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DAILY AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION ABC Audited 12 Months Ending March 31, 1966 14,360 TRAVERSE CITY RECORD-EAGLE NORTHERN MICHIGAN'S GREATEST DAILY THE WEATHER Cloudy, Cooler Detailed Information, Page 2 "Tis a Privilege to live in Michigan" UPI FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE TWENTY-FOUR PAGES TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN MONDAY, JULY 18, 1966 SEVENTIETH YEAR--23347 PRICE TEN CENTS Hold Suspect in Chicago Mass Murders U.S. Marines Thwart Major Red Offensive Largest Leatherneck Operation of the Viet Nam War SAIGON (UPI) U.S. Marines pushing through jungled mountains near the North Vietnamese border have killed 148 Communist regulars and thwarted a major offensive in the largest leatherneck operation of the war, U.S. officials said today. Backed up by massive raids from high-flying B52 bombers and their numbers swelled to more than 7,000 by Marines from Operation Deck House II, a related amphibious operation, units' of the 2nd Marine Division pushed slowly through a vast region less than 10 miles from the demilitarized zone dividing North and South Viet Nam.

The Communists had established training grounds and rest centers in the area, which also is near the Laotian frontier, U.S. officials said. Meantime, a i a i sources reported in London the Soviet bloc was preparing to send major consignments of missiles to North Viet Nam to shore up anti-aircraft defenses in the wake of stepped-up American bombing raids. The sources said experts would be sent along to install "or possibly even operate the sophisticated weapons, a move which could bring the United States and Russia into direct military confrontation in Viet Nam for the first time. Russian made surface-to-air missiles have been in operation in North Viet Nam for some time, but apparently are operated by Vietnamese and are not of a very sophisticated variety.

Air Force pilots claim they have developed techniques for avoiding them. Elsewhere the United States attempted on several fronts to obtain better treatment for U.S. pilots shot down in raids over the north. In Cairo, the U.A.R. foreign ministry transmitted a note at U.S.

request warning that swift retaliation might result if the carried out their threat to try them as war criminals. The North Vietnamese rejected the note. In Moscow, visiting British Prime Minister Harold Wilson was reported seeking Soviet intervention on behalf of the pilots and U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg called on International Red Cross officials in Geneva to seek similar assistance. Control U.P.

Forest Fire NEWBERRY (UPI) Firefighters, battling a roaring blaze through the night, brought a 300-acre forest fire under control early today. The fire, located primarily in a cranberry marsh near Nabin- way, raged out of control late Sunday, fanned by high-velocity shifting winds. The Conservation Department tried in vain to fight the fire and late Sunday had to issue an emergency call for volunteers. Local residents poured into the area and were able to contain the fire several hours later. Conservation officials said berry pickers who had been seen in the area shortly before the fire broke out, may have accidentally started the blaze in the dry forest area.

For the past month officials have kept a very close watch on the upper peninsula forest area since dry conditions have made the timber potentially explosive, Julia Meade, Playhouse Star ft Julia Meade in 'Mary, Mary' At the Playhouse This Week Julia Meade and "Mary, Mary" are the perfect combination for a delightful summer evening's entertainment at the Cherry County Playhouse. This week Miss Meade recreates her Broadway performance for Traverse City audiences when she comes directly from a highly successful run of "Mary, Mary" at the Drury Lane- Theatre in cago. Millions of people in video- land will recognize this slender, perfectly-groomed blonde who was the appealing spieler on "The Ed Sullivan Show" for many years. But TV is not the only medium in which Miss Meade has made her mark. On the legitimate stage, as well as in motion pictures, she has followed in the footsteps of her mother, Caroline -Meade, who was a well-known actress and the leading lady with Walter Hampden from 1923 to 1933.

Boston-born Miss Meade was hailed by one New York critic as "the best new Broadway actress of the.year" for her performance in "The Tender Trap." An extremely versatile performer, she has done musical comedy, starring in "Pajama Game" and "The Bells are Ringing." has also taken a fling at the supper-club field, having performed at such leading clubs as the Desert Inn in Las Vegas. In motion pictures she has already appeared in "Pillow Talk" with Rock Hudson and Doris Day, and in Ross Hunter's production of "Tammy Tell Me True." From the outset Miss Meade was destined to be in show business. "Mother was an actress, and all her friends were in the theatre," she explains. "By the time I made my stage debut in a school play at the age of seven, I thought all little girls just automatically grew up to be actresses." Julia Meade has proven herself very adept at delivering the many one-liners which are sprinkled throughout "Mary, Mary." She won the Sara Siddons Best Actress Award in Chicago for this role. The title of the play quite obviously has its origins in a WeMight Get Showers Less heat and more moisture that's the outlook for our area during the next couple of days.

The weather man said we may receive some thundershowers later today which are expected to cool things down tonight. Tuesday will be partly cloudy and cooler, with a high around 80, and Wednesday will be partly cloudy and cool. We certainly can some rain. nursery rhyme, but author Jean Kerr has fashioned more than a nursery rhyme with this evening of hilarity. As a Iiumorist- novelist-playwrigh't, Mrs.

Kerr, the wife of the New York Herald Tribune drama critic, Walter Kerr, has had many notable successes in the theatre, in the publishing field and in the movies'. Three of her works have been turned into Whoppingly popular film versions, "King of Hearts," "Mary, Mary," and an adaptation of her hovel "Please Don't Eait the Daisies'." The star of Cherry County's production of "Mary, Mary" prides herself on being an excellent cook. Married to a well- known New York commercial artist, O. Worshani Rudd, Miss Meade has a young daughter, Caroline. The Rudds live in a spacious Manhattan apartment, sharing it with two cats and the many antiques that Miss Meade loves to collect.

Appearing with Julia Meade in "Mary, Mary" are Playhouse resident company regulars Bill Slout, Marte Boyle, Miller Lide, and William Fort. "Mary, Mary" will continue through Sunday at the Playhou.se with the usual matinee on Thursday at 2:00 p.m. State Employe March Slated LANSING (UPI)-- The Michigan State Employes Union, parent group of the striking Lansing city employes, has declared Aug. 9 as a "labor holiday" and called on all civil service union members to march on Lansing. It would be the first statewide work stoppage since the 1930's and the first ever in Michigan by municipal em- ployes.

Robert Grosvenor, of Council 7 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal 3,000 strong, would lead the march to protest "low wage rates, inadequate fringe benefits, undesirable working and inhuman work loads." He also said the would be protesting a "refusal on the part of civil service, and some universities, to accpet their responsibilities under the 1965 Public Employes Relations Act." Special targets of the protest will be the Michigan Civil Service Commission, the University of Michigan, and Eastern Michigan University, he said. Grosvenor said he would ask Gov. George Rornney "because there is a long-standing precedent, for the governor to recognize historic, public functions," to close all state offices, agencies and institutions "except for essential services," from 9 a.m. to noon that day. Gemini 10 Flight Slated Later Today Afternoon Launch Set for Double Space Mission CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) -The countdown began today for the late afternoon launch of Gemini 10 astronauts John Young and Michael Collins on the nation's most advanced manned spaceflight--a dual rendezvous and spacewalk spectacular.

Everything was proceeding smoothly toward the start of the daring three-day mission: Gemini's Atlas-Agena rendezvous rocket was set to go first at 4:30 p.m., EDT, Young and Collins to follow at 6:21 p.m., EDT. While the space pilots slept, launch pad crews pumped thousands of gallons of high-powered pro'pellant into Gemini's Titan 2 rocket. The fueling started at daybreak. A U.S. space agency spokesman said the long countdown began on time at 7:45 a.m., EDT.

Two hours later, officials said it was proceeding smoothly. Weather continued to look satisfactory. The space agency forecast partly cloudy skies, 12 mile an hour winds and 84 degree temperatures at launch time. There'was only a 15 per cent chance that thunderstorms might interfere. The ambitious mission, calls for a meetig and three dockings with the Gemini 10 Agena target satellite, a second rendezvous with the lifeless Agena left in orbit' four months ago by Gemini space- walk by Collins and another 55 minute whirl through space with Collins photographing the stars while standing in an open hatchway.

To enable the nation's eighth set of Gemini astronauts to perform both' rendezvous, engineers had to meet one of the most precise timetables ever devised for a manned spaoeflight. It was a tough schedule for the launch crews to meet. A delay of more than 28 minutes in getting the Atl-as-Agena off will automatically bring a two-day postponement in the double launch. With the Agena in orbit, the Titan 2 rocket carrying Gemini 10 will have to get away in 35 seconds of its scheduled blastoff dime--or also face a two- day delay. Where You'll Fjnd Weather Page 2 TV Log Page 3 Radio Program Page 4 Comics Page 6 Society Page 14 Theatre Calendar 14 Calendar of Events Page 14 Ann Landers Page 15 Sports Pages 18, 19 Captured in Skid Row Flophouse CHICAGO (UPI)--Authorities today deferred the arraignment of Richard Speck for the slayings of eight nurses.

Doctors said he was in no condition to go to court. IN MASS Richard Speck, sought by Chicago police in the mass murder of eight young student nurses, was taken into custody Sunday after being treated at a hospital for slashing his arm in a suicide attempt. He was found by police in a skid row hotel. Public Hearing Tonight on Amendment Affecting Power Plant Addition A public hearing on an amendment to the. zoning code to permit erection of certain types of buildings-to a height of 100 feet in M-l and M-2 zones an amendment aimed permitting construction of a planned 98-ft.

high addition to the city power plant on West Bay will be held at the regular meeting of the city commission at 8 p.m. tonight at city hall. A city planning commission recommendation not to change the code will be formally presented, as will petitions for and against erection of the addition. The board of zoning appeals is scheduled to meet an hour before the city commission session. This board will consider a city request to grant a variance in the code to permit erection of the structure.

A $3.5 million program for the power plant is financed in part by a $2.5 million revenue bond issue, approved by a referendum in June of 1965. However, some citizens have objected to erecting a power plant addition of this height and have pointed out that it violates the city zoning- code. Tonight's agenda also includes opening bids on special assessment bonds for financing can- struction of storm sewers; and a public hearing on request for a special use permit by Tempo Search Operations Continue Hope Fades for Girl in U.P. Mine Shaft CALUMET, Mich. (UPI) -Although hope for the survival of 7-year-old Ruth Ann Miller was lacking, would-be rescuers pored over mine records in an effort to find a new route into a murky, mile-deep copper mine shaft.

Search operations were held up Sunday by a jam-up oJ timber, concrete and iron pilings which had closed the shaft at the -100-foot level, keeping the search crews from peering into the dank debths. The child tumbled into the abandoned shaft Saturday while, according to her 10-year-old brother Gary, they were picking berries. The shaft had been partially closed by a concrete. slab for 35 years but was reopened Saturday in a feverish effort to find the girl. Officials ot the Calumet and Hecla Mining Co.

pored over mine records during the night in an effort to find another entrance to the shaft. But one official reported the only entrance found was below the water Rescuers worked today to clear the debris amassed around the 20-foot-wide hole at the 400- foot level in the hopes the girl's body would be found there. "If she's beyond that point," a state trooper said, "it will be very rough." He said skindivers would never be able to go 2,000 feet down into the debris-filled water. Because of the water, the depth' of the shaft--estimated more a mile and the length of time since the girl fell in Saturday noon, there was very little hope, even on the part of her stepfather, Eugene Taylor, that little Ruth Ann would be for amusement rides at Garfield Shopping Center; Reports from the city manag- will be Recommended transfer of funds to complete construction of eight hangars at the mun- icpal airport; acceptance of low bid for the installation of storm sewers in the Carver-Centre area; purchase of concrete storm sewer pipe from the low bidder, Cadillac Concrete Pipe Acceptance of low bid of Constructor Pipe for the installation of pipe and mechanical equipment for the power expansion project; acceptance of low bid for the installation a bridge crane by Manning, Maxwell and Moore Div. for power plant; acceptance of low bid of Detroit Elevator Co.

for installation of a passenger elevator for power plant addition; and approval of a resolution granting prior retirement system service credit for a new employee. Red Chinese Vow Support to North Viet TOKYO (UPI) Communist China vowed today to support North Viet Nam with "all necessary actions" until final victory is won in the south. The Chinese said the pledge stands "no matter what U. S. imperialism might do." A Peking radio broadcast monitored here said the new Chinese pledge was made personally by Premier Chou En-Lai to North Vietnamese Ambassador Tan Tu Binh in the Chinese capital Sunday.

The Chinese promise came on the heels ol a defia.nt speech Sunday by North Vietnamese President Ho Chi. Minh. Ho ordered partial mobilization and said North Viet would fight on for "5, 10, 20 years or to defeat "American aggressors." Ho's call to a-rms. was seen as a response to stepped-up American air raids'-on North Viet In the brief statement carried by all North Vietnamese stations Sunday, Ho said the mobilization was necessary" to strengthen the national defense forces (a.nd) to. defeat all war schemes and 'acts the U.

S. imperialists." North. Vietnamese statement made no mention of captured American airmen, whom, the Vietnamese refuse to recognize as prisoners of war and have threatened to bring them to trial as war criminals. CHICAGO (UPI) The arraignment of Richard Speck, "born to raise hell" derelict, for the murders of eight nurses, was delayed today while authorities huddled on how to assure him the tightest possible security provisions. Speck's arraignment had been scheduled for 9:30 a.m., CDT, but long after that time Cook county officials were conferring about the arraignment site.

Forty-five minutes after Speck had been due in the criminal courts building, State's Atty. Daniel Ward said the judge may have to be brought to the jail where the prisoner has b.een confined since 5 a.m. Sunday. "We want to provide the highest possible security," said one of the prosecutor's assistants. The self-advertised ne'er-do- well was also expected to be brought face to face with Corazon Amurao, a pert Filipino exchange student who survived what has been called "the crime of the Speck, 24, was captured almost by accident in a skid row flophouse Sunday.

He had tried to gash, himself to death with a broken wine bottle. Policemen answering a routine call found him on a blood-soaked mattress in the skid row hotel. It he was rushed to a hospital that a young doctor washed the blod from Speck's arm and found the Identifying Police.thad their Chicago who posted a tight, 24-hour-a-day guard-around his hosjiital bed in the bridewell house of correction, emphasized they were not going to question Speck themselves. That be up to the office of State's Atty. Ward.

After a nine-hour conference with prosecutors and detectives broke up Sunday night, said he expected to get a statement from Speck today, but added "he has the right of decline." Authorities were taking; a kid gloves approach to the tall, drifter from Texas because of U.S. Supreme Court decisions widening the rights of accused persons. Five of the victims of one of the worst mass mnrders-in modern times were being buried today. One of the slain student nurses was buried Saturday. The bodies of two more were being returned to their native Philippines.

The girls were strangled and knifed to death one by by a lone intruder who entered their apartment near South Chicago Community Hospital late last Wednesday night. Miss Amurao survived by cringing: under a bed while her friends were led to slaughter. Police said Sunday night they had recovered a 12-inch hunting knife Speck had sold to a tavern buddy for $1 a few hours after the murders were discovered Thursday. Crime laboratory technicians were examining the weapon. Swedish Girl Miss Universe MIAMI BEACH (UPI)-- Miss Universe, her contracts -signed and her prizes won, is quietly trying to make herself radiant again.

a a a Arvidsson, the Swedish fashion model who was duly certified the worldts most beautiful woman Saturday night, went into seclusion lit her Miami Beach rest up and calm her nerves. She is scheduled to fly to New York in the middle the to begin fulfilling the year-long obligations that. go with titlie. She was tifed and unsmiling the morning' after the big night under the lights. no can.

smile this morning," she said as press crowded into her hotel room Sunday morning make a film record of Miss Universe finishing up Rodeo Serves As Finale to 1966 Festival Weekend Program at Fairgrounds Attracts 2,400 The 1966 National Cherry Festival ended on a high note during the weekend as some 2,400 persons attended two performances of the first annual NCF rodeo at Grand Traverse county fairgrounds. The crowd totals were reported by Leelanau county's Sugar Loaf Mountain Resort, sponsor of the event which was a part of Frontier Days, a new feature of annual National Cherry Festival in Traverse City. A Sugar Loaf spokesman said the rodeo was considered a success and worthy -of being presented as a part of next year's National Cherry Festival, scheduled, for July 10-14. The two- day rodeo saw only one injury, to a bronco rider whose mount fell. The rider was taken to Munson Medical Center for treatment but was not believed to have been seriously injured.

The NCF office said today that tie 1966 festival probably was the largest yet and that, in addition to the thousands of persons viewing: four parades and other special events, more than, 1,000 teenagers attended a festival beach party on Wednesday evening. It also was estimated that some 200 horses and other units took part in a Frontier Days rodeo parade Saturday afternoon on Union and State streets in Traverse City. Lansing City Employes Go On Strike LANSING, Mich. (UPI) -Threats of violence by angry unionized city employes marked the start today of what may De the nation's first strike to force a shut-down of most municipal services. Pickets of Local 1390 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes reinforced by at least two Lansing locals of the United Auto Workers began parading at two locations just three hours after the union went out on strike at midnight Sunday.

The strike vote won of 92 per cent of the union members Friday -when several months of grievances were culminated by the firing of five civic center employes for holding an impromptu "prayer meeting" during working hours to "meditate" on how to vote on the strike question. Affected by the walkout are about 400 of Lanusing's 1,200 employes in four departments represented by the union -parks, public service, traffic engineering and the civic center. Of the 400, about 230 belong to the union; but picket at least nine locations were expected to stop hundreds of employes from reporting to work. Police and firemen were not affected. "This will be a strike you won't forget," warned Jerry Wurf, international president of the Municipal Employes Union, as negotiations with the city broke off an hour before the strike deadline.

"We'll call in all the power the international union spokesman for the city said officials would "Try to maintain vital services in what ever way we Michigan law prohibits public employes from striking, although a liberalization of that law year now allows them to join unions for collective bargaining purposes only. The Municipal Union been trying to negotiate its first contract with Lansing for about nine Today's Chuckle Two pessimists met at a Instead of shaking they-shook heads..