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The Weather 75 P3UJy cloud TMd warm, high 68 to (Other Weather Data On Page 12) VOL. loiUNcTloi Complete Associated Prcn Wire On The Inside Amusements 8 Business 16 Classified 12-15 Editorial 4 Local 9-io Markets Obituaries 2 Sports 6-7 Women Wyche 12 PETERSBURG, COLONIAL HEIGHTS, HOPE WELL, VIRGINIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 23, SUNSHINE FCLLTiME-Bclty Gail Bishop of Petersburg enjoys playing sun shadows as premature spring temperatures reach into the 70's. An unseasonal warming trend also occurred about this time last year just before the area had two major snowfalls which dumped about two feet of snow. (Staff Photo by John Slieally II). $3.6 Millions Released For Fort Lee Building By DANIEL G.

PENNINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C. Fourth District Representative Watkins M. Abbitt announced today that Ft. Lee will receive $3.6 million from the federal government for construction on the post.

The S3.fi million is part of the $5fi4 million Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara released Friday for construction projects on military bases. McNamara said, when he announced he was releasing the money, "This action at this time will have a beneficial effect upon morale in the armed forces, satisfy valid construction and housing requirements, and have a salutary effect on the construction inrlustry." The $3.6 million being released for construction at Ft. Lee will be used to build a new giant academic, building for the Army Logistics Management (ALMC) and a new post chapel. The money was appropriated by tiic 89th congress and Secretary McNamara said in Decem- ber of 1965 he was holding up the funds until a future date.

Congress appropriated $2.9 million for the ALMAC building and 5700,000 for the post chapel for the $3.6 million total in federal funds to be spent at Ft. Lee. The new ALMAC academic building has been in the planning stage for the past three years. A New York City architect drew the plans in the a part of 1965. The building will have 126,000 square feet of floor space and will support a staff and faculty of 325, including 125 The $2.9 million appropriated by Congress for the building does not include furniture and the estimate at the time the plans were a a that furniture would run about $200,000.

With rising costs, it is expected the furniture will run well over the $200,000 estimate. Since the plans for the ALMAC school building have been prepared and approved there will be less time before const ruction on the project will start. The plans will have to be reapproved by the post engineer and bids wil be called for. The new building will have 16 classrooms with 40-sludent ca pacily and four classrooms for 2. students each.

The building plan also call for three auditoriums 140 administrative offices, a 30, 000-volume library and auxiliary student-faculty service areas. A computer simulation cente will be included, providing com puter space, control room and' 12 rooms for classroom exercises. The ALMAC center, which has its headquarters at Ft. Lee, pro vides graduate instruction in the techniques of logistics manage ment to both civilian and military students. The school also trains officers from foreign countrie under United States Assistance programs.

The $700,000 will be spent to build a new Chapel Center. The center will handle the adminis trative offices of the post chaplains. West Coast Storm Moving Across Rockies Into Plains By The Associated Press A storm that inundated large sections of the West Coast with rain, snow and mud, moved across the Rockies into the north central Plains today. Thick fog slowed air and land in the Midwest. The heavy rain and fog were ilamed for hundreds of fatal accidents in many parts of the nation including a collision of jet planes in California that five persons, More than three inches of rain drenched Los Angeles Sunday.

Heavy rain elsewhere in the state's southern half caused mudslides, flooding and many traffic accidents. Hazardous driving warnings were posted in North Dakota and Minnesota after snow and freezing drizzle coated highways. The storm moving rapidly toward the Great Lakes is followed by a surge of bitterly cold arctic air, guaranteeing a sudden end to springlike tern- Kennedy Book's First Chapter Thrown Ouf NEW YOK (AP) The first chapter of the book, "The Death of a President," was tossed out at the insistence of advisers to the Kennedy family because it lie-lured President Johnson as "a man of violence," a source close to the family said today. The source made the statement as the controversy over he book about the assassination nf President John F. Kennedy 'lared anew after author William Manchester charged that Sen.

Robert F. Kennedy wanted "shred and emasculate" the look simply for political Manchester was not Immediately available for comment on he countercharge made by the source close to the Kennedy family. The author was reported an extended vacation at an jndisclosed location. The Kennedy source said: "The whole first chapter was a deer hunting scene in Texas. It ehmvpd Johnson as a man of SllOWCU violence who loved to kill deer and would force others to do the same.

"It seemed to set symbolic overtones which were unjust nnH inaccurate. It seemed an miu jjiticuui attempt to make this (the chap- a I Li.ii i i (ho svmbolic framework for I LI 1C" i whole book, which was unjust and disastrous. nn i T.hft assassination since it occurred three years before the assassination, right after the election of President Kennedy. It pictured President Kennedy as a man reluctant to do this (kill deer), a much more gentle figure." President Kennedy and Johnson went hunting on the LBJ Ranch on Nov. 17, 1060, the period after the election and prior to the inauguration.

It was Kennedy's first deer hunt and he shot two bucks. The two had met at the LBJ Ranch for a post election discussion of various prob- 'Jems facing their administration. It was learned that the Kennedy family and other persons close to the family felt so strongly about other passage! that Manchester refused to discard thst they insisted their names be deleted from the author's list of acknowledgments of persons he had contacted for vital information. This was done. Manchester's views on the controversy came in a series of interviews with the New York Times at his home in Middletown, and with Newsweek magazine, prior to his on vacation.

The Times' interviews were published in today's editions. The Newsweek interview will appear in the Jan. 30 issue. peratures that, had warmed many parts of the nation's northern half. The second day of fog shrouded most of the Midwest from Texas to the Canadian border.

Zero visibilities were reported at Rochester and Duluth, Minn. The fo'g caused airport delays and cancellation of flights in areas throughout the Midwest. In Salt Lake City Sunday vio- Itnt winds of more than 50 m.p.h. ripped apart a house under construction and disrupted electric power. The winds preceded a storm that dropped heavy snow in the mountains.

The snow was mixed with rain in the central Utah plains. The storm delayed rail traveJ west of Salt Lake City. Snipers Battle National Guard In Nicaragua MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP)-Rooftop snipers firing auto matic weapons battled the Nicaraguan National Guard in Managua Sunday night after a pre election demonstration against the Somoza machine. Casualty reports said 10 to- 20 persons were killed and. about 20 wounded.

Street fighting broke out after a political rally in which Fernando Aguero, the opposition Conservative party's presidential candidate, called for a general strike to "demand electoral guarantees" for the Feb. 5 elections. The government rushed reinforcements into the city, and National Guard vehicles cruised the streets urging the snipers to surrender. As the number of wounded increased, hospitals asked for blood donors. Two fires raged in the city.

Unofficial reports said government forces suffered some casualties. President Lorenzo Guerrero was reported in Leon, a city 62 miles from Managua. A Wire phot 01 What Is Going On In China? I TEN CENTS 400-Year Old Ghost Haunts Mao Tse-Tung EDITOR'S NOTR-- a i EDITOR'S NOTE--What is co- 01 C1 llna alll 's file outlook? Willian, a all VP specialist on Communist affairs, seeks 10 answer these ami oilier nut-sunns in a series of aniclrs lliis week, of which this is tin By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Special Correspondent The 400-year-old ghost of Hal Jui returned to haunt Mao Tse- lung and frightened him into launching the gigantic struggle that grips Communist China today. The confusing and dangerous upheaval is traced by Chinese in the West to June 1959, and the publication of an essay called "Hai Jui's Scolding of the Emperor," made into a play two years later with the title of "Hai Jui's Dismissal." When the essay and plav appeared, says Dr.

C.Y. Cheng, head of the University of Michigan Department of Chinese Studies, every Chinese intellectual and many nonintellectuais immediately recognized the symbolism. Hai Jui, in the Chinese Mind, stands for righteousness and justice. In this case, he stood for Peng Teh-huai, whom Mao dismissed as defense minister because Peng opposed the "great leap forward" launched in March 1958. The "leap" was supposed to transform China within three years into a mighty economic power by regimenting Ihe half-billion peasants in "people's communes" and by pulling urban workers into millions of The "leap" was headed for debacle even in its early stages.

The author of the essay and play was Wu Han, deputy mayor of Peking and righl-haiid man to the powerful mayor and Politburo member, Peng Chen, who was considered then an outstanding contender for Mao's mantle. The work was a protest against Mao. Even as far back as 1958, the big struggle had begun. Mao's position had been considerably weakened late that year by opposition to his policies. His opponents included his old comrade-in-arms, long an heir apparent, Liu Shao-chi.

It now develops, from what is being disclosed in the internal propaganda war in Peking, that Mao was shoved aside as chairman of government, the equivalent of president, and retained only his party chairmanship. Liu took the presidency. To- day's Red Guards wall newspapers claim Mao left job against his will. Dr. Cheng says lhal probably is correct.

This is not the first power struggle in China, nor by any means the first big purge. There have been purges every few years. The first important convulsion came in 1054: the Kao-Jao purge. Kao Kang was a powerful man. a secretary and boss of industrial Manchuria, he had vaulting ambitions.

With his ally, Jao Shu-shih, he built a political machine and began to make demands. He had his eye on nothing less lhan party secretary-general or else Chou Kn- lai's premiership. Chou, Liu and General Secretary Tcng Hsiao-ping ganged up on Kao. They had him named chairman of a state planning commission and his ally, Jao, a functionary in the Central Committee. This separated the two and broke up the combine.

Mao as he would several limes in deep crisis later on -disappeared from view in Peking and there was speculation abroad dial he was ill. KB wasn't. He was hiding out in Shanghai, waiting for the dust 1219 Of Enemy Killed, Taken In Allied Push SAIGON, South Vietnam (AP) Operation Cedar Falls, the big allied push through the "iron triangle," entered its third week today and Americar forces reported 1,219 of the one my killed, captured or surren dered. The massive drive througl jungle and scrub territory 20 to 30 miles north of Saigon also has yielded a record haul of 3, 560 tons of Viet Cong rice. U.

S. jet bombers kept up their pounding of North Vietnam's Red River Delta and again tangled with Communist MIGs northwest of Hanoi in "MIG Valley." Four U. S. Air Force F105 Thunderchiefs engaged an equal number of MIGlTs Sunday and fired at least one air-to-air missile against the swept-wing Communist jets, the spokesman said. But the brief engagement ended with no damage to either side, he said.

Four American planes were shot down Saturday three in Morth Vietnam and one in South Vietnam and seven airmen were reported lost in the North and the South. Two Army helicopters also were shot down near Saigon Saturday, but damage to one was minor and only two crew members were on the other. The total number of planes reported lost in the air war against North Vietnam rose to Ground fighting in South Vietnam continued on a relatively small scale, with U. S. military headquarters reporting 98 Com- rrunist 'soldiers killed Sunday in scattered skirmishes in three sectors.

The South Vietnamese (Continued On Page 2) Armor Study Is Under Way SAIGON. South Vietnam (AP) --A team of Army experts from the United States is fanning out across Vietnam for a field study hat may bring revolutionary hanges in doctrine for use of armor in Vietnam-type wars. About 75 officers are observ- ng the employment of armored lersonnel carriers and tanks in that many U.S. military men at one time considered un- tiiled for armor. Innovations ried out by American field Commanders over lhe past year iave been so successful that hings has begun to change.

The experts will spend until Vlarch observing armor in ac- ion. Then they will report their indings to the Army's Combat Developments Command' at Fort Belvoir, Va. This could result in changes, ncluding an increase in the lumber of armored personnel carriers and tanks for units tail- ired for operations in rugged, road-short terrain like that of loutheast Asia and other underdeveloped regions. Certain U.S. Army division commanders in Vietnam have asked for more tanks, which the armor specialists said had proved effective not only in cleared areas but off the roads as well.

Armor officers said tanks lave scored well against scat- ered Communist troops with a 90mm canister, a kind of grape ttfficers claim that as much as ofifcers claim that as much as 75 per cent of Vietnam's terrain suitable for either armored personnel carriers or tanks. to clear in Peking. Meanwhile, his supporters in the Central Committee accused Kao and Jan of activities against the Communist party, and expelled them. Kao committed suicide. Jao went to prison.

Yet another ghosl soon would a Mao. In February 195ii, i i a S. Khrushchev, in a secret speech to the Soviet Communist party's 20th congress, destroyed the legend of a Slalin three years dead, portrayed him as a bloodthirsty monster and blunderer. Mao bad no a i a love for Slalin. He had clashed with Ihe Soviet dictator several times.

a i I ried to impede and slow down Mao's revolution bring it under Soviet control, and Mao, in purged and tossed out pro-Stalin elements. But all the evidence suggests Mao did not like Ihe precedent, being set in Moscow. It some day apply to Mao in the same way. Dictators have a tendency in their waning years to want to make gods of ihvm- sclves. Mao's worries about his leadership led him in 1057 lo the "hundred flowers" experiment.

"Let a hundred flowers blonm, lei a thousand schools of thought contend," he proclaimed, suggesting that crili- cism was welcome. The criticism came, io a flood, from intellectuals who spoke up against Mao's policies. The flowers didn't bloom for long. The opposition had Ihrnst out its neck. Mao suddenly announced a new "rectification" a a i The alleged "rightists" who had been discontent found themselves pursed and out of jobs, i a now was i a a cri- i a period in its relations i Ihe Soviet Union.

Khrushchev, in October 1057, had promised Mao a prototype sample of (ho atom bomb and data on how lo a a i Hut he dranaed his fed. In November and Marshal Peng, his defence: minister, traveled lo Moscow It) prod Khrushchev. It became clear Ihe Soviet chief had changed his mind. Mao was furious. Defense Minister Peng, who had loyally supported Mao at crilical moments, evidently opposed Ihe idea of selling into a verbal Oomiybrook with the Russians.

As a professional soldier, he saw the U.S.S.R. as the only source of wherewithal for (Continued On Page 2) 'Major Step Toward Goal' Congress Gets SS Danger In Consulate Said Small WASHINGTON (AP) Sec retary of State Dean Rusk testi fied today that allowing a Sovie consulate in the United States would involve little danger greater Communist spying in this country. Opening before Sen. Fulbright's, Senate For eign Relations Committee, an administrative drive for Senate approval of the long-pigeonholed Soviet consular convention Rusk quickly tackled a centra objection posed by some Senate opponents of the proposed pact "I do not see how this consu lar convention can add signifi cantly to the risk of Rusk said in his prepared testi mony. "In practice, the possible risks of espionage and of en larged- criminal immunity are both small and controllable." In another hearing at the Cap ilol, Secretary of Defense Rob ert S.

McNamara and Gen Earle G. Wheeler, chairman ol the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were called to a closed 1 meeting of the Senate Armed Services Com mittee and the Defense Appropriations subcommittee. The job of McNamara and was to explain why $.9.4 )illion more is needed for the i'ietnam war this fiscal year They were also called upon to explain the Defense Department's S73-billion request for he fiscal year beginning next uly 1. Rusk, in his appearance be- ore the Foreign Relations-Committee, said that President Tohnson has constitutional au- hority lo allow foreign consu- ates in the United States any- vay, with or without the U.S.- Soyiet consular treaty. But he aid the treaty, known as a conation, should be ratified by he Senate as in the best inler- sls of the United States for oth- reasons.

In particular, he said, the act would increase protection or some 18,000 Americans now "isiting the Soviet Union an- ually as compared with Ihe MO Russians who come to America ach year. Under the proposed re-esiab- ishment of reciprocal consu- ates in Russia and the United tales, the plan is to set up an American consulate of some 105 employes in Leningrad and How a Sovjet consulate of size in a U.S. city like Chicago or San Francisco. The two countries previously ad consulates in each others' erritory until the cold war ended that arrangement in 1948. In advance of the Foreign Re- ations Committee session, Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said he hopes the -ommdttee act "on the merits of the convention" and lot be swayed by a mail cam- aign mounted by conservative roups opposing the agreements.

The committee approved the convention regulating U.S.-So- consular affairs in 1063. But Vlansfield said in an interview that he held up Senate action (Continued On Page 2) CAPTURED RED FLAG DISPLAYED-Caplain Rudolf Heinrich Egersdorfer, left, of Berlin, Germany, but now a naturalized American, and 1st Lt. Arthur J. Parr of Woodbridge, hold up a large Communist flag which Iheir unit found during a search of Viet Cong base camps northeast of the Iron Triangle in Vietnam. They are members of A Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry of the 1st Infantry Division, one of 25 battalions in operation Cedar Falls in and around the Triangle.

(AP Wire- photo). Chi Ar fnese Army Is Reported Committed To Defend Mao By JOHN RODERICK TOKYO A Premier Dhou En-lai reportedly committed Red China's 2.5-million-man army to crush Mao Tse-tung's opponents as news of revolt and resistance crackled out of the embattled mainland today from "rozen Manchuria to Kwangtung in the south. Japanese newsmen, quoting Peking wall posters, said Chou's announcement at a rally in Peking Sunday was the first statement by a top government official that troops would be used against Mao's foes. The posters said Chou declared: "The People's Libera- Baker Resumes His Testimony At Trial Today WASHINGTON (AP) Bobby Baker resumes his witness chair defense today against charges of tax evasion and lar- eny of $80,000 in campaign con- ributions. His chief lawyer, Edward Jennett Williams, is expected to vind up quickly his questioning U.S.

District Court of the ormer secretary to Senate Democrats. Then it's up to Justice Department prosecutor William 0. Bittman to try in cross-examination to shake Baker's story hat he collected nearly $100,000 campaign contributions from California savings and loan executives in late 1062 but lurned he money over, as he was sup- )osed to do, to the late Sen. Robert S. Kerr.

tion Army Is the most important tool of the dictatorship of the proletariat. It resolutely suppress the handful of counterrevolutionary elements who are trying to destroy the proletarian great cultural revolution." Japanese Gorrespondtents In Peking also reported purge chairman Chen Po-ta and Mao's wife, Chiang Ching, had ordered the people of the capital to establish a revolutionary city government composed of workers, peasants, soldiers, revolutionary students and teachers. Quoting wall posters, the correspondents said 40 Maoisls were injured, 10 captured and many were missing after a clash with students and workers supporting President Liu Shaochi in the Manchurian industrial cily aof Chang Chun Jan. 21. The posters said the "reactionaries" were assembling a force of 60,000 persons from the Manchurian provinces of Kirin, Liaoning, and Hedlunkiang to give battle lo "revolutionary rebels" converging on Chang Chun.

Chinese arriving in Hong Kong from Kwangtung said Mao's opponents there had been encouraged by reports that an anti-Mao army of peasants, workers and former soldiers had seized control of much of neighboring Kiangsi Province. Western sources in Hong Kong said there were strong indications of sharply increased opposition to Mao in some areas of Kwangtung but cautioned that the reported "army" probably was no more than a group of Mao's opponents armed with clubs and hand weapons fashioned from farm and factory tools. The arrivals from Canton also reported continued i i between anti-Mao and pro-Mao forces in Kiangsi Province and the arrest or capture of some anti-Mao leaders in Nanchang, provincial capilol of Kiangsi. They said the Kiangsi news had been received in Canton via radio broadcasts from Nan- chang Sunday night. 15 Per Cenf Increase Is Sought WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson asked Congress today to rai.se Social Security benefits by 15 per cent and 59 per cent in the lowest bracket and said such an increase will be "a major toward our goal that every elderly citizen has an adequate income and a meaningful retirement." Johnson's proposal, which he said would guarantee minimum benefits of $70 a month for individuals and $105 a month for married couples, also includes recommendation for increas: Social Security taxes, both by raising the taxable base and by increasing rales.

The President asked Congress to increase the amount of annual income on which taxes are collected to $7,800 next year, $9,000 in 1971, and $10,800 in 1974. He also asked Congress to revise rate increased already scheduled, going from 4:4 to 4.5 per cent in 1969 and' from 4.85 per cent in 1973 to 5 per cent. TA7S insert after 4th graf: cent. The same increases would apply to the levy on employers, who match what employes put in. The biggest increase in benefits 59 per cent would apply only in the lowest bracket to raise the individual minimum from (o S70.

From thai rise would graduate downward to at least 15 per cent for those eligible for maximum benefits. Johnson said, "Social Security benefits today are grossly inadequate," and added "aHhoiigh Social Security benefits keep ive and one-half million aged persons above the poverty line, more than five million still live in poverty." Johnson recommended that he amount Social Security recipients can earn without losing benefits be increased to $1.680 a year and a i the amount above that for i a beneiici- The government radio in rv can retain SI in payments Kiangsi, where Mao organized some of China's earliest Communist uprisings 40 years ago, said Sunday that Mao's enemies have won control over much of the province after violent clashes in which a number of persons for each $2 in earnings "be increased to $2.830, The increased i bad been sketched in broad i in Johnson's State of the Union He called in I lie earlier com- were hurt. The broadcast dc- for lh rise from manded the "instant arrest" of what it called an army of anti- Maoists but admitted that police and regular army units were not obeying the order. Peking's official New China News Agency, quoting the Communist party newspaper Peking People's chairman Daily, Mao's said party five-month-old purge of his foes was meeting "strong, unprecedented resistance." 37 Rebels Die In Guinea Fight LISBON, Thirty-seven Portugal nationalist (AP)-rebels were killed in Portuguese Guinea during the week of a 1117, according to a Portuguese military communique. Three Portuguese soldiers and three civilians also were reported killed.

munication for the rise from $44 a guarantee- of $100 a month for persons i 25 years or move of coverage. The State of the Union message did not go into the tax increase to pay for the increased benefits. The proposed increase in Social Security taxes would increase the a i amount. paid by an i i i a lo SiUTiio in iflfifl and lo $351.00 in 19ft). Johnson had' announced earlier that his proposals cost $4.1 billion during the i year.

The lax rise is expected to come under fire in Congress, especially from Republicans who have urged an per cent increase plus a cost-of-Iivin? escalator clau.se i rai.sint,' taxes. The a i ino'eases under the proposals would of! lo 2.5 million persons now receiving i i IX'MP- fits of $44 a month for an indl- IContinued Oa B).