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nn lie Forecast lU.i. WMtlw ItrMUl PITTSFIELD-Cloudy with some light snow tonight, low near 17. Tomorrow partial clearing, scattered very light snow flurries, high near 25. Other data, Page Section 28 Pages Seven Cents HOT AIR Johnson Oversells The Right To Vote, (Buckley) Page 16 Volume 73 266 Pittsf ield, Massachusetts, Monday, March 22, 1965 Bombs in Ala, 6 oiind. Disabling Gas Employed Against Viet Cong Forces WASHINGTON (AP) The artillery or aerial bombard-' miles inside Communist territo-Defense Department today con- ment, Vietnamese troops have ry.

A South Vietnamese commu-firmed reports that South Viet used a type of teai gas," the nique described it as a base for Nam is using a type of nonlethal Pentagon said. a battalion of regular North gas against Communist Viet Battalion Base Vietnamese troops, a temporary Cong forces to make "the ene base for guerrillas operating in my incapable of fighting." is a nonlethal type of gas the south and a supply and am? The Pentagon said the'gas Is which disables personnel tempo- munition depot for Red guerril-released from dispensers opera- rarily, making the enemy inca- las operating in Quang Tri ted by Vietnamese personnel in pable of fighting." Province, in South Viet Nam. March Begins Second Day on Road 3y ROSS HAGEN SELMA, Ala. (AP) About helicooters. and compared its tne statement saia tne same it was the eighth air strike 400 marchers led by Dr.

Martin use to disabling gases normally information was being released against Communist North Viet Luther King Jr. broke camp in Nam since a series of U.S. and lised in riot control. in Saigon. a frost-covered cow pasture to- day and started trudging along i the highway on the second leg of I I 1 South Vietnamese and Am Followed Reports erican war planes an.

Tha announcement followed other North Vietnamese mill' reports from Saigon that such tary base Sunday. The Vietnam- South Vietnamese raids began Feb. 7. North Viet Nam protested the Sunday attack to the Interna a 50-mile voter crusade to Ala- bama's capital BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI)- BoutweU, who was in office A sixth time bomb was found here 18 months ago when four in the heart of the Negro com-x Negro girls were Elled in a munity today.

Mayor Albert church bombing during a wave Boutwell vowed neither men of racial violence, pledged an nor money would be spared to. all-out effort 'to apprehend the find the persons who have ter- would-be bombers, rorized the area with the dead-. series of bombs is a ly explosives. particularly vicious and calcu- Ernest Poole, a mortician, lated crime against the whole found a bomb this morning be- community," Boutwell said. hind a panel truck parked in a "We shall not spare men or lot across the street from his money to find the responsible funeral home.

person or persons and prose- An Army demolition crew cute them to the utmost extent was rushed in to disarm the of the law." bomb. "Military men worked Negroes, gathered in angry feverishly Saturday and Sunday dusters on street corners late experiments are underway. ese planes dropped 52 tons ot tional Control Commission on "In tactical situations in bombs and rockets and the U.S. Indochina, calling it "a new which the Viet Cong intermingle planes hit antiaircraft installa- very serius war act of the with or take refuge among non- tions. United States and its agents combatants, rather than use The target was Vu Con, 15 against North Viet Nam." Ranger 9, on Perfect Course, Aims Toward Center of Moon night to disconnect five other aunaay nignt shortly after the bombs, including one that was time bomb, loaded with 45x It was clear and crisp under a bright blue sky when the marchers out of their sleeping bags and ate breakfast.

They were the remnants of thousands who started the trek Sunday from Selma. Then about 8 a.m. the' march resumed. King said they would walk 14 miles today twice the distance covered in the first day of the pilgrimage to Montgomery aimed at dramatizing his Negro voter drive. Freezing Weather The temperature fell to 31 degrees overnight, but after sunup the weather grew warmer.

National Guardsmen, federal 'iVV 1 I I '-it found near a Catholic church sticks of dynamite, was discov- where 120 persons were wor- ered tw patrolmen instruct ed to iook carefully for unusual shipping. objects. Near Parsonage Cape Kennedy, were Virgil I. Grissom and John W. -Youngs set to take a three-orbit spin Tuesday in the first of a series of Gemini spacecraft, forerunners of the three-man Apollo ship scheduled to rocket to the crater" Alphonsus.

Alphonsus, about 16 miles In diameter, is only 400 miles south of the spot, almost dead-center on the moon where Ranger 9 would impact without a change in course. PASADENA, Calif. (AP) Hurled with unprecedented accuracy, Ranger 9 streaked toward the center of the moon today with cameras a landing site for U.S. astronauts later in the decade. Pattern of Terror The bombs, prepared with a clock, battery and approximately 40 sticks of dynamite each, were fixed td explode in a pa tern of terror.

Patrolmen i'. A. Williams and DJ. Ryan discovered the green time-bomb box under an abandoned truck near the, par- moon within five years The craft is capable of alter- were found Sun- sonage of the First Bantist Scientists expected to decide ized by presidential order, kept watch around the camp. The soldiers around their own within hours just when to fire a ing its path up to e.uu mues on So accurate was guidance small steenne rocket to aim the either siae ot tne moon.

fires, circling the tents at about I -Ji 1 i spacecraft closer to its exact Two interested spectators at target, the Dossiblv Volcanic Sunday's 4:37 p.m. launch at day near Vparsonage occupied Church of Ensley, a suburban until recently brother of Negro church where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther an at- D. King, brother of the civil torney'shdme, another funeral eights leader, was pastor until home and a high schooL recently.

Poole discovered the bomb A- D-. King, now pastor of a 'when he went to open his church in Lexington, has during the launching that, for the first time during the Ranger series, scientists said the spacecraft would hit the face of the moon without mid-course cor- 100 yards. A security guard composed of members of the Stu dent Nonviolent Coordinating ltl 'Rfnger impacted on committee stood sentry duty the back side of the moon with' within the" camp and at King's returned to Birmingham -frequently. He participated in a memorial march recently for out a change in its original tra- 4Mn0 Truck Fee Increase Asked for Roads funeral home about 8:30 a.m. He and an employe inves-igated and then notified police.

He said the bomb was nark. the Rev. James J. Reeb, white jectory. All other Rangers Dr.

King, calling it a Gandhi-would have missed the moon by Uk procession, led the march up to thousands of miles if their fr0I Selma Sunday as it aged in a green box the same Unitarian minister fatally beat- en at Selma, Ala. iiigru pains naa not Deen ai tnnnD th vrtmnnrf Ppttus tered BOSTON (AP) Gov. John A. issue authorizations for the ac-Volpe asked the Massachusetts highway construction Bridge, went down the other as those found Sunday. Safely Disarmed The steel-nerved demolition experts disarmed each bomb Previously Bombed The parsonage had been repaired from a bombing, one of Legislature today to approve a program Wednesday Target Plans call for Ranger side and trooped eight abreast to the campsite.

After crossing the bridge, The governor also noted that 9 to crash into the moon at 9:07 a.m. "the Federal Bureau of Public Roads has been extremely crit-' Sunday without mishap. Wires several mat set oit tne wotn ore Tlau nnt horn in $320 million highway program to be financed in part by doub-bling the present registration fees for Truck registration fees now Annum ii nn one were snmnprt minntps (EST) Wednesday taking thou- Ta 1 laid down on the highway as a i Police officials said early to leal of the so-called veto pictures in tho finaU- AP symbolic reminder that this was written into previous highway construction legislation in Mas- are $3 per 1,000 pounds includ the spot where state troopers had. wielded billy clubs and minutes. Ranger 7 snapped more than 4,000 photographs, and Ranger i after it was set to explode, and authorities speculated it was faulty.

Each bomb contained from 40 to 50 sticjes of dynamite equal day the bomb had apparently been timed to go. off at 12:30 a.m. It was discovered at 11:54 p.m. OVER THE BRIDGE, civil rights marchers stream across the Alabama River at Selma, on start of their five-day, 50-mile march on Capitol in Montgomery- ing the weight of the truck and sachusetts in view of the atti- load. tude of federal "officials, and to The governor said $200 million assure completion of the inter- of the proposed program would state system by 1972, I cannot be Daid for bv the federal gov- recommend that this controver- inree of tne bombs were thrown tear gas to stampede a similar march two Sundays At nightfall the marchers 8, more than 7,000 in the last miles of their quarter-million-mile flights.

to about two-thirds the force of timed t0 g0 off at noon and the smallest Air Force general other at 6 officers said: nurnnso hnmh3tiH urora ttmor! t.i- had estimated that 10,000 were massed at a church where the march bpean Othpr observers rouce James Moore TMlf tHo nnmrkfli mnra than witn cneap alarm ciocks ana saj(j "no SUspects" had been put the number at more than new Alabama. Its children will finally enter the promised land." The Ku Klux Klan staged a 50-car motorcade through Montgomery to protest the approach of the marchers. It was led by Robert Shelton of Tuscaloosa, Ranger 9's target, Alphonsus, were 42 miles from Montgom- is a highlands area between ery, the state capital. They ex- the broad called Mare pect to reach there Thursday. Cogmtum, where Ranger 7 land- ed, and Mare TranquUlitatis CamPfires L18htcd Ranger 8's impact Campfires glowed in the dark- These nlains are dimDled with npss arnnnri thp camn A nrn- wired to be set off by transis- arrested, tor batteries.

Army' demolition experts The dynamite wrappers, cnw, pciov n. 000. Alabama National Guardsmen sial section be continued in this act." Volpe said $37 million of the current highway debt will be retired in fiscal 1966 along with a somewhat larger amount the following year. "Therefore," he said, his program 'will increase the "debt and would be part of the interstate program as well as matching funds" for the state highway program. -A 20-year bond issue would cover the remaining $120 million.

He estimated the truck registration fee increase designed to raise $8 million would "pro thousands of small craterlets, gram was canceled because of imperial wizard of the and Army military policemen, clocks and batteries were to be 0nta, and M.Sgt. Marvin ordered by the President to flow.n to 'Washington for exam- Byrorif of 'Nitr0) Va keep the marchers from harmf Lnatlon. Federal Bureau of from Ft. McClellan, about 60 kept close guard. They stood at Investigation laboratory ex-miles east of here; to disarm intersections and crosswalks, pe the bombs.

apparently created bv the im- the noar-frppinc wpathpr Fnnt vnnea ivians oi Amenta. onlv $45 million over the two- pact of meteorites, which might blisters were treated. VMArtM A MKftk lnJ.H I mi. 1 1 1 1 President Johnson was reported staying in touch with the progress of the march, as was U.S. Atty.

Gen. Nicholas Kat-' vide for present and future bond year period." uican a iwugu lanuiiig one ior ine nisionc marcn is to tane astronauts. the demonstrators to the capital One reason that Alphonsus of "the heart of Dixie." which IlllUIMIIIIlf Mill MIIIIII1 lllllIIIIIIIllMIUIf II Tlllltl Ml If III lltf I III IIIlillllllllllMI IIII Illllfllllfllllllf was picked as the target is hope King said will be turned "into a zenbach. patrolled in Jeeps and kept close watch, along the line of inarch. Also watching were groups of white persons, some carrying anti-Negro signs, and shouting epithets.

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John A. Volpe indicated ably make a special recommen- dation on this item in his budget BOSTON The Massachu-" nothing until reffently when setts Legislature "made a mis- there was a report that it was take 12 years ago when it creat- seeking $3 million for a framed the Mt. Greylock Tramway way." Col. Dettinger and His Rescue Crew Ready for Tomorrow's Gemini Launch this morning he will make a specific recommendation for a appropriation for plans for the proposed Berkshire Community College building proP message to the legislature. The governor paid high tribute to Mr.

for "the work he has done with the students at Authority" the- Joint Legislative Committee ori State Administra the college and for the highly gram next month. Following a tour of the pro- efficient faculty he has assem- respiratory injuries while still in the water. Would Return Powers Reg. KbstansKi voiced his support of returning the powers' vested in the Authority to the Department of Natural He said that under the present arrangement there is too tion was told today' by Sen. Charles A.

Bisbee R-Ches-terfield, as he ledthe proponents of two bills seeking repeal of the 1953 law. Before several hundred West posed West Street campus site bled. The fact that it is the first and the present facilities, Gov." community college to achieve Volpe said he was "extremely accreditation is, in itself, high impressed" with the work that tribute to the college and its fac- "The medicine bag is tight, water proof and floats! We throw it ahead of us just before we jump. The bag a i Jias been done at the college. He ulty.

ern Massachusetts residents, the "I plan to study the recom committee-opened hearings oik much-. conflict, and it would be better, in his opinion, to go back the two bills shortly before noon today. Sen. Chairman James A. By HAROLD R.

WILLIAMS CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) "Jump," yelled the" para -rescue man and gave a slight push to the. officer standing in the helicopter's door. Air Force Lt. Col.

Garth B. Dettinger looked at the trim young frogman doing the urging, winced, then looked down at the Atlantic Ocean about, 30 feet below the helicopter. "It seemed a long ways down there," he said, recounting the "Hitting the water was even more of a shock. It mendations for the Jcampus when I return to Boston and will undoubtedly have some more recommendations to make to expedite the entire program." The appropriation for the architectural planning would be the first fiscal step towards construction- of a complete campus for 1.800 It will clear Kelly Jr. of Oxford, committee chairman, said, the opposition to the so-called repeal bills would be.

heard this afternoon: In accordance with established procedure, the committee allowed legislators to present their testimony first. Converted to Cause Bisbee told the committee that he filed the petition of the Massachusetts Forest 'and Park As to the conditions that prevailed before 1953. He said he represents 10 towns and this morning received a telegram signed by 36 invidiuals in" those towns recording ther support of theVrepeal proposals. A third legislator, Rep. Duarie Sargisson R-Worcester, also voiced support of both repeal bills.

He said he is a graduate of Williams College, and that during his first day at Williams he and other students climbed the a request for appro- was cold." ximately $7 million by next year" The First Time 4 5 1 ti 1 i-A-? 1 If JZ I i i i for actual construction of the buildings. sociation for the repeal of the medications and drugs, to stop bteod pressures from, rising, and minor operating No Parachute They won't use a parachute, and the helicopter cai only. get to about 30 feet above the water, for safety reasons. It is the first group trained forthis type. of.

duty during manned launch. The ejection seat escape method on the Gemini spacecraft could cause injury to the astronaut and that is why the group was trained. Dettinger, a youthful looking .43, has been stationed at Walker AFB about nine months. He became a doctor by believing Ke as smarter than his fellow stu-r dents. He enrolled at Harvard after World War II.

He had been a pilot instructor for B17 and B29 aircraft. Raised His Hand The Syracuse, N.Y., native, who moved to Pittsfield, Mass at an early age, was in an organic chemistry class, the professor asked who was going to pre-med -school. Tramway Authority last Decern- Mt. Greylock. also said he thought the site selected for the college "was one of the most attractive and scenic sites for a college I have seen anywhere." The governor remained overnight in Pittsfield and boarded a Massachusetts Air National Guard the Pittsfield Airport this morning bound for Washington.

With him on the plane was Mrs. Volpe who flew in this morning. Rep. Silvio O. Conte and members of the governor's staff.

At White. House Tonight Gov. Volpe will be a guest at the White House for dinner with the President this evening. He has a series of meetings plained before' dinner tonight and early tomorrow evening. He was conducted on the tour of college facilities this morning by Thomas E.

O'Connell, director of BCC; Lawrence K. Miller, chairman of the board of trustees of BCC, and Rep. Conte. At the airport this the governor said he will incorporate an appropriation or $250,000 in his capital outlay budget for the architectural-planning of the proposed campus. He intimated he would prob- iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiii Five-Day Forecast Dettinger is a member of a new group of men never seen before 'at Cape Kennedy for a manned space shot.

They call themselves the' BFRC, which stands for Bio-astronautics Forces Recovery Crew. To make themselves stand out from other groups, the 12 members all wear red baseball caps. He said the mountain should be preserved for the public and said it is "no place for private gain or benefit." Tague Speaks Irish Mayor Enjoys Visit, Extends Stay bcr "by ruest." Since that time, however he has become convinced, he said, that repeal is necessary. He asked that the "by request" be removed from his bill so that it would be apparent that he is "unqualifiedly in favor of the repeal bill." First to follow the legislators was William H. Tague of Lanes- "The Legislature, I believe, boro, presidenfrof the protective tsusiuN (UPI) Mayor Dettinger is hospital com-Kevjn Morris of Wexford, Ire- mander at Walker Air Force land, who has been whooping it Base, N.Mv as well as chief made a mistake 12 years ago, association.

up witn tne outland Irish of Bos- surgeon. There are three other tnn QTifl Unliinlr. rl.J.J 1 i 1 1 St vvii ouu iiuijuKc, uctmeii iuuay doctors in tne group wno are and I am strongly in favor of thisbill to rectify that mistake now," Sen. Bisbee declared. He was followed by Rep.

Walter Kostaksi, R-Montague, who told the committee he was in to remain for several more also Air Force hospital com Tague said he was speaking for an organization with 850 members, representing every part of the state and every walk of life. "We are not just a bunch of days with friends here. manders. Col. Dettinger: 'It seemed a long ways down there In 4 Helicopters Three of the group are as favor of both repeal bills, the Dettinger said the four doc- jump into the water tors chosen for, the job are "If there isn't a major injury, "I had decided to go (o law school," Dettinger said.

"I al sicond one having been filed by birdwatchers or do-gooders seek-the anti-tramway Mt. Greylock jn to obstruct progress." Tapn. The Lord Mayor led more than 12,000 persons through the streets of Holyoke Sunday in the annual St. Patrick's Day parade held four days after the nation's other Americans oi Irish descent observed the date. signed to each of four helicopters, ifh wip nampo wnt flight surgeons as well as being we will float a specially made ways thought medicine was too Protective Association Red Yellow White and Blue On Eeneral practice physicians, litter beneath the astronaut and launch which is scheduled Ihcy were Picked because of then raise him into the helicop- declared.

"We all share a deep concern not only for the preservation of Mt. Greylock State iueu expei lence in treating iei. i. hard for me. I looked around Referring to the legislation of the classroom and saw all these 1953 creating the Authority, Kos-hands from people I knew I was tanski said he is still looking for martep than.

So I raised my evidence of what has been done Mayor Morris, who arrived luesday, tne helicopters win be Reservation but for the conser- March 20 for the festivities, hovering around the pad. emerEency cases. "if the astronaut is seriously marched in the company of The BFRC' job is to give im- VWe wil1 be the first ones to injured, the- doctors will jump Gov. John A. Volpe, former mediate aid to the astronauts in 8et to the astronaut in case he with the-para-rescue men into Temperatures through Saturday, will average 10 degrees below the seasonal normal of 32.

Continued cold through the period. Snow Wednesday and ain Friday or hand and became a doctorr- by the Authority jn the last 12 vation of such irreplaceable nat- "I haven't rperettpd that snup vpafsA lr It he Tramway bias done Continued on Page 13 uov. -naicott eaDoay ana otn- case of an emergency during is injured, said Dettinger. tne water, too. we can the moment decision yet," er" dignitaries.

launch "The two para rescue men bleeding and also help with any vsaid Dettinger. "that would tha Authority V- i I.