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(19464) Tuesday Morning, December 19, 1967 48 Pages 10 1 A COPY A WEEK Australia Vacates Prime Ministry Johnson to Attend Holt Service CANBERRA, Australia (AP) The government declared the prime ministry vacant Monday night and Australian officials prepared to receive President Johnson at a memorial service Friday for Prime Minister Harold E. llolt. Johnson will fly 10,173 miles to Melbourne to pay his respects to the man who led Australia as a strong supporter of U.S. policy in the Far East. The president will leave Washington at noon Tuesday and arrive about 30 hours Australia, on the other side of the International Date Line.

Governor-General Lord Casey ended Holt's commission as prime minister and announced that Deputy Prime Minister John McEwen will be sworn in as interim prime minister Tuesday. ACTION DELAYED Casey had delayed the action while there was hope that Holt had survived the riptides that swallowed him as he was swimming Sunday. The memorial service was scheduled for noon, Friday, in St. Church of England Cathedral, Melbourne, Holt had strongly supported U.S. policy in Vietnam and Johnson called the prime death cruel Holt, 59, had G92 days in office after taking over from Sir Robert Menzies.

He made his own foreign policy, defended the bombing of North Vietnam and provided 6,000 Australian troops to fight with the allies in South Vietnam. McEwen, leader of the Country party, took the government helm when Holt vanished off Portsca, 37 miles south of Melbourne. NEW LEADER Casey said McEwen told him he intended to retain the office of prime minister until Liberal party, the larger member of the government coalition, elects a new leader and prime minister. Political observers expected term to last a few weeks at most and said the next prime minister is unlikely to make major changes in foreign policy. death threatens Australia with political crisis and possibly the breakup of the coalition that has governed since 1949.

LIKELY CANDIDATES Federal Treasurer William McMahon, deputy leader of the Liberals, was in line to succeed Holt. But observers in Canberra believed his election would New Snow Hits Arizona Indians WINDOW ROCK, Aril. cargo transport air- Air Force helicopters reached a planes already in the area were couple of small, isolated bands grounded by the new storm, of snowbound Navajo Indians Monday, but a new storm MORE SNOW dimmed hopes of carrying Weather Bureau said the immediate relief to thousands of reservation could expect in- others. creasing snows and wind Aircraft were grounded after through Monday night and early only a few, brief aerial survey Tuesday. N.v.jo deaths bl.m«i on of lhe to fn-czms cold-.

popuj.tmn 2yV.roW bov and a Myr.r^ld cnppM much confirmed and tr.hal official, Ihn feared for the to depth, of four of other more. He said an esti- Navajo Tribal Chairman Raymmond N.k.i tried to reach Vice President Hubert Hum described, phrey with a personal plea for worst in the more1! and larger used Navajo radio broadcast Monday to tell his people of efforts to! stranded weather help reach when the About a doxen helicopters and them Navajo Visiting Pottstown Can't Contact Parents The Navajo police are trying to get into the critical areas such as Pinon and Forrest in the central reserva- All Index To CiattKirt OUt 3 W0 other 323-3000 Give us a sign on the snow- such as using ashes." he told them. of any sickness in the family by putting a cross so it can be spotted from the imagine the signs are covered now with the fresh tie The tribal leader said the average Navajo family living in: the Indian dwellings known as A Navajo woman. visiting a North Franklin street family, reservation usually build up a has been unable since Saturday supply of food and wood to contact her parents, who are or Seating fuel in er in southeastern Utah by the worst snow storm in 15 years. The woman.

Mary Jane Benally. 27, whose parents live in a tion area. Nakai said. hogan ten miles south of Bluff. -----------Utah, drove to Pottstown with Patricia Hanna, 837 Franklin street, two weeks ago Miss Hanna, the daughter of Mrs Elizabeth Hanna, worked for two as a nurse for the San Juan Utah, health service where she was assisted by Miss Benally, a aide.

Miss mam concern for her parents, Cischinly (Curly Hair) and Barbara Begay, is whether they have enough food to last then until they can be reached. talked with my sister, who got to within 20 miles of my parents before she had to turn said Miss Benally. Her sister. Sue Ann. lives in Cortes, 70 miles from her parents Twenty families live on that section of the reservation but the homes are and miles Miss Benally said.

The nearest telephone is 20 miles awav and mail is picked up once every two weeks at a community 30 miles from the reservation. "Whenever the snow covers these roads, we get about by using landmarks and instinct," she explained Miss father is disabled and stays near the hogan most of the time. Her mother takes care of 100 sheep in the country. drive the Country party out of the coalition because he and McEwen disagree on a number of key issues. Defense Minister Allen Fairhall and Foreign Minister Paul Masluck also were considered likely candidates for the Liberal leadership.

body had not been found despite air and sea searches. The effort will resume Tuesday. The area where he disappeared is dangerous swimming, but Holt knew it well. The tides off Portsea have claimed three other swimmers in the last 10 years without yielding their bodies. Lindsay Aide Charged in Kickback Deal Pilotless Jet Plows Into Store TUCSON, Ariz.

Victims were rushed by am- less F4C Phantom jet crashed bulance to all the hospi- into a busy supermarket here tall. Switchboard operators of Monday evening killing a re the hopsitals taking ported five persons including a calls when the board became 2-year-old child. Ijammed. The craft brst into flames asj A. Seamonds and John J.

it hit the market, seconds after emloycd at a marine the two Air Force men aboard suppiy company, told reporters, bad parachuted to safety. Davis hparij a c)uu thud. We Monthan Air Force Base said up arul saw a big ball of the plane, from Nellis Air Force jn was taking off on a rou- tine training mission. said the plane ran, not appear to be in trouble, I Ill Me i las it headed (or the buildings in 29th St and Alvemon was two miles from the runway. An estimated 50 to 100 late FIRFBAIL afternoon shoppers were in the supermarket.

FLAMES SPREAD The flames spread to two "When it hit a fireball went up that seemed to be a half block wide," Seamonds said. in the place must have businesses Family killed outright. Bob Kudro, another witness, agreed the plane was on a level flight. He said he saw' the plane hit the back of the store. The first confirmed dead was Car and Racing Center and Ras- NEW YORK (AP) James a five and ten-cent L.

Marcus, until five days ago in the shopping center. Three one of the brightest stars in nearby homes also were dam- Mayor John V. Re- aged by the publican administration, was1 The flames were brought un-U child in the house in back of accused Monday of pocketing a der control about two hours aft- the market. Capt. Ellis Franklin of the Tucson Fire Department said she was 2-years-old.

One of the persons Inside supermarket when the plane hit I Was Warren Benningtone, of other men, including labor rack-struggling to get out when he Tucson eteer Antonio Tony Ducks arrived. saj(j jjpt bis wife and his Corallo, was the first major was able to help several of cbiid were in the center aisle scandal within official them. I was just inside the store when the lights went out. when a woman ran in from out- lookp(i np an(i saw a huge ball side. fire at the rear of the think she had a child in the be said, an investigation into all matters rear of the store.

There was grabbed my wife and child. Marcus dealt with during two nothing but flames there. 1 and ran for the front. Someone City Hall as grabbed her. When she held the door open.

We ran out- in a deal engi- er the trash. The 2-year-old neered by a Cosa Nostra bigwig, child died in one of the homes, jit involved an $800,000 city re- Ernest Sanchez, 26, Tucson, servoir contract. who lives about a block from I The arrest of Marcus and five the store said people were since he took office Jan. 1, 1966. Lindsay immediately ordered the mayors chief irouble shoot- to get free I pushed her out About 10 other people ran er and later as his 0f thc store.

a man. Tornado Damage jyear water commissioner. Mar- abruptly resigned Dec. 12 CONSPIRACY 1 Marcus and the other defend-1 lints were charged with conspiring to violate federal antiracke-i Steering laws. The maximum upon conviction is five in federal prison and a fine each.

John F. Malone, assistant FBI 'director in New York, said the indictment grew out of a months-long investigation into efforts by organized crime to advertise for out with us, but I know there believe I saw the bodies of were others Inside. I see two children, three women and how they could have escaped any other Board to Seek New School Bids Pottstown school district plansI and establish the price to be A number of housea destroyed and many damaged whan a tornado nppad through Huntsville, Monday morning. At leaat three peraona were killed and an undetermined number treated at the hospital. (AP Wirephoto) the property owner.

Thomas has until Jan. 4 to file an appeal to the decision Christmas edition of Pottstown on Parade is included in Mercury. Twister Weaves Path Of Death, Destruction HUNTSVILLE, Ala. A damage through much of north had been washed out killer tornado and torrential Alabama, but Huntsville was by rain swollen creek, rains, spawned by unseasonably weather, struck a wide hard.CSt hlt' The tornado swirled its most Lloyd Meyers is new Pottstown captain. Page 7.

named police Mercury schedules guided tours. Page 7. Editorials 4 Pages .......8 10 Spring Ford 12 13 Comics 14 Sports 19, 20 Boyertown 20 band of north Alabama Monday, leaving four persons dead and 29 injured and causing heavy property damage. Thc tornado spun through Huntsville strewing a tangle of houses, trailers and utility lines. Two persons were killed by thc twister and another drowned bull'lmSS 01,1 about 75 miles to the southwest.

destructive path approximately two miles south of the army's pol'CC 9 y''ar old ollv Redstone Arsenal missile center. However, four warehouses runs through the tow n. on the southern edge of the mill- EIUun tary complex were badly damaged and windows in other traUcr Uke a filtrate government. for Edgewood Elementary very significant. It looks school next month, school au- as though they are making at- thority members learned his case.

Any appeal by him tempts to infiltrate the adminis- day night. could hold up construction of the tration of the Malone Linford Moyer, assistant to the elementary school for six to nine said. school district superintendent! months, Mattci pointed out. Marcus, 37, a stocky, quiet, for business, said thc advertise-1 Moyer reported that construc- urbane man, was slated to head ment will be placed Jan. 6, on thc addition to West End a new city supcragcncy, com- and 18, and plans call for bids Elementary school is ahead of bining functions of the water to be opened at a special school schedule, commission, thc department of authority meeting Feb.

5. building should be com- air pollution and the sanitation The tentative construction pleted by June he added, department into the Environ- schedule for the new school, to; Thc resignation of Robert H. mental Protection Agency. be erected at Morris and Mintz-lllclm as elerk of the works for Thus his resignation last week cr street, provides that school the addition was accepted. Helm Four came as a surprise, and ap- directors will review thc bids suffered a broken leg two weeks bridges were washed out in peared to shake Lindsay, who and make recommendations at ago when he stopped to help a that area.

was close to Marcus personally a meeting Feb. 13. motorist and his car rolled back In Athens, west of Huntsville as well as professionally. on him. 1 riunisvwie, COMPLETION Raymond Russell was elected BEFORE JOINING After financing for thc pro- to the clerk of the works posi- In his letter of resignation.

ject js arranged, work on the tion to succeed Helm, and fell into a sw-ollen creek Marcus mentioned a over a er Cox drowned after he slipped complaint building will be started. It is set SERIOUS INJURIES Ten persons were admitted to to the Manhattan district attor- for completion by May 1, 1969 wncn.f office, saying it concerned! Dr H. Dale Winger, district nil 1,15 hmT a business venture he was en- superintendent, said classes will No I.e.*vi?* gaged in before joinmt H'e be held in thc building that Kali, space equipment was harmed. i 1 Lindsay team of young, hard- 1 B0tb Moyer and Winger said Iat driving administrators. 'unless thc building is ready for yards from the foundation of his be assured that the occupancy by the Fall of 1969.

a i icomplaint has nothing to' do district will be in utility At least two dozen homes wjth my official duties, Mar -ON Main Drag LINES DOWN one-mile stretch of Huntsville Hospital with serious U.S. 231 about eight were seriously damaged and rc- miles south nf linnicvitto a nV cus and inat the building is completed injuries and 19 more were treat souln of Huntsville was parts trickled in throughout the fact, free of any wrongdoing Deaths Frederick Cienlner, Rarto RD Eliiabeth Yergey, llarmonyville; Evans, Limerick; James Andrian, West Chester. Ohituaries Page 11 blown down, but not before ac- jay of scores of other struc- a cumulating portions of tin roofs with minor damage. cd and released. Thc twister came out of weather system which dumped around the power lines five inchcs of rain on Huntsville slung on a clothes Lindsay replied with a letter and 4.32 on nearby Decatur in line.

the predawn hours and ham- no four lane high- pered rescue and cleanup ef ''av closed all forts. Flooding was heavy. as crews worked in a Warm, moist air from the restoro olectric Dralt Demonstrators Arrested by Marshals OAKLAND, Calif. San Francisco Area Hit by Earthquake and that I after the start of thc school! year, pupils and teachers will; of regret over the resignation. bavc to be reassigned and ending: (Mrs.

LmcUay) classcs broken up winRer out i joins me in sending our best Emidio Mattei, authority! wishes Lily and you. solicitor, reported on the ac- Lily Marcus, the defendant quisition o( lhe (or th( wife and mother of their year- a tlaufhlt'r Reuben Rivlin and Justice ot Peacc Frank F- Thomas! sted five of rnnnorticut and former S. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) An earthquake rumbled for 150 Thc day after Christmas, hhc miles along famous will return by bus to her home, San Andreas fault Monday, wliere she will continue to work causing widespread alarm with her people. only minor damage. Gulf of Mexico collided with a telephone service to Federal marshals arrested fivc of Connecticut and former (.

Drciiminarv objections tol weak cold front to produce the pacifist demonstrators for not ambassador to Spain. Henry a- tj)e but both turbulent weather. 'vere carrying draft cards as police bot Lodge, former ambassador bjcctions were refused by The system caused scattered Clarence LUison. 60 of Hunts- jailed 207 other demonstrators to South Vietnam and now U.S. County courts.

villc. and Kenneth Henderson, Monday at the Armed Forces ambassador-at-large, is her un 28, of thc Talucah community Induction Center. 14 miles southwest of Hunts- The Weather ville. Near Haleyville to thc south Mostly sunny and mild today, west, Odis Hogan, 37, drowned but high in the 50s. Tonight will be when his car plunged into 15 fair and mild.

Mild tomorrow. feet of water where a bridge The News Today Tabor Endorses Schweiker for Senate have concluded that party In-resources needed so badly for Schweiker greeted an-eastern counties (PhiladelphiaJ John surc to be an expen- nouncement with a statement of Delaware, Bucks, Chester and sive general election. appreciation. Montgomery), plus substantial these reasons, 1 shall not has again proven himself support in Cambria, Erie and United to be one of out- Clearfield. standing Republican leaders by Tabor said he had solid sup- putting party unity Sch- port in other major coun wciker said.

explaining: Tabor served from 1963-67 asj was a real deadlock in state Commerce Secretary un-jterms of votes, one that would der the Republican Scranton Ad- have required a slam-bang pri- HARRISBURG AP) ternal Affairs Secretary K. Tabor announced Monday that, in the inteicsts of party a candidate for the unity, he would not seek the Re- States Senate in publican nomination to the U.S. decision cleared the Senate next year. ificUI at this tor s- KeP- Richard S. Schweiker of Mont Igomery County, the only an unity in 1968 in Pennsylvania is nouncod candidate.

an absolute requirement if Re- TO AID SCHWEIKER ministration. He was elected to publicans are to win thc Sen- shall do all that I can to the Internal Affairs office last ate seat and help to regain na aid him become year on the Shafer gubernatorial tional Tabor said second Republican U.S. Senator, ticket. at a Harrisburg news conference. unity would be threat- Tabor said of Schweiker.

I The office has been abolished Tabor added that he also had as an elective office, effective G. in 1970 at the end of advised state Sen. Stanley cned if we were to engage in a Stroup, another senatorial party-splitting primary election bility, of his decision. FIRM GRIP for the U.S. Senate.

The funds required to carry on a primary campaign would drain financial Stroup told me he had said his soundings had not quite made up his mind as indicated that Schweiker had a Tabor observed. firm grip on the five south- mary in which the party would have had to pick up sides in a closely contested But Tabor kept the door open to a bid for statewide office in 1970, when both the governorship and senate will be on the ballot. remain ready to serve the people of Pennsylvania as they may see fit in the he said. Gov. Romney Governor George Romney of Michigan says he some new on Vietnam in a lively 90 minute meeting with an elite group of Russian citizens.

Rut he say what they were. Page 5. Gold Rush A new American pledge to maintain the price of gold fails to satisfy Western F.urope’s appetite for converting cash into gold, but it may have slackened the hectic buying of last gold rush. Page 13. Heart Transplant Doctors express concern for Louis Washhansky, the first human heart transplant patient, whose condition is deteriorating after he seemed on the way to recovery.

Page 5. Stock Market Profit taking in some of the tush- flying computer and other growth stocks accompanies a stock market decline. Trading is active. Page 13. Bridge Collapse The death toll in the collapse of a long suspension bridge over the Ohio River shoots up to 17 as searchers p-ull four more bodies from the river's bottom.

Officials revise their estimate of the missing to It and hold little hope for their survival. Page Supreme Court The Constitution protects private telephone conversations even those made from a public unauthorized government snooping, the Supreme court rules. Page 2. NO APPEAL attorney did not file an appeal to the ruling within the required 30 after the decision was handed down. The two tenants on the property will be given 30 days to relocate, as required by law, and a jury of view' will be appointed to inspect the site MICHAEL McLAlN friends decorate for the holidays.

FRED ZEZENSKI his friends after returning home from a hitch in the service. EDWARD THORTON his beagle away from his shrubs. MARY GIGLIOTTI a mile to the store. JOHN McKERNS with his left hand instead of his right. AN SELTZER gas day and night.

ANTHONY ALLEN up for cold weather. TIMOTHY CONKLIN i coat. BARBARA STERN for a ride. The War U.S. planes streaked through a sky full of Communist missiles and antiaircraft fire and bombed North longest bridge in the fifth straight day of heavy attacks around Hanoi.

The surface-to-air missile defenses and antiaircraft fire were so intense that Air Force F-105 Thunderchief pilots were unable to make a visual damage assessment of. the strike on the mile-long Paul Doumer bridge 1.7 miles northeast of the center of Hanoi. The Air Force also reported heavy strikes on missile sites and rail targets in the Hanoi-Haiphong area and the important bridge complex between the two cities. Along the demilitarized zone dividing North and South Vietnam, North Vietnamese launched a mortar and artillery barrage on the Marine outpost at Con Thien. Fourteen Marines were wounded..