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Ordered to Hospital Duane Earl Pope, Roxbury, convicted bank, robber-killer, has won new psychiatric examinations and court-ordered period of observation in federal institution to learn present condition. 'He appeared Tuesday in federal district court at Lin- coin, Neb. Earlier sentence of death for multiple slayings during robbery of Big Springs bank in 1965 had been set aside and re-sentencing directed. Now further mental examination has been ordered. Second Round of Bids Set For Salina Golf Course A second round of bids for con- slruction of a municipal golf course at the old Salina airport 'will be opened Sept.

30. The city commission, at a special Wednesday meeting, set the new date after first bids opened Monday were far above costs estimated by the course architect, Floyd Farley, Oklahoma City. "We believe," explained Mayor William Yost, "a fresh look Fair to Head Highway Group (AP) F. R. Fan-, president of the First National Bank of Mankato, has been elected president of the five-state U.

S. 36 Highway'As- sociation. Meeting at Hiawatha, the association also elected Shannon Fryear of St. Joseph, vice president, secretary treasurer and general manager. The organization adopted resolutions asking the Bureau of Public Roads to release money to build a four-lane highway from Indianapolis, to Estes Park, Colo.

The association is incorporated in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri Kansas and Colorado. The Salina Journal The home-delivered daily newspaper for Central and Northwest Kansas P.O. Box 779 Zip Code 67-101 Published five days a week and Sundays except Memorial and Independence Days at 333 S. 4th, Kansas, by-Salina Journal. Inc.

Whitley Austin Editor and President Second-clisj posugo paid it Salina, Kansas. Febroarj 1871. DEPARTMENT HEADS Glenn Williams, managing John Seamledelcr. assistant editor: Larry Mathewa Srnday editor: Bill Burkt. edft- Fritz Mendell, cnlef photoeraph-r Atrrttttlnf.

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Postal regulations require subscriptions to be paid in If yoa fall to receive The Jonr- Ml IB Salina. Rial T.A 3-6363 Weekdayi, between 5:30 and 100 pm. Sundays, between 8 am and pm. at the figures will bring the architect and the bidders much closer together. "Seme modification of the plans will be accomplished." Yost said a change of valves on the fairway watering system is one possible cost-cutting area.

"We do not intend to shorten the course, narrow the fairways or change the layout," he said. The 18-hole grass green course will be financed by a 5100,000 federal recreation grant and a similar revenue bond issue from the City of Salina. Farley's first estimated was $144.149.82 on a plan which did not include an automatic watering system. This was: nearly $50,000 below the nearest offer, that of Van Buskirk, Sioux City, la. Revised plans and estimates are expected from Farley soon and the commission will put them in the hands of potential bidders.

Latest Count Rejects Shifts In Population Continued from Page i bette Lyon Sumner McPherson Ford 23,350. Freeport and Waldron are the smallest incorporated cities, each with a population of 28. Both are located in Harper County. Greeley County has the smallest population, 2,246, although Wallace and Stanton counties are not much larger at 3,382 and 2,501, respectively. The figures recorded by the Department of Agriculture show an almost steady growth since 1860 when the population of the entire stats was 107,206, considerable less than the present city of Topeka.

The years later the population had tripled. The first million mark in population was reached in 1883 and the two- million mark in 1955. Salina, Saline County Are 6th Saline county and Salina held to sixth ranking in the Kansas population race. The count, as of Jan. 1, was made by county assessors and certified to the State Department of Agriculture.

Saline county at 47,735 ranks behind Sedgwick Johnson Wyandotte Shawnee and Reno Salina, listed officially at 38,110, is behind Wichita Kansas City Topeka Overland Park and Hutchinson For a time during the Schilling Air Force hayday, Salina had passed Hutchinson. But the base closing brought a drop here and recovery hasn't yet brought the city even with the Salt City. i Report Suggests Sweeping Changes in Health Services TOPEKA (AP) The Kansas Legislative Council received today a report recommending a sweeping reorganization of the Kansas Health Department as the first step toward making health services more readily available to Kansans. The report was submitted by the council Committee on Public Welfare, headed by Rep. Rex R.

Borgen, Asherville. The report was prepared at an estimated cost of $187,000 by the Chicago firm of Booz, Allen, and Hamilton. The committee endorsed several specific recommendations in the report, including one to reduce the membership of the Board of Health and to confine the board's function to policymaking. The board now is Actor Franchot Tone Is Dead NEW YORK (AP) Actor Franchot Tone, the veteran star of Broadway and the films, died at his Manhattan East Side apartment Wednesday. He was 65.

Tone made his debut on the Broadway stage in 1928 and three years later moved on' to Hollywood, mixing a career between the two coasts for the rest of his acting life. Suave, polished, with a fine social background, Tone met actress Joan Crawford on his first venture in Hollywood. They were secretly married in 1935 but three years later, their divergent careers broke up the marriage. He then went on to marry actresses Jean Wallace, Barbara Payton and, in 1956, 23-year-old Dolores Dorn-Heft. Til.ended in divorce.

Plays in which Tone appeared included the "Fifth Column" in 1940; "Oh Men Oh Women" in 1953, "A Moon for the Misbegotten" and "The Time of Your Life" in 1958. In Hollywood, he made such successes as "Without Honor" in 1949, "Man on the Eiffel Tower" in 1950 and "Here Comes the Groom" in 1951. He got his first role in Broad- Belt" in 1929. It was small but it led to a starring role opposite already famous Katharine Cornell in the "Age of Innocence." charged with the conduct of health programs. The committee recommended the board reduced from ten to five members and that at least three of these be laymen.

The board now is made up entirely of professional people such as doctors and dentists. Backs Off But committee refrained from endorsing many of the recommendations, saying it would leave them up to the legislature. These included recommendations that all environmental programs of state agencies be consolidated under a reorganized department of health. The report said the new department should have jurisdic- tion over consumer protection programs of the Food Service and Lodging Board, over programs fur regulation of the manufacture and sale of drugs and poisons of the State Board of Pharmacy and over Board of Agriculture programs for the protection of the public from poor quality dairy and egg products. Air pollution programs also should be transferred to the department, the report said.

The report said there is only one dentist for every 2,200 people in Kansas and suggested: "The desirability and feasibility of establishing a school of dentistry, at the Kansas University medical school should, be determined. Looking as far ahead as 1975, AFL-CIO Will Back Humphrey NEW YORK (AP) The general board of the 14.1- million- member AFL-CIO today formal- endorsed the presidential candidacy of Vice President Hubert J. Humphrey. it was recommended that the responsibility for mental health and mental retardation activities be consolidated in the Health Department. Also for 1975, (he report called for determining the feasibility of establishing a second medkal school in the state.

The statewide rate of doctors per 100,000 population, in 1967 was 108.1, compared with a national rate of 93. But the report said a rate of 145 is considered by many authorities to be need ed. And a wide disparity was reported in the rate throughout Kansas, ranging from 131.8 doctors per 100,000 population in East Central Kansas, to as low as 54.8 in Southwestern Kansas. Await UN Wrist Slap Israeli, Jordanian Gunners Still Duel By HAL MCCLURE Associated Press Writer Wednesday, Sept. jg-- AMMAN (AP) Jordan claimed today that it drove off an Israeli hit-and-run sabotage team that tried to cross the Jordan river Tuesday night- A Jordanian army spokesman said the Israelis tried to cross near the Sheikh Husseb Bridge in the north Jordan Valley, but were driven back by machine- gun fire.

The spokesman said the raiders were thought to have suffered casualties. Israeli and Jordanian troops continued then- almost nightly artillery duels across the river, and the U.N. Security Council neared approval of a resolution calling once more on Israel and her Arab foes to observe the cease fire. Israel reported Jordanian firing Tuesday night near Sidra, 30 miles north of the Dead Sea, at Umm Sidra, arid at the desert settlement of Neot Hakikar, 15 miles south of the Dead Sea. A spokesman in Tel Aviv, said the fire was returned, and no Israeli casualties were reported.

A Jordanian army spokesman charged that the Israelis shelled Kurtyemeh Village, a refugee center in north Karsmeh. He said although the village school was damaged, there were no Jordanian casualties; Meanwhile, Jordan reported that three persons--a man, his wife and their child--were inured Tuesday morning when Is- shelled the town of Irbid. The Israelis said 1 the shelling vas in-retaliation for an Arab rocket attack Monday night on the town of Bet She'an in which were reported eight Israelis wounded. Israeli officials were particularly concerned about the attack on Bet She'an because it was the first attack on a populated area in the Beisan Valley since June 4 and because for the tost time big 130mm rockets were used. At the United Nations, members of the 15-nation Security Council were awaiting approval from their governments before voting on a resolution drafted by the council's 10 nonpermanent members.

Reject Gun Registration (Earlier story, pg, g) Wednesday, Sept. 18-WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate rejsc'ted today an amendment to the firearms control bill to require the of all firearms and the licensing of their owners. Sen. Joseph D. Tydings, D- calling the proposal an an- ticrime and not an antigun measure, offered if as an amendment to a bill barring in- erstate mail order sales of rifles and shotguns.

But it was defeated 55 to 31. Duke to Denmark WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson a Wednesday he will name Angier Biddle Duke, now chief of protocol, to be the new U.S. ambassador to Denmark. Kingman County Chairman Won't Support Docking By ED MOHLER KINGMAN Piqued by the appointment of a rural mail carrier, Ira M. Barter Kingman County Democratic chairman says he will no longer campaign for Gov.

Robert Docking's reelection. "This is to inform you that due to your action in relation to the appointment of a rural carrier at Cunningham, I can no longer support the state Democratic ticket," wrote Hart in a letter to Democratic National Committeeman Tom Corcoran. Hart said he objected to the handling of the appointment of Norman Schnittker to a posi- In West Germany Force Would Inspire Force WASHINGTON (AP) The United States has told the Soviet Union that any attempt to use force against West Germany would be met with "immediate allied response." A State Department spokesman made this statement Tuesday in reply to a Soviet rote to West Germany last July in which it raised the possibility hat under two articles of the U.N. charter the Soviet Union couid use force against the Bonn sovernment. Robert J.

McCloskey, State Department spokesman, issued he statement, but offered no explanation as to why it was being made more than two months after the original Soviet message. tion opening with the retirement of George Urban at the end of the month. "I have no arguments with the Schnittker family about this issue, but I do feel it should have been handled differently," said Hart. Before announcement of the appointment of Schnittker, brother of Undersecretary of Agriculture John Schnittker, there had been two postoffice openings in Kingman County, one at Kingman and the position at Cunningham. Local Consideration let the local GNP Still Booms Despite Tax Surcharge WASHINGTON (AP) The Commerce Department predicted today the Gross National Product "will show a substan- increase" for the third quarter.

This was the first official acknowledgement that the GNP is not being curbed by ths tax surcharge. At the same lime, the department's office of business economics said the second quarter increase was even greater than previously reported. Revisad He said that since sending the data indicate the quartely ad- letter Friday he had received no response from the governor. "I wrote because I felt it was necessary to protect the effec- of the county committee, and the local organization Mia 1IIBI is absolutely essential during an performance to $852.9 billion. dent of Pratt County, while the town itself is in Kingman County.

Hart said that when efforts to contact the national committeeman by telephone failed, he decided to write. Plans were to central committee consider applications for the positions, then forward its recommendations to the national committeeman, he said. Hart said he believed this was the procedure which would be followed. "I-have a letter (from Corcoran) dated April 15, 1968, concerning this rural carrier job and his closing statement is 'We will let you know as soon as we hear more on this matter'," said Hart. The next word lie received was the- announcement of Schniltker's appointment in the Sc.pt.

7, 1968, issue the National Rural Mail Carrier, he said. In his letter to Corcoran, Hart wrote, "If you and Gov. Docking are so -important that you do not have the common courtesy to confer with the county committee concerning appointments, then you do not need my support or 1 Schnittker, who lives near the town of Cunningham, is a resi- election year," he said. While he would not campaign for Docking, Hart said he would LW continue to work for Pat Kelly's say that it should "not match campaign for Fourth District the very large quarterly gains representative and "support cal candidates 100 per cent." Salina Schools Show Record Enrollment Continued from Page i Lloyd Schurr said. "This confirms that the board made right decision in deciding to baild a new high school," he said.

August Zemke, acting director of elementary education, told the board Hie major problem was created at Whittier school when two families moved in with two students each in grade 6. "This brought the total to 41 students in grade 6," he said, "and we had 37 in grade 6 at Bartlett grade-school. "So we added a grade 6 in a room at the tier annex. It will begin Thursday. "We split the attendance district for this class to north of Iron in the Whittier district and those closest to the Whittier annex in the Bartlett district.

"The class will relieve both districts. will have 29 or 30 left at Bartlett and 27 or 28 at Whittier." The official Aug. 16 elementary enrollment is 6264 students in kindergarten -through grade 6. compared to last year's 6053 on the comparable date. Mrs.

Betty Dreher, a board member, asked about the Schilling Manor impact on the school district. She was told there are approximately 1200 in elementary, 350 in junior high and 160 in senior iiigh, for a total increase of 100 students. Comfort for the Dying Peasant women comfort dying old man shot as US Marines battled retreating Viet Cong near Tay Ninh. Girl holds hand over ears to shut out sounds of battle. Marines bandaged man and placed him on wooden bed, but he died later.

Trend Reported In Infiltration by Enemy By GEORGE ESPER Associated Press Writer Wednesday, Sept. 18-SAIGON (AP) North Vit- namese infiltration icto South Vietnam appears to be on the downward trend but is still estimated at 20,000 men in August, U.S. military sources said today. Their estimate continued an up-and-down trend that has prevailed for the past four months: 30,000 in May, 20,000 in June and 30,000 in July. Ail are estimates.

The U.S. Defense Department had predicted earlier that infiltration in August again would total 30.COO. But the sources in Saigon said they did not consider the estimated reduction to be a sign of de-escalation in the North Vietnamese war effort. They suggested three possible reasons for the reduction: The Communist command may have filled its units to the strength it feels it can support, air strikes by American bombers on infiltration routes, and monsoon floods which slowed traffic along the Ho Chi Minn trail through Laos. The sources also reported that vance was more than $1 billion Corcoran or higher than previously reported, raising the increase to $21.5 bil- ion.

The higher second quarter figure raised the annual rate of the on the basis of first half The report did not attempt to forecast the exact amount of the quarter increase, except to representative and "support lo- registered in- the first half of 1963. Treasure Hunt Hits $140,000 PARSONS, Kan. OR Cash ound in the home of Mr. and Mrs. V.

J. Wilson here totaled almost $140,000, police reported oday after a complete count of it. The money was taken to a Parsons savings and loan association after its discovery by officers Monday. The first estimate of the total was $120000. Chief of Police Frank Washburn said he had discussed with Wiison's brother, Joe Wilson of nearby Altamont, the appointment of an administrator or conservator to handle the affairs of the aged couple.

Police began a search for the money after receiving a report of an altercation at the home and the display of $7.000 in cash by Mrs. Wilson. They found money hidden in various places of the two-story home which also has a full basement. Washburn described the home as being crammed with furniture, boxes and other items. V.

J. Wilson is his wife several years younger. INJURED Marine Brig. Gen. William C.

Chip suffered fractured spine in crash of helicopter while directing troops south of Vietnam's demilitarized zone. Chip, 49, is described in satisfactory condition. three North Vietnamese divisions, totaling perhaps 25,000 to 30,000 men, are now concentrated along the demilitarized zone frontier between North and South Vietnam, possibly read- At State Fair ying for a new thrust against allied outposts below the DMZ. Blunt Buildup Continuing the air campaign to blunt that buildup, U.S. B52s made two raids Tuesday on troop concentrations, supply areas and base camps in the northern half of the DMZ and just inside North Vietnam.

Meanwhile, American infantry from the 25th Division knocked out nearly half of an attacking enemy battalion Tuesday northwest of Saigon, raising to at least 259 the number of enemy troops they have killed in that war hotspot this week. Elsewhere along the northwest infiltration corridor to Saigon, another force of 23th Division infantrymen reported killing II enemy troops seven miles southeast of the provincial capital of Tay Ninh. They had killed 117 in the area Sunday and Monday. U.S. B52 hombers also concentrated on that jungled area.

Of 10 B52 raids Tuesday night and today, five went into the northwest corridor. Only scatterd skirmishes and shelling were reported elsewhere. Republic County Agent, Oberlin Girl Honored HUTCHINSON (AP) Jirs. F. H.

Moffett, of Fort Scott won 10 blue ribbons and seven red ribbons in the Kansas State Fair clothing and textile show this week, the largest number won by an individual. Other top entrants were Mrs. Otto Urban, Caldwell, with six blue ribbons, Mrs. John Bradshaw of Turon, also six, and Mrs. R.

Overall, Caldwell, four blue ribbons. Richard Stroade, Republic County extension agent, was named outstanding county agent in wheat promotion and was awarded a gold wrislwatch by the Kansas Wheat Commission. Donna Jo Guinn, of Oberlin, named the a ns as Future Farmers of America Sweetheart, received a $100 savings bond. She is the daughter of Don Guinn, Decatur Community High School vocational agriculture instructor at Oberlin. Karen Porpothin of Webb City.

had the grand champion mare in the quarter horse judging. A mare owned by Arthur and Dennis Reichert, of McPherson, took second after winning the aged mares class. Virginia Hclmer of Augusta won the barrel racing championship. J. j.

Blickenstaff of Scott City was the top youth barrel racer. Duane Wyant of Peck was named Kansas state champion sheep shearer. It's Worth Crowing About Bucher Finally Writes to Wife SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) -Rose Bucher has received the first letter from her husband since the U.S. intelligence-gathering ship Pueblo which he com- mandcd was seized by North Korea.

The letter -from Lt. Cmdr. Lloyd Bucher was dated Aug. 28--240 days after the seizure- Mrs. Bucher said Tuesday.

A family friend said it contained no mention of possfole release for the Pueblo crew. You will be happily surprised. Classified Ads sell old things. Sorry, George, Hubert Gets the Bird BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -It's the year of the rooster for Hubert H.

Humphrey in Louisiana and the sign of the bird could mean thousands of votes for him to crow about. The rooster is the traditional symbol of. the Democratic party in Louisiana. George C. Wallace supporters on the state party central committee had wanted to bestow it on their favorite, leaving Humphrey sitting on the donkey.

A tempest in the barnyard started when the state commit- ted voted that "the national emblem 'of the Democratic party" would appear on Humphrey's ballot line. Wallace boosters chose to interpret ttiis to mean the donkey. Indeed no, said Larry O'Brien, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He advised Secretary of State Wade 0. Martin Tuesday that the rooster is the party's official emblem in Louisiana.

Not since 1948, when the Dix- iecrat movement swept the South, has the rooster been withheld from (he ticket of the Democratic presidential nominee. Martin, who was on the verge of assigning the donkey to Humphrey for ballot preparation, gave in and announced that Humphrey would get the bird. National party loyalists, who had brayed with anger over prospects of Humphrey running with the donkey, were delighted. "While the rooster is not as important as it once was, it still means thousands of votes -in said loyalist leader Eddie Carmouche of Lake Charles. Conservatives on the state central committee publicly doufcted that assessment, but they had bee-hawed earlier at the thought of Humphrey being saddled with the beast of burden.

"I don't think the rooster is all lhat important," said Arthur Watson, chairman of the central committee. "But (he loyalists Lcandcr Perez think it is worth 50,000 votes." Perez, archconservative political leader, wanted me rooster emblem over the name of Wallace. The loyalists, at the point of watering doublecross, wera ready to go to court or seek another meeting of the centra! committee when Martin said Monday that Humphrey might have to campaign on the den- key. But O'Brien kicked out ths donkey and settled Uie question. Still undecided is what emblem will be over Wallace's name..