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CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY SACRAMENTO 9 1-1-67 CALIF. 95814 anfort Kings Jester Some cause happiness wherever they go. Some cause happiness whenever they go. Weather Partly cloudy today; scattered showers possible tonight and early Sunday; clearing Sunday afternoon; high both days, 48-58; low tonight, 40-50; variable winds, 5-15 m.p.h. Yesterdays extremes were 57-40.

entitle ESTABLISHED 1886 HANFORD, KINGS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA SATURdAYFEBRUARY 5, 1966 2 SECTIONS, 16 PAGES 10 CENTS 4 -y; .1 4 9 5 'y 3 s-- 'VS A Japanese Fuselage Plane Found More U.S. Troops Thrown Into Action '4 TOKYO (UPI) -The All Nippon Airways today published an advertisement in Japanese newspapers apologizing for the Friday crash of its Boeing 727 jetliner, which killed all 133 persons aboard. A large section of the fuselage containing some bodies was recovered from the murky depths of Tokyo Bay barely eight miles from the city of Tokyo and the airlines brought in an underwater submarine to aid in the search tor more of the victims. An airlines spokesman said 52 boats were criss-crossing the bay looking for bodies of the victims. So far 30 bodies have been reported recovered.

Although airline officials refused to concede all 126 passengers and 7 crew aboard the plane were killed, there was virtually no hope of any survivors. Neither was there any clue to what caused the disaster. Possibly Worst Crash The airline said 30 bodies had been recovered by 1 a.m., EST today. A final official death toll of 133 would make the crash the worst in history for a single commercial plane. The jetliner was carrying passengers from a snow iestival in northern Japan when it made its last contact with the control tower at 5:01 a.m., EST.

It was four minutes away from a safe landing. President Johnson boards his helicopter at the White House today to fly to nearby Andrews AFB, from where he continued his trip to Honolulu. Accompanying the President on the trip is Katherine WTestmorcland, 17 year old daughter of Gen. William C. Westmoreland, U.S.

forces commander in Viet Nam. President Flies To Hawaii Talks By MICHAEL T. MALLOY SAIGON (UPI) The U.S. Army announced today it had thrown substantial reinforcements into battle in Viet Nam in an effort to crush large Viet Cong elements in a divisionsized hammer and anvil action by the 1st Cavalry Division and U.S. Marines.

The pineer operation in the coastal area 300 miles northeast of Saigon was the biggest American operation of the war. It was aided by 155-millimeter artillery pieces flown into action by helicopter for the first time in military history. The Army announced expansion of its ground war against the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese regular army units as part of a triple coastal offensive that has killed at least Communists since it first began early last week. The number of communists estimated wounded and Viet Cong suspects captured added hundreds to the number of Reds put out of action. Airborne Farther south and r.ot directly involved in todays pineer action, the 101st Airborne was conducting Operation Van Bu-ren which has netted 439 Viet Cong killed.

The 101st killed 25 Friday in a bitter two-hour fire fight. For security reasons, the spokesman would not say exactly how many troops are involved, but it appeared the force might be the equivalent of a division 15,000 to 20.000 U.S., Korean and Vietnamese soldiers. The Air Cavalry attack accounted for 711 of the 1,172 Communists killed by the three principal U.S. drives now underway. Grown As the force has grown in size, it has had increasing difficulty finding Communists to fight.

On Friday, an airborne tear gas attack helped the Flying Horsemen to clear Communists out of a square mile of trenches and bunkers, but the troops made only one brief contact with the fleeing Reds. The cavalrymen have captured 120 Communists and 582 suspects since the operation began Jan, 25, After heavy initial fighting, the operation turned into a gigantic hunt for Communist A U.S. Marine holds his company mascot as leathernecks prepare to be lifted by helicopter from a carrier to join troops in South Viet Nam. Brown Promises Lean, Hard State Budget By MERRIMAN SMITH WASHINGHN (UPI) -President Johnson flew today to Hawaii for crucial conferences on the Viet Nam war with top South Vietnamese and U.S. leaders.

In the most ambitious personal venture in foreign policy he has yet undertaken, Johnson will spend three days discussing our complete program in Viet Nam with South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and others from Washington and Saigon. Most of the solemn meetings will probably take place in a super-secret war room five miles from gay Waikiki Beach. From Luiti-9 JL ft This will be the first time Johnson has met Premier Ky, the young, former daredevil pilot. Accompanied Johnson was accompanied by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Fobert S. McNamara and Gen.

Earle G. Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as he departed Washington in windy subfreezing weather for the warm, sunny 50th state. Two other cabinet members will fly to Honolulu Sunday and some of the Washington officials will go on to Saigon after the Hawaii talks. Johnson in for a set by simply tuning in on the signals sent back by the Russian rocket. Soviet scientists said their own pictures, taken by television cameras aboard the Luna-9, were in Moscow and being processed.

But they did not specify when they would be released here. Britain The pictures from Britain, termed sensational by the director of Jodrell Bank, Sir Bernard Lovell, showed both the sweep of the bleak lunar landscape and details as minute as pebbles. Luna-9, from Its landing place near the Ocean of Storms broadcast for 4 hours and 50 minutes in five separate transmissions Friday. In addition to the pictures, it was believed sending back data on lunar temperatures, soil composition, radiation and other factors. Lovell said the pictures appeared to be taken from a camera positioned about 6 or 10 feet above the ground, indicating Luna-9 landed on a hard surface and not on quagmirelike dust some scientists had speculated covered the moons surface.

Step The soft landing of Luna-9 Thursday night marked a step toward putting a man on the moon without killing him in a crash. There was no suggestion In Moscow of plans to send a man to the moon in the immediate future. Russian scientists said they first must learn more about moon conditions, send a manned ship into lunar orbit to scout landing sites and figure out how to blast a rocket off the moon so man can return to earth. a kfi'' 'fvkA I i announcing the trip Friday underlined Ms hope for greatly improving South Viet Nams economic and social structure as well as preventing a Communist military takeover. The Presidents first order business was a personal meeting with Gen.

William C. Westmoreland, commander of all U. S. forces in South Viet Nam. Lodge, Vietnamese Expected They were to be joined Sunday by Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky of South Viet Nam and the countrys titular chief of state, Nguyen Van Thieu, who will accompany U.S.

Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge to the meeting from Saigon. Another Washington group flies to Hawaii Sunday. It will include Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman; Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John W. Gardner; Dr.

Francis Keppel, assistant HEW secretary in charge of education; David E. Bell, director of the Agency for International Development, and a group of technical experts. The conferences in Hawaii were scheduled to last through Tuesday. The President expected to be back at his WMte House desk Wednesday morning. The make-up of the Johnson party underlined Ms intention to devote extensive attention to expanding ariculture end education development programs in Viet Nam, along with a hard-headed look at the war from diplomatic as well as military aspects.

Manifestation Of Support One important aspect of the Hawaii conferences Will be to demonstrate publicly and dramatically Johnsons personal and official support of the Ky government. The conferences came at a time when the administrations Viet Nam policies were coming under heavy criticism, particularly from Chairman J. William Fulbright, of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Fulbright Friday angrily reacted to the refusal of McNamara and Wheeler to testify on Viet Nam before open sessions of the panel, expected to be the stage for a full scale debate on U.S. policies in Southeast Asia.

McNamara and Wheeler maintained that public testimony would not be in the national interest. OEP Director Quits WASHINGTON (UPI) -Bi ford Ellington has resigned director of the Office Emergency Planning (OE1 and is expected to seek ti Democratic nomination governor of Tennessee. Tiie pilot received clearance to land, was assigned a runway and reported he was shifting from instrument to visual landing procedures, normal on a clear, moonlit night. Then the plane simply disappeared. The control tower could not reestablish contact either by radio or by radar.

Otficials said the pilot gave absolutely no hint of any instrument trouble during his approach. Rescue boats and planes immediately began scouring the water with searchlights and flares, but it was not until 4Ms hours later that the first wreckage and bodies were sighted in the frigid water. Indication of Fire A doctor who examined some of the bodies said the hair of some of the victims was singed, raising the possibility of fire. A freighter reported a fireball in the general area of the crash Friday. The jetliner was the fourth Boeing 727 to crash since the plane went into production.

Three crashed in the United States within 87 days last year, killing a total of 131 persons. A temporary morgue was set up at a Buddhist shrine in the waterfront area. There priests chanted solemn dirges and played holy instruments amid the scent of heavy incense as relatives of the dead opened coffins to touch the bodies of their loved ones. money in the pockets of taxpayers where it can help keep our economy growing," Brown asserted. Brown told newspapermen the budget would be higher to meet the growth needs of the state.

For example, he said, there would be an automatic increase of $65 million in state aid to local school districts He explained the funds would be necessary because of the influx of 200 000 new youngsters into the state school system next fall. Water Brown said $344 million would be needed for work on the state water project, $35 million for road construction and maintenance and $12.7 million to add more men to the California Highway Patrol. The governor also said he would seek another $54 million for California higher education. Another $570,000 will be sought to implement proposals contained in a Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. study on a statewide information system, Brown said.

He also noted the budget would call for a mandatory two per cent increase in the productivity of state employes to save some $15 million in salaries. The governor also -ailed upon the press to decide what issues are important to the people of this state, not the Madison Avenue image-makers, during this election year. Left to their own devices, te image-makers will deliver you a prepackaged campaign of zap-smash-zowie that would be more at home on your comic pages, Brown said. What is at stake this year is too important to be clouded by false issues and fuzzy generalities. Inside Reading An official from Hawaii (tells of progress his new state is making in every phase of development.

Page 2. Klan leader invokes the Fifth Amendment during federal investigation. Page 2. Lt. Gen.

Lewis Hershey, Selective Service director, said his most pressing problem was deciding which college students are eligible for the draft. Page 2. 908:. 4m U.S. authorities reported 90 enemy dead in the beachhead area.

Paratroopers of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division fought a bitter two-hour battle with an estimated three dozen Communists 230 miles northeast of Saigon, killing at least 21. Joined The spokesman said the par-atroop battle was joined when a patrol located the Communist bank in the coastal hills 15 miles southeast of Tuy Hoa and called in reinforcements and supporting fire. It was their first major clash in several days. Troopers of the 101st, fighting with South Korean support, have reported 439 Communists killed in a campaign intended to the rice crop, the spokesman said most of them were killed in the early stages of the operation.

Cong Fear Of B-52 Related SAIGON (UPI) -Everybody on the other side is afraid of the B52s. Those were the words of Le Van Son, a former Viet Cong platoon leader who surrendered to South Vietnamese forces last month. Le, 38, was in awe of die U.S. Air Forces B52s and the chain of thunders they can unleash. He spoke as a 13-year veteran of guerrilla warfare.

Most of the tunnels were destroyed. The trees were pulled out with their long roots showing and some houses were completely destroyed and burned, he said. Le said the only way the Viet Cong can defend themselves from the 52s is to start running as soon as the tiny spotter planes which precede them are heard. Everybody on the other side is afraid of the B52 more than any other plane -because of the destructive power of the bombs and because they have delayed-action bombs, and we dont know when and where they will explode All of us, including our superiors, have been instructed to run as soon as we heard the roaring from the high sky no matter how deep the tunnels we have We just pun away as fast as we can, lie said. Soviets to See Moon Pictures Alex Bi owii Found Guilty, Hell Ask for New Trial troops fleeing from the coastal lowlands into the foothills and jungled mountains to the north and west.

Two Fronts On two other fronfs in South Viet Nam, U.S. forces killed at least 147 Communists in fighting Friday. U.S. losses in the multi-front fighting have been described as light to moderate. The heaviest losses suffered by the Communists in Fridays fighting were inflicted by warships and planes blasting coastal positions to open up a four-mile beachhead for U.S.

Marines 310 miles north of Saigon. The case, which furned out to be the longest in memory involving a misdemeanor charge at Justice Court level in Kings County, began Tuesday. Arguments by Brown, representing himself, and Assistant District Attorney Phil Marott were given the jury yesterday morning. Judge Baker set Feb. 15 as time for sentence to be imposed.

Possible sentences include a fine up to $500 and up to six months in jail. Brown said he would base his motion for new trial on provocation and on the fact he did not get to use all the witnesses he wanted. Before the trial began, he had indicated plans to subpoena 150 witnesses but finally accepted a list of seven from a pared-down list of 22. Hanford TV Station Will Return to Air Hanford television station KSJV-TV, Channel 21, will be back on the air Thursday at 6 p.m., according to the general manager, Cy Newman. The first broadcast will feature a band from the North Fresno Lions Club, a Spanish music band, and singers and dancers.

A motion picture, Dolly Sisters, will be shown from 7-9 p.m. followed by more live entertainment from the studio in Hanford. PALM SPRINGS (UPI)-A lean, hard budget for the next fiscal year will be presented by Gov. Edmund G. Brown to the Legislature next week.

Brown said Friday night the budget would be larger than in 1965 but would not contain one penny more than is absolutely necessary to provide services for 19 million Californians. He said his revenue proposals would be modest but would permit the state to carry a surplus forward. The governor made his comments at the family night dinner of the California Newspapers Publishers Association. You can expect the opposition during the next few months to try to create an impression of crisis financing, Brown said. Dont be taken in.

The State of California is in sound financial shape. And my budget program this year is designed to keep it that way, and, at the same time, keep taxes at rock-bottom; keep Lucius Beebe Dies at 63 HILLSBOROUGH, Calif. (UPI) Lucius Beebe, a social critic who never came to terms with the era in which he lived, died Friday at the age of 63. Beebe, one-time high priest of eastern cafe society, outspoken newspaper columnist and author of numerous books on the railroad, lived opulently amid the splendor of an earlier age. He constantly railed at the vulgarity and mendacity which he believed permeated all aspects of modem life.

The present in most parts of the world is to me a species of untidy street accidents, Beebe once said. The future does not exist for a man of refinement, only the past is real, solid and dependable. Funeral arrangements for the lifelong bachelor were pending. A family spokesman said burial will be in Boston. near his birthplace at Wakefield.

California Farmers Facing Competition LOS ANGELES (UPI) -A banking official believes California fanners face a real competitive battle to maintain their dominant position in food MOSCOW (UPI) -The Russian people were expected to get their first look at pictures from the moon rocket Luna-9 today. The pictures are the first ever taken from the surface of the moon. But they were released first in the West by British authorities manning the giant radio-telescope at Jodrell Bank. They cut themselves in Earthquakes Wipe Out Greek Towns ATHENS (UPI) -A series of earthquakes wiped out four villages in central and western Greece today, killing at least one woman and injuring scores of others, it was reported here. Residents of a wide area of Greece fled into the streets in the pre-dawn darkness when the first and strongest shock was felt at 4 a.m.

That 20-second quake was followed by several lesser tremors. Scientists said the epicenter of the quake was about 120 miles north of Athens. It was felt at points as far distant as Patras and Lamia. Authorities said the villages of Krentis, Furna, Kleistos and Vraeha were totally destroyed, although first reports indicated most of the inhabitants were only slightly injured. Welfare Minister Mimis Cali-nos rushed to the earthquake area along with the prefect of Vieria.

A state of emergency was proclaimed in the area and the army rushed in food, medicines, tents, blankets and other supplies. Alex Edward Brown, 68, of Hanford, was found guilty of disturbing the peace by a Justice Court jury at 12:30 a.m. today. Brown said he would file for a new trial next week Expecting that Judge Carlos Baker of Lemoore will deny ihe motion, Brown said he will then appeal the verdict to the District Court of Appeals in Fresno. The jury got the case a little after noon yesterday, taking time out immediately for lunch, and later for dinner The jury was out nearly nine hours.

Brown was found guilty of the charge that he created a disturbance at the administrative office of the Hanford Elementary School District last July 23. The charge was brought by Dr. Maynard Liljeblad superintendent, who testified that Brown used abusive language when denied permission to visit the Operation Head Start classes at Lincoln School. Only in Kings County George Appell getting a parking ticket. Frese resplendent in a gold sports jacket.

Alan Short responding to a fire without his glasses Costa telling about Millard Roberts getting knocked down by a big wave while clamming. Spear reporting on Hawaii. Dias finding his name in the paper. Lea sticking to his diet. Brodie mooching a cup of coffee..

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