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Patty Reporter Allegany County's Daily Newspaper Eighty Fourth Year WELLSVILlf, NtW YORK, Friday Afternoon, January 24, 1964 Seven Cents Per Copy NOTICE oft Ptge 8 about the Weilsvilie sen- Jor play may rate the presentation as the least-publicized of all class plays. The settlors, who will present "The Mouse that Roared" for ly, Saturday, origftfaily scheduled it for the weekend of 22 and 23 It was one of the many, many events cancelled Or postponed at that time. LICENSE patrons must be preparing to participate in a last-minute rush before their pets' licenses expire on Feb. 1. There are 1,000 dogs on the enumerator's list, and only 435 had been licensed by this morning, according to Town Clerk Mrs.

Elsie Manion. IT GOES the same way sometimes for everybody in all kinds of businesses. That's a thought we cherish when we look at things like the outlines under the. picture on, Page 8 of yesterday's Reporter. There were four persons to identify; inevitably, the one we failed to iden- 'tify was the only Weilsvilie res- iJdent in the group.

We know al Wellsvllle residents recognized Joseph Sullivan seated at the fight; for the benefit of our subscribers in other communities, that's who it was. A REDUCTION in traffic fatalities rates listing both as news and as good news. That the record announced this 'week by the New York State Thruway Authority. The fatal accident rate last year on the superhighway was the lowest in five years, with nine fewer deaths than the year before. THE AUTHORITY said that a record was set in travel on the 559-mile expressway.

Motorists traveled a total of 2,767,338,417 miles, an increase of over the 1962 mark. 'The fatal accident rate was put at 1.77 for each million traveled, the lowest since the all time safety record of 0.92 was established in 1958. 1 POLITICAL QUIP from the Minneapolis Star: Supporters of Sen. Barry Goldwater are hoping that President Johnson's popularity in the South win melt with the spring thaws. We don't quite see what spring thaws have to do with politics except that they make mud- slirighig possible.

Kennedy tells British Pact By TOM OCHILTREE LONDON (AP) Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy arrived in London today to brief British official? on peace-making left behind his Malaysian mission but he a possible new Today is Friday, Jan. 24, 1964.

There are 342 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On this date in 1848, James Marshall of Calmus discovered gold on the American River'in' California. He died broke in 1855. Ten years ago The Big Four Powers prepared to resume direct high-level negotiations in Berlin for the first time in nearly five years. Five years ago Pakistan President Ayub Khan announced sweeping land reforms to curb the political power of landlords by giving new land to landless peasants.

One Congress accorded lukewarm reception to President John F. Kennedy's proposals of tax reduction and reforms. TROPHY RECEIVED Weilsvilie Fire Chief Charles Hull (right) and Robert W. Boyd, fire prevention chairman of the Weilsvilie Fire Department, look over a trophy received by the department for the third-place award in a state- wide contest of fire prevention projects. Chief Hull is holding one of the three trophies captured previously by the department in contests at county and regional levels.

(Photo by Loucks). Tax Bill Wins Vote From Senate Group ellsville Firemen Third in Statewide Effort Weilsvilie Fire Department placed third among all departments in New York State in the 1963 Fire Prevention was anounced here today. Fire Chief Charles Hull reported he had been advised of the Weilsvilie rating in the state wide competition. Word came from the Fire Prevention and Clean-Up Committee of the National Fire Protection Association, which sponsors the contest on state and national local announcement tire from ert-Boyd, fire prevention chair man of.the Weilsvilie Fire Department. New York City was awarded first place in the state competition, and Syracuse was rated second; the results put Weils- vilie at the head of the list for volunteer fire departments it was noted.

Honorable mention awards went to Middletown, Huntington and Amsterdam. The state-level recognition climaxed a successful year for the department's fire prevention committee, Chief Hull pointed out. The Weilsvilie entry won first in the Allegany County Volunteer Firemen's Association contest, and was rated second best by judges at the Southwestern Firemen's Convention. upon the fire prevention projects carried out, and also on the quality of presentation of the projects in contest entries. In 1962 Weilsvilie received one of the honorable mentions at the state level, but the award announced today was the highest garnered since the department entered its first contest several years ago.

The national winner was the department at Wasau, Wis. New York City was ranked eighth in national competition. The awards presented at state levels include the grand awards, with additional awards available in categories of municipal, industrial, military government firefighting units. The 1963 contest represented the 37th year of competition sponsored by the National Fire Protection Association, which as a non-profit membership organization devoted to technical and educational progress aimed at reduction of loss of life and property from fire. Cooler, Rain, Fog (Regional Forecast) Rain and fog tonight probably changing to wet snpw and turning cooler before morning.

Low around 32. Cloudy and cool with some wet snow Saturday. Southeast to south winds, 10-25, becoming light and variable for a time tonight, then westerly, 1025, Saturday. (Five-Day Forecast More seasonal weather is indicated through the middle of next week with temperatures averaging near normal. Cold pver the weekend and through early next week followed by a Slow warming trend through Snow flurries over yie weekend.

Temperature normals Daytime highs, 24-34. Nightt i lows, 6-14, and 15-20 near the Great Lakes. High 58, low 31 It was almost like spring yesterday as the temperature shot up to a very unJanuary like 58 at 4 p.m. Minimum was a 4 a.m. 31.

Barometric pressure this noon was falling from 30.20 inches. recorded were: Yesterday noon 47, 3 p.m. 55, 6 p.m. 40, 9 p.m. 36, midnight 37.

Today 3 a-m. 33, 6 a.m. 33, a a.m. 35, goon 46. Troops Given To Kenyatta By ARTHUR L.

GAVSHON LONDON (AP) Britain announced today it is placing British troops in Kenya at the disposal of the Kenya government to help preserve law and order. Commonwealth Secretary Duncan Sandys told the House of Commons the move was "purely precautionary." He said the troops had been requested by Prime Jomo Kenyatta because of unrest of Kenya's East African neighbors. In the past 13 days three new British Commonwealth countries in East Africa have been shak- President Hails Passage Of U.S. 24th Amendment By HARRY KELLY WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson has hailed as a triumph of liberty a new amendment to the Constitution outlawing the poll tax as a requirement for vpting in. elections for federal oifice.

The 24th Amendment was written into the law of the land this election year when South Launch Is Delayed For Echo 2 Balloon VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. launch- the conservative Arab government was overthrown by a pro- Communist revolution on Jan. 12. In Tanganyika and Uganda, Kenya's neighbors on the South and West, brief army mutinies occurred this week. The Tanganyika mutiny was accompanied by rioting and looting in which at) least 17 people were killed before order was restored.

The Uganda mutiny Thursday lasted only a few hours, and Prime Minister Obote said Thursday night in Kampala, the Uganda capital, that his government was still in control. Reports reaching Kampala said two companies of the Uganda rifle regiment mutinied in Jinja, Uganda's second largest city 45 miles northeast of this capital. The mutineers locked up Internal Affairs Minister Felix Onama, assaulted newsmen and then marched on downtown Jinja. Britain rushed 450 soldiers from neighboring Kenya to tebbe near Kampala, 45 minutes after Obote requested assistance from the British government. Reports late Thursday night said the mutinous company's British officers, who are on loan from the British army, had regained control.

"The whole army is now in barracks and all soldiers are loyal to the government," the 38-year-old prime minister announced in a radio broadcast. He said the British reinforcements probably would leave soon. There was no indication what sparked the mutiny. But there was considerable speculation it took inspiration from the army mutiny Monday in Tanganyika, southeast of Uganda atros Lake Victoria. nications satellite, was postponed after a television camera in the second-stage rocket developed technical problems.

It had been scheduled to be launched early today from this West Coast missile center? The U.S. space agency announced the postponement Thursday night. The camera is designed to photograph inflation in space of the 135-foot diameter balloon. SEARCH CONTINUED FOR MAN ON RAFT HONOLULU (AP) Planes took to the air again today in the search for a man reportedly seen in a raft floating 430 miles off tiny Johnson Island in the Pacific. Thirty hours were spent Wednesday and Thursday in a hunt that covered 48,000 square miles of ocean.

Searchers believe the man sighted Wednesday must be from a C124 Air Force cargo plane that went down with nine men Jan. 2. They said no other rafts could possibly be in the area. Johnson is 750 miles southwest of Honolulu. Visibility in the area was reported excellent, with calm seas and wind.

A pilot and his crew of four, also aboard a C124, reported there was no question in their minds that they saw a man on a raft about Wednesday, and that he waved to them. FATAL ACCIDENT WATERLOO, N.Y. (AP) Donald C. Mitchell, 33, was injured fatally Thursday when an automobile he was working on slipped from a jack and crushed him. The accident occurred at Mitchell's home near this Seneca County community.

Dakota Thursday became the 38th state to approve it. Ratification by three-fourths of the 50 states was required. Johnson said in a statement it was a "verification of the people's rights which are rooted so deeply in the mainstream of this nation's history." "This triumph, now of liberty over restriction is a grateful and proud moment for 'me," Johnson said. He added: "The tide of a strong national desire to bring about the broadest possible use of the voting process runs too strong to hold back. "In a free land where men move freely and act freely, the right to vote freely must never be obstructed." While certification ceremonies probably will be held here later, they are only a formality.

Once South Dakota's legislature completed its ratification no further legal action was required. The amendment provides that the right to Vote in any primary or general election for president or vice president, or for senator or representative in the Congress, shall' not be denied because of the failure to pay a poll tax or any other tax. The poll tax, the payment of a fee as a requirement for voting, has long been caught up in controversy with civil rights defenders charging that it was used to keep Negroes from casting ballots. Only five states Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, and have the poll tax. The new amendment will not bar these states from continuing to require voters in state elections to pay a poll tax, since it applies only to elections for federal office.

threat to his diplomatic effort, While Kennedy conferred in Bangkok, Thailand, Indonesia's President Sukarno told a cheering rally in Jakarta he would not abandon his "crush Malaysia" campaign. "Onward, never retreat! Crush Malaysia! Indonesia may change its tactics, but our goal will remain the same," Sukarno told 15,000 persons at a Communist-dominated youth conference. Despite the fiery words, Su- karno did not retract his promise to Kennedy of a cease-fire along the 800-mile Malaysia-Indonesia border on the island of Borneo. Sukarno also did not disavow his pledge to send his foreign minister to a conference with the Malaysian and Philippine foreign ministers in Bangkok next month as a possible preliminary step to a summit conference of the three nations. Some observers thought Su- karno's speech was intended for domestic consumption only.

Anti Malaysia sentiment has been so whipped up in Indonesia by Sukarno and the strong Indonesia Communist party, it would be difficult for him to cut off the campaign abruptly. Kennedy told newsmen at London Aiport he never suggested that Sukarno drop his opposition to Malaysia. "But I hope that position will be modified through conference 'and discussion," Kennedy said. As he understands the situation, Kennedy said, Sukarno has given up military activity, against Malaysia while Indonesia, and the Philippine The attorney general said he thought Sukarno was "genuinely willing to sit down and try to resolve the difficulties." As sponsor of Malaysia, a federation of the former British territories of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and Sabah (British North Borneo), Brjtain has been intensely interested in Kennedy's presidential mission. A Foreign Office spokesman said Sukarno's latest pronouncement "does not augur well for the success of the 1 proposed tripartite talks." In Kuala Lumpur, Malay- By JOE HALL WASHINGTON (AP) The Sll.S-blllion tax bill has taken a giant stride toward enactment but whether it can become law by March 1, the administration goal, is uncertain.

The Senate Finance Committee voted 12-5 approval of the measure Thursday after 20 days of executive session and well over 100 separate votes. But the floor debate cannot begin until congressional staff experts finish drafting all of the new language written into the 310-page bill by the committee. They indicated today this might well take all of next week. In that case, the debate probably would 1 not start before Feb. 3.

This would leave only seven or eight days for floor action before the passage deadline of Feb. 11 set by Democratic leaders. They must meet that deadline if the final enactment goal of March 1 is to be achieved. If the Senate does not pass the bill until after the Feb. 11-17 Lincoln Day recess there would be little chance to have the conference with the House over differences in the two versions and get the bill to President Johnson for signature next month.

The committee included in the bill all of the major provisions sought by Johnson. The President won a last-minute victory Thursday afternoon when he persuaded nine Democrats to kill $455-million worth of excise tax repealers which hud been voted in the morning. Chiefly involved were excises on luggage, jewelry, cosmetics and furs. The six Republicans on the committee and two Dem- H. Douglas of Illinois and Albert Gore of for repeal of the taxes in the afternoon test.

Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen, author of the key repeal amendments, said he would press them on the floor. Democrats on the committee who will, handle the bill on the floor said they were confident it can be kept pretty much in the form approved by the finance group. Sponsors of the bill said they did not expect any serious efforts on the floor to change the rate cuts in -the bill. If this is correct, the final Senate version would provide cuts averaging 19 per cent and totaling about $9.2 billion for 80 million individual taxpayers and cuts averaging about 10 per cent and totaling $2.3 billion for 550,000 corporations.

De Gaulle Explains Reasons For Red China Recognition By JOHN M. HSGHTOWER WASHINGTON President Charles de Gaulle has sent word to President Johnson that he decided to recognize Red China primarily because he felt it unwise in a rapidly changing world to ignore any longer the largest and most powerful nation in the Far East. De Gaulle's argument, made known to the State Department and White House through various diplomatic channels, boiled down to a contention that the U.S. policy of trying to isolate the Communist mainland of China from the world of allied nations is unproductive and out of date. The latest arid perhaps most comprehensive presentation of De Gaulle's views on this alliance-straining issue was made by Canadian Prime Minister Lester B.

Pearson when he conferred here Wednesday with President Johnson. Pearson came here following a visit to Paris last week during which he had several talks with the French leader. France is expected to announce recognition next week and take immediate steps to establish full diplomatic relations with the Red Regime in Peking. A week from today De Gaulle is scheduled to hold a news conference and the prospect is that he will set forth his position on the China question at that time. As now understood by top U.S.

officials, his views cover these major points: 1. He feels there is a vacuum in Western policy in the Far East because effective contact Western powers between and the the Red Chinese leadership. Thus he has argued that the Western powers will gain in the long run from having France move into the gap. 2. De Gaulle sees the split be- tween the Soviet Union and Red China as a tremendous power conflict rather than an ideological struggle over Communist doctrine as many Western experts ordinarily describe it.

He feels it is important for the West to have maximum contacts with both side's in this struggle, not just with the Soviet side. 3. Under terms of the understanding which he has reached with Red China for establishing recognition, De Gaulle believes he may be laying a basis for a two-China policy since the Chinese did not lay down the Condition that recognition covered also their claim to Formosa. 4. Once relations are established, De Gaulle believes it should be possible to use French Influence in Peking to work for Red Chinese acceptance and support of a true- policy of neutrality in Southeast the East-West conflict now centers in South Viet Nam.

sia's capital, Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman said "appropriate orders" have been issued to his troops near the frontier, adding: "It is my prayer that this (cease fire) will lead to a pemanent peace." Flag-Raiser Returns To U.S. from Zone By DAVID ZINMAN NEW ORLEANS (AP) A slender youth has come back 1,500 miles to his homeland convinced of the righteousness of his flag-raising troubled over its consequences in the Panama Canal Zone. I was right in raising the MISS JOHNSON HAS HAIR.OO TROUBLE AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) Quote of the day: Lynda Bird Johnson, 19-year-old daughter of the President, posed willingly in a drizzling rain for photographers as she left Austin for Washington. But.

one photographer asked her to walk past a University of Texas landmark three blocks from her dormitory. "Please no," said Miss Johnson, "I'm hiving enough trouble trying to keep this hair-do in the raia as it is." Republicans Push Issue Ot Johnson's Stereo Set WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson said the expensive stereo set delivered to his home in 1959 was simply a gift from old friend Robert G. Baker. Senate Democratic leader Mike says this explanation should end the matter. But Republicans, sensing an election year issue, are pressing this and other facets of the Senate Rules Committee's in- American flag," James Jenkins, 17, said Thursday after the S.S.

Cristobal docked here. "If I had the choice of doing it again," the former Balboa High School senior added, "I'd have to think about it if I knew four U.S. citizens would have been killed." Jenkins, one of the student leaders in the Jan. 9 incident which led to bloody rioting between U.S. soldiers and Panamanians, is on his way to Cambridge, Ohio.

He will finish his education there, staying with relatives. He's returning to the states voluntarily, he says. Jenkins, who briefly tried to elude newsmen on arrival, confirmed in his first U.S. interview that he was the student who raised the flag at Balboa High. But the lanky, brown-haired teen-ager said he thought rioting was coming sooner or later.

"If the flag-raising hadn't happened," he said, "1 think Man Is Indicted In Fatal Shooting ALBANY, N.Y. Albany County grand jury has indicted a 21-year-old man on a charge of second-degree murder in the shooting of Clarence Valenti, 45, a restaurant operator in suburban Colonie. The indictment against Thomas E. Coons of Troy was returned Thursday. Valenti was shot in the head three times Jan.

14 as he sat at the bar in his restaurant. JACKIE GLEASON ABANDONS NEW YORK NEW YORK (AP) Jackie quiry into the complicated business dealing of Baker, a former Johnson protege who quit under fire last Oct. 7 as secretary to the Senate Democrats. "The Baker family gave us set," Johnson said at a White House 'We had ex- a stereo Thursday conference. Glcason is abandoning New York for the golf courses Florida.

The comedian signed a $6-million contract with CBS which changed gifts before. He was an employe of the public and had no business pending before me and was asking for nothing and so far as I knew expected nothing in return any more than I did when I had presented him with gifts." The President volunteered this explanation a day after the Senate committee released testimony by Don B. Reynolds, an associate of Baker in, a local insurance firm, who said he sent the $542 stereo record player to Johnson's home at Baker's suggestion. Reynolds said he paid for the set after selling the Senate Democratic the first half of $200,000 in life insurance policies. The insurance man said he also agreed to buy $1,208 worth of advertising time on the Austin television station controlled by the Johnson family.

The President made no men- i tion of tiie advertising pur- i chase. Asked for comment, President is to will allow him to produce his weekly television show in Miami. Gleason, who has worked in New York City for 15 years, explained: "I want to play golf in the winter. I don't want to be stuck in a New York hotel in the weather here." EX-PREXY OF COLLEGE SUCCUMBS TO ILLNESS UTICA, N.Y. Wil-' liam E.

Weld, former there would have been trouble i College dicd Thursday! anvtlfntr illinb 1 i tljiro iwlll tilUlt, anyway. I think there twill be trouble in the future." Looking back, young Jenkins said two things could have stopped it. "The police could have prevented it," be said. "They could have prevented them (the Panamanians) from coming into the Canal Zone." Secondly, he said, two flags fide by side at the school could have headed off the demonstration. in St.

Luke's Memorial Hospital. He was 82. Dr. Weld was president of Wells, at Aurora, N.Y., from 1948 to SUBMARINE EXPERT OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Adm.

Francis Stuart Low, be commended for stepping right out and answering the allegations and for laying the cards on the table. The charge has been answered." House Democratic leader Carl Albert said "the statement should stand on its own feet." On the Republican side, Senate GOP leader Everett M. Dirksen could not be reached for comment and House Republican leader Charles A. Halleck declincvl to discuss the matter. But Hep.

H. R. Gross, R- wlio lias called for a sep- llouse investigation of Baker's business dealings, told newsmen that Johnson's remarks make it "more imperative than ever that the Senate Rules Committee call Bobby Bakei, put him under oath and ask him whether he paid for this record player." Greys said the President's Draftable, Nixon Says By RAY KOHN NEW YORK (AP) Richard M. Nixon says he would accept a draft for the presidential nomination if a deadlock developed at the Republican National Convention. In a television interview Thursday night on the Columbia Broadcasting System network, the former vice president said he considered it a great privilege to have served the public.

"If the opportunity should come again, I would accept it," he said. Nixon, noting that he is leading in public opinion polls, said: "I don't think that's surprising. After all, I received 34 million votes in 1960." Nixon also said, however, he did not anticipate that the GOP would need him at this time, and he reiterated that he does not want to be a candidate. But, bringing up the subject of a possible draft, he said "a man always must try to distinguish between the voice of the people and the echo of his own voice." "I don't intend to go out and stimulate a draft," Nixon said, "so that when we get to San Francisco (for the GOP convention) as a result of my own initiative I respond to my own voice." Nixon said he thinks Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona is "still the leader among the t'essional politicians," with Pennsylvania Gov.

William W. Scranton second. Nixon said that he feels that he does not have the support of professional politicians because he is not in the race and has no staff. Scranton, Nixon said, "has the support of a lot of pros (and) the big eastern industrial complex." Scranton's greatest need, Nix- oa continued, "is personal exposure." "I think that in his case if he entered a significant primary, iwent in and campaigned and beat the field, he'd be off and running." former commander of the West-j statement "flies directly in the WEDDING SET NEW YORK Fontaine, film star and television personality, and Alfred Wright jr, golf editor of Sports em Sea Frontier and an expert; face of swora testimony ot'jtrated magazine, will be in submarine warfare, died Reynolds that he bought ried Monday in Elkton, Wetfmesday. I 3ai(i lor tllt stereo." Wright said Thursday..