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Tt ATLAN' tfSTITUTIQN IA- COI Net Paid Daily Circulation 208,015 For December 1365 Cool Mostly cloudy, cool Tuesday and Wednesday in Atlanta. Extremes predicted: 40 and 52 Tuesday. 38 and 55 Wednesday. Monday's extremes: 47 and 55. Price Five Centr Outside Georgia; Ten L'ant For 98 Years the South)' Standard Newspaper ATLANTA, 30302, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1966 VOL.

98, No. 170 P. O. Box 4689 32 PAGES 100 More Patrolmen, Cracking Down On New Steel Rises Sewer Service Char 2 Hurt in This DeKalb Wreck Police and ambulance attendants comfort two persons injured Monday in a three-vehicle collision at DeKalb Industrial Boulevard and North Decatur Road. A Clarkston police car was in collision with the pickup truck which was knocked into the tractor-trailer.

The police car was rushing a girl with an injured hand to the hospital. Two occupants of the pickup, Morgan Nicholson, and his brother, Larry, suffered head injuries. ge By STERLING F. GREEN Corp. posted a $3 increase.

Both these are among smaller producers while Bethlehem is No. 2 WASHINGTON (fl A gov-ernment wide assault against rising structural steel prices was loosed Monday, after two other companies joined Bethlehem Steel in posting increases. Inland Steel Corp. matched Bethlehem's $5-a-ton advance while Colorado Fuel Iron construction. The three agencies directly and indirectly consume one-fourth of the nation's entire steel output.

Undersecretary of Commerce LeRoy Collins, acting in the absence of Secretary John T. Con-Continued on Page 6, Column 4 Proposed Mayor in the industry. Other major companies withheld any announcements as government pressures built up. Three agencies which direct virtually all the government's structural steel buying the RALPH Will Ask Assembly For Funds Defense and Commerce departments and the General Services Administration issued orders to the same effect: don't buy from companies which have raised prices. CALLED UNWELCOME And Chairman Gardner Ack-ley of the President's Council of Economic Adviers said the increases announced by Inland would be unwelcome both to industry and to fighting men in Viet Nam, adding: "Foreign steel producers are the only people who will take Alf Landon, Good Prophet A news item about Alf Landon at 78 brought back a conversation with him in the spring of much pleasure in this announce ment." Ackley previously had de plored the price boost Friday by By MARION GAINES Mayor Ivan Allen Jr.

proposed Monday that 100 patrolmen be added to the city's police force and that a sewer service charge be levied to help provide badly needed sewer and pollution control facilities. Those were among the most striking of a list of municipal goals outlined by the mayor as he officially began his second four-year term as head of the city government. The City Hall ceremonies also were highlighted by the swearing-in of the 1966 aldermanic board which included 14 carryovers from 1965 and three newcomers. THREE NEWCOMERS The newcomers are G. Everett Millican, a former alderman Bethlehem, as unwarranted and 1937 a few months after he had carried only two states in his race with F.D.R.

first, a preamble. At 78, Alf Landon reveals a mind and a ehen- potentially inflationary. HELPED KENNEDY Inland Steel is the same company which, by refusing to join in a $6-a-ton general steel price rise in 1962, helped the late President John F. Kennedy win the steel price confrontation of -omfij sion of things that year. But Monday it an nounced its $5 Increase on struc tural steel.

and ex-state legislator; businessman Hugh Pierce, and real Chairman Joseph L. Block of Inland said the move is not estate dealer Q. V. Williamson, as they are which makes many of today's quotation-mark "conservatives" appear in the grip of mental rigor mortis. Until Barry Goldwater's votes were totaled in 1964, Alf Landon had lost the presidency by a greater margin than any man in history.

Defeat did not turn him into a bitter, carping man, as it has made so many others in our time and his. He had been a who is the first Negro in mod ern times to occupy an Atlanta inflationary but instead is the result of "inflationary forces already let loose" which have council seat. iiiiiiiiiriii iiirii iriiiiwiiriiiiiiiiiiiiiii(ftiiii ii'i- ifrv i ii" li-rii rniifi In ir Trti (irr i i a m4, A 1 Staff Photo Hugh Stovall Mayor Allen, in his annual State of the City" message, raised the costs of steel produe tion. Two Injured Persons Are Comforted at Scene of Collision at DeKalb Industrial and North Decatur At almost the same moment Secretary of Defense Robert fine governor of Kansas. He has remained an active business Inside Today man.

An active mind has en McNamara directed military procurement officers to shift military orders for future struc abled him to be alert to change made it plain that the improvements he is proposing will cost a lot of money. "Many of these cannot be financed from existing revenues nor from anticipated increases from growth alone," he said. FROM 2 ANGLES He estimated that just "some of the services" he proposed would "require $1.2 million for ana events. tural steel deliveries away from any company which had raised IV.Y. Judge Orders Quill, Aides Jailed its price to a company which Shock at Support The quotation-mark "conser WILL ATTACK if raids continue, Cambodia warns U.S., Viet Nam.

Page METHODIST advises revitalization of church vatives are shocked by this U.S. Shells Drop On Own Troops By R. W. APPLE JR. (Copyright 196 by th New York Timei Co.) SAIGON Shells from artillery fell among American paratroopers operating west of Saigon Monday morning, killing or one-time Republican conserva tive candidate for such he was who independently supports NEW YORK (UPI)-A state Supreme Court justice Monday had not done so.

THREE AGENCIES TALK Then, as if by signal, just before the end of the government's business day three civilian agencies spoke out the Economic Council, Commerce Department, and GSA. The latter two agencies control the use of more steel than night ordered the jailing of Michael J. Quill and other Transport Workers Union leaders for calling a bus and subway strike which staggered the business and social life of this metropolis of 8 measures such as Medicare, rent subsidies for the really poor, and the President's policy in Viet Nam. The Landon comes through in this quote: "Debate wounding a number of them. million.

education. Astrology 34 Bridge 20 Business 14-16 Comics 20 Crossword 20 Deaths 21, 22 Editorials 4,5 Graham 5 Health 34 Heloise 17 Page 7 Patterson 4 Shavin 5 Sibley 5 Sports 11-13 Star Gazer 34 Theaters 10 TV 8 Want Ad 22-31 Weather 21 Wilson 17 The mishap was the only ma Justice Abraham Geller found ler stayed execution of the or and discussion of our foreign jor development as the Ameri der until 11 a.m. Tuesday. the Pentagon, since the Commerce Department is responsi Quill and the others guilty of civil contempt. can troops, members of the 173rd 1966." The mayor indicated he will approach the money-raising problem from two angles.

First, he said, "I intend to make an appeal to the General Assembly of Georgia to recognize the urgent position of the one-fourth of its total population, which is the Atlanta area." BROADER TAX BASE "Atlanta must have a broader tax base to carry its mounting municipal needs or direct financial aid from the state in substantially increased amounts," he said. Secondly, "if this recourse section of the Mekong delta rice lands. An American military spokesman reported Monday afternoon that the paratroopers had killed 111 guerrillas Sunday on the northeast bank of the Vaico Riv Airborne Brigade, continued Geller issued the order as workers straggled home from their places of business footsore But because of the lateness of ble for federally aided bridge and highway building and the GSA handles public buildings their sweep through Haunghai Province in the northernmost the hour about 9:30 p.m. Gel er while suffering only "light" casualties themselves. Later Monday night, the and leg weary from the rigors of walking and standing in long lines for available transportation.

Tuesday promised to be no better and possibly much worse spokesman confirmed reports from the scene that the 173rd policy is one thing. But picketing (the White House) and burning draft cards gives an impression to our enemies that we are not united. For better or worse we are behind our President's foreign policy. He favors the admission of Red China to the U.N., because, it seems to him, the giant among Asian nations would be less effective in than out. He believes, too, that the population concentrations and the increasing technology and automation make welfare measures imperative.

Oil interests, radio stations, Transit Authority Born Amid Cost Warnings had sprayed tear gas from heli goes unanswered, he said, for the commuter because there seemed little prospect of a quick copters in an attempt to drive GE to Put $11 Million Into Expansion at Rome By CHARLES MOORE Constitution Buiineii Writer ROME, Ga 1966 economic development got off on Viet Cong soldiers out of their settlement In the labor dispute hiding places on the edge of a patch jungle a position from Atlanta's Rapid Transit Authority was born Monday amid Dr. Nathan Feinsinger, chair warnings that building a high-speed mass transportation system which they were raking the man of a transit mediation panel in the dispute, reported Americans in the paddies with is getting more and more expensive faster and faster, "no movement in the negotia sniper fire. the right foot Monday with an announcement by General Electric The infant rapid transit tions Monday night because The spokesman emphasized of an $11 million expansion of its medium transformer depart "then together with this (aldermanic) board, must go to the property owners of the City of Atlanta and lay Atlanta's future on the line." The mayor was administered the oath of office in the packed aldermanic chambers by U. Judge Griffin Bell, who is chairman of the Atlanta Commission on Crime and Juvenile Delinquency. VOWS ACTION Turning to the judge, Mayor agency made immediate plans "the principals are more con ment plant here.

to get together with fiscal of this was not the first time that gas had been employed in such a cerned with what is going on at the courthouse. ficers of local governments to "discuss in practical terms just manner. In fact, U.S. troops have used it a number of times Besides Quill those ordered to various ways since receiving Jail were five officers of the Transport Workers Union and permission to do so in October. decide the creation of the transit authority.

The 10 men who sat on the interim board changed hats and became the transit authority board, approved actions they had taken as interim commissioners, reelected their same officers and chose again the same engineering, legal and financial consultants. It was mostly a formality but it heralded the start of talk about the cold realities of and other free enterprise interests have his full attention. His refusal to equate "conversativ-ism" with reaction and-or to become old and ossified is an inspiration to those whose observance of politics has witnessed the ugly and unworthy changes that come to so many of the defeated. Luck brought this reporter a chance to talk with Mr. Landon in Washington not many months Field commander reported three officers of the Amalga The expansion will increase the size of the Rome plant by 25 per cent and will add 13 per cent to employment "in the next few years," GE Department General Manager D.

B. Lawton said. GE's Rome plant currently employs 1,500 people, with an $11 million annual payroll. The number will go up an estimated 1,700. the gas attack had not been how the pie should be cut." In this case, the pie is a $307 million tab, the price of constructing a modern transportation system that can put a brake to the traffic strangulation that threatens the economic life of Atlanta.

mated Transit Union, which Lawton, at an announcement luncheon attended by some 100 community, business and civic leaders, said the expansion will enable the Rome plant to build larger transformers, up to kilovolt-amperes (kva). Present product limitation is 15,000 kva. GE Vice President Hubert W. Gouldthorpe said the decision to expand the Rome plant was Allen declared: "Let me assure the commission, Judge Bell, that, unlike many other reports, represents workers on bus lines notably successful. However, some sources in Saigon specu- in Queens and Stalen Island.

ated that the unusually large In an opening from the bench their probing analysis will net gather dust on a forgotten shelf." Authority chairman Richard Geller said these officials "chose to deliberately disregard court orders to instruct their number of Viet Cong suspects captured by the 173rd more than 500 at last count might have resulted from the effects of the gas. As a start toward implement- H. Rich called the job of his 10- money, bond issues, construction Continued on Page 6, Column 6 man board a "very sobering Construction will begin this spring and is scheduled to be completed by December, 1967. after his 1936 defeat. His experience with Southern Republican delegations at the 1936 convention had left him dismayed and shocked.

Continued on Page 6, Column I responsibility. Continued on Page 6, Column i Continued on Page Column 7 The meeting Monday was called for in the 1965 rapid transit law. By that law it dis solved the transit Interim Study Commission that the 1965 Gen Cook Heads School Board, Asks $20 Million in Bonds Delegates Traded "Why," he said, "some of those Southern delegations were passed around, handed back and forth, and traded like so many sacks of potatoes. "There must be a reform of eral Assembly created to fill the Atlanta's Lonely 'Cay' World Detectives Watch Hangouts And Curb Some of Activity gap until local referendum could the Southern wing of the party, Veteran Atlanta Board of Edu he said, "if the Republicans are We know hew bad this is It'll Be Cool And Cloudy ever to be accepted in the South needed," he said. "The road cation member Edward S.

Cook was elected president of the or Why, there were men on those may be a little rough, but the delegations who were of a char board must go on. Mostly cloudy and cool is the ganization Mondiy and called for a bond election for $20 mil arter that would have made A plainclothesman stands in a restroom of a Peachtree Street theater, waiting for someone to come in. A boy enters. After a while the boy touches the detective's leg. The boy is arrested and By DICK HEBERT change looks and the detective leaves.

"That was a vice squad man," one of the three says. These are incidents reported U.S. Weather Bureau forecast Cook said he feels that the problems facing the board "are lion to build new schools. them ineligible for Republican for Atlanta Tuesday and Cook, who represents the First essentially the same" as those he faced as president 16 years ago. Ward ind has served on the board for 32 and one-half years, Temperatures are due to Fred M.

Shell of the Fourth Ward was reelected vice president, and Miss Louise Simpson secretary. All were elected to one-year terms. Shell was also elected to serve on the Board of Trustees of the General Employes Pension Fund. Elected to serve on the Budget Commission were Dr. Rufus E.

Clement of the Third Ward and Shell. The Fulton National Bank was chosen as the for the board's funds. The account la rotated among local banks every two years. Following election of officers Third of a series. believe it's a policeman's job to do that.

"I think the money and energy expended on the vice squad could be spent better than by harassing us. Of course I don't know what else they do. "If a policeman sees I've driven around the block twice, he'll stop me and ask for my identification. He'll be real mean and nasty just what you'd expect. I don't expect them to be nice." Sgt.

H. L. Whalen of the vice squad said he knew of no cases in which a detective exposed himself. "They do what they range Tuesday between 40 and 52, and Wednesday between 38 and 55. The range Monday was was elected unanimously.

He returns to the presidency after 16 years. He had been president 15 years. charged with assault and between 47 and 55. delegations in any other region. "I found," he observed, "that the Southern delegations were held in contempt by those who did the trading." The interview created the usual denial and affirmation.

Some of it was heated. I recall a letter from a Southern state Republican leader who denounced Mr. Landon with profane and coarse language. Thi3 Southern leader was widely Continued on Page Column 2 battery. A vice squad car stops at the The forecast for Georgia is He succeeds Oby Brewer who by homosexuals in Atlanta.

The courts do not consider them entrapment cases because the detectives did not do the soliciting. They Invited solicitation. Homosexuals do not like the "harassment" they receive from police. "Those policemen make themselves more than available," one Atlanta homosexual said. "They expose themselves I don't mostly cloudy Tuesday and did not seek reelection to the bathhouse at Piedmont Park and Formosa Fire TAIPEI (UPI) One of the largest plywood mills in Formosa was destroyed in a New Year's eve fire in Kaohsing, southern Formosa, according to reports reaching here Monday.

Property damage was estimated at more than $5 million. nine-member board. a detective enters the restroom and slays for five minutes. A Wednesday, and cooler Tuesday and Tuesday night in the south portion. Cook pledged that the board boy Is Inside.

Three others enter and watch the detective will seek a bond issue of about $20 million this spring for school Little change in temperature Cook recessed the meeting until 7:30 p.m. Jan. 1C. construction. is forecast.

standing near the boy. They ex- Continued on Page Column 2.

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