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Town Daily Reporter All eg any County's Daily Newspaper Eighty Fourth Year WELLSVILL6, NEW YORK, Wednesday Afternoon, October 28, 1964 Seven Cents Per Copy THIS CAMPAIGN for the U.S. Senate seat from New York has brought into being Aft unusual organization. The mail today carries a statement from a group labeled "Connecticut Carpetbaggers for Keating." The group's chairman says the group is made up of persons who live Connecticut, work, pay taxes and have many a meal in New York." POLITICAL LEADERS Pleas" note: The Reporter, following its tradition of attempting to minimize last minute bombshells, will not accept political advertising dealing with political issues for publication Monday. The purpose, of course, is to prevent publication of an answerable argument or charge which the victim couldn't answer because of the time element. The only exception will be for "repeat advertisements" if the advertisement doesn't draw blood Frkiay or Saturday we can assume, it won't on Monday.

Monday will be open to rebuttals if we are con vine-! ed they are necessary in inter-' est of fair play. EIGHTH GRADERS at Scio Central School have conducted a "mock election" in their history class, inviting SCS students to cast votes for presidential and senatorial candidates. The result was surprisingly one-sided, with Johnson getting 271 votes to 37 for Goldwater, and Kennedy receiving 204 to Keating's 100. It will be interesting election night'to see how far the students have followed parental footsteps. OLD JOKES about "so many Kennedys" aren't funny today to Democrats in Cohoes.

Mrs. Sargent Shriver, who visited Wcllsville had been expected at Cohoes, but she believed her sister, Mrs. Stephen Smith, had been scheduled for the appearance. Meanwhile, Mrs. Smith thought Cohoes was on the a- gcnda of "the other Kenndy sister" and she didn't go, either.

Nearly of Robert F. Kennedy waited four hours', fruitlessly, to greet "just any Kennedy." "ONCE BITTEN, twice shy," the saying goes, and the Jlet porter was bitten once by the writer of a letter to the editor signed with a ficticious name. Now we have another on hand which we don't dare use; it came in the mail, the writer's identity isn't known and isn't in the telephone book, and is indicated by only a last name. So if after the election we're accused of unfair treatment of one side or the other, we hope it will be received with a fair amount of skepticism. THE KENNEDY SMILE Mrs.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver speaks in behalf of the senatorial candidacy of her brother, Robert F. Kennedy, before a capacity-plus crowd at the Hotel Fassett Gold Room in a brief visit here Tues- day. Insert, Mrs. Shriver is caught by the camera in a "Kennedy smile" during the visit. Seated 1 at the table while Mrs.

Shriver speaks are Mrs. Marie Regan, state committeewoman, and Mrs. Robert Gardner. (Reporter photo). 300-Plus Greet Kennedy Sister The Gold Room of the Fassett Hotel should have been an auditorium and it still would be crowded.

That was the space situation Tuesday afternoon when more than 300 persons some estimates ran to over 400 crowded into the Gold Room to greet and meet Mrs. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who was traveling in the Southern Tier as "representative" of her broth- her, Robert F. Kennedy, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate. After her brief talk made standing precariously on a cardboard box to make her visible to people in the rear of the crowded room Mrs.

Shriver shook hundreds of hands of adults, mostly worn en, and scores of young people and children to whom she gave special attention. Shriver -addressed her' self to two charges which had been made against her brother that is "ruthless" and that he is a stranger to New Yprk State. don't consider Bobby ruthless," she stated, "but I know he is very determined and I'm proud of him for it." Regarding the tag Mrs. Shriver noted the family had lived in New York State until her father, Joseph Kennedy was named ambassador tc Britain they left their New York State home in 1939. Acknowledging the presence of many children and teen-ag- ers, Mrs.

Shriver spoke of her brother as being particularly devoted to his 'own children and to the future of all children. She spoke of several activities Robert Kennedy had administered or promoted during the administration of his brother, the late John F. Kennedy. Other speakers were Mrs. Lucy Curley, former Buffalo city and 'Regan, state Democratic committee- Woman from Allegany County.

Mrs. Regan in her introduction spoke of the Kennedys as "so wonderful to everybody, what ever their party affiliation." Mrs. Regan noted she had re turned recently from Europe and had heard much praise there for the Kennedys and for the Peace Corps directed by Sargent Shriver, husband of the guest speaker. Mrs. Shriver was met at the village limits on Andover Rd.

where she had been escorted from an appearance at Alfred She was greeted by party lead' ers headed by Mayor Robert Gardner and Supervisor Rich ard Embser, and taken to the Fassett House with an escort headed by Police Chief Michael Fiordo. She was taken firsl to the Hunt Room at the hotel where she met nuns of the faculty of Immaculate Conception School, before going to the reception in the Gold Room. A delegation from -Glean met her here to accompany her to thai city for another appearance. Today is Wednesday, Oct. 28, the 302nd day of 1964.

There arc 64 days left in the year. The sun sets tonight at 5:13, and rises Thursday at 6:45. Today's quote: "I don't aee anything wronf with them. My kids are thrilled. They hope he'll teach them to play baseball better." neighbor of Metro baseb a 11 star Curt Flood, commenting on the Flood family's move Into their neighborhood at Alamo, Calif.

Today's highlight in history: On this date in 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was unveiled in New York Harbor, On this date: In 1636, Harvard College was founded. Showtri, Cool Mostly cloudy, mild and a few light showers early tonight then turning cooler. High tween and 70. Low tonight ir the Generally fair and cool Thursday- Southwesterly winds 15-30, becoming west to northwest and diminishing Thursday High 79, low 41 Showers midway through the morning kept the temperature from climbing to the comfortable teyej reached ytsterday, Barometric. pressure gt no was falling from 30.27 iflch A inaJHroum of was reached p.nj.

Tuesday with a minimum pf 41 at 5:40 am- today- TemjifirsjMres mss, $, 3 71, fi P-W, 5.C, 9 p.m. 14 mi4- BigUt 44. Today 3 a.m. 43. a.m..

I 9-JB- 54- Use of British troops Is Ruled Out LONDON (AP) A Labor government spokesman Tuesday night ruled out use of British troops to prevent Southern Rhodesia's government from declaring the East African territory independent to preserve white rule. "This is a question which does not arise," Commonwealth Secretary Arthur Bottomley told newsmen when asked about the possibility of British military action. Prime Minister Harold Wilson made no mention of military action Tuesday when he warned Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith of the consequences if, his government declares independence without approval from the British Parliament. Wilson said Rhodesia would be guilty of treason and ban- ished from the Commonwealth and would face certain political, diplomatic and economic Botli the Labor government and its Conservative predecessors want Rhodesia's ruling white minority to agree to a constitution promising the black majority eventual control In New York, the U.N. Special Committee on Colonialism called for talks with the British government on the "gravity of the situation" in Rhodesia.

The committee also alerted the Security Council to the possibility of a unilateral declaration of independence by Smith. In Lusaka, capital of neighboring Zambia, James Chikere- ma, exiled Rhodesian Africap leader, said Rhodesian African nationalists will form a government in exile if Smith declares independence. Chikereme called on Britain to send troops to "restore law and order" in Southern RHb- desia, last remnant of the form, er Central Af.rican Federation. "Southern Rhodesia is still a British colony, and the British government is still responsible for it," he said. "It is high time Britain told Smith this before we unleash certain forc.es." Chikereme rejected as meaningless the announcement by Rhodesian tribal chiefs Monday that they unanimously favor immediate independence under white rule.

"The chiefs no longer represent the African people," he said. "They are just like civil servants. They are paid wages by the government and they arc deposed if they oppose it." Barry Levels 'Kidnap Rap By WALTER MEARS CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) Sen. Barry Goldw'ater said today President Johnson "kid- naped the Democratic party" for eventual delivery to Socialists when he chose Sen. Hubert H.

Humphrey as his running mate. The Republican nominee- for the White House hammered away at his charge that Johnson is hungry for power, and accused the President of trying to frighten people into voting for him. "I charge," the Arizona senator said, "that the Johnson machine is driven by lust for power, by fear of the exposure of wrongdoing in high places, by fear of punishment and by hope of special privilege." Goldwater alternated between defense and attack in a speech prepared for a rally at Cedar BspMs, Iowa. It kicks off a day of Midwestern vote-hunting that will take him also to Oshkosh, Wis 1 and East St. Louis, ill.

Johnson, he said, "has failed to, arawse real grass roots support for his candidacy." Goldwater declared Republicans have that kind support, and said the backing of small newspapers and of "close to one million" small contributors Tfce senator said of Johnson: "He has the support of many traditional Democrats who accept ftis party label, -without poking keypad, it ta see that in hiAdPWWwg fiubuft Humphrey as Wt successor he has napfiii the Dfioiojcratw: party ft uji in a neat bundle for eventual to the Ameri- for Democratic Action, the most effective radical socialist organization in the land." Goldwater had been chopping away at Humphrey all week. "Every time I think of the small possibility that the President might be re-elected, I shake," he said in London, Tuesday. "But when I think of Hubert, I really get the trembles." Goldwater complained that Johnson has "the support of many good and honest people who, even though they are heartsick at the moral blackout in the Johnson administration, nevertheless have been swayed by one of the most immoral actions of all the big lies of the administration." He said Johnson misrepresents his positions, and will not debate campaign questions. In Cleveland Tuesday night, Goldwater tackled the question of civil rights, arguing that the busing of schoolchildren from one neighborhood to another for the sake of racial balance is "doctrinaire and misguided equalitarianism." That drew a wild ovation from a crowd estimated at 13,000 fn a city which has seen rioting over the issue. Renewing a theme he has underscored on nationwide television, Goldwater added: "Our aim, as I understand it, is neither to establish a segregated society nor to establish an integrated society.

Our aim is to preserve a free society." Goldwater drew scattered crowds along a motorcade route in Cleveland, aad faced empty seats in. the balcony when he spoke at Public JfalJ. But police said there were enough people standing elsewhere in the hall to fill all 12,000 seats, In his Cedar Rapids speech, Goldwater said bureaucrats' and bosses are arrayed behind Johnson's candidacy. "We may not have the polls or the powers that be on our side but we have the people," the senator said. "And if they vote without fear, without coercion, If they vote on the basis of the deep, heartfelt convictions we have seen everywhere in this land November is going to produce the greatest political upset of this century." Nine Killed As Jet Slams Into Building By ROBERT M.

BURNETT ELCENTRO, Calif. (AP) A jet bomber skimmed low over a crowded reviewing and then faltered, hit a power pole, and smashed in flaming pieces across the center of a Navy base, killing nine men. Among those who died were the three crewmen of the A3D twin-jet bomber. The other six victims were men in buildings near the runway of the El Centro Naval Air Facility, "where the plane crashed Tuesday during a parachuting demonstration. Thirty-five persons were injured, six critically.

The jet came apart in the air after one wing snagged the power line. The shower of blazing wreckage scattered 400 yards across buildings and parking lots, setting two major fires, smashing buildings, setting 1 autos afire. Women and children servicemen's dependents were among the victims. "Women were running across the street through the burning heat with their hair on fire," said a witness. "Their children were screaming." The crowded main exchange comprising a drugstore, supermarket and snack bar was hit by the plunging fuselage.

A wing smashed into the station's administration building. A mass of flaming wreckage plunged into the post theater and killed James Wall, 27, of Long Beach, a quartermaster, as he was testing a film which was to have been shown Tuesday night. A sailor painting chairs in a service building hit by the plane was bounced off the ceiling, then flung out through, a hole in a wall. The building burst into flames. He ran to aid his friends, trapped inside, and was hurled.back by a blast-and injured.

Blazing jet fuel showered much of the quarter-mile' of impact area. One engine smashed all the way through the chapel which was empty burst out the other side and smashed cars in a parking lot beyond. Black columns of smoke rose high in the air over the base as the parachuting demonstration a ceremony marking the 000th parachute jump made at the base, a major parachute testing and development facility came to an end. Bedford Sutherland, 22, a parachute rigger who made the leap, watched the crash. He had just bailed out of the plane.

Crewmen aboard wished him luck as he jumped through a bottom hatch. He pulled the ripcord handle gold-plated to mark the jump and made a perfect landing! near the. reviewing stand. He had planned to give the handle to Cmdr. Arthur Perkett, 49, commanding officer of the aerospace recovery unit at the air facility, one of the three crewman aboard the A3D.

Charges Are Swapped By Senate Candidates On Non-Show Debate By JOHN MORGANT1IALER NEW YORK each other of ducking a f.ace-to- face television debate, Republican Sen. Kenneth B. Keating and Ills opponent, Robert F. Kennedy, went on bnck-to-back telecasts Tuesday night. Kennedy appeared outside the studio as Keating began "debating" an empty chair, but was barred from entering.

Each side gave different explanations. After Kenting's half hour, on which he said Kennedy's cam- paign was "dirty" and "ruthless," Kennedy went on his own show. He said all his charges against Keating were "documented" and that he had never questioned the senator's integrity. Both candidates claimed they had accepted WCBS-TV's offer of ffcc time for a debate, possibly on a statewide hookup. Each said the other had "run out." The separate, successive shows cost them $5,400 each.

NATO Nuclear Pact To Be Goal of Talks By JOHN M. IIIGHTOWER AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. officials hope that British Prime Minister Harold Wilson will ready to make concrete proposals Tor organizing a nuclear weapons force for tlie North Atlantic Treaty Organization! when lie comes here for talks with President Johnson in about six weeks. The NATO nuclear problem was the major issue posed in conferences with Johnson administration leaders Monday and Tuesday by the foreign secretary of the new British Labor government, Patrick Gordon Walker. Gordon Walker told a news conference Tuesday that the British government needs time in which to formulate specific plans in the NATO nuclear weapons field.

He also assured U.S. officials that his government did not intend to stall on the problem for, the sake of delaying indefinitely action within NATO on a U.S. proposal for a nuclear armed force of 25 surface ships known as the MLF which would be jointly owned and manned by participating allied countries. Johnson's deadline for getting basic agreement on the formation of such a force has been the end of this year. It is now very can be met although U.S.

offi- cials made clear it has not been formally abandoned. The Labor party's approach now seems to be that a broader concept for a NATO nuclear farce is necessary some kind of plan which would cover not only any seaborne force but also land based nuclear weapons in the NATO area of Western Europe. While the British have stressed the need for delay, the United States has been under pressure from West Germany to act on the MiLF with all possible speed. West German leaders recently suggested that if other NATO allies were unwilling to participate West Germany and the United States should act alone to conclude an MiLF agreement by the end of the year. The United States is reluctant if not flatly unwilling to make such an agreement with West Germany alone since the American interest in the MLF has been to enlist the participation of as many allied countries as possible, questionable that this deadline Washington authorities now look to direct British-German talks to produce some understanding on timing which may be satisfactory all around.

Gordon Walker plans to meet with West German Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroeder in mid-November. PLANE DOWNED Republicans Ask 'Equality, Fairness' WASHINGTON Now that their appeal to the federal court has failed, Republicans, are appealing to what they cat) a "sense of equality and fairness" in their 'fight to get equal time on television to answer a speech of. President Johnson. Their legal battle faltered Tuesday when the U.S. Court of Appeals, by splitting 3 to 3 allowed a ruling by the federal Communications Commission to stand.

In this ruling, the FCC said that Johnson's speech on Oct. was a presidential report and 9 news event. For that reason, thf FCC said, 3arry Qoldwater, the Republican presidential nominee, was not entitled to equal time on the three television i networks. Judge Balks At 'Stay Bid WASHINGTON (AP) Chief Justice Earl Warren refused today to stay effectiveness of an order that Virginia must reapportion both houses of its General Assembly by Dec. 15.

The order, issued by a special three-judge federal court in Alexandria, cut the terms of incumbent state senators to two years and called for a special election before January 1966. State Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Button petitioned Warren for a stay the order, so that it could be considered by the full Supreme Court on a later appeal.

Warren made no comment in to interfere with the lower court order. Virginia state senators ordi- would serve until 1968. Under the special court's order they would have to stand for reelection in November 1965. House members, who serve two year terms, come up for eiec turn next year. Button's request for a stay said no other federal district bad ordered a state legislature to cut the terms of its own members.

The attorney general said the Supreme Court bad allowed members of both houses of the Legislature to stay in office until 1967. Button asked that Virginia be given equal treatment. SAIGON, Viet Nam (AP) A U.S. Air Force C123 transport shot down near the Vietnamese Cambodian frontier' Saturday was hit while inadvertently flying over Cambodian territory, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said today.

Eight Americans perished in the unarmed craft. The spokesman said armed helicopters sent to the area Sunday in an operation to recover the bodies also was Tired on from Cambodia. They returned the fire. Seven bodies were picked up. The eighth has not been found.

Wreckage of the transport is strewn along a hill about 25C yards inside Viet Nam 170 miles north of Saigon. Guerrillas had stripped the plane of its in- signia and looted the bodies of personal effects. The embassy spokesman said the C123 overflight of Cambodian territory apparently wa; due to difficulty in border idcn- tif.ication and bad weather during a supply-dropping mission. He said that, while the United States regrets the overflight "it should be pointed out that C123s are unarmed transport aircraft and the C123 involved in this particular mission was unarmed." A U.S. soldier on a motorboat patrol near the 'frontier was killed Tuesday night in a guerrilla ambuqh.

He was the 214th American killed in combat in South Viet Nam since December 1961. Keating, pointing a finger at an empty chair with Kennedy's nameplate before it, said Kennedy had not shown up because he knew a meeting "would expose his ruthless attempt to destroy my character and lifetime of service." Ttie candidates presented widely differing views on a letter which the Fair Campaign Practices Committee sent Kennedy, but later withdrew. Keating read from an account in the New York Herald Tribune, citing an alleged quotation from the letter. Keating said it confirmed his charge of distortion by Kennedy. Alluding to reports that the committee had withdrawn the letter, Keating said: "It makes no difference what this committee docs nosv, under any arm twisting or whatever." But Kennedy said he believed his integrity had been vindicated by the committee's withdrawal of the letter and its apology to him.

Ralph McGill, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, resigned from the committee because of the letter. He said it appeared the criticism of Kennedy was a committee action, but that he had not been consulted. Bruce L. Felknor, the committee's executive director, had said that the Herald Tribune had obtained the quotations from the letter "surreptitiously" and over the committee's objections, and that, besides, the letter had been sent to Kennedy only to "obtain further information" from him. After the TV shows, the Keating camp said Kennedy's last- minute effort to appear with Keating was "eye-wash" because the station had set a p.m.

deadline for acceptance of the debate offer, and Kennedy had not met it. Learning that Keating purchased his own half-hour, Kennedy aides hurriedly purchased the following half-hour. It was reported that Keating aides had then tried unsuccessfully to buy rebuttal time. Keating was joined for part of his program by Sen. Jacob K.

Javits, who accused Kennedy of an "unconscionable, reckless and at least careless" effort to destroy Keating's "progressive reputation." Keating said he felt only "pity tor an opponent so driven by ambition that he would lend his proud name to this kind of dirty campaign." Keating accused Kennedy of trying to capitalize on the good name of his' martyred brother, whom Keating praised and said he had supported "when I thought his cause was right." For his part, Kennedy said all his statements that Keating had voted against education, housing, minimum wage and area redevelopment bills were docu- mcnted by date. "Nobody can erase that record, That's how he voted," Kennedy said. Both candidates continued campaigning in Now York City today. LBJ Hits War-Peace Theme By FRANK CORMIER LOS ANGELES, Calif. (AP) President Johnson, who claims he is wrapping election issues around Barry Goldwater's neck, said today he wil 1 "not play the war game of bluff and bluster." Johnson bore down on questions of war and peace in a speech prepared for an outdoor audience at Albuquerque, N.M., start of a day-long tour through the West that actually was aimed primarily at voters in Southern California.

The President's strongest language was prepared for the New Mexico crowd. He said: "The stakes in the election are success and survival. The issues are recklessness or reponsibility." Going on to stress issues which he says find hint and Goldwater far apart, Johnson concluded, in his stiffest language: "We cannot and we will not play the war game of bluff and bluster. That risk is too great." Before swinging into the West, Johnson made a quickie tour of the Northeast Tuesday night. In Pittsburgh's ultra- modern Civic Auditorium, he delivered one of the most surprising speeches of bis campaign.

Ticking off a series of major policy questions, including the civil rights law, Johnson said with direct reference to Goldwater: "These are all issues in this campaign, and we are wrapping them right around his neck." The President later, speaking off the cuff, cited a newspaper advertisement repudiated by Goldwater which he said claims that his administration seeks laws that would make Negroes happy, jobwise, and white people glum. "It want to meet that one head on," lie said. "That is pure, dirty racism and prppaganda that is being, passed around. There is not any! bill that Congress ever passed! that takes any job away from' anybody." Johnson said some people "put out a lot of words to try to smear and fear and scare people who are working by saying that some other man is going to get his job." He went on to relate that his wife Lady Bird had told him that an Alabama worker approached her on her Southern whistle- stop tour and said: "I have been thinking about this problem a lot, and they have put out a lot of stories about what has happened. But I believe that I would rather have a Negro stand beside me on an assembly line than to stand me in a soup line," The President said, "We are not going to say that the good Lord intended that the tall men should be treated different than the short men or that the white men should be treated differently from the black men or the brown men, because if we do, we are outnumbered, throughout the world." He said no one ought ever "choose to fight it out on the "basis of color" because if they did, "the white folks are in trouble, I will tell you that." Today, in a text readied for delivery from the steps of the Los Angeles City Hall, Johnson said his election would mean the nation will "go forward to a future of horizons unlimited." "We are going full speed ahead.

We are not going back to a past of muddling and make- believe, mudslinging politics and mildewed policy." Johnson said his first horizon was to seek "unlimited opportunity for everyone of our people, regardless ofi race or creed or language or origin." He went on to speak of every child absorbing the best education in his grasp, "the horizon of personal security," which he said would include medical care for the aged under Social Security, a horizon of discovery in space and, on earth and, finally, "tbf unlimited horizon of universal peace.".