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of WEATHER Cloudy and mild today, toand Friday. Rain over most of the area starting late Friday. High today 64, low tonight 44, high Friday 62. (More Weather Page 3) 77TH YEAR-NO. 18 ALABAMA PRESS INTERNATIONAL Ph.

262-1611 UNITED -AP Wirephoto BLAST SCENE IN MISSOURI Seared Tress, Burned Auto Show Explosion Force LBJ Turns To Realities No Complaints From Inaugural Address By JACK BELL WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson turns. today toward the hard realities of combatting injustice, poverty and ignorance on the way to his "Great Society." In a solemn, sparely applauded address elective term, told the beginning, nation Wednesday these enemies of progress will be con- BRIEFS Sub Saves Two SARASOTA, Fla. (AP)-The nuclear submarine Triton rescued two men after the ditching of a civilian charter plane in the Atlantic Ocean last night. The third occupant of the plane was missing. The Triton, guided by an Air Force pilot, raced to the scene picked up Harry Chance and Donald Horton of Sarasota from a life raft 100 miles southeast of Nassau, Bahamas.

Castro To Talk MIAMI, Fla. (AP) Havana Radio said Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro will address his countrymen by radio and television at 7 p.m. (EST) today during a meeting with sugar officials and workers. Plans are scheduled to be announced for rewarding champion cane cutters, said the broadcast monitored in Miami. The sugar cane harvest, now under way, has been called crucial in Cuba's economy.

Maple Leaf To Fly OTTAWA (AP) new maple leaf flag makes its official debut Feb. 15. Prime Minister Lester Pearson said yesterday that the flag would be raised on the peace tower of the parliament building on that date. Parliament approved the red and white flag, which replaces the red ensign, after a stormy debate. Well Still Burns DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) Valiant efforts by the ace Texan oil well firefighter, Paul "Red" Adair, have so far been unsuccessful against a giant fire which broke out in Kuwait Jan.

3. A traveler from Kuwait said the blaze is 280 feet high and "at night it illuminates a fivemile radius so intensely that cars can travel without lights." Numbered Germans BONN, Germany (AP)-The West German government is thinking of giving each of its citizens a number to make the work of the bureaucrats and computers easier. Interior Minister Hermann Hoecherl told parliament yesterday that "the government wants to keep, up with the times." He he personally is convinced a number for everyone would be a good thing but no decision will be made pending further considerations. JOURNAL 21, 1965 THE ALABAMA, THURSDAY, JANUARY PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS Gas Pipeline Blast Fatal To Schoolgirl Second Vote On Contract May End Strike On Docks NEW YORK (AP) possible early end to the crippling Maine to hands of dock striking strike New was York longshoremen today, as they. voted a second time on a contract they rejected two weeks ago.

Thomas W. Gleason, president of the AFL-CIO International Longshoremen's Association, says he has received enough petitions and telephone calls to assure acceptance of the proposed contract with the New York Shipping, Association. But his prediction proves correct, contract disputes in other ports could pro-000 long the 11-day walkout that has idled 343 ships on the East Coast. 60,000 Idle Some 60,000 men are idle and estimates of the cost to the naitional economy range from $20 million to $67 million a day. However, an Associated Press Mrs.

Dixie Bibb Graves Dies At 83, Rites Friday Mrs. Dixie B. Graves, 83, widow of two-time gov- ernor Bibb Graves of Alabama, died Thursday at 1 a.m., in a local hospital. She was Alabama's first woman U. S.

Senator. Funeral services for Mrs. Graves will be held Friday at 3 p.m. at the First Christian Church with the Rev. Lynn Matlack officiating.

Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Mrs. Graves was appointed by her husband to fill the unexpired term of Justice Hugo Black, who was named the Supreme Court by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937. She served four months.

She was a member of the Alabama Historical Society, No Name Club, Sophie Bibb Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy; American Legion Auxiliary, Past State President of the UDC; member of the Board of Bob Jones College; and former member of the Board of Boys Industrial School. She holds two honorary doctorate Survivors a sister, degrease: I Mrs. S. G. Kimbrough of Montgomery; nieces, Mrs.

W. A. Gayle of Montgomery; Mrs. Raymond Mancha of Winter Park, Allan Sherof Silver Spring, Mrs. Donald Comer Jr.

of Birmingham; and nephews, P. Anderson, Pelham J. Anderson, and Emory Kimbrough, all of Montgomery. Mom And 5 Children Die In Blaze MINETTO, N.Y. (UPI) A mother and five of her 10 children burned to death late Wednesday night when a flash destroyed their home.

Five other children and the father escaped in their nightclothes. A 17-year-old son herded four younger children to a window from which they jumped to safety in the snow. But neither he, the father nor a neighbor could reach the victims who were trapped and screaming for help. Dead were Mrs. Valeta Petrie, 35, and children ranging in age from one to 13.

Mrs. Petrie's husband, Tunis, 40, was burned in a futile attempt to reach the victims. He was hospitalized in the nearby Lake Ontario Port Community of Oswego for treatment of burns, shock and exposure. David Stevenson, 17, Mrs. Petrie's son by a previous marriage, helped three younger brothers and a a a a a a a sister out of the flaming two-story home.

Unable to save the others, he drove the rescued youngsters to a neighbor's home to seek shelter from sub temperatures. The fire apparently was caused by an oil space heater in a downstairs bedroom where the victims slept. The children's bodies were found in a single bedroom. Alf M. Landon Is Hospitalized TOPEKA, Kan.

(AP) Alf M. Landon, former Kansas governor and 1936 Republican presidential nominee, was taken to Stormont Vail Hospital in Topeka today after apparently coming ill at his home. As he was placed in an ambulance the 77-year-old Landon said, A "This spokesman is just at a checkupital said he apparently was not seriously ill. FINAL EDITION FOR NEWS BROADCAST CALL 265-8246 MONTGOMERY, 2 Men Injured Cars Blown Up In Missouri Cars Mile Apart; Wide Area Seared JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) A gas pipeline explosion seared a creek valley 15 miles east of Jefferson City today and two cars a mile apart were blow up.

An eight year old third grade girl was killed and her father was burned seriously. A wide area was seared by brush fires which were quietly controlled. A third man in a station wagon a mile east suffered minor burns. Both cars were destroyed by One man it looked like the whole valley was on fire for a few seconds. Linda Marie Keilholz, 8, died of her injuries at the University of Missouri Medical Center in Columbia.

She was blown 85 paces from the car in the fiery eruption. Her father, Conrad Keilholz 34, was reported in serious condition at the medical center. He was taking the little girl to her school bus stop, when propane gas from broken Phillips Pipeline line was ignited as they crossed a creek bed culvert. George Harmon, a farmer who lives about 200 yards from the spot, said he heard the explosion and came running out of his house. "I saw Linda lying here," he said, pointing to a charred spot on the ground where bits of the little girl's coat and purse "Her clothes were still burning.

I put out the fire in her clothing and wrapped her up in my coat and then went for help." Keilholz' clothes burned off. His smouldering shoes were at the he landed between Linda and the car. Donald Kirby, assistant superintendent of the pipeline terminal near Jefferson City, said the 8-inch line sprang a leak between two shutoff valves about four miles apart. Kirby said the cause of the blast was unknown. A Phillips spokesman said the fire continued as gas flowed from the pipeline.

Later a fourmile section of line was shut off and the fire was allowed to burn itself out as the remaingas was gradually consumed. To Visit Moscow PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) Cambodia's leftist chief of state, Prince Norodom nouk, will visit Moscow sometime in May, it was announced today. MRS. DIXIE GRAVES Dies In Montgomery Thirty Crewmen Of Sinking Ship Take To Lifeboats HONOLULU (AP) The 442- foot Liberian freighter San Nicola radioed today it was sinking 770 miles northwest of Honolulu and the 30 men aboard have taken to lifeboats. Two planes.

and a ship responded distress, call. The bound from San Francisco for Formosa with a load of scrap, first messaged that it was breaking Coast Guard said a later message reported those aboard were in lifeboats. There was no immediate report on weather in the area. The freighter, owned by Seres Steamship New York, left San Francisco Dec. 31 for Formosa by way of Los Angeles.

Iran Premier Wounded; Assailant, 19, Captured TEHRAN, Iran (UPI) mier Hassan Ali Mansur, the pro-Western leader of Iran, was shot and wounded seriously today in an assassination attempt by a 19-year-old youth. The 41-year-old premier, shot in the jaw and pelvis, was rushed to a hospital where he was given a blood transfusion and pronounced out of danger. A later medical bulletin said surgeons operated on Mansur's neck and stomach, repaired injuries to the small intestine and bladder, and stopped bleeda ing in his neck. It said doctors were keeping him under surveillance. The assassination attempt occurred as Mansur, who assumed office 10 months ago, was getting out of a car in front of the parliament building.

Police captured the would-be assassin after chase. He was believed to be a member of an extreme Moslem religious sect. A government communique said: "An attempt against the premier's life was made this morning before parliament by a youth of 19 years, whose papers showed he was named Mohammed Bokharai." It was learned that Bokharai was a senior in a Tehran high school. Authorities said the youth fired a total of five shots at Mansur, but three went wild. Mansur, the son of a former premier, took office following the resignation last March 7 of Assadollah Alam.

The session of parliament broke up immediately upon receiving news of the shooting. INSIDE Today's Journal BRIDGE MARKETS CLASSIFIED DR. MOLNER COMICS MOVIES CROSSWORD OBITUARIES EDITORIAL SPORTS HELOISE TELEVISION HOROSCOPE WEATHER JUMBLE WOMAN'S VIEWS Johnsons attend five inaugural balls. Page 2. LBJ plans to ask $100 billion federal budget.

Page 3. Upper Wetumpka Road to be four-laned for 1.9 miles by state. City Page, 13. State of Alabama bonds sold favorably to New York firm today. City Page, 13.

ABBY MAHONEY ASSOCIATED PRESS 36 port of bananas at Tampa, where dock workers are unaffected since they are under separate contract. Most of the fruit was diverted from New Philadelphia officials estimate their area is losing $500,000 to cials estimated a $20-million $700,000 daily. Baltimore loss by the end of this week. New Orleans and Mobile, report $1.5 million and $250,000 losses a day, respectively. survey indicated that the strike's full impact has not been felt in some areas.

Boston reported losing weekly. Officials commented that many industries apparently were unaffected since they had not used up inventories of raw materials since the walkout began. New York's loss is figured at $1.2 million a day. The Gulf Coast walkout has more than quadrupled the im- Misunderstanding Cited Union leaders have blamed the New York rejection on a misunderstanding and lack of information. They called it the best contract in union history, with a guaranteed annual wage of $5,860, and fringe benefits unmatched in any previous agreement.

The shippers, however, won the right to cut work gangs from the present 20 men to 17 over a four-year period. This would be' done by job attrition as men resigned or died. Union leaders promised no man would lose his job as a result of the four-year pact. Still, the concession to automation, firmly opposed by the union in the past, was blamed generally for rejection of the contract by the rank-and-file, and the union has been conducting an intensive education campaign. Road Landscaping Ordered By LBJ WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson ordered today that landscaping made a required part of major highway projects built wholly or in part with federal money.

Pursuing the "America the Beautiful" theme he set out in his state of the union message, the president directed Secretary of Commerce John T. Connor to require the landscaping on projects for federal-aid interstate, primary and urban highways. Viet Buddhists Are Placed Under 'Siege' Huong Squabble Ignites Scuffle quered before this generation has finished its life span. Idealistic Vein The President spoke in an idealistic vein for 22 minutes after he had repeated the oath read to him by Chief Justice Warren. His right hand raised, Johnson's rested on his late mother's Bible, held for him by misty-eyed wife.

The President's description of the kind of America he wants to emerge from an era of "rapid and fantastic change" was couched in such uncontroversial terms that even. Republiwho suspected "Great Society" will involve massive new federal spending had only praise for his speech. Politically, the document on which Johnson put the finishing touches only a little more than an hour before he delivered it was interpreted as an appeal for! continuance of the consensus which resulted in his November landslide victory. Humanitarian Goal His speech fixed humanitarian goals with which few Americans could disagree. Patterned on Franklin D.

Roosevelt's first inaugural rallying call for Americans, it was devoid of politically challenging phrases. The tasks he had laid out for himself included not only the necessity of steering his legisla- Page of pictures on yesterday's Inaugural Day activities in Washington is on Page 27. tive program through a Congress dominated by his party but of with the problems frappething world. Without spelling out any of these latter, Johnson said the United States "can never again (See LBJ, Page 2) Churchill Continuing Valiant Life Struggle A medical bulletin, issued at 12:16 p.m. said: "There no change in Sir Winston's condition.

There will be a further bulletin this evening." Seven days after he was felled by a stroke, the semicoma, 90-year-oiding statesman is in a with momentary fleeting of consciousness. Only members of the family inside the Churchill home at the time of the medical were Lady Churchill, 79, and young Winston Churchill, grandson and namesake of Britain's wartime prime minister. He is the son of Randolph Churchill. It was the 14th 1 medical bulletin since Britain's great time leader suffered a stroke last Friday. A new deterioration in the 90- year-old statesman's circulation was reported Wednesday night by his physician, Lord Moran, who said in the 13th bulletin he had issued on Churchill's condiItion: "The weakness of Sir Winston's circulation is more marked.

There is nothing else to report." Interpreting the physician's announcement, a medical consultant said: "This indicates that what have been days of waiting may now be shortened to hours. The report of weakened circulation reveals that pressure is dropping and, general, bodily functions must soon fail." Unexpected Call Lord Moran went to Churchill's bedside three times Wednesday, including an afternoon. unexpected call in the Asked Wednesday night if Churchill's life was at a "low he replied, "Yes." As newsmen waiting near Churchill's Hyde Park Gate home sought additional information on the former prime minister's condition, Moran added: "His condition is stationary. There is nothing more can say." The reference to Sir Winston's circulation was the first since the initial bulletin last Friday, which said he had had a cold, then developed a circulatory weakness following a cerebreal thrombosis. LONDON (AP) Sir Winston Churchill-reported Wednesday night to be at a very low ebb-today continued his valiant struggle.

LBJ Briefs Leaders WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson, beginning his new term, briefed Democratic and Republican congressional leaders on foreign problems what was described as a livery candid session." White House press secretary George E. Reedy said the session was the first step in Johnson's program to keep congressional leaders in both parties "fully informed of the problems of the world." The briefing was conducted by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and Director John McCone of the Central Intelligence Agency. "The briefing was oriented toward relations with our Allies," Reedy said. But he added there was reference to the situations in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia." Inaugural Born, Lives On Delano Keith Tomlinson didn't give his parents time to watch John F.

Kennedy's inauguration four years ago. He was being born ask the doctor who whacked him as JFK was sworn in. The little fellow missed President Johnson's ceremony yesterday, too. He was birthdaying. He had cake from mama Miss Betty and lots of things from papa, called Ken.

Folks there said it was the nicest party anywhere. This boy has presidential connections all around. He lives on Delano the middle name of Franklin you know but that's coincidental! Johnny Reb SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) Vietnamese infantrymen placed Saigon's Buddhist headquarters under virtual siege today after the Buddhist campaign to overthrow Premier Tran Van Huong touched off a street scuffle. Inside the headquarters five leading monks went into the second day of a "fast to the death" unless Huong resigns. Only newsmen, monks and workers in the Buddhist organization were allowed to enter the main pagoda building where the monks were lying on cots under mosquito nets.

The infantrymen arrived after police clashed with a crowd of 30 youths heckling them outside the headquarters. Police arrested 10 of the youths. The government also announced the arrest of-12 others in a riot Wednesday night. The troops strung barbed wire outside the headquarters to head off further trouble. The Buddhists closed their headquarters and one of the fasting monks said it would remain closed for the duration of the hunger strike as a further.

gesture of protest against Huong and his government. Huong, however, showed no sign of yielding. Since becoming premier on Oct. 30, he has steadfastly refused to bow to pressure from the Buddhist leaders, and the military has backed him up. Paratroopers and police used tear gas, clubs and rifle butts Wednesday night to disperse Buddhist followers during a three-hour riot.

Saigon's military governor, Pham Van Dong, warned that the 1-to-4 a.m. in effect would be extended" unless the disturbances Boycott Continues NEW YORK (AP) Many students continued to remain away from a Brooklyn problem school today despite a court injunction and the arrest of a Negro minister for urging pupils to boycott classes. Only 65 of 152 registered pupils showed up at the school for maladjusted children. It marked an increase over yesterday, however, when only 15 were present. At GOP Parley Burch To Submit Rebuilding Plans CHICAGO (UPI) Smiling; broadly, Dean Burch today gavelled to order the meeting of the Republican National Committee which is expected to pass on his retirement as party chief.

Burch was prepared to press for a bumper budget for his successor. Burch presided over the opening session of the GOP National Committee's executive committee, a 14-member group that maps party strategy. Much of the sting had gone out of today's meeting with Burch's announcement that he would step down as party chairman next April in favor of Ohio GOP Chairman Ray C. Bliss. Sources close to the retiring Republican national chairman said Burch planned to submit a series of party-rebuilding proposals to the party's top brass at today's preliminary sessions.

Burch's plans reportedly included: -A 1965 budget almost twice the $1.5 million the national committee would normally spend in an "off with no national election. -An allotment of $250,000 for the republican "coordinating committee" proposed by GOP congressional leaders last week to serve as a policy-making voice of the party. -A fund-raising program which would enable the GOP to go into next year's congressional campaigns with $1 million in the bank. -Continuous use of paid radio and television time on behalf of the Republican party. Burch's proposals presumably carried the endorsement of Barry M.

Goldwater, defeated presidential nominee who installed his one-time Senate aide in the national chairmanship last year. Goldwater disclosed last month that there had been discussion of investing as much as $300,000 a month on radio and television advertising. Burch's current proposal was understood to be more modest and to favor five-minute spots instead of the 30-minute programs aired during the presidential campaign last fall. The current three-day series of top-level GOP meetings will also see the formal resignation of Burch, effective April 1, to be replaced Ray C. Bliss, veteran Republican organizer from Ohio.

Bliss was backed by all factions of the party. Calves Sold The calves below sold immedilately, the advertiser had more calls than he could use. Perhaps some of the buyers are still looking list your livestock with us today. FOR SALE steer calves weaned, eating hay, $21 ea. Phone 000-0000.

Call 264-4561 The Want Ad Number.

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