probably will not when the Lakers 'face the St. Louis Hawks tonight the Sports Arena. Seo Sports Section THE STATE UC Berkeley striking students de cided to call off their classroom boyJ cott in a rally attended by 4,000, and the Board of Regents, meeting in. emergency session, voted to fire any university employes who join strikes in the future. (See Page 1.) Dan Mcintosh, 22, president of the UC Berkeley Associated Students Organization, stole some of the thunder from flashier activist leaders during the student strike.

(See Page 24, Part 1.) Ronald Reagan charged that the Brown administration improperly estimated costs of the California medical assistance program and warned that the program may have to be completely overhauled. (See Page 3, Part 1.) Assemblyman Frank Lanterman (R-Pasadena) said he will introduce a Constitutional amendment requiring that all judicial appointments' made by a defeated governor be submitted to the State Senate for confirmation. (See Page 3, Part 1.) State agencies and departments have been told to hold the line on money requests for the new fiscal year by the chief of the budget division, who issued the directive at the request of Ronald Reagan. See Page 27, Part 1 .) Despite indications that he would try to unseat Assembly minority leader Robert T. Monagan (R-Tra-cy) for the 1967 legislative session, Assemblyman Robert E.

Badham (R-Costa Mesa) said in Sacramento that he will support Monagan. Bad-ham said he had been concerned with a "lack of a cross-section representation" of Republican factions in caucus leadership but was assured of fair representation during recent talks with Monagan and Ronald Reagan. A report of the California Chamber of Commerce released in Sacramento showed personal income has gained at the rate of $3.5 billion annually in the state. The report showed 95 of California counties made substantial gains in personal income during the period 1959 to 1964. Orange County led the state with a 118 gain, while Marin County's income went up 100 during the period.

Dr. Peter H. Odegard, 65, professor of political science at Berkeley, died of an apparent heart attack at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland. Dr. Ode-gard, author of many books on poli- tical science and active in Caiifot- nia's Democratic Party, had conti-J nued teaching at Berkeley after open-heart surgery in February 1964.

SOUTHLAND Local officials who constantly see the specter of federal control over schools have only to increase their own efforts to offset that possibility, -the U.S. commissioner of education saW in San Diego. (See Page 30, Part A 78-year-old widow was bilked $10,500 by three men and a detectives said. Mrs. Claire Cole Clark, who lives in a Covin trailer park, told detectives one of the men said he was a bank examir ner investigating the savings and loan association where her savings were deposited.

She withdrew two amounts $4,240 and $6,260 during a two-day period. The man told her the money would be marked and fingerprinted in order to catch a suspected thief, but disappeared with it instead. A psychiatric examination has been ordered for a San Diego go-go' 1 dancer accused of illegally marrying several servicemen for their allotments and insurance. U.S. District Judge James M.

Carter ordered the examination to determine whether' Mrs. Pandora Cooke, 29, is competent to stand trial. During heavy rain at Santa Barbara, Mrs. Alberta Kelso, 71, was killed and two other elderly passengers of the car in hich she was rid- -ing were injured when it and a truck collided at Mission and Castillo Sts." Johnson places of Marine Sgt. Robert Emmett Tex.

Malley won THE NATION Sen. Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy attending the International Conference on the Draft in Chicago, predicted a thorough con gressional review of current Selective Service System. (See Page 1.) New York's Mayor John V. Lindsay said that under no set of circumstances would he accept a Republican Presidential or Vice Presidential nomination in 1968.

Asked in an interview how he would react if he were asked to reconsider and seek the Vice Presidential spot, Lindsay replied: "I'd be flattered, but I would not reconsider at all." Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, scheduled to enter Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington Thursday for removal of his gall bladder, said, "I never felt better in my whole life." Gen. Eisenhower, 76, said he had canceled a trip to New York to attend the annual dinner of the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame because of the interest created by the announcement of his impending surgery. He said he was afraid his presence at the dinner would detract from the acclaim he said is due the "heroes the occasion is to honor." A new weather-watching satellite was launched from Cape Kennedy and a space agency spokesman said, "All systems are looking good." The spacecraft, called an Applications Technology Satellite (ATS), is programmed to settle Thursday into its final orbit 22,300 miles above the Pacific. The 775-pound satellite is designed to relay color television, voice and teletype messages between three continents, to relay messages between airplanes in flight and to transmit television weather pictures of more than one-third of the earth's surface.

The grand jury investigating the 1954 murder of Samuel Sheppard's first wife suspended its Cleveland hearing into the case after hearing two witnesses. One of the witnesses, prosecutor John T. Corrigan, said it will be up to the jury to decide if other witnesses will be called. Shep-pard was convicted of second-degree murder in the case in 1954, but his conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court and he was acquitted in a retrial last month.

Prospective jurors at Dr. Carl Coppolino's murder trial were told by his defense attorney, F. Lee Bailey, that the prosecution may depict Coppolino as a "philanderer," and, Bailey added, "it may be pretty much admitted that he is." Six jurors, including a Methodist minister, were chosen, bringing to seven the number seated thus far. Coppolino is charged with strangling a neighbor, retired Army Lt. Col.

William E. Farber, July 30, 1963, and Farber's widow, Marjorie, is a potential state witness in the first-degree murder trial in Monmouth County Superior Court in Freehold, N.J. Jack Ruby's second trial on a charge of slaying Lee Harvey Os- wald will be held in Wichita Falls, sometime early next year, State District Judge Louis T. Holland announced in Dallas. Wichita Falls is a city of 115,000 about 140 miles northwest of Dallas.

Ruby, 55, was sentenced to death March 14, 1964, after a trial in Dallas for the murder of Oswald, but the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed the conviction on the grounds that some testimony was inadmissible and that the trial judge should have granted a request that the trial be held outside of Dallas. Mrs. Alice Higinbotham Patterson, 87, member of a distinguished Chicago family, died in her Chicago apartment. Mrs. Patterson was the first wife of the late Capt.

Joseph Med ill Patterson, who was coeditor of the Chicago Tribune and a founder, editor and publisher of the New York Daily News. Three ttraight-A high school A second U.S. jet was shot down by a Communist MIG-17, the first announced loss of an American plane in aerial combat with a MIG since July. The pilot of the F-105 is missing. There were only scattered ground skirmishes in each of South Vietnam's four corps areas.

Terrorists on a motorcycle shot and killed a prominent member of the South Vietnamese Constitutional Assembly in downtown Saigon. The victim was Tran Van Van, former chairman of the Army-People's Council and now a deputy in the constitution-writing assembly. President Johnson publicly acknowledged that the Vietnam war is costing between $9 and $10 billion more than anticipated this year and said he would ask Congress to appropriate the difference. (See Page 1.) The British pound faltered and copper, gold and tobacco companies suffered large stock market losses as a sense of apprehension gripped Britain's government following the abrupt collapse of the Rhodesian negotiations. (See Page 1.) JChina's Premier Chou En-laf, who has always stood beside the throne, is emerging as the chief compromise candidate in the bitter contest over power and policies between two factions within the Chinese Communist Party.

(See Page 4, Part 1.) Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin said in an interview at Lyon, France, that the Soviet Union wants a "relaxation of tension" and "an understanding" with the United States. Questioned at an official reception after visiting three French factories, Kosygin added that relations would certainly improve if the war in Vietnam were ended. "We must seek peace," he said, "but there is no sign the United States is ready to end the war." Retired Bear Adm. Husband E.

Kimmel, commander of the combined U.S. and Pacific fleets when Japan launched its sneak attack on Pearl Harbor 25 years ago, still says he was unfairly blamed for America's worst naval defeat. (See Page 13, Part 1.) A crack appeared in the 5-month-old regime of Lt. Gen. Juan Carlos Argentina's president, with announcement of a change in a top military command.

(See Page 22, Part 1.) Brazil's lame-duck congress was called into extraordinary session' from Dec. 12 to Jan. 24 by President' Humberto Castello. Branco to approve 'a new constitution strengthening the presidency. The new constitution, Brazil's sixth, calls for election of the president to a four-year term by electoral college.

It would also concentrate most legislative initiative, especially in financial matters, exclusively in the pres-' ident's hands, Indonesia's former air force Vice Marshal Omar Dhani, on trial for his life on treason charges, told a militay tribunal' in Jakarta that President Sukarno was not involved; in last year's attempted Communist coup. (See Page 22, Part 1.) Vest Germany until further notice its fleet of 700 Ameri-c an-designed F404G Starfighter jefcCLt. Gert. Johannes Steinhoff, chief of the West German air force, said In Bonn he was ordering the planes grounded because a crash in th'-. Eiffel Mountains on Nov.

28 opened the possibility that the planes may have some' as yet undiscovered defect which makes them unsafe to fly- The crash was the 65th loss of a Starfighter since the planes i Til 1 A f) t'b I 1 III ir 1 11 nirMTlti ilium llMuwmMl AN ARREST AT THE CAPITOL A man identified as George Palak-ian is escorted from the U.S. Capitol Building In Washington by Capi tol police after four paintings in House wing were slashed with scissors. Story an Pasal IK Wirephota.

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