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Rc ffl stc Jan. 2. 10C7 Hanoi Ignores Syrians Attack Bordei Britain's Bid -LONDON (UPI) -Prime Minister Harold Wilson returned hurriedly from vacation today for conferences on Britain's Vietnam cease-fire proposal only to find it was a dead issue. United States and South Vietnam accepted it, but after a delay, North Vietnam silence to reject it as iplot to ''deceive we rid opinion." toda and two loud explosions ing out sabotage in its efforts to Most British commentators ecc oed in Jordan's half of unseat pro-Western King Hus- 'had written the proposal off to heighten tensions sein. even before Radio Hanoi 6 Middle East.

Israeli military officials Tension Grows In Middle Easf JERUSALEM. Israel (UPI) (through much of the city. Israel charged that Syrian First guess by Israelis was for ces attacked Israeli borderjthat the Palestine Liberation nts rifle and mortar fire! Organisation (PLO) was carry- around to attacking it. in messages to the United States, North and South Viet- late Friday, Foreign George Brown called all three "in the name of humanity" to open cease-fire talks. Brown suggested they be held in Kong or any other -suitable British territory.

Brown backed up his proposal separate messages to Gen-i "i the seclor Ported Syrian troops crossed the rd I i Demilitarized Zone near Kora- a a and opened fire in a small- on the blasts, which were! sled for several minutes. powerful enough to reverberate 1 The ficials said fire with mortars in! another attack near Khirbet-! jDica, about two miles north of Almagor. The mortar attack Quotes lasted two hours. I One Israeli soldier was By United Press International reported wounded in the bar- AUSTIN, Texas President rage. Johnson saying that the fiscal! Israel said it was filing an! co-chairman of the'1954 68 budget I 16 wil1 su bmit to (immediate complaint with the I Geneva peace conference Congress this month would i United Nations Truce Supervise-i Wilson broke a short year-! en $14 Or anizatioc vacation and returned to I Israel also protested border ahead of schedule mus -J incidents Sunday.

He consulted for 45 -minutes with Brown, who spent of the New Year weekend at his Foreign Office desk, for some hopeful sign' 00 uieir we must, I continue to what Officials said a Syrian ma- from the 'came. Communists. None 1 A I Rusk (Continued From Page 1) be a matter of consulta- Ition among all of the governments that have troops in South particularly with the 'South Vietnamese govern- Iment. The secretary- said, however, during the Christmas and ew Year's truces the Comrcu- undertook "substantial" need of Galilee opened fire on three Israeli tractors in a field. said the fire was returned of in (he New Years Day fi refight, OPERATION THAILAND Disclosure fat U.S.

fofkopttrs have aided Thai troops battling Communist guerrillas confirms reports U.S. militory presence in Thailand is aiding ttw Thais in Htetr own struaale against Red infiltration as well as supporting operations in Vietnam. Newsmop locates major American bases and site of recent operations. News-Graphic compares U.S. military strength in Thailand and Vietnam.

THAI LAND 35,000 U.S. helicopters Uised ct have aided Thai forces in several battles near the Sakon Nakhon, one of several areas in the northeast provinces of increasing Communist 9uerrilla activity during the post year. 1966 325,000 190,000 125,000 35,000 1964 1965 1966 oral Thant's plea for suspension of U.S. bombing of North Vietnam and an extension of the new year's truce in the South: "We are prepared to take the The announced figure for American forces in Thailand is 25,000 men but unofficial csti. Fff 5lM about tro Stren 9 th HI Vietnam in 1964, before the rapid build-up to 190,000 at the start of this year and 325,000 by the end first step to go more than operations.

Use Truce Strategically (attack: "We know that in certain! "I believe halfway, but we are entitled to know what would happen if we did." WASHINGTON-Dr. Ralph E. Lapp, one of nation's leading physicists, on the question of a new antimissile system to defend the nation from nuclear Unhappy Over Plans To Remarry Boy Murders Father, Two Of hers After They Affempf To Interfere that for every ORANGE, Tex. (UPI) -Ronnie Lee Ozio was unhappy because his father planned to remarry. So unhappy, pob'ce said, that he drove an arrow into his i i i A a a ilitu lllj they have you introduce into father's stomach stabbed him their forces like Olympic defense, there are 10 more with a 10-inch knife and shot men at the starting eatcjwrmkles that can be 20 times with a rifle take off just as soon as the'into the power of the When his grandmother' and is over.

his father 6fjancee tried to These are serious matters, SAIGON-South Vietnamese interfere, he stabbed and shot them to death also, authorities reported, then turned on the son of his step-mother-to-be, stabbing him critically. "I thought it was a joke at first," said Debbie Mayberry, 15, daughter of one of the victims, "but then I knew they were really dying." Called Sheriff we cannot approach them 'in terms of vagueness or or just hopes," 'Husk said. Foreign Minister Tran Van Do replying to Britain's proposal for three-nation peace talks on the Vietnam war: Ronnie did young girl. not He harm the telephoned Rusk's reference to a cessa-j "Our policy has always been of bombing was consid-jthe same-never to refuse a response to a letter rn Thant to U.S. Ambassador discussions in order to put an J.

Goldberg. The secre- general urged the United, to suspend the bombings 1 extend the New Year's: in the hope "some; 'favorable developments may Ifollow." end to the war." Johnson (Continued From Page l) run head-on into a mood of Foresee Big Year For Ion LONDON (UPI) -The Sunday Express consulted Britain's professional astrologers and seers to compile their predictions for 1967. Unanimously they predicted a brilliant year for Rhodesian Premier Ian But they A ALlk Ui and reappraisal ex- agreed on little else -other -pressed by Senate Democratic Xeader Mike Mansfield and top lawmakers. A key element in Johnson's question of than continued war in Vietnam. Among their predictions: --Mrs.

John F. Kennedy "may become engaged to a non- politician." --Cuban Premier Fidel Castro Vhether to seek higher taxes to a war iQ vietnam and! the economy in line-also) Loren will have Ransom Demands Investigated British to Use Scientists To Help In Art Theft Case LONDON (UP!) -Police in- 1 isolate minute mineral deposits, vestigated demands for ransom ipossiblv too small for micro 1 ry SOn Craig and Scotland Yard called in i scopes detect according to author- nuclear scientists today in the I The gallery's' alarm lties 6416 stabbing the aiarm sheriff C.A. Holts and surrendered. Ronnie is 14 years old. He lived with his mother in Port Neches, Tex.

Police said Ronnie had come to spend the holidays with his father, John Ozio, 39, who had divorced the youth's mother several months ago. At the gathering in Ozio's apartment were his fiancee, Mrs. Bobby Mayberry, 34, of Arkinda, and Ronnie's paternal grandmother Mrs. Victoria Ozio, 77. Police said within minutes of an argument they were dead, their bodies brutally slashed and hacked and bleeding from numerous bullet wounds.

Ronnie chased Mrs. Mayber- from the Debbie Mayberry told police she witnessed the mass sfaying and feared Ronnie would turn on her next. She was unharmed. Thomas Wiegand, Ronnie's principal at Carr Junior High School, said the youth was a bright, above-average student. He told police Ronnie had been depressed since his father and mother were divorced.

And Lax ton of West Palm Beach, ree stepdaughters Mrs Funeral services for Mrs. Ad- Dunbar and Mrs. Betty Jo eline Bragg, 68, of Shady Spring, will be held at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday in the Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlor at Hinton with the Rev.

Napoleon Gill in charge. system to in the the A A a man and a i a not connected bearded beatnik suspected side door eight masterpieces fortress-like building through K- hlstory the thieves drilled a one- Digest art theft. Iby-lwo-foot hole to enter and A ransom note demanding a i three Rembrandts undisclosed sum for return ofi three Rubens, one Adam the paintings including and onu Gerard Dou brandts and Rubens, were uninsured reported to have arrived a Limited Market The Dulwich thieves could Dulwich College. Officials refused comment but said a handed the masterpieces at will, spotted market. in any be among matters to be resolved after his return to the House.

son, but he will not be born in Italy." Johnson is in for a difficult time." --Indian Premier Mrs. Indira Gandhi "may well have a personal romance." --Britain will enter the Common Market "following the death or decline" of French --A truck overturned as President HP i ft it. 11 T-. rl caJUtm. lea Uc left the Dallas-Fort Worth i Sombs Spilled On No Blast A similar demand for money, was made Saturday night by a anonymous telephone caller.

21 Scotland Yard detec- Police were inclined to consider tives assigned to the case the call a hoax. their search for a The daring heist under cover!" tnin man," nimble and artisti- of darkness ranked as callv knowledgeable enough to second largest robbery aole to squeeze through the youth in the back. Craig was taken to a local hospital in critical condition. Holiday (Continued From Page 1) over. Vietnam "I tried to stop him, I tried to stop him," Craig said over ext XT ovnr- Illinois and North Carolina recording 15 each.

Alaska, Delaware, Nevada, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming reported no traffic deaths during the period. The Texas toll jumped late Sunday when five persons were killed when an auto swerved off Interstate 35 near Hillsboro and burst into flames. Five Three Rivers, teen-agers died Saturday when their car was struck by two trains at a north world has known. It was laced i tinv door hole and skim the intrigue, including specula- cream from the 600 stored used tion a "screwy millionaire" i works the museum's 340- artillery-air barrages of the war (Continued From Page 1) deadly air defenses in the world. Military officials disclosed the B52s, each capable of carry 30 tons of high explosive bombs, hit bivouac areas and base camps in the southern half of the DMZ this morning and returned for another raid in the afternoon.

The raids were about 20 miles Marines heaviest Ronnie was charged with Burial will follow in ree counts of murder as a cemetery juvenile and was being held today at the Orange County jail. Police said the youth could spend the next three years at the juvenile detention home until he becomes 17 years old. Then, under Texas law, he could be tried for murder as an adult. Mrs. Bragg died Saturday at 6 p.

m. at the home of D. C. Nunn. at Layland.

Born in Fayette Aug. 1 Bogus, both of Cleveland, Ohio, and Mrs. Penny Leona of Bridgeport 31 grandchildren, 13 stepgrandchildren and 1 great- grandchild. The body will remain at Tyree Funeral Home in Mount Hope where friends may call after 3 p.m. today.

(RNS) Robert 4. Votes 11, 1898, she is a daughter ofi Funeral services for Robert Sarah Berry Smith of Hinton, and the late Oliver Smith. She had lived all of her life in Fayette and' Raleigh counties. She was a member of the Crow Holiness Church. Survivors include three sons, Clarence of Shady Spring, A.

Yates of 2614 Durham St. Northwest, Roanoke, formerly of Sophia will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Calvary rosholz the Sa- bart of Beckley and Bernard of Jumping Branch; five daughters, Mrs. Florence Richmond of Baltimore, Mrs. Leola Meadows and Mrs.

Fern Richmond, both of Hinton, Pluto Route, Mrs. June Boiling of Hinton, and Mrs. Annie Moten of Newberry, Ohio; a. sister, Mrs. Delphia Plumley, Hinton; 30 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Her husband, Grayson Bragg, lied in March 1961. -Yates died Saturday at 11:30 a.m. in a doctor's office hi Roanoke. He was a self-employed carpenter. He is survived by his wife Mrs.

Stella Blackwell Yates of Roanoke; one son, Walden E. of Monroe, two daughters, Mrs. Dewey Mann Jr. of Elyra, Ohio and Mrs. Robert Johnson of Canton, Ohio; four brothers, Leonard T.

and Abner crossing near Kalamazoo. TnHK i. Yate both of Roanoke, Pallbearers will be Basil Rich- mond, Roy Meadows, Otis and Reo Plumley, David McLaugh- of where U.S. one of the with a secret collection may i year old collection. to thwart a surprise attack by a have financed it and that only.

They also sought a beatnik! fo rce of about i- 000 North 1.000 pound jasoline) bombs. The bombs, which had no did not explode and Bemolition experts from Car- Air Force Base. ulie chrta 0 a Sharif will be Academy Award Hinners two fences--in Tangier type with or bushy of the who was seen loitering Examine Evidence around the museum about 3 Oliff Bailey perished in traffic crashes. The council estimated before the Vietnamese even before of the holiday that from truce ended. ja.m.

Saturday by a musician! a Nav destroyer escort report- Population In U. S. 3Vorth. and firemen on rc 1 Oft Mtllinn 4hem on the truck. ,116015 170 Jill I UGH Mishap Kills Four Soldiers in Viet Jed destroying two steel-hulled Communist trawlers running I guns to guerrillas late Sunday i I in other action before the end of i the truce this morning.

1 A two-inch tip of a broken returning home. idrill bit was one of several clues found after the "very professional, very clean and very tidy" robbe at the 'centuries-old suburban Dulwich I The truck was hauling the! WASHINGTON (UPI) Gallery-protected by an SAIGON mpn from Gallup. N.M.,!United States began 1967 with a alarm system but no night weapons carrier We wed i officials Ordnance plant to Orlando. Fla. Population estimated at just off a and crashed in! mor a a is used extensively under 198 million, according to! Detectives also found the foot an iP rovoked "incidents" in the 48- viet Cong positions prints and a today, tilling four truce that ended at 6 p.m., A National Safety Counciljiin, Mefviu Rich- spokesman said the toll wasjmond, and D.

C. Nunn. running about even with the 1964-65 New Year's weekend, during which 474 persons Funeral services for Oliff Bailey, 66, of Clear be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Workman's Creek Methodist Church with the Rev. Roy Ty ree in charge.

Burial will be in the Toney's Fork Cemetery. He died in a Beckley hospital at 3:50 p.m. Saturday of a Cerebral hemorrhage. Survivors include his wife, :460 to 540 persons would be A Coast Guard swiftboat and killed in traffic accidents during the period. ACAPULCO (UPI) --Lynda i Bird Johnson rang in the Newj Minn if of Robinson; four broth- Census Bureau, statisticians.

U.S. report, estimated the in crowbar-like i embankment today, killing four 'American soldiers. Report "incidents" American and a ss or ac Saigon reported! George Hamilton, at a lavish 150 Communist- party Sunday. Lynda and George frugged EST Sunday. Informed sources! the ni ht awa at the artv The first day leat in the House Henry- Speaker.

Police sources said Scotland Officials said the tank-like' said at least 36 Allied troops given by Mexican construction Among the other suests at the decennial census was taken. FAMA'S CLEARANCE SALE WOMEN'S and BIG GIRLS' LOAFERS Regular To $7.99 SALE PRICE PAIR SIZES To 10 AAA To Children's Loafers SIZES 10 To 3 VALUES TO $699 $2.00 SIZES ARE MOKEN SO FAMA'S 327 ST. THE SHOE PEOPLE BECKLEY, W. VA. energy authority research sta- east of" Saigon hoped-for tion at Aldermaston.

A spokesman said he did not? ease fire extension of by spurning orjoceanside Mendez Villa were They said scientists there iknow the cause of the accident ignoring multi-sided peace over-imovie star John Wayne, fashion they can break down the' Names of the victims were designer Oleg Cassini, the idnlrs makeup by a proc ess i withheld pending notification of The Viet Con S' however, Henry Fords, Mexican actress known a nmnncori nmT- tnA nt-nn i nm-- rpi "Rm anH -intm- intoi- jknown as neutron analysis and 'kin PARKAS COATS SNOWSU1TS WE STILL HAVE A GOOD SELECTION .9 ROCK BOTTOM PRICES proposed a new and even longer; Dolores Del Rio and actor Peter truce--this one to last a week! Lawford. iduring Tet, the lunar new beginning Feb. 8. South had suggested a 96-hour lull. Communist attacks and ter-i irorism in the just-completed By VERNON ers, Dewey of Clear Creek, Arthur of Cirtsville, Earl of Piney View and Dormie of Kincaid; two sisters, Mrs.

Ollie Mayaor of Clear Creek and Mrs. Margie Maynor of Harper Road; five sons, Andrew of Richwood, Vernon of Robinson, Leonard of Page, Eugene of Craigsville and Gregory of Robinson; a stepson, Charles Gladwell of Cleveland, Ohio; six daughters, Mrs. Cora Graley of Gear Creek, Mrs. Evelyn Robinson of Detroit, Mrs. Ethel Taylor of Medina, Ohio, Mrs.

Edith Taylor of Page, Mrs. Linda Tonev of William H. of Check, Va. and Clinton of Spokane, and three sisters, J. C.

Agee of Wolfe, Mrs. Ovella Young and Mrs. Ethel Young, both of Radford, Va. Norman H. Byrd Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m.

Wednesday in the Melton Mortuary Chapel for Norman H. Byrd, 59, of Harper, who died at 11:50 p.m. Friday in a local hospital after a long illness. The body will be taken from the Melton Mortuary to the residence at 2 p.m. Tuesday and will be returned to the mortuary at 11 a.m.

Wednesday. Burial will be in the Harper Cemetery at Harper. Hollywood creep in but you try to be alert National Obituaries BEAUMONT, Tex. (UPI) Funeral services were scheduled today for Aubrey Wilson (Moon) Mulligan, a former Country and Western music entertainer with the "Grand Ole Opry." Mulligan, 57, died of a heart attack Sunday. Mulligan a native of Polk County, was widely known Crestline, Ohio, and Mrs.

Betty among Country and Western music fans as "Moon Mulligan" and had been a recording and nightclub circuit entertainer 30 years. Perhaps his best known song was "Sweeter Than the Flow, i i AU vuil tU diCX I uu w-ix A. TT truce, however, appeared to, UPI Hollywood Correspoudeit i to them and be original. It's not! er which he wrote in the cloud chances for a new cease-; HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -The I always possible. fire.

South Vietnamese Studio has opened Nguyen Cao Ky warned hr Hollywood branch, but advance of the New a "In movies you work up an of progression which you truce he might reconsider proposed Tet cease-fire if Communist ''incidents" were as a won't find George C. Scott near! try to hold for the run of "the iaer thc t. icture. Yo Scott, acclaimed by many one of the country's finest 'the I picture. You set up a character lull.

which also evolves during film and hope that rh" 'actors, is an independent man something fresh and surprising toe 48-hour Christmas wlin MtM is a come up along way." who SEATTLE, Wash. (UPI) -Oliver David Fisher, Seattle financier and industrialist who began by working in his father's bank at age 10, died here Sunday. He was 91. Born Nov. 29, 1875 In DiHcfmac it A i er sonal.

independent enterprise Scott is able to subdue his Orleans, Fishers name is rftmmnnict that is not necessarily learned 'own personality while that ofi hn Wlth banking, flour Communist incidents -offi-: in dassroom character takes over. 1 ml in and lumbering firms in to term; th George has played truce that ended today totaled ran in characters in career. "That is American spokesmen nffiriaiiv; Scott Scott for his work as an edgeSi havc careers agricultural economist and col- listed 110 -incidents and thc Broken-nosed but somehow simpl Professor in agriculture TM Sunday night at his home Woodlea farm here. He was 80 App taught at the far as I know I've never iTM a State University. New 120 MAIN STREET BECILEY Vietnamese some 50 others.

sensitive and gentle beneath his over and ove During the truce. U.S. fighting rough exterior, Scott relaxed in: pays to see strength soared to a record his trailer dressing room at 20thin ut arp thpv artm 383.000 men when the first of Century-Fox studios between! about 6.800 9th Infantry Division scenes of "The troops south three Ca I i wuuiern con man television series. 'E a I me sea hat.iie marked the "I never took an acting lesson Westside i fisrt time the Navy had caught in my he iaid, grinning, i "I might not even know what; two Communist gun runners in -There might have been a a George C. Scott is.

I think all i mnrmvnMT a single engagement. time when lessons would havelreal actors are 0 1 TM 4 ED gl and One was heavily damaged and been useful to me, but Fd been jwhen they play a part too close ITO-M A J5u ervisor sank. Its six-man crew was acting so long it would have'to themselves 1 outlawed cantured. The second boat nn been foolish. "I've played a couple of suchiSSrtw'f tasS COnduCtors on a sand bar and burned.

"The whole of acting is i roles and found them frustrat- know- wm" mo TNvo large secondary explosions to disassociate yourself from ing. But acting is all I choose to a snS indicated it was chrracter you're It is work, a pleasure and Th Your a mannerisms I encompassts many emotions." i effect is often most disturbing.

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