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The Daily Times News Weather Freeze Warniug Tunight, Warmer Friday. Houndup On Page 2 Times News Family Today's Circulation 22,113 Reaching More Than 20,750 Alamance County Homes With Readers VOL. 76 NO. ASSOCIATED PIESS UPI TfLSPKOTO SBRVICt NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN. NORTH AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ALLIANCE AP AND KING FEATURE SERVICE WORLD BOOK SCIENCE NEWS UP STOCK 5ERVICE ASSOCIATION AFTERNOON DAILIES BURLINGTON, N.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1966 PRICE FIVE CENTS President Appeals For Unity In Viet Nam War 36 PACES 4 SECTIONS son should announce a new strategy designed to shorten the war. "If we are in war in Asia five years from now," Nixon said, See PRESIDENT on Page 7 A Shelby, said there can be no American withdrawal from! slock and barrel," Mansfieldi said. "Militarily, we cannot and! will not be defeated." There was campaign criticism, too, from former Vice: President Richard M. Nixon, in Charleston, W.Va. He said John I Viet Nam until there are peace talks.

"Once an honorable peace is achieved, then we will be' prepared to withdraw, lock; Tornado Damage At Garner over on houses and paused extensive damage. The storm was the result of unsettled weather which brought the first real taste of winter to the state. UPI Telephotol A tornado smashed info a trailer park at Garner yesterday afternoon injuring several people and demolishing trailers with people still in them. High winds in the area caused walls to collapse, trees to blow Garner Hardest Hit Tornado Causes High By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS At seven persons were injured and considerable dam age was done by tornadoes and County and several other sections of Nurth Carolina Wednesday. Louisburg, Erwin, Hickory, Garner.

Raleigh and Warren County felt the brunt of the storm a3 a culd front moved eastward, dumping snow on some oi Hie rar neei mountains. The hardest hit area was Gar ner, a town just east of Raleigh, where six persons were injured when a tornado struck the Weston Trailer Park. Six mobile homes were ripped apan ami sirewtt over a wiue area. Two other mobile homes in the nark were overturned. The Forrest Hills Shopping Cen ter at darner also was dam aged.

The tornado sweat across the; eastern edge of Raleigh, dam aging tne Kaieign country uun and Wake Memorial Hospital. Trees were uprooted in some yards and shingles blown ott Snow Hits Tennessee places. There was four inches of snow as far soutli as Huntsville, and there even were unconfirmed reports of flurries in Florida. (UPI Tele Lovely Sandra Locke of Nashville, kicks up her heels as she plays in the new fallen snow there yesterday. The storm covered middle Tennessee with a hlanket of snow that reached as much as 10 inches in some Gemini Test Made By WALTER R.

MEARS WASHINGTON (AP) Presi dent Johnson, home from his historic mission to the Far East, has appealed for unity behind American policy in Viet Nam for "where there is a deep divi sion in a land, there is danger. "Where there is unity in the land, there is strength," John son said in a homecoming speech Wednesday night at rai ny Dulles international Airport. Johnson was at the White House today, but not for long. He is expected to open a fast paced, final round ot cam paigning Friday to tin's I he election of Democrats in next Tuesday's state and congressional balloting. Johnson said America's task in Viet Nam is far from done, but he said Asians the people closest to the arena of conflict know that Communist aggres sion ticre must be defeated.

"Thev know that it is their dutv to help the United States keen these fires from spread ing, ne said, ana mat enart will be increased. And he said: "Those of US' who met at Manila know the mart mav he lone and difficult. We know that each of us will make mistakes. But if our coun trvmpn will stand with US it we will try to travel this difficult: roaa togemer, i uhiik uiai we will come out well at the end as America always has. Senate Democratic Leader1 Mike Mansfield, campaigning in American Gets Nobel Prize STOCKHOLM.

Sweden (AP) The 1966 Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded today to Prof. Robert S. Mulliken of the University of Chicago. Mulliken. horn in Massachu setts in 1896, was awarded the prize for his fundamental worK nnneernine chemical bonds and the electronic structure of mol ecules bv the molecular orbital method," the Swedish Academy of Science said.

Mulliken received his Ph. D. lin physical chemistry at the University of Chicago in 1921. Afterward, he held at Harvard and New York Univer sity, until he rejoined the University of Chicago in 1928. Since 1931 he has been professor of physics there.

He organized there the laboratory of mulccular structure Ihe director. Mulliken. who leaches at Flor ida State University, Tallahassee, during the winter months, said: "Well, anybody would De plaaesd. And I wouldn't have given it to myselt necessarily. If somebody else thinks that I should have it I guess I wouldn't refuse it, I wouldn't have pro posed myself.

That's roughly how 1 teel about it. 1 don't think I'll refuse because other people think I should have it." Mulliken. 7(1. is distinguished professor of chemical physics in the Institute of Molecular Biophysics at Florida State, where he normally spends four to six months a year. An 18.

year old daughter, Valerie, is a freshman at the school. Earlier in the day, the Nobe! Physics Prize for 1966 was awarded to Prof. Alfred Kastler of Pans. The Roval Swedish Academy of Science said the $60,000 prize was given Kastler for "the dis covery and development of op i tical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms." The award to the 65 year old French physicist was the third Nobel Prize of the year. The award for medicine went jointly on Oct.

13 to Dr. Charles Huggins, 65, of the University of Chicago, and Dr, Peyton Rous. 85. of Rockefeller Univer sity in New York, and the liter ature prize was awarded to two Jewish writers on Oct. 20 Nelly Sachs, 75, who now lives in Sweden, and Samuel Joseph Agnon, 78, of Israel.

The Norwegian Nobel Corn Launch Successful Freeze Warning Mountains Get Snowfall a splashdown under its 63 foot parachute. Within minutes, three frogmen dropped from a helicopter and attached a flota tion collar to the bobbing vehi cle. A recovery ship, the LaSalle, steamed toward the scene. Tonight ed well into the state's Piedmont section. The weather pinch came from a storm that was located over Lake Erie early this morning.

Some moderation is expected from a high pressure No Hostilities Seen In Korea By JOIIN RODERICK Damage He added. "It'll take two oi three weeks to clean up tne The tornado was so strong it bent the large metal flag pole Irmi ii Ku on: pital. Louisburg. a tornado struck Gav Products caus ing damage estimated unofficially at $350,000. It tore away the front of the budding, part.

of the root and a side wall. At Erwin, a 2011 foot section of a 16 foot wall at MilJs See TORNADO On Page 7 A Dry Milk Is Pulled Off Market WASHINGTON (AP) Medi cal experts sav discover of sal monella bacteria in samples of Borden's "Stariac" dry milk is no cause tor alarm. The infection of the digestive tract caused by the organism is seldom serious, said Dr. Albert Martin, chief of the salmonella unit at the communicable dis i ise unit in Atlanta, Ga. Martin commented Wednes day night after the Food and Drug Administration announced ail stocks of the Borden Food Co.

nonfat dry milk product were being recalled from dis iriDutors ana stores across the nation. The company notified all dis tribution points to request re turn ot an stocks ot Stariac, officials said, and has arranged to imake reimbursements for packages returned lo stores by cus itomers. An FDA spokesman, asked toi jpinpoint where samples containing the organism had been Itouno, said persons anywhere in the nation who have Stariac in their homes "might well be ad vised to return it." The most common medical effect of salmonella is an infec tion which results in stomach pains, diarrhea, vomiting and often fever. Although the victim is quite uncomfortable for two or three days, the communicable disease expert said, the case usually is relatively mild ana is treatea at nome. Occasionally, Martin said, people very susceptible such as children and older adults it can become seri ous." Deaths have been caused by it, he added, but they are infrequent.

In New York, a Borden spokesman said, "We have no idea now many cases ot me product have gone out." He said Borden has marketed the product since 1939. The plant where it now is produced, in Dison, 111., has See DRY on Page 7 A houses. One man was renortedlv struek on the head by a falling cinder block at a store near ttarner. He was treated by a tnose treated at naieign Hos pitals included Mrs. Koger Anderson, her 15 month old son Sammv.

Charles n. Pearco. Jo seph Moody, Fannie Neal and Lois Williams. Jimmv Welch, assistant pro at Kateiglt country uun, said between 75 and Iffll trees on the golf course were either blown down or damaged. The "flying, circus" act was neatly executed by a huge Titan 3 rocket which burst away from Cape Kennedy at 3:51 a.m.

and performed a series of space acrobatics in senomg its mum See MULTIPLE on Page 7 A ami hnuth Korea. Oct. 21 by North Koren infiltrators wielding bayonets. Thel exact toll has not been dis closed. American sources said no spe cial precautions or alerts have been ordered along tne lai mue See NO on Page 7 A Space Unit May Help Hearts NEW DELHI.

India (API An electronic aid for astronauts is beginning to iieto answer a worrisome question for heart patients on earth when can; they safely return to what kind ot odsy One device developed for as tronauis sends their electrocar diograms ECG recordings of electrical activity of the heart, back lo earth. Now similar radio ECGs are helping measure the capability See SPACE on Page 7 A Snow, Cold Cover Eastern U.S. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wintry weather, with snow, eustv winds, and unseasonably SEOUL, South Korea (AP) Despite North Korean attacks in which 25 south Koreans and six Americans have been killed in the past two weeks, U. S. officers said today they do not think the Communists are building up to major liostililies along Multiple By HOWARD BENEDICT AP Aeorspace Writer CAPE KENNEDY, Fla.

(AP) The United States today fired the opening shot in its plan to develop a military man in space program by hurling an unmanned modified Gemini capsule over a scorching suborbital path. Then the same Air Force rocket orbited four satellites, one carrying a batch of satellite decoys. The launching of the Gemini. craft over a aj nunuie ubmimu: course was the first test of hardware to be used in the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program, which expects its tL.t flisbt in 1969. Goal of the program is to de termine wnac nniiuuy rrfnrm in snace.

ti Af IoeI was to see whether the Gemini, with a circular access hatcn cut in me shield, could survive blistering re entry tem peratures. The jVlUL. astronaut f.in in. rrawl throueh such a hatch tn enter the laboratory section. m.

rpnnr rd the Gemini survived the punishing trip and parachuted into the Atlantic about 5.000 miles soufhr east of Cape Kennedy, seven miles from the aiming pomt. Recovers planes and helicopters watched the Gemini drift to HOW 'BOUT THAT! More Work Than Fun JEFFERSONVILL1S, Ind. lift Halloween vandalism in this area just had to be more work than fun. Police reported pranksters who used chain saws to fell about 25 trees across county roads. area expected to move into the stale Friday.

The wintry weather followed 'closely on the heels of a storm ithat brought tornadoes, high 'See MOUNTAINS on Page 7 A early and unwelcome arrival of the nation. kinto Florida. Jackson, reported a frosty 21 degrees. Gale warnings were posted for most of the Great Lakes and See SNOW on Page 7 A 3n5ide Amusements 9A Ask Andy 6A Bridge 5A Classified 5 7D Comics 2D Counselor 6A Doctor 5A Editorials 4 A Investor's Guide 9A Obituaries 3D Sheilah Graham 6D Sports 2 5B Stocks 9A TV Radio 8 9A Weather 2A Women's News JC By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS lev temperatures, snow and heaw frost erinped North Caro lina early today in the wake oft a storm that brought tne lirst real taste of winter across the western mountains. Temperatures dropped to the low and mid 30s in most areas overnight and lour to five inches of snow closed sections of the Blue Ridge Tarkway in the Asheville area.

That route was closed be tween N.C. 191 near Asheville to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Black Mountain Gap near Mt. Mitchell and N.C. 694 northeast; at Asheville. In addition to the Parkway area, the ground was whitened by snow in many sections of western North Carolina, but there were no appreciable accumulations.

Hishwav officials reported isolated slick spots, but said all routes were open with the ex ception of the two stretches oi the Darkwav. In the Boone area, there was a light accumulation of snow and this, coupled Willi temperatures below the freezing level, made for hazardous walking and driving. It was 20 decrees at mid morning in Blowing Rock, with one halt to three quarters ot an inch of snow on the ground. However, streets were reported clear. There also was a trace of snow on the ground at Laurel Springs, with mid morning temperatures at a degrees, me area naa z.m mcnes oi snow sleet rain bv 5 p.m.

Wednesday. Snow flurries continued in the area this morning. More snow flurries were pre dicted in the mountains today followed by clearing tonight accompanied by a hard iLows ot si degrees were expect the armistice line between North Soutli Korean officials said thev believe the ambush ol an American patrol early Wednesday, hi which six American sol diers and a South Korean were killed and a seventh American was wounded, was timed to em barrass the Seoul government During jonnson visit. The South Koreans pointed out that the attack eight hours before the President left for home was only the second serious incident in the American sector of the Korean front since the 1953 armistice. A second North Korean altac in the closing hours of the Presi dent's visit, beiateiily disclosed today, occurred three hours aft er the ambush and 40 miles to, the east.

The South Korean army said infiltrators believed to he North Korean army regulars fired on a South Korean post. The South Koreans returned the fire, kill ing one of the infiltrators, and pursued the attackers. In the chase, a South Korean mine was exploded, killing two South Korean captains, and a South Ko rean sergeant was wounaea, The North Koreans escaped. At least six South Koreans! were billed In the same area' low temperatures, has marie an in wide areas in the eastern half An intense storm early todayj centered over Lake Erie, dump ing snow over a six state area from Tennessee to Michiaan. Heavy snow warnings contin ued, with from 3 to inches tn 1 dicated across the eastern and lower Great Lakes.

The early November storm left a blanket of snow up to 15 inches in central Kentucky and up to 1U inches covered sections in southeastern Tennessee, western Ohio and in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Smaller amounts were reported in other Midwest areas. The Deep South also reeled from the cold and snow and sleet storms, the earliest in many years in some Southern cities. Four inches of snow was reported at Huntsville, and Birmingham reported the first measuramo snow since vai. At least 12 storm related deaths were reported, most of in traffic accidents on snow covered highways.

Severe cold, wilh the mercury jedging to near zero in northern1 Minnesota, extended deep into thft southland win temper atures dipping near ireeangi See AMERICAN on Page 7 A.

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