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PANAMA CITY NEWS Circulation 763-7627 Complete Coverage of the New York Stock Exchange Northwest Florida's Most Complete Newspaper The World's Most Beautiful Beaches 1962 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER VOL. 16 NO. 214 20 Pages AP 4ND UPI WIRE SERVICE NBA COMPLETE SERVICE Panama City, Florida, Friday Morning, July 5, 1968 UPI TELEPHOTO SERVICE ALL-FLORIDA NEWS SERVICE Telephone 763-7621 Price 10 Cents Eight Persons Drown Boating Accident Woman Hurt In Car Wreck A Marianna woman was injured Thursday night in a two- car collision near the intersection of East Avenue and Sherman Avenue, the Florida Highway Patrol reported. She was identified as Mrs. Mary Wilson, about 63, of Rt.

2, Marianna. Drivers of the vehicles were Gun, Dynamite Hoax Prisoner Report By WINNER Miss Judy Mathews, 17- year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mathews, 2512 Stanford was named Miss Long Beach Resort Thursday. The Rutherford High- School senior is five-foot four inches, 113 pounds, has light brown hair and green eyes.

(Photo By Hargis) PAPETE, Tahiti (UPI) A French naval task force Friday encircled the Mururoa atoll where atomic energy experts plan to stage a series of nuclear blasts, expected to include Frances's first hydrogen bomb explosion. If the expected H-bomb tests are successful, France will join the nuclear super-power club one year after Communist China. The Soviet Union, the United States and Britain already have perfected hydrogen bombs. WASHINGTON (UPI) Lady Bird Johnson's highway beautification program has suffered a stiff blow, but stiE has a chance of being rescued in a House-Senate conference committee. The House all but eliminated' highway beautification spending for landscaping, billboard removal and hiding junkyards Wednesday in approving a bill to authorize $12 billion for highway construction.

LONDON (AP) Egypt, in a sur- arise turnabout, has offered to take back a United Nations peacekeeping force on her soil as part of an Arab- Israeli settlement, senior diplomats iisclosed Thursday night. The move was reported amid energetic American-British-Soviet efforts to beef up the counciliation mission of Gunnar V. Jarring, the special U.N. envoy. MADRID (UPI) Former New York Mayor Robert F.

Wagner Thursday marked the Fourth of July by presenting his credentials as U.S. Ambassador to Spain to Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Wagner, 58, was officially accepted as the new U.S. Ambassador in a colorful ceremony in Madrid's majestic Royal Palace, the home of Spain's former kings. WASHINGTON (UPI) --A satellite with extendable antennas as high as the Empire State Building was boosted into orbit Thursday to eavesdrop on radio signals from space.

Explorer 38 was launched aboard a three-stage Delta rocket from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's NASA Western Test Range in Lompoc, at 1:27 p.m. 2DT. HONG KONG (UPI) A Hong Kong newspaper reported Thursday Red Guards in Communist China raided a North Vietnamese consulate in Nanning and beat the personnel because Hanoi was negotiating with the United States in Paris. The right- wing Hong Kong Times quoted a trav- eller from Nanning, 100 miles north of the Vietnam border. The report could not be confirmed by official sources.

MELBOURNE, Australia (UPI)-An anti-American mob of 1,500 Australians Thursday smashed every window in the front facade of the U.S. consulate before police beat them off and seized six one-gallon bottles of gasoline and kerosene apparently intended to set the building on fire. More than 60 demonstrators were arrested in the clash which coincided with official celebrations of the Fourth of July in this second largest city in Australia. LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI)--A federal prisoner created an uproar aboard a commercial transport Thursday when he started a false report that another passenger had dynamite on his person.

The prisoner was in custody of two U.S. marshals but was permitted to go to the restroom unhandcuffed. On the way, he told a stewardess, "there's a man back there with a gun and some dynamite." When the marshals became aware of the situation they subdued the prisoner after a brief scuffle. The prisoner was not imedi- ately identified. Meantime, the stewardess advised the pilot of the Trans World Airlines 727 of the report and he radioed to the Federal Aviation Agency here that there was an armed man on the plane carrying dynamite.

All this gave rise to another false report that a man had attempted to hijack the plane and divert it to Mexico. The marshals, it was learned later, were en route with the prisoner from Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary to San Francisco and boarded the plane at Kansas City. The plane, carrying 71 passengers and a crew of six, started its crosscountry flight in New York and made stops at Albuquerque, N.M. and Kansas City before landing here. Sheriffs deputies and FBI men were on hand and helped the two marshals escort their prisoner to the airport branch of the Clark County Jail.

The prisoner was bound for San Francisco for a hearing. CAPE KENNEDY (AP)--In books written before they died, an American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut made strong arguments for the role of man in space, rejecting suggestions that automatic satellites could do the job. Both Virgil I. Grissom and Yuri A. Gagarin said extended exploration of the moon and planets should be based, on spaceships that combine the talents of man and complex machinery.

Shortly before he died in the Apollo 1 fire at Cape Kennedy last year, Grissom completed the first draft of his book, "Gemini," published recently by the Macmillian Company. Gagarin, the first man to travel into splice, finished reading proofs on his book, "Psychology and the Cosmos," just two days before he was killed in an airplane training flight near Moscow last March 27. MIAMI (AP)--A tear gas grenade was tossed into a pharmacy in Coconut Grove Thursday night, police said, forcing the store to be evacuated. No injuries or damage was reported. Officeis said the incident apparently was the work of vandals.

It was the second incident of the day. A three-foot dynamite package was found in the drivexvay near the Vizcaya Restaurant in south Miami early Thursday after it had partially exploded. Police said no damage was reiorted. Judy Dove Named Miss Lynn Haven Miss Judy Dove was crowned Miss Lynn Haven Thursday climaxing the annual Fourth of July parade. The five foot two inch brunette beauty is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs, Robert C. Dove, 906 Iowa Ave. First runnerup was Miss Rockhill and second runnerup Miss Sherry Strength. D. R.

(Red) Emanuel captured the bulk of the prizes in the antique car contest held in conjunction with the beauty contest. Eleven cars participated in the contest and parade with prizes being awarded for five events. Emanuel was named winner of the slow speed race, best driver and costume of the era and best in the show with his 1926 Model T. Car balancing award went to John Pilcher and best original to Mrs Gordan Atwater. Director of the car show was Noah Garrett.

Matthew James White, 53, also of Marianna, and Roy Herman Dunn, 48, of 119 Church Panama City. The highway patrol said that Mrs. Wilson was not believed seriously hurt. The Thursday night collision was one of many over the rainy holiday, but law enforcement officials said there were no other serious injuries. In a two-car collision early Wednesday night one Panama City woman was killed.

She was Marie Bell Williams, 32, of 1405 Joe Lewis Lane. She was the driver of a car which the highway patrol said went out of control and struck another vehicle driven by Augustus Max Adkinson, 42, of 1106 Noland Marianna. Adkinson was admitted to the Jackson County Hospital with chest and back injuries. The accident at Fountain on Highway 231 in Bay County. Also injured in the crash were Mrs.

Shirley Foresman Adkinson, 42, and Pies Hopkins, 32, of 712 E. 10th St. HopMns was a passenger in the Williams vehicle. Both accidents were investigated by Trooper R. M.

Mcln- tyre. FBI, New York Police Probe Bomb Incidents NEW YORK (UPI)--A bomb shattered the Canadian National Tourist Office on Fifth Avenue early today, breaking fifteen windows in the building housing the office and hurling debris across the wide avenue to damage buildings there. No injuries were reported. The FBI and city police were investigating the blast and at least one other of four separate bombings in New York City Wednesday night and early today. Police issued orders for security guards to check all persons passing near consulates and foreign missions with suspicious-looking packages.

Police said the bomb blew out two large windows in the tourist office at 680 Fifth Avenue at 53rd Street, the heart of Manhattan's silk-stocking shopping district, and shattered 15 others in the building. Passersby saw a man in a short-sleeve checked shirt running from the scene police said. Police said they were investigating possible connection with an explosion that rocked the Cuba Bar in upper Manhattan about 5 a m. It damaged a side door and broke windows across the street. An hour later, an explosion police said "may have been a firecracker" occurred in a parking lot in west Harlem.

No injuries occurred at either site. HELPS SHERIFF--Five-year-old Kelly Anne Hayes, of 2804 W. 14th lends a helping hand to Sheriff M. J. (Doc) Baffin as she draws the winning ticket in a contest sponsored by the sheriff's auxiliary.

Beatrice Ellison, of 1208 Hamilton was the winner of a Colt Diamondback revolver. (Staff Photo) Cooks, Clerks Help Repel Cong Attack SAIGON (AP) American infantrymen, joined by cooks, clerks and drivers in close-quarters fighting, hurled back a Fourth of July attack on a major U.S. base camp Thursday, turning small arms and machine guns on enemy commandos who advanced into their bunkers. The assault on the U.S. 25th Infantry Division's base at Dau Tieng, about 40 miles northwest of Saigon, began with a 500- round barrage of mortars and rockets, then raged for hours before a force of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong in two reinforced companies broke off their attack.

It coincided with the seizure, just six miles outside the capital, of five rockets apparently readied for an Independence Day bombardment of Saigon. The cache, found with firing pins in place, was only 500 yards away from where a larger depository for Red Chinese and Russian-made rockets was discovered Wednesday. There was no Fourth of July celebrating among American troops and they were advised to be particularly vigilant against terrorist attacks. The holiday was officially marked only at the U.S. Embassy where Am- bassador Ellsworth Bunker held a reception.

Division spokesmen at Dau Tieng said 10 enemy bodies were found after the action there died out. Five Americans were reported killed and 56 wounded, 18 seriously enough to require medical evacuation. The base is a key one because of its airfield and artillery as well as its strategic position on the edge of War Zone in the (Turn to CONG, page 2) Families Watch Tragedy From Lake Shore A A (UPI) -Eight persons, seven of them children, drowned during a Fourth of July outing Thursday when their 12-foot boat flipped over on a small lake as their horrified families watched. Verncssa day, 9, was the lone survivor of the tragedy at Lake Easy. Witnesses said the boat, piloted by William Harrell, 35, flipped while making a sharp turn ony 100 feet from the shore where the families of the victims were picnicking.

Harrell; Cynthia Clay, 14; Belinda Clay, 12; Jimmy 'Clay, Rhonda Tucker, 10; Sheila Jennings, Carolyn Jones, 11; and Cynthia Jackson, 7, were killed. All were members of several Negro families from Lake Wales who had gone to the remote lake together for the day. "It looked to me like there were too many in the boat," said Raymond Parks, a fisherman who witnessed the tragedy and was able to save Vernessa. "We got one child out still alive and found another floating in the water." Polk County deputy Ray Greubel, who was vacationing at the lake, grabbed Sheila's body and tried in vain to revive her with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation but it was too late. Picknickers waded into the water to grope for bodies until rescue units arrived from several nearby towns.

Jessie Clay, father of the Clay children, led the search until he collapsed in grief and was taken away. The bodies were loaded onto the families' pickup trucks--the only available vehicles capable of negotiating a rough trail to the lake, a small body of water favored by area Negroes. The bodies were transferred to waiting ambulances outside the area. Rain beat down on the rescuers as they worked for about three hours to recover all the bodies. Political Trails By United Press International The two rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, Vice President Hubert H.

Humphrey and Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, addressed traditional Fourth of July rallies Thursday. Humphrey, speaking at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, said Americans must set their vision "not only for today, but for the goals we may hope to achieve by 1976--the 200th anniversary of our freedom." McCarthy, taking part in a Fourth of July celebration in Corning, Iowa, told a rural crowd that federal programs should be geared to bring farm President Urges Independence For All In Holiday Address SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP) Old Glory soared aloft in proud triplicate at the U.S.

pavilion at HemisFair July 4 and President Johnson spoke up for constantly adjusting America's idea of independence to new and changing times. In the presence of 40-odd visit- ing diplomats--mostly Latin Americans--Johnson told a holiday audience of hundreds of people standing beneath a hazy sun: "A man who is untrained for work or who is harassed by ill health, who cannot buy a decent house for his famjly or send his Quakes Jolt ios Angeles Today's WEATHER Partly cloudy through Saturday with scattered thundershowers. High today 84 to 90. High TIDES Panama Gty (CDT) 6:36 a.m., low 5:53 (EOT) Low 5:50 a.m., and 8:32 p.m. p.m.

RIVER READINGS Jim Woodruff 44.0 Blountstown 4.5 LOS ANGELES (AP Two rolling earthquakes, one possibly an aftershock, hit Southern California Thursday. There were no immediate reports of serious damage. In Santa Barbara northwest of Los Angeles, a crack was reported in a road near the beach city. The first tremor at 5:46 p.m. shook the crowded stands at Hollywood Park race track in Inglewood, south of Los Angeles.

The long press box overlooking the 48,497 fans rocked visibly for several minutes. Residents of Ventura, about 60 miles northwest of Los Angeles, said they felt a sharp jolt. "I expected the house to cave in," said Gene Beley. "It felt stronger than any one I've been in since the Montana Earthquake." In Mamarillo, not far from Ventura, a resident said "the thing seemed to be a general rolling tremor that rocked chairs and had all the lamps swaying." The tremors were reported felt in downtown Los Angeles and at beaches crowded by possibly 400,000 Fourth of July bathers. Dr.

Charles F. Richter, seismologist, said the quakes were registered at about 5 on his scale, potentially damaging. The shocks were felt as far south as Long Beach, he said. The California Highway Patrol said California 154 over San Marcos Pass was blocked by rockslides at several locations. "The slides definitely were caused by the quakes," an officer said.

Richter said the quakes centered in the Santa Barbara channel. children to a decent school, has little independence, despite any rhetoric on the Fourth of July." There was plenty of that rhetoric, and patriotic activity, too, at the San Antonio fair. It was all in keeping with the American tradition of a glorious, old fashioned Fourth with a black- tie dinner dance at the pavilion and a fireworks finale at the 622-foot Tower of the Americas. Johnson got in on most of it to one degree or another--even to tackling a couple of drippy ice cream cones--during a three- hour visit to the fair. President and Mrs.

Johnson flew down by helicopter from their ranch near Johnson City, 75 miles to the north, landed on a parking lot at the fair, and drove to the American pavilion to start their role in the festivities and formalities. Forty minutes before their arrival, a military guard had snapped to attention, an Air Force band sounded off, and the Stars and Stripes were raised on a trio of flag poles to one side of the pavilion's entrance. The President and First Lady, the one in a mocha colored suit, the other in a bright yellow dress, appeared to the strains of "Hail to the Chief" and a 21-gun salute. Gov. John Conrally of Texas (Turn to PRESIDENT, page 3) incomes in line with city wages.

Humphrey recalled that President Johns F. Kennedy had declared from the same Independence Hall platform six years ago the nation's readiness for a "declaration of interdependence--a willingness to join with western Europe in an Atlantic partnership. ''We must declare our interdependence not only with the nations of the Atlantic, but with the family ol man." Humphrey said. "There can be no doubt that our commitment, as Americans, and as free men, must be to man's liberation. That liberation will only be achieved when all the nations on thp earth allow their citizens the free exercise of their rights--only existing as an idea 192 years ago." McCarthy, with his daughter Mary at his side, said it was important that the nations farm program "be adequately financed and well administered." Some 300 persons met the Minnesota Democrat when he arrived at Des Moines Airport.

He motored from Des Moines to Corning, a rural community of 2,000 which is the headquarters of the National Farmers Association. Four Children Killed In Fire WAKEFTELD, N.H. (AP) Four young children were killed Thursday when a predawn fire swept their home before their teen-age babysitter could reach them. The dead, children of Mr. and Mrs.

Albert Newcomb were Cynthia, 10; Albert L. 3rd. Loretta 21 months; Wayne, 9 months. Authorities said Wanda Newcomb, 13, of Berwick, Maine, adopted daughter of Newcomb's parents, was on the first floor of the two-story home when she was awakened by cries of the children in their upstairs bedrooms. She said she first thought that crackling she heard might be from a thunderstorm, but soon realized the house was on fire.

She was not able to reach the children because of smoke and flames..