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Continued Warm Clear to partly cloudy Monday and Tuesday, widely scattered high level thundershowers Monday evening, becoming more numerous Tuesday afternoon and evening. Continued warm, high Monday near 95, low Monday night near 60, high Tuesday near 95. 80th YearNo. 99 (AP) (UN)-Unifas 10c HZStS Billings, Montana, Monday Morning, August 9, 1965 mmmmmmmmmmmmmm Best All Agree Fair the 35 Peace Pickets Arrested "An all-time record for open ing day Sunday was highly youths and the girls carried signs which read; "Refuse to serve in the armed forces; no more Hiroshimas; no more Viet Nams." pleasing," he declared. Dramatic Putt Gives Nicklaus Win Page 12 'You Can't Get Used to Fear' Page 2 WASHINGTON (AP) Police arrested 35 young persons attempting to block Pennsylvania Avenue and an entrance to the White House on Sunday as they demonstrated against U.S.

involvement in Viet Nam. Police said there was no resistance or violence in connection with the arrests. President Johnson and his wife were not at the White House, but were spending the day at Camp David in the Mary Nervy drivers in Thrillcade brought ohs and ahs from crowded grandstands at afternoon and evening performances. i mutual many police as One of Monday's big events will be a special children's free show at 10 a.m. Performing will be the Ber-soni chimps, which "act just like humans" on the trampoline.

Also on the program will be clowns, dogs and ponies. Charles Glenn, city councilman, said "this fair is the best fair we have had yet." He's been selling tickets at a pedestrian gate for six fairs. "I sold more tickets on Sun The incident was over quickly and the demonstrators who 8, 14-15-16-17 9' of the Women's Strike for Peace. Leave Letter This latter group left at the White House gate a letter to President Johnson urging an end to fighting and bombing in Viet Nam and a start on peace negotiations. The 25 males and females arrested were taken to police headquarters and charged with either obstructing an entrance to a public building or failing to move when ordered by police.

One female was charged on both counts. Ann Landers Classified Comics Editorial Obituaries By H. M. Shoeborham Gazette Staff Writer Record smashing crowds thronged the Midland Empire State Fairgrounds at the first Sunday opening in history despite sizzling 91-degree heat. First-day crowds in previous TODAY AT THE FAIR 8 a.m.

Gates open, children in grade school admitted free admitted free 10 am. Swenson Matinee for children 1 p.m. Thoroughbred horse racing 8 p.m. Night show begins 10 p.m. Fireworks 12 p.m.

Gates close 4 6 12-13-14 The event will be staged again at 8 p.m. Monday. Thousands milled through exhibit halls, including the auditorium and livestock barns. Visitors had high praise for the Centennial pictures, the majority in the auditorium, a dozen on walls under the grandstand and six in Pioneer Hall. Sports land mountains.

The demonstrators are a part of a recently formed group calling itself the Assembly of Unrepresented People. While a portion picketed the White House, another group gathered around the Washington Monument. The long-haired, bearded were not arrested mostly teen-agers and college-age youths resumed circling in a token force of about 40 on the sidewalk in front of the executive mansion. Their numbers swelled to more than 120 later in the day and included about 50 members Weather Roundup, Map 5 Women's Features 8-9 day's shift than I've ever sold on any shift in six years," he .3 I Carmichael ..7 .2 Vitals 5 Bridge Crossword (Continued on Page 5, Col. 4.) demonstrators gathered on the sidewalk in front of the White House.

Some groups sprawled on the grass in Lafayette Park across the avenue from the White House. One or two boys and girls picked half-heartedly or. battered guitars, perspiration running down their faces. It was a hot, sticky day in Washington. Police kept auto traffic moving past the mansion and blocked off the sidewalk in front to pedestrians.

Tourists and Washingtonians going to church stared indifferently. A few made remarks such as, "Their parents ought to come give them a spanking and throw them in a bathtub." Hiroshima Bombing years ranged from 10,000 to although Monday was always opening day. "Judging from Sunday's turnout, we should set an all-time attendance record this year," C. M. Hoiness, fair board president, said.

CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy (UPI) Pope Paul VI, condemning the bombing of Hiroshima, prayed Sunday that "this butchery of human lives, this outrage against i Air Offense Kills 631 civilization may never repeat itself." The pontiff addressed villagers and pilgrims who gathered for his Sunday blessing in the courtyard of his summer residence. He was explicit in condemning the American bombing of Hiroshima 20 years ago as an "infernal slaughter," "a disgraceful day." He admitted, however, that the goal of U.S. leaders was peace. He asked Catholics to Guerrillas SAIGON (UPI)-A devastating U.S. and Vietnamese air offensive, backed up by big guns of the U.S.

7th Fleet, has killed 631 Communist guerrillas and destroyed some 550 enemy structures in South Viet Nam in two days, a U.S. military spokesman said Sunday. Another 307 Viet Cong structures were damaged in the intensive raids. f. I i t.

-W" t'l j. A 1 pray that the blast, instead', may not have killed peace forever. Billings Pilot Killed Calling on world leaders to Other American warplanes stabbed into Communist North "unanimously and loyally proscribe" manufacturing, stockpiling and spreading of nuclear armaments, the 67-year-old pontiff said true brotherhood, peace and love can come only from Christ. John W. Kuhlman, 25, 520 Viet Nam Sunday, pounding ammunition depots, a military O'Malley Drive, was killed at 3:10 p.m.

Sunday when his plane rammed into a power line training center, a radar site and bridges, barges and roads. The "In these days, the entire and crashed on a Yellowstone River island seven miles west! press is recalling the 20th anniversary of the atom bombing of vx 7 X. I-- Ml 1 1 i 1 1 I -I if I I 51 I. I of Billings. Patrolman Ronald Lund said Hiroshima, the Pope told his audience in the informal, but obviously carefully weighed planes also scattered nearly one and a half million leaflets over three North Vietnamese cities.

In the South, a U.S. spokesman" said, pldnes of the U.S. Air Force pounded targets the length and breadth of the coun the ship ripped out a quarter mile of RE.A line which spanned speech. "The terror, the ruins, the the river and nosed down deplorations, the sorrow, the "straight into the island." Lund discovered two boys, Bob Parnell, 203 Clark pitifulness of this horrible event try, hitting troop concentrations, military installations and gun positions. are rightly commemorated.

and Jim Higginbotham, nearby Fly 200 Missions The Pope said he noted with pleasure that "official ceremonies in that most unfortunate floating the river in a rubber raft. He commandered the raft, placed first aid equipment The bulk of enemy casualties was accounted for by planes city now entirely rebuilt were nobly and intentionally devoid and blankets in the raft in case of injury and crossed to the is from the 7th Fleet carrier Bon Homme Richard, which flew 200 of any political or polemical character. land. The officer found the pilot dead. The plane came to rest upside down.

Lund said the body was strapped in the pilot's seat and hanging upside down, He was flying alone. Coroner Mel Boice said Kuhl-j missions that killed 441 Viet Cong guerrillas and destroyed or damaged 500 buildings in two days. The rest of the damage was inflicted on the i Cong by U.S. Air Force pilots and South Vietnamese airmen who flew more than 200 sorties in a 24-hour period ending at 6 a.m., Sunday. War Audience A Vietnamese soldier, part of a group participating in operations north of Xuan Loc, crosses a stream with the help of a log.

Two Vietnamese children silently watch the soldiers leave on a patrol. Unifax. Wecome Home 7 (Continued on Page 5, Col. 6.) son will represent Montana in the Mrs. America Pageant Aug.

20-28 at San Diego, Calif. Gazette photo by Jim McGovern. Mrs. Richard G. (Shirley) Peterson, 2124 Dahlia Lane, greets her husband at Logan Field Sunday after being crowned Mrs.

Montana of 1965 Saturday night at Great Falls. Mrs. Peter Eye Opener About all that's necessary for a divorce nowadays is a wedding. IRS Admits Snooping New Prize Near LBJ Reach WASHINGTON (AP) Con-! big Housing and Home Finance The other would provide a I hen learned there were "six or seven such rooms. The list has now grown to many times that size." Long said he isn't sure yet where they may have been other such rooms but "I feel certain we will find out and, I hope, also eliminate all future bugging." tion, a two-way mirror looks like any other mirror.

But an agent stationed behind it in a closet or other room can see as clearly through it as through a window. Long's statement said the subcommittee's probe first uncovered the existence of one "bugged" conference room in Pittsburgh. Then, he said, Co gress appears ready this week Agency. WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Edward V.

Long, said Sunday night the Internal Revenue Service has acknowledged it "bugged" conference rooms in cities from coast to coast, using hidden recording devices and two-way, see-through mirrors. Long heads a Senate Judiciary subcommittee conducting a critical investigation of what he calls "snooping" practices by various federal agencies. First Negro Enactment could result in cost-of-living increase of 3, 4 or more per cent for the 400,000 persons now receiving military retirement pay. expansion of the older area development aids for depressed areas. It dovetails with the larger Johnson antipoverty program which received a authorization from the Senate Labor Committee last week but Robert C.

Weaver, present housing chief, becoming the first Negro Cabinet member. House leaders plan action ear to hand President Johnson another legisislative prize it denied to President John F. Kennedy. The Senate seems set to go along with the House in approving a new Cabinet Department of Urban Affairs, something sought fruitlessly by both Kennedy and Johnson in past years. Action is expected also this ly in the week on a $R65-million authorization for the President's economic development pro week on a military pay raise will not reach the Senate until but this will be something of a gram.

This is a revision and this week. lefthanded victory for the administration. Like the House, the Senate is expected to ap MISSILE MARKET prove an increase of nearly $1 If the Senate grants approval in a vote expected Tuesday, this project will join health care for the elderly and federal aid for billion for the uniformed serv Something Fishy LIVINGSTON Judges smelled something fishy when a 7-pound Lock Leven was turned in at the 20th Annual Livingston Trout Derby Sunday. They ordered an autopsy. Dr.

C. J. D. Brown, professor of fisheries at Montana State University, Bozeman, was called in for the operation after Francis O'Leary of Helena turned the fish in at 12:30, half hour before closing time. Tho (Wtnr said the fish had been dead more than six hours ices, more than double what elementary schools among ma Johnson asked.

Sen. Richard B. Russell, He has denounced many ot the investigative practices, saying they involve unwarranted invasions of privacy not necessary in the solution of suspected crimes. Long said in a statement that Internal Revenue Commissioner Sheldon S. Cohen has sent him a letter "divulging a new and extended list of cities in which IRS had bugged conference rooms.

The list indicates there are 10 cities with two-way mirrors and 22 cities with concealed microphones." To a person under observa jor objectives sought by both Kennedy and Johnson but won bipartisan and unanimous support from the Senate Who Wants Silos? They'll Take Nine blocked in Congress until after Johnson's triumph in the 1964 Armed Services Committee for ruling it out of competition. Competition opened at 9 a.m. the hefty increases. They differ sharply in application from a companion House-passed bill for officers and enlisted personnel elections. The new executive department would take over the many programs now handled by the Unifax Pope Paul VI George Blackford of Biinngs was tne omciai contest winner.

(See story on sports page 12.) with more than two years service. With the announced manpower increase of 340,000 for the fighting forces, the additional By BOB GOLIGOSKI The 160-foot deep, concrete- Associated Press Staff Writer lined, air-conditioned silos once Not many people have ever 1 used the Atltas dreamed of owning a missiieTttan 1 missiles for national de-silo but Mr. and Mrs. E. Earltense-Norwood of Billings are dif-l B'd 526,110 Cuba Off So Champ Plays by Phone annual costs soon would go to $1.1 billion or more ferent.

i The Norwoods received na- i mi i i nt.t:n Accepts Increases missions were eligible to visit disadvantages," he the play-by-phone idea to the 22- The Senate bill accepted liber-LllK lo uw" i 't Cuba. York. A referee will watch his play. "If some sort of a Teletype al increases allowed bv the ureiu- wlJCU U1CJ Uiu -u-i year-old champion. "Sure, I would be willing," said Fischer.

"It's an interest nM arrangement seems better than less than two years service. w-, muuiiictui rtumc, ludtiu. waa the largest amount offered for a "My opinion though is that hej may be hurt a little. He has a very thoughtful demeanor. Some little thing could tip the board." Players from the United States, Argentina, Canada, Denmark, England, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia the telephone, we may use that," Davis explained.

missile silo one of the 117 of But it proposed a flat 6 per.when the Defense Department cent boost base pay for offi- dedared of them obsolete The play-by-phone idea was considered a private matter over which the department had no authority, Davis declared. He said he wanted to emphasize that neither he nor Fischer had any desire to violate government regulations. By RALEIGH ALLSBROOK NEW YORK (AP) U.S. chess champion Bobby Fischer, who can't get government permission to go to Cuba for an international tournament, will participate anyway by telephone. The State Department rejected his travel bid on grounds he didn't meet any of the classifications for Americans allowed Chess is a deliberate game and it is not unusual for players fered for sale by the General Services Administration.

The silos cost the government and decided to sell them to the highest bidder. ing idea. Let's see if we can do it." Officials Agree So Davis talked with officials of the Capablanca Memorial Tournament in Havana and they agreed. The tournament runs from to carry on long-distance games cers ana 11 per cent ior enusiea personnel instead of a variable plan approved by the House. The Senate bill added two features not in the House measure.

When asked what he planned and the Soviet Union have been from $12 million to $25 million by mail, telegraph, phone or to do with the silos, Norwood each 0 build. inyited to the tournament. Fischer was 14 when he first other means. The attorney said he was un In turning down Fischer, thewon the u.s titie. He now lives said, "1 had planned to salvage The Norwoods also offered everything possible and leave ihigh 0 $17,000 for two silo One would boost special com certain what effect it would state ueparimeia Sd.u Brooklyn and spends most of in! ltn li ftr Kl 1 CCm PT1 With bat pay for those on hazardous Aug 25 to Sept.

25 and Fisch enough ventilation equipment in South Dakota. have on the young man's game. "Some say both players will have the same advantages and long-standing interests there lhis time PlayinS and writing Viet Nam duty from $55 to $651 them to turn them over to the and persons on humanitarian! about chess. i monthly. 'Civil Defense people." (Continued on Page 5, Col.

2.) His attorney, Andrew P. then took a chess enthusiast's suggestion and proposed er will make his moves at the Marshall Chess Club in New.

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